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33dcf9a | If I was trying to tell someone why I think that the landform on Mars was created naturally I would start by saying this:
First you must bring into consideration that to have a logical reason to think that aliens created the face on Mars you would have to have reliable evidence that there is life on Mars. Without the evidence of life on Mars, there would be nothing to base this belief off of, other than hope. Also, there are landforms on Earth that were created naturally that resemble this lanform.
The way the "face" looks in the pictures can also be caused by lighting and the way the picture was taken. If pictures were taken today, it could have better resolution and it might not even look like a face.
Scientists have found flowing water on Mars, so the "face" could have been created by weathering and erosion and just happened to look like a face. It may have also been created by storms with weathering and eroding.
Garvin mentions that," If there were homes in the most recent picture, you would have been able to see them because the quality of the picture has increased to the point where it is almost as clear as you could get.
Finally, it all comes down to what you believe, but all of the evidence points toward a natural creation of this landform, so whether or not you believe is your choice but if you listen to fact over opinion, then the natural way is the way to believe. | 2 |
33e2c15 | In "The challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author gives alot of examples and support on why venus should be explored. Although the dangers might be to dangerous for anyone to physically be on it, the author shows how we can avoid making contact on the planet and how we could gather information of the planet. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gives us many examples on how NASA can study Venus without being harmed.
The author mentions all of the dangers Venus comes with. For example, the author mentions the atmosphere being 97 percent carbon dioxide. (paragragh 3 line 1). In this case the crew on the ship will have to be very careful because if they are exposed to the carbon dioxide in the atomosphere, they will suffocate to death. Another danger the author mentions is the planets surface tempeture and the atmospheric pressure. The surface is 800 degree's Fahrenheit and the stmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth. These dangers are very serious and will be very harmful if any human comes in contact with it. After naming all of the dangers Venus presents, the author gives many examples on how to solve the issues.
In the story, the author supports his idea of studying venus by listing examples on how to avoid the dangers. For example, he mentions how NASA is compelling an idea for humans to study Venus. NASA's compromise is to allow scientists to float above the planet. The author gives us readers a mental picture by having us imagine the scientists floating about the surface of Venus studying the atmosphere and the surface itself. The author lists how the scientists would feel in the blimp like vehicle icluding the tempeture and pressure level but states they would be able to survive the climate.
NASA is also working on some electronics to withstand the pressure and heat of Venus. For example, NASA has made elctronics out of silicon carbide, which has been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface, that can withstand the climate for three weeks. That would be enough time to gather the information the scientists need and return the gadgets home safely. Another project is looking back at old technology called mechanical computers. These computers were used in the 1940's during World War II. These computors are ran by gears and levers and does not require any other electronics. This importanat computer can be very helpful because it can withstand the heat and pressure in the atmospher of Venus. These examples can help persude other scientists to want to do research on Venus and not be effected by the other dangers.
In conclusion, the author showed me that studying Venus is worthy enough to study. The author lists many percautions on how to prepare for the rough climate the scientists will face. The examples the author gives on how NASA is working on getting scientists on venus with new technology is phenaminal. The author gives us a life lesson by stating that dangers in the world should not hold anyone back and that people need to get out and explore. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gives the readers many examples on how NASA can study Venus without being harmed. | 4 |
33e6120 | Being bored in the middle of class really sucks. You sit there staring at your computer screen longing for the time to go by faster. Well with the new Facial Action Coding System it can read your emotions from your face and change things up a bit. These are very good for classrooms to keep kids from getting bored and going off track.
When I'm sitting in class I don't like to be bored the whole time. I want to learn and pass, but I can't do that if I keep spacing out or falling asleep while doing my work.
I want to be entertained and interested in what I'm supposed to be learning. If my computer had the Facial Action Coding System installed in it then when I began to get bored it would notice and would change the lesson or how it was teaching me.
In conclusion, I believe that the Facial Action Coding System is valuable for classrooms to have to keep students from getting bored and not doing their work. It would help them learn and keep them interested in the lesson. This would help students pass and keep them going for a better chance for a good career with a better education using this system. | 2 |
33e61e9 | Let me tell you about my life i am a young kid who just grauated from high school who didnt think my life would change this quick. I work two part time jobs trying to make money. The first job i was at was the grocery store. The second job i was at was the bank.
The Seagoing Cowboys program is a program that takes care of horses,young cows and mules. This program giving people lots of good opportunitys in life. If you joined this program u could do lots of differents. You would not just do one thing all the time.
When you are on board you can have lots of things to do its not always boring. After all the aniamls have unloaded u can can play lots of games. Like for an example the cowboys played baseball and volleyball. There all way more fun things to do then that.
Think of all the different place they went. For an example they went to Europe,China and Italy. In all those diffrent place they went to it wasnt just a boring trip. Like when they in Italy they got to take a gondola ride.
In conclusion,there are lots of reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Just dont join because u were ask to. They give you lots of opportunity in life that you many never get in life. If you join is program im sure you wont be let down. | 2 |
33ee6ce | No I think that the Electoral College does not work, and it has no meaning. One reason is each running canidate for president has its own has his or her own group of electors. The electors are usually picked by the canidate's political party. Which is good that they have there own because then the votes would just be a landslide on the outcome of it. Then the citizens votes come in and thats when the votes start to seperate in total, because theres more citizens voting for the other runner than there are electors of those running presidents and vice presidents. Now every state has there own amount of electoral votes.
Now there are some bad things about the electoral colleges, for instance under this system you vote for the electors, who in turn vote for the president. And for instance you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for someone, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors that pledged to that person, then he would get all those electoral votes for the state of Texas. And voters can't always control who there electors vote for but they can sometimes, if they know who there electors are voting for. And they also sometimes get confused about the electors and sometimes vote for the wrong canidate.
So pretty much at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state. Canidates dont spend time in states thet know they dont have no chance of winning. And it doesnt really give them a chance to vote for who they want to vote for the electors do that part.
The most worried outcome of the votes is a tie in the electoral vote part. If that happens the election would be decided by the House Of Representatives, where they will vote on the president. And the senate would choose the vice-president. Because each state gives out only one vote. But the House's selection will most likely not reflect on the peoples choice.
Well thats what i think of the electoral college, its unfair, and outdated. I think we should get rid of this system because its reallly bad towards voters, and it would make voting have more freedom other than leaving your voting up to the electors, instead of yourself. And the winner-take-all system is dumb also because you have really no control over who wins if that system is available. | 3 |
33ef0e3 | I personally think driverless cars would be a good idea. I think driverless cars would be a good idea because of how busy a person may be on the road. Driverless cars would also help in assistance with when driving long distances for a long period of time. Permiting driverless cars would also make the driving world a bit safer. Driverless cars arent such a bad idea in the long run because they'd help in assisting someone whos busy while driving, it could assist people that have to drive long distances in long periods of time, and it would also make the driving world a bit safer.
Making driverless cars seem very useful to the future. In the paragraph it tells how in 2013 BMW developed a "Traffic Jam Assistant" car. This car can handle driving at speeds up to 25 mph . This could assist a person who is on their way somewhere and perhaps needs to call someone on the phone for any important reason. The 2013 BMW "Traffic Jam Assistant" car could also help when the driver is going on a long empty high way for a long period of time. Like if the person needs to drive out of time and is driving on a long highway. My last reason i think the driverless car would be helpful to the future would be to make the driving world a bit safer. In example Toyota Prius's use position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four auto motive radar sensors, and more. The four automotive sensors around the car and the video camera near the rearview mirror would help greatly to the dirver when needing to back up into a parking space. If the sensors indicate any danegr of out of control skids or rollovers the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on each wheel and reduce power from the engine.
The idea of driverless cars i think would be a good idea, in assistance of the driving world of the future. Driverless cars could help the driver in multiple useful ways. Driverless cars would require not so much great driving skills when driving, which puts less worry on the driver when on the road. | 3 |
33f367a | Venus is a worthy pursuit to study becase Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. Sometimes it is the closest to the Earth than any planet in the Solar System. Venus could of had the features of what Earth is made up of. Scentist are trying to find way to study the features of Venus surface.
Long ago, Venus was probably covered largley with oceans and could have supported various form of life, just like Earth. This is why scientist want to study Venus, because at one time it might of been just like the Earth with all the living creatures and oceans. Venus planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and crater. Those are some also features that we have on Earth. There are also some dangers of going study what Venus is made of. Venus is a really dangerouse place to study, because of the atomsopher that it has. NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. They are making simplifeid electronics mad of silicon carbide they have been test in a champer simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in such condition. They are doing another project, that is looking back to old technolgy called mechanical computer that they used in 1940 in World War ll. Technology maybe the way to go to see the surface of Venus.
Venus has a thick atomosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. The really big thing is the temperature of Venus atomosphere. On Venus surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure is 90 times greater than what the Earth is. Such an evironment as Venus could crush a submarine accustomed to diving in the deepest oceans. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Venusian geolgoy and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, sincce no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Not a single spacecraft has safly touched down in Venus for over three decades. This is why it is really dangerouse to study Venus atompshere and surface of Venus
The National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA possible solution to the hostile condition on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. NASA would float a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles to study the surface of Venus. The temperature of floating 30 or so miles would be 170 degrees fahrenheit, and survivable for humans. It is a really dangerouse thing to do, but scientist are finding ways to study Venus surface. Scentist are really trying hard to see if Venus was really like the Earth, long time ago. | 3 |
33f66fc | Our Founding Fathers created a new concept of a way to elect a President, called Electoral College. This concept was created so voting would be fair to everyone, since it is a compromise between the election of a President by a vote in Congress and the popular vote of qualified citizens. Electoral College may cause some domestic disputes between citizens, but in turn it keeps our nation running smoothly. The Electoral College helps avoid run-off election(which can be detrimental to our Presidential Election), it requires the presidential canidate to be "everyone's president", and it has a certainy of outcome.
Additionally, having an Electoral College helps us avoid the problem of elections in which, neither canidate recieves a majority vote within the popular votes. For example, in 1992 Clinton had only a a 43 percent plurality of the popular vote, but won the majority of the Electoral College with 370 votes respectively. The presure of neither of the canidates winning a majority vote could greatly complicate the presidential election process.
Arguably there is a possiblility of a tie in an electoral vote, since it consists of 538 electors. But a tie is highly unlikely. Every state does not recieve the same amount of electors;electors are assigned given your states population including the District of Columbia. This means that states with a larger population have a larger say than a state with a small population in the Electoral College.
Even though the Electoral College is the most despised method of choosing our President it makes the presidential canidate have a trans-regional appeal. Meaning, the canidate cannot heavily campaign in a region where he knows he is the favorite of all the states in that region. For example, in 2012 Romney was the solid favorite of the Southern region. But he cannot gain electoral votes by increasing his popularity in this region. Since no region has enough votes to elect a president, he would need to increase his popularity in other regions in the U.S.
On the other hand, the Electoral College is outdated and voters do not actually vote for the presidential canidate, they vote for a group of electors. Those electors may betray the party of the canidate and cast their vote for whomever else is running for President. The system allows for much worse to happen. A state could send two slates of electors to Congress,and the Vice President could only validate only his opponet's electors.
In conclusion, keeping the Electoral College is a must. Without it our Presidential elections would be a diaster. | 4 |
33f68cf | With so much new technology being discovered in our world , people are always inventing new things. Weather something is invented to positively contribute while driving, help out at the work place , or at school they all have a purpose and a job. One new exciting invention is the Facial Action Coding System. A system that allows computers to identify human emotions. Here's why this system can contribute to the sucess of students in school.
Certain classes for studnets can be extremely confusing. Many students usually have at least one class they have a hard time grasping. Many kids ask questions and still don't understand a certain concept. However, some kids become frusturated after asking questions, after still not understanding. Some kids will just lie and say they understand . That's where the Facial Action Coding System comes into play. If there was a system in the class that could read confusion, then a teacher could stick with that studnet on trying to teach them that concept or lesson that they still don't understand. This would also help all the kids who are maybe afraid to ask queations understand what the teacher is trying to explain.
In conclussion, I think this is a great invention. This system should be in all classrooms to help struggling and shy students learn what they need to know. I think if these systems were in classes, students exam scores would actually increase. I say this because now all the students are getting their opportunity to learn , even if they don't usually speak up to ask a question. | 3 |
33f9c31 | People have always been fascinated by da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", partly because of the mysterious mix of emotions presented by the woman painted. However, according to "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, technology has decoded this mystery in the same way humans do - by analyzing emotions through facial muscular movements. This technological advancement is valuable because it allows technology to adapt to humans, rather than the other way around.
This new technology, called the Facial Action Coding System, simply acts the same way humans do by analzying the facial movements of another person. Therefore, the process used by the F.A.C.S. is nothing new, rather it is just a coded version of what humans are already capable of. Because of this, there is nothing to fear of its implications pertainting to its relative "newness."
Additionally, the implications of this technology could help students achieve a better education while still receiving the emotion that is present in a real classroom. According to the article, "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," (D'Alto 6) which means that lessons can be tailored specifically for each individual student. Each year, more and more classrooms are implementing technology into their educational atmosphere. Implimenting the Facial Action Coding System simply enhances the overall experience the students receive from the compueter-generated lessons that are already in place today.
Moreover, this new system could be used to "make computer-animated faces more expressive - for video games or video surgery" (D'Alto 6). This type of implication would affect students of all ages. Younger students could play better-animated games that would help them learn more affectively while still learning and being exposed to empathy. Meanwhile, older students that are in college could benefit from being able to view a realistic surgery without the cost, time, or energy of working out a way to view a real one.
With all of these benefits and the fact that the Facial Action Coding System simply does what da Vinci did countless years ago, but on a more accessible scale, this new technology is invaluable to students in today's society. | 4 |
33fd8e1 | Yes these cars can help you drive but they can aslo malfunction. Such as, if you are turning the car could turn you the other way. Also if you try to stop the care could keep going, causeing a car accedent. And what if you get pulled over by the cops and you have to stop but the car goes faster or just does not stop, you could get into some serious trouble.
With the planning and wireing of the cars other people could hack into them. For example. The people who make the cars have to program them to the streets they are driving on. One, someone could hack the car so it will go anywhere the hacker what's it to go. And two, you could track the car, where it is going, where it came from, and where it is.
You never know who is working on the car. It would be so easy for someone to make the car go oppiset of the way you want to go. You could be turing left and the car would turn right. Or you want to go straight but the car goes backwards, and vis versa.
These cars are not for everyone. Some people are going to take advantage of the fact that they do not have to really drive. So they could just program the car to go to one place and then sleep the rest of the way. But the problem is, is that the car does not know when there is a accident or not. so it could avoid it. | 3 |
3402605 | Hello, my name is Lisa, and i'm a scientist here at NASA. I have heard that you claim that aliens have created this landform we found on Mars.
There has not been any life found on Mars at this momment. It does look like it could be from another living organism, but it's just a rock on the planet. In our newest image of the rock, it turns out that the face has dissapered. There is no evidence of this being created by aliens, rather it was created by wind and water that has been found on Mars. The reason you might believe that this was indeed aliens, might be the fact that the news has blown it out of poportion. It's just the rock that had some interesting shadows and holes that made it look like a human face.
In conclusion, all i'm trying to say is that it cannot be aliens, it's just a rock on Mars. Thank you for your time. | 2 |
3403e97 | Imagine being able to detect what other people are feeling? She's 83 % happy,9% disgusted,6% fearful and 2% angry. How does this computer tell all this information if this painting was painted hundred of years ago?
I think it would be a great idea to tell how people are feeling. Because someone might be having a bad day and you might not know, but if you could read facial expressions you would know. This computer than could tell you how Mona Lisa was feeling is a 3-D constructer computer. In oreder for it to detect a painting,Picture, or even an actual person's face Right now it has to have all 44 muscle movements of a human. the only thing i'd change about this experiment is instead of making everything nowadays computerized and robotic why dont we do this with paper and pencil, collect data and figure it out,if it doesn't work on the first try then change your hypothnose and do the experiment all over again.
My final conclusion is that decoding people's facial expressions is pretty neat. It gives us a look at the past and present day of people's reactions and expressions. They also told us how to look in the mirror and dot eh 3 steps by yourself and see if you can decode your own facial expression. This article was pretty interesting and I would like to look forward in more details about this. | 2 |
340938d | I agree with the idea that the Facial Action Coding System should be used on students and infact anyone in general if wanted to read emotion expression. It can help out alot by if a teen or someone has something bottled up deep inside of them.
Its not good to keep emotions bottled up for a long time it will eventually get to you. But with the help of this machine if you use it on someone and there not okay you can genuinely help them or you can get some help for them yourself. For an example if something is happening at home and they become all sad and depressed and wont tell anyone why theyre feeling what they are feeling. And no one has a clue you can use the machine to help figure it out and get them the help that they properly need wether if its they need someone to talk to about troubles or if they actually need to go see a doctor to check and see if they have something wrong with them.
One downside to this machine is that. What if they get the emotions wrong? Out of all the emotions the machine is bound to get one wrong because so many people feel like so many differnt things and there is a chance to get the feelings wrong.
On the other hand we dont know how many types of emotions there are listed within the machine there could be almost all emotions plugged into it.
This machine is very innovative and is an amazing idea to help students or anyone in general it can help with gety people help they way they needed to get help imstead of keeping all of their emotions all bottled in its not good for anyone. | 3 |
340bde5 | Do you think that a new technology called Facial Action Coding System an enables computer to identifyhuman emotions can tell your emotion.? I think that its true because you can look at someone and tell how they're feeling.
In my mind i think i can tell how a person is feeling. If it happy, sad man depressed, or even just trying to hid it. Even your friends and family . For example in the article it says " In fact, we humans perform this same impressive " calculation" every da. for instance, you can oribably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of cours, most of us would hve trouble actually describing ech facil trait that conveys happy, worried, etc."
So yes i think that this technology can tell emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. some students get bored easy and with technology like this it could helo that from happening. | 2 |
340e592 | I would tell them that other scientists have looked in to it and its not a face.
Then i would say that it is a Martian Mesa and thats it looks like a face but if you do your research right you will be like oh i got it. I would say that they got many of these kind face shaped things in the west. But i would also say that it was cloudy around that planet at this time of year. So i would say that maybe the clouds formed a face like figure cause many times I have went outside and have seen a cloud that looks like a face and that even if the wind is blowing the clouds stay in one form. I would say some researches have looked into it and they have snapped 10 pictures of a face like figure but it turns out to be a natural landform. Last i would say that the face like figure is equivalent to the Lava Dome And about the same height as the Face On Mars. | 2 |
340e8e8 | Dear State Senator,
I strongly disagree with the electoral college for many reasons. For one, if our votes can be over powered by the elctoral college, then why even bother having an election. Also, its all of our election we should all have a say without it being over ruled by a small group of people. And lastly, even if we were to have an electoral college. Mke all votes equal it is extremely unfair to make evry citizens vote equal to one vote and the senators equal to two votes.
First I'm going to talk about why theres no point of even having an election. Well whats the point if almost every U.S citizen takes time out of there day to vote and pay money to do so when at the end when they count these votes there only going to go by what the electoral college says anyways.
Secondly, who even came up with this idea... Having the whole country vote for somone then letting 200 something people determine if there votes are correct. Its an opinion and it should be majority rules.
Its is the dummest thing Ive ever heard and my baby cousin could of set up this system better then you guys.
And lastly, why the senators votes shouldnt count as two. Well unless ther super human or some type of god there just as important as anybody else who voted.
Therefore, I hope you take this into consideration and how after reading you know how unfair it is to keep the electoral college in the U.S. | 3 |
3417267 | Mistaken Face
NASA is a space program in the U.S. It has been for quite some time now. NASA has sent numerous things into space but one in specific has caused a great deal of curiosity through out the world. In 1976, a NASA spacecraft, Viking 1, took pictures of Mars and something unusual happened. A face apeared in a picture. At first NASA thought of the possibility of it being a foreign life form. But that possibility was stopped when scientists found out that it was just another Martian Mesa. A common landform on Mars. When the pictures were released to the public, many thought that NASA was lying, especially conspiracy theorists. They thought that NASA didn't want the public to know about an alien life form. That was very irrational.
Many people don't like the idea of space exploration because they say it's a waste of money. If NASA encountered foreign life forms, it would only be benefitial to tell the public because then NASA would gain popolarity and skeptism of the program would decrease. Many people would be curios about it and would want to know more about the race. Therefore NASA would have a better reputation and be more popular because of their discovery.
Secondly,technology has changed significantly since 1978. The original picture looks more like the face than any other one because of the old technology. In 1998, the picture looks more detailed. In 2001, it looks even more detailed. In 1976 the camera that took the photo only captured 43 meters per pixel making it much less definated compared to the picture taken in 2001 that captured 1.56 meters per pixel. This technology makes it less of a face.
Finally, because of the newer and more advanced technology, NASA's scientists could look further in to the so called alien face. After studying it, the scientists concluded that the "face" was a mesa. A mesa isnt't only found on Mars. It can also be found on Earth. There is one in the Snake River Plain of Idaho and it even has the same height as the Face on Mars. The "face" is more of a natural landform than anything.
New technoogy, comparable lndforms, and the explanation of how alien races would benefit NASA helped the space program prove conspiricy theorists and the public wrong. All of these supports are hard evidence that the face was a mesa in disguise. Although the finding of an alien race would be revolutionary, it's safe to say that the "face" isn't the discovery of one. We'll just have to wait until the future to encounter a race that isn't our own. | 4 |
3418a39 | When you attempt to find love there are dangers. The one you have chosen may have a history of being unfit to hold a relationship, or just has a bad makeup due to their past and they don't feel like changing now. Venus is just like the signifacant other you are looking for. Whilst it is a planet, it has numours dangers like it's chemical makeup, temperature,etc. The author couldn't be any better in this story on why even with it's dangers we on earth should venture out and see what Venus is all about. Giving us multiplie reasons why we need to find a way to get someone (or something) over there as soon as possible. The first reason that was broguht upon my eyes was in paragraph eight where it states, "~but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidation endeavors." What I got from that quote was that if and when we are able to achieve the abilitiy to get over to our sister planet we will be able to find and conqure much more challenging issues. Another reason that the author wrote in the text was in paragraph 2 it states, "Ofter reffered to as Earth's 'Twin,' Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." This shows me that when we are able to get over to this planet we will be able to see 'what is over on that side of the river'.Meaning that we will be able to see what the closest looking planet to earth is really about. The third and final reason the author wrote about in the passage was written in paragraph three as it stated, " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.' This is showing me that we already know alot about the chemical makeup of this planet, but there is always something more we can figure out about this topic. Just like with anything theres always a second story or a second layer that tells us more. Here if we ever do decide to take on this task we will be able to see the entire chemical makeup of our sister planet Venus. In conclusion the author did an amazing job by giving us (the reader) multiple reasons on why we on earth should go and venture out in our solar system and figure out what Venus is truly all about. And maybe we'll be able to create this planet into a new habitat. The only way we shall know is if we are able to venture out and do such. | 4 |
3419d3c | Is this photo an alien artifact or just a natural landform? This is just a natural landform,for one we have facial looking landforms on are planet, why cant there be on other planets? Also if this was true, NASA wouldn't hide this because if they were to discover ancient civilization they would earn alot of money.
To start off there are different looking landforms on are planet why can't there be others. In the first set of pictures it shows the landform changed,so a face wasn't there to begin with,it was forming over time. Also sometimes when the human mind is told something it would try to shape together to form what was said, so this could be just a natural landform and your mind is changing it.
Also NASA would not keep this a secret if alien activity was found in this area,if anything NASA would make alot of money off of this discovery if it did have to do with aliens. But if NASA wanted to keep it a secret they wouldnt have took a picture and let the media get ahold of it they would have kept the pictures stashed away. Also the media is known to blow things out of proportion.
In conclusion of my argument,we have tried and tried for many years to find something unatural or indifferent on another planet,eventually we would have stumbled upon something, but its just a landform,no alien activity. My question is after reading this argument couldn't this massive piece in history just turn out to be a rock? | 3 |
341a9c9 | I am a scientist at NASA, and over th eyears we have discovered a strange face on the planet Mars.the picture was take by one of our spacecrafts first in 1976 then again in 1998 and lastly in 2001. The news about seeing a face on Mars is a big deal,but some people didnt think it was such a big deal.Many people made comments about the picture and said it was made by aliens, but many other said it was a natural landform.many people have gotten over excited and about the face and people made movies about it and books,it was on magizine covers, it was even on talk shows.But , Scientists like myself think that this face is just an illusion.Many of us think its just another martion mesa, that ae common enough around Cydonia.A few days later we recieved an image for all to see , it noted ''huge rock formation''.so, this face that everyone is so crazy about ,thinking that aliens did it is not true.the face is just a big illusion,formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,a nose and a mouth.the picture first take in 1976 was a not a clear shot of the face, so the next picture taken in 1998 was a better picture that showed the formation clearer.th e picture revealed a natural landformation,so there was no alien monument after all.
So, yes its disapointing that there was no aliens on Mars that amde a face ,but at least now we know what we were looking for. | 2 |
341c5e2 | Limiting care usage is an advantage because some people were always tense when they had a car and now they're saying they're much happier without it. Vauban is an example of a growing trend in Europe, the United States and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a movement called "smart planning". Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to make their homes. And that, experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions tailpipes.. Passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and 50% in some car-intensive areas in the United States.
In the United States, the Envirornmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities and legislatores are starting to act, if cautiously. Congestion was down 60% in the capital of France, after 5 days of intensifying smog... Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up 67% of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3% average of diesel engines in the rest of Westen Europe. Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer licenses as each year goes by. When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives. 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.
Part of the explanation certainly lies in the recession, because cash-strapped Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed weren't going to work anyway. But by many measures the decrease in driving preceded the downturn and appears to be persisting now that recovery is under way. It will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the envirornment, since transportation is the second largest souce of America's emissions, just behind power plants. Companies like Ford and Mercedes are already rebranding themselves "mobility" companies with a broader product range beyond product range beyond the personal vehicle. With all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit..
New York's new bike-sharing program and its skyrocketing bridge and tunnel tolls reflect those new priorities, as do a proliferation of car-sharing programs across the nation. There has been a large drop in the percentage of 16-to 39 year olds getting a license, while older people are likely to retain their licenses as they age. A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009... Bill Ford proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which pedestiran, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportaion traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety.
So in the end with all this information i think that limiting car usage is an advantage. It makes you explore more, get your excercise, try new things instead of always relying on a vehicle to take you somewhere. This information persuaded me and it made me realize what the gas from the car does to the Earth. this is the reason why the Earth and the air we breathe is so polluted because of whats in our cars and we dont even realize it. im definitely going to use it to my advantage i dont know about you.... | 1 |
341cf30 | I believe that the Face is just a natural landform because they even had pictures that proved that is was a natural landform. Many people in the world had their own personal claims about the Face, but scientifically, it had been proven by pictures otherwise.
Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, and captured pictures of the Face with a ten times better camera than the original Viking photos that were taken before. In the article, the text says, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." Even cameras caught the landform with pictures and proved it. The text also states, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. 'It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,' says Garvin." According to this piece of informational text from the article, the Face is a massive, natural landform, just like any landform here on Earth.
In this article, it has been proven by NASA and detailed pictures of the Facee, that it's just a natural landform that just so happened to look like a human face. Even though some had their own thoughts and opinions, scientifically, they were wrong. | 3 |
34229a5 | The Face is just a natural landform because there are plenty of landforms like the Face on Planet Earth, it was common in the Red Planet called Cydonia, and it is only giving illusions of a human face. Some might say the Face is some type of way that aliens are trying to tell us that they're here with us. Others might say the other half is crazy. But who is correct?
Earth has thousands of landforms, but only a few are really special. In Paragraph 12, Garvin states "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa around the same height as the Face on Mars." I believe what Garvin is trying to say is that the Face really isn't all what it seems to be. Our landforms on Earth might be on Earth for the same reason that they are on Mars. Then, in the first sentence of paragraph 12, the author is saying that the Face is "equivalent of a buttle or messa--landforms common around the American West." I think the author is trying to hint to the readers that the Face is, again, almost just like the landforms on Earth. Earth is the only planet that supports life, but isn't the only planet to have natural landforms.
The article also states that these types of things are common around Cydonia. Cydonia is a Red Planet where they set up cameras that helped then find the Face. Cydonia was only showing unusual shadows at the time so scientists just thought of it as another "Martian mesa" like the one's on Cydonia. In paragraph 3, they say that NASA unvieled the image with a caption saying "huge rock formation..." which could just be an astroid that hit the planet and while it smashed into Mars, it could have chipped. There are always rocks flying in space hitting anything that get's in its way.
The Face is also only giving illusions of a human's face. the Face was giving off shadows which made it look like a face because it formed a pair of eyes, a nose, and a mouth, which is stated in paragraphs 2 and 3. Also, in paragraph 8, it says "The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face" which could be part of the reason of why they are seeing shadows. Illusions are only from what you want to believe something is.
The Face is just a natural landform because there are plenty of landforms like the Face on Planet Earth, it is a common landform in the Red Planet called Cydonia, and it is only giving the illusions of a human face. Some might point fingers, others might take a stand with aliens. Who do you think is correct? | 4 |
342724a | Many around the world are limiting car usage and beginning to use other sources of transportation. Cars cause polution and tension to people everywhere. If citizens begin to limit car use and walk, bike or use public transportation instead, people will be much happier and the environment will be too. Citizens of America and Europe are already trying to cut down on driving and limit the excess polution to our environment. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog..." (Duffer, 14).
Cars cause a great portion of polution to our environment. If citizens of countries around the world limit car usage, then the envirnment we live in will become more safe and less poluted. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive ares in the United States," (Rosenthal, 5). Since most cars use gasoline and diesel, they are emitting poisonous gases into the air, this could cause smog. By limiting car usage there will be a positive outcome on our envirnoment. "It will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the envirnoment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants," (Rosenthal, 34).
In Bogota, Columbia, there is a day set to be car-free, which allows millions to use sources of transportation other than cars. "Millions of Columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday," (Selsky, 20). By walking, biking, or using public transpotation citizens around the world and even in America, can get around using a car. When driving to work, you can encounter traffic jams, or wrecks, but by using a bike or by walking, you can bypass the stress. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," (Rosenthal, 3).
If fellow citizens around the world limit the use of cars, then our environment will be less poluted as well as, less stressful. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," (Selsky, 24). Even young people are limiting the usage of cars. "A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009..." (Rosenthal, 41). Take the initiative, and decrease polution and stress by limiting the use of cars. | 3 |
34296bb | Many people think the Face on mars is a natural landform, but others think it was created by aliens. If there were an ancient civilization on Mars NASA would benefit from sharing their discovery with the public. Scientists figured it was another mesa which were common around Cydonia.
Some scientists believe it was in fact an alien artifact. On April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor flew ovver Cydonia it too a picture much sharper than the original photos. It revealed a natural landform which meant there was no alien monument. Some skeptics argued that alien markings were hidden by a haze. In 2001 another photo was taken. Each pixel spanned 1.56 meter compared to 43 meters in the 1976 photo.
The picture shows a butte or mesa which also appear in the american west. In this photo if there were anything abnormal you would be able to see it. Instead it is just a natural landform on Mars. | 2 |
342ac7e | In this passage I personally think that he did an good job with this artical. He mad sure that he included everythings that he needed to put in the artical. he inculeded that venus is earth sister and talked about NASA going to check out other planets and he evens explain the planet to.
Venus is the sister ouf the plantet earth because its to closes to earth. What i mean to the closes is Venus could possible be another earth because it has the same features and it may well once have been the most earth - like plantet in our solar system, and in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too.
Earth is closes to venus and mars but orbit the sun at different speeds means sometimes we are closer to mar and sometime venus.
The NASA has talked about idea like sending humans to study venus. They talk about what they going to bring and how far it is and what they are going to be doing. in the passage he talked about what happen in the war and how did it affect . and maybe having electronics up there too.
This passage describe venus he say that the atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blanets venus. The temperature in venus could averagr over 800 degrees fahrenheit. he dec=scrive the atnospheric pressure as 90 times greater than what we experience on earth.
In this passage I learned alot that i did not know about. I personally think he did good in this passage because he made me learn and i enjoyed reading this passage . I learn about venus and learn about NASA and what they might going to do. | 2 |
342eb36 | In todays day and age, technology is just absolutely mind blowing to many. I can make food, search the internet, and it can make future plans for you. To many technology gives away many diffrent emotions though. Technology sometimes makes people happy, mad, sad upset, frustrated. But if technology could read our emotions, just imagine the wow factor. Technology should very well be tested and who else to test it on instead of students that are in school. Studets are the best test subject for a couple reason, but there is really only 1 good reason, and that is becasue most of them are teenagers to young adults.
Facial reconization technology would be great for society. A great example would be during a presidental election. Now in the article it states that with this technology, would we be able to if poiliticans were lieing or not. When U.S. watches the election wouldnt it be nice to know if a politican would actualy was telling the truth, because the the citizens of America they are told one thing that that canidate would do once in office and as a country we vote for them, just for them to never fufill there promise. The people never know who to trust anymore, and to the point to many people just decide not to vote, becuase no one can belive a politican. in the article it says this tech can read the face of Mona Lisa herself, but shes just a painting. Imagine a child who doesnt understand whats going on, they need help but dont know how to tell anyone. They can be scanned and be given help.
The value of using this new equimepnt of students would be tremondus. it would give what the scientists need to be build a machine that could eventuallly produces medicines that could end up changing the world. many people think that studenttesting would be a horrible thing not only to do, but harmful to them and possibly thinking it could harm them,but the future we could have with technology would greater thanks to them and this device | 2 |
3432298 | The face on Mars could have not been by alien's because there was no alien monument at all. It is a rare thing to see something like that on a planet that has a lot of rumors of aliens. Yet you can still say or predict this wasn't an alien act.
After we saw the face on Mars we had to get more pictures of it. That might not change your mind, and you still might think it was an act of alien's ,but check this out. In paragraph 3 it says that it was a huge rock formation. It resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. This could possibly mean that it's the angle you are looking at it. If you were looking at the "head" from a diffrent angle it would probably not even look like a head anymore. This is a reason why it could not have been from aliens.
In paragraph 2 it says that when the face appeared on their monitors they were surprised. Even though the sensation was short lived, scientist figured it was just another martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia. Only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. You may be asking, "Why dont you target Cydonia?'. The answer is it's hard work. In fact its very difficult work. The reason we don't target Cydonia is because, "We don't pass over the face very often," says Garvin in paragraph 9.
On April 8, 2001 a nice day in Cydonia We finally got a second look at it. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the field of view," said Garvin. They captured another photo finally with one of their best camera's.
Now you are probably asking yourself what does this have to do with aliens. The picture shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West. Meaning that it wasn't an alien act. It was a huge rock formation. | 3 |
34322b6 | My position on driverless cars is to turn the cars into something different. In the text, it states that no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore. It, also states that Sergey Brin can imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because they don't need them anymore, because he envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets or some type of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. I think that people should use their cars because a taxi is not always going to be availiable for them. So, they need to drive themselves places instead of having a taxi take them where they need to go.
Also, in this article it states that the cars Sergey Brin foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer way far more flexibility than a bus. It, also stated that he believes such cars would fundamentally change the world. I disagree with the taxi system because there won't always be a taxi availiable for you when you need to go places.
In my opinion, people should start driving themsleves to places they need to go instead of a taxi always having to go and always pick them up and take them where ever they need to go. I think it's a waste of gas for a taxi person always wasting there gas to go pick up people that have a car but don't want to drive it. I think taxi should only pick up people that don't have a car and take them places.
The text also states, that some companies are making computer drivern cars. In the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could only run on a special track. It states, that the track was embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front of the car. Furthermore, it stated that engineers at Berkeley tried something very similar but they used magnets with alternating polarity than an electrical track. | 2 |
34339c4 | Venus is very easy for one to see for Earth. You've probably seen it before, but thought it was a star. Thats why Venus is known as the "Evening Star" even though its a planet. Venus is also known as the sister planet to Earths. Venus is also the hottest planet in our solar system
even though Venus is hotter than Earth, it is explected that at one point Venus used to be mostly made up of water. They have made missions to Venus and with the little futage that they get in the short period of time the the robot can survive on Venus, they can say that it is try the Venus was once made up of mostly water, just like Earth. This is what makes Venus so woth studying. We have yet to find a planet that one day could have look just like ours. There is clear evidence that Venus once has water on its surface and you can tell because of the mountains that have been made and the cayons that look just like ours here on Earth.
With that being said i think that they should keep studying Venus and fining more stuff out about it. It is crazy to think that there was once a planet out there that looks like ours does today. For people in that line of work i know for a fact that this kind of dicoveries is why they do there job and why they are in it in the first place. Even if it is just a small victory like Venus, it gives us all hope that maybe we aren't lone. | 3 |
3434f04 | The thrilling concept of touching the stars has always been an endeavour man has striven to accomplish; to understand our world and universe, to reach heights that were once only dreamed of. The author of this article has a similar view. He believes we should do what we can to explore and study the planets and stars, but one planet in particular, Venus. Venus seems a likely choice for many reasons, despite the danger, he provides options of safety, also it's the most practical because it's the closest and quite similar to earth, not only that, but Venus remains a mystery and provides an exciting chalenge that must be overcome. With all this and more the author fully supports his idea that "the challenge of exploring Venus" is a worthy one.
First of all, the author acknowledges the fact that it is a dangerous, and quite daunting task. As he says in paragraph 2, "No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours".
He fully understands that there will be risk, proving to the reader that this isn't simply a wild idea he just came up with, but that he has done his research and grasps the fact that it won't be easy. Moreover, he furthers his argument by putting forth ideas to increase safety. He mentions experiments and tests that have provided scientists with information to produce electronics and materials able to last longer on Venus's inhospitable surface conditions. These advances will allow scientists to conduct research in order to better understand this mysterious planet.
However, despite any time setbacks concerning development of suitable equipment, Venus has many more practical for our ventures. Venus is- at times- the closest planet in our solar system. Proximity is extremly important where space travel is concerned. It is much more reasonable that we would study and explore a planet that is relativelyl easy to get to. Not only this, but Venus is rather similar to earth. In fact as the article states "it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". As a reuslt it has sparked much interest and fascination for many Astronomers.
In addition to this, Venus proposes a challenge unlike any other. This is a planet that will not divulge its secrets easily, as is extremely difficult to examine. We mus strive to meet this challenge head-on, to learn all we can about this mysterious, Earth-like planet. The author concludes with a compelling argument that gives his claim more of an edge, he says, " our travels on Earth and beyond ...should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagintion and innovation". Humans will be met with challenge after challenge and we cannot scatter at the idea of danger, but rather stand firm and face these difficulties that will lead us to even greater heights.
While this article may have a few faults, the author inspires and excites the minds of curious adventurers who seek reach beyond any limits. He provides reason mixed with ideas that appeal to a readers sense of emotion and supports his claim to a point that they are willing to rise up and meet this challenge like none other. Mankind is faced with this endeavour to seek out and overcome the danger of his proposal, to let their dreams of reaching the stars, become reality. | 5 |
3440c12 | 25 Years ago NASA got a picture of Mars that there Viking 1 took and it apears to be a facial features in it. Then Viking 2 got another picture of it with more of a shawdow effect. It was a very clear picture of a face looking back at the camrea. The photo shows a gray piee of land with some bumps that look like they can be facial features.
It became very popular. It was in movies magazines grocrey stores, and even talkshows. It caused a really big scene. People were arguing weather its right or not. Between people deciding weather its real or not. NASA was trying to get more images of it. So they can finally see what it is.
People got alot of ideas on what it might be. An alien, ghost or maybe even another human race. They waited pationtly/ impationly for them do release new pictures for more proof. People were longing for more answers, so Garvin gave it to them.
On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia to get some better pictures. So on a cloudless day, Garvin took a picture, revealing that ot was just a landform and not an actual face.
But he also said it is very hard trying to hard to pass over that face and they dont pass over ot very often.
It is very clear that it is not an actual face, but people still didn't settle for it. They wanted more answers, but thats all they can get. A
better, sharper image showing that it's not a face, but a landform. | 1 |
3443062 | After the war, countries were left in ruins, but not for long. A special organization called UNRRA is helping to recover their food supply, animals, and more. But then, UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys which took care of the horses, young cows, and mules. I, Luke Bomberger, was one of those "cowboys".
I believe that the Seagoing Cowboys is a great program because it will save many animals lives. Not only is it saving the animals, but it will also save the owners because they rely on them as a food source or even as transportation. As it says in the text, you not only participate in a great event, but you also get to go on a tour. Because the animals you need to pick up are so far away across the Atlantic Ocean, you can see many countries as well as Crete and China. I also found time on board to where I could actually play games and have fun besides feeding animals.
Not only doing chores for the other-side of the world is helpful, but I believe it can also be very fun. The only way for you to realize it, is to experiece it. Life is short, take big risks, like lending a helping hand. | 2 |
344665a | In this story you are going to read how luke is trying to get people to be a seagoing cowboy. Like what they do what they get and how they do there job.
In my job we get to help out. You get to take care of animals, you get to go places and cross oceans. You also get to take care of animals like horses and other animals. Also you get to see things you have never seen before. You get to help the animals and you help and then you fell good for helping something or someone. You will be able to see things and do things that you always wanted to do and you will have fun and just help.
As you read my story i hope now you want to be a seagoing cowboy because you will get to help and fell like your being loved for doing something good. | 2 |
34622c1 | In my position on driverless cars is in both positive and negative views because it may sound fun but it is also not fun because people can really get hurt. The reason I said it is in a positve and negative view is because sometimes people dont know what there doing or how to drive correctly. Driverless cars are good in some ways and bad in some ways. Also because it is expensive to make cars like that. Spending alot of money on that. Also it may take a long time to make more than one driveless car. I think its positive and negative views on the driverless cars.
The reason I say it is positive is because it drives by it's self. Also because it alerts you when you have to take control on the wheel. Another reason is because they can steer, accelerate and brake themselfs as said in the article. Also because the seat vibrates when its in danger of backing into an object. This is a positive thing because what if something is happening in the car and you need to fix or help someone thats in the car with you, you can easly switch over and do what you have to do. Another reason is it has a camrea in the car to watch the driver while the driver is watching the road. It also notify the human thats in the car to the navigation system through work zones and also around accidents. Also they have sensors in the car on top of the the car to see if there is any cars around them and also they use a laser beam to form a constantly updating 3-D modle of cars surrounding.
The reason I say it could be negative to is because what if the driver is not quick enough to take the wheel when the car notify them. Also because other drivers would get bored, they would get tired of waiting on there time to drive as said in the article. Also because some drivers may think its thier oppurtunity to text and drive or talk on the phone and drive when its really not. Someone could really get hurt if the driver dont pay attention to the road. Than on top of that new laws would have to be made. Also what if something go wrong with the car? Who fault would that be?
Some people are just not fit to have a driverless car in there sight. Some people may think its a joke or game and drive for fun but some one could actully get seriouly hurt. Some people dont have self control. Also some people dont know how to be responseable with having a driverless car. As i said before i think its positive and negative. This is my conclustion on position on driveless cars. | 3 |
346645c | Emotions and facial expressions can sometimes be difficult and complicated to understand. Everyone has emotions and facial expressions and you cant always detect another persons emotions and feelings. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto the author describes a new technology, FACS (Facial Action Coding System) is a technology that allows you to detect how other are feeling and improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of other. A computer constucts a 3-D computer model of a face and there are "action units" which are one or muscles moving, the action unit is the associated with 6 different basic emotions and it lets you see the emotions going on from just detecting the moving muscles on the face. I believe that this new form of technology is valuable when it comes to reading the emotional expressions of students.
FACS could be the start of a lot more important and beneficial technology in the future. This new technology could be either very valueable or not valueable at all. I believe it will end up being very valuable in the future because it will help computers understand emotions and will help students and there education. Some students hide there emotions and thoughts on the way they are being taught even when it isnt beneficial and helpful for them. Everyone can have different preferences on how they are taught and FACS could let the computer know how the student feels about it, ""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"" stated Dr. Huang which helps understand that the way the lesson is being taught can be changed by the computers because it can read the emotions of the students and will change the lesson in the prefernence of the students which allows them to benefit more. I believe that everyone being able to learn in their prefernce of learning is the most beneficial and valuable thing FACS can do. FACS will be valuebale all over the world because of its capability of reading human emotions, being able to do that is a very important thing because then the coputer can change the things you see and do in your preference.
I believe that FACS will be a valueable use of tecnology to read students emotions. A computer being able to read emotions will be a beneficial and positive thing in society and will help students succeed in there classrooms. Students being able to have there lesson taught differently in there prefernce will help students feel more confident and heppier when learning. The outcome of computers having emotions
will most likely be a great value in society in the end. The enabling of computers to identify human emotions will change be a beneficial thing. | 4 |
346a63c | Driverless cars are I can agree a thing of the future. With the gas we use for our everyday cars (fossil fuels) running low as the years progress we will have to change something or make a alternate. Driveless cars currenlty are not very popular because of the still upcoming development of them. The cars we use on a every day bases will be a thing of the past with driveless cars coming in to the scene. Driveless cars could be very positive for all kinds of things and people.
The idea of a car driving by itself using its own operating system with little human need is a very cool and interseting project. This could be one of the worlds most create creations to go down in history. This would help everyone from from people who cant drive as well, to people who maybe disabled in anyway etc. This could be the FUTURE of transportion. But i see lots of problems with self programed cars.
When i say "i see problems with the idea of self driving cars" i mean there are a lot of things to consider. First, i would say what type of energy source will these cars be running off of? I say this because in the future there will no longer be fossil fuels to just fill up your tank for a good three dollars per gallon. We would need some type of energy source that would operate the cars day and night.
I have just one more problem with this develop of cars. are they truly for everyone? i mean yes... sure they can drive on there own with no lots of human help but, what if the communcation system goes wrong? Maybe your car stops driving by itself because of a system maulfuncation, but you dont know to drive and now your in a dangerous situation. These are just thoughts and ideas that the comanys and law enforcers have to consider with allowing this cars to be brought by the pubic when they release.
Companys are still working non-stop on these cars and to make sure problems like these wont happen. Lots of companys like Google, Telsa, Audi, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz and lots of others already have and or plan to have cars that can self drive in the future. The future is full of great projects to be made. These task and projects maybe seem diffcult or maybe impossible, but were not giving up and we will complete our goals. | 4 |
346ef5b | Driving has many perks to it, its easy, gets you there faster. But do to all of this driving there are also downsides to it. Driving benefits us, but not driving also has its benfits as well. The advantages of not driving are high, such as less pollution, you save more money. And to be honest it might just be the end of car cultures. People in an upscale community in Vauben, Germany are giving up their cars. Why? you might ask. Because street parking, driveways, and home garages are forbidden in this experimental new district. If you do own a car, you will have to pay a fee to park it on the outskirts of town, and quite frankly many people can not afford that, so they do it the natural way. Which in turns benefits them because they get plenty of exercise.
Continuing on, paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the city. The air was so foggy because of the fuel that they used which was diesel fuel. Another perk of limited driving use is that less pollution gets into the air. All of this driving puts smoke into the air, and makes it a very unhealthy environment. Breathing in all of that really affects your lungs and so forth. The smog cleared enough monday for the french party to discard the ban for that day until next time.
Many countries are trying the ''car free day''. Such as Bogota,Columbia,millions of columbians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during car-free day. The goal was to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. ''Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution", said businessman carlos Arturo Plaza. Many countries are excited about this and say that its a revolutionary change. If many people try this out and see what the benefits are, then they will know that maybe just maybe that this might be best. | 3 |
347f9d9 | The face that is located on the surface of Mars is indeed,a natural landfrom.In my opinion,i believe that the face on Mars was natruarally created,not by ailen life forms,but through the creation of the planets.My support is located in paragraph 7,which clearly states that,"JPL website, revealing... a natural landform.There was no alien monument after all." My therory may be wrong,because for example in paragraph 8, it states that " perhaps alien markings were hidden
by haze." This theory may be correct,that alien life forms may have created the face on Mars,but no tests or invesigations are absolute.Nethertheless, once you see the face the very first time with images and extraordinary photos,you could be absolutley certain that the images of the face look like an alien creation.I believe the face is still a creation of the creation of the planets.Anything could have occured during that process.Knowing the fact there is not any signs or investigations,[if there is its probably not what people say or think it is] that alien life exsists.So how could have aliens created the face on Mars if they dont exsist or if there is not any signs of alien life?On the other hand,the face might be a sign of alien life.In conclusuion,my beleif is that the face on Mars is just another crazy creation that was formed long ago. | 2 |
34807cc | In the world we live in today, cars are used by people nearly everyday. To some they are looked at as a need such as water, food, or shelter rather something we want to improve our life. Although, it may improve our lives in the particular moment to some degree, we fail to see the greater and more long-term effects from everyday car usage. The following sources reviews these effects and reveals the problems and solutions we may have to fix them.
One of the more serious and more recognized problems from car usage is the steady increase of greenhouse gas emissions produced from vehicles all over the world. Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. Vauban, Germany is an example of the effort being made to reduce these greenhouse gas emissions, this experimental city is trying to remain "car-free" and in doing so the city itself has to make its own changes. This basic precept is being adopted around the world by trying to compact suburbs and make them more accessible by public transportation."When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way" said by heidrun walter(source 1). With this new experiment, people are finding ways to adapt and live the changed life while others actually feel better off.
Another serious and impacting issue from car usage is the increase in smog over big named cities. In paris, after days of a near record breaking pollution, paris bans driving throughout the city in attempt to clear up the skies. Diesel fuel is looked at as main problem paris faced in cleaning out the intesifying smog, since a france tax act favors diesel over gasoline it displays an issue the france government must correct in their own wrong doings. A different look towards car usage is that recent studies show americans buying fewer cars, getting fewer and fewer licenses, and also driving less overall. If this pattern continues there will be positive reinforcements for carbon emissions and the environment, since its the 2nd largest emission producer in America. The internet brings a whole other chess piece to the game allowing kids to feel more connected with people without driving anywhere. "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety." said by Bill Ford excutive chairman of the Ford Motor Company(source 4).
A program set up in bogota, colombia is a program developed to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. "its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." said businessman carlos arturo(source 3). Sports centers and parks have also increased throughout the city;bad conditioned sidewalks have been replaced with smooth ones;rush hour restictions have been cut largely; and high class shopping districts have also been created. This program is already looked at by many countries and is being observed by the world like an exciting experiment.
There are many advantages to limiting car use and these are just few of them. Overall, the advantages observed are just from the few examples of less car use that we have, if more people look towards this problem of over used cars. | 4 |
3484e9f | Many people dont get the chance to travel like a "Seagoing Cowboy" does. You can experience other cultures and customs ,as well as having fun in other countries. You could see monuments like the Eiffel Tower the ,Louvre ,or even the Great Wall of China. The fun of being able to taste other foods would be great. It would be awesome to travel all over the world like a "Seagoing Cowboy" does
Also helping out other countries makes me feel good about myself. You could also learn alot about cattle and farm animals aboard the ship on your way there. You could also play games when your not tending the animals ,(that might pass the time on the way back too). Also knowing that you could have saved many others lives with the cattle and other animals. Thats what i think anyway if i got the chance i would definitly be a "Seagoing Cowboy" | 2 |
348647d | How fun would it be to go on a sea adventure and get paid? Because if you were a Seagoing Cowboy that's exactly what you would get to do. All that you would have to do if you were a Seagoing Cowboy is take care of some horses and cattle until you got where you were needing to be. That sounds fun and easy to me don't you think? And if somethings fun and easy, and you get paid for it why not try it out? So I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys.
One reason that you should join is because you could see some amazing sights as well as visit different countries, such as China, Italy, and Europe. Some sights that you may see would be the Elfell Tower, or roads made out of water, but only if you join.
Another reason is that after you dropped the animals off you could do some activities on the way back, like fencing, baseball, volleyball, whittling, and table tennis tournaments. That sounds like more than fun time by my standards.
I know some may say that they wouldn't do it because of sea sickness or others might say that it would be too dangerous because of bad wheather, but you can overcome sea sickness and the boats you're going to be on are made to withstand bad wheather. Plus I'm pretty sure that if the wheather's going to be bad we're not going to be sent out in it with the risk of losing cattle or horses.
Wow, all these things sure do want to make me hop aboard. I mean, easy money, sight seeing, fun activities it's basically a vacation you're being paid to go on! So find your sea legs lads and come aboard for a fun time. | 3 |
34885ae | A world full of driverless cars seems a thousand years away; the thought of being able go anywhere at anytime without driving or a driver seems to be science fiction. However, with recent advancements in the field of driverless automoblies, this fantasy can exist sooner than one might think. With the Google Car program and BMW's "Traffic Jam Assistant," the world of driverless cars may almost be here. I believe that development and research for the creation of truly automatic transportation should be continued, based on information from "Driverless Cars Are Coming:" the invention of driverless cars, the safety implications and solutions, and the options for making driving a better experience.
Completely driverless cars continue to be science fiction, but with advancements in technology, the dream of driverless cars is within reach. But the obstacles of driverless cars are not as simple as just inventing one. Right now, driverless cars exist, such as Google's modified Toyota Prius. With a multitude of different sensors, including a rotating radar on the roof, this car can mimic the skill of a human. These developments have revolutionized the field of driverless cars; with the Google Car project, it is possible to have a driverless car today. But there is still room for improvement, such as safety and the driving experience, which is why development of these driverless cars should continue.
The issue of the safety of automoblies is still relevant to driverless cars as well. If there is a situation that the driverless car cannot handle, there could be accidents and damage. However, driverless car developers continue to address this problem, and solutions have been proposed. BMW has announced that they have developed a car that can drive itself for speed up to 25 mph. They also require that the driver keep attention to the wheel, and will notify if there is a situation where the driver must take over. This allows the driver to navigate work zones or around accidents, increasing the safety of the driverless car. The car can alert the driver in several ways, so the driver can always know when it is necessary to drive. With more development, the cars can be better prepared to handle situations and know when to notify the driver, increasing the safety of the experience.
With the invention of the driverless car, the driving experience can change in new ways. The aspect of driving a driverless car allows the driving fun to be interpreted in diferent ways. This especcially proves true for in-car entertainment options. With cars that can notifty the driver whenever there is a situation to take over, the driver can relax and use in-car entertainment and information systems safely. These increase the driving experience and what the driver or passangers can do, without endangering people or property. As more development is made, the driving experience can change to make driving better for all; a time to relax or have fun, while maintaining safety.
With so many advancements in driverless cars, a world run by driverless cars is a possibility. The invention of driverless cars, safety solotions, and an increase in the driving experience all show that with development and research, truly driverless cars can be achieved. I believe that development on driverless cars should continue, so that they can be perfected and put into use, making driving better for everyone. | 5 |
348eb9c | Do u ever want to go exploring Venus? Venus is a planet in our solar system. Venus is very challenging place to go. Earth and Venus are close bye. Venus is called the evening star one if the brightest point of light in the night sky. Venus is fun place to go exploring. Venus is the second planet from our sun.
Exploring planet is very danger. People can be die by exploring or can get injury. Its is so imporant. If some thing wrong people have to give their life away. In pargrpah 3" a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmoosphere." When you are going to exploring venus or othe planet you have to be careful. When some thing happend you will give you life away. Its so imporant
Theres some people name NASA they have explored Venus or other planet. They said that some simplified electronics mad of silicon carbide have been tested in chamber simulating the chaos of venus suface. They have a devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1440s during World War 2. Venus systems that used mechanical parts can be made mor resistant to pressure,heat,and other forces.
When you get to Venus you are flying you can't walk. The Venus a ship orbiting or hovering safely far abouve the planet can provide only limited insight on ground. In pargrpah 6" More mportantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas,or anything else from a distance. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus.
I'll love to go explored Venus it look fun. Explored another planet is good you can learn new thing. You don't have to walk you will be fly so it will be fun. It will be danger but u cant get new thing or learn new thing. I'll love to explored . | 3 |
3494df9 | In the article The Challenge of Exploring Venus the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
The author supports this idea because in paragraph 4 he says "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have once been the most earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth. today, venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and it includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable, but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive".
He also says that "Striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endevours. 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".
This shows that the author supports his idea of studying venus and that it is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 2 |
3495f1e | I Think you should join the program if you like cowboys and the sea. it will fit you perfectlyyou can tell Luke really wanted to be a SeaGoing Cowboy because when his friend asked do you want to come with me he could'nt say no. And you know he likes it because when he cracked his ribs he just got right back to work in a few days. And if you do Seaging before you go to the army you have a better chance of being in the army.
If you become a seagoing Cowboys you can have a little bit of fun like playing Baseball,Volleyball,Boxing,and Table-tennis. Also if you become a seagoing Cowboy you will go on alot of aventures. And If you become a Seagoing Cowboy you can tell your family all about the Great Adventure you had and you whould know alot about the sea and cows ect,.And if you jion the Seagoing Cowboys you whould how how you should be greatful about your stuff because people in diffent Countries dont have alot of stuff and the food you have.
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3496a0a | False Face on Mars
For some decades people have been spark with the idea of an acient civilization/aliens on Mars for a while due to Viking 1 capturing a picture of what seem to be a face on Mars. Hollywood movies, commercial, comics, and etc commercial things have fill the minds of many people with flase accusation. The saying of don't always beleive what you see or hear is true in this situation. There are many reason why this information is false. And I as a scientist at NASA will give you reason and facts on why it is flase.
The truth is there is no face on Mars. If there were face on Mars there would be many more sign of life and ancient artifact or buildings from ages ago. Just like in Earth there were many sign leading to ancient civilization such as the Inca, Maya, Aztec, and Egytian. This civilization had proof such as ruins, artifact, and fossil leading to it, but there weren't any sign of any of those in Mars instead there was just an asume face . As one can see here with just an asume face on Mars so it was unlikely that an aliens/other being did it.
A person might claim that scientists could be hiding fact from people so they don't find out the truth about the face like an alien actually making the face. I as a scientist would have already known report or leaked if some scientist were hiding something. Scientist love to share facts or truth, it is their second nature. And it is our responsibility to tell you guys about new fascinating discover we made not hide it. And this proof that is it would be pointless for scientist to hide the truths from people.
One of the most vauble reason is that the picture was taken in the 1900s. At the time the camera qualities and technowlogy weren't as advance as nowdays. The article state that there were three perfect shot of the picture taken one from 1976, 1998, and 2001. there is abig difference in each of these shot. In the 1976 picture it show a picture of what seem to be a face but later on in the 1998 picture it show a disoriented face or landform. Then in the last picture in 2001 it show a martian or a natural landform such as one that is in Earth. The qualities in these has much difference as the 2001 one being the most advance. The face also was effect by shadow from Mars, as state in the article that the dark color for the eys and nose plus mouth of the face image was cause by shadow from an angle in Mars due to the camera not being able to take a perfect angle of the martian. And all these fact are poiting out that the face on Mars is a false information.
With information scientist have been gathering and finding an alien being or an acient civilization on Mars is a dead end. The media is have a great effect on the people minds leading them to not see the truth that the face on Mars is a very false idea coming from the people minds, Now that the facts has been out to public people are agreeing with the scientist more and more. Thus all these facts and research from scientists leading to that the Face on Mars is FALSE but just a martian landform. | 5 |
3497854 | I believe that the technology, Facial Action Coding System, to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because the Facial Action Coding System only works on photos and/or artworks with a detailed face on it like the Mona LIsa artwork in the article. The technology can not read a persons face expressions right away, it needs to be generated in a computor thats constructs a 3-D model of the face(paragraph 3) which is completely rubbish because for this big of an invention to only determine emotions on a photo is quite strange and unecessary of an invention.
"The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 muscles in the model must moce like human muscles" (paragragh 3). This quote indicates that they use a 3-D technology resource to find the emotions of a photo, and if you really think about it, it is very unecessary because a person could be feeling sad in an photo but happy right after being taken, and to go through all the trouble to find a person emotional expression for that emotion to only last only an hour or so, waste of energy, money and time as I would say.
Therefore I believe the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable at all because the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto does indicate that the technology is made specifically for photos and it sounds unecessary and a waste of energy to be used in real life. | 3 |
3499b3e | Driverless cars are one of the best ideas there could ever be for our future.
It would be a easier, more safe, and more reasonable for traveling in a car.
It has always been a want in sociaty. In paragraph two, "Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves." People have been imagining this for years and have been pursuring the topic since the year 2009. Driverless cars may be a bit more to make and sell but they would save lots of money on gas, taxis, buses, ect. In paragraph three the passage talks about how people have been trying to do this for years, since the 1950's even!
Not only would it be what people want but it will eventually be what sociaty needs. For safer roads as the article says, we dont need safer drivers or safer cars but safer roads. With this being said, roads with only driverless cars would have very minium problems, accidents and what not.
This wouldn't be a so callled easy or quick prosses with getting these cars out on the road as soon as possile either, minor problems/faults with still occur. Monitoring these vehicles as they drives where ever is a smart thing because they can see how and why these errors happen, to be fixed.
In the article it talks about how people would still be able to drive these cars like normal if it is a desire. Here is where the idea wouldn't turn away people that like driving.
Driverless cars is again, one of the best ideas for our future. It is smart, safe, engery sufficiant, and logical way of transportation in the time ahead of us. Car manufactors have been and are pursuing this as it is, making it safer, smarter and better all around everyday. | 3 |
349e486 | Although the idea of Driverless Cars is very intriging and innovative, I see more negative than positive aspects in this article. I do agree that "such cars would fundamentally change the world", but not for the same reasons as stated. The article does pose a few good questions. In the inevitable event of an accident by a technology fail who would be at fault? The driver or the manufacturer? These are all things that could simply be avoided by Driverless Cars not coming to market.
Not only is this whole concept outragously dangerous, but the question of liability also has to come into play. In the event of an accident where technology fails and someone is injured someone would have to figure out who is at fault, the driver or the manufacturer. You could say that it was the drivers choice to get in the car and let it drive itself, but the manufacturers were at the origin of the problem. These are all things innocent people would not have to go through. In paragraph 9 of the article it says, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars." If it is illegal in most states to even test computer-driven cars, how would it be smart to drive them?
In my opinion, saying that these Driverless Cars are dangerous is a huge understatement. These could potencially cost hundreds or even thousands of lives if relesed to market for purchase. Why even try something this risky when the repercussions could be so big? | 3 |
349f3b8 | Dear Senator,
I would like to argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College. I believe that having an Elecotral college vote helps the President have a greater chance of becoming elected. This process also makes it a fair game of becoming elected for President.It's not only about the President though. When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors.
As I mentioned before, having and electoral votes makes it fair game for everyone. It states that the Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. This means that the presidential candidate cannot get votes based on the region they are from. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a President. He gains no votes by increasing pluraity in states that he knows he will win. This results with unlikely success of the President.
The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. When no candidate wins a majority of the vast cast, it causes complications in the presidential election process. That's when the Electoral College steps in and prodices a clear winner.
Sure it can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may not be the best way of geting potential voters for a candidate, but the way they do things makes it fair game. It keeps the system balanced. The Electoral College is an established compromise in the Constitution brought on by the Founding Fathers. It's something original that I think should live on instead of being taken away. The Electoral College should stay.
Signed, PROPER_NAME | 3 |
34a170f | Once upon a time in a galaxy far far far far away there was a head. The head of an unknowen thing. NASA has discovered a head and they do not no how it got there or where it came from."My name is Rick and today I will interview Mr H"."Mr H is a astro physist and has been studing this mystoruis face for ten years". "Mr H thinks that the head was created by aliens. "Good afternoon Mr H how are you today". "Im just fine Rick lets get to the topic of the head". "So Mr H why do you think the aliens created the head and why do you think it is on mars". "Well the reason i believe the aliens made the head is so that everyone would be taking about it and the reason its on mars is because the planet they live on is one light year away so thats where they put it". "Mr H let me ask you this for one thing where are you getting your infromation from about this head". "Thats a good question Rick you and I are friends and you work at NASA i got some infromation from you my other source is what i've been hearing on the news they alaways talk about the head". "Mr H that is quiet true what you have told me about your infromation". "Mr H but why do you think they put it on mars". " well Rick the reason i think they put it on mars is because for one they are only one light year away from mars and a spaceship could reach mars and NASA could go up and snap pitcures of it to analize it and find out what is it". "Thanks mr H for this infromation and have a great day see you soon".
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34a1dfd | The use of technology for facial expressions of students would be very useful beacsue the teacher can tell if a student does not like the lesson or is bored. The computers could tell how students feel towards the class to see if they are enjoying the class or not. If the computers can read facial expressions they could help make the lessons better for the students and maybe they will actually learn something useful. The use of technolgy to read emotions and expressions of students in a class room is a great idea becasue it could help give teachers a better way to teach the students.
In todays world technolgy is very useful and a face scanning system to tell emotions would be a great thing to have. With something like this you could tell how someone is feeling without even talking to them. The face scanning application could however get things wrong and make the wrong asuption of how someone is feeling. The face scanning application could work to help people undertand how someone if feeling but could be very wrong at the same time. | 2 |
34ad424 | I think that computers being able to tell if your happy or sad is a good idea because if someone is feeling sad or mad the computer can help the students and try its best to make the students calm down or make them happy. this being able to tell emotions can also help prevent suicide and keep students from fighting and keep them in a happier mood.
The computer can tell if a person is feeling sad or happy by telling there facial expression when a add comes up. the computer can tell they are not happy the computer well send a happier add on the next one to try to help you feel better or calm down. " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Haung predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructer."
If a student is feeling sad or mad if they smile even if they dont want to research shows that when students or adults or in a sad mood if they just put a smile on there face it will put them in a better mood then what they where in. " According to the facial feedback theory of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them." When a renowned drama coach had his students put a frowning or smiling face on the actors to create those emotions and it actually worked for those actors to perform better on stage. " A renowend drama coach, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage."
My thoughts on this article is that if you put a smile on your face even if your not happy that it actually works and if computers could tell people ,ood then we can prevent a lot of acciednts from happing and we can put students who are stressed out or not in a good mood it will cheer them up and leave a postive atitude about most sitituations that kids or even adults go threw everyday. | 3 |
34ad8eb | Ah, the electoral college. Don't you just
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how irrelevent, unfair, and confusing it is? In fact, it is so without flaw, that in 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote, but he lost the presidency (Source 2). Some people say that the electoral college is an anachronism, but some people disagree. Those people are wrong. The electoral college was irritating in the 1960's, and it's irritating now. You should side with Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and the Chamber of Commerce (Source 2), and abolish the electoral college.
First, and most importantly, the electoral college is unfair to voters . Most states in the electoral college is based on a "winner take all" system; if the candidate gets the majority of votes in that state, that candidate gets the electors (Source 1). This means most candidates focus in on the states they know that they have a chance of winning, and focus on going after "swing states" (Source 2). If a candidate was to get the majority in Texas, Florida, and California, the three biggest swing states, the candidate would have 122 electoral votes, almost half of the 270 votes necessary to win (Sources 1 and 3). Voters for the electoral college say that people in the swing states are going to pay closer attention to the campaign and become more thoughtful voters (Source 3), but should 10% of the nation decide who runs your country?!
The second virus causing the electoral college to convulse and bite its tongue in half is what happens in the event of a tie. If this is to occurr, then state delegates in the House of Represenatatives decide the President (Source 2). Each state only casts one vote, so the representative from Rhode Island would have just as much to say as the 55 representatives from the state of California (Source 1 and 2). Not only that, but a majority of people vote one party for president and another for Congress (Source 3). There are 538 possible votes in the electoral college (Source 1), so it isn't impossible for a tie to happen. In 1976, if 5,559 voters from Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had switched candidates, there would have been a tie (Source 2).
And finally, the last thing that makes the electoral college as relevant as a new wheel for your horse and buggy is that, it's mind-bogglingly confusing. The electoral college is run by humans, so we must account for human error. The electors are just people chosen by the candidate who don't hold a seat in government (Sources 1 and 2). In 1960, a group of racists in Louisiana almost replaced Democratic electors with ones who would oppose John F. Kennedy, and he would have lost the election (Source 2). In Hawaii, also in 1960, two slates of electors were sent (Source 3). Faithless electors have refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for anyone else (Source 2).
In conclusion, the electoral college is literally pointless. It's unfair and confusing. If America had decided on a majority rules electoral system, and not this pile of trash, we would still have all the same presidents we did before. Well, except Al Gore. | 5 |
34b120d | The electoral college should be abolished because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidates elector (source 1), and the voters cant always control who their electors vote for (source 2). On the other hand the electoral college is a great thing because a dispute over the outcome of an electoral college vote is possibe but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote (source 3).
When you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidates elector (source 1). Most people, including me, would like to vote for the president not a candidate because they might not even vote for the person you want for president. Some states are smaller then others so that makes them feel like their votes arent as important as the bigger states like California and Texas. The electoral college consists of only 538 electors compared to how many people are actually in the U.S. so there is a greater chance that the wrong president might be elected.
Many people do not vote because the voters cant always control who their electors vote for (source 2). Not everyone wants to take the chance of voting for the wrong person to be elected for president. Some voters might get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate, as it says in source 2. Most states are small so most people in those states dont think the little states matter and they arent important in the election when they actually do.
On the other hand the electoral college is a great thing because a dispute over the outcome of an electoral college vote is possibe but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote (source 3). A better thing about the electoral college is that it requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal, meaning that not all the vote can come from one or two regions and no other ones. Voters in presidential elections are the people who want to express a political preference rather than the people woh tihnk a single vote can dicide an election.
As a student I want the best for the up coming generations, including me, that are going to be able to be a part of the presidential elections and to not be confused who to vote for or how the electoral college works. Every year a new generation becomes legal to vote and be part of the election but if they dont know how to vote or how it works then they wont be able to. Some people dont know anything about poitics but, still want to be able to vote so, it should be easy for them to vote for who they want to be president rather then the long process of, voting for the canidates elector and most of the time they dont vote for who they want and they vote for the wrong person. | 4 |
34b6263 | When it comes to the topic of driverless cars, I am against the idea. While there might be some perks to them, I think the risks of having them is too much. If we have driverless cars we would have to worry about accidents, loss of experince of driving, and the after effects. Driverless cars might hurt us more than help us and heres why.
Having any type of car, theres most likely going to be an accident sometime. In driverless cars theres more things that can go wrong in the car than in a car driven by a human, like fails in the wiring or sensors. If an accident is caused by a driverless car who would be blamed? As the author said in the story, would it be the owner or the manufacture? In the story it says "traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver." Therefore serveral already traffic laws would have to be changed and several new laws would have to be added.
If cars become driverless then most people will lose the experience of driving a car. several people enjoy learning how to drive but they wont be able to if we have only driverless cars. If people dont learn how to drive, what will they do if they every need to? If something electrical happens with all the cars most people will be stuck where theyre at. There are several jobs that rely on drivers that will be lost with driverless cars. Jobs such as taxi drivers, truckers, and pizza delivery people will most likely be lost with driverless cars.
My final statement of why i disagree with driverless cars is because of the effect it will cause. With all cars being driverless, It will leave several people jobless and cause several people to have to be retrained to work with the driverless cars. Another effect it will have is the cost to produce the cars. It will most certainly cost several hundreds of millions of dollars to produce the cars, which is money that can be well spent doing something else. The last effect im going to bring up is what will happen to cars we already have? What will we do with them? Will they be able to drive along with the driverless cars? Whos going to take our old cars when we switch to driverless cars?
In my opinion, I disagree with switching to driverless cars. I think the flaws and unknowns are to great to switch just yet. I think the accidents, loss of experience, and the effects of them are too great. Driverless cars might hurt us mire than help us. | 4 |
34b8b55 | After reading the article " Unmastking the Face on Mars" the
Face on Mars is not created by aliens it is just a natural landform.
If the face on Mars was created by aliens that is "Evidence that NASA would father hide..." other wise "authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars." and "It certantly did!" after that they used the face everywhere it was a pop icon as the articale says. " it starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows--evern haunted grocery store checkout lines for twentyfive years."
Mars Global Surveyor went and took another look at the face and got ten times better pictures than the Vikings did " Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meeters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1979 Viking photo. As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digiral image three times bigger than pixel size..." meaning " you could see what they were!"
People were not satisfied so skeptics says that alien markings were hidden by haze but on the other hand "Thousands of anxiuos web surfers were waiting when the image fist appeared on a JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
Therefore the face on Mars is and could not be created by aliens at any point if it was NASA would want to keep that evidence hidden and would not have let everyone see the face. | 2 |
34ba9f1 | Have you ever made a shadow puppet with your hand. It is pretty cool when you get some that are pretty complicated you can also do this with rocks. So let us get back on track,
the " FACE" on mars is a formationof rock wether it be by martin creatures or by nature. I am going to beon the side it was a natural formation. i will support my claim with these three reasons; rock formations, life on mars, and publicity.
My first reason is rock formations. For example there is a vast amount of mesas and or buttes on mars and on earth. This example shows that rock formations can appear almost any where. My second supporting idea is that an astroid could have hit in that rock patch like in Arizona . This example shows that astroids could have played a part in the rock's formation. My third reason is that the rock formaion could have been a natural thing like mountains for example. This example shows that nature can do some weird things. In conclusion the ''face'' on mars could actually be a rock formation on the planet.
My second reason is that it is an illution.For example you can change the sun light amount on the ''face'' and it will look nothing like a face. This example shows that the rock formation could be an optical illution. My second statement is that mabye just maybe be an photoshop thing. This example shows that a lot of things may not be what they seem. | 2 |
34bc6c6 | Hello, my name is Luke, and I would like to introduce you to a program called Seagoing Cowboys. This program allows you to take care of animals, see amazing places, and go on exiting and lively adventures. You can also help your community. For example, when World War 2 was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins, 44 nations joined together to help those counries recover. Seagoing Cowboys were hired to take care of the horses, young cows and mules that were shipped overseas. Who would not want to do all that and more? Nobody! There are so many reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys!
Lets face it. All of us would want to be Seagoing Cowboys. You get to take care of cute and amazing animals. Even though taking care of animals is a hard and responsible job, you can still have fun. Have you ever seen a cow eat? If you haven't, they are hilarious! Also the animals can love you. Everyone loves to be loved. The animals could cuddle with you, and, in a way, protect you.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy also allows you to see unique and amazing places. When I went on my trips as a Seagoing Cowboy, I got to see beautiful places. I got to see Europe and China, but the most amazing place I went to was Greece. Plus, I didn't just sit on the boat, I got out and toured the contries. I also got to see historical places such as the Panama Canal.
Do you like exiting and thrilling adventures? I do! Going sailing as a Seagoing Cowboy allowed me to go on adventures all the time. There were dangerous times when the ocean was storming, the waves were huge, and sky black, but for the most part in was always nice. The ocen provided a cool breeze on a hot sunny day. The weather was perfect for sitting down and relaxing in the nice sunshine. So, as you can see going sailing with the Seagoing Cowboys is an adventure of a lifetime.
Here's the point, being a Seagoing Cowboy is awesome. You get to take care of the cute, funny, and loving animals. Plus, you get to see the most exotic places. Also, you have the privlidge of going on fun and thrilling adventures. There are many up's and down's to being a Seagoing Cowboy, but it was the best desition of my life, and I bet it will be the best desition of your life too. So go and help the world by becoming a Seagoing Cowboy! | 4 |
34bcca0 | The software is the latest innovation from Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Becjman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois. Can we actually "calculate" emotions? How can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?. These process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, all the major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. These program can really help teachers to figure out how thier students are feeling.
Nuci Sebe of the University of Amsterdam Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate. These new process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major musvloes in the model must moke like human muscles. movement of one or more muscles is calle an "action unit". as an examole six classified basic emotions six basic emotions as happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements
of the facial muscles.
Can we actually calculate emotions? the facial expressions for each emotion are universal. The new emotion recogniton sfotware tracks these facial movements in the real face or the painted face of Mona Lisa. For example each expression is compared against a neutral face.In fact we humans perfroms this same impressive calculation. As the last example a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson.
How can a cumputer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel? the new computer software stores a similar anatomical information as electronic code that allows the computer to describe the feeling that are beings expressed while the picture was taken. In fact are the instructions for a face that looks happy. It's all about those muscular action units.
Whoever tought making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions is a really helpfull software that allows the teachers to know hoe their students are feeling. | 1 |
34c5bdc | There is not a good reason to put these Coding Systems into classrooms. The coding systems probably cost a lot of money and it would distract the students from focusing in the classroom. These Coding Systems aren't educational, they're used for the fun and enjoyment. So what's the point of puting these in classrooms? The Coding Systems won't teach them anything, it will just distract them.
The only way they could be beneficial is to study the muscles that're in your face. But studying this topic would only last for not even a month. They would be used once a year. So why have them when you'll only use them once a year?
There is something that can be used that is simpler and not as expensive to study this. There are still textbooks and certain handouts teachers can use to teach the students. That is how teachers are teaching now and students are already getting good grades so there isn't really a point of getting these Coding Systems. | 2 |
34e37d0 | In my opinion, I'm against driveless car and I believe that it is not safe for us. Driverless car still have a long way to go; none of the driveless car that are invented today are ready to be tested in the real world. We have car that we used in today world and theres no problem with it. There are no reason why we need Driveless car.
First, how can we trust driveless car or the company creating these car? They are so useless and we dont need it. I know it sound cool "self driving car" but, how can we trust these companies makeing these car. Most of the comany that sell car are money maker. According to the "Drivelss Cars are Comming" in paragraph nine the author stated "If the techonology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" What if you are invloved in accident and none of it was your fault, and they chager you for it.
Futhermore, We should all be concered about this, and my big concered is how much these Driveless car cost? What if it cost like million of dollar to own these car. Then it would be useless and a wastefull of money. In the text it also stated that the car can only handle 25 mph, and the human have to keep hold of the wheel. What the point of riding the driveless car, if you have to keep hold of the wheel. In the rest of paragraph 7 it talks about the human must stay alert and be ready to over take any danger situation. Coumpter car are not really safe there could be a smart hacker and takes contorol of your car. How will we react to a hacker and who would be responblie for it if we got invovel in a carsh?
On the other hand, Most of the company like Mercedes-Benz, audi, and Nissan plan to have car that can drive by themselves by 2020. As times goes on coumpter will drive our own car and ruled over us. We have to be aweard of what is happening. Most of us are not even sure what self driving car exactly is and never been on self drving car before. For me, I think I dont need self driving car I got my own hand and I can drive my self as safe as I wanted to be.
In conclusion, I hope in the near future there will be no consequencey with self driving car. Years 2020, is not a long way before you know it everyone could ride selfdriving car. Coumpter will contorol the car and we put our saftey in their hand. We will have to turst the coumpter that it is safe to ride the self driving coumpter car. | 4 |
34e6274 | The Seagoing Cowboys Program
The Seagoing Cowboys program is a very nice thing in many ways. You will have lots of opportunitys to do things that you have never done in your life. The reasons that I know you should join this program is you get to take care of animals,have fun playing games on board with other cowboys,you get to ride the waves all the time on a boat, and going new places to see other things and cultures.
The first reason you should join this program is you get to take care of overseas animals. Luke said you get to take care of horses,young cows,and mules that were shipped overseas. Helping animals is very fun and animals might be very cute to you so this is a big advantage to joining this program. You will start to build a relationship with the animals and start to love them in a way you cant imagine.
The second reason you should join this Seagoing Cowboy program is you get to have fun on board with other cowboys. Cowboys on board like Luke get to play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. Other games that cowboys play to pass time is tabble-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling.
The third reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is you get to ride the waves on a boat to see the sea. Lots of people love seeing the ocean and riding on it,but this way you just have to join the program and you can ride the seas as much as you like. The ocean is soothing and is just so peaceful compared to the city where it is very load and annoying.
The fourth and most important reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboy program is you get to discover new places and sightseeing. Going to Greece, Europe, China, and many other places seems really fun for seeing new cultures,how people dress, and the landforms. Its good to explore something new and go around the world in this program.
In conclusion,I think the Seagoing Cowboys program is one of the best programs of all time. You get to explore,take care of animals,and have lots of fun with friends. I hope you take this message massivly that joining this program will change the way you think about life today. | 4 |
34e8646 | People should start to join the group I am in. You can go see many new places and things all while traveling the world on a mission to help others. We are called Seagoing Cowboys. You should want to be a Seagoing Cowbow, it isvery benificial to all that are involved in this wonderful process.
When you are a Seagoing Cowboy you will get the time to explore the current area that you are located in. In the program you will have free time and be able to do other things when away,such as sight seeing. At times when you are with the group you will be helping the people of that land who are in need of our service, regain their streingth as a bation and build thier natrual resources. These kind of things will be animals, food, shelter, and clothes.We will travel with all the resorces we plan to donate to the peoples including the animals.
I myself have even thought, is it worth
getting sea sick this many times, I miss my family, maybe I should just go home. But I did not cave in to those thoughts, and I'm still here withthe porgram. You will have todo the same and persue with the action. I had to do it for myself to accomplish something. I had to stay for my family so I could still be their hero, and that means nearly everthing to me. Most importently though you have to stay for the people, to help them means the world for their sake. You have to focus on the positive.
So please take this amazind and outstanding oportunity and sighn up. I promis you won't be dissapointed at the chance of a life time. To help people and make this world a better place. To spend time with hundreds of animals. Also to see and do things you would normaly never have done or expirinenced before. So please take this oportunety at something amazing, and if you cant do it for your self do it fo the people. Please. | 3 |
34ee1a0 | Dear, senator
As a student learning more and more about the world we live in I understand that there has been problems deciding weather or not congress should continue to use the electoral college the elect our nationals new or future presidents. I believe that the race for presidency in just a huge game and the electoral college is just a great tool that is used in this game to find a faster way to win. But some people probably don't even know how to use it which is why the problem was arroused.
Taking aways the electoral college is like playing a game that have no obsticles nor opponents to challege you. Nothing in life is fare or cheep and by only using popular votes is to cheat the candidates of the true experience of running for what they want. If you or me were to run for president I'm sure we would want to have the oppertunity to use the electoral college to our advantage.
I believe the electoral chollege should continue to be used and nothing hsould change about how our stong nation selects our leaders because with change comes new obsticals and with those leeps and jumps comes errors. To change the way something has been done for such a long time would be like asking to distroy something and rebiuld it all the way back from the begining. I think that as a nation these problems are nothing to us, Why creat a big problem out of a simpler problem when we can just let it be and work our way arround the problems we face together.
Sincerely, Solomon | 1 |
34ee3cc | I believe that the face was land made because in the picture from 1976 in the fifth pharagraph, it looks like a face. But when you look at the other pictures at the top of the article you don't see any dips that point towards alien creation. I belive that like, in the article, it was just an effect of the light and shadows. The shadows could have been made by a higher point of the mesa and when the light hit it just right, it made it look like a face. In the last pharagraph, Jim Garvin, the cheif scientist of NASA's Mars Exploration Program said, " It reminds me of Snake River Plain in Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
To me Garvin's idea of what the Face on Mars really is, seem very logical. There have been land formations that people say are made by aliens. But, for all we know it could have been man made millions of years ago. We will never know because we don't have strong enough evidence to prove if it was man made, a creation made by aliens, or was simply made over time. Looking at the third image at the top of the article, you can see that there is nothing on the surface of the Face on Mars. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern thins in a digital image 3 times bigger then the pixle size. So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shake, you could see what they were." Garvin said in pharaghraph eleven.
From far away the Face looks like, well, a face. But, once you get a close up of it you can see that it was only a forplay of shadows. The things that we hear about on the news, in magazines, radio talk shows, films, and books get so blown out of praportion that people will read it and believe that there really is a face on mars that was created by aliens. I understand that there are some things that we really don't know about, and maybe never will. But, I believe that if there are aliens, that we would be given some strong evidence that they were on mars, earth or wherever.
But, for now, we will have to keep looking into things and discover more things about earth and the things that happened on earth and to earth millons of years ago. When technoligy advances and we get more chances to look at things and get deeper into research, we will know if there really are aliens or not. | 4 |
34efe4d | For starters, the power to read someones emotion is too much, what if the person dose not want to be read and would like some privacy. Facial recognition is already a thing and the reading emotions is a useless waste of tax dollars for more reason than one.
if this is a goverment funded project, then, one why, and two, what for. in the case that you are wasting money for things more immportant, like fixing the hunger epidemic, or stopping corupt people from oppressing others, you have decided to make a technology that reads faces, there are uses for this tech, but is it what we need or is it something that can wait untill everyone is happy and healthy. Understaning that there are uses for tech like this, what other uses does it have, the only thing for it is the "makeing school lessons less boring".
In another case, people not wanting to be read like a book and having it done anyway, dose not sound like fun. Creating a socity where everyone knows how everyone else feels, there are flaws that will devistate populations, perhaps someone dose not want to talk about somthing and the compter or cellphone with this new tech dose not know this, then offends the persson by telling a dark secret or spilling the beans about your emotions to some blabermouth that spits the info to the internet for example "to an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling polititinn or celebrity isn't being truthful." not only dose this tech give people the power to see through fake smiles, but it is also a hudge invasion of privacy and should be frowed upon, then again when has a polititian ever been truthful to begin with.
The main point is, with this tech taking away the ability to hold a secret, it makes our socity seem like robots and always wanting to be read like a book and have our emotions described as "numbers on a spread sheet" or words on a screen. The entire reason we are human is because we can read emotions without the use of a machiene telling us how we feel, insted of our friends asking us "are you okay" a computer program says "you are feeling sad" after some trgic event. Also the program has only basic emotions and feelings progamed into it, nothing as complex as a state of deep depretion.
However this program could be useful for diegosing depression and stats that doctors still have trouble finding. Imagine if insted of reading feeling and telling you how you feel, the program could, for say; recomend a way to feel better if you are sad, or help relive anger stress with some soothing music, and even help make sure everyone is happy with out the big buck spending for therpy of a phycologist.
In conclution there are both good and bad things this program can do, but with all that power come a lot of risk and exposure. Read somthing wrong and disaster wil stike. Leave something unchecked and things get out of hand, but worst of all if the program gliches or the machiene malfunctions and someone pays the price with their life. But, remember just because its smarter than a human, dose not mean it cant fall victem to human error. | 3 |
34f1c56 | The Electoral College is used in the United States to elect a president, yet it is higly debated over whether it is needed or not. The Electoral College was founded to compromise the election of a president between the people and Congress, to try to avoid problems between both parties. Many people allign themselves with one side to argue that it is needed to eliminate unfair advantages, or that it is not needed because it doesn't give the people the power to elect their president. This brings up disputes and controversy especially in situations that give evidence to support both cases, such as the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George Bush. The Electoral College should be kept in use because it provides a fair representation and campaign for all regions, allows votes from states with fewer population numbers to have significance, and avoids the issue of trying to determine the president when neither receives the majority vote.
To begin with, the Electoral College should be in use because it provides fair representation for all the states involved in the election. "The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal." "This is a desireable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president." This shows that it is beneficial because it makes a candidate who has only regional appeal, have to work harder in other states to show that he would be fair to all states, not just the ones that support him. Furthermore, it allows for massive regional advantages, like the South, mean nothing because they would still have to convince the North to vote for them. The opposing side might argue that if a candidate has regional appeal, they should just let that win them the election, but a successful president should be able to sway the whole country into voting for him, not just a certain region. Thus, showing that regional advantages prove meaningless with the Electoral College, making it less unfair to other regions.
In addition, the Electoral College eliminates the unfair advangate of having a bigger state, allowing smaller states to have a significance in the election." The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution." This shows that large states can sway the whole election, while small states don't make a dent on it, without the Electoral College in place. Thus, using it allows smaller states' votes to matter in the election, while eliminating large states' advantage over them. People might claim that large states deserve more representation because more people live in them, but this doesn't preserve the equality for other smaller states's citizens that the United States stands for. This makes it apparent that without the Electoral College only the "big states" would matter and the candidates wouldn't have to worry about the small states.
Finally, the Electoral College does its best to eliminate the issue of not being able to determine the winner when the majority vote does not differ. " Most states have a winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." This stops the problem that occured in 1968 with Nixon and 1992 with Clinton, and provides a clear definite way to choose the winner. If the Electoral College wasn't in use, lengthy recounts and much controversy would follow elections to try to determine if the votes were fair; this would cause too much strife and unrest within the country. It can be argued that even with the conflict it provides the people a chance to make their votes count, but it does more harm than good and it doesn't truly change anything. As a result, the Electoral College solves the issue of uncertainty and significance of vote.
In essence, the Electoral College is necessary for the balance and order in the United States to remain. It provides a fair representation and campaign for all regions, allows votes from states with fewer population numbers to have significance, and avoids the issue of trying to determine the president when neither receives the majority vote. This all shows that fewer problems arise when using this procedure, rather than if they use majority vote. "You help choose your state's electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors." This shows that the citizens still have power in choosing their candidate and it creates a balance with other parties. In conclusion, the Electoral College should be kept to preserve the integrity and equality the United States is all about. | 6 |
34f8227 | In the article Driverless Cars Are Coming, the author has a ton of good points for driverless cars such as driverless cars insure more safty on the road. He also made a good point about the negative aspects of driverless cars. What if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault, the driver or the manufacturer. I am going to make an arguement for the development of these cars, and at the end lets see how you feel about these cars.
The reasons I think that Driverless cars are good for the road are the following. My first reason is that I think that driverless cars will be very safe and will only benefit the driver in the car. My reason for that is driving regularly is very dangerous because of the fact that a lot people driving on the road distract themselves from the road. Like texting and driving, or bending down, and picking up the mccdonalds french fry you just dropped on the floor. With the driverless car you can do that and not be in danger of getting hurt. Actually some manufactures hope to interpret the driving fun in a new way, by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays.
My sesond point is what if people say "what if the car system fails". Well in the driverless cars you can still take controll of the wheel whenever you please, and the system will stop. You will sometimes be required to take over the car in certain situations like, navagating through work zones and around accidents. Manufacturers have actually created a seat in cars that vibrate to notify when they need to take over. My last reason is that driverless cars overall ensure more saftey because, they brake and have better reaction times then people.
In fact Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. That to me is crazy by the time im twenty i might be able to ride in a driverless car. That is why I agree that we should hope for the development of these cars. | 3 |
34f9d3c | In 1976 ,The face on mars was discovered . Many poeple think that it was a Egyptian pharoh , or something created by aliens. All in all it was just nautural land form. With " The face on Mars " going viral for 25 years many people would like to know what it really is .
New technology allowed scientist to get a better look a the "The Face on Mars" . With a camra that had high resolution 3D altimetry they finaly discovered what it really was , a mesa . Mars has many natural land forms but this spacific one caught eyes and attention because its looks like a face , but with the shadows and lighting in the first picture in 1976 it looked like an human face.
In 1998 scientist came togeher to and got another picture of "The Face on Mars ". Then scientist went crazy still beliving that it was a human face , it looked like an egyptian pharoh . With all the features if a human face many bellived stiil it was an human face . Scientist started to belive that there was human life on mars and some how in the future if something was ever to happen to ,humans could find a new life on mars . but that was not the case .
In 2001 the record was finally set striaght . using an hight quality camra they got a very better look at "The Face on Mars " . to come to surprise to most scientist it was just and natral land form also known as a mesa . Using thier high quality camra they where able tt find out if it had anyhing to do with human life , they would be able to see objects shuch as , airplanes on the ground , egypitian styled pyramids , and even small shacks . None of the object where found near "The Face " or on Mars yet .
In conclsion "The Face on Mars " was really an lanform .It was still good research and a good thing to talk about . many people still believe that it was a face , but other just stuck to the facts . Even tho tehre was no life fond on Mars many scientist are still looking for signs on Mars . | 3 |
34fd610 | My position on driverless cars is that they should not be apart of our future because of the negative aspects they bring. With these cars there may be a couple of positive things such as being more flexible then buses, but the negative side wins. In order for us to have driverless cars we are going to have to spend some serious money. As well as spendng all this money we don't even know if these cars are safe enough. Finally, is a driverless car if a human still has to be able to take control?
First of all, none of the tax payers are going to want to pay for these smart roads like talked about in the article. In the late 1950s they tested a car to run on a special test track, and although it worked it had a lot of expencive moving parts. Another question we have to answer is are these cars safe? Google says their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash, yet it still has trouble pulling in and out of driveways. That's not the only thing either they also has a diffuclt time dealing with complicated traffic issues.
Finally, why would you want a driverless car if you still have to driver the care? They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but the human needs to stay alert the whole in-case the road ahead needs the human to navigate through work zones and around accidents. Although it lets you know when they need you to take the wheel, it watches make sure you sre always paying attention. And when the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver. In the case of the driver wouldn't they just get bored waiting on their turn to drive the car.
People can keep designing cars that are "driverless" but until they can do everything a human can do they aren't driverless. They would also have to get states to make it legal to test computer-driven cars, let alone be able to sell them to people in their states. The laws would have to change in order to cover liability in case of an accident. Like stated in the article if the technology fails and someone is injured then who's fault is it the driver or the manufacturer? | 3 |
34fec4f | Well, being completly honest, using a ma chine to detect human behivor such as with emotions and feelings towards situations and or people is a horrible idea, is defeats the porpuse of what privacy really is and how we use it, if someone is mad and or angry they will show it on their own way whenever they feel like it, we dont need a machine to do it for us, that is just wrong in so many levels, is impressive but wrong, very wrong, why dont we use this knowledge to just best ourselfs in other important stuff like making football players equipemant stronger but lighter at the same time so they dont run with an extra 60 pounds and are less likely to get a concussion playing the sport they love, or discovering a new way of building a computer or a monitor using carbon molecules for example, since is less likely to break and more durable throughout the years. | 2 |
34ff09f | Most teenagers are eager to get their license, but with the amount of cars being bought and used declining, it seems as if most don't mind not being able to drive. While it may be extrememly hard to not own a car in our society, there are many advantages of limiting car usage.
Pollution has always been an issue in our world, mostly because of cars. Diesel fuel was blamed for "near-record pollution" in Paris, and driving was banned to clear the air. Because cars cause so much pollution that it forces us to ban them, it is therefore causing us to slow the buying on them. As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below where they were in January of 1995. This may be because most Americans cannot afford a car these days, but not owning a car will definitely not burn a hole in our wallets.
Not only are cars consuming of our space (with a car comes a garage), they are comsuming of our money as well. Gas prices have been and are currently rising, which makes it very difficult for some car-owners to pay for other important necessities in their lives, such as children.
Limiting car usage has also made an impact on some people's mood. In Vauban, Germany, 70 percent of families do not own cars, and it has been more than beneficial. Media trainer and mother of two Heidrun Walter says "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." For example, you might have had a bad day, or are upset about something and are driving home from work. Your anger channels into your driving and causes an accident. This all could have been avoided if we cracked down on the usage of cars.
Overall, cars have been very beneficial for our society, but we get even more benefits if we stop using them. Pollution can be reduced, money can stay in our bank accounts, and moods can be positively changed if we stop using cars. | 3 |
34ff174 | If I were Luke Bomberger I would convince people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
The reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is because it's such an experince.
When you are doing your job not only are you working, you are helping other people and it gives you that good feeling down inside. As you are doing you rounds or trips or whatever you want to call it is a great opertunity for a young boy or grown man to see alsorts of stuff, like different cultures and different countrys. Another reason is your an animal lover you got yourself a job but remember one thing you do need to be strong and tuff. If you are worried about being board trust me we have loads of stuff to help you pass time some of the stuff includes, Table tennis,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and games so you dont half to worried about being bored.
There are some great dangers about being on sea. On my second trip I served as a watchman . My jod was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night I was makeing my hourly report to the captin and I slid down the slipery ladder and landed on my back side. I was happey to be alive. The one problem was that I couldn't work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs. You shouldent have that problem.
Well thats realy all I can say. Yes I agree it dose have its downfalls but thers more good things than bad I can personley tell you that. It realy helped me open my mind to the world. It helped me understand the problems other countries were facing and I realy hope it helps you open up your mind. With all my information I hope to see you at sea helping the animals. | 3 |
3502893 | In this article scientists are concerned that there is a face on a planet called Cydonia and that it was created by aliens. In the article however there is text evidence that it was't created by aliens. I'm going to explain some of their research.
In the text it says, "evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists." This helps explain that it wasn't created by aliens because if it was NASA would hide it for certain reasons and I will give examples. The first example is that if NASA showed people this and they said it was real they would be scared about it. The second example is that if this were real NASA wouldn't let other people or organizations use it for attractions, movies, or for money and for them just to take the credit. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West"
These facts and pieces of evidence all give good explanations on why this lanform was not created by aliens. Some people still might believe in the alien ceation, but other scientists and I aren't fooled by it. We can still learn about this in the future, but until then it is still a mystery which I have solved only for myself. | 2 |
3508b1d | The author is saying that scientist want to explore venus but none of the spacevraft haved landed on venus because is high temperature condition so scientist sees it as
challege. Scientist have some simplified electronic made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of venus's surface and have lasted three weeks in such condition. In paragraph 3 it said that venus have the hottest temperature in our solar system is interasting becuase mercury is closest planet to the sun, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediment like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquake, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. Scientist want to do another expedition to Venus, nasa is working on other approaches to studying Venus, Maybe in the future the will bw so great that we can land on other planest beside Venus, we have landed mars and made great discoverie. Venus is gonna be complecated to explore but scientist take this as a challege and they will not stop until they due we have technology but not strong enought to handle Venus temperature, we have prototype but I dont think that is gonna work for such hight chaotic planet. | 1 |
350a223 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it prestents. In the article, the author explains the difficult conditions in Venus and the risks humans have by exploring and studying Venus. He explains that studying Venus is effective because astronomers are fascinated by Venus and it may well once have been the most Earth-like plant on the solar system.
The author explains about the possibility of Venus being the most Earth-like plant on the solar system, and compares the similarities both the planets, Venus and Earth, might of had. The dangers of human studying Venus are evident as he explains Venus atmosphere, that renders standard forms of photography and videography ineffective when a ship is orbiting or hovering safety far above the planet's surface.
NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some electronics are being tested in a chamber stimulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such condition. Another project is looking back to an old technology in the 1800s that played an important role on WW ll.
New and old technolgy are being tested to be useful and made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces found in Venus. Venus has value, as stated on paragraph 8, studying Venus is a challenge, but it is worth being studied for to meet the edges of innovation. | 2 |
3514f75 | What's your opinion on the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)? If people used this system, it wouldn't be right. This might seem like a good and helpful system but if we start using it, it'll more likely upset people because not everyone is comfortable with others knowing their emotions, if everyone knows others emotions then we won't have to communicate as much because we have a machine that'll tell us, and jobs will be taken away because we will no longer need them.
Yes, this system would be quite interesting, but many people wouldn't agree with always having others know how they're feeling. They want to keep to theirselves and just think their emotions through, they shouldn't have to share them if they don't want to. In the passage, it says, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." At this point, you'd ask if she is okay. If she doesn't want you to know then she won't tell you so she shouldn't have to. If she does want to talk about it or tell you how she's feeling then she will. The person should always have an option as to whether or not people figure out how they're feeling.
Imagine the person next to you, in this case a girl, is sitting there just staring off into space, you would probably ask them what she is thinking about. If we use this system, then we won't have to ask because we'll already know if she's angry. If you already know she's angry then you wouldn't go up and talk to her, meaning we'd lose communication and that person would lose someone to talk to her emotions about (if she wanted to). In the article, it says, "Eckman has classified the six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness..." This shows that the computer will be able to detect the emotion that person is feeling so you won't have to.
In society today, we shouldn't use this system. Maybe if it was back in the day then it would be more beneficial because we didn't have as many therapists to help but now we have occupations that help us figure out how and why we're feeling certain emotions. As an example, imagine yourself as a therapist. If you're a therapist, you'd have multiple patients coming in your room on a regular basis to talk about how they're feeling, how their day was, etc. and you'd help them figure out why they're feeling happy, depressed, sad, angry, etc. The next day you look on the news and there's a new kind of computer that tells you how you're feeling, but that's your job. When you go into work, only half of your usual patients come in and the next day, the amount splits in half again. Sooner or later, you're down to very few patients but you aren't getting paid enough anymore so you have to quit and find another occupation. This is what would happen to many therapists and occupations similar because the people have a different way of seeing their emotions now.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System is not a good idea. This system would make society more anti-social. We should work on finding more ways for people to come together and communicate with each other and this would do the opposite. It would make the people who do not want everyone to know their emotions upset/angry, it would make us lose communication, and some of our occupations would be lost. Those are some examples of how the FACS is not very beneficial. | 4 |
3515161 | Fellow citzens i am here to inform about the advantages of limiting car usage. limiting car usage has made people feel safer walking and planners are noe taking the concept to the suburbs. expert says its a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gases.
In this new approach to limit car usuage stores are placed a walk away on a main street,rather than in malls along some distant highway. even in the united states the enviromental protection agency is promoting "car reduced" communities and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously.
for example congestion went down in france after five days not being to drive and of intensifiying smog.70 percent of vaubans families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold a car to move here. most people are happier with the the car usage limit due to that fact that they have too be tense anymore. and the wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor.
Vauban,home to 5,500 people wihtin a rectangular square mile , is the most advanced experiment in low-car sudan surburban. many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a six year federal transportation bill to be approved this year.
New suburbs may look more vauban-like,not only in developed countries but also in developing world,vauban,germany residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers,going where few soccer moms or commuting excutives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars .
Vauban,completed in 2006,is anexample of a growing trend in europe,the united states and else where to seperate surburban life from auto use,as a component of a movement called "smart planning". | 1 |
35190a9 | _Dangers of the Self-driven Monster_
Do you want your life to depend on the driving of a robotic car? Although there would be reasons as to why these cars are useful, they aren't guaranteed to work. Driverless cars are dangerous because they are prone to malfunction, don't have a way to react quick enough, and is blind to certain things on the road.
Everything that is controlled by itself or some sort of robot is prone to malfunction. A car driven by humans is already dangerous enough! If one of these driverless cars was to malfunciton, the one to blame is the manufactorer. With the malfunctioning cars there will be conflict between an individual and the manufactorer. Not only does it cause conflict, but it could cause great damage to our society.
Most robotic things are quick, but they are not quick enough to react to something happening in half a second. If a driverless car were setup to react to an incoming car, it would just try to swerve around the car. If the car just swerves and there is another car on the left or right of it, the car would then hit one of those. If the driverless car just breaks to avoid hitting a car in front of it, and the car behind it does not have enough time to react and crashes into him. These cars would cause more damage by being programmed to, quote on quote,"React to an incoming car."
Not only is the car not quick enough to react to an incoming car, it can't see everything around itself. The car would have blindspots, just like humans do. If the car can't see to its right and a car is coming straight for him, Boom! There is another car crash. These cars would basically do everything a human does now. The only thing that this helps with is letting us be even more lazy than what we already are.
A self-driven car isn't as safe as people think it to be because they are prone to malfunction, don't have a way to react quick enough, and are blind to certain things on the road. You don't want your life and the life of your family in the wheel of a robotic, self-driven tin-can of death! | 3 |
351b4e8 | In the article, "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." A boy named Luke Bomberger went on an "adventure" as an Seagoing Cowboy. There are positive and negative things about the "adventure." But, I still think people should try out the Seagoing Cowboy programs, because you you can see many wonderful views and ects.
One reason people should try out the Seagoing Cowboys program is, you can visit many places that you haven't been before like, China, Europe, and ects. Imagine your living in U.S.A right now, and you dream is to go to Europe. Your dream can come true from trying the Seagoing Cowboy programs! Also, places like Europe and China have their own cultures, which are extremely different from U.S.A's culture. According to paragraph 5, it said: "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China." So, not only you can visit wonderful places, you can also help people at the same time!
Another reason is, you can play games like baseball, volleyball, table tennis, fencing, boxing, and ects. Playing sports is one of the most popular thing to do in the world. When people have fun doing things, it feels like time pass away extremely fast. The adventure may take weeks or even months, but with fun things like these sports, it'll feel short.
Like I said in the first paragraph, you can see many wonderful views. This reason kind of connect to the visiting places that you've never been before, because when you go to a new place, there will be new things you'll see and learn about. Like I said before, most places have different culture. You can find new things or learn something. Some places have different languages to other countries/states. So, maybe you'll learn new languages and you can communicate with people.
These are some reasons why people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. It might take a long time to travel, but it'll be fun! There might be chances the participators will get hurt, but what is life withour a few accidents?
Lke Bomberger had participate in this program many times, but he still think it's wonderful. According to paragraph 9, Luke said: "I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says. "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." That represents he think this program is magnificent and fun! | 3 |
351f9f9 | The use of (FACS) or Facial Action Coding System in the world of technology in computer programing should be enabled to the world around us. We know that today we live in a society of emotions, those emotions are expressed through our facial recognition. Often these true emotions are hidden away from society because of other needs meaning to be met. Political faces for example are an example of how the FACS can be used to others advantagese. As shown in the selection to support my claim "To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebrity isn't being truthful". This piece of literature is a Non Fiction article due to its not being fantasy or made up. The author uses the Inductive approach to keep readers interested in what he has to say. This article will most likely follow the path of Logos because of its statistical history.
Society doesn't need to be lied to because the political results of that can damage many. Having FACS can stop politicians in lieing and give statistical evidedence to the public. Such things as "But in a fake smile, the mouth the mouth is streched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risouris".
A benefit of knowing this simple strategy can make a differnece in how you precieve someone or how you deal with a situation. For example the police force can widely benefit too, because of their crime investigators and interogates. When interrogating the suspect not only will FACS can find out if their lieing but also the amount of time spent one one case. The author gives us the tone of curiousness and innovation to the audience by saying "Hold on! Can we actually 'calculate' emotions- like math homework? And how can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel?" The way the words are semantically and syntactiaclly correct is giving the choice of the article. Also when the author asks questions to the audience it brings involvence to the appeal to the audiences attention.
When taking the famous painting of Mona Lisa as an example her expression is blank to the viewing public. No one knows how she actually felt at the time of the painting besides her and the painter Da Vinci. The FACS has been a great accomplishment for the two professors attending Illinois University and the Amsterdam University. The two professors Thomas Huang and Nicu Sebe have come up with this wonderful cnocept. This doesn't only qualify when telling someone is lieing bu the use of everyday life and advancements in eduacation.
When talking about the advancement of eduaction usually facial expression recognition isn't in the topic. But with FACS education can be advanced to a whole new level through computers. Supporting my claim is what Dr. Huang has stated himself " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" and "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". This would be extremly helpful to learning because of the expressions we make technology can advance to benefit us in more ways than one. Including this statement of "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication" this gives a reason as to why there should be no reason to fear the computer. It will only be there to help assisst in your eductaional aid.
Using FACS can be very helpful to phsycologist that talk to kids and adults about their situations. When there are menatlly disabled or situations where the reaction is showing mixed results there can be an advancement in the phsycology industry. Given the situation facial recognition can advance with computers to give life a new meaning. I do believe the technology to allow the emotional expressions of students in a classroom should be enabled. There are and can be so many new possibilites for this in every country around the world. Not only for medical or educational reasons but for daily use at the work place, meetings, schools and even a psych ward. In conclusion I do consider that FACS should be enabled and it will help us for many centuries. | 4 |
3523623 | I think the Facial Action Coding System is pretty good, but I think it has a few problem.
The Mona Lisa is a hard painting, because every people have a different opinion about it. For example some people say she is sad, angry, but some people say she is happy. This Facial Action Coding System can help us. It says Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. This program can read by muscles so it can help us if we have painting and we need analys that. It has classifield six basic emotions which are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. If we raise our eyebrows then we are surprised. This system can mixed emotions as in da Vinci's masterpiece. It says we can probably tell how our friend is feeling by the look on her/his face, but it is not always true. I think everybody had experience when she/he was smiling but she/he was sad inside. And I think this program can not read this if we are similing but we are sad inside. It says the computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. It could be good if the students bored or confused but a computer never being a human. In the real smile, the zygomatic major lift the corners of your mouth and it was instruction #1. Meanwhile, muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around eyes. It was instructions #2. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius. Faces do not lie. The emotionals very important in our life. If our friend is sad but if we are positive and we are smiling than maybe he/she will smile.
This technology is pretty good. It has a lot of examples how it is working and it is good if we need to use this program in class. For example analysing painting. But I don not think it always could be analysing human emotionals. | 2 |
3523b29 | Join the Seagoing program! The Seagoing Cowboys will be a great opportunity to have fun on the seas. You could go to different country's. I went to China and Europe. UURRA hired Seagoing cowboys to take care of young cattle,horses,and mules.
I went on gondola in Italy and I took nine trips. That was the highest than any other Seagoing Cowboy. If you join the Seagoing Cowboys you could beat my highscore. It might take long to go place to place but it is worth having fun on the boat so it doesn't get boring like that and this ain't where it ends. the fun doesn't stop here.
If you don't have fun going to different countrys. Then, have fun on board.
Make up tournaments while you are going to a different place play different games like baseball, volleyball, and much more to do on board. Then, relax and read a book and sleep or take a nap and feed the animals and keep them clean so they don't be stinky and filfty. Keep yourself occupied and do something so you don't get bored and quit.
There are so many reasons to become a Cowboy. For starters, if you don't know how to do what a Cowboy does watch from other Cowboys or ask for help. Secondly, if you want to relax and to have a peaceful time just read a book in a quiet place and read so no one has to bother you. Lastly, the animals need your help to survive and live and so they could go to the other countrys they need to go to so that they could be fed and taken care of. If you sad for these animals that are sick and need you. Join the Seagoing Cowboys today! | 3 |
353186c | Have you ever wondered what it would be like to get in your car and simply puch a button to get where you want to go?
Most people think that this would pleasure to have.
Not many people take into consideration all of the problems that having driverless vehicles could bring.
Having driverless behicles might seem like a dream when in reality would be a nightmare.
Most people think of driving as a relaxing activity. Not only is it a form of transportation but a stress relieving pass time.
Having driverless cars would erradicate that peace and serenity.
In paragraph 8 the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it states that, "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?
Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?"
This statement exemplifies how inconvenient it would be to have to wait around for your car to tell you when you can resume driving.
Another reason that having "driverless" cars would be inconvenient would be that if an accident were to occur who would be to blame.
Paragraph 9 of the article demonstrates the problem by stating, "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?"
This showcases that drivereless cars would also be causing trouble after an accident.
At the time there is no way of justifying which was the cause of the accident, man or machine.
Finally, it would be expensive to build either the roads or the cars.
These cars would have to come full of sensors and indicators which can't be cheap.
The article shows this by saying, "These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to the existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical."
Sure these driverless cars work well on the road but at what cost.
Where would the funding to build entirely new roads over the entire country come from?
These are just three of the many different inconveniences that driverless roads would bring to us.
They would take the fun out of driving, bring more trouble than there already is after accidents, and burn a hole in our wallets. This is why having driverless cars might seem like a dream but in reality would be a nightmare. | 4 |
3532621 | Personaly i dont think it is very valuable. Simple things like this is what is wrong with the world because there is no way of for sure telling if it is 100% right and when people get there resolts back they are discusted of themselves. Yes, if there is a 100% guarntee that it is right i wouldnt mind knowing more about myself. Being able to read students emotions would be very good for school just to know how the kids are injoying school and how they are not. Kids would be able to get treated or put into a speical class for the emotions that shouldnt be there and would make them a happier person. The world would be a whole lot differnt if every single person was to be happy and i dont think there is a possible way for every single body on this world to be happy and i dont know if everyone is ment to.
You could cheat the system simply by acting happy and getting your face scanned and it could be completly wrong and the person just hate themselves on the inside. The classroom computer that could tell when a student is confused or bored would work fanominal when you are busy doing something you dont think about anything else and i think that would work exellent. Studentswould enjoy school more becase the teacher would change sometbhing to make it easier and more enjoyable. There are good and bad about this but its jsut my personal opinion. | 2 |
3538c80 | The use of the Facial action coding system technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, because that would mean our technology intelligence is improving. The more improvement we get in technology, the more the world will change. The Facial Action Coding System will show how the person that is getting tested or is using this, how they feeling. What if your look is the opposite than what you are feeling or you, as in yourself dont feel anything?
The Facial Action Coding System can help identify the look you are given from another person. This technology wouldn't be like math homework, your science teacher grading your lab assignment, or a robot giving out data, it would be more like a clear resulting answer. It would not be a percentage, so that would help others who are younger and have yet learned about percentages.
The world would be controlled by a computer rather than humans. Computers can give out wrong data, for example, if you would determine to search something up for a project and it came up with different websites,(different websites can give different answers) like Wikipedia, it could give you a wrong answer and then you would ask your teacher or professor if your data seemed right he/she would be like " This is not the right information" then pulls out a book determining the answer to your question that gives the right information you need to complete your project. Anway, if technology starts controlling the world, who would control the technology? This will lead to another device and then another, then finally we would completely be controlled by technology/ electronics more than what the world is at the moment. the technology could have a malfunction and cause people to start worrying and frightened. sometimes your facial expression is different than what you are actually feeling.
In conclusion, the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System can be a good idea, but at the same time can be a horrid idea. It all depends on peoples perspective. Different people result in different answers. Not everyone will result in ahving the same exact answer like others. | 3 |
353bc5b | Driverless cars are an advanced technology but they arent the safest car. They might be a good upgrade but it can also harm. They are not proven to be 100 percent safe and may cause crashes. Also while technology is a very helpfull thing it is not the safest and is not always a good thing to rely on. Lastely, not many people will be able to afford this car. This is why i believe that driverless cars are not a good idea.
While the driverless cars are being developed to be safe and able to rely on it is still not proven to be 100 percent safe. Not all cars infact not a single car is proven to be 100 percent safe. They can all cause damage or injure people but the driverless car will not be any safer with a person not having control of the car. You cant rely on yourself to know that you are driving safe and know where you are headed. The driver is not in control therefore it can cause a great damage and crash other cars. It can cause people to get injured or even killed. So this is just one reason why i believe they are not safe.
Secondly, technology has helped us advance many things we believed could never be posible but while it is helpful it is not a good thing to rely on. Nothing is ever perfect and when it comes to technology there are always problems. For this driverless car that has all diffrent kinds of updates and technology it can do something wrong and the whole system breaks down. With GPS being used it can get you lost and people will rely on the driverless car to know where it is going but it has happened before to where people get lost because they were following their GPS and something went wrong and they get lost. With one wrong letter or number the address you type cant get mixed up with a diffrent address and you will not know where you are at. the driverless car is full of technology and its already be proven many times that technology isint perfect and can have issues that in this driverless car can cause damage.
Lastly, many people wont be able to afford it. With all its technology and updates it will cost a lot. Only a few people wil be able to have them and see what they are like. So its not like they are making this care so people everywhere could have it. It is only for people who can afford it and well want it. So with that said i dont believe it is a good thing for it to be made.
In conclusion, the driverless car isint proven to be very safe and can harm or cause damage. While technology is a great thing it is not good to rely on it as much. They will also be to expensive for people to buy and only a couple of people will be able to purchase the driverless car. These are some reasons why i believe that driverless cars arent a very good idea. | 4 |
353e838 | Man, I enjoyed being a Seagoing Cowboy. I got to help so many people! You should sign up! The purpose of Seagoing Cowboys was to help countries that have suffered from WW2, such as Greece and China. It was created by UNRRA, and was very helpful to all critical European countries.
A few reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is because we bring horses, cows, and muless to countries in need and we also take care of these animals. You also have some time for sightseeing. However, there is some danger of signing up. Seeing as you´re on a boat most of the time with hundreds of animals, you have limited space, and then you have the dangers of the sea. When I say dangers of the sea I mean things like drowning, storms, et cetera.
Now, I want to tell you about how I got into Seagoing Cowboys, and my story of being one. It was 1945. I had two part-time jobs at the time, and my friend Don Reist asked me if I wanted to join him in going to Europe on a cattle boat. World War 2 had just finished, and lots of European countries were in a critical state. 44 nations joined to make the UNRRA, and they hired people to take care of cattle that were being shipped. Don and I both signed up.
In August, we were told to go to New Orleans for our job. We boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, a cattle boat with more than 300 horses. I was discharged in 1947, and I had made history. I made 9 trips, which is the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. It was impressive, seeing as I couldn´t work for a few days due to broken ribs. I was so proud of myself, and it was definitely more than a job, it was a way to help me be more aware of others´ needs.
Well, I have to go back to my job at the supermarket. I recently was rehired and got my position back in the meat department. Now, isn that ironic? Remember, if you have the chance to be a Seagoing Cowboy, take it! It´ll open up so many parts of the world to you. | 3 |
353f9af | As crazy as living without a car sounds, more and more people are doing it. One popular reason for it is for a healthier and happier lifestyle. In Elisabeth Rosenthal's short story titled In
German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
Heidrun Walter reports "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Her and many others like her in the town of Vauban, Germany have experienced the difference and felt stress go away. The city has banned driveways and home garages, encourging the rule of living "car-free." The people rely on public transit, bicycles and their own two legs. While many people are stressing to get a car, the people of the town feel stressed if they have a car. Over half the population sold their cars to move there, and don't regret a thing. In the article titled
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota , Andrew Selsky quotes Carlos Arturo Plaza as saying "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress" as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife.
Also Carlos Arturo Plaza goes on to say "[it's a good oppurtinity to] lower air pollution." People are realizing how many pollutants that cars emitt into the atmosphere. One example place is Paris, known for their terrible smog, has finally done something to clean it up. Robert Duffer wrote in
Paris bans driving due to smog
"After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." The law stated even numbered license plates couldn't drive one day, and the other, odd liscense plates couldn't. A little thing like this had a big effect. Duffer then reported "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog." Elizabeth Rosenthal in the aritcle
The End of Car Culture showed the idea " if [these] patterns persists...it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions." Americans are partically to blame for pollution. Our need for the newest, biggest, best things, has come at a cost, and more than money. Green-house gases are stacking up, and we have to take a stand some time. Rosenthal goes on to describe political leaders are working to fix this too, "President Obama's abitious goals to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions [were] unveiled last week."
In places already practicing the no car rule, environments have improved; more than pollution wise. Andrew Selsky reported of "the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths" and "uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks." These two additions of Bogota, Colombia have inspired many people to turn in their keys, and take a hike instead. Not only have these changes made people more happy, but it makes their city more beautiful and they are starting to get outdoors and see it. The author reports that "municipal authorities from other countries came to Bogota to see the event [car-free day] and were enthuriastic," amung the people visiting was the Mayor of Paraguay's capital city. When more people see the effects, they want to do the same thing. Columbia's one day event has brought about much talk in neighboring towns and even "two other Colombian cities, Calli and Valledupar, joined the event."
On the other side of the argument, many car industries are trying to compete with these new ideas and technology. Rosenthal quotes in
The End Of Car Culture
"But it could have negative implications for the car industry. Indeed, companies like Ford and Mercedes are already rebranding themselves "mobility" companies with broader product range beyond the personal vehicle" As humans advance into the ideas of walking, biking, or taking public transportation, car companies strive to become known for things other than cars. They want to be able to sell you things still, even if you don't want or need a car. Later she writes how Bill Ford proposed the fresh idea at the Mobile World Congress that car dealers should "partner with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which 'pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety." This long quote simply means having all forms of transportion and the new technology in communications to be one, for the better of the people.
With or without cars, we all are always on the move. Some cities have adapted new ideas to get from place to place, or simply old ideas, being put back into action. Although Henry Ford would probably be dissapointed at his invention being faded out, Mother Nature would be pleased of us taking care of Earth. We never know what the future holds, but we do know, we'll always only have one home, so we better take care of it. | 5 |
3545061 | The driverless Cars article I am against because What benefits would we get from these cars Will auto body parts run out of buisness because of the cars What will happen to taxi drivers jobs.
What benefits would we get out of these cars? Maybe we will get less wrecks with them but think of this what will happen if your car sensors and autopilot doesn't work anymore the passangers will have to drive but what if they don't know how to drive because the driving classes got taken away because these cars don't need a driver. It also shows in the text that if something bad happens who's fault is it the manufacturer or the driver in this case it would be the manufacturers fault because they didn't check the car throughly and shipped it somwhere to be sold to some people then thoese people get stuck in the middle of nowhere because of the driverless car and the manufacturer but what will happen if the car gets struck by lightning because of all the electrical systems the passangers/car is using will the passangers be unharmed or will there be a tragedy because the manufacturer didn't think ahead.
Will Auto body part shop's run out of buisness since these driverless cars will probably not get in a wreck. Do these manufacturers not know they will be taking people's jobs because of some driverless car that won't need an auto body repair anytime soon. These families with this type of buisness will go hungry because of this job loss but even if they don't lose their jobs buisness will be very slow because like again these cars won't get into an accident because of the sensors all over the car so the companies will still go bankrupt because of the slow buisness and the bills for the building and bills for their own houses, not including from their families,school bills, and bills to buy food and clothes how are they suppose to get that if there buisness is gone the state is gonna have to help them in someway because it is their fault for not making driverless cars illeagal in their state.
What will happen to the people who make money by driving cars? Will the manufacturers care that they are taking some people's only source of income away. They are doing it by taking the drivers out because that brings in a lot of money for the drives like in New York city taxi drivers get a lot of money because of the buisness there if the driverless cars get to New York where are the other people gonna work at. The unemployed rate is gonna increase because of the cars and so is the homeless rate because people are losing money causing them to get kicked out of the place they live because they can't pay their bills anymore they will also be starving because of the lack of money equals the lack of food and homeless shelters will be overwhelmed with the new increase rate of homeless people on the streets now.
So in the en I still disagree with this article Will it give us benefits will it affect autobody part shops and How will it have an affect in the Taxi drivers in New York city. These cars may seem harmless but they will have a huge impact in our society and in our economy. | 3 |
3545ed7 | Through the years, new technology has been discovered and invented. With the discover of new technology people now have and MRI, phones, and televison. Now with this new technology still expanding more doctors can study more about the human body. Now with this new advantage of technology doctors and people can now study more about your brain. With this new advantage of new technology people can now study more about the brain and people emotions.
With advantages of technology, people can study the brain more. With this people get consussions and now how people express more about there emotions. People have their opionion about how they feel about knowing more about there emotions. Knowing that you are faking a smile but other people don't know. To pretending that you are having a good day, but not really. From this new technology identifing all mixed emotions. In the story, they use Mona Lisa as there example and how she is smiling by just the use of the computer. In the article, they talked about a muscle is a clue to something used to spot when smiling.
Technology is a powerful weapon this days. Through out the future new technology will expand. With technology expanding we will know more about our human body and know some stuff we did think we would know. People with study more about the brain. This discover is a huge advantage in life. | 2 |
3548801 | There are many advantages to limiting car usage. Limiting car usage helps to cleanse the environment, saves citizens' money, and can help with improving citizens' health.
One advantage to limiting car usage is that it will cleanse the environment. Cars give off a number of gallons of gas each time they're used. These toxic chemicals found in gases pollute the air. Imagine breathing in all of that waste! Studies have actually found evidence that the toxins from car fuel are very harmful to the health of animals, plants, and humans. It can cause breathing difficulties associated with problems in the lungs when inhaled too heavily; as well as it dirties plants and makes it more difficult for them to grow healthy, like they should, and it can even poison and kill the animals. Who wants to take a risk so deadly?
Another advantage to limiting car usage is that it will save citizens' money. Cars aren't cheap. Depending on the make and model of the car, they can cost anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000. Insurance and keeping up with the maintenance of a car also costs a lot. Car owners should be expecting to pay $100-$500 a month for car maintence, and if insurance is required, depending on the state that the car owner lives in, than another additional $100. Finally, is the price for gas. The price for gas in this day in age economy ranges from $3.00-$6.00 per gallon! If a car owner has a long way to drive, but doesn't have a lot of money, he/she may want to consider taking a bus or carpooling with someone to help them out.
A rather more humorous advantage to limiting car usage, is that it could help give citizens a work out. Instead of driving where they need to go, people could walk to their desired destination and burn a ton of calories while doing it! Or in contrast to waiting for a friend to pick them up outside their houses, they could walk to a bus stop and wait for the bus to take them wherever they need to go. This also relates to saving money and helping cleanse the environment. Citizens' will pay less for a gym membership now that they're getting a work out. They'll also be helping the environment by not burning all of those fuel wastes just to get to where they need to go. It's a win-win for everyone!
Of course, there are many advantages to limiting car usage for our citizens, their wallets, and the environment. These three are just a few of the plentiful, conservative ways out there; however, they're all extroardinarily efficient. | 4 |
354da5c | America would be a better place if there were no vehicles. Americans could walk wherever they go, instead of sitting down and riding/driving there. With much extra walking time, we would probably lose a lot of weight and get healthy or healthier than some already are. America has the largest percentage of obese citizens, more than any other country in our world. With the loss of vehicles we could change that.
Not many people realize this, but vehicles and any kind of chair is a lot of the reason why Americans are so obese. We sit down for every thing that we do. We sit in the car, at school, at work, at home, etc. If everyone walked to their destination they would burn calories and fat. Just getting rid of vehicles would make a dramatic change in the amount of obese people. Researchers suggest that obesity is caused mainly by laziness, and vehicles bring that suggestion to life.
All I'm tryin to say is that if we get rid of vehicles then Americans would not be so fat because they would actually have to get up off of their lazy butts and walk to a restaurant or grocery store to go get their food. | 2 |
3553386 | I believe that we should change to the popular vote for the president of the United States. There are three main reasons why. One, the people are being ruled by this president, don't you think every one should get a say in who they want the president to be. Two, Electoral College is not at all fair. Lastly if you have all the people of the United States vote then the process will be more accurate.
When you're about to get a brand new car, what do you do? You take it out for a test drive, and see how it runs, and if you like the design and the features it has. Am I right? Well think, if your about to get a new president, and let me remind you they will be in charge of the way you live, don't you think you want to have a say in wether or not you like him or her? It's just like testing out a new car. You bring your family and take a vote on who likes it. The more votes you have the better, because then you see how many like it and how many don't.
This Electoral college is not fair at all. It only allows 538 people to get to vote for president. What if the majority of those people wanted a certaint president, and the people that didnt get to vote wanted the other president. Thats not fair. Those people didn't even have a chance. If you weren't apart of the Electoral college how would you feel? Isn't the United States "The land of the free." Then every one should have a say in who their president is going to be.
If you have every one in the United States vote then the dominant vote will be much more efficent. More people will be satisfied, and less complaints and assinations. Think about it. The popular vote is the way to go. When your doing a science experiment they say to take as many trials as you possibly can because the experimentation results will be much more accurate. Well why wouldn't you do that for something that is going to affect the
ENTIRE
United States of America.
I hope we make this change. There are so many benefits to the popular vote, why do you think its called the popular vote? The citizens will be satisfied, the process will be much more accurate, and the it will also be fair. | 3 |
35578be | Cars of Tomorrow
There is something being bettered everyday, and in this case, it's cars! The cars of the future or also known as the "Driverless Cars" have been on road since 2009 and have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Different methods/techniques have been tested in the direction of the development of future cars, such as cables embedded in tracks that send radio signals to receivers in front of cars, magenets with alternating polarity, the list is never-ending. Although these automobiles have been driving to near perfection, there's always room to improve.
The prompt asked us to give our induvidual point of view on the "Driverless Cars", and in my opinion they're great, but like I said previously, they, just like everything thing else needs improvement. The cars have drove for nearly seven entire years on a perfet track record of zero crashes and that's pretty darn good. The thing about the automobiles is that they're not completely driverless, the cars need a person active while the car's active. That was a brilliant idea i thought, having an active person at the wheel while the car was on the road is so much more safe than to have a person in the backseat (theoretically) while the car is in motion. Adding up all aspects of the car, it's features, and feats, I say its a tremendous step in the technology world and I believe it will thrive in the modern world. There's nothing wrong with trying something new and especially if it has something to do with things people use eveyday.
The "Driverless Cars" will be great in the future and are perfect now, knowing that they've yet to crash or have an accident. Having cars that can drive pretty much by itself is a tremendous step, having those on the road would be a major feat to overcome. The Driverless Cars make the future safer and less expensive. | 2 |
35580f9 | I like the idea of a driverless car. I say this because, if they were to make these cars it would possible make it much safer to drive. There may be less deaths caused by car crashes and someone getting hit by another person driving. People would never get lost on the road so they may get where they need to go and be on time. This would also be good because it would cause people to use less fuel.
This would help people that are not very good with directions to find what they are looking for. If it was a computer driving the car it would have a lot less mistakes while driving. If we were to put sensers around the car it would activeate the brakes on individual wheels if nessacery. If they were to make a driveless car it would cause less traffic jams.
These are the reasons i would like a driverless car and why other people should have one too. It is much safer, it uses less gas, it could help a lot of people out with directions and their time being used in the years to come. | 2 |
355c999 | Have you ever seen a movie about aliens? Those green, bug looking creatures with big eyes and laser guns. Now, have you ever heard of the "Face on Mars?" If you have, then this is going to explain to you why the Face is a natural landform and not some monument created by aliens.
When NASA first saw the "Face on Mars" they claimed they spotted what the text states, "the shadowy likeness of a human face." The image was found when they were snapping photos of possible landing sights for Viking 2, one of NASA's spacecrafts circling the region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. The passage later states, "But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia." The scientits even said it was just a landform. They stated that it has,"unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." The scientists are not saying it's a alien monument either. They are just saying people could petray it that way.
A few days after this discoery NASA unveiled the image. When they unveiled it there was a capiton under it reading, "huge rock formation." NASA said the formation resembles a head and was formed by shadows giving the illusion of the facial features. This just made the Face a publicity stunt for most people. This might be when most would believe that it is some sort of a alien monument. But then NASA passed over the Face again and this time took a phots much greater then the last.
On April 5, 1988, the Mars Global Surveyor flew over the "Face on Mars." They snapped picutres ten times sharper then before. The text states, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site." Thouands waited for the photo and what the photos unveiled were the truth. The photos revelead a natural landform, not any alien monument. Some people still believed that the structure was still an alien monument. But NASA learned that not all will believe.
All this evidence is just showing you that it is a natural landform. They have coordinates of this landform. They have amazing pictures just showing you that this is real. Even scientists examining the photos and showing exactly how what it is. What is it you must ask? It's a landform. NASA knew not all would believe but it made no sense to them. They supply so much evidence but still some just don't believe. The "Face on Mars" resembles a human head but shadows give it the illusion of a face.
In conclusion, the 'Face on Mars' is nothing more then a natural landform. We have photo proof of the Face along with scientists examining it and telling all who do not believe what it is. The Face is a natural landform. I have given you all the evidence. I have showed you that it's a natural landform. The only question is, do you believe it is? | 3 |
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