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4f1ec05 | In the sky late at night there is alway one star really bright. That one bright light is Venus the 2nd planet it is very close to the sun. The planet Venus has 97% dioxide blanks and the clouds are highly corrosive and have acid in them so like those are really bad and can really harm the human skin. Venus get up over 800 degrees i cant belive it would be that hot up on Venus jus becuase it's i think it relly close too the moon. The studies are really good and spacific I learned new things about Venus such as it is the hottest planet of all planets and our solar system. The suface of Venus it very rocky and has mountains, vallys and craters.
On the planet Venus It is very dangorus to go to the planet without any gear or equipment like NASA. Venus has no life on the planet i dont think nothing could handle the heat of that planet it has 97% carbon dioxide blankets, and the numbers of Venus are all high so that isnt very good to be in a place like that. The cloulds are also acid so it would be really hard to find cover or to grow food or any source. There is a temperature over 800 that is just crazy too think about like how could there be a planet over 800 deggres. The conditions of Venus is just very cridical for anything to be on that planet. Venus is the closest to the sun so i think that explains how the weeather is so hot and the acid from the clouds make it worse then it all ready is in my opinion. Researchers have a ship that orbits the planet Venus and hovors safely and they research the planet but they cant take any rock, gas or anthings from a distance.
So the planet Venus will still be in space and it is an incredible planet to really think about and how everythings works about it. It is very diffrent then earth, I wondering if atleast somethigs lives on the planet Venus and if there is how does it keep it self safr and find food. The astronauts that go to the planet Venus to see what is happening up there and wear the gear they need to survive. They research the as most as they can to see if the planet is good enough or if it isn't. This would be a great story if the planet Venus would be able to be live up there with any dangers but it is to dangorus to be up there. | 1 |
4f28605 | Many people see driverless cars as the future of the automobile industry.
I am not one of those people.
Personally, I believe that the negative aspects outweigh the positive.
There are several reasons that I have concluded this.
First of all, driverless cars require many different types of sensors and other equipment that is not necessary for manually driven cars, as stated in paragraph four.
These types of technology, such as video cameras and GPS recievers, will likely cause the cost of the cars to be much higher.
Many people will not be willing to pay an inflated price for such a thing.
Secondly, most "driverless" cars actually require that a driver be in the front seat and attentive to the road at all times, like what was stated in paragraph seven.
The reason for this is because there are several situations, such as road construction and accidents, in which the car is unable to safely proceed automatically.
If one of these incidents occurs, the driver will have to take over in order to proceed.
This may not seem like much, but it actually means that the driver will be unable to do a multitude of other task, such as using a cell phone.
Lastly, there are legal issues surrounding this type of transportation.
If a driverless car were to get into an accident, who would be responsible? Would it be the driver, the manufacturer, or even the programmer?
Laws for such a situation have yet to be put into place according to paragrah nine.
This means that disputes between individuals and larger companies are likely to occur.
As you can tell, there are many issues surrounding the idea of driverless cars.
From the price to the legality, it all seems to be more trouble than it's worth, doesn't it?
In my personal opinion, yes. Hopefully I have persuaded you to see it this way as well. | 4 |
4f2f54f | We all have an imagination, do we not? The people in 1976 had an imagination. I think the "Face on Mars" is just a regular landform. I think the face is a landform, because they don't have any proof of life on mars, it couldn't have been a Martian mesa, and with or without clouds, the face was not seen again. Even if it was to been seen again, we do not know if would be a shadow or a actual mesa.
First off, the Face on Mars doesn't have a lot of backup proof about it. The article says that in 1976, Viking 1 was orbiting around mars, when it snapped a photo of a shadowy likeness of a face. That is just it, a shadowy likeness of the face on Mars. We do not know if it is a mesa or not unless we actually scim the face of the landform I see, in my opinion.
Next, it couldn't be a Martian mesa. If their was any source of life besides the ice caps Mars has, there is no remains of people or any housing or animal life anywhere.Without this life on Mars, the mesa would be impossible to build on Mars, making it just a landform.Like the article states, "So, if their were objects on the ground like airplanes or egyptian-style pyramids... you could see what they were!"
Lastly, even in a couldy situation or not, we never saw the face again! In 1976, the camera might have just made the landform look fuzzy. After the two pictures NASA took in 1998 and 2001, their was never any outline of a face or anything anymore. It was just a bunch of landform shaped like a regular mountain.
To conculde, the face on Mars was just a landform. We know this through the fact that it could not have been built without population, in a couldy situation or not we never seen it again, and it couldn't of been a martian mesa. I think people got to carried away by the fact that there would ever be life on mars. We never fully know yet, but in my opinion, the face on Mars is just a landform. | 3 |
4f35aa5 | Driverless cars are the next piece of technology that will advance our society. Everyday scientists and engineers create new ideas and tech that improve our everyday lives. Many companies have took on the task to create this new driverless car with no flaws and many tests are done every day so that there is no problem in this life changing vechicle. A driverless care is a privelage to have to and use and until they are fully functional without any accident they will not be released to the public.
I think that a driverless car is a great and innovative idea that will be soon be possible. Car companies have already created cars that have different technology that improve the safety of the passengers inside the vehicle. Many things like radar, safety cameras, and motion sensors have been put into these newer made vehicles. And this technology is very advanced and efficent to the millions of cars on the road each day. The creation of a driverless car is an intense experiment that will take many years to perfect. And these cars will have many useful items that will increase the value of the car. A car will then have many new devices like antilock brakes, driver assistance, radar, and Dubbed LIDAR. These advancments will increase the safety of the driver and that is a great thing to have in a vehicle. Driverless cars are a great thing but only when they are fully functional and operating with no flaws. These cars will change the game in how we get around everyday to work, school, or where ever a person needs to go.
Google has been testing a driverles vehicle since 2009, and they have already driven half a million milles without a crash. Even though they are not fully driverless because a driver is alerted to take over when pulling in and out of drivewars or dealing with complicated traffic issues, these cars can still do alot on their own. And in 2013 MBW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant" where the car can handle driving function at speeds at 25 mph and special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. A BMW project manager driver stated "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way". And these manufacturers wants to do that by bringing in car entertainment and information systems that use head up displays. Which is a great idea in a driverless car.
Driverless cars are a great idea and very benefical to our world. They will improve the way we travel and transport things. A car was created so that we could get to one place to another a lot quicker and a driverless car is made so that a driver can get into a car without paying a ton of money and just get a ride to wherever they need to go. And although these cars have driven half a million miles on their own they obviously will still need to be tested for a couple more years until they will be released to the public. This creation of a driverless car will be a huge impact to our nations history and will be a great accomplishment. | 4 |
4f3b6dc | "ugh" "so tired of the same old voting preocess" "who even cares, not like we get to pick the president. Thats the sound of all the people who voted for someone to be President. As a voter id like to say that we shouldnt keep the electoral college for voting for President. Theres such good arguments on weather or not to keep it.
For my first reason im going to tell you how its just a unfair way of voting and its harsh. With the winner takes all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chanve of winning. Focusing only on the tight races in the swing states. As said in source 2. When you vote with the electoral college you, the people arnt really voting for the president. Its the electors who aucutally vote for president and theres no point in you voting if they continue with the electoral college.
My second reason is that the electoral college is known as the diaster fator. To me thats not something i would want to persue in using while voting for my president. Consider that state legislatures are the ones responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could defy the will of the people as supported text from source number 2 as well. Given that many voters vote on one party the election can be expected to reflect the will of the people. The electoral college is just unfair to the people. They just pick someone without much reality put into it and there should be more thought to it or a wider range of votes.
Last but not least the electoral college is just outdated and irrational. It is widely reguarded as an anachronism, which means that its something that seems to belong in the past. And thats the past, were in the present. We have moved on from that and we need something new. It should just be overruled and like i said before something new. You want something that auctually takes your vote into consideration and not just letting some elector pick the president.
Yes the person with the most votes should win, but it really depends if they have the skills and criteria to run the country and be sucessful as the president. So as a voter, id like to say no more electoral college and something new! | 3 |
4f489df | A day a quite different than others. The symphony of children's laughter, as they sway their arms in harmony with the pace of their feet, while making their way to school. The crescendo of the birds serenading eachother with their dainty chirps. Inhaling fresh, sweet air. And not even the slightest echo of a car's vroom in the distance. VAUBAN, Germany, BOGOTA, Colombia, and even the global city Paris, are living the average american's greatest fear to clear up the atmosphere by limiting car usage. At least one day, without the convience of a vehicle to take you along your marry way.
Paris had a near-record pollution, and just days after the incident, the city enforced a partial driving ban to clear the city's air. Any motorist driving a vehicle with a license plate that contained the print of an even number, faced a 22-euro fine. Same punishment went for a motorist caught driving with an odd-numbered plate the following day. After just five days of the city's recovery from harsh smog, congestion went down 60 percent in the capital. Just goes to show that the slightest bit of effort can make quite a global impact. If only it could become a trend. Which brings me to introduce you to a prime example a trend that is currently growing in Europe.
Vauban, Germany, home to 5,500 residents, is an upscale community thriving with suburban pioneers, is a prime example of the type of community trying to make a difference, that is now trending. Where residents must pay a whopping fee of $40,000 for one space, in a large garage, at the edge of the only known car ownership. Forbidden street parking, driveways, and home garages is what makes that bill ever so large. Not a car is to be thought of while walking through the streets fresh air bombarded with bicyclists and walkers.
But what about the country who has a love affair with it's vehicles, The United States? Well, according to an analysis by Doug Shortof Advisor Perspectives, As of April 2013, the number of miles driven driven by Americans was at it's peak in 2005, and has durastically dropped thereafter. Transportation for America is a fast growing coalition of people in the US who are promoting, and supporting the communities that are less dependent on cars. David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America, stated that "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change. How much you drive is as important as whether you have a hybrid."
Transportation for America isn't the only agency standing to make a difference, either. The Enviromental Protection Agency promotes communities with reduced car usage, and it's about time that legislators are cautiously starting to act upon this main contributor to the problems of pollution. At this rate, if the pattern persists, Sociologists have determined that all of this will have beneficial implications on the enviroment.
Knowing that it is possible with just the slightest bit of effort, don't you want to join in on saving mother nature? | 3 |
4f4cefa | I think that there shouldnt be driveless cars because if the computer fails at what it need to do there would be a crash or not working on how it needs to work. It could back fire and cause more crashes to happen the people driving the cars.
The cars could only go 25 mph and people wouldnt make it where they have to go and they would always be late. One reason I think that its not good is because it would cost million of dollars just to build one of these cars and testing it to see if it could work and if it doesnt we would be wasting that money we put on building that car that we could of built something different and better than the car.
The good reasons that we could have driveless cars because when ur traveling you can slep and the car can drive for you so you can rest.
The reason there shouldnt be drive less cars is becasue of all the reason it could happen and all the back fires it could have and there are good reasons that we should have them but I dont think that we should because we could be spending that kind of money on something different. | 2 |
4f5103a | There is a new trend going on in Europe. The people of Europe are creating a way of life to go back to when there were no cars. They have decided to live with out automobiles. In Germany a place called Vauban is a car free area. They have left the modern life to live as suburban pioneers. This is a experimental district out side of other towns to be completely car free. The advantages of reducing car usage is that they are reducing green house gasses, reduce smog, and to live happier.
First, in Vauban the communities are trying to reduce green house gasses drasticaly by exicuting car usage in that area. 70% of Vauban families are car free and 57% sold there cars to move there. It is important to them to reducethe amount of exoust from cars to reduce green house gasses.
Second, in Colombia the people are dealing with a major smog problem caused by the burning of fossile fuels. They have decide to band car usage for on day to take away stress and reduce air polution. Their goal was to create an alternitive trans portation system and to reduce smog. during car free day people walked, biked, skated, or took buses to their work all to be a part of a cleaner place.
lastly, these people who are being a part of cleaning their cities of smog and green house gasses all seem to be happier and have less stress. In Vauban people are saying that having no cars is stress free and they seem to live happier. Also in Colombia they are all happy to be a part of car free day to reduce smog.
In conclusion, the new trend in Europe are rising and and oter countries are fallowing. These are the advantages to limiting car usage. | 3 |
4f53e1c | I claim this technology because when it scans somebody face it can tell us the percentage of out facial expressions. For an example Mona Lisa demonstrates that is really surprising to bring a simlie to your face while the computer shows you based on much percentage of happiness you have right now. Another example is that the facial technology had a lot of different movements that can track your facial face movements. Because it all about the muscles in your facial face. They even indicate the difference between a genuine simlie and a force one. You can imagine a computer that knows when your happy or sad or angry or even fear. For example, if you simlie when a web ad is on your screen a very similar ad will pop up again. But if you frown, the next ad will be different. Based on how you act.
Having this new technology would be a better fit with the people because when is feeling down and the other person don't know on how they feel they always use the facial technology to show the percentages of how down they really are. But for some people they don't need that because we can tell others people facial expressions by just looking at them clearly, which it true. We already know that if someone is feeling happy,sad,angry,or fear. | 2 |
4f55690 | Driveless Cars is the next big thing. Car inventor, such as Nissan, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and more will make cars that are driverless cars. This could change driving forever like the 1970 TV show, The Jefferson, where they have flying cars and robots as maids. But this kind of idea could be the next big thing or a blow out. I believe that driverless cars is not a the way to drive in the future due by Malfuntioning, Accidents and Laws.
The first reason why it shoudn't be invented because of Malfuntioning. You may think driverless cars key factor is safety, that's what they all say. Next thing you know their will be recalls over a engine failure or a leakage that could cause a fire. No vehical is the perfect vehical, there will be something wrong with it soon. Plus something could be jam, stuck, or not funtioning well such as the stearing well, breaks or the mps meter. Something could go wrong and could kill you or your life will be affected by the rest of your life.
Next lets talk about accidnets. We get it you hit a pole, you call your insurence, then the near-by machanics to fix your care, then the car rental place to rent a car until your car is fix. But lets say it was in this new 2020 Nissan Driverless Car, you can easily sue them by having poor safety or your medical bills something really easy you can do. Accidents will never be free, EVER. When you hit your car with someone, you have to pay for it. But since it wasn't your fault it was the car fault. Easy Money which could make the company bankrupt soon then 5 years.
Last thing lets talk about new laws that they will add. They could possibly say if you own a driverless car your license point will double per crash. Lets say you hit someone and its -3 every time. Well with this car it would be -6. That means if you hit someone 2 time with the same car you have to play $10k to get your license back. Plus everyday new drivers from the age 15 could drive in a driverless car. Well lets say 8 years from now they get a new car but its not a driverless car, the driver will not drive the same because they have lack on knowledge from driving a non-driverless car.
In my opinion it was an amazing idea this could be but you have to think smart about what you do. Driving is a priverlage not a right. You can drive your whole life safe and your insurance bill could be $20 or you can be stupid and your insurance bill is $200. I really suggest you rethink before what you can create. Car are meant for a life-style not the way you use it. Think before you make it in the future. | 4 |
4f55fbe | Dear Florida senator, this letter is to discuss my opinion about the voting system for how the new president of the United States of America should be elected or for how the current president should serve another term. The main topic for this letter, is wether or not we should keep the Electoral College or disregard it and go to popluar vote. Giving this topic into consideration, it should be best if we switch to popular vote. Candidates not focusing their attention on all the states and that the outcome could be a tie are the different apects on why we should abolish Electoral College and bring forth popular vote.
To begin with, candidates don't focus on trying to get all the states to vote on them in Electoral College. The explanation for this is because since its the "winner-take-all" system, the competors disregard the states where they know they're not going to win over the majority. They don't even show up to the states or try to win them over. "During the 2000 campain, seventeen states didn't see the candidiates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campain ad" quoted from "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong" by Bradford Plumer. Some might say that this is not a huge issue, but it is to the states that are being ignored. They want equality and a chance to be recognized by each of the rivals. It is clear to see that the candidates give no sign of importance to states that have slim chances of them voting for him/her.
Continuing on further, the Electoral College's outcome could end up in a tie. In a result of this mishap, the state delegates, from the House of Representatives, start to vote for the president. The vice-president is chosen by the The Senate. Each state has one vote to choose which side their rooting for. The silver lining in this decision is that, different states have different amount of population, so it's unfair for all the states to have the same amount of power in choosing the president. "Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters" taken from "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best best-laid defenses are wrong" by Bradford Plumer. People doubt that there will ever be a tie but they're were close ones in 1968 and 1976. There's no doubt that, if a tie happens in the Electoral College, everything would go down south.
To sum it all up, reasons why we should switch out of Electoral College is because candidates don't focus on every state and that the final outcome might end up to be a tie. The Electoral College should be abolished due to these reasons. Popular vote is the best for our country. It'll help the voting system by an abundant amount. Please take this into consideration senator and make the correct decision. | 5 |
4f56177 | Have you ever dream of a future where cars are driven by themselves? Well that dream will be coming faster than you think. With the advances in technology we are getting closer and closer in achieving a driveless car. Driveless cars could change the world so much. Thus it is a good idea that they should be made possible.
Driveless cars could help make the world better. We would no longer have to worry about how we would get to certain ares. All we would have to do is call in a driveless car, get in it, and it would take us to our destinantion. Another thing that make driveless car great is that it would use half the fuel of what we use today. It would also cause less accidents due to having sensors and thus alearting the driver when an accident might be possible.
These type of cars might be great but they have a lot of flaws. Some flaws are that they are not 100% driveless yet. They need the passanger to be on alert at all time so that when the soutition rises they can take over control. For example the article states,"notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigationg through work zones and around accidents." Another thing to worry about is that who would be blame if the technology fails and someone is injuried or even killed? Would it be the driver or the manufacture that gets the blame? These are thing that we should be thinking about before we put this invention for sale.
All those flaws might give the wrong impression about driveless cars, but we can find a soulution to all these constraints. They might not be 100% driveless yet, but we are getting there. The advances in technology that we accomplish every day is growing rapidly. Every year we are creating and making our technology beter. For example, the article stats that."Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." Companies are also developing driver seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger. Another this is that the sensor might not be as good as we want today, but imagine how much better and advance they might be in about 5-10 years. Improvement in sensors, computer hardware, and software are making driving safer which is leading to driveless cars to be able to handle more and do more driving tasks on their own.
Currently we might have some contraints that are holding us back, but in time we will be able to get rid of them. With the improvements in our software and senors being made every day; we will be closer in achieving a 100% workable car. The advances in technology will help us create them and in time make them a realitiy. Driveless cars should be made. | 4 |
4f57f96 | Besides being totally awesome, driverless cars could be extremely beneficial to the people in general. The many sensors on these vehicles help to to ensure the safety of the passengers as well as the human driver. People new to driving, elder drivers, and maybe even drivers udner influence would have an enormous amount of pressure allieved, therefore preventing the many deaths caused by vehicular accidents. Sensors like that of the modified Toyota prius; the rotating sensor dubbed " LIDAR", the position estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, the GPS reciever, and other valuable equipment to secure the name of safety towards the vehicle. The death toll caused by reckless driving could be critically lowered because of the advancement and use of this technology. Now there is the argument of what if the tech fails, or if there is a special situation with the road. Heads up displays and other alerting software should be able to alert you if the vehicle needs human accompaniment to ensure that you still remain in control in these crucial incidents. That being said, it is still advised that the driver remain alert at all times while on the road, preventing the need of these alert systems being used heavily. The psycological changes this type of car can bring are unprecedented, because the people in general don't have access to these cars in the first place, because of safety concerns.
Laws that pretain to driving were made to ensure the safety of the people in | 2 |
4f584fc | Have you ever thought something was another thing when it wasn't? Have you ever had to let people down by telling them what it actually was? Surprisingly, NASA has done this before. NASA had sent one of its spacecrafts, the Viking 2, to search for their first protogy named the Viking 1. While it was in search for it the Viking 2 discovered what appeared to be a human face.
NASA unveiled the picture of "the human face" for everyone to see. They thought it would be a good way to attract attention to Mars. And, sure enough it was! Everyone loved the idea of the "Face on Mars" so much that people started to write books about it, base movies on it, and people on talk shows would even make conversation on it! The only negative side was scientists didn't really believe the Face was actually alien artifact. And it was soon proved that it was only shadows that made it appear the shape of a human face. Scientist described the Face as just a mesa or a butte, and really it is nothing more uncommon than a natural landform. Even in the article they described the whole theory as just "somthing funny".
People weren't very satisfied when NASA had to break the news that the "Face on Mars" was nothing more than science fiction. In conclusion it wasn't really anything interesting at all unless you find landforms all that and a bag of chips. The "Face on Mars" is now just a silly theory we made in the past and nothing more. There's no argument on weather it's real or not because most scientist to begin with were skeptical on the theory of it being an alien artifact. I hope this helped you understand what the "Face on Mars" really is. | 3 |
4f5a72e | While having a computer adapt to your emotional state, whether it be bored and change to some activity that's more fun. The usefulness is still not there for computers to read students' emotional expressions because a lot of school work could be boring and tedious, but it does not change the fact that we still have to do the work. If computers were doing the job of teachers they would lose their jobs. Even if we could know exactly what a student was feeling, are we sure we would want to know? That would be almost like stripping away ones privacy and individualism. Using computers to read students' emotional expressions should not be used.
The purpose of education is not to be more fun than productive, the use of this technology could help students' focus, but at the end of the day the work is still inevitable. Being angry can only be helped by something you like and I'm sure you would not like to be doing math homework made fun. Until proven effective, this technology should not be applied just yet. Teachers should work on the energy in their classrooms; therefore, getting better results out students. According to the text, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." In that case we really don't need any help to tell how a fellow friend or student is feeling.
Sometimes students are best left to themselves. Knowing everything about how they are feeling and when could feel pretty invading. Although a computer being able to adapt to a students emotion would be cool, is that technology really neccassary? According to the text, "...it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." If teachers would only work on being 'effective' then we wouldn't all of these shenanigans.
Students should be surrounded by positivity when they come to school. For that any student should be willing to work and enjoy the process. Coming to school should not feel like we're being read ourselves as if we were an assignment. What if this type of technology malfunctions? What if a student does not really feel the way the computer is saying it does? Getting accused or feeling accused could sometimes trigger a bad emotion in some students.
Consequently, the use of this technology has no classroom value. Can a computer tell how we all think and learn? As a substitute for a teacher, this technology could never be as useful as a teacher who can fully comprehend what a student is having trouble with. We need more advancements in technology in order for a computer to think and act like a teacher would. Although technology seems to be very ahead of its time, we still have a long way to go. | 4 |
4f5b050 | Alien signs on Mars? How could that be?
In May 24th, 2001 NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling arounds Mars taking picutres of landsites for its sister ship, Viking 2. When looking around a shodwy likeness of a face was spotted. This head stretched nearly two miles from end to end and seemed to stare back at thee cameras. When releasing the the images for all to see, few scientists thought it may have been an alien artifact.
Others such as I, a NASA scientist, think otherwise. I, along with many others think this landform naturally occuring. How could it be that for years upon years we just would not have noticed alien life? There have always been rovers roaming around the often cameras catching pictures. Over a progression of time the face has become more noticeable. Naturally occuring things come over periods of time, such as this "face" has. Alien life has never been proven or even found. There is no factual or scientifical evidence to follow up on such assumptions.
Until proven otherwise, I will continue to believe this face is a naturally occuring thing. If science comes along, or even the Aliens to prove this landform, I will then believe the Face was made by Aliens. With no other "Alien signs" or real evidence I will stick with my idea of nature. | 2 |
4f63fb6 | The planet Venus is a very strange place. Scientists have very little knowledge about this Earth-like planet with an atmosphere that contains 97 percent carbon dioxide. Venus is one of two closest planets that we can visit and learn about (the second being Mars). Although we have sent vessels to Mars to study the area none of them prove a challenge as much as the ones sent to Venus do. The extremeities of weather on Venus prove pretty difficult to allow spacecrafts to land upon its surface.
Scientists discribe Venus as being the closest planet for planetary visit. If it weren't for the the obscurity of Venus we would have more information on it. The thick layer of carbon dioxide in Venus's atmosphere and a atmospheric pressure which seems to be 90 times stronger than Earth's makes it pretty difficult for further inspection up close of Venus. If a spacecraft can't land there much less a manned ship. The 800 degree weather and clouds full of highly corrosive sulfuric acid also causes problems for spacecrafts to land on Venus.
Although it might be tough scientists are not giving up hope on trying to reach Venus since it is one planet that closely resembles Earth. Venus has many similarities to Earth such as a rocky surface with sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. It is also higly probable that Venus's surface was covered in large oceans wich made it a planet that can support life. If we knew what caused Venus to turn this uninhabitable we could figure out a way to reverse it and make it safe to live on.
If scientists find a way to land a spacecraft onto Venus's surface we could find out if it still has some form of life on it and start a mission to reenable Venus to be habitable for humans. Even if such a thing is possible it is going to take a very, very long time to figure it all out. The reason scientists aren't giving up on the exloration of Venus is because of the fact that the human population is growing and growing pretty quick. If we run out of space or resources we don't know what will happen to the future human race.
We need Venus as a back up plan. Venus will serve as a way to expand even without running out of space on Earth. Either way the exploration of Venus is such a neccesity to us that we can't give it up. One day in the future some people will be ble to call Venus there home. That is what gives me hope for the future. There is one part of me that thinks what if we never manage to make Venus reinhabitable. WIll natural selecetion take place ? Will the human race get diminished by nuclear weaponry? Who knows what can take place for our future. All we can do know is to continue to live life to the fullest and hope for the best. | 4 |
4f6582d | While NASA's greatest scientists were working hard in their Jet Propulsion Lab in 1976, an eerie picture appeared on their monitors, as the spacecraft they sent to Mars, the Viking 1, has taken a picture of what looks like an alien-built human face on Mars, though it was actually another basic landform on the red planet. The reason Viking I was taking pictures of Mars was to scope out possible landing sites for its sister ship, the Viking 2. The scientists did realize that this "face" was just another common Martian landform, so when they put the picture up, its caption stated that it was only a rock formation resembling a human head. In order to fully prove to everyone that the Face on Mars was just a landform, they even sent the MGS, or Mars Global Surveyor, to retake pictures of the area presumed to be the face. They even sent it back for another round of retakes thanks to peoples' suspicions of cloudy weather blocking the view of the face! Thanks to many tests and retakes, scientists have proven that the Face on Mars is just another landform.
While Viking 1 was taking pictures on Mars to find a landing site for Viking 2, it snapped a picture of what appeared to be a gigantic face staring at them like a man staring at the stars with binoculars. Although scientists were very surprised when the face appeared on the monitors in their lab, their sensation lasted only a short time. They figured it was only another common Martian mesa with shadows that only resembled a human face. So that they could get enough hey-everyone-check-this-out popularity for the red planet, they made the image of the Face on Mars public, and the NASA scientists gave it the caption noting that it was "a huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." Thanks to this new caption, public attention for Mars, but it ended up dominating people's view on Mars, making them create conspiracy theories rather than convince the truth that it was only another landform on Mars. Despite the people making the Face on Mars a well-known pop icon, it always was and always will be another Martian landform.
In order to prove to the people that the Face on Mars was an ordinary-as-white-paint landform, they sent a new probe, the Martian Global Surveyor, or MGS, to Mars in 1998 to try to retake pictures of the face. The MGS succeeded at its task, as it swayed public opinion away from the idea that the face had to do with alien life existing on Mars at that time. Thousands of looking-forward-to-this web explorers were waiting for the picture to become public, they were also disappointed by the fact that it was a natural landform rather than an exotic alien monument. However, not everyone was satisfied with these results, as they wanted more proof that the face was a face and not a landform thanks to cloudy weather. The MGS did succeed in proving that the Face on Mars was not a face, though more attempts were required to get the idea to everyone.
Not everyone was content with the results of the MGS expedition, wanting to believe that the cloudy weather at the time the picture was taken to be responsible for the lack of the face's visibility. Despite how NASA's chief scientist for their Mars Exploration Program, Jim Garvin, stated that "it's not easy to target Cydonia," the people wanted more retakes. NASA was able to get the MGS to get better shots of the face in April 2001, and they were able to capture a wonderful photo with the camera's maximum resolution, which dominated the Viking 1's resolution by being nearly thiry times better. Thanks to Garvin's reasoning and the high-as-the-sky resolution of the MSG's new pictures, they were able to prove that the face was only the equivalent of a butte or mesa, both of which were common landforms. Thanks to the MSG's multiple trips, they captured enough well-detalied pictures to prove the true identity of the Face of Mars.
The Face of Mars is only an ordinary landform, and it always will be just another ordinary landform. The scientists began with a caption to the original photo stating that it was a landform only resembling a face, then they sent the Mars Global Surveyor out to try to prove that the Face on Mars was a landform. They also later sent the MGS out again during not-cloudy-at-all weather to let everyone know for sure that the face was not a face. All of these efforts combined let people know how the Face on Mars was not a face but only a landform, but there are likely still people out there who belive that the Face on Mars is still some type of alien relic. Despite how popular the conspiracy theories about the Face of Mars being an alien monument, it was only a standard landform the whole time. | 6 |
4f661ce | The Electoral College makes it so that candidates have a just as fair a chance as the other candidates. In the artical
What is the Electoral College , it says that, "The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A mojority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President"(1). Two hudrend seventy is over half of 538 therefore giving the candiate presidency. "Your state's entitled allotment of the electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each memebr in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators"(1). This being each state has the same number of senators and one represenative from the House. This seems pretty fair and it lines up with the Electoral College.
While it is true that the Electoral College seems unfair at the most basic level(2), the Electoral College still should not be removed because it keeps the ranks within the elections at peace. Although some may see the Electoral College as unfair, it is just about as fair as popular votes. If the Electoral College were to be abolished then Obama wouldn't have won the Election back in 2012 because the elctions would be based off of popularity and more people were against Obama and wanted a Republican, or Romney. For example,Obama wouldn't have had as fair of a chance as he did in 2008 if the Elcetoral College would have been abolished within the next four years when he ran again. He probably would have lost in 2012 because he didn't win the popular vote and that is what the country would be going by if the were no more Electoral College. This causes people to think that the Electoral College is unfair because Obama won.
This debate is able to go either way because if winning was based on popularity then one candidate would win but the loosing candidates supporters blaim it on the Electoral College, but on the other hand, if Electoral Colleges were banned, then the another candicate would win and the loosing candidates supporters would blame it on elections being based on popularity vote. It is unfair in the loosing team's side so in other words elections are all unfair. For example, "Back in 1960, segregationist in the Louisiana legistlature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote would have not actually gone to Kennedy.)(2)." This shows that people where desperate for wins and were against popular vote. | 2 |
4f693d5 | This new technology can really figure out if youre happy, sad, fearful, mad, or confuse. I would really enjoy this new technolgy. I even think that we should have it in our classrooms. This can really change us in school and better educated.
I believe that we should have the Facial Action Coding System. If we were in our classroom, the teacher can't sometimes tell if your really happy, bored, mad, or sad. If you learning something in class and the computer shows that youre bored. The can help you get motivated and try harder on your homework. Sometimes students comes in and just smile, but really you don't really know how they feeling. On paragraph 8, its says that sometimes there face isn't saying the truth becuase deep down there hurn or just lying. There trying to hide there emotions. The teachers really need to how they feeling. Like in paragraph 6, it says that it can detect if a students was feeling bored, sad, fearful. What if they were depressed or mad at something? We have to do something and help them. This can really benifent our school and our students.
I would really value this computer system, becuase it can help our education better and more efficient. We need to know how there feeling what can we do to help them. I would really recommend this in our school. Facial Action Coding System would really benefient our classroom. | 3 |
4f6d629 | There are many differant reasons to limit car usage, the most well-known reason being that it will greatly reduce air pollution. Several places incuding Vauban Germany, Paris, Bogota Colombia, and the United States have proven this, especially Paris. Paris at one point in 2014, had to enforce a partial driving ban purely because of the hazzardous smog caused by air pollution. In doing so Paris relatively quickly cleared the majority of the smog, and realized how this can also help to reduce road congestion. The United States are another, larger example of how much limiting car use can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Another good reason for limiting car usage would be that it will generally reduce stress in people. Limiting or lowering the usage of automobiles anywhere can help reduce stress mainly because people won't have to worry as much about traffic, maintanence & repair costs, air polution, or even the general dangers of driving a vehicle. Almost everyone knows that less stress is a good thing because of how it helps your health, therfore, limiting how much you drive is will not only improve your health by reduceing how stressed you are, but it will also help you to be healthier because it reduces the overall polution in the air.
So in the end limiting automobile/car usage will be advantagous for the earth, and every country or nation on it because of how it reduces stress, promotes health, and reduces greenhouse emmisions around the world. | 3 |
4f70228 | The face on Mars is a very interesting thing. It looks like a human head but there is now way it could be because it is two miles long. Some people say that is was made by aliens. NASA says that it is just a rock formation that happend naturaly. There are many arguments for both sides. I'm going to tell you the arguments from the side that says it is just a natural rock formation. This face on Mars is a natural rock formation because, if it were made by aliens than when they got close to it they would have saw things that would be unatural. Another reason is it looks like buttes and mesas that we have here in the United States. Lastly we have been studying this for twenty five years and never before has an alien came up and said, "Hi I made this".
The first reason why I thin that this was a natural formation is that we have gotten realy close to the formation and never have we seen any aliens or even any buildings other than the face. On April 8,2001 it was a cloudless summer dday in Cydonia, Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view, said Garvin. Malins team captured an extraordinary photo using the cameras absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. This proves how close they got to the planet and they never had anything happen to the nor did they see anything. Thust proving my first point.
Another reason this formation is natural is that there are formation in the United States that have naturlay occured. Buttes and mesas look very similar to the face on Mars. This is what NASA says about it ,what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesalandforms common around the American West. It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, says Garvin. Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. This shows that there are very simmilar things to the face in our world today. Thus proving my second point.
Lastly we have been studying this thing for twenty five years. NASA has been taking pictures of it for a long time now and they have not found any signs of life on Mars. Some people would say that NASA is hiding stuff. NASA would not hide stuff like this for many reasons. Here is what they say about it. The Face on Mars has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk showseven haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Marsevidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. Thus proving my third point.
So in conclusion there are no signs of alien life on the planet. This is how NASA concluded there point. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. This proves that even though several people think that there is life on mars there is no life and this is a natural formation. | 5 |
4f719e3 | I think that it would be a great idea limiting the usage of cars and what the advantages are beacuse when people have cars u hearing about crahes and all the other bad stuff. so a good way to revent al this from happening would be to get rid of car uasage and make people bike or walk to wherever they want to go to. Also limiting the usage of cars would prevent all the bad stuff from happening and help have a safer life and a longer one too.
In source it talks about how their are now cars in germany in the Suburbs. street parking, driveways and home garges are generally forbidden. In the new approach stores are being placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some istant highway. Heidrun Walter is a mother of two and use to have a car but sold to move to germany because alot of people alot of people dont have cars and she feels safre their because she knows that her children are going to be safe their. when she drove a car she felt all tense and freaked out. So in germany they tring ti create walking to stores or plaes that are like a block away because they feel like that is the best method.
The adavntages would be that u dont have to worry about getting all thses fines, getting your car impoud and not having to pay the fee. Also when u havea car u have to pay for the car insurance, the gas. Also it wouldnt create any cathos on the road and u would be much safre if the usage of cars went away because u wouldnt have to hear about car accidents that killed people. It would be a stress free world if cars went away. Also an advantage would be that u dnt have to worry about getting stuff stolen.
Ive explained to u that the limiting of cars would be a great idea because then u dont have to worry about all the bad things that could happen to the u if u had a car and u could walk somewhere or bike somewhere and that would be better than cras because it would be safer than a car. | 2 |
4f769e6 | In the article, it talks about how a computer can caculate everyones emotional expressions. Personally, I believe that it is kind of pointless for a computer to read someones face to tell what type of mood they're in. Easily, another person can look at your face to see what mood you're in.
In paragraph 4, it states that "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." For a computer to try and caculate a person's mood or facial expression is pointless. A regular human being can do the same thing. Having a computer trying to figure out someones mood is just similar as someone else doing it.
Just because it is a device or technology figuring out a person's mood doesn't mean it is correct. Normally you would think since a laptop or device is advanced, that it could easily tell a person's current mood. In which, I dont agree with that at all.
Basically, I do not think the use of this technology is valuable. Over all it is pointless from having a device to use for deciding someones mood. I think a person should experience finding out someone else's mood themselves instead of using a pointless device. Using a device to me is basically cheating, and it could all be better by a regular person figuring out emotions on a person's face. | 2 |
4f78439 | Have you ever been interested in studying astronomy or space sciences. Well, across the nation, people who work for NASA expore space or study planets to find. Of the many planets in the solar system, this essay analyzes the planet Venus and why we should study it. In the article, The challenges of Exploring Venus, the author clearly supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by disscusing the three main reasons based on it's distance from Earth, Earth like features, and the possibility of sending a space mission there.
First of all, the author clearly discusses that we should study Venus because it's similarity and proximity to Earth. The article states, "Often referred to as Earth's
"twin", "Venus is the closest plannet to earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance" (2). Based on this quote, this implies that Venus may have similar shape and size to earth. Because it's sometimes the closest distance to earth based on orbit, it may be the most convient to visit compared to the other planets in the solar system.
The next to study Venus is that scientists have found ways to send vehicles carrying humans to study Venus. The article explains how NASA has an idea of sending humans to study Venus when the article states, "Imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape" (5). In this quote, this means that people would ride in a spacecraft close enough to Venus to see the surface. Also, the article contains an anology when it explains how "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and our of their way" similar to how "jet planes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms" (5). Based on this quote, the view out of this spacecraft looking down at Venus may be similar to viewing out of a jetplane window on Earth, which is what you may expect out of this space journey.
The final reason to study Venus is because the planet has similar topography and may have had conditions similar to earth. The author clearly describes Earth's and Venus's similarity to Earth when the article says, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth. Because of the possibility that Venus has or used to support living, it would be worth studying Venus, which ties back to the main idea of why it's a worthy pursuit. If we find this to be true, then maybe one day we'll live on Venus.
The author did a great job of supporting the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit based on the ideas of Venus's proximity to Earth, the possibility of life on Venus, and building a vehicle to ship humans to explore Venus without landing on the surface. Maybe one day we'll actually push forward with this pursuit of studying Venus and find a way to possibly get there. Overall, studying astronomy may help us understand the uncertainty of our neighboring planets, which may give us the oppertunity to find another world to inhabit. | 5 |
4f796a7 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author attempts to convince the reader that studying Venus is worth all the dangerous problems one would face trying to study the beautiful planet.
The author starts off his argument by stating how "challenging" it is to examine Venus at a close proximidy, and procides to state all the factors of studying Venus and explain why it is so dangerous to explore this planet. The author first states facts about Venus that would affect a mission to the surface. These comments are mostly about it's atmosphere, stating that the thick atmophere is "almost 97% carbon dioxide" and contains high amounts of sulfuric acid, which as a result, causes the temperature to average at "over 800 degrees Fahrenheit." And to top that off, the atmospheric pressure is "90 times greater then planet Earth's," suggesting that a submarine that was made to endure Earth's deepest parts of the ocean would be crushed on planet Venus. Later on, the author explains why we should even try to learn more about this supposedly miss understood planet. The author claims that astronomers are "fascinated" by Venus because they believe that it could have been the planet most like Earth in the solar system at one point in the past; possessing "large oceans" and being able to "support various forms of life," and that even now Venus still has traits that could hint to the idea that it used to be a lot like Earth, such as having a "rocky sediment" surface, along with valleys, mountains, and craters. Although the author could have gone more into depth in this subject; inferring that astronomers should study Venus' surface because humanity wants to know why this change may have happened, and if we could avoid Earth following the same path, his argument as to why we should study Venus' surface is highly valid and valued as a strong reason despite the dangers.
Overall, the author of the passage, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," has a strong, thought out reason why humanity should explore Venus close up in the years to come. | 4 |
4f7fcd0 | The electoral college is viewed by the populace as a greedy snake who is suffocating the voters freedom and placing it in a slate of electors. According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election over 60% of the voters would abolish the electoral college and put in a direct election. The system is set up to where you may recieve the most votes yet lose the election so much for a "democracy". Yet some people still argue that the electoral college isnt flawed and fairly represents everyone.
When one votes you are voting not for a president but for a slate of electors who then elect the president. These electors are not forced to vote for the cantidate you picked and in the past have not. Not only that but also the fact that the electoral college has the possibility for a tie (at that point the senate would elect the vice president) (state delegation would elect the president) this would completely abolish and not reflect the will of the voters. At its core the electroal college is unfair to the people it is a rigged winner-take-all system in each state since most candidates dont even take the time in the states they know they are going to win forsure or have no chance on winning. In the 2000 campaign 17 states didnt see the cantidates at all.
Some of the ludicrous claimes made by supporters of the electral college are that you avoid run off elections, the so called "certainty of outcome", and many other outlandish claims which always avoid all the bad the electoral college does and only focus on the so called "good". It is a fact the people prefer a direct vote, the electoral college is unfair, outdated and is holding us back from expressing our full right to vote. | 3 |
4f8575d | We should use this tecnology in kids classroom. In the text it states "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored', DR Huang predicts. Yes if the computers was like that it would make it eazier on teachers and students because not everyone learns at the same pace and if a student is bored it would change its couse to fit the student. Also in the text it states According to the facial feedback theory of emotion, moving your face mucles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. This means that if your making faces like putting on a fake smile can actually work and make u fell a whole lot beter. This is science and would a fun activitiy for kids. The only downside would be that that is two much time on computers and cell phones which arent good for the kids health but this is a new day and age and its hard to escape technology. To conclude this would be a great experience for kids and it will help all people with expressing their fellings. | 2 |
4f85ac3 | Should one's taxes go towards funding useless and pointless projects? Most people agree that it is awful when their taxes go into unnecessary and meaningless projects. This is exactly what they are getting with the attempts at exploring Venus. The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents; however, they do not adequately give reasons as to why the exporation of Venus is viable. The author fails to give reasoning as to how studying Venus benefits humanity, how research is progressing, or why Venus is a better choice than other planets.
The author of this article does not give adequate reasoning as to why studying this planet is prouctive for humanity. Throughout the article, the author claims that scientists want to study the planet because it is most like Earth density wise. While it is most like Earth's density, it is not like Earth in so many ways. Venus is a lot more dangerous and deadly when compared to Earth. It has thick, poisonus gas clouds. It also has a bailing surface. While in the past it was much like Earth, currently is is much different. The similarities between Venus and Earth are very few, and that makes Venus less desirable to study. The author also does not give examples of how examining the rocks, liquids, or metals could progress humanity.
The author does not contribute any major discoveries for the Venus projects. There are several examples in the article where the author states a new idea that scientists have for getting to Venus. However, most of these ideas are not solid enough. There has not been enough of a technological breakthrough for NASA to fund another trip to Venus. The text states, "...not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." This reinstates the point that, while there have been ideas, none of them are solid enough for a trip to Venus. If no signifigant progress has been made in 3 decades, why should NASA continue to fund the project?
The article does not make a claim as to why Venus is a better choice than any other planet. In the second paragraph, the author states numorous challenges to exploring Venus, but he does not list the disadvantages to studying a planet like Mars. According to the article, both of the planets are fairly close to Earth. At some points, Mars is even closer than Venus. This would make it easier to travel to Mars. It also does not appear as if Mars has even close to the same difficulties that Venus has, making it a safer option. It would also mean that Mars has a higher chance at colonization.
While this article provides many examples on why we should study Venus despite it's challenges, it does not do so in an adequate way. There are many glaring problems and reasonings that are just not addressed in this article. The author does not back up why the planet is so important, it's worth to humanity, or the scientific breakthoughs that warrent the project continuing. Due to those reasons, the author does not thouroughly support their idea that Venus is worthy. | 4 |
4f86aed | The electoral college is such a complex process, dealing with a slate of senetors and presidents, why not replace it with the popular vote system? The people of the country do so much to advocate living in freedom and in peace. The people should have the right to vote for who their leader is and not have to go through such a process. They should have their way of deciding who will rule them and the rest of the country.
Of course the electoral college will have its advantages, they chose what happens even though the people are still voting. Maybe they think they know what will benefit the country in each leader. Popular vite would make the people happier and the country as a whole a happier place. If the people knew they had the responsibility of chosing a leader, and their leader is chosen, we wouldnt have to worry about the dispute over who should or should not have been the leader. Candidates will put information out on their plan to a better country, and the people will take into consideration on who they want as their leader. Once they come down to the bestg leader made out by the info given, they will have the right to vote.
In source number 3, it clearly states that using the elector college, its the electors who are actually chosing the president rather then the people and that your not actually voting for a president, but for a slate of electors. Thats not what the people want. What they want is to have the right to directly vote for who they want to guide them and the country! Also, it is not equally fair for small states, for they do not get as much attention as larger states. What does size have to do with deciding who you want as your presdient? America is all about equality and this does not show equality. This statement is from source 3 as well.
Electoral college can also get very confusing for the people. In source 2, its talks about how if the people were to try and vote for a democratic president, they are actually voting for a slate of democratric electors. It also says that the slate of the type of partys electors you voted for hoping they would chose the president you wanted, dont always do that. Sometimes the people even get confused about the electors and accidently vote for the wrong candidate. In honest remark, the electoral college process is al jumbled up and not organized properly in the peoples favor. | 3 |
4f93f72 | Studying Venus is worth to study despite the dangers and can be a risk to anyone. Venus has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.
Humans have sent many spacecrafts to land in Venus. Each pervious mission was unmanned. No spacecraft or spaceship has survived the landing for more than a few hours or even touched Venus in more than three decades. Many factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for us humans to study. It can put us in a huge risk.
More dangerously are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The temperatures are way different in Venus than Earth. The temperatures average over 800 fahrenheit. In Venus the atomopheric pressure is 90 time greater that what we experience here on Earth. Those conditions are extremely dangerous compare to what humans on Earth encounter.
Venus also has the most hottest surface temperature of any planet in the solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Beyond high pressure and heat Venusian geology and weater present more dangerously problems in Venus, such as erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and lightning strikes. However, astronomers believe that Venus had once had rocky surfaces, mountains, valleys, and oceans.
Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth's levels. Not reliable conditions but survivable for humans. More importantly, researchers can't take rocks, gas, or any other objects from a specific distance due to the dense atmosphere. For that reason scientists interested in seeking to conduct a through mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal even through-out the risks it can cause.
Anyone who would want to study Venus and it's geographic surface would have to be put at risk, even to just be a planetary visit. Our travels on Earth and beyond shouldn't be limited by dangers or doubts, but should be expanded to meet the almost the edges of imagination and completion. | 2 |
4f951b4 | Dear State Senator,
I would like for you to change it to popular vote because ...
Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president. If you lived in Texas for example and you wanted to vote for
John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 344 democratic electors pledged to
Kerry . On the off-chance that those electors won the statewide election, they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral votes. Who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office. Who picks the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office. Who picks the electors in the first place ? It depends on the state, sometimes state conventions, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves. Can voters control who their electors vote for? Not always. Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes.
Also, the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people.
Most worrying thing is that of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote of the president.
At the most basic level, the electoral college is just unfair to the voters. Because of the winner - take - all systemin each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states.
Electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. Therefore, you should change it to popular vote, not electoral college. | 2 |
4f95597 | The article "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" talks about a boy named Luck who recently graduated high school. Luck worked two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank, when Don Reist Luck's friend invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat Luck could never said no, because he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime.
To help the European cuntires recover from World War 2,the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to transport the horses,young cows,and mules Luck and Don signed up.
Luck and Don received their ordes to repot to New Orleans, they arrived August 14,the day the Pacific War ended. They were headed for Greece with a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them.
Luck had just turned eighteen before they arriving in Greece. By the time he was discharged in '47
Luke had made nine trips. To past the time on return trips they would play baseball, volleyball,table-tennis tournaments,fencing boxing ,reading whitting and games also helped to pass the time.
In concluion, Luck had the most amazing two years of his life. | 1 |
4f99bd9 | A planet that is toasty at 170 degrees Fahrenheit, air pressure clos to sea level on Earth, Venus is the most interesting planet in the solar system, thatthe author suggests that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. It may well once have been the most earth-like planet that scientists discuss further visits to its surface but the problem is that no spacecraft survived th landingfor more than a few hours.
No matter if the surface temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, 90 times greater than what people on earth can experience, but scientists are so fascinated by Venus and earth, how alike they were long ago. On paragraph 4, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life" and
"The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valley's, moutains, and craters." Venus could had living forms living in their surface if Venus has any type of familiar features just like Earth.
On paragraph 8, "Not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because humans curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Humans curiosity is amazing, in the text it explains how it will likely lead us into many equally, but it could also lead us to something unique that not even Earth has that no other human could think about.
No matter if Venus dangers could be extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth, it is the most talk about planet to study it's worthy pursuit, With sights that once was familiar like Earth and various forms of life that has the humans curiousity on Venus. | 3 |
4f99ca1 | Cars have been around for awile now and they seem to have developed into our everyday lifestykes. But for some countries there is no such thing. Having limited car usage can be great in some cases. It could really help the envirorment effectiviely, Provide less funds for people, and even challenge companies to pursue a bigger idea than just cars.
Our ecosystem is in dangered. All of the pollutio and waste that people put into the air needs to stop. The idea of having imited use of cars can provide a healthy and great looking earth. In the article by Robert Duffer ''Paris bans driving due to smog'' we see the understanding that paris can help support the idea for having limited usage of cars. ''After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city'' a sentence stated in the article. Paris typically has more smog than other european captials. ''Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (pm) per cubic meter comparied with 114 in brussles and 79.7 in london''. With nobody driving their cars for a day, they managed to clear up alot of smog and make the earth look healty again.
Having the idea for limiting car usage can also have a very big impacted on people financal funds. its common sense. Not having to pay for gas, car insurance, car payments, and even mechanical payments as well. And having not having to pay so much of those bills can provide person with a greater amount of cash in their pocket. But there can be a down side to not having a car also. Cars are made to get a person from one place to another and if there isnt any transportation how are you supposed to go to work or make some food stops. The solution is simple. Ride the bus, Walk, Bike, get some exercise for once, thats the biggest reason why america is so lazy.
Car compaines such as Ford, Dodge, Toyota all compete with one another. But as the days go on by. Studies state that less and less people are buying cars. In the article ''The end of the car culture'' by Elisabeth Rosenthal states that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes on by. This has left researches pondering a fundamental question: Has america passes peak driving? My answer would simply be, No america has not passed peak driving, but how can you by a car and pay a buncg of bills with no money? Thats my question. People dream of cars everyday. Wishing they could drive a brand new converible Ferrari to school. But welcome to reality, were that really doesnt happen. And are economy does not help it one bit. ''at the Mobile Congress last uerar in Barcelona, Spain, Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford motor company, Laid out a business paln. Discussing things like trying to collab with the telecommunications industry''. This could be and opening for are future. It could save times around a city and ensure that its also safe at the same time.
In conclusion the advantages of limiting car usage can provide the earth, the earth, the people, and Finance to be nice, beautiful, and simple. But nothing can happen if we ont act now. | 3 |
4f9f184 | There are many limiting car usage, through out the world, many are in the suburb of germany. some are also in Bogota. And many more countrys like the United states.
In the first passage, it has some car limiting usage. the country that it resigns in the suburbs of germany. For an example " automobiles are linchpin of the suburbs where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to make thier homes." "Experments said that there is a drastically reduce greenhouse gas emision from the tailpipes. It also states that the passager cat are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. And up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the united states." ( Rosenthal, paragraph 5) So thats a limiting car usage. Because the greenhouse percentage is going up in many countries mainly Europe and the United States.
Thats just not it, The united states has been the worlds prime car cultures. "Its also the birthplace of the model T; the home of Detroit; the place where Wilsom Pickett immortalized "Mustanf Sally"" " Demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the tend may accelerate. There has been a large drop in percentage of 16-to 39 years olds getting a license, while older people are likely to retain thier licenses as they age" Mr. Sivaks research has found. (paragraph 39) In New York , there is a "proliferation of car-sharing programs acroos the nation" (paragraph 37) there are many car limiting advantages like is stated above car-sharing that was devolped in New York and now travling all over the United States. There are many elder people reatinging their license. And less younger people getting thier licenses.
In the end, there are many advantages, going through the United States in to Europe. Those are some of the advantages of limiting car usage. | 3 |
4fa4ee8 | Cars are very useful in an everyday life. Cars are a source of transportation to people and most of the world uses them. Although, now there has been new technologies out that may allow cars to be driven by themselves. These cars could certainly be helpful to many people around the world, but are they really needed? Driverless cars might make it easier to travel from place-to-place without a worry, but there are many negative apsects from using them
First off, driverless cars can be expensive to build and upgrade. In order to come out with this techonogy all around the world, someone has to be responsible to build them. Normal human driven cars are expensive as is but imagine having even more equipment added in order for this driverless car to be safe and useful. These cars need sensors all around in order to detect its surroundings. Also the car needs video cameras, a GPS receiver, and most importantly a sensor that uses laser beams to build a 3-D model of the car's surroundings at all times. These equipments can cost a great deal of money when there are thousands of these car manufactured. Without these the car would not be capable of mimicing the skills of a human driving the car. Not only do the cars need newer equipment but the roads also need upgrades in order for these cars to connect and understant what the road ahead will be like. All of these upgrades and equipments can cost people a huge amount of money.
Adding on, owning a driverless car calls for more responsibility from the owner and more alertness as well. Driverless cars could certainly help a driver along the road, but there is a great deal of responsibilities the driver has to take. The driver can not rely on the driverless car one hundred percent of the time due to any mistake it could make. These cars may be smart and pack a lot of new technology but cars and software can make mistakes and in a car they could cause a great deal of accidents. Being a driver means having resposibility of the car, the passengers, the road, and any other car on the road along with their passangers. Even if the car is able to function without a driver, the driver should be alert on the road for when the car needs help. Laws would have to be inforced in order for drivers to make a commitment with these smart cars. Driverless cars may be dangerous without an alert and responsible driver on board.
Lastly, driverless cars could have a chance of backfiring on the owner. If these cars are not bult or manufactured and tested correctly they could cause accidents. Relying on the manufacturer is a great part of buying these cars. Tests that are not run correctly could ruin the reputation of the cars and cause them to not be bought or even built anymore. Technology fails all the time but some times it does not. Perhaps during a test the car works fine but in a real world experience it does not, this could be a negative impact on the manufacturer. Even if a car were to fail would it be the fault of the owner or the manufacturer? This could be a big problem for the driverless cars.
All in all, driverless cars could make life a bit easier to people around the world but there could also be lots of negative things that come with them. Driverless cars can be expensive to manufactur. Some people would not be willing to pay so the cars could be useless to build. The driverless cars also need upgraded roads to assist them as well as responsible and alert drivers. This could cause trouble on the roads if the drivers rely too much on the car and its technology. Driverless cars are a huge advance in technology but could cause lots of trouble along the way. | 4 |
4fa782f | In this argument I'm going to tell you why the face on Mars, is acually a landform.
On the red planet called Cydonia A.K.A Mars. Twenty five years ago NASA Viking 1 spacecraft was circling around Mars snapping photos of landing sites when they came across a landfrom that looked like a human face. When scientist saw the picture they thought it was just another martian mesa, that is common around in Mars, but it had unusual shadows that made it look like a Egyptian Pharaoh. A few days later NASA showed the image for all to see. The caption was "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose, and mouth." They thought it would be a good way to attract attention, but some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization in Mars, although few scientist believed the face was an alien artifact. The first image appered on a web site, revealing... a natural landform it was actually a martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landform common around the american west
That was my argument I hope you will take my side that the face was not created by aliens and it was mearly a landform. | 2 |
4fa7dae | Gerald was one of the scientists that led the investigation on the Face. He had been to college already, so he has been very experienced with these types of scenarios. He used NASA's Viking 1, and saw an object that appeared to be a face. He got a closer look later in his career, and it was not an actual face. This was later taken by surprise by the general public, and they still thought that it had to be a real sign of life on Mars. Because of this research, I believe that the face is just a natural landform. Three reasons why I believe this is true are that NASA's research has proven this, photographs taken by NASA have shown that this is true, and comparisons to landforms on Earth have shown the public that this is the truth.
My first reason for stating my opinion would be that NASA's research has proven that the Face is a landform. An example of this from the text would be that NASA has published many photos of the Face to show the public that it was just a landform. To further explain this, if you look close enough at the pictures in this passage, then you can see it is a landform. It may look like a face from a far distance, but evidence given by NASA has shown that this is not the case.
My second reason for this is the fact that NASA has taken many photographs of this landform to prove it is true. Here is a quote from the text that shows this: "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." Later in this paragraph, it states that the picture has proven that there was not an alien monument. Secondly, as people stated, it was a cloudy day in Mars, so they were not satisfied with the picture. So, "On April 8, 2001-a cloudless summer day in Cydonia-Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. Later in the paragraph, Garvin, an expert that works with NASA, says this: "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Even though it wasn't cloudy, the team of NASA got the same result: it is just a landform.
My last reason would be that comparisons to landforms on Earth have proven that this is true. Garvin says in paragraph twelve that "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 about the same height as the Face on Mars." What this is saying is that there have been similar landforms on Earth that are on Mars. Scientists can use this data to compare different pieces of landforms on different planets. Using this, they can figure out what the Face actually is, and other mysteries that they come up against.
Some people may have used to say that the picture was too blurry to make out what the Face actually was. However, NASA has taken many clear photos of the Face, and they have proven several times that it is not an alien artifact, and that it is only a landform on the surface of the planet.
So, what do you think now? Do you still believe that the Face is an ancient artifact? Well, you should not anymore after reading this; the evidence given here in this essay clearly shows that the Face is just a landform. Scientists like Gerald and Garvin have shown this a repeated amount of times. So, in conclusion, I believe that the Face is just a natural landform, and not proof of life on Mars. | 5 |
4fa7db7 | I think the driverless cars are a bad idea. For example, when you are in an accident, you blame the other person if it is their fault. But with the Driverless cars, who are you going to blame the car or the driver? As in the passage states; "If the technology fails and someone is injureed, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacture?" Laws are always changing with speed limits, and all kinds of road laws, how will the cars get programmed to go by these new laws. Cars has been around since then 1900s and always been a drive. It could prevent accidents with cell phones, but in most states, you are not supposed to have a mobile device out in the first place. I think that is just common sence not being an idiot having a cell phone out. Manufactures like truck manufatures, may even make this. What are truck drivers going to do who make money hauling goods? Kenworth, Feightliner, Petebuilt, Man, Daf, Scania, and other truck manufactures. What are the truckers going to do when they do this for a living? Trucking companies make money from their drives, are they going to go down. Not just trucking either, bus transporations, trams, taxis etc. All of these road transportaion may go down. If people start adding it to civilion vechiles, companise might want it they don't have to pay their divers. Then drives lose their jobs. I honestly, don't think this is a good idea. People love to drive. Now, you can still take control but it's going too much with the technogly in cars. It may prevent the stupid drivers on road with no common sence what so ever. But basically, that is also just common sence, know the laws, and follow them. There is constuction on roads all the time how will the car know when to slow down. Also, if you put too much on a computer it gets overwelmed and it stops and has issues which could happen. What about a police officer directing traffic? I don't think that it can do that. Is the police going to blame the car or the driver? Most likely the driver because they are the one behind the weel. The driver will then say somthing like; "Oh my car did it". But police also will not want this I believe for many safety reasons. School zones, how will cars know if kid's are crossing? It could jus go dtright threw and hit someone. If someone is jay-walking which is illegal, but people still do they could get hit tool. What if someone is traveling and then falls asleep then the car's compuers beak down what's going to happen next? An accident is goin to happen. In m opinion, this is a bad idea and this should no be devloped into the roads of all these hazards and that takes a lot of thinking. | 3 |
4fa9d9c | I am against driverless cars for these supporting reasons. Reason one is the cost. Reason two are the complications with laws. The third reason is the reliableness of driverless cars. My last reason im against driverless cars is the insurance problems.
My first reason why im against driverless cars has to do with cost. The cost to make a driverless car would be insane. These cars will most likely be inflated entirely too much. The amount of money it would take to make streets and highways acceptable for these cars would cost alot of money. It would be pointless to invest in something that only so many people would have.
Another reason im against driverless cars are the laws that would have to change. If driverless cars became everyday things why would people need a driver license? Along with that it would be hard to determine what qualifications you would need to operate one of these. A big issue I see with driverless cars is whos to blame if there is an accident? This idea leads into my next reason
Everyone needs insurance to be on the road legally. This next reason is the conflict that would be surrounded accidents and whos to blame if there is one. In the passage it metions who would you blame if there was an accident, the driver or the manufacterur. That is a hard question to answer. How would you get the car replaced if the insurance companies wont agree to insuring a driverless car because of this issue? Alot more troubles to go through and in some cases might lead to people losing thousands of dollars. With all of that being said it translates in to my next point.
The biggest question for most people would be reliability with these driverless cars. If the technology fails in the middle of the road that would be a big problem. What if there is a glitch in the system that makes the car stop operating. To get these cars repaired would be too much of a hassle for mostly anyone. Getting a driverless car while the technology is young is very risky.
In conclusion I feel like my reasonsare important. These cars should not be street legal. Too much can definetly go wrong with driverless cars. People should think twice before buying into the idea of a driverless car. I am against them and I hope my reasons helped make sense of the situation | 4 |
4fabf67 | We've all struggled with gauging what exactly our friends and family are feeling at certain times. They may even be a mixture of emotions. For example, happy, sad, confused or even angry. What if we had a way to detect all of the emotions they were feeling at one time. Well, now you can. Prof. Nicu Sebe and Dr. Huang have developed the Facial Action Coding System which has proven to be useful in many scenarios. Such as, in the classrom, indicating if a smile is, or is not genuine, and lastly, being able to read every single emotion someone is feeling.
Some people may believe that is doesn't matter what students are feeling in the classroom because it is not the teacher or a computers duty to cater to that student's feelings. But, that is incorrect. Because, according to Dr. Haung computers can be very useful in redirecting the lesson for the benefit of the student. The text states, "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 instuctor." This text is a great example explicitly stating how the Facial Action Coding System can be useful in the classroom. Ultimatly, it is able to help students with their learning just like a human could. All by just reading the student's expression.
Secondly, the Facial Action Coding System is able to tell if a smile is genuine or not based off of the movement of your muscles. The text states, "They can even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. In the real smile, the zygomatic major (muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth." Also, "Meanwhile, muscles called obricularis ocul pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around your eyes. But in a false smile, the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorius." This evidence gives great detail about how and why the Facial Action Coding System works. By reading the certain muscles that move in your face, it can tell if your smile is genuine or fake. This could be very useful, especially when trying to figure out if a "smiling" politician or celebrity is actually smiling.
Lastly, this technology can be used to read every emotion that someone is feeling. The text states, "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. No, that's not your science teacher, grading your latest lab assignment. It's the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting, Mona Lisa, at least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotions." and, "By weighting in the different units, the software can identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece.)" The text above is a great example in showing how valuable this technology can be in the world. Being able to read every single emotion displayed in a face is fascinating and very useful.
In conclusion, it is quite obvious how useful this new software could be to the rest of the world. It is flexible, reliable, and fast. For example, it could be greatly used in the classroom to help with student learning, determine if a smile is genuine or fake, and lastly, it can read every last emotion that someone is feeling. This technology is more valuable then we may even realize. | 4 |
4faefe0 | limiting the usage of cars can solve many things in the world such as lessening the producton of greenhouse gases. it states in the article that greenhouse gases can reach up yo 50% in some areas of the u. s. when it is only 12% in Europe, these numbers are absolutely insane.
meanwhile in places like BOGOTA, columbia they are taking place in such things as a car free day. the article also states that violators will be fined $25 if they are found driving a car on this day. this is a great way to promote a healthier world. doing this can lessen the ammounts of smog and pollution in the environment. " its a good oppertunity to take away stress and lower air pollution'' said buisnessman carlos Arturo.
the number of greenhouse gases will continue too rise as the population does. this is due to the number of teens and adults getting their licences and cars. if this doesnt end soon the levels of greenhouse gas woll be extremely high. | 2 |
4faf2cc | The computer software which has been invented is to test the emotion of people. But it is not really a good way to test people like that. If you want to understand the people's thinking when they have a emotion, why don't you learn ecycology?
The program tested Mona Lisa's smile and the result said "83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted..." If I'm an artist, I painted a character which is really beautiful, but I just make that character's emotion really happy, and wants to shows the audience it's a beautiful girls with a joyful face. When the computer software test the emotions of my character and shows these results, I will be really disappointed at these results --- It's way more too acurately! It can ruined one artist or someone else's life.
The computer learned things way more faster than us, "all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles" From FACS, the program will detected the six basic motions: happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness. Well, that's not going to be accurate, from the example, "your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised", this surprise emotion is just an opinion of the creator Dr. Paul Eckman. I can be tired and showing that emotion too. When the computer is testing the students in the class, there are so many emotions in the class, but even they express their emotion, it's still not fair enough to prove what thoughts do they have. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", at this point, the computer is testing everyone's emotion. But remember, study is not fun, normally that you will get bored. If someone have a happy face in the classroom, that means he is "crazy" or distracted by other stuff. So it's useless to testing the student's emotions in the class.
Indeed, the ecycology is better than the program. We can looks through other peoples emotion by our eyes and communicate with them, you will still understand their emotion, because we have our brain to calculate. The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" mentioned "we humans perform ths same impressive 'calculation' everyday", and than give an example to inform the human calculation more precisly. Even though it's a concession, it still shows it's not necessary to use this kind of tecnology to predict people's emotions.
In addtion, the computer which created by man is still from the human knowledgement, or human "data base", which is brain. But it can be limited the testing area, like the emotion that predict wrong. Altough it can test through the muscle changing, It still cannot prove the true feeling of the human. The reason why we have ecycology this courses because people's brain is way more better than the computer. Computer is fast, but it based on human knowledge, also use there is no way to creat a perfect program --- everyone has different opinion to the creator of the program. So it's not really valuable to use this kind of tecnology to read student's emotional expressions. | 3 |
4fb4ef6 | I think driveless cars should be developed. These cars can take the driving out of driving. They can prevent accidents before they begin. As stated by the article, "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." This shows that even with half a million miles driven, the car is still safe.
First, these cars prevent accidents before they happen. Once they are more developed you could sleep in your car while it travels down the rode. The article states, "It uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." This technology can warn you when there is danger and keep you safe.
Next, the driver can be interertained while waiting on their turn to drive. These companies are thinking of "Bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays." The article also states that "Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over." This will keep the drivers entertained and safety a "big concern."
However, these cars cannot be driven without a human just yet. They cannot pull in or back out of a driveway. But there are many advances in technology happening today. "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." These advancements aren't too far away.
I think these cars should be developed. The advancements are underway and should be here by 2020. These cars can entertain you, keep you safe, and save you money on gas. Once they are driverless you can also sleep in them. I hope these cars are developed because I want one of my own. | 3 |
4fb5770 | The development of driverless cars pose no threat to anyone. Driverless cars are not completely driverless. The cars will still need assistance from the driver. "Special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." (p7) It has been said that the cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all of these cars are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents.
The cars that Sergey Brin forsees would use, "half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." (p1) Driverless cars have been well tested and have been modified repeatedly. "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009." (p2) Google'sdriverless cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Although Google's cars are not truly driverless, meaning they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents, not crashing when having driven half a million miles is miraculous.
Really, there is no danger that really stands out when speaking of driverless cars. They were specifically engineered to do one job; that job being to get its passengers to and from their desired designation without crashing. The most important bit of technology on Google's modified Toyota Prius woul have to be the spinning sensor on the roof. "Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." (p4) The combination of all that has been modified and manufactured for the driverless car is necessary for it to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.
Car manufacturerers are not starting from scratch recently. "In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in creation of antilock brakes. Within 10 years, those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers." (p5) When getting in a driverless car, it will not me like getting in a wagon at the top of a hill and being pushed. You will be in as much control as the car if need be. The car itself will give you far better chances when it comes to not crashing. "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." (p5)
This has been said repeatedly but once again none of the cars that have been developed so far are completely driverless. Human skills are still needed when driving these cars. As long as you get into one of these cars knowing that you will need to be alert, there is little to no chance of an accident occurring. "Special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." (p7) Being alert when in a driverless car will not be as hard as it may sound due to the modifications that have been made to these cars. "This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the driver's attention whenevera problem occurs. GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over." (p7)
You may be asking yourselves why anyone would want a driverless car that still needs a driver. No one likes to be completely helpless or bored and waiting to take their turn. Some manufacturers hope to keep drivers entertained and awake by, "binging in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off when the driver is needed." (p8)
This information goes to prove that driverless cars pose no real threat when driving other than when a driver gets in the car and is deliberately irresponsible and not paying attention. When in these cars stay alert and all will be well. | 4 |
4fbb5ee | Wow, from the mar really look like humans face. It have eyes,nose, and mouth. It weird that on mar there is nothing and it shape like that is really weird. Most people think there is alien who live there do. They say it maybe it for living thing for alien. I think it just a natural land form because there is no alien monument.
First, The face of the mar really is popular for other. It even appear on hollywood film, books,magazines, and radio. Maybe it just not close enough to see if it flat or it like mountian. It show a lot of stuff going on on mar. Mar is really history for people in may 24,2001.
Next, I think it just natural land form because on the shadow it look like pyramid. If you look at the shadow and you can see it not it have to much pointing on the top. The eyes waht they call it might be the whole for some water. the mouth can be just a crack on it.
Finally, if we can go look closer scientist NASA might catural n tell. They just look at the front they won't know how it shape like to look side to side. Scientist NASA will have to look closer so they can tell if there is alien or not. It depend on to look closer. It just landform because it did have no alien monument.
Conclusion, this is all about face of mar well it truth, but if you look at the shadow it show only triangle. it will be better for scientist to look closer instead just making up stories about unmasking the face on mar. It just natural for land to have mountain, and there is no such an alien. according to ther text"There was no alien monument after all". | 2 |
4fbd16d | As times keeps passing new technologies seem to come around very often. From new cars and cellphones. To fully solar powered houses and computer controled homes. technology seems to be benefitting us. But what about the students? A new form of technology has been develope that is able to detect exactly how a student is feeling. But is it a good thing ? I beleive it is.
in today's modern day there is new software that has been developed that can detect a persons emotion. This is called the "Facial Action Coding System". This softerware is said to be able to contribute to a students learning ability. The article "Making The Mona Lisa Smile" presents the idea of a classroom using this technology in order to benefit a students way of the learning. In paragraph 6 of this article it reads, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, ... Then it could modify the lesson , like an effective human instructor." This expresses the idea of a more productive instructor that can help a student based on how they feel and individually help a student.
This new software could elevate the quality of learning. A normal classroom only contains one teacher in charge of various students with different needs. Each with a different style of learning. A computer system that can help each and every one of those students learn in their own way could be very benificial since the way they are being instructed is based on how they feel. The " Facial Action Coding system" is agood thing for our students and should be involved in our students leanring. | 3 |
4fbfc65 | Have you ever thought of giving up your cars? i didnt thing you did. I can see why you would'nt want to. So i am going to try to apeal to your other sense and show the the beauty and advantages to a limited car comunity.
With out cars vrooming and zooming all about you can actualy expirence nature like it used to be little rucus and mutch less danger. With out all of the loud sounds or engins working you can go for a soothing walk and clear your mind. Not only that you can do things with out worring about things like "hmm am i gooing to get hit by a car today?" have you ever worried about someone driving and gotten scaired because you have no idea how they are or if they made it home ok? If some one is walking you can be like ok little can go wrong from there to here so you wory less.
Cars are one of the leading causes of polution and smog in the world. In Paris the smog got so bad cars with even numbered plates could only drive certian days and viceversa with the odd numbered plates. Not only is it a good idea to stop because of of the green house gases but it is also good to stop becould it would stop trafic. 67% of all cars in france are desil so they were blamed for the smog over the gasoline. So in this case i say just go green for a while and ride bikes or hoof it to were you need to go.
The driving persentage in america is going down by its self so in america the progress is showing weather its on perpous or not. With the driving persentage going down there is less crashes of cours because of the less drivers. with the driving persentage going dow i is also leading to a better less damaging way of transportation suchas car pooling or public transportation there is also one of my more perfered ones biking it always works to get you from point A to point B and it is polution free unless you fart of course. sense i mentioned the point A to point B there are alturnative ways to get there like a bike a skate board a human powered scooter or the free one walking.
If we would adopt the life style of less travling by cars we would have closer thing to us like stors and traveling roots stors would be in walking distance but this means places like the suburbs are going to be more compact and alot less parking space. With adopting this life style we ar'nt agreeing on getting rid of all cars just to get rid of cars when they are irrelavent the cars would be parkes in a big parking garage on the edge of the town the cars would be used for long distance traveling. People would also get more exresize and that could help bring "
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" america to a healthey more fit america like in the past.
Many things can be gained from limiting car usage afew are its is way more peaceful with out all the rucus and stress of driving and polution and smog levels would be brought down as well as less deaths from crashes and one big advantage is it is more efficent housing and traviling roots. now you have some thing to think about. | 3 |
4fc2548 | These four passages "In german suburb , life goes on without cars " , "Paris bans driving due to smog , " Car -free day is spinning into a hit hit in bogota and " The end of car culture . Talk about life with out cars , how that benefits us and how it makes people feel.
Source one talks about life in Vauban , germany and how cars arent allowed in the suburbs . If so then you need to pay a fee . Not using cars is better for the environment and makes people feel better about themselfs . "When i had a car i was always tense . Im much happier this way " stated heidrun walter . You see more people outside , riding boikes , and children playing . 70 percent of people in vauban dont own cars , and 57 percent of people sold their cars so they could live there . Also in source two it talks about the banning of cars in order to clear the air of the global city . Anyone who refused to stop using their cars were fined . Paris had more smog than other european capitals . In source three People of the city bogota , colmbia , hd a free day also in order to get rid of smog . People hiked , took buses , or skated places ."its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution ." Stated businessman carlos arturo . Improvements have also been made to the city . such as new side walks ,less traffic,parks , and sports centers .People are way happier . In source four it talks about how americans are becoming less interested in cars . Sociologists believe that it will have a positive impact on carbon emissions . Limiting car usage is better for the environment and the people who live in it . Its better for people to ride bikes and go walking . I think that if everyone would continue to stop driving then the world would be a better place .People would live longer , less violence and more happiness .
In conclusion , driving cars can cause a big probem in people lives . things would be easier if everyone quit driving all together .More and more people each year dont get their licence or just stop driving period . Thats how things should be . | 2 |
4fc29eb | Have you ever wanted to travel or see new places that normally others wouldn't have the opportunity to go see? Me, being in the Seagoing Cowboys program reccomend you to join for three reasons. By participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program, you will be able to see unique places that some people might not have the opportunity to do so.
And so to start, I get that some people don't want to go out, or maybe they already travel the world - but, I will promise you, it's worth seeing. Some of the unique places include, well, water! Most of the trips you might be taking is going to be focused on water, and by saying that, I just hope that you may be at least a bit intrested in joining at this point. This will prove, that be joining, you will see new and unique places.
Secondly, another reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is because it's loads of fun. Feeding the animals may be a hard task, but it sure frees you form some of the bordom on the boat or ship. Yes, some people don't like animals, and I get that, but it doesn't mean that they won't have even a bit of fun, there's so much more for you to explore if you just look! You can go and kill some time with the animals, and feed them when needed. At night, if you're assigned to the animals, you have to go check on them every hour. It really does seem like alot, but I don't think that anybody would want an animal, or animals, around the ship lurking around, messing up peoples things. This demonstrates that you should join because you're bound to have some fun.
And lastly, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because not many people will get the chance to do all the things that you may be able to do if you just try and give this a chance. People won't, and I respect you. But, with that being said, just stick with me for just a bit, and you'll see why you should join. Some of the things we do you can't do on a normal day. You don't always get to stay up all night to feed and watch animals, and you don't always get to go out into sea for months. This definitly proves that you will be able to try some new things that you normally won't do.
In the seagoing Cowboys program, you'll be able to see new and amazing places, have some fun, and try to do some new things you won't be able to do normally. And with that being said, this shows why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program., it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportnity - take it! | 3 |
4fc4cab | In the article, the author suggests studying Venus is, despite the dangers, a worthy pursuit. The author supports the idea of studying venus more by explaining how beneficial it would be to people for them to know more about another planet.
As said in paragraph eight, the author states that human curiosity will lead to "imagination and innovation". The author has already explained in paragraphs five to seven NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is already creating possible solutions for how to be able to learn more about the planet that involves either machines or people. One example is allowing scientists to float above the planet but still be able to study it from afar so they will have a lower chance of being harmed or injured during the travel. Another solution would involve innovation so machines could last longer on the planet's surface so the machines would be able to contibute to more knowledge of the plant.
It is true that Venus is a worthy pursuit. It is difficult, almost impossible, to reach Venus and gain more information than what is already known. Therefore, to be able to develop a machine that can last much longer than a few hours after landing, or to be able to send scientist to Venus safely without incident or injury, it would be a great accomplishment. | 2 |
4fce0ed | Benifits on Limiting Car usage
Cars are one of mans geat creations but they are great because they are eassy not because they are good. In hevy populated areas cars make up about 50% of the greenhouse gas. and in just europe family cars make up 12% of green house gas. Some cars are efficient more than others but those tend to be more coastly.
First, green house gasses are a big part of the reson for global warming. Green houses also affect th ozone which could help to prevent it. Paris band driving because of how many people drive it started creating a smog and if that gets thick enough it could affect your respitory system. people who drive in countries where it was band they will be fine.
caust is a big part of beeing enviornmentaly friendly. I have a truck and it only gets about 18mpg which isnt that bad but my friends mom has a prius that gets like 40mpg and it can switch over to electricity. Cars with good fuel efficiency generaly are more expencive.
If people who have bikes ride them to say dinner once a week insted of driving they will save an amence amount of money just from not buying gas. Gas was just up to about $4.00 a gallon but now its at an all time low but we dont know when it will go back up. There are a tn of people in this world that are over waight and just walking like one a week could help.
To sum it all up, if every body just hepled out when they can the world can be a better place and maybe people can live longer. | 3 |
4fce83a | The artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I'm am against the cars, because the car doesn't seem driverless if you still someone in the driver seat and at times you also still have to control the car. I feel as if, it was to be driverless no one would need to be included in the driver seat, unless the car is needed to be parked into a store parkinglot and if it was so driverless it still wouldn't need anyone to park the car into a parking lot. I feel as if Google, wanted better votes on the car they should out a little more effort into getting it to become more of a driverless car, without needing anyone to be in the driver seat or worrying about getting into any wreaks.
I would probably agree with the car if they knew who to blame a wreak on. Because, if your not incontrol of the car and just so happens the car starts to get out of control when you tried to turn the heat on but pressed the wrong button by accident. Is it the car owners fault or is it the manufactors fault for having another button by the heat and air conditioner? I feel as if the car would be safer if driverless cars had there a special road built for them, but the cost of that would be a over then a million dollars. i would agree with the driverless cars if thy had a road buildt just for the,m to drive on.
More reasons to why I don't agree with the driverless car is because, the car should be able to navigate it's self through roadwroks and they didn't really give much detail into the car and it not being able to fuction with the road work, baking out of drive ways and accidents. The article didn't explain much about the car it self, does the car take gas or will it be an electrical car.
I feel as if the car was to be electrical it would probably get more votes than what the car is getting now. I feel as if the car should be updated in many ways as in being able to drive no matter the condintion of the road. The article also didn't include if the car could drive through any type of weather. If the car was to slide on ice and crash into a pole whos fault it be the car owners fault or manfactors fault?
Positive things about the artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is that the cars have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Another thing is that in article it tells the reader about without the option of smarter roads, manufactors turned to smarter cars. I feel as both could of happened in a way and I feel that if we have smarter roads , manufactors wouldn't really have to worry about accidents happening or have to worry about the driver int eh car taking over in cause of a tight situation.
I feel the car would be a success because of the sensors the car has, i feel that with sensos on the car manufactors wuldn't have to worry about the car getting into wreaks, and i feel as if the car would be able to drive through raods that are being worked on. Another positive thing about the driverless cars is that they are willing to make new laws for the car. | 3 |
4fd0b9a | Scientist wants that Venus can be explore, but the dangers that has it, don't make them see that it is not to easy to go to Venus.
Scientists are fascinated with how Venus is. The simple thing that it looks similar like our planet make them to try to explore it. And like in the past humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this planet, but each previous mission was unmanned, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. But all this issues is because how Venus is.
Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets. On the planet's sujrface, the temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, this makes Venus the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frecuent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and incluides familiar features sech valleys, mountains, and craters.
Even though scientist are trying to make more efficient technology, there still been problems to land in Venus. And probably it would take a lot of time until that can happen, because Venus has an extremelly tempreature and all that is in Venus is not compatible with how human are have living all this time. | 2 |
4fd22d9 | After Luke Bomberger graduation, he had two jobs he worked ar a grocery store and a bank. so when his friend ask him to go to europe on a cattle boat. in the passage luke said that he could not say no. It also includes that it was an opportuity of a lifetime.
In the passage i said that unrra hired "Seagoing Cowboys'' to take care of horeses, young cows, and mules that were shiped overseas. and Luke and Don sighned up. I think luke sighned up because he was helping out on his aunt farm. So he knew alot about helping with animals.
I think that Luke and Don had a good reason to join that program.
Why i think that because they get to see alot of different things they never seen before. Also in the passage is states that Luke also found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been uploaded. He said being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke. It opened up the world to him. He says " i'm gratefull for the opportunity." | 2 |
4fd64c4 | Facial Action Coding Software, or FACS, is an impressive software. It has the ability to to scan someone's face, and then analyze it to come up with calculatedpercentages of said person's emotion. I believe, however, a computer with this capability has little to no value in a classroom.
First, the article does specifically state "Your home PC cannot handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." Most schools do not have anything stronger than a home PC because they cannot afford it. Next, Dr. Huang predicts "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This prediction could come true, assuming that all classrooms are devoid of any teachers.
The article also states many other jobs this program could do without replacing humans in workplaces. For instance, FACS could be used by news organizations to tell if politicians are lying or not. Another example stated in the article is using this software to select ads on the web that you will like. And finally, in paragraph 9, it says according to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, that smiling may not only express emotions, but create them. The author asks ,"Did making a happy face in this experiment also make you feel slightly happier?" On the other hand, wouldn't seeing another human make the expression cause the emotion to be a little bit more powerful, rather than having a robot tell you to?
In conclusion, because the computers needed to run the facial software are not cost effective, there are other jobs it can do without replacing teachers, and it is better to smile because you see something that makes you smile, I believe a computer software capable of reading human emotion through facial expressions has no place in a classroom. | 4 |
4fda769 | In the article '' Driverless Cars Are Coming '', the author talks mainly about positive outcomes for the new driverless cars. If you ask me I would most definitely disagree about this new semi-autonomous vehicle. They are too expensive, they aren't fully driverless, and they have numerous sensors that aren't guarenteed to keep you 100% safe.
My first reason would have to be how expensive this car would be. If they did manage to make a 100 % driverless car do you believe that it would be given to the public. The car alone would costs somewhere around a million dollars. Not to mention the massive upgrades to the existing roads. As stated in the passage, ''something that was simply too expensive to be practical''.
My second reason is that thay are not fully driverless. Now let me ask you something, would you like a car that you will have to take turns to drive with. Or would yo rather do it on your own . Think about it. And according to the passage,''The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over whn the situation requires''. If I had a driverless car I would put in a set destination so that I can fall asleep and wake up when I've made it where I going.
My last reason kinds of ties up with my second reason. The car is said to be loaded with all sorts of sensors which includes one on the left real wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. With all these sensors you still aren't guarenteed full safety. The car is also said to make a 3-D model of the car's surroundings. And you still need to be ready to take over the wheel in certain situations.
In conclusion, Even though the passage makes the car seem like the coolest thing in the world, they are too expensive, that aren't completely driverless, and they have numerous sensors that doesn't guarenty your safety. | 3 |
4fdc11e | Using technology to know expressions of students in a classroom is wrong because the one experiment which Dr. Huang did was on a painting was different and doing it on students is a different thing because it can really affect them in wrong ways. By knowing their emotional expression means playing with their feelings and that could make an huge impact on a students life and in these past mosern years there has never been an technlogical experiment done on a Human or a Student. So I think that it shoud not be done on students because they are the future and playing with them is not a good thing to do and it an also make an huge impact on them because knowing their expressions means knowing them and what they think and but by doing that the students won't even trust themselves on anything and that could it even hurt the students for their life and would be hard for them to come back. | 2 |
4fe07b6 | To state senator Bill Nelson:
Dear Mr. Nelson,
I would like to address a concern that seems to have the American people questioning their voting decisions. As a responible citizen of the United States of America, upholding your right to vote is an important duty. However, in the case of nationally voting to decide our vital political figures, such as the President and Vice-President, the ballot of the Electoral College is not giving the voters of America a fair result when it comes to the final moments of a presidental election. The reason being that this ballot is so unfair is that the electors for the state of which a citizen is voting in can be easily overturned to a vote for the canidate of which is opposite to what that citizen has elected to vote for.
The year of the 2000 campaign, Bush vs. Gore, for the presidency is an excellent example of how this Electoral College is unfair for voters. As Bradford Plumer has addressed in an excerpt of his writing: "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" from
Mother Jones , he stated that Al Gore did indeed win the popular vote, but however he lost the presidency because of the quirks of the Electoral College. Also stated by Bradford Plumer is that "The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse".
Another example of how the Electoral College is unfair goes back to the 1960 campaign. Again stated by Bradford Plumer, "The segregationists in the Louisiana legislature had nearly come to success in replacing Democratic electors with new electors that would oppose John F. Kennedy." The state of Louisiana had attempted to do so because the popular vote for Kennedy, would not have actually gone to Kennedy; if they had succeeded in replacing those electors. There is also raise for concern in the event of a tie in a campaign. All 50 states would have only one vote and the selection of the House of Representatives would most likely not reflect the will of the American people. Also, the Senate chooses the vice-president.
As an American citizen looking forward to uphold my duty as a responible voter, I ask that we abloish the Electoral College and make the change to deciding among a popular vote. I believe that this change will engage Americans who respectfully choose not to vote to make the choice to vote. It will also give the citizens of America a more fair campaign to vote for when it comes time to vote for a new president. Last but not least, the small percentage of voters who are visiting the ballots for the first time would have a better understanding of how the voting system works. I hope you take this thought into consideration and help make a better voting environment for our citizens of this great country that we call home.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
4fe1732 | In my opinion driverless cars would be a positive thing to take action here in the future. My reasons are more industries are working towards making driverless cars, they can drive, steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when nedded. Driverless cars can also mimic the skill of a human at the wheel, and do things on their own.
More industries are working towards making new driverless cars. The text states, "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." The text also states, "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." The information above states that more companies/industries are looking forward to having driverless cars here soon in the future.
My next reason for driverless cars is that they can drive just like a human with driving skills. The text states, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are desighned to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." The text also states, "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." The informaion above clearly states that the cars can steer, accelerate,and break themselves with human like skills.
My last reason for driverless cars is that they can mimic the skill of a human driver and do things on their own. The text states, "Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more and more driving tasks on their own." The text also states, "Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." The information above is evidence from the text that driverless cars can mimic the skill of a human driver, and do things on their own.
In conclusion, I am for driverless cars because industries are working towards driverless cars. My next reason for driverless cars is because they can drive, steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when nedded. My last reason is because they can mimic the skill of a human driver and do thing on thier own. The reasons above are why I am in favor for driverless cars. | 4 |
4fe1805 | My point on driverless cars, I would not like to see them on the road because they can cause accidents or injuries/death. Also, they can cause serious complications on someone's life if they were injured by the driverless car.
They don't have the quick response like humans do when they drive, plus if they are on the road when its slick and they don't know to be slow when on slick roads they can cause accidents. The question would be if the driverless cars were to get into an accident, whose fault would it be? If the human driver didn't cause it should the company get fault for it and even get sued? Or should the human driver take the blame since they are human and actually driving a car. The company who manufactured the car should take full responsibily with the accident. The driverless cars could malfunction and cause a serious or life-threatening car crash to the human driver on the other side of the rucus. Many people don't want driverless cars on the road so people won't get hurt first off, and secondly they don't want them on the road so they won't mess up and cause harm. Although the driverless cars have humans on standby, they still shouldn't be made because of all the safety hazards it could cause on the other people and the technology that was built into the car, its essentially a waste of money to make a car thats driverless and it gets wrecked beyond repair. With the laws that could be put into place if driverless cars become a thing of the 21st century, they can and will blame the company who made the car for it either malfunctioning or the human in the car not realizing there was iminate danger ahead. They wouldn't blame the person who was on the other side of the wreck because he knew what he was doing, the driverless car wouldn't know what it was doing. If that were to happen driverless cars would be illegal in all states not just in California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia.
In conclusion I think cars that are driverless should not be allowed to be a thing because of all the safety hazards and the complications it could cause. Also, they shouldn't be allowed because they can cause accidents that could be minor or life-threatening. | 3 |
4fe4421 | I am against letting computers drive for us. Computers are smart but they are not humans driving. If a compuer drives for you and you dont have enough time to grab the wheel or arent paying attention, you will end up in a crash. Humans are meant to drive not computers.
Another thing is that these cars that drive on their own need so many different sensors. What would happen if one of them came off?Would you car stop driving? Could it cause you to crash? These questions are very important because people could lose their lives.
The cars drive themselves to a certain extant. They don't drive through accidents or traffic. What is the use of a car that doesnt drive all the time. With the car not driving all the time , there is a greater chance of a wreck.People should just drive themselves it's much more safer that way.
Cars do not have the impulse we have;therefore,they would not know what to do if we were to lose control. They would simply stop controling the car. There are many reasons as to why you would crash or wreck. It just isnt safe.
My conclusion is that people should drive not computers. Computers do not have impulse and could easily malfunction. We are more safe driving ourselves than with a computer. Many things could go wrong with a computer. They could shut down or they could lose control. You just need to think about that. | 3 |
4fe9973 | There is a new era in driving. people from all around the contry are either cutting down on driving or getting rid of there cars all together. I think that cutting back on te usage of driving a car will get people to find new ways of travel and also cut down on green house gas emisions.
There are many reasons to cut down on the driving of cars. one of these reasons is to find new ways of traveling. I'm not the only one who feels this way. there are many up and coming communitys enforcing the same idea but actual doing somthing to enforce it. "70 percent of vauban's families don not own cars and 57 percent of the familys sold there car to move there"(source 1)as you can see i am not the onlyone with these belifs this neighborhood has set up certin rules and restrictions to make sure that people are either finding a place to store there car and walk and find a new means of transportation or they are selling there cars all togehter. Another way people like this are preventing people from driving or buying cars is they make it extremly expensive to park and store your car. like it says in source 1"car ownership is alwoud but there are only two places to park-large garages at the edge of the development where car owners buy a space for 40,000 dollers,along with a home"so as you can see even though they are not making driving imposable but they are making it extremly hard to induldge in that process.
Another reason that i think we should cut down or completly get rid of driving and cas is to cut down on green house gas emisions. in the second scource it says "paris had 147 micrograms of particulate mater or PM. compared to other contries in the world that only have 114 or 79 micrograms PM." (source 2) this goes to show that just one of the smaller cities in a smaller contrie is emitting this much pollution into the air imagine how much the U.S is or china is emitting daily. when paris found out abot this they made sure that no one was driving for the next few days to "clear the air". and when the driving ban lifted there was already an increase in the clenleness of the air after only a few days of not a lot of people driving. And the people who were caught driving were givin a fine for driving. if we want to stop the green house gas emisions we as a contry and even a world need to find ways like what paris did to "clear the air" cars alone make up 12% of the green house gas emisions. now imagine our contry and planet if we were to completly cut out that 12% percent. we can do that as long as we can come up with ways and guide lines and rules to limit the use of cars.
to wrap up,i think as a contry and as a planet we need to come up with new ways and ideas on how to limit the use of cars and the green house gas emisions. and the only way to do that is to give people other options on diffrent ways of travel and to show them the statistics of how bad cars actualy are for the enviroment. | 4 |
4fec4c2 | Have you ever felt shameful of yourself for sitting around all day watching TV and there are people in need of animals and supplies and you can't do anything about it! Well your in luck because now you can join the Seagoing Cowboys! You can now travel over seas and try to save animals in need. Over in europe, people and animals are dying in World War II. But now you can save those people by becoming a Seagoing Cowboy! Now we have a special guest of a Seagoing Cowboy himself please welcome Luke and he will tell you his expirence about being a Seagoing Cowboy. "Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy really changed my life." "It was a great expirence and I will never forget my first mission to New Orleans." We need strong people like you who can make a difference to our country and take care of those animals. Just make sure your not allergic to any animals. You can also have a lot of fun on board the ship and play games and laugh with other Seagoing Cowboys. "It opened up a world to me." Luke says. We need you! To join the Seagoing cowboys! | 2 |
4fed77e | In my opion in how i fell about the Facial action cording system enables in how the computers can help identify how people fell in tell the human emotions is i blive its some how can be real in some how not be real. for eaxample in the storey it shares in tells us how people use it in it worked on them i have also seen it done on most tv shows so that is why i think that this could or may work ought. I also think in blive that it can also be not real a wil for example i have not use it befor or on other peoople .Also it still queston me on how a computer thinks that it could some how read a person emotions. Also using this type of work on students in kids can also be not much of a good thing if you think about because yes some people do get sad in really upset but not everone knows why they are mad or why they fell mad in somtimes people can fell sad with ought eving knowing that they are sad or unhappy. We aslo have people who dont want people to know there sad which is why most people had there sadness with happyness to show that there not sad because they dont want others to know how they reallt fell inside as will .So in my own words to me it could mean a god thing but aso mean a bad thing as will to. | 1 |
4ff021d | I am Luke, a Seagoing Cowboy. There are many amazing things to experience while participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program. The journeys are long, but there are spectacular things wating for you along the way. Views are breathtaking, and you get to handle animals. There are many reasons why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
The animals are great. They wouldn't survive a few days without the care of a Seagoing Cowboy. There are horses, cows, and mules in need of care for floating across the sea. Only a Seagoing Cowboy can keep these adorable animals safe. These animals need you.
"Besides helping people, I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special." (5) You too can see amazing places and experience once in a lifetime things when you're a Seagoing Cowboy. Places are beautiful and you get to see them. It's a once in a lifetime choice.
The journeys are long and hard, but at the end, you have lots of fun. After animals are unloaded, you can play. You can have fun playing baseball and volleyball in empty holds where animals had been housed. If you're bored, you can have table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, whittling, reading, and other games. After hard work, you can have fun.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy is amazing. Not only do you help the world, you have fun along the way. The world needs you. No one could handle animals and get them places safely without you. Become a Seagoing Cowboy and save the world. | 3 |
4ff04b6 | Driverless cars are starting to be created, and eventually they will be allowed on the streets everywhere. With that being said, that means that there will be more dangers that pedestrians and drivers have to worry about. If one thing went wrong with a driverless car it could potentially cause an accident and leave people injured and/or dead. Without having a driver that is specifically paying attention to the road, you never know what might happen. At any point in time the car could malfunction and nobody would be there to maintain control. Cars are meant to have a driver, and without a driver nobody knows what may happen.
These days, cars that have to have a driver still malfunction and sometimes the driver is not even enough to help keep them from causing an accident. Without a driver this risk would be even larger leaving everyone more concerned about getting into an accident. There should always be someone who is watching the road at all times and if things do start going badly then they are able to fix what is going on.
The longer that driverless cars are around the more that they will be available leaving less manual cars out there. This means that cars will become more expensive due to all of the technology that has to go in the cars to make then drive by themselves. More and more people will have to go without a vehicle because they will not be able to find any that can fit into their budget. Driverless vehicles will ruin the chance of some people getting a newer vehicle due to the rising prices.
If driverless cars continue to only be allowed to go up to speeds of 25 miles per hour and cannot drive by themselves through workzones and around accidents then there is really no point in having them. Many places, even around small towns/cities, have a speed limit higher than 25 miles per hour. The car would be no use and the driver would have to drive the car themselves. Even if the car could drive through anything and go any speed, the person in the drivers seat would have to remain alert at all times because you never know when the car could malfunction and potentially cause an accident.
Even though there are many downfalls of driverless cars, there are also many upsides to them. One of these would be the vibration of the drivers seat in the GM when the vehicle could possibly back into an object. Another thing is the cameras that could watch the person in the drivers seat to make sure that they are watching the road. This would help people stay focused and remain focused while they were in the car. Driverless cars would be very nice, especially for people who have to drive really far or who do not like to drive, but they are not as safe as a real driver.
Technology is becoming so advanced that in just a few years driverless cars will be made and seen on the streets. This puts many people in danger and everyone will have to be more carfeul on the road. Some people that are going to own these cars will not put their full attention on the road, and when the car malfunctions or stop then there will be an accident. These cars will cost a lot more money that many people do not have, leaving them without a car. If driverless cars do become the future there needs to be many laws and requirements made about the car and the person who owns the car. | 5 |
4ff6343 | The" Face on Mars ",this was a therory that even scientist couldn't figure out until 2001. The space probs most liikely sent false information that made them belive that it was a face, when in reality it was just a huge rock formation. Also, in the place that this site was located they are to belive that these things are common in this area. It was the shadows of the rock formation that gave off the belief to be a human face in the rock formation.
NASA states that new high resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is : A mesa. Also, it says that another group of people went to Mars and as soon as they could get a photo of it the the minute that they could.When they put it on the website there were already thousands of anxious web surfers waiting ,so when the image appeared they could identify it as a natural landform and there was no alien monument after all.
Even though they came to a conclusion many people still had doubts about it, so they prepared to look again. They said it's not easy to target Cydonia, so Mars Global Surveyor drew
in closer to the surface and luckly enough it wa not an alien monument.These facts state that there were no aliens on Mars because aliens are not real and they most likely will never be. | 2 |
4ff8278 | I am against the development of these cars because those who own one would never know if the the car would stop working and will crash. Also waiting fo the driver to take its part too when driving, Although having a driverless car would be dangerouse to those who own one and the community.
Having a driverless cars would be a good idea but can cause an acciendent. In the text, it states that, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover libability in the case of an accident." If those who owns a driverless car got into a acciendent the new law would have to order to cover the damage. Also by having a diverless car, if the car have stop functioning well, it would cause someone to get injured. An example from the text is, "If tecnology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer." Having that car, those wouldn't know who to blame. Driverless cars can cause problems so it wouldn't be a good idea owning one.
Those who are thinking or has a driverless car can get into problems that they aren' aware of. Those people can cause an accident and can be dangerous to those around them and themselves. | 2 |
4ffba77 | Driverless cars are not a smart idea. The car could have some type of technical difficulty and could stop working correctly and cause an accident. The cars have many items in them to make it work they could cost a lot of money and many people would not be able to afford them. It would be a waste of products to produce them.
If people still have to pay attention to the road and sometimes had to drive the car then there is no point to these cars. It would be like driving a normal car. Most places dont let people do computer testing cars. If cars became totally driverless most places in the world would not allow the cars to be driven there. The cars could have technical issues on the road and cause an accident. If some of the sensors stopped working while driving no one would no until something happens or a pedestrian gets hurt.
Driverless cars are not safe ideas. There are many things that could go wrong while using one. The cost of one could be to much. They would only cause more trouble and accidents on the road. Many places would not allow them. | 2 |
4ffc993 | There are many reasons why limiting your car usage is good. One of the leading advantages is less pollution. Also, it'll bring you closer with your community. It also leads into less traffic jams and no rush-hours.
Pollution is a big problem in many countries, the U.S.A being one of them. By not driving your car and not releasing your fumes into the air helps to bring less pollution. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog.." When you don't drive your car it not only makes you exercise but filters the air you breathe in by not putting deadly toxins in it.
While not driving your car it brings out the magnificence in your town, because you won't just be looking at it through a car window. "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks" Without the use of your car it makes the cities less denser and better for walking. Many cities who have not been using their cars have brought their stores a walk away instead of being on a highway that isn't accessible by walking.
One of the most difficult things about driving is traffic jams, being stuck in one place for a long time and you can't do anything about it.
All in all, without driving our planet and us would be healthier. | 3 |
5006634 | Fellow citizens, cars are starting to become a great issue in todays society. The gases they give off are very harmful to our community. Cars are also making more people overweight. This is because its much easier to drive 2 miles to work rather than walk and get hot and sweaty.
In the article, it provides information about cars hurting our planet. Basically the issues are greenhouse gases. These gases that our vehicles give off are polluting our air to the point where its harmful to live here. Because of this, I feel that we need to limit car use throughout the United States.
In doing this, I honestly feel like we can stop the pollution, or at least slow it down. Eventually there will be technological advancements that will help us solve problems such as this. But until then, we need to come up with a plan to slow down car usage and air pollution.
Our people are also becoming more lazy as the progression of cars continues. What im saying is people would rather ride around in a car over getting outside and walking and enjoying our surroundings. This effects the world more than you think. The more lazy and out of shape people are, the less jobs can be filled because theres not someone in shape enough to handle it.
Overall, our car usage either needs to come to a hault or at least slow down a great amount. All the US has focused on since world war 2 is the advancement of cars. I strongly belive that now is the time to change that and end this pollution problem. | 3 |
5007bb4 | Driverless cars have many good thing going for them, but there need to be a line drawn when it come to the safety of our family and friends. Google's effort's to make a driverless car is very interesting, but we need more time to explore the field before it is available to the public. The article states that their are waiting on the law, manufacturing, and the technology/safety for everyone to create a driverless car. We must wait for all of these thing to be finalized before it is in the hands of the public.
The article states that it is "Waiting on the Law" to make sure there is liabilty in the case there is an accident with this robot-like car. This is going to raise all kinds of problem involving the manufacturer and the driver. The best way to control these types of problems from occuring is to just stopping the idea of driverless cars. Although, we cannot stop the idea of driverless car we can control who gets to use them. I think the the traffic law is just the beginning of new laws involving driverless car. The only thing that is needed is time and time is what they should be getting.
The manufacturating process in driverless car is very new. This comes from the beginning of the article when "Google has had cars that could drive independently under conditions since 2009." Well it is 2016 and there are still laws (specific conditions) that needed to be in place and the manufacturating is can still be updated before it is release to the public. Also there are not yet completely driverless car. The company incharge of driverless car should go the completely mile instead of stop half way. The manufactoring still needs to make the car safe for people to driver in. The new sensors for the car were able to become more advance in a decade. The sensors could be more advance if we wait and the laws for the car will be ready by then.
The most part of not have driverless car and waiting is to increase our safety. We need more time for the technology to beccome advance. Our safety is more important and robot car can be flawed. There should not be any problems with the car when it is released to the public. A robot-like car needs more time to be reviewed by the government and other assoications. Safety for our family and friends is more important.
The idea of driverless car is interesting, but there are still some unanswerable questions that needed to be answered before there are in the publics hands. The time for the driverless car is in the future, but the only stopping them from being released is the laws. | 3 |
5015b67 | I don't think it is necessary to have a Facial Action Coding System. People can tell from other people. Some students might be uncomfortable showing emotions.
Facial Action Coding System is not that important. I think that it is just getting in the way, and it's a waste of money. Students don't need to know other students emotions.Some students can feel really shy and uncomfortable to let everone know. I would be uncomfortable also, if I had to go through the Facial Action System I would have so many emotions.
It's really easy to tell what kind of emotion they have. Some examples are when your frontalis pars lateralis muscle raises your eyebrows when you're surprised. Another example is when your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger. Those examles are proving my piont, you can tell what there emotions are.
You don't need Facial Action Coding System to tell you what emotions you are feeling. Anyone can tell what your emotions are. It's a waste of money. It might be uncomfortable for some students. | 2 |
5018d4f | Did aliens create the faces on mars?No,because Nasa went circling the planet and discovered faces on mars,these faces are now pop up icons,and Michael and his team snapped ten pictures at once ,there were no aliens involved.
First,Nasa spacecraft went around circling the planet for his sister ship,when they spotted human like faces.They knew it was a face because two miles from the end to end it appears that the face was staring back at them.After that happened they revealed this amazing discovery to the world to see.
Next,these faces on mars surface are now known to be seen as pop up icons.These faces are featured in Hollywood films,books,magazines,etc.Since these faces became popular most people think that this is evidence that there is human life on mars.The human faces are so out there they are saying that these faces were seen in haunted grocery stores for 25 years!
Finally,when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first,Michael
and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking 1.When they did this thousands of people were waiting for the pictures to come out on a website called JPL revealing a natural landfrorm.Some were not satisfied because they said it was wispy clouds that the camera had to peer through.So,basically what they are saying is how did that camera captured such great pictures of the faces through all the clouds.
In Conclusion,what im saying in my statement is that this a natural landform aliens didnt create these faces.If aliens created these human faces they might have not looked so human realistic for instants ,they might have had some type of alien feature on them.Also,if these human faces were made by aliens the world woulnt have been that interested in them. | 3 |
502014f | The face on mars is a natural landformation. People beleive it was made by aliens but it was not mars like earth has mesa's and they are huge rock formations like mountain and it was proven thanks to newer images with higher resolution.
It was first discovered by a ship called viking 1 who was taking pictures of mars to see where it's sister ship viking 2 could land and it captured The Huge Face but due to low resolution they could not make it all the way out and they believed that it was a sculpture of a egyptian pharo.
But in the last paragraph it says "What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common to earth around the american midwest". Which may be because The Red Planet once had water and caused the rocks to decay in a wierd way making The Huge Face. | 2 |
5020b8d | Imagine it's 1976 and Nasa reveals an interesting photo looking down upon Martian landscape. The photo catches your eye as it contains what apears to be a giaint face made of rock coming out of the sand. Nasa states that the "face" is a huge rock formation that resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. But you also hear other people saying that the face is an ancient alien artifact! What do you believe? Pop culture quickly jumps on the idea of aliens because that view point is exciting. Meanwhile NASA is a government backed and very credible source. I say that the educated person would listeto NASA. I believe that the "face on Mars" is just another natural landform becasue the face looks just like a butte or mesa does on Earth, NASA's powerful cameras haven't captured anything alien looking on near the face, and becasue the majority of NASA and other creidble scientists don't believe that the face is alien.
According to the article Martian mesas are common around Cydonia, the area where the famous picture of the face was taken. There is nothinig unusal or different about this specific mesa exept the shadows on top of it. These shadows give the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. Mesas and buttes are landforms that are also very common on Earth around the American West. The Middle Butte in Idaho is a an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. I'm sure if pyramids started being discovered on the surface of mars thats one thing, but just a single mesa that looks a bit like a face is no reason to immediatly blame aliens.
Another reason why the face is just a natural landform is because we have seen proof that is nothing but a landform.. On April 8, 2001 which was a cloudless day in Cydonia, another picture of the face was taken with a very powerful camera that used its maximum resolution for the picture. When you look at this picture it is almost hard to immgine a face even being there! The illusion of a nose, eyes, and a mouth is gone. All that remains in this picture are some cracks and rough edges on the rock structure. To many seeing is believing and this picture has allowed many to see the truth that the "face on mars" is nothing but a myth.
Some suporters of the idea that the structure was created by aliens argue that NASA is hiding more evidence and mabey even distorting images that point to the face being built by aliens. This is wrong because alien civilizations would increase NASA's funds and popularity. Also it would be almost immpossible to keep an alien secret from the public with so many immployees knowing. These examples show why the "face on mars" is just another natural land formation. | 5 |
5024f22 | Limiting car usage can be helpful as we try to reduce our negative impact on this great big miracle of a planet. Reducing or even eliminating the use of cars would greatly drop the amount of damage done to the ozone. Even then, some people living without cars found their life to be less stressful. Aside from these two simple solutions, a life without cars can save so much more.
First off, without cars the pollution that's depleting our ozone would be nearly gone. The gas emissions from tailpipes account for 12% of greenhouse gas emitions, and in some places even 50%! Life this advanced on a single planet in this great big universe is such a miracle. We need to protect our planet from greenhouse gasses if we wish to continue to exist on this planet.
Secondly, not only do cars cause a great deal of life threatening polution, but some people living without their cars found their life to be less stressful. Owning a car is not only expensive due to maintainance but because of these fluctuating gas prices! If you were to sell your car now and either walk, bike, or ride the city bus to work or school you would save thousands. While keeping city busses would still cause some pollution it's not as great the amount of pollution as millions of cars. Also, walking would help keep the world in shape since it is a great way of exersize.
In conclusion, getting rid of cars would be the best thing we can do for the planet. Not even getting rid of them but at least reducing the risk of them. It would keep the world in shape, and keep your money in your wallet. All of this while reducing the harm we are doing on our miraculous planet. | 3 |
502e0b9 | Detecting Emotions
New software has been developed that improves accuracy in percieving the emotions of others. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom could be valuable, or it could be a waste of time, depending on how you look at it.
Technology has been upgraded throughout recent decades, and most recently, technology has taken a different approach. The software is the latest innovation from Prof. Thomas Huang, in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe. Dr. Huang and his colleagues are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate, but is this really a better way to communicate? It comes down to the facts. The computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. Everyone has different ways of expressing emotions, and not everyone feels the same emotions. Thinking that a computer could possibly detect your emotions is a bit silly, to some, and valuable to others. So what makes it silly to some? You can probably tell how a friend is feeling by the look on their face, you can talk with them in person. Having physical contact is very important when it comes to emotions, using a computer to detect, sounds a bit far-fetched. Schools have teachers, and school counselors, so that students can talk express how they feel. Some people don't see why this feature could possibly be useful in a classroom.
There are many issues going on in the world, much worse than trying to figure our expressions. So, why aren't we using this tchnology, and these smart people to work on something more important? Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad, what would you need it for? Human communication is very important, using a computer to detect how you feel is simply a waste of time, in some opinions. Making faces can reveal so much about the science of emotion. On the other hand, what could the Facial Action Coding System be useful for in classrooms? Students may be able to use this feature in physiciatry studies. Students may also use this feature in art classes to really capture what the artist was depicting in the work. For instance, this new software was able to create percentages of Mona Lisa's emotions. The latest innovation in computer software may be very useful for art classes, knowing how a person may be feeling in a painting may help students to depict the artists work, a bit better. As humans, we can tell how someone may be feeling by the look on their face, or the look in their eyes. Most of us would have trouble trying to describe what facial expressions convey being happy, besides a smile. The computer can make exact percentages on each emotion you may be feeling. However, a computer cannot feel, cannot have sympathy, and cannot understand many things about humans. Reaching the final conclusion is up to you. Is a computer being able to identify your emotions useful in classrooms, or not? | 3 |
503066f | Imagine being able to detect how other people are feeling. even when they are trying to hide their emotion. New software has been developedthat improves accuracyi in perceving the emotions of others. This new sofeware, the facial action coding system, has promising applications for a variety of industries.
I think this technology is cool but i also feel like its a waste of money and time and i feel like its not important. I also think that using this machine on students is wrong. They need to give the students their own privacy. This machine doesnt really serve a purpose other than reacing facial expressions and emothions, you canj do that without the use of the machine thats why i think its pointless. i feel as though this is more of a game or toy then a useful technology.
As you can see, i do not favor the technology and i dont its vailid or useful at all for many different reasons. | 2 |
50306db | i think we should use the facial action because you can go anywhere and see how pepole are today to see if they are mad or angery sad and etc. The facial action coding system should be use in class room so we can see how student are feeling and to see if they are having a good day or a bad day so we can use the facial action coding system to see there facial expersion to every student in class in a way did making a happy face make you slightly happy in the artical it tells us by making a happy face your muscles not only expresses emtions but they will also may even help produce them. Yes we should use the facial action coding system in schools or anywhere in stores,work,airports so we can see how peoples facial expresions are and so we can see if can help them or talk to them so they can have a smile on there faces | 2 |
50354e8 | Mr:Senator I am in favor of keeping the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I think our country deserve the right to elect our president the person thats going to make the laws and better things for us. Some of the people yet can't vote but they watch the interviews the campains you make. What you are preparing for us for the future for our childrens parents and animals. For every single thing and we judge you the way we think is supposed to be we want our country to be better to be the best . We dont want some people we dont even know how they think to select something for us .Alright maybe sometimes we make wrong elections but we all humans and if we make the wrong decition later we can't judge you because we elect our president our ''saver''. Electoral collage is not a bad option but Im in favor of voting by popular vote for the president of the United State . Voting is a privilage we have it let us use it . Let us pick and make our mistake . Try to tell us by the campians congresist let us know you. The way you think so we can be sure in what hands our putting our futures our sons and daughters future. The electoral collage constists in 538 electors. A majoritiy of 270 electoral votes is requiered to elect the President. The presidential election is held every four years on Tusday after Monday in Novemeber. New year isn't a new life . The elections is new taxes , new laws, new benefits. Thats a new life .When you vote for a president you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. Democrats and Repunblicans they all had have ups and downs . But they still make their elections. Being in favor of election by popular vote give us the people the right to decide . The right to choose something good our bad the right to know what we need and want from the new President. If we choose by popular vote is that more people want somebody because that somebody offers something better. Because everyone or allmost everyone is confident about that man. About what his offering us . Elecitng our president by popular vote ill be a great idea . You will make the people happy. And you are giving us the place as citizens of the United States that we deserved. These is the greates country, this is the best country in the hall world everyone want to come here because of the equal rights you give us. Because the liberty of expretion. Thats a previlage . Aren't we allow to use it to the the maximun . This is a free country and we had to fight hard for that our ansesters. Electing our President of the Unirted States by popular vote is the best they could do . Im in favor of it and that's my opinion. | 2 |
503ef87 | We use cars almost everyday in our lives. A lot of people really can't go a day without using thier car. Transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions. It's a necessity. But,wouldnt it be better to stop using our cars,start walking,start running,go on a bicycle etc? Yes it actually would,because according to source 3"Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota" not using our cars is "a good opporunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."
Now if you live in Paris using your car is not the best idea. Paris has banned driving due to smog. Smog can be very fatal if you inhale it almost every day. Source 2 says that "motorists with even numbered license plates were ordered to leave thier cars at home or suffer a 22 euro fine($31)". Who would really want to pay that fine just because you were using your car? Nobody. So leave your car at home.
In the United States studies have shown that Americans are buying fewer cars,driving less and getting fewer licenses. Reseraches think that the cause of this is because Americans have decided to stop driving. Maybe the people in the U.S also think that it is a good idea to stop using our cars. There should be a day like that,where we stop using our cars even just for a while to see how things go. No one wants to suffer from a stroke due to air pollution,no one wants to inhale smog every day and for sure nobody wants to be charged with $31. Source 4 states that"the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995". According to an ananlysis by Doug Short Of Advisor Perspectives this is partially because Americans could not afford new cars. Cars are really expensive and spending all that money on it is not worth it. Plus the insurance bill you have to pay every month and the oil changes and then the gas. It is way to much. If we stopped using our cars it would be very much beneficial for carbon emissions and the enviorment. Teens and young adults don't even bother to get a drivers license. They want to live thier lives where they can walk,take a bus,taxi or car pool with friends. Source 4 says"A study last year founf that driving by young people decreased 23% between 2001 ans 2009". At one point people were so anxious to drive and be on the road. Not so much anymore though.
So next time you are about to drive your car think about all the money you could be saving and how your health could be so much better if thier wasn't polution in the air. It's the best for all of us to stop relying on cars because one day they won't be here for us anymore. One day things will have to change. | 3 |
5041370 | In my opinion, driverless cars are a big mistake. People will become careless while "driving", there will be more accidents due to computer malfunctions, and these cars will cost a lot more money in the long run. There is no real responsibility or accountability on the drivers part if there were to be an accident. I believe that these cars should not be sold to the public until more research and tests are done on the subject.
Driverless cars will cause people to become more careless and less attentive when they are in the car. They will not be focused on the road just in case their is a malfuntion or problem with the systems that control the car. These cars will make people think that they should not be held accountable if they are in an accident, however, this is not the case. The owner of the driverless car should be held accountable in an accident simply because there is no person in control of the vehicle. There are no real positive effects to the driverless car.
Due to the driverless cars having more computers and systems than normal cars, there will be many more accidents due to computer malfunctions. This is unavoidable. Because of the computers being in control of the car, the person "driving" the driverless car in an accident will most likely be held responsible. Due to this, and many other reasons, the driverless car is more of a hassle than it is truely worth.
The driverless car will not only make careless drivers and cause more accidents, it will also be very costly for the owner. The car will most likely cost a large sum of money to buy initially. Then the owner will have to pay for extra upkeep on the car compared to a normal car. If the owner were ever to get in an accident due to a computer malfuntion, the perso will have to take the blame for the accident, as well as pay for their own medical help. All in all the driverless car does not seem like a very wise purchase.
In my opinion driverless cars are not only costly, they also create careless drivers, and will most likely cause more accidents. There is no real positive effect to these cars. I do not belive that they should be legalized or sold to the public until there are more studdies and work done on them. | 4 |
5047f10 | Why author suggests that studing Venus a worthy.I think author wanted to say, If people could not live Earth anymore, We could live Venus. Because referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the clotest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the clotest in destance too. But Venus's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees, it is 90 times greater than what we experience on the Earth. I don't think we could live there.But NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus, not easy comditions, but survivale for humans.
Author saids strining to meet challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becaus human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet te vary edges of imagination and innovation.
So this article was author explain Venus's good points and bad points.
If we need move another planet, In my opinion Venus is better than any planet. Venus is close and similar to Earth. | 2 |
504953b | The Face is a natural Martian mesa, like many others. People have wondered if aliens have built it before, but they had no proof. NASA has already proven with evidence it is just a natural land formation.
First, NASA decided to release the pictures of the Face for the public to see, but they only did this to get more people intrested in Mars! To prove that the Face was just a land formation naturaly made, NASA decided to show better quality photos to the public. So they sent out pictures that were ten times sharper to show it was a ROCK formation. Also if there was life on Mars NASA would benifit from it, so i dont see why they would lie.
Next, Mars is a planet with many unknown discoverys but the ones that NASA do figure out the more information we gain for the future. For example in the text it says that Mars has many Martian mesas, so it could be a coinicidence that ONE looks like a face. This doesn't prove there isn't life on Mars but for the information we have at the moment it is doubtful.
Lastly, There are many people in the would who make this stuff up, so why would believe THEIR opinion over NASA who research on space. Don't forget that the only reason they got the information of the Face was because NASA unvieled it. If they had something they didn't want us to know about they would have kept it to themselves.
The Face is just a rock formation. Others might say something like it looks like a human face, or why would it look like a face if the life on Mars hadn't built it. The reason it looks like a face is because the mesa formed that way. It couldn't even have been built by life on Mars because it's over 2 miles wide, so it has to be a land formation. | 4 |
504d063 | Being a seacowboy is amazing! I have been on nine trips and, it is the experience of a lifetime! We go around the world in ships taking care of the animals that are being shiped to other countries.
You will be given all the things you need, you just have to feed the animals and give them water, also sometimes clean the pens. The administaration you will be working for is the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration but, we usualy call it the UNRRA for short.
At this point you might be thinking why should I even join, it sounds like you do not have any fun? You do not just work all of the time you get to go sight seeing too. I saw things like the Acropolis in Greece, and took a gondala ride in Venice Italy where the streets are made of water! I toured an excavated castle and the Panama Canal also!
After the animals are off the ship and you are returning you get to have fun then too! We did things like baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been kept. We also had table tennis tournaments! Sometimes we did fencing, boxing, and other games to pass the time. If you want to just relax we did things like reading and whittling.
I joined the sea cowboys and I loved it. I think you will too! This opportunity will not come again! So join now. | 3 |
505023c | While driving, a person must put all of his focus on the road. If his focus is not on the road he will most likely get hurt or hurt others. Driverless cars may help keep the people safe and aware of their surrondings but, they encourage people to not pay atention to the road. The driverless cars could put people in danger, could make people careless, and could cause chaos to the laws of the road.
The driverless cars could put people in danger. The writter states, ¨They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves¨ . They are computors that do everything for us. What if they are all programed by the government? What if they are controlling you and you dont even know it? There are situations that are dangerous. Some that computor in a car could not identify it as well as a human could.
If a person is not paying attention to the car, they would put not only themselves into danger but also the people around them.
The driverless cars could make people careless. Many people trust technology too much. GM is even installing the following,
¨driver´s seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object¨.When people rely on technology they tend to not care what happens becuase it was not thier fault. What if a person always relied on those seats to tell them if they were close to an object and one time the techonology failed them. Driverless cars would encourage people to be more careless. People think ¨The car is all under control¨ so they dont pay any attention. Driverless cars will make people feel too secure and they will be careless with their actions.
Driverless cars could cause chaos with the laws of the roads. If people decide to buy a driverless car, they would have to learn the new laws of the road. The writter states, ¨new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accicent¨. There would be choas because some people may still have the driver in the car. There would be so many people following different rules and they all are trying to go their destination. The BMVs will be busy that is for sure. Driverless cars could cause chaos with the laws of the road.
To conclude, businesses like GM and Google realize that they are making money from this idea. But what they dont realize is that driverless cars could put people in danger, could make people more carless than they already are, and could cause chaos with the laws of the road. | 4 |
5051480 | Google confounder Sergey Brin believes that driverless cars could be fundamentally change in the world.
Google has had cars that help a driver since 2009 but still doesn't drive by its self. There shouldn't be cars driving theirselfs around. There would be an accident or a techonolgy problem that could cost someones live. Google wouldn't take the responsibility for that it would try to protect themself.
First, In paragraph 4 it said, "The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel.". Don't think a lot of people would feel safe, do you? Probably there would be many people against it because who would feel safe knowing a machine drives by it's self .
Then, in paragraph 5 it said, "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone.". How can they be sure there wouldn't be techology problems when the car is driving by itself? would well take responsibility for someone that's been in an accident? People will be having many questions about this driverless car. How can people know they will be safe.
Next, in paragraph 7 it said, "...BMW announced the develpment of "Traffic Jam Assistant"... non of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skill...GM has developed driver's seats the vibrate when vehicle is in danger of backing into an object..." Having a assistant is fine but what if the driver can't avoid something on time or when its backing out accidently hit someone else. Who's fault would it be the car or the driver?
In conclusion people should be against the driverless cars. We will never know when a techologyical problem can happen and we may not be ready. People should consider not making any driverless cars, there's already too many accidents with humans driving. | 3 |
5056d44 | In the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming," the author gives both positive and negative aspects of driveless cars. I feel though that having a driveless car will be more positive than negative. I feel the development of driveless cars can benefit humanity very well. The development should continue so that it can bring on a new form of public transportation.
In the article it says "They (driveless cars) can steer, accelerate and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills," this makes driveless cars very safe to drive. not only will it get the passenger where they need to go but will alert them if their skills are needed. This makes for a safer but also more relxing drive to the destination.
Its also states in the article that driveless cars have "Four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor" and a dubbed LIDAR which helps update the car of its surroundings. So driveless cars provide even more safety to passengers by knowing its surroundings places the passenger of the car probably wouldnt be aware of is he/she was driving.
So i believe driveles cars are the future of cars because of these reasons. Driveless cars provide safety and a relaxing trip to its passengers regular cars just can't. They should be continously developed for better safety and more human like driving skills. Driveless cars are a great form of automotive transportation with safety that cant be matched. | 3 |
5057e4f | The future is a very strange place.This article talks about having driverless cars in the future.Also, this artilce reads about the advantages and disadvantages of these "driverless' cars.for instance these cars shall save you from buy a new car when your old one breaks down.
A driverless car seems like something nice to have, which it is. Having a driverless car can bring lots of easieness into your life. These smartcars can detect when theses dangers ahead. In these cars there are sensors that have become way more advanced over the years, these sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on the wheels to reduce power.Its allowing the human a better resonse and more control than a human could manange. They may be "driverless" cars, but there still needs to be a human inside to stay alert so they can be ready to take control when a problem occurs. Also, if the driver is not paying attetion the car will immidately notify the driver,The seats will vibrate if theres danger ahead. Athough there are laws saying that a human driver must be engaged at all times. In most states, it is illgeal to test computer driven cars. | 2 |
505f901 | One big thing i want to happen is that the electoral college for voting should be changed for popular vote for the prsident because i think that if you change it voting would go a lot easier than it do now. Why? because the electoral college is a more complicated voting matter that people often do and get their votes mixed up and it takes more effort and time just to vote rather than a easy popular vote that people can measure off a chart or graph to see with person should get elected.
Another thing about the voting process i think i shoul'd talk about is some of the possible problems you can come across after this change in the voting process. there's one thing thats possible of happening is that a lot of people might nor agree with changing the voting process because they dont want to learn a new one because they are so used to the one they already doing. Another one is that poeple might think things would go more worse if someone mad a change because of they way the votes are coming in and if you voting on a behalf of a friend and send the vote to the wrong person and the other person lost by 1 vote when you didn't mean to send that, they should have a computer system that you use that makes sure you really want to vote on that person.
It is another major thing about voting that needs to be discuss. when all these thousands of people vote they votes should actually count not just have people vote and then the only votes that count is the people in some court room that have more business people come in to vote and only there's count. But i think people waist a lot of their time with the electoral college because of how it works and the way peopple send their votes and who the votes actually going to.
The winner of the election is the most important one because he is the main focu now because his votes were more popular of just alot more than the other person, but thats what i want to talk about. even though the winner won he still have to pay attention to the other candidates but they should have a system that protects the winner files and have people haves a good watch on the people who is elected to see what their background life is like their history and what they do everyday to make sure that person isn't trying no horrible plan for something. | 2 |
5060536 | To limit car usage, can bring some positive impacts to our world. Many countries such as Germany or France are adopting this act to better their community. Some benefits are the reduction of traffic, a smaller chance of car crashes and injuries, reduction of polution and appreciating whats around you already instead of being couped up in a car. People now are replacing driving with riding bikes, hiking or walking to where they want to get to or just car pooling with a friend.
In Germany, Heidrun Walter (media trainer and mother of two) says "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." She walks the verdant streets where you can here the passing of bicycles and chatter of the children hanging around and roaming the streets. To ensure that there is a reduction in car usage in the Vauban streets of Germany, drivways and home garages are considered forbidden. If you wish to own a car you'd need to by a large garage and the edge of the development where you buy a space for $40,000, along with a home.
In Paris, France, they enforced a partial driving ban to cleanse the air of the city. Motorist with an even numbered licenced plate were told to laeve their cars at home or they'd have to pay a $31 fine, also with even numbered plates. After this was done, the congestion went down 60 percent, after 5 days of smog in the air. The reasons why France did this was because they blamed the amount of gasoline coming from the cars. The smog got out of control so they decided to limit car usage.
In America, the reduction of car usage is also going down. People are depending more on biking, or walking to their designation or catching a ride with a friend. New york has a new bike sharing program along with bridge and tunnel tolls which refelct those new priorities. In source 4, the author and another citizen have similar traits with their children and cars. Mr. Sivak's son owns a car but prefers to take the Bay Area Rapid Transit. The authors chidlren didnt bother getting a drivers license even though they live in places where they should have one. They dont think having a car is a necesity. They'd rather stick with their jobs, take public transportaions and just walk or car pool to where ever they please to have their social life. Limiting car usage has many more beneficial ways to communities, and it is being adopted in numerous places. | 3 |
5061c20 | The author in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports his idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers in a good manner. The author gives serveral valid reasons as to why is should be explored and gives a logical explanation or solution as to the reasons why it shouldn't be. Everyday we're facing problems here on Earth and the idea of another planet that humans could possibly live on if things got too bad on Earth is amazing which could be possible in Venus is explored.
The given fact that Venus was "Often referred as Earth's twin" already gives hope that it could hold human life as we hold human life here on Earth now. Given, that wouldnt be possible without exploring it. Long ago, Venus held various forms of life and terrains such as some of the ones on Earth. Even today Venus still has some features similar to the ones on Earth. If safely explored it could possibly return back to that state and eventually become our prime place of shelter if tragedy strikes on Earth.
NASA is already working on safe approaches to study and explore Venus while working around its dangerous features. Stated is the article, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray" Although that isn't necessarily studying it up close its a start and will give researchers more data to possibly make it safe to study in the future.
The author not only greatly supports his idea by giving facts and information about exploring venus but also includes that fact that an organization as big as NASA is already looking into the idea of exploring Venus. If exploring Venus wasnt a good idea NASA would be spending time or effort on it. The author goes as far into giving the solutions and idea researchers have come up with so far to face Venus's hostile conditions. Not only will exploring Venus benefit us humans in the long run by providing us with more information about the plant but as stated in the article, "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." | 3 |
50677b9 | There are many reasons why you should particiate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. It is one-hundred percent, a once in a lifetime experience and opportunity. It is much, much more than just an adventure. It is a way to open up the world to yourself and others. I just couldn't say no, and you won't say no either! These are just a few of reasons why more people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
It is an opportunity/experience of a lifetime! There are many great adventures and ways to have fun. We got to take an amazing tour of a excavated castle in Crete. We also got to see China and Europe. Also, getting to see the Acropolis in Greece was very special. We also got to take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. The streets in Venice, Italy are completly water!
We also have a lot of fun on the return trips, after all the animals are dropped off. We have competitions and play many games. We play games such as, baseball and volleyball in the empty animal holds. We also have many competitions such as, table-tennis tournaments, fencing, reading, whittling and much more! We have so much fun once the animals are dropped off!
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was the most amazing experience ever. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. It opened up the world up to me! I'm grateful for the opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. This was truly a great experience. The awareness I had then, is still with me to this day. I am still aware of people of other countries and their needs. | 3 |
5069938 | First off i would like to tell you what a electoral college is. It is a process when a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The founding fathers established it in the constitution.
The process consist of the selection of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The elctoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president.
Each canidate running for president in tour state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are chosen by the canidatespolitical party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are.
The presidential electon is held every four years on a tuesday after the first monday in november. We help choose our states electors when we vote for the president because wahen we vote for our canidates we are voting for our canidates electors.
We have to save the electoral college because we have to have 270 electoral votes to have a president. If we got ride of it there would be no president or we would have to come up with an idea related to the electoral college. Thats why we should keep the elctoral college. | 1 |
5071ba9 | Becoming a seagoing cowboy means that you would take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that are being shipped overseas to other countries that need to recover their animals from World War II. It may sound like a lot of work but is can be very rewarding. On my many trips as a seagoing cowboy, I was able to spend a lot of my time with friends and was able to do some sightseeing in other countries. I was also able to learn a lot about animals just from taking care of them. I hope that you choose to become a seagoing cowboy.
One reason for becoming a seagoing cowboy would be that you would learn a lot about animals. I was able to learn a lot of body language from the animals. I now know when an animal is nervous or angry. I can tell when a horse is calm and happy. Knowing animal body language may help you not get a broken bone from being kicked by an angry horse or cow. You will also learn how to take care of the animals. I already knew how to take care of some of the animals from working on my aunt's farm, but I learned how to care for animals a lot faster from doing it hundreds of times everyday.
Another reason that was fun about becoming a seagoing cowboy was that I was able to spend a lot of time with my friends on the trip back to America. All of my friends and I loved playing sports, like volleyball and table-tennis, in the empty holds where we kept the animals. We also shared stories and games that some of us had never even heard of. I learned many fun stories and games that I now pass on to others today.
My last reason to convince you to become a seagoing cowboy would be the sightseeing. While we were in another country, we had some time to go sightseeing. I was able to tour an excavated castle in Crete. I took a gondala ride in Italy and saw the Panama Canal. I also learned a lot about culture. I learned how bad things can be in other countries after wars. It made me more aware of the people and their needs in other countries.
I loved the opportunity to become a seagoing cowboy, even if it was for a short period of time. I was able to learn animal body language and more about how to take care of the animals. I was able to see many great things like the castle in Crete and the Panama Canal. I also learned about culture in many other countries and some of the hardships of living there. The trips made me more aware of the hardships every person in other countries face every, single day of their lives. I hope that all of these reasons convinced you to become a seagoing cowboy. | 4 |
507d9d0 | Venus is a mystery planet but is also very similar to earth. Why havent we explored it yet? Venus should be explored because it is fairly close to us sometimes in the year. Venus also shares a lot of characteristics with earth. If humans were able to explore Venus then we would possibly be able to make a new planet livable to humans and also give us much more knowledge about space and planets.
Sometimes Venus is closer to Earth than Mars. In paragragh 2 it states that,
"Earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too." We are starting to learn about mars and if Venus is close to earth when mars is far then we should have no excuse not to explore Venus.
Since Venus is so close to Earth then we could possibly make a new livable planet and also have a whole new line of information for scientists to study and explore with. | 2 |
5080e44 | After reading the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", I think that this use of technology could indeed be very useful and valuable.I'm sure not everyone would like a computer screen detecting their emotions,but I'm also sure that not everyone knows how helpful they could really be. With that being said,continue reading my claim on why I think this new technology could be very valueable.
In this article, the author describes the computer model and our muscle movements. It taught me how much of a help our muscle movements truly are.At first, I wasn't exactly sure that the Facial Action Coding System would be a good idea,but as I kept reading I definitely changed my mind. In a classroom, not every student is going to like the idea of a computer detecting their emotions,but it could truly be a big help and be a good impact on the students. As the article states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,then it could modify the lesson,like an effective human instructor." That makes a job for a teacher so much easier. Technology is becoming a huge part in our lives,might as well make it more effective.Not only does it help a teacher,but it also assists the students with better lessons.Think about it, if you're doing a reading lesson and you just hate the passage you're reading, the computer could detect the drowsiness that you'll probably have on your face and could improve it by giving you a new passage to read. This makes students more active during school,which means students will be getting better grades. It's a win-win for everyone. Also, the Facial Action Coding System could even make you happy. The article states a drama coach tried this with her actors, and "putting on a happy face" would actually work. It also helped with creating emotion on stage.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System, is valuable in many ways for students.It's helpful in not only their lessons throughout the day, but their overall grades. It also helps out teachers too! So after reading "Making Mona Lisa Smile", it really brightened my mind about having a program such as FACS to our school cooperation. | 3 |
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