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5531c2d | I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because it a really good program. You will see lots of different things that you probabaly have never seen before. Wouldn't that be cool? I was one and it was a lot of fun. You get to meet new people and see new things.
Some things that are a downside are when you are on the ship and a storm comes you have to make sure everything is latched shut and close everything. You also have to make sure that no one or nothing gets thrown overboard. It almost happened to me once, I was a watchman on my second trip. My job was to check on all of the animals every hour. Well, one night I was doing just that and I slid down a slippery ladder. I thought that I was going to go overboard, my heart was racing as I shot feet first toward a big opening in the side of the ship. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't obviously cause I'm still here talking to you. Well, a small metal strip stopped my slide, keeping me from going overboard. It was the best moment of my life when that metal strip saved me.
Now that that is over with I am goign to tell you some amazing places you might be able to go. These trips where amazing for a small town boy like me. I would have so much fun in the places that we would go. Most people thought that it was just work, work, work, but in all of reality it was some work and some play. Once I went to the Panamal Canal on my way to China. that was really fun. Another time I went to Greece. I turned 18 before arriving in Greece and that meant that I could be drafted fo rmilitary service. I wanted to, but when the draft board found out I was on a cattle-boat trip, thet told me to keep doing that for my service.
Sometimes we wouldn't have anything to do on the return trips so we would play games like baseball and vollyball in the empty holds where the animals were housed. We would play fencing and boxing, sometimes even table-tennis and whittling.
Also we would read. These games where used to pass time because we had a lot of it.
In conclusion, I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. There might be some scary moments, but there are definetly some fun ones too. It is a really good program to just start a military career. You might even go on as many trips as me and if you do I will pray for you cause it is a lot of work. | 5 |
55459d7 | The author supports and suggests the exploration and study of venus in several ways, despite the dangers and complications.
First, they give very well described detail on venus. like how its name is misleading, and other interesting details about the so called planet to make the reader more interested on what they are reading.
Next, They explain what the so called planet holds. Like 97% of carbon dioxide according to the text, as well as how it can relate to earth in a few ways as well as differ from it.
they then question why the so called planet hasnt be well discovered, and give more on the so called planet's surface.
Finally, The author gives information from NASA like how they are working on ways to study it despite the challenges. The text also states that the harsh conditions are not the easiest but are survivable.
In all, the author has a set goal in mind and strongly belives we can explore the so called planet through trial and era, as well as motovation and willpower. | 2 |
5547307 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author introduced a new technology. It is called the Facial Action Coding System. It enables computers to identify human emotions. Those emotions can be portrayed on a human or on a painting scuh as, The Mona Lisa. This new technology, Facial Action Coding System, is valuable. It is valuable because it can figure out exactly what someone was feeling and it could help schools.
Now, figuring out exactly what someone was or is feeling may not be so important to you. It could be very important though. For example, in the passage "Making Mona Lisa Smile", paragraph 1, the author tells us exactly how Mona Lisa was feeling. She was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. For the moste part she was happy right? But what about the 17% of her feelings that were filled with disgust, fear, and anger. Whatwas causing those feelings. Think about it. If we can figure out exact emotions of people from the past, we could dig in and find out a lot more about our world's history. Those 17% of emotions could be nothing at all, but what if it was a major. What if it was something we didn't know about her.
This new technology could also help out schools. In aragraph 6, the author talks about how the Facial Action Coding System could potentially improve classrooms. That would result in smarter people in this world which is great. The technology could read your facial expressions to see if you are bored. If you are bored, then the technology could improve the classroom to be more interesting to you. If you are more interested in the subject at hand, then you will understand it better. If you understand it better, you will have better grades and have more knowledge. This will ultimately result in smarter people in the world.
So the Facial Action Coding System is valuable. It can help us find exact emotions of a person. It could help us with with our schooling. We could find out so much more about our world and increase the IQs of others. This system could be so important for our world. | 4 |
55478b1 | In the story "Unmasking the Face on Mars," the face on Mars could be a natrual landform of a very new volcano or it could be the surface of Mars rising up. If its not that it could be just markings from when a volcano on mars had went off and when it had finished erupting the markings from the volcano could of just still been there. There are many reasons why this could possibly be a landform. For example it could be like they said "a huge rock formation." Like on Earth the face on Mars could probably be a lava dome because if your look at the third picture at the very top it looks like it has cracks from either a river flow or it could be cracks from a lava dome. It could also just be the forming of a new area around there. So in conclusion to the paragraph, I can tell you that we may never know if this is a land formation like we have on Earth of if its really a alien monument, but im sure that it is most likely a landform because we could possibly have a mesa like this on Earth. | 2 |
55481c2 | I don't think its Aliens, it has to be the way the land formed its self. My space partner totally disagrees with me, saying that it is aliens. Some people believe in Aliens unlike me. We have not discovered any site of Aliens for a very long time, intill we discovered this face. How could Aliens even do this? Did the Alien just die and sit there for 10,000 years?
It is very possible for landform to make a odd looking face. My space patner thinks that Aliens made the face by dieing and sittig there for s long time. He thinks that they are so smart they made that face to drag humans into Mars. Some Alien maybe had to make a sacrifice? I think that landform and the sun had something to do with it. The sun probably melted some land, or maybe it moved just right to make this face.
The fact that "The Face of Mars" got popular and got out there suprised me. I would be kinda shocked though, if I was someone at home and someone comes and tells me "They descovered a Face on Mars". I would defentely be a little curious. Me and my partner have came to a conclusion that it was landform. That there is still no site of Aliens. That dosen't mean we woun't stop looking. | 2 |
554ae4e | Do you like to travel around the world, help people from World war II and keep cattle calm, and like to explore?
If you are intrested in all of theese or even one you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program like I did.
If you like to travel then you'll love to be a part of the Seagoing Cowboys program.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program you will get to travel the world on a boat.
A benifit was I had the chance to see Europe and China. If you join you will probably get to see plenty of new beautiful places you haven't seen before.
Also
the view when your on the boat is just magnificent.
When your a seagoing cowboy you will be helping people who had damage from World War II by giving them cattle.
This helps them because these places took serious damage from world war II.
Europe and China probbably had most of their cattle killed so we help by giving them horses young cows and
and mules so they can have milk and meat.
These cattle will also provide them with clothing to wear.
I took care of the cattle in my years of being a Seagoing Cowboy.
So if you like to help people and keep animals calm then you might be intrested.
My last and final reason you should be apart of the Seagoing Cowboys program is because you get down time and you get to explore the area.
If you you're in one of those jobs that gives you no downtime and sll you do is work I suggest you quit and join us.
While i was a Seagoing Cowboy we stopped in Greece and I saw the Acropolis.
This was a breath taking sight.
In your downtime youmight be able to see
some amazing sights also.
you'll get to see thing like you've never seen before.
In clonclusion you should become part of the Sea going Cowboys program because you get to travel the world, help people that had damge from World War II and comfort the cattle that your shipping to them, and you get downtime to explore where you are and see breathtaking sights.
If you do join i might be able to teach you more about being a Seagoing Cowboy. I hope you'll consider joining. | 4 |
55511cd | Having technology that allows the ability to know a persons feelings could help this world have less crime,less suicide,and know a persons true feelings.Its something doctors could use in hospitals to know more about there patients. If this technology is acurate it could change the world.
Being able to calculate a persons emotions isnt something everyone thinks about on a daily bases,But having a computer that reads all 44 major muscles of your face and being able to calculate someones feelings could do a lot of good. being able to know when someone is feeling bored in class or tired could make the teacher do an activity that requieres movement to wake them up. students wouldnt be able to go home by acting sick anymore either making schools not have as many absences.grades would improve because students wouldnt be bored since the teacher could change the learing method they are using.
There are millions of people who suffer from depretion and a lot of them put a fake smile on their face. People dont know how they really feel specially since they dont talk about their depresion. If doctors had a computer to know when someone is fake smiling because they are hidding their depression, they could do something to prevent that person from taking their own life. you cant always know how someone is feeling but having check ups to calculate if they are depressed could be a start. So many suicides could be stoped by this technology.
This could benifit hospitals by allowing them to take a better look at patients feelings to know if the patient is lying about feeling better just to go home.With doctors being able to know there patients true feelings they can decide when it might be a right time to give them bad news or to know when it will be best to take them into surgery. They wouldnt be able ti smile and say they feel good anymore because the computer would know its a fake smile in the article it says" imagin being able to detect exactly how other people are feeling,even when they are trying to hide their emotions."
This computer would bring good to the students and all the other people it could help. It should be used to help students that way the school would know if they are depressed,bored,or tired. grades would improve and students would like going to school more and learning. | 3 |
555645e | Dear state senator,
I urge you to vote in favor of changing to election by popular vote to select the president of the United States. I urge this to pass for three particular reasons. First is because of the factor that electors could defy the will of the people or the peoples word, Second is because of the event of a it would already be handed over to the House of Representativese, and third is because of the winner takes all system.
To begin with the electors have and most likley will again defy the will of the people and the peoples word. For example, In The source The indefensible Electoral College: Why Even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong. By: Bradford Plumer, He states that back in 1960 segregationists in the Lousina legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who opposed president J.F.K. Likewise electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and vote for who ever they want.
Next, is the most worrying, the prospect of a tie in the votes of the Electoral College. If this were to happen the election would be decided by the House of representatives where the state delegations would vote on the president. Since each state only has one vote a representative from Wyoming representing 500,000 wouldn't have as much say as the reps. from California who represent near 35 million people. In 1976 a tie would have occured if 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted for the other side, only a few voters away from catastrophe.
And Finally, The Electoral College is unfair to voters because of the winner takes all system. in each state canidates dont spend time in states that they know they have no chance of winning. They focous most of their time in the swing states. During the 2000 campaign seventeen satates didn't see the canadates at all including Rhode Island and Sotheren California. Voters in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single ad. If anyone has a good argument to put their fate in presidency in the hands of a bunch of swing voters in Ohio, they are far away from the white house.
And once again state senator I urge your vote towards changing to election by popular vote to select the president of the United States. Because First, is the factor that electors could defy the will of the people or the peoples word, Second is because of the event of a tie it would already be handed over to the House of Representatives, and third is because of the unfair winner takes all system.
Please consider all of the previously stated aspects
Signed, PROPER_NAME | 4 |
555a58e | Dear State Senator,
I'm aware that there are two ways of electing the president of the United States. According to Source 1 "What is the Electoral College?", the Electoral College is a process where electors get elected to vote for President and Vice President. The other option is popular vote. Popular vote is when the people vote, and which ever Candidate gets the most votes wins the election. I personally feel that you should not keep the Electoral College. In my opinion, election by popular vote is a better strategy of electing the President and Vice President of the United States. Electoral College is a horrible strategy, because voters are not actually voting for the President, they are voting for a slate of electors. There are other reasons why I believe that popular vote is a more accurate way of electing the President and Vice President of the United States.
Under the Electoral College system, voters don't actually get to vote for the President, and Vice President. According to Source 2 "What's wrong with the electoral college?", the voters vote for a slate of electors who will elect the President. It's possible that the voters may not even know much about the electors that will be electing the President. The electors can be anyone, it depends on what state you are in. According to Source 2 "What's wrong with the electoral college?", sometimes the electors may be elected by state conventions, the state party's central committee, or the presidential candidates themselves. Voters can't even control who their electors vote for sometimes. What if voters choose an elector, and the elector doesn't even vote for the President that the voter was hoping they will vote for? That seems unfair to me, because during this process, there's a chance that the voter may not even get to actually vote for the candidate that they wanted to vote for.
This is why I feel that popular vote is more accurate. Voters get to vote for the candidate that they want to win to be the President, and know that their vote will count. They don't have to worry about electing an elector that can possibly vote for a different candidate. So, may you please consider removing the Electoral College, and replacing it with popular vote?. I'm sure it will make many voters happy that their vote will actually count, and that they will not have to vote for an elector. | 3 |
556383d | Would the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom effect the wrok ethic or be a waste of money? There could be some good and bad about this new computer. What if some people don't like this new computer and it messes with their work or thing they are researching.
With the advances in technology more and more things are becoming different with the way they are used and things they can do. This system on a computer could effect someones work ethic. Does this system have a way to turn this off? If you are doing a research paper and you arent smiling, does that mean it will put you on something else. Is everything the same or do you have to learn a whole new way of doing things.
In the article it keeps talking about facial expressions and doesn't say anything about some of the things people use computers for like doing papers or playing games. This doesn't give us enogh information about the computer and the typers of things it does or the stuff it could do. The FACS sounds like a cool idea and thing that could work, but there are many of things that were left out.
What would happen if the FACS system would break or be down because of something. Do you have to call someone in to fix it or what? With th FACS system, could it be used on a labtop? Could this be something that could fail and ruin your computer? With the system would this effect the way you may use your computer? There are to many questions that need to be answered before this could be a hit. The more I think about this FACS system the more question I come up with and the less I like it.
The new technology could effect many factors and wouldn't be something that could be put out there and hope it sells. The systeem needs to have many of test done first before they just put it out there. The system doesn't make me feel like it is a winner. The more I think and write about makes me not want to tell anyone about the system. There are to many possibilites where things could go wrong. I don't think that this product would sell. | 3 |
55759f8 | The use of tecnology reading your face is a bad idale for some things but not all things. Emotions are what humans have. The Facial coding system enables computer to read face exspreshions like happy ,sad,frown,fear,disgust,anger,and suprise. The Coding system should not be on every ones computer becuse some people hate adds and the system would just keep showing diffent ones each time.
On the Facial Action Coding System would not be bad if you could shut it off and on other then it being on non stop all day tring to read your face. The program would be alsome to look at old pitures to see if they were happy or what not. the program makes a 3-D face that has all 44 major muscles in the model . It has to move like a human face dose.
The Facial Action Coding Systm would be cool if the creater could make it read other creachers like cat or a dog for we could see how they feel. cats wag there tail but my cat is happy when he wags his tail what dose that mean than?
My dog growls when he vplays what dose it mean? Maby later on they can move on from human faces to other animal faces.
Dr. Paul Eckter man has alot of good idals with his program. He just needs it were the people can turn it on and off othere than being on all the time. like how when some people are angry they turn tv on or funny videos. That could turnout to becume disaster.
The Facial Action Coding System is a good idal for school work for if the student would get bord it could change there studing ways up or class room asiments. The program could read diffent shown emotions in the program. In fact us human perform the same impresive caculation every day.
The "Making Mona Lisa Smile" was neat to see what the program had to say. The Facial Action Coding System read the Mona Lisa painting and it said she was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted,6 percent fearful,and 2 percent angry.
The Facial Acting Coding System is a great program and in time it could read how humans feel and animals in the future. I think it will be a great program for computer to have. As long as you can turn them on and off at times. It would be a good way to get rid of adds.
Dr. Huang thinks that Da Vinci studied human anatomy to help him paint facial muscles precisly enough to coney specific emotions. The program would help the police with criminals becuse it would read there face and tell them what going on . | 3 |
5579f11 | I think that others should participate in the "Seagoing Cowboys Program" becuase it is a unique opratunity that a lot of others might not get to have the chance of doing. Being in that group is a very big responsibility, and chance to show others what you can do and what you are capable of. "When I started playing football a lot of peoel thought i wasnt gonna be able to do it and they though that i would get hurt and break a bone and not even be on the field as much as i wanted. But it turned out that the coach put me in a position that no one would ever expect from a girl, The QB. My friends and famiy then knew what i was capable of donig." You just have to show them what you can do and prove it to them.
I am a very brave man that decided to do the job that I am doing now becuase its kind of like the story in the bible. There are a bunch of animals in a boat on water, floating across the sea. There are many bad things that could happen that you might not even see coming from a mile away. The job that I am doing now is a VERY risky job that not a lot of pepole are brave enough to do for them selfs. You have to be very tallented and brave to walk over here and get on a boat not knowing what is gonna happen.
To be one of there people you have to be physicaly and mentaly prepared for what is coming your way, you can never tell what is gonna happen in the future so you alawys have to be prepared for it. Luke probably had a lot of bad things that happened to him like when there was a bad storm one night and he was climbing the ladder to get to the captin and he slipped and fell and broke som of his ribs. If you think that that is bad then when you get into the job you better be prepared be a lot more sever things can happen to you while you are on that boat, you might never be able to tell what is coming your way.
If you think that you are prepared please come and join the Seagoing Cowboys Program , I promise that you will never regret the decission that you make. The program will have a lot of trainning for the peolpe that might have no other way of getting in shape where they are now. But if you are realling wanting to join makes sure you are in good shape, physicaly and mentaly and come hop on a boat with us and take a trip across the sea. | 2 |
557a81f | "Unmasking the face on Mars"
"Big News" NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft has found something while circling
Mars. But what is it, they have seem to have found a face formed into the rocks. Is this new discovery actually a face or is it just another rock formation.
The believers and the non-believers of the face on Mars are waiting anxiously to find out what it is. Is it a rock formation or is it an actual human face, no one knows. The (MOC) has finally released the newest picture which is 10 times sharper than any picture the Viking spacecraft could have taken, and the JPL web seach has revealed tht the face on Mars is actually just another rock formation.
Even though NASA has put the picture out there that proves that the face on Mars is not acually a face but just another land formation, there are still some skeptics out there that think taht the theory is true. Skeptics have said that perhaps since on the day the picture was taken was a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet that the alien marking were hidden by the haze. NASA had come to Mars to take a picture of the face at the wrong time and if they were to come another day they might have been able to see that it was an actual face and not just some rock formation.
Around the American West there are common landforms know as butte or mesa and they are actually equivalent to the Martian. Could the butte or mesa landforms be know on other planets besides ours? We are able to get the right size because " as a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size" so be comparing the actual size of the butte or mesa to right about the size of the Martian when we do the math. The land formation on earth reminds people most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho " thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars".
In conclusion the Face on Mars is just another regular plain old natural landform. " So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even a shack." | 4 |
557aedb | In the artical "Making Mona Lisa Smile" explans how there is a new type of technoligy that uses a coumputer system that lets people detect peoples emotions. To get the caculated expressions of someones human emotion the computer system uses a 3D model scan of the persons face then uses mats to detect the presons facal muscles then depending on the position they are will depend on there emotion.
I think in a classroom or school situation this form of a computer system shouldent be used for schools for a number of reasons. In the artical the University says the softare couldent run on home computers and mostly all schools dont have amped up computers thet are bulit to run things like this. So if schools want to start using things like this they would need to get the money for the computers and the software if the founders of it are gonna put a price on it. Another reason is why would schools need such a system like this when they could just do this type of thing on paper with simple question to answer to see the students emotion in class. Or the school could send papers home to the parentes asking how the student is doing home and if the school should be worried about anything for the kids safety. Befor papagraph 8 the artical does give a pretty reason to use this type of system. They show the steps of how to smile or what it does to get the right type of smile to read the emotion of happiness. In the 8th paragraph it shows that in a real smile the muscles called the "prbicuarlis oculi pars palpabraeus" make the crow's-feet around your eyes. But when someone does a fake smile the mouth
is stretches sideways using the "zygomatic major" and a different muscle, the "risorius". So when people smile they can be decteced if they are faking it or not. But in paragraph 9 "according to the Facal Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresse emotions, but also may even help produce them." So both paragraph 8 and 9 shows that there is a flaw in this computer system because if someone has never had a "real smile" and always used a "fake smile" the system will detect no happiness but the oppisite or something else. And thet person will always live with a "fake smile" and never a "real smile" beacuse the fake one will develop as a real smile if the person keeps doing it because of the facial muscles getting use to it.
So in conclusion I dont think this technology that can read emotional expressions should be used because there are better ways of finding out a kids emotion. And becasue of the big flaw within the system, that being the human body actualy going aganst the facal scan by getting use to express a certan expression that reads differntly on the computer. | 4 |
557d939 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author informs us about the many difficulties we would face trying to get a closer look at Venus. Although it is the hottest plant in our solar system with air pressure unlike anywhere on Earth, I believe the auther does a great job explaining how we could overcome the challenges and maybe even send humans to Venus. The author suggests that the humans stay above Venus' atmosphere and lists what technology should be used to send down to the surface of Venus and retreive information about the planet.
The author's first idea to support the claim that we could do more to explore Venus in the near future is keeping the people sent there in a spacecraft, kind of like a blimp, about 30 miles above the surface. The author compares this to how planes fly above storms, which we already know is a good way to complete the task and stay safe. Although the pressure and temperature would still be intense, the astronauts could still do their job under these conditions.
Another suggestion the author does a good job of explaining is thinking about what technology should be sent to the surface to collect samples. In paragraph 7, the author uses examples of what could do the job, such as lab tested tech that could withstand the conditions for weeks and older computers which are stronger than today's. The use of these factually supported examples helps the reader get an idea of what we could send down to Venus and how it could be possible.
The facts the author uses to support their ideas of how we can better explore Venus, along with the descriptive details used to explain these ideas give anyone reading this a better understanding of how we could make this a reality. The ideas that astronauts could stay in safer conditions and send down strong technology to collect the data they need sounds like it could one day be a reality. Until then, we just have to keep exploring ideas to make it one. | 3 |
5586de5 | Limiting car usage is advantage. Many my think its not a advantage because its an easy way to get around. It may be the easiest way to get around but take the time out to think about the bad it cause. You wont be able to live some places because the wont have enough parking spaces. Where are you going to park? The diesel fuel you use to keep the car going pollute the air. Then we would have alot of bad air floatring around. Its also a problem to the traffic. Why not carpool, ride a bus, train, or bike? there are many different transportations in the world why just use one all the time?
You see, cars may be the easiest way to get around but let's study some of the bad. One reason limiting cars is an advantage is because if you don't have a car 9 times out of 10 it would be easier for you to stay anywhere. Some homing areas doesn't have enough land to make an parking lot. So if you see somewhere you would like to live without an parking lot who would probably have to find somewhere esle to live. You can slove that by just getting rid of your car. I understand that getting rid of your car would probably be the hardest thing you have ever done but look at the bright side. You would be living in the place you want to be living in.
Not only would it be easy to find somewhere to stay but also you wont have to worry about polluting the air with diesel fuel. Its crazy how you spend 3 dollars for an gallon of gas just to pollute the air. You would be better off just spending 3 dollars to catch an city bus or train. Yes they also pollute the air but if you ask me not as bad as cars. I say that that because if you think about it you see more cars than any city bus or train. why not just catch an bus or train to help our in en | 2 |
5587a15 | Dear Senator,
I am arguing in favor of changing the Electoral College to the election of by popular vote. The process of the votes going through the various different places until it finally gets counted and determined who wins the state is unneccesary. The system is not even fair, for example in the year 2000 Al Gore had one the popular vote by 60%. Unfortunatley he lost the presidency because he did not win the the votes of the Electoral College. For a counry that is ran by the people, a vote of over 50% should always win. When you take into consideration how big the United States are, then cut that into half it is still a remarkable amount. Now picture a little over half the people in the United States voting for the same thing.
This process led to the "biggest election crisis in a century" says Bradford Plumer. According to this source the system can also allow for much worse. He even says that at the most basic level the Electoral college is unfair to voters because of the Winner-take-allsystem that occurs in each state. For the purpose of common sense why would we as a republic use a system that is "unfair"?
Richard A. Posner says that the method of using the Electoral College method may even restrain potential voters for a specific candidate. All because they know that they're votes will have little to no impact on the outcome of the election. This also leads to the fact that would have no logical reason to pay attention to the campaign they would've picked. Plumer quotes that " the Electoral College is outdated,unfair, and that Bob Dole was right in saying that we as acounty should abolish the Electoral College".
When everything is added up the same words such as unfair,outdated,useless, and unnessary keep coimg up on this topic. Not everybody in this country enjoys the use of the Electoral College and I strongly feel that eventually in this country the Electoral college will be left in the past and new methods of voting will be of greater use. | 3 |
5587aec | To many peope it was confusing, but to me, it was life. Every night, I would come home exauhsted and tierd, but I knew I had to keep going in order to reach what I dreamed. Of course I put in a lot of labor, with barely any breaks, but if you think about it, its nothing compared to "the real deal" If you have a fear, at the end you will be over it and want to do that thing more often! When its over, it is something to be proud about and make sure that people know it! There is no reason not to talk about it and no reason not to brag, only because you worked so hard to get where you are now! If you want a chance to be able to say you did smething someone dreams of, its now!
This is a one in a life time chance, and if you miss it up, you wil regret it! In some peoples mind, they think that Seagoing isnt usefull, but they are wrong. People also think that all we have to do is work, but thats not true, sometimes we get a chance to look at the beutiful views and feature take, thats always a plesure! Going to Seagoing is much more than an adventure, it's a life time experience. You get to see different aspects and feature, it will blow your mind! You can never get enough of the people, animals, and views! You wil always want to make sure that you have a chance to talk and hang around because people have some pretty cool stories you would never get over!
If you want something to never stop loving, think about the views, people, and animals at Seagoing. It will take your breath away! Not only will you have a chance to relax, but you will have a chance to try new things. Like I always say, To many people it was confusing, but to me, it was life! | 2 |
558e033 | Sergey Brin, Google cofounder, believes that driverless cars can fundamentally
change the world. He also believes that the cars will be able to use a sensor to stop. Driverless cars will change the world, but will it be a good thing or a bad thing?
Driverless will indeed change the world, but just think of how much money these car cars will cost people. The things these manufacturers will have to put into the car to make it actually work will not only cost a lot for them, but it will put a huge dent in the buyers pocket. The manufacturers plan to put in sensors, computer hardware, and multiple software to help this car run. That's not the only reason why driverless cars should not be invented.
The makers of the driverless car believe that it will cause less accidents. In paragraph nine it states that if a driverless car's technology failed and the driver were to get into an accident then whose fault would it be, the drivers or the manufacturers. They both would be at fault. The manufacturer would have a be at fault the most because they should have tested the car a whole lot more to make sure that the technology wouldn't have failed. The driver would also be at fault because they should either be paying attention to the road more or learn what to do when something goes wrong.
Inventing driverless cars can also be a good thing. Driverless cars can cause less accidents because of the sensors put into them. It also requires the driver to be more alert. I understand that technology doesn't work all of the time, but if the future if the manufacturers can invent it to be safer then i think its a good idea. Another good thing about driverless cars is the car can alert the driver to take over when he/she is pulling in or out of driveways or simply dealing with traffic issues.
The manufacturers of these cars have worked on this project for about six years and they will most likely continue with this until this is known to the entire world.
In conclusion, driverless cars still have a long way to go before people will want to buy them. Some people don't like the idea of trying something new, so it will take them a lot longer to convince them that driverless cars is a good thing. | 3 |
559611b | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author give a few reasons why it would be worth to study Venus. The author brings up how we would use this experience in other ways. The author brought up how Venus was once like Earth and how it had inhabinants. The author brings up ways that we could explore venus.
The author brings up how it the successful and unsuccessful knowledge would help us in other situations. We could use this experience for mars which would seem a lot easier to tackle if we can successfully land on venus and study that planet. We could use the information on how they built the shuttle for submarines, So we could go deeper and not have to worry about the hull being damaged as easily. The information we get on how to properly land on venus would make all of space travel a little easier.
The piece states that Venus could have been just like Earth once. " Long ago, Venus was probaly covered largely with oceans and coudl have supported variuos forms of life, just like Earth." That exclamation shows that it's possible that there can be life out there that not from earth. The are also features that are also on earth, like mountains, crater, and valleys. What we could learn for why that ecosystem failed could help us in the future.
The author tells us that people are thinking of ways explore Venus. One idea is that we float in a blimp like craft above the hostile conditions. We still couldn't get the the ground without some challenges but it is a start. The author also brings up how we could bring computers that are made of gears and levers that would work better in harder conditions.
Venus is possible to explore we just have to look at it in a certian angle. We have ideas of what to do but we either don't have the means or can't figure out how to do it. We could float above the surface. We could use a more sturdy time of mechanical computer. The information we learn for landing on Venus and from Venus itself could help us in so many ways. | 4 |
559b949 | Dear
State Senato r,
I think that the Electoral College should change to popular votes for the president and I have a few reasons why: When people vote for a president they are actually voting for the Electoral College and the Electoral College votes for the president themselves and sometimes the voters vote for the wrong canidate and the presindent they wanted to vote for might not win the election, Some states do not get to see their canidates or the election and don't know who to vote for. I think that voters should be able to vote who they want to run our country and not have the Electoral College decide for them. They have a voice and a mind to their own and I believe that we should have a say on who should be our president, our leader, someone who will stop ISIS and to stop terroists and bombings, someone who will pass laws that child abuse should be illegal. It can be argued that the Electoral Colleges method of selecting the president might turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of carrying their state. Candidates have a winner-take-all system and its unfair because they do not spend time in states that they know will have no chance winning. I think that they should give them a chance, just because they think that they can;t win it doesn't make it tur, its more of their opinion. The Electoral College is unfair to voters, outdated, and irrational. The Electoral College won the popular vote but lost the presidency. The voters would prefer a direct election. | 3 |
55a48e1 | People might agree with Car-free day. But i disagree with it. Now i will tell you three why I disagree. First people might be late to work. Second people have to pay to take buses or taxi's to go places. Last people might not have time to wait because they have to go somewhere urgent.
My first statment is people would be late to work. There are people who probaly have to go to work across the city or maybe even another state. Others probaly dont own bikes or any alternative transportation. Few other people are just not fit and would have to stop and get a brake because there to tired. Also people might have night shifts and it would be dangerous to walk the streets at night. Last you might make it late to the bus stop and you'll have to wait forever for it to pass by again.
Next people have to pay for buses or taxi's. Sure people have cars but that doesnt mean they make alot of money so in that case they probaly cant afford to take that form of transportation. More than likely the buses and taxi's are raising the prices for that day since alot more people are taking them. Alot of people would be taking this form of transportation so that means you either would be on a packed bus or be waiting for a taxi that has ten other customers waiting.
My last statement would be that people might have to go some where urgent. For example if someone gets hurt really bad and they cant wait for a taxi to come pick him/her up, he/she could die. Another example would be a pet getting hurt and it has to go to the vet. Taxi's most likely wont let you have pets in the car. And for a fact the buses wouldent let you either. So the pet could die also. You might of forgot to get supplies for your food and the grocery store closes in thirty minutes. If you live far from the grocery store you might not make it there in time
In my conclusion i dont think there should be a Car-free day. I stated my statements by saying, People could be late to work. People might not have enough money to pay for a bus/taxi. And last there might be an emergency and you need to get somewhere quick and you cant because you cant use your car. | 2 |
55ac220 | Do you think we need driverless cars? The cars Google founder Sergey Brin makes would use half of fuel of today's taxis. All of the driverless cars today need a actual driver. There are both positive and negative things about driverless cars but, I think that they are not neseccary.
I perosnally think that driverless cars are not worth getting because you still need a driver incase of bad road conditions. Whats the point of buying that very expensive car if your gonna have to eventually drive the driverless car. Say your in a rush for work and your on the phone with your boss butting on eyeliner and then it happends... you run into roadwork and your hands are all occupied and then you don't know what to do. That is another reason because you can crash and it wouldn't be safe for you or for any other people on the road.
In conclustion I believe that driverless cars are not neseccary nor safe enough to drive. I can see were people would think its good idea because they are efficent and can be a big boost in technology but Its not worth the bad saftey issue it has. | 2 |
55b53b3 | Limiting car usage can be very helpful not only to our environment, but to our culture. Our ozone is slowly getting worse and worse every year. A heavy contributor to the decay of the ozone layer is the greenhouse gasses, like the ones we emit from our cars on a daily basis. A society without cars could create a safer, more time friendly, and environmentally healthy community.
Think of all the tragedies that have spawned from car crashes. Just this year in our local community, a 16 year old boy was knocked off our local bridge and killed by a drunk driver. Our city is still recovering from this, not a day goes by where I don't see a new person leaving flowers in his spot on the bridge. In a society without cars, this would never have to happen again, think of all the potential lives that could be saved.
Think about how much time you spend in a car on the average day. At least 30 minutes to an hour if you go to school, a job, or a sport. If we didnt have to drive everywhere, everything we needed would be compacted into walking distance. Life would be so much easier if you didnt have to stress about getting up early enough to catch the bus, or for your friend's mom to pick you up. you could just casually walk out the door and be at your destination in no time.
Life without cars could be the change that our country needs. Improved environmental conditions, safety improving drastically, and your precious time being saved. Maybe life without cars wouldn't be as great as we're making it out to be, but how are we ever going to know if we don't try. This change would be for the better, and is exactly what America needs. | 3 |
55b79be | Dear senator,
Many people argue that the electoral system is unfair to the voters but it's actually the opposite of that. I mean for starters most voters are easily manipulated and indecicive, If we choose the vote by popularity method it'll cause more of a problem then what we have now, and lastly not many people actually care for voting.
"The mob is stupid". This is what my 7th grade civics people told everyone. People are easily tricked. Just got a nazi germany for example. People belived in his philosophy and led to Germanys down fall. Anybody could appeal to anybodys needs. All you have to say is what the people want to hear. How you conduct yourself and how you talk is all you need to make some one on your side or to catch a vote. The electoral system is basically a back up defense in this type of a situation.
In addition, a "popular vote wins" election it'll cause' way more chaos than you could imagine. Like during the 2012 election obama only recieved 51.3% of votes. Can you belive that? Just 1.3% short was the opponent and you actually belive not only the people but Mitt Romney would accept his loss? He'd obviously demand for a recount and possibly even be calling so and so for being corrupt and it would be a wild two months if not four years .
Lastly, many people do not care for voting which not only decreases the number to manipulate makes it harder for an election to be one sided. About half of americas population actually vote on elections which actually increases the odds of tight races.
To wrap this up i belive the electoral system should be kept not only does it safeguard against the manipulation of the people it also helps keep elections smooth and run properly and prevents chaos. | 3 |
55be65c | The limiting of usage a car has to stop because it destroy our country. How can cars destroy our country? Car can destroy our green house in many ways. one way if with all the components that the car have. For example, it can be destroy with the steam that the car throw out in the air(gas).Sometimes people can have stress by having a car because they have to payed a lot, if a car doest'n work. They had to send the car to a place that can be fixed and it can expand a lot of your money.
To begin with,sometimes car can be good for people that have there job far away of their home. But also car can cause you to have stress. for example in the source 3:car-free day is spinningn into a big hit Bogota said that "its a good opportunity to take away stress and lolwer air pollution". This is true because if we not using a car, we don't have to worry to pay taxed, or to fixed the car. In my opinion if we just start to using car all the time, this is going to cause a big problem. Why cars can cause you a big problem on your daily life? Because cars can stop you to walk,can stop you to do a lot of things. You can get sick, one problem that United States has is the fat people. Why fat people? because they just start to use car and they doesn' t realize that if you use a lot the car, you forget that you have to do exersise or to walk. Well, is not just the car that can cause you to be fat, there are other stuff that can cause you to be fat. In the sources 1: In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars, said that "that few soccer moms or communiting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars". They notice that cars can causing a lot of problems by paying a lot. Some people had to decide to gave up their car by walking to their jobs, or going to buy some food or just want to walk to be healthy.
Cars can be a limited for some people. If we just be a liltle thinker sometimes, we can notice that us, "THE HUMAN" we are destroyed our world with all the substances that the car hurl in the air. This world was make to protect us, but we just like to destroy the nature by the chemical that the car has, and other stuff that cause the world to be destroy. If you are an intelligent person you can stop this by don't having a car, and use your feet to get whatever you want to go. | 3 |
55c1225 | Although Venus has a reputation for being difficult to study, scientists have tried numerous times with unmaned spacecrafts. Each time, however, the spacecraft has not survived on Venus for more than a few hours. The author of the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," suggests that Venus is a worthy puruit despite its many dangers. The author does this by describing the planet's similarities to Earth, Venus's location in the solar system, and by describing the vast differences between Earth and Venus.
Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin due to its many similarites. Both planets have similar sizes and distances from the sun. Scientists also believe that Venus was once a hospitible planet due to its similarities to Earth. Scientists have discovered that Venus has some features that are similar to those on Earth, such as land formations. Even though Venus is so hospitable, it is the closest planet to Earth and is the quickest travel throughout space. If Venus were to once again become hospitible as it was before, humans could potentially travel there.
Venus has a similar distance from the sun as Earth, meaning that it should be similarly hospitible. However, Venus has high temperatures and pressure which does not add up to the distance from the sun. The temperature on a planet is determined by the planet's distance from the sun and how much heat and light is able to travel to the planet. Since Earth is hospitible at a similar distance as Venus, then why is Venus plagued by severe temperatures? This and other mysteries about Venus are being questioned by scientists, but without the ability to get close to the planet, most exploration is impossible due to the thick atmosphere.
Although Earth and Venus have many similarities, their living conditions vastly differ. Due to Venus's acidic atmosphere and severe heat, living on Venus is impossible, while Earth is currently populated by a variety of creatures. Venus has temperatures that average over eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit, while the pressue is about ninety times greater than that on Earth. Venus also has the hottest surface temperature of any of the other planets, even hotter than Mercury. Venus is also plagued by volcanos, earthquakes, and frequent lightning. These differences may seem confusing because Mercury is closer to the sun and should, in theory, be the hottest planet in the solar system. Venus should also have a surface temperature and pressure similar to that of Earth.
If scientists were able to figure out more information about Venus, it may provide more information about the solar system and about Earth. Since evidence suggests that Venus was once more similar to Earth, studying the planet may provide insight as to why Venus was turned into such an inhospitable planet, and if it could happen to Earth. Scientists could also potentially develop a way to live on Venus or turn its living conditions back to how it once was in the past. In conclusion, the author uses this evidence to support the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite its many dangers. | 4 |
55c94b9 | Do you think it's very risky to travel to venus? Well Venus is not such a safe place but with the right equipment and stuff i think it'll be fun to be in space and travel to Venus. The author explains the goods and the bads of going to Venus. It is a worthy pursuit because with studying and evaluating about Venus the U.S can make huge changes and make a new discoverys.
Venus is a worthy pursuit because in paragraph 4 it explains how Venus is the most earth like planet that anyone has ever seen. In paragraph it also explains how long ago venus used to be covered with oceans and many various forms of life. Astronomers also say that venus to this day have features that analogou to those on earth. Despite the very cool things you can see in Venus it comes with a risk. NASA has come up with a possible solution. In paragraph 5 it explains how NASA is coming up with ideas to get closer to venus without any dangerous things that can happen. NASA wants to put researchers on a blimp like vehicle that can float above and hover over venus 30 miles away. NASA also explains how if they put the vehicle floating over venus it can possibly avoid the bad ground conditions that can harm you.
In conclusion traveling to venus to do research is a worthy pursuit to do. You can be one of the most bravest people and be apart of the team who made new amazing discoverys that can possible change the whole world. Overall Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers of going there. | 3 |
55d00eb | I think that "driverless" cars are very dangerous. The driver could get too comfortable and fall asleep at the wheel, the car doesn't drive comepletly by it's self so you could not pay attention and get into a wreck, or you could get in trouble with the law because you hit another car or even a person.
I would think that these driverless cars are dangerous because the car could mess up and get into a wreck or hit a pedestrian and you would have to be charged because its the law. You would have to pay attention at all times no matter what because you never know what is going to happen. The driver could get tired waiting on their turn to drive and fall asleep. These cars can also accelarate and brake without the control of the driver so the car could speed and you would get a ticket for speeding, or the car could brake and cause the car behind you to wreck into you.
I think that driverless cars are dangerous because they require alot of attention. I would rather just drive myself so that I know that I would be safe and I wouldn't assume that the car can just drive by its self and get distracted by texting or talking to the people in the car. So, if you have a hard time staying awake when bored or paying attention then I wouldn't think this would be a car for you. | 2 |
55d3d44 | Technology that can read the emotional expression of students in a classroom is very valuable because if we use this type of technology in classrooms now a days, we can see how students are feeling and see their emotions like happiness, surpised, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. I think yes, this can help us in many different ways.
One of the reasons why we should have this type of technology in classrooms is to read every students expressions to see how their feeling today at school. If the student is feeling sad or depressed and the technoogy picks that up, teachers can do something about it to maybe help the student in someway. This peice of new technology can help prevent conflicts or in some bad situations where a student is feeling anger or distress. In paragraph 6, it states that " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". This can help teacher teach better in class and help the student understand better if they feel them type of emotions.
The Facial Action Systems technology can be studied by students in the claasrooms, they can study on themselfs to see how there feeling today. They can see if their friends are happy or sad, that can just improve our social skills by trying to figure out why their friends or classmates are feeling these types of emotions. This can make us better people by comunication with one another. This software should be used in classrooms, it will make our teachers teach better in their lessons, its will make students better in the classrooms because the teacher will know what is wrong weather your confused on the lesson the teachers will know and they will help the students become better each day with this technology.
I think it will be a good idea to have this software in the classroom because not only will the students, teachers, and other members in the school will know what your feeling, your own family members can see also how you are feeling today in the classroom as well. This can help improve the comunication with their loved ones at home too. They can seek help if they really need it if parents see what the problem is weather if your child is feeling sad or just confussed, teachers can make sure parents will be notifed to see what is the problem in their child. Thanks to this technology, it will make better students.
The facial Acton Coding System is just would be a great thing to use in a classroom, it will make students better students by just reading their facial expression every day when their at school. It will improve schools just by many different ways with this facial technology. Students and teachers will learn alot from this and finding out that by just making faces could reval so much about the science of emotions behind this fine technology software. | 4 |
55d55f6 | I believe that this is not valuable for studetns in a classroom. Sure it could help them make those faces more, but it doesnt't have much of a use other than that. It is not like it helps lose weight or improves health it just shows emotions. Especially in a school setting most students express their emotions freely anyways. There may be some cases of students hiding emotions, but for the most part they tend to be very expressive.
First, many students may not rralize how much they show their emotions already, but generally they are incredibly easy to read. This technology would
not be that usefull becuase of that it would only help in very select cases. Also, some people would no twant their emotions to be scanned by a computer. They may be going through a hard time and want to keep that as personal as possible.
Second, it could be invading someones private life. By this I mean some people hate when everything is know about them. For example, people who put tape over their computers because they are worried about the FBI watching them. I think that becasue of people like that it would not be very accepted into schhols without forcing it onto students. Also, I do not think the students really care about expressing their emptions to a computer.
Third, although it could be used to detect emotions of items in history it would not have a place in schools it is an invasion of privacy and would be very prying into a students personal life.
In conclusion, I do not hink this technology will be very well accpted into schhols I think it will have to be forced onto the students whuch would just cause more problems from parents and students. Although it does have some used they are so situational I do not think it is that amazing of a discovery. | 3 |
55d6e17 | Cars should be limited due to the polution of the air that the car brings. Most cars run on gas so they will have a engine and the smoke that comes out of the exhuast pipe polutes the air and makes it bad for peoples health.
In Germany its many people that dont have cars and some have given up their cars. Parking places have been took away from the peple with vehicles, and the Vauban's streets are completely car free. Many people are now walking on side walks other than driving cars. Some homes dont have driveways or even street parkings. Cars are not something that you would see when you go to Germany. You would see many people walking on a sidewalk before you see a vehicle. Many families there dont even own a car. Many people sold their cars just to move to Germany.
It has been a record of pullotion from motor vehicles. Their are days were you have to leave your cars at home. If you were to drive on that day then you would have to pay a fine and even get your car took or impounded. There were about 4000 people that were fined and twenty seven got their cars impounded. Even numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home and if not they would suffer a 31 dollar fine and the same would apply to odd numbered plates the next day. | 2 |
55d7f9a | Can you imagine a time in the future when your driving a driverless car with your family or just you. When all of a sudden it malfunctions leaving you and your family critically injured or even worse dead.
Engineers have been working on perfecting driverless cars for many years. If we do get a completely driverless car, how much is that going to cost? Are they going to have to update the roads to keep up with the cars? Will everbody be able to afford this or just the rich? Were would all this money come from to pay for these roads, tax payers money. Putting all your trust and safety into technology and sensors to drive on their own, when anything can happen its not always 100% which could leave you or anyone else injured or dead.
The cars have these necessitates to alert the driver when its their turn to drive on situations required, but " wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" specially if that person is drunk or high and had no idea what was going on. Their relying on the car to get home while they have no sense in the world, but if the car tells them to start driving and they don't its just a accident waiting to happen. I believe these driverless cars give these reckless people to be even more reckless.
So can you really put all your trust or even imagine a future with driverless cars knowing its not 100% guarantee or knowing that reckless people could be behind the wheel and is endangering you and your family. The road to autonomous car can stop , we don't need a car that can do everything we do by making assumptions. | 3 |
55d9189 | How would you feel if you pulled up to a stoplight, and the person next to you was in the front seat, but wasn't driving? It would seem odd at first, but unfortuantely, there is a very good chance that that is the way things could be in the near future. Personally, I do not think that driverless cars should be invented. However, there are people that think that being able to go somewhere in a car without having to actually drive it would be a great idea. Driverless cars are not a good idea, because the cars may be more expensive since they are driverless, there could be malfunctions since the car would be made of new technology, and the people in the car would have to know when to be paying attention, in case of an emergency.
The first negative effect of having driverless cars, is the fact that the cars would probably be more expensive. Since the technology to make the cars would be expensive, the cars might be expensive themselves. If the cars are too expensive, no one would want to buy them unless they had a lot of money. Also, if not enough people are buying the cars, they might have to get discontinued eventually. If the cars had to get discontinued, everyone who already had one of those cars would be in hot water, becuase car repair people would not be able to fix their cars. This now leads me into my second reason why driverless cars should not be made.
What if the car has malfunctions? If there isn't an actual person driving the car, they won't be able to control the speed. The person will just have to trust the car to drive itself, and hope that it doesn't mess up, and accidently over accelerate and cause an accident. If the car did mess up while driving and caused an accident, someone would have to figure out whose fault it is. The article "Driverless Cars are Coming," made a good point by mentioning that if there is an accidnet, whose fault would it be - the driver or the company who made the car? There would defintiely be a big legal case to arise considering that the "driver" isn't technically driving the car.
The final reason that driverless cars should not be made, is because people would have to be able to learn to control the car. However, a positive thing about having driverless cars is that people would not need to take drivers ed anymore, but with a driverless car, you would still have to learn the ways of road. You would still need to be paying attention on the road. Just because your car would be driverless, doesn't mean that everyone's car would be driverless. For instance, if a wreck occured and you weren't paying attention in your driverless car, you wouldn't know whose fault it was, or if there was a way you could have stopped the wreck from happening. Going back to the text, the article mentions in paragraph seven that "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires."
To conclude, driverless cars should not be created. Driverless cars is a situation where the bad outweighs the good. There might be some positives to having a driverless car, but driverless cars seems to risky. With accidents happening, because people are not paying attention to their driverless car is not something I want to be involved in. Driverless cars are not the best idea, because they could possibly be more expensive than our regular cars, they could possibly have malfunctions to put the "driver" and others at risk, and the "driver" may not have to take drivers ed, but they would have to learn how to work their new car, which means that they would need to be paying attention. A driverless car is not something that I would invest in, but I could see them becoming popular in the near future. | 4 |
55e517e | Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Start" is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. In our solar system, Venus is the second planet from the sun. The nickname of
"Evening Star"
was given since Venus is actualy a planet.
Venus is the closest planet to the Earth in terms of density and size, and sometimes is the closest in distance too. The differences in speed beetwen Earth, Venus and Mars is that sometimes we are closest to the Mars and sometimes we are closest to Venus. The explication of why not a single spaceshio has touches down on Venus in moran than three decades is that each previous mission was unmanned, since no spacecraft survived the landing for mora than a few hours
The atmosphore of Venus is almost 97 percent carbojn dioxide, but one thing that is dangerous in Venus are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphore. The atmospheric presure in Venus is 90 times grather than in our planet, that means that in the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Farenheit, that is a extreme danger for us. Also notable, even Mercury is closer to our sun, Venus is the planet with the hottest surface temperature in our solar system; also al of this (the weather condition and the preasure) Venusian geology present other problems, for example there are many active volcans, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes.
The reason why scientists are even discussing the posibility to futures visits to Venus is because it is the planet most liked to the Earth in our solar system. One time maybe Venus was covered by oceans and life, just like the Earth.
NASA maybe have one solution to human can go to explore Venus. Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Just as our jet airplanes travel to a higher altitude to fly over many storms. At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Farenheit, but the preasure would be closest to the Earth's presure, there are still not easy condition but there can be survival for humans.
However, researchers cannot take samples of rok, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our5 machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus.
NASA is working in other ideas to solve this problem in Venus, for example, they are making a electronic device made by silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface.
Strivging to meet the challenge present by Venus, our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innvation. | 2 |
55e620e | As the years have gone by, technology has significantly improved. Computers, iPads, and phones are just a few examples. I have to admit, sometimes I really hate having technology around. People become so absorbed in their technology that they lose touch with real people. But what about driverless cars? I believe that we should not have driverless cars.
In the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the narrator states that, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills..." However, there lies an important problem in this statement. What if the person in the car is not paying attention? If people today talk on the phone and text while driving, the they most certainly will do the same when they are not driving. Sure the article says that, "...the car watches the driver," but a person can just ignore alerts and attention grabbing attempts from the car. Another problem is drunk drivers. If they drive drunk now, they will be a drunk passenger in the future. As soon as a human needs to take control, then we are back to the same problem as drunk driving now. Or, the drunk passenger could ignore the alert to drive altogether. I understand that in the future, cars may not need any human assistance at all, but the transition will be slow and if both human driven and driverless cars are on the road, I argue that a human driven car is safer. Yes, a driverless car will follow the rules of the road, but humans often do not. There have already been reports of Google cars getting into crashes because they were following the laws. However, a human driver may be able to react quickly enough to another driver.
In conclusion, human driven cars are safer than driverless cars. The transition to everyone having a driverless car will be slow, and therfore driverless cars will have to drive with human driven cars. They may follow the rules, but humans are unpredictable. Also, more people stay alert while actually driving a car rather than being a passenger. The age of driverless cars is not something we should look forward to, but rather something we should be wary of. | 4 |
55e8f8c | Could driverless cars prevent less accidents and be more safe for other drivers?
Driverless cars could prevent less accidents for drunk drivers, texting and driving, and other people who are on the road.
Other drivers on the road get in accidents and get killed from the people in the other car. The other person could be drunk and hit them. or they could be texting and get into an accidnet with other people. But if we have driverless cars we could prevent those people from getting behind the wheel and being in danger of killing other people for there stupid mistakes. It wouldnt only save the life behind the wheel but it will help save thousands of more.
thousands and thousands of people die every year from texting and driving. They have made apps on your phone to prevent you from it, there are commercials to stop you, and there is even a law now for it. But it still seems like they can't prevent this from happening. But with driverless cars i feel like the number of accidnets for texting and driving will decrease. It could just be a safer and easier way for people.
Drinking and driving is one of the most talked about and one of the biggest leading casues in accidents. If you got caught drinking and driving and you get pulled over you can go to jail for it. They have all these ways to try and prevent you from doing it. They even have sad commercials on television for it. But if we have driverless cars than it would be a much safer place on the road. there wont be thousands of accidents due to drunk driving now. and it will save not jsut your life but many others as well
If we could prevent drinking and driving and texting and driving by using driverless cars i think it would be a better world and it would save thousands of lives in the world | 3 |
55e920d | After reading this passage there are many benifits to limiting car use. For example the the limited number of cars on the road help with noise and smog polution. This acounts for a healthier life style. There is also less risk of injury. Limiting car use can be very effective in making a better tomorrow.
According to source 2 Paris bans driving due to smog and polution that vehicals make. This mostly accounts to the desile fueled cars as well as the older models with less eco friendly motors. By banning cars they were able to cut their polution hate to an all time low for Paris. Maybe this choice to ban and limit car use was a good idea for the people of Paris.
There is a car free day in Bogota where their main focus is to reduce smog as well as promote alternative transportation. This has proven to be affective. They have been doing this car free day for three consecative years now. Violaters of the car free day face 25 dollar fines. I think this is an great idea in order to preseve out planet.
The vast limiting of car use is becoming whats known as "The End of Car Culture." Americans are becoming less and less concerned with getting licenses and becoming more addaptive to alternative trasportation. This is a great coincadense in terms of preventing polution. The reduce in green house gases is a remarkable benifit to our planet. These are the benifits to limiting car use. | 3 |
55f64de | Being assingned president of the united states is a very big deal, especially to the millions of people that live in this god blessed country.
herThe united states of america has had different presidents ever since the beginning of this country. These presidents are not in it for the money, but they are holding the title
"
president"
because these people want what is right for this country. But, how do we pick who gets to be president? It all comes down to the electoral college. Citizens of the united states are allowed to vote at the age of 18, these votes are said to mean so much, but that isnt always the case. It really all comes down to the number of electoral votes. Why make all these citizens vote, when the outcome might not even follow along with these votes.
There are two types of votes. The electoral college votes, and the popular votes which is the number of citizens who voted for one certain canidate. How ever there has been times where the popular vote did not win the election. In 2000, canidate Gore had more of the popular votes then Bush did, but Bush had the most electoral votes. Shouldn't the citizens of this country be the ones who get to determine who the President is? I mean the President has a big duty and the citizens rely on His/Hers duty as president to keep things going right. The President can make huge decisions that affect these citizens which can make things horribly wrong or amazingly right.
Yes, I know the people in the electoral college are super smart geniuses that know what they are doing, but? This is the country i live in, this is the country i was raised in, this is the country i love and am so blessed to be. I deserve to be able to pick the president i want, or at least have my vote be the reason the president i was rooting for wins. Us fellow citizens of the united states only want whats best for us. We may not be as smart as the people in the electoral college, but that sure wont stop us from knowing who we like and who we think is better for our country. We deserve as much right to have our own president as much as anyone in the elecotral college does.
This God blessed country is home to millions, it might not be perfect, but it is the greatest country in the world. The people who get the amazing benefit of living here deserve to be able to elect the President they want. These people want what they believe is best. | 2 |
55f8696 | People should join the seagoing cowboy program because you would vist small towns and places you'd never seen before but being seagoing cowboy doesnt mean youll just go see random places. This program will open a new understanding of the world its self.
Although it sound all fun and games, there are risk so you got to be careful with making decisions, and acting properly at the places we go thier is also a chance you can learn new things in your expirents.
There a so many things we can teach you such as being a good map indecator, getting and showing respect . doing work with others can help you improve your social skils and mental way of thinkig.
This is why i know you should join because there is a benifity of you learning new skills and have a graet time doing it join, but remember there is also risk in doing so. | 2 |
55fa29c | The "face" is just another natural landform, no matter how weirdly shaped. Odd-shaped landforms can be made through wind erosion. Wind erosion can occur on any landform, and the outcome can be any shape. If it was not eroded, the planet could just have a landform different from what we have on Earth. Just because there is an oddly shaped landform on another planet does not mean that it was alien-made.
Much about Mars is undiscovered. This can mean that there are odd landforms which have not yet been discovered. Some of these landforms have the possibility of being shaped like a face or the sillouhette of one. The indentations of the "faces" can also be craters from meteors hitting the landforms. Because much is undiscovered, we must not jump to conclusions.
Natural landforms can take many shapes. They can range anywhere from cone-shaped to face-shaped. Just because it resembles a face does not mean it is alien-made. However, it could have been eroded to look similar to one. Many things are capable of making face-shaped landforms, not just aliens, which we are not yet sure even exist. | 3 |
55fb114 | In the excerpt ¨The Challenge of Exploring Venus,¨ the author makes many claims as to why exploring Venus is important despite the risks. The author supports this idea by giving examples as to how this exploration will expand our knowledge of our own planet and how it will advance space technology.
The first claim the author makes that supports the idea that studying Venus is worth it despite the risks is how alike Venus once was to Earth. In the second paragraph, it states, ¨Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too.¨ In the fourth paragraph it states ¨Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth...¨ Studying these features that are found on Venus could greatly benefit the human race and their knowledge about our own planet and the solar system around us. Furthermore, since Venus can ¨sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit,¨ it is important to explore the planet as a possible way to expand the footprint of mankind.
The second claim made by the author that supports the suggestion is that exploring Venus will require an expansion of our technological capabilities when it comes to spacecrafts. In the fifth paragraph, the author states that since the conditons on Venus are so harsh, NASA wolud need to develop a new device that ¨would allow scientists to float above the fray.¨ Since something like this has yet to be developed, the exploration of Venus would require mankind to create new technology. In the sixth paragraph, it is stated that ¨many researchers are working on innovations that would allow machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus,¨ which further supports the point that the exploration of Venus will improve our technology.
Through the claims that exploring Venus will advance our knowledge and astronomical technology, it is clear that the author believes studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents. After all, the author states that we should think of these risks as nothing more than just challenges. | 4 |
560237a | How would you feel if someone knew how you were feeling all the time? Well now they can. Scientis have created a new software that can detect human emotion to see just how exactly you're feeling. Is it useful? Or is it invasive? I think that it is useful, and here's why.
One way that facial recognition can be helpful, is that it can be used in classrooms to better the learning enviornment. According to paragraph 6, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becomig confused or bored." This can be useful for many teachers who have studnets that are confused but don't want to speak up. This can be very helpful for schools and change the way we learn for the better.
Another reason facial recognition can be useful, is in relationships and partnerships . Many people say that they can't tell how their friend or partner is feeling, but with this new software you just might be able too. In the passage it states that "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by the look on his/her face. Of course, most of us would have toruble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc." We might have had trouble detecting those emotions in the past, but not anymore. With this software you can always tell if your friend or partner is angry, sad, worried, or in trouble.
Lastly, one of the most important reason to why we need this computer software is for medicine. According to the passage, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games and video surgery." If doctors had this kind of technology to use for video surgery, it could change how we precieve medicine. This can make videos more realistic for new surgeons that are trying to learn how to operate. It could save someone's life.
With all of the infromation we have learned from the passage, I think that it is safe to say that this new facial recognition facial software is going to help us in the long run to better the way we learn and change the way we think. | 4 |
560cfe8 | As a scentist who works at NASA, I claims that this Face is a natural lanform made by the Mars land. I claims that this Face is a natural landform becuase first, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the orginal Viking photos. So, after taking the picture, with the best camera that exist at that time, scientist proved that the Face was a landform after all.
Secound, since the people did not believe that it's a landform. They took another picture again and Garvin says," It reminds me he picmost of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Which is just a landform on Earth. Before they took it, te picture that 1976 people took was just so blurr that they don't seem to know what it was and thought that it look like a face because of the shadow that makes the eyes, mouth, and head.
Third, the only reason that the people think it's created by an aliens is because at that time, they didn't have a better camera than we do right now. So, when the better camera took the picture, it shows that the Face was a butte or a mesa, which is a landforms common around the American West.
Someone who disagree with me says that it was an alien marking and that it
was hidden by the haze. But, here is why they are wrong. First, there is no such thing as alien. Second, 10 years of orbiting Mars, we still haven't seen alien or other life forms that came back for the " mark."
Conclution, I cliam that the Face is just a landform. Altough I think the Face was pretty saspesus. | 3 |
561e47d | The question is: created by aliens or just a natural landform? To the uninformed citizen, their answer would most likely be that the Face is created by aliens, and that we should all prepare for Earth's destruction. However, a well trained scientist at NASA, (like me), knows that the Face on Mars is obviously a natural landform.
You might be wondering how the Face on Mars got it's features. It might seem as if it was manmade because no amount of corrosion could make it look like an "Egyptian Pharaoh." That answer would be half correct because even though this natural landform is not manmade, the Face's features have not been created by corrosion. Shadows simply appeared in the picture, making it seem as if it were a face of an ancient pharoah. The Face is just another Martian mesa that is commonly found around Cydonia.
Although it is important to know how the Face got it's features, it is also important to know why NASA promoted this Martian mesa as "the Face on Mars."
NASA decided that promoting the pictures of the Face could make the public more interested in Mars. We were correct in this sense because it definitely attracted people towards Mars and it's peculiar landform. However, we were incorrect in the idea of promoting it as a Martain mesa that had the features of a pharoah. This image confused the public, and people started believing that there were actual aliens on Mars and that these aliens had made the Face. No matter how many times scientists released research that demolished the idea of life on Mars, the public twisted the story so that it was more interesting.
Even though there was an abundance of research showing there were no aliens making the Face, NASA went out and took more pictures. These images showed that it was only a natural landform, and that there are no actual features on the Face. As I said before, the features were merely created by shadows.
Of course, people still argued that NASA was wrong. People kept saying that the "markings" were hid by the clouds, and that these images were simply a failure on NASA's part. This failure being that they somehow forgot to take into account that there was clouds. However, as NASA was more than careful taking these pictures, the images were as accurate as possible.
The Face on Mars may just be a hoax, but NASA's research is nothing of the sort. NASA has proven that their detailed research is used to make sure that the public is well informed. The Face may have just been a natural landform, but the public's enthusiasm for these images, (no matter how skeptical), is something that can never be recreated with shadows. | 4 |
5622b3a | Have you ever thought of trying new things or to discover something incredible ?Even if it is dangerous ? i know i have , but I've never gave it chance. Reading this passage makes me want to take risks because we only have one life and we should take risk and discover our planet because it is worth it. Would you take a risk?
In this passage it talks about taking a risk to discover some information of our planet called Venus. It is one of the most dangerous planet on Earth , but Is it worth it to take a risk? just to discover how Venus is ? Here are some information that the author has given us that he claims that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Venus has the hottest surface even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Maybe that is the issue of why not a single spaceship has touched down to Venus.
Discovering Venus could be worth it because we would know more information about our planet. Venus once was covered with oceans and had support of life forms just like Earth. Today , Venus still has features that are analogous of Earth. There are many ways on how we can discover Venus as the author describes we can use machines and test other people in space with different techniques.
So, there is ways on how you can discover something without being dangerous and is worth to discover for .Take a challenge because us humans have curiosity that will likely lead us into many other things in life. Our decisions in life should not be limited by dangers and doubts about discovering our planet , but should be expanded to meet the very end of discovering. | 3 |
562a16f | Hey are you the adventure type of boy? Do you want to go out and see the world and try new things. Well now theres a way you can join "The Seagoing Cowboys". This offers you an exiting trip to different places around the world like China, Rome, Europe, and much much more.
If you join this now you know it will be an oppertunity of a lifetime. So if some of you folks want to come up and take a cruise to different places around the world then do it. Alright so the war is over if you want to just get away from it all and relax for a couple of months then come the Seagoing Cowboys programs.
If you turn 18 (drafting age) you could just do your time on the cruise so you dont really have to go to battle.
If you visit Venice, Italy you can take a gondola ride in the city of, Streets of Water. If you like ancient history you can take a trip to Greece to see the Acropolis. You can also see the castles in Crete. You can sight see your way through the Panama Canal on your way to China.
There will be amazing views that your family can enjoy If you go to China you can discover there peaceful ways through their food and their nature. Or you can look at the tropical beach and see that amazing view. So theres many things you can do in this program you just have to let youself go and try new things, I think you or your family will love it.
Theres many places you can go, places to see, places you can enjoy. Theres nothing that can stop you to relax and have fun. Remember if theres anywhere you want to go, just join The Seagoing Cowboys Program, I think you'll love it! | 3 |
562a5b2 | The selctions I just read contain one common subject:people drive less cars now in the first and second selection both talk about how some neighborhoods ban the use of cars on certian or all days. In the first selection In german suburb, life goes on without cars the author Elisabeth Rosenthal states " 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there." In other words they either had a car but sold it to move or they never had a car to begin with.
In selection 2, it talks about how people are not evven allowed to drive cars on certain days of the week. In paragraph 2 the authour says "On Monday motorists with even numbered license plates are ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine."
The final 2 selections discuss how studies show that people in America are driving less and less as time passes by. In my opionion I think we shoud do whatever we think is right. | 1 |
562b33a | Do you think there are advantages to reducing car usage? There are many advantages in limiting car usage. Reducing car usage can decrease the amount of pollution and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It can increase physical activity and decrease stress. There can be numerous advantages when we reduce the amount of car usage.
To begin, there are various advantages in reducing the amount of car usage. Limiting car usage can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." (
In Germany Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal). This is an example of how greenhouse gases are polluting the atmosphere; limiting car usage can reduce the amount of pollution being released. "'It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,' said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza". (
Car-free Day Is Spinning Into A Big Hit In Bogota by Andrew Selsky). This is an example of the advantages of limiting car usage.
In addition, some people may think that there are no advantages to limiting car usage; however, they don't think about how it can help the world around them. Durning a car-free day in Bogota, people will use different transportations and avoid traffic jams. "Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." (
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal). This is an example of how over the years, people are using less car fuel and reducing air pollution. People are beginning to realize that buying a car is not a priority. To reduce pollution and save movey, people car-pool with others. "A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009..". (
The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal). this states that the number of young people are not driving as much as they use to; therefore, it helps reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being released and amount of people on the road.
Finally, there are many advantages in limiting car usage. Limiting the amount of car usage will reduce greenhouse gases, stress behind the wheel, and traffic jams. Greenhouse gases can be very harmful when released into the atmosphere. There may be less deaths due to crashes, and less frustration due to traffic. There can be many advantages and people around the world should consider limiting their car usage. | 3 |
562ca6d | Being apart of the UNRRA is fun for those who join because,"besides helping people i had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China." also it takes about two weeks to cross the atlantic ocean from the eastern coast. Also, it takes a month to get to China. that gives him you alot of time to sight see.
On the way to the destination you will have alot of responcibilities like the animals had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats were given to the animals every day. Yes it has alot of responsibilities. However,when they are on there way back to the place they got shipped of from they had a lot of time to play around since they where done like,"The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds that the animals been housed . table tennis tournaments , fencing, boxing, reading ,wittling,and games also helped pass the time."
If you join the UNRRA you chould have the experience of a lifetime,because it was a opportunity of a lifetime for luke just as it could be for you. Luke was the first person to make nine trips,you might be the second. However,that is only if you decide to join the UNRRA. It will be fun for you if you join the Sea going Cowboys. Also while you are on the boat you get to see alot of the world,so you better go join up before they run out of space. | 3 |
562ee5f | Imagine being in classroom and your assign to work with a computer and the computer could recoginze when your becoming bored or confused. There a new technoloy called the Facial Action Coding System computer that can identify human emotions. This software has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surspries, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. This new technology is valuable to read the emotion expression of student in a classroom because it can help student with their learning skill and help teacher know what their student are feeling.
This new technology is valuable to read the emotion expression of student in a classroom because it can help student with their learning skill.
According to paragraph 6 (" a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored") This show that a teacher can know when a student is having trouble understanding what their supposed to do. It can also help teacher know when a student didn't like the work she or he give her and can make better assignment.
This new technology is valuable to read the emotion expression of student in a classroom because it help teacher know what thier student are feeling. According to paragraph 3 (" then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologist, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS( Facial Action Coding System ). Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surspries, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles.") This mean that a tecaher can know what their student are feeling and can help them. This can also help know if a student is feeling fear to go to school because maybe she being bullied.
However some people may think that this new techology is not vablable to read the emotion expression of student in a classroom because not everyone can make the same face expression but, there wrong. According to paragraph 4 (" the facial expression for each emotion are uiversal obseerves Dr. Huang, ven though indiviuals often show varying degrees of expression".)This mean that this software can know how everyone is feeling no matter of their different faces.
Therefore this new technology is valuable to read the emotion expression of student in a classroom because it can help student with their learning skill and help teacher know what their student are feeling. This softwore work with anyone and can help people. So what do you think about this new technoloy ? | 4 |
5638723 | Dear Mr. Senator,
The way the voting is now in the United States needs to be changed. It should change from Electoral College to popular vote. The voting system is an all or nothing system which means lots of peoples votes would not count for the president they want. If the voting system changes the president would actually be picked by the people and not by a group of people who won the popular vote.
The electoral college is unfair to many people because their vote goes to waste if the other slate of electors won. In Source 2 it says "On the off-chance that those electors win the statewide election, they would go to Congress and... would get... electoral votes." That is saying that part of the votes would not count because the other group won and not the one they wanted to win. So then the president will get a certain number of electoral votes based on the population of that state. Some people feel like their votes are not needed as much because if the majority of that state chose the other candidate.
The electoral college is a good idea, but people can betray the trust of others. In Source 3 it says "...each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee..." That means the voters have the ability to vote for the other candidate. If someone decides to vote for the other candidate then some peoples votes will have been for nothing. If we had the popular vote voting system then everyones vote would go to the specific candidate, and people would not have to hope the person they slate they pick has everyone pick the candidate they were trusted to vote for.
In the end the voting system of the United States is built on trust. If we have the popular vote voting system everyones vote would go to the candidate that wanted it to go to and not have their vote be wasted on a slate that may or may not win. With the popular voting system the president would win on popular vote and not electoral vote; therefore, the president could not cheat his way to power by targeting big states. | 3 |
563d1cf | I think that the author supports the idea because its good to find out about a new planet when we need to move form ours. I think taking risks for mankind is good because what will happen when our would is almost gone and we need a place to stay. I think we need to explor to because it will also help with knowing things and see if there are living things there as well. I think this because lots of sientits are looking at the planet and studying it and making all the obserations that they can make from just looking at it. I feel like when we do send things to that planet we are not finging anything else i think they ned to send people to that planet but be 30 miles away so nothing happens to anyone and nobody gets hurt or dies. Despite the dangers i think it is a very good cause. | 2 |
564167f | Estimate Senator:
As one of the people living in Florida I am honor to have the opportunity to wirte you this letter telling you about what I think about keeping the Electoral College. For numerous reasons I think we have a better outcome of getting the candidate we want if we keep the Electoral College method to vote for our candidates.Does reasons are : certanity of outcoem, Everyone's president, and swing states.
Paragraph 1
Topic: Certainty of outcome
Support: Problems over Electoral College is possible but not as much as problems over popular vote. "The reason is that winning candidate's share of the winning candidate's share of the Electoral Colleg invariably exceeds his share of popular vote".This also benefits small states. In addition the is a possibility to have a tie in nationwide electoral vote " because the total number of votes-538-is an even number, but it is highly unlikely.."
Paragraph 2
Topic: Everyone's president
Support: The candidate have to be neutral, it cannot have favorite religion or section of the country because "The residents of the other regions ae likely to feel disenfranshised-to feel that their votes do not count,that the new president will have no regard for their interests,that he really isn't their president".
Paragraph 3
Topic: Swing States
Support: Candiates most of the time choose to focused more on the toss-up states because they are "the most thoughtful voters [and] should be the ones to decide the election".
Counterargument
"The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor".People are worried that the governmetn will choose for them. They do not realise that if we don't have the electoral college than that is is more than likely to happen because the electoral college is what allows us to have a voice, a say, in what we want in our future president.
Conclusion
Keeping the electoral colloge gives the peope the opportunity to choose wisely who they want taking care of them for the next four years.
Thank you for your time,
PROPER_NAME | 4 |
56482fc | The idea of limiting car usage is a outstanding plan. Because of this idea it helps out everybody in a way so that there are good advantages. By limitig the usage of cars the air will have less polution and that means better air for us to breath. In france diesal makes up 67 percent of vehicles, witch is definately not helping the polution problem. If people use their cars less that means that they save money on gas. Ovcourse the proble is the smog in that country so that os why they want to limit the driving. Like it says over the past two decades they want to make the cities denser, and better for walking in the suburbs. In the suburbs make i more compact and more accessible to public transportation with less space for parking. All the development since world war II has been centered on the car. David Goldberg said a fast growing coalition of hundreds of groups in the united states ... who are promoting new communities that are less dependent on cars. That will be a good thing because it is an advantage of less polution in the atmosphere. So that is all of the advantages of less car usage. | 2 |
5649ce7 | Hello! Have you ever wanted to ride waves? Come and join the "Seagoing cowboys". The war was horrible and left millions of animals alone. Help other countries get betterand become a Seagoing cowboy, of the world. Join the program to help cattle,horses, and more. You travel the world and get a place to stay. You will stay in a ship and get some time to visit the sight's. For example you could visit Europe and China. Acropolis in Greece, the Gondorola ride in Venice, Italy, the city with streets of water. Their of course will be the the excavated castle in crete and the Panama canal.
You might get lucky and get to see the nine trip Segoing cowboy Luke Bomberger. "I'm very grateful for my opportunity," he says. " It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." And that awarness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of intrnational students and exchange visitors for many years. | 2 |
564b781 | If there was technology that could read your emotion in a class room i think that would be benifishal for how the students learn. this could help the students stay on task if it changes the lesson. Another thing that it could help with is to tell the teacher if the student is staying on task or not by seeing if they are telling the truth. the system could also help to see if some one is sad or if there is somthing wrong.
I think this system could mostly help with people staying on task during a lesson by changing it so it appeals to the student more. This is shown in the text when the texts states that " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." Also the system can also show what adds you like to see. For example for me i would like to see more game adds so when the pop up and i look happy about it it will show more of them and if a add pops up that i do not like it will not show there adds. It could also improve vidio game quality and or sugery videos to teach new sergent what to do. this is shown in the text when the text states "The same technology can make computer animated ffaces more expressice for video games or vido surgery."
after reading this article i think the programe that can read your face could be vary usfull in the long run for teaching and gamming. like improving game quality, improving teaching methods and so on. i think it will be nice to have during school when we are taking a lesson and someone gets bord and there is nothing we can really do about that but this programe on the other hand can change the lesson so it is more interesting for that sead person. This also could teach people how to do jobs by showing them a video that has better graphics and better fashal feters. | 3 |
564fda9 | Venus should be studied because there may be other life forms on it. The article says that venus is like the morning star. So we should treat it like the morning star. We should also work out and take rocket fuel when we can so if someday we get to Venus we can be the alphas. Mars also has life forms and we should take them down like it's Star Wars. Venus also has valuable resources such as metal and rock and other things we need. We should send over rovers first before we go ourselves.
It could be very dangerous if we just waltz in there. NASA should send out a rover and test it and see what is going to happen if we step foot on there. We have the technology so why can't we do it. Our travles beyond earth should not be limited by danger and we should be fearless. We are also going to have to build suits that can make us step foot on there and see what we can do and get from this planet. Someday we may have to leave Earth and go to another planet and we are not going to know which one to go to because we haven't studied it yet so i encourage that we should go to Venus and see what we can do with it. We own the universe. So we should explore more. | 2 |
5652951 | Many people believe in conspiracy theories,that may sometimes not be backed by evidence. Some examples of this are Bigfoot or aliens. Another conspiracy theory is of the face on Mars. In 1976 NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was orbiting the planet, when it came a across something that appered to look a lot like a human face. Many conspiracy theorists believe that this landform on Mars has to do with aliens.
There is evidence that shows that the face on Mars has nothing to do with aliens. Modern technolgy has allowed us to further investigate on theories like this. "Micheal 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 website, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." (paragraph 7). In 2001, the Mars Global Surveyor was able to take a closer look. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixal size."
With the last visit of the Face on Mars in 2001, scientists were able to get a closer look at the landform. They were able to compare the landform on Mars to the landforms here on Earth. " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa-landforms common around the American West. It reminds me most of the MIddle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho". (paragraph 12). With this evidence we can tell that the landforms on Mars are simliar to the ones on Earth. Making it more likely to be caused by natural events in Mars's atmosphere.
Scientists at NASA, have enough knowledge and have done enough reshearch to differniate if events or landforms, like the Face, happen natrually or unaturally. For example," Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusal shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." (paragraph 2). Another insistance was when NASA shared the image of the Face and the author who wrote the caption clearly explained how the landform looked like a face. "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."(paragraph 3).
As you can see people who belive in conspiracy theories, often do not have the evidence to back up that theory. The reason for these theories often come from movies and tv shows. "The "Face of Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magizines, radio talk show- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars- evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists." (paragraph 5). Many theories erupt from things like movies and books, but if we have the right evidence, than soon we will be able to know the real facts and really understand what is going on around us. | 4 |
565414d | My position on driverless cars is, I believe they are very dangerous and should not be used by anybody. Although they may be nice when you don't want to drive somewhere but need to go, I do not believe this is something Americans should be taking up for various reasons.
First off, I do not think self-driving cars are very safe. If I were to be in a self driving car, I would not be able to relax and trust the car to do the driving, because i'd fear it hitting something causing an accident or just stopping in the middle of the road. Even if the car had automatic stop and auto break systems, I would still have to be very causious and keep my eyes on the road, which is similar to driving a car, so why not save the anxiousness and drive? I believe Americans are getting more and more lazy, therefore they want a self driving car instead of just driving themselves. I think that driving yourself and making sure you are safe, is much better of an idea than putting you're trust in a computerized car. Many questions come to mind when I think about self driving cars.
A question that comes to mind while thinking of driverless cars is, whose fault is it if an accident is caused? Would you blame yourself for the accident or the cars since it was driving? Many problems would arise when dealing with this. For example, if the car industry blames the accident on the person, the person could sue the car company stating that it was the car in control, therefore not being the persons fault, it would be the cars. On the other hand, car industries could argue that the person should've been paying attention to the road, and not putting in their full trust with the car.
In conclusion, there is a lot to think about when dealing with driverless cars, whoses fault accidents would be, what the new age limit for driving would be, and also whether or not to put you're trust into these cars. Many problems and conflicts would occur, therefore I believe the people should stick to driving the cars. How hard is it to drive a car by ourselves, do we really need the help, or are we just too lazy to want to drive places? Although I admit it would be nice to not have to drive when going on long distance trips, I dont think i'd be able to trust the car to drive for me, and I wouldn't be able to relax when dealing with a self-driving car, even if it had been tested multiple times. I don't think i'll ever be switching to a self-driving car. | 4 |
5656b7e | Wow!, many people suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present. Venus is the planet that is the closest to earth. 97 persent of carbon dioxide blankeds the venus. Our sister planet is very inhospitable.
First, Venus is closest to earth. They also says the venus is the seconds planet from the sun. They also says that the Venus is the brightest in the night sky light. In paragraph 1 says that" In our solar system, Venus is the second planet that is from the sun. Venus can be easly seen from the distance but save vantage point of earth".
Then, 97 persent of carbon dioxide blankeds the venus. When there is a lots of carbon dioxode blankeds it more challenging. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The temperature on planet average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planets in our solar system, Mercury is closer to the sun but somehow the Venus is the hottest planet.
Next, Our sister planets. Astonomers are fascinated by Venus, Because it may well once has been
the most earth-like planets in our solar system. Venus still has some features that are analugous to those on earth. Then I think it mean that the Venus is like our earth planet, I wonder if there is a plant on Venus just like earth. NASA has one particular compelling idea for senting human to stusy the Venus.
In conclution, sciecties suggests people to study the Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present. They also say that Venus is closest to earth. 97 persent of carbon dioxide blankeds the venus.Our sister planet is very inhospitable. | 1 |
5657bd7 | Cars are not the most important thing in our lives. Although cars are helpful, not having one can help you a lot in the long run. Having a car causes so much stress worrying about the traffic if you're going to be late for work or school, gas prices are not as low as people would like. If you had to walk everywhere or ride your bike, you could be getting a lot of exercise from it. People think having a car is so important but they dont see the positive side to it.
Many people stress out if they are not going to make it to work on time because of traffic, I know that I dont make it to school on time because of all the traffic trying to get into my school is horrible. Instead of stressing out, you can just go on a calm walk or bike ride to your destination. In the article written by, Elisabeth Rosenthal, there is a quote from Heidrun Walter saying, "when I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," because they had banned cars in his city. You can always find an alternative way of getting to where you need to go. If someone has a meeting to go to, they can always use the alternative of the Internet if they cant get their in time or the weather is not the best. Instead of stressing out about driving, you can walk to your destination and save money from not paying for gas.
We all know that gas prices are high and out of our budget. They've reached four dollars, that's insane! Why would anyone want to spend that money if they don't have to. There is a simple solution on saving your money that you waste on gas, and that is walking or riding your bike. Some people can afford the prices of gas but others are struggling in the economy but are to lazy to walk, nobody wants to get exercise so they drive everywhere.
Banning cars on the street is a good way to help people get exercise. If they know they can't drive, they would obviously walk or take a bike because they have places to be. It would be an effective way to get people to stop being lazy and helping their health. Some people would probably get frustrated because they have to walk everywhere but it's only helping them.
Walking or riding a bike is a good opportunity to realize the beauty of life without stressing out over bad drivers or traffic, saving money, and getting exercise. Most people would think banning cars on the street is a good idea for those few reasons. I know that it is super effective although some people may not see it until it actually changes. | 4 |
565993b | I strongly agree the auther did a great job , on supporting his idea on the suggesten of studing venus is worth a shot , despit the dangers it presents . the resaon i agree with him is becuse he has great supporting details .
The reason i think he did a good job supporting his claim is because not just did he tell us intersting facts but he also gave us a bit of back round like it's name and so forth . The most important infomashion i think the author gave was talking about the atmosphere ."A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide ." found in paragraph 3 . Also telling us about the planet surface temperature and going realy indep " on the planet's suface ,temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit , and the atomospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experence on our own planet ". "beyond high pressure and heat " .
This is why i strongly support the auther on supporting his claim on the suggesten on the stupping venus will be a great idea anad also open up new doors . | 2 |
565a109 | "So, Ms. Granger, do tell, why are you trying to cover all this up? There obviously are aliens on the red planet and NASA clearly doesn't want the common people to know about it." The reporter who was sent here was clearly around my age. He still had the eagerness, the thirst to fulfill his new job at some big-shot online journal, that all of the typical just-graduated liberal arts majours hold those first few years in the real world.
Obviously, I am not one of those people. At 23 I graduated from Oxford with a degree in all the sciences needed to allow me to come here. Working at NASA has been my lifelong dream. It sounds so incredibly cheesy but I actually have had this.. passion for our solar system since I was in primary school. While all the other children were collecting stuffed toys, I would watch episodes of BBC science programs. So after 18 years of working incredibly hard, I landed the prestigious position that I hold now.
"Miss Granger, will you please tell the people the truth already?" This guy was really starting to bother me. With his greasy mouse-like brown fringe and anticipating blue eyes he reminded me of my sister, which is not exactly a good thing for me. And so I finally responded. "I'm so very sorry.. Ron, is it? I have of course come prepared to give you my upmost cooporation in getting this across to you; the 'face' you people claim to see is simply a landform. You are from Idaho, correct?" I studied his face to reassure myself that what I said was correct before his responding. "Yes indeed, I grew up there, in fact it is still my favorite state." I couldn't be more delighted at this point. "well, being as Idaho is, in fact, your 'favourite state' I am sure that you have seen some fairly interesting landforms in your time there. Mesas, perhaps?" He started stuttering "Well I um.." I nearly laughed right then and there but contained my composure. "Wonderful, here are some images that I have brought with me for reference." I pulled out numerous images of different landforms along with all of my program's iconic shots of the so-called "face on Mars'. "As you can see," I said, laying out the images on the conference table, brushing Ron's laptop aside as I did so. "These landforms hold a striking similarity to your foolishly called 'face', do they not? And so, Mr. Fitzgerald, here is where I prove, once and for all, the sheer ridiculousness of all you and your people's theories. The images you see before you are all very much factual and do not lie nor hold secrets in them whatsoever." I looked up to see the man's expression simply dumbfounded. "You did not even allow me to finish my questions." I shrugged, I have never been the type for politeness. "Not that we are finished yet, I still need to ask you this; would NASA feel the need to cover up an alien colony? Would you feel threatened, not have a great enough budget?" Ah, here we go again. "As my fellow colleagues and I have published statements about thrice more before, obviously we would find no problem in finding new life. The sheer notion of that discovery makes many of us feel giddy." I adjusted my pencil skirt nonchalantly so as to not seem as uncomfortable as I felt at that moment. Ron seemed to notice this. "Well, if that is the entire truth then it seems I won't be needing anything else. Thank you so much for your time, Miss Granger." "The pleasure is mine alone." i reponded, my voice coming out in a far cooler tone then intended. Thank god the man hadn't asked about our other image records. | 3 |
5661a04 | Imagine you feeling that nice breeze,while your on a ship as an Seagoing Cowboy. Being a Seagoin Cowboy is a very fun experience. Why you should be a Seagoing Cowboy is for these reasons you can visit other places, helps experience hard work, and can be fun.
First, You should be a Seagoing Cowboy because you can visit places you never been to. In the text, The author states," Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China." The text also states,"The cattle-boat trips were unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," he says." This shows that visiting places can be fun and relaxing time.
Second, learning something new and hard working can help you. In the text, the author said,"Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship." The text also states, the author said," Helping out on his aunt Katie's farm as a boy had prepared Luke
for hard work, but not for dangerous at sea." This shows that mistakes can help you later on in the feature.
Last, if your ever bored you can always have fun on board. In the text, the author said," The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed." The text also states, The author said,"Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, games also helped pass the time." This shows that Seagoing Cowboys love playing sports.
Now again if you want to be a Seagoing Cowboy is for these reasons you can visit new places, can experinces hrd work, and have fun. If you wan tto be a Seagoing Cowboy all you have to do is join in and you can do all the stuuf that Luke did. | 4 |
566528a | Is the future really coming? Resent studies have showed that people around the world are starting to stop there love of cars nearly everywhere. in countrys like Germany,France,bogota, and the usa rates have shown that people are not buying as many cars a year as they normally do. Some countrys are even starting to have a national day where they are walking, skating, and riding a bike to work, and for those who do not follow the rules they are getting taxed and haveing there vehicals impounded. Can you belive that?
In citys like Vauban, Germany- People have to pay $40,000 to park they car that they own, the bright side is that they get a house along with it. as stated in sourse 1, " 70 Percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here." This statement is explaining how its not worth it to have a car in this town. People here are more oftenly found riding a bike or skating to there destination due to this "car-free" town.
Paris, France has been forsed to stop using there cars ever once in a while due to all the smog in there city. in Source 2 it is stated that, "... Motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave there cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine($31). The same would apply yo those Odd-Numbered plates the following." this is telling you that there city was so bad tha the goverenment was forsed to have ther city be taxed if thet wanted to drive ther car. Normally paris has more smog then other places in europe. some dilevery companys were mad at paris due to there lost revenue. Although cars that could be plugged in, hybrids, and cars carring three or more people were allowd.
Bogota in colombia has set up a program to where once a year they have a day where no one in the town uses there cars. It is hard to belive that 7 million people would do it but its very true. Even with those who have to drive there car they get taxed a $25 fine. doing this international day has lead more and more citys to stop using ther cars as much and just walking because it relives traffic jams and other stressful things.
In conclusion the world is stopping the use of cars as much as they have been used in the last couple of years. We talked about three diffrent places today. Rates have shown that world wide citys doing this activity where they do not use there cars has truly brought down the rate of smog. bring down the rate of smog will give us a better future for our future leaders in this world and allow them to live. | 2 |
5668a5f | in the beginning of the story it is saying that the people and cars are able to work together because it will stay there and be with them most of that.
Then there are the casws of the underly populate areas in a city so they might go and vreate an area for them to live and play around in. They might have just gotten taken in as if the were to go and drive or even walk with them for as long as possnle. Then there are the way some of them that are driving a certain car for a time being until they were able to help the enviornment that is neer by. Then in the second passage it is saying that people will try to use there cars less so that the smog will go fading little by little or is it going to start to disapate. I must say that it might take a while until they might have made it at the time they could have done it so they might even try to create a day when no one will be using a car so they might get a better life and they might be able to pervent smog also and they might get to a part of the atmoshere and depleat the ozone layer making the sun even harsher for us. So these are the things about the people that were trying to stop the bad effects on the inviornment. | 1 |
56690c7 | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", most likely suggests that Venus is worthy of studying, because of the comparisons he or she makes in paragraph four. The author goes on in paragraphs 5-7, by discussing various ways that scientists are trying, or have tried studying Venus from space. In the first couple paragraphs they explain the different dangers that come with space missions to explore Venus.
The author of this text refers to Venus in paragraph two as "Earth's 'twin'".
He begins to elaberate more by given facts about how the two planets are alike. "Venus is the closet planet to Earth in terms of density and size", the author says. Venus is sometimes the closet planet to Earth, thus being the reason why humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on, as the author calls it, a "cloud-draped world". Every mission to Venus, hasn't in the lamest terms, been successful. The spacecrafts sent there have only lasted for a couple of hours, and this is why every mission has been unmanned.
There are numerous factors that contribute to humans having many chanlleges to to study a planets with a reputation like Venus. As the author explains, "a thick atmosphere of almost 97 carbon dioxide blankets Venus". In paragraph three of the text the author goes more in depth about the harshness of Venus's atmosphere. Temperatures on Venus average about 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure exceeds those 90 times greater than what we experience here on Earth. These types of conditions could crush a submerine made to travel to the deepest parts of our oceans. Depite just the atmospheric conditions Venus has an array of erupting volcanoes and powerful earthquakes, to name a few, that occur on its surface.
Paragraph four is where the author begins to make more comparisons between Earth and its dangerous sister planet Venus. The author explains or hypothsizes that Venus was once like Earth. They belive Venus at one time had oceans, and could support many forms life, like Earth. Venus has many analogous features similar our planet. Venus has valleys, moutains, and craters. The author also says that returning to Venus is almost indisputable, and how could they make it safer and efficent for scientists.
In the next couple paragraphs the authors goes over the possible NASA and it's scientists are trying to make travel to Venus better. They believe that if man would go on a mission to Venus they would have to travel almost 30 miles above the firery planet. At that distance tempertures would still be above 150 degrss Fahrenheit, but the pressure would have gone down the that of sea levels on Earth. Later in paragraphs 6-8 the author trys to give details on the different ways these scientists are trying to devlop metals and other materials that could last longer than just a couple of hours. The author, in the last paragraph says that the exploration of Venus has much value, not being of the planet itself, but because human curiosty will likely lead humans into many eaqually intimidating endeavors. | 4 |
567bfa6 | There are many ways and oppinions that this may be put in but I say that this is valuable. This is valuable because if you were taking a drama class you could understand the real meaning of anothers feelings and become a more proffesional actor if you were to persue that career."Constantin, a renowned drama coach, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage." This device would be used as an educatonal purpose as one of it's uses but it can be used for other thing's aswell. You can also use it during a surgery.
For instance, if you were performing surgery on a person and he/ she decides to all of a sudden show sighns of pain through the device they can quickly give another dose of pain medicine and more gas to make the patient go back to sleep.
Again there are many uses for this device and I agree that it should read student's emotional expressions because it would be benefitial and others would be of the understanding of one anothers feelings. This valuable information can also help students if one is feeling sad then a counselor can help. This may even save lives in the future, such as if someone is very suspicous the technology can read there emotional state and may even predict what they coulve done in the future to hurt somebody. This could even detect wther a person is on alchohol or under the influence of drugs.
This new technology is down right phenominal and I hope this proceeds to be a succesful type of technology for the future of humanity. | 3 |
568497d | I favor in to changing election by popular vote because it would be more fair to the people who are running and it would be quicker to decide who is president.
I think its better to be elected by popular votes because people actually like the person for a reason and actually listening to what that person is saying and actually agrees what he saying and they see something in that person instead of just having congress vote count mostly instead of the citizens.
And its not really fair that a person wins just because of his or hers own group of electors gets him to win it should just be based on popularity because its fair as i said before for example what if their was some person running for president and he was not really good to run the United States and yeah some people voted for him but he wasnt as popular but he won the election because of his group itb wouldnt really be fair because the people perferd the other guy better in office. Why because ethier people liked what he had for the states n what he would offer to the people and actually help us live good and thats what is important for the state its all about the people wants because thats how we will live right.
Also the person running for office might not have any electorial votes because theie campaigning wasnt heavy in a certain part of the state so they would oviously vote for the other person because they really havent seen what that person has to offer to them and he will have less succes in winning the election.
It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate witch means that they can relie on their state as much so they really wouldnt pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by a popular vote but of course no voters vote swings a national election.
And thats why I favor in popularity votes because its more fair for the canidates and its a better system in electing a president. | 3 |
5687d29 | Luke is a town boy who likes to help people with diffrent things
He has a two part time job at the grocery store and one at the bank with his friend don. Don asked luke if he wanted to go to europe on a cattle boat luke said yes right away he was so exited
It was 1945 world war 11 jjust finished in europe there towers knocked over and broken glass everywhere luke and don disdeiced to join the unrra(the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation) luke and don traveled everywhere to help people find a home,food,and water. It was august 1945 luke and don went to new orleans and got their seaman's papers and boarded the ss charles w. And went to greece with horses. On their way to greece luke turned 18 which met he could be drafted for the millitary service by the time he was discharged in 1947 luke had already gone to nine trips then any seagoing cowboy the trips were unbelievable then after they went to europe they got to go to china it was amazing for such a small town boy but being a seagoing boy was much more than a adventure he will never forget and the people he visited he was so aware of the people and other cuntries that needed help he will do anything to help people through the years. | 1 |
5688842 | In my opinion there many positive and negatives about using driverless cars. Driverless cars can even be very safe and very dangerouds in the matter of seconds. Personally I dislike the idea of making these cars, because i think i would help on ocassions but could really hurt someone . But there is one thing I am worried about manufacturing these cars. Since the car is practically taking over what if the driver falls asleep and dosen't wake up when the have to do something on their own, like going around a work zone.
In 2013, BMW announced the "Traffic Jam", and i think it is a good idea about how the car can announce when the driver need to take over and that the car can practically be on its own to do most things. But also on the other hand if you did have a car drive and it is not like a car has a human brain and can think when a animal runs past on a dark street. Even the fact that BMW is trying to put in "in-car entertainment". Because if they do that the driver has another reason to not pay attention to the road.
I am for the few states that are making even test driving these cars illegal because the car are not reliable enough to have the cars on the road. Tesla is even trying to release a car that will be driverless 90 nprecent of the time in 2016. Which in my opinion is a terrible idea because they are making it so when you drive you pretty much have no control over your car. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan are planning to even make a car in 2020 that drives itself. I think it is unbelieveable that manufactures want to make make a car completely driverless and let the accidents and deaths depend on the driver and not the automakers.
In conclusion I dislike the ideas of making cars that can be almost driverless and even consider making a car in 2020 so you do not have to drive at all and just let the car drive for you. Hopefully someone will aslo see that this is something we shouldn't be doing and try to correct it before it is to late to correct it. | 4 |
5690be0 | Senator,
"What Is The Electoral College?"
Asks
The Office OF Federal Register . The Electoral College is a process that consists of the selection of the electors. The Founding Fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President.
"
Does The Electoral College Work?"
Is The Question That remains.
"What's Wrong With the electoral college"?
Electors have refused to vote for their party's candidates and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please. "This is the single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster fact". I Think The Disaster Fact is What Has the Office of the Federal Register questioning the Electoral College. Although, The System Allows For Much Worse.
The Electoral College is widely regarded an anachronism. a non-democratic way of selecting our president.
I Think The Electoral College is Unfair Because of The Winner-take-all system in each state. The Winner-takes-all system is the system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. it's basically a gamble. you come with electors, hope for the best and if your luck is good you leave with a jackpot, but sadly if you dont get the jackpot you lose all. I Agree That "The Electoral College Is Unfair,Outdated,And Irrational."-
states paragrah 14
Certanity of Outcome, Everyone's President, Swing States, Big States,Avoid Run-Off Elections are the "Five resons to keep our despised method of choosing the president", These reasons still dont give us any solutions. The five reasons arent about being fair its about what comes along with winner-takes-all.
Senator, I think that we should change the way the voting system for the electoral college,because the winner-takes-all has barely worked over the years and now its just unfair.
This is why i think the Electoral College should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. | 2 |
5691a11 | The Seagoing Cowboys is a very inspiring program. Not only do you get to help people in need but you also get to visit extraordinary and unique places. These places will open your eyes and inspire you to do many more charity programs. Seagoing Cowboys is a program that take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Caring for these animals will keep you busy and sure that you are using your time wisely. This is a great opportunity to get to see other animals and meet so many people in need and touch their hearts.
They will make you aware of others countries needs. When you join this progran you are sure to make new friends. This trip would not only be working. You still get to have free time and hang out and play games with your friends. They would have you ride upon a ship and give enough hay and oats for the animals. The animals would have to be groomed and brushed every day. They would have to be properly fed and taken care of.
Besides helping people you get the joy of traveling over sea, meeting new people, and cite seeing in foreign countries. For example you would maybe get to see or visit in Venice, Italy, or maybe even Greece. There are many different advantages and opporunities in this kind of trip. When you get to help these people, you will feel a rush of joy and bring them hapiness. This is a great opportunity. There many benefits and hapiness. | 2 |
569a513 | For many years cars have been one of the top priorities and necesities of mankind. People have become so depemdent on them that they use it to go everywhere. Sure they help you get places but while they are a big help to us they're alsp polutin our air.
All aeound the world there are countries trying to lower the use of cars,for example Germany. Germany they have created a community that is car free. Car ownership is allowed,but there are only two places to park large garages at the edge of the development,where a car-owner buys a space,for $40,000,along with a home. As a result,70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars,and 57 percent sold a car to move there. The United States,the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities,and legislatorsnare staring to act,if cautiously. Also Paris has a day where they fine people if they do not leave they're cars home and Colombia does the same,they have a day ehre everybody takes public transportation and leave the streets empty of cars. I'm sure that this are not the only countries trying to reduce car use around the world,there are many more. People are seeing what car use is doing to our enviroment and thay're starting to realize that is our fault and that we are the ones who have to fix this. The reduction of car use would benefit us in so many ways. No one said that cars have to be banded at all,they're just suggesting to reduce the amount of time swe use them. Sometimes people use their cars to go to places that are witin one mile away. This new idea will not only help the enviromet,but it would also benefit our health. We have become lazy because we are so use to our comforts. I mean how much extracise can you do sitting in a car. In the other hand you can improve your health if you walk,rode a bike or do some sort of workout everyday.
Reducing the use of cars will not be something easy to do since we are so dependent to them,but if we really try and put a little effort we can surely reduce the use of cars in a couple of years. Just think of all the benefits we will gain from doing this. We will not only be saving tge air but also ourselves. This care free day don't have to be drastic,we can still use cars and keep building them its not like we're going to dissaper one of mankind greatest invention. The simply reduction of them will be enough. | 3 |
569f6e7 | I believe that we should be using this technology in classrooms around the world. By using this tech it can help teachers modify their lessons to their students needs. This technology could help kids understand the subjects they are working on better because of how the teacher modified it. Teachers could learn how their students truly feel about the subject.
By learning the students emotions it could help the teacher better their lessons. For example, a student could be bored in a class and the teacher can see that so he or she can make it more enjoyable for the class. it could change everyones attitude towards any given subject. This technology could change everyones emotions towards school.
By using this technology it could improve the teachers themselves. By knowing what their students need the teacher could provide for them by modifying their lessons a little bit to be more exciting.This technology could help the teachers improve the students testing scores. This technology could change the futures for these young adults or kids.
The teachers could better understand each and every students emotions towards literally anything. by understanding the students emotions it could help the teacher learn what he or she needs to do for the betterment of the class he or she is teaching. For example,
a student is sad in a class and its affecting his or her grade so now the teacher can find out why the student is sad. This could help the students understand better if the teacher knows how their feeling.
In conclusion, I truly believe that we need this technology in our school systems. By Dr. Huang predicting that a classroom computer could recognize when a student is bored or confused could lead to many discoveries in modern technology. This could help the teachers understand how their students are truly feeling. This is why we need this technology in our schools around the world. | 3 |
56a02b7 | The process of chosing a president should be chaged to popular vote instead of the electoral college. I say this because it is a better opportnuity for the guy who has the most votes to win. Having the votes by popular votes can make it eaiser for the election of the president. also the electoral votes can really mess up how the elctaion is taking place. it can make them mest up there counting of the votes or how the votes go through.
The electoral college can make a hard impact on how the voting process begins with. The electoral college can confuse the voter by making them chose the wrong person. In the text "The Indefensible Electoral College" the author is stating margin 10 lines 11-13 that " do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes." this is showing how just using the electoral college can easily confuse those who are voting. Also in many occouins occured when the electoral college didnt suceesed right. in the passge " The Indefenseible Electoral College" the author states in margin 11 lines 2-4 that " The american people should consider themselves lucky that 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse." This is showing how the electoral college alomost cost a big mistake in the election.
The electoral college is not consider a democratic syestem. thats why many people go agianst it because its not equaly fair to those who are democratic. IN the passge " In Defense of the Electoral College" the writer states in margin 15 and in lines 4-5 that " the advocates of this postion is correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense..." This is showing that not all of it is fairly equal. So instead of using the electoral college it is a better method to go with popular vote becuase it a simplier way to do it. Establishing this will rapdily take on more votes then it would be a close race agianst both of the presidents. Chosing a president with the Electoral College can make the electation go bad, so thats why having people vote who they want would be a more fair chance for those who are voting.
It comes out that the Electoral College is a siginficient way to do a vote on. the more imporant way to do a voting should be a popular vote because it gives the presidents a better chance to have the elecations on a good pace. instead of many votes go through then have to be checked on by state. So the electoral college should be elimatited and the popular vote should go in its place of how we vote. | 4 |
56a459e | On May 24, 2001 25 years ago something wierd happend on Mars. Viking 1 spacecraft was going around Mars, taking pictures of landing places for its sister ship. While taking pictures the Vicking saw the shadowy likeness of a human face. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the very first time ever. Michael Malin and and his Mars Orbiter Camera, took picturse 10 times shaper then then from the preveous Viking picture. After that they conclued that there was no alien monument after all.
On April 8, 2001 the Mars Global Surveyor came realy close for a second look. Garvin said this " We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to the center the Face in look." Malins team got an really extraordinary picture of the face, by using camera's absolute maximum resoltion.
In the 2001 Viking photo its spans 1.56 meters, in 1976 Viking photo comaperd to 43 meters per pixel.
After all of the studies and looking at the picturese, what the picture actually shows is the Martin equivalent of the butte or mesa. They are landforms common in West American. Its a lava dome that takes a form of a isolated mesa its about the same size and height as the face of Mars. So thats why the pictue is just a natural landform. And not alien artifact. | 2 |
56a82bf | The author suggests that studying on venus is worth persuit despite the dangers it presents in many ways like Venus being one of the brightest points of light in the night sky , it states in the First paragraph,"Venus is sometimes called the "evening Star" because Venous is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky making it simple for even an amaterur to spot."
In paragraph 2 it explaplains how venus is like earths twin and how it is close to earth because "Venus is sometimes right around the cornor. ", it sates in paragraph 2. It also states that Venous is like Earths twin in terms of desnsity in paragraph 2 stated by the author. And because Venus is not Farr from Earth Landing is no more than a few hours Explained in paragraph 2.
In paragraph 4 the author states " Long Ago , venus was probaly coverd largerly with oceans and could have supportwed various forms of life , just like Earth" the author compares venus to Earth because paragraph 4 describes how venus also has things that earth has like a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys , moutains , and creatures . | 1 |
56aa173 | You can help out like Luke Bomberger did is you join the war. You are putting your life in steak and you could possibly get hurt but you are helping out our people of the United States. Luke Bombergerthought that it was a little big for him only for a small town boy.
When Luke was a young man he worked two part time jobs and his friend offered him one of the part time jobs. Luke then helped out in the army for world war 2 and he was happy that he joined because he helped out people of his own kind. Now what i mean is that if you want to help out in fighting for our country go right ahead and help out like Luke. Luke had a lot of jobs and he had a great time in the jobs and he did them well and he loved his jobs. Luke did have a good life and he help a lot of people out so do the same with your life. You can help a lot of people when you can see that some one needs help it does not matter what you are doing just stop what it is and go help. You can make a good life doing that the people will appricate what you can do for them.
You can make a big change If you join the army you can still give us Justice. | 2 |
56ae3e1 | The Challenge of Exploring Venus, a article about the risks and benifits of exploring such a inhospitable planet. Yet, the Author does provide some insight on what humans could and can do to survive an expedition to Venus. Giving information about what NASA is doing to surive the conditions of Venus and other ideas that could help to properly understand and learn about Venus. The author does support his idea with very good points, but it does depend on how well those points stand.
One thing that is quite obvious is the fact that the author is biased on their idea. Which is not really suprising when their article is entirely based on trying to convince others that sending missions over to Venus is a good idea. They first describes the conditions of Venus itself, showing insight on why people haven't sent expeditions to Venus. They even state the Venus is quite inhospitable and does not support any suitable life for humans. The author tries to provide a window into both worlds, one where scientists try to find a way to explore Venus, another where people just know that Venus is not a place for people to live. They try an approach to shoot down common fears on why exploring Venus is a bad idea, bringing up one problem and then answering it with quick and simple methods. One idea from NASA is to have a blimp-like vehicle float 30 miles above the surface to survive from most of the heat and acidic atmostphere. Then they bring up another issue about exploring Venus, the technology. Where their idea is to use old 1800s mechanical computers to survive the climate, but to also provide a way properly explore the surface without the issue of frying modern computers. The author brings many solutions to many problems, so that the exploration of Venus could be possible by brining ideas together and have those ideas be the basis of a mission to learn more about this fiery of planet of our solar system.
The solutions brought up by the author show a new perspective, or bring insight on one that people already have, about sending people to Venus to quench a thirst for exploration. Where the idea of having a blimp float 30 miles above the surface to survive the deadly climate. Having old 1800s computers to play an important role in helping to learn about the planet, where heat or acid could destroy an iPhone or a laptop in seconds. Brining machines in to do the exploring for us with technology that hasn't been used in little over two centuries. The risks are great, but the benifits of learning about a planet that hasn't properly been explored for the entirety of our existance could enter people into a new age of exploration based on curiosity and adventure. Just as the author states in paragraph 8, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author greatly supports their idea to explore Venus, with some quick and simple methods, but also with the idea of bringing people together to go out and explore further than Venus itself. | 4 |
56b0da9 | Did you know that Earth had a twin? Well not exactly a twin, but a planet that is very close to Earth in terms of it's density and size. That planet happens to be
Venus. Since the planet is very identical to earth, we are all going to want to explore it. Exploring and studying Venus comes at a cost though, it is a worthy pursuit despite the presentation of it's dangers.
Venus is a planet in our solar system. It is referred as the "Evening Star," as its one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. It is the second planet from our sun. Many people confuse Venus with being a star, because of its nickname. trying to examine Venus more closely then of the safe vantage point of Earth, can be very challenging despite it being simple to see from the distance.
We are all closer to Mars than Venus sometimes due to the speed changes at which they orbit the Sun by. Us humans send a variety of spacecrafts to the cloud-draped world for it to land on. No spacecraft has survived the landing for a couple hours. This means that all the previous missions to mars were all unmanned. All of these failed missions have explained why Venus hasnt been touched in more than three decades by a single spaceship.
As you can tell Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study because of its reputation. The atmosphere of Venus is very thick as 97 percent Carbon Dioxide covers all of it. The planet's tempatures on the surface average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is greater than what we experience on Earth by 90, all of these conditions are way more extreme than what we experience on Earth. Trying to visit Venus would completly liquefy and melt any spacecraft near it.
Many scientist are trying to explore this planet despite its inhospital conditions because it is very identical to Earth. It used to be one of the most Earth-like planet in our solar system, Which facsinated many Astronomers. Venus was probably covered by many bodies of water and forms of life could have been supported, just like Earth. The planet now has a rocky surface with many valley's, mountains, and craters that makes astronomers itch to further expore it. Despite it's very hard conditions to even get near the planet.
Venus is a very cool planet. As it is very Dangerous to further study and explore,It is all worth it in the long run. The planet has very many earth-like qualities. So it would be smart to see if there was any signs of life. Venus is worth all the dangers because its a worthy pursuit. | 3 |
56b34c7 | The author supports his idea in many ways. He says there are many dangers in the exploration of Venus. He also says that the exploration of Venus is worth it despite the dangers.
In paragraph 4 the author says astronomers are fascinated by Venus. Venus may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system. Venus can sometiomes be our nearest option for planetary visit. In paragraph 5 the author states that NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. The tempature would still be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of the sea level on Earth. The radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Those are not easy conditions but they are still survivable for humans.
There is more evidence of supporting his ideas in the exploration of Venus but those are some that i included in the essay. The author did a good job supporting his idea. In my opinion I think we should at least try to figure out a way to observe the planet Venus. | 2 |
56b9a21 | I am for the devlopment of these cars . Why , because in the articele it says that the cars a being created to be more smarter . Such as having senors to tell people and when not to stop and go . Or when they turn at the wrong time it sensors them to stop . They are becoming more safer , as a car . Also for the people driving the car .
Aslo . it says that Google has had cars that could drive independently , under specific conditions since the year 2009 . Cars have driven mopre than half a million miles , without crashing as it states in parapgraph two . The google cars aren't techinally driverless . But, they still alert the driver when to pull out the drive way or dealing with any trafic issues , like roadworks or other car accients or accidents periods .
Since they had no option for smarter roads , they turned to smarter cars as it states in paragraph two . In paragraph two it also says that they used sensors and other technology such as : sensors on the left rear wheel , a roatatinf sensor on the roof , a video camera mounted near the rerview , and etc . With all of those pieces of technology the driverless car can mimic the skill of a human at the wheel .
Senors are nothing new to the world of course . In the 80s it states in paragraph 5 that , " auntomakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation on antilock brakes " . Over the years the sensors for cars just got more ,and more advanced . As they got more advanced within the 10 years , they have been used to dectect and respond to the danger and out on control skids and rollovers . In paragraph 5 it says that if they're futher more improvements in the sensors and computer hardware and software for making driving safer then there will be leading cars that can handle more and more driving task on their own .
In conclusion , i agree with the devolpment for cars . There is so much information that I've seen in the article .It tells me how safe cars have been and will be in the future if they make any more improvents for the sensors on the cars and etc . They have more techinally other than the senosor , for the car to be more safe . It says in the article that their have been fewer accidents since the senor has been improved . | 3 |
56bf90e | The value of using this technology to read students' emotional expression is correct because you never know what's going on in their life. Humans have some kind of challenges they might face.
This technology will help them see who they really are and how they can change their emotions. Us as humans have to figure out what's best for us in the long run. We have to speak up if anyone is down or fustrated. In this life we live in we need to check on our peers and other people.
Emotional Expressions have different characterstics toward people. Being upset, having fear,angry, disgusted, suprised,and having happiness is all diferent expressions people face. You can also have movements in your expressions with people. Seeing people have those emotions know something maybe wrong or they are really excited.
Having different moods works for this techonology because it can tell us what's really wrong with us. Different attitudes can also be helped in this technology. This FACS (Facial Action Coding System) would work out for anyone that really need help. | 2 |
56c0a2c | In my opinion I think it will be a good idea for the teachers to know if a student is in a good mood or not. When a teacher calls on a student and dont not want to go the teacher might think it is because that child is being rude, and all that the child want is to be left alone.
With the scaning programs, that could scan your face and can tell if you are in a good mood or not, teachers and student could have a good bond. If the teacher scans a kid face in morning when they all enter class she could know who to call on ,or maybe even after class she could even have a talk with the child. If someone can tell how a person feel if it's fear , anger ,digust, happiness,and surprise.
Those are some examples of ways it will be useful to have the "Facial Action Coding System". That type of technolgy would be very valuable in the classroom,and maybe even outside of school. | 2 |
56c1dfe | Evaluating Expressions is Effective
I believe that the Facial Action Coding System would be beneficial to read students' emotional expressions.
Having the capability to detect students' emotions through computers can have many positive outcomes, such as promoting ads, increasing learning comprehension, and graphic design improvements.
The use of this technology having the abililty to read one's emotions, can be valuable in the fact that it can promote ads more efficiently.
In paragraph 6, they say, "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different."
This phrase prevails how if the computer can detect your emotions, it can also detect how you feel about a promotion.
This will help sell more products for companies, and help buyers get information on what they are actually interested in.
This new software will also come in handy in increasing learning comprehension.
It states in paragraph 6 that Dr. Huang says, "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 statement makes logical sense, in the fact that a student may be able to understand his or her work better if a Facial Action Coding System computer is available.
This could possibly increase literacy rates, simply due to the fact that a computer can detect facial expressions.
Another reason that these new devices are beneficial is because they can improve graphic designing.
This makes video games, video surgery, graphic models, and other animated subjects more realistic.
Dr. Huang also states, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so computers need to undertand that, too."
Although the technology can be very valuable in the classroom, it can have a downside, however.
Having Facial Action Coding System computers can result in miscommunications.
Paragraph 3 states, "Eckman has classified six basic emotions--happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness."
A student learning a lesson on a computer may have a frown on their face because they are having a bad day.
The computer may pick up this emotion, and mistake it for not understanding what is being taught.
All technology is capable of having mishaps.
This new device may not be guaranteed to be 100% accurate at all times.
Overall, the value of using this technology to read students' emotional expressions can be unbelievably useful.
The pros of using this new software, tremendously outweigh the cons.
I believe that students having this resource would create positive outcomes in the long run. | 4 |
56c28f4 | So we come here to discuss a topic. A very intresting one if you say. This topic has history to it and some people don't like this topic. Some people don't like this topic because of the way it works. This thing i'm talking about is the Electoral College. And I personally don't like this thing. that is because it is so outdated and unfair. Look at the 2000 election. Al Gore, an amazing guy, "had more individual votes then George w. Bush." This guy would of been a great president but "Bush won the election, receiving 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266." I believed this was unfair because one person could of one but another man had got more "popularity" votes and won. Now tell me why that is fair?
To start this fire burning inside me, the Electoral College is so outdated and unfair. "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualifed citizens." This means that the people of the state can vote buts it really not going to count. These people want a good president and it happened in 2012. Alot of Southern states like Mitt Romney and they voted for him. He got alot of votes and was beating Obama. But Obama got"61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percentpf the votes for Romney." Romney had change in his eyes and the Electoral College didnt care and took that away from him.
To conclude this, the Electoral College is unfair. They take people's chances to change this country and do new things for us. If we had Mitt Romney, America might of had better imployment and a better system. We would of probulay had more money and had a better chance of going to college. But the Electoral College is unfair and had to take that away from Mitt and gave it to Obama. It's so outdated and unfair. For God's sake, its from 1700's! We need to get a better system of voting next time or people or just stop going to vote because they will know thay their votes mean nothing to the college and they will stop. If these people stop voting.... then we better have a backup plan to restore the country. | 3 |
56c8283 | It gets frustrating when a you don't know whether your friend or family member is mad at you or just in a bad mood. Luckily there is way. Thomas Huang, professor from the Advanced Science at the University of Illinos,has invented a Facial Action Coding system that allows you to identify human emotions. Its a great way to stop all the confusion and know if someone is happy to see you. Although its a great tool for everyday life, it's not a great asset in a classrom. Using technology to read the emotional expression of studuents in a classroom is not valuable becausse we should focus on teaching valuable material and its lack of accuracy.
The classroom is simply meant to learn. Evidendently, there is no reason to know what your student is feeling and not feeling. "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements..." Like all devices, this Facial Action Coding System can have manfuctions. Instead of wasting class time to try the Coding system, you should use that time to focus on learning new valuable material and focusing on school and nothing else.
However, it states to be able to calcuate emotions like math homework but sometimes we get calculations worng. "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." Facial Action Coding system seems to rate all of the Mona LIsa's emotions from what she feels the most to least. Clearly stating that the Coding system ranks all emotions from least to greater. Not specifing what a peson is feeling.
Futher more, the Facial Action Coding system is a great tool for everyday life, but not it's not useful in the classrom. Using this device will not only waste valuable time to teach but its also lacking accuracy. | 3 |
56ce1c1 | In "The challenge of exploring Venus" the author supports his claim of "studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despikte the dangers it presents", By stating Venus is often reffered to as earth's twin because Venus has almost the same density and size as earth does, and that Venus was once covered in water and may have had life on it like earth does now and scientists are very intrigued by it. Although, in "The challenge of exploring venus" the author gives a bunch of reasons as to why no one travels to venus. Such as , the 800 degree farenheit weather, the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmosphere, and the thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. The author states later in the article that although there our many dangers and risks ny going to Venus , "Our travels on earth and beyond should not be limikted by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
56d4f26 | The Face on Mars. Many say that it was created by aliens, but I think diffrently. The Face on Mars was clearly just a miracle of nature. Over the many years that Mars has been here, it could of just be the wind and dirt forming over the rocky surface of Mars.
The Face is clearly just a huge rock formation on the surface of this planet. There is no logical reason that aliens would of made this Face. It wouldn't of been useful for a home, a shelter, or even just a explimation of life on the Red Plant. This Face represents a human face, but humans aren't capable of living in such conditions of Mars, so if it were aliens, wouldn't they created a face in the ground of a alien and not a human, have which they never seen.
With the new cameras we have today, if there where by any chance, homes, airplanes, or even pyramids on Mars, the cameras would be able to pick them out and NASA would have seen them. With saying this we can comfirmed that there is no showing of life on Mars, so the Face couldn't of been fromed by aliens.
The Face is clearly just a part of nature that was created and with our eyes we see a face. The rock formation that we see, looks like a face using the shadows from the sun, and the form of the rocky surface. With this face getting so popular, many of the conspiracy theorist are taking advantage in that and using their theroies of alien life and planting it in the minds of others. Using the Face in a movie, magazines, books, radio shows, and even in the grocery store checkout lines, the face has taken over our minds in beliving in the life of aliens.
Some people say that the Face on Mars is bona fide evidence of life on Mars, but I still believe that it's just a way of nature. | 4 |
56d6e03 | I think that they should not change the Electoral College because it tells us what kind of president we will have in the future and what kind of changes he will make. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. You see this is something that happened a long time ago the founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. This is a system that makes sure that we know what kind of president we are putting in the white house and what are things to make this state a better state to live in and to have a good job. Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the district of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purpose of the Electoral College. The electors are generally chosen by the candidates political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The president only haves four years, it is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you vote for your state they have a thing called winner-take-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of proportional representation. When the election is done they have a thing they do called Certificated of Ascertainment it lists all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The Ascertainments are then sent to the Congress and then to the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election.
In the article of The Indefensible Electoral College its trying to ask you why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong and it tells you why. What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. chamber of commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? They were trying to abolishing the electoral college and they were not alone, according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore thanks to the quirks of the electoral college won thwe popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. This is the thing that can not be changed because this is a system that we can pull up see what they were elected for and why they were voted president and how many times. It helps us how we can choose the right president or the right vice president. In 1960 in Hawaii, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was president over the senate, validated only his opponents electors, but he made sure to do so without establishing a precedent. This happened a long time before i was born. You see only one state can casts only one vote in Wyoming,representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California,who represent 35 million voters. In 1968,a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election;in 1976, a tie would have occurred if a mere 5,559 voters on Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had voted the other way.
In a article i read it says that there are five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president. There are called Certainty of Outcome,Everyones President,Swing States,Big States, and the final one is Avoid Run-Off Elections. Each one tells us how choosing the president and shows us a map how it works and we can see which state shows a breakdown of the number of electoral votes given to each state. This is something that can help us understand how to vote and how long they will be the president or the vice president i think that we should not change the Electoral College because how would it work without it and how would we pick the next president. This is a hard thing because it would take time to discusses it with the senators and it would take a lot of votes to agree or disagree to the idea. This is why i think that they should not change this because its been around longer before i was born. | 4 |
56e11a2 | Have you ever wanted to know exactly how somone is feeling? What if you were telling your friend a story and you truly wanted to know if they found it interesting? The latest innovation from Professor Thomas Huang and Professor Nicu Sebe can detect the emotions of someone by calculating the way the subject's facial structure and muscles form the six basic emotions, which are happiness, surpries, anger, disgust, and fear. This system is called the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) and can be used for many different reasons. One example is in the cassroom. With the FACS, teachers will be able to read the emotional state of their students, plan/adjust lessons based on the readings, and bring a happier, more interesting experience to the classroom.
The FACS has the ability to read emotions based on muscles and face composition. Tests have been done on one of the most famous paintings in history, "Mona Lisa". While this technology can be trivial, as reading a painting-woman's face is not completely productive, it can be helpful towards teachers and students. If the teacher has the ability to truly understand and read their student's emotions, the teacher can switch up and have the ability to try something new. For example, if a student's structure reads that (s)he is confused, the teacher can either go more in depth into the lesson and explain further as to avoid any more confusion. This is exactly what Dr. Huang has predicted, saying that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored... Then it could modify the lesson" in paragraph 6.
Bringing the FACS into the classroom will not only allow teachers to see how bored and confused their students are, it can force the teacher to be innovative and creative in their lesson plans. If the teacher truly cares for their students' attention, (s)he would have to implement new ways to teach boring subjects, in which most students would clock out of otherwise. Most students dread long lectures and usually either stop paying attention, thus wasting both the teacher's and student's time, or forget most of the information. With the FACS, teachers will be able to detect signs of boredom and dread and then capitalize on their emotions with a new activity or fun game to lighten the students' moods, while also giving them the proper amount of information.
Much like the example above, there are ways for teachers to bring a lighter-toned, more fun energy to the classroom with this system. If the teacher sees that the students are boerd, in a lecture for exapmle, the teacher could implement a game or fun activity. According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, as explained in paragraph 9, if someone is putting on a happy face, even if they do not mean it, they are subconciously happy and are having a good time. If the students are doing a fun activity together, they are surely going to smile, giving off positive vibes and general happiness in response to an otherwise boring lesson.
The FACS is a revolutionary way of processing emotions and can be really helpful for any student-teahcer learning environment. The system can allow teachers to read what their students are feeling, and can either hcange a lesson plan to reduce confusion, or implement activities or games to increase happiness and positivity during a dreadful lecture. The FACS in the classroom will help both teachers and students alike. | 6 |
56ead59 | Caution Driverless Car
Imagine driving in your car and you come to a four way stop, you have the right of way so you preceed cautiously through the intersection and bang someone hits you. After taking a few seconds to gather yourself you get out the car to exchange information and you find out they were not driving the car, it was a driverless car, who's fault is it if they werent driving the car ?
A driverless car is an accident waiting to happen. We have the ability to prevent these accidents by simply driving ourselves. So many things can go wrong with the car, the sensors can malfunction and cause someone to crash. New things have the possiblity to create new problems. Driverless cars could be easily sabotaged, the parts on the car can be stolen, and many more.
So what would happen if the driverless car were to crash ? The person in the car wouldnt know if they are liable for the damages. We simply do not have enough rules or regulations to create a financially stable and safe enviorment for these driverless cars and the others around it.
Driverless cars have the poetential to be our future but still pose a hazard to the people around them. The cars are still dangerous and still have many problems to fix. | 3 |
56ecb8f | Companies around the world are coming up with the idea of driverless cars. Driverless cars are just what they sound like in the name, cars that don't require a driver to drive. While some are for it there are some people against, and I'm part of the people that are against it.
First of all, why would people be called drivers if they're not driving? The idea of driverless cars are going to be the start of laziness. Drivers will feel as if they wouldn't have to drive then they wouldn't have to pay attention. So if they don't pay attention they're going to turn their attention to their phones or technology, which is going to be prone to accidents and recks. Manufacters haven't come up with cars that doesn't require any kind of human interaction, so therefore there will be some kind of human interaction. So drivers would still need to pay attention, but they wouldn't know that because car companies would make it seem like their cars are so smart and powerful juist so they could be ahead in the car competition.
Second, if there are number of accidents there would be a ton of conflict. Law makers wouldn't be able to decide who would take the responsibility of recks. Not only just that but also a lot of money being given to accident victims and customers sueing companies.
Third, driverless cars would start other ideas of major things that need human interaction to not have human interaction. Then sooner or later everything would be run by robots or com puters. So if everything would be run by technology then people would start losing their jobs and would stop making money. Also people wouldn't use their hands to eat or drink or even wipe themselves after using the bathroom. Not only that but people would also get very bored and not have anything to do.
In conclusion, if companies really do go ahead with making driverless cars then they should raise the prizes sky high. I say that because if they raise the prices high no one would be able to afford them, therefore there wouldn't be a huge domino affect created. | 4 |
56efbd2 | Have you ever gone to school feeling sad, depressed, anxious, gloomy, alone and no one asks you about it?, have you ever just wanted someone to understand that your feeling a certain way, do you think maybe things would be different if someone could detect what was going on. Now there is way of making this happen, its called "Facial Action Coding System" it anables computers to identify human emotions just by taking a glance.
The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face and all 44 major muscles move like real human muscles. They create an action unit then they clasify each movement and muscle used to describe what emotion is being transmitted. Could you imagine having a computer be you're friend, I could. I think this system would improve not only the learning cuality but it would improve students to get help if they ever need it, teenage years are hard sometimes and adding school stress to them can be harsh, this computer would detect if any student ever had a problem with their mental health and we could solve those silent problems before they get out of hand.
Acoording to the article "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" these features could help speed up the learning process and give every student exactly what they need to get all of their learning done.
This technology could adjust to everyones needs and we could become better everyday, the future depends on the little details we need to fix, I think complementing this system would be a great way to start making a change.
My argument may or or may not influence your point of view on this new technology, but after everything we all go for the pusuit of happiness. | 3 |
56f5293 | Venus is an intesresting planet that has been studied very little. Venus may be close to the Earth, but it is hard to discover more of the planet, because it has conditions that are different than on Earth. However, this doesn't mean that we should stop discovery. There may be challenges along the way, but scientists will have to find ways to overcome those challenges. It is safe for spaceships to travel, the advanced tecnology, and human curiosity.
Many people may think that since Venus has 97 percent carbon dioxide and tht its over 800 degrees that it's not safe for people to travel because those are extreme measures the human body can not take. However, NASA has a study that scientists will be able to use a vehicle that can hover above Venus. This keeps people safe and helps us discover more of Venus. Also the temperature from 30 miles a way would only be 170 degrees. Its still hot, but it would not be too hot for the human body to withstand. The air pressure would also be close to sea level. Overall, the conditions would not be comfortable, but the human body would be able to take it.
The advanced technology we have today also makes conditions safer to travel. The knowledge we have gained from technology is incredible. Tecnology makes it possible to make spaceships possible to travel to Venus. However, the conditions may be too much depending on who goes on the spaceship. Also when we look back on the old technology to see what worked and what didn't work. Using mechanical parts can help with the spaceship to withstand the heat. There are also many researchers that are working on making machines that can last long enough to find information about Venus.
Sooner or later human curiosity is going to get scientists to go to Venus, but they have to go up with safe equipment. Most of scientists discovery is because of human curiosity. That is why it's worth going up to Venus to get the answers human curiosity needs. The dangers and obstacles shouldn't stop scientists or people from discovering new things. Finding ways to overcome and expand our knowledge on what's out there is what we need to do. Using imaginiation and innovation to be able to discover new things is what is really imporatant.
Venus is a place that needs more discovery. There may be some dangers to discovery and challenges in the process, but that's made to be overcome. With all the progress scientists have made in discovery there is no reason to stop now or ever when discovering something new. What will help scientists get up there is the improved spaceships, the advancements made in tecnology, and the curioisty we have as humans. | 4 |
56fcc78 | I believe that the use of the Facial Action Coding System is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom or the community around us. This technology would help show how others are feeling when they are hiding their emotions. This would help because since the Facial Action Coding System is pretty accurate, we are able to use this in future generations to specify emotions from other people and know how they are feeling to help those around us in the world.
When people are sad, mad, or even fearful, we can help those around us who are feeling down and comfort them. We can bring joy in the world by the people who are enjoying life and be with those who are happy by bringing those who are sad, mad, and fearful into the "happy" environment so they don't have to worry. Studies show in this article that, "'Most of us have trouble describing each facial trait that conveys... specific emotion.' and also, 'Most communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication,' Dr. Huang predicts." This proves that since not many of us in this world knows what our expressions are to see our specific emotion, especially during nonverbal communication, it would be best to see what their real emotions are and know what they are going through (or if they're just fine) and ask if they want help or need comfort. We could help out others who are going through things even if they don't need help. If they don't want to be comforted, we can always respect their privacy. But it would be best to know what others go through to respect those around us more often. We shouldn't offend and judge people in general because we don't know what others go through and how they feel when we do judge and offend them. It would be kind and respectful to help those out around us to make the world a better place.
This system would help to read emotional expressions in a classroom because it would help the learning environment and the students in the class when the teachers are teaching. This would especially help the teachers more because teachers have trouble knowing what students are going through and can help their students out during class if they need help when they are troubled in their subject of math, science, English, ect. Most of the time, students don't want to let the teachers know if they're worried about an assignment or sad about their grade and don't want to get help from the teachers. If teachers knew their students emotions, they would have a better interaction and communication with their students and help them learn better in class, understanding the subject more. Studies show in this article that, "'A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored.' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like a effective human instructor."' This proves that since teachers want their students to be successful in their subjects, this system could help students and especially teachers to know when to help each other out when they are confused on a specific part in the subject and have a better understanding in the subject when the teachers do help out the students. This could also help because when a student is going through something and is distraced in class, the teacher would know their emotion and take it easy on them during class and help out the student with their problem and what they go through to have a better understanding and interaction with the student.
In conclusion, The Facial Action Coding System is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom and the community around us to help those around us in the world and get a better understanding of people and their emotions to make the world a better place to live in by comforting others who need help and showing kindness. | 4 |
5700ff4 | The use of the Facial Action Coding System should become part of the technology used in classrooms. This technology would not only be a scientific break through, but would also provide a alternative to how efficently students learn.
Althoguh the creation of the Facial Action Coding System was recent, the idea of the technology has been around for centuries. Dr. Thomas Huang, co-creator of the software, claimed that much more simplified versions of the software have been used for for a long time. The professor claimed that artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, studied anatomy to be able to make anthropomorphic figures as naturalistic as possible. The artist would use their knowledge of anatomy to create naturalised facial muscles, which would accurately reflect emotions of the subjects. But this technology could help not only the artistic community, but entire generations.
Dr. Huang strengthens his argument for the emotion-reading software by claiming its benefitial usage in the classroom. Dr. Huang said, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." The professor is predicting that with the help of his software, the way children learn could be changed for the better. With the help of this software, students would be able to focus on topics longer, whic poses a problem for many students today. Students would be able to learn or strenghten skills without having to voice their boredom or confusion with topics. This would benefit them as they grow because they would be able to fully understand topics and skills insteading of falling behind simply becasue they lose interest. For example, a young student would be able to learn multiplication possibly faster and stronger than older students because with this software, they would be able to focus on each problem. As the child grows, they have a less likely chance of falling behind in other mathmatical courses because they have no need for relearning multiplication, and are able to solve problems quickly because they know what they are doing. Also, multiplication is all over the world, so they would be comfotable to use it in their day to day life. In the end, this child was able to succeed with a mathmatical skill simply because of a facial software that kept them involved and growing in their studies.
Overall, the Facial Action Coding Sysem should be active in classrooms because it provides great value to education. | 4 |
57115ea | Making mona lisa smile agian was the main topic detail in the story. For one reason it would have to be when they painted a picture of her for acomplishing the process of the model of a great model she smiled for that picture. So that is why that gave her own picture of herself and the computer model picture is a little bit better than the orignal one. The computer model has better details in the picture and it also tightens her lips for the picture. More reason is that they express the emotion of her picture in paragraph 2. In paragraph 7 the experts for the picture tell Mona Lisa how to pose for the picture in the first sentence. Paragraph 8 explains Mona being truthful and smiling in the last sentence. Inside Paragraph 4 it is telling about how the expression of the real face is inside the art of Mona Lisa. | 1 |
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