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5711c2b | Luke Bomberger did'nt get to visit many places around the world and see things he may have wanted to see because he never had anytime to. He was always buisy trying to help people with banking and shopping with in his home town. Really what he didn't know was that he was going to be helping all kinds of people around the world a long ways from his town. So when Don Reist invited him to go he knew that was a chance to really help other people and get more money.
Luke Bomberger knew that he could visit lots of places. He actually got to visit a,"castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China". He got to do things he would'nt have been able to do in his old town. After World War ll in 1945, lots of people were left with nothing and did'nt have food to care for everyone. So with the help of the,"Seagoing Cowboys",they would help transport animals to those places so they could have food to live.
I think more people should join this program because it gives others a chance to live and survive after wild events like wars. Many people in the world work as doctors and vets for those who live around them. But they also have the chance to help people far away who need it. Not only that but they can still work with animals. It may not be dogs and cats they are working with but they can still help animals and other people.
Luke enjoyed being apart of the program because he knew he had the chance to visit many polular places. So I think that instead of planning a vaction to go the beach you can go other places that you may not have been to before rather than going to the same places everytime. When you think of being someone that transports animals across seas you don't normally think of being a doctor. But really what people don't think about is that when they give animals to people the animals are recorce for food which helps people that may be sick or need to food because they don't have animals near. So its important to everyone.
Really the big idea to this program is that people reliey on animals and their recorces. But its very hard for people to have to leave there town to find food and bring that back for everyone. So this program is very important to others because they know people will care for them when they need it. It's also very good education when you visit places like unwealthy towns so you can get a feel of what it's like for them and how much they need people like us. After all Its important to care for others. | 3 |
5713a82 | With the discussion of the legalization of driverless cars, there are many reasons as to why they should be legalized and many reasons as to why the should remain illegal. While both sides do have positive and negative aspects, I think that keeping these driverless cars illegal is the best plan of action for America.
Even though the driverless car would be managing itself, humans still have to stay alert while in the car incase the car is approaching a work zone or an accident. Why would people need a driverless car if they would still have to stay alert and aware of what it going on around them? Since the person in the driver's seat of a car wouldn't be driving the car manually, it would be hard for them to stay alert and awake. When someone else is driving it is easy for passengers to fall asleep in the back seat or in the passenger seat. This is the same for a driverless car. Even if a person is sitting in the driver's seat, if they are not driving it would be easy for them to doze off, get distracted, and fall asleep.
Since a computer is driving the car, the car could be very dangerous and could cause accidents. Many people who have a computer know that sometimes it gets glitches, goes blank, gets disconnected from wifi, and many other things that could go wrong with a computer. This exact same thing could happen to a computer-driven car. Computers are not always perfect. They have glitches and they mess up sometimes. If the computer were to mess up while the car is in use, this mess up could be the result of a life-threatening accident.
Although it would be convenient to have a car drive people around and not have to worry about anything, these driverless cars are something people are not familiar with and could be dangerous. Since many people are not familiar with sensor or other technology that comes with the driverless cars, it could take some time to get used to. Before getting a computer-driven car, a person would have to practice driving the car first. In order to get familiar with the technology, and special aspects of a driverless car, many people would have to practice or take classes to learn about how to properly use the car. This could be inconvenient for people wanting to get their hands on a computer-driven car as soon as possible.
Altogether, I think that driverless cars are not a great idea. The consequences that come with these cars far outweigh the positive opportunities that the car could bring. I think that the driverless cars could be dangerous to other drivers on the road as well as the people in the car. The driverless car seems unnecessary since we already have alert drivers. Driverless cars may be a smart invention, but I don't think they should be allowed onto the streets until further research is done on them and until drivers are comfortable using the new system. | 5 |
5719378 | The Facial Action Coding System (FACS)is a recent innovation in facial recognition software. It can deciper what a perosn may be feeling by analysing muscle movements and facial structure. While the technological impact of FACS is revolutionary, can a sytem like it be used in schools to give insight into the emotions of a student? The value of FACS in schools has the ptoential to become great, but as of now, FACS still has many challenges to face in order for it to become a practical and valuable part of the education sytem.
Currently, FACS can only recognize "...six basic emotions-happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness...". While this abilty is a great acheviment, FACS would have to be able to read many more expressions, such as confusion, boredom, or understanding to become useful in a classroom enviornment.
If implemented in its current state, FACS might look at each student's face and would be able to pinpoint only the happy or suprised students, but typically, the happy students are not be the ones who need help. Without the capabilities to recognize more emotions, FACS would serve little purpose in this setting.
The artical also states that " Your at home PC can't handle the algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." Many school comtuters are out of date and wouldn't be able to run FACS either. So, in order to correctly use it, a school would have to spend large amounts of money to purchase machines with the computing power to run FACS, an investment that may not pay off for years. This expense would only be made greater by the cost of the software itself.
So, while the Facial Action Coding Sytem has the ability to become an integral part of the education sytem, with its current capabilities, it would seem that FACS is not yet ready to assume the role of a valuable tool in classrooms arcross the country. | 4 |
5719951 | In mostly every city all around the world, we can find cars. Its become a common thing now. But there are a few cities or countries that are going car-free. There are advantages to limiting car usage.
Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. In Vauban, Germany, residents are suburban pioneers, and they have given up their cars. They're allowed to own cars, but there's only one place to park: large garages at the end of the developement. Unfortunately, car-owners have to pay $40,000. So, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move there. This city is an example of a growing trend in Europe, the United States and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use.
While there have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking, planners are now taking the concept to suburbs. In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities. Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new 6-year federal transportation bill to be approved this year according to David Goldberg, an offcial of Transportation for America, a fast-growing coalition of hundreds of groups in the United States.
After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforcewd a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Motorists with an even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or pay a fine. The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the next day. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France. Cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions. Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals. Luckily, the smog cleared up enough that day so the ruling French party could rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates the next day.
President Obama's goal is to curb the United States' greenhouse gas emissions. Recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, drving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. This has left researchers to think: Has America passed peak drving? According to an analysdis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily since then. Part of the explaination is that unemployed Americans weren't going to work anyway. If the pattern persists, it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the environment, since transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, jsut behind power plants.
With all these changes, people who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit. The end of car culture may be on its way. It's not such a bad idea, after all. Bicycles and walking from place to place also promote health and fitness. Breathe happy, live healthy. That's the way to do it. | 3 |
571a8fb | In the artical Car Free Cities people all over the world are going carless. In German suburbs life goes on without cars. About 70percent of famles go witth out cars people there walk or ride a bike to where ever they go. In Vauban Germany street parking and driveways and home gerages are forbiden in sted people park there cars in a huge parking gerage. they buy a space when they buy a house there
In Paris after days of near record poluuution paris enforced a partial driving ban so they can clean the air. In congestion it is 60% of the captil of France. After a couple days of smog in the city on monday people with cars wth even numbered license plates. Were ordered to leave there cars at home. Almost 4,000 people were fined and some people had there cars in pounded for there reaction to the fine.
In Bogota Colombia it was the third strate year cars have been baned with only busses and taxies permited. The captil of 7 million people the goal is to the reduce of smog and to finde alternate transport. The day with out cars is part of an campaign that began in in Bogota in t emid 1990s. For the frist time two cities joyined the the day with out cars.
The End of Car Culture president Obana has ambitiouus goals to curb the United Sates greenhouse gas. Recent studies sugest that Americans are buying less cars and driving less and getting fewre licents when each year goes on. the United States is the home of the modle T and home of Detroit the place where mustang Sally was immortalized.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,spain,Bill Ford the executive charmin of the Ford mtor compiney lade out a business plan in which personal vehicle ownership is impratcil or undesirablel.
Excerpt from "The End of Car culture"by Elisabeth Rosanthal
Excerpt from "car Free Day Sprining into a big hit in Bogoat" by andrew Selsky
Excerpt from "Paris barns driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer
Excerpt from "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars " by Elisabeth Rosanthal | 1 |
571ac5d | I think the use of Facial Action Coding Symstem is an great way to identify students emotions. I believe that most students in classrooms become sod or lonely when he/she is doing work that the student doesn't understand. So with the facial action symstem it can interact with students to change their emotions from sad to happy.
It can help change emotions by showing different thing on the computer screens,for and example a student can be sad and the facial regonition can see that he/she is sad and then put something thats joyful on the screen.
The computer can tell if the a student is pretending to be happy or sad by your mucles. Pretending to be happy or sad will cause the symstem to bringout the student real emotions. Most students try to act sad to bring atttion to themselves. If a student appears sad to another student the other students tends to comfront him/she in the wrong way. | 2 |
571b844 | Limiting Car Usage
Limiting car usage is a very good idea. It can save a lot of money, keep pollution from happening,and keep people safe. If more people tend to save money because of cars, then they can buy more stuff. If more people save the enviornment people can have fresh air to breath in. Multiple resources have been found to support the idea that limiting car use can save a lot of money and make the enviornment safer.
For example, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it states that "As a result of buying a parking space for $40,000, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter." This quote explains the troubles and tension that one has to deal with when having a car. "In previous bills, 80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transport." When Vauban, Germany had cars, their bill went up higher for highways instead of other transports. People should start to use other means of transport instead of cars.
In "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robert Duffer, Robert helps explain the reason why driving should be banned. "Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Paris is very smart to do that, because cars create pollution. The way that they partially banned driving is that "Motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." Atleast paris partially protected the eviornment instead of the whole enviornment having to be in pollution.
In "The End of Car Culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, the author supports the idea of limiting car usage for the concern of safety. Safety is a really important thing in life. Cars can limit the danger of getting in a car accident. "He proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which pedistrians, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions, and improve safety." If people did not have cars, then nobody would have to worry about accidents and their safety.
In conclusion, limiting driving and the usage of cars can improve the world. It can make it a safer enviornment, safe money, and stop pollution. These evidences from the excerpts can prove that limiting car usage is a really good idea. | 4 |
571c3fa | Dear State Senator,
Im just a regular voter arguing with you that I dont agree with the electoral college.
Perhaps If us citizens knew exactly what and who we vote for, we'd have a better undestanding of how votes are casted in the ballot other than us voting for the "President" but actually voting for the electors of the candidate who really "vote" for us. You've probably have heard of arguments over deteriorating the electoral collage, but if we dont actually vote for our president that we want to be our president then why have a set of electors vote for us when we are tryng to vote for ourselves?
The Electoral Collage is a process of voing for our President along with the Vice President and the electors. This process may be a little overwhelming for some people knowing that they dont actually vote for the wanted President directly, but is a well thoughtout process built by our founding fathes long ago. Maybe there was a reason for not allowing us to really vote for our President diectly instead of having the elecotrs vote for them along with Congress, or even it could have just been a big mess from the beginning that Congress and H.O.R and the Senate have been fixing. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors i n which only 270 of those votes count into electing a Pesident. The author, Bradford Plumer, of the article "Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of he system are wrong" tells us a little of how the system isnt what we really think it is. "Under the electorla college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slae of electors, who in turn elect the president" he asserts. An example Plumer gives us is that if you lived in Texas at the time of John Kerry, when he was running ofr pesident, you would have voted for a group of 34 Democratic electos who would then have voted for Kerry in retun to votin for his electors. A question is, who are these so-called electors? Electors are anyone who doesnt hold puplic office. Who picks the electors? Mostly depends on the state for that job. In that case, in choosuing your electors, they hold presidential conventions, a state party central committee, and even the presidential candidates themselves can pick who his electors are. Including the fact that voters cant always control whom their elctos vote for.
The single best argument against the electoral college is the disaste factor. A disaster factor can be in th form of a tie. If two candidates go into a tie, then the "tie braker," as most people refer it as, it gets sent to the House of Representatives (H.O.R) where state delegations vote on the president; and the senate would choose the vice president. At the most basic level, he electoral college is unfair fo voters. The winner-take-all system in each state, makes it sort of easier fo candidates to get most votes. Which is what you would call the "swing states." During the 2,000 campaign, seventeen staes didnt see the candidates at all, including the state of Rhode Island and Sount Carolina and 25 of the biggest media marcketing companies didnt get to see not one ad from the campaign ads. Its pretty straight forward from here. The electoral college is an unfair system, outdated, and irrational. We basically only have assertions against it. Probably wont even be enough to say that the electoral college is unfair, but is enough to say just for the good of the people.
Knowing that citizens votes have no effect really towards the president, then people would be most likely to not wathc the campaigns during he election season of it all. Therefor, the electoral college, once again, is not a great way of electing our president. | 4 |
572e210 | The Facial Action Coding System is a system that enables computers to identify the human emotions. I think this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because in the article it says "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles" Which means they can tell what your emotionals is by the movement of the muscles or by the look on your face. Eckman has classified six basic emotions which are happy, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with your characteristic movement of the facial muscle. If you're mad your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger, your muscles on your face shows the computer what you're feeling. Dr.Huand new system can even identify mixed emotions because each expression is compared against a neutral face. That's why I think Facial Action Coding System is valuble becuase the computer constructs on a 3-D computer model of the face and it can tell mixed emotions and it has six basic emotions, If it can tell a dead person mood it can tell an alive person mood. | 2 |
5730f65 | Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Venus is sometimes around the corner in space terms but humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world.
Previous mission was unmanned, and for good reasons, since no spacecraft has survived the landing for more than a few hours. In that case it explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Even more challenging is that the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmoshpere. On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenhiet. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet. Venus still as some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The value of returning to Venus seeems indisputable. A compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus is a possible soluton to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus whch allows scientist to slot above the fray. If anythng got near Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. Solar power would be plentiful, and radation would not exceed Earth's levels. Its not and easy condition, but it can be survivable for humans. Seeking a conduct though mission to undestand Venus would need to get up lse and personal to despite the risk. Beyond Earth we should not be limted by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation because we dont neccessarily know what can happen. | 2 |
5736882 | The Facial Action Coding System would not be very useful in the classroom because most teachers do not change their lesson just because one of their students is confused or bored, the FACS is not even able to read past the basic six emotions so it will not know when a student is bored or confused, and most teachers do not use computers all the time or even at all in class.
Teachers do not change their lesson when one of their students is bored or confused. Everyone that has been in school is well aware of this. Most teachers do try to make it less boring and more fun if multiple students are feeling the same and they do try to explain things better for those that are confused. A computer that "senses" when a student is becoming bored or confused, will not be able to do the same and have the same result. The FACS could help the computer see that a student is becoming bored and modify the lesson, but how much help would that be? People learn better when other people are there to explain things. A computer cannot provide the same effect.
According to the fourth sentence in paragraph three, the FACS only knows how to read the six basic emotions-- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Meaning that the FACS would not actually be able to tell if the user or student is bored or confused. If the program cannot actually sense those two emotions, how will it be able to modify lessons for students to learn a little better without being confused? In paragraph four, it does mention how the software can identify "mixed emotions" but it would ot be very helpful for those two considering that they are harder to tell by just looking at someone's face when it is better to ask.
Most teachers do not use computers in class often. Sometimes, they do not use them at all. Unless the students are in a typing class or a program coding class, teachers for other subjects rarely use computers outside of taking tests or doing projects. They rarely ever trust a computer to teach their lessons for them. That is why they are called "teachers". So the FACS software program would merely go to waste.
The Facial Action Coding System would not best suit being in classrooms since the teachers do not change their lessons so the computers should not either, humans express way more than just six emotions and a computer would not be able to detect them all, and very few teachers actually have full computers in their classrooms to help them teach instead of small laptops or just very little technology altogether. | 4 |
5737c3e | "Abolish the elcetoral college!" said Bob Dole. Not only I, but 60% of the United States eligible voters agree wtih him. There are manny reason why the voter population doesn't want the elctoral college. The bigger the state's population the more votes they receive, the voter's votes really do not count so the feel as they are not thought about, even when they vote for the college their vote may be betrayed becuase they cant control who the college elects.
The person running for president do not want to waste time. They want to secure as many votes as possible. That even means skipping useless stops. For instance if the candidate is from a southern region they mostly have all the votes they need from their region. THey soon move onto the next important area of voters. Places like Florida, texas, and Los Angeles. States that have a huge population. The candidates think smart but irrational at the same time. They know if the have the majortiy of voters in a state with a large population they most likely will win the vote from the elctoral college. The candidate will not even think about small states like South Carolina and Rhode island. During the 2000 campaign there were seventeen states that didnt get to see the candidates beucase they are smaller in population. Even some of the largest media markets didnt see any campaign ads. It is unfair and unjust to do that to people who are willing to vote. Then the small state voters wont know much about the candidates which most likely will lead to irrational votes taken over by the elctoral college.
Voters in certain areas will not even attempt to make a vote because in their state they are overwhelmeed by the people who vote for other parties. Since the electoral college has a majority rule in effect in every state but Nebraska and Maine, in the other states sometimes its not even worth a try to vote. The citizens may think that their vote doenst matter compared to the other numbers of voters which basically its true. Thanks to the electoral college. | 3 |
5738cb1 | Dear state senator,
The United States has envolved to a rather unique voting system. It is based off of points regarding population. Which ever canidate has most votes in that state wins the points. The points then add up to a score and who ever recives a certian amount of points win. But, some could say this system is unethical and outdated.
Starting back to our founding fathers is when this system orignated. But, why do we still follow this system? Although it is tradition, is it not a good time for change. After all society is increasing to a much greater perspective. When the founding fathers created this system it was a much different time then. Today society has envolved to technology, equality, and high levels of population. The founding fathers most likely never expected the future to be like this. Also today magority of individuals of envoking changes in their lives. We should move with the flow of socitey and change with it. When does tradition become long enough? Maybe now or maybe in the distant future. But, no matter the case we should change and move forward soon, so we do not get lost in the dust trails of the human race.
Life is full situations of unfairness. But, would you expect a goverment to be unfair? Most likely not. This system prevents most citzens voice to be revealed. It takes an advarage citzens opinion on who they want to lead and puts it into a dark cave. It takes votes in each state and gives it an advarage overall vote for that state. How is that fair if the United States does not tally all votes? Instead they just award points. How are points going to show how a country feels? No, we should tally everyones votes instead of the states votes. Also most of the time states follow their govermental believes regarding being a republican or demorcrate. Maybe this shows that a state is bais and is rigged. We will never no because the goverment hids stuff from us. Maybe our votes are not ever taken into consideration. Maybe it is just numbers estimated to show that they are and they cover it up by saying "oh it is just points do not worry about your opinion". If any of that is ture, which it most likley is then shouldn't we envoke an ethical change for rights.
Why should a system that is old and shelding the truth remain with in a goverment that "cares" about their citzens? Are they afriad of change? Maybe they just do not want chnage because it is so easy to hid everything with the cracks and creaks of this system. But, they will never listen. They silence citzens by telling a lie. They make you think they no best. They allude to you that they help you. But what have they really done. Yes, offer protection. But, also put us in debt, made us loss jobs. They are to eaten up by ego the miss the concept of everyday citzens. Look into the truth of what is really out there. | 3 |
5739156 | Do you like going to a lot of new places? Do you like unique places? Do you like seagoing Cowboys? will today I am going to tell you something you might like to join it is seagoing Cowboys. The fun part is that you get to do all the things that you might of what'd to do like visiting a lot of unique places.
So we are going to enter view a person his name is Luke bomberger he crossed the Alantic ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War Il. But before all of this happened he did not know what he was going to do with he life he had 2 jobs and one of the jobs he .worked with he's friend. He's friend invited him to go Europe on a cattle boat. Luke he couldn't say no because he knew ' it was only in a lifetime thing'.
But if your not a rise taker you probly should not take this job because luke he broke his ribs and he couldn't work for almost a month. And he almost slid off the boat and if you didn't know he could of died how crazy is that. But not only that but you have to be resonspable because Luke had to care for him self and for the animals and had to change there cattle. But if I think about that I could not even do that job Icant even barely take care of my cat and puppy at home . Not only that Luke's animals were not the size of a kitten or a puppy they were cows, horses , and prolly even goats.
But if you really want this job you have to be all this 6 things 1. Caring 2. resonsable 3. reliebole 4. heping 5. Rise taker 6. *You have to know what challenge you are going to be up to* | 2 |
573c091 | I think we should keep the Electoral College because i think it is fair majority rules one person has just as much chance as winning the votes as another. The electoral College will help with votes because the people that don't vote the person that gets the electoral votes still get the same amount of votes even if some people didn't vote at all it won't change. But if it was by popular vote then the people that don't vote will make a big impact because you will need more votes to win the election.
I also see it as unfair because the people that voted for one person and the majority is for another person their votes won't have any affect and will be pointless. All the people that vote for one person are useless if the other person wins the majority. With the Electoral College some electors could defy the will of the people and vote for the opposite of what most people voted for. Say the 35 million people in california and 15,000,001 million people vote for one person and 14,999,999 people vote for the other those 14 million peoples votes are pointless with the electoral college and its not fair that the canidate doesn't even get one of those votes.
In conclusion i say just get rid of the electoral college because of all the votes that won't count and all the people that voted and not a single one of their votes goes to who they voted for. If it was by popular vote one person could get majority of the electoral votes but less of the popular votes and if there was no electoral college some of the presidents might not have been president. | 2 |
573d36c | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, extreme actions on Venus. Venus, is sometimes called the "Evening Star" this is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. The nickname is misleading since Venus is acually a planet. Venus is the second planet from the sun. Even thought Earth, Venus, and Mars, planetart neighbor, orbits the sun at different speeds, Venus is the most dangerous planet. Spacecrafts have been sent to land on Venus, but every mission has failed.
Another detail that explaines why Venus is a
pursuit despite the dangers because not a single spacecraft has landed on Venus, it hasn't touched the ground more then three decades. Venus' air is 97% carbon dioxide, the planet's surface temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we expericence on our own planet. These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such as environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy mant matels. Venus also has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun.
Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could havr supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus has still some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and creatures.
Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. On our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 2 |
5741cc6 | Dear senator,
MONTH_DAY_YEAR
I am writing this letter to you today to let you know I stroungly believe that we should demolish the process of electoral college. Why you may ask? First, it is unfair, we are the votes they not. Second, it is outdated (
"The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer
) Lastly,
First, it is not fair. We the people are surposed to chose the president not some privite party that we never meet. According to "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer ;according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- wor the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to kind we have now." So we vote yes but he doesn't become president; do we even matter? It doesn't seem like it.
Second of all, it is very outdated. According to "What Is the Electoral College?" by The Office of the Federal Register this process was founded in the days of the four founding fathers. That's old! Now in days we have found better and fair ways to do pretty much every thing.
I hope this letter helps you decide on weather or not we should keep the process of electoral college.
Sincerly, PROPER_NAME | 3 |
574441f | I am against the development of driverless cars. Automotive companies have made some really good products and worked really hard, but i feel like it is pointless. There would be a few benefits of a driverless car, but as they said in the passage, no car is completely driverless. If you have to do the same thing in a driverless car that you would do in a regular vehicle, then I do not see the point. I feel like driverless cars are pointless, going to be expensive and promote lazyness.
If you have a driverless car, the passage states that you still have to pay full attention and be ready to grab the wheel at any time. If you have a regular vehicle, then you also have to pay full attention and hold onto the wheel as well. The only benefit you would get from this would be a break from steering for a few minutes until you are to take control. People have been driving for years, vehicles have been advanced to be safer and more efficient for years, so why do we need technology to do this driving for us?
Not only do I believe this is a rediculous idea, I believe driverless cars would be very expensive. In the very first sentence of the passage it reads "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" If nobody is buying cars, how are vehicle companies going to make money? Their income will quickly decline, if not dissapear all together. I can imagine the price of these driverless cars would be threw the roof. Making these driverless cars calls for an abundance of advanced technology and the cost would be much higher than any standard car.
How hard is it to get into a car seat and steer a wheel? Teenagers begin driving at ages 15 or 16, if driving was too difficult I do not think people would start so young. Transportation is a big part of everyday life. We have managed to drive ourselves place to place for may many years and we will be able to do it for many many more. 2016 is a very big year for vast changes in technology. Businesses have created so many spectacular devices to do everyday things for us, such as, GPS, robots, hoverboards and many more. The society today is a huge promotor of lazyness. We do not need technology to do everything for us when we are completely capable of doing it ourselves.
A driverless car may seem very beneficial to many people, but I honestly believe it is just another waste of time and money. There are far more cons than pros in this argument. It is very dangerous, pointless, expensive and it promotes people to be dependent and lazy. There have been some very useful inventions but this is not one of them. I strongly disagree with the idea of driverless cars. | 4 |
57581cd | The" "Face" may look like it's a human face but it's not. Anything can make anything look drastic or cool. But there is no way that it could be a human inside of Mars. It's way to sketchy for it to be like that. So I'm gonna go ahead and tell you why I think this is why I don't think it is a human at all.
The face structure hasn't changed any of those pictures. If it was human, in a couple of months or years (maybe), your body becomes rotton and turn into nun but bones. If it was human, then it would have body parts along side with it. There's no body parts near it except rocks and holes. Besides, the picture look like it was taking from a pretty far distance for the head is bigger then that boulder next to it.
The fact that I know that it's not a face, notice how by years go by, the face starts looking like an sand temple. The thing with it is that on the top of it, it looks like another face on it, like a rebuilded electronic robot. But, when 2001 came by, it started looking like an a map or a super hard shell. All of these things that were on Mars looks different by the years. Now, in 2016, I bet it looks like a guided map to wear it started to wear it landed at.
There's no doubt that this is just some random structure because there were no oxygen, nor water, on mars, in 1976. It's pretty much impossible to live there unless, your from NASA. Then again, there still are rumors about alien's existing. So what if there was a alien who killed an human and left it there? If you notice now, the structure of the "Face", how it fades away, it starts looking like an cracked shell.
I want to believe that there is life on Mars, but the thing is that Mars "probably" have alien's there. As no one has thought about it, alien's could be legit. Just because we see a face on Mars means one thing, but the fact that it's whole entire bottom half of it's neck-to-bottom part is gone. Just because it changed up doesn't mean,"Oh, it must have cleared up since it's been there for a while". I doubt that because, no human being can walk on Mars with no protection on that can keep him/her alive. If your going to Mars, make sure you need a quite bit of protection. But, if you actually do see an alien, just run, because it's best staying alive instead of wind up dead in the middle of no were on Mars. | 2 |
575d609 | People say that driving a car is "a life saver". Driving a car does have its pros, but it also has its cons. All over the world, there are organizations trying to reduce driving. They are doing this not becasue of personal gain but to help Earth and everything on it. Not driving an automobile reduces traffic for the more important vehicles to monouver around more easiely, clears the sky from smog, and decreases greenouse gases.
Greenhouse gases are affecting the Earth drastically. In Germany street parking, driveways and home garages are forbidden. If they wants to own a car they have to pay $40,000 for a garage space along with a house. According to
"Car-Free Cities
" " As a result, 70 percent of vaubans' families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here." Not many people want to spend that much money on a car space, or many poeple don't have that much to pay for a car space so they don't own a car. This helps out with the decreasing the amount greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. Because of of resent problems of unemployement any people in America have not been able to stustain a permanent residence any where so a vast mojority live in there cars. Since they are in thier automobile for some long they are contantly are using gas and poluting the air.
Paris right along with other European capitals' air is extremely smoggy. Paris one of the most smoggy places according to
Paris bans driving due to smog came up with any idea that on Mondays motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home of they would have to pay $31 fine, and on the next day motorists with odd-numbered plates would do the same. IN this article is states that "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescined the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday." If they continues this the smog would slowly fade away and there wouldn't be a problem any more.
Giving that automobiles helps many people get around but it also slows the more important one down. According to
Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota
" In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoited of traffic jams." this one day helped people be more physically active and there was less traffic. If instead of doing this for only one day a year and did it more frequently then policemen, firefighters, and ambulances will be able to help and may even prevet someone from dieing, Less houses will burn down, and less damage if someone goes on a speed chase with the police.
Lots of organizations have make remarkable accomplishments. They may not be at the point that they wan to be but at the rate that they are going they will rach that point really soon. | 3 |
57605e0 | In the article they are talking about a new technology called Facial Action Coding System where the computer can identify human emotions. I think that this new technology can be very valuable for teachers in schools to know when a student is sad or upset. The computer can help a teacher/adult to understand when a student is in need of a talk or needs to express their emotions. This is also very valuable because it could potentially save a life in bad situations. The computer facial coding system is valuable in my opinion for various reasons as you may see in this essay.
This system can alert a teacher or anyone when there might be something wrong with a person, whether it is good or bad. To be able to understand how a person feels may be one of the best new technologies created. Knowing when a person is feeling sad, angry, happy, etc, can really be great for if they need someone to talk to. It could make things better or make things not so good. Just having those options of emotions to be recognized is something very amazing. Even though this system can't contol your emotions or thoughts, it can really help to understand when there is something good or bad going on.
In the conclusion to figuring out if this new technology system is valuable, it most certainly is. It can be useful in many ways. I think another use for this could be in hospitals to detect if a patient is lying about their emotions. Even though a patient in a hospital may not like this because it can see their true emotions, it might be able to help them in the long run. If this technology can help manage what another person is feeling then it can make them see whats really going on, even if they lie about it.
The computer will construct a 3-D model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. All of humans show the same facial expressions but maybe some at different times. The Mona Lisa demonstration is intened to bring a smile to our face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. | 3 |
5760f67 | Fellow citizens all over the world. Cars are not nessisary. There are a bunch of great reasons why limiting car usage has its advantages. A couple of reasond are that it's good for the environment, you will save a bunch of money, more exersize and less acidents.
If citizens limited their car usage, it would be a whole lot better for the environment. Driving everywhere in your car wastes gas and that goes into the air that we breathe. It is not good what cars are doing to the air. They are poluting our air, trees cannot convert it to oxygen. We are stuck with the gas that come from the cars in the air.
You will save a great amount of money by not spending it on gas to drive everywhere. Gas is not cheap and wont last forever. Its about $3.00 a gallon sometimes even more than that. If you save your money and not spend it on gas and just walk, you can save it and spend it on something useful.
When you think about limiting your car usage, you can think about getting more exersize. imangine a nice day and you walk down a strees to go to the store to pick up something small; you can smell the beautiful flowers. Fell the breeze that hits you just right and the sun shinning down on you just the way you like it. You would not be able to experince any of that if you were in your car driving to the store. The best part of car limiting is that there would be less acidents on the road. A great amount of people get injured or killed because of cars. If we did limited our cars usage, people would not die or get injured from cars.
Limited car usage for our fellow citizens has its great advanteages. A hand full of reasons why we should, but if we compare the facts of a car free place. It would be a nicer, safer, and a better place to live. | 2 |
57649d1 | Every four years there is an election held for the next president. Citizens across America vote for the canidate they best see fit to be president. Many may not know but there is another process other than voting to select a president. When people vote for a president, they are actually voting for a elector. That elector then votes for the next president, and this is called The Electral College System. The Electoral College System should no no longer be part of the election process, but instead have election by popular vote for the president of the United States.
When a president is elected it does not just effect the government, but also the people of America. The president that is chosen makes decisions for the people, and that is why so many people vote on who will be making those decisions. The Electoral College System greatly effects that vote of presidency. In The Indefensible Electrol Collage: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong by Pradford Plumer states that "Voters vote not fo the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the persident". People are not getting the chance to vote, because the electors are the ones voting for them. The people should have a turn to vote for the next president.
Many people today are all toward the Electoral College System. People think that it is a great way and very helpful when it comes to the elections. The Electorical College seems fair to some people, even if the president most voted for was not elected like back in 2000. The electors to them help find a new president with other electors in Congress. The electors even have the chance to vote for the other canidate even if the people do not vote for that canidate.
However many people may be towards the system, but others are also against it. The electors go to Congress and vote for the next president. It is even possible that the canidate most voted for by the people could not be voted for by the electors. The electos haave the finall sya, even if that means not voting for who the people are voting for. This is an issue that should no longer be, but instead have popular vote.
The Electoral College Sysytem should be removed from the presidential election, and replaced with popular vote. The Electoral College System does not help, but prevents the canidate most voted for to be ellected. Popular vote from the people should decide who the next president of the United States should be. | 3 |
576b6b8 | Scientists knew that it was another martion mesa tthat looks like a face because of shadows,but theorists thought that the face was bona fide evidence of life on mars, that nasa would rather hide. Defenders of the nasa budget say they wish that there was ancient life on mars. LIfe on mars would be boon rather than a burden for nasa.
Finally after anpther image was released on the JPL website it revealed a....natural landform. skeptics that of course have to argue with every peice of information we have decided that he image was too hazy do to the clouds to get a clear view. As rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel. So objects in a picture like airplanes or egyption style pyramids, or even a small shack! You could see where they were. Finally they come out and say, what is in the picture is a martion equivlent of a butte or mesa- landforms commen out in the american west. | 1 |
57733f5 | The new technology that has been developed, about how computers can now identify human emotions is something that could really benefit students. The technology that has now been developed to read emotional expressions could be very valuable in a classroom because every student has their own type of learning style, it could help teachers develop new teaching styles, and could help the students academic wise.
Different kinds of students learn different ways, there are people who learn visually, there are people who learn by repetition, and there are peoople who have to physically do it. I am more a visual learner, I like to see how things are done, and then I learn how to do it myself, but everyone is different. Since everyone has different learning styles, the teachers can't do all of them and since students don't really like to speak up because tehy're shy or another reason they'd rather stay quiet and not learn the material. By using this facial action coding system, teachers and administrators could see how they could apply more lessons to students, different learning styles.
If this kind of technology was available for students at school it could help improve student and teacher interactions. Like Dr.Huang said "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" I know their are some teachers that teach certain ways that students get bored with, and since they find the material boring they would rather not listen. With this technology it could help teachers spice up their lessons and interact more with the students.
Finally, if this type of programming were to be accepted in school environments I think it would help on a major scale. Think about how much more engaged students would be, because they are understanding what they are being taught. And if a student likes, and understands what they are learning it could help them do better on assignments, quizzes, tests. And what kind of teacher isn't happy seeing that all of their students are getting good grades, and the parents would be happy to see that their pupil is doing good in school.
So as you can see by including this kind of software in schools, there could be an increase in learning, student and teacher interaction, and academic wise. The facial action coding system could be a big step in the school system, that could really turn out benefiting everyone in a good way. | 4 |
57797cd | While the Face on Mars does look like a face, there is no way possible that it could be an alien artifact. Research, advance in technology, quotes from scientists, and actual evidence proves that this is just a natural landform on Mars. Mars has had plenty of speculation on this, yet all the answers have come back that it is impossible. No, there is not a lot of evidence, but there is enough to show that this is just a mesa.
When scientist first found the Face, it was already speculated to be a mesa. This was because of the place where it was located, Cydonia. Cydonia is known for having many mesas in its area. This one just happened to have shadows on it appearing like a face. Let us not forget that the Face was found in 1978. That is when space travel was still a new for the world. Technology was not that advanced as it is today. The last picture was taken in 2001, which was twenty years later after the first photograph was taken. Spacecraft and photos had improved twice as much.
Even though technology has improved we still cannot tell whether it is an alien or not. We must go off of facts. Scientist Jim Garvin stated that,"As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. So, id there were objects in the picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could not see what they were!" This shows that the Face could not even of been seen. So, it is impossible that it was an alien artifact.
Mesas and buttes are very common on Mars. Especially in Cydonia. Technology has improved and there is no way we could see a face from that size. "That's a lave dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars," said Garvin. Research and results have proven that the Face is just a landform like any other on earth. | 4 |
577e7c0 | I'll be talking about why it is valuable in a classroom full of students, and how it could help so many students. There are so many was he try to figure out what a person is feeling just by look when we don't want to invade but still be there. Many students sit in a classroom and don't have a clue what another person is feeling or if they should be there for them it would help them be a better person. Schools will gain so much from this new technology , and this is what i'll be addressing im this essay.
The first thing I'd like to address is the helping students to students it would be a great way to make everyone feel welcome when they're nervous. A lot of schools tend to tell students who struggle with something to talk to someone at school likes friends, teachers, and parents sometimes you can't do that with this friends would talk to you about it. This technology would help prevent so many things wrong with schools.
My main reason thinking this technology would be great is all the ways it could help teachers in the classroom for the students. One of the many ways I see this working is working on a new subject , and after working on it a teacher would see or ask how the students feel as they scan everyone's face to see how okay everyone is on the subject. In the passage it states that we could reveal so much about the science of emotions, and what better way to do that then to at school where kids, teens, amd soon to be adults are full of emotions one day to the next. Putting on a happy face according to the passage makes you feel slightly happy , and students will one hundred percent put on a happy face when they're getting a face scan just because it seems so natural to smile at pictures making the student happier.
As kids in school get older they will be getting to the age where soon they'll be able to vote it would be helpful to see how students feel about voting. Seeing which politician gets more approval helps see what needs to change in governments, and in politicians. Like stated in paragraph 8 in then passage muscles can detemine if a politician is lying or just trying to win votes compared to people who are actaually trying to make a difference. This technology help future law in forcement tell if a person is guilty or innocent, and that would be incredible for students to learn how to use this technology. For the future of any government I think this would be a great idea so how our growing youth how to use.
In conclusion having this would be great for helping students learn more about why we act a certain way when we feel an emotion. This would be great for teachers who need to know if students need more time working on a topic. Last but not least it would help students understand a lot more about our politicians , and how they say certain things for the vote. | 4 |
577fa76 | There are different advantages that come with limiting car usage. An example of an advantage of limiting car usage would be that there is less pollution in the atmosphere making the air cleaner to breath. If there continues to be massive car usage, especially in Beijing, China, there will be more smog in the air which is caused by car pollution.
Although you may love your car, there will always be something good that will come out of parting ways with it. According to the article, Paris bans driving due to smog, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog... [The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." This shows that if you limit car usage, there will be less traffic in the road. With this being said, you will be able to move around freely without having to worry about massive amounts of cars, and also that there becomes less smog in the area meaning there is less pollution that was occuring. Also, the article, Car-free day in spinning into a big hit in Bogota stated that, "BOGOTA, Colombia-In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily deviod of traffic jams." This describes that with the limiting of car usage, there is less commotion that will occur in the streets. Since the streets became less busy, you didn't have to worry as much about the cars around you. With limited car usage, the world can become a much cleaner place than it once was because the amount of pollution can be decreased from our atmosphere.
People think that there can never be any possible advantages towards limiting amounts of car usage when in fact there is. As stated in, Car-free day in spinning into a big hit in Bogota, "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." This quote describes basically that with the limited car usage, many things such as sidewalks have been renovated which actually makes people want to use them. With the multiple parks and sports centers that have bloomed, this will cause people to want to excersise and will help them continue not to want to drive their cars but to just ride their bikes or maybe even skateboards along the nice smooth sidewalks. According to the article, The End of Car Culture, "They organize their summer jobs and social life around where they can walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends." An advantage that this quote shows is that, the two boys don't mind not having a car because they can car-pool with friends giving them more time to hang out. This also shows that percentages have been dropping with teenagers who want to get their license because as I already said, they want to hang out with friends. With all this information that has been given so far, you can see that there are, in fact, advantages towards limiting car usage.
Overall, by limiting car usage, you will find a variety of advantages. Some of these advantages include that there is less pollution in the sky which is good since pollution causes large masses or smog, streets become less busy which means less traffic, people can get more excersise, and teenagers are not wanting to get their license so they actually have an excuse to hang out with friends since they will be car-pooling. By limiting car usage, there will be less pollution in the air maybe being able to extend the life of humans since we will be breathing in cleaner air than we have in the past. So, by stating all this information, you can probably tell that there are plenty of advantages that come with limiting car usage. | 5 |
577ff61 | You might not like the sea but you would like it when you get to take care of the animals. An reason you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that you can travel the world , go to a lot of extravagent places , you can be around a lot of animals, you can care for the animals . You can be an Seagoing Cowboy when you are either 17.
My point of veiw of him being an Seagoing Cowboy is a great experience for him. My friend invited me to go to Europe on a cattle boat ,but I didn't want to say no. I knew if he didnt take this oppurtunity of a lifetime.
I will feel sad for missing out on the oppurtunity.
Seagoing Cowhboys started out when the UNRRA started because the UNRRA wanted them to take care of the horses,young cows, and mules that were to be shipped overseas. If they shipped the animals overseas to a place they would get of the boat and go have some fun by doing a lot of activites. When the Seagoing cowboys went to Venice, Italy they rode and gondola because the streets are filled with water. when they went to Crete he toured and excavated catsle and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
On my
second trip, I served as a night watchman. My job was to check on all the animals every hour. One rainy night ,after making my hourly report to the captain, I slid down the ladder and cracked his ribs. But I also found time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals were unloaded.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for me. It opened up the world to me .So if you wanted to be an Seagoing Cowboy you could be one if you like to travel a lot. If you like to be around animals be an Seagoing Cowboy . You would love to be around horses, young cows, mules. So join the Seagoing cowboys | 3 |
578147d | Imagine this scenario: a person is faced with the future--new developments that may lead into the next era of technology. The question now is, should that person deny it or gladly accept it? If that person were me, I'd take it, as there is no point in staying the past and be outdated, and this is exactly how I see driverless cars. The problem now becomes, however, whether this technology is "the future" or not. In this essay I will discuss why cars are the future and thus, why I support them by covering the topics of efficency, error, and why some critics' are misguided in companion with "Driverless Cars Are Coming".
To start, energy is being consumed in our world at a rapid rate, and much of it comes from sources that are nonrenewable once depleted like the oil used in many cars. Many have seen the solution to switch to alternative energy sources that ARE renewable; however, this does not actually address the bulk of the problem. The problem is actually efficency. To demonstrate this, for power to reach a house from a faraway power plant, much more electricity is generated than needed as to make sure it can travel the long distance in cables without losing so much charge that the current becomes weak and useless, and a logical fix for such a problem would be to simply figure out a way to move the power source closer as to achieve higher efficencies. This same logic applies to cars in traffic, which use a lot of fuel to do essentially nothing. When I saw in the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming" that Google cofound Sergey Brin--who must be very intelligent as he IS the cofounder of Google, a very widely known and used company--said that these cars would use half the fuel of today's taxis AND offer far more flexibility than a bus, my only logical reaction was that this is a wonderful technology.
Transitioning to errors, a common theme of accident tragedies is the one where a person is texting and driving leading to distractions that cause the accident. This is not the only cause of accidents, though, as humans are not made to be perfect, small errors also cause accidents, but despite the wide range of things that may cause an accident, driverless cars can cover a person for that as well. My first piece of evidence for this is that driverless cars are machines, and despite having a notoriously bad reputation for failing at times due to some error during the design process, machines do not tire and do not grumble about watching their surroundings; they also need not be perfect, only better than a person to become favorable as a driver. My second piece of evidence comes from, once again, "Driverless Cars Are Coming" when it was stated that "enetertainment and information systems that use heads up displays [...] can be turne doff instantly when the driver needs to take over [in the case that the car senses that its own computing devices are not enough to handle a situation]". This system appealed to me a lot due to how intuitive it is; if a person shouldn't be using something, it turns off, no questions asked. All of these factors further lead me to believe that cars are "the way of the future".
Finally, despite all of these factors there are both criptics and critics for driverless cars. Some reasons usually brought up that haven't been addressed yet are the issues of laziness with the animated movie WALL-E coming to mind and perhaps the hacking of the systems that run these driverless cars, which is equally terrifying. The second concern being the easier and simpler of the two to address, hacking is commonly a misunderstood phenonenon. The aboslute requirement for all hacking is access to the device that someone wishes to hack usually through some internet connection on the device linked to other functions. This is easily remedied through the use of local software on the driverless car, cutting it off from the internet as well as making the entertainment and information systems independent of the driving system. Getting back to the first issue about laziness, people are still sitting down whether in a driverless car or a conventional car and that these cars will likely be extremely expensive with all the added sensors for the foreseeable future, encouraging walking as an alternative to money as well as creating a walking trend so that when these technologies are cheaper, laziness would not become a problem.
To wrap it up, I support and adore the idea of driverless cars as they are a way to support using energy more efficently rather than going out of the way to make new sources of energy; they are a way to reduce the unnecessary ending of lives as well as unecessary drama from automobile accidents (especially for me since I'm a very accident prone person); and last but not least, they are a way to promote regular walking and get automobile internet security right. After looking through all of this, I can say for certain that driverless cars will certainly be a huge advantage to our society if only we'd give them a chance because after all, everything deserves a chance and a second for making up for its mistakes. | 5 |
578e3c1 | The article " Making Mona Lisa Smile", In the text it describes how new techonology called the Facial Action Coding System can enable to identify human emotions and it's not rignt that people can use a machine to know if your happy,sad, or angry at someone that the person personnal feelings and people have no right to know what thier feeling about something.
In a lot of ways I disagree on this new facial coding because it's not others people' s businesse to know how other's feel about what their doing. I am sure others would feel unconfertable knwoing that other people around know how you feel all the time. Somethimes when you feel alone or sadness and you don't want others to know because your not ready to tell them what's been going on and because of the Facial Action Coding System people would feel like they don't have their own personal space to think about themselfs and knowing how they feel about something.
In some ideas I agree with the article is when in the article it said "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored" I agree on that statement; to use this new technology for educational purposes as long as no student or teacher abusses it to know what are others feeling about you or something else. It also a good idea to use it when someoone is really depressed about something and if you feel something is gonna happen to the person and you can tell an adult to help with the problem. Is not right for someone else to know your feelings, people have no right to know what someone else is feeling because people can take advangen of someones feelings and use it agaisnt them and can hurt someone for ever and maybe it can affect someone's life in the future.
At the end people still have no business to mess or know how someone feels becuase that's the other person personal feeling but at some point the Facial Action Coding System can be useful in school because it can detect if someone is confused or having trouble understanding the assignment or chapter their going through. The article " Making Mona Lisa Smile " has a lot bad points but in some statements they were right. | 3 |
5791ef7 | Technology has grown in the past couple years. It has grown so much tha now computers can read human emotions. Emotions and computers normally are seperate from each other. Every human has a different emotion and ways to show these emotions. Now computers could read our emotions. With a new technology called FACS, Facial Action Coding System.
FACS could possibly affect how teachers could run a class. Teachers never truely know if a student is paying attention to the lesson or not. FACS could show the emotion of the students and teacher in a daily classroom. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modifly the lesson, like an effective human instructor"(Paragraph 6). Computers could read the emotions of studetns then give a report back to the teacher in order for the teacher to see the students emotions. The teachers could even use FACS in a lesson or a lab.
In the article "Makin Mona Lisa Smile", in the seventh paragraph it gives steps how to read emotions in person. Teachers could use the steps to explain how FACS works before a lab. Being able to use FACS in lessons/labs could interest the student in the lesson. A main class that could use it is the health class, for the emotion section of the book, or class. Friends can read their own friends emotions very well because the friends know each other so well. "For instance,you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her/his face." (Paragraph 5). Instead of teachers not being able to tell the emotion just by looking at a students face then maybe FACS could help allow the teacher to make lessons emotionally fun.
If teachers could use this type of techology in classes for lessons then maybe FACS could be a valuble thing. The teachers could use the students emotions to make a lesson good or bad. With Technology at a rise right now the students may enjoy using FACS due to the fact that it is technology. "Most human communcation is nonverbal including emotional communtion," notes DR. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too." (Paragraph 6) FACS could also make the students want to pay attenition in class more. Each student would have a different emotion to the new technology.
Different emotions are common and there are different ways to show those emotions. This new technlolgy, FACS, could help the different emotions be caught in a class. You do not want any sleeping students in a classroom. | 3 |
5791fc9 | If we reduce how often we drive a car it can benefit us, because using a car too often can have negative affects on our health, and our enviroment, and the cost is exspensive.
To begin with using a car too often can have negative affects on our health, because If we depend on cars too much it can cause us to feel stressed and tense. We can not go outside and take a walk because the rodes are too packed. Being able to even walk outside to a store has become more difficult because stores are being placed far away.
But if we reduce cars then stores will become more accessible to us because they will only be a walk away. So that we can excersize and feel less stressed about depending on a car too much to go anywhere.
In addtion our enviroment is being destroyed each day because we are spreading gas in the air that comes from cars. But in a community called Vauban, Germany they are making efforts to not use cars. There are only two places where you are allowed to park.
Finally, the costs of cars are to high for people to be able to afford them. | 3 |
57998bc | Dear Senate,
I think we should change the election by popular vote, because with the electoral college not everyone is getting to vote like they should be doing. The Electoral College selects the electors, so the canadates are gonna choose the electors that have things in common with them so they win the election. Voters vote for a slate of electors, they dont get to vote for President.
The Electoral College is unfair because the winner-take-all system makes it so candidates don't spend time in the states they know their not gonna win. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors and you need at least 270 votes to elect the President. The Electoral College process is so much more complicated and long than popular vote, so why do we still use the Electoral College? We shouldn't.
Im not the only one that thinks this way. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and so many more people think that we should abolish the Electoral College. And soon its gonna get to out of hand and then were not gonna have a President. Their gonna make it so the Electoral College votes for everything! Abolish it! | 2 |
57ad6d4 | Venus is the second plan next to the sun. The closes to even being like Earth. But Venus isn't what it look like when you land or try to sent anything there. This could also be harmfull to us humans. In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus",The author suggests that studying Venus is worthy pursuit depite the danger to humans, the personal risks and approaching it presents.
People have try to get to Venus by senting humans and object there. But the danger to humans can be dangerouse to them. In the article, " The Ceallenge of Exploring Venus",these quote saids that, " A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus." ( pargraphe 3,The Challenge of Exploring Venus.). " Even mor challenging are the clouds of highly crorrosive sulfuric acid in the Venus's atmosphere." ( paragraphe 3,The chanllege of Exploring Venus).These quote shows that Venus is too dangers to sent humans there. The air is thick for humans and the clouds have high corrosive sulfuric acid. These things can harm humans breathing by senting them to Venus.
Nasa might have try senting humans and object to Venus. But none of them were about to get samples from Venus. In the article,"The Challenge of Exploring Venus", it has said that," More importantly,researcher cannot take samples of rock,gas or anything else from a distance." ( paragraph 6,The Challenge of Exploring Venus)."Therefore,scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." (paragraph 6,The challenge of Exploring Venus).These quote said that even if they try to get closer,the coditions of the ground won't allow it to land. it would only flow around it. Not just that but it they do get close then they will have to take the risk for it.
Nasa have been working on geting to venus. Even if they don't made it there,they are still trying to approach it. In the article,"The Challenge of Exploring Venus". They have said,"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For examples,some simlified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such coditions." ( paragraph 7,The Challenge of Exploring Venus)."Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers." ( paragraph 7,The Challenge of Exploring Venus).they have found new and old ways to approach Venus. And some even have lasted longer then they expected.
Venus is a plant that everyone have Challeng. But some ever close to getting there. The author haved suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers for humans,the risk and approaching it's presents. Never stopping them from doing so. | 3 |
57b1a71 | To be President of the United States you have to win the vote of the people, but not only the people also congress... I dont think that the government should be in charge of everything therefore i think the people and only people who should vote for who is the President of the United States and not vote for electors.
I dont like how the electoral is set up for instince like it says What is Electoral College? section 10, "If you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for Jonh Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to Kerry." then he would get 34 electoral vote.
Then anyones whos not holding office can be a elector. What makes them so qualified? nothing. Whydoes everyone just cast a vote and they all get counted up and thats whos wins the election? I know why becaus ethe government like to be complicated.
The electors could vote who ever they want they dont have to vote for the person you say, like back in 1960, in Louisiana legislatture nearly succeeded in replacing Domocratic electors with new electors who oppose Jonh F. Kennedy so the the popular would not have gone to him.
All of that just seems a little complicated when it could all be settle by every one in the country voting and then adding up all the votes and thats the winner. But its the gosh, darn government that has to make it so hard. | 3 |
57b9fad | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents .Why wouldn't it be worthy to study about Venus when its the closest planet to Earth & Venus was probably just like Earth.
Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because who wouldn't want to learn more about other planets like Venus, the cloeset planet to Earth, we have new techology to be able to study more about whats out there than Earth, Moon, or the Sun. In the texts says "Venus was probabaly covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Venus and other planets are a worthy pursuit to be able to study because if we soon learn way more about Venus, there could be life on Venus, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment that includes familiar features such as vallys, moutains, and craters." Venus and Earth both have rocky sediment or moutains and craters, Erath & Venus could be the same, despiting the dangers there is.
Although, in the text says " NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus." Sending humans from Earth to study is worthy because we can now tell if there is still water and a living place for humans. Even though the temperatures are dangerous for us humans to be living in 170 degress fahrenheit "the air pressure would be close to sea level on earth. Solar power woulf be plentiful, the radiation would not exceed Earth levels, Not easy condition's, but survivable for humans." states the author, we shouldn't be leaving any chances to not study more on Venus, if there could possibly life there. Or myabe there can't be life on venus because of the dangers there is for us humans, we should still learn and find out more on how could there be life on Venus.
In "The Chanllenge of Exploring Venus," the aurthor suggestd that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents,and i agree because it is worthy to find out new things outside of Earth and other planets that can have life on, such as Venus, it's a good idea to study and learn more about the planets orbiting around us. | 4 |
57ba363 | the face is just a natural landform. although few scientists believe the face was an alien artifact. malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using absolute resolution. it remain me most of middle butte in the snake river plain of idaho. that is a lava dome that take the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars. the face on mars is just a mesa. reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to mars. it certainly did. back to my statement i think the face is just a natural landform. The alien making was hidden by haze. the face is just a natural landform it remain me most of a lava dome that take the form of an isolated mesa abouit the same height. there was no alien monument after all. And they revealing a natural landform. the why i believe alien didn't make that it is just alandform that looklike a human face. | 2 |
57bd6d9 | Dear senator I am arguing to you in favor of keeping the Electoral College for the voting process of the president. Why I am in favor in keeping the Electoral College is why should we change something that's already working good. The Electoral college system is a system that voters vote not for the president, but for a slate who in turn elect the president. The electors can be anyone not holding public office. Why we should keep it is because we have been using it since 1960 and i dont see why change something that works, is slightly fair, and everybody is happy.
The electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by delcaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the electoral college method is not democractic in a modern sense.... it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When tou vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors.
The reason is thatr the winning candidate's share of the electoral college incariably exceeds his shares of the popular vote. For example,Obama are likelyeceived 61.7 percent of the electoral vote comparad to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes casr for him and romeney.
The winner take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates as we saw in 2012s election to focus their campaign efforts on the toss up state. Voters int oss up[ states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign to really listen to the competting candidatesw knowning that they are going to decide the election they are going to decide the election. | 2 |
57bda04 | I think the author is doing a pretty good job suppoting the idea of if studying Venus is
a worthy pursuit despiting the dangers. Venus is the second planet from our sun and it is challenging to examine Venus more closely the more challinging the more it is to do. Why it makes it challenging it is because we have sent numerous of spacecraft to land on Venus and each previous mission was unmanned, since no spacecraft survived the landing. Mybe this issue explains why not a single spacecrft has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Most people say that Venus is a challenging plant to study. Venus is also very hot in temperature it is over 800 degrees fahrenheit. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. STrriving to meet the challeng presented by Venus has value, not onky 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. It would be a blast if we studied Venus but we cannot because it is way hotter than one hundred degrees. | 2 |
57c0651 | In the article"Driverless Cars Are Coming," autonomous cars are being developed by car companies across the world. Most companies believe that these self-driving cars will be a good influence on the world, however I disagree. I am aganist the development of these cars because of the copius amount of money it will use and the unessecary addition of new driving laws.
In the 1950's, a company created a car that could run on a special track whose usage developed as the years went on. Researchers have found that, "These smart-road systems worked suprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be pratical." Smarter roads required too much money to develop and lead to the creation of smart cars. Smart cars have a lot of beneficiary components, but are not completly self-driving. This idea of self-driven cars is too complex to create; even the "smartest" cars with the latest and high technology cannot be fully self-driven. The money used for these unrealistic cars can be used for other important things in the buisness world and in the real world. Better cars that require driving should be developed or the money should go to the governement to fund other things. Overall, the large sums of money being drawn to create self-driven cars is a negative development.
If self-driven cars are created, many new lawsuits will be filed regarding the new cars. The biggest question that will stand will be, "if the techonology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" Autonomous cars will bound to have accidents and if the car is driving, lawyers will not know who to blame and take charges. if a person was not driving the car and it crashed but was stil inside, would that person be charged? Unnecessary actions that the government does not have time for will have to be taken- new laws regarding the creation of self-driving cars will be made so that parties will not be at fault. Laws containg the legality of accidents and the questionable safety of the car. The "human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when situation requires" which goes aganist a self-driven car, the car has to be the one to be ready to drive and do what humans would do when driving. This raises questions on whether people can truly be safe inside a self-driven car.
In conclusion, the development of self-driving cars is a negative addition for the world because of the copius amounts of money needed and the addition of new driving laws. | 4 |
57c88d2 | I don't care what google does for driverless cars, I think they may be good for a small town such as Berne, but there are a lot of cons to this whole issue. I think it would be fun to have cars we don't have to drive ourselfs but an issue with that is what if we do get into an accidnet in a bigger city. I'm nuetral on this topic because they aren't truly driverless ars if they still need a driver.
I don't particularly care if we get driverless cars or not. Kids have been waiting to get their license for generations, if we get driverless cars does that mean the age of legal driving decreases? Would children be able to drive, if so that's not too fair. Those kids would miss out on learning these skills to drive that everyone else had to learn.
I don't know if driverless cars is a bad thing or a good thing, but I'd rather stick to my littly chevy car. I say this becasue, I have to stay awake for either car. If i were to have a car that drove itself, I'd sleep in the back of my car until i had reached my desination. But if I'm needed to navigate through rough areas then I'd rather drive the whole way to my desination. I understand that these cars would give you a form of entertainment to keep you occupied while in the vehicle, but I'd fall asleep and wouldn't wake up when the car needed me.
It is handy though, a car like this, but one would have to wonder the cost of a car like that. Probably something none of us could afford to buy. But it would be nice to not have to worry about other cars, although when you come to a stop, although it has sensros on the car, does it sense the other driverless car? What if that car in the other line isnt't driverless and the driver decided to wave you along and let you go first, what would the car do? Does it truly function probably at an intersection?
I dont particularly care about this kind of car, I learned how to drive and I'd rather just do that. Although thus driverless car sounds safer, I'm sure it would make less mistakes than I do, I don't quite trust it. Reason being is the issue with other drivers at an intersection, or the age of legal driving, then the not paying attention part of sitting in that car. If your car is navigating itself, do you really trust where you're going? | 3 |
57d35c9 | My views on the subject are that driverless cars will some day be helpful when all the technology is ready, driverless cars can be a huge help in the world. What if you were late for work and had some papers or documents to turn in? You wouldnt be able to get the work done unless you had a driverless car. Everyone has their own views on the subject but i personally think they could be useful some day when everyone has one.
Something that can happen is if a driverless car and a car with a driver were to almost crash the driver could go the wrong way and crash because the driveless car went the same way so the technology needs to improve.
another issue is price, not everyone can afford a nice new car. Maybe in a couple decades driveless cars might be cheap. A couple companys already have driverless cars but they're just samples or cars that aren't fully developed. | 2 |
57d380e | Venus is possibly the closest to Earth in size and density then and other planet. Which, makes you belive that just maybe, us humans can live on Venus just as we do live on Earth. Even tho Venus is very similar to our Earth it is very different. For example, Venus is 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. Even the surface is affected and can average 800 degrees Farenheit. Even though these conditons are too extreme for our human kind. We can possibly create something or discover something greater that can withstand all of those extreme enviorments.
Earth has an abundant of shapes and sizes of clouds. Not only do we have clouds that not only look beautiful, we also tend to have clouds that can harm us. Between a mixture of fog and rain it creates smog,which, can harm our skin. Not only does Earth have clouds, Venus does too. But Venus has clouds that can potentially kill all of human kind or melt through many types of metal. Venus has these very high corrosive sulfuric acid clouds in the atmosphere that would be a big problem for us humans to explore Venus.
In conclusion, all of these conditions on Venus doesnt have to be as problem as long as we can create or discover something to counteract the conditions. The author believes there is a way for us humans to finally study Venus and possibly make it capable for us humans to live. Earth changed through time and so have humans. Our technology has greatly increased from when we first started to live on earth. If we try hard enough to fulfil a great cause that will benefit us in the future we can possibly start something new. | 3 |
57d55a8 | Are we using cars too much?
In Source 2 : Paris bans driving due to smog , " After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial drving ban to clear the air of the global city." Because that we use cars too much, we are creating pollution that is basically driving the planet we live on downhill. There is a way to change this. Limiting car usage, there are many advantages of limiting car usage.
Life can go on without cars. In VAUBAN,Germany a community has created a car-free city. The streets are completely car free. This is an experimental new district that is seeing if excluding cars can life become better not only physically but also mentally. Many people driving on the roads daily tend to have more stress from overcrowding streets, noise, and most of all crashes. "As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move to here. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much pappier this way," said heidrun Walter." (Source 1,3) From this evidence it shows that life without a car can actually have a better impact on a person.
Another advantage to limiting car usage is it reduces pollution. Paris enforced a driving ban to clear smog from the global city after a near record pollution. From this ban alomst 4,000 drivers were fined, and some even had their cars impunded due to their reactions from the fines. But these fines and bans came out with a positive effect in the end. Congestion went down 60 percent in the capital of France, just after a few days of putting the ban into effect. The smog cleared enough for the French ruling party to rescind the ban for certain days.
Has America's love for cars already started cooling? Or has technology taken the reason why we should drive away? Elisabeth Rosenthal states that , " the interent makes telecommuting possibole and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends. the renewal of center cities has made the suburbs less appealing and has drawn empty nesters back in. Likewise the riswe in cellphones and car-pooling apps has facilitated more flexible commuting arrangements, including the evolution of shared van services for getting to work" (source 4, 35) I believe that since technology has evolved that people dont feel the need to leave home to meet friends when they can just use apps or call,text,facetime,etc.
These reasons I showed make me believe that limitng car usage can create positive advantages, I hope they make you feel the same way too. | 4 |
57d9535 | Some reasons why being a sea cowboy is a good idea. It is very occupational, working the stables and feeding the animals makes the trip seem less long. There are very many sights to see, such as, taking relaxing gondola rides in Venice, touring excavated sites like the elegant castles in Crete, seeing the famous Acropolis in Greece. There are many more exotic and beautiful structures to be seen as a Seagoing Cowboy. Along the way gift shops and antique stores that can be visited and bought from.
Places like China are availible to visit and see. The program has all of these offers as well as delivering all of the animals that are on board with you. This is an even greater opportunity to young men who have just come out of high school, it can open things up for them. Help them realize and be aware, that there are other people who have needs in other countries. After it's all over, you can take another trip if you wish to.
Being a sea cowboy means more than just moving animals from place to place. It helps others in need, people who have nearly nothing. Being a Seagoing Cowboy can make all the difference. That is why being part of the Seagoing Cowboys program is a good career choice. | 3 |
57da88c | Should driverless cars be introduced to the people? This is not a good idea for todays society. They are not safe , equipped enough, or good laws supporting the use.
Driverless cars aren't safe for roads in my eyes. When the car is being controlled ,will we still focus on the road ? No , today's society is hooked on there phones and social media. They are more likely going to text ,and do extra stuff they cannot do while they are driving. This will break their focus and could cause a wreck.
Traffic would also be produced even more , which is a problem today. The article says , " the car can handle drivving functions at speeds
up to 25 mph." That's very slow .Highways speeds is up to 60 , maybe higher. People will most likely not even use this feature,due to only working for a minimun speed. Its useless.
Laws aren't supported in most states for the cars. The laws states " the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." This means these cars will most likely not pass because they aren't safe. The article even says , "new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. " This is stating that many problems between the manufacturer and buyer will be brought about.Who's going to be responsible for this wreck . The driver or the manufacturer?
This car shouldn't be on the roads with people. Its not safe , laws are not passed , and they aren't equppied well for all real road challenges. This will cause alot of problems. | 3 |
57dd110 | Choosing weather we should keep the electorial college or start voting by popular vote well some may say its a tough choice and others may say that its an easy one. But after awhile and you take some time to think about it, you come to your sences and see that well maybe it is a simple question. The question is does the electorial college work? the electorial college does not work because people dont always know what they're voting for, also they might not even be really taking our votes,finally they are also unfair to the voters.
To begin, the electorial college isnt good for the people because they dont always know what there voting for for example. In the second article it states that
"sometimes voters get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate".
Now that's a problem dont you think! most voters just go with the flow and pick who they're friends pick or they just go out and choose the first person they think is good, And because of that people dont really care about who they pick, Which is a bad thing because they might choose someone who wants to kill off half of the human race. Every one should know who they are voting for and why there voting for that person, because if not then they should just use the popular vote process.
Furthermore, we should use the popular vote process becasuse who really knows what there doing with our votes they could be throwing them away and not taking our votes. behind closed doors they could just be choosing who they want to become president. statistics show that out of 100 people 80 voted and the other 20% didn't vote at all so why does the talley say that 90% voted in the state of oklahoma when only 80% voted. now think about it they use all these out rageous numbers trying to make the person but only come to find out they're just adding on numbers making whoever they want to become president. Many people dont pay attention to the talleys and results but if you put it all together then you would see what im saying. and yes, many people would say that the electorial college is great and that they arnt doing anything fishy well if you think about if and understand the voters and see how many dont vote and how many do vote you would also see that something isnt right with these numbers. But onthe other hand if you had used the popular vote process no one would have these problems.
Finally,the electorial college is unfair to voters,in the second story it states that
"the best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality.
and the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best".
mostly voters should have the right to know and undrstand everything that goes on while there voting they should be aware of the candidates all of the people behind the candidates such as the extra democratics and republicans that stands behind that certain candidate. never the less I believe thatthe popular vote process is a great idea and that we should stand as one ans abolish the electorial college.
In Conclusion, the electorial college isnt good and we shopuld abolish then and replace it with the popular vote process nothings better than knowing who your voting for and why. But really think about it does the electorial college really work? | 3 |
57dfbe2 | How do you feel about this new technology? Many people feel that this technolgy will not work but some people think it will. My opinon would be i think it would becasue that just how my self saw and read the artical. it says that the facial ecpresstions for each emotion are universal observes Dr. huang. even though individals often show varying degrees of expression
The first thing im going to talk about is going to be the way they people look at this new technolgy. In the expert i saw that alot of people are starting to like this new technolgy and people are changing there mind about it. Another fact is a classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confuced or of task. i think that would be awesome for me becasue i have a hard time focosing in class.
The second thing im going to talk about would be what is the new techoligy about. Its new because you can see if a student is getting off task or hard to stay focussed. People like it because they will get help if they are confused and with out it the stuent wont ask and they ill just stay there confused the hole time and not know anything. I think that new tchonoly would be good for alot of students so i would reconmend it to alot of school across the USA.
Many people should like this for there kid. it will help them so much and make your kid a way better student. i think that technoley is super cool and reconmend it everywhere. Theres students that are failing classes and not asking for help but they need it and if the teacher has a little devise and they can see whos confused they will help them | 3 |
57e1bf2 | dear senator i think you should just keep it the same because then people will get confused. If you change to election by popular vote people will just be confused. according to artcile 1 elctoral college consist of 538 electors. and a majority of 270 elcortal votes is required to elect the president. According to 23rd admendment of the consititution the district of columba is allocated 3 elctors. each canidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of elctors. they can be either deicranditate or republic.
According to the second artlice under the elctoral college system, voters tates vote for one person thevote not for the president. in second passage it says the single best agrument against the elctoral college is what we might call disator factor. in artilce 2 it say at most basic level , the elctoral college is unfair to voters. so with that being said i think i would be against colloege elctoral because it is unfair. why would u agree with a thing that is not fair. the elctoral college is unfair, outdated,and irrational. so thats why i would not choise elctoral vote. in the 3 section it shows the number pf votes given to eah state. not ever state gets same number of votes as others some only have couple of votes. to me i thi nk each state shoukld have same amount of vote so its fair .because if all big so then it would be unfair. | 1 |
57ebb53 | Dear State Senator,
Every four years, the time rolls around to elect a new president of the United States. Surprisingly, the president is actually not elected by popular vote. Instead we have something called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a board of electors who vote directly for the President. In source 1, paragraph 1, the Office of the Federal Register informs us that "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." Seems unfair doesn't it? The Electoral College needs to be eliminated because of the risk of a tie and the unfairness to voters.
Although a tie seems unlikely, we have had some very close calls in history. In source 3, paragraph 18, Posner reveals that "A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538-is an even number..." If there was a tie, the election would be given to the House of Representatives to decide, in which each state gets one vote. In source 2, paragraph 12, Plumer shares that "Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyonming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters." So, in the case of a tie, the outcome would be largely favoring small states over big ones.
The next reason why the Electoral College needs to be eliminated is because of the unfairness to voters. In source 2, paragraph 9, Plumer tells "...according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." This is an example of why the electoral college is unfair. The majority of the people voted for Al Gore, but he still lost he election because of the votes in the electoral college. This is stated again in source 3, paragraph 16 by Posner-"...however, it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote."
Nevertheless, I do recognize that the electoral college does have some benefits to it. For example, the electoral college prevents the problem of neither party recieving the majority of votes. In source 3, paragraph 22, Posner explains "...Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent purality of the popular votes..." Another benefit of the electoral college is the winner-take-all method. This causes candidates to focus their efforts on the toss-up states; voters in these states are more likely to pay close attention and make the most thoughtful decisions about who is the best leader of our country.
The best choice to ensure the future sucess of the United States is to get rid of the electoral college. Even though it does have some benefits, the cons out weigh the pros. This system is unfair and old, and the majority of the people have agreed that it needs to go.
Sincerely,
Maggie Lyons | 4 |
57ed4ff | Many authors write about how we should do certain things even if they don't apppeal to us or seem possible. Authors are supposed to support their claims. The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy puruit despite the dangers well.
First, the author talks about Venus is almost like Earth's twin. In paragraph 2, he states how Venus is similar to Earth in many ways. One way is how they have similar sizes and desities. He also says Venus is sometimes the closest planet to Earth.
Second, the author states the challenges and solutions to them. In paragraph 3, he states that, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 900 degrees Fahrenheit..." His solution is to fly above the surface where its still pretty hot, but nothing compared to the surface. He also states how the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than Earth's. His solution for that is also flying above it because high enough would be similar to Earths
Third, the author talks about how NASA is working on ways to vist Venus. In paragraph 7, the author states that NASA is testing things in atmospheres similar to Venus's. So far, they've stayed in a few weeks before being destroyed. He talks about how mechanical computers could survive it. Modern computers are destroyed easily with the extreme conditions of Venus, but mechanical ones that use cogs wouldn't be destroyed as easily.
The author has valid claims and supports them well. It's important that authors support their claims. Authors write about many different topics all the time. | 3 |
57f4bb0 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", paragraph 1 states that Venus is often referred to as Earth's "twin". It has features similar to earth such as mountains, valleys, and craters. The author says, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans, and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
Since Venus is similar to Earth, It has caught the attention of many Astronomers.
Despite its dangers such as the extreme temperatures, a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, and the atmospheric pressure being 90 times greater than what we experience here on Earth, it is worthy of being studied.
NASA has came up with ideas to exploring the planet. One of the ideas is to "allow scientists to float above th fray" as stated in paragraph 5. Hovering 30 miles above the landscape, there are problems that come with that.
When floating, the temperatures would still be hot, being around 170 degrees Farenheit. The pressure would be close to the sea level on Earth". Solar power wouldn't be a problem and radiation would not exceed Earth's levels. Although the planet is not in the best condition, it's survivable for humans. There would be problems trying to explore Venus since the scientists would be floating high above the surface. The author states, "researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance". In order to explore the planet to the fullest, the only option would be to get up close and personal.
Since modern day technology is delicate, a different type of technology would have to be able to withstand Venus's conditions. A cell phone, tablet or anything related to that sort of technology wouldn't be the greatest considering it is easy to break. NASA has came up with the idea of using mechanical computers. These computers make calculations by using gears and levers and don't require any electronics. It has stronger material and is more likely to survive the conditions of Venus. The passage says, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of immagination and innovation". To me this proves that Venus is worth exploring. | 3 |
57f53f2 | studying venus could lead to more scientific break throughs. studying this hot plantet is not a bad idea as long as it is done right and safley. it was as close to earth as it could be and could may as well had life on this planet so studing the planet is not a bad idea at all.
the national aeronautics and space adminstation has already found diffrent ways to study the planet venus more clearly. if this could actully be done studying the planet would have a big effect on the tole of science and other forms of are solar system. the text states venus would allow scientists to float above the fray imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape. this shows what could be done to studying this planet and what is could do for scients scientist have found many diffrent ways to study the planet. by using siple electronics mad of silicon that can last weeks in the chaos of venus's surface. this could make the studying of a new planet possible one day and sometime in the future venus may be studyed in alott better way.
althogh there are many things that goes against exploring venus the dangors or even expensis. If one day in are future we could have the tecnollogay and the expensis that traviling to venus one day is not impossiple.
traving to venus is not a bad idea in many ways it could be good for use to see and find out more about are solar system and if there is or was other life on diffrent planets. | 2 |
57f6a70 | There's a new comouter software that can recongnize emotions. The software is the latest invention from Prof. Thomas Huang. They call it the Facial Action Coding sytem. It can list off all the emotions by perecentage and claimed to be accurate, but is using this type of technology to read emotional expressions of students in classrooms valuable? I don't think so.
Using a software to read emotional expressions just isn't needed in a classroom. Theres really just no need for it and it would be a waste of money. We can already tell when someone is sad, mad, or happy when you look at there face . There would just be no need to replace that. Us looking at a student is aswell faster then scanning it through some software.
If a classroom would want to use this technology they would need a fast computer and sit the student down to check there emotions. The only reason why we would need that type of software would be to wonder whats wrong with a student but you wouldn't want to sit him down and get scanned in his face. Aswell as the cost of these software programs. Aswell as the cost of faster computers.
I don't think this technology would be useful in any classroom. Not even a classroom computer would be able to run the software in the first place. We would have to write down encodes to figure out 1 students emotions that could change during that moment. Much simpler to just look at a student and see there emotions and how they act and how there treat others to figure out whats going on. | 3 |
57fa317 | "The Challenge of Exploring Venus." The author thinks that Venus is a worth pursuite despite all of the dangours things that can happen and have had happen. In my own persnal opinion I think it is a horrific idea. Why send people to an unfirmilar plaent when a tiny space craft cant survive. I think even with ihs evdince its a horrinle idea.
In the artical
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus.", the author suporrts his idea of
"Venus is a worth pursuite despite all of the dangours". with facts. In the artical it states "Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this could-draped world. Each pervious mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." Why would someone want to explore a planet that not even a space craft can handel? He also states "NASA's possible spulution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float aboove the fray." This is one of the most pathetic pices ideas i have ever heard us. Why send someone where the weather is so harmful it can destroy a robot?
In conclousion I dont think that the author has a valid reason to send human's, his own kind, to a plaent that can kill them witin secinds of being there. He did nothing but support his idea with facts about how dangrous this plaent is to humans. He is living on the edge, it seems as if he does not care that peoples lives will be in extream danger on that planet. With the facts and evdince that i have gathered i think that the author did very porly trying to suppor his idea. | 3 |
57fcfea | Mapping the Thoughts of Students
In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile," advancing technology used for recognizing human emotion is suggested for use in the classroom. By having a computer be able to register the emotions of a student and adjust the lesson accordingly using a program called Facial Action Coding System, student productivity will excel, and the stress felt by teachers will ease.
Lessons, for as long as education has existed, have been adjusted accordingly to the audience by the tutors. For instance, a teacher may observe their students leaning forward in interest of the lesson, and may continue based off of that subject. Others may see students slump in their chairs, or watch with glossy, bored eyes, and will attempt to reconnect with the class. Facial recognition is already common. "In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day (Paragraph 5)." But it is done ineffectively in the classroom due to one person teaching twenty others. A computer is unbiased, and only focuses on one body: The user. By reading and calculating the most subtle changes in one's face, beyond what the naked eye can see, a computer is able to follow "emotion algorithms" and change the lesson's strategy "...like an effective human instructor (Paragraph 6)." The lesson becomes personalized, benefiting the student greatly, as if they had their own private tutor. "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication (Paragraph 6)." The student will understand quicker and learn at a greater rate than if they simply sat and listened to an adult stand at the front of the classroom.
In turn, this student productivity will drastically lower the stress and pressure a teacher will feel over their students. Teachers, more often than not, truly care if their students understand what is being taught and want to see them succeed. Teachers, however, do not have the time to focus on each student individualy. By watching a student fail, a teacher feels as if they themselves are failing. With emotion tracking classroom computers, each student has a better chance of succeeding. A student, who has mastered balancing chemical equations, will no longer have to 'start back at square one' with another student who knows nothing of math or chemistry. Students who fall behind more often will be more equal with their quicker classmates. On a whole, the class itself will be more productive, and the teacher may even be able to move on and prepare more advanced lessons. "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (Paragraph 4)." The focus the computer has on the student can be greater, and more effective, than what a single adult can provide. Teachers will feel more at ease knowing their students have the 'attention' they need for more challenging subjects.
Facial recognition is not a new concept, and has existed even before the invention of computers. Efficiency is what has been changing, and for the better. If computers, able to recognize and adapt according the user's emotions, better a student's productivity and reduce a teacher's stress, Facial Action Coding Systems are of great value in the classroom. | 6 |
5800430 | Based on the information read we should change to election by popular vote. You can understand this by reading scource three paragraph fifteen. "When you vote for the presidential candidate yuo are actually voting for a slate of electors". This means you are voting for someone to vote for you.
In addition, the elctoral college should not remain active. You can better understand this in scource two paragraph eleven. "the single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the desaster factor.", and goes on to state, "the 2000 fiasco was the biggest crisis in the century; the system alows for much worse." which also means that it could happen again and twice as bad.
Secondly, contrary to some belief, the electoral college can vote against you. One can find this information in scource two paragraph eleven. "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those elctors could always defy the will of the people. Which simply means that the elctor could vote completly oposite of you.
In conclusion, the elction by popular vote is the best way to go. this is because the voters choice then does really count. | 3 |
5801bab | From what I have just read, a few reasons that would help persuade someone to join the Seagoing Cowboys program would be to Tell them a life story. This would be persuasive because if you had been to the program, you coud tell people about how you helped your country and how you were a brave hero they might also want to be able to help their country and join the program. I can support my claim because in the text it tells us that Luke and Don were traveling to Europe and World War II had just happned there so Luke and Don had signed up to be Seagoing Cowboys to help deliver food and water and live stock to Europe.
Another reason people should join the program is because It's lots of fun to be on board! I can support my evidence because in the text it tells us that while Luke was on board, the cowboys played baseball, volleyball, and games in the empty holds where the animals used to be housed. It also tells us that table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittiling, and other games also helped pass the time.
One of the final ways you could persuade folks to join the program is that while serving, you can also go sight-seeing! The text evience i used was from paragraph 5. The text tells me that besides helping people, Luke also got to see the Acropolis is Greece, took a gondola ride through Venice,Italy, toured the castle in Crete, and marvled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
This is what i belive to be the most effective ways to persuade people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program and how to tell them in a posotive way that this helps you to meet new people, protect your country, and go sight-seeing all why having a great time. | 3 |
580a307 | Driverless cars have both a postive and negative side. It can help people or it can harm them. Those who invented driverless cars had a vision on making it easier for people, but are they really making it easier? My position on driverless cars is neutral. I think it can benefit us but also take us down.
Many people may be confused on what driverless cars means, in my point of view they're cars that drive you to your destination without you having to do anything but getting in the car. Google confounder Sergey Brin's definition is different. Driverless cars to him are those who still need human assistance. Paragraph 7 states "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills...". The Google car tells the driver when it's time to take over.
In paragraph 2 it says "Their cars have driven up to half a million miles without a crash..." it may be safe but also dangerous if you don't know how to control it. Humans can take over if needed to and the way these cars are invented they need a lot of sensor for it to work, but sensors aren't anything new. In paragraph 7 it says " While the driver watches the road, the car watches
the driver." saying the driver stills need to be on alert if anything is needed. The car and the driver are basically friends helping each other make it to the destination safely.
The thing to question is if an accident occured with a driverless car who's fault would it be? The drivers or the manufacturer? The manufacturer wouldn't want any problems and neither would the individual. They even quetioned who's fault it would be in paragraph 9 because they don't know the answer.If it affects the individual and they are the ones that got hurt it wouldn't even cross my mind to get one of these cas. My reason would be because I would have to pay them for something the car didn't do. It may be safe according to them,but to me if an accident happened and the accused me then I relied on the car to much thinking it was that safe trusting everything said about these cars.
Yes, it may seem nice to have them and think my family will be safe with a car driving better than me driving it. If anyone got hurt while you drive yes you feel awful but it's sometimes best for you to drive than to trust a car that may not work properly. Laws will change if these cars start to be sold. These people may have dreams, they may benefit us but we aren't always sure. Always stay on alert and make sure you know how to work it. My opinion is still neutral because of the facts they've said but also because I know of the dangers it may cause.
Jaqueline | 3 |
580b491 | As a scientist for NASA I think that their was not piece of aliens left and that they did not form the face of Mars.The face of Mars had been growing over the faces of year and if aliens left it behind as an artifact then why would it still be growing and getting bigger.It something that is forming on its own to show that maybe one day there will be life on Mars.They have send Space craft into space 3 times already they where in the year of 1976,1998 and 2001,Each time that they have taken the picture from space everything has came back a little bigger each time so it must have something that the planet is doing.
They had to roll the spacecraft 25 degress to center the face in the field of view,each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1,56 meter,compared to 43 per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo.If there were objects in the picture like an airplane on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramides or even small shacks,you could see what they were!There for there is no evidence of a alien anywhere.
Researcher think that it is forming something that forming from the planet nothing else not aliens or anything because they have not left anything there and if they where forming it we would know because the images would show someting or some king of evidence.I think that it is something to show that there will be lfe on Mars and the planet is suddenly forming something that will keep us living and we have air and water to drink and to have a way of building thing.
Mars could be forming by Aliens because it could be there sign to have humans come to their planet and it could be safe we don't know.We have to find something that is going to prove to us whatever is forming this could be a god thing or a bad thing.NASA thinks that it is something that is forming that is going to bring life to the plant,They believe that its going to help but it could be Aliens trying to put us in danger.When we get evidence of something true then we will have the real answer to what we need .
Right now I think that it is something that i just forming onto the planet that is going to bring air that we can breath and water that we can drink I think that the face is a sign that scienctist need to go over there and try something new or find out some more imfromation about everything that is going on.The people that have put in work thinking it is aliens there is no prove of that and untill we do don't think that.Its a sign that one day there will be life on Mar's. | 3 |
580d378 | I am the scientist of mars. The NASA has been Viking the spacecrft with the planet. Viking 2 was spotted by an human face. The Face is a natural landform I can explain why it is. It is an natural landform because the sensational was a short live. We decieded as scientist it was just anther Martian mesa. The "Face on Mars" has been a pop icon. That is half of the reason why it is a natual landform also.
A few of scientists belived the Face was an alien artifact. Then they felt this was an improtnt to taxpapers. After everybody had found that out everybody then thought this was an good Natural Landform.
Everyne was not satistfied. Some people only thought of the Natural Landform as something else but others just dont agree with it. The face is an Natual landform. We just don't pass over the face very often. The landforms common around the American West it just dosen't come as often.
The Scientist think that if the Natural Landform of the Face do come around often more people will maybe belive in it. The Lava dome take the form an isloate mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars do.
The NASA really explains it all but sometimes it could be wrong. The scientist really is something good and explains it right. The main part everybody is just wondering about is if the Face is just n Natural Landform.
It is actually a Lanform to whoever don't believe. | 2 |
5810ac1 | Would you buy a self-driving car? Im going to be talking about the negitive things of self- driving cars about how a self driving car can be very dangerues, that what may cause the enviorment and that how much will the car cost if they ever come out in the future.
The first thing Im going to be talking about is how dangerus driving a sellf- driving car can be. The fisrt thing that can be dangerus is that people may not pay attetion sometimes like they may be in the high way and there probably taking a nap in the car. But the car may tell that person to get back on the wheel because there may be a crontrution going on in the hightway and he wont notice because his taking a nap in the car so that person may casue an accident. Another thing that it can be dangerus is that the person may be letting the car drive it self but that person may forget to put there setbelt so if the car brakes really hard that person can get injurded or get really hurt.
The second negitive thing I want to talk about is how is going to cause the enviroment. The cause is that theres going to be a lot of danger with there kids if there playing in the streets because if somebody has put the thing to self drive and children are playing out side that can be really dangerus. The communitty may that say that they dont need to ride does cars in out
neiborhood bacause of causes that may happen. Another thing is that this communitty may not let crazy drivers drive these cars because like the authore said some cars can stay there without energy and so the goverment has to pay a lot of money to put charging poles for cars.
The final most importan one is how much are these cars going to cost if they come out. Probably the rich people will buy these nice looking self driving cars, one reasson is that thses cars can cost up at least 20,000 or more if they start inventing sports cars. So not all people may buy these expesive cars so thats why is good because the goverment dosent have to spend that much money by putting lots of charging poles for the car. Thats why if rich people get this kind of cars than there pretty good with them.
So now do you want that nice self-driving car? I dont think so, because in my opinion I would not buy these kinds of cars if they come out. | 3 |
5819ded | To start, people use cars everyday to go to work, drive their kids to school, or just going out somewhere. Some people instead of using a car to get somewhere in close distance they ride a bike or walk there. Like poeple use cars for long distances like going to work, visiting someone that might live in a different county than you. Limiting car usage is an advantage because it allows you to get more exercise, doesn't cause more pollution, and causes less traffic on the road.
Moreover, limiting car usage is an advantage because it allows you to get more exercise. When you need to go to a store thats right down the street, instead of taking a car; jog, walk, or ride a bike over there so you can get a breathe of fresh air. Walking to the store to get a few things allows you to stay in shape and not get tied down or lazy. When you drive a car your sitting down the whole time and not really moving besides moving your foot back and forth for the gas and brake, and moving your arms to turn the steering wheel. If you sit around all day and watch TV or you work all day and you have to sit down to work, walking somewhere instead of driving loosens up your legs because you've been sitting all day long.
Continuing, limiting car usage is an advantage because it keeps you from letting more pollution into the air from the smoke of your exhaust. Every day there is a ton of smoke from cars exhaust going to the air and polluting it even more. Smoke from cars exhaust has made most of the ozone layer around the Earth disappear because the smoke has rotted it away. The summers have been hotter and the winters have been extremely cold, record breaking almost every year because the ozone layer can't protect us from that as well anymore. Breathing in the smoke from cars exhaust isn't good for us either because it goes into our lungs. Breathing in smoke into your lungs can give a person cancer possibly.
Nevertheless, limiting car usage is an advantage because it causes less traffic. There is always an accident on the highway, side street, and neighborhood everyday because of traffic. When your in traffic its usually stop and go and someone might not brake in time or expect it and slam right into the back of you without you knowing and give and injury or kill you because of the traffic. Some people are very tense behind the wheel of a car and the slights little thing can startle them and make them have an accident. Some people get annoyed sitting in traffic and try to race through it at high rates of speed and maybe loose control and crash into someone. You hear about car accidents injuring people every day on the news because of traffic, most of the time its on the highway.
Without a doubt, limiting car usage is an advantage because it allows you to get more exercise, it keeps you from putting more pollution into the air, and causes less traffic on the road.
For those people who live close to a school, store, or work, take a bike or walk there instead using a car. Another plus to walking or riding a bike instead of driving is you will be saving money because you won't have to pay for gas. | 4 |
581e044 | A good argument starts with research. The author of the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" has done his research. Does this mean that his argument is perfect? No. With all this said, I have come to the conclusion that the author has the sufficient evidence to support the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, despite the dangers.
First, I would like to address his argumentative claim: studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author is simply saying we should explore Venus. The author is not implying every human being should live on Venus right now. Exploring Venus could be dangerous, but the good outweighs the bad when taking into consideration the advances we could make.
The article says, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus." The author uses this throughout the article to illustrate that NASA wants to explore Venus. NASA/scientists would not discuss even visiting the surface if it was not a possibility. The author wants to show the audience that it is a worthy and possible pursuit. The author knows the dangers and even expresses them throughout the article. He/she is not trying to hide the fact that their are dangers involved in exploring Venus. The main argumentative point made by the author is the fact that Venus is the closest planet to being exactly like Earth. The article says, "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." Venus is the closest we can get to the planet we are living on now. The author describes the advances we could get from astronaunts touching down on Venus and exploring. Venus could have been just like Earth, but one will never know until humankind touches its surface. The conditions are not easy, but we will not be able to find out if humans can live there until we study Venus.
In conclusion, one can see the author's suggestion as absurd or one could see possiblility/advancements for humans. I see possibilities in studying/exploring Venus. The author should not have included as much research against his claim that he did and I can understand the opposing sides claim, but I also believe the author illustrated the room for advances. Although I know the dangers presented in this article, the author was still able to convince me otherwise. | 3 |
581e39d | Venus the second planet on the solar system. Venus has a temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and its atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet. Its atmosphere is made of 97 percent carbon dioxide , the clouds are made of highly corrosive sulfiric acid. If this planet is so inhospitable why does the author think we should keep studying Venus? Well Venus may once had been just like our planet, scientist believe that once Venus was covered largely by with oceans and could have supported various types of life just like the Earth today. The only problem is that the tecnology we have now can't reach the crust of Venus, because it would get destroyed.
The author of the passage belives that studying Venus worthy pursuit despite its danger, but how can we study a planet that has bad temperatures levels capable of melting tin. NASA has one particular compeiling idea for sending humans to sudy Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. Just like planes travel at hight altitudes to avoid storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions. The author placed this idea in his passage, but theres a set back for this idea the scientist would not be able to study the ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dence atmosphere. More importantly they cannot take any samples of rocks, gas or anything else.
Other ideas that NASA has come up with is, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simultating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted three weeks in such conditions. The other idea the author place on this passage is the idea that Old technology called mechanical computers. These devises were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II. These divise use make calculations by using levers and do not require electronics at all. The computers today are powerful, flexible, and quick but tend to be more delicate fo extreme physical conditions. Mechanical parts can be made more resistent to the preassure, heat and other forces. This idea is really helpful makes belive that is worthy of traying to sudy Venus.
Striving to meet the challenges presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to begained on the planet, but because human curiosity will likely lead us into new endeavors. The dangers in the planet should not limit our imagination and innovation, insted it should make us have more ideas and overcome the obstecla paced by the world. Many ideas are been created at this moment, but the ideas that the author has writen on this passage are helpful to make the reader want to sudy Venus even despite ts danger.
All the evidence Above supports the claim that is worthy to keep studying Venus even if there are many dangers. The author uses many points to descrive how the problems can be solved even if it would take time, but all the insight that we could gain from the planet Venus would help our society more. The author shows that we can make tecnology that can witstand the harsh environment of Venus and gain more information. | 4 |
58206bb | Are some of you parents out there wondering how you can get your son out of the house because he has hit those teenage years. Well guess what i have the perfect suggestion for you. Well we have a special guest to explain to you how his trip was and to get you to sign up now herer he is. Hello! My name is luke, i am a high school grudating student fro mthis experinceice. Now you know what lets get right into it. The first thing i want to talk about is the first things i did or was doing before i got this oppurtinty aslo who gave me this oppurtinty. Well first thing first i was working just like any normal high school teenager was i worked at a bank and at a groccery store. Next this oppurtinty was gavinen to be by my great friend Don Reist. Now this oppuritnty was once in a lifetime how could i say now. Well now lewts talk about what you do before you get on the boat. Well real simplie you go to Eruope and get on a cattle boat. Some of you may ask what is a cttle boat? Well a cattle boat where you watch peoples cow,Horeses and more. So me and my buddy Ron we didnt pick the very best time to go we went in the year of 1945. Yea you can say it that's the year of Wold War 2, I know I know it is well also you may say this man is trying to get me to take my child to Eroupe and put him on a boat and have him go when a war is going on im not doing that i don't want my kid to die. Well you know what i'm still living standing strong to. Well how about we quiet agrueing and just get on to what i did when i was on the boat. Alright well i boarded the boat and i got on searched around and everything. Also i forgot to tell you this job you do how a couple months or years is called "Seagoing Cowboys".
Alright so its August and we were headed to new orleans. We arrived on August 14 the day the pacific war ended. See i told you people that your childern wont die i was on the boat for a cople days or months. We had 335 horses on are boat. You might ask how did the boat not sink? Well the boat is perfectly safe no damages to it no broken parts if your childern sign up they will be perfectlyu safe. I had to feed the horses 2 or 3 times a dy wicgh it was very exouhusting but also fun At the same time. Well you know how i said your children will be saf well thats gets me into the part where i almost fell into the atlantic ocean. Well i was going to repoert to the captin because when i turned 18 i got a promation to night watch and had to report to the captin ever 1 hour. Well it was dark and rainiy that night and i tripped over some and i sliped all the way down to the back and the edge of the until a pice of metal stoped me. Well i was still happy to be alive.
See i told you that your son and dauhter will have agreat experince on this magnifcent trip. See im still alive. So come oont this trip will teach them how to work hard for things. And it gets you a week of no teenagers. So come on just sign your kid up and you will have a diffrent child when your back. Thanks for leisting to my story im luke Bye!!! | 1 |
58212c0 | Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star", is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. In our solar system, Venus is the second planet from our sun. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth.
Venus is the closest planet in distance too. Earth ,Venus and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.
If our sister planet is so inhospitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venuis because iy may well once have been the most
Earth-like planet in our solar system. Today, Venus stil has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.
However, peering at venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working on other approaches to studying Venus. Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Another project is looking back to an old tecnology called mechanical computers.
Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
In conclusion The National Aeronatics and Space Administration (NASA)
want to send humas to study Venus, but their jet airplane in a hot temperature would be burn, But
they are gliding a form to travel safely to Venus. | 2 |
5829766 | "Yes I agree that it would be amazing to have life on Mars, but theres just simply no evidence to support your claim." I argue. Most people think there is life on Mars but I disagree. I think this because, there is no evidence, there are things on Earth that look like faces but are not, and we have digitaly made the picture 3 times bigger and found nothing.
First of all I think this because, there is no evidence. No evidence has been found to suggust that there were aliens who built the face. The only thing you can find on aliens are in newspapers or on tv and they are based on pure opions instead of facts.
Secondly I think this because there are things on earth that may look like a face but isnt one. There are many landforms that may resembel a face but were proven to be naturaly formed.
Lastly, I think this because we have digitaly made the image 3 times bigger and found no objects in the picture. So if there were objects in the picture we would have been able to see them. This supports the idea that ther is no life on Mars to create the face.
This all supports the idea that aliens did not create the face on Mars. I belive that the face was created by natural elements and just happens to look like a face. | 3 |
582a549 | The face on Mars is just a mesa. It was not built by aliens, and I can prove it. When the face was first photographed, NASA did not have very good cameras. They were up to date but not very powerful and had bad pixles. The 1976 Viking 1 had 43 meters per pixel in the best photo.
While some people say that this is definetly alien activity, they have been proven wrong. In the 2001 photo, the great pixels showed that this was nothing more than a mesa with weird shadows. There wasn't even anything around it. There were no planes houses nothing just a big lump of rock.
This kind of mesa can be found on Earth too. There are a lot in the U.S.A. one especilly good one is a lava dome in Idaho. Even though this mesa on Mars is not lava it is a rock that looks like natural earthly structures.
Back then nobody was positive that it wasn't aliens that had built a really big sculpture, but as tecnology got better, NASA was able to say for sure that this odd thing on Mars was not aliens. Only a big mesa that was isolated on the Red Planet. | 3 |
582cc56 | Driverless car should not be aloud to be driven on the roads. They could mess up then the person that is sittind in the car might not be paying attention to what is going on. If that was to happen then something bad could happen to the people that are driving around that car. If the person in the car reacts to late to the cars problem it could also get them injured.
The sensors in the car might not work right which could also not tell the person in the car when something back is coming on the road. Then they wouldnt have enough time to try and save themselfs from crashing into something. They could hit something will driving and stop all the electronic stuff from working.
While they are sitting in the car and it sensors the person in it to take over might not work when they attemept to control what the car needs help with. The car might be to close to the danger that is in the road and it would be to late for them to try and control where the problem is and what the problem is. So the person in the smarter car could be put in danger for what the car didn't tell them. The sensors might not stop the car in time itself.
If the person in the smarter car was to get in a wreck while they wasn't driving the car then who would be to blame for all the damage to the cars. Would the insurance that the person is paying on the car pay for it even if the driver wasn't physically in control of the car or they could sue the company for alot of money. The company wouldn't like for someone to sue their company for something that wasn't physically their fault.
Thats why the driverless cars should not be aloud to
be driven on the road. The car being on the road and getting into crashes could be a big problem for the poeople and the company. So the company should not put the cars the they have built onto the roads for saftey reasons. They need to think of more stuff to help with the car on the road. | 3 |
58379d1 | Hey,how are you today. Well I am here today to tell you why it would be a great idea for you to participate in the Seagoing program.
The reason i think it would be a great idea for you to participate in the Seagong program is because I just got done reading a artical called,'' A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves,''.And in this story the author gave me many reasons on why it would be a great idea to participate in the program.
The first reason on why it would be great is if u enjoy caring fo animals then the Seagoing Cowboys program is the place for you. The reason i say this is because the UNRRA hired''Seagoing Cowboys'' to take care of the horses,young cows,and mules that were shipped overseas.
Another reason on why it would be a great idea is the experience to visit many unique places,for example if u like to travel and visit places you can have the side benefit of seeing Europe and China or even better you can see the special sight of the Acropolis in Greece. Also you can take a gondola ride in Venice,Italy,which is a city with streets of water. Another great thing about it is that you can tour a excavated castle in Crete and marvel at the Panama Canal on your way to China. But if your lazy and non disaplined i dont think this is a good trip for you because you have to be prepared for hard work .
One other reason on why it would be a great idea is because if you like to have fun and enjoy yourself than this would be great for you because you can find time to have fun on board,especially on return trips after the animals have been unloaded. The cowboys play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittling,and games also helped pass the time. | 3 |
583a1a6 | Throughout the years, humans have always had to get from point A to point B. To make this easier they use cars. But with air pollution and traffic being an issue in most countries, mayors are deciding to put down the car keys and pick up their walking shoes.
To begin with, air pollution is becoming a big issue on the Earth. Greenhouse gases are being released and most of them come from cars alone. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States" (Section 1, Paragraph 5). Cars and trucks are causing our Earth, our home, to waste away because of the gases they give out. If more people decided to walk to where they need to go instead of driving, then it would reduce the gases that cars and trucks give out. With more people walking rather than driving, it would make the air more clean and the Earth a better place to live.
Further more, another reason people should decide to put down their car keys is because of the traffic that cars cause. Why France was trying to get rid of smog, they banned people from using their cars. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog" (Section 2, Paragraph 14). If more people walked or used public transportation rather than their own cars, traffic jams would decrese and also crashes. When people drive their own cars they tend to lose focus and they might hit someone. With less people driving then there would be less deaths from car accidents. Putting down your keys and walking or using public transportation, would be beneficial to not only you but also everyone else too.
In conclusion, people rely on cars every day of their lives. To get you to where you need to go, but if we continue to use cars every day and destroy the Earth then there will be no where for us to go in the future. Polluting the air and causing car accidents and deaths is not what we need to be doing. Put the keys down, and walk! | 4 |
583ae2d | This is very challenging to the people who want to make venus a place we can call home. Many reaserchers or people who study Venus will be testing out materials that can last long for it not to melt or break down into parts, when they try to make it to Venus. and of course it wont be very easy because of the conditions, but can be survivable to human. My three reasons for this is the tempeture, conditions and how the materials will last long enough to survive these conditions. and of course there are pro and cons to this challenge.
When you try to get to Venus it will be a little hot. the good thing is that we can survive that, maybe not for some of use. The bad thing is that if the spaceship breaks down into parts then we all die. That's why we need to make sure that the ship is good. "at thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to the sea level on earth". This to me is very shocking becuase the "air pressure would be close to sea level on earth". (paragraph 5). This would support becuase of high the temp is.
The conditions for this can be very risky becuase you never know wwhat might happen when you get close to the atmosphere. The atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. Anything could happen, it can be unexpected. Some small machine that have ben been on venus and only lasted for a while. " Image of a bimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape".(para 5) This woulld support because NASA has been doing things and discover on what is on Venus.
my other reason is the conditions. the materials can effect the conditios of the spaceship. in world war II they also used computers to help them make the things to | 3 |
584ba4a | Should driverless cars be allowed? Should people rely on technology for something as important as transportation? As stated in paragraph one "such cars could fundamentally change the world," says Google confouner Sergey Brin. He's right these driverless cars will funamentally change the world, but is that really the kind of change people want? Not everything should be taken over by technology. Sixteen year olds across America get the privilige to drive, just to get it taken away because nowadays the car can drive for you. Keep in mind there can be many problems with these cars.
One such problem that can accur is system failure. These cars are engineered to stop when they sense something that is too close from the rear and the front. Are these sensors completely reliable? For example, the sensor stops working and the car gets into an accident. As stated in paragraph nine, that creates a problem with manufacturers. Just imagine the problem that the manufacturering business would face because of unreliable technology used in the vehicle.
How will these vehicles react in weather conditions? Snow, rain, and even warm weather. Macbooks can't be left out in the snow without technology damage. What's to make buyers think that these such vehicles can drive safely in cold, wet conditions? Paragraph four talks about all the sensors on these automobiles what happens to them if it's freezing out or if it gets wet. Sure manufacturers can put some kind of protection on it to keep it from getting wet but no one is to say it's one hundred percent safe.
Paragraph eight starts by saying this "why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" Driverless cars today are not one hundred percent driverless. Maybe instead of making cars driverless, maybe they should be made more safe for driving. These driverless cars still need a driver anyways, all that is really happening right now is these cars are being made more efficient. Maybe instead of taking all of the driving privilige away, instead make it easier for people to have that privilige safely.
Should driverless cars be allowed and are they one hundred pecent safe? Personally, I think not. As recently stated driving is a privilige and in this world things should not be done for us. Technology is fundamentally changing the world. It's also taking it over completely. Safety, unreliable technology, and manufacturers are big reasons I disagree with driverless cars. Leave the driving to the people. Just make it more safe. | 4 |
585045b | Attention my fellow citizens, we should limit car usage because limiting car usage will release stress, reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes, and stop smog.
First, we should limit car usage because driving a car can be stressful. For example say you just got finished with a hard day of work and it was not the best day, You hop in your car and when you start to drive you look ahead and see a trafic jam. After working all day, getting in a car to wait hours and hours to get home is not peaceful or fun. Another example would be when you're on the road and the people around you are not driving safely. "When I had a car i was always tense. I'm much happeir this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two.(In geram suburb life goes on, paragraph 3)
Not only does the usage of cars cause stress but it also causes greenhouse gas. The use of cars should be limitted because we could drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." (In geram suburb life goes on, paragraph 5) Using a car to get around is nice but isint living on earth better than driving a gas powered vehicle and slowly destroying the earth? "All of our development since World War II has been on the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg, an official of Transport for America.(P7)
Finally, We should limit the usage of cars because if we do we can stop smog. Smog is pollution that creates clouds all around and it is discusting and horrible for the earth. 'Bejing, China is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world."(Paris bans driving due to smog, Paragraph 14) After intensifying smog, congestion was down 60 percent and thats only after 5 days thats incredible!
All in all, we should limit car usage because if we can use cars less than we do, it will ease stress, reduce greenhouse gas, and finally clean the earth. What do you say, use your car less and get some exersize? Thanks for reading my fellow citizens. | 4 |
585210c | The value of technology we as a human race and generation have envovled with what we can do with technoogy. One example of this envolution is cell phones, we all have heard the tales of how are parents didn't even have or better yet even knew what a cell phone was when they were kids. This might just seem like boring old tales to the generation who grew up with all different types of cell phones. Even so these tales show us just how much technology has improved, and how we are still improving. Just like our lastest improvement in Technology ,the FACS system.
The FACS system stands for Facial action coding system meaning this is a system that reads and codes the facial expression a person makes and tell us what emotion they are feeling. Cool right; but now the next step or should I say next question is if we should allow this FACS system in classrooms to read students emtional expressions. I believe we should use this system in classrooms because all kids learn differently and the teacher can't always adhere to a certain kids way of learning. Therefore if we were to have this FACS system it would allow the computer to calculate the childs facial expression and tell the teacher so that they can better adjust their lesson and all the kids can be engaged better. If they were to allow this system in classrooms the kids would retain information better which might lead to better test score, and maybe even a better learning environment.
This FACS system was creayed by Pyschologist Dr. Paul Eckamn with Professor Thomas Huang from Beckman Institute for Advanced science at the University of Illnois. With the help of professor Nicu Sebe from the University of Amsterdam. Eckman has classified basic human emtions and paired them with the muscles involved with that certain emotion. By doing this it allows the computer to calculate the emotion being expressed "even though indivduals show varyng degrees of emotions" meaning we can calculate even the littest emotion. Which would help out greatly if put in a classroom "a classroom computer could recongize when a student is becoming confused or bored" "then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor".
In conclusion the FACS system should be put into classrooms and if it were it would be a great aspect to students learning. | 3 |
5852b0c | "All of our development since World War II has been centered around the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America. David Goldberg says this in means of trying to decrease car usage, such as in Vauban, Germany. Car usage after World War II continued increasing for a long period of time until 2005 in the United States the number of miles driven started to decrease. In the year 2013, the miles driven in the United States decreased nearly 9% since 2005 and was equal to the amount of miles driven in 1995. Throughout the whole world people have been experiencing problems with air pollution and due to that many have been trying to decrease the usage of cars in different ways to slow this air pollution.
To start off, pollution from cars has been a large factor of the air pollution today. In the United States, 50 percent of the greenhouse emissions in the United States is caused by passenger cars. Then there is Paris who has been experiencing heavy smog. Recently, it has had days of near-record pollution. Reason for such high levels of smog or air pollution can be attributed to a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesel makes up 67% of vehicles in France. Then in the rest of Western Europe 53.3% of the vehicles are diesel.
Next, is how some people attempt to slow the car pollution. The first example of a community trying to decrease the usage of cars is Vauban, Germany. In Vaubaun street parking, driveways, and home garages are generally forbidden. For the most part, Vauban is car free. The only way to use cars in Vauban is to carpool because there is only two places to park in the whole city and they are two large parking garages on the edge of development. Then you have to pay $40,000 to keep a spot. 70% of the people in Vaubaun do not own cars. Anoter example is Paris, who is one of the biggest air pollutants next to Beijing. They have been trying to decrease the smog in their area through slowing the amount of cars on the road. What they did is make it so only cars wih even-numbered license plates could drive one day and odd-numbered license plates the next. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined due to this policy, which showed some reluctance in following the plan. This did not matter though because the smog cleared enough to where the polcy only lasted for one day. Another attempt in lowering the usage of cars was Bogota's car-free day. In this program it is quite obvious that it was just a day of no car usage at all. During this event Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work. Even in the rain people of Bogota participated in this event. Then there is one other case of lowering the usage of cars, which is the natural way, having people just grow away from the car. This is currently happening in the United States, one of if not the largest car users. Like I said earlier since 2005 the usage of cars has decreased. Whether this trend stays in motion or not depends on the idealism of the current and future generations.
To conclude, the use of cars is creating problems in air pollution and due to this there have been attempt to slow this usage. Then back to what David Goldberg said the development of the car needs to stop being the center of attention. So instead what we have to do is take our attention away from using the car to ways of finding ways to limit the cars use. | 4 |
58556f1 | I do not think that having the use of the Facial Action Coding System is needed in a classroom, because it is not necessary. The emotions are not necessarily that important when it comes to teaching. Students get angry, sad, happy, and more all the time during school. Knowing when a student is happy or mad is not going to help a teacher do their job.
Feelings are a normal part of life and everyone experiences them. However, during school a teacher does not necessarily need to know your emotions unless you want them to. A teacher knowing that a student is upset might be a good thing. Dont get me wrong, I have had teacher's before ask me if I were okay and it was nice to know that they cared but there shouldnt be a machine to tell you that.
Teacher's knowing that youre upset is one thing, I completely understand a teacher wanting to know if there is anyway they can help you when you are upset but a teacher does not need to know that youre extra happy or mad at your best friend unless you want them to know. Teacher's do not have time to make sure that every child is one hundred percent happy all of the time because they are busy doing their job. | 2 |
5859154 | Dear Senator,
What do you think about descarding electorial voting?,do you feel that it would be best to keep it this way,or do you think there should be a change? What you think i dont know. But
In my opinion i recomend that the electorial voting should not be changed.
One of my main reasons for this is electorial voting has mostlikely been going on for decades,and why would you deside to change this now? This act could possibly throw some important things off track. For example if you were to go fourth with this act you could possibly risk people selecting the wrong president and his electors,which then could risk people to lose there jobs,homes,end up homeless,etc this could be avoided if you keep things how they are and not end up messing things up changing electoral voting.
Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter,and Bob Dole feel differently with my reason,they all feel that you should abolishe the electoral voting,they thaat sence Al Gore lost the presedency but won the popular vote they think that people are being cheated out of there vote and its not fair. I disagree with them because the senators have a say in who is going to win the election and be president all at the end,so why worry.
In conclusion people should not worry about what happens with the House Of Represintative,or the election,i'd tell folks to leave that up to the senator to decide because there people like us,and im sure they wouldent want someone causing trouble in presedency. | 2 |
5860351 | This article starts out by telling the audience about all of the pros and cons of Venus. The first thing is mentions is how at some times we are so close to it that many people think it is a star, and it talks about how humans on Earth can easily see it at a safe distance, but it is very difficult to get close to. Venus is the cloest planet to Earth's density and size. The author explains how he thinks that it is a worthy cause to try to explore venus, even though we have never successfuly landed a spacecraft there for more than a few hours.
The author does very well arguing his or her point. I agree with the author, I think he or she made some very well stated points about why humans should work everyday to get closer and closer to Venus. There are many arguing points as to why poeple would think that it is good or bad to try to send spacecrafts, let alone humans, to Venus. Starting out with the dissadvantages, the planet's surface is over 800 degrees, obviously not suitable for humans, or any life force for that matter, to survive. Venus has a hotter surface temperature than any other planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun, due to the atmosphere made up of almsot 97 percent carbon.
These facts sound misserible so far, but if there was a way that humans could figure out how to land on Venus safely, and maybe even start a civilization there, that would be groundbreaking. The author backs up his or her point by saying how "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The fact that at one time Venus might have been covered in water has convienced me that there is some sort of way to create life there. Not only does he or she mention how Venus might have once been covered in water, but also informs the audience that Venus has many Earth-like structures. Venus is made up of mountians, valleys, and craters.
The author does a very good job describing and pin-pointing all of the detailed needed to convience someone to beilve in life on Venus, and support sending probes and eventually humans out to discover Venus. The authors talks about how hard it would be for a mission to Venus to be both safe and productive, but he or she also talks about how much we would gain from it. The author shows how floating in a blimp, 30 miles above the surface would be almost suitable for humans to survive, at 170 degrees. The article says that "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." One day humans will be able to land a spacecraft on Venus long enogh to collect information about the planets past. | 4 |
5867764 | Not using cars is not a bad thing in fact it's a plus. The record shows that 70 percent of familes of Vauban, Germany's population does not have a car and are way more happier. One lady stated "when I had a car I was always tense. I'm much more happier. I would agree with her because on top of driving in germany you have to make sure you ddont hit anybody either and thats more tensse and stressful. Being "car-free"is not so bad actually i mean im not the only one that hates all the bad smoke it produces. It does not make sense that a beautiful city like Paris can't be enjoyed because of pollution. I applaud Paris for there act on this pollution problem as they have put a partial ban on car use throughout the global city. In my honest opinion i think that was a smart move because Paris has a thing for diesel fuel and that has been to blame for the polluted airs. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehivles in Paris. Diesel has polluted ais so bad the city of paris has been compared to there rival Bejing , China which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. The facts dont lie so take this into consideration of limiting car use . | 2 |
587411b | "No Driverless cars should'nt be permisable to any community!". Driverless cars are very dangours. Many people around the world look for the future and the next step, but sometimes there imagination gets the best of them.
Yes driverless cars can be good and help full but the craters of this historical object is selfish to the community and himself.
The creator is selfish becouse More then thousands of people lose there jobs a year, that number will greatly expand and a thousand more can lose there jobs, Those people can end up in a hopless future, they could become homeless, get an adiction to drugs, or go to jail. While in the other hand the man that created this terifiying plan gets richer and richer by those who lost there jobs profit. Driveless cars could also increase the death rate more the 100,000 people die a year, more then 50,000 come to death by getting hit by an object, in that object is mostly a car. Driveless cars will increase the death rate becouse the car itself focuses on the road and other cars while the humans that walk are just objects, if the human dies and the cars passangers die who is risposible for the death of those sivilians. The company will be billionares by a week and loseing a little money wont bother them who is going to face to or stand up to there distruction becouse the owners not the companys not they will use money to get awy from those type of obsticals.Many people belive that there is always a way out of this sorrow life but using machines to solve the lifes problems will just harm it even more. once they creat a driverless car whats next a flyingless plane more and more people will lose there jobs while these machines will only provide a thosand familys in the world.
If you ask me what i think of a project that contains machines doing the work my answer is no! what will your supply be once you are homeless and helples, how will you provide your family and how will you provide yourself. If you care about the life of your family think about the future and say No! | 2 |
5874c46 | Dear Senator,
I am strongly in favor of keeping the Electoral College because it not only is more efficient than popular vote, it is also smarter. The Electoral College is a fool-proof way of not disputing the outcome of who gets to be in it. It avoids problems by the canidates not recieving majority of the votes cast in the election. Everyone who is in the Electoral College was cast there for a reason by the popular vote. You also must know that the system has its faults. There aren't many of them but i believe that they are needed to keep the College going and allowing it to vote the right way instead of the wrong way. All in all, i do hope that you are also in favor of the electoral college and if you aren't, hopefully this letter will let your mind sway towards being in favor of it.
First of these reasons, there are more problems with popular votes than electoral vote and have a fool-proof way of keeping disputes in the low. The Electoral College is less susceptible to problems if the poular votes are used to elect the college. In
Defense of the Electoral College:Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing a president, in the first reason it says that, "...The winning canidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceed's his share of the popular vote."
Secondly, Having an Electoral College avoids run-off elections, where the problem is cause by each canidate that is running to not get any of the majority of the votes. To put it in more simple terms, In some cases there have been ties by the popular vote, or very close ties. In The same article as mentioned in the above paragraph provided the example of one time that this has happened. " Nixon and Clinton both had a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority of the Electoral College." The Electoral Colege breaks the tie in the poular votes because they reduce the pressure of having run-off elections. The states have a "winner-take-all" system, so that when the elections come, the president of those who are voting for him in the electoral college get to be with that president. The larger states recieve more attention from the canidates, so the popular vote getting tied up also does not happen very often.
Last but not least, it is incredibly important to know how the Electoral College works because if you do not, then you will not know how effective of a sytem it is. In
What is the Electoral College?
it states that, "The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president." The popular vote can get tied up pretty easily, but it is a lot harder for the electoral votes to get tied up because only 270 votes are needed to elect the president. The popuar vote actually elects the College. "...But each party selects a state of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee.." and this quote was selected from
I defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president . The electoral college is trusted to vote for the president that they believe will make the best decisions for our country.
Even thought this might be a really improved method on picking our president, it still has faults. In what's wrong with the electoral college, is saying that "The most worrying prosepct is the tie in the electoral college....in that case the elction would be thrown to the H.O.R., where state delegations vote on the president." If this ever does happen, MAny people in the senate or house of representatives would have to vote and would have to rake on responsibilty of the as many as 500,00 voters.
As you know, it is important to keep the best desicions of your country in mind , while thinking about your citizens that you are representing. The electoral college answers the questions of having disputes and arguments over who becomes preseident. It is an efficient way of keeping a fool-proof outcome and avoid run-off elections. You also now have some knowledge of how the electoral college worls, if you didn't have any before.
Yours Truly,
A citizen | 4 |
587c2e5 | In "The Challegenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despiote the danger it present. Even though the author knows the condition of Beus he suggest it anyway because tyhe author is drieven with curiosityThe author claim that Venus could once be a just like Earth today. The author also claim that Venus is Earth's "twin" making it closest to visit.
The author claim that scientists are so fascinated by Venus becuase it was it well have been the most Earth-like plant in our system. The author says that long ago Venus could've been cover with oceans and might have even support various forms of life. The author suggest that there are familiar feature on Venus to Earth right now such as: rocky surface, valleys, mountains, and crator. However, the author also stated that Venus conditions are far more extreme than anything humans can encounter on Earth.
The author also claim that Venus would be a good place to vist because of how close Venus is to Earth. Venus is call Earth "twin" along with Mars because of how close they are to each other. The author claim that this would be a good option for a planetary visit, given the crucial consideratin of the long time frames of space travel. Even though the average temperatures is to extreme, NASA are working to a solutuion to study Venus by humans.
In conclusion, the author suggest to visit Venus because Venus could very well have been the most Earth-like planet and because of how close Venus is to Earth. The author is driven with curiosity to gain an insight on Venus. The author consider the possiblelity of visiting Venus both safe and productive. Visting beyond should not be limited by dangers and doughts. | 3 |
587cddc | PROPER_NAME 3433
SCHOOL_NAME
Dear state senator
Many people argue on weather or not of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. U.S Citizens arguemented how the electoral college is unfair,outdated and irrational. On the other side of the arguement despite its lack of democratic,the electoral college has many reasons why we should keep it. the electoral college has all practical reasons,first thing first is it Certainty Of Outcome,second that Everyone's President,third the Swing States,fourth the Big States and Last Avoid Run-Off Elections. All of these reasons contribute into the Electoral College on why it should stay.
The certainty of outcome is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote,because almost all states award Electoral votes compared to popular votes. The swing states uses a method called winner-takes-all by awarding Electoral votes which induces the candidates. Voters in toss-up now that they will now recieve the most info and attention from the candidates so the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.
The electoral college stores the weight in the big states in the political balance. The large states gets more of the attention from presidential candidates in a campaign then a small state does because of population.
In the electoral college they avoid the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. there is pressure for run-off elections when no canadidate wins a majority of the votes cast. the pressure will be reduced by the electoral college which in variably produces a clear winner.
Many people argue that electoral college method of selectingthe president may lose potential voters knowing there vote will have no effect. voters in presidential rather than people who want express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. Now that I told you my reasoning I hope you will understand why we should keep Electoral College from going away.
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587f42e | Do you think that the use technology is valuable for detecting emotional expressions? well I think that it is not valuable for us. I will be naming some reason why in this essay. If you are intrested in knowing more of why it wouldn't be valuable for us please read on.
A reason that I think that this type of technology wouldn't be valuable to us because I don't think it is important to try to understand how someone feels or what emotions they are having at that moment. They probably wouldn't want you to know because if they did they would probably tell you. It's none of our business honestly, however how we be for sure that this type of technology would even work. There is supposed to be 44 major facial muscles in our face and the computer is supposed construct that using a 3-D model but what happenes if it misses a muscle and the calculations are all wrong. Then you wouldn't exactly know what they are really feeling. The computer would not be giving you the excat emotion.
Also, There is a mucle called orbiculars oculi pars palpabraeus that makes crow's feet around your eyes, so if computers scans someone's face that has that then the computer would give out false information about the person is feeling just because of the face when this person could really happy. Another muscle that is created is called the risorius that could put on a false smile that make your mouth skretch sideways creating a smile that could make you look happy when your actually sad. The computer could also scan a person like that and would again give false information. I believe that the computer can be wrong because everything won't be correct as they should be.
Another way, is that a person could just not smile at all like how Mona Lisa was once before and they could be extremly happy, but if a computer were to scan how that the computer would give results of sadness but that is not actually how the person is feeling. Computers just can't calculate how a person is feeling 100 percent of the time and be correct about it. Yes, a computer can communicate with humans but not emotionally. This is a new type technology can have it's ups and downs but I think that it will have more downs than ups.
However, another mucsle called frontalis pars lateralis could make you seem suprised just by raising an eyebrow but that doesn't always mean your confused or shocked it could mean many other things. The computer can calculate that your confused just by raising your eyebrow because it could calculate your face expressin not emotion. Facial expressions are universal and could all mean different things and a computer wouldn't clearly be able to tell how someone is feeling. Dr. Huang observed the artist da vinci for human anatomy to help paint mucsles precisely but his software only have similar anatomical information as electronic code, so his software doesn't the exact electronic codes it need so it could be wrong about how people are feeling.
To hence, I don't think that technology to read emotions are valuble because the computer could be wrong and not give the exact emotion, it could falsly give how someone is feeling due to a muscle in a persons face to make them look a certain way, and that the computer could not create the exact face because it mioght miss a muscle and give the wrong expression. | 4 |
588a24b | Now a days everyone wants to start driving and be all grown up. But they don't know what their doing to their country. There are some people that don't even use a car any more. For example,"when i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two. She doesn't need a car to take her place so why do we have to use cars ourselves. Theirs always that person that say "no we do needs car there they've changed". We shoudln't have cars unless its neccessary to have one if your just gunna be in the house all day.
To begin with, one reason way we should limit the car usage is because its better for the environment. For example, "after days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. This just means that everyone had to cut down on using there cars everyday. There's so many things you can do that good the earth not just recycling. Instead of using gas for your car use diesel fuel or even cooking oil. They dont pollate the earth as much as you think would.
Secondly, another reason why they should limit car usage because there's so much out there that you can do without having to driving anywhere."Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughtout the city." There are organized summer jobs and social life around where people walk or take public transportation or car-pool with friends. You away go running with your friends or meet them are the park.
In conclusion, you can see there are many ways that you can change the world. | 3 |
588a4ce | Dear state senator, I think the electoral collage is unfair and should be abolished because it is unfair to voters.
Its unfair to voters because of the winner take all system candidates dont spend time in state they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the states. And also because of the electoral vote, because each state only casts 1 vote, the single representative from wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as 55 representatives from california, who represent 35 million voters. Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress, the house's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. The electoral college is widely regarded as anachronism, a non democratic method of picking a president that will to be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner. Although there is some ups to the electoral college like certainty of outcome and swing states, electoral college is not fair to the people because they dont get as much say as representatives and popular votes so they should abolish the electoral college to give the people a little more say.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 2 |
5891bcf | Driverless cars are coming, and it seems to be an amazing idea. It will be a big change for the world, and it will be here before we know it. More and more things are being discovered about how to make theses cars better and soon people will see it for themselves. Even though there are still things being worked out to make these cars even better, it seems like it is going to help out in a lot of ways. It would use half of the fuel of today's taxis, offer new safety features, and make getting places easier.
These new vehicles would consume less fuel than most of today's cars currently take. They could get you farther on less gas, making it a cheaper way to travel and get to everyday places such as work or the store. Cars like this would fundamentally change the world and how we live. By 2020, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that meet these standards out to the public. In such little time, the people could see the world and transportation changing right before their eyes.
Even if certain vehicles do not function completely driverless, they do offer new safety features that would help in a lot of ways. In some cars, such as the ones built by BMW who developed the "Traffic Jam Assistant" in 2013, they can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but the driver must still have both hands on the wheel at all times for it to do so. These kinds of vehicles also require for people to take the wheel at certain times such as driving through work zones and around accidents. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but they will notify the driver if human skills are needed, so the driver must remain alert at all times. Companies such as GM have developed seats that will vibrate to get the driver's attention, but they are also considering things such as flashing lights on the windsheild to warn a driver if they need to take over. The idea of having cameras in the cars so the car can watch if the driver is keeping focus on the road or not have come up as well. Many different safety features are developing with the research of driverless cars.
Getting where you would need to go would be easier in a driverless car from one of the public transportation systems that Google cofounder Sergey Brin has imagined. If would be less worrying as well for some people. If somebody goes out and drinks, then they cannot get behind the wheel of a car. However, with the driverless cars, the car would do all the work to get them home safely and with no hassle. It would be safer and more efficient in an event like this. As research and development of new technologies for these continue, it could begin to help in situations such as this. It would make a lot of people's lives easier and maybe even save a few. With the technology, it could help prevent accidents and keep the people in the car safer with minimal human control of it unless needed.
As we wait to see what happens in the next few years, it is interesting to look more into what an amazing and brilliant idea driverless cars would be. They are quickly becoming more of a reality. The world continues to change and develop right in front of everybody's eyes. These will change how a lot of things happen and how a lot of people get around from place to place. New ideas like these can lead to safer and more efficient ways of traveling. It could help out in everyday life, or if you are taking a trip somewhere and do not want to have complete control the entire time so you can relax. | 4 |
58969ec | Do you guys belive in aliens? Well,I got a friend over at NASA who does. And I'm here to tell you all about the Face on Mars. You know,the one that's been all over books and magazines for like the past 25 years. A lot of people think it was created by aliens,but I don't. Let me tell you why.
My first piece of evidence to put an end to this ludacrisy is that in April of 1998,Mars Global Surveyor flew over the an area of the Mars where the Face was spotted,Cydonia. Michael Malin and his orbit camera team took a picture of the face that was ten times sharper than the original photo from 1976. The picture,to everyones suprise but mine,revealed that there was no alien monument. The picture only showed a natural landform. However the phot was taken during a cloudy time of the year on Mars.
So,on April 8,2001 another photo was taken. This time a cloudless summer day in Cydonia. Mars Global Surveyor used a camera that had each pixel span 1.56 meters. So even if the picture had a plane on it or small shacks,you could still see it. When the photo was taken it shows the Martian that resembles American lamdforms called buttes and messas. It even reminded a scientist of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.
So I hope this can put away any ridiculous ideas about the Face being created by "aliens". This is all proof that what was thought to have been something mythical,was actually just a landform on Mars! Aliens do not exist. It's just that simple. | 3 |
5897e71 | The Face showing on Mars has been proved to be a natural landform. The Face is a landform because landforms are very common in Cydonia, the only reason the landform looked like a face was because of the shadows visible from the camera, and there was no other evidence found around the face. Also all research for the Face was done by authorized NASA scientists, and the research was believed to be done very carefully.
In Cydonia it is common to have natural landforms, so the Face was easy to be spotted as one. And as the cameras took pictures from different angles, the scientists could see it wasn't anything that spectacular. What made the Face so intresting and made people have false accusations was what made the Face an actual "face".
The reason that this lanform resembled a face was because of the shadows. There was shadows on the landform that resembled a head, eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Scientists even stated that the Face "looked like an Egyptian Pharoah".
Even if the Face was found to look like something that was a living thing does not have an effect on the research that had been completed on this landform.
To make this statement that the Face is in fact a landform is the amounts of research done by NASA scientists. From snapping numerous pictures to keep resuming to study the Face, NASA has had many ways to prove their point. And after placing the first image on a JPL website, it was settled for most people- the once known as "Face" was a natural landform. It was no sign of Aliens or an Alien monument anywhere to be seen on Mars.
And the last statement to be concluded about this discussion is that there was nothing else found near the Face to thinking there is any living activity on Mars. NASA has also concluded from the pictures that there had been no objects in the picture like "airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks..." So there had been no activity to prove to be nothing more from just a landform.
In the picture of the Face, it was also evidenced to resemble a mesa or a butte, another kind of natural landform. These kinds of natural landforms were even almost the same height as the Face on Mars. And all of this evidence proved that what used to be thought of as a real face is now catagorized as a natural landform with some shadows that gives it unique look. | 4 |
589c1d1 | I am against the idea of drverless cars. Technology is making our nation lazy. We have computers that think for us, radios that can read for us, calculators that count for us, and now we are creating cars that drive for us. It's unacceptable how we as a nation depend so heavily on technology to do everything for us. If technology is taking over everything, I would atleast love to keep my ability to drive. Driverless cars isn't such a brilliant idea anyway. Before we really begin to consider using this new advancement in transportation we should think of the best ways to insure safety. For instance with driverless cars how can we be sure that the person in control of the car won't feel the need to text and drive; if there is a malfunction in the car and the driver isn't eligible to respond in time to avoid an accident it can lead to many deaths or injuries. In driverless cars I'm guessing they would run on electricity, if the car short circuits and catches fire with a passenger inside, how can the manufacturer create a way for the passenger to exit the car before it exploids. The article stated that driverless cars are not completely driverless, they still need assistance from a human to take control during traffic issues such as an accident. The article also stated that safety is best achieved with alert drivers, making a car that drives for the driver makes it more of a challege for the driver to find a reason to stay alert. I believe the idea should hold off until we have a way to make sure there aren't any real concerns of safety. At the rate that technology is advancing I am more than positive that we will have driverless cars before the turn of the century. But I feel as though we are trying to walk before we crawl, we are missing important steps that will make sure driverless cars are necessary. There are still laws that need to be passed, and how do we know that driverless cars won't in some way negatively affect the regular cars that people who can't afford driverless cars. | 3 |
589d941 | If I was a scientist working at NASA and discussing the face with someone thinks it was created by aliens. The reason why I think aliens did there was a spacecraft was cicling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for it sister shop. In the story it says "Caption noted a huge rocks formation"
which resembles a human head fromed by shadows giving the illusion eyes, nose, and mouth. Another reasons why I think that it is alien because in 1967 it start to appear.Then in 1998 it form again.Next In 2001 it look like a noise and eyes and mouth.
Face on mars has become a pop icon. It also say in the passage some people think that the face is a fide evidence of life on Mars.I would rather hide and conspiracy theorists.Some scienttists also believed the face was an alien aritfact.When Mars global survyor arrived at the red planet.On Mars golbal surveyor flew over cydonia for the first time.
We had to use wispy clouds to see the face.Alien marking were hidden by haze.Scientists figured it was just another martian measa common enough around.Mission contriller prepared to look again.Alien can be hiding when we get earn it.
It wasn't so easy to take a pictures back then. The first picture narrow to 2.5 km. The next picture was pass over 1.56.The third picture was far as 43 per meter. | 1 |
589fd79 | The author did a great job to explain "The challenge of Exploring Venus" They said its dngerous because of the sulfuric acid and the carbon dioxide clouds. According to the article it is impossible to land a space craft, because it won't survive. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blanks venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's Atmosphere. my thesis statement was it is challangeing until you start.
The reason i said that was that NASA knew it was going to be interesting and difficult to explore becuase of how the atmosphere is built. They kept giving example of how diffecult it would be to send a rover to Venus. "but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions. Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable or melting tin" There just saying its gonna be harder than whet it looks like.
in conclusion it is going to be a tidious, challenging and interesting work to get a rover to Venus. In the article it said it was gonna be dangerous but they should keep exploring. | 1 |
58a3037 | Could you imagine sitting behind a wheel of a driveless car? The thought may sound good, but in reality it's worse. Automakers should prevent making driveless cars. Driveless cars are dangerous, and a waste of money.
Driveless cars are dangerous. In the state of Indiana about five out of ten smart cars are bought each day. About one out of three cars are wrecked each day. The features of normal cars are already distracting. Let alone make a driveless car. In paragraph eight, it states "wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" If a driver got bored waiting on their turn they could easily fall asleep. What if they fell into a deep sleep? That would be even more dangerous. Also, easier for a wreck to occur. The driver could easily get distracted by their phone or anything. All of these situations are dangerous. Nobody should take the risk of hurting someone or themselves.
Driveless cars are a waste of money. In paragraph ten, it stated "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." Here in Indiana, a Mercedes-Benz run about $80,000. Imagine spending that much on just one car. You can buy two for just that one price. People will spend that amount on a new car, but not college. Around the world, two out of three students miss out on college. Imagine your mother spending that much on a new driveless car instead of college for you. Wouldn't that hurt your feelings?
Driveless cars are dangerous, and a waste of money. Automakers should prevent making driveless cars. You can save about ten lives a day by preventing driveless cars. May we all strive to help save a life. I wouldn't waste my money on a driveless car, and neither should you. | 3 |
58a310e | I think that it would be a good idea to make driverless cars. I am going to tell you a few reasons why I think it would be a good idea. It would be "Sensing the World." It has its own way of drving. It could assist you in many ways. These are the three reasons now in the next three paragraphs I am going to give you a few deatils on each one.
The first reason is sensing the world. Google modified Toytoa Prius uses postioin-estimating senors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor, a video mounterd near the rear view mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS reciever, and an intertial motor sensor. These sensors make it much easier to drive by itself. If it can do it by itself then it won't meed the human to do it for it. The most important bit of technology would be the spinning sensor on the roof. It shows you a 3-D model if the vehicles surroundings. The combination of all of these accessories would show how the car could be driverless.
The second reasoning is it has its own way of driving. The car could handle driving up to 25 mph, but certain driving functions makes sure that the driver keeps their hands on the wheel. They can steer, accelerate, and brake by themselves they notify when the driver needs to put their hands back on the wheel.
The last reasoning is it could assist you in many ways. There is a car lest the driver know when they need to take over the driving when they are in certain areas, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. The human driver must stay alert at all times. The car has a vibrating seat that lets the driver know if they are about to back into something. The manufatuers are thinking about putting cameras in the car to watch the drivers and make sure they are focused on the road.
Those are my reasoning on why I think the Driverless cars would be a good idea. My three ideas were "Sensing the
World", it has its own way of driving, and it could assist you in many ways. My ideas were pretty solid. It would be cool to have driveless cars, but it would take a lot of time and money to make that happen. | 3 |
58a4fb5 | There's a bunch of controversy over the driverless cars. Some people hink that they are a good idea and some people don't. Many people have their opinions on this topic. Now it's time for me to tell you mine.
In my opinion I think that driverless cars would be a good idea. Driverless cars would help out a lot. Like in the first paragraph in the passage it said that the cars would use half the fuel that taxis use, and it would offer more flexibility then a bus. Just imagine having a car like that. Yeah the car would have its flaws, but that would be an amazing thing to have. Also imagine having a car with no driver. Yeah it sounds scary, but it would be cool. The only major bad thing about having one would be having to worry about serious accidents that might happen.
That's why I think that driverless cars would be cool to have. There are good and bad things about having driverless cars, but I mean there's good and bad things about everything, You have to have an open mind to new things. Driverless cars could help out with so many things. Don't just focus on the negative things. You have to look at the poditive side of this. | 2 |
58a5feb | Unmasking the Face on Mars
If you ever saw or heard about the "Face on Mars" you might think that it was created by aliens but it's actually not. Everybody thinks it is but it's really just a natural landform.
A few days after NASA sent a camera up to Mars to look for Viking 2 it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. They said," it was a huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth." The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. It soon become a pop icon and it starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines and on radio talk shows. Some people think that the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars. Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars.
People starting believing that it was evidence of life on Mars. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camer team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original photo. Everybody was waiting to see it but it revealed that it was just a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. Even after having all this evidence people sill didn't believe that it's not an alien because they said the pitcure was cloudy and could've been hidden. To prove everyone wrong, on a cloudless day they took a second photo with even better quality of the landform.
Finally, the picture could show you that it was not really a face but only a landform. Many people just want to believe that there is life on Mars when there most likey is not. They spent a lot of money trying to prove this to everyone that there is no alien life on the planet Mars. | 3 |
58a74f7 | There is an advantage in limiting car usage. There are three articles that will show you the advantage in limiting car usage.
In article, In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it says, "VAUBAN, Germany-Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars." In this article you can tell that in Germany people have explored many places and they explored without the use of cars. Then, how do they get from one place to another? In the article it talks about Heidrun Walter, a media trianer and mother of two, walking through verant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor. Heidrun Walter says, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." As you can see, when people drive it causes them to be tense. May be because they are afraid they will crash. While on the other hand, when they are walking they feel happy because they don't worry about someone hitting them, plus when they walk they enjoy the beauty of nature.
In article, Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer, talks about banning the use of cars because cars are polluting the environment. It says, "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." As you can imagine many people didn't like the idea. The reactions of the people caused a big change. In the article it says, "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered on Tuesday." So the advantage Paris is doing is trying to make sure the environment doesn't get more polluted. Paris is trying to keep the environment clean.
Other article that gives an advantage in limiting the use of cars is, Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky says, "BOGOTA, Colombia-In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams." As you can see, people in colombia are doing many things that does not involve the use of a car. They have a car-free day. The rection of the people having a car-free day is way different from the reaction of the people in Paris banning the use of cars. Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus says, "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating." Bussinessman Carlos Arturo Plaza says, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asuncion, Paragauy says, "These people are generating a revolotionary change, and this is crossing borders." As you can tell from this article people are very happy in having a car-free day and they are making a huge difference in the environment.
These three articles show many advantages in limiting the use of cars. One they reduce the pollution cars are making when driving. Two it takes stress away from people. In the three articles it talks about people being stress or tense when driving. Having a day without a car relaxes them. Other advantage is that they enjoy walking around and seeing the beauty of nature. Which nature is another way to relax and not be stressed or tense. Would you take a day without a driving a car? Would you like to have a car-free day? | 3 |
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