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5e50b4e | Cars have been a part of our culture and society for a very long time now, but this might need to change as limiting the useage of care would lead to substancle benifets to our society. these benifets are a lowared carbon footprint, not having to spend as much on upkeep and lowared public transportation costs, and more closely knit communites with healtier people.
To begin, limiting car usage would greatly reduce our carbon footprint thus help the enviorment. This is because emissions from cars produce around 12 precent of the greenhouse gasses in Europe and could be up to 50 percent in certain car-intensive areas in the United Sates. If we where to cut down on driving there would be a significant reduction in the pollution in the enviorment. Paris is already enacting laws around this where only people with odd license plates where able to drive one day and even plate numbered cars the other. This has lead to less congested roads and lower amount of smog in the city.
Another draw to limiting car usage lies in lowered cost of public transportation and less money having to be spent on car upkeep and insurance. If people where to use more public transportaiton insted of personal cars people not have to worry about needing a car and insted keep the money that would normaly go to upkeep and insurance to use on other things. Furthermore if public transportation became more nessisary, then public transportaion will be cheaper such as in Paris where public transportaion became free for the week when they where testing the new law.
Lastly with a reduction in car usage there would be better suburban planning like in Vauban, Germany and people getting more exsersize. Over in Vauban driving cars is severly limited so locations like shopping centers are a walk away from houses and the city is more closly knit with more bike and pedestrian paths. With people walking more that would help with the growing obesity problem Amarica is currently facing and could lead people to live healtier lifestyles
In conclusion limiting car usage would be a very fruitful endevear because of the reduction of our carbon footprint, not having to pay car insurance and lowared cost of public tranportation, and more closly knit communities away from the roar of an engine the world would be much better off. | 4 |
5e5287c | Im against the devolpment od the driveless cars. Im against it because they can cause car accidents , people wouldnt be responsible with the cars , and also people wouldnt care about the laws that were made for those type of cars. They would think that the rues are just ther eto be ther.I mean if most people dont follow the rules of the road we have now why would they follow the rules for the driveless car. So thats how i feel about the whole driveless car situation. Those my reasons why im against the driveless car and im going to explain them.
My first why im against the drivelss cars is because they will cause more car accidents then there already are. Such aqs they have something to let the driver know that they have to take over now but what if that person was busy doing whatever they were doing to get that warning and they crash into another car or something.Also what if the warning is defective and the person doesnt get it is and they run nto a work rosd block. Also what if the person have the music all the way up and not even paying attention to whats going on around them to notice. So thats why i think the driveless cars can cause more car accidents then there already is in theis country.
My next reason for why im against the driveless cars are people wouldnt be responsible for/with the cars. Some people would do this that are very reckless and dangerous. These cars can have major glitches in them and some people wouldnt even care about it. Also they do get into some trouble with the car then they would blame it on how the manufacturer made the car. Which i think is unfair you cant blame the car for how you drive or how you control it. Thats my second reason why im against driveless cars.
My third and final reason for why im against drivelss cars is that people wouldnt folow the laws made for the car and they would think the car does everything for them. Like most drivers break the law everyday. So most people would do that with the driveless cars. That how most people will get hurt in the process. Imagine a drunk driver behind the wheel of the driveless car ,and it time to take control of the wheel because the car cant do that itself. That perspn is in danger to his/her self and evrybody else thats on the road with that person. It so many laws that person can break and thats alot of danger in one car.Thats my third and final reason why i think driveless cars would be good for the nation.
Those are all my reason as to why I think that driveless cars are a very bad idea. They will more dangerous than a regular car today will be. So i don't think they need to be out on the road in the hands of some careless people. So that's why im against driveless cars. | 3 |
5e52c35 | Did you know that Venus is lose to the eatth and its also close to the sun. Venus is one of the most brightest poionts of the light sky making it simple even for an amateur stargazer spot. Ill will be wrting about how venus is a worthy pursuit despite and the how its danger to is present.
Venus is the closet plant to the earth bu the size and the density , ven mars and eath are the plantary neighbohr roe to e to orbut the sub at different, and since venus is right there at the corner by the earth and the sum people often will land spacecrafts on this because it will be so close . Venus is made up of 97 percent carbon dixide venus tempertures id an average of 800 degress and the atmos[heric pressure is 90 times greather in fahrenheight.
Venus had the hottest surface temperture of any plant in the solor system , even theough mercury is closer to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat , venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes and powerful earthquakes and frquent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface .
Venus mas became one of the most earth like plant in the solor system , venus still has some feature that are analogous to these on earth , the plant has a rocky surface that includes valleys and mountains and crates.
These three topic shows how venus is a worthy pusuit despite the deanger present because its mostly hot and that its closer to the sun and it has the same feature as the earth so most people will sent spacecraft here because venus and earth has the same feauth as one of another. | 2 |
5e5a139 | I'm wanting to tell you that the Face on Mars, that NASA found, is just a natural landform. When NASA first found it, they all thought it was a human face, but it's not. It is a natural landform, that was just created over time. No matter how much you wanna disagree with me, i'm telling you that is what it is.
NASA also thinks that there was egyptain pryamids, that humans created. NASA is disagreeing with a lot of people, saying that humans onced live on mars, and that when they lived there they created all of those thing. Another thing why I am thinking and telling you it is a natural landform, is because not one single person could live on Mars, that long to build anything on it. We all know the reason why people can't live on Mars, well if you don't know then let me tell you, it is because of all the weather they have, and all the big bad wind and dust storms they have.
There is no possible way that a human could of built this in that short amount of time it had been there. Another reason why I am telling that it is a natural landform, is because, a human couldn't have built one of these things, because it sometime takes almost up to years to create things like these. Because of the wind Mars couldn't have all those human like features.
Thats why I am telling you, and you can disagree with me all you want to, but i'm telling you that i'm right, and that no person could ever live that long on a planet, that can't even have any hum possibly live on it. | 3 |
5e5d510 | Do you think technology reading your emotion is valuable? In this esaay I'm going to be talk about three things; do I think using technology to read your emotional expression is valuable, what are some pro's and con's of this technology, and lastly will this change the your behaivor. What are your thoughts of facial reconition?
Do it think using technology to read your emotional experssion is valuable? I think it could be valuable but also it's not really needed. If you watch YouTube a lot then you might like it because if you don't like the ad you can frown and the next time you won't watch the same ad and you might like that ad. Do you think it is valuable or a waste of time and money?
What are pro's and con's about this technology? There are many pro's and con's of this like how much it could cost and if it will even work. I have mixed feeling about this. I think it could be useful when you watch a lot of videos because you won't be watching the same ad over and over again. It could also be useful because it could communicate with you and help you out when you are sad by playing a funny video are give you a couple jokes. It could change your day from a bad day into a good day. There are some con's too. I think this would cost a lot of money and would take a long time to make every thing perfect. If they make one computer work that solution that you came up with the last one might mot work for a different computer. Also if they finally figure the system out then it will be costly to buy it. I wouldn't by a expensive computer if all that is different is that it tells if you like an ad or not. I think it is a waste of money. Also since this technology has an video imagery, I think that a stocker could easly hack into this and stock people. Do you think that this is a waste of money or do you think this is a good idea?
Would this technolgy change your behavior? According to the artical it said it that it will change someones feeling or emotion. I think that it could change your behavior because it won't show the same ad over and over. I think that if this emotion recognize didn't work then I would be mad people you wasted a lot of money on this technology. Would your behavior change if you had this kind of technology?
What would you do with this kind of technology? In this essay I talked about three things; do I think technology reading you emotion is valuable, pro's and con's of this technology, and lastly would this change your behavior. Would you buy this technology? | 2 |
5e5dab1 | The smile of the Mona Lisa has
eluded people for centuries. The slightly smug look suggests an
emotion that not many people can detect. Luckily, there appears to be a software that can detect one's emotion based off of the facial movements one makes.The software was developed by Dr. Huang of the Beckman Institute, and there could be so many uses that this technology could be applied to. One such example is the classroom, where teachers will know when a student is becoming confused or bored. However, one must ask the questions that this technology brings. In essence, this software is not useful, applicable or effective inside of the classroom because of the cost of the software, the intrusion of privacy, and a host of other problems. Computing technology could have the ability to be useful inside of the classrom, just not this kind.
The first point that would make teachers unsure is the cost of the software. In the article, there is no mention of the cost of the newly developed software. There are numbers, indeed, but they are simply percentages or single numbers. Based on what the article said, one could assume that the cost of this technology would be high. This would not be a very effective tool for an average American school, but the tech could be applied to richer schools or universities.
Secondly, the software is an intrusion of privacy in the school. Although most public schools are indeed public places where civilians expose themselves, it also has a private element to it. Think of it as a small shard of individuality and alone time, like when one is at lunch. The software, if mounted on a camera or a tripod, would be able to observe every single student and every emotion in the room. Schools do need safety, indeed , but the use of this technology in an academic situation just seems proposterous. An alternative use would be to use this technology in hospitals, where nurses could percieve the emotion of patients, and whether they are in pain or not.
Although the technology developed by Dr. Huang and his colleagues is certainly impressive, the use of it in a school enviroment seems odd and misinformed. Schools are still meant to be relatively private places where people can feel safe and secure. The costs of this technology is unknown, but it is likely that it is not cheap. Artificial intelligence is meant to be used as efficiently as possible, and although scientists do have free reign on what they use this software for, applying it in schools is not the best way to make use of it. | 4 |
5e5f641 | Exploring Venus is very dangerous considering the harsh conditions you would face when entering it's territory. The author supports the idea that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents in this article. The author says the planet it much like Earth. "The Callenge of Exploring Venus" gives plenty reasons that could result in safe ways to explore this planet resulting in a big enough reason to further reasearching the planet.
Venus is alike Earth in many ways. The author states that, "...it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." Venus had oceans, rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. Researching this planet and getting information on this planet in very important because it will lead to many other things to explore in the future.
If scientists are going to get hands on studying, there has to be a safe way to conduct a trip to the planet. There are many ways that NASA could get humans there safely. The author says a possible soulution would be getting a float to hover over Venus to observe the atmosphere and get photgraphs and videos. Because the extreme conditions of high heat an pressure have to be counted in on this, the float would make the conditions survivable.
The author also adds that getting mechanical computers could also help in researching Venus. "These decvices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War II." The device that the author is talking about could help because they are flexible to pressure, heat, and other forces that would be placed when on Venus.
The author adding evidence that shows there could be ways to get around the conditions means that there is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers the planet presents. In paragraph 8, the text says, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts bust should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." The author says that eventhough there are dangers, humankind should still fulfill their curiosity in this topic. | 3 |
5e6063a | The use of the new technology, the Facial Action Coding System, to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom, is not valuable. It should be used exclusively for educational purposes and to help students gain knowledge on their studies in school.
This new computer software that can detect emotions should not be used on students, but on other material. Although I do not believe this is a valuable system to use on people, I believe it is valuable for people to use for educational purposes. For example, if students are examining a piece of artwork in art class and need to examine, or would like to determine, the true expression of a person's face in the artwork, this system could be used for that. If students wanted to go more in-depth and figure out specific percentages for each of the person in the painting's expressions, they could also use this system. The text reads, "Shes 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." This was figured out by using the Facial Action Coding System on the painting of Mona Lisa, which determined careful, specific percentages of each of her emotions shown in her portrait, all within her neutral facial expression. I believe this system should be used in the classroom, exclusively for students' education and for examining certain material, such as artwork.
I believe there are better, more educational uses for the Facial Action Coding System than to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. This system could be used for students interested in, or participating in, a technology class. The text reads, "Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movementsin a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa." The video imagery would be incredibly valuable to a student working with technology as a way to capture careful movements and detect emotions of artwork or another educational source. The text also reads, "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." I believe students, especially ones working with technology, should be able to use this system, as it would be a valuable tool to use if they were to examine or study this process. It is important that this system is used correctly; to help students with their education and expand their knowledge on subjects in school, such as technology.
I do not believe the use of the Facial Action Coding System is valuable for detecting students' emotional expressions. It has better uses, such as for close examinations of artwork, research, and statistics. I feel as if students do not need a system to "de-code" our emotions, as students are typically able to fully express theirs on their own. Although it may be difficult to detect certain emotions of a student and encourage them to fully express them, I feel it is necessary to keep it that way, in respect for the student. The text reads, "classified six basic emotionshappiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness" which I firmly believe is not useful, nor valuable. Typically, those six basic emotions are easiIy detected by humans and do not require a computer system. I do not believe a computer software system should determine students' emotions, let alone any humans', unless they would personally like to use it. I think of the Facial Action Coding System as more or a toy, if it is used to detect human's expressions rather than an educational material's expressions, such as a piece of artwork.
The use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. This system should be used for educational purposes, whether it is used for close examination of a person in an artworks' expression, or for research or statistics in technology. | 5 |
5e64b9b | In the passage, The Challenge of Exploring Venus, there is a passage explaining what Venus looks while they send machines to discovers the planet. The author tries to explain to us what kind of challenges they have found while exploring Venus. The point of view that the author see is that Venus is a worthly pursuit despiting the dangers on it. Each passage has its own main part about Venus, however, it will tallk about the challenge that are face in Venus
In this parts of the article the author has the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despiting the dangers and he explains his reasoning with the context that is left behind this article. The passage tells us about why its worthy to pursuit it, in passage 8 it says, "striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The meaning of this part of the passage is telling us how people just think about how or what it is like to explore Venus. NASA has been trying to make inventions to help them go to Venus an have a closer look." NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus."
Althouth people want to go and explore Venus, there are some challenges that Venus provides for people. The dangers in this article tells us in passage 1 " While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." its hard for us to explore something from far away but during the attemptes we still can get close to Venus. In the passage it says, "A lot of spacecraft haven't survived the landing in a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." These are some reason why we can not reach Venus as worthly it is, it is challenging to explore.
The author does not care what kind of dangers there is because he thinks Venus is a planet that is worth to study. As he tries to get a closer look at. NASA has been also trying to help make machines and new inventions that are safe for people to go up and for themselves. Although the challenges that they have read, seen, or have heard kept stopping them from figuring out how to get closer to Venus. However, they did not give up because they kept looking for other ways to explore Venus. | 3 |
5e65a8b | Do you think technology is helping the future generation? Yes, I think technology is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom. It can help you with your school work, tell what you are feeling at that given time, and it can help scientist into developing more scientific inventions for the future. A lot of people don't like technology because it takes the old inventions away from the new inventions. In my opinion, I think it's very helpful for this generation because we can teach people older than us more new develpoed thoughts and processes for the future ahead of us.
First, technology can help students in the classroom because of their emotional face expressions. In the article Dr. Huang predicts, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." For example, if you smile the computer will put a similar subject on the page, if you frown the computer will change the topic. Instead of students telling the teachers they are bored in the classroom, the computer will know and it will try and help the student out so they aren't so bored.
Second, technology can be like a friend to us. Today's technology is so advanced that if we need to ask questions, we can ask our phones and they will give us the answers. Friends can tell what you are feeling just by the facial expreesions that people give off on their faces. That's what the computer is trying to do in order to help people out.
Third, technology is what we use in our everyday lives. People are finding new ideas and ways to make technology even bigger and better so it's easy for us to use. New inventions are being thought of everyday. This is an invention that has been thought of and brought for us to try out and it might not be in generations for long but it can help us learn a lot about ourselves and how we feel. Technology is there for you so it's easier and you're no so stressed out when trying to do things in life.
In conclsuion, I think technology is valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom because it can help with school work, what you are feeling, and it can help the people around you. The future will be good for the next generations if we plan everything out now and figure what we want to do in order to succeed. I got all my information from the article called "Making Mona Lisa Smile." | 4 |
5e67004 | Honestly, we shouldnt have the Electoral College. If I voted for a president, I really wouldnt be voting for the president, I would be voting for a state of electors and they would elect the president. Your really not voting for what you want, your really voting for there electors. You dont even know who these electors are or who there gonna vote for. Why should we have this Electoral College if were not even voting for who we want, its like were not even voting. Electors can always defy the will of the people and just vote for who ever they wanted and just turn there back on there own party. Like back in 1960, the segregationists in the Louisiana legislature almost accomplished in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would go against John F. Kennedy.
With popular vote there most likely will never be a tie. With the Electoral College there have been cases of really close tie deadlines. As you can tell from the passage, the Electoral College is old and unfair and never should be used. With the winner-take-all system in every state, candidates dont go to states they know they wont win. When the 2000 campaign was going on, seventeen states didn't see the candidates not once, these states were Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in twenty-five of one the largest media markets didn't get to see not one campaign ad. | 3 |
5e6a643 | Having the ability to have a car that drives itself could save a lot of lives on collisions. The reason for this is because it won't be running the risk of a DUI because the person won't be driving and therefore has avoided a possibly fatal collision that would have happened if we didn't have driverless cars. The driverless cars could work in favor of people who do not get enough sleep, For example, let's say that there is a man who works 3 jobs. The man will wake up tired and drowy and when he gets in the car, he can avoid a crash that would have happened if HE was behind the wheel. The man will be able to rest and avoid a collision while the car itself drives him to work. Driverless cars will always have more Pros than Cons. A lot of people hate having to drive everyday to work or other places but now they won't have to because the car will do it for them. In conclusion I think there is no negative side to driverless cars and I can't wait to see the result of all the research that went into trying to develop the driverless cars. | 2 |
5e6b559 | The idea of exporing Venus is amaze to anyone on Earth if they wanted to go there some day, but in this article the author sate that Venus is not inhabitable during our time but has been in the past and that it is worth it to pursuit studying it as in many ways it could help us. Venus temputer is said to be over 800 fahrenheit, which few places on Earth can be compre to, and that the few spacecraft that had beeen on it didn't last more than a few hours. With all these failures the people in different parts of Earth still strives to study Venus, but seeing as seccess is build on top of failures it does make seans that a person woud keep on trying and if they do mange to make, as there nothing on Earth that can with stand Venus temperatures, something that can endures it plants surfaces temperature then it would benfit human even more as with that kind of metal we explore thae hotest place on Earh. In the end studying the plant can bring many benfit dispite the dangers that it presents. | 2 |
5e6ebf8 | I believe they should change the voting to popular votes. In my perspective voters are the most important in the elections. There opinion on the president should be able to count either way. Lots of voters feel left out like there opinion dont count. Sometimes the president elected by the electoral college is not the one every one wanted; he has diffrent points of view in what he want to do.
The president that the electoral college has elected is not always the one everyone expects to be. Lots of presidents have won by electoral college not by the voters. These presidents that are elected by the electoral college can possibly be the presidents to bring the United States to the ground.
The voters feel they know what is best for our country. They always elect the person that will bring America to the top. For example Barack Obama he is helping immagrants go back to school be able to get a job and be something in life, like maybe a mechanic,doctor, or even a federal officer. They chances that he has gave us lets people know that these are the type of presidents we need.
People feel left out because if the electoral college ar the people that are going to select the president what is the point in voting. Lots of them feel that electoral college is more important than what we the people think. The electoral college doesn't let people feel that the person hat they have selected is the president that will help out the United States Of Americam to become number one.
On the other hand people believe that the electoral college is good and we should keep having it. They believe this because because they think that they know what is best for us. Also that their vote is the best option than ours.
I believe that the president should be able to win by popular vote because we the people shall select the best president. The president that will once again put the U.S back on top. The president that wins should win by popular vote not by the electoral college. | 3 |
5e76217 | Facial Action Coding Systems can be a really good addition to the classroom. This technology can help teachers and staff see what a student is going through and if they need help. This could also help students show a teacher or staff memeber if they need help but don't know how to ask.
Facial Action Coding Systems is a program that lets a computer read human emotion and can show statistics of how you are feeling this is support by the quote, "She's eighty-three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and two percent angry. No, that's not your science teacher,grading your latest lab assignment. Its the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting, Mona Lisa at least according to some new computer software that can recognize emotion." The software can help teachers actually help students with mental health instead of writing them a slip and just saying you are fine. Also teachers can tell you how to coop with certain stresses bust by scaning you with a computer program. This can also help teachers find the student that caused trouble if they are not cooperating, because the program can tell if the subject is lying or not. This claim is supported by the following quote. " To an expert, faces dont lie; these muscle clies are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" polictician or celebrity isn't being truthful." The program can also help schools by seeing if a student is under a lot of pressure and needs help right away.
The overall claim is that I believe that Facial Action Coding System program can really improve mental stability with students and solve disputes between them. The system can really help teachers find out what students need help if they are afraid to reach out. The Facial Action Coding System program could be a really good addition to classrooms. | 3 |
5e7814c | Go Anyway?
In the article "Challenges Of Exploring Venus" ,the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit.He thinks that despite the dangers the planet is worth studying and going to.But did the author present the informantion well?
The author brings up many reasons that going to and studying Venus is reasonable .One being "If our sister planet is so inhospitable,why are scientist even discussing furthur visits to it's surface"(paragraph 4).The author feels like the planet is some what safe and reason like to go to because scientist still want to visit it.Though that is not the case because, if you go there you can burn to death and many other cases.
Another reason the author considers going to Venus is because of austronomer talk.The article states that,"Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well oncehave been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system"(paragraph 4).Just because Venus maybe somewhat earth like nothing has ever survived there or has even been there in three decades,says paragraph 2.The author isn't putting out good enough reasons or even safety tips that Venus is a planet human kind should visit.He also should've used more facts as to why the planety should be visited,but was Venus once like earth?
The author also seems to keep explaining how Venus was once like earth in (paragraph 4). He says "Today venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth".But how can he be sure if he keeps on saying "long ago" and "astronomers".He isn't full of facts as of now and no one really knows what Venus is like because ,no human has yet to visit.Not once did he say it's aproven fact about anything or show evidence as to what he was putting out.
Overall the authors arguement to suggest "Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents",was a fail.He used past tense so many times through the article and didn't have factual evidence. | 4 |
5e78328 | The reason why people want to learnn more about venus is because is that its the closet planet compaired to earth in are solar system. Even with its dangerous conditions it shares many simularites to earth. It has things like valleys, mountains, and craters.
The reason however why we've never been able to get a closer look at it is be cause of is dangorus conditions. Things like valcanic europtions, earthquakes, and the contsant lighting storm make it difficult to gett anthing to land on the the ground. However the reason why scientist still wish sto study this planet is that it still would be somewhat possible to support human life.
There was even possibley one point when venus was the most earth like planet in our solar system. It may have even at one point when it could have been possible to support life and it might even had supported life at one point. This is probably why scientist strive to land something on it.
These are the reasons why the authors claims are very much a possibilty. Maby some day venus well be more like a countroy and become a tourist destinaition or just become a place for people to live. but we mont know unless we keep on trying. | 3 |
5e79b7d | Some people think that using Faxial Action Coding is not valuable. However some people think it's valuable. The goal of my essay is to show way it's valuable.
First reason is it helps actors while the are acting to express their motion. We human beings could read others feelings too.We could do it by just watching them acting or just by looking at them.''(''Putting on a happy face''actually works!)A renowned drama coach, Constanrtin stanislavsky, his actor carefully reproduce simling and frowning as a way of these emotions on stage'' This explains how important is having a good expression for actors.The goal is only to make a message by acting.
Another reason is improving the technology. Computers are used most likely evey day, Doctor huang thinks that people react to ads or showing different feeling while thay are using the computers. These computers could read our expression. '' if you simle when a web appears on your screen, a similar one might follow''. Dr.Huang thinks its important that computers are understanding the feeling of the user.''So computers need to understand that ,too''.
Reading the students expression could be helpful
for students.As example computars might have the ability to understand some parts of their expressions. It might help them to understand the things they might have a problem understanding or facing hard time. ''A classroom computer could recogniz when a student is becoming confused or bored''.''Then it could modify the lesson, like an affective human instructor''
In conclusion Facial Action system is helpful. Actors have to show their role expression in order to make help read he's expression to know what is his message.It help to developing the techology. Computers help student to understand the things they are having a hard times on,or showing confusion. | 3 |
5e7b9c2 | Dear Florida Senator,
I feel as if we, as Florida citizens should be able to change election by popular votes rather than Electoral College. I understand that The Electoral College is a process that consists of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President and so forth; but you don't understand how it is affecting the citizens. We are the people that vote! I am against the Electoral College process because it overrides popular vote, voters aren't really voting for president, and the process is unfair to voters.
To begin, I am against the Electoral College process because it overrides popular vote. For example, in 2000 when Al Gore had more popular votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, he lost the presidency. The popular votes is what really counts because its the actual citizens voting not the electors. In contrast, The Electoral College is a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the canidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. The Electoral College process is forgetting that the popular votes is what really matters.
Futhermore, I am against the Electoral College because voters aren't really voting for the president. For instance, if you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. The process isn't even trustworthy because the presidential candidates can elect themselves. Under the elecoral college process voters aren't voting for president but for the slate for electors.
Finally, I am against the Electoral College because its unfair to voters. For example, during the 2000 campaign, 17 states didn't see the canidates at all. Canidates don't spend time in states they know they know the have no chance of winning. This is unfair because voters should know who they are voting for. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election.
In conclusion, The Electoral College should not be used because it overrides popular votes and voters aren't really voting for the president. Also because Electoral College is unfair to voters. Like Bob Dole said, "Abolish the electoral college!" | 4 |
5e82aa2 | My position on driverless cars is not approved. If the car is called "driverless" why would you still need a human in the car to be ready and alerted if an he/she had to take action in a serious situation. "Designed to notify the driver wjhen the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents."
Since the car is a driverless car why would a driver still need to be ready and alerted when the car cant manage to handle something. As in paragraph 7 it states "all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." Well if thats the case then why call it a driverless car if you still need to be alerted. That would also mean that the driver is not allowed to slack off and that the rules before the human got that car will still applie. Both eyes on the road at all times and both hands on the wheel at all times.
It would cost so much money to build new roads for the cars because in oder for the cars to drive and move in perfect condition is to have sensors that can read the positive and the negative polarity as messages in the binary code. As said in paragrahp 3 "they required massive upgrades to exsiting roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." To much constuction would be happening at one time.
When the option of smarter roads was crossed of the list, a new option came metioning smarter cars. "They needed a whole lot more sensors." That seemslike a great idea but what if a human drvies on to many bumps and a sensor breaks off? Who knows how much it cost to fix it or where you can even find another sensor to replace the one that broke. A sensor can miscalculate a turn or and turn another way and cause a crash only because one or more sensors miscalulated.
Another thing about the sensors. what about the winter time? What if the sensors freeze or just get snow on them are the sensors water proof? So that would also put the human thats behind the wheel in a huge risk of being injured. The sensors could not pick up any positive or negative messages it need to read the binary code.
Think about if all electricy just cut off in a specific area. Wouldnt those sensors need the electircity to read the binary code? Wouldnt the sensors need to read the positive and negative messages also? If there was an power outage then no human would getting bakc to there destination or home.
Floods can be a thing that the sensors could get a shortage from. When its constantly raining and the water is rising faster by the minute and the car is driving through all of it while its splashing uner the car the sensors could definitly messed up. | 3 |
5e87948 | ESSAY
AUTOMIBILES ARE THE LINCHPIN OF SUBURBS, WHREMIDDLE- CLASS FAMILIES FROM CHICAGO TO SHANGHAI TEND TO MAKE THEIR HOMES. AND THAT EXPERTS SAY, IS A HUGE IMPEDIMENT TO CURRENT EFFORTS TO DRASTICALLY REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS 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.
ACCORDING TO THE TEXT, IT WAS THE THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR CARS HAVE BENNED WITH ONLY BUSES AND CARS IN THIS CAIPITAL CITY OF 7 MILLION. THE GOAL IS TO PROMOTE ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION AND REDUCE SMOG. MANY COMPANIES CREATE CAR TO RESUDE GAS EMISSIONS FOR THE CARS .
BUT AMERICANS LOVE AFFAIR WITH ITS VEHICLES SEEMS TO BE COOLING. WHEN ADJUSTED FOR POPULATION GROWTH, THE NUMBER OF MILES DRIVEN IN THE UNITED STATED STATES PEAKED IN 2005 AND DROPPED STEADILY THEREAFTER, ACCORDING TO ANALYSIS BY DOUG SHORTS OF ADIVISOR PERPESCTIVES, AN INVESTMENT RESEARCH COMPANY.PART OF THE EXPLANATION CERTAINLY LIES IN THE RECESSION, BECAUSE CASH-STRAPPED AMERICANS COULD NOT EFFORD NEW CARS, AND THE UNEMPLOYED WEREN'T GOING TO WORK ANYWAY.
IF THE PATTERNPERSISTS- AND MANY SOCIOLOGISTS BELIVE IT WILL-IT WILL HAVE BENEFICIALS IMPLICATIONS FOR CARBON EMISSIONS AND THE EVIROMENT, SINCE TRANSPORTATION IS THE SECOND LARGEST SOURCE OF AMERICAN'S EMISSIONS, JUST BEHIND POWER PLANTS. BUT IT CULD HAVE NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CAR INDUSTRY.
EXAMPLE FROM THE TEXT: HE AND SHE HAVE SIMILIAR OBSERVATIONS ABOUT THEIR CHILDRENS.THEY [19 AND 21] HAVE NOT BOTHERED TO GET GET A DRIVER'S LICENSE, EVEN THOUUGH THEY BOTH LIVE IN PLACES WHERE ONE COULD COME IN HANDY, THEY ARE INTERESTED, BUT IT'S NOT A PRIORITY. THEY ORGANIZE THEIR SUMMER JOBS AND SOCIAL LIFE AROUND WHERE THEY CAN WALK OR TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OR CAR-POOL WITH FRIENDS.ALSO WHETHER MENBERS OF THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION WILL STARS BUYING MORE CARS ONCE THEY HAVE KIDS TO TAKE TO SOCCER PRACTICE AND SCHOOL PLAYS REMAINS AN OPEN QUESTION. BUT SUCH PROJECTIONS,EVEN IF CAR BUYERS ARE MERELY OLDER OR BUYING FEWER CARS IN LIFETIME RATHER THAN REJECTING CAR CULTURE.
IN CONCLUSION
THE CAR IS USE FOR MANY RESONS , MANY PEOPLE USE LIKE A TRANSPORT MANY COMPNY CREATE CARS THAT HELP ENVIVEROMENT. | 1 |
5e918a3 | Imagine an earth simliar to ours. But it is really really really hot there that we can't live there. It had oceans and there was life on venus at some point. It is one of the brightest stars in the sky. It has valleys,mountians, and craters. It has volcanoes,earthqaukes ,and lighingstrikes. Its eath 2.
Venus orbits the sun at different speeds
which means that some times we are closer to mars and other times to venus. Venus 's atmoshpere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. Also the temperature on average is 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Next the atmosperic pressure is 90 times greater than what we expierence on our own palnet. Even though Mars is closer to the sun venus has the hottest surface temperature of an planet in our solar system.
NASA is trying to find a way to learn more about venus. By using a vehicle hovering venus. It won't be easy for the astronuts but they will live. We already know great things about venus but we want to learn more about this palnet we are curious about it and we want to find out.NASA is thinking about old technology for studying venus. Mechanical computers.They make calcuations by using gears and levers and do not require eletronics. These mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. Plus America would make history by being the first nation to sending humans to venus back and forth.Though its going to take hard work and dedication I belive some day we will get there. | 3 |
5e93c9c | A life without Cars. A life without cars would be a completely different than what most Americans expeirence today. We use Cars for basically everything. Shopping, Recreation, and socialization are all based upon the automobile. As Americans, its the general idea that you go get your license and a car, and its a normal part of life. Not many Cities are based upon the ideals of not needing a vehicle. Places where people can walk to the place they want to eat, or efficent public transportation so they can arrive at the movies on time. Everything they need as components of their lives in in reach.
A smart town is compact, meaning everything you need for a town smushed together. With everything being compacted, resources can be better managed, meaning more resources can be used in a general thing, or just not used at all. Not needing to use enourmous amounts of resources is better for the enviroment, and the tax payer. Tax payer not having the burden of all those taxes, means a happier tax payer. All the money thats not used on on taxes can be used to spend at the local stores, leading to a strong economic outlook. All because we compacted our cities, and limited car use. That's an ideal city to me. Making a compact city might not be in America's future though. We like our wide open spaces, and our huge backyards. So maybe what we need to do is invest in a reliable and smooth public transportation complex. Something that can take the population around the area. Transportation that can get me from my place of residence; to a place where I can get a bite, or have a good time. A intertwined suburban existence. Where there are no engine pollution or loud car commotion.
Without all the engine pollution or noise pollution that comes out of these ideal suburbs; people will be less stressed. Meaning their lives will also be happier and healthier. Imagine it. All because we changed the way we do things, we can be happy, and eliminate pollution. I could see myself waking up in the morning in a nice little home, and getting ready. Then going down the street to where I can take a bus, or taxi wherever I wanted. I would do what I want, and not need a car for it. I can focus on what's really important.
Like how much pollution we were really letting off from our cars. Different settings had different levels of pollution, but it all leads up to be a ridiculous amount. If we limited our car use; we could make a big difference in the amount of greenhouse gases we throw up into our air. Meaning we'll have cleaner air. Can you smell that? Thats the smell of crisp clean air. There's nothing like taking a breath of air out in the wilderness. Where the trees absorbs the contaminated air; only leaving the crisp refreshing air behind. That could be everywhere if we limited car use!
A life where it's normal to not have a vehicle in Amerian Society sounds like it would be pretty nice. I would love being able to take a bus or even walk to something interesting. Maybe it's in our future. It may even be right now. Are you willing to try to give up your car? Are you willing to try to have a social revolution and change the way Americans live their lives? I thought so. | 4 |
5e99300 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Sergey Brin, the Google cofounder, sees i a time in the future where no one will no longer need a car. In the article, the narrator uses concession to argue both negative and positive point of views.
Driverless cars may not be a good idea after all. Driving a driverless car can come with a lot of complications. The price of a driverless car would cause you an arm and a led due to the fact that it has to come with many different technologies inside of it just for it to be driverless. Video cameras, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor are some of the technologies that the car would include. Although, being able to finally text and drive without much worry would be a great thing, it still can cause an accident. The driverless car wouldn't be 100% driverless because anything can happen while driving. The manufactering can glitch and while you're on your phone texting and not paying attention to the road, you wouldn't be able to notice in time and get into an accident. Will the accident be your fault or the manufacturers fault? If the car is not 100% driverless and something goes wrong you would still then have to pay attention to the road because you never know when it's going to be your turn to kick in and have to drive.
The development of driverless cars will be a bad idea. A car that comes with many different technology devices will also come with a price. You may want to text and drive, but protecting your life is far more important than sending a text. Driverless cars that are operated by technology can come with glitches and can glitch while you are driving and if you're not alert then you could cause an accident and cause a life. Overall, you would have to deal with the problem of not knowing if the accident is your fault or the manufacturers fault. | 3 |
5e9c6d0 | The face here at NASA is not created by aliens. Here at NASA Mars Global Survey spacecraft we have revealed that the Face on Mars for what it reallys is: A mesa.
Just like said in praragraph 7 " On april 5, 1998 when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper then the original Viking photos". Here at NASA we have sent a lot of our people out to take pictures to prove others wrong that this Face wasn't created by aliens. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the imagee appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform". After all there was no alien monument! People then told us that the camera had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. We had already proved to everyone that aliens hadn't created the Face.
At NASA we had proven that the picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa which is landforms common around the American West. After all there wasn't any aliens who created the picture and we proved that it was just a natural landform and that there was no alien monument after all! | 2 |
5e9dcb7 | In a classroom, there is a group of students who arrive to learn to class from their teacher almost everyday during the school year.
Although. as students arrive and begin to seat themselves into their assigned seats and reach for the supplies for the class, they suddenly turn to something else that attracts their attention.
The effort teachers make to ensure the lesson of their class is not only educational but is most importantly interactive and captivating for the students.
Yet, some teachers aren't fully aware of what their class in pondering or feeling about a lesson being presented in a way that is not so expressive.
That's when using the new technology of Professor Thomas Huang is most effective for the education of the future generations; it's called the Facial Action Coding System. This promising technology is not only able to be used by students of Professor Thomas Huang, but schools across the country!
The Facial Action Coding System could be a life changing piece of equipment could most certainly save the lives of students.
Most of all, the many families could be informed of what their child's performance is like based on the daily emotions calculated by such advance technology.
The Facial Action Coding System is able to provide specific intel on how a person feels, by the computer installed the program, studying all fourty four muscles of a human's facial features.
It is able to distinguish the emotions of happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear, and sadness.
During a class, a teacher might only be able to detect the current emotion a student feels when they study a student's facial expression.
Above all else, what if the student is acting to be happy just so other's won't worry about him or her?
This software is able to trace each emotion almost exactly to where teachers can keep up with their student's emotional state.
For example, if a student had an occurence they considered rather alarming, their teachers would be able to understand more about what's causing them to act differently in class.
The ability of this new technology would be able to ensure that all students are able to perform in their school without feeling overwhelmed by activities and personal issues outside of class.
Students who are facing emotional dilemas could be able to work more calmly once their own teacher is aware of their student's true feelings.
Meanwhile, there are students who face issues being able to focus in class.
In most morning classes, students may have the chance of not having had enough sleep, overslept, or not even having breakfast in the morning hours.
Then, their first lesson of the school day arrives and their mind isn't paying attention to what they are expected to learn.
In addition, the lesson being presented by their teacher may be confusing or completely uninteresting.
The article states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," (Nick D'Alto, 6).
This clearly shows that the technology by Professor Huang is able to even detect the student's troubled emotion while being a learning environment.
Also, With the assistance of this promising software, teachers benefit from this in two ways.
The first advantage would be seeing their students excel because of an improved lesson.
The second then ensuring that students are interacting and feeling that they are understanding what their teacher is instructing them to learn.
Its an overall victory for both students and teachers.
The matter of mixed emotions is sometimes a much more difficult thing to see.
People are all different and others when they see something for the first time, they'll believe when they see others saying what they've seen. Then, there are others who think that the recognition of mixed emotions is pure confusion.
To add on to that, the Facial Action Coding System isn't like that at all.
Within the article, it states, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" (not smiling as broadly)" and " Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements," (Nick D'Alto, 4).
What people must take away from this critical reveal is this technology is prospering to bring others to see what they couldn't see before.
The identification of mixed emotions by the use of video imagery.
Also, as well as the comparision against a neutral face or a face that shows no emotion, which is later stated on.
The value of this technology is beyond the imaginations of today's society.
It would be able to bring new discoveries of emotions in of the daily lives of people.
The collection of emotions would bring people together to understand one another better. Better yet, this software can connect relatives because they are now aware of the other person's overall emotional state.
The realization of a person's emotions is something that is not normal, its completely extraordinary.
Professor Huang's technology is in the path to changing lives of people.
In the situation of politics, not a single person from the democratic or republican side can come to agreement. You may ask, "Why?", but the solution to this conflict is quite clear.
People can't come to fully understand one another.
Without a person coming to a basic understanding of someone else's emotions, neither one will ever come to agree with each other.
If "team work makes the dream work" then allow each side to see the emotions of other people; with the assitance of the Facial Coding System, that'll occur within no time at all because of its incredible reading of an human's expressive actions. | 3 |
5e9ef47 | In this argumentative essay, I will be arguing that driverless cars should not be allowed at all. If we have driverless cars then a lot of accidents can happen. It can also be dangerous because there can be a technical difficulty, that can cause the machine used car to hit another machine use car or a automobile. If we have driverless cars, a lot of buisnesses could go out of business.
The Google cars are made like robots. They'll talk to you, they'll tell you when they can't pull in and out of driveways. But my thing is , how is the passenger going to help you? What if they don't have their licenses? What if they don't even know how to drive? I don't see why driverless cars should be allowed.
Does Google cars track people names? If they do, anybody can put a fake name in and ride in the car. I also think Google cars can cause in a lot of robberies and murders. I say that because if they are in a google car, they can shoot at anybody, and nobody would know who it is because the Google cars are all the same.
Do Google cars have cameras? If they do, what is a passenger comes in hoping to do a robbery or something dangerous and they have a face mask, gloves, and a body suit on. To ride in a Google car, do you have to have your licenses? What if a teenager around the age 13 or 14 needs a ride to the gas station, and the Google car is having difficulties because of the traffic? How will the child be able to help?
In conclusion, I think Google cars are dangerous. Again, they can close businesses, cause violent things to happen in the city, and cause accidents. Google cars could also charge a lot too. This is my argumentative essay about why Google cars should not be legal or allowed on the streets. | 3 |
5ea32c7 | Driverless cars have many advantages and disadvantages. A few advantages are easier transportation for older people, handicapped and mentally challanged, also there will less accidents once the cars are completely driverless. Some disadvantages are how expensive the cars are with all the new technology and mechanics all around will have to learn an entirely new method of fixing cars.
The transportation of older people, the handicapped and mentally challanged will be one of the greatest triumphs. Once a person gets old, their senses deteriorate causing them to drive slower and possibly cause accidents. With the handicapped it will give them the feeling of driving again, more so with people who have lost their ability to walk and can not transport themselves. Finally, with the mentally challanged, they will experiance driving themselves without causing danger to other people and will not have to completely rely on their parents or care taker to tote them around everywhere. With the driverless cars, the new technology will make it safer for these types of people to get around and still have others around be safe as well.
On the other side of the spectrum though, there are many disadvantages to having driverless cars. One being, the cars will be very expensive, they have so much new technology that goes into them and so many safety features. The price will set many back from trying to buy one and what would be the use if only the people who did not need them, had them? Next, many mechanics will have to learn a brand new method of fixing driverless cars, more so all the types of sensors and trackers. The learning process can take many months to someone who needs it fixed right now and will set many other from trying to be a mechanic.
To end off with, there will be fewer accidents once driverless cars are all around. The sensors will take away the need for the driver to stopgo and yeild to tother vehicles and pedestrians. This will be a big leap from how many accidents we have each year and revent untimely deaths. This is also big for people who text and drive or drink and drive. The risk for drinkers and texters is greatly reduced if not prevented from driverless cars.
Finally, the driverless cars has multiple advantages as well as multiple disadvantages. many advantages are old people, hanicapped, and mentally challanged have a way to get around and fewer accidents. The disadvantages are the cars will be very expensive and all the mecahnics learning a brand new way to fix a car. | 4 |
5ea741b | There has been a strong arguement going on weather we should keep the Electoral College or if we should change it. Both sides have made a strong claim and a strong arguement. I got the opportunity to read two articles that are against and in favor of it. After reading these articles I have made decision. I have came to the conclusion that we should keep the Electoral College.
My first reason why, we should keep Electoral College is because this country was founded on it. Also, our 4 founding fathers were in favor of this Electoral College. This is a principle in which this great country has been founded on. This is the history of this country and the principles on which it was founded on.
Another reason why, we should keep Electoral College is that this would avoid the run off of elections. If there was no Electoral College candidates will be fighting for the popular vote. The problem with this popular vote is that there would be no candidate that recieves a majority of the votes. In an Electoral College there would not be this problem, since in each state the winner takes it all.
Last but not least, we should keep Electoral College because this allows for each candidate to pick his or her own groups of electors. This allows the running candidate to pick out the group that he or she would be able to work with the best, and get along with the most. This would also allow the candidate to better fight or argue on certain matters and on certain cases. Also, it is important for a candidate to get along with his or her group that they will be working with.
These are all of the reasons why I think and belive that we should keep Electoral College. | 3 |
5eac6d2 | Do you really want a machine that tells you how you feel? If so why would you want a machine telling if you know how you feel like. These type of technology is not good and theres no need in having it mostly not in a classroom or school where anything could happen to it if you not carefull.
I dont think this technology should be used in school or in a classroom. Those machies and technology will coast alot and theres no need in having one in the classroom. No one would really use is and who willl really pay for one. If a kid plays around with it who will pay for it and theres no class that needs it. If you want one in your home you cant becuase your PC cant haddle it. in the text it states "Your home PC cant handle the complex alogorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile" meaning you will have to buy a better PC just to used the technology. The only thing it does is seeing how you feel. Its not gonna solve nothing or help its just gonna tell you how your feeling and no one know 100% if its always right. They tested on a painting and the person for the painting Mona Lisa is not live to say oh thats correct. Also it tells you how to look in the mirror so it can see how your feeling meaning you cant have or make your normal face becuase it wont work.
Its not god becuase how can it split all the feelings like that so this type of technology should not be in schools or homes. No need in wasting your money on the technology when you could get something better and maybe not as high in price becuase it didnt say how much it is and what type of computer you need so it could work. | 3 |
5eb33fc | My argument about Lukes point of view is that you should always try soething new or something you always wanted to do. In this story Luke is working at a store and his friend invited him to go on a cattle boat to Europe after World War 2. He knew this would be an opportunity of a lifetime. So he went.
You could see how he was feeling just by the way the author put it. He was exicited and he was ready. When Luke found out that he was to take care of horses, young cows, and mules he knew he would be good at it because he worked at his aunts farm. He thought this would be a good time to help out with this disaster. Luke went overseas just to do someting helpful for the problems people had. All the stuff people had were gone because of the World War 2.
He had some rough times on way, like running into storms, big waves and other stuff that happen in the ocean, but hey it was worth it. But some thingss got severe, when he broke his ribs during a storm. He took nine trips on the cattle boat. And this was big for him because he was a small - town boy. He also knew he was helping out thousands of people. Over seas, Luke was very busy with the animals. He had to feed them 2 to 3 times a day. Thats a lot of work for young boy.
Just by reading this article you can tell how much work you will have but your doing it for people who can't do this stuff. So what, it may be hard, it may be boring, but those people need your help. Thats why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Luke was brave enough to do this kind of thing just because of 1 thing, he had faith in him, his best friend, and the people. Im pretty sure your going to have a warm welcoming home surprise waiting for you at your place. Im entirely sure that all of you want that surprise. Just join the Seagoing Cowboys program and your garenteed and fun active time with the people you are working with and the peoeple that need your help. So have the faith Luke had, and come on down and sign up for Seagoing Cowboys program. Hope to see you there cowboy.
Oh and one more thing, have some faith in yourself, it always turns out good. Just ask Luke Bomberger, he will tell you about all that happen just with a lot of faith and courage. | 2 |
5ebc160 | In 1976, a Mars Global Surveyor snapped pictures of what is known as the "Face on Mars." It is a natural landformation and is visible becuase of the pictures shown, the internet, and the area the landform is located.
First, the pictures show the "face." In 1976, the pixels were 43m (meters) per pixel. In 2001, the pixels were only 1.56m per pixel. The quality is worse the bigger the pixels.
In 2001, the quality of the pixels were clear enough to show that the "face" was only a lanform. In the picture of 1976, it is visible that the picture is blurry. In the picture of 1998, the picture is less blurry, but still hard to see. In the 2001 picturer, the picture is very visible and well seen. At the bottom of the mesa, it is also visible to see the lanform has a rounded, smooth, almost non man-made surface that buried the landform into the planet side.
Next, the Internet, showed what the scientists and the picters showed. A landform.
In the text, it states that when the picture was taken in 1998, it was the cloudy time of theyear on the red planet.
Finally, where the "face" is located. The face is located in a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia.
In the article, it states that "The sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharoah." Although the NASA researchers have concluded the "face" to be a natural landform, many are not satisfied with it.
Many people claim that it was built by aliens, however, pictures do not lie.
In conclusion, the "Face on Mars" is really a mystery. Many think it is a natural landform while others think that it was built for a reason by aliens. The "Face on Mars" is a natural landformation becuase of the pictures presented, the Internet, and the location on the landform. | 3 |
5ec4bb9 | Is it really worthy to spend a life time just to see Venus? In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author supports the idea of studying venus is a worthy pusuit despite the danger because there's a safe conditions, its not easy to go to Venus and explore but its a worthy timimg and NASA working on making a mechanical computers.
First reason of how the author supported his idea of studying venus is worthy by telling the reader about the saftey confitons that are avalible. according to the article it stated "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow seientists to float above the fray" another qoute is "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way" these two quotes are explaing the saftey conditions that are avalible for those who wants to explore Venus.
Another reason of how the supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers is by explaing its not easy and telling us that peering at Venus provide only limited insight on ground conditions. according to the article the author stated " however, peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions beacouse most of light cannot penetrate the sense atmosphere, rendering standard froms of photography and videography ineffective" another quote is "not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." these two qoute expalined how the author support the idea of the text beacouse he's telling us what it takes and how.
Finally, the author supported the idea of studying Venus is worthy pursuite despit the dangers by telling us about the new invintation of the mechanical computers. According to the text, the author stated "NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus" anthoer quote is "Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers" these two quotes means that new stuff coming up to make it easier and safer to vist Venus just like the author idea of studying Venus.
In conclusion, the author supported the idea of studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by explaining to the reader in the article that there's a safe conditions, its not easy but worthy and finally by telling us about the new invitions to make it easy and safe visit to Venus. so Venus might be a worthy spending time to go see! | 3 |
5ec9f9d | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because it could become our new home. Venus is often referred as Earth's twin, as it's similar in density and size, and the closest in distance to Earth. Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on Venus and were unmaned for a good reason as the spacecrafts can only survive for a few hours after landing. The planet Venus is challenging to study but we humans want to learn more about it. Venus was once an Earth like planet, can be the nearest option for a planetary visit, and be studied with new ideas.
Venus was once an Earth like planet in our solar system. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans long ago. The planet Venus would have most likely been able to support life. Today, Venus still has some analogous feature like valleys, mountains, and craters. As though Venus was a Earth like planet and no longers supports life it still is a planet that scientist want to study. As the knowledge of this planet is unknown.
Venus can be our first planetary visit in the near future. NASA has a compelling idea for sending scientist to study Venus, NASA is thinking of scientist to float above the fray. They are thinking of having a blimp-like vehicle to hover above 30 or so miles in the roiling Venusian. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the dangerous ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. Although these is an option it would be difficult to study venus as most light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere and scientist can't go down there and get rock samples.
Venus is an interesting planet to study but it will be difficult to even see the surface. NASA is trying to study Venus by using simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber that simulates the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for about three weeks. Another project that will allow the study of Venus is looking back at old technology called mechanical computers, this devices were envisioned in the 1800s and were used during World War II. Those computers uses gears and levers to make calculations and don't require electronics. Mechanical parts are more resistent to pressure, heat, and other forces. This ideas can be used to study the planet Venus.
Venus is worthy of been studied as it resembles Earth in many ways and the closest to us. Venus is similar in density and size and has similarities to Earth. As humans sent numerous unmanned spacecrafts they have only lasted a few hours after their landing. As we humans want to study the planet Venus we come up with ideas to study it. Although Venus is the closest our knowledge is very little but we know it was once an Earth like planet that could have supported life. | 4 |
5ed0a74 | Have you ever seen the really bright star in the night sky? That piont is is actually a planet called Venus. Often Venus is seen as the Earth's "twin" in terms of density, size and things. Even tho it is very similar many scientists have problms with studying and examining the planet closely. In this actricle, the author explains why that is the case and how NASA wants to change that.
The first aspect that the author talks about is the difficult conditions that people have to face on the Venus and he explains the reasons why scientists have problems studying the planet. He uses important data like the atmosphere of Venus containimg almost 97 percent carbon doixide and clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere that would make it really hard to survive and breath for humans. And such as the planet's surface temperature has an average of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than the pressure on the earth. Furthermore the author explains why those conditions would make it almost impossible to send humans to that planet and the author gives examples that are easier to imagine like the liquifying of metals.
Besides explaining the condotions the author also shows the reasons why humans want to examine the planet Venus. He uses reaserch to state that it could be possible that Venus has had existing life such as the earth. To underline that he describes the geographic view of the planet and compared it to the earth's geographic view. He lists similarties such as a rocky surface ans familiar features such as valkeys, mountains, and craters.
The last point that the author makes and that supports the author's idea thst studyung Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers is that the author explains the research that the NASA has been doing to figure out a way to examine Venus closely and find out more information about that planet. For example it states thta NASA's possible solition to the difficult conditions on the surface of Venus is to find a way to allow scientists to float above the fray. Moreover it lists thta NASA is also working on some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide thta would stand the pressure and heat of Venus.
All in all the author supports his idea really good by talking about different points such as the explaining of the conditions on that planet, the explaining of the difficulties that humans would face on Venus, the listing of reasons why scientists want to examine ans study Venus and last but not least the explaining of the actions that NASA has made to find a way to solve the current problems on the planet's surface. | 4 |
5ed55fb | in the artical the autoer shows how they would like to see venus get explored dispite the harsh condisons and odd wether. the autoer gives many resons why they would like to see venus such as how it is earths twin, flying over it with a blimp or jet of some kind, as well as a mecanical computer.
so the authoer states that venus is eraths twin this would a huge milestone and would be amazing. one of many resons would be to use it for the study of earth and our sun.
the next way would be a bilmp or jet of some kind that would fly over venus at an altutude that is safe for use. this is however a bad way to get there for the astronuts would be there for a short time becuse of fuel cost and coservaton. as well as there would be no real way to test the surfuse of venus from there ass you could not get to the surfuce.
and the last way to get there is by sneding a mecalical computer this would give use amazing resalts. but a the cost of developing a computer that the last time these were largly used was in the 1940's wolud be a fotune and they left that out for they relly whant to go.
the from the artical how the auther relliy wants to go to venus so they gave us the resons how it is earths twin, flying over it with a blimp or jet of some kind, as well as a mecanical computer. so in conclusen the auther relly whant to go to venus | 2 |
5ed59c1 | The author uses a lot of clear evidence to discribe how the scientists are tring to study Venus. Also, the author discribes the dangers of doing so. The author also tells us what the problems are with studing Venus. The real question is, is it really worth it?
One of the biggest problems with exploring Venus is that Venuses aptnosphere is 97 percent carbon dioxide and the timperatures average over 800 degrees. Another problem is that the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than here on earth. Also Venus is some times mistaken for a star because the plannet is so bright.
At one point Venus would have had features just like earth and have water surounding it. Venus is also known as the the twin to earth because they are so similar in features. NASA would send shipes into space and go to Venus but they could never lang on Venus. They haven't had a succesful space travel to Venus in 30 years. NASA is thinking about sending a blimp like craft to venus and have it hover over Venus at like 30 miles off the ground. Even at 30 miles off the ground the tempurtures will be around 170 Fahrenheit.
With what the passage states it is safe to say that there are a lot of dangers NASA would have to address before they launch another space ship to Venus. But also there are a lot of possibilities that NASA has when they launch the space ship to Venus. NASA can be the ones who discovered Venus, also they could learn more about Venus and why it lost all its earth like features.
In conclusion, the idea of learning more about Venus is a great opportunity to learn more about the planets around us. Also, learning about how Venus lost the Earth like features is a good way to learn about our planet and how to keep Earth from becoming that way. This idea of risking everything to go and explore Venus is a great opprtunity for us at earth to learn about how other planets like ours were destroyed. | 3 |
5ed754b | This object on Mars has been theorized to be a face, but there is no way this could represent life on Mars. There are many pictures of Mars and nothing else showed that there could be life. There are many reasons why this is not a factor that shows that there is life on Mars. There is not enough resources, it was shown to be a natural landform after better technology was used, and it is similar to the Middle Butte in Idaho as mentioned in the article.
My first reason, is that there is not enough resources to be able to have life on Mars. There is barely any water except for ice on Mars. There are no plants to create oxygen. There have been no signs of any thing to provide life other than the frozen water as previously mentioned. Most of all Mars is too cold to be able to have life on it. The only way for something to live on Mars is if something somehow adapted to that type of enviroment.
Another reason, is that it was shown to be a mesa type lanform. The first picture was similar to a face because technology was not advanced enough to take a clearer picture. After we made better technology we were able to get a better and clearer picture that shows it was just a landform.
My third and final reason, is that it is very similar to landforms on our planet. We have mesas amd buttes all over our planet. The one that is most similar is in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. Many pictures shown that the "face on Mars" is not real.
All of these reasons show that there is no way that this is a sign of life on Mars. As I mentioned there is not enough resources, it was shown to be a landform, and that it is similar to landforms here on Earth. So there is no way that this is a sign of another form of life other than the life on our planet. | 3 |
5edd221 | Dear Senator,
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the Presidential elections? Do you think about the complicated eloctoral college or the popular vote? As an average citizen who is not in politics i immediately think of the popular vote when it comes to the Presidential elections. Why do we have the electoral college anways? Shouldn't the people be able to decide who the president is not the state legislature.
SO therefore instead of the electoral college we should just stick to the popular vote.
As an American you have certain unalienable rights, and the act of voting is one of them. So if its our right to vote than we should be able to do it not other people. The electoral college isnt that safe either. In 1960 as stated in the text, when President Kennedy ran for office segregationist in the state of Louisiana nearly succeeded in replacing the democratic voters (elected by the people) with voters who would have voted against Kennedy. Or in 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote but George W. Busch won the electoral vote and caused the biggest election scandal of the century. These are just a few examples of instances where the majority has won but the electoral college has caused an issue in the election. I am unsure of your preferences over popular or electoral but who the majority of the American people decide should become the President. We shouldnt allow some 538 politicians out of some 3 million citizens to choose the President. The American people should choose all of us not 538.
Though our founding fathers decided that we needed a system to decide the President instead of letting the people decide times have changed. Scandals have taken place, and issues have risen. But yet we still use this process even though we have an election all it does it we elect a select few to represent us. Why cant we just pick right away? The Constitution of the United States of America is based off of a democracy where the people run the government through our elected officials. Nowhere does it say that we elect people to elect the president. That doesnt sound like the country electing the president; it sounds like a few "qualified people" electing the president.
So Senator I ask you that you make a motion to eliminate the electoral college. All it does is take away our rights as citizens to elect our officials. It has caused many scandals as well. So please I hope you can agree that we need to eliminate the electoral college and only use the popular vote. | 4 |
5edf56a | Hes saying that venus is a planet that is the second plant around the sun hes also saying that Venus name was giveing to him by the earth twin beacuse is the second planet around the sun hes also saying that 97 percent is carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Hes also saying that Venus has danger like highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus atomsphere there is also temperatures averages over 800 dregrees fahrenheit he also said that no spaceacraft survived the landing for more than a few hours.
The author is also saying that why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades the author is also saying that Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may every well once have been the most-like planet in our solar system. The author is also saying that the blimp-like vehicle hovering over 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape just as jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has not only vecause of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also has not onlt beacuse human.
Curiosity will likely lead us into many equally imtimidating endeavors so they fore hes saying that poeple dont take Venus as a planet nor de they want to explore as a planet besacuse its to dangrous as a plant constieing its the second plant near the sun so therfore there not wanting the explore it vaules. | 1 |
5ee3045 | Is technology to read emotional expressions valuable? Can it help our society? Is it useful? Is it worth your time, money, or thoughts? No, no, no, no.
First of all, it's useless. Who has the time of the day to go and learn all 44 muscles of a persons face, for what? If you want to know someones emotions its going to be all over their face, or maybe just ask them. Don't go and waste your time on something that isn't either bettering your life or bettering the world.
Second of all, it's a waste of money. The technology that's being used for this project is most likely a couple thousand dollars, that money could go towards many other things. Charity's, medical research, or towards the towns that are flooding and ruining peoples homes. What can we gain from learning peoples emotions? Those people already know how they feel and it is really nobody elses buisness how they feel.
Lastly, it's a waste of time. This technology won't be bought by many people, as a student I know that I would not buy something like this. Whoever came up with this wasted money, and time, for something people wont be very interested in.
In conclusion, dont waste your money, or time, or put your worth into something as useless as this technology. Its not worth it, everybody wants to know each others emotions, so just ask, let them open up to you. Dont try to study their feelings like a book. They arent a test, stop studying them. | 3 |
5ee3109 | The face on Mars is just a natural landform. There is no facts showing that it is not just a landform. If aleins were to build this landform we would have been aware of it.
The Mars face is actually a messa which are common sight in the American West. So this is strong proof that it is actually just a natural landform. If there was something out there like aleins which would have been proven to be real by now we would have proof of there existince then that could be another explanation but since we have no proof that they exist then we quikley ruled out that as a option
We knew as soon as the pictures where released that the critics and media would go go crazy on Nasa. Of course we know that theres people that are going to think Nasa is hiding information from the public but if there was life on Mars we would people to know that. When all the pictures came out they made a bunch of money. The face has actually become an pop icon. So if there was life on Mars we would want to share it with the public.
If the face wasnt a natural landform what is it then thats what i would like to know. Dont you think if it wasnt a landform we would want people to know we could make billions! For some people to think we're hiding something is crazy. There is proof that it's just a landform and that's is what all of us at Nasa have been saying for a long time now. That's why you should think it's a natural landform! | 3 |
5eea485 | After reading the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," I developed my own opinion on driverless cars. My opinion on driverless cars is that I agree with the development of driverless cars, because it seems like a good idea and I believe that they are something that people would want to buy. The article features plenty of information to support my claim including why driverless cars are a good idea and how they will help us in our everyday lives.
The first piece of evidence in favor of driverless cars comes from the information that "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009." The fact that Google has been working on driverless cars for so long proves that driverless cars are a good idea. This is because if Google has been working on this technology for the past seven years then that means that they have been constantly improving their product and that it is pretty far into it's development period. That means that the cars are able to be manufactored pretty well at this point even if they're not perfect, which helps to prove that with that much work done on it the cars have many improvements from the original product and will be easier to manufactor and sell in the future.
Computer-driven cars have been in production or at least an idea in some of the major car companies minds since as early as the 1950s. Sensors that use computer information to stop or control the car have been worked on since the 1980s. Since driverless cars or computer-driven cars have been an idea for so long then it means that they probably will continue to remain an idea that companies will try and harness. If the idea and development related to the idea has been going on since the 1950s there is almost not doubt that it will not stop being studied and developed. If it can last sixty years, then it probably will not disappear anytime soon. Driverless cars are here to stay.
Driverless cars also show the ability to assess the situation therefore giving them a better chance of being able to stop accidents before they happen. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accident." The ability to assess the situation and inform the driver is a very important feature. This may also be helpful in preventing car accidents and the injurys or deathes that occur from them. Since the driverless car has safety precautions it makes it a good choice for on the road and proving once again that development for these cars should continue.
Four states have already approved the limited use of driverless cars. "California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have lead the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars." This information helps to prove that the idea that the idea of driverless cars is slowly but surely being accepted. California and Florida are large states that have a large population and get a lot of tourists every year. Nevada contains Los Vegas, another huge city, and is a place where a lot of people got to gamble. Finally the District of Columbia houses some of the most important buildings and artifacts of the American government. These are all states that mean a big deal, and since they have accepted driverless cars that means that they could spread extremely quickly to the other states. If some of the biggest most populated and most important states can accept the cars then that means that the bettle is almost won and is proof that driverless cars are a good idea.
Most car companies are jumping on the bandwagon and are beginning to work on making driverless cars. The ones that are mentioned expect to have driverless cars avaible in the next five years. Large scale car companies like Tesla, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Nissan are all planning on releasing cars. This means that those large scale companies have realized that driverless cars are a good idea and they do not want to miss out. Those mass producers usually do not plan on manufactoring something unless they believe it will make a decent profit. By saying that they are going to work on these cars these companies are saying that they believe that driverless cars happen to be something that they believe a lot of consumers will want to buy. This proves that driverless cars are a good idea because it means that people are interested in them and believe that they are a good idea. | 4 |
5ef2247 | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests studying Venus is a hopeful endevor despite the danger it presents, its both terrifying and wonderous how Venus mirrors what Earth would have looked like if it was closer to the sun. Venus is the most unexplored planet in the solar system, less than the Earth's oceans.
Venus could give us reason to develop new technology to last longer on its surface: "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." We human beings tested silicon carbide electronics in a chamber simulating Venus's surface and it lasted three weeks before it was finally broken down by the chaotic conditions.
Venus is a worthy pursuit, a dangerous one, but worthy. If we do not try, then we might as well give up everything we accomplished to an incinerater and just sit on the couch doing nothing and wasting precious time. | 2 |
5ef300e | For many years people have been using cars to get around to do their important tasks. The stress every indivdual has to go through just to make it through the day could be difficult. It is better if we create a car free world. Just picture you waking up in the morning peacefully without the sounds of car motors turning on or the smell of smoke in the air. With the reduction of cars, the planet would be a healthier and safer place to live on.
Limiting car usage can have a numerous amount of advantages to citizens. With all the issues every country has, the most important one is the emisson of green house gases. With the use of less cars, the green house gas percentage rate will go down significantly. In source 3 it says "Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." As this event starts to happen the Earths atmosphere will start to recover and there would be less traffic on the roads. In source 3, Bogota Colombia has a program named the "Day Without Cars." This program has a goal to promote another way of transporation to the people and to reduce smog in their capital city. While it on their third year, "people are generating a revoluntionary change..." said Enrique Riera. Since this event is becoming more sucessfull parks and sports centers have been used more throughout the city. In soruce 2, Pari has a situation of smog too. They decided to created a "partial driving ban" which allowed the air to be cleared in Paris but also fined 4,000 drivers with the cost of 22-euros ($31) or impounded cars for their "reaction of the fine."
Another advantage ciztens have to limiting car usage is that it lowers the cost of indivdual of paying their car bills and the amount of gas which is really high. With other types transportation like public buses, walking or riding a bicycle this effort helps to conserve resources that are about to disappear since we use them too much and it improves our safety with the reduction of having car accidents due to traffic jams. In source 1 Vauban, Germany their is a community that has 5,500 resident that do not own a car. This community restricts car into their streets. This communtiy is a "low-car suburban life" that has a wallkway,stores on the main street and some distant highways with the help of public transportation.
As we continue our effort into establishing a "car free" community it will benefit us in the future. While we reduced the percentage of green house gases in the air then the government will not have to worry about one problem and move to something that needs to be fixed right away. All the taxes we've have beeen paying will to crisis outside of our country. If we expand these no car communties that Colombia and Germany have then there will be a "shift in American behavior" source 4 states. Americans love cars but as the years passed by from "2005-2013 the miles driven per persons have slowly decereased 9 percent." Hopefully,as the next few year it will make a difference.
Even though us humans love cars their is a limit into how much we should use them. But as we grow we will have a healthier and dafer planet to live on, spend less moeny on cars and more money on important nessesites, and it woyukd create a better future for our children an their families. | 4 |
5ef684b | The Driverless Car.
The cons of driverless cars are that the cars can malfunction at any time or at anyplace. The driverless car can also be wrong when giving specific instructions. The driverless car is still under development and probably expensive for purchase. The car will not always be driveless, you will have to drive to perform certain things such as parking, reversing, driving in traffic, and even long distance driving. This will be a pain for some drivers who don't want to drive anymore.
The pros of driveless cars are that someday there will be cars that can drive by theirselves. The cars can also be safe for the elder drivers who are having driving issues. The cars can contain safety features such as automatic braking, reverse cameras, see danger before you can, and a blindspot indicator too. Many car manufactuers are working so that there will be driverless cars already in production and sale. This will benefit some people and this will not benefit some people.
Even though these safety features are equipped on the vehicles it's not guarenteed that you will always be safe. There are many test and experiments going on to help better selfless cars. And only certain states have allowed these test to happen. Some car manufactuers such as Nissan, Mercedes - Benz, and Audi are working on cars that will be able to drive automatically in 2020. But for now, it is taking alot of work to make the car fully human free. | 2 |
5ef7420 | In my opinion driverless cars are a liitle more on the sketchy side in my opinion because you have to put a lot of trust into a machine.
Especially if in the future they make these cars in a factory where not a lot of time is spent of each car specifically, then a lot could go wrong.
It would help decrease pollution though which is one of this world's biggest problems right now.
Though this new concept of driverless cars would decrease pollution, there are sure many more ways that we could decrease pollution without a machine that are sketchy to put anybody in.
Such as in paragraph 7, it states that a human that is riding in the car must stay alert for any zones that calls for tough navigating and situations.
Some of these cars do watch the driver as they take over the wheel to make sure they are alert and stay awake through the process.
Overall my opinion on driverless cars is that I don't think it's the best option in the world because you do have to put a lot of trust into them.
A lot of car manufacturers have been working to improve these cars over the years, but if it came down to it, I guess we all would have to come together and make these cars as efficient as possible. | 3 |
5ef8f8e | I am totally against the value of using to read students emotionals. I feel like technology isn't always one hindred percent right and makes lots of mistakes and errors. Just because you come up with system (FACS) that has all 44 major muscles humans have, does not mean it's going to be right every single time.
Technology is taking over the world and i understand that, but i feel as technology should not get involved with the human features. Reading students emotional expressions in the classroom is not valuable. This system could give teachers the wrong impressions on how their students are thinking or feeling. For example a student in your class could be very sickand look sad because their not feeling good. You as the teacher might think that he/she is sad because of some other reason such as a personal reason.
FACS is not needed in classrooms. this system has a 50/50 chance of being right on its "guessing". Some people might think this would be perfect for teachers in all reality, teachers for the must part can see when a student is struggling, and would not need this system. We are all humans with feelings and we all deserve to have some type of privacy. What if a student doesn't want anybody to know that they just lost a loved one. I just think that if we don't want anybody to know what we are feeling, our teachers shouldn't be able to figure it out. Keep this system out of our schools unless you all want to have lots of confusing going on throughout schools. | 3 |
5ef992a | Dear senator, the way we elect this countries president is flawed and un-effective. We technically don't directly vote for the president, we vote for some person who then chooses the president. Since this contry is democratic it think that the popular vote is definitly the way to elect the future presidents.
To start off,the electoral college isnt fair to voters because candidates only go to states where they know they will get the vote. In the article "The indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best-laid defenses of the systemare wrong" it says "The electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in the states they know they have no chance at winning". People vote for the person who they want to be in office not for someone who might vote for the person who you want. I guess you could say voters in swing states are going to know more about the election. But you never know that does not always happen.
Secondly the eclectors could be anyone and could be chosen by anybody,there are no kind of qualifications. On the other hand the regular voters actuaully have to meet some sort of standards like you aren't allowed to vote if you have commited some sort of crime a certain amount times. And most of the time the American people dont see adds or commercials about the electorates. Howdo we know we can trust these random people with our vote? In my eyes and probably most peoples eyes, see this system as a non-democratic way to vote for our president.
To conclude our country should switch to the popular vote system strictly because the elctoral college is an unfair, un-democratic way of choosing our nations future leader. | 3 |
5efaf31 | The Dangers of Venus
Venus is the second planet from the sun. The surface temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenhiet. In that's a fact. Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. The planet is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth.
Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. On the plante's surface temperature is average is over 800 degrees Fahrenhiet. A human wouldn't survive there. It's extremely hot.This is why spacecraft don't last a few hours on Venus. The planet is just like walking on lava and it's dangerous and hard for scientist to study. Scientist can't take samples of rocks gas, or anything else from Venus surface cause of the heat.
In the article it says, "No spacecraft survived the landing from more than a few hours. Maybe this issue expains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades.", meaning Venus is a chanllenge planet that the scientist are studying. It also means spacecrafts can't last and there reseach is difficult. In Venusian geology and weather they go through impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes.
The challenge is presented by Venus solar power it would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, survivable for humans. Human curiosity should not be lmited by dangers and doubts, but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and novation. | 3 |
5efcc16 | The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by saying ,"Venus is Earth's twin and closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size". In the article it says that Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. Venus is the second planet closest to the sun and because of that the tempetures in Venus are way different than Earth's tempetures.
But some people or scientist actually belived theres life in venus just like earth but alot different because in the article it says," Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported varios forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth for example theres surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Even people think that Venus is probably our nearest option for a planetary visit just like in the article it says," The National Aeronautics (NASA) has one particular compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus". NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. Since Venus is the second closest planet to the sun the tempetures are really hot, compared to Earth's tempetures. Its so hot the tempetures in Venus are like 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that sea level on Earth.
But Earth and Venus are two planets that probably had same features along time ago and that we all know theres alot to discovered in our solar system and thats what i think the author was trying to support. And mybe it might happen in the near feuture and discovered more about Venus but for right now only time will tell. | 3 |
5efebdb | The use of the Facial Action Coding technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it could help out the student on how they are feeling, and want them to continue the lesson. This technology could read your emotions by just looking at your face. With this technology we could tell how some of the students are feeling. Some students could get confused or bored with the lesson and this could change that.
In the text it states that the a classroom computer could recognize if the student is becoming confued or bored, then the software would modify the lesson like an effective human instructor. While the software changes the lesson it could change the student's emotion and make them want to continue learning. It could make the lesson more interesting to learn and would help out students with better grades and test scores.
The Facial Action Coding System could also benefit the teachers because they do a lot of work like preparing the lesson and grading things, so the lesson they create could be uninteresting or confusing. With the software the lesson could be more clear and interesting for the students to learn and the teacher wouldn't be so stressed with so much work. The text also states, humans could calculate how people are feeling just by looking at their facial expression, but some people hide their emotions. The software could get how students are feeling even better and someone like the teacher could help out their problems.
This is why The Facial Action Coding System should be used in the classroom because it could help both students and the teacher. It is an innovative technology that could help us in many ways. | 3 |
5efed92 | I argue in favor of changing the Electoral College, to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. Everyone should be allowed to vote ,on the person they want them to run the Presidency. Instead of only having 34 Democratic as the a state's voters. That way the President gets the votes that he or she desevers. They should jsut let anyone choose who the want ,having the states with diffferent opinons.
In my opinon,I think that all states representatives should have the same amount of people in the house of representatives. I don't find it fair that some states have 500,000 voters and others 35 million voters. In that case just let one state vote on who should be the next president. Let everyone vote on who they want, on whom they feel like it's the right person. Not everyopne thinks the same , not everyone believes in the same things as everyone else. Butwith the Electoral College they are not ,let the people vote on what they want in most states, for an example Texas. In Texas they only have 34 voters taht will vote on the person they were sent to vote on. Sometimes the voter would get confused and vote on the opisite person or they would just vote on who they wanted to vote on in the fisrt place. | 2 |
5effc10 | You get in a car and drive/ get driven around about every day. You may not notice what this means but it means a lot about the future. Driving cars pollutes the atmosphere that you live in. You may think driving a car is good because you get there faster but in reality its polluting our atmosphere with toxins, it's effecting the greenhouse effect. We should limit our car usage to a minimum to protect the earth.
First if we limit our car usage, the Earth would be a better place. Like in paragraph 5 it states that, cars are responsible 12% of greenhouse gas in Europe and about 50% in the U.S. In other words this means that car usage contribute to air pollution a lot. Also if we can limit our car usage this percent can decrease a lot and make the earth less polluted.
Paragraph 3 reads, "When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Which shows that if you limit your car use, you may become less tense with cetian things and become les stressed out, which makes a happier you. Also, paragragh 24 reads, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution...." this shows that if you can just can find another way someplace like a bike or a bus that it would be better for you because you wont be so stressed out and you can relax and enjoy yourself like never before.
In conclusion, limiting your car usage will protect mother earth. This matters because what if the earth is not like how it is when your heirs come into the world. so don't drive around to much for the earth can remain how it is. | 3 |
5effe5e | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author does a good job of portraying how Venus is worth being studied despite its dangers. They talk about the different dangers in studying Venus, and they also talk about why it is so interesting and why it would be worth studying further.
The author shows this through the text because they clearly state why Venus is considered so dangerous and also why it is so interesting. For example, in paragprah 3, "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide...clouds of corrosive sulfuric acid...temperatures average over 800 degress fahrenheit...atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience on our own planet." These are some examples of the dangers that are presented when trying to study Venus. Despite the dangers, Venus would be worth looking into because it provides new information and a greater knowledge of what environments are like on other planets, for example, in paragraph 4, "Venus still has 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 craters." These are some examples of why we should look more into Venus because it has similar features to Earth and it is interesting to figure out why or how they are similar. The author proves their point by explaining that these dangers could potentially be worked around. In paragraph 7, "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 conditons." This is showing that while Venus may be very dangerous to observe, there are advanced technologies out there that can lower the risk that comes with studying this planet. As the author stated in paragraph 8, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagaination and innovation." What the author is trying to get across in this line, is that we should not limit ourselves or limit how much we can know or see solely based on something being too dangerous, when there are innovations out there to make it possible.
These are some of the examples of how the author demonstrates his ideas on why we should study Venus despite the dangers that it presents. The author did a good job presenting his ideas, as shown in the text and examples provided. | 4 |
5f06a48 | When trying to mass produce smart, driverless cars you need stupid people that hate the world to make up some stupid reason as to why you can't possibly have overly used, technological cars.
My position on driverless cars is I think they are making you seem as though you are not knowlegable enough to drive like a normal human being. "Without the option of smarter roads, manufacturers turned to smarter carsbut how much smarter did the cars need to be? For starters, they needed a whole lot of sensors." They are telling us that we clearly can't make smart roads. Is there actually such thing as a smart road without the use of modern technology to make the roads smart? No. Why are they saying that roads aren't smart? It's not like we can make concrete have a sustainable life to get it an education and to become smarter.
However, on how technlogically advanced we are getting we might just have some cars that can drive themselves. That would be pretty awesome in my opinion, but that is also telling us that we need to have fewer brain cells on how to operate a car. "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." his is telling us that at least one human needs to be in the car at all times to insure that the car doesn't do something stupid. When humans don't need to drive I could see a lot more accidents happening than when we were actually driving and had the knowlege on how to drive and be safe on the roads.
In conclusion the big car companies are still going to try to be the first ones to make a self driving car. When they do make the first car I want to see the car not get in a wreck within the first month of a teen driving it to change my opinion if they get in more wrecks or not. | 2 |
5f0c4d9 | To begin with, the development of driveless cars is going to have a really well efficent outcome in the future. First off, in the article it talked about how driving a driverless car would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. Secondly, the article explains how there hasn't been a crash when driving a driverless car. Lastly, the driver who drives a driveless car would also have the opportunity to drive the car when there is an accident ahead, or when there is a traffic jam. First off, in the article, it talked about how driving a driverless car would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibilty than bus. This option would be excellent for the people who have a job far away from where they live. Therefore, they wouldn't have to waste time getting up early in order to go to the gas station to load gasoline, because their driverless car would safe more gasoline than what cars today do. People would also save more money and wouldn't have to worry about it. By driving a driverless car, the conductor wouldn't have to worry about going anywhere because the driverless car can drive any destination at the speed up to 25 mph, that it if you own a BMW. Secondly, the article explains how there hasn't been a crash when driving a driverless car. This is a wonderful benefit and relief because with less car accidents, there would be fewer people getting injured and less problems with the police. Also, if driving a driverless car means there would be fewer accidents, that also means that the roads wouldn't be a chaos and people will be able to get to where they need to arrive in a much safer and faster way. In that case, people would be allowed to drive with no hesitation since the cars can steer, accelerate, brake themselves, and are designed to inform the conductor when the road ahead requires for a human to take control. Lastly, the driver who drives a driverless car would also have the opportunity to drive the car when there is an accident ahead or when there is a traffic jam. For example, if the driver is talking on the phone or is not paying attention to what is occurring ahead of them, the driverless car has the right equipment to warn the driver when a problem occurs, as implied in the article. As mentioned in the article, GM has developed driver's seat that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing up into an other object. Therefore, there would be less injuries and less problems. In conclusion, the driverless cars have a great future ahead of them. First off, driving a driverless car would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus. Secondly, there would be a greater chance that there would be less crashes and accidents. Lastly, driving a driverless car would allow the driver to take control of the vehicle if the car requires human control. | 4 |
5f12a6b | Happiness, Surprise, anger, disgut, fear and sadness, Humans use emotions to
express and describe how they feel, and it is because the muscular actions units. You can tell when someone is happy or if someone is angry, when you are happy your body make your lips raise at the corners of your mouth but when you are angry your muscles around your mouth tightens, but why is important to know about humans emotions?
There is a new software
called " The Facial Action Coding System" and this software makes easy to understand the emotions of others, and this is all becuase of the innovation from Prof.Thomas HUang and Prof.Nicu Sebe, they have a goal to make humans and computers to communicate in a better way.
The procces starts with a computer that models in 3-D the muscles of
the face, they use only the 44 major muscles, and in the six classfied emotions something different happens, it can also be called " actio units" and it is when there is one or more movements in your face. " The facial expressions for each emotion are universal" - Dr.huang, and by this he means that even though everyone is different, we all do almost the same emotions when we are surprise or when we are mad, and in some of them are easier to recognize and in
some others in not that easy, you can tell how is your sister feeling just by looking at her face or if you want to ask for a favor the first thing you do is to look at their face, becuase if they show a emtion of being angry is better to ask another time, but in some others cases you can not tell how is that person feeling just by looking at her face, because some people express their emotions more than others and for this kinf od people the new software is really helpfull, everyday, we look at other persons emtions every day and maybe sometimes we don't even realize it, in some cases another persons emotions can change yours for example is you are really tired or sad and you see one person that it is super happy it can change your mood to a happy one.
I think that is it really smart to use the techonology for something good and this is one of them by reading students emotional expresions, it can help teachers to be better by knowing which type of lessons are confuse or bored and like this teachers can change it or make it better for students,sometimes some students are afraid to speak or say somethn infront of the class, when they have a question or they just do not understand, but with this software teachers can improve and by this students can also improve, " Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication" notes from Drr. Huang, so even if we try to figure out the emotions of someone we can't some of them keep them really well inside, this software makes it easy, i think they should use it in every school to help students that have to stay after school of pay tons of money for tutoring because maybe is it not that they do not understand, is it that the way some students learn in different, they do not learn the same ways, but with this kind of information the teachers can make it easier for everyone. | 3 |
5f16b8a | What do you guys think about Venus ? is it a cool planet ? , Is it so dangerous how people tend to say ? or is it just an intersting planet? Well i personally think this planet is very intersting! This author explained so much about Venus even things that i didnt know.
The author claims that "Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents" In other words that Venus is really amazing planet to learn about even though it does have dangerous cons.
In the passage the author claims that Venus is sometimes called the "Evening star" thats such a intersting name since its actually a planet. The author states that its called the evening star because Venus is the second planet from our sun. The author also tells us in the passage that Venus is often reffered to as Earths "twin" because Venus is closest to Earth in desity and size. Isnt that something great to know about Venus ? since its so close to our earth where we all live. In paragraph 2 the author states that they have sent many spacecraft to land on Venus , but no spacecraft has survied the landing for more than
few hours. Which makes it such a difficult planet for us humans to study. This is one of the cons about Venus.
The dangers that Venus has are oddly shocking. The tempetures in Venus average over 800 degrees. Venus is a thick atmosphere of almost 91 percent carbon dioxide. The atmosphere presure is 90 times greater than what us humans ever experince the atuthor states. What bad con about Venus is that it has the hottest surface temperture of any planet. Venus is also very dangour because it has erupting valcanos , strong earthquakes , and very often lighting strikes . the craziest part is that reserachers cannot talk samples of rock , gas or anthing else , from a distance these are very horrible risk
There are many pros and cons about Venus.Yes Venus is a very dangerous plant and has many cons.Venus has many pros too.Its a very intersting planet though.After evaluating the authers passage he is right.Venus is a worthy pursuit despite all its dangers. | 4 |
5f1ad58 | Driverless cars soon to come
I think it would be a good idea to have driverless cars, because think about this someone could have a disablitiy and get no where, with the driverless cars they could get anywhere they need to. Cheeper on fuel, I think it would have a huge inpact in life today. The technology today is growing and growing. And with the technology this gerneration has, why not try something bigger and newer. Something that would be amazing, you can think about it in many ways. The ways I think about the new idea of the driverless cars, well I think it would be a really good idea.
The cars we have in this generation already have the sensors when we are backing up and are close to something that we may hit, we have the anitlock brakes, if someon eis texting on the phone, or not paying attention to the road, or just anything that could make us get into a car wreck. The anitlock breaks will stop it. In the matter of the seconds your life will flash before your eyes.
I have watched many movies where the taix cab driver has almost wrecked with you in the car because of talking on the phone. And the taxi cab driver dropped someone off at their house and now they know where you live now. Does it never concern you about that? Well it concerns me. I think if we got the driverless cars, we would a lot safer but that my position about them. | 2 |
5f1fa9f | In the stories and beyond, The Face is classified as one of aliens artifacts. As a scienctist this peice of information is to be told unreal. Some of NASA has worked on many prodjects to find ths true and has gone across a couple of points. Most have began to say they wished there was an acient civilazation on Mars. In part of the discussion this evidence is told false as well, some workers there have shown that this is known to be a anatural landform on the planet which created during different phases in the weather. A team of Global Surveyor has flew over to tell that there was no known pictures/image of an alien monument. In conclusion, the story was very fictional there was no evidence on known alien only something else. It also made more since if was only peices of rocks that has collided together to form this image which would be a good topic to use. | 2 |
5f23fdb | I personally am all for the driverless cars idea. Through time, everything has evolved and is still eveolving to newer and better ideas of the original. For example, we started with little shacks, now we have skyscrapers, we rode horses now we have cars, we had mail, now we have email or texting, the point I am trying to make is everything needs to evolve for us to improve anything. Technology is a big part of our lives today and we rely on it for most of anything and everything.
Every year we have thousands maybe millions of deaths and injuries resulting from car crashes, the fact of the matter is, people are irresponsible and reckless. We have drunk driving, texting and driving, and simply just not paying attention that causes all these wrecks and I believe that driverless cars could solve all these problems and save a lot of lives.
Driverless cars could also solve other problems such as gas prices. In the story it mentions that driverless cars use half the amount of gas as taxis do and they are way more efficient. People could have a lot more money spending half the amount of money they usually do on gas. Do you know how much money people spend on gas? A lot. So these are the reasons that I am all for driverless cars, it's the next big thing, why would we say no to that? | 3 |
5f263a7 | Could a computer become the next version of a mood ring? Using the Facial Action Coding System or FACS in school would and wouldn't be valuable. This is because a teacher would be able to change their lesson according to emotions felt by the class, the may be able to guess which students will act up, or the classroom might already be in a good state of mind. Could a computer become the next version of a mood ring?
In schools students are either eager to learne or aren't. For example in an English class a teacher is able to tell which students like the subject and those who don't. The FACS is able to do the exact same thing and more. In the article it talks about the computer being capable of reading the "44 major muscles" in a human face to determine someone's feelings. In a classroom that could become very valuable to teachers. During a lesson the computer could detect boredom on students faces and then the teacher could change her lesson to make it more interesting. Could a computer become the next version of a mood ring?
During a school day there are many students who get in trouble. With FACS school officals could predict who will act out during a given school day. There are a significant amount of students who are given detentions and expulstions throughout a school year. If schools had the software to predict who will act out they could eliminate this problem. Could a computer become the next version of a mood ring?
Not all school have major issues with with students acting out or engaged in their lessons. Some schools, for the most part, have students who love to be at school and are eager to learn; because of this FACS wouldn't be needed. If students already are engaged in there schoolwork this new and improved system would be much good. If it's not broken don't fix it. Could a computer become the next version of a mood ring?
This article was all about a system called the Facial Action Coding System or better known as FACS. This system can read a humans facial expressions to determine what they're feeling. If school systems around the USA or the world had acess to this program they could advance their schools to the next level. Could a computer become the next version of a mood ring? | 4 |
5f2c330 | Even though you may believe that keeping the electoral college is a great idea and a benefit to all, its not. Americans votes no longer count when having the electoral college and do not vare for our opinion on whom we believe should become our president, they decide in what they think is bvest for us. "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irtrational". (Plumer, paragraph 14.) Most americns believe that the elcetoral college is unfair and voting has become a waste of their time and that there is no neeed to vote if their votes no longer count.
Our votes do not count and we are no longer in control. "Most states have a winner take all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." (The Office Of The Florida Register, paragraph 7) Therefore no matter who wants what iif that is what the electoral college decides thats what goes, And many americans are getting tired of doing pointless voiting if it doesnt even matter. "Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress, the house selection can hardly be excpected to reflect the will of the people." (Plumer, paragraph 12) Yes, The electoral college might be voting for what they think is best for us, but whats best for us might not be want we want, it might not be what we think is best for us why does are vote no longer count? "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee - and that trust is rarely betrayed ... [; however,] is is entirely possible that the winner of the elctoral vote will not win the national popular vote" ( Posner, paragraph 16)
Our votes are just a back up plan and we are not important. "The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast." (Posner, paragraph 22) If the eclectoral college leads to a tie our votes become the tie braker but that method has never been use so why are we even voting? " It is the electors whyo elect the president, not the people." (Posner, paragraph 15) Because the electoral college is voting for which "package" they think is best they believe that our opinions are unimportant and they know what is best beyond what we believe. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for the slate of elecetors, who in turn elect the president." (Plumer, paragrph10) Our votes are just a second optiion and is not resonible and fair to each and every american who truly believe that they can make a diffrenece when they truly cant because they are an "extra."
All in all the electoral college should not be kept. Most americans now believe that we are not important and voting is just a waste of time which is currently true and fighting againt the truth is not going anywhere. Loose electoral college or loose active americans. | 4 |
5f35e66 | Places around that world are starting to make there cities and other places a better place. Some cities like Vauban are making their town a car free zone. Others are just making it one day that cars cant be seen on the roads just taxis and other companies can.
Based on the information in source one some are saying that they are living a better life without cars in the town. Heidrun said that now that he dosen't have a car he is happier then before. In Europe cars are only responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas unlike the united states 50 percent of pollution is in some parts. Vauban's basic life style is being adopted around the world in making suburbs a better place. Paris has said that on mondays everyone should leave their cars at home and that only companies were able to drive there cars. Also that anyone that would use there car when told not to will be fine $31. Also beijing China is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. More diesel fuel is used in france then in all westeren Europe whitch is not a good thing.
In Colombia a city named Bogota had made it that one day of every year that cars would be banned from the streets and this their 3rd year doing it. People that road their cars would be fined $25. Even though it was raining that didn't stop people from walking and taking the bus or a taxi. For the first time two other cities join Bogota with no cars for the day. This city has had more bicycle paths then any other Latin American city. Parks have bloomed and sidewalkes have been fix making it better for the city and better for the people that walk and go to the park. | 2 |
5f360ee | Growing up as a kid having a teacher to teach isn't anymore normal than having a pencil to write with. Thinking about my children having a computer instead of a teacher seems less traditional and in my opinion less affective. With humans teaching humans, we are able to tell when something isn't right because we can relate to each others feelings and their standings on the topic. With a computer that isn't really an option.
For example, Nick D'Alto mentioned how the computer could calculate the Mona Lisa and show what percentage of feelings she is having. Another example given is when D'Alto mentions how it can be used to show whenever politicians and/or performers are not being truthful when they are speaking to the audience. Nick says that "Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of Da Vinci Code." Nick is mentioning how the computer is able to read art and painted faces and if it continues, maybe our faces.
Considering that a computer showing us when somebody is feeling an emotion other than happiness may be good, I think we should be more focused on doing it ourselves and not using a machine for easy to use capabilities. Since the computer scans the faces muscles which isn't something people are really looking after when having a conversation on somebody's opinion.
However, the computer provides great possibilities in the modern to future world. For example, when we made the lie detector test for obviously showing if someone is lying while answering a series of questions was a huge breakthrough. This computer could bring an even bigger outcome since it is reading mouth eye and other face muscles. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." Dr. Huang is trying to give the point that each emotion can be seen at a different way just slightly everytime. Who knows where this computer process could lead us to or what we can do with it.
None the less, in the classroom a teacher can teach best because that teacher knows not every student is the same. You can ask any parent of 2 or more children and they will confirm that claim. On the political and celebrity standpoint, this could reel out some unknown hintings toward how they really feel. In the end, we have a long way to come as a species and we have a long road also behind us. | 4 |
5f3892b | Do you believe that the face on Mars is made by aliens? I know my opinion doesnt matter, what matters is whats real. I know you are also thinking that this is crazy, because we all know aliens do not exist. There is no proof of aliens.
It has to be a natural landform, because in the 12th paragraph Garvin said it reminded him of Most Butte in the Snake River of Idaho. Our universe can create anything, just because something look like it was made does not mean it is. There could of been rocks there, and the dust just blows around them. Making it look like it was made, by something or someone. The very most obvious thing is aliens do not exist, there has been no proof of alien. Even to this day in 2016 there is still no proof of aliens.
In the 3rd paragraph NASA even mentioned it as a "huge rock formation" scientist are very smart if there was other such thing that made it, it would have already been discovered. Also the face on Mars was a good way to get attention, like paragraph number 5 said so. The face of Mars turned into a famous pop icon. It was on Hollywood films, all the way to Haunted grocery store check out lines. If people could get the public to think that it was aliens that made the face, it would have maybe become way more popular. Plus most people do not believe in such thing as aliens, if they do not have real proof.
My very last example is , if NASA found out was aliens they would have already told the public. It would be huge for NASA to discover aleins. There is no way they would hide the proof that aliens are real. It would help their budget, if they did discover an ancient alien civilization on mars. As it says in paragraph 6 scientist started hunting for more information. It became a priority for them. All the pictures they took revealed it as a natural landformation as it says in paragraph 7.
There is no way it is related to Aliens. So if someone says that NASA is just hiding it, it would be false. NASA would surely reveal that there is aliens on another planet. Just imagine how much attention they would get if they actually discovered it. They would probably be one of the richest people. It is positive that a face on mars, made by aliens is not real. It is just a natural landform of rocks, that looks like a face. | 4 |
5f3aa4a | Driverless cars are going to change the world.
Having a computer in charge of the where can most definietely help the world.
Driverless cars could prevent accidents before they even happen.
Having people use this idea could completley change our ecosystem for the greater good. Having driverless cars are going to make this world a better and safer place.
If cars were not driven by people there would be a significant drop in accidents.
Google has been running their own self driving cars and they have all driven more than half a million miles without a crash.
People make more errors than computers.
Driverless cars would stay within the limitations of the law and obey each rule.
Therefore self driving cars could save tons of lives and save money for not only the people but the community.
These cars can help keep our streets saver for everyone.
Google has the idea that when these driverless cars come out they will be used mainly for the public.
Cofounder Sergey Brin said the cars will be used in public transportation system theat will be more efficient and better than the system we use today.
By doing this he says wwe would use half of the gas we are using today. If gas was cut in half imagine the benifits for our ecosystem.
It would be making the earth a cleaner place to live on.
Having driverless cars isn't as perfect as it seems.
Driverless cars still would need a human touch.
An example from the texzt would be going through work zones and accidents.
Gopogle doesn't fully give the driverless cars freesom either yet.
They still need the drivers help with complicated situations that would be a basic thing to a human driver.
Overall driverless cars can still be a huge benit for our ecosystem, communites, and especially people.
These cars are close to becoming a real thingm in fact they are coming up in the next four years according to Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan companies working on them now.
Driverless cars are the future and the future is now. | 3 |
5f459f9 | The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" focuses on the complex software that can analyze a face and even read emotions. The author claims this could be very useful in teaching, for being able to acount for the student's emotions could very well help the computer adapt and change the lesson more efficiently. While this could be true, there are a lot of questions that should be asked before this technology can be implemented, such as it's effectiveness and privacy.
The sixth paragraph says how the computer can know if you're happy or sad, and gives an example "If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad may follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This seems to be very helpful, but what if said person was smiling about something else? what if the person remembers something funny that happened the other day and suddenly they notice they keep getting uninteresting ads that pop up? There would be no way for the computer to tell if it was really the ad that made the person smile. Another issue is how it is used in class. Paragraph six states "A classroom computer could recognize if a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." How would the computer tell what degree a pupil is confused? If a student looks a little confused, the computer may read this and respond as if the student was very confused, thus wasting the student's time with more help than they need. One more way to look at it is the privacy violations the software may bring. What if a student is opposed to a teacher being able to technologically and truthfully read the students emotions? does the computer take a log of the faces of the students? There is too many suspicious questions in regard to the morality and safety of the use of such software.
The software definitely shows promise. It seems to show how far we have come to understanding the relation to facial expressions and emotion. That being said, there is still too much to account for before this new technology can be integrated into classrooms, such as efficiency and morality. | 4 |
5f46401 | Advantages of limiting car usuage? Is that even possible? Yes, there are many advantages of limiting your car usage, one of them being the money you'll be saving, another being less pollution. A lot of people don't care that they're wasting money on their cars or polluting the world, But what if we all gave up our cars and went eco friendly? Could you imagine how much money you'd save.
As said by Heidrun Walter in source one, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Loosing their cars isn't a big deal to them, it relives them of stress and money. To park in a large garage was $40,000 along with buying your house. Then there's gas prices and maintence, cars can be expensive. Paris had pollution and to clear the air, they enforced a partial driving ban. Drivers with even-numbered license plates were fined or told to leave their cars at home. It was only $31 in our currency, but it was 22-euros. Then the next day, being a Tuesday, the same ban to even-numnered license plates applied to the odd-numbered license plates. According to "Reuters" in source two, "Almost 4,000 drivers were fined. This ban on the odd-numbered license plates didn't go through due to the smog clearing enough.
I know it sounds crazy, giving up your car, that's your freedom, your transportation to get from point A to point B. In Bogota, they have a car-free day. Only busses and taxis are allowed to be driving. It sounds completely out of the ordinary for us Americans to even think of not having our cars. Souce three says "The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." Anyone who violates or doesn't coroperate is fined $25. As said in the article, the turn out for their car-free day was large. Maybe we should try it sometime.
Source four says that recent studdies suggest that Americans are buying less cars, they're getting fewer licenses as the years go by. Researchers wonder, "has America passed peak driving?" Why is that? The United States has been the car culture. As said in the article, "it is the birthplace of Model T; the home of Detriot; the place where Wilson Pickett immortalized "mustang sally" which is also a cool song. How is it that we are buying less cars and not getting our licenses? My theroy, car crashes. Unrealted to pollution or money, but I think everyone has that fear in their head about car crashes killing them or taking the life of their teenager, so they stop driving. In reference to me, my mother won't allow me to drive untill I am 18 years old, the legal age to drive is 16. You can get your permit when you're 15 years old, only being allowed to drive with a driver over the age of 21. What's stopping everyone?
Driving is every where. How do you get to work? you drive. Grocerey store? The mall? you drive. There is more options though, you don't have to drive. You can brike, or walk or ride the bus. It saves you money. Pollution is a world wide thing, so is driving but with everyone working together and these "car-free days" we could end pollution. Giving up your car is the first step. | 4 |
5f471a1 | Arguements on whether the state senator should favor in keeping the Electoral College or change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States are occuring today. Each favor has its advantages and disadvantages, but we should favor in keeping the Electoral College. This is because less disputes are likely to happen and not voting will not effect the election.
On the other hand, changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States has some advantages. In "Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", author Bradford Plumer claims "the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" because "candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning." This means that the candidates focus on the "tight races of the 'swing' states." To continue, Plumer also argues that changing to election by popular vote makes every vote count;however, chaning to election by popular vote will cause mant disputes and it is not the right way to keep everyone satisfied with voting for a new president. Keeping the Electoral College is more realistic.
To begin, the Electoral College is fair to the states, leaving fewer disputes. In "Source 3: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", author Richard A. Posner explains that the Electoral College "restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution." The Electoral College gives larger states more attention from presidential candidates as opposed to a smaller state. Posner continues the idea with "the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election." To break it down, voters who pay close attention to the campaign will be the most thoughtful voters and they will recieve the most attention from the candidates. This reduces the amount of disputes because the presidential candidates will decide on who to give the most attention to.
In addition, the Electoral College method does not get affected by the ones who chose not to vote. In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", author Richard A. Posner states that "knowing [the voters'] vote has no effect [gives them] less incentitive to pay attention to the campaign." But, "voters in presidential electons are people who want to express political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide and election." This means thatchanging everyone to a single vote will have no effect, too because people will not put thought into who to vote, but they will just vote for whoever.
To conclude, the state senator should favor in keeping the Electoral College rather than changing to election be popular vote for the president of the United States because less disputes will occur and not participating will not be effective. | 5 |
5f49ea6 | Cars are a major deal now of days because we are dependent on getting somewhere with a car. Little do you know that it damages and hurts our environment. Limiting or even getting rid of cars would be the smartest thing we will ever do. It would not only help us now but it will help the generations after us.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if we limit vehicle usage and only used tranzits and taxis? What would happen would be miraculous. The greenhouse effect would stop, smog would be no more, and pollution would be cut to a minimum. It can be done we just have to set our mind to do it like a the few cities and countries have been doing.
If the world only used tranzits or taxis to get to places the differences would be endless. Traffic would go down and the transportation your taking wouldn't even take long to get to your destination. It would also save you money instead of $20 every day for gas you would spend $2-$3 a day. Life would be easier and safer if cars were limited. | 2 |
5f4a09b | Driverless cars havebecome a controversial topic for the US. Many car companies eagerly look foward to releasing an all-new invention, a car that can pilot itself. While these companies press for opportunities and exceptions to develop their automobiles, many people feel opposit of them. An unmanned car is dangerous because technology will at some point fail, and a car cannot be programmed to react to spontanious and unordinary emergency situations.
Althoguh there are still plenty of mishaps and accidents on the road today, having a car with a driver is much safer than having a car with a computer. This is true because at some point, technology will fail. Even normal car break down and need maintanence. So, what will happen when an autonomous car breaks down on the free way? Since it is designed to opperate without a driver, how can it be moved to a safe area? An autonomous automobile is dangerous to the public as a whole.
As well, humans and vehicles are not at all one and the same. A human cannot do what a computer can do, but a car can most certainly never do what a human can do. In an emergency situation, it is a human's capability of problem solving, instincts, and cognative processing that saves their lives. A computor does not posses those traits. A computer can be programmed to carry out certain codes and instuctions, but it can never respond the way a human can. It is impossible to create every single possible emergency situation on the road, so how can a computor be programmed to do so? How can these vehicles do anything else but cause more damage and havoc to an emergency situation since they cannot be programed with a true emergency situation? It is unfeasable and unthinkable to release autonomous vehicles to put the lives of the people in danger.
In all, self-piloting cars are not beneficial to society. They will cause more havoc than harmony. From their innability to process as humans do to the fact that they will eventually break down, autonomous vehicles are in no way helping the drivers of this country. The only way to ensure the saftey of the people is to have good, responsible individuals behind the wheel and piloting the vehicle. | 4 |
5f4c06e | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," there are positive and negative aspects of the driverless cars. The driverless cars would use half the gas that the majority of taxis use today. As stated in paragraph 1, "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." These cars do have the potential to change the world we know today. The positives are powerful enough to rule out the negatives that come with the driverless cars.
A driverless car would need a lot of sensors and sensors are things that are not so new in the world we live in today. Although they may not be so new, they have become more advanced as the years have passed. These sensors can alert the car when to apply breaks on the wheels and stop acceleration of the engine. This would give a driverless care far better control than a human driver could do by oneslef. As stated in paragraph 5, "Within 10 years, those sensors had beome more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers." Sensors are a big part of making driverless cars have more control than a human would.
Although the pros outweigh the cons, there are some concerns when it comes to these driverless cars. In most states it is illegal to even test computer-driven cars. Manufactures are trying to prove that driverless cars can be safe and once they have proven this, they will allow these driverless cars. As stated in paragrph 9, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?" This is simply stating that if there were to be an accident with a driverless car who would be to blame? Would it be the one who made the driverless car or the person behind the wheel? In a case similar to this, like stated before, manufactures are trying to make them far more reliable and safe to use.
There is a car that is being developed by BMW called "Traffic Jam Assistant," the car can handle driving functions. Functions such as speeds up tp 25 miles per hour and special sensors on the wheel to make sure to whoever is in the drivers seat keeps ahold of the wheel. The majority of the cars made so far are not completely driverless persay. Drivers can streer, go faster, and slow down by pressing on breaks. These cars are made to alert the driver if on the road ahead of them they would need human skills. They have developed a driver seat that vibrates when the car is in danger of backing into something. These types of things would keep the driver alert to when the car would need their assistance. The manufactures would also add more things to keep the so called, "driver" to pay attention. As stated in paragraph 7, "Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remainig focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." This is stating that the driver must always be watching the road. The camera that would be installed would be a safety feature, so if the driver isn't paying any attention, the car would alert the driver to.
When it comes to driverless cars there are some worries about them, but they are being tested and going to become reliable cars. The main key is that these cars are safe to use and are made with reasons like this. As stated in paragraph 8, "Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over- something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern." Driverless cars could more than likely be a positive outcome in our future and soon to be driverless. | 4 |
5f4fdc1 | Have you ever heard of the Seagoing Cowboys? If you have, have you ever thought about joining them? It may seem ludicrous leaving your family, traveling around the world, taking care of animals on a ship, but it's a great opportunity. It may not seem interesting to you just thinking about it,but you should consider joining.
If you decide to join the seagoing cowboys, you can get the amazing opportunity of traveling the world. You can see places like China and Europe. You could also see culture from all around the world. While you're there, you could see many differnt unique ways of living. Another thing you could do, is help people with their needs or wants. Traveling the world can also help you become more aware of the countries around you.
Another interesting thing you could do if you join them, is you could meet new people.
Since your on a ship for long periods of time, to keep you busy you could play games in empty holds. Some of the games you could play are baseball, volleyball, fencing, or boxing. When playing these games, you can find people who are intersted in the same hobbies you enjoy. The Seagoing Cowboy group is a great way to meet new people and make friends.
The Seagoing boys doesn't just help you make friends, travel the world, but it's much more. It can open up the world to you, so this is why it's so important to some of the people who join. For example in the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves", Luke, the main character, said, "It was an opportunity of a life time." Luke also said, "I'm grateful for the opportunity."
Being able to join the Seagoing Cowboys will change your whole demeanor about the world around you.
All you have to do is give something a chance, and it could change your life. I promise you if you join the Seagoing Cowboys, you won't regret it. I hope if you decide to join them, and that it changes your life, just like it did Lukes. | 4 |
5f51576 | How can a computer recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we fell by the emotions,Dr. Paul Eckman, creat a program of FACS(facial action coding system.)Eckman has classified six basic emotion happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness, in a real face or in the painted of Mona Lisa the different units of software can even indentify mixed emotions as in da Vinci's masterpiece, each expression is compared against a natural face showing no emotions. The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, woh can this computres can do that? Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad. In fact, these are the intructions for a face that looks happy. It's all about some differnt masso in your face. They even indicate the differnce between a genuine smile and a forced smile. In the real smile, the zygomatic major muscles that begin at your cheek bones can lift the corners of your mouth. that's instruction #1. Meanwhile muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's feet around your ayes. That's instruction #2. By the way, did making a happy face in this expriment also make you feel slightly happy. | 1 |
5f53317 | Driverless cars are coming, should we let them? Well with the technology we have today why not? They would be benificial for our race. While some people may see them as just another difficulty we would have to work out, think of all the accidents it would prevent. The future is with technology we can't be afraid of it. Our objective in science and technology is to increase our life span and enjoy our lives more, driverless cares would promote both.
With all of the accidents that happen every day, would driverless cars cause more problems in comparison? While the person in the driver's seat may not be ready to take the wheel. The driverless cars that have been made already alert you, giving a reminder that you still need to remain alert. For example GM's, General Motors, car has an alert system that makes the deriver's seat vibrate when the driver is required. While the Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over. These inventions help prevent one of many obstacles the driverless cars will provide, all of witch can be prevented.
Another problem would be the worry of hackers with technology today. Because Tesla's cars are all ran on one mega computer what is to stop it from being hacked? This could cause huge problems. Cyber-terrorism would be a big concern but even that is preventable. Apple's phones have been out for awhile now and still havn't been hackable, not even by our government. With our advances in technology we can put a stop to most accidents. So will there still be law suits agaisnt companies if an accident does occur?
Well while technology advances our laws remain. Take into consideration that while there would still be problems, there would be far fewer than before. Don't make laws prohibiting driverless cars! That only slows down what is too come and makes it harder to fix mistakes that the vehicles will have! All humans make mistakes even the ones behind computers. I would rather have multiple people who work daily with time on their hands fixing problems that would come along than people who are driving daily and in the right moment forced to make a split second decision without full thought. I will put my trust in these vehicles and I hope others will too. If laws are truely there to focus on keeping drivers, passengers and pedestrians safe then why deny something that would make traveling safer.
Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems will be solved. However their technology won't be able to give the pleasure of driving to those who wish to drive. Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver admits that. Some manufaturers hope to still make it fun by providing entertainment systems. While they can be truned of instantly if manual driving is needed, it would still be safer than having people today who text with cell phones while they drive.
Google has already had self driving cars since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Is this alone not proof enough of the benefit it would be? How many miles can humans drive without a crash compared to this? Google's cofounder Sergey Brin believes automatic cars would fundamentally change the world. So should we let the cars come? I believe so. | 5 |
5f5638f | Do you really think aliens are real and made that Face of Mars? In my opinion I believe that this is just natural landform. In the article it states that few scientist believe that was made by a alien. Another reason I think it is just a natural landform is because this is natural in the Amearican west. My last reason I think that it is a natural landform because scientist believed it was just another Martian Mesa.
My first reason why my opinion is it is a landform because it states in paragraph six that few scientist believe that is was aliens. Also in paragraph seven it states it was a natural landform and there was no alien movement after all. This is one of the biggest reasons why I support my opinion that this is a landform.
My next reason why my opinion is it is a landform is this has happened many other places in America. In paragrqaph twelve it states that landforms common around the American west. "It remindes me most of Middle Butte in the snake river Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "Thats a lava dome that takes the form of an isolatwed mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars." The American west has plenty of things like the Face of Mars.
My last reason why my opinion is that is a landform is scientist believe that it was another Martian Mesa. In paragraph two it states that "Scientists figured it was just another mesa, Common enough around Cydonia, Only this one had unusual shadows
that made it look like an Egyptian Pharoah." This was my last reason why I believe that is was just a landform.
I strongly believe that the Face of Mars is a landform. There are many reason Why i support my opinion. Come on let's be honest, do you really believe aliens would bulid a face on mars. | 3 |
5f570c4 | Technology to read students emootions.
I think that being able to read someone that way is really not okay. it sorta takes to personal space because there are reason these emmotions are not shown towards others and that normaly because nobody wants their feelings hurt or hurting sombody else. it doesnt feel good inside, being able to help sombody and help them keep there head up high and keep them walking tall.
The technology would be very interesting but i think it shoud only be used at certain times not to read what a student is feeling, use it on criminals and watch there change in mood threw there facial movements almost like a lie detector test. there is nothing in the article stateing the cons of this item its all about the pro's
so i cannot really find much except to type what i think it should be used for. it would be some really great stuff if it ends up being used for the right thing t the right time so hope fully when somthings likes this happens they will use it wisely. | 2 |
5f5e59d | We have all dreamed of owning a self driving car, and have heard about it once or twice. They may seem very cool and very far off in the future, but in fact, driverless cars may be the next big project the world will start to expand on. We all believe that there will come a day when none of the things we do now will be left to do in the future, but how well would the things do today be carried out in the future? I believe that future cars would be very ineffective, because of the cost of the process of putting the plan in motion, the problems that could occur while the cars are driving, and the amount of time it would take before we could make the cars legal.
Throughout history, we have had great success in everything that has advanced in technology, like replacing hard labor with machines like tractors and cars. However, many of these products have been very expensive when we have tried perfecting the dream machine for technology. Cars vary from a large price range, and many of them that are new are not cheap. This could be a problem if we tried launching the driverless cars into action because of how much money it would take to build the right car. The car would have to first be made to be tested, which takes both time and money. Then they would have to gather up a whole bunch of money to start producing these types of cars, which everyone may or may not like. They would then have to take all of the cars from wherever they were made, and ship them to where they need to be. This would be very expensive, and may not even be liked by some people. Some people dont feel safe in a car, so why would they by one where they wouldn't be in charge? These future cars would also come at a very high price, because the top leading car companies are the ones trying to make future cars come true, like"Google's modified Toyota Prius," and,"BMW," which were talked about in the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming." This means cars will just keep getting more expensive, until eventually no one could pay the price, which would also be a drawback for the company, especially in materials, money, and time.
Not only is cost an issue, but so is the technology itself. Most cars malfunction in all different sorts of ways. For example, locked breaks, oil leaks, and much more. This means that not all cars can be trusted and one hundered percent trustworthy. We are still trying to perfect the modern car used today, but there is always something that occurs that stops us in our tracks. Putting our lives on the line by letting a new and advanced car could be very dangerous, because the history of perfect cars is not clean at all. In the passage "Driverless Cars Are Coming," there is a lot of talk about sensors and gadgets used to ensure saftey, but knowing about most technology, it would have some downfall, which would be very unsafe. For example, if "antilock brakes and driver assistance" failed, which they could potentially become a big hazard once they failed. In Drivers Ed, they tell you to limit as many hazards and distractions as possible, so that you can be assured safety while driving on the road. If you add more advancments to your car that could be a hazard at any given moment, you would add more problems later on that could become unsafe.
The last big problems future cars are subjected to face are making them legal. If it is very hard to make cars legal by testing them and spending money on them, then the chances are driverless cars would be way worse. They would have to be tested a lot more, and would definatley cost a lot of money. Some people wouldn't even trust the car, because we as humans can't even trust each other at certain points in time. In order for someone to trust the car, they would probably have to make it themselves. Even if they became legal, as soon as one major accident or malfunction with one of the cars happened, we would have to go back to square one, and gain everyones trust yet again, which is very hard to earn back. If someone puts your life at risk over their own, you wouldnt trust them right away after that, would you? Making it legal would be very hard to do, like stated in "Driverless Cars Are Coming," because of the "roadblocks," that, "lie ahead for the autonomous car," and the amount of saftey that would be needed in each car that would have to be tested many different times.
Technology is very cool and facinating, but we all have to take a step back and ask ourselves if putting effort into it is worth the risk. Cars are far from being perfect, and not having any flaws, and driverless cars are way far from being perfect.
In order to actually happen, we would have to consider the cost and amount of time needed to make them work right, the problems with the technology in the car that one may encounter, and the possibility of making it leagal and gaining everyones trust in doing so. Future driverless cars aren't that far away, but are also not that close either, because of the cost, time, problems, and making it legal that would have to be faced while making them. | 5 |
5f640dd | Driverless cars are coming. Now imagine a future where everyone has a driverless car. In some movies driverless cars are shown. In 2009, Google created a car that drove more than half a million miles without a crash. However, Google, BMW, and GM cars aren't truly driverless. The cars still need a human controling them. Their cars need features like a vibrating seat, flashing lights, or a camera that alerts the drivers when to take control of the vehicle.
One of the features that some driverless cars have is a vibrating seat. GM developed a seat that vibrates when the hevicle is in danger and it needs a human to take control of it. For example, When the car is backing into an object the drivers seat vibrates and a human has take control of it to prevent a crash.
Another feature that driverless cars have is flashing lights. Some cars have this feature. The lights start flashing when the car needs someone to take control of it. For example, In a workzone the car can't pass, so it needs someone to control it. The lights start flashing to alert the driver that it needs to control it in oder to pass.
The third feature that driverless cars will have is a camera. Manufactures are considering using cameras. Manufatures wants to use cameras to see if drivers are focused on the road. For example, While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver.
I acknowledge that some people don't want driverless cars. However, those who don't like the idea should stay away from driverl. ess cars and leave the concept to people that want it. Driverless cars are not for everyone. Driver less cars are for people that can aford it.
In the future manufacturers will create a car that will be fully driverless. Like Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to release driverless cars by 2020 Researches will go on and new techologies will be created in the future. | 2 |
5f65e48 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, the author supports his ides very well and gives a lot of reasons why people could travel from Earth to Venus and be safe and have everything that they need to survive. The author says that Venus is sometimes called the "Evening Star," that it is easy for an amateur stargazer to spot.
They said that humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on Venus but none could last more than a few hours. Reason's on why none of the spacecrafts made it was that Venus is covered with 97% carbon dioxide and the most challenging thing is the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The temperature in Venus is 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure of the atmosphere is 90 times greater than what people experience on Earth.
The conditions are something us humans have ever had to deal with before. To note Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system and its not even that close to the sun Mercury is closer to the sun. The weather is like the weather we have on Earth. Venus does has some good things about it like it had an extremely large body of water and that could have created and supported some type of life. Venus has mountions, valleys, and craters so it does have features like Earth.
NASA is working on a new way of sending someone to Venus while it being safe and scientifically productive. They could send one down that didn't touch the planet but could hover over it and just observe the planet because they won't be able to take anything from the planet. NASA could build a spacecraft that would last long enough to observe the planet and have contact with touching things and taking pictures.
NASA and others want to strive and meet there goal to have someone on Venus and actually be able to walk around and observe everything that happens on that planet. They said in the article that "Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosty will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." and they also said that us traveling on Earth and beyond should not be limited to us because of the dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. | 3 |
5f6ce63 | Do you want to become a hero someday? Ever wonder if people need help in diffrent countries? If so,you should probably join the "UNRRA" (the United States Relief and Rehabilitation Administration),people who hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses,young cows,and mules that were shipped over seas.
I think people should join the program becuase it takes you places all over the world and it takes you to places you probably never been or known of before. I know this becuase in the passage it states that both boys Luke,and Don had traveled all over the world. It states that they traveled to Europe and crossed the Pacific Ocean twice.
Another reason,is that goes and helps people recover from the ruins of World War II.I know this becuase in the passage it states that Don and Luke traveled to help people recover from the ruins of World War II in Europe,to help them with food supplies,animals,and much more.
If I was eligitable to go,I would go becuase i like to help people. To put a smile on their faces. I hope you join. | 2 |
5f6e51d | In the article "Unmasking the Face of Mars", a theory is presented to the readers, that alien life form could have caused the '"face on mars". There are diffrent reasons on why that image is there, besides "aliens" put it there. It could be butte mesa. Also cameras sent in space would have picked up on something unusual. Scientist don't present a theory unless they have evidence to back it up.
One reason that the "face on mars" is there, is butte mesa. Which is usually shadows that make it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Butte mesa are found in West America, one example of the butte mesa is in Snake River Plain of Idaho. Which is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa. The mesa located in Idaho is about the same height as the Face on Mars.
Another thing, is that cameras are sent into space to take pictures of planets and record everything that is found. Scientist enlarge the photos 3 times bigger, to see everthing within it. If there were anything in the picture that seemed unusual, the cameras would allow you to see it. Any objects, like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyrsmids. Even small shacks, you would be able to see it.
Thirdly, scientists don't present a theory unless they have gone threw precautions and looked over all of there evidence to support the theory. In the article it talks about how the scientists, sent two diffrent cameras up to make sure the clouds wren't the issue of what they saw. Also, they blew the images up to see if there was an objects. To make sure that nothing could endanger there theory, of it just being a butte mesa. If the scientists really didnt believe there theory was valed, they would'nt have taken so many precautions.
In conclusion, the "Face on Mars" is probably just a naturally occuring landform on Mars. With the evidence of the butte mesa in West America. The cameras going up and taking pictures more than once. Also, the scientists taking many precautions to prove that the "Face on Mars", is a butte mesa. The theory that the "Face on Mars", is just a naturally occuring landform, is highley likley. | 4 |
5f6ec57 | All around the world in places such as the United states, Paris and other european countries have all begun to realize the effects cars have on the environment as well as the community. Most of these places have actually banned cars in suburban areas to try to promote this idea that are cars becoming less of a neccesity throughout communities. Cars are becoming less popular and some advantages to this are that cars cause lots of pollution from tailgates according to source number one. Some other advantages to this decline of cars is the improvement of the community as well as better quality of life with civilians.
Cars are one of the leading reasons pollution is such a big problem today. So one advantage to having less cars would be less pollution. Experts from source two state that up to fifty percent of greenhouse gases could come from the United States alone. Acoording to source two places like Paris have already begun to face the effects of pollution. The pollution in Paris was bad enough to ban cars to reduce the amount of smog in the air. In doing so the lack of cars helped cleared the air for people to breathe easier. Banning cars would also promote an increase to public transportation. With less cars people would be obligated to use public transits or simply walk to where they needed to be. A buisness man from source three named Carlos Arturo Plaza states "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". This shows that not all feedback from the loss of cars is negative.
Another advantage to the lack of cars is the overall improvment of communities. With the lack of cars workers dont have to spend all there money on construction of new roads and maintenance of highways. People can now begin to finally work on other things such as the improvements of sidewalks and building new parks. In source 3 it states that restrictions have cut traffic makng less people agitated over road rage as well as the upscale of new buisness's and shop markets. Because of all these new markets everything is built closer now since people arent driving theres no need for the buildings to be long distances away. Urbanization is an advantage to lack of cars.
With the lack of cars some peoples quality of life have improved greatly, Enrique riera from source three states "These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders." Implying that these changes are going to spread and become the new thing of today. Some people say they they enjoy this new policy. In source four it states that changes like these can make emmsions lower and improve safety, in doing so people have a better quality of life as they are safer then before.
So in all there were many advantages that had to the reduction of cars in certain areas. With the lack of pollution people were able to get around easier, with nicer places to travel shopping would become more fun then previously, and peoples lives became generally less stressful. With all of this upcoming news about reduction of pollution and new ways to change the environment maybe one day we will live in a world with no cars at all. | 4 |
5f73006 | My name is Bob Greene. I am a scientist at Nasa and I am explaining the "Face of Mars" to a man who thinks that this is a sign of an alien artifact. The man continues to argue with me and say that aliens are real and this alien artifact looks like a human face. I have to keep telling him that this is just a natural landform which is called a butte or mesa. This certain mesa looks like a face only because it shows most of the characteristics that a human has such as; the illusion of eyes, a nose, and a mouth which are all just formed by shadows. The man asked how does NASA know that this rock formation that you "supposedly" think, is a mesa? He just thinks that it's a sign of aliens. I tell him that Nasa was able to figure it out because a mesa is a a big rock formation that just has a flat top and thats what the face looked like if you see it up close. He still did not believe me. I told him we will find out and we did.
On April 8, 2001, our team NASA (including me), got a clear picture of this "face". The Mars Global Surveyor went just close enough for a look at the Face which was the perfect cloudless day. NASA was able to get a picture many times more clearer than the 1976 Viking photo.
Many people who thought that the "face" was an alien artifact were waiting to see Nasa release how the picture looks like. Nasa finally revealed that the picture was a... mesa! Many people were dissappointed but some thought that it was just a conspiracy from NASA to keep aliens hidden from people on the outside. I once again saw the man who I argued with years before about the "face". I then told him that his thoughts were wrong but he told me that NASA just wants to keep aliens a secret. Oh boy, here we go again. So finally NASA officially said that this was just a illusion of a face that people had. | 3 |
5f7439b | Using this new form of technology called the Facial Action Coding System ,which is being used to identify human emotions, could be a good contibution to society. But, in my opinion technology that is used to read our emotional expressions would not be that valuable because there are not a lot of things we could use it for and we are capable of expressing ans sensing our feelings on our own.
If we were going to start using this technology, what exactly would we use it for?
There are not many actual reasons that we would need it. In the article they bring up how this technology could be used to tell if a politician or celebrity was lying or telling the truth. Which could be important because we would not want to be supporting someone who lies to everyone to get them to be on their side about something. Other than that this technolgy does not actually hold a lot of value.
Also, I do not think that we need technology to help tell us how we feel. We are all capable of knowing how we feel. If something makes us happy then we will smile and if something made us sad then we might cry. So, having something to tell us how we feel is kind of a waste of time and money which could be used on more important things that we need as a society.
In conclusion, this new technology called the Facial Action Coding System used to identify our human emotion does not hold any value. It may have a good contribution to some people who are not able to sense or express their feelings. But I do not think it is important enough to be used on a daily basis for certain people. | 3 |
5f78443 | Have you ever wanted to get a chance to explore beautiful and foreign lands? Well then, joining the Seagoing Cowboys would definitely be the job for you. I, Luke Boberger, am a former Seagoing Cowboy and I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and have crossed the Pacific Ocean twice to help those affected by World War II. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was a great adventure, but it was also more than that. It opened up the world to me.
If you join the Seagoing Cowboys, you get to see, and sometimes visit, amazing and beautiful places. When myself and the crew first set sail from New Orleans to deliver 335 horses to Greece, I couldn't wait to get there. I saw the Acropolis in Greece, and it was beautiful! When delivering animals to these foreign lands, I also got the side benefit of seeing a lot of Europe and China. I got to take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, explore an excavated castle in Crete, and I marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China.
By joining the Seagoing Cowboys, you get the important, but rewarding, job of caring for those in dire need. When I joined the Seagoing Cowboys, I had no idea the happiness you receive from helping those who need help. By delivering food supplies, animals, and even more, you make these people's lives a lot more easier. You are giving them food, animals to make into food, and animals to help with work. Helping these citizens really opened my eyes to the rest of the world.
The final thing I'm going to tell you about is having fun. When I was on the ship, and the animals and supplies had been delivered, we had fun on the ship. It wasn't the reason I had joined, but it is definitely a joyous side benefit. Us cowboys would play baseball and volleyball games where animals had been kept. We also held table-tennis tourneys, fenced, boxed, read, and whittled to pass the time. It's amazing what you can do when you're bored on a nearly-empty ship!
These are the reason why I believe that all able and willing men need to join the Seagoing Cowboys. You get to see wonderful lands. You also can have fun on the ships. Most importantly though, you get to help those in need. It's amazing that doing a job like this can make such an impact on people's lives. Join the Seagoing Cowboys! | 5 |
5f79786 | I believe that making a decision to develop or even introduce the idea of having computers read our emotions is wrong and creepy, what would be the point? no one likes ads so having your computer read your face just to bring up more? it makes no sense when you can get pop up ads that can relate to rcent searches. to me it would be a waste of time and a waste of money and energy.
To me this would not be valuable. this coding sysytem to read emotions to me would be completely useless, think of having to take out every computer in every school just to add a feature to know if your smiling or frowning. makes no sense when we already have phones that have face ID/ face recognition that can do that for us. when the article started using examples of different muscles in the face, that was confusing and seemed pointless to know, if this is an accuarate system or app, they should just make it and let us find out for ourselves.
I think using anything that has to do with our face when it comes to technology is unlocking our devices for privacy, i rather know my device is safe from my own face then a password on a keyboard that can be readily accessed if wrotten down. think about adding this mentioned feature of the system reading your emotions. you have a computer tell you what your own personal emotions are but how accurate can this be, if it says you are feeling a certain way and you feel something completely different, then is this considered fale advertising?
Is this going to be an app or an entire software system? if you can easily access your windows or chrome web browser store and get a free download or even pay for it, will it be an app? because i guarantee no one will pay a high amount of money just so they can have a computer read you your own emotions, its
pointless and would have no effect besides unlocking your system or device.
What if someone passes by and it grabs a part of THEIR face, what if the things around you grab ahold of the system and it produces false information? i understand maybe if it shows anger or boredom it can remind you to keep working but what if students have concentration problems really bad and cant focus like everyyone elseand the program still doesnt help, do we just keep those kids lost? this program seems like an insane waste of time just to have feedback on how they THINK you feel. just because my lips or eyes are in a certain position doesnt mean im feeling that way, i could be in the best mood ever and move my muscles into a shape and would the results be same? would they be real to what i actually feel? or will it come back as im happy and faking it? i think svcientists should invest their money, time, and effort into something that would actually help us instead of something that has no vbalue and is pointless to classrooms, the workplace, or in general. | 4 |
5f7a504 | Cars are a convience to people worldwide. We use them to go to work, school and many more places on a daily basis. Even within walking distance, many still choose to take their car out of laziness. Is this how we should really live?
In an upscale community in Germany called Vauban, the streets are completely "car-free". Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this new district. Though car ownership is still legal, places to park are very limited. Only 70% of Vauban's families don't own cars. 57% sold a car to move there. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter. (3) Vauban, home to 5,500 residents withtin a rectangular square milem may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life.
Paris has also done something similar to better the lives of their citizens. Paris, France's capital city has banned driving due to smog. After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air. Paris has a strict schedule on when you can drive if you really have to. On Monday, motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-Euro. 22 Euros is equivilant to $31 in U.S currency. This ban has led to almost 4,000 drivers being fined. (12) And 27 people had their cars impounded due to their reaction to the fine. The amount of smog before this ban was applied was 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter. This is a significantly high difference in the amount of smog compared to Brussels with 114 micrograms and only 79.7 in London. Although, the ban has helped clear this smog, enough on Mondays to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday.
Vauban and Paris both have very excellent results in their experiments due to the changes in their environment with cars. Maybe more cities in the near future will join in on this ban against cars. Instead of driving your car to the nearest pharmacy to pick up some things, take a walk to save gas and to get some fresh air. Maybe this ban isn't for everyone, but even trying to limit car usage to minimal can help the environment. Instead of driving your car to the nearest pharmacy to pick up a few things, try walking there. You'll get some well needed excercise and fresh air. | 3 |
5f8b074 | In my opinion I say that the use of technology to read emotional experssion is uneccessasary because what if a student doesn't want a a teacher use a scanner to see what emotion thier in. Not only student but also adulsts might not like it either when they go to work and there boss trys to scan them and see what emotion thier in. I don't think anybody will like that idea of have that kinda technology. I'll say it will not be a good idea because what if the scanner is wrong not saying it is but what about after multiple tests on the scanner and its scans a person and the scanner says thier in that mood and if the person might not be in that moods the machine will probably be giving the wrong information.
I can say that I don't believe that techology can always be right and always be right because theres been problems with other stuff that they have invented like cars,phones,computers,laptops,and droms. Some stuff can maunfunction not everything that has been invented turn out great. That why I said a scanner that can read emotional experssion is kinda of a bad.
I don't think techology is ment for that purpose I don't think will like the idea. People don't want technology reading thier emotions its thier life nobody just can go up to them and start scanning thier face. | 2 |
5f8e6e2 | Do you think
the Facial Action Coding System should be used for student ? I think the Facial Action System should be used for students because the computer can recognize when
a student is becoming confused
bored ,
Helps the computer undersatnd you , and students pay more attention totechogy.
If the students can use the Faical Action Coding System if can tell if the student is bored or confused . The computer can modify the lesson to help the student understand the lesson . If the
student is confused he/she wont learn
anything from the lesson.
The computer can modity if the student is bored and the computer can give the student an more fun or undertanding lesson.
If an student is bored . If an student is bored with the lesson he/she will not learn anything .
If the students use this technology the computer will be able to understand the stundent.
Say a student is having a hard time with the lesson
the
computer can help the stundent . It states in the passage that " Most humans communication is nonverbal , including emotioanls communication , " notes Dr. Huang. It also states "if you smile when a web appears on your screen , a simlar ad might follow . But if you frown ,the next will be different .
Another reason
why computer need to understand you.
Facial Action System should be used for alot of students because most students pay more attention to technolgy. Why not help
the student learn with this new technology it will help the learn more . Student can learn more and have help
if they dont understand the computer can try to show the lesson in different ways for the student. The computer can teach the student like an effective human instrutor. Student can and will learn more with this new techology.
This is why I thing this techology should be used to help
students learn
because it helps the student understand more, pay attiention more , and learn more with the Facial Action System. | 3 |
5f920c0 | Say Yes to the Driverless Car
Driverless cars should be the thing of the future. They would make driving much more convienient for all drivers. There are so mant benificial traits that would come along with having driverless cars. For example if you're driving you encounter many other who are just plain reckless when it comes to driving. Having these cars though would for sure help make reckless encounters and accidents happen way less.
These cars have advanced technology to assit the driver of the car. One of them is the "Traffic Jam Assistant". With the Traffic Jam Assistant it helps with anyone who is in rush hour. The beneficial help of automatic steering,acceleration, and breaking you are sure to be out of it in no time with the low percentage of an accident happening. Driverless cars are here to help improve driving, and make it more efficient for everyone.
There are more helpful traits these cars have including LIDAR. LIDAR is a spinning sensor that helps scope out the cars surroundings. Laser beams are also show a 3-D model of the car. Using the visual aid with the help out the car people can now see what is around them without bending their neck every which way to see around. This can help prevent crashing into things.
In this day and age people are helping improve these types of cars more and more. Driverless cars even include antilock breaks. Having these breaks help you when there are rollovers, and out-of-control skids. When the car might encounter something like this it will apply the right amount of pressure to the wheels to reduce the power from the engine. This technology in the car is far more advanced at driving than any human right now.
These cars are here to benefit the way people drive. By having cars like these there will for sure be a decrease in accidents. With less accidents everyone will be estatic. The positive traits these cars brings are undeniable. Driveless cars should be allowed everywhere to benefit everyone. | 4 |
5f922b4 | In World War 2, I was asked if I wanted to join thew UNRRA to become a seagoing cowboy. I believe that you and others should join because you maybe be helping your country and other countries. Also if you join it will help you in the long run by getting you special offers from other army groups and countries. If you could join would you, why or why not? I really think you should join because it is a really fun experince.
I have multiple reasons why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys of the UNRRA. One reason you should join is that you could sightseeing while you are picking up the animals from the country ar in or on the way to other countries. Another reason you should join this program is when you turn 18 you could join other military services and other projects like this one. The thrid reason is the you get work with animals such as young cows, mules ,and horses. Final reason is that when you ngo from country to counrty you will go relaxz and have fun with your mates and you could final read that book you been wanting to read. Those are my reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
After all of these reasons would you want join the program. I am telling you it will do you some good later on in your life and you will love going aroundthe wolrd and explore. Oh and did I forget to teel you that you have you do an hourly check on the animals and you get to feed them. After all The trips you will be very grateful for the experince and opportunity to go acroos the world. Lastly You can do so much fun stuff on board after you are return from trips by doing stuff like fencing, boxing, table-ennis matches. and ithers games and activies. JOIN THE SEAGOING COWBOYS PROGRAM!!! | 2 |
5f95578 | There is so much new technology availiable today that helps benifit people in every aspects of their every day lives. There is very complex pieces of technology, such as machines that can detect illness, and very simple ones such as computers that simply allow people to type out papers, or cameras that allow people to take a picture. These things simply help people excel in all the things they do each and every day. One new piece of technology that can help people in many different aspects of their lives is an app that allows their emotions to be detected. The use of technology to detect students' emotions can be valuable to a classroom for many reasons. Using this technology can be very benificial to not only the teachers and staff, but the students as well. This special technology can help in the classroom by allowing the teachers to know what lessons work best, and how the children respond to the lessons. Along with that, they can know the mental state of the children and learn a little more about their personalities.
Using emotion recognition will really let a school benifit overall. One example that demonstrates how valuable this could be to students is when Nick D'Alto wrote in his article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the quote by Dr. Huang saying, "A classroom computer could could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This shows the values of this program, because it would allow for the teachers to know that a student is struggling or not interested, and it would allow for them to change up their lesson to make it more enjoyable and understandable for the children. This is benificial for the teachers becuase they can see the childrens' reactions and also take their emotions into consideration when planning future lessons. This can also be used for the good of the students, because the teachers will be able to tell if they are confused or not, allowing for them to get extra help or the teacher will know to explain the lesson better or move ahead.
The article also explains how the technology can detect all emotions. Knowing the emotions of the children in a classroom can also be benificial for the students and the teachers because they can study the trends of their emotions to tell if something is wrong with the child. For example, if a child is happy most of the time in class, and then one day the technology detects that they are sad and they continue to be sad for a while, the teacher might talk to that student to make sure that everything is okay at home and at school. This could also be able to detect things, such as bullying, by the child's emotions. If their emotions change completely, something might be worng, or somthing really good or bad might have happened. It could also benifit the parents of the students, becuase they could get a report on the child's emotions to be able to tell if the school or classes they are in are working for their child.
Overall, using technology to detect emotions in a classroom can be valuable to everyone because it can be used to plan lessons and detecting bullying and other problems a child might be having at school or home. Although some people might think it is taking away the privacy of the children by having a camera scanning them, in the end, this technology is to help benifit the children and teachers by giving them a better and safe school and learning experience. Therefore, having an app that can detect the emotions of a student in a classroom is very valuable and benificial to everyone. | 4 |
5fa2ac3 | First,Professor. Thomas Huang of the beckman Institute for advanced Science at the University of Illinois working with
Professor. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Huang and his colleague are developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate which the proces begin when a computer constructs a 3-D computer Model of the Human face that contains all 44 major muscles in the model that must move like Human.
Second,The Facial Expressions of some individuals often show varying degrees of expression and the new emotion-recognition software tracks facial movements in a real face or in the painted face if Mona Lisa. Each expression of a Human is being compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion). In fact us Humans perform the same impressive "calculation" everyday.
Third,Mona Lisa's Demonstration really intended to bring a smile on your face, For example: if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen a similar ad will follow but if your frown the next ad will be different,which makes the classroom computer recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor and with the same technology it can be used to make computer-animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery.
Last,Our Muscles called Orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's feet around your eyes, in a false smile the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle, the risorious. But, to an expert faces don't lie; the muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebrity isn't being truthful.
In Conclusion, The Theory of Emotion is about moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions,but it also may help produce them, And empathy may happen at some point of time when we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions. | 1 |
5fa94d8 | I believe we should support the development of the driveless cars. As time evolves, our surrounding evolves as well; such as our clothings, cultural beliefs, advancements in technologies, education, and many more. If we could make changes to those things, why can't we do the same for cars. I believe this should be the risk we're willing to take.
First of all, the author of the article has mentioned that these cars would use half the fuel of today's which means killing less trees. This plays a major role in saving our planet. We have been using abundant amount of fuels which are extremely bad for our future as well as now. By using less fuel, we will be less likely to experience tragical conditions such as global warming, and other natural disasters. Also, he has mentioned that driveless cars offer far more flexibility.
My second reason why we should support the developemnt of driverless cars is due to lesser risk of getting into car accidents. The article has mentioned that although Google cars aren't truly driverless, they have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. This indicate that with further advancments made to the cars, the less likely we'd face car crashs and other tragical accidents. We wouldn't have to face these problems as much as we're facing them now.
My last reason relates to car accidents and human risks. The advancements they made onto these cars suggest the lower risk of everything. The heads-up displays, use of multiple sensors, LIDAR, and further advancements. BMV states that 70% to 90% of the times why we get into car accidents are due to human risks. Human risks include drunk driving, disobeying traffic laws, underage or unpermitted driver, texting while driving and such. But, with the driveless cars and it's advancements, we are lowering the risk of facing those kind of problems.
As you can see why I believe we should support the developments of these driveless cars for multiple reasons. By using half the fuel of which we use today, we're saving our planet and it's resources, which will eventually lead to lower risks of global warming and such. Next, the driveless cars will assure that we will face less car accidents due to it's high technologies and advancments. Lastly, driverless cars will decrease the risk of human risks and will lead to higher and further more advancements in technologies. | 4 |
5fb1682 | Transportation helps us get to where we need to go. One way of transportaion that most people use are cars. Cars have all changed thorughout decades. New equipment is put in a car to make them more fancy or more safe.
Technology is all around us now. How would it feel if a car controlled us? There are so many way to argue this topic about cars that control themselves. What is really the purpose of this car?
All of the cars made before the Driverless Cars were driven by a person. Although the driverless cars are not that popular yet, people are intrested in them. The more technology we use, it makes society seem more lazy. "- but how much smarter did the cars need to be?"(Driverless Cars Are Coming). This feels like the new technology is taking over us. Soon, we will be like robots.
The driverless car has sensors and special navigation to help the driver. So why is it called a driverless car if the driver has to be alert? There will still be a driver in the drivers seat, in this case there are pros and cons. Many teenagers want to drive as fast and as soon as they can, but they are still unexperienced. This will be more helpful for the new driver, but the new driver might take advantage of the driverless car.
Drivers driving the driverless car might get the wrong idea. "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over then the situation requires" (Driverless Cars Are Coming). Drunk driving is a leading cause of
death. If a drunk driver has a driverless car, the peron might believe that they would get home safely because the car knows what it would be doing. If a there is a situation that occurs, and the car need attention; but doesnt get it, to whoms fault would it be? In this case I would say both. First, there is a a drunk driver, and the car should have been alert to what to do.
The purpose of this car is to help other people who can and know how to control the driverless car. A driverless car could be usefull for people that would need a "safe" car. I believe that we should not have a car like this. If we keep the cars how they are now, we will be okay in the future. Driving is a privlage, not a right. A
person drives and controls a car; not a car. | 3 |
5fbd3bf | There are many advantages to limiting car usage, for exmple, it lowers the amount of emmisons present in the atmosphere which can lead to a better planet. All around the world people have started using cars less and less because of the problems they cause, such as polution and traffic, and have started moving to a better idea of society where everyone lives in a closer area with stores and jobs within walking distance. The life of cars is ending but our life is just getting better.
Since the times of World War 2, people have had the idea of spread-out homes and private garages but with new times come new ideas, new ideas of closer centered, compact cities. These new cities would have most shops and businesses in close quarters with housing to reduce the need for automobiles and have walking as a more reliable mode of transportation as well as a small amount of public transportation to assist with the more lengthy distances between home and work. In this new approach stores are placed closer to home along walkways rather than in malls along highways in the distance. This would reduce the space needed for the shopping centers as well due to the fact that they would no longer need large parking lots for all the vehicles that were once needed to commute to and fro.
Emissions and greenhouse gases have been a problem in modern society due to the fact that almost everyone has an automobile. This has been creating a large amount of stress on the enviroment and can lead to problems in the near future. Because of these problems, many enviomental agencies have started regulating car usage to try to keep the enviroment safe. Some of the ways they are doing this include promoting "car reduced" communities, which rely more on public transportation serving the suburbs than personal transportation. This helps to cut down on traffic and in turn the amount of emissions produced by cars on the road. Another way to prevent this is to ban the act of driving all together. Paris has done this in the past to combat the amount of smog accumulating in their city by banning the driving of certain license plate numbers which reduced the amount of traffic and emissions.
Car free cities are also very popular. an example of this is Bogota, Columbia. They have had cars banned for the last three years, minus buses and taxis. The goal of this project was to promote alternate means of transportation and reduce smog. This has created over 118 miles in bicycle paths as well as broad smooth sidewalks. The amount has traffic has also been cut in half during rush-hour thanks to new restrictions. New retaurants and upscale shopping has also come up all around the area. The amount of smag has also been reduced significantly and air quality has made a huge jump.
Overall, the age of the car is coming to an end, but it is making our life better and easier. Hopefully these new restrictions and ideas will help us to reduce smog, cut down on traffic and produce a better, more stress-free, lifestyle. Then, maybe we can all become "Urban /k/ommandos" someday. The term "Urban /k/ommando" is trademark of the /k/ Branch of 4Chan. org and is not to be used by any parties who do not assume the responsibilities of carrying this title. | 4 |
5fbd61b | You should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys because they help animals that are young and animals that were shipped overseas. They also headed oversea with the animals and they had packed a lot of food for the animals to eat while going overseas. Luke helped alot with the animals because he didnt want them to get hurt or die out on sea.
I chose the claim that you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys because they helped a lot of thing in Europe when World War 2 was over. In the passage it says," World War 2 was over in Europe and many conturies were left to ruins." Also the passage says," To help these countries recover their food supply, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form the UNRRA."
The UNRRA wasnt only helping animals they were also helping people. My evidence to support that claim is," Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic ocean 16 times and the Pacific 2 to help people who were affected by World War II." It was thoughtful that Luke did all of those things to save people that were affected by World War II.
Luke made nine trips which was more than any Seagoing Cowboy has ever done. Luke was brave and thoughtful for joining the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke saved many lives after World War II. He didnt save only human lives he saved animals lives too and i feel that was thoughtful.
In coinclusion, Luke was very thoughtful and nice to save people after the War went on. Luke said that being a Seagoing Cowboy is much more than and adventure. The awarness he has stayed with him and now he is leading hus family to a host a number of international students and dexchange visitors for many years. Luke helped people by joing the UNRRA and that was kind and thought i hoped Luke had a fun time doing his job. | 3 |
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