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5fbec4d | After reading the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" I have been asked to tell weather or not i think the author did a good job supporting and evaluating his ideas. As i read through the text i looked for key moments that stood out. This author beleives it is right and just to continue our missions to try and explore our neighboring planet. I feel that he does a very good job backing up his statement because he has an interesting introduction, middle and end. The author also does a very good job explaining his theory through lots of detail and background. Finally, the author doesnt just use his knowledge but he goes out there and finds information from experts. To me, those are three componets that will really prove what you believe in.
The article starts out with some basic background information to get you hooked onto the topic. It reads, "IN our solar system, Venus is the second planet from our sun. While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point from earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." those few sentences hook the reader on their claim and make you want the author to prove him self. therefore, the author does exactly that throughout the body of the text. He gives detail, background and outside sources but, we'll get into that later. In the end, he raps up the text with his claim once a again and that final kicker that get any strageling readers that dont quite believe him. It states, "Our travels on Earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation."
Throughout the body the author illustrates textbook detailing and informing. He makes a claim and then back it up with information why. It is all organized very well also. Each paragraph goes over something new and intriging. For example in the second paragraph, "Venus... occasionally the closest in distance too. Earth, Venus and Mars... Orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mena that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus." As you can see that quote gives one of his claims and then goes deeper into explaining it. After doing this he will turn around onto a new topic in the very next paragraph. "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These condition are far more extrem than anything humans encounter on earth." To make his detailing even more interesting he gave his information first and then followed it with his claim. I feel like this way of orginization kept the reader hooked.
If you remember I said earlier in the text that the author doen't just use his own brain to help hsi claim. He will go out and get help from experts known as NASA and are th eleading group in space exploration for the United States. I feel like this is always a key to underatnding and convincing your claim because it can prove that you care and that you arent the only one that believes in the same picture. Paragraph five states, "The National Aeronatics and Space Administration has on particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus." Shortly after that he goes into detail on NASA's idea for Venus exploration. He uses their ideas toback up is own. NASA obviously is for the exploration of Venus and I htink he chose a very good company to do research on to find out more about his own claim.
To wrap up, my claim in the begenning was that the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," did a very good job supporting his own claim. The author did this by carefully organizing his information into a begginning, middle and end format. he also uses very good detail and description throughout the text along with ideas from a different perspective. This is why I believe he did a very good job evalutating his claim and if he were here right now i'd give him a pat on the back. Hopefully, the article you just read had the same care and interest as "The Challenge of Exploring Venus." | 5 |
5fbfe66 | How do you think the Face was formed. There could be many reasons how the Face was formed. However I think that the Face was not formed by aliens. One reason is, is that they haven't prove that aliens are real yet. Also, that the day they took they picture they said that there was wispy clouds over it. Another reason is that it all happend because of science.
Mars is an odd planet, I've heard people call it the pizza planets because it was red, I think. That's not the point though, the point is, is that the planet has not proven that aliens live on that planet. The face had been thought it was created by aliens. NASA said that the Face was a "huge rock formation" showing the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. There are more reasons why they face was Face was not formed by aliens.
Another reason is that the day they took the picture, there was wispy winds. In order to take a good picture you need to have good weather. The weather can effect the picture because if it's windy you need to make sure that everything is not blowing around. The wispy winds could have effected the picutre becuase the winds were blowing so the rocks, sand and everything else was blowing around. So, when Viking 1 captured that picture, it can everything else blowing with it. Wind storms happen on planets, I am not sure om which ones but i know they happen-just like how on the sun it doesn't have wind storms but has almosr like volcanic action on it with lave everywhere. There is one more other reason.
One more reason is that is just plain old science. Science occurs in a lot of discussing and working on the planet. When planning to send some sort of machine to a planet, you have to undertand the planet. In 1976 there wasn't the best technology at the time. They didn't know when a storm was gonna come or if they would have to send their machines threw a bunch of metors. When they sent out Viking 1 a win storm occured and the camera on Viking 1 couldn't focus right and that is why it looked like a face.
There are many more reasons why the Face was not formed but an aliens. Some are that it was that aliens have not been proven yet. Also, that there was wispy clounds. One more is that is was all science. Those are resons why that the Face was not formed by aliens. | 3 |
5fc3237 | Dear Senator Marco Rubio,
I feel America should keep the Electoral College. This method has worked and has been sussesful most of the time. Even though some say this system is unfair and outdated, their are many pros that keep this system alive.
Overall, this system has certainly an outcome. A state can create a lanslide electoral-vote which in return will give a victory to the canadite. Many candidates that win the election have had a popular vote. Even though this system can have canadites that tie, its very unlikley that this will happen becuase of the number of votes.
The Electoral College requires the canadite to have a trans-regional appeal. Each region doesn't have enough votes to elect a president. That is a good aspect of this system because many people could favor a canidate in a reign.
Swing states are vital in an election. Voters in these states are more likely to pay attention to the campaign and know who to vote for. These voters are known to be the most informative and help decide the election. Some people say this sytem is not fit in America and voters say this is unfair. This sytem keeps key states informed and more attentive when it comes to election time.
This system helps avoid a candidate to receive a majority of the votes. Voters in this sytem are ones who want to show there political prefrence. This system allows people to express themselves and also give the canadites a fair election for the most part.
People such as Bob Dole say to abolish the Electoral College, which is wrong. There hasen't been any huge issues that have not made this system succesful. People have a say in this system by voting. We should indeed keep the Electoral College.
Sincerily,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
5fc3c17 | In the story
"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author talks about the challanges that NASA faces when trying to visit Venus.
Trying to visit Venus is a very hard task for NASA because Venus has a lot of things different about it than Earth. Venus is one of our closes reletives is size. But has a thick atmosphere and it is made of 97% carbon dioxide blankets and clouds that are made of sulfuric acid. Venuses planet surface is around 800 degrees fahrenheit. The author talks about these to show how dangerous it is and what challenges NASA faces to explore this plant. But to really understand Venus NASA needs to get up close with this plant. So they have sent un-maned devices to explore but dont last more than a few hours. But NASA is looking back at simplified devices that are made of silicon carbide that can last up to 3 weeks in the harsh conditions of Venus. Which means we are getting closer to undertanding this amazing plant. NASA whats to send a blimp-like vehicle to surface the plant and use the drone to explore and collect samples. So the author did a great job telliing us about the plan and it seems that despite the dangers it can be accomplished with hard work and preparing for the dangerous mission of exploring Venus.
In the story "The challenge of Exploring Venus" the author did a great job teilling me why this is well worth the dangers and expolring this amazing planet. | 3 |
5fc543b | The Electoral College basically serves as a filter for the votes of every individual American citizen. Every single vote that comes from citizens is a vote for somebody else who will be voting for the president, not the candidates themselves. The Electoral College is flawed to the point where the most logical way to vote would be to base presidental elections off of popular votes.
The Electoral College encourages the presidents who are running for office to avoid campaigning towards states with a smaller amount of electoral voters. If the president is determined by the most electoral votes, it would make sense that the president would campaign towards larger states with more electoral voters such as California, Texas, and Florida. Why would they spend time trying to appeal to some of the smaller states? This can lead to some states not even seeing the candidate. Infact, during the 2000 election, voters in the 25 largest media markets did not witness any campaign advertising.
The Electoral College's process of voting suppresses the voice of every citizen. The balance between smaller and larger states comes into play here as well. Take Florida for example, a state with 29 total electoral votes. If the mass majority of Florida votes for a certain set of electors, the minority votes for the other ones would not matter at all, as the electors speaking for that certain fraction of the population would not elected. With popular voting, each and every vote would matter towards electing a president. The number of minority votes would directly apply to the outcome of the president.
The Electoral College and the electors should not be the voice of the country. The voice of the people should be heard, especially when it comes to presidental elections. Popular voting is the most fair and rational method of voting. The Electoral College is best off forgotten as a voting system. | 4 |
5fcd46c | Sometimes, it's fun to imagine that the Face on Mars is an alien artifact. However, some conspiracy theorists believe that the Face on Mars really is the work of aliens. This claim is not only outlandish, but it lacks any kind of proof to support it. The Face on Mars is just a natural landform.
The fact that the Face on Mars is a natural landform has been proven by photographs taken by NASA spacecrafts. On April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor was able to take a picture of the Face on Mars, one that was much clearer than the original picture taken by the Viking in 1976. Based on the new photo, the general verdict was that the Face on Mars is just a mesa, a natural landform. To clear all dispute that the Face isn't an alien artifact, NASA took another, even clearer picture of the Face in April 8, 2001,
to prove for once and for all that the Face isn't of alien origin. The picture stands as definitive proof that the Face on Mars is a natural landform.
The discovery of an alien artifact on Mars would help NASA. Even if the Face on Mars was made by aliens, NASA has no reason to cover up the discovery of former alien existence on Mars. If NASA found and released the concrete evidence of an alien artifact, they would gain an increased budget and greater public rapport to find more information. It would reignite our curiosity of outer space. Therefore, discovery of an alien artifact would help NASA, not hurt them.
Others say that the Face on Mars is an alien artifact that NASA is trying to hide from us. However, alien discovery would benefit NASA more than it would harm them. Furthermore, if NASA really wanted to hide the existence of a possible alien artifact, why would they show us the pictures of the Face on Mars
in the first place? Coupling this reasoning with the clear pictures from NASA spacecrafts completely blows this theory out of the water.
The evidence in this article prove that the Face on Mars is a natural monument, not an alien artifact. Any continued skepticism on this is unjustified
and quite frankly silly. Although it is fun to imagine that the Face is alien, it is important that we know when to draw the line between imagination and a laughable statement. | 4 |
5fcfe02 | The author did really well by being specific and being descriptive about Venus. There was a lot of detail which made it long and a little boring. Not everyone wants to read about Venus, but it is a nice planet but when you are being forced to it's not the best choice.
Things that the authro did good on was being very descriptive. Also, gave very many reasons to do a project over Venus. The author was doing very good about giving as many facts as a student would need in order to do a whole project over. They also gave some good detail about how it's been around 3 decades since someone has tried going to Venus. They have an enormous amount of facts.
Something they could improve on is not make it as lengthy. This story would be very helpful if I had a project over Venus but it's a bit long to do anything else with. Granted there are a lot of facts but I would personaly put some opinion in it and make a little paragraph about what you would do if you went to Venus. Make it a tiny bit more interesting if you put something other than just straight facts. I strongly reccomend putting in some opinion in the next story. For example put some opinion on maybe what you think about a certain fact.
This overall was a great story and the author did a great job writing it. There are a few thing I would do different to grab the readers attention and try and keep it. The story doesn't keep my attention but it may to someone that loves since or maybe even Venus, but I'm not that person. Anyways great story overall just a few nit picks I wanted to point out. I can't wait for a new one next year! | 2 |
5fd5851 | The authors supports his claim by givivng reasons why exploring Venus would be beneficial. He states that Venus is the closet planet to Earth. Not distance related, but feature related. Venus is the closest planet to us in distance sometimes.
With all of our attempts to research Venus, none of them have been succsessful. It is hard for us to research because the temperature reaches 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet. This makes it impossible for human life. the closest we could get to the planet with humans is around 30 miles away. At this distance it would still be around 170 degrees Farhrenheit.
The terrain on Venus is the closest to our planet. This is one of the reasons that they want to explore Venus. Venus use to have signs of life and water. Now it has none of that. They want to see if there were any signs of life. | 2 |
5fe2abc | The author does a good job supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers.
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author explains how Venus is the most similar planet to Earth.
The author also points out that Venus is sometimes Earths closest neghboring planet which would help with the time of space travel. It is made clear in the artical that scientist want to learn more about Venus and that the author supports them, now lets see examples the author gives us to support these claimes.
In the artical "The Chanllenge of Exploring Venus" the author describes how Earth and Venus are the two most similar planets, as shown in the text "Astonomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." This exerpt shows that Venus is a very special planet that needs to be reserched even though it is dangerous. In the artical the author says Venus is sometimes the closeset planet to Earth making space travel easier. "Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel."
The last point I have is it is clear that scientist and the author both share in the fact that they think it is important to learn more about Venus, an example of this in the text is "Striving to meet the challenge ppresented be 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." That exerpt shows how not only the author feels but also how scientist feel about exploring Venus.
I think it is clear that the author has done a good job of supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers. The author used several different examples listed in the before paragraphs to show how the reward was greater than the risk. | 4 |
5fe4eeb | In a classroom full of students, teachers don't usually have the time to check that every student is enjoying the lesson, paying attention while being productive in class. Many students might be tired from a long night of homework, and what would the teacher do if a student was mentally tired? The teacher could get the student to do some form of physical activity like jumping jacks, but this will not get a student mentally active and engaged in class.
In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author describes a computer program that can read people's emotions by the muscles in their face. The author never states that the program can scan multiple faces at once, and if it could, how would it make a whole class of moody students all happy at the same time. A student could be bored from the lesson and another be stressed out by a test the next period. How would the program help the teacher change all the different emotions that the students have to happiness.
This program can read faces and guess what emotion that person is feeling at that exact moment. This sounds very useful
and it is, for one person, but not a whole classroom of people. Until the program can create solutions to help all the students to fell better, it would just stress out the teacher by trying to make everyone happy, which if we look at history, is almost impossible. | 3 |
5fe80c4 | Driverless cars, what a great idea. Untill some small, young, inocent child is mowed down in the streets by a dfriverless car. Cars should not have a mind of their own. A human with commen sence and instinct should be behind the wheel at all time to make sure nothing wrong happens. Let me tell you why in the following paragraphs.
The technology used in todays' driverless cars is not strong enough to deliver a safe and secure driving enviorment to other drivers or pedestrians walking. The technology and sensors are only acuret at low speeds, and are not capable of preforming all the task nessisary to drive with human drivers lives at risk.This provides a safty risk for all who are on the roadway or near them.
Another large problem with the self-driven automobile is who is to blame. Do we blame the company for the error made in the design. Or do we blame the owner of the car because it is their proporty and responsobility. This could lead to major conflict in the court systems. Which could cost the owners of cars and companies money, lots of money. More than the problem is worth.
Will I be owning a self driven car any time in the near future? No way, I will stick to the man behind the wheel as long as I can. As cool as it sounds to have a self-driven car, the room for error in these mechines are very large. The risk out-way the rewards in personal eyes. There is no way I will be trading in my truck for a self-driven car. | 3 |
5fec381 | This mask was found on Mars and some people think it could have been created by aliens or it could be an Egyptian Pharaoh. In my personal opinion i think it is a natural landform. It could just be a rock that is shaped like a human face. We have all seen some sort of object that may look like a celebrity or an animal but that is just the way that it was shaped. Or it could be a crater formed in the shape of a human face.
NASA's evidence states that, thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien moument. No one can prove that aliens are real or if they even existed and if it was a Egyptian Pharaoh it wouldn't be possible for anybody to be on Mars without the proper equipment. They would of probably found a some sort of rocket or something to prove that there has been someone or something on Mars.
If it were to be an alien where is the rest of the body? If the aliens were to of made the "face" where are they? We have seen mountains, hills, and rocks that look similar to something, just because it has the outline, doesn't mean that it is a face. If there is a face there has to be a body or something. You would need to prove that aliens are real or if they were even on Mars. | 2 |
5fedaa4 | You may think that the face on the moon is from aliens. well i dont think so and im going to tell you why.
One reason that i know that the face on mars is not from aliens is because this face has been there since we have known mars.In 1976 NASA could se a little bit of what was a face. In 1998 you could see it form more and more due to natural causes. In 2001 you could tell that the face on the moon was a face.
The face also had some little stream through it, most likely that a alien wouldn't do.
And Michael Malin and her team flew over mars and took a sharp photo that made it obvious that the aliens did not do this to mars.
And in 2001 it was a summer day in mars so they snapped a picture better then ever, and they say that if there was anything on Mars then it would have shown on the picture, and nothing did. So thats proof that the aliens did not put the face on mars.
In Conclusioln that is the main points that you should know that aliens did not put the face on mars. | 2 |
5ff1058 | The challenge of Exploring Venus... sounds intreseting righ? Heres my summary of the passege. This passae was written by an author who is unknown but he/she gave facts on the "Evening Star" also know as Planet Venus.
Through out the passage the author tells us that Venus is the closet planet to resemble Earth refuring to both planets density and size. But the climate on Venus is quit different then Earths, for instance the average tempeature is over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth. But National Aeronautics and space Adminstration (NASA) is working on how we humans can live on Venus if Earth was horibly damaged. I think that we should always contenue to expand our knowlege, expecilla our science. traveling to Venus would give us protection and a place to live if Earth was unhabital.
So in concloution I think that we should always contenue to expand our knowlege, expecilla our science. traveling to Venus could give us protection and a place to live if Earth was unhabital. | 2 |
5ff1aa5 | The use of technology is extrodinary as it has shown that it is able to recongize the different emotions that we have. It has also became
discussion about using it in class. And the fact that it could really help in the future is absolutly amazing.
The author has stated the new software has been developed and impoves accuracy in perceving the emotions of others; like Mona Lisa, a subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance painting. From the article the aurthor provides lots of research from doctors that states it indeed can determind the emotions- happiness to sadness- just because of the characteristic movements of the facial muscles. They explained that its compaired to a photo of a person with a expression thats neutral.
The debate on if this new technology should be used in schools to read students emotions. As a student myself i can personally see why most kids would disagree, but it may help us in the future. All students are different and we all have our own stories so this may help teachers help us. I am not really one that like to raise my hand if I am confused, and I for am not the only one. So if this software is used then it may help a student to get help from a teacher.
Students getting their exact feelings will also save a life. Now a day multiple kids are going through things so if teachers have acess to knowing our emotions then it could hlep prevent suicide. Students have a tendancy to like to keep to themselves and don't seek for help till tits to late. So this new software can be a red flag to the teachers before anything happens. Teachers can get a better understanding if only the saw the signs the student is showing.
So in the end if ther were computer that had a software to read the emotions it could benifit everyone. Not only will students be helped if they have a problem but then there will be a better bond between students and teachers because they can understand each other a bit more. | 4 |
5ff6c83 | For centuries, we have followed a certian system estabolished by our founding fathers. This system is called the electoral college. This system is based off voting for the president through electoral votes rather than based off more popular. The state has an overall say through its electors. I believe that this system is unfair and should be abolished.
The electoral college should be abolished because you are not voiting directly for the president. You are voting for an elector who would in turn elect the president. While you may end up pleased, others may feel the complete opposite. I believe that it is unfair to not directly vote for the president bacuse it should be completly up to this nation to elect a president. The system they have set up right now is injustice.
The second reason the electoral college should be taken away is that the system has much room for failure. Electors could easily betray the will of the people. They have much more power than the standard voter. The electors would completly oppose the most "popular" vote and put in their vote for whoever they feel deserves it. This is wrong and totally goes against the idea of giving the people power. This would qualify as just giving a few people power. There could also be room for a tie. This could result in the elcetion ending in the hands of the House of Representatives where the state delegates could chose the president. Not only is this destorying the power of the general public but this could also result in people not getting what they wanted. The delegates cuold go completly against what the people say because they technially have the right to since they have the power of the situation.
The final reason the electoral college system should be left behind is the fact that not every state gets to see the canidates. Some of the smaller states that don't count for much of the vote or tend to lean towards a different party don't even get a visit from the canidates. Not only is that unfair but it's also completly demaning towards the state. It makes the citizens of the state feel unworthy or not important enough for not even making an effort for their vote. This is also a stupid move on the canidates part because they might have been able to persuade the state's vote.
In conclusion, the electoral college is not a functional system for its characteristic of being completly indirect, for taking away the power of the people, and for its room for error. Although it may seem like a trustworthy system at first, don't be fooled. So whats more important, the power and opinions of the people or the power and opinion of the delegates? | 4 |
5ffa1fa | Dear State Senator,
Ever since our founding fathers established in the constitution that the president and vice president votes were determined by electoral college, the founding fathers made a good decision. Electoral College is a process where electors gather for a meeting and count the electoral votes to determine the new president and vice president. The United States should keep Electoral College to determine the president and vice president rather than a popular vote because Electoral College avoids run-off elections, and Electoral College is more fair than a popular vote.
To start off, Electoral College should continue to determine the president and vice president voting rather than popular votes because electoral college avoids run-off elections. If somebody was running for either president or vice president and they recieved thirty percent in popular votes, nobody would know if the person with thirty percent popular vote would win the election. Electoral College prevents confusion by producing a clear winner. For example, in source 3, the text reads "Richard Nixon in 1968 and Bill Clinton in 1992 had only forty-three percent of popular votes but both had three-hundred and plus electoral votes which made them win the election". The president and vice president make sure our country is running well and that we as a country have no problems. If we were to determine our president and vice president by a popular vote, whoever could kiss up more to the voters would win the election even if the person running doesn't meet up to the qualifacations of the person they are running against. Avoiding a run-off election is very important because no canidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. Also, if a popular vote was how the president and vice president were decided, not as much people would pay attention to voting because voters have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign of the people running for president and vice president.
Furthermore, Electoral College should continue to determine the president and vice president voting rather than a popular vote because Electoral College is more fair than a popular vote. In 2008 when Barack Obama won his election to become the 44th president of the United States, he didn't win by being the popular canadite, Obama won by his passion to make this country better than it already is. For example, in source 1, the text reads "The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electorial votes is required to elect the president". That way of electing the president is more fair than a popular vote because you need 270 electors to say yes to make you president rather than people making you president by if your popular or not. Electoral College is what keeps our elections fair. There is no other way to elect somebody president becuase no other method will be this successful than Electoral College. After all, Electoral College has been the way to elect the president since the constitution was created. Popular Voting is a bad method if were used to determine the president and vice president because somebody who is running for president can manipulate people to think he or she is a good canidate for president when they really aren't.
To conclude, Electoral College should continue to decide the president rather than popular votes becuase Electoral College avoids run-off elections, and Electoral College is more fair than popular votes. Why should we change the way we elect president if this method has been working for over 200 years? Electoral College should continue to decide the presidency for years to come because it works so well. That's why Electoral College will stay as the way to elect the president.
Sincerely,
PROPER_NAME | 3 |
60000b4 | There are good benefits and bad benefits of not having a car. With your legs being your transportation to get around the city, allows you to get a new experience of getting around. But it can also be pretty nerve wrecking knowing you have to walk everywhere you want to go. But the more walking you do, the less money your spending. Having no worries about paying for gas, car notes, tickets, etc.
Another good thing about not having a car is staying in shape. Walking around to get to where you need to go would get you more than plenty excerise. Nothing like having a nice healthy body, burning calories, and even pounds. Having nice strong and healthy heart and burning off the fat that you put on by doing nothing and being physically active by walking.
Less accidents, car jams, traffic problems, and even car polution. What parent doesn't want a cleaner air for there children to breathe? Less cars can somehow lead to an safer enviornment. Less car accidents dealing with people texting and driving, which could lead to less possiblities of death maybe.
No one wants to walk everywhere their trying to go, nothing wrong with going for a nice bike ride there. Limiting car usage can maybe differ the world, cause less problems, less worries, and the best of all. . . SAVE MORE MONEY! | 3 |
6000197 | The Author for the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" gave both good key points on why we should have driverless cars as well as key points on why we shouldn't have driverless cars.
My position on this specific topic is that i believe that having a driverless car would be proficient to the human life because then you wouldn't have to wrooy about if your tired or not and you don't have to worry about taking those harmful energy drinks when you drive because you need to stay awake. Because since you have a driverless car you are capable of practically doing anything you have to do within the time period you have from your starting destination the your final destination. You could finish up work you didn't get done, you could actually eat your breakfast, you could actually look into some important things while your car gets you to your destination. although there are cons to driverless cars there is always room for improvement and this generation has plenty of time to improve on that situation.
concluding this I believe having driverless cars would be a tremendous achievement for man kind knowing that we are advancing in the technology that we started off creating and that the driverles car would help millions and contribute to all good beings. | 2 |
6000f26 | Americans have rights, I understand that, but many americans do not realize who they are putting their trust and votes into to. They may think that "Oh if I vote for this President he will automatically be chosen", but no that is not always what happens through the process for choosing the future President of the United States. We are given the right to vote as soon as we turn eighteen and any day after that, and you feel so great that you can finally do something that makes you feel as if you are an adult, but when you put a name on your ballet they may not be chosen for the office that they were running for. The Electoral College is process that was created very long ago by the founding fathers, which we still use today.
Many peole in the United States vote every election for who they think is best suited for office as President or Vice President. Say you voted for President who was extravagent and had all the traits they had were excellent to lead a country, but what you may not know is that your vote can be changed if one person representing your state in the Electoral College does not agree with the person you have chosen. The state legistlatures pick the Electoral College for each state, they may even come from public office, but the electorals do not technically have to choose the person you've chosen. Some state legistlature may oppose the man that the people have chosen so they will bring in a new electoral college, like when John F. Kennedy was chosen voted for, but they tried sabotaging him so he would not get the votes. The Electoral College can choose whomever they please.
In some states Presidents do not even campaign, such as in Rhode Island and South Carolina also there were 17 other states that were included in the Campaigns for the election in 2000. This is called the winner-take-all system when the canidates do not take time for the states they know they have no chance of winning over. In some states they did not even see a single ad campaign which was not obligated. The focus is on the states that are called "swing" states where the elections are very tight and they want your vote. One of the facts I have learned is that if you live in a "swing" state start learning about your Presidents so you know which one you believe is more capable.
We understand if there is a tie in anything, like an election, we have to keep working till there is a winner. It makes everything take more time and it goes through a longer process. When a tie happens in the Electoral College it is now thrown to the senate and that is when it starts to increase in time and we have to wait a longer. In Wyoming they do not have many citizens, so they only have one representative, but they speak as much as the 55 representatives from California. An Eelctoral tie is very unlikely, but it has happened.
Many people believe in the Elecotral College, but many do not. I belive that it should be abolished. I do not think it is fair that other people who have a higher power can take our votes and change them if they do not like them. It is outdated , unfair, and irrational. We should change it to popular vote and take it right from the Americans who've voted for the President they want. | 4 |
6009def | Here is my position on driver-less cars. I feel driver-less cars only work if you do. They should rename driver-less cars, to 2-driver cars because there's never going too be a moment in time when the car is driving by itself. You will always have too do your normal job, you'll just have extra help this time. You should never feel like you dont have too pay attention to the road because the car is not driving for you, it's driving with you. You should also never feel like you can focus on something else while in the car driving, you should always be alert but you should also always know the car has your back for anything else you cant see. For example, the car will warn you for traffic ahead, crashes, road blocks, ect.
In alot of states it is illegal to even test computer-driven cars. For example, California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars; manufacturers believe that more states will follow as soon as the cars are proved more reliably safe. Wich makes sense because all people want is too be safe. So if there is a car out there that keeps familys life out of danger lots of people will want it.
In conclusion, i feel like once the manufactorers of driverless-cars proves too the people it is safe, it will become very big in alot of country's fast. | 3 |
600df53 | Driverless Cars
Do you ever feel like that cars may be not be able to be used in the future, do you feel like people wont really need to drive a car exactly and we can get better ones? Thats what this passage is basically talking about in the passage "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the story is talking about how a google confounder named Sergey Brin believes that this can be achieved. Now my position on this argument is i believe that cars will not die out of existence or something we will stilll need them but I feel like if we want them to still be around we neeed to make them better for the future. I think that driverless cars will be the future because we have already started making smarter systems and sensors, we have already spent a lot of years on this project already, and I feel like itll help us more in our everyday life. Driverless cars are the next big thing for the future and here are some reasons on why I stand with this argument.
The first reason why I stand with this argument is because have already started trying to improve smarter systemes and sensors. In the story it talks about how we already had those things that those things weren't really new to us right now. Because since we werent able to have smartere roads we needed to build smarter cars like having a GPS reciever or a sensor this stuff is all what we need to make the Driverless Car dream a success. In the text it stated, "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel...The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel." That is the first reason on why I stand at this position.
The next reason on why I stand at this position is because we have already spent a lot of years working on this project as it is. In the passage it talks about how they have been working on this project for quite some time now . Now even though we werent working on that project impaticular we were still doing other things as well that would try to insure that this dream would come true someday. In the passage it says, " in the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track... Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." That is another reason on why i stand with this argument.
The last reason on why I stand with this position is I feel like it'll help us more in our everyday lifestyle. In the passage it talks about how cars may not be able to that much use to us in the future. but, if we start to upgrade them and make them a lot better than they were before then the future that they envisioned will come true. An example from the text is, "The car he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. He believes such cars would fundamentally change the world." That is the last reason on why I stand with this position.
Do you ever feel like we will have better cars in the future the kind that will be able to drive itself? Well thats what the passage, "Driverless Cars Are Coming" talks about how we will need better cars for the future. Now I think that even though it might not come true we never know what might happen for us in the future but I think that this invention will help us in the long run. Driverless are the future because we have already started making smarter systems and sesnors, we have already had a lot of time developing and working on this project, and I feel like it'll help us more in our everyday life. Driverless Cars are the next big thing for the future now will they actually be a thing, who knows we will just have to wait and see what the future brings. | 5 |
6010267 | In the Challenge of Exploring Veuns the Author studying Venus is worthy putsite why does he/she think's so here's why "Venus may as well have been the most earth like planet in our solar system" that mean Venus might have had the same
Atmosphere as earth such as runing water and sunlight if we keep on studying this we could have another planet just like Earth.
Scientists have been studying Venus and they found it's a lot harder than it looks to get to Venus the reason is because "a thick Atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blanket sulfuric acid is in Venu's Atmosphere" not only do they have to worry about that if they send a Spacecraft it wouldn't make it pass Venu's Atmosphere and even if it did make it pass Venus Atmosphere it won't surive that long.
Many has tried to make it before us but we never made it the reason i know this is because "humans have sent numerous Spacecraft on this cloud-draped world each pervious mission
was unmanned, and for good reason, since no Spacecraft Survived the landing for more than a few hours" we have never seen the whole view of the planet because we have never made it.
Reason to why we are so fascinated by this planet is because " long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth" that means if earth somehow decides to stop working we can probably break through Venus clouds and somehow find a way to live there it might take a hundreds of years for us to get pass Venus clouds but we also have think about about how are we going to get that many people on one Planet.
in conclusion we might be able to break through venus thick clouds and not die because if a Spacecraft can't survive that long then who say's we can but that doesn't stop us. We could make a thing for us to breath on Venus just like earth but we won't know until we keep on studying the Planet who knowns what could be on Venus it could shock the world but we won't know until we get there. | 3 |
6017fea | I really don't like this new computer thing at all. i think that it is something private and I wouldn't want to have somebody look at my emotions and see what I am feeling. What about if somebody is sad but they just don't want to talk about it. Somebody might bring it up in class saying "Kiah is sad" or "What's wrong with Kiah" I would not want to have a teacher ask me what's wrong in front of all of my classmates. I can see it if people might want to use it to see if the students are bored with their class work but other than that I would not like it at all.
For example, when the author says "The Mona lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face. while it shows just how much the computer can do." i don't agree with that at all it should be your right to say that you don't want to have people ask if you are okay. This new computer would not make me smile it would make me angry. I think that they should only do it on paintings and not on real life people. I also think if they do this new computer thing a lot of people would be angry,
In conclusion, i do not like the idea of the computer where it can tell what emotions you are feeling. It is an invasion of your pricavy. Like I said before they should only do it on paintings and not on real life people. | 3 |
6019930 | Imagine taking a simple stroll through the neighborhood that you can't even enjoy because of pollution in the air. Limiting the usage of cars has many advantages. Some would even say cars can add unnecessary stress to your life. There's no need to worry about gas money or the cleanliness of your car. There are many perks that can come with not using cars.
Source 1, which is written by Elisabeth Rosenthal, tells us that there are "efforts to drastically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes...". Experts believe that reducing the use of cars will help decrease the percentage of gas emissions. The exhaust from the tailpipes of cars are harmful to the enivronment. We can save and protect our communities by not relying on cars as much as we do.
In Source 3, Andrew Slesky quotes a businessman saying, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." Having cars can cause unecessary problems such as, gas money, oil changes, and simple break downs that cars sometimes have. By using this type transportation less, we can also lower air pollution that's damaging the environment in our communities. By reducing the usage of cars, we can all stress less and enjoy the outdoors like we should be able to.
Source 4, also by Elisabeth Rosenthal, tells us that "transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions." These carbon emissions are very much harmful to the environment. Cars can actually be a danger to our society, and limiting the usage of them will be beneficial to everyone.
Using cars is very helpful for some people, but they are not having the greatest effect on our environment. If we limit the use of cars, people will stress less and the air won't be as polluted. Reducing the usage of transportation will be for the good of most people. | 3 |
601ba65 | The author supports this idea because the article gave out specific reasons to why studying Venus is a worthy to pursuit. The article gave out facts about Venus in one of the paragraphs. Another reason is that what would happen to Venus in the future.
Lastly, sending humans to Venus and scientists studying how long they could last.
Here are some reasons why they should suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our sun. High pressure and heat, Venusian geology and the weather present additional impedimets like erupting volcanoes, and powerful earthquakes, like here on Earth. On Earth we present those here on our everyday life. On Venus the planet's surface temperature the average is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The atomspheric pressure is 90 times greater that we have experienced on Earth.
In the past
Venus was probably covered largely with ocean water and might have or could supported various forms of life. Venus still has some feature that are analogous to Earth. Venus sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, so that means we can go there for a proportional time. Going to Venus seems to indisputable. A crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel.
Sending humans to Venus is really risky because jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus could avoid the ground conditions by staying up into outer space. Thirty-plus miles about the surface, temperature would still be hot at around 170 degrees. They're are not easy conditions, but the survivable for humans. Researchers cannot take samples of rocks, gas, or anything else because of the distance. Scientists seeking to conduct a through missions to understand what Venus would get up close and personal despite the risks. Researchers are going to work on innovations that would allow there machines to go long enough to contribute meaningfully.
After all, these are the reasons why I think its good idea to suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers of it's presents. I think after I got the information form the article. I think they can make machines that can last long for us to travel to Venus. Another reason is that we can make it, and it is possible for us to get gas and rocks from Venus. | 2 |
601be40 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author talks about Earth's sister planet and the chaotic environment it hosts. They also mention that for years, scientists have been trying to discover ways that this planet may be hospitable or of good use to humans. The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the risks and dangers because evidence shows that it has features much like Earth, and could sometimes be the nearest option for a planetary visit.
Geographical features show that at one time, Venus was likely covered with oceans and could have supported life. The author states, "Today, 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" (4). This shows that while conditions on Venus may be particularly brutal, there is a high chance it was once a habitable land like Earth.
Though there are certainly high risks that come with traveling to such a dangerous planet, there are ways for humans to survive them. The author mentions that, "Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. ... the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels" (5). With humans' current technological advances, it is made possible to avoid the worst of the cruel conditions on Venus, like sweltering heat and impossible atmospheric pressure.
In conclusion, there is a lot to look at for both sides of this topic. The author does a good job with addressing the issues that come with sending space crafts and people to Venus, while also talking through the ways some complications might be avoided. | 4 |
601c703 | In Miami, sitting in traffic is simply a part of everyday life, be it during lunch hour or rush hour or be it because of unpredictable accidents or planned road closures. The city is so large that it is oftentimes impossible to walk from point A to point B in a timely manner, and the climate is so unpredictable that is is oftentimes impossible to make such a trek anyways. Could Miami ever be made a car-free community? Considering that these types of communities lower municipal carbon emissions, require better city planning, and encourage people to take advantage of public transportation, Miami, and other cities and suburbs around the United States, should make efforts to reduce private car ownership and use.
Car-free communities are not a theoretical concept. In fact, cities and smaller suburbs have made the move to car-free lifestyles and even been designed with limited car usage in mind all over the world, and even in some parts of the United States. Places like Vauban, Germany and Bogota, Colombia are using this trend to make citizens happier, healthier, and more efficient (Rosenthal, Selsky). Alternative transportation, be it walking, bicycling, or taking a bus, is just as viable a way to get around as cars are, and it leads to smarter city planning that accounts for a higher volume of pedestrians walking from their homes to run errands and go shopping and a lessened impact on the environment through fewer greenhouse gas emissions. These things also work together to make for happier citizens. "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," says businessman Carlos Arturo about Bogota's city-wide car-free day, a program instituted by city officials to encourage limited car usage in 1999 (Selsky). A mother of two and media trainer in Vaudan, Germany, where 70 percent of families do not own cars, agrees with Mr. Arturo, saying that life with cars was "always tense" (Rosenthal).
It is very understandable that cars would make people nervous. "Cars are responsible for ... up to 50 percent" of greenhouse gas emissions in some areas of the United States (Rosenthal). Greenhouse gas is notoriously harmful for the environment because it speeds up the process of global warming which can result in higher mean temperatures and things like smog that can bring up very serious health risks. Record high levels of smog in Paris, France last year forced city officials to institute a temporary ban on driving while the city's air was allowed to clear (Duffer). Paris typically has a higher amount of pollution in the air than other more eco-conscious European cities, sometimes even a full 67.3 micrograms higher than the level of pollution in London according to Reuters, an international news agency (Duffer).
Car-free communities lower carbon emissions tremendously, making smog and other consequences of greenhouse gases much less pressing issues to deal with. In order to reduce the number of cars on the roads, public transportation must be readily accessible and as effictient as possible. This helps city governments manage the amount of carbon they are pumping into the atmosphere by giving them the opportunity to regulate things such as buses, subways, and other forms of metro transit. Public transportation does not only mean actual modes of transportation, though; car-free communities must make allowances for the creation and maintainment of things like better sidewalks and bicicyle paths for citizens who elect to use them (Rosenthal, Selsky). Congestion would then also be lowered because fewer cars on roadways usually do not result in city-typical, and definitely Miami-typical, traffic jams (Duffer).
While it is impossible to assume that Americans will stop using their cars from one day to the next, there are many ways to gradually increase the appeal of car-free lifestyles in commuter cities and suburbs and therefore to reap some of the benefits of diminished popular car usage. In fact, milennials in America have already started this move towards car-free communities (Rosenthal). Younger generations are waiting longer to apply for their licenses and buy cars, instead choosing to utilize public transportation, walk, or car-pool with friends. Sociologists have also noticed that America has surpassed peak car usage, meaning that Americans no longer drive as much as they once did. The "car culture" that prevails in suburbs and cities through the nation may be on its way into obscurity if the trend continues (Rosenthal). Scientists, sociologists, and citizens alike will most likely agree that this move will indubitably be one for the better! | 5 |
6022057 | The Face on Mars was not created by aliens. The "Face on Mars" isn't anything but a landform. We have scientific proof that it's just a landform. This essay is going to show 20th cetury tecnology wasn't what we have now, landforms around the area they were looking at are actually quite common and, you don't always need to buy into what others are selling. In this essay I'll give you the answers you need to believe the truth.
In 1976 cameras didn't have good quality picture unlike now. Our technologies are changing and they're changing fast. The 1976 version of the Face was blurry and you could barely see what the picture was. Even the 1998 version was pretty bad, but you could make it out a little more than in 76. The 2001 clearly states that it was in no way a face or an ancient civilization on Mars.
The scientists themselves even felt that what they were seeing was a Mesa. And the second paragraph of the story explains," Scienctists figured out it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." Plus in paragraph 12 Garvin says," It remind me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plainof Idaho. That's a Lava dome that takes te form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." Scientists information is usually pretty credible, you can usually trust that what they are telling is the truth.
Don't believe every news healine and story you see. Everyone has seen the magazines you find that pulls people in with hazardous rumors and lies, things that just aren't true. The '' Face on Mars '' happens to be a pretty big deal. Its been in movies, radio shows, magazines and a whole lot more. But is all of that really something that you can take full trust in. Not every writer, newspaper and magazine is right. They don't always get good information thats why you stick to someone you know who will tell you the truth like a scienctist.
So in conclusion, " The Face on Mars'' isn't really a face at all nor a ancient alien artifact. It's simply a natual landform most likely a mesa or butte. Trust me its not a face its just weird shadows that make it seem to look like a face. If there was really something to see by now we would have seen it and the facts are not in favour of silly conspiracy theorists. Now you know " The Face on Mars'' is more like a mesa on mars. | 4 |
60225ae | have u wondered wat is that face on mars? Is it proof of life or just a natural landform, well i am here to tell u its just a natural landform.
Its a juts a natural landform because in the story it says NASA unveiled the image for all the see and the cption noted a huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadelows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth making it look like proof of life on mars. If u need more proof on april 5, 1998 the MOC team snapped a picture tens times sharper than the original viking photos. thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site revealing a natural landform.
So thats proof thats it just a natural landform and not proof of life on mars, but maybe soon NASA will find proof of living life on mars. | 2 |
60239fe | Imagine this, you're driving, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel. Cars have always been a main focal point to what the future will look like, most picturing them flying. Even though this possible new breed of cars will remain on the ground, they still are innovative and can help further the world of technology and how we use it. Development of this car should continue because it is safe and could possibly be helpful to new drivers.
Safety is one of the big issues people have with the car, most thinking that driver will no longer have power of the car. Driving takes insticts and observation, if a car is suddenly swerving the driver will respond accordingly.
The BMW has created the "Traffic Jam Assistant", which contains special touch sensors to insure that the driver keeps hold of the wheel.
At anytime while in that car, the driver can take over, if the situation calls for it.
New drivers will always be somewhat of a hazard, possible talks of raising the age requirement for getting a license, afraid that at the current one teenagers remain immature. If we were to have the driverless car, those issues would decrease, seeing as it will feel as though a parent is always on the road with them. These cars are never really driverless, the driver can still steer, accelerate, and brake if need be. GM has ever created a way for the seats to vibrate when the vehicle is in danger, keeping the driver alert to their surroundings.This car will decrease the amount of accidents created by teens, due to the car being able to see things that maybe they can't.
In conclusion, driverless cars are a good and safe invention. They will be able to drive correctly and safely. The driver of the vehicle will always be in charge, never losing the control they once had. New drivers will always have a backup, but still continuing to drive themselves. Cars will still require a knowing of how to drive, seeing as it can't do everything, one has to while traveling. The world is constantly evolving, and that includes technology. Driverless cars will just add on to the constantly multiplying number of things we have created. We still have a long way to go when it come to this invention, the question is, when the time comes, what car will you be driving? | 3 |
6024733 | A man is driving in his car recklessly in a hurry to work. Not paying attention to the pedestrian crossing sign, he hits an innocent student crossing the street who later dies. It has been suggested that cars are more negative than positive. Perhaps we should decrease the amount of time we spend driving these machines. I believe that limiting car usage is a good thing for the people.
As source #2 states, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five days of smog." This suggests thats cars can't be used in all conditions and it would be much safer to use a bike of simply walk. With the smog, the people of France didn't drive and there was over 50 percent less congestion on the road. In Paris, the government enforced partial bans to clear the air. On one day motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave thier cars at home, then the next day the same rule applied to odd-numbered plates. Deisel fuel was at blame for the smog since 67 percent of the vehicles in France uses it and the engines of these cars were giving off a lot of smoke. This issue can be avoided all around by using more environmet-friendlt ways of transportation.
Moving on to Source #4, it provides information that the number of miles driven in America peaked in 2005 and has dropped every year since then. Even with that being said, there are still thousands of crash related deaths each year. There's drunk driving, driving while texting, and texting hile too sleepy to focus, and all situations lead to deaths. Driving is a very dangerous responsibility that gets people killed. There are other ways to get from Point A to Point B, although they might not be as quick.
Those who are attached to their Ford trucks or convertable Mustangs may say something along the line of "I'm a responsible driver, so I won't get in a wreck." But you never know what could happen. It's much safer to take a train or bus where there's less traffic.
Car usage, the poison of society, kills the innocent. Pedestrians across the globe are at risk of careless drivers. If nothing is done, more lives will be taken and the air will continue to be polluted. | 4 |
6027b51 | Technology has had a big impact in our lives today. Now there is a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System. FACS can recognize emotions. This new technology doesn't just recognize emotions but it can also recreate your facial expressions. They compare emotions to a neural face. The value of this technology to read student's emotional expressions is helpful in classrooms.
In Paragraph 6, the author states " A classroom computer could recognize when a students is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." Huang this technology in classroom can be beneficial because when the classroom computer detects that someone in the classroom is getting bored or is confused, it can make it more interesting or explain it so the students can understand. Not every classroom is interesting but with the help of this technology it can help students understand everything better. It can help students be more interested and paying more attention to that class. Classes aren't always that fun and interesting.
In Conclusion, technology can make our lives easier in many ways. This new technology can help us in classrooms. FACS is a new software that it can detect your emotions, which sounds weird but it can be helpful. We can't always tell what a students is thinking or feeling in a classroom. This new technology can help us in ways, we can't help others. | 3 |
602c8bb | The electoral college has been a part of the united states for many years. The founding fathers were the ones who established it in the constituion. The electoral college seems to have worked for all these years , but my opinion on this is that we should change it to electing a president with popular vote. There are many pros and cons to both the electoral college and the popular vote but the positives of the popular vote outweigh the negatives more then the electoral does. If you are reading this senator of state I hope this letter will support your opinion on this or make you consider popular vote.
The united states is a democracy so the citizens living here should have the right to vote for the president of the united states. With the electoral college the citizens are'nt the ones voting for the president the electors are. In the electoral college the voters are voting for a slate of electors, who then vote for the president. In most cases the elector votes for the candidate that their party wants, in some cases the elector has chosen the oppossing candidate to what his party wants according to the second source. Since the elector is allowed to do this that is one reason why the electoral college is unfair. Popular vote is when the people vote for the candidate they want this is truly what a democracy is when the people choose their representatives.
The electoral college is unfair to voters because of the winner-take-all system in all the states, because candidates don't spent time in the states they know they will lose in. They only foucus on the states that they know they will win in or of a close chance to the other candidate, because of this there has been times when people would not see the candidates at all or they did'nt get to see a single campaign ad. If there was popular vote then this would not be the case and it would be eliminated, because candidates would have no choice but to put up advertisments all over the country.
Even though the popular vote is a good way to go I think that this system of electing president is still not perfect or will never be perfect. The electoral college allowed some of are greatest presidents to win beacuse if they got more electoral votes then popular vote it would'nt matter they will still win. The electoral college also avoids the problem of one candidate not recieving the majority of the votes cast. The electoral college has been in are country for so long and has worked for us well but I still believe that the popular vote can be and should be used in future elections. If you have read this senator I hope this might have changed or supported your opinion on this topic. | 4 |
602ef7c | New software has been devloped that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. According to some new computer software that can reconize emotions. The children said (hold up! Can we accually "calculate" emotions like math homework. the evidence is that there is a computer that make's a 3d model of your face. In the artical it says that the computer can even show mixed emotions. The computer could even store's simaliar ThIng inside of someone.(indroducion ) . It will be great for a teacher to use because you will be able to see the he or she is confused of if they are bored and etc. They made that because thier is alot of that have thing wrong with them the just dont like expressing thier feelings. But to wrap it all up animate faces are more expressive. the cumputer is cool the way it can scan peoples mood. Another cool feature about that I personaly like is that how it could the you what bones and how many bone are inside of your body. And it's cool because most people do not like to communicate so the compture tells you what are they thinking and also how are they feeling. | 2 |
603dc9d | How do you feel about driverless cars? My position on driverless cars is i don't think it's a good ide, because it could potentinally be very dangerous for anyone inside or outside of the car.It could cause a lot of problemns in the court rooms. Do you think it's safe for children to sit in the cars by themselves. If a driverless car was to get into a wreck who are you to judge the car or the individual?
I believe driverless cars could be very dangerous because, in the text it states "they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues." In my eyes and how I read that it makes me beileve they couldn't drive if it was raining hard. Traffic is literally almost everywhere so the indviual in the car would have to take over most of the time.eithier way the car can't be driverless because it notifies you in everything.
The second reason i beileve that driverless cars should be a thing is because if there was an accident who would be responsible for the accident, the manufactor or the indiviual in the car? That could cause a lot of problems in the court room, could go on for months. LIke especially if it was a drunk driver that'd start a riot. | 2 |
603df6a | I belive that the technology can be some what invaled because you cant excatly tell how a person thinks or feels because they could be sad on the inside but show a nuteral face on the outside or, they could be crying but while crying but crying tears of joy .How could a computer tell you the way that someone feels if they could feel a totaly diffrent way. A way a person looks on the outside may not be the way that they are feeling on the inside a computer is not a person it doesnt have emotions so how excatly could it telll what the emotions of another person or how they are feeling at the time . I dont belive that many people can tell the diffrence of a fake smile or a real smile so let alone how can a computer tell the diffrence between a fake or real smile because people think im happy alot. I usally fake my smile because i am sad on the inside but i look happy on the outside. With me saying that just by looking at a person can be deciving because you never know how the person excatly feels or what is going on in there head so therefore i belive that the facs can not tell a persons emotions. | 2 |
603e4ec | Can you imagine living in a time zone where no one buys cars because they are no longer needed ? The world depend on nothing but technolgy. How would you spend your time? Although there are positive apsects to having a car that drives itself there are also negative aspects to this car. The cars can drive themselves but are unable to drive through traffic jams or raod work . Therefore I am against cars that drive themselves.
Even though the cars are smart enough to drive themselves they are not smart enough to drive on non-smart roads. In the late 1950s GM ,General Motors created a car that could run on a speacial track but the track was enbedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to the car. Therefore all roads would have to require upgrades and this is something that is too expensive. The passage says that the cars can't drive through traffic jams,road contruction and when the vehicle is around danger . So if the driver is not paying attention to the car , the road and others around it then how can the car ,the car would be unable to save itself from crashing. With this being said I believe driverless cars are dangerous and would be way to expensive.
As i said there are benefits to this driverless car , while the car drives it self it provides enteratinment such as sound but when it is time for the driver to take over it turns everything off. This is a great idea because it creates less distraction for the driver.
Imagine driving a driverless car and it shuts down in the middle of traffic ,there is a person driving behind does not notice you are having car troubles and hits you. Whose fault is this accident ? Whose going to pay for the damage?
I feel that there are more downfalls with this idea than great ideas .It is dangerous , too expensive , and takes as much energy and time as driving yourself around. It sounds like a disaster waiting to happen . | 4 |
6040a53 | There are parks place were you need ot pay and other parks places are for free. Let's says that rich residents you need to pay and it will cost more money. In germany there are steets completely car-free and who pay a parking places for who know how much money,that are only who are rich they will do it. Result ,70 percent of vauban families do not own a cars ,and 57 percent sold there cars. who will do that just there car something isn't worlthy and peolpe should think twoas what are they doing. If they don't have a car they should to a transport or someone could take you. That will be less money that you are spending and think about the environmental. Peolpe should think to pay there license plate first or the police will get you. maybe the police could take your car away unitl you need to pay and if you are drinking that could be a problem for you. Drinkig and drive is the wose idea that you ever have or texting to. Using biked,skated or riding a bus isn't that bad at all for some poelpe think that. Those things are for car-free because you don't need to pay at and you are having fu n out in the streets then other peolpe out there in the world. That could save the environment from the gas that come from your car and the smoke that come your car that effect it. Those things will change your life to live and having fun with your family. President Obama want's the united state greenhouse gas emission,unveiled last week,will get a fortuious assist from an incipent shift in american behavior. In the united state we need to change with the cars and having a car is more respesilitly than your family. In april 3013,the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and who know how much percent peolpe that don't have car. Even know car were invinit way in past and who know what willdo without a car .Our lives will change and there many ways to get were we to go places to places. | 2 |
60423f4 | Venus is the sister planet to are home planet of Earth. Venus is the closest planet to Earth and is the closest to the size of Earth. Earth and Venus are said to be sister planets because of theas facters. There is also reson to belive that venus was ones simeler to earth is termas of living condishins . Venus is worth studeang even if the planet is no longer sutibul for life.
Venus was once like earth so what hapend? Now it is one of the most inhbitabul planets in the solersistum with a averige surfes temprituer of over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmosphere that is almost 97 persent cardon dioxide. The geravitashinal pull is also 90 times stronger than that of Earthes geravitashinal pull. Even with theas lnhabital condishens of Venus scientists continue to resertch Venus because of the fact that it was one just like Earth is today.
Even whith the fact that vanis is inhabitabul for human life. there is still so much that we can learn about not only venus but are own planet. NASA has evan been exploring to idea that we send a maned space craft to Venus so that there can be people exsurbing Venus from a close but safe distance. You never know the seacrits that hide on venus may even hold the key to the futcher of are own planet. | 2 |
6044442 | Today in class I read a article on "Driveless Cars Are Cming. I will be writing to tell you if I am against the delevopmet of these Cars. Or I will also be writing to tell you if I am not against the delevopment of these cars.
I am not against the delevopment of these cars because people get the change to see what is like to get in the car and not have to drive themselves around because the car do it for them. They also get the change to see what techonogly can do with a car. I am also not against the driverless car because the car have sensors on them and they are still able to do somethings with the car. Such as Pulling the car in or out the driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navgating through roadwork or accidents because the car will alert them to.
I think this is a good thing because within in 10 years the sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger out-of-control skids or rollover. This is a good thing because no one will get hurt while being in the car. The sensors on the car can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine which is a good thing so the car stop at stop signs, red lights, and when someone is crossing the street. Reducing the power of the engine is a good thing because the car will slow down when it need to.
In conclusion, In my writing I told you about why I am not against the development of thses cars. In my writing I give the detail why I am not against the development of these cars and why I think it was a good idea to make the cars. | 3 |
604667f | Thats stupid because we would have saw them build it and it wasnt created by them its just shadows on a rock. we can prove that they did not make this because
we would have saw it with the sattlites. So please belive me when i say that this rock was not created by alines at all! okay so i heard someone thought there was alines on mars. now im going to be honest from what weve seen there is no such thing yes there may be life on mars but small life. Nothing big enough to build something like this.
The only life on mars may be bacteria Now please whoever is saying there are alines please stop. That will be all today proving another myth There is no such thing as aliens on mars. in the article it says that they were made by shadows bealive me when i say its true. If there was such thangs as aliens dont you think we would have found them by now? like honestly we have been looking for them fo years. and nothing trust me there is no alien life on mars. the face in the photo is even blury and doesnt look right this is becasue of sand and dust all over this. it causes an allusion to make u think that there is a face but in reality its not! the photo in 1976 people say its Not just a coquencedence there is a human face on mars. Picture this looking up in the clouds and seeing an animal its just clouds grouped together to make that image. Aleins didnt make that it happened naturally just like on mars.
now that i have explained that there is no life on maars people will now know the truth. And hopefully i dont have to hear about this again because all people are worried about is are there aliens if there were aliens i think we would have known by now.
And it says in paragraph 8 its just a haze please stop making excusaes for ther eto be alien life on mars! | 2 |
6048a5c | Anytime someone goes out in public they are more than likely on camera. Technology is becoming more and more advance every day and it has a lot of good benefits. This article talks about a new technology called the Facial Action Coding system. The use of this technology reading the students expressions in a classroom is valuabe because it can adjust lessons to their need, can tell if something is wrong, and can read almost all emotions they are feeling.
The use of Facial Action Coding is valuable in the classroom because it can adjust lessons to the students needs. In the article the author says " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.' " This show that this technology would help all students learn in a way that benefits them and not be confused in class, but afraid to say anything. Each student learns at their own pace and by sitting infront of these computers they can learn and actually enjoy learning.
Having this type of technoloy in the classroom is really beneficial because it can tell if something is wrong. In the article it states "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." This show that if a student in the classroom is being bullied or going through bad things at home the computer can read that and send some type of alert out to the teacher. This benefits the student because they teacher would be able to sit down with them and help figure out a way to solve his/her problems or how to seek help.
Using the Facial Action Coding technology in the classroom is very valuable because it can read more than one emotion they are feeling. In the article the author states "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." This shows that when a student sits infront of the computer it will analyze every part of their face to find how much they are feeling of each emotion. Reading all their emotions is quite beneficial because if they suddenly get very angry or sad they teacher could be notified and they could be pulled out of class to ask what is wrong instead of causing a big scene.
Finally, the Facial Action Coding may have its flaws, but it comes out on top with pretty good benefits especially for students. Putting this in classrooms could save a lot of bad things from happening and help our sociecty grow stronger and more intelligent. Giving this a try could be the beginning to a new and better future for kids all over. | 4 |
6051407 | Classroom Emotions
A software that can identify human emotions can be a great thing but would using this in a classroom to read the emotional expressions of students be worth it. This software can be used for many different and great things. This software can identify mixed emotions which could be helpful for people that work in a career that deals with other people all day.
The idea of using this in computer software in classrooms is a bad idea because teachers usually can tell how a student is feeling by the way they are acting in class or even if they just look at the student. High School students usually tell give off the feeling that they don't want to be there. Plus it says in the article that "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile." This means that a schools would most likely spend a lot of money on computers that can run this software for in-class use.
This technology could be useful because in paragraph six it states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This proves a good point but at the same time it doesn't because yes students do get bored or confused frequently, but modifying the lesson for one or two students is not worth the technology. Teachers can try to help the student or students that are confused with the lesson they are given. Teachers could also try to learn the simple instructions that "encode" different emotions to use in the classroom.
In conclusion, using this technology would be a waste of the state's and school's money to purchase computers that could run this technology in class. I am not saying it would not be useful to use in the real world but I am saying it is not a good idea to use in the classrooms of schools. | 3 |
605618c | Limiting car usage is beneficial to more than just the environment, it is also beneficial to humans. With all the pros and very few cons of limiting car usage, it would be impractical to not make the change. Some may argue that it would waste time to limite car usage, however, if widespread limitation of car usage occurs then the way we live will evolve to adapt to life without much car usage, making it far more convenient in the future.
A common misconception is that limiting car use is solely beneficial to the environment. In paragraph three a resident of Vauban is quoted saying, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way" this shows that humans too can take advantage of limiting car use. In common culture today, destinations are far spread out and not compact unless in a large city. This is because it is possible to transport one's self those distances in a car. Limiting car use would effect the suburban culture of being spread out and change it into a more compact, convinient environment.
The obvious reason to limite car usage is to reduce air emissions that would allow us to have a safer earth to live on. Pollution has become a legitimant problem and if change isn't made, then the earth will be changed for the worse. Large cities where cars are abundantly used have a major problem with smog as seen in paragraph ten. In attempt to clear record breaking amounts of smog, Paris enforced a partial driving ban and it worked. This shows that by limiting car use change can be made to our environment for the better.
Without using a car, one would clearly need to find an alternative method of transportation. Common alternatives such as biking or walking spark a much more active lifestyle for those who do so. As seen in paragraph twenty-eight, Bogota sponsors alternate forms of transportation and when this active lifestyle was embraced by the city, it changed the city for the better. As result it is quoted that, "Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." This clearly displays a much healthier, active lifestyle by those who limite car use.
All of these products result in clear advantages caused by one thing, limiting car usage. It would be unsensible to not acknowledge that there is change that needs to be embraced in limiting car use in our society before it is too late to change the culture of driving. | 4 |
6058b9a | The author emphasis how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is very important to Astronomers. "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" mainly supports how Venus is worth the riskand challenge to explore to see if it's as much like Earth as it's said to be, because it is close to Earth in size and density, has similiar geographics, and is known as Earth's sister planet.
First, Venus is set up with similar distancing as Earth it's sometimes often referred to as "Earth's twin". The text says that "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." Venus is so similar to Earth, but yet so challenging to explore.
Second, just like Earth Venus has mountains and valleys. Some might even say long ago there were oceans, because the text says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like Earth."
Then, Venus is known to be Earth's sister planet! Venus has always been the closest planet to Earth other than Mars, but if Venus is so much like Earth astronomers can't figure out why it's so much more inhospitable than Earth.
In conclusion, Venus is a very challenging place to see and be. Venus has not been touched in more than 30 years! In the text it says ".. not a singlr spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." So although Venus is the sister of Earth astronomers know very little about her. So they keep in pursuit to learn more despite the dangers it presents everytime. | 3 |
60590d4 | Limiting cars usage is a great idea. I believe that if we all come together and stop driving for a day, it will stop the pollution that is hurting the air we breath.
As Americans, we should be very concerned about the air we breath. Sometimes, we need our cars to go to different places in a great distance such as a relative place or even work. But on the other hand, we will get in our car and drive just to go to the store within a mile from our home. We should just walk. Limiting cars just might be the right idea.
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When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way..." (Source 1) Cars, in my opinion, it a accident waiting to happen. Car accidents, Hit-and-runs and all types of other indcidents with cars are a big stresser. Walking is much safer if you take the right precautions. You can get the exercise you need without the hassle of going on Weight Watcher or Jenny Craig. Just put the keys down for a day and walk!
"It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."(Source 3) Limit cars, limit stress and limit the pollution that is hurting our eco system.
However, there still is a question unanswered: how will we get to the place we need to go thats not in walking distance? Limiting cars may save our ecosystem, but some people have to get to and from work or the doctor that is not in walking distance. For example, each day, my mom has to get to work in Tampa,FL. She has to take the expressway to get to where she is going. So what is she suppose to do? Walk? No. But on the better side of things, she can always take the bus or car-pool with her co-workers. Theres alway a better way to stop the pollution and save the ecosystem.
This shows that we can all come together and do something positive for our fellow Americans and Mother Earth.
Limiting cars have more good advantages than disadvantages. We have to save the world from harmful thing. Limiting cars limits the time and money of people. Thats why when you limit cars, you limit stress. So take a walk and save the world! | 3 |
605e033 | Wouldn't you want to be in control of your own saftey? I would, with driverless cars the driver will never be in charge of that. They are very dangerous and could cause damage to not only the driver but others around them. Just like all technology it could have a slip up that could cause people their lifes.
There are many different reasons why the driverless car is a bad idea, mostly it has to do with who has control. With technology something could always go wrong, in this case the driver could have no control, or the driver could have control when they were not ready. Both of these issues could cause a wreck to accure.
In paragragh 7 it talks about ways that the car can tell the driver when it needs to take over. Such as seats that vibrate to tell the driver that he or she needs to take over. Would this seat wake the driver up if the driver had fallen asleep? A vibrating seat would not wake some people up, also it might help some people sleep more. This is a good example of paragragh 8 when it says, "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" While waiting to drive many drivers could fall asleep and the car could possibly not wake them up, possibly costing the driver their life. Now yes in paragragh 7 it says that the car could have a special touch sensor in the steering wheel to make sure the driver is alert. The only problem there is, what if the driver has his hands on the wheel, but isn't alert? What if the sensor malfuntions and can't tell if the driver is alert? Both of these questions could cause a problem for the driver.
In the end I think that cars should be driven the old fassion way, where the car is controled by the driver and nothing else. That way there is no mistake of whether an accident is the driver's or cars fault. | 3 |
605f34f | What I would say to a person who thinks that the face on Mars was created by aliens is this , for one we have never found any living things besides bateria and organisims on another plant. The reason why I say this is because NASA has no proof besides what they think is a face created by aliens on Mars. I have watched many shows about space and other shows like Brian Games. Brian Games had a show about faces, and it said that you can see an object and make it look human or make it look like a face, such as a specific flower that might look like a face. This is what those scientists are doing in this very situation. They are mistaking a natural made land form on Mars as an alien build face. There are many ways this landform could have been made. It could have been made by wind and rocks blowing across what you could say is a landscape. As you can see from the landform is that it has faided away over time and now looks like a lump of sand, which wouldn't you think if aliens made that they would fix it up and make it look like a face again? So this is my argument on why I believe that this is just a natural made landform. | 2 |
606be34 | Timmy thinks the faces on Mars were created by aliens,but i keep telling him its just natural landforms that we made and it looks like faces. It happens even on Earth, it is common around the American west. In the viking photo they didn't have that well equitment to see what it actually was, so they thought it was created by aleins. In 2001, NASA wanter to show the world and the captioned a note by it saying "huge rock formation," but people just saw a face because of the shadows in it. The authors reasoned it to be a good idea to engage people and give attention to Mars.
The "Faces on Mars" started to become popular, they started to make movies, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines. In April 1998 they flew over it again, they had better technology,and they didn't see a face all they saw was a natural landform. Then in 2001 they did it again and didn't see anything just the landform and they had much better technology where you could see a small shack and nothing was there.
These Faces were just landforms that had a shadow that made it look like a face.
Every plantet has weird landforms, and they didn't really have good techlology back then. Now they have alot better technology were they can drive robots on mars and see all these weird landforms and see if there is aliens. | 2 |
606dcef | Potentially you would think OH GREAT DRIVERLESS CARS! But these cars aren't completely driverless as mentioned in paragraph 7 and the bad thing is you really don't know how great its' manufactured mentioned in paragraph 9 for these reasons im out. There are many negatives as well as positives the positives include so many great things like you have this car driving all by its self to a certain extent, we have all these cars in the time that has passed by and a sensor is one of the oldest safety tools we have used since the 1980's as seen in paragraph 5 and prices are sky high in 2016 so some people may not be able to aford these smart cars wheres all the safety they so called want its' more in favor of money regardless if your real goal is to be safe or not because these cars are the next step to a new generation. If you think it's cheap to build and program a smart car you have another thing coming because it takes many years to develope the idea anyway so thats including every financial risk the people who developed this car would be dirt poor if they werent approved or make enough money to finance all of the product for the car such as the newer Kias have beats systems installed in them which we all know the headphones are 300 dollars a pop so how much is it to be installed in the cars? I dont exactly have an answer for that but it should be figured pretty easily either its commercialized or they payed a lot and commercialized to have this product in their cars. Now back to the smart driverless cars like i said there are positives to this which include the ones that work right and all the safety they contain if you relax and still watch the road you can have a nice conversation with your family and not feel so pressured or rushed and as said in paragraph 5 the sensors i mentioned at the beginning are developing drastically as the years go by in just 10 short years which may seem like a long time but in that time the creation of antilock breaks was born and it only progressed from there with each sensor made a new idea came along and with each car that progressed people just want more but ask your self are you for or against? and is this smart car thing really a good idea? | 3 |
6073945 | 2020 can't come fast enough. 2020 is the year that Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves. Tesla has projected a 2016 (this year) release for a car capable of driving on autopilot ninety percent of the time. Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific condition since 2009. You could do so much more when you have an independent driving car that you can with a non-independent car, if something is about to happen, you will be warned and it uses half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility that a bus. Beacause of the reasons previously mentioned, I stand in firm affirmation of the development of driverless cars.
When you drive a driverless car, you can do so much more with you time in the car. If and when driverless cars become a thing, texting/talking while driving laws could be abolished. But by 2020, texting might even be obsolete and we might be just speaking to the phone while it types for us. We've all known girls who do their make-up in the car on their way to their destination. With non driverless cars, this is extremely dangerous to the driver, the passengers, other cars, and pedestrians. Even though most girls know the danger of this, they haven't stopped, so why not make is safer when they do do it?
If something were to happen on the road like an accident ahead, road blocks, consruction, etc., the driver would be warned before hand. The warning could be a number of thing, whether that be a vibration in the seat or a beep.
Self-driving cars are so much more eco-friendly than regular non self-driving cars. They use half the fuel of today's taxis. Think of how much fuel that would save America. Less fuel used means less pollution in the sky and it might even help with global-warming. Think of the polar bears and other endangered species!
Self-driving cars are a good thing. You could do so much more when you have an independent driving car that you can with a non-independent car, if something is about to happen, you will be warned and it uses half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility that a bus. Beacause of the reasons previously mentioned, I stand in firm affirmation of the development of driverless cars. | 3 |
60782e9 | Driveless cars, it's crazy to think but could this dream actually become a reality? Self driving cars have been talked about and pictured in many films many times. But would self driving cars be a bad thing? I think that self driving cars would be good and bad.
I think that if we had self driving cars we would have less recks and less traffic jams. If we had self driving cars then it would be safer atleast that is what everyone thinks. But what if an engine dies how would the car react to that would it go all crazy and reck or would it just slow down and stop? Self driving cars would be a very big step in our world.
But one question I have would be what would happen if someone still wants to drive their car and not ride in the self driving car? Would they have a special lane for those people or would they just drive where the self driving cars drive? It says in the article that they might even use special roads too, would the regular cars drive on that?
I think that having self driving cars would be awesome. But could you drive across the country without driving? I think if they could do that a lot more people would rent or buy a self driving car to go on vacations, and I might be one of those people too.
Self driving cars are determined to be in the future so that the world could be a safer place. But where all will it be? Would it be just in the big cities or would it be everywhere? Would they build the highly advanced roads everywhere or just in the big cities? Another question that I would have with these is, what happens if someone would run across the road would they be hit or would the car stop on its own?
I think that with self driving cars our would would be safer but I also think that it would be a little bit more crazy. Self driving cars would be a great step in humanity and technology. | 3 |
607c2ee | Have you ever walked to work or have you rode a bike to work? Many people dont,then again many people do. For example in New York there is a new bike-sharing program for people who perfer to ride a bicycle to get to poing A to point B. There are many other alternitives to getting to point B from point A like Mr. Sivak has said "A car is just a means of getting from A to B when BART doesen't work.".
In Paris the usage of cars has lead to days of near-record pollution rivaled by Beijing,China. Paris has worked to fix this problem by banning the usage of cars on certain days acording to their license plates. For example on mondays motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars,if one did not listen they would be fined 22-euros. That day almost 4,000 drivers were fined. Due to this new ban congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France.
In another part of the world in Vauban, Germany there is a suburb that has had Street parking, driveways and home garages forbiden. This german suburb is completly car free with an exception of thoroughfare. Car ownership is allowed, but it is highly inconviniant for the owners. As a result, 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars. Vauban is an example of a growing trend in Europe.
In conclusion, there are many alternitives to getting around place to place. Such as riding bicycles and taking publick transportation in New York, Paris, Germany. | 2 |
607cd44 | In "the challenge of exploring venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit bespite the dangers, becuase like they said in the story they have found that the equitment they had sent never survived longer then a few hours. no space ship has been able to land on Venus n more than 3 decades. When the author tells us this he uses evendance to support his clam, they would have reserched that Astronimers are very intrested
becuase they think it might have been the most earthy planet there ever excisted. The author makes it very clear that althought the dangers of the trip to Venus it might be good to see how it is and see what is there, the sientest think that there might have been water like ocens there before.
Fristly, the auther provides of with information about the dangers of Venus and how the atmosher. In the story it states, "...temperaturs averge over 800 degrees farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater thenwhat we experience on our planet." (Paragragh 3) When they put this in there it gives the read more illistration on how the planet is. It can give them more of a visuall look for the reader to picture it. The auther also says that , "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting valcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes..." (paragragh 3) This explains that venus might be that hot bc of all of the thing that are happening there.
Secondly, the auther provides what NASA has been thinking and how they might be sending some people to study more further. In the story it states, " the national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) has one Particlarly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus." (paragragh 5) This explains that they might have to send people to study further into Venus to see what is like and everything they might need to know, like for example the reson being why the spaceships can not land and servive.
Lastly, the auther also includes in more detail what its like and how much damage it can cause in disasters. In the story it states, " Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin." (paragragh 7) This can also explain and make a visuael example to help the reader out in explainsing what the heat in venus can do. They can be more aware of the dangerus dangers that Venus can comit.
In conclustion the auther does a very good job in explaing the danges and telling us the opinion of people that have done some exploration in Venus before.
They provide good examples in the text they maneged to get information from NASA and sientest. The author also provided were Venus is located and how far away it is from earth. So this is a good way to support this idea of Venus. | 4 |
60852b4 | I would be on boat and agree to do this in schools because its not a bad idea helps us students get a better education if you really think about it becuase it won't take 30 mins wasting class time on to log in to a computer if you scan your face it would be alot easier to sigh in and get straight to the lesson.
This idea can also help kids because in the text is told us that the computer can read are facial expression and the computer can read all 44 of your face muscles which it can help too see if someone id down and the teachers ca see that the compter is telling them somehting is going on maybe at home or theres a problem going. Maybe this new thing can help stop bullying or seek people with depression and see if that student need help. But how is this face scan going to work in the first place? Well my guess is the camera so then it can stop theif because if someone tried to login without your permission you can see who it was maybe even contact the police.
I would go for this idea just help everything get easier because who knows maybe this can happen and everyone can get a laptop education would be fun and kids would maybe pay attention more so its taking 2 birds with one stone alos can stop kids from horse playing around keep children on task. Maybe even make the teachers job easier. | 2 |
608a467 | Can you imagine a time in the future where driveless cars exist?Such cars could fundamentlly change the world.From my position I don't really think that they are a good idea.
Even though they can be be fasinating ,in most states it is illegal to test computer driven cars.It could be dangerouse and something could go wrong.Not evereybody approves driveless cars.
Traffic laws would have to change.A lot of people would not be happy if traffic laws were changed just so other people could have driveless cars.There could be alot of accidents if the traffic laws change.
If the technology fails and someone is injusred whose fault is it,the driver or the manufacturer?If the manufacturers were blamed they could be sewd and they could loose alot of money.On the other hand
the driver could get blamed without fault and that would not be fair to them.You would not know who to blame.
Even though driveless cars can be fascinating to people they might not be the greatest idea. | 2 |
608ace7 | The Facial Action Coding System is should not be use in classroom, or in anywhere. It's not good to know how everyone feels about each others, because if we do know how we feel about each other we will all hate each other. Even for a computer it's not good to know how humans feels about the other human, only polices should have this device because if the polices cought bad guys they will use it to them. According to Prof. Thomas Huang this device can recognize the subtle facial movements humans use to express how humans feel. However, this device is still not trust worthty because if this device did not tell the truth every would hate each other. A computer that knows when you're happy or sad is not good for humans. For example, if this Facial Action Coding System could be use in humans kids will not have go to school anymore because they will start doing something else. The Facial Action Coding System should not be use in anywhere. | 2 |
608dab7 | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author did suggest that studying Venus is a wotrthy of pursuit despite the dangers it presents. He stated example of the circumstances and problems that can possibly happen when trying to explore other planets such as Venus and he did not just state the problem but also put in the benefits on when we keep trying and not give up, we could actually get evidence and answers on what we are looking for.
The author supports the idea on the fact that "exploring Venus might be dangerous but worth it," very well when looking back at the passage. One evidence in the article that supports his claim is, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." It says in the article that Venus was like Earth once and it had the source of water in it and had in fact supported various forms of life, so I think that this is very importat because we don't know what might happen to our planet Earth, it is not in our ability to control changes on Earth and that is why it is good to know that even though it might change, we have a second option to know that we can always go to a different planet to survive.
Another evidence that the author had said in the passage was ,"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."
Once again, it might take us forver to get answers for our questions and get what we are looking for but throughout the process everyone learns and somehow it will lead us into many more things more than exploring Venus, it might help us with other things that we do not have evidence for yet.
In conclusion, the author did a great job on expressing his thoughts on his idea. He was very specific with it and had evidence that I also explained earlier to show people that it is going to be dangerous, some people might just give up because they see no point in doing it, they have been searching for too long and have not found anything but I know that it will be worth it, it might not be today but sooner or later it will be. | 3 |
6093fe0 | Not a single spacecraft has touched down on Venus in more than three decades! Have you ever wonder why we know so little about Venus and more about Mars? Well one of the reasons why not a single spacecraft has landed on Venus is becaiuse it has a thick tmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Whicn resulted on the spacecraft survinving the landing for more than a few hours.
There's a few scientists and people who believe that the studing of Venus is a worthy pursuit depite the kind of dangers it might cause. the athour sopports his idea that studing Venus is worthy when he said that striving to meet the chanllenge that is prensented by Venus it has value, not just because of the insight to be gained. But also because human's curiosity will likely lead us into many equally as statend in (pragraph 7)
In conlusion, we should study Venus more because it will help us learn new information. Also because it's a like earth a lot they both have same density and size. And it's also the closest distance to Earth, but most importantly we should study it because it might make us discover something new like a creature pobrably and might be able to discover new rocks. If scientist do decide to send a spacecraft to Venus it might take decades to do that find out about Venus or find a way to make the landing last longer. All in all the Author has good suporting details about his idea that im sure will happen because as human beings we are alwasy cuorius about new things. | 2 |
6094ebe | I personaly think this new technology that is able to detect people's emotions is valuable. It can calculate emotions by a 3-D computer model of a face. It has so many emotions that it can detect. It can detect your emotion even if you're hiding it. A computer can detect when you're changing your emotion to another. An comuter works like any math homework. You can write things down.
When you write some instructions down it can "encode" different emotions. It can come in handy if you're wondering what someone emotion are even though you can call someone on your cellphone on facetime and you can see and talk to them at the same time. This new technology is like a new generation of things to get better and easier. This new thing lets people know how you're feeling even though they cannot see you and they didn't tell you. It's amazed people of how new and different it is.
You can thank Dr. Huang and his college experts for coming up with this new idea. Also Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of FACS. He had classified six basic emotions which are - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Which he also associated each with characteristic movements of the facial expression/ muscle. Dr. Huang put up a video using imagery. | 2 |
609b8b9 | Limiting car usage.
In todays society, almost everybody relies on automobiles to get them to where they need to go. They help us get from point A to point B quicker than walking or riding a bike. Sadly though, the truth is that automobiles account for a large percentage of airborn pollution. The toxic fumes that cars emmit are extremely dangerous to the atmosphere and the enviorment. That is why I think it is so important that we try to limit automobile usage.
Its is a known fact that cars cause pollution. Its common sense. There is no point in me elaborationg any further on that. We as a species are substantially harmful to our home planet. Our obsession and constant use of cars further prooves this point. Limting car usage could drastically cut down on the pollution that we cause.
Another overlooked advantage of limiting car usage would be the cut down in stress that one feels. Constantly relying on and maintianing a well working car can be quite stressful. There is a lot of time and money that goes into keeping a well working automobile. This can cause lots of frustatration that is not healthy for anyone to experience.
Lets not forget the constant commuting and traffic that the autombile lifestyle is a part of. Every single day, millions of Americans are forced to wait hours and hours in traffic to get to thier jobs. Think about how quick it would take if you didnt have to wait in traffic. Not to mention, as we stated in the second paragraph, It would greatly cut down on pollution. Imagine if everyone who was commuting to work with you in traffic found another way to get to work. Think about how much air pollution that would cut down on.
The fact of the matter is that we need to cut down on car usage. I am not denying how great cars are. They make our lives substantially easier. I am merely saying that we need to cut down on the rate in which we use them. We need to be more conscious about the decisions that we make today in order to garuntee a safe and prosperous world for our future. Cutting down on automobile usage, thus cutting down on air pollution, can help make this come true. | 3 |
609bb56 | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" definitely uses a lot of big words to describe the difficulties and other details of venus in general, but do they know what they are talking about? By carefully examining the text and pondering their ideas of the planets surface and difficuties of gaining access to venus , one could definitely say that yes, the author does support their idea very well. But this is a planet that can crush submarines like soda cans.
The author does prove some interesting points about the planets terrain and how we could work to develop technology for it. The author supports their ideas about the planet in a way that is hard for me to make an argument over, and uses information that is soid to the point where you don't want to try fact checking them. While they use counter arguments to violent conditions on the surface of the foreign planet, such as the idea of solar energy to use the powerful radiation. The author definitely knows what they are talking about, and sounds like they have some experience in debate.
The author claims that the limits of these terrifying endeavors should not be limited by the planets harsh conditions. The author also claims that the planet is hot enough to melt most types of metal. Those two statements counter each other due to the question of how we would get a material that can't melt in order to build safety equipment. While the author has some things that need explained more in depth, they definitely know how to prove a point. | 3 |
609e29f | Dear state senator,
I belive we should change the way for election .Under the electoral colloge system voters vote for a state of electors who turn elect the president, and that not right . Say if i were to buy a big pizza ,and it was cut into 4 big pices and 8 small. The 8 people ate there pizza but it didnt really matter but when the the other 4 people ate there pizza it did . ok say if i weree to have a even pizza 4/4 . one half where the people and the other half was the big people in charge so u can say....no matter what the people say its only going to have like 25/100 effect.
After reading a text its says "when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually vothing for a slate of electors''. other reason u should change the electon collge is lack of democratic pedigree are all reason that this is not reliable. despite its almost happing its not really a good way to do it. am give i an exaple Obama recived 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 precent of the popular votes. | 2 |
60a22b9 | It sounds great to live a life where cars drive themself. Just imagine all you have to do is turn it on and off and that's it. What a scientific advancement it would be to have a mechine be able to respone while moving like humans do on the daily. It's probably hard for you to believe in a world like this, but honestly humans aren't far from having this belief into reality.
Google has already had cars that can drive on their own if the conditions never changes. Like, if there were no accidents, word works, parking in and going out of driveways, and other complicated traffic issues. So far, humans are the only ones to be able to think rational if something new happens on the roads; which something new could happen any day.
Another way of making driverless cars is by making smarter roads. In the late 1950s, General Motors created a car that could on a special test track. The roads had electrical cables that would send radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car. Also, an engineering team at Berkeley tired something similar to smart roads by using magnets with alternating polarity.The only down side to these ideas are it's required massive upgrades to existing road, making this idea way to expensive
An argument to the idea of driverless cars is it's has to much of a risk factory of someone being injuried. If we take step to make sure it has the ablity to perform like a humans does to every roadblocker that we lie ahead of them; then it should be able to be use. I believe it would be a great idea to have such cars. Also, i believe it will be soon that humans discover the way of doing this. | 3 |
60a385e | The Face on Mars is not a legitimate face or a creation of aliens. Conspiracy theorists seem to think it really is. The landform is comparable to the multitude or butte or mesa landforms found here on Earth. The picture taken in 2001 has three times the pixels sizes compared to the pixels in '76, also if this Martian landform was indeed crafted by aliens it would benefit NASA a lot.
The Face on Mars can be compared to the lot of landforms in the Western America. One scientists, Garvin, recalled "it reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River in the Snake RIver Plain of Idaho." This can also be a reminder of other landforms, such as the Appilachian Mountain or Old Faithful- the water geyser at Yosemite National Park. In Cydonia, there are also quite a few odd landforms. The Face is just another one of the many unexplainable formations on Mars.
The day the picture of the Face was taken, the people in the spacecraft had to go through many misty clouds. That day was a cloudy day on Mars. The picture taken had three times the pixels than the picture taken in April of 1998.The picture was clearer and one could see that the shadows that creates the parts
of the face are just only shadows. The only unusual thing about it was that it looked "like an Egyptian Pharoh."
The main reason conspiracy theorists would believe the Face in an alien craft is because it is an unusual landform. NASA scientists wanted more attention toward Mars and they wish there really was an Ancient Martian colony. It would benefit NASA and its funding.
One now can come to the conclusion that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. The Martian landform is quite similar to the ones found in western America. The original picture taken in '76 had less pixels making the picture appear odd, and if this was a formation created by aliens, NASA would use it as a benefit. | 3 |
60a7049 | Usage of cars has been decreasing due to the effects it can have on the environment and the opinions of the public. Driving has had a major impact on the atmosphere due to it's polluting effects. Smog covers highly populated cities where driving is just another way of carrying out everyday-life. Though transportation by car has been a huge help in economic progress, it still comes with a price.
If we had no cars there would be less deaths, decreased enviromental instability, and shorter use for our limited amount of fuel. Texting/drinking and driving are some of the biggest causes of death in vehicles. The number of deaths caused by texting or drinking when driving has skyrocketed over the years. These areas where driving is prohibited are probably very safe places and the number of deaths brought about by driving are most likely little to none.
But life without cars can pose for some serious problems. Yes, it may cause fewer deaths and decrease pollution. But, it will also bring about issues such as; limited transportation of goods, infestation of the homeless (not a joke), and many inexperienced drivers when they are needed. In war, mobile transportation by car or truck is often needed. If people who can't drive are appointed to tasks such as driving, they won't be much help and could make things worse. Yes, they could be taught but time is not everlasting.
But all negatives aside, the suburban areas of the world could become much safer places without cars. No kids would get accidentily ran-over when their ball rolls into the street and the try to retrieve it. It would just be a much safer environment. Teens have no interest in learning to drive nowadays because they're either too lazy, or they see the effects it has on the world. of course trains and emergency transportation will be needed though. But regular cars and vehicles aren't a neccessary attribute to everyday life.
In conclusion, cars that don't serve a neccessary purpose aren't needed. What are the cars that do? Those vehicles would be firetrucks, ambulances, and other emergency vehicles. But cars ment for our own personal transportation can be left out of the picture. Now if only we could do the same about drugs... | 2 |
60acb0c | Autonomous vehicles are slowly becoming a thing of the present rather than just the future. There are several things that must be taken into consideration when it comes to self driving cars. Things like safety, customer base, retail price, and the positive/ negative affects of autonomous vehicles.
First off, How safe do you feel on a rollercoaster or on something that you aren't controlling? You might get that nervous feeling when you first step foot in a self driving car. These vehicles need to be safer than a rubber room, because if not, who's going to step up and take the blame for a gruesome accident? I can forsee lots of drivers blaming/ sueing self driving car compaies for that exact reason. Most of the companies who are developing self driving cars are giving the driver the option to take over when neccessary. They actually reccomend you take over whenever you feel danger on the road. To get these things on the market there are several steps that must be taken, including, driving laws.
In many states, testing of autonomous vehicles is illegal. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have been allowed limited testing on such vehicles. More states will join in once its proved that these cars are reliably safe. They can steer, brake, and accelerate by themselves but are programmed to give control to the driver whenever it is needed. Drivers must be alert at all times in order for these to be successful. People might think this is an easier way of driving, which it is but it doesn't take away the fact that you could still be badly injured or even killed. So alertness is always required.
I think these vehicles could be a hit but several crucial details need to be straightened out before any everyday customer can purchase one. The leading companies on this project are very far away from making autonomous vehicles a hit among mainstream drivers but, I do believe sometime in the future we will have the option to purchase a self driving car. | 4 |
60add36 | The article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" Describes the wonders of a new technology known as the Facial Action Coding System, which enables the computer to identify human emotions. This article brings to light the idea that this could be useful in a classroom environment to make computers more effective in teaching lessons as it could recognize if the student is bored. This is a good idea, because not only will it keep students on task, it will also encourage students to pay more attention in the future.
The main reason this technology could prove useful to a classroom environment is, as the article states, the fact that the student's computer could notice if he/she is becoming bored or confused. This allows the computer to react accordingly to grab the students attention just like an effective teacher. Keeping the student focused on the computer makes the lesson more through and easier to learn.
Some may argue that the computer can misunderstand or even tricked by false expression. However, it says in the article that by studying how the muscles act when revealing a normal vs a fake smile, the computer easily identified what a fake smile was. This renders the use of fake expressions obsolete, allowing the computer to affectively teach and recognize student needs.
In conclusion, this technology is may not only keep students, it will encourage student to devote more time to their education. The tech will not only recognize genuine sign of boredom and confusion, it will also identify whether it is being decieved or not. | 3 |
60b1652 | You should join the program because you can help people and animals. You can travel across the country and get to see many animals in the ocean! If you join you get to love the people you help and love the animals you help! You also get to have fun on the boat you are on traveling on, like play table tennis, vollyball, boxing, and more!
Luke Bomberger set the world record for going on nine trips. See, you can do that to if you join the Seagoing Cowboys. You can change peoples lifes just like Luke Bomberger did to the people he helped. Luke said that it opened the world to him because of the things he did to change the people's lives. It made him aware of the things going on in this world and it can make you aware of what is going on in the world too.
In-conclusion, always want to do what Luke Bomberger did, join the Seagoing Cowboys program, and help many of people and animals. That is why I would join the Seagoing Cowboys, to help as many people as I can and set a world record of 12 trips! Also to help children, and parents get through of what they loss in the war! That is my opinion of Seagoing Cowboys! | 2 |
60b34ba | Venus is the second planet from our sun, and it is periodically referred to as earth's twin. Both planets have the same size and density, but the similarities stop there. The atmosphere of Venus consists of 97% carbon doxide, clouds of sulfuric acid, and the hottest surface temperetue of any planet orbitting the sun. Despite this, scientists have tried to send unmanned spacecrafts to the surface of Venus. Scientists think that Venus may have been the most earthlike planet, with the planets surface like valleys and mountains and possible evidence of oceans that may have existed long ago. The author believes that it is worthy to continue trying to explore Venus despite its dangers.
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by explaining the similarities that Venus has with the Earth and indicating that Venus is the closest planet to the Earth. In the text it states, "...Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth" This quote supports my claim because the author gives some evidence that Venus had some sort of body of water. The author might believe that Veus can be habitable. Another piece of information supporting my claim states, " ...recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." This quote supports my claim because the author believes that if the Earth becomes a place that does not support life, the studies of Venus can help us understand and mve if necessary.
Venus can be Earth's evil twin, with its poisonous atmosphere and extremely horrific temperatures. The author still believes that research should continue given the similarites between Earth and Venus. He believes that Venus is presenting a challenge and one day, with technology, scientists will be able to overcome it. Perhaps one day we will visit Earth's twin. | 3 |
60b50a1 | Luke reason he joined the program was because he had two part time joby and his friends where going and they asked him if he wanted to go. And Luke could not say no so he went. And he would be missing an opportunity in his life time. Lukes 2 part time jobs where working at a store and a bank.
It was 1945 world war 2 Luke and Don signed up to feed the animals. They has to fees 335 horses. They also had to feed cows, and mules that they had to feed.
It was August 1945 , The boys just recived their order reports to new Orlans.
Luke is now 18 year sold Luke said that they had a sight seeing of Europe and China. It took 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean. And It took a month to get to China.
Luke surved as a night watch man. He had to feed the animals every hour. So that way they did not have to starve. And cry all night for food and water to eat and drink.
A small strip of metal along the edge stopped his slide, keeping him from flying overboard into the dark Atlantic.
He was happy to be alive. But he couldnt work for a couple of days because of cracked ribs.
Luke also found time to have fun and he got to play volleyball, table tennis,boxing and fencing but this happend after they unloaded the animals then they got to have fun and enjoy their time.
Luke crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and he crossed the PAcific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War 2. | 1 |
60bdd6f | I thinkl that you should keep electoral college because qualified citizens chose it obvisliy. But besides that reason you should have it's a easy compromise to vote. It helps you choose your state's electors when you vote for president because you are actullay voting for your candidates electors. Under the system of electoral college voters vote not for presdint ,but for a slate of electors instead. It could help us undersatnd voting for our electors if you keep electoral voting. Even though some say that this was the 2000 fisaco was the biggest election crisis in a century. The system could of had worse. I think it helps with voting more than anything else instead of the online voting for the slate electors.
Some also so it should be abloished and that it's unfair and very irrantional, it has helped more than do any damage to any other type of voting like that tabs we once used to vote for everything. We should keep it because of its certanity of outcome because it helps when there is a tie on voting. "Swing States" are anthor reason because of the winner takes all method we sawin 2012's election to focus their campaign efforts on the toss up states ,it help us out because at the end of paragraph 20 it says the most thoughful voters should be the ones to decide the election with electoral college. It does also big states electoral college restores some of the weigth in the political balance that large states lose by virtue.
It does also help with run-off elections it helps avoid the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. It says that it may turn off voters for a candidate who has no hopes of carrrying their state. Those are my reasons why you shouldn't get rid of electoral voting hopfully you will condsier it. | 3 |
60bee14 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" technology is used to read the emotional expressions of people called the Facial Action Coding System, I think that it is a very useful thing because with this you have so many advantages like being able to tell if a student likes a lesson or is bored with it.
When using Facial Action Coding System their are many good reasons to use it for example paragraph 6 says "if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similiar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next add will be different. also classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, and could modify the lesson for the student. FACS works by whatching 44 major muscles in your face to see how they move to determine your expression.
Although this is a great tool to use when trying to teach students it is probably very expensive to have it installed into computers for students nationwide. Also some poeple may not like the fact that they are a computer is able to read their emotions and may reject this tool. For some students it may not even help them and would rather talk to a teacher for help rather than use a computer.
Even though there are some down sides to using Facial Action Coding System it is still a very good tool to use in the classroom or anywhere needed. FACS can classify six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness just by seeing the the movements of your facial muscles.
I think that using this tool is a great way to improve several things and by looking at my examples I have shown that using technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is a very valuable tool. | 3 |
60c16c2 | Luke said that he could not have said no. He thought it would be a opportunity of a lifetime,he was right. Luke had lots of fun in all his sea trips. He helped a lot of people and almost died but survived. He traveled aroud the world. he had fun in the middle of there voyage. He crossed the Atlantic ocean and the the Panama Canal.
They crossed the Atlantic Ocean,and in return they played baseball and volleyball. Luke also said that they found lots of time to do fun thing. Luke was proud that he help all the horses and Greece. They had fun work,Luke was a watch man witch is not as hard as othere jobs. But being a seagoing cowboy was much more than a adventure for Luke. It opened up his world
Luke probably liked helping with the animals,because He helped his grandmother with her farm. Luke helped horses,young cows,and mules. When that was over it opened his world and his heart. That was a big opportunity for a big act of kindness. He helped countries in their needs. Luke had a good time and a real good heart because he could have said no but he didn't.
Luke had a lot of fun in this ones in a lifetime adventure. Luke said that the cattle-boat trips were an unbelivable awesome. Luke traveled to Italy,China,and Europe. the most speical place he went was in Acropolis in Greece. The other trips were good but that was special. He injoyed the city with streets of water. Also injoyed the Panama Canal and the excavated castle in Crete.
That is why Luke joined the UNRRA also called the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke said in the begining that his life changed. It changed a lot because of all of the good deeds. Luke injoyed that trip and was proud and grateful for that oppotunity. That is why Luke injoyed and will never take back that chose that changed his life. | 1 |
60cd095 | a claim for this using technology is that we can use another electronic devices like ipads, phones, ect, no just the computer to read students emotional expressions.
Ex.
"For intances, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face".(5)
Well just imagine some electronics devices that can know how you feel on that moment or if you are angry or sad things like that. That would be good for real because literraly robots know how you are and that is crazy because that is like a electronic device talk to you.
Ex.
"If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different".(6)
That can be relly good and funny because that can make you happy if you are sad and imagine that the electronic device tell you "Smile don't be sad and be fun" in my opinion that would be good too. If that happen a lot of people would be happy because that is a really good stuff to make the people happy.
If i could create a electronic device i would create like a phone, a computer or pc with that thing of know if the people are sad or something like that because that is cool. If i can do that something on my life i will do it because i dont like to see the poeple sad, angry or whatever. | 2 |
60d3f68 | In the booming world today, transportaion is essential. Trying to imagine life without cars for some people is like trying to imagine life without food or water, but cars arent ass essential as we think. But even if you drive a smart car or hybrid, emissions from these cars still affect the world around us. Lowered car use would help this improve. Using less cars would also have more benefits for all of us.
People in a samll town of VAUBAN, Germany have already stopped use of cars. People report to be "Happier without them." Lowering the use of cars would also prevent so much smog in the air. In Paris, France, the warm days and cold night would trap the smog in the air. in order to reduce the amount of smog in the air, on monday drivers with even-numbered liscense plates had to leave their cars at home or face a $31 fine. Then on tuesday, motorists with odd numbered lisence plates had to do the same. This led to decreases in the amount of smog in the air. The warm days and cold night would trap the smog in the air. Another instance is in Bogota, Comlubia, where there was a car-free day. According to buisnessman Carlos Arturo Plaze, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and to lower the air pollution." This has led to newer sidewalks being paved, and new restraunts and upscale shopping districts to pop up all over the city.
Less cars mean less greenhouse gas emissions, which inturn help our environment. It also leads to less stress and deaths among the people in the city. Less cars are the future of our world, and its not too late to start to help our environment and to help better ourselves. | 3 |
60d442a | Dear Senator,
I urge you to change to elrection by popular vote. I feel that we have out grown the Electoral College and need a change. I think it would be more fair for everybody to if we elect a president by popular vote because of the disaster factor. Electors could always defy the will for people. It is possible with the Electoral College That the most popular vote could no go to the most popular vote.
Does it seem fair that people will not get whome the majority vote for. The fact that this could happen scares me to be quite honest. The Electoral College is out dated and irrational. Even the best argumentsin favor are without much basis in reality.
I ask you to rethink the Electoral College. It is outdated and I think that we need a change. This change could be really benificial and would be in everyones best intrest. | 2 |
60d538c | So alot of people think that "The Face on Mars" is an alien type of structure. People say this kind of things becuase they have no proof that it's a formation just like earth have formations.
Im here to tell you people that thats a type of formation that happens. Like Garvin said its a type of landform that happens in the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. Im gonna tell you why i agree. Us as a NASA team we work hard to solve what it was such as reasearch, scientists working, and our team that snapped the picture. All of us tried to figure out what it was yes we might of thought that it was some type of alien structure but like i said working hard got us where we needed to be. After what we needed to figure out we realized that it wasn't some alien structure using the "Rule of Thumb" we saw the picture 3 times bigger. After we saw that image we atoumatically realized that it was a simple formation same as what happens to earth. Example like what happen to Colorado. It use to have a river but after years the water started to evaperate and it started forming big giant rocks. Thats why i don't thing that its some kind of alien structure. | 2 |
60d63dd | I believe that this computer would work wonders in a classroom. It could allow teachers to know which of the children in the classroom are having problems understanding the lesson, allowing the teacher to help them more. This could also help other studys of the human anatomy, as it shows how facial expressions are done and also what they mean. In the famous, "Mona Lisa" painting, many people observe her smile and think that she is being forced to smile, and that she is actually scared, frighted, or just angry. Using this computer means that we could debunk/prove this theory. This could also solve crimes, some that have not been solved to this day!
This computer could also help with crimes as it could show that if a suspect is making a certain facial expression, they are lying or telling the truth. This could help police catch people who are breaking the law, but not put others in prison for nothing. This computer could help with these problems that occur in the real world, and it would save lives in the process. This would be very helpful in peoples daily lives, and it could help people who have problem such as mental health. If a child is slower than other children, this test could help decide whether or whether not these children need the extra help. If they do need help, this machine could even put them in the correct classes! | 3 |
60db628 | The article " Driverless Cars Are Coming" poses both the positive and negative aspects of the developement of driverless cars. The developement of these cars does seem useful but it seems that they would cause more prolems than solutions. The public transportation system is fine as it is.
The developement of these driverless cars poses a lot of potenetial issues. Some of these issues include safety and the law. Driverless cars could pose safety issues. The technology could fail and cause potential disasters. Driverless cars in regards to the law could cause trouble. The article gives the example " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?" New laws would be needed to cover liability in case of an accident as such. A lot of the traffic laws would need to change to fit the new way of transportation as well.
Although the negative aspects out-weigh the positives, there are still some good things about the developement of these cars. One thing the article mentions is that they would only use about half of the fuel today's cars do. While that is a good thing these cars still pose greater problems. They say they will be safer, but what if the technology fails? This type of technology puts people at risk.
In conclusion, these driverless cars of the future are potentially dangerous. They would cause problems with the law and they pose safety concerns. Their developement poses little to no positive aspects. The world would be better off if they ceased the developement of these cars. | 3 |
60deae4 | Dear Senator:
Our country, the United States of America, needs and deserves a grand president who will work hard and inspire the citizens of this counttry to perservere like our fore-fathers have; and this president needs to be voted by popular vote by his/her citezens in the United States. The presidential elections need to be of popular vote and to be voted by the citizens of America, not by some electoral college. The reason for this is that for one: the candidates ignore the smaller states, two: electors who are chosen can, and possibly will, go against the will of the people; the Electoral College shows signs of inequality amongst the states, unpatrioticism, and unfairness.
If we continue to go by the electoral college, the smaller states who hold inadequite populations will continue to be ignored by the candidates running for presidency. In source 1 paragraph No. 3, it states:"Your states allotment of the electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives and 2 for your Senators." Also, in paragraph 13 of Source No.2, it states," Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning." So, the candidates ignore the smaller states because of their smaller population and this is a sign of unfairness and inequality amongst the people of America. The future president should address and obtain votes that are from all 50 states of the United States. That is how we treat and show that every person and every state are equal to one another, and that the candidates get an honest and fair vote. The way the Electoral College does things during the presidencial election is everything against how our country came to be- through hardwork, a desire and wish to be equal to one another, and to ensure fairness amongst the people; this Electoral College projects an unpatriotic feel and that itself should not be a process that the United States holds.
The Electoral College is unfair in the fact that the electors chosen by our state legislature can, and possibly will go against the will of the people. With the Electoral College those who vote aren't actually voting for the president but for a slate of electors that elect the president. In Source No.2 paragraph 11, it states: "In the same vein, 'faithless' electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please." This is unfair and a disrespect to a persons choice. It is an act that is untrustworthy and it could happen at any time, people might not even know it. That action practically takes away a citizens right of opinion (speech) which is part of the Bill of Rights, the very basis of what we have a right to have. That in itself is un-American and unpatriotic. This system should be overruled and abandoned for it doesn't go with the basis of our country's ways.
However, the Electoral College does have a some-what strict rule that is rarely broken. In Source No.3 paragraph 16, it states:" But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for that party's nominee (and that trust is rarely broken).."
The Electoral College does have some points that it is not totally untrustworthy. But, this point can be broken and can be unfair for the people.
Senator, I hope these points have shown that the Electoral College needs to be voted against due to its unfairness, unpatrioticness, and its act of inequality amongst the states. This country needs it's people to vote for it's president, not a slate of electors. | 4 |
60e0c46 | the venus is one of the worthy brightest points of light in the night sky ,vanus isn the second
planet from our sun. while venus is simple to see safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.It is also closest planet to the earth in term of density and size, and occasionally the closest in the distance too.Earth,Venus, and the Mars, our other planetray neighnor, orbit is the sun at different speeds. Thes speed mean that sometimes we are closer to mars and other times to Venus,on the planet´s surface temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we eaxperience on our own planet.Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have
supported various froms of life just like Earth. At thirty plus miles above the surface temperatures would be at around 170 degrees fahrenheit, which the solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. | 1 |
60e148b | I'm going to talk now about a such interesting articte called "Making Mona Lisa Smile".
This article talks about how a new type of technology for the computers called Facial Action Coding System is able to "calculate" your facial expressions and know how do you feel in that exact moment; sad, happy, surprised, angry... The author show an example about the Mona Lisa of her facial expressions, and that was de result of it:
"She's 63 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry". The process for this new system begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face with all 44 major muscles. Every time those muscles moves create a new expression in your face, and depend of the movements of your muscles you will have one emotion or another that the computer will detect.
I think that is an a good idea but it doesn't convince me at all. Dr. Huang say " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", and "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor", my opinion for this is that when you are at the school and you are reading something that it looks interesting for you and makes you happy, you will not be smiling at the screen of the computer, you will just be enjoying yourself about what are you reading. So if my muscles are not expressing any emotion the computer will probably detect that I'm bored and it will change what I'm reading. And for this reason I think that woul be a problem in more than just one situation.
I did like this articte but I didn"t simle when I was reading it, so my conclusion is that I don't think that a computer will be able to "calculate" your emotions looking the muscles of your face. | 2 |
60e483f | I would argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states and not keeping the ellectoral college. there are many reasons why i say that and will do that. some people might still want electoral college because of the certainity of outcome, everyones president, swing states, big states, and last but not least to avoid run-off elections.
in my opinion i think we should change the election by popular votes instead of ellectoral college, because we the people .. vote for who we think should be head or our state and who we think is going to be in charge and do they thiing and make our a state a better and safier place to live. We dont vote for electors ... so many people can vote on one paticular person to be head of our state and president and the other person can only get 3 votes but in ellectoral collage he/she can have more electoral votes and they win the election .. even tho the other canidate has more popular votes.
The other reason why i might want to change rhe election by popular votes instead of ellectoral college is becauise of the "disaster factor". Which the state legislature are responsible for picking electors..... and the electors would/could always defy the will of the poeple.
Those are the two main reasons why i would argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of united states and not keeping the ellectoral college. | 2 |
60ebb07 | Having a machine called " Facial Action Coding System" Is cool dont get me wrong but having it in a classroom full of emotional teenagers is not a very good idea. It is not a good idea because for one no one wants everyone to know how they are actually feeling, they want them to think they are okay when they really arent. Secondly their is really nothing to do when a teenager is out of a lesson or very tired. Lastly the computur could be wrong , you cant trust everything a computer says to you.
Having a computer read teenagers emotions is pointless. We are 15-18 all of us have mixed emotions 24/7. You could be happy one second and angry the next minute, you just cant control your emotions sometimes. With the computer reading your emotions some kids might get mad and say thats a lie to cover up how they really feel. No teenager wants anyone to know how they feel unless it is their best friends.Would you want everyone to see how you actually are, and then everyone try and comfort you if your more sad than happy? I know I would not like that, no one would.
Secondly it is a bad reason to have a computer tell your emotions because nothing is going to stop you from being tired/ bored. When your out of it , your out out. Trying to make stuff more fun to get you awake or louder will just annoy the person so much.Teenagers stay up late all the time on their phone, or playing video games or just hanging out with friends.Having bright lessons, or loud lessons can really make a teenager angry and they will throw a big fit and get kicked out of class. A computer had to tell that he was tired and bored and now he/she is kicked out of class. Teachers can already see kids are tired everyday and bored, but you have to teach the lesson even if they are passed out or bored. Its a part of highschool. Computers changing the lessons could basically mean that they can stop hiring teachers because a machine can teach the lesson and
make it less boring ," "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored ," Dr.Huang predicts." Then it could motify the lesson , like an effective human instructor." You cant just get rid of teachers , eberything online could just make us distracted and do anything else.
Ive always heard since elemantry , " Dont trust everything on the internet." So why should us the teenagers trust the computer when it gives us our precentage of happy, mad, or sad. The computer could have a glitch or someone could be around you and it picks up both your emotions and adds them together. Even though the computer described the mood for Mona lisa , " Shes 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." you cant beleive that, that was painted so long ago you dont know he actual emotions its just a picture. Anyone can act how ever they want in a photo. Trusting this computer percentage would be hard it can play mind games on you, saying your 80% sad, then your mind will believe your sad. So then your sad the rest of the day. Your mind plays tricks on you.
Those are the reasons I believe having a computer describe our emotions is pointless. For one every teenager has so many emotions right now. Secondly trying to make the lesson more bright or loud to wake kids up might make them angry. Lastly you can not trust everything on the internet, or computer. | 3 |
60f70f2 | Would you ever consider giving up your car? No, well you probably should since it seems to be the trend these days, and there's seemingly countless advantages of limiting car usage. Acording to The End of Car Culture, we hit our driving peak in 2005, and the amount of miles driven has been going down steadily. There has also been a large drop in how many 16- to 39-year-olds are getting a license, while older people are likely to retain their licenses as they age as was stated in Mr. Sivak's research.
With the amount of car usage going down other things are taking place and helping shape our future, as Mimi Sheller says, "Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift. As said in The End of Car Culture, Instead of driving to meet and talk to people, we have the internet that makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected, unlike the tense, stressed feelings cars give you as shown with Heidrun Walters response to having gotten rid of his car, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way."
Cars dont only create stress, they also produce large amounts of smog. As stated in the article, In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, up to 50% of the greenhouse gas emissions are caused by passenger cars. All of the smog is destroying the ozone layer and causing major problems such as global warming.
Limiting car usage can be a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution, as Carlos Arturo Plaza says. Cars not only destroy the health of your enviroment by doing damage to the air around you, they also do damage to your brain and cause you to stress and feel tense over imaginary things. | 3 |
60f98e5 | Driverless cars have both negative and positive aspects reflected upon them. The text states, "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash, but so far, Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents." The truth is that driverless cars have not completely been invented yet. Driverless cars are the next step into future generations.
First, driverless cars will offer flexibility. The text states, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." What Sergey Brin hopes will happen is that these cars will become a future public-transport taxi system. This is good for people who are not licensed or do not own a car to get to where they need to be on time.
Second, driverless cars will use less fuel. The text restates, "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." With pollution rates continuing to rise and contaminate the air, the fact that these cars will use less fuel is certainly a good thing for the environment.
Finally, driverless cars give us a chance to interpret driving in a different way. Dr. Werner Huber, a BMV project manager driver, tells us that we have to interpret the driving fun in a new way. The text then states, "Some manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays." When you add in the in-car system you are actually adding in a safety feature and safety is always a great concern.
As we look ahead, automakers are still continuing to come up with a plan for driverless cars. According to the text, "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." One of the few things holding back driverless cars are present traffic laws. An example from the text is, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." This statement has not been proven to be 100 percent true. Just think about how many accidents reported on the news about wrecks or wreckless driving. Driverless cars are the transportation of future generations. | 4 |
60fdd7f | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author supports his details thorughly on studying the Venus is worthy. Venus is a planet and sometimes is called "evening star" because it's a bright point in the sky at night. The authors supports with details by describing to us readers how Venus looks and why we should want to study Venus.
The author supports with details by describing to us readers how Venus looks. In paragraph 2 it states, " Venus is the closest planet to Earthin terms of density and size...Earth, Venus, and Mars our other planetary neighbor." Another thing to describe how Venus looks is in paragraph 4, " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." Also in paragraph 3 it expalins the temperatures and atmospheric pressure.
The author also support with detaiks on why we should want to study Venus. In paragraph 4, " because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life." Alos in paragraph 8 it states, " Also because humans curiosity will lead us inot many equally intimidating endeavors...shoud not be kimited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation."
The author supports with deatils by describing to us readers how Venus looks and why we should want to study Venus. "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself." | 3 |
60fec92 | Luke participated in the 'Seagoing Cowboys program' because he wanted to help the other people that had to suffer from 'World War ll'. He also wanted to participate because it sounded fun and he would get to see different countrys. I know this because the article states, "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy." The aritcle also states, "Besides helping people, I had the side benifit of seeing Europe and China."
Luke also participated in the 'Seagoing Cowboys program' because he got to help people and animals. He also participated because he got to participate with his friend. I know this because the article states, "To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more." The article also states, "Luke and Don signed up."
Luke participated in 'Seagoing Cowboys because he was given the change to go Europe on a cattle-boat with his friend Don. Luke also participated in 'Seagoing Cowboys program' because when he was given the change to go to Europe he could not say no to his friend. I know this because the article states, "Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle-boat." The article also states, "Luke could not say no. He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime."
He also participated because he wanted to have fun and meat new people. He also participated because he wanted adventure. I know this because the srticle states, "The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games." The article also states, "But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opend up the world to him."
I think Luke participated because he just wanted to help pther people. I also think that Luke participated because he wanted to have fun and explore. I know this because the article states, "44 nations joined together to form UNRRA." The article also states, "It opened up the world to him. "I'm grateful for the opportunity , " he says." | 1 |
60ffbdb | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author talks about a new type of technology that can detect human emotions. This new technology is called the Facial Action Coding System, or FACS for short. The scientists who created this new technology believe it would be very useful if integrated into different aspects of peoples lives. Ones of their most prominent suggestions being in classroom computers.
Using the new technology of FACS in schools would be very useful. It could sense when a student is having a difficult time with an assignment, or is confused about the lesson being taught. This way it could change the teaching method to one the student understands more. Then it would use that method more often, and the student would be able to learn more. " "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." ". It could also sense when the student isn't quite interested in the lesson. So the FACS technology could change it to one that captivates the students attention more.
In sum, using this new technology that can detect emotions in the classroom would be very useful. It would be able to modify a students learning method based on their productivity. This would allow then to understand what they are being taught better. | 3 |
6100b66 | The Next Big Thing
Can you imagine a world where we would no longer have to learn how to drive?
The roads today are more dangerous than ever.
People hardly pay attention now to the roads now, especially teenagers.
Everyone is on their phone while they are driving, either texting, calling, or social media.
These cars would be good for anyone, even the elderly.
Driverless cars would be safer than regular cars.
People may think that driverless cars would be bad beacuse drivers would pay less attention to the roads, but they are already not paying attention.
Driverless cars would cause less wrecks from texting and driving.
If we had driverless cars we would be able to eat in the car, maybe do makeup, and be able to call and text back without the treat of not paying attention.
It would be easier trying to find a destination in a driverless car because the driver would not have to do anything.
The car would turn all on its own and have the map already planned out.
If the driver was actually driving while trying to find a location, they may get lost.
It is complicated trying to drive and trying to listen to your phone or car give you directions.
But, if something were ever to occur and human assistance was needed, the car would notify the driver. Such as the drivers seat would vibrate if a dangerous obstruction were to come up, such as a traffic jam, an accident, and so on.
New technology and software is making this big change happen.
Driverless cars are coming into our society and we need to accept that they are the future and the next generation will be driving them.
Automobile manufatures, such as Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan are already testing out this new technology and plan to have driverless cars by 2020.
The next big thing is almost here. | 3 |
610be98 | Dear, state senator I think we should change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I think this because the Electoral College does not seem fair, the president that usually wins in popular vote loses to the vote for presidency, it is considered a non-democratic method for selecting a president, and it is all up to the electors of a candidate. The Electoral College should also be changed to popular vote because it is not the people who are choosing the president, it is the three electors sent from each different state.
The Electoral College should be changed to election by popular vote, because it is not fair to the candidates. This is because most presidents that win the popular vote section of the election then end up losing the presidential vote section, an example of this is when candidate Al Gore recieved the most individual votes when running against George W. Bush, but Bush won the electoral section, recieving two hundred and seventy-one against Al Gore's two hundred and sixty-six. The Electoral college is also unfair to voters, because of all of the states winner take-all system of government, and in seventeen states they did not get a chance to see the candidates. Most people believe the Electoral College is outdated and irrational, a person named Bob Dole, believes that the Electoral College should be completely abolished. Another big problem in the Electoral College is segregationists who do everything to go against certain parties and their candidates, like the time in 1960 a group of segregationists almost succeeded in their effort to get rid of all democratic electors so that new electors would be opposed to John F. Kennedy.
The Electoral College should also be changed to election by popular vote, because people consider it non-democratic. This is because the voting is all up to the electors selected by each of the different states, meaning that the actual people of the state have no power in the election of the candidates for president. When the people of the state take their vote for the candidates they are actually voting for potential electors who will then go represent the selected candidate, this gives rise to problems like corrupt electors who are dishonest and using cheating tactics, also most states know that their votes will do nothing to help the candidates being represented, examples would be the Democrats in Texas and the Republicans in California. It is also believed that the Electoral College makes potential voters not want to vote at all and they end up not representing their candidates. And most people already have a certainty of the outcome of the election, meaning they already know who will win the election based on the number of votes so far in the popular votes section and the electoral section. The system of electors is also not fair because the people can not control who they are voting for has the electors, and the states number of electors are equal to the number of people on its congressional delegation, which gives big states an advantage over small states.
To conclude this letter, I again say that the Electoral College should be changed to election by popular vote because, popular vote is fairer then the Electoral College, the people have no power compared to the electors and the are subject to corruption with in the system. | 4 |
610d03b | Can technology really detect your facial expressions? Well according to the University of Illinois, the latest software from Prof. Thomas Huang of the institued for Advanced Science, can detect your facial expression. With this new software it can change our perspective on viewing our emotions.
With the knowledge of being able to know different expressions it will become much easier for learning envoirnments at schools. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is beoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. The software can recognize the expression and can change the lesson to make it a little bit more interesting or understandable. The software can detect your characteristic movement of the facial mucles. Being able to read students expession will make everything easier for the teacher and for the students also.
The software will create a big impact on learning enviornments to create a better understanding of the students emotional expression. | 2 |
6119fea | I think using this technology to read other kids emotions isn't a good idea, because some kids like to keep things to themselves. Some are shy and don't want to get noticed. Others just simply don't like people. Yes it could help tell someone if thier confused or bored like that article said, but we all don't share the same emotions. Maybe one at home but in public or allowing someone else to see it won't work for everyone. Yes it could help students in class or in a test, but if teachers and everyone else are going that far to just to tell soneones emotions, then in all honeslty they aren't doing their jobs right. Sometimes telling someones emotions is very hard, but if you are the teacher and you're giving out a lesson and you can't tell if somone is confused by it. Then what can you tell? or even maybe showing another emotion. Like sad, mad, depressed, sick, we've all seen those emotions every single day. We've all been through it too. So to me it's very stupid to make someone go through that just to see what they feel. I strongly disagree with this, and would'nt do it, I say no one should do it. For fun , yeah but in all seriousness it's very controlling and a watse, just tell someones emotion? really. Eeything is already based on machines, now our emotions. | 3 |
611c12d | It is clear that in the the article "The Challenge Of Exploring Venus", the excitement for a possible oppertunity to explore Venus runs deeply with the author. The problem with excitement is that it clouds judgement, Venus should not be explored without a proper motive or strategy, and they don't yet have that. The article did poorly in convincing me that the pursuit for venus is worth it.
Venus is an uninhabitable place. Dispite the information that would vastly improve our knowledge about venus, it proves quite difficult and could put a life in danger. The heat on Venus greatly surpasses that of the average on earth, it is said in the article," Tempratures average over 800 degrees". The author of the story is working around the fact that its probably not going to happen, within a lifetime at least. The article mentions that Venus is reffered to as "earths twin", and it appears to be unmistakenably true at one point in its lifetime, given it's know structures and landforms, but Venus is no longer firtile and cannot support that of even our most protective items suitable for space.
NASA's involvement in attempting to send humans to venus is highly advanced, although the productivity is not the fastest, they are indeed attemting to get somewhere with their research. The best thing mentioned in the article was of the, "Vehicle hovering over Venus". It sounds like the title of a really interesting distopian sci-fi book but no, that was the big idea that the author referred to. I did quite like the idea only in that it was somewhat sensible, to collect data from up high, though unfortunately the density of Venus' surface wouldn't allow for any colection of data.
On the contrary to what is beleived to be, the author provided good evidence as to exciting new ways to hopefully one day be able to learn more about Venus, and understand our solar system at the very least by one planet more. | 3 |
6124738 | Beyond Venus
For decades people have been examining and exploring planets. Although, each of these ordaniry planets are fascinating none of them compare to the planet Venus sometimes called the "Evening Star". Venus attracts attention from many different people and the reason for this is the numerous oppurtunitys it could bring to us in the futrue however, Venus also is a dangerous and challening planet for humans to study.
Venus is referred to as "Earth's twin" and the reason for this is that it is the closest planet to Earth regarts to density and size and sometimes even the distance as well. In fact the distance varies , the article states "Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sub at different speeds" this means that the Earth is sometimes closer to Mars and other times closer to Venus. Venus being close to Earth brings numerous opputunites for humans to explore.
Secondly, Venus has many different factors that make it difficult for humans to explore. In the atomosphere thier are clouds filled up with sulfuric acid which would make it hard to not only see but breathe. The article states "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." These details prove humans would have a hard time adapting to these condtions as of now. Also Venus experience weather condtions extreamly powerful due to the heat and high pressure.
Finally, Venus offers oppurtunity's and innovations that might be possible in the near future. This planet is the closest Earth- like planet in our entire solar system and has features like Earth they include valleys, mountains, and craters. Beneifically, Venus is our closest option for humans to explore. Even though Venus would be difficult to study researchers and other scientists are working on ways to innovate so we would be able to have lasting machines that help contribute to there knowledge of the planet Venus.
In conclusion,
Venus attracts attention from many different people and the reason for this is the numerous oppurtunitys it could bring to us in the futrue however, Venus also is a dangerous and challening planet for humans to study. The article also states "Striving to meet the challenge presneted 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." Venus is a ordinary planet, | 3 |
6125d49 | Today's society is not worried about who has the nicest or fastest car, they just want to be able to get from point A to point B. That's why the amount of driving has decreased by 9 percent since 2005. This has helped the environment by reducing the amount of pollution and has made people happier and not as stressed.
As the pollution rate has continued to increase throughtout the years, different countries have incouraged less driving for less pollution. For example, In Bogota, Columbia, their "goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." Other places, like Paris, banned driving to "clear the air of the global city." This is due to "days of near-record pollution." The smog cleared after two days of no driving. Having alternative ways of transportation is a way to reduce air pollution.
Another advantage less driving is it makes people happier. Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, says, "When I had a car I was always tense, I'm much happier this way." Also, businessman, Carlos A. Plaza, said, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress." as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife. When you don't drive, you don't have to worry about being late for work because of traffic jams, you won't be mad because someone just cut you off, or that the teenage girl in front of you isn't paying attention because she is talking on the phone and doing her mascara. Once you get out and ride a bike or walk down the street, you will realize how stressful driving can be.
In conclusion, driving only causes air pollution and more stressfull days. Walking, riding a bike, or riding the bus not only saves money, but it also helps the environment and makes you a happy person. | 4 |
6128748 | The usage of cars around the world is declining and has given us advanatges in our society and our enivironment.
Vauban, Germany has forbidden street parking, driveways, and home garages. This city is completely a "car-free" district. This has a postive affect on the families that have moved to this district. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." said Heidrun Walter a resdient in the area. Germany is not the only country to take action on this act. Paris, France has enforced a driving ban to clear the air. Car usage is a huge effect of gases that is release. People were fined if they were cought driving. The streets of Paris was a car-free city and public tranportation was free of charge. Late on that week the smog cleared enough that the baning of cars was realeased.
As for the othr side of the world, Bogota, Colombia has taken action too. This capital city has a program called the Day Without Cars. This day bans the use of cars and only buses and taxis are permitted of usage. "The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." according to the article. This program is incredible that citizens are enjoying and encouraging this act. A businessman said, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." These acts of limiting car usage has benfits for the enivonment. Bill Ford, executive chairman of th Ford Motor company has also created a plan. He wants to create cities in which, "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety." These are advatanges that need to be taken as more and more areas are limiting car usage. They benfit our health, society, and enivornment.
All in all, these are only some advantages of limiting car usage. The more acts we start applying the more postive changes will start arriving in our generation. | 3 |
613006a | The idea of sending humas to another country in space has been a livley debate for many years now. Following the US putting the man on the moon the idea has grown and sicentificly become thought of as more attaniable. But, before sending any human life form to another planet it is important to conduct the proper scientific tests and research to see what the outme of such an expiremt may hold. The passage "The Challenge Of Exploring Venus" presents strong evidence to prove that sudying Venus is a worthy pursit despite the potential dangers.
The artilce states that venus is the closest planet to earth. This would lend itself to being an easier task to study. Studys have already shown that the thick atmoshere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. This allows the conclusion to be drawn that extra saftey measurs would need to be taken in the expiremental stage of the project.
With such harsh conditions that are ever so hazerdous the quester arises 'why study venus?'. The text gives prime ezxamples to why we should indeed study venus. Venus is the planet that is most earthlike. It has rocky sediment, valleys,mountans,and craters. Features like this present the most likey chance of surviving an expedition to study the plannet as the author claims it should be done.
With a world full of fast pace ever changing technology it is important that scientifical innovative leaps be taken to 'keep up". With such a hefy task such as studying a potential non earthly inbabital plannet it is importand thourough steps be taken in research,planning,simulation of the conditions and reflection be taken before plans for a real expdition begin being formed. There is true value in studying beings,concepts,terrain, and values that escape the bound of plannet earth. The studying of venus is simply a step in the right direction. | 3 |
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