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6136e73 | In "The challenge of Exploring Venus" The author suggests that studying Venus should be pursued, despite the dangers it brings. After evaluating the passage I do not believe that the author supports this idea well. In multiple paragraphs he states that Venus has a harsh enviorment, makes collecting information from venus seem impossible, and does not give enough evidence as to why we should explore Venus and the knowledge that could be gained.
In paragraph two and three the author explains why there is not much information on venus and how harsh the enviorment is. In the second paragraph, the authors tells the readers, although Venus is the most similar in size and density and sometimes in distance, we have not sent a spacecraft to Venus in over three decades. He then goes on to explain that no spacecraft has survived the landing for more than a couple hours because of its extreme enviorment. By making giving the audience this information in the second paragraph, it already gives Venus a bad reputation.
In paragraph three, the authors goes into detail as to why no spacecraft has survived the landing and why humans could not possibly go there. He starts off by saying how the atmosphere is 97% carbon dioxide, talks of the sulfuric acid clouds that also inhibit the planet, the extreme temperatures that average over 800 degrees Farenheit, and atmospheric pressure which is 90 times greater than ours on Earth. It would crush a submarine adept to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans on Earth. With all of this information, he makes Venus sound impossible to explore and gather information on.
The author then uses paragraph four to give the readers a reason as to why scientists are still interested in Venus. The author states that Venus could have been similar to Earth in its earlier years. Scienstists say that it was probably covered in oceans and could have supported life. another great facot is that Venus is still the nearest option for a planetary visit. But in paragraph 5 and the six the author starts to talk about safe options for humans to go there. The author uses evidence from NASA as to what we could do; use a blimp like vehicle or a ship that hovers about 30 miles above the Venusian landscape. However viewing venus from above would not give NASA any insight on what is going on below. The reason the author gives the reader as to why we should explore Venus does not seem interesting enough and the only safe way we could get to venus once again, makes collecting information seem unlikely.
Overall, the author does not give a compelling argument as to why we should explore Venus more. All of the information he provides only seems to be disputed by other facts. The whole article makes Venus out to be an impossible planet to truly explore and accquire information on until we have better technology or Venus's enviorment changes. | 5 |
6139fd7 | Have you ever spent hours sitting in front of a computer doing school work, learning from a computer-animated face, or simply browsing the web? Have you become bored and uninterested in the process? Professor Thomas Haung has created a computer software that can detect emotions. FACS, the Facial Action Coding System, can be useful reading students' emotional expressions in many ways. A few examples include adjusting a lesson the student is learning if the software detects that they are confused or bored, making computer-animated faces more expressive, and relying on the fact that most human communications are nonverbal, including emotional communication.
If a student is spending hours on a computer, whether it be doing homework, studying, or simply learning a new lesson in school, it is likely that they will become bored or confused in the midst of their work. If the FACS were to be installed onto their computer, the software would be able to detect the students' change in expression and emotion, and modify the lesson, homework, or stuyding that the student is doing. This would simulate an effective human instructor. It would also help the student get their work done quicker, and they will become interested in what they are doing again.
FACS would greatly lend a hand in the making of computer-animated faces more expressive. This software could help show more emotions among computer-animated faces, such as disgust, sadness, fear, jealousy, etc. By showing more expressive emotions, the FACS would largely help students become more interested in what they are learning, if they are learning from a computer-generated person. If the person hardly shows emotions and is not very expressive, the student will likely become bored and uninterested in what they are doing. However, FACS can help prevent that.
An important way FACS can be of use is simply detecting human emotion. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. Because computers, and technology in general, are the future, it is vital that computers can understand that. For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. However, if you frown when a Web ad appears, the next ad will be different. This will generally make the users experience on the computer more content, as they are not bothered by annoying ads.
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System could greatly be useful in many ways. Students can become more interested in learning, studying, or doing homework, computer-animated faces can become more expressive, and most human communication is nonverbal, making it vital that computers can understand that. | 4 |
613a17f | Driverless cars seem like a very neat thing to have but unsafe. We never know what could happen having one of these types of cars. Yes they sound like a really great idea. It can do all the work for you as it says in the article "they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves." Which is really awesome but what if something happens and all that ends in something bad.
What if the car starts to have a malfunction and loses control. Who knows who would also be responible for the inccedent, like the author says "who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" The driver may have to pay for the damge if they were to be responsible for the problem and that wouldnt be any fun or cheap. Also in the article it asks if it would be boring waiting your turn? So true though wouldnt it be boring just sitting there waiting your turn to drive? Aslo what if drivers are to busy on their phones and a deer pops right out and the car doesn't stop on its own. To put the car together manufacturers had to put so many sensors on the driveless cars isnt that a little to much? Last but not least theses cars can't drive through situations like traffic issues or navigate through roadwork. I do not think these cars are worth it.
How I feel about driveless cars is a no go. I don't think they should be sold to anyone. These people just never know what could go wrong with them. Very great idea just probably should stay an idea. They would need so much done to them to ever truly be safe for the people. It would take them many years to get to where they went them to be. Like they say "Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020." That's aways away to be waiting for them to come out, by then they'll have hovercrafts. | 3 |
613b483 | What would happen if you got into a driverlesscar and you got hurt? Who's fault would it be yours or the manufactures? I am against driverless cars because they aren't safe, they could malfuntion, and it could cause lots of court trouble when deciding who's fault a car accident was.
Driverless cars are not safe to ride in. They don't know what to do when it comes to getting around an accident, navigation through roadwork, how to deal with complicated traffic issues, and they don't even know how to pull in and out of drive ways or pull over. I would not trust a car that can't even get out of the drive way or stop on the side of the road. If it can't do these things people could get very hurt because the car doesn't know what to do. I wouldn't get a driverless car for fear of not being safe.
Driverless cars can malfunction. These cars could malfunction and put anybody in harms way because of something that went wrong. We know that they don't know how to pull over, pull in or out of a driveway,deal with traffic issues, or go around roadwork and accidents. They obviously aren't safe to ride in and on top of that everything with technology at some point malfunctions and messes up. The question is do you want to be in the car when it does that? What if it takes the wrong route and you become lost, what if it stops moving and causes and accident? I don't want to be the person who had the malfunctioning driverless car that hurt someone do you?
We know that they aren't safe and that they can malfunction but whose going to pay for that? You or the manufacturer? What if it's not your fault and the car messes up and instead of the company taking responsibilty for what happened you have to. There are going to be tons of cases that will fight about who's fault it is and you may never actually know butone of you still has to pay the expensises of the car and not everyone can do that. Some peole can't afford to pay that cost of the damage that the car makes but sometimes it's not going to be fair and people will still have to do it. Laws will have to be changed to about traffic and liability and not everyone is going to agree with them and it can cause trouble. It's to much trouble to pay for the messes the cars make on the streets and in the court room.
We know that the driverless cars aren't safe, they can malfunction, and that they can cause trouble in the court room. I wouldn't put myelf in danger by waiting till something happend to be against it. I don't want people to wait till someone gets hurt, lost, or loses money in a court case to realize that we shoul not have driverless cars. | 4 |
613f390 | Making cars that are driverless will not be a good idea because there are many troubles that comes with it. Many people think that by making driverless cars they are becoming safer. People does not need driverless cars to become safer. They just have to obey the law and do what's right. They should obey speed limit signs. Just because there are driverless cars does not mean that everyone is safe.
There are a majority of people around the world who uses cars that needs a driver. If we change that then we will have to change the whole world. Just because someone bought a driverless car does not mean that everyone is going to buy it so that still puts people in danger. Humans will also get bored when they don't get to drive anymore because they are so use to driving. The article stated," Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" This is telling us that "if" driverless cars are invented then drivers would eventually get "bored".
One of the things that teens looks forward to in life is geting their learner's permit. It gives them a sense of freedom. If driverless cars were introduced, would we still need to take our driver's test? Driverless cars would crush the dreams of many teens because now they will not have the option of driving themselves. The reason that a teen looks forward to driving is because it's fun and they have a sense of freedom on the places that they want to go.
We should not develop any more driverless cars because it would take away our freedom. The car could also become disfunctional in the middle of a highway and that would be a huge problem if no drivers are there to take over. We would also have to replace the world with driverless cars if we are going to keep on developing it because just a few cars will not make a big difference. We also have to realize that we are taking away the happiness of many teens because they will not have the option to drive. Many drivers will also become bored when they have nothing to do. We should stop the development of driverless cars. | 3 |
61424a0 | I think people should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because they could learn about different peoples countries and needs. Also it would be once in a life time oppertunity to see different countries. It could make a difference in your life
Luke said "It made me aware of people of other countries and their needs. It was more than a adventure. In 1947 Luke made the most trips of any Seagoing Cowboy. Luke toured an excavated castle in Crete marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China. The cattle boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for small town boy
This is why people should join the Seagoing Cowboys. It could help you see how others are like and their problems. You would be able to see different kinds of places. It could help you become a better person by helping other people out. You would experince a lot of fun things. | 2 |
614d33a | I think the use of technology to read emotions is very valuable for many reasons. One of the main points would have to be the fact that it could help to many people out and get help when students need it.
First of all using technology would help teachers know when a student is confused or is in need of help a teacher would know. Teachers would benefit from this a lot because they would know if they really need help or they are just bored. This would most likely improve scores in all subjects. My second reason why I think this is very valuable because it can tell a persons emotion and how they are feeling by just the way the muscles move or act. This can help people by knowing what they are feeling or what might be even make them feel the way they are feeling. The third reason would be it can also tell yout emotions when you're communicate with other people.
In conclusion this proves that the technology being used in this way is going to be very helpful and solve peoples problems all over the world. | 2 |
614d93c | Do you want to hear a story? so i was at work cause im a scientist an me in my friend had an agrument about what happen to mars about the facemark.
The agrument started because we were talking talking about it an he said that a alien put it there i said impossible. So he got mad at me i said state your reason why you think a alien put it there. He responed that he dont know i said you have to know something but then he saw an picture and he said the picture look like alien heads.
Then i gave him my response he said why you don't think it's aliens i told him i don't belive and aliens. He said thats not a good enough reason because i did not state facts so i told him the reason why i dont belive aliens are real beacuse i never heard one i never saw one with my own eyes and i also said the face dont look nothing like a alien. The argument kept going on because he said i dont know what a alien look like so you dont.
Last, we came together an said we dont know cause we kept arguing about how was a alien and how it was not a alien. He did not like my response when i said i dont know how they look how they sound thats why i said it was not a alien. It also kept going cause i did not like his response he did give me details or nothing. He just told me he look up a picture that look like alien thats why we came together and said we don't know. | 1 |
614de08 | Technology is so amazing nowadays. Imagine a technology that could tell your emotion...well, it is a thing. The technology that can see and detect your emotion, it is called the Facial Action Coding System. This technology could be very useful in some situations. Professer Thomas Huang is the inventer behind this magnificent technology, also with the help of Professer Nicu Sebe. Professer Thomas and his colleague are very brilliant and are coming up with better ways for computers to be even more smart. This technology may even be useful in classrooms.
The Facial Action Coding system can tell your emotions. It all starts when the computer comes up with a 3-D model of the face it will be indentifying the emotion for, it will look at the 44 biggest, and most useful muscles of the face, any movemnt of any muscle can show how you are feeling and the emotion you have. The muscle called frontalis pars lateralis, is the muscle that moves and does the most when you have an excited or suprised emotion. The muscle called the orbicularis oris is the muscle around your mouth that tightens when you are angered.
The Facial Action Coding System can detect all emotions. If you are happy, sad, angry, suprised, disgusted, or in a state of fear, the Facial Action Coding system can detect the emotion. The image may not always show a singe emotion, the model being shown could be happy, but still could be in fear of something, the technology will detect it. The technology can detect a single emotion, yet it can detect weather an image has a mixed emotion.
The Mona Lisa picture is a good example to use explaining this technology. Professer Thomas Huang used this technology on the picture of Mona Lisa and it not only said what emotion was in Mona Lisa's face, but it calculated the percent of what the image was showing. The Facial Action Coding System calculated that the image of Mona Lisa was 83 perecnt happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry.
All technology could buffer sometimes. This could be a downfall in the technology. Never rely on the technology always working properly. The Facial Action Coding system may be a great invention, but it may not calculate the model perfectly everytime.
The Facial Action Coding System could be a great oppurtunity for students in classrooms, not only could they just see the emotion that the model or image is feeling, but they will know the percent and the exact emotions the image is showing. The students could learn more about the face muscles and how they play a big part in what emotion an image is feeling. It would be very valuable for the Facial Action Coding System to be in classrooms for students to get to use. | 4 |
615011e | Ever thought of driverless cars? Sergey Brin (google cofounder) has and envisions that public trnasportation will be equipped with this new found technology in the near future. Driverless cars are very convient, they are saught after, but have not gotten far with awmakers. What do you think of cars that require little human help?
Driverless cars are extremely convienient. Firstly, the cars can handle most driving functions at 25 mph. For example, they can steer, accelerate, and break. Yes, they do still need human interractions for accidents on the road and work zones. Secondly, the GM have invented vibrating seats for whenever the car may be in danger. This is very helpful for people who may overlook a pedestrian walking behind the car. Lastly, flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays are at work for the driverless car. These details from the prompt show why the driverless car is a steal.
The driverless car has was first braught up by smart roads. Firstly, smart roads like the one first invented by General Motors, was the first step to driverless cars. Engineers made an electrical cable track specifically desgined sense where the car was. Secondly Toyota Prious used postion estimating sensing to calculate where the car may be on the road. Lastly, in the 1980's, automakers used speed sensors for anti lock wheels. These details from the article show how this smart car was brought up and experimented on. | 2 |
615020b | Would you want to live on Venus? If you had a choice would you stay on earth or leave and go live on Venus? Well if you were to even want to live on venus you will come up with many challenges. Exploring Venus is challenging enough there are some dangers that you have to look out for. Venus has the hottest suface tempature of any planet in our solor system,high pressure and heat,erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. The author of this artice makes very detailed explanations on to why this is very challlenging to explore let alone live.
Venus is referred as the "twin" planet to our Earth, but if venus is so inhospitable why are scientists to making plans for more people to visit. Yes many astronomers are very amussed and fascinated by Venus but does that make up for the fact that venus is very dangerous? "...it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar sytem."If this is true then why is it so dangerous now? Why can people live in Venus and Earth? Venus stil has features that are just like Earth. For example,"...surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys,moutains,and craters....recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit.."
"...researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas,or anything else from a distance....would need yo get up close and personal despite the risks. or maybe we should think of them as challenges."If the reacherers can't take some samples of the real life object how can we reallt test them the right way and ger correct information about them. If they can get information then we wonr ever know if som say we would be able to have life on another planet.
Could you imagine being on another taking picture to remember exactaly how things were? Well keep using you imagination just like the scientists."Modern computures are enormously powerful,flexible,and quick,but tend to be more delicate when is comems to extreme physical conditons. Just imagine exposing a cel phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin."Would your pictures even ,make it back to earth?
Due to th high pressure and heat,erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface, most things wouldnt survie on Venus. You could bake to death over there. Everything would melt. It is to dangeous to explore on Venus but we can all hope one day that it would be safe enough for good research on that planet "Earth's twin". | 3 |
6158b5b | Reducing the usage of cars in today's world could be extremely beneficial. Sure, it is also a hastle having to re-route your commute and also making the time to get there, but the myriad advantages to the reduction of car usage is astonishing. Reducing our usage of cars will reduce the smog in cities, such as Los Angeles, Beijing, and Paris, reduce the stress of many drivers, and also save people money. Now who doesn't love money?
Smog/pollution is growing daily in dense, polluted areas. Looking outside of LA, you can see the dirty, polluted air surrounding the city, as well as the toxic blanket the covers Beijing. One of the main sources contributing to this is cars. Greenhouse gases are emitted from tailpipes and go straight into the atmosphere. In Europe, exhaust makes up fifteen percent of greenhouse gas emission, and accounts for fifty percent in the United States, FIFTY PERCENT. That's half of the pollution in our country, and an easy solution is to limit car usage. If your car usage is not limitable, perhaps switching to a hybrid car such as a Toyota Prius will make you feel good about contributing to the cause. Some areas, like Bogota, Colombia, participate in a Car-free Day. This day is widely celebrated in the area and is infectiously spreading to nearby areas and potentially the world soon enough. This day allows for smog reduction. Cities such as Paris, however, have to ban car usage sometimes because their smog is so bad. During this ban, hybrid cars and carpooling is allowed. This shows the extreme measures necessary to reduce the smog in populated areas.
As most people know, driving is stressful and is perhaps a top contributer of stress in America. In populated areas, rush-hour traffic is annoying and causes many people to change their schedules. When driving during rush-hour, you are in constant fear of potentially being cut-off and your risk of being in an accident heightens dramtically. With that being said, what if I told you there was a way to completely cut out this fear? Communities such as Vauban, Germany are helping alleviate stress by making car-free communities. Within these communities, cars are allowed to be owned, but you must park it in a parking garage at the end of the community and also buy a spot... for $40,000. Cars are used rarely, as restaurants, shops, and others are within walking distance of these communities. Cars are only used for long-distance travel and are permitted on highways and on the outer edges of the area. The stress is alleviated because you can walk outside, grab your mail, and listen to the birds if want, all without the worry of cars. You don't need to constant check your rear-view mirrors if you're walking to your favorite restaurant. With the introduction of smartphones and the constantly growing usage rate of the internet, people don't need cars to communicate anymore. They can simply go on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. to communicate.
Finally, the reduction of car usage allows for people to save money, and a significant amount too. If you live in a neighborhood such as Vauban, there may be no need for a car at all. In today's world, a good car costs somewhere are 30-40 thousand dollars. Imagine what you could do with that much money. You could get a nice house, or travel to your favorite destination, or anything really. You could send your kid to a nice college! And the drawbacks are small, because everything is within a twenty minute walk. That sounds pretty nice to me. | 5 |
615bf7d | Driverless cars will be the newest editiion to our generation. Some people are against the idea of them, others, are impressed with the idea. The cars are durable enough to, drive on their own without any hazards in the way, warn you of an emergency that is ahead of you, the cars are able to use sensor technology to add onto the left rear wheel of a car and the car includes many feautures such as, a rotating sensor roof, a video camera (mounted near the rear view mirror), four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor.
I agree with the idea of the driverless cars because of the safety that the car will provide for the people. For example: if the driver is injured and needs to be taken to an emergency room, the car will be able to drive there safely and the driver would be able to recieve help. Driverless cars are not fully driverless still, they acquire human help when anything comes into their way, the allow the driver to take control of the wheel when there is a mishap of some sort.
A major question asked, is the car driving or assisting humans? The answer is simple, the car, as of now, is only assisting humans. If the car were driving, it wouldn't need any of the drivers help when it came to a bump or an accident in the road. When we think of driving, we tend to think that there is a driver who is holding the wheel and not sitting back and relaxing. Driving is in fact a stressful thing. Most drivers get to worked up to think about what is happening. This is another example as to why the car is good, it will help with driving anxiety.
Whether the car is in favor or not, it will always be an idea that we knew made an impact of the world. The car is durable, smart and flexible when it comes to driving itself. The major problem would include the cost. If the car isn't driving now, when will it? | 3 |
615ee3d | Dear Florida Senator,
I believe that we should not have the Electoral College no more. We are giving people false hopes that there vote counts when it really does not. We see on TV ads that we should vote and let our voices be heard but when in reality it is not. Didn't Lincoln once say "A nation founded by the people for the people by the people..." he was saying that we should let people have a a voice in everything that happens in America, but we can not even have a voice in who we wanted as president.
We give all the power to the Electoral College but not to the people. In 2000 Al Gore won the popular votes but lost the presidency. What type of system is this where we vote for who we want but get who we do not want. What the whole reason to vote if the Electoral College vote is more important then our. Beside voting for the president we want we vote for the slate of electors who elect the president. We don't even know who these mysterious Electoral College are they can vote for a president just because he is in the Democratic Party,we have no ideas why.
In 2000 we had the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse when it came to Electoral College. "Consider that state legislatures was technically responsible for the picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency. The people vote was not heard in that year,because they wanted Al Gore respresenting by the Democratic Party but we got Geroge W. Bush. I have never heard of a more unfair voting system before. Where were our rights the freedom of speech then, it was no where to be found. I feel that voting for who never we want should be in the Bill of Rights. So it okay to a gun for safety in our bag but itnot okay to vote for what we want.
On most basic level, the Electoral College is unfair to voters, because of the winner-take-all-system in each state. Some candidates do not spend that much time in states they know they have no chance of winning. In 2000 campaign, seventeen states did not get to see Geroge Bush or Al Gore these states were Rhodes Island with 3 electoral votes and South Carolina with 9 electoral votes. Candidates mostly only visit the states with the most like Florida with 29 and Texas with 38. They do not care about the other states they only care about who have the most electoral votes.
Each party selects slate of electoral they trust to vote for the party nominee and they have rarely been betrayed. It is could be true that the winner of electoral vote will not win base off of the national popular vote. But it is most likely not to happen again like in 2000 when Al Gore had more popular votes then Bush. The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. So no Electoral can have a solid favorite they must vote on who would most likely chance America for the better.
But if the Al Gore vs. Bush happen once what stop it for happening again the reason why it happen was because we had Electoral College so to stop it. We Must stop it.
Florida state Senator as much of a good idea it is to have at some point in time it will go wrong. All good things, have bad endings. So I think it better to stop it now before things for the wrongs like Americans just stop voting becasue we all know our votes do not mean a thing when it come to Electoral College votes. | 5 |
6161472 | There is a seemingly big debate on the production of driverless cars and how they may be used and managed.
Personally i think it's great that they are bing able to make this advanced of technology to possibly build a vehicle that you don't have to drive, but i think it's better that a perosn drives a car.
I think it is better becasue driving a car keeps the person more sharp at the mind and aware of the things around them.
Although this would be a great idea to keep down the risk of drunk driving casualities a year.
To me I am honestly neuatral on the whole idea with driverless cars, but I can visualize how the cars can be good for society, and i can see how they could create major problems too.
The passage shares two easily argumentable sides of the story, The more postiive side being that there is an advancement in technology and that They would use half of the fuel we use now and would be better for public transportation.
Althought the cars themselves can also create some problems.
They talk aout how some of the cars arn't truely driverless yet and can't manuver around things such as road blocks, difficult traffic situations, and construction and have to alert the driver to take over.
Some people don't see the point in that and bring up the arguement wouldn't people get bored waiting for their turn to drive?
Honesty, I believe that the person would get bored and that there can be more cons that outweigh the pros when comes to the idea of the road laws and what would happen to someone if the car malfunctions. Do they blame it on the individual or the manufacturer?
I think they should wait on proceding to put out the invention of drivless cars until they are fully certain that they have everything they need to make the car safe and reliable for the road conditions.
There are many things that are great with the idea of the drivless car, but i also think that there are many things that weigh down the idea for now.
Although i think in the future they would make a great addition to technology and changing the way people use transportation, but for the present they should just wait to release them. | 2 |
6162b21 | I agree with the author wanting to explore more Venus. Venus is often referred as Earth's "twin," and its the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size. If a spacecraft landed and survived for more than a several hours we might get enough informtion to answer that question almost every scientists asks "can there be life on another planet." Even though Venus being almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet. Even though Venus has a horrible environment astronomers are fascinated by it, because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. Venus still having like Earth features like, it having a rocky sufrace acting like valleys, mountains, and craters. Futhermore, Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. It's a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) came up with an idea of humans being able to study Venus in a safe way. Scientists being able to hover over the planet, but that can go so far in giving us information about the planet. The good thing about that is that it's survivable for humans in the "not so easy conditions" of Venus. The curiosity of humans will most likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on earth and beyond shouldn't be limited by the dangers and doubts, but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
These are some of the reasons to back up why I agree with the author wanting to explore more Venus. | 3 |
6162c3a | Have you ever thought of exploring Venus? Yes, I know it may sound risky but in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the auothor says, "our travels on Earth should not be limited by danger and doubts," (para. 8). The author is just saying that you should let anything get in your way. You should always try it even if it's dangers.
The author says that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. In the articke, the author states, "astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system," (para. 4). This is one reason the author wants to study Venus. They that Venus referred to as Earth's "twin." Another reason he/she wants to study Venus is because he/she think that "Venus was probably covered largely with ocenas and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth," (para. 4) This just means that Venus has the same thing that we do on Earth and could be surviable. Still to this day, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.
For all these reason listed above, is why the author suggests that studying Venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. | 2 |
616eaa4 | In this essay, I'm going to talk about the new softare, that is called the Facial Action Coding system, which can help the computer to knows if we are sad, happy or angry. Putting the example of the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's called Mona lisa. I'll explain why this software is a very good idea, for the teachers and the students too. The software can calculate "emotions" like math homework. Just recognizing the subtle facial movemets that persons use to express how they feel.
The new software, the Facial Action Coding System, has promising application for a variety of industries. It's a new software that can recognize emotion, and it's the last innovation from prof. Thomas Huang and his colleague Are experts that are trying to do better ways for human an computers to communicate. This process begins when the computer does a 3-D model of the face; creating at least of 44 major muscles making it move like human muscles. Eckman has classifies six emotions ( happines, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and saddnes) Associating each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. For example: your muscles above your eyes rais your eyebrowns when you are surprised. The software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared against a neutral face.
A big example is The subject of Leonardo da Vinci's, Mona lisa. Da vinci studied anatomy to thelp them paint facial muscles for paint special emotions. This subject is really intented to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how this can computer can do. Your PC can't handle the use to decode Mona lisa smile. But this invent can write down simple instructions that "encode" differet emotions. For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different.
This software makes the computer could recognize when a student is bored or confused, then it could modify the lessons, like an human, It's great right?. It can indicate the difference between a genuinie smile and a forced one. To finish with some cientifics conclusions and understand better your boddy. According to the Facial
Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not ont only express emotions, but also may help produce them. A example is when a drama coach tells to his actor carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage because empath might happen when you see someone else expressions.
In conclusion a think this is a good idea, because you can problably know when a friend is feeling just looking on his face, so imagic that a software in your computer can know that, is amazing right?. Also this project helps a lot to the students when a subject is hard and they get confused, this is going to help you, or when you are reading too much, then you get bored. This software project would act as an human. | 3 |
61749b6 | Technology that can read your emotional expressions is very valuable to students in a classroom, because it can provide information on how you are feeling. It provides emotions that a humans eye cannot detect. A lot of people dont realize how others are feeling because they hide their emotions. Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System) created a facial system to detect the emotions of a person's face. This system is very valuable because it gives better ways for humans and computers to communicate.
This software constructs a 3-D computer model of the face with all 44 major muscles in the model. Eckman classified six basic emotions-happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness and he asscociated each with characteristic movements of facial muscles. A big amount of students dont focus because of the distraction around them. A teachers job is to keep them focused at all times, but sometimes it is hard for an individual person to keep track of so many students. This techonolgy can help students in many different ways. By weighting the different units, the software can identify mixed emotions, which can help the student by making the work they are doing simple or more difficult. For example, if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. It modifies the lesson, like an effective human instructor.
The FACS is a very valuable techonolgy for students because it helps to guide them through a problem they might be facing. It can help a classroom full of students that are confused on a lesson. The software can detect their emotional expressions and switch up the lesson to make it more understandable. For example if a student does not undertsand the problem, the computer can detect his or her confusion, and it will modify to fit his or her understanding. The software is very valuable for the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. | 3 |
617c836 | Luke didnt know what was going to happen after high school graduation. He was working at a grocery store and a bank(part time).His friend invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. He didnt want to say no and he knew this will be an opportunity of a lifetime. He joined the program he wanted to do something together w/ his friend. He wanted to joined the program because he to try something new why he had the chance.
He signed up to be a Seagoing Cowboy. Being a Seagoing Cowboy,you have to take care of animals such as, horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke didnt want to just work for a grocery store and a bank, he wanted to do something else like being a Seagoing Cowboy. Would you like to keep working at a grocery store and bank? I wouldn't because, I would want to try the opportunity that is offered and see what will happen.
Luke had to make alot of trips to get to where he was getting to. He made 9 trips. People thought that it was unbelievable opportunity for a smalltown boy. He says that he had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. He thinks the Acropolis in Greece was special. Luke also tuored an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China. | 2 |
617c9b4 | Luke Bomberger was a man who had no idea that he would go to different countries when his friend asked him if he would like to go with him to Europe and China and he didn't want to say no because it was a once in a lifetime thing so he said yes and he experienced a lot when he went to China and Europe when he met poor people like France,Belgium,Denmark,Poland and many more including China and other countries. When he realized that the other countries were going to have a community of law inforcment Luke was excited because the countries were recovering from war! It took them 2 weeks to get to Europe and it took 1 month to get to China. When Luke got to China he was suprised how it was there plus some areas were taken by the Japanese meanwhile the rest of China was in pretty good shape but they still had to take care of the mess that happened in the war by the Japanese. When Luke was still in Europe the countries had a lot of buildings damaged and a lot of people died due to being a jew or romaine but when things were recovering the communities in the countries got better. Soon after Luke got back home safely he realized that not everyone has a home or shelter and it made him think more of people and himself also so now he gets how the war was in Europe and China so he was glad that he had a home and fodd and shelter. After a couple years later Europe and China got better afterwards plus it became a better community also China got better after the war ended. Before war started by the Germans and Italians Europe was a normal country and Japan,Korea,and China were normal also before Japan got involed with war and now things are recovering but some are still hurt about what happened during the war but its over and the community got better over the years and Luke finally understands and now e got closer to people that have no homes and to himself also. | 1 |
618261b | Dear state senator, i argue you that we keep the electoral collage because of its many pros. Taking away the electoral college would be like taking away an important part of our U.S history, the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
With the electoral college there would be more discussion on the topic of making smart descions to electing a president. Keeping the electoal college will keep a professional way of electing a president. The electoral college selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee (and the trust given is rarely betrayed). With that said, it will be a fair and most likely a cheat free zone.
The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast. When a run off happens this creates pressure of the voters, until the help of the electoral college comes in, which in this case helps break everything up and claim a true winner. For example, in 1968 nixon and clinton in 1992 both had only 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the electoral college, 301 and 370 electoral votes, respectively. And that concludes why i argue you to keep the electoal college and not popular vote. | 2 |
61829ce | I am for the developement of driverless cars because they could create a lot of oppritunities for so many people. Special needs people who arent allowed to drive cars will now be able to because the car would drive itself. Blind people would not need to see. They would also not have to always be supervised or have to bring someone along with them when they go out. Many blind people are very independent and rather do things on their own so now they would be able to. Deaf people would not need to worry about being able to hear the ambulance or police when they are on their way to an emergency. They would also not need to worry about not being able to hear children playing around in the streets for saftey issues and the honking of other cars. That also goes for blind people. People of all ages would also be able to drive a car and not need to rely on someone else for support, even though there would still be an age limet for certain poeple to be able to drive the car but it would be much more safe.
In many countries they do not have the same laws as the United States so it would be way more simple for people that live in another country to come to america and drive a car. In Enland they drive on the other side of the road. If you grow up in a place with one set of rules and go to another place with a different set of rules it can become very complicated and confusing for that person. People who are afraid to drive or think they are not capible of doing it will also now be able to do it without and insicureities.
In the passage "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it says that google has has cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven mor ethan half a million miles without a crash. Some people get their drivers lisence and can't even drive properly. There are so many car crashes due to reckless drivers that could be reduce because of driverless cars. Drunk drivers will no longer a large part or car crashes. Familys would no longer have to worry about their loved ones getting home safe or being safe on the road. I know some people may make the arguement ''If they technology fails and someone is injued, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?'' and to that i would say thats why we need to keep on developing driverless cars becuase there will be trial and error but there always is for anything new that tries to be made. Cars today are not top quality safe so there is no reason to treat driverless cars anydifferent if a mistake is made. If someone is injured then the driver and and driverless car would be examined to determine the cause of injury. Therefore i am for the development of driverless cars because i think it would make the world a better place. | 3 |
6185c81 | Is the Face a natural landform or not? No one will ever know. Yes the Face in a natural landform. If you think that the Face was alien made than your wrong. This was not made by aliens it is a natural landform that has shadows that cause the lanndform to have such apperences as a nose, mouth, and ears.
The Face is just a landform because in the passage is says that with newer technology they would have been able to see other things on Mars. The passage says that the picture really shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. The MSG had the best camera on it taking the best photos. Each of the pixels spans 1.56 meters compared to the 4 meters the best Viking photo that was ever taken.
After the first Viking photo was taken it instatly appeared on the JPL web site. When the photo appeared they noticed that is was just a natural landform and that there was no alien statue after all. In paraghraph three of the passage it states that "Although few scientist believed the Face was an alien articfact". That right there prove that the Face is not an alien articfact.
The Face is not an alien articfact. In the pasaage it states clearly in several different paragraphs that scientist dont believe that the Face is a alien articfact. Many people believe that the Face is just a natural landform. The eyes, mouth, and nose are all thought to be caused by shadows. | 3 |
6189c99 | It's no secret that school can be boring or confusing or just plain out hard. For years and years kids have been confused, bored, or just plain upset with a lesson or class. Recently a new technology has been found that enables a computer to identify emotions in humans. It is called the Facial Action Coding System, the latest innovation from Professor Thomas Haung. Imagine how significant this would be in use in classrooms all over the world. It could decrease confusion and boredem, encourage students to learn and help teachers see signs of stress or depression.
The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) could really come of use to teachers attempting to get students to learn effectively. In paragraph 6 Dr. Huang says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". This new technology could show teachers how effective their lesson was. It there are students who are bored, he/she could research or come up with new ways to get the kids engaged in lessons. FACS would also reveal confusion in students. Students sometimes get freaked about asking for further explainations because of how they might get judged. With FACS, teachers would already be able to see student that may be confused and be able to help them.
Teachers adjusting their teaching practices also may assist students in learning more. Not all students learn the same way. If a teacher teaches one way, and one fourth of the class looks confused, she may be able to adjust her teachings and teach another way to help those kids who did not understand.
Being in school isn't always the easiest thing in the world. Everybody goes through things. Having FACS may help out kids who need it. If a student is constantly coming into class and the computer reads that, it is a sign to the teacher that that child may need help and too scared to ask for it. In paragragh 7 of the article is says, "They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one." This device will help teachers see the warning signs and help prevent students from doing something they later regret. It will allow students to get the help they need when they are too afraid of asking.
Professor Thomas Huang's latest innovation is a computer software that allows computers to indentify human emotions. It is called Facial Action Coding System. This program would be incredibly efficient in schools all over the world. It would allow teachers to see boredem and confusion, help students engage more in their learning, and help teachers notice the warning signs if a student may be stressed or upset. | 4 |
618a932 | Driverless cars are the next up and comming thing. with everyone jumping on the ne tech as soon as they can get there hands on it, it is sure to take off. people have places to gor and things to do briveing can be very taxing on the driver.so the driverless cars would take a load off and same with stress while keeping you alert. i do belive driverless cars are the next great thing next to sliced bread.
'' tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car that drives its self %90 of the time.'' as you can see driverless cars are already here. there are more then just one compony makeing these cars for exmapel audi and nisan aloso are makeing these cars. google has made self piloting cars already and has had no crashes ever.
even though they are called ''driverless cars'' they are not complitely divrless. the car alearts the driver at anytime for complex road condithions like road construction. there are dangers though for example the driver is on the phone and ignores the cars warning to take over. but this ''driverless car idea is not new by anymeans the first time it was thought of was in the 1950s where General moters made a track to test their idea but the track had eletric cabels to guide the cars so it made into more of a smarter road.
so in the end smart cars can eleminate some or most driveing dangers. it will better our lives as a whole. this is the here and now and this could end up better for the enviorment to with most of the
''driverless cars'' being eletric. | 2 |
6191a13 | The advantages of using limited car usage is that on cold nights and warm days the warmer layer or air trap car emissions. "The smog rivaled Bejing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in he world. Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals. After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city.
United States has been one of the world's prime car cultures. Its the birthplace of the Model T;home of Detroit where Wilson Pickett immortalized "Mustang Sally". Has America passed peak driving? In source 4 it says in recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. But America's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, acocording to an analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company.
Part of the explanation certainly lies in the recession, because cash-strapped Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed weren't going to work anyway. The next few years would be telling. Transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions,just behind power plants. Ford and Mercedes are already rebranding themselves "mobility" companies with a broader product range beyond the personal vechicle. People who stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit. A car is just means of getting from A to B when BART doesnt' work. | 1 |
6196d6e | the presidental election is to find a new leader of the united states he basicly has to pass laws and do taxes we vote to make sure we get the right president we dont want someone thats gonna make silly laws and taxes the people to much the president has to take charge has to go to world meetings has to be a role model for the younger people in the world the president has to do alot of work now the vice president has to do what the president cant do sometimes other times hes just there to help the president when he needs him like when the presidents gone on vaction the vice president does his work for him but sometimes the vice president messes up with paperwork so thats why we need to chose the best president not someone random that makes silly laws and to mess up on paperwork and to raise the taxes on the people the president also helps with things going on around the world he also a role model not only to college kids but to highschool kids to so thats why we vote not to pick someone to be specail for the job but to be specail rolemodel for the younger kids he also needs to speak for the people and for his country not for taxeing people or makeing laws its about the people always has been always will be about the people its up to older people and college kids to chose the perfect president if we chose the wrong president are country chould fail and laws chould be broken and taxes whould be high and fights whould happen just one president chould ruin it all for everyone the majority of the college students vote but some dont cause they dont care or either dont beleave in voteing for a guy to run our country some older people dont care for it either but they vote anyway the vice president cant do some of the jobs that our president can do like things to do with the army or with other world leaders it takes alot of skills to deal with alot of screaming people at you like big world leaders yelling at you all day cause you did something wrong or they did something wrong to eachother but the president does a good job cause we voted for a guy that can handle this job that he can handle them yelling at him he can take the pressaure of being a role model a president a father a teacher cause hes basicly teaching the college kids dont give up on your goals they can happen maybe one day a college student wants to be president and the president is their rolemodel basicly he has to teach the world that dont give up when the going gets tough cause if you do then you wont get anywhere in life but if you work hard you can do anything thats why we vote for the president not for a leader whos bossy and throws laws in our faces but a president whos a rolemodel a teacher a father a leader only one state casts one vote the single representavite from wyoming represents 500,000 voters so image that many voters voteing for one guy to run for our country thats alot of voters but we need that many votes cause we dont know if we pick the right president or the wrong one until he gets into office and starts makeing taxes and laws then we can tell if hes a good president or a bad one we spend a week after just watching what the new president does under pressure he has to go under some tests for a couple of weeks befor we know if hes bad or not the president has to get use to guards being around him every where he goes cause they have to protect him from danger like bombs and other stuff the president is targeted alot because hes the rolemodel for the usa so are enemies want to hurt him so thats why hes guarded 24/7 every day and every night and even when the presidents done being the president they still have guys protecting them from danger. | 1 |
619dc74 | So to start here is a letter to my state senator, in which I argue in favor of keeping the electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states. The electoral college is a process, not a place. The electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors. The electoral college consists of 538 electors. In the 23 Amendment of the constitution, the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word "state" also refers to the district of columbia. Next, each canidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors.
The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party,but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are.
The president election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Also, most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate . However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of "proportion representation".
Abolishing the electoral college! But don't worry they're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore.
Thanks to the quirks of the electoral college, which won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voterswould prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.
Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.
You might not know this so if you dont here is something very interesting for you to know. Who are the electors? Well they can be snoyone not holding public office. Here's something eles you might know, Who picks the electors in the first place? well here's the answer it depends on the state. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor.
The American people should consider themselces lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for must more. consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and thats those electors could always defy the will of the people. Black in 1960.
Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the hose of representatives, where state deegations vote on the president. Okay to end my letter, my con conclustion is that this is my letter to my state seator. | 1 |
619e69b | Cars and other transportation vehicles are responsible for most of the world polution not only that but it's also responsible for obeasity and overweight. Because of cars and other vehicles people dont walk or ride bikes ot run anymore because they have a car to take them wherever they want. When I had a car I was always tense I'm much happier this way said Heidrun Walter a media trainer and mother of two.
Huge impediment to current efforts to drostically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes passenger cars are esponsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe precepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation
Stores are placed a walk away on main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway. Paris enforced partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Day without cars is part of an improvement campaign that began in Bogota in the mid 1990s. pitted side walks have been replaced by broad smooth sidewalks rushhour restrictions have dromatically cut traffic and new restorants and upscale shopping districts have crapped up. In the United States the rates of car ownership houshold and person started to come down two to three years before the downturn said Micheal sivak who's a reaserch professormof the university of Michigan's transportation reaserch institute study last found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. | 1 |
61a52de | I think the Facial Action Coding System can bring some help into classrooms. Most students, like myself, get bored when working on the computer. If the computer can read our face expression to see that we are bored and change what's on the screen to something more appealing, then maybe it would brighten the mood.
There's no doubt that most students don't like school and fine it incredibly boring. Working on the computers brings a sort of excitement because we prefer technology over standard teachings. Personally, I would prefer to sit on the computer, like I am now, and learn and do assignments. In fact, I'd rather be able to sit at home and work on school work and be able to take breaks whenever I feel like it.
School is like work, I hate it. if this FACS technology can brighten things up at school, then just maybe it wouldn't be so boring. Maybe I wouldn't mind getting up at 6:30 every morning to get ready and go somewhere I don't even want to go. I would love for a computer to read my facial expressions and change what's on the screen to something more suitable for me.
Like I said before, it's no surprise that the majority of students do not like school. This FACS technology could really have a bright future. If it all goes well then it just might make school a place where children and young adults would actually look forward to going to. | 3 |
61a6d4b | In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because Venus is a challenging planet to study. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system.
Venus is a challening planet to study because of the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The temperature's average is over 800 degree fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then Earth. In the article it says, "not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." This means that no human can survive the landing for more than a few hours because Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. The weather on Venus can cause for volcanoes to erupt and powerful earthquakes to occur. This shows how Venus is a dangerous planet to visit.
Venus is a worthy planet to visit because Venus still has some features that are analogus to those on earth. It has a surface of rocky sediment and includes features like valleys, mountains, and craters. In the article it says, "Venus has been the most earth-like planet in our solar system." Venus was covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth. This is why Venus is like Earth's twin. NASA has an idea for humans to study and visit Venus in a safe way by going in jet airplanes. The jet airplanes would travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms. A vehicle would avoid the ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. The temperature would still be high about 170 degrees fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth. This can help humans survive. This would be a safe way for humans to visit Venus.
In conclusion, the author suggets that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because it explains how Venus is a dangerous planet to visit but humans still continue to study it. | 4 |
61a9010 | The new Facial action Coding System tells peoples emotions. I think it would be useful in a classroom. There is many reasons i think it would be useful. Im going to talk about why i belive it would be useful in this essay.
If you could tell how your students were feeling, it would make teaching easier. For example, if you were teaching and the computer told you all of your students were bored, then you could try to teach it in another way. Or if the computer told you all your students were exicted then you would know your doing a great job and you could teach that way more often. You would know what ways to teach to get the information into the students.
So what i think is that this computer could be really effective in a classrom. it would allow teachers to know if there students are even learning, how they feel about the way they teach, and lots more too. So if they could really use it in a classroom, im all for it. | 2 |
61a90d9 | No it does not work because it is very un fare to the millions of voters in the U.S. Mainly because alot of the states donot even see an ad for the presidential campaign. Also because it is not winner takes all like it is for most states. So it is not fair mainly just because of bad publicity. Also because the presidential campaign could come down to one persons vote and depending if he is bias or not it would be very unfair.
The electoral college does alsonot work because it was created by our founding fathers. Which was all the way back when this country was first starting out. So the ways that they do it is so old and does not work anymore. These are the reasons why i think that the electoral college does not work. Anymore in todays modern times where it is all out dated. | 2 |
61b3999 | I believe that driverless cars should be developed. I believe this because now and days you see that a lot of car accidents happen with texting and driving and also with drinking and driving. Now imagine how great it would be if those types of accidents would stop happening, well driverless cars are the answer. Now and days people can be very irresponsible and hurt others by their actions but these cars can help save lives and a lot of them. This can help keep pedestrians safe and even the drivers. Many deaths happen every year because of drivers not being able to be alert when driving, well with this type technology we can prevent this from happening. These cars will most likely be programmed to follow the law, as in mainting the speed limit and not doing illegal things on the road as in skipping a stop sign or a red light. These cars will also be able to help those who aren't able to drive like blind people, short people, and handicaped people these cars will be able to take them to their destination safely. These cars will be a great help to a lot of people who are irresponsible and to those with disadvantages. In conclusion I do believe they should develop these cars because it would be a great help to people. | 2 |
61c3e9a | In my opinion i dont think they can tell what peoples emotions are by looking at a computers because everyone act different ways. For example you can't say just a person is not surprised because they didn't raise their eyebrows.. There is no one way to act for emotion because different people act different way. You can look emotions like math homework because you can tell if math is right or wrong but you can't do that with emtions because it's not fact. For example there are some people who dont show any emtion for anything can't tell me that they are not happy because they dont have smile in their face. I know a guy who gos to my school and he never shows any emtions. For example when he gets a good grade in his geometry test that doesn't mean he is anger. I think it is hard to juge peoples feeling by their face. Some people smile all the time that doesn't mean they have everything perfacts. You can't juge book by it's cover and it is the same for emtion. A book can look old and boring but when you read it you might like it. It's crazy how we think technolohy will know all this things. It seems as if technology is taking over the world now. If we think it can tell are emtion by just looking at a picture of a person what is next our life story? Overall, I don't think you can tell peoples emtions by technology. | 2 |
61c5216 | Hi my name is Luke.Im going to tell you why you should join the seagoing cowboys.Here are the reasons why.Also dont forget to join.
Your probably asking yourself why should i join and the reason is that you can help many people who were affected by world war 2 and many other wars.You get to help people who have been injured or need help with something.It takes awhile to get to them,but its worth it.You help them get there animals back if they lost some.Give them food and water if they dont have some or if they barly have food or water.You also can meet up with different nations.I met up with 44 nations when I went.You take care of animals that got hurt or need help.Then give the animals some food and water to drink and eat.You do alot more,but you will have to figure them out.You can see places that youve never seen before like China.When your on your way to somewhere on the boat and your bored you can do things to make it go faster.You can do things like table tennis,fencing,boxing,reading,baseball,volleyball,cattle riding,Whittling,etc.Another thing you can do is when your on the boat you can see some places you have never herd or seen before.I went to Greece and saw many different things you wouldnt see where you live.While your there you have some time to spare so you can look around or go on rides or something.You can also tour some things like an excavated castle.Dont worry of getting hurt because around you you are always protected.Another thing not to worry about is the food you dont have to bring your own food they already have some for you.Once you done with the seagoing cowboys i think you will really see the world and what it is made of just like I did.
Those are the reasons I think you should join the seagoing cowboys.I hope you join.Also I hope I see you one day.You will be also rewared. | 3 |
61c5578 | The authors says that it is important to go to venus and explore. He feels that yes it is dangerous but he thinks we should push through that. because theyre will be alot to learn on venus. He shows this by saying all the dangers with going theyre. Then goes on why they should and go travel to venus to explore the planet.
He states that some importances of going to venus. Like along time ago it was probably the closest planet to earth. And that venus is the best optin to visit because it is close. He states thes things by saying." The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar feature such as valleys, mountains, and craters, furthermore.
He also states that " recall that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visits, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. He says the travel would be very neccesary for science that could learn alot of stuff if theyre were to go vist venus.
On the other hand theyre is alot of risk if they were to go there. That people could get hurt because pof the harsh elemenst on venus and the harsh terrain. He sates that by saying. " NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. imangine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscpe.
All in all he feels like venus would be a good planet to go explore. Because it was like earth at one time and still is. It will let us learn alot of stuff. He does understand the danger that will come with this mission. But he is ready to go through that danger. | 3 |
61c7b5a | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is able to suggest and back up their claim of Venus being a worthy pursuit despite it's dangers by stating facts showing how science and technology will help us in the pursuit of exploring to Venus. They gets us concerned by stating the perrils of exploring venus. Then they state why the audience should be interested in exploring Venus, and proceeds to counter the perrils by stating technological advancements being made to lessen the extreme environment on Venus.
The author shows the perrils by first stating the dangers and compare them to intense atmospheres on Earth, such as how the ground temperature on Venus is over 800 degrees fahrenheit and would instantly melt most metals. Another example that he gives would be when they states that the gravitational pull of Venus would crush a submarine that was meant to explore the deepest depths of the ocean at Earth. One more example of this would be when says that staying above it is still a danger because of how hot and unbearable it would be. Those are the situations that he has listed.
After saying all the dangers of exploring Venus the author decides to mention why scientists are still attempting to explore the dangerous planet. An example would be that Venus is very much like Earth. In the article the author mentions Venus and Earth having many of the same features, such as mountains and valleys as well as evidence showing Venus possibly containing water and oceans. Another thing the author tells us is that the planets orbit at different times, so at times Earth may be closest to Venus, and other times we are closer to Mars. Those are all reasons why scientists wish to explore Venus further.
The author, after having told us the conditions and reasons to explore Mars goes further. The author then states technological advancements being made to help survive the conditions on Venus to obtain samples and such. An example the author gives us would be mentioning A device that would lessen the conditions on Venus to make it at least tolerable. Another example would be creating a lab that would create the same atmosphere as venus so scientists could create machines capable of surviving the harsh environment. Those are all examples stated in the text.
After stating the perils, the motivations, and the advancements towards Venus, the author is able to canvey their message in a clear and concise way. The evidence used to back up their claims are able to show how important Venus is to Scientists and mankind alike. Venus should be further explored despite have harsh conditions because it's the closest thing to Earth. There are also technological advancements being made to adapt to Venus in order to possibly inhabit Venus. | 4 |
61c8ddd | Driverless cars would be a great new innovation. I think there would be less accidents because of wreckless drivers, the accidents rates would most likely go down because of the safer driving by a computer. Although the computer will have many glitches in the beginning the company will have to work a lot to remove them. Driverless cars will be a great turnout for new drivers also. If they are nervous and are scared to drive the car will do most of the work for them, they wont have to do many things.
I think google has the right idea with the cars they are making, although all of the equipment that is hanging on the car would need to be minimized so one can work the car to it's fullest intent without the bulky satelites and cameras. Just as BMW did and made the car have sensors so that the driver will know when the traffic is bad or the driver should stop because there is a car or object behind the car. The car should have cameras so that the car can make sure that the driver is alert, the idea is very good.
The idea of driverless cars may upset some people, but i think it should be a nice innovation so that it makes it easier for new drivers and wreckless drivers so there are less accidents. The computers will need to be programmed correctly with no flaws. | 2 |
61cd11c | The Face on Mars is just a natural landform. If this was a Face, Nasa would've been benefited more. Nasa has more proof that the Face is a natural landform.
This formation is formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. The shadows made the landform look like an Egyptain Pharaoh. The Face is a huge rock formation. If this formation was an actual face, Nasa would have benefited and earned money for their discovery of life on Mars. I also state that "a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa is about the same height as the Face on Mars." The Face of life on Mars is compared more times to a natural landform than a face of a Martain. These "Faces"
are common around Cydonia. After long, eighteen years after the Viking missions had ended, our Mars Global Surveyor arrived at Mars in September 1997. We took photographs the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it. The photo was ten times sharper than the other and we coud get a better view of the Face and it was just a rock landform and not an alien monument. Our cameras are very good quality and you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. We got a fantastic look at this so called "Face".
In conclusion, this Martain Face is just a natural landform on Mars. Shadows give of an illusion of a face and Nasa has discovered that there is no Martain activity linked to the Face. Many people believed there was once life on Mars because of this incident but in reality there is no alien monument after all. | 3 |
61cd246 | Do you ever dream of going to Venice, Italy, "a city with streets of water", or tour a "excavated castle in Crete or marvel at the Panama canal on your way to China"?
The UNRRA started hiring "Seagoing Cowboys" at the end of World War II. These "Cowboys" helped haul animals across the ocean to help with their food supply. Once Luke Bomberger had hauled "335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them." It's an amazing experience that many people would love.
First of all, being on board across the ocean meant ways to pass time. "Luke also found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animnals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games helped pass time."
Secondly, you get to see amazing places all over the world. As I said at the beginning, Luke got to wittness the trips through Venice, Italy and a castle in Crete. "I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special, so was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China.
Last but not least, you get to help the people by sending them food. "It was 1945, World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins. To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke and Don signed up.
Most people might say that scince you are overseas, it could be dangerous. Yes it could, Luke cracked his ribs while trying to avoid falling into the Atlantic. (Ironic, isn't it?) But it is a lot of fun going across the oceans with some friends.
Remember that it is fun, you get freetime to do whatever you want, that you can see amazing places like Venice, Italy, and you get to help hundreds of people. "But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. 'I'm grateful for the opportunity,' he says. 'It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." | 3 |
61d1b5f | The main reason car usage should be limited is the pollution it causes. The emission given off from the cars cause massive amounts of polution.
Smog causes layes of emission to be trappen in Earths atmosphere and cause problems with breathing when unhealthy air is breathed in. The emission released from a car causes a huge affect on the atmosphere. We have to be limited on our usage or a few years from now our will not be able to be taken in at all without being sick!
There are many ways to reduce the usage of cars. We can ride bikes,carpool,or take public transportation. With us using less cars we will be able to slow down the rate at which car emissions are being released into the air.
Everyone needs to begin to stop and think if cars are really nessasary in their lives. Can you carpool with a friend? Does the public transportation run in your area and on your route to work or school? We are getting to the point where we have to limit driving all together so that we can still have healthy air to live. Would it be worth it when you are dead? I dont think so.
Now cars are begining to be eletric so that they dont let out as much emission from the car. With the eletric cars we are able to go to work and know we using half as much gas and the emission being let off is not nearly as much if we were to be driving a normal gas powered car. Eletric cars allow us to know that not as much damage is being done to our enviorment.
So get out there and start walking, riding a bike with a friend, or carpool ! Don't let cars be the death of us! We can save the Earth starting with taking well trips in the car and start taking the two foot express! | 2 |
61d399c | Driveles cars are on the rise and should be allowed everywhere, but only after all the problems are solved. These cars are what soccer moms and very successfull bussiness men been praying for. The self steer aspect of the car helps moms tend to their crazy children who wont stay seated, without the consequence of a crash or worse. Bussiness men can hold conference calls and maybe even do some paperwork during their drive. When the car comes across a difficult terrain it asks you to take over, this may be a problem in the future. These cars will evolve and so will the people who drive them. Humans may be so use to not touching the wheel, that when the car needs their assistance they wont know what to do. Driveless car would be a magnificent addition to the evolution of technology but in my mind I think the driveless vehicle should be a mode that the cars can go on not just the whole car being independent. Put it in this perspective....fifty to hundred years from now the driveless cars are the most distributed brand of transportation and isn't looking to depleat. A particular person is on the highway and is on their way to work. They fall asleep because ithe road looks clear anf they figure they car won't need their assistance, but little do tehy know its a enormous crash a mile ahead. The car is asking for their assistance but their not waking up. What would the car do? Stop right in the middle of the highway or continue to drive. | 3 |
61d3a3a | Driverless cars seem to be a good idea and also a bad idea. Driverless cars seem nice, innovative and great for lazy or inept people, but what enviormental, economic, efficency,and safety concerns come into play with these driverless cars?
Driverless cars need an abundant amount of sensors to reach maximum efficency. This sounds like a massive amout of capital is needed inorder to produce these cars. If it costs alot of money to produce the driverless cars, then they're going to be sold for alot of money. Not everyone will be able to afford these cars, and half of the people that can afford these driverless cars have someone chauffer them around and don't drive themselves. Why spend all of this money to produce these cars if people aren't really going to be able to buy them?
Driverless cars don't seem all that efficent either. They can only travel up to 25 mph. Yes this can be modified, but by how much, to the full speed of an average car? And will these cars actually reach the point where they will be completely driverless, or is this development another wateful expense of taxes? If the Driverless cars require still require a driver, why produce the car?
Safety and liability concerns affect the choice of driverless cars greately. If the driverless cars do get developed to the point where they are fully automated without a driver neccessary, then driving laws have to be altered. If someone happens to get into a car accident while in a driverless car is the car company held accountable for car malfunction, or is the driver held accountable? How can one for sure be able to trust that these cars are absolutely one-hundred percent safe? If laws lean towards the favor of the driver not being held accountable, which seems like the more than likely way it will happen, then the driverless car company will face alot of charges against them in the event of a car accident. An environmental safety concern is will the cars be more prone to emitting harmful substances into the air than normal cars, or will they be more environmental friendly than normal cars?
However, driverless cars do sound like a good idea for those who have to travel long distances and don't want to stop along the way, or don't feel like driving. Even for the elderly who may have to make a quick errand, but can't drive for preacutionary reasons. The driverless cars sound like they will reduce the amount of car accidents significantly which is always a good thing.
If these concerns and stipulations are taken into careful consideraton and applied then I would support the development of driverless cars. If they're not then no I wouldn't support the development of driverless cars. | 4 |
61d41c5 | Dear state senator,
I think we should'nt have the Electoral College because the system will go all wrong because who were actually voting for, unfair to voters, and its outdated and irrational. These are the reasons why i think that we shouldnt have Electoral College.
We shouldnt have it because voters dont actually vote for the president they want, but for a slate of eletors who is turn to elect the president which is unfair. If you wanted to vote for a president but you arent in that area you wouldnt be voting for that peron you'll be voting for a slate of 34 electors who pledge to that person. That will make the person get 34 electoral votes. This will be unfair to the voters and who they want to vote for.
The Electoral College is unfair to voters because whoever wins takes all the systems in each state, candidates dont spend any time in the states they have no chace of winning, and only focusing on the "swing states". In 2000 campaign the state didnt see the candidates at all. Why would you put your fate in the hands of people you never see or in a few swing voters?
The most worries people have is if there is a tie in the electoral vote. If that happen the election wouldnt be up to us at all and we dont want that. You would have to choce the vice president because we only got one vote. Even the house's can hardly even be expected to reflect the will of the people.
These are the reasons why i think that we should'nt have the Electoral College because who we actually vote for, unfair, an its outdated and irrational. Please take a momment and read about this and think about what the people want and how it will be fair and eaier for us and you.
From, Melissa | 3 |
61d4e5b | Did the author support their idea well in this article? I do believe he did. I saw many reasons as to why we should at least try to go to venus. He gave many reasons as to how Venus is very simillar to Earth and could be inhabited one day. He also gave many reasons as to how it could be dangerous, and why people haven't really been able to do so yet. They mention things about what Venus has done to other space crafts in the past, and what it can do to others now even.
The author gives many reasons as to why Venus is reffered to as Earths "twin." He says, "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." In this he tells us that Venus is like Earth in the ways of how dense it is and how large it is. He also says that it is occasionally close to us, so that shows us that it could be just like Earth, but with some differences. The author also says in paragraph 4, "it may have once been the most Eath-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported many forms of like, just like Earth." With this he is telling us that there could be fossils, or we could one day maybe inhabit Venus if needed, with adaptations of course.
The author also says that the journey would be dangerous. He mentions in paragraph 2 "each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no space craft has survived the landing for more than a few hours." In this he is telling us just how dangerous it is, because tipically you would think of a machine being tougher than the human body, but as you think about it you can see just as fast as that machine was destroyed. If that machine was destoryed so quickly imagine how quickly the human body would be. He also says "not a single spacecraft has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." This also lets us know how hard it would be to get there and how fast, if the right materials aren't used, something can be destroyed during the trip.
The author then gives us NASA's plan as to how somebody would be able to access Venus in paragraph 5. He tells us that "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would be to allow scientists to float above the fray." He gives us this idea so that we can think about it being a safer route and that maybe with this method somebody could be able to make it. With his evidence in the previous paragraphs we can conclude it would be very dangerous to land on Venus, but not to be above it. He also gives us a scenario of what it would be like for the scientists floating above. He tells us, "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up out of their way.. temperatures would still be toasy at arounf 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth... radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." By telling us this he is saying that it wouldn't be the most comfortable thing, but it would be liveable. He is showing us that it would be possible, and if they really wanted to, they could explore Venus.
In paragraph 8 he mentions that the "scientist floating above would only give limited insignt," with this we can see that there still wouldn't be everythig solved, but we would still be closer than we've ever gotten. He also says in paragraph 8, "most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere, rendering standard forms of photography and videography ineffective." Meaning that the scientists wouldn't be able to photograph anything on Venus to look at later. The scientists would only be able to look at things closet than anybody ever has, but not be able to document any of it. With this we can also see that we wouldn't be able to see what Venus looked like from Earth, making it hard to report back on findings and research.
All in all I beleive the author did support his idea well. He gave the pros and cons and was able to explain everything out. I myself don't know it it would be worth all the money in supplies, but I do think with NASA's idea we can get closer than we've ever gotten before. The conditions would be liveable, but maybe a little uncomfortable, and we could get some good information on Venus. If Venus is as closely related to Earth as the author makes it out to be, then maybe it could be worth a shot, but I am still debating on it. It's nothing the author did, because he did explain and support everything very well, but I've always had very strong opinions on everything. | 5 |
61e1ab3 | Driverless cars are supposed to be the big idea of the future, but are they really that safe? I personally do not think that driverless cars are a good idea for three main reasons. The first reason is that even though technology has advanced incredebly over the past decade, it still isn't safe enough to trust with our lives. The second reason is that most driving laws focus mainly on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, which won't happen if we continue to work on driverless cars. For the last and final reason, we should not continue to make and produce driverless cars because if somebody is injured or there is a wreck, who would be the one at fault?
Technology has advanced incredibly over the past couple of years from iPhones to Macbooks, and even hoverboards, but creating driverless cars is going a bit overboard because of certain safety regulations. In the passage it says that "the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern" which I am sure they want to be correct, but can one truly trust that that statement is honestly correct? Think about how many lives would be put in danger if the driver of the vehicle wouldn't have to do anything but trust that technology would take control for them.
A person that is manually driving themself is way safer that driverless cars as it says in the passage: "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." The passage also supports this claim by stating, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." In some states such as California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia it is even illegal to test computer driven cars.
The last reason that driverless cars should not be legal is because if somebody wrecks and has an injury or dies, who would be the one at fault? If car companies continue to try and invent this type of car, many changes must be made in order to keep people safe. In the passage it suggests that, "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." If one were to get into a wreck and kill somebody or some people because of driverless automotives, they would end up being taken to jail because of murder, and they would also have to live with the fact that they ended someone's life for the rest of theirs.
Driverless cars may seem like a great idea in technology advances at the moment, but when one gets out onto the road with this type of vehicle anything can happen, whether it is a glitch in the system or a malfunction of some sort. I personally do not think that driverless cars are a very good invention because they do not seem safe at all, laws focus on driver, passenger, and pedestrian safety, and if someone was to be injured in a wreck of some sort then nobody would know who or what was at fault. Technology has advanced so much over the past decade, but instead of taking the technology we do have and making something so creative but yet so dangerous, we should just simply make somthing that would or could not possibly end lives. | 4 |
61e8dfa | The author tells how Venus is worth going to see as a challenge because no one has manned to stay on the surface for more than a few hours to see how it is and see the challenge of it because in paragraph 2 it says "not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades".
Venus is a planet close to earth it is a planet where not many people go to see for reasons like its dangerous,, its average over 800 degrees fahrenheit that not many people survive going to see it, its powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes but the NASA still send people to study it.
Venus is dangerous because of its tempeture and hoe risky it is but the NASA has ideas of still sending people up there to study it like for example in passage 5 "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. At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans."
its telling how they can still go up there to study it the just have to make there spaceships out of silicon carbide and they say in passage 7 "it last for three weeks in such conditions" so there making ideas and plans how to get up there to still study it cause its important to then and they look at it as a challenge.
In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author is saying explore it but then he is saying be safe at the same time because of the danger that can happen but he wants you to still look at it as a challenge and see if you can do it or not because there is people still studying it and still making plans to do it. | 3 |
61e9465 | The Face on Mars could be a alien artifact, but its not. The Face is only a natural land form. The reasons are, conspiracy therorists think NASA would hide evidence of life on Mars. It takes time to prepare for the pictures. It looks like landforms on Earth as well as Mars.
Conspiracy therorist think NASA would hide this evidence from the world. Nasa shows an image with a caption that says "huge rock formation."
Cydonia became a priority for the Nasa program. Later another team when to go get pictures of the Face and all they found was a natural landform.
It takes time to prepare the pictures and the launches. NASA sent only 3 teams to go and look at the Face. The reason they did that is because of how much time it could take to prepare for these journeys to space.
"As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," (paragraph 11).
The Face looks like landforms from Earth as well. The Face landform reminds "Garvin that it looks mostly like Middle Buttle in the Snake River of Idaho," (paragraph 12). "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about he same height as the Face of Mars," (paragraph 12).
The Face of Mars looks like landforms we have on Earth. It takes time to perpare for the space missions. Finally conspiracys think NASA wouldn't show the evidence or hide life. Most of these things can even help the mesa of the Face be another landform. | 2 |
61e9aa0 | Venus' average temperature of over eight hundred, clouds of sulfuric acid, and great atmospheric pressure makes it highly unlikey for inhabbitting. Despite these conditions, it is considered Earth's twin. This is because of the similar size and density of the two planets. For these reasons, and more, the exploration of Venus has been attempted. But what makes dangers of traveling there worth what could be found? Is this topic done justice from by the author?
What would make the danger of going to Venus worth it? In paragraph four, the author states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once been the most Earth-like [...] a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." In the sentences taken from the article, the author mentions how Venus is covered in mountains, valleys, craters, and how there is a possibility of it being covered by ocean many, many years before hand. Right after, the author says that there have been theories about how it could have supported various life forms. Later on in paragraph four, the author states that Venus has a similar terain to Earth and is the nearest option and and crucial consderation. The author could have done more to support the idea that Venus is worth studying. They gave three pieces of supporting evidence on why it was worth studying and did not go on to further explain why these three examples made Venus worth studying.
Do the dangers of Venus outweigh the reasons to study it? The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" belives they do not, but lacked a further explanation as to why. There were good ideas brought to the table about why Venus would be worth the dangers of the exploration. However, the author briefly mentioned them in one paragraph and did not elaborate on their reasons. | 3 |
61eaa75 | I think the Face On Mars is a natural landform because there are other landforms already like it on Earth, and there are other mesas like it around the Cydonia region. I think if aliens were on Mars I think we might have discovered them by now, but you can never be sure.
The Face is just formed by conveniently placed shadows. NASA wishes there was life on Mars becase they would benefit from it, so why would they try to cover up something that could get them a lot of popularity and money. Scientists researched this farther and released even better pictures proving it was just a landmass and not an alien artifact. People believe that the clouds could've covered up alien markings but that seems illogical because in 2001 they went back to the face and took more pictures with even higher resolution and found that there were no markings at all, meaning more evidence leaning towards the Face just being a natural landmass and not an alien artifact. It was just a mesa the whole time.
So there is a lot of evidence leading you to believe that the Face on Mars is merely just a natural landmass called a mesa, combined with shadows gives the mass a facelike texture. Lots of research shows you that the mass is very natural and not made by Aliens. | 3 |
61efac6 | Is your job boring,do you also love animals? Well I'm Luke Bomberger and I love animals every single kind. Today I will like to explain why you guys should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. I will also tell you what we do in the program and some reasons you should join this program. In this program we will be helping alot of farm animals and taking care of them. The reason you should join is because alot of these animals need help and they shouldn't have to die because people don't want to take care of them.So if you like farm animals then you should join.
I will be explaining why you guys should join the Seagoing Cowboy program and what we will be doing to make a diffrence. So after I graduated high school and got two part-time jobs at a store and a bank then, one day
one of my friends came up and asked would I like to go to Europe with him I couldn't say no because it was once in a lifetime thing. Then in 1945 when World War ll was over and alot of countries were not normal. Then 44 nations joained together to help them all they help supplies them with food,animals,and more but thats not the point. The point is that there was alot of farm animals that needed to be taken care of. They shipped then overseas and that is when me and my friend signed up to help them because we know that those animals needed our help.
In the conclusion, I think all yall who love animals farm animals or not should join. These animals shouldn't have to die because people wanted to go to war. They help
us live by giving us milk and food so we should help them live. You all should sign up today and come join me and my friend we need all the help make a big diffrence in these animals lives.If you don't sigh up then remeber all the animals around you and what if they was just like these farm animals. Would you help them ? Well is so then you should sign up know and help these animals they are not that diffrent they should hae the best life that they can they are like us people they need water and food to live and also care. | 3 |
61f29a7 | Deer Senator:
They should keep the Electoral college, Because its where people vote to choose who's going to be the president and the vice president. If they have 538 electors they have to count them all not 270/538 because its not fair. I am Agree with the "Certificate of Ascertainment" they can have a certificate even if they did not won.
The State conventions, the presidential candidates, the state party's central committee they all should vote or choose at the same time. Voters get confused because the state convention, presidential candidates and the state central committee don't make up their minds....Why American people should considere themselves lucky if that was Back in 1960's, what makes them so sure that American people are going to be lucky again? well they might get lucky this time but not always they're going to be lucky every year its difficult and we are in 2015 now.
People should STOP thinking about what happen in the 1960's it might happen again okay but that was 45 years ago. Why A catastrophe? why cant they live in peace and stop hatting or whatever's going on.
If they keep doing that it might be a fight or a war between them, and we dont want any fights or wars this year. The electoral college have to change for good if they dont they wont see any votes when its time to vote..Segregationists they have to stop being rasists because people from all over the world are voting for them and they are all from different races.
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61f4d88 | The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" does not do a good job of supporting their idea. The author believes that, while Venus is dangerous it is worthy of spending time and money to explore this planet. The author mentions the similaities between earth and venus, makes exploring this planet so fascinating. The author later goes on to explain how NASA would travel and explore Venus, and what tools they would use to explore Venus. How NASA would travel to Venus is irrevalate to if Venus is worth exploring. Because, the author spends a majority of their time telling us how, NASA would learn more about Venus. Is not needed to prove and explain why exploring Venus is nessacary.
The author spends three of their six body paragraphs explaining how NASA would explore the planet of Venus. In paragraph 6 they explain that sending an orbiting ship around the planet will provide limited insight of the ground below ,and the only way to gain more knowledge is to be able to collect rock and gas samples. The author never states what we could possiable learn from the rock samples, or even elbrates on the idea of collecting a varity of samples from the planet. They later spend paragraph 7 explaining the history of computers and how much computes have progressed since 1800. They even explain the mechainics of computers during the World War II for example, "these devices make calculations by using gear and levers and do not require electronics at all." The mechainics of computers has nothing to do with the idea that we should be exploring NASA. The infomation provided in paragraph 5 through 7, such as the history and mechanics of computers. The little infomation given on how a rock sampple will help us learn about Venus, or that NASA isn't able to gain enough infomation from sending a hovering ship about the planet, do not help or support the authors claim that Venus is worthy of exploring despite the dangers.
To summorize, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus"
does not do a good job of explaining the why Venus is worthy is studying and exploring, despite the dangers. The author spends to much time explaining computers, the history and the mechainics of them, and what we could learn about Venus through computers. They also use their time to tell their readers that sending an orbiting ship around plant won't provided us with enough infomation, and to explain how they would explore Venus and the tools they would use. The author did a poor job of explaining the importance of exploring Venus despite the dangers. | 4 |
61f7a9c | When the first photograph of the "Face on Mars" appeared in 1976, researchers and the general public lost their minds. The 'face' was a blurry and shadowy photo from the Viking 1 mission. The photo resembled a human face with eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Dispite all of the scientific and theorietical chaos it created, researchers at the National Areonautics and Space Administration (NASA) discovered that the 'face' was just a matian mesa.
Many people, even today, believe that this natural landform is actually an alien monument. This fallacy lead to many studies, researches, and experiments to find out what the face was. One explaination should cool the heated debated is that NASA is a professional institution built to study this very topic. It is also comprised of educated experts that work to learn and discover more for the rest of the population to learn correctly. However, this is not enough for many people to prove only the plausible.
In "Unmasking the Face on Mars," the first portion of the article shows 3 compared photographs. These photographs are all of the 'face,' just in 3 different years. The first photo was taken in 1976, the next was in 1998, and the last one was taken in 2001. Each photo perfectly shows a new piece of the 'face' that was not well understood. The first photo shows what does clearly look like a face in the shadows, but as the photos become more recent, the face receads and becomes what looks like a river, or lava system flowig down the sides. These photographs were taken by separate space missions by none other than NASA. These photos are what fueled the conspiracy theorists theories but only because of the lack of information that they had at the time.
In the article, in paragraph 7, it states that on April 5, 1998, the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) had taken the sharpest photo of the time. This photo stood to prove what the NASA researchers were trying to say. The photograph itself proved that there were not alien markings on the 'face' and that it was only a natural landmark. This photo showed that the elements that made up the 'face,' were just "the Martian Equivalent of a butte or mesa." (12) It showed small elevated spots on the surface that, from afar and in the shadows, a human-like face appeared around all of it.
However, for some headstrong citizens, this still was not enough to prove what the photo really showed. This lead to the 2001 MGS mission to capture yet another, improved photo of the surface of Mars. The team that which took the photo prided themselves on taking the "extraordinary photo with the camera's absolute maximum resolution." (10) In paragraph 10 of the article, it explains that in 2001, the resolution of the photo (1.56 meters per pixel) was beyond fantastic compared to the resolution of the 1976 photo (43 meters per pixel). This comparison is enough to show that in 2001, the landmark could be seen very clearly with the human eye and could be clearly made out as just a landform. The photo was clearly just a bit o' rock jutting out of the surface of Mars.
The 1976 controversy over the "Face on Mars" was truely a very heated debate. Starting in 1976 when a blurry image of a face on Mars made it's way through the minds of the Americans, the "Face on Mars" was concieved to be an alien relic of some sort. Years later, a new photograph produced by NASA in 1998 began to settle long held debates over the face. It proved to many researchers that this startling human like face was only a natural landmark with a coincedental shape and shadow. This did not, however, settle all of the disputes amongst the ammeture conspiracy theorists. To further prove the point, NASA pushed it's limits in 2001 and took an amazingly sharp photo of the land mark. The photo was pure proof to the nation that the fantisized face was only a small mesa on the surface of Mars. Even today some theorists still try to hold their ground in their thoughts, but it will always be known to science as just a martian mesa that caused some commotion. | 4 |
61fc0e5 | Hot topics in today's world are pollution and global warming. While there is still debate, many people agree that cutting down society's use of cars would help the world be a better place. Greater limitation of car use will reduce pollution and better society.
To commence, reduction of car use will reduce pollution. Pollution is essentially hurting the planet as a whole, as well as all the organisms living in it. In fact, Paris, France, has recently taken action against car use effectively. According to Robert Duffer, "[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." In only a few days, after banning half of the diesel and gas-run cars in the cities per day, "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday." If such a change can happen in under a week, the entire world could benefit greatly from adopting similar policies. In the U.S, things are also turning around for the better. According to
The New York Times
's article, "The End of Car Culture," "transportaion is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants." This is largely due to car culture in the U.S, which is fortunately declining. In fact, in the same article, it is said "As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995." This shows that America is well on it's way to becoming a greener nation without having to make dramatic changes to it's way of life.
Continuing, more limited car use can better society, or at least work in a community. Society is currently too dependant on cars. However, Vauban, Germany is starting to change that. In another
New York Times article, Elisabeth Rosenthal states, "70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here." The remaining thirty percent of people hardly use their own cars for anything more than distant traveling, as most of Vauban's streets are "car-free." This can show that a population of people, (in this case over 5,000 of them) can survive without constantly being behind a wheel. In another case, in Bogota, Columbia, there is a designated holiday to celebrate not using cars. Appropriately titled, "Day Without Cars" is an annual event held in order "to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog," according to the
Seattle Times's
Andrew Selsky. While it may sound silly, the event had a huge turnout in spite of bad weather. Other cities joined into the fun after a few years, and also in the article, Enrique Riera, the mayor of a Paraguay town, said of the event, "'These people are generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing borders.'" The simple effort to better the world has brought people together for a good cause.
In retrospect, the idea of declining the use of cars will help humanity as a whole greatly. Doing so would simultaneously slow down the destruction of the Earth for all organisms inside of it, and also help the human race better itself socially. | 5 |
61fe513 | Have you ever wondered how we could try to prevent a big problem with teens in this country? Yes, teens may have a lot of problems that need attention including drama, drugs, alcohol, and bullying. But the biggest of them all, which people sometimes try to hide, would probably have to be suicide. With this new technology it could help find the ealy signs of a teen about to do self harm, and that's just one thing that this technology could help. Wondering what this new technology is? Facial Action Coding Systems, it could help our schools in many ways but here are just a select few of them, by making students be more productive, by keeping students out of trouble, and ultimately by helping prevent self harm.
My first point is that this new technology can help students be more productive. As said in paragraph 6 lines 6 through 8 this program could recognize when a student is getting bored with the lesson just by the way the mucles are strained on
the students face and change the lesson up a little bit to make it more appealing to learn just like an effective human instructor. People may argue that this will just make our students get even more distracted and make trouble with out an instructor.Which comes to my next point.
This program can also help keep our students out of trouble. If this technology keeps changing the lesson so the students don't get bored or distracted then that will keep them on task instead of carrying on with their friends and causing a ruckus in class. which will then lead to higher test scores and just an over all better education for the students.Which then people may also argue that with the automation and not as much human confrontation it could make our students feel alone and think about making bad decisions as in self harm or even harm to others.
My last and most strong point would be that this technology could help prevent self harm within the student body which is a huge problem with teenagers these days. This technology can help detect early signs of depresion and many other mental illnesses. Which would be amazing because then the students that would need help would get the help that they needed before they make a bad decision as in self harm.
Yes people may say that technology is taking over the world and that it is a horrible thing, but with the students/kids these days thats all that they really rely on and no it's not a good thing but nor is it a bad thing. If we can keep changing technology and improving it to help more and more people all over than why don't we? So as I conclude this essay I would have to say yes this technoloy will more than likely do very well in our schools, and more than likely after a while something else better will come along and take its place but for now this would probably be the best decision for this country and the students to help them be more productive, by
keeping them out of trouble, and ultimately by helping prevent self harm. | 4 |
61ff5ed | source 1: what is the electoral collage?
by the office of the federal register
The electoral college is a proccess,not a place. The founding established it in the U.S. constitution as a compromise between election of the president and the congress and the election of the president by a polpular vote of qualified citizens.(
paragraph, 1 sentance, 1).
The electoral college consists of 538 electors a majority of 270 electors votes are required and is reqiured to elect the president(paragraph 3 sentance 1). So i belive that electoral college should be at most the most effecient way of electing a president because they have to persude the electorates to be on their side in order to get elected. Wich is much harder to do that pursudeing the people there for giving us a good honest president than one that will lie or try to hurt the public in any way because, i belive if their are officials going to vote for our nations president they will be much more careful of their decision,putting our nation in better hands.
source 3: in defenceof the electoral collage:five reasons to keep our method of choosing the president by Richard A. Posner reason 1:
Certainty Of Outcome
Dispute over the out come is possible-it happend in 2000- but its less likely than a dispute between popular vote. the reson is that winnning candidate's share of electoral collage invariably exeeds his share of the popular vote.
reason 2
:
Everyone's President
The electoral college requirs canadates to have trans-regional appeal. no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional such as Mitt Romneywas in the south,has so innocently favored for he gain electoral vote by increasing his plurality in those states and if done he know he'll win.
reason 3
:
Swing States
The winner takes all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates-as we saw in [2012's] election- to focus their campaign efforts on the toss up states. Voters in toss up states are more likeley to pay close attention to the campeign to really listen to the competeing canidates knowing that they are going to decide the election. They are likeley to be on the most thoughtful votes, on average(and futher reason they will have recived the most information and attention from the canidates), and the most thoughtful voters should be the one to decide the election.
reason 4
:
Big States
The electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states have (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionmentof the senate decreed in the constitution. The popular vote was very close in Florida [2012] never the less obama, who won that vote got 29 electoral votes. A victory by the same margin in woyming would net the winner got 3 electoral votes.
reason 5
:
Avoid Run-Off Elections
The electoral college avoids run-off elections wich no canindate recives a majority of the votes cast. For example , Nixion in 1968 and Clinton both had only 43% plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the electoral college. There is pressure for run-off elections when no canidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure,wichwould greatly complicate the presidential election processes.
So you see that is is easier and less complex to do an electoral vote instead of a popular vote. Thats why i think it is manditory that we keep the electoral collage because it is a more orginized system that prevents some of the problems we see today. | 2 |
6203d5a | After reading the passage and thinking about some other opinions of my own, I do not think it is a good idea to have driverless cars. My number one problem with driverless cars would be safety. In section nine of the prompt it clearly states "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" If driverless cars were used i feel that there would be multiple more car wrecks then there are now.
If people had a driverless car what is to keep them form thinking " I don't have to pay attention, the car will do all the work for me." in section ten it says "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." Knowing some people they might forget about the other 10 percent and not pay attention to what is happening on the road which could lead to wrecks. If they were, infact going to make a driverless car I would agree with putting in some flashing lights on the windshield of the car to get the drivers attention. Unless the driver had epalepsy, then it wouldn't be a good idea.
Though there are some positive aspects to having a driverless car. For example, in section eight of the prompt it states "Such desplays can be turned off instantly when the dirver needs to take over-- something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone." This is good so that drivers will pay attention to aviod geting in a car wreck, but whaty happens when the driver doesn't look up fast enough or just thinks that their phone died and doesn't know to look up. What happens then? In conclusion, I do not believe that having a driverless car is a good idea for more than one reason. | 3 |
6215c79 | In today's world, students are filled with many emotions, some too difficult for even parents to decode. The rollercoaster of feelings that a teenager endures in a day is confusing and complex. But with newly found technology, it may be easier now for the emotions of students' to be understood and assisted, if needed. The revolutionary Facial Action Coding System allows computers to scan and analyze the feelings of a human, alive or painted, and is a very valuable tool to comprehend student's emotional expressions. This highly advanced technology is able to serve a multitiude of purposes that will foster an improved learning environment for students.
Because of this new and itelligent technology, doctors and others are able to read emotions of people in a way never previously possible. This brilliant computer "constructs a 3-D computer model of the face" (3). including all major muscles. With the ability to do so, this computer scans and creates a human face and, based on the position of the muscles, is able to determine the distribution of emotions felt at that moment by a person. Tested with the Mona Lisa, this model "can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece). Each expression is compared against a neutral face" (4). By comparing the chosen face against an emotionless one, this advanced techonology allows the ability to use muscle positions to analyze the feelings of a person. The ingenuity of the computers provide the resources and ability to decode complex human emotions and, in turn, will be able to be utilized in methods that will add to the betterment of society.
The Facial Action Coding System will foster a more positive learning environment for students by adapting their online experience to their emotions. If implemented in daily computers, this technology will revolutionize the environemnt and usage of the Internet. Because this technology can map emotions, "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). With the implementation of this technology, students will be able to influence which advertisements and pages appear on their screen. This will reduce their impatience on the computer, and actually stay focused on the task at hand, rather than getting frustrated and walking away. With the ability to control the pages on their computer screen, students will feel empowered and influential, giving them confidence and increasing their work ethic. With an increased work ethic, students will remain productive and efficient with their time and materials. The content of the student's lesson can also be adapted based on their emotional behavior. Dr Huang, the innovator of this technology, describes that at school, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (6). By allowing the computer to customize the lesson, students will stay more engaged, as the content they are learning is one that they enjoy. Students will find pleasure in learning the subjects that interest them while also learning about other less-interesting subjects in a more captivating manner. The innovative technology serves to better a student's learning environment, keeping them engaged and interested in the content. Schools will notice increased success rates and knowledgable students. By providing students with the chance to customize the method in which they learn, school will be more enjoyable and students will stay committed to their education. The emotion-analyzing software gives students this chance and will greatly impact the way they learn and the committment to their education.
The highly inteliigent Facial Action Coding System a valuable asset for students in a classroom, as it fosters an enjoyable and captivating learning environment that will shape the students' commitment to school. This advanced software analyzes the movement of a human's facial muscles, comparing it to an emotionless one, and determines the percent distribution their feelings. This innovative software provides students with the ability to customize the pages and lessons on the computer, giving them control over their method of learning. Students with this ability will feel captivated by their learning, as they are in control and can decide how they learn. The development of a desire to learn is crucial for school-aged children so that in the future, they will continue on to further educate themselves and expand their knowledge. This facial
-analysis technology provides schools with the ability to create a captivating learning environment for students that will motivate them to stay committed to their education and reach their goals. While this new technology provides a bounty of benefits to many, assisting students in the achievement of their hopes and dreams holds the most value. | 6 |
62179d1 | Hi I am Luke and I was in a job on a boat called a cattle boat. I was on the boat for about two years and it was amzing. The job is all about getting cattle acores the oceans to other countres because of World War II.
The Nazies done a lot of work to destroy theso countery and they need food and supplys to get back on their feet and they make a great counrty once again. This job in opioun is the best because we get to go to other countris and give them supplys for them to get back on their feet to once great again. I did this for two years straight and had a blast and we even got so much free time that I got to take a tour around a caltle on our way to chine and I had a blast also got see Greece and other amzaing conutries. I also I got a trip to italy and got to ride the strits of their beatful town. So this was a good trip for me a small-town city boy. On the way home we got to play sports like baseball, vollyball, table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing reading whittling, and games to pass the time for the two years. But I do got to warn you about the danger about this job when I had the late night shift I had to check the animals every hour and one hour I fell back in if that railing was not their I would of been lost at sea and I would of dron out their if it was not for that railing.
So this jobeis good ofr some people if they wanted to see the world and to sail around the world and have a adventure and exting two years about cattle boating but keep in mind it is very dangers to cattle boatign so that is some reason to cattle boating and so I hope you would like this job. | 2 |
6217c6c | I think we should keep the electoral collage beacause it has worked this long for us so we know its gonna work so why not keeep it going. It keeps a steady stream when it comes time to vote because aslong as someone had 270 votes you know thats who will get picked. so why try changing that and have a whole new system put in and then not know what to do when it comes time to vote. And what if the new system dosent work, what if the new way of the voting process messes with the tallys and they come out wrong and no one will get picked, unlike the other way when u know everything will come out right and u know that we will have a president. I think its fair that they have it set at 270 for voting that way everyone havs a chance to vote instead of it being so low that only a few people get to vote before they shut it down because they have reached there number of tallys that they need. So if they change the number of tallys that a president needs to become president that will be stupid and people will act out on it because they wont think its right, and because the people who didnt vote will not like the fact that they didnt get to put there vote f in before they stoped the voting and because they meet the number that they needed. Its a vote why do they need to title it as a the vote of a president or a popular vote of a president. Why not just vote for there just electors instead of saying vote for your candidate when really you are just voting for the electors. If you are voting for a certin thing there is no reason that u have to re-word it just to vote, if you are voting for something do it the right way instead of changing stuff and making it seem one way when really its the other way. Why should the electoral get just as much as the winning presindent? They are not doing as much as the president and who is helping him out.. so they should not get the same reword. | 1 |
621d3f0 | The face of mars is just a landform, because the first picture taken of the face like landform is not high quality,
NASA would not of given up this imformation of life on mars yet if it had been proof of life, and another clearer picture was taken of the face of mars
The face of mars is just a lanform, because the first picture taken of face like landform was not high quality.
i know this because each pixel in the picture covered 43 meters.
There where lots of shadows on the landform.
It took them a litte while to take a decent picture, so that could mean some other angles didn't make it look like a face.
The face of mars is just a landform, because NASA wouldn't of given up the imformation yet.
Conspiracy theorist belive that if this was really a alien face at NASA would of kept it classified.
NASA would of done more reseach on it before they stated that it was proof of life on mars.
The face of mars is just a landform, because another clearer picture was taken of the face of mars.
This is true because twenty-five years later another high quality picture was taken.
This new picure had each pixel cover 1.56 meters, as too the first picture that covered 43 meters per pixel.
This allows for a much clearer image that showed that it was just a landform.
The face of mars is just a face because the first picture taken was extremly unclear.
NASA would of wanted to do more reseach before they showed the world if they belived that it was proof of life on mars.
A new much more high quality picture was taken that showed that it was not a face. | 3 |
621dec3 | Do you believe in aliens? If so do you believe they left acients remains behind? If you do you're not the only one . About 25 years ago NASA's Viking 1 space craft was circling the planet of Mars , snapping pictures of possible landing zones for it's sister ship viking 2, when it spotted the likeness of a human face . The head was aproximatly two miles long and was staring back at the cameres from a region from Mars called Cydonia .
Mission control were suprised at first until they realised it was just another "Martian mesa". A few days later NASA unveiled the image to the public and the caption noted huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. The authors reasoned it was a great way to attract attention to Mars . The "Face on Mars " has became a pop icon it has starred in many magazines and books.
All the fame that came from the marking soon died out this was all just a natural land formation , it had nothing to do with aliens . Have you ever heard of the
Snake River Plain of Idaho , well it has the same natural formations such as Mars. Many people including you believe that aliens created it ,but there is no proof , in contrast aliens have never even been discovered so why conclude they made this natural formation.
However there is a reason why some people may believ that this is an alien making. The cameras that were used that day had trouble getting a clear image because of the cloudy weather that day. So the image is very blurred which may lead to some differnt reasoning on the "Face on Mars". NASA try their best to get better shots to prove if it was an alien artifact or not , We felt this was important to taxpayers, said Jim Garvin .
Although , this image would bring NASA biliions of dollars if it had been discovered near an ancient civilization .It was only a natural earth formation caused by natural causes , if there was an earthquake would you think aliens made that to . No , exactly because aliens do not exist as we know it. We have no proof that they exist to why conclude that they had made markings on Mars . Just to prove to conspirists like you that aliens didn't leave a marking NASA went to the same spot they took the first images and and retook them again in better weather conditions. They once again found nothing that would relate to a "martain marking".
In conclusion , the "Face On Mars" was just a natural formation. This happens in many places on earth too . Which is why you should believe that aliens didnt leave a mark on mars . What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. | 4 |
621f6fc | The author does give evidence that supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author implements that investigating Venus would meet innovation and imagination. The author implies that there is a possiblility of life on Venus long ago.
First of all, what motivates technology to expand because Venus is a challenge to visit. The author states,"Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on this cloud-draped world." This shows that no spacecraft lasted for a few hours because of Venus's heat, gasses, and natural disasters. Also, the author's use of 'cloud-draped world' shows that Venus is unlike Earth. This gives a reason to upgrade technology for curiousity. For example, electrical devices made of silicon carbide have been tested in three weeks in harsh conditions. Even old technological devices like mechanical computers could contribute to Venus observations by using metal gears and levers.
Furthermore, the author states that astronomers are fascinated of possible life on Venus. The author quoted," Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have various of forms of life, just like Earth." This gives orginizations like NASA to send humans to study Venus from the outside and soon on the surface.
In conclusion, the author agrees that studying Venus is worth the time and effort based on curiousity, innovations, possibilities of life, and imaginations. | 3 |
6220638 | Luke's point of veiw to convince other people to participate in the Seagoing cowboys program is you get to travel in many places around the world and you also stay on the seas for a number of hours with your fellow peers.
Details to support my arugement is according to the story in paragraph 6 Travling the High Seas is says,"It took about 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China". In paragraph one it states,"Luke couldn't say no. He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime.
I fell my arguement fells right because Luke is saying that you should join because of the things they do and he is also trying to say that when they cross the Atlantic Ocean they discover new things. Also in paragraph 2 it says," that the second World War had ended in Europe,and many countries were leftr in ruins". So that ment they got wounded and hurt people to safety. They also got to go to New Orleans the day the Pacific War ended and they got their seaman's paperand boarded to the SS Charles W. Wooster,and headed to Greece. That agruement on what Luke's point of veiw that he is convincing other people to join in the Seagoing Cowboys program. | 2 |
62225f9 | Driverless cars, a thing of myth or an invention of the future? According to the article scientists have been workin on the driverless car project since the 1950's.
In the 1950's General Motors created a concept car that could run on a spcial track. the track was embeded with electrical cable that sent radio signals to a reciever on the car. This was proven to be safe and reliable, however the cost would be astronomical to put the cabels needed in all the roads.
In the 1980's automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes. within 10 years, those sensors have become so advanced that they could detect and respond to dangerous out of control skids or rollovers.
In 2013 BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant". The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors made sure the driver kept their hands on the wheel incase of an emergency.
Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems that they are currently facing will be solved. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 pervent of the time. Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can be driven by themselves by 2020.
Saftey is a big concern with the driverless vehicles,most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. Law makers know that saftey is best achieved with alert drivers. Currently traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times, because of these laws most states consider it illegal to even test the driverless cars. In California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia they allow some testing of driverless cars. It is projected over time that as scientists provide more data showing that driverless cars are safe and reliable more states will revise their driving laws.
With my current position on driverless cars I dont see the point. What is the point in being able to not drive? If your tired the car can take over for you, but if your alseep and the car has a malfunction not only your safty but other peoples safty around you as well.
In close driverless cars have a long way to come before they are considered to be truely driverless. I think we can expect to see a huge leap in knowladge on this subject in the next five to ten years. As scientists spend more and more time on this project who knows what they will acomplish. Only time will tell if driverless cars are truely an invention of the future or a busted myth. | 4 |
6226875 | In the article said that is dangerous to explore Venus because it has a thick atmosphere of 97 percent carbon dioxide and the highly corrosive sulfuric acid clouds it has over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric presssure is 90 times greater that we experience, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, it has many natural disasters like erupting volcanoes, powerful eartquakes and frequent lightning strikes, Venus is the planet that is some how similar to the earth, they can go there but it only have limited insight, the author supporsts his idea telling us many details of how Venus is dangerous to explore and how the NASA trys to explore inventing many objects that are going to work inside the planet, this planet is the closest planet to earth that is why they really want to explore it, in conclusion i think he really support this idea because in every paragraph he tells us how dangerous and how is different to the earth,to explore this planet they have to invent objects that can work there because this melts every type of technology they want to use , explore this planet is very challenging. | 2 |
6226f71 | Do you really think that there is aliens on Mars just because there is a formation of a face landform on Mars? Many people believe that there is other lifeforms living in our solar system like the people who think there are aliens on Mars. These people think this way because there appears to be a landform on Mars that looks like a face, but these people are wrong. The face on Mars is nothing but a natural landform, and just because it is there, does not mean that there has to be aliens up there.
The face looking landform on Mars is just a natural landform, and does not mean there is aliens living on Mars. According to the article, it states that, " it was only another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia". This proves that this is not the only time this has happened on Mars, and does not mean that there is aliens on Mars just because of a naturally occuring landform.
Some people thought is was an alien artifact and that means that aliens had to have lived there. The article states that, " Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact". So very few scientists believed this was true, which is not very many, and these are people who studied this for a while and only a few think that aliens are living on Mars because of this landform. Then a man named Jim Garvin took a photo of the landform when he had the chance and also revealed that the Face was just a natural landform. The last paragraph in the article states that the picture shows that these types of landforms are common.
So research has told us that this face on Mars is not an alien artifact, but just a naturally occuring landform. There are many reports and research on this topic, but has all lead to the Face just being a landform. There are probably still people who believe in this theory, but they cant see what really is just a landform and not some made up nonsense about how something that looks like a face on a planet means that there had to be aliens living there. That simply does not make sense. | 3 |
6229446 | The author of "The Challenge of exploring Venus." Did a bad job of supporting his claims that we should study venus despites the danger that presents. His information was plentyful it gaves us a good idea on what he believes and whats happening to further their opinion. Unfourtanely it didn't provide us with enough good follow up supports.
First off with his first and second reasons being astronmers are fascinated by Venus due to the possiblity of it being it earth like previously and thats its still has some earth like features. This is stated in paragraph four as it states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." and "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." Despite these good points he doesn't further it more in paragraph four he only states that it can be our nearest option for a plantary which adds nothing to the claim and isn't a good follow up of what they said previously.
His third reason is in paragraph 8 the last paragraph and it is"Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself. this is a really good claim but the author only follows it up wih human curiosty will just lead us into equally intimidating endaevors which adds pretty much nothing in regards to his claim. Paragrph 8 is the final paragraph and its a horrible placement to put your final reasoning.
Overall the author reasons are good but it lacks any follow up support to back it up. While giving information for context is great the author over did it and it took up the majority of the paragraphs leaving no room to put some of their reasons in more early paragraphs to catch the readers attention. Many follow up to their reasons added nothing to the authors claim making it usless information. It wouldn't have been so bad if the author hade made it less an info dump and more reasoning to help their claim. | 4 |
622c888 | The author presents a postive impact on driving because, driving will be safer with the smart cars. driving will be much easier with the smart cars, and people will have a better time driving.
Driving will be safer with the smart cars. In paragraph 5 the author states, "The imformation from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better responce and control than a human driver could manager alone." This statement from the author of the article shows that the smart cars sensors detect things faster than a human. Another example states, "There are sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor." After reading that statement it makes people feel safe being in a car that can basically detect everything around them.
Driving will be much easier with the smart cars. in paragraph 7 the writer states, "All of the cars are able to steer,accelerate and brake themselves." This statement is a big help to drivers who get tired of steering all the time when driving. The writer also states, "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph." This would be great for drivers. It would help them get around town. Especially for people who live in small citys.
People will have a better time driving. In paragraph 8 it states, "Some manufactuers hope to bring fun to driving by bringing in entertainment and informational systems." This would make driving a lot better." Another example states, "Drivers will be ables to text now with the smart car while driving."
The author presents a postive impact on driving because, Driving will be safer with the smart cars. Driving will be much easier with the smart cars,
People will have a better time driving. | 3 |
622d034 | Dear Florida senator,
I believe that we should continue to use the electoral college to elect our presidents.
using the electoral college is better and more benificial beacauese there is a certanty of outcome, everyones preident, swing states, big states, and it aviods run off elections.
When you use the electoral vote instead of the popular votes the electoral vote exeeds the popular vote. For example when president Obama ran his electoral votes equaled 61.7 percent, but his popular vote only equaled 51.3 percent. If your a fan of Obama then you should love the fact that we use electoral votes.
Electoral votes make it so that a president can only win the election if the have the trans-regional vote. A trans-regional vote means that if a president was popular in, lets say the south, but not in the west and only the south voted for him then he/she could not be elected. A candidate must have a widely spread out amount of votes across the regions in order to be elected president.
There are such things as swing states. Swing states mean that the state is made up of people who are democratic and republican so the state has a mixed variety of voters. Candidates spend a lot of time campagning in these swing states to try and persuade the voters in the state into their favor. Swing states could be seen as tie breakers.
You may not think so, but in electoral voting the size and population of a state matters. The more people you have in a state the more senators and people you get in the house of representatives which means that the state gets more votes towards who gets elected. A state like Florida will have more votes then a place like Maine.
In popular voting there is always a chance for there to be a tie but in electoral college they avoid ties by making it an uneven number so there will be no mix ups.
Electoral college is the way to go when it comes to voting for our presendent.
From, Madi Bro | 3 |
622fa19 | Driverless Cars sound like a good idea when it comes to knowing you won't have to use the pedals unless you are in a tough situation. This can be helpful to those who have broken their leg so they can't drive a normal car. But with this new car, they could drive in non harming areas. This could do more harm to people than help them though. If the driver in the new car would wreck they wouldn't know who's fault it would be, the drivers or the manufacturers. If someone gets injured in the driverless car, whether it be if the technology failed or just an accident, the company may get sued or have to pay the hospital bill. This could be bad if the driver thinks the car will comepletely take over the driving for them and they don't pay attention. This could lead to themselves or someone else getting badly hurt.
This car would be a good help to those who don't have much money because it uses less fuel than a normal car, and they wouldn't have to pay to ride the bus. "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexability than a bus." It is good that the touch sensors make the driver hold onto the wheel so they don't get distracted. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." This can help, but not totally get rid of, accidents and injuries because it doesn't let the driver get distracted.
The new car would harm people with all these sensors they put into the car to tell the driver when it's time to take over may make the driver on the other side of the road distracted if it's a light. When the car is driving by itself most of the time, it can possibly cause more accidents than before. "Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." When the car is on autopilot for that much time, the driver can easily get distracted by the most random things. Examples of this would be looking out the window or talking to a friend in the car, and this would make you take your eyes off the road and you may not even realize it.
After all this I think that they shouldn't make these cars because so far they haven't had many crashes, but they might. The only difference between a normal car and a new driverless car is that it drives for you when you are driving on an open highway. "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." "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." These cars aren't really a big change from a normal car and a normal car I think is far more safer for yourslef and everyone else on the road. | 4 |
6230b27 | The scientists and Engineers of today have all been working toward a goal and that is to create driverless cars. Google specifically has cars that drive independently for miles without any issues and putting it like that it sounds like the next bet thing since the computer. Nevertheless, One must think of the cons to this specific development and looking closer its obvious that the downs outway the ups. Continuing ths project is a public hazard.
People believe that having a car that requires no human intellect is the next best thing. However, every machine has a meltdown or malfunction so why would the driverless cars be any different. If the driverless car is developed it could work, but if it malfunctions on the road and theirs no way to take control it would lead to a crash worse than any created by irresponsible drivers.
Add this possible outcome to the amount of cash, the millions of dollars that will be required to support this project and it seems unreasonable.
This driverless cars idea also feeds into the possibility of a future where humans become lazy slobs. Kids these days already spend more than half their days staring at a computer screen so why make it even worse? If this project is a success then drivers ed classes will be pointless.
People will be completly relient on machines if this "progress", continues.
On the other hand Driverless cars could help lessen the damage. If this idea proves to be a success then it would iliminate irresponsible drivers. If a person didn't know how to drive right then the car self driven vehicle would control itslef. Car accidents could lessen and people would be safer. Also the project plans for these cars to use half the amount of gas used now so it would better clear up the smog in the atmosphere. Despite these amazing pros it would still require alot of work and cash to achieve this.
Overall this project seems a bit too risky to be labeled as imrovement. So many different improvements are being made that no one notices the conciquences following behind them. With every machine built humans rely on them a little more. People are slowly loosing their independence and that thought alone is disturbing. This should be a reminder that sometimes more isn't always better and less work isn't always progress. | 4 |
6231af7 | I'm a scientist at NASA and me and a group of scientist have been discussing the face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens. While Nasa's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping photos of possible lading sites of his sister ship Viking 2. He had spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. Viking 1 snapped a photo of it and sent it to the Jet Propulsion lab.
A few days later the NASA unveiled the image for all to see. Scientist discoverd that the face was formed by a shadow giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." Over the past years scientist believe it would attract more attention to Mars. It certainly did! The famous face on mars became a pop icon all over the world. It stared in many things like hollywood films, appered in books, magazines, radio talk shows as well.
After the big news that the face was a success scientist soon found out that other scientist believe it was an alien artiract. Jim Garvin explained that they felt this was important to taxpayers. He also photographed the face as soon as he could get a good shot at it.
On april 5, 1998 a group of
Mars Global Surveyor flew to mars and took ten more photos, That were sharper then what the Viking 1 took. Thousands of people have been waiting for the images to be posted on the website JPL. Soon after the photos were taken Mars global Surveyor have posted the images there wern't actually alien monument after all.
Many people wern't satisfied with the information that has came back to them including Garvin. Garvin stills believe that the faces that were found were yet to be alien artifacts. Garvin wants them to retake the pictures and do the research again. The Mars Global Surveyor does it agian and they retake the pictures more clearly. Scientist has come to an conclusion the the faces that were found on Mars is not yet found. | 1 |
62369a8 | Is the Face on Mars real? In my opinion the Face on Mars is real. Here are my reasons why.
The Face on Mars is real because it can be a natural landform on Mars just like we have natural landforms on Earth. Now may I ask a question? How can ailens make a face on Mars? In the picture provided, it seems the face pops out and there is no evidence that a creature could have made a face with no flaws. In the article, a webiste states " thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL web site, revealing...a natural landform."
I understand that people may have a theory about the face, but hence the word theory. Theory is just a guess with evidence supporting the claim, but is there enough evidence to support the Face? People from NASA have studied the Face since it first appeared in 1976. Since then, people have found claims and have had facts about the face proving it is just a natural landscape.
How did the face appear? There can be many reasons on how the face appeared on Mars. There could have been a storm on Mars that caused the ground to move upright and form the Face. The face could have been on Mars since Mars was created and NASA just never payed enough attention until 1976. I do not believe an ailen created the Face on mars.
Is the face on Mars real? Keep that question in your head. I believe this essay has provided enough evidence proving the Fac on Mars is just a natural landform. That's just my opinion. What's your opinion? | 3 |
6237ce1 | "All of our developement since world war II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change" Said David Goldberg. Nowadays Cars are our main Source when it comes to transportation.
Limiting your car usage should absolutely be more important in todays society. It's Plently of things going on around us that most are unaware about, And limiting your car usage can be one thing to start helping to prevent these issues. Most cars give off alot of Pollution in the cities you live in an that effects animals. For example: The oil spill was a major problem in the ocean and that killed alot of animals an Demolished most of the sea life environmental foodchains. The capital of France had an intensifying amount of smog, but car traffic tended to decreased 60% after 5 days. Beijing China was known as the most polluted cities in the world. Diesel Fuel was the blame. You could even try those cars that dont require gas so the cities could be less polluted, But theres disadvantages to those cars as well.
At one point of time gas prices were sky high and people weren't really satisfied with it. Now Gas prices have decreased an people are even more satisfied an happy to get gas. Saving up on gas would help out alot to in todays world as well. How? Because Everything in life has a Big Fat Price tag on it so to help save up to get better things or things you need you can probably go for not paying for Gas as much. Everyday around 5:00 or 5:30 there's something called 5:00 traffic. When everyone is just about getting off work, headed to night school, going to the store, or whatever the case may be. This is the craziest time of the day to drive an your just ready to get home an dont feel like dealing with traffic.... you can take the City bus, Subway, or maybe even walk if its not far. Some people may call you crazy but it reduces the amount of money being spent on gas. its only maybe like 10cents to ride the city bus i believe...But the point is your saving money. Then by the time you finally decide "Oh i would like to drive my car" your tank would be full cause you havent been driving it so you wouldnt have to stop for gas. The Environmental Protection Agency is promoting " Car Reduced" Communities, and Legislators are starting to act. Many Experts expect public transportation to play a Larger Role in a new 6 year federal transportation bill approved this year, Said Mr. Goldberg. Walking isnt always quite bad. Look on the bright side your Burning Calories, shedding pounds, and if you run your building you Endurance. Instead of having to drive to a gym far away walk to a nearest one an have a pre workout by jogging or running there. Same thing applies to Bicycling.
Nowadays since majority of the United States own cars Traffic is horrible at certain hours of the day. Most people are too impatient for the wait or become aggressive drivers which is most likely to cause accidents. Maybe your ready to get home after a horrible day or your really tired from work an you realize your about to run into 5:00 Traffic an it'll be forever until you finally get home. If taking the City Buses or subways you won't have to deal with all that pressure. On a City bus you can just have a seat chit chat with other people as they hop on or just relax until you get to your destination. If your really tired you could just tell someone to wake you up when its time to. At least it'll be better then you being behind the wheel. If your workplace is Walking or Bicycling distance then you should feel even better to just scroll past all the people having to deal with the traffic. "Its a Good opportunity to take away stress and Lower Air pollution" Said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat Bicycle with his wife.
Fellow Citizens should understand the Advantages of limiting their car usage because of the Pollution, To Save up on gas, and Less stress to deal with Traffic. Maybe one day cities would take more action an save up on gas for these reasons. | 4 |
6241fb7 | In the article "unmasking the face on mars" people believe that the "face" was from a alien living on the planet mars. Garvin a NASA worker says that the picture shows is the Martain equivalent of a butte or Mesa. Garvin also says that these kinds of landforms are common around the American west. "It reminds me most of middle butte in the snake river plain of idaho says Garvin. In chapter 12 it says " That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on mars". Everyone are beliveing what every one else is saying accept nobody is listening to what the scentists are saying from NASA.
In paragraph 5 it says that some people think the face is a bonda fide evidence of life on mars evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorista. Meanwhile, defenders of NASA budget wish there was an ancident civilation on mars. Although few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when mars global surveyor known as (MGS) arrived at the red planet in september 1997. Eighteen years after the Viking Missions ended. Most of the NASA scientists believe that these faces are not from aliens there from the earth. Scientists have done studies and research these things unlike other people so everyone should be listening to the Scientists instead of other people who don't know anything about these markings. | 2 |
62441fa | There's this cowboy named Luke Bomberger that crossed the alantic ocean 16 times. And crossed the pacific ocean twice. To help people that was caught in the World War 2. And thought that he could be Seagoing Cowboy. And that it was an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy.
Luke Bomberger had no idea that his life would change soon after his high school graduation. And he was working two part time job's at a grocery store and a bank. 22UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows,and mules that were shipped overseas. Luke and Don signed up. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China.
So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. Luke also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China. It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. hey had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. Stalls had to be cleaned.
But being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. | 1 |
6244328 | Many times during online activites, students can become confused or just simply bored. They often need their teacher to come and explain the topic to them because the online course or activity just simply isn't helping them in a way that works for them. The Facial Action Coding System would be beneficial to both the students and the teachers in schools. This technology can enable online programs to be modified to the students needs, whether they're lost or just uninterested, and it can help the children more efficiently when the teacher has their hands full. The Facial Action Coding System would be an overall help to struggling students and teachers everywhere.
Bored students are never a good thing. No student looks at a boring assignment and thinks, "Wow, I really want to do this assignment for the next hour." A bored student leads to an unmotivated student who isn't trying very hard, and there is nothing more boring than staring at a screen for some period of time doing homework. In the sixth paragraph of the article it states that this technology could recognize when a student is becoming bored and modify the lesson like a real human instructor. This could keep students engaged and interested in the lesson. They would be more willing to complpete their work than if the lesson were monotonous. The Facial Action Coding System could eliminate bored students everywhere.
Teachers in public schools can have up to 40 students in one class and they can't help all of them at once. Teachers are human, they can't be in two places at once or helping two students at once. With the Facial Action Coding System, computers can modify their lesson and teaching to specific students and give them the help that they need to understand the standards. All students don't learn the same way and all teachers cannot possibly have time to help each and every one of their students individually. This technology can make studies a little bit easier for everyone, even the adults.
This technology would be very valuable in schools, especially in the times we're currently living in. Almost everything is online nowadays. Classes that taught how to write in cursive are being replaced with classes that teach how to type correctly on a keyboard. In many schools you will find children carrying around laptops instead of textbooks. You can even take college courses online. Why wouldn't you want to make the online learning experience even better by allowing the computers to customize themselves to the specific student?
In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System would vastly improve the educational experience of students all around the world. If a student were confused or bored, the computer would adjust itself to keep the student understanding and engaged in the lesson. The computers would be able to provide just as good of help as the teacher would, thereby lessening the workload of the teacher and making sure the students are still getting all the explanations and teaching they need. Technology is everywhere, in almost every classroom. Improving the way it works would be improving our student's education and in time, their futures. | 5 |
6248e6f | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", it talks about a new technology that enables computers to identify human emotions. The new technology is called Facial Action Coding System. At the very beginning of the article, it talks about the emtions of Mona Lisa for she is eighty-nine percetnhappy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful and two percent angry. Honestly, if I was forced to sit for hours and stare at nothing while some old guy painted my picture, I would not be very happy about it. The technology works by constructing a 3-D computer model of the face that it has been presented with all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding SYstem) has classified six basic emotions-happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness.
In paragraph six, Dr. Huange predicts that a classroom computer could recognize whena student is becoming confused or bored then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor. As a student n high school, I honestly do not believe that Facial Action Coding System is necessary for a classroom. Our biology teacher makes the notes for us herself so the computer would have no way of changing anything to make it interesting. Along with the fact that most human communication us nonverbal, inclusing emotional communicaton, the computer need to understand that also. I believe that this Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a waste of time when there are more important matters at hand in this world. WIth the recent school shootings, I believe that we should be spending more time trying to make different types of affective things to protect students when a shooter enters a school. I saw an article about how a school has recently installed bullet proof "rooms" into every classroom. Whenever someone comes over the intercom, telling the school that they are under attack, the students rush into the room that can hold up to thriy to forty kids. This is what we should spend more time with. Making sure our students are safe, not trying to figure out whether the emtions of students while in class or the emotions of a painting from a few hundred years ago.
Now, I am not saying that FACS would not be helpful in some cases. It could be used with therapists who have patients that do not want to cooperate with them or a patient in a metnal hospital. The effectiveness in a classroom is very low in many cases. The facts that they can recognize the human emotion based on the muscles of the face like the zygomatice major (muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth. Yes it does seem interesting but like I said before, it should not be used in a classroom. I believe the only communication that we should have with computers is emailing and other types of work, like typing out the next best-selling book. | 4 |
624a904 | I am strongly against the development of these cars . First , Whats the point in making a car thats functions by itself ? Cars were made to be driven by humans not by themselfs . Why spend so much money and time in trying to develop something , when theres no garrented that anybody will buy them or they will even function properly . Its just telling drunk drivers or high drivers to get behind the wheel of a car , Nothing bads going to happen your not driving so nothings your fault .
Second , Are traffic laws were made to keep pedestrains , drivers , and passengers safe . In this article " Driverless Cars Are Coming " They give you a question " who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer ? " . When anything bad happens on the road , I feel as if its the manufacturer falt . They basically say there is no need in watching the road when you drive now are cars will take car or everything ; Eat , talk , text , sleep , smoke , do as you please . They have flashing lights , entertainment , information systems that use heads-up display to warn a driver when he or she must take over . With knowing this drivers really wont pay attention now a lot horrible things can happen , The only thing that will improve is how one can drive perfectly in a straight line .
Thrid , How do we even know the driverless car works right ? How do we know it wont malfunction ? KIll us ? or even catch its ownself on fire ! We know nothing of this driverless car and what its truly capable of . Can it stop correctly at a stop light or a yeild sigh , Can it reprogram to drive itself at the right speed limit . Slow down when a pedestrian , dog , raccoon , or even a squirral has entered the road .
lastly ,
My question is why build something to out smart the system when the system is good already ? We already drive everywhere we need to go , If not driving we walk . The traffic laws are fine they prevent dangrous accidents already , Everybody follows then an know them ; and those who don't follow get a free trip the the police station . Why confuss people , switch , or even change some laws to protect the driverless car and its manufacturer . Im against the driverless car for many reason and I still have many questions about the development . You shouldn't take something so simple and make it into something so complicated ,
Just leave things how they were mean't to be . | 4 |
624ad4d | I think that driverless cars are a very bad idea for many reasons. I do not think that a vehicle moving without anyone in it is a good idea. They sound cool but they wouldn't work well at all.
Have you seen the commercials where a man has a talking car and he says something that aggrevates the car and the car locks it's doors? I think that that would probably end up happening. I think that a vehicle could have malfunctions and end up harming anyone in it because they couldn't get it to stop or get the doors open to jump out. Everyone thinks that more is always great but it isn't. A vehicle is made to be driven by a person. That's something teenagers look forward to. They can't wait to get their permit and license to drive around or go pick out their very first vehicle. No one wants a vehicle that can drive by it's self. I think that if I was a parent I wouldn't want to put my children in a vehicle that ran by itself because I'd have a constant fear that something will happen and they would get injured. Wrecks happen, how would a driverless car know when to stop if an accident had just occured seconds before? How could it stop buy itself? If their had to be a driver in there just incase something would to happen wouldn't it make since for them to just drive anyway? What if they fell asleep and the vibrating seat or the flashing lights didn't wake them up? What would happen then? I
think that we do need vehicles that take less gas and are bigger but I do not believe that we need cars that run by theirselves. Sometimes with the ways people drive an automatic car sounds like a good idea but you need to think of all the ways that it could be a wrong idea too. Many people will end up buying the car when it comes out because they wanna see what it does and everyone else will be doing it too. But I won't be one of those people. I'd rather drive all night driving somewhere than to fall asleep in my automatic car and not wake up because it stalled and I got wrapped around a tree.
The driverless car sounds more like a bad idea everytime it goes through my mind. I do not think that it is a good idea. I think that it will make auto accidents be the number one reason for deaths for a very long time. None of the things it includes is a good enough reason for someone to lose their life because their vehicle wouldn't stop on an icy road or multiple other reasons. I think that the manufacturers making these cars are just asking for lawsuits. | 3 |
62502f1 | Have you ever wanted to travel different countries? Do you love animals & helping people? Join the Seagoing Cowboys! If you are intrested in joining please keep reading this & find out what we Seagoing Cowboys do on the cattle boat.
The Seagoing Cowboys are participants who are helping countries who went to war. We are helping them by giving them food supplies , animals , & much more. While we are on the cattle boat we have to do jobs. My job is to feed the animals three or two times a day , and pull bales of hay and bags of oats from the lower holds of the ship. You could do that too. You would be able to be around the animals you love! When we arrive to the country that is in need of help ,we drop off the animals and the food supplies. When that is done we might have time to explore the country for a little while then we leave for another country. Once every country is done we go back home. On the way there all the animals and food supplies are gone so we have time to play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals have been housed. Boxing, table-tennis tournaments, fencing , reading, whittling and games also helped time pass on the cattle boat. Being on this boat is such an adventure. It's something to do if you have nothing else to do.
This trip is so great! You would absolutely love it if you love to help people , travel , and play sports and games. We Seagoing Cowboys would love more people to come and help out. Please come join us. Thanks for your support if you decide to come and help! | 3 |
6253d84 | The Facial Coding Systemis a system that can tell your emotions by caculating the way you look and by one little look it could tell it all how your feeling it tells whether your mad, sad, depressed, happy, even mixed emotions.
I think the use of the Facial Action Coding System is a well needed thing for schools because it could tell your teacher whats going on whether you need help or not or if your going through something and need to talk to someone. The Facial Action Coding System would be a great thing to have in school because some kids are shy an dont like to talk and raise there hands in class infront of everyone and if you dont ask questions when you dont understand something that could cause you to fail the class all because of your shyness.
Yes , the Facial Action Coding System is needed for schools and worth spending some money on for schools all over the world but them again we wouldnt need to invest in this if students spoke up about what they needed and whats going on but some students jus have a sad or mad face everyday for no reason so the Facial Action Coding Syestem may read their facial expressionand say that student is mad , when the student is just doing there normal face . The school board or government shoudnt have to invest in the Facial Action Coding System if teachers take the time and talk to their students some teachers are the reason the students become mad beause they make the students mad when they have to do too much homework or even class work , it also is a better way for humans to connect with the computers as it says that in paragraph 1.
To sum it all up this technology could come in handy in certain situations , the teachers might like it but the students might not , your boss may like it but you probably wouldnt . Its a win win situation for students it would tell others how your feeling and if you sad someone might talk to you to let you know your not alone , and for teachers its benificial because it could help you understand your students more. | 2 |
62551b3 | Dear state senator,
My name is PROPER_NAME and i am here today to talk to you about wether or not you should keep the Electoral College. In my opinion i thibk that it would be easiewr to vote for the president by the number of popular votes that he recieves. In this letter i am going to explain to you why i think that its easier if we do this so please make sure you can read through this whole letter.
The first thing we need to know before starting to read this letter is that the Electoral college is basically a widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democractic mehtod of selecting a president that ought to be rules. Many people in the United States and in other places all over the world always face difficulties wether or not they like the Electoral College. If you acually think about it, in the electoral college system voters vote not for the president but for the slate of the electors who then vote for the president. So the people that are voting for these electors are not getting the direct vote. They are not getting sufficent amount of power to vote for the person that is going to rule their life.
A very important key that we asll have to know is that the electoral college is unfair for the voters. Candidates dont spend time on states that they know have no chance of winning. People cant put the fate of the presidency in the hands of a state that only have candidates because the candidates know that they might have a chance on winning!! And i do understand that we cant change this because some people dont like it but that is because people do not understand what the Electoral College is in the first place.
So dear mr.senate please do something to abolish the electoral college. Its is unfair and irrational. Thank you for taking your time to read this letter and dont hesistate to call me whenever you need to.
Sincerly,
PROPER_NAME
PHONE_NUMBER | 3 |
625611e | The new technology called Facial Action Coding is valuable. Author said that it can detect your facail expression by using a 3-D computer model of the face. The computer must move 44 major muscles like a human muscles. Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System) has classified six basic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. The use of this computer is very helpful for lots of people.
The software that is used in this computer can tell your emotion in a real face or in the painted face of Mono Lisa. It uses video imagery. It can tell the students emotion of how they feel. Even though the face weight different units it can also identify mixed emotions. The author said that "His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code". This software system will help show the expression of a student in a classroom. It can tell if the student is feeling happy or sad. If the computer can tell wheater the student is bored or happy it can change the impact of how the computer can change to make them happy. For example, when you smile when the web ad comes up, the similar one will pop up. But if you frown, the next ad will be different.
In the conclusion, now you know why the Facial Action Coding is valuable. It can tell different action of emotion of a student in class. You can tell if students are hiding there emotions. It was developed to improve accuracy in perceving the emotions of others such as students. | 2 |
625bf78 | In the artical "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Faicial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotion. The decussion about the Faicial Action Coding System being good or bad has been brought up. I agree with the clame that the Faicial Action Coding System is actually good and could be usefull.
One sorse of evidence suporting why I agree the Facial Action Coding System is a good thing. It states in the selection that "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This would be a good thing to have because now in days almost all class lessons are starting to be set up on computere. Say the teacher is looking at her computer and the students are all looking at their computers how would the teacher be able to look at everyones faces and see their emotions towards the lession because your face emotions say it all they say and tell exactly what your feeling. It also states "The computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored." With this technology the teacher wouldnt have to worry about is her students getting the lession or not or if its to easy and boring for some students. The computer would do it for the teacher. This would also allow the teacher to persicely point out who knows what they are doing and how need help. With most students they wont say anything if they arent getting the lesson because either they are afraid to say something or dont feel comfterable asking for help. With the Facial Action Coding System the student wount have to say anything because the computer would pick it all up just by the face your making. Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." meaning the Facial Action Coding System could change the lesson acording to your face emotions. To eitther make the lesson harder cause the computer picks up that you are bored, or make the lesson a little eaiser because you face emotions show you are confused and not getting it.
Another reason why the Facial Action Coding System is a good thing is becaue it could tell what the subject of some paintings are. Most famous paintins the artist is dead so they arent here to explain what their painting means or is showing so with the Facial Action Coding System it can do it for us. Take the Mona Lisa for example everyone always says that not a smile what is Leonardo da Vinci trying to exspress with this painting. She's 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. This was able to be identified by the Facial Action Coding System. Allowing us to know what everyone has been asking about the painting the Mona Lisa.
Another reason why the Facial Action Coding System is a good idea is the computer can pick up not only one emotion but yet pick up mixed emotions. This computer wont just allow you to pic up if the person is happy, sad, or mad. It could pick up if the person is worried or anciest at the same time and you would be able to know exactly how they feel. When you look at a person you can only pick of mixed emotions if the person tells you exactly how they feel but with the Facial Action Coding System it can tell you without even having to ask. Also it could tell you if they are hiding their feelings and dont want to tell you how they really feel.
The Facial Action Coding System is a good thing and a good idea because it can denifit teachers in class to be able to tell if their students are getting the lesson or not, be able to explain art when the artist is dead and cant tell you what hes trying to exspress, and can also tell you exactly how someone feels even when they dont tell you exactly how they feel. These were just a few examples of how the Facial Action Coding System can be usefull and im sure there are plenty more. | 4 |
625e070 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author proposes the idea that driverless cars are things in the future that are closer than one could possibly imagine. Despite the good qualities of the car, it is not as useful as one may think.
The car in itself is expensive. There are many changes that will need to be made in present laws and roads in order for the car to work at its best. The car is also not safe, due to the fact that the driver is not as engaged and more vulnerable to distractions. Most importantly, the car is just simply unecessary.
Some may argue that the car is efficient and that due to less use of fuel it may even be better for the enviornment, but if it truly is about helping the earth, would it not be more efficient to place the money directly into fixing the earth? Another possible arguement is the fact that due to a less engaging driving session, many more people would be able to drive comfortably. However, the passage clearly states that the car will still monitor that the driver is just as engaged, supporting the statement that they are unecessaery.
A better proposal would be the alerts the driverless cars offer but in a regular car. That way alternate safety precautions are available to the average person. Many accidents are caused by people sleeping at the wheel and a car making sure the driver is engaged might help lessen that.
In conclusion, although the idea of a driverless car sounds fantastic, it just maybe have to wait. However, many concepts that will be applied to the futuristic car may really help out if applied to regular cars. | 3 |
6263477 | There is a lot of things that cause pollution, but there is one pollution that is imparticular that pertains to these stories and that's air pollution. Air pollution is caused by fossil fuels. So people around the world are cutting car usage to prevent anything bad from happening. The advantages of limiting car usage are less air pollution, more exercies, and little burning of fossil fuels.
In the article "In german suburb, life goes on without cars," by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it says that in Vauban, Germany the residents have given up their cars. In Vauban they are forbidden to use cars. They made everything close together so tha the residents can be at walking distance. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter. Heidrun is able to walk to any store because it is so close.
In the next article it talks about Paris baning driving. Paris ban driving due to smog. They were using diesel oil since Frane has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesel makes up mor than half of France's vehicles. Paris has more smog than other European capitals. In Paris they had to make people with an odd or even numbered plate stop driving. They let the people with the odd numbered plates drive after the smog cleared up.
In the next article Colombia has their own car-free day. All the people in Colombia are doing outdoor activities that don't involve cars. This is their third straight year that cars are ban. "There was slight rain, but that did not stop people from particpating," said Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus. For the first time Cali and Valledupar, two Colombian cities joined the event.
In conclusion, These articles generally talk about how some countries are trying to stop people from polluting the air. The advantages of limiting car usage are less air pollution, more exercies, and little burning of fossil fuels. | 3 |
6264a57 | I think this technology which is called the '' Facial Action System'' is valuable because it would help out teachers and students.
i think it would be cool if the technology really do can read students feelings because it would be really helpful for teachers. It is because when students are in bad mood teachers don't understand it so having the technology would help the teachers know that he or she is not in a good mood. Those are the reasons why the technology could do this. In paragraph 8 it said that when you have a false smile you can tell because the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and a different muscle the risorius which is called the orbircularis oculi pars palpabraeus. In a real smile the zygomatic major which is the muscles that begin at your cheeks bones that lift the corners of your monuth. In 6 paragraph it said that the computer can determine how you feel. for example if you smile then the web ad appears on your screan and if you frown the next ad will be different. it also said that a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. In that same paragraph it said that the same technology can make a computer animated faces more expressive for video games or video surgery alos it said that most humans communtication is nonververbal including emotional communication. | 2 |
6265245 | Car use all over the world has tried to be reduced throughout the years in attempt to save the environment by using fewer green house emissions, air pollution, and smog. Participating in these measures can help. If all countries would participate, this could make a huge revolution for the world and the environment.
In Vauban, Germany the roads are almost completely car free. There are a few exceptions, but they come with a cost. Exceptions according to Rosenthal's source 1, paragraph 2 include, "Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park-- large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home." This action allows people to purchase a vehicle, but reduces the amount of people buying them because of the exorbitant additional cost for a parking garage and having to buy a house in that area too. As stated in paragraph 3, of source 1, it has resulted in "70% of Vauban's families do not own cars and 57% percent sold a car to move here." Also sated in paragraph 3, source 1, the people who had cars in the past were always stressed, but now without cars their stress levels have gone down, and they are much happier. Positively, in response to the people eliminating most of the car use, Vaunban has built stores and malls that are in walking distance of the people, (paragraph 6, source 1).
In Paris, smog levels have been at their all-time high. In response to these problems, Paris has come up with a system that still allows driving, but reduces the amount of drivers. Their system, according to paragraph 2, of source 2, is "On Monday motorisrs with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31). The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day." This would not only reduce smog, but also traffic jams, rush hours, and congestion by 60% says source 2, paragraph 5. This leaves Paris with a win-win. Less traffic leading to less stress, and less smog resulting in a healthier city.
Bogota, Columbia participated in a car free day too. As a result, like many others, it reduced pollution and stress. It caused a happier, healthier environment. People who didn't participate were fined $25. If you offer a punishment, it will allow people to participate because they don't want to be fined.
Also, offering other forms of transportation such as a bus, bycicles, or skating propel people to do it because they know there will be other forms of ways to get to where they need to go. Negatively, people need to be at a certain place, on a certain time, resulting in their rebellion to take place in the activities held in the city.
Positively, the large amount of participation has resulted in the growth of parks, sportcenters, malls, and reconstruction of sidewalks to promote fewer car uses, says source 3, paragraph 9.
Elisabeth Rosenthal really touches on the reduction of greenhouse gas emmision because it is better for the environment and for the health of the people world-wide. If technology continues to advance, like it has in the past years, people can continue to communicate over the phone and use car pulling to reduce the amount of cars driven daily.
Sharing cars or reducing the amount we get to use them, will also supplement safety for people by reducing car crashes which could save many lives. | 4 |
62665d9 | Everyone seems to think that driverless cars would be great. Im here to tell you why they are not. They cant navigate through certain situations. In these situations they require drivers assitance.They wouldn't be able to function without assistance from humans. Seems very unreliable to me.
When you are approching an accident or construction they become driver cars. For example lets say you are approching a construction site. Everyone fell asleep in the car including the driver. The "Driverless Car" says driver help needed, but no one is awake. This car is going to stop no matter what, and cause a accident. Well whose fault is it?
Sice this car stopped and caused a accident whos fault is it? Would it be the manufacturers fault or, the drivers fault. I personally think its the manufactures fault. He would not only be false advortising the car, but he also put the passangers in the car at danger. If the car was legit then it should drive on its own.
Another arguement is how could these cars obey the laws of the road. The answer is they couldn't. They would run stop signs. They couldn't yeild to the right away. They wouldn't know from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. no turn on red on certain streets. How would these cars know if a train is comming? How would these cars adjust in bad road conditions.
In conclusion i think these cars are to much of a liability. In certain situations these cars fail. There is to many things to worrry about when thinking about these cars. There are many questions to ask when dealing with situations. In the end I think automatic cars are unsafe for our roads. | 3 |
6268928 | Dear, Senator
I agree in favor yo keep the
Electoral College . Beacause the founding fathers etablished it in the
Constitution as a compromise between election of the
President by a vote in
Congress and elction of the
President by a poular of qualified citizens. We would not want to change the
Constitution that are great founding fathers had once made before. Under the 23rd
Amendment of the
Constitution of the
District of
Columbia is allocated 3electors and treated like a state for purpose of the
Electoral College.
For this reason in the word state also is refers to the
District of
Columbia . Each candidate running for
President in your state has his or her own group of electors. You help choose your states electors when you vote for I agree in favor yo keep the
Electoral College . Beacause the founding fathers etablished it in the
Constitution as a compromise between election of the
President by a vote in
Congress and elction of the
President by a poular of qualified citizens. We would not want to change the
Constitution that are great founding fathers had once made before. Under the 23rd
Amendment of the
Constitution of the
District of
Columbia is allocated 3electors and treated like a state for purpose of the
Electoral College.
For this reason in the word state also is refers to the
District of
Columbia . Each candidate running for
President in your state has his or her own group of electors. You help choose your state electors when you vote for
President because when you vote for a canidiate you are actually voting for your candidates electors.
Whatis wrong with the
Electoral College . Under the
Electoral College system voters vote not for the
President but for the slate of electors who in turn elect the
President . The single best arguement againt the electoral college is what we might call the disaster facter. The american people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election in the century the system allows for much worse. Prehaps most worrying is the prospect of the election vote would be tied in the elctorlal vote. In that case the election would thown to the house of represenitives where state delegation vote on the president .
In conclsion this is why we should keep the Electoral college. Because they have plans for back up and everything is orginised for america. | 1 |
6271110 | The Electoral College is a system that must be changed. It is a system that takes away the people's vote in a sense. As it originated from the Founding Fathers, it is as well an outdated system, that could have a drastic overhaul. The Electoral College could be thought of as ruining portions of this democracy, granting the people to vote for a president. There could be great error introduced to such a way of selecting people for such positions. Therefore, I stand vehemently on the side that the Electoral College must change, granting the people and the government a cleaner, more reliable form of election by three contentions: it removes the thought of there being an improper ratio of electoral votes to popular votes; it is too easy for fraud to occur in the system; and because of how irrational and unfair it is.
The first reason why the Electoral College must be changed in favor of a popular vote system is because of how there is such a margin of error introduced in its existence. The opposition may argue that a popular voting system may have equal, if not a greater chance of error, but that is very inaccurate. In a popular voting scenario, things are about as basic as possible. Election results are taken directly from the people of each state, and the results are then combined and compared, in turn selecting someone into office. In contrast, the Electoral College is far more complicated, resulting in more things to go wrong. For instance, a notable example is the 2000 election between Gore and Bush. In this scenario, Gore received a larger number of popular votes, as Bush won the Electoral College. The whole practice of the Electoral College introduces so many variables to the equation, that it would just be very irrational to use such a system.
Continuing, the next reason why the popular voting system should replace the Electoral College is by the chance of "fraud" in such a form of election. The members of the Electoral College could be anyone. Now, this may not be thought of as fraud, however it could as well be thought of as fraud of the system. These members of the College could potentially curve the results of an election. For instance, in the 2000 election, members did not stay true to the one candidate, resulting in the possibility for in improper ratio of votes between the Electoral College and the populus. A counter of this argument may be how often this sort of thing may occur. The 2000 election was the first election since 1888 that had a similar problem. However, this sort of thing should never occur. There should never be an occasion of a problem occuring in something as substantial as a presidential election.
My final contention is regarding how irrational and unfair the entire Electoral College is. In this, there is a type of winner-take-all system set in place. This means that, in most states, if a candidate wins the state, they take the Electoral College for the state. Because of this, candidates mainly focus on campaigning in states that they have a clear chance of winning. This is extremely unfair for many voters in the states that these candidates do not even visit. They would have no evidence of what to vote on in election. This could also change an election, with disastrous results. For example, in the 1976 election, a mere few thousand different votes in both Ohio and Hawaii could have led to a tie in the election. Ties are often fatal in the Electoral College system, as delegations in Congress determine a winner of the election. A counter to this claim may be how the winner-takes-all system encourages more campaigning in the toss-up states, where close attention is set upon the campaigning individuals. However, this still does not change the fact that other states are not receiving the proper amount of campaigning to prove a fair election.
In summation, the Electoral College must be changed in favor of a popular vote form of election by three previously stated contentions. First, it provides the chance for there to be disastrous results in an election. These results may consist of there being a tie, or an improper ratio of popular votes to electoral votes, as seen in the 2000 election. To continue, my second contention is regarding how there is a chance of corruptness and disagreement in an election. With the Electoral College in place, anybody could technically become part of the College, and there may be a dispute between what member is for what candidate and such. This could be very confusing for the voters. And finally, the entire system of the Electoral College is plainly unfair and irrational. This results in the election being unfair to certain states that did not receive proper campaigning for particular candidates, as it allows candidates to choose which states they would like to take part in campaigning with. In all, the Electoral College is a jumbled, confusing mess of election and governmentation. | 6 |
62720f4 | Some people like boat trips. Some people don't like them. For the people who like boat trips you should join the Seagoing Cowboys.
One reason to join this program is because you have so much fun! On my first trip I thought the cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for me. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was really special. Also taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water.
Another reason why you should join this program is because you get a chance to help people. The Seagoing Cowboys is about helping people with what they need. I went just after World War ll ended. A lot of small towns and cities were ruined from the war and needed help on getting their farming equipment. We were on a cattle-boat that had about 335 horses plus oats and hay to feed them. We had a lot more animals on our ship.
Some of the bad things about joining this program is the hard work and danger. The animals had to be fed and watered two or three times a day at least. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship and stalls had to be cleaned. But the worst part about joining this program is the danger. When I joined this program I cracked a couple of ribs. One rainy night, after making my hourly report to the captain, when I slid down a slippery ladder on my backside. I was happy to be alive, but I could not work for a couple of days.
No madder if you like boat trips or not you should join this program. Don't think about yourself. Just remember, the best thing about this trip is that you will always be happy when you think about all the lives you saved and helped by joining the Seagoing Cowboys! | 3 |
62729e1 | Should we study venus or throw away the idea because all the dangers? Venus is the closest planet to Earth. Therefore if anything happened to Earth we would have to move to our "twin" Planet. Even though Venus has the hottest surface temperature out of all the planets and we humans wouldn't last a second on the planet. Scientist are finding ways to study the planet and see if we possibly could create life there.
"many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus". The author includes ways, like this, to prove how and why we should get knowledge about Venus. He includes in paragraph 5 about NASA and their ideas for sending humans to study the planet. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray"
There are many reasons to why we souldn't study Venus and get close to the planet, but there are also enough reaons to why we should. Something could happen to Earth and we humans have no way to leave and restart everything that we built on earth because we have no where to go. If scientist study Venus and find ways for us to live on the planet, then we have a back up plan. " Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limted by dangers and doubts but should be expanded too meet the very edges of imagination and innovation". | 2 |
6278215 | I think the that use of this technology in the classroom is valuable to students. The technology would be helpful to all students.
This computer software is the latest to date. The computer is able to determine emotion based off of facial expression. This would have good affects on students because it would make working online more simple. based on the students facial expression while looking at the computer screen, the computer could help the student by adding things the student needs and removing helpless things and things the student does not like to give the student a more personalized experience.
Testers used the Mona Lisa painting as an example. The computer did calculations and detrmined the emotions displayed in the painting based on the facial expression of the painting. The computer determined the emotions displayed were eighty-three percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful and 2 percent angry. Because this is a painting and it shows no real emotion, we would not know if these are the true emotions of the woman.
In conclusion, this technology is vauable in classrooms for students and is useful. It gives students a more personalized aexperience and makes doing online assignments easier. | 3 |
62794a5 | In this article or passage the author idea was to explore venues more find out what are it values. because if earth would suffer a damage of nature venues would be the only safe place for humans but first of all water got to be in venues in other for human to stay a live why because us the human ca not live without whater why because we need it to drink it also we need it for our crops to grow an give us fruits and vestables for our food. scientist think that onces there was water in venues if fresh air could be infume by humans there's could be a chage that human would survive out of space in a different planet. scientist are peeking over venues to get rock samples also air sample to see the enviroment values on fact about venues is that is one of the closets plate to the sun which means that the climate there is going to be high cause the planet being clos to the sun and that why we need water in venues cause of it's high temperatures humans would be thirsty for water. | 1 |
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