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I think that driverless cars are an amazing example of what humans are capable of doing. I also believe that they can be dangerous. They can really become a big help to society if they can make them as safe as possible.
The reason I think the driverless cars could be dangerous is because they could lead to wrecks. In paragraph 2 it says that the car alerts the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents. The driver might not be paying attention and if he doesn't take over the wheel, that could lead to an accident. The driverless cars do offer great things that could help us. In paragraph 1 the article tells us that the cars use half of the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus.
My conclusion is that we should take some more time with these driverless cars. I think we should work on them more and make them even smarter than they already are. This is the best option because it could make them even safer and that is the most important thing.
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Hello there, my name is Luke Bomberger. I have been part of the Seagoing Cowboys for five years. I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean sixteen times, and the Pacific Ocean twice, all through the Seagoing Cowboys program.
Here is a little information on this wonderful program. The Seagoing Coyboys is an exquisit program that has allowed me to experience wonderful adventures and visit many swell and unique places. Now I asume that you are reading this because you would like to know what the Seagoing Cowboys promgram is or would like to participate in it. If you would like to know what it is or how to join, just keep on reading. The Seagoing Cowbows program is a program that allows you to help the people that have been affected by World War II. Have you been affected by that war? Do you know somebody who has been affected by that war? How did you or they feel? I am going to asume that you (or they) were not the happiest person then, but if you would like to make someone as happy as they ever will be, join the Seagoing Cowboys today!
When you sign up you will be helping the Seagoing Cowboys program, and the people who have been affected by World War II across the Atlantic Ocean.
Please participate in the Seagoing Cowboys Program. Your time and effort will be greatly valued to those who have lost so much! This paragraph explains to you why you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I Hope to see you soon with the Seagoing Cowboys!
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It wasn't an alien that was circling the planet Mars. The scientist took photos of the landing places where the aliens landed. The degree among the mission of the controllers with the Jet Proulsion Lab. Im telling you people thats just the Face of an natural landform not aliens.
The picture is just the Face of an natural landform. The picture was shaped like an
human, and it had eyes, nose, and an mouth. The "Face on Mars" has become popular, they played in fims, and it also appeared in magazines. Some peple thing that it was in a haunted grocerty store. You shouldn't believe that.
In 1976 they had a picture of a Viking of the Face on Mars. Many people, including scientis believe that the Face was an alien. I still say that its not an alien, its just an natural landform of how it was made. Or maybe somebody went up in space, and carved it, you never know.
A couple years ago, the scientist went on a mission. When they went up there, they scanned the plant. They also compare the different photos. In the first photo you couldn't really tell if it was, an alien, or just a natural landform. The picture really shows if the it's equivalent or not.
If you really read the story this doesn't sound real. Some people might think its an alien. Aliens are not real anyway. If you ask me I would say that its an natural landform. The picture has eyes, and human like parts. Its just the Face of an natural landform.
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The use of technology to determine an emotional exprecion of students is very valuable and intersting. Would you ever want to know how a person is feeling without having to ask? Knowing how a person is feeling by techlology is very valuable because its a very interesting process to be apart of, it also teaches many people about technology and learning about the action unit of a person, lastly, Its just a very fun job to do and a perfect way to learn about the human face reactions.
First, being able to tell how a person is feeling with technology is a very intresting job/thing to do. The software is the latest innovation form Prof wicth makes it very intersting to work on just becaue its the latest and not many people get to use it. Being able to tell a persons emotions by technology also benefits the person by meating all the experst and better ways in developing for humans and computers to communicate.
Next, the Facial Action Coding System is not only a fun thing to do but it can also benifit a lot by learning any diffrent ways to use technology. Many people may also learn about all types of computers that are able to tell the face experesions of a person. Not only that the person can learn all the diffrent types of like human face muscles. A person could also learn the 6 basic emotions.
Finally, Being able to tell a persons emotions may get very fun to do. For example, In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Slto shows how The Mona Lisa was a very fun itersting to bring a smile on a persons face. In the article the authors give an example of how they where able to tell how Mona Lisa is feeling in her portrate. He found out that Mona lisas smile was not real and how she faked it. Although it might be a very fun thing to do it might also not be the best because some people can be emotional and not be abe to take amd figure out how a person might be feeling .
In conclusion, being able to be a part of The Facial Action Coding Sysytem is a very fun interseting job to do. However people may not like this job beacuse lets be honest thers some people out there who just dont care about how a person might be feeling in a picture.
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Some people can tell wheather someone is happy or sad. They can observe what their emotions is. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", shows how Leonardo da Vinci drew Mona Lisa. It also explains how technology called the (Facial Action Coding System) can identify human emotions. Here's the question, is the new technology(Facial Action Coding System) worth using it?
First of all, the new technology sounds cool and all that stuff, but how would this be used? Some advantages about the technology is that you can find out what the student's emotions are. For example, what if the student is not speaking when asked a question? That would be a good time to use the technology. Another advantage is to find out what a baby's emotion is, that way it'll be easier to take care of the baby.
Disadvantages about the technology is when and where will this be the best time to use this technology in the outside world? Would this technology work best in public? Probably not in my opinion, because why would people used this out in public? True it may help when people are in danger, but not using the technology proper, yeah, that's just a waste of money.
Another thing to mention is that this technology would only work in computers for right now. Students can detect other student's emotion with this technology. This would be a good use in group projects, but other than that it's basically useless. Not trying to be rude or anything, it's just that who has the time to use this technology? People are allow to use it but they'll probably not use it properly.
In conclusion, I think that the new techology(Facial Action Coding System), is pretty useless. Who has the time to use this? When or where can this be used? I know it identifies human emotions, but i already can tell other people's emotions by the look of their faces. That's why I don't think that the use of this technology is actually not worth of using it.
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Today there is a big problem in the world and that problem is car emissions. This has been becoming a growing problem around the world. In Paris a thick layer of smog had covered the city and its government had to take action. the government practically shutdown road traffic by telling the people with even plate numbers to not drive and the next day telling the people with odd plate numbers to not drive.
Many of the problems that create this are the densely populated areas with high car usage. In Europe in 2006 there government finished construction on a town that had no garages or drive ways, the only place to park was a garage that you had to buy a spot in for $40,000 witch you payed for along with your house. This trend has been growing around the world, and with this trend spreading so is lower pollution in the world.
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There are many advantages today of limiting car usage. This accounts for car usage limits in Europe, United States, and many other places. Limiting car usage around the world isn't just good for society, but also for yourself. Limiting car usage helps to separate suburban life from over usage of autos. It's good for people to separate themselves from cars also because many people get stressed about their gas money, whether or not they will be late for something, and also because many people worry about their own driving, and may think they will injur somebody.
Reasons why limiting car usage has been discussed throughout many people and regions. Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States. There has been efforts in the past two decades to make cities more suitable for walking but it's basic percepts are being adopted around the world in attempts to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation. From the passage, David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America, says, "All of our development since Wold War Two has been centered on the car, and that will have to change." Mr. Goldberg describes how everything pertaining to where places are built, how many roads built, and not enough sidewalks is because of the car being the center of everything, that people are not focusing on anything else.
Advantages of limiting car usage varies on different places. Some of these advantages include the ban of driving in Paris to help clear the air of the global city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France after five days of intensifying smug. In Bogota, Columbia the streets of this capital city, eerily devoid of traffic jams. Banning cars also cause less accidents around the world. Not using a car for one whole day limits stress on people and greatly lowers air pollution. Limiting the usage of cars in Bogota has also helped the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most of any Latin American city.
Limiting car usage in many places even for one day has put a good effect on society, people, and the world. Limiting car usage in Germany suburbs opens the streets for tourists on trolly's or just people who need to be to work on a certain time who cannot afford cars. It also reduces the air pollution by very much. From the passage Heidrun Walter said, "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Opening the streets from cars allows isolation between suburban life and auto use. Greenhouse gas emissions will decrease by decline of car use which is good for the planet. Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals due to their high usage of diesal gas. Causing the decline of car usage will remove smog due to not as much diesal going into the air. In Bogota the Day Without Cars is held to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. The turnout was large, despite the gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on Bogota, Antanas Mockus, said, "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating." He also stated, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution.
In conclusion there's many ways to reduce air pollution. There's also many advantages to banning usage of cars. Not only are people stress free and feeling good, but air-pollution decreases and Greenhouse gas emissions stop.
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To begin with, the electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president abd vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Each candidate running for presisent in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen bt the candidate's political party.
In addition, the presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in november. You can help choose tour state's electors when you vote for predident. Most states have a ''winner-take-all'' system however, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of ''proportional representation.'' Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for president, but for a slate of electors, who in tuen elect the president. The single best argument aganist the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. It's like a hurricane for a presidental election. Prehaps the most worring is the prospect of a tie in thre electoral vot. In that case, the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president.
To futher inform, at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spen time in states because they no they have no chance of winning. it's like convincing pigs to vote for you. It's offical the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. It's hard to say this but Bob Doloe was right abolish the electoeal college!
The electoral college restores some of the weight in the politiccal balance that lage states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the consition. The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast. It can be argued that he electoral college method of slecting for the presisent may turn off potential voters for a candidate. But athat single vote may decide that election!
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Dear State Senator,
I read all these articles about some states having to vote for the president's electors. They say basically when your voting for a president, your voting for his/hers electors. My opinion is there should be no need for electors. It should be easy and not too complicated. A presdient, a vice president, and a secatary. No electors or nothing. I think a president can do alot of his own work and think of ideas alone. If he need help than instead of us wasting our time with voting for people to give the presdient ideas and help him out. Well the President always say's God Bless America. Shouldn't the President be listening to the voices of his country. America. Yes, I think the candidate with the most votes should win. But, If they say that their going to do something for our country than they need to keep their word. Make it a better place not for himslef but for everyone. For instance, Barack Obama. What's the need for this unessarcy work that he has done. America is loosing their mind and doesnt know what's going on. Why is he doing this? The president is to make smart decent relevant choices. And if he listen to the voices of Americans than he would have lots of ideas lots! Instead he listens to who? His electors. People complain saying to themselfs, Where does he come up with these ideas? Well if you payed close attention to the presidents background and know what he really wants to do than you would know why. Honestly to me I dont think the Electoral College should keep going its just a bunch of mess that just doesnt make sence. Elelctors dont matter to most American's. Take the electors and the Electoral College away we dont want something we dont need. All we need is a President, a Vice Presdient, and a Secatary.
Sencerely, America
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''Hello folks! Please come join the Seagoing Cowboys program! You can tour the world while helping other countries!'' I shouted out to the peasants of the town.
'' What is it like to tour the world and help others?'' one of the peasants questioned.
''It is the most adventrous, exciting job you can possibly get, and the Seagoing Cowboys are looking for volunteers!'' I yelled, straining to get their attention.
I thought to myself for a moment, and started to get attention again. I thought about how I was presenting myself, and what I would want to hear about this program if I were one of these townsfolk. I thought of an idea as I started to yell
'' Would you like to hear some of the adventures I had so you may be interested?'' I asked.
They all cried out,'' Yes please!''
'' I was 18 before arriving in Greece,but I was heading to Greece with 335 horses, and loads of hay and oats to feed the horses with.'' I began to tell the townsfolk, but then I remembered why I was here.
''I wouldn't want to tell you the details though, or else you would miss the opportunity of you experiencing it yourselves.'' I exclaimed to the people of the town.
Everyone started asking if I would tell them what had happened on my journey.
I told them,'' The only way is to find out yourselves is you have to sign up and be at the docks in 3 weeks.'' I finished.
I hoped off the wooden box I was standing on, and I asked,'' Do you still want me to tell you two or three stories, and then you sign up?'' I questioned, again.
They all cried out,'' Yes!''
I told them about giving out horses in Greece, and the time I toured other incredible sites like an excavated caslte in Crete.
After I told two or three stories of my marvoulus trip, every single person listening to me shouted at the same time,'' Where are the sign up sheets?'' or '' Where do I sign up at?''
After being out of breath from persuading them to sign up, I thought that it was worth being out of breath. Now Don Reist and I have twenty extra helpers for our future trips to spots all over the world, and new friends to tell stories with.
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Driverless cars are becoming more and more developed and popular. However, is it really what the world needs? There are multiple reasons for accidents on the road as is, imagine adding a malfunctioning driverless car to the mix. although this articel states that the cars aren't completely driverless, it still could be a major issue on the roads.(P2) For example, what if the human driver were not paying attention and letting the car drive, a danger ahead, be it an accident or some other immediate danger, and the car doesnt detect it quickly enough, or even detect the danger at all. Who would be at fault? These driverless cars are very unsafe in todays unpredictable world. The article also states that the cars aren't driving themselves, but assisting the human driver. These cars can only handle speeds of up to 25mph. (P7) this may be effiecent for a small town, but how is it helpful to the rest of the world? In paragraph 2 of this article the writer mentions Google cars. These cars can only drive under certain conditions, therefore limiting it's uses and making the car somewhat irrlevant to every day life. These cars are a danger to young drivers. Young drivers are very easliy distracted. If one of these young drivers were to have access to one of these cars and were to be distracted while the car drove itself into possible danger, this could result in major tragedies. Driverless cars are not a safe alternative to people driven cars. There are many concerns manufacturers have to take into consideration before developing these driverless vehicles.
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Have you ever see an alien? I bet you haven't, so why would you think that aliens would have built a face on Mars? There are numerous reasons why aliens didn't built this Face on Mars. To start off, it's not even a face, just a natural mesa that's been shaped over time. There's no evedence that aliens have made this mesa, and I'll tell you why.
One reason this Face wasn't made by aliens is the fact that the Face isn't even a Face. This Face is actually about the same thing as a mesa or a butte. It's not a Face built by aliens but actully a natural landform. The Face has most likely been there for years, just only looks like a face when it's shadow sets on it perfectly. It's just a natural landform that's change over time, creating the face everyone saw.
Another reason it wasn't made by aliens is that we have photo evedence. If you take a look at the photo's, you will notice that the one taken in 1976 and the one taken in 2001 are pretty identical. In the 1976 photo, you notice it's very blurry. In the 1998 photo, it's not as blurry but you can't really see a face, but in the 2001 picture, is where you csn tell the big difference. You can clearly see that it's not a face at all, just a natural landform on Mars. You can even tell on the landform where everyone thought the eyes, nose, and mouth went, which is why the illusion made it look like a face.
In this essay, I have proven that the Face on Mars isn't a face at all. The Face is actually the equivalent of a mesa or butte. I also used photo evedence to show that the Face is actually a natural landform. I've also explained why the Face was not made by aliens. I hpe you understand why the Face was just a natural landform and not made by aliens.
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I am against the development of driverless cars. I am against them because they are not safe, they take away our abilities, and they are expensive. Everyone thinks theses cars are cool and will be better for everyone, but they are not better. They will destroy humainity.
One reason I am against the development of driverless cars is because theyare not safe. The cars can not be reliable at all times and the driver must always be alert. I think the car should be relibale and not need the driver to be alert. The driver could be waiting for a long time before it must take over, or it could all of a suden have a disfunction and need the driver to jump in right away. These cars are very hazardous and not sfae for anyone.
Another reason I am against the development of of driverless cars is because they take away are abilities. If we have driverless cars people will not drive. The cars will take over and we will forget how to drive and lose our abilities. Also, poeple will get more lazier because they do not have to drive, so they will not.
The last reason I am against the development of these cras is bacuse thay are expensive. Thses cars cost a lot to produce and take a lot of time. The cars must have sensors and cameras and many other functions to be known as eligible and those are very expensive items. Why waste money on these pointless cars, when we can just stick to the original amd safer cars with drivers.
Driverless cars are very dangerous and have much more work that needs to be done . I have many reason why I am against the development of driverles cars.
These cars are really expensive and the price will keep increasing, they also need a lot of work to become safer, and they are making people laizier and losing their abilities to drive. I think they should stop trying to make driverless cars into something that will never be safe or cheap enough ,and just make the originla cars we have now better advanced.
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The author thinks that Venus is a worthy pursuit to discover and explore. It would be a worthy goal for humans to evolve and grow as a species and to understand that we're able to understand how to universe works. The author does claim that the study of Venus is important and that we should take the time to study and understand it better.
The first thing the author mentions about this is in paragraph four. In this paragraph the author talks about how astronomers are fascinated by Venus. He says, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". This quote shows that the author suggest that Venus could be a good thing to explore to understand the solar system better and understand how Earth conditions could form on other planets. This was the first part of the text the author showed his support towards studying Venus. The next point he supports his idea is in paragraph eight. In this paragraph the author explains that striving to get a challange what humans do. They work through chalanges to evolve as a species. This is seen when the author says, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gainedon the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors". This quote from the author is to show that he supports exploring Venus because it could provide humans with new knowledge that we prevoiusly didn't have and that new knowledge could help us overcome challenges in the future like new spacetravel and solar colonization attempts.
All of these things the author provides allow humans to discover ideas and inventions they have yet to discover. And expand the mindset to a more univerisal understanding way. The author wants hmuanity to take this experience because we may have to deal with something like it again. When getting to a space age humans will need to know more about the space they're trying to colonize.
The author has supported hs claim on Venus being a worthy challange for humans to occupy their minds and abilities. Trying to overcome this challange will provide us with new information that could help in the future of the race and of furthur understanding of the universe. Would help us learn to colonize the stars and to understand how different types of planets are formed, allowing use to understand the universe we live in better than we currently do.
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This new technology could be used to figure out anyones true expression. In the article, the author eplains how a computer could tell that Mona Lisa has different moods. This new technology is valuable because it could help further learning, introduce new technology, and make a interesting subject.
First of all, the article explains that Mona Lisa is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. It's crazy how a computer can configure that. If this is brought into classrooms, this could be a gamebreaker. This is a plus for kids that may not have access to computers at home, to give them technology at school. In paragraph 4, Dr. Huang says people show different degrees of expressions. He says a computer uses video imagery can track facial movement.
Next, this new process may bring in new technology and promote computer use. In paragraph 2 and 3, the article states that you can calculate an expression similar to math homework. This wil not only promote the use of technology, but it may get kids to do their homework. If this interests children enough to get them to do their homework, it could promote new classes for them to take.
Moving on to the next topic, creating new topics. If kids really like to examine peoples expressions, not only will it be amazing but it could create a whole new field of learning. Similar to a crime investigator, they could literally investigate someone's face to see what their expression is. In paragraph 5, the article digs deeper into the investigation. It explains that you can tell if a friend is happy or sad, by looking at their facial expression. If this was taken to a new level, we could have profesionals on our hands, just by making a class for it.
To conclude the topic, reading a facial expression by using a computer, or just by looking deeper into somones face, could take you far. It could promote further learning and create different classes. You could also introduce technology to kids who may not have the ability. It will not only make new beginings, but it could follow up with new ends by creating new subjects.
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Have you ever been on a trip to cross the Alantic Ocean? A man named luke Bomberger has, and did sixteen times. You can do this by joining the Seaging Cowboys program. By joining this program you can see famous monuments and go through the Panama Canal; you can also experince the work the cownboys used to do.
Joining the this program you can see the most coolest monuments you ever seen! You can see castles and towers on your way to Europe. You may even go in them, and see the gloriuos sightings you'll ever seen in you life. This is what your going to see if you go on this program.
When your on your way to Europe, you will go through the Panama Canel. You can see what the Peoples houses look like, how they live, and what they eat. You can also see how the canael is shaped and how it was formed. That is what is going to happen when your going through the Panama Canel.
Lastly, your proplably thinking its all fun and games. No, your going to work like the cowboys did in the old days. You will be feeding animals and you might be hourly reporting to the captian just like Luke Bomberger! That is all the work you will be doing on this program.
And that concludes the program of Seaging Cowboys. Hope you can join the program and help through our journey.
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Venus, a planet that neighbors Earth that can also becalled Earth's twin, not because of them both looking the same, but in term of density and size. The author suggested that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents for us. You may be able to ee it from a distance but getting on it is a whole other challenge.
Earth alternates being closer to Mars or Venus, humans have sent spacecraft to land on Venus but are failed due to the fact that no spacecraft has ever succesfully landed and survived. The atmosphere around Venus is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, and surroning it are clouds of highly corrosive sulfric acid in the atmosphere. It states that "On average the temeperature of the planets surface is 800 degress Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greated than what we experience on our own planet". Compared to what we feel on Earth humans adaptablity cannot match with the intense surface and temperature of Venus having even the power to crush a submarine, known for diving to the deepest part of our oceans and can even have the ablility of liquefying many metals. Having said that, Venus not even being the closest to the sun has the highest surface temperature and with thr high pressure and heat it had additional impediments that we as humans can not adapt to our work with.
Venus has been known to be the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Assumptions being made say that Venus was like Earth with forms of life and having oceans cover it just like Earth. To this day it has some of the features that Earth has and being on how close it is it can be our nearest option for space visit. NASA has had an idea on how to study Venus "a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. 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 conditons by staying up and out of their way". By being above the surface the air pressure would match the sea level for Earth's solar power and radiation would not go past Earth's levels. The conditions not being easy but survivable for humans.
To this day scientists are seeking to conduct a mission on how to get onto Venus and understand it regardless of the risks. Having tested products like simple electronics, they have made a chamber simulating the time and estimating on how long it would last to stay on Venus's surface and have lasted three weeks in the conditions Venus is made up in. Even with danger in the explration it should let us expand our reach to get closer to Venus. Seeing on how much work and effort people put into the discovery of a new planet shows that with time and innovation we can succeed in exploring Venus and what new things they can discover.
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The advantages of limited car ussage in acouple diffrent places right know. They are all pretisipated in the no car day or no cars at all. These passages all tell about the diffrent ways of car useage, and how difrent places use cars or dont use cars. This is a big deal in sertain places.
There are many car-free cities Elisabeth Rosenthal states in the passage "Germsn Suburb, life goes on without cars." in this passage she states that the residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers going where few soccer mom or commuting executives have ever gone before they all have given up there cars. There street parking, the driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of freiburg, near the french and swiss boarders. Car ownership is allowed, but there re only two large garages at the edge of th development. this is now a result only 70 precent of vaubans families do not own cars, and 57 precent sold there car to move here.
In the United States, The Enviromental protection Agency is promoteing "car reduced" communiities, and people are starting to act. In previous bills, 80 precent of apporopriations have by law gone to hihgways and only 20 precent to other transports.
Robert Duffer states in his passage, "Paris bans driving due to smog" this smog is pollution its becoming a problem. Paris enforced a partical driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave theier cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine which is $31. the same would apply to the odd-numbered plates the following day. Did everone go with the rule no, Almost 4,000 drivers were fined according to reuters, 27 people had their cars impounded for their reaction to the fine.
Paris typcally has more smog than other European capitals, paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter compared with 114 in brussels and 79.7 in londan.
Everyone had to praticipate in this no car pollicy. delivery companies complained of lost revenue, while exceptions were made for plug in cars such as" hybrids"and cars carrying 3 or more passengers. The public transit was free of charge from friday to monday accorinding to the BBC. All the smog cleared monday foor the ruiling french party to rescid the ban for odd-numbered plates on tuesday.
The car-free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota Andrew selsky stated, in a program thats set to spread to other countries, milions of clombians hiked biked skated or took buses to work during a car-free day. This was the third year straight cars have ben banned with only busses and taxis permitted for the day wthout cars in this capital city of 7 million poeple that alot right.? ye sthe goal is to promote alternitive transportation and reduce smog. Everyone who wanted to break this rule faced a $25 fine. It was a good oppritunity to take away the sress and lower air pollution. Parks and sports centers also have bloomed throughout the city, more sidewalks, nice smooth ones, new restaurants, upscale shopping. alot of new stuff after stooping all car popoulution. you may have lost a everyday resorce everybody is used to but it all got replaced by something way better you even got new things built thats alot better than a dirty city.
"The End of Car culture" by Elisabeth Rosenthal states ing her passage that president obama's goals to curb the united stated greenhouse gas emissions unvieled. this proves that all there citys all are trying to make where they live a bettter place and not poluted and it can help out the surrroundings around you and make it a newerand nicer place, i agree with all there statements on the end of car culture.
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Cars are most the most used machine for transportation in modern day. Cars help us travel places faster then bikes, walking, running, etc. But did you know that cars are also helpful for spewing toxic chemicals in the air. People are unaware that the cars are destroying the oxygen that we have here on earth and produce oxygen into smog. To reduce the pollution of the chemicals that cars make is to simply show citizens the advantages of limiting car usages.
To begin with, From the sources that I have gathered and used for data is that one of my sources said in its article that stated "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Paris is banning people for using any automobiles beacuse the pollution is over the limit of what it needs to be. People are paying the price for using too much cars, at the same time that have chemicals that pollute the air. In addition to, from my source it stated that "exceptions were made for plug-in cars, hybrids, and cars carrying 3 or more passengers." people in Paris are starting to make changes beacuse of the smog, and are doing this until the smog levels are reduced. People might be late for work and other jobs that they have to do while people are complaining these expectations are need to be met until the goverment says its ok.
To add on,From the source "In German suburbs, Life Goes On Without Cars" the article stated that "Increasing number of private cars owned by the burgeoning middle class are choking cities."
The private cars that are increasing with numbers and chemicals are are owned by the middle class people that leave nothing but pollution in their cities. The people in the middle class are more exsposed to smog and they need to use less of the private cars in order to reduce pollution in the cities also need to reduce the amount of cars on their street and increase the amount of passengers in their cars. Another reason for limiting the car usage is " united stat and elsewhere to separate suburban life from auto use." they are stating that they dont need cars to go where the need to go because they can use other things. They also are saying that they're not contributing toward the pollution.
In conclusion to people limiting their car usage is that it helps the earths atmosphere it can also destroy your oxygen supply, but it can get you places faster than any other mobile.
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The author is trying to show us why we should try to shrive for having a human on Venus for the first time, but he did not do it correctly. The author does not support his idea on why we should keep researching Venus and take a human to Venus.
The author uses facts that does not fit his opinion on why we should try to put a man on Venus. He actually uses more reason why we should not put a man on Venus. The author uses the other side of the arguements evidence that he is against as evidence which he should not do. " Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades" (paragraph 2). This shows how the author was saying reasons why we should not try to get a man on venus.
The author may have had a few evidence for his side of the arguement, but he used more of the other side which will make people think the other way than what the author really wants you to think. The author could not support his arguement all the way because he tried to use the evidence on the other side of the arguement.
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I think other people sould try help other cause they dont't have anything like ue so it unfair that they have nothing but we have all kind of things like food water after the wars some dont have home to stay in i think that we sould work together to help the homeless and the one who lost there house by war.
We sould have all the same stuff and thing as everyone else cause it ulike them to have food,water,etc,and more but we do so if they are differnet we are all the same and they sould be able to get things to it not fair that they all sould be happy as we are cause we are all human together we help each other like Luke and Don did to help that were in war and lost all there homes and their food and water.
So i think that we sould come together and help give food and other thing to the poor so they won't feel left out on all thing that are going on in America. they probly think that we are just having fun and they suffer though all kinds of thing like no real cholthes or shoes nothing and we have it all they probly are reallt skinny they can't wear anything but old cloth.
we sould put up a fundraiser and use the money to get them some new thing and work together and rebulid up their houses again os they will be safe and warm inside a home . sometime i feel like we are just need a break from all this technology and go back to books and learn things that are in our brains then when you learn how to care for other then you can go back to the way you are and e happy as will they if you are much about them.
Don and I think that they sould join a help suvice and help people who had war and lost everything they had to earn so we came and traveled every plac you can think of that had war and gave them food,water,and a home to stay at.
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I belive that my state senator should remove the electoral colleges. To change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. For the fact that voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors. Who can always defy the will of the people. It should also be removed because its simply unfair to the voters. There votes may or may not be counted or may vote for the wrong person or oppsite party. Also the problem comes up that the candidates do no go to there state thus never seeing them.
To began with I belive we should remove the Electoral Colleges. For the reson that voter are not voteing but for a slate of electors. Who then elect the president, for example "if you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry. You'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry."(qoute form source 2) Those 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry may not win the statewide election. The voters also are not always able to control who there electors vote for. "Legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." (qoute form source 2). So there a chance they may change there mind and the president they wished to win may not win because the legislatures do not have to vote in there favor. In some case seventeen states didn't even see the candidates at all. Some states including Rhode Island and South Carolina, "and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." Also another reason why we should remove the Electoral Colleges is for the reason that voters may become confuse and vote for the wrong person.
Futhermore we should remove the Electors Colleges, because its unfair to the voters. For example the winner takes all system in each state. Candidates don't spend times in the states they know they have no chance winning. "It can be argued that the Electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state." (qoute from source 3). But then what happens to the people in that wants to vote for them but can't because there votes go toward a slate of electors that votes for the other party. They focus on the swing states mostly. For Instance a Presidential race that happen were the electoral votes caused a certain party to win was. In 2000 U.S. presidential race, Al Hore received more in dividual votes than George W. Bush nationwide, but Bush won the election, receiving 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266. The electoral votes need to be removed because it causes problems in elections which makes any side able to win even though they don't have more individual votes. Another example is "Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast on him." (qoute from sorce 3) . Study shows that 60% of voters would prefer a direct election rather then what they have now.
On the other hand having the electoral votes may not be such a bad thing. The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. The Electoral College also restore some of the weight in the political balance that large states. If you elect a good representive that you belive, and trust that will vote to your liking. Someone that would not turn his back on the will of the people then it would not be that bad. The process they go throught maybe difficult and hard to understand. So it could be a good thing they take the hard work off our backs and do it for us to save us the time and hardwork. The Electoral Colleges requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal rather then a single region appeal.
To conclude I belive that my state senator should remove the electoral colleges. To change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. For the fact that voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors. Who can always defy the will of the people. It should also be removed because its simply unfair to the voters. There votes may or may not be counted or may vote for the wrong person or oppsite party. The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational.
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Humans have been trying each further from earth for years. NASA are first ones to fly a rocketship on to the moon. Almost everyone on earth wacth the rocket launch and then they tune in to wacth the moon landing on their TVs.The author supports his idea about studying Venus is a worth pursuit depite the dangers it presents awful agruement.
The author in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" explains some details about venus like it nickname and why Venus got called it.But also explain
the many issue of Venus, like the fact spacecrafts survived the landing for more than a few hours because the surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit ,and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than our own plant.Also point out the fact that one of our best submarine would get crush and liquefy if it was on Venus.
Then he talk about
NASA's ideas about they could sent someone to Venus without them dieing in awful way. One Idea would be
making a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the Venus's landscape. But that proves to be stupid thought because the researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas, or anthing else from a distance therefore not worth the time. Nasa also have idea of making
simpilifed electronics made of silicon carbide that could last 3 weeks on venus which is small step up.
At author's final paragraph he started talking about "striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value". But only by using vague statements that dont mean much.For example if we over come this challenge we will gained insight on the planet itself.Personally I belive venus is dead planet void from life ,and just have some stupid rocks ,and killing heat.Also his statement about "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expaned to
meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" is dumb , we surive by not throwing humans into their deaths and waste all our limted recourse like metal,fuel.
Author supporting ideas to his statement was awful agruement. Author explain more how it horrible idea to try going to Venus then proving it would be worth it. Reading this I hope my way of thinking open your eyes to this Author's foolish ideas. while you at stop funding NASA.
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Being able to tell exactly how somebody else is feeling would be very valuable in a classroom. Able to tell when one of your classmates is sad, angry, or happy. You can change the subject of whatever your class is talking about to make someones mood change. You can tell if someone is being truthful about their emotions.
Not everyone will just go up to you and start talking about how bad their day is or how happy they are because they could be very shy or don't like to express their emotions. If you're able to tell if someone is sad or scared you can then think of the best way to make them feel better or make them feel comfortable and safe.
When a teacher can tell if one of his or her students are feeling down they can say something funny or have a fun activity for the class to do, just to get the student distracted with whatever their going through just for a while. Teachers sometimes even will pull you to the side and ask you what is going on and just being able to let everything out can even make you feel better.
How do i know i can trust someone? This article has explained how a rela genuine smile can be distinguished from a fake and untruthful smile. I would really like to be able to tell how or when when someone has good or bad intentions with being my friend.
The Facial Action Coding System is very conveniant and valuabe to students in a classroom. It is very suptising how youu can point out somebody's emotions with just the muscules in their face. If you can tell if someone isn't feeling okay or is down you try your best figuring ou thwta you can do to help them out. Put a smile on somebody's face.
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The computer software can recognize the subtle facial movements we human's use to express how we feel? The software is compare to the woman named "Mona Lisa" for her description how her feeling. We the humans have different feelings. Dr. Eckman are the creator of Facial Action Coding System has classified six basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. We use the emotions in our everyday in the real life and in the web life. For recreate some emotions Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions. The new computer software stores similar anatomical informetion as electronic code, but Perphaps Dr. Huang's emotions algorithms are a different sort of Da Vinci Code. The Mona lisa demostration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do.
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Dear Senator of Florida,
Though long-standing and "fair" to both citizens and Congress, the Electoral College is completely unnecessary and faulty. Election by popular vote is much more practical and leaves room for less errors. First off, the Electoral College warps the perception of voting, for when citizens vote, it is not directly for the president. Also, the Electoral College leaves many loopholes, which cause many issues and disputes.
To start off, the Electoral College does not allow citizens to vote directly, like a true democracy. This is unfair, unjust, outdated, and irrational. The natural right of a citizen should be to directly vote for something of a passionate matter. Controversies are everywhere, and citizens should be able to have a direct say in what is done. In
What Is the Electoral College?, the Office of the Federal Register declares, "You help choose your state's electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors" (1.6). This seems quite indirect and faulty. Can the electors be trusted? We do not know - and we definitely do not want to find out. In
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong , Bradford Plumer says, "...according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore - thanks to the quirks of the electoral college - won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now" (2.9).
Moving on, the Electoral College also contains many loopholes in the system. It is very possible to have issues arise. Electors can become faithless, the number of electors for a certain state can be controversial, and legislatures can "defy the will of the people." In
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong , Bradford Plumer says, "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John. F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy)" (2.11). This unfortunate fact really shows how faulty the electoral college system really is. Do we really want so many loopholes when it comes to choosing the person who will run our country?
One may say that the electoral college has less disputes than that of just the popular vote. In
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president , Richard A. Posner says, "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible - it happened in 2000 - but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote" (3.18). However, this is untrue in my opinion. The Electoral College has already created so much controversy and dissension, along with faults and problems. For the well-being of our country, it would be best to simply get rid of the Electoral College alltogether.
Overall, the Electoral College should not exist - choosing the president should rely on simply the popular vote. The Electoral College is not a direct way for citizens to vote, which shows signs of America not being a true democracy. Also, the Electoral College has many loopholes that are sources of dispute and issues in America. To sum it up, this method of choosing the president, is irrational, unfair, unjust, and outdated. The Electoral College should be abolished.
Thank you for your time,
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The "Face on Mars" is really not a a face at all. In fact, it is simply a landform. There is no alien remains or anything like that. It sure does look like a face, but that was merely a coinsidence.
There are many ways to prove this statement. Today, I will only cover a few, though. They are very good points. By the end of this, I think you'll be agreeing with me also.
First of all, to prove this is a landform and not aliens is, there is only a face, no body. If this really was aliens there would be a body to go along with this face. From the picture provided in the article, I can clearly see that there is a face and a fce only. Absolutely no body found. In fact, there is not even a bump or anything proving this has no body and aliens would most likely have a body if they have a head/face.
The second reason as to why this cannot be an alien is, if it was an alien NASA would have found more than one by now. This landform was first discovered in 1976. That is a long time ago. If this truely was an alien that once had life, there would most definetly be more than one. But, there is not. There is only one. This is another reason proving this is not aliens, but just a landform.
The third an final reason why this is nothing more than a landform, not aliens, in it would have been identified by now. NASA would have came out and said it already. There is no way we can actually prove that is actually an alien. But, we have classified it as a landform. We even have other landforms on earth to compre it too. Many say it is equivalent to a butte or mesa(many things found in the American Mest). "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," Garvin says.
In conclusion, this is not aliens. This is simply a landform. Even though it does look like a face we have supporting details that back up our argument. It is clearly not an alien. Everything needed to prove this is tight in this essay. I hope that now you have come to your senses and agree with me.
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In our modern age, cars have become one of the most widespread means of transportation in our world. They can provide reliable transportation from one place to another, but we could benefit greatly from limiting our drastic use of motorized vehicles.
While cars maintain their status as one of the largest transportation mediums, they are also beginning to rival powerplants in their emissions of greenhouse gases. For example, in America and many EU countries, Motorized vehicles are second in to powerplants in greenhouse gas emissions.
Now, since greenhouse gases are contributing to global warming, and cars are a major contributor to those emissions, it would be beneficial to cut down on our usage of them. In Paris, smog levels had reached such a dramatic level that the government placed a partial ban on motorized vehicles to cut down car emissions. In the suburbs of an experimental community of Vauban, Germany, 70% of residents do not own cars as a result of there being no roadways save on the outskirts that lead to the downtown area.
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"Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad." It is surprisingly one of the main and major functions of the Facial Action Coding System. Knowing when you are upset, angry, or happy, this new technology can change what you are viewing or doing in order to uplift your emotions. With this in mind, the use of the Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
The Facial Action Coding System is valuable in a classroom for a variety of reasons. According to the passage, the text states, "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 can help in a classroom because when a student is on a school computer, or any computer in general, this new technology can detect what one is feeling when viewing something inappropiate on the screen. Therefore, when the emotion is bad, the screen will automaticaly change to alter what is being seen. The text also states, "A classroom could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." With this being said, the Facial Action Coding System can really help students in focusing and engaging more on the lesson. Many students become bored or confused when a teacher isn't clearly addressing the subject effectively or in a basic, nonexciting manner, and most of the time the students are too afraid to ask or say anything. However, this new technology can detect the emotions of the students and alter the lesson to appeal to their emotions in a way that they become engaged and focused.
In essence, the Facial Action Coding System being allowed to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is quite valuable. It can help avoid students from viewing any inappropiate scenes on their computer screens and help them become more engaged and excited about what they are learning. Consequently, students will learn more in classroom where not only their test scores are of great significance, but their emotions as well.
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I agree with the use of FACS in classrooms this could be a big help, allowing students to learn more and have a better chance at improving in school. This is a good idea because sometimes students are too scared or shy to speak up in class, but with FACS a teacher can approach a student and address the problem by just reading the expression on his/her face. FACS enables computers to identify human emotions by constructing a 3-D computer model of the face, the model must have all 44 major muscles and they must move like human muscles. The program classifies six basic emotions, which are hppiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear, and sadness.
This idea goes way beyond just reading facial expressions, this could literally change the way humans live their every day life. No one would be confused anymore on what a person is feeing, and people would be able to understand their own mood and others. This passage gives a numerous amount of examples of how this could benfit our world today, in the text it states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." It is also stated in the text, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive, for video games or video surgery."
With FACS entering the world their could be plenty of changes, and of course with change, everythng isn't always going to be good, but this creation is showing nothing but great promises to allowing our future to improve. This is why i feel like every one should support FACS, this could help the younger generation to imporve in school, and even help out the generation now allowing communication skills nd task to become alot more easy. People would be able to understand how a loved one is feeling or maybe even a co-worker, people's lives could be saved as well, because if someone is facing depression you can be able to read their emotions and ask them whats going on or help in a way, this is why i feel like FACS is a good idea and should keep progressing.
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Automated cars are the future of driving.Driverless cars can be useful for several reasons like being safer,more efficient, and smarter.
Automated Vehicles should be part of the future. They should be part of the future because they are safe. In the passage it states that " Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009 " and that "Their cars have driven more that half a million miles without a crash,but so far,Google cars aren't trully dirverless".The cars are still safe especially since they need assitance for it to drive through tough areas.
Driverless cars are getting more and more advanced as time goes by.Like "In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensor at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes.".But those sensor are now being used to detect dangers of rollerovers and out-of-controlled and correcting them.There are now sensors that can tell the car to slow down and apply the brakes automatically.With each new sensor being added onto the car it makes it able to do more tasks on its own.
There are several risks being taken when owning an automated car.There are many states where driverless cars can't even be tested because of the risks.If the car fails and someone gets hurt who would be the blame for the accident.there are no laws for automated cars and regulations for them either.But they are geting smarter like the google car "with four radar sensors , gps reciever...".and the BMW car the tels the driver to watch the road.
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If people participated on joining the Seagoing Cowboys then it would be better because then they can help people that are stuck in world war 2. If more people joined then it would help becaus then people would have different kind of things to do. So people should participate on joining the Seagoing Cowboys.
People should participate on joining because if there is more people then it's better because then it wouldn't take lots of time to do everything. People could get in groups and split to help people that are hurt or that are worried to get killed because of world war 2. If people participated then they could help out and help out on the ship because the horses had to be fed 2 or 3 times a day. Each person will have something to do if they particpated. if people joined then when they were all done then they could've got something because they helped out people that were in danger. When they have done what they had to do then they would get time to play when they went back to their base or to the United States.
So if people helped then it would've been more easier to do things. They would have gave lots of people food and supplies because they were in Europe whe the world war 3 started. So then different armies joined and they helped out but it would be better if more people joined to help. If people joined then it meant that they care about people when they are in danger.
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Driverless cars are the future. Some people may be thrilled at the idea of not watching the road at all times. Others might be terrified because people like having control. Driving is one of the most dangerous things people do everyday. A normal car can get you killed. A driverless car may be more dangerous, but if used correctly it could be safer. There are a lot of pros and cons of this situation. People could benefit, but also get into a lot of trouble.
Driverless cars can be convenient because you do not have to focus entirely on the road. This could come in handy to mothers with babies who tend to get fussy in cars. It can help transport teenagers without them having to take DriversEd. A lot of teens do not have the time for it. Driverless cars are more ecofriendly. In paragraph one it states that the car uses half the amount of gas as a normal car. All these factors are great, but there are other things that people need to think about. If there was an accident, who would be guilty? The manufacturer and driver are both at fault. This is a negative factor in the situation, however someone will eventually take the blame and everything will be resolved. It is a fixable problem.
Everything deserves a chance. Driverless cars are one of those things. The pros outnumber the cons. Every con has a solution to it. Driverless cars would be a good addition to everyday lives. It is an enviornmental, safe, and convenient way to travel.
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If you are looking into joining the Seagoing Cowboys program, their are lots of great reasons to join.
The first reason that the program is great is because you get to help people that are in need! Another one of the reasons, out of many, is that you would maybe get to see Europe and Greece. Even if you don't see those places, you defindely get to see Greece! "' Seeing the Acropolis in Greese was special."' I said. '"So was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water."' I supported. I also got to see the Panama Canal on my way to China.
You also get to care and help animals. You get to feed the animals, water them, and the stalls have to be cleaned. Even if this is not your favorite thing to do, you are still helping animals! Just like you need care, animals also need care, so it is a very kind thing to do.
You also get to play games, and have lots of fun! The games I played were baseball, volleyball, table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling. I added in my article that, "games also help pass time." That is very true! I loved playing games on board!
In conclusion, I got to learn lots of things about people who need help, and also animals. I stated in my article, "' It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs."' I also ended up leading my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. this trip was a great experience.
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author attempts persauding the audience that it's worth exploring Venus. The author gives us reasons why Venus is dangerous, but also gives reasons as to why it'll be a good choice to explore Venus. The author convinces us that Venus is a worthy planet of being explored, despite its dangers.
The author makes it clear that Venus is a dangerous planet. There's been numerous spacecrafts thats landed on Venus, but "no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." Venus' atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, and the clouds are made of "highly corrosive sulfuric acid." The temperature averages over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, unsuitable for humans. The atomospheric pressure is also 90 times greater than what we're used to, which could "crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals."
Venus also has the hottest surface temperature. With high pressure and heat, there's no doubt that there are erupting volcanoes, frequent lightning that strikes down, and very powerful earthquakes. The author makes it clear that Venus is very dangerous and has extreme living conditions. An average human wouldn't last a day.
However, the author continues on and tries to persuade the readers that Venus is still a worthy planet of exploring. In paragraph four, the author writes, "If our sister planet is so inhosspitable, why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface? Astronomres are fascinated by Venus because it may well have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." The author then informs us of NASA's possible solution. The solution is to hover over Venus. Hovering over Venus keeps humans out of danger and the atmospheric pressure would be just enough for a human to handle. The author ends the passage with revealing why we really should explore Venus - "...Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gianed on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavours."
The author convinces us Venus is a planet we should explore despite its extreme living conditions. Throughout the passage, the author gave us every reason why we shouldn't go, and then ended it with a reason why we should. Exploring Venus would allow us to gain insight on the planet, and the knowledge from Venus could help us explore other areas safely. It would be a gateway for us exploring other dangerous, intimidating areas.
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The U.S. has been using the Electoral College for a long time. I believe it would be a good idea to keep it, I mean why would you change something that still works? Now unless you want to make it a better process it should stay the way it is. I dont think popular vote would get us a good president, people would pick the one who makes those promises that will only be good for a short time. The U.S. needs a president who can asure us we wont have to worry about everybody losing there jobs soon or not being able to pay for gas because its up to $4.00 a gallon.
Its a very time managed process, its not like they take some names, write them on a piece of paper, mix them up in a hat, and grab the first one you feel. How big of a mistake would that be? Electoral College even sounds like a well thought out idea, for one it has the word college in it and college is where you get a better education for your future. When electing a President you want to know that you will have a good future with the president that is elected. Just because the Electoral College is old doesnt mean it isnt a good process.
Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. ( So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actuallt gone to Kennedy.)
Voting for the next President of the United States isn't something you would just want to rest in the hands of popular votes, you could end up with someone who doesnt even know what he is doing, or even desides he can't handle all of the responsibility of being the President. I feel very strong about my thoughts on the subject and believe that the Electoral College is still the way to go.
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Yes or No to Understanding
Have you ever been told that you woulden't understand you don't know how I feel or what I been threw. Now what if I could tell you how to know how they felt would it help? There has been a new development recently with how to tell what the person is feeling anger, sadness, happy, confused.
The list could go on it has the ability to tell the mixed emotions and give you a percent of each emotion. Thomas Huang, of the insitute of Beckman with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the Univesity of Amsterdam.
These two and there other colleges worked hard to make the only working Facial Action Coding System. which can tell you how another or even yourself are feeling you might not know exacly what the other has been threw but its a start. They have been testing this software on people and a well known painting you might have heard of made by Leonardo da Vinci.
The painting if you haven't already guessed it is the Mona Lisa Smile. Who was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. You might be thinking can this really calculate your emotions also how could it tell.
The program starts by scaning your face and makes a 3-D model. Then it moves the model's 44 major muscles in your face accordingly to mach yours. then it would relies on psychologists Dr. Paul Eckman the creator of FACS work to classify it into the six main emotions "happyness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness".
Compare it to a natural face it is classified into the different groups unmixing the mixed emotions. What do you think about it would you want this to be a normal thing in schools work or at home.
In my opinion no there is a lot of practical use for the FACS but it could lead to a number of negative events. This is a choice based on pros and cons with tecnology getting to be this advanced it's getting a lot more dangerus/////. What are your thoughts?
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"The Face on Mars"
What is the face on the Mars? People believe that the face like structure on the moon is an alien artifact. Others beileve it is a natural landform. Here what i think it is.
I believe the face on Mars is an natural landform. Just how the earth has natural landforms like mountain and valleys ect. This landform could be just like the ones here on earth, just in a different shape and size. Just as he said in the passage "it reminds me the most of Middle Butte in the snake River of Idaho"
which is a natural landform on earth
Mars has been around for many thousands of years. Through those year there could have be a possible chance that the face was made by the coditions on Mars.It could have also been the angle at whivh they shot the picture, there could have been a shadow.aaa
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I think the Facial Action Coding System is valuable . It is valuable because we ourselves sometimes need help when telling if someone is upset , mad, happy, sad, etc. I understand that the computer might not be so helpful at times when trying to figure an emotion displayed on someone, but overall I think the Facial Action Coding System is needed and therefore valuable.
I understand that the computers might be helpful in classrooms . It can be helpful in classrooms because, if a teacher is teaching something and a student does not understand the lesson the computer can let the teacher know that the student does not understand what is going on or comprehend it . The computer can also let the teacher know if all of the students actually understand the lesson. I think by letting the teacher know that students are not comprehending it the teacher can address the problem and therefore help the student. By helping the student undersand the lesson it is also helping the student get better grades .
The computer also lets others know that something could be wrong with someone by telling someone else that , that person is sad,worried, or angry. It could possibly aslo detect if someone is depressed and needs help. But if the Facial Action Coding System did not exist that person might not be able to get the help they need . The computer is helping someone in need of help. And if it didn´t exist that person could be putting on a fake smile even though they are depressed and need help therefore they could also never get the help they need .
I can understand why some people would not want to use these computers because they don´t think a computer should tell us how someone is feeling. I think that certain people can detect if something is wrong with someone or if that person is confused , or worried, or upset. But it also wouldn´t hurt to make sure and double check that , that person is telling the truth and is not hiding something important .
Overall I think that the Facial Action Coding System is useful , helpful, and valuable.
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Think about walking into your second period class and you have a test. This is a test that you have to pass but you have no clue what the test is going to be over. You sit down and your heart starts pounding so fast that you feel sick to your stomach. You're so scared to take this test because your not sure if you're going to pass it or not. "You make begin", your teacher says. Reading a few questions in your head and you dont know any of the answers. Have you ever thought about technology being able to help you? Should technology be able to read students emontional expressions?
The Facial Action Coding System is a 3D computer model of the face. It uses your facial muscles to determand how your feeling. For example if you are feeling anger the computer would know because your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show the anger. This device would be able to be showed by a real face or even a painting like the Mona Lisa. This computer can even show mixed emotions.
Technology is a valuable resource for students. The new technology called the "Facial Actions Coding System" would be great for students. This is something that will be able to read your face and let people know if your bored, tired, happy, sad, and it even shows your fears. If your stuggling on a test or an assignment it will give you help and walk you through some of the problems. This would help many students understand the concept and test scores would be so much higher.
According to the article people are able to tell if you are having a bad day. People can not tell what is wrong with you just because you look sad or upset. Vinci studied human anatomy to help paint facial muscles that can convey certain emotions. If you look at the painting of Mona Lisa you would be able to tell from her facial strututres of what type of mood she is trying to show. When looking at the Mona Lisa , it really intended to make you smile and in a happy mood.
How would you want to feel when taking a test and understanding the concept better? Wouldnt you want to be able to have higher test scores and better grades? Do you think that the Facial Action Coding System is a valuable resource for students?
The FACS would benfit alot of students in the world. Do you think that technology should be able to read students emotions?
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Did you know on Mars there is a face? Some people think it was created by aliens. Other people think it is just a natural landform on Mars. The face on Mars was first discovered in 1976.
When they first saw it it looked like a "shadowy likeness of a human face". It was an enormous head nearly two miles away from end to end. When they first discovered it they saw it staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. I am going to be telling you why this is just a natural landform on Mars.
When scientist first saw it in 1976, they thought it was just another Martian mesa which is common around Cydonia. They knew is was some type of landform. A few days later, NASA unvieled the image for all to see. The caption was "huge rock formation which resembles a human head". The only reason they said it was aliens, was to get people's attention. That is exaclty what it did.
Eventually on April 5,1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over to Cydonia for the first time to check it out. While they were there Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture that was ten times sharper than the original photos. When the image first apperared on a JPL web site it revealed it was just a natural landform and there was no alien monument after all. Not everyone was convinced it was just a landform. Many people still thought it had something to do with aliens. But, how could aliens have done it? No one knows.
On April 8,2001 Mars Global Surveyor drew a close enough second look. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the field of view,"Garvin stated. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size", Garvin added. "So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" he added. They could tell there was nothing just the land its self. It could not have been aliens.
What the pictures they actually took show is a Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common in the American West. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho", Garvin says. Garvin ended his statement with,"That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars."
Coming to a conclusion, the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. Even Garvin, the Mars Global Surveyor said it himself,"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivlent of a butte or mesa, landforms common around the American West". The Face on Mars is really, just an natural landform.
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Computers can do many things beneficial in the classroom, but having a computer read a students emotions is debatable. I believe a computer able to read emotions on a students face is essential in a learning environment. Some teachers aren't adept at reading a students emotions, or are completely blind to it. Dr. Huang predicted that "a class room computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," which is a necessary reading to gain a full learning experience.
In a classroom setting, a teacher must monitor 20 to 30 students in a single period. There is a high chance that a few of these students may not understand something, and refuse to ask about it in fear of being laughed at, or disrupting the class. If a computer in the classroom could read the faces of every student and display the emotions to a teacher, it could let them know what students do and do not understand, and help them determine what they should review. Also, if a computer could read emotions, it could determine if a student is bored. If the majority of a class is bored, it could suggest to the teacher that they may need to change their teaching habit. A student who is engaged is more likely to understand and do better in class.
Also, some students have issues at home. Some students do fake a smile daily, and sometimes, it's good enough to fool anyone besides a professional. In our state alone, the suicide rates are high, and it could protect them as well. The article also says that Dr. Huang suggested that "most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," so it is an essential part in understanding how someone feels. If a student is upset or distraught, it may make it harder for them to participate in class. A teacher could then pull the student aside and talk to them about how they're feeling. Especially in those with depression, they are able to have many skills, even more than an ordinary person. However, those with depression do not see themselves able to use those skills from a sense of defeat. Talking does help them to an extent, so in a depressed student, if their mood improves, they will be able to use their skills in the classroom to the fullest extent with everyone else.
If expressing emotions can produce the emotion, it can also make a student feel better as well. In the article, it suggests that moving facial muscles doesn't simply express emotions, but it can produce them as well. In theory, someone who is smiling can make someone actually feel happy, too. This could increase atmospheres in school and allow everyone to feel safe if they have a problem. It could resolve fighting in schools as well, if emotions are explained. Sometimes words aren't enough to convey how we're feeling. Most fighting and the feeling of uneasiness comes from poorly conveyed emotions by words. The standard student can't read other's emotions aside from basic emotions, such as happiness or sadness.
Ultimately, I genuinely believe that computers in the classroom that could actually read the students emotion is extremely valuable. It could create a better atmosphere in school systems when they get the help they require, and test scores in the school could improve as well. Students could actually be reviewed with if they do not understand, simply by the look on their face. It saves the socially anxious students, or the introverted students, when they don't understand something. Instead of asking and being embarassed, then unable to concentrate due to the embarassment, it could be read on their face, and they can be reviewed with later. Every student deserves a good education, regardless of who they are. And with a computer that could recognize emotions, I believe it is more possible for everyone to receive a more equal, and superior, education.
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Do you think aliens exist? The face on Mars was not created by aliens, but by the natural forming of the planet. These examples will show how the face on Mars came to be.
The face on Mars was just a natural occurence and not a cover up from aliens. The first example is there are other little landforms right by the face. This exampl means that the face was just another landform and that maybe things formed just right to look semi-close to a human face. The second example is that as cameras got better it started looking less and less like a face. This example states that as cameras got better resolutions they actually found out it was just a mesa. The final example is when they were looking at the face there were misty clouds in the way. This example shows that the clouds could have interfered with the picture causing shadows to hover over the face at just the right angle to give the face a more human look. Finally, these examples show how the face was just a natural occuring landform and not a human-like face.
If aliens in fact did make the face then why does it look more like a natural occuring landform then a face. First example is the aliens couldn't have built a mass structure that is about 2 miles long and wide without building anything else. This example shows that the aliens would have had to leave other structures alike there too. The next example is if the aliens did make the structure they would have had to leave footprints or building materials behind. This example shows that the aliens would have had to leave something behind just like we do at construction sites today. The last example is how could have the aliens built such a large structure in such harsh conditons. This example tells that the aliens couldn't have built in under very cold conditons at night and under barely any atomsphere to breath in. Lastly, these examples show that aliens couldn't have built a structure like that on mars even if it was a face.
The structure was just a landform on mars all this time. The first example is if it was a face it would've been hidden by NASA. This means that if it was indeed a face NASA would have hidden it from the public and studied it greatly. The next example is that again, if it was a face NASA would've greatly beneifited from the discovery. This example shows that NASA wouldn't have shown the public if there had been signs of extra terristrial activity. Finally the last example is that aliens did not make this structure because it would've been an actual alien momument. This example tells that if there was evidence of life NASA claimed that they would know. Thus, these examples show of no alien life on mars.
The conspiracy theorsists might think that NASA is hiding something, but they are wrong because it would have beneifited NASA from hiding it. So all this time people have thought it was a face on Mars, they were wrong because pictures have shown of no humane signs on the landform thanks to better technology. So do you still think aliens exist?
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I think that we should not have that in are classes because that would make people fill unhappy to come to school. Then that wouldamke people not want to come to school because the teachers would know how we are filling today and whats on our minds. Then they would know what we are thinking. Then they would know when we are happy, when we are mad, when we are sad , when we just dont care anymore. Like they said in the first line she? 83 percent happy, 9 ercent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Then they said that? not your science teacher, grading your latest lab assignment. They start to talk about how many major muscles in the modle must move like human muscles. there are 44 major mucles that must move like human mucles. Thats just in the face. The movement of one or more mucles is called an ¨action unit.¨
They tell you to do this one fun lab thing you can do while you are looking in the mirror at home.
It gives you step by step how to do the lab.
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How would you like to live in a world in which there is no motor noise or exhaust smog clouding your air? That is a world I would love to live in myself. There are multiple benefits that come with living vehicle free. An econiomic benefit is not having to pay for gas or car repairs. A social implication is being able to get away from your little shell on wheels and meet new people while walking, biking, or carpooling. Another benefit is that it will greatly reduce pollution to help preserve the environment.
One great implication of limiting car usage is that you greatly cut down spending on gasoline or repairs and maintenence for your vehicle. Americans spend hundreds of dollars a week just to fill up their cars. How awesome would that be to take that one hundred dollars a week and put it to someting you really need or want?
There are also social upsides that come with limiting automobile usage. People tend to isolate themselves from the world around them when traveling in their little bubble. Riding a bike or walking to get from place to place will cause social interaction to skyrocket. You can meet many new people and get closer with the world you are living in. Instead or the latest pop song blaring through your speakers, you can enjoy the sound of birds chirping, the casual bustle of people running errands on bikes, and the smell of the fresh air. If you absolutely need to use your car, you can call up some friends and carpool with them. Carpooling still allows you to have social interactions and it also cuts down spending for gas as well as
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The Face On Mars
Do you think the face on mars was created by aliens? I dont, and im going to tell you why the "Face on Mars" was not created by aliens. Theres not enough evidence to prove that aliens exist. Conspiracy theorists just want something to obsess about!
The "Face on Mars" was not created by aliens.
A few days after the face appeared, NASA unveiled the image for all to see. It also had a caption saying "Huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giveing it the illusion of eyes, a nose, and a mouth." The authors said it was a good way to engage the public and attract attension to Mars.They also stated that it looked like the head of an Egyptian Pharoh.
Since they unveiled the image, the "Face on Mars" has become a pop icon. It's even been stared in a Holywood film, it's appeared in books, in magazines, on radio talk shows, and in
haunted grocery store cheakout lines for a while! Some people even think the Face is evidence of life on Mars, they say its evidence that NASA woulike to be kept a secret, said conspiracy theorists. All while people who defence the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. A few scientists even thought it was an alien artifact. Capturing photos of Cydonia had become a priority for NASA when the MGS arrived at the Red Planet in September, 1997, eighteen long years after the Viking missions had ended!
Jim Garvin, cheif scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program stated "We felt this was important to taxpayers. We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it." On April 8, 2001, a cloudless day in Cydonia, MGS drew close enough for a seond look. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the feild of view," said Garvin, "Malin's team captured an extordinary photo useing the camera's abseloute maximum resolution." What they captured was a rock formation.
So, as i have concluded, the "Face on Mars" was a rock formation with shadows makeing the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth (as i stated earlier). So basically, the Face was an illusion of a face, but in reality, it was just a gigantic rock formation with shadows, but i could see how conspiracy theorists would get the idea of aliens.
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Using cars for everyday life in cities and towns is a normal, everyday event people do for their carrers and personal lives. In bigger cities, a pollution problem has been mostly caused by the cars, because of the immense ammount of them being used everyday.
Some cities around the world have commited to the car-ban and the outcome has been on the postitive close to every time. Opening stores in a walking ditance, instead of malls on distant highways. The advantages are not just for you, they are to the whole city or town you may live in. The exercise and the people chating about on the streets with a clean air and no conjested roads to worry about. Since the peak of driving in 2005, the cars on the road and the amount of lisences have declined. The make of this is once again positive.
Cars on the road can change in your area if a large amount of people strive to do so. This could be a new generation of how transportation evolves for years to come when we are biking, walking, or just strolling around stores walking distince from you!
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The use of FACS should not be prohibited on the use of just students. It can not just be experienced on students. Adults have their own facial expressions that could be test to. The students have to be able to talk to someone about their mode not by a machine. That could be wrong and probably cause probelms.
FACS in other words is the facial action coding system which detects facial movements. There are 6 basic emotions it detects.They are
happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. FACS is a 3-D model that tracks facial movements. The model stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. The model uses algorithms to now the your ficial expressions.
The FACS is being use for students to know how they feel. To know if they are saying the truth. Which is should not be used because some kids just do not want other people bothering when they have probelms. In other cases, kids are to scared to confront an adult with their worries, problems, or troubles. Certain kids prefer to be left alone; however, students should not feel alone. They need people to communicate; however the kids now they are just rude or do not feel like having a relationship with any human they just want to be left alone.
The kids instead should have a friend to talk to that could comprehend how they are feeling in that moment. Some kids are not gonna want to make friends, but at least whenever they need some one to talk to they should have that fellow friend or any person. They should also have a relationship with their parents and not with a 3-D model. The computer can have many algorithms but it can never really detect how you are feeling and how long that person could have that feeling. Any one could change their feelings in the matter of seconds.
Having this kind of technology could help everyone out; however it can also have its disadvatages. The technology can be expensive. The parts for the machine is also expensive. With all that money that is being for the technolgy it could bring shortage to the anyone who does not have enough money to support their family or just themselves. People could just use a friend to talk to or anyone who is close to them.
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How can a facial action coding system can identify a persons initial facial exspretion? Well what it does and how it can be helpful, useful and then it can solv a lot of mystreys in some cases. If somebody can tell what feelings there exspressing can be helpful in a way by telling somebody like a doctors that studys people when there just angry, sad or happy. And that tecnology can help when others are in a certain state of depresion and that certain somebody doesent want to be noticed that machine can help with a person they may commit suicide. When no one knows it but the machiene can tell if there just trying to put on a good face over a really bad time. So then how can it be useful it will also sovle some unusal cases like some artisis make and no one will ever understand what they were trying to go for inside the person. Like the Mona Lisa some people will probably never understand what if just is smiling or grining for the picture. If this invention coms out permanatly that it can show a poll of how kids view homework and then show how some people view work places. If they are dicustuing or just p a place you dont want to goto. Then it also solves the basic stuff like make face detecting how people fell about some presidents andit can solve cases if a person was happy or he was mad to tell if a person was a killer or not. So in conclusion I think it is very useful in my opinon and I hope they make more of these inventions
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In 2013, BMW announces the development of the "Traffic Jam Assistant". Been able to be comfortable and easier to drive but the driver has to be careful while driving. Be aware of everything that is going on the road; and we're the one who takes care of the car and not the car protecting us or feel more safer. I honestly think that we're the thinking more of the fashion or the style of the cars, and become more less careful on the protection of our own. We have to think more of the protection and make cars more safer to feel and comfortable. The driver is not going to feel safer, but it's also going to convince the driver to drive more safer. According to "driverless cars are coming' people are going to focus on laws that is going to keep drivers,passengers,and pedestrians safe. More cars are going to make and more style are going to make; but I also want to be safe when I'm in a car.
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The Electoral Collage has been around for a long time. Every few years, voters go to vote on election day and their vote can either mean everything or nothing. There are many flaws with the Electoral Collage: it serves an out-dated purpose, popular vote does not matter, and there is the possibility of the disaster factor. Using the Electoral Collage could lead to undesired consiquences.
Back in the times in which the Electoral Collage was founded, commucation between the colonies was not quick. News could take months to arrive, and with the Electoral Collage, if news about a presidential candidate came out that made him a threat, for example if he was a murderer, the electors would know that and, despite what the voters thought, not to vote for him. In the current times, as soon as something had happened that would make a candidate look bad, it would not be very long before such news would be on T.V., social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.),and on the radio. So unless someone wasn't paying much attention, every vote should be valid.
With the Electoral Collage system, the vote of an individual does not matter. Whether three people in a state vote or three-million vote, as long as a majority (only 51% of the votes) vote for the candidate, that candidate gets all the electoral votes for that state. If only 51% of people vote for a candidate he wins that state, that leaves 49% of people in that state whose votes are now discredited. Eventually, like in some cases such as the election in 2000, it can add up that a candidate wins the popular vote, the actual majority, but not the election. So despite the wishes of the majority, the other candidate in this situation would win.
When a candidate wins all the electoral votes for a state, those votes are sent to electors so that they can vote on behalf of the people, or not. "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy.)"("The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong," Bradford Plumer) Not only an incident such as this could occur, but electors of two slates could be sent to congress and chose not to vote as asked. With all these flaws, why are we still using the Electoral Collage?
The Electoral Collage no longer serves the purpose it once did, and it is now doing more harm than good. Back when it was established, it did what was needed for the time. This is a new era, it's time for a new system.
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Technology is becoming more and more advanced as time passes by. The Facial Action Coding System is a program that can tell a users emotion by using a 3-D model of the users face. This new technology is a valuable piece of equiptment for a classroom. This can assist teachers create better lesson plans for the students. In addition, it will clear up the confusion over mixed emotions concercing the classroom.
This new technological innovation can help open the eyes of teachers. If a student is doing an assignment on the cmputer and is very confused the teacher may not know because he or she is busy working with another student. "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored..."(6). Then once the computer knows the student is confused or bored, it can change the lessson toconform to them. This will help teachers teach kids more effiecently without having to change all of their material to help one student.
This technology also has the ability to show the multiple different emotions of a person. "...the software can even identify mixed emotions..." (4). No more will a face be wrongly recongized as in understanding or agreeance. An educater can use this information to understand the overall ratios of his or her students. With this technology in classrooms there will not be a feeling of being left behind.
Less and less students will be confused in class leading to better test rates. Also modified tests and task due to the Facial Action Coding System will improve on the lerning material to highten knowledge. Knowing this, the Facial Action Coding System is very valuable in the classroom.
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You and I both know very well that we love to breath fresh air. Going out into the forest and taking a big breath of what is called "fresh air." Why cant we get that in an everyday life? I'll tell you why, because of polution. Cars are a ginormous part of polution, so what if we drove less?
In Vauban, Germany they have given up cars almost completely. The streets in Vauban are "car free." If you want a car, you have to park it at a local park garage for 40,000 dollars added onto your house. That isnt even worth paying for. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," said Heidrun Walter. She lives in this town so she knows how it is. Giving up a car can reduce stress! Boy do some people need to give up cars.
America's obeisity count is getting higher and higher by the month. What if we gave up cars? people would have to walk everywhere! That's a good way to get exercise. In passage 1 it says "In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." Stores are helping people out so they can walk to get what they need instead of driving.
It will be so much less expensive in everyday life if you dont have a car. You won't have to pay for gas, you won't have to pay for car insurance and you won't have to pay for mantanence! You also will not have to pay something crazy like "$40,000, along with a home." If I had to pay that much more money to keep up with a car, I would give it up in an instant. I barely have enough money to support the car alone, there is no way i can pay an extra 40,000 dollars!
Not having a car seems easier and healthier to me! You can walk more, so you get you exercise in everyday. You dont have to spend money on the car, no gas, no insurance and no mantanance! That means you can spend it on important stuff, perhaps on schooling! You also dont have as much stress on your hands. You dont have to worry about stopped traffic because you can just walk, ride a bike, or jog to where ever you have a desire to go. I say we get rid of cars all together in the United States of America.
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I am against the development of this car. A few things that I don`t like about it is that, It would cost alot of money, It may cause more wrecks then usual, and the fact it would make us even more lazy when we don`t drive.
First reason why I am against the development of this car is because of money. Some places there may not be enough money or room to even consider doing this project. Also, some people won`t do it because they want to drive, or feel comfortable driving their own car.
Second, it may cause many wrecks. The car itself may be fit and ready, but it may cause wrecks because of weather conditions or the car itself can`t control itself. I also believe people wouldn`t trust something like this. Yes, I have to admit that this car is cool, but many people will not agree to do this.
Third, it would make us even more lazy without walking or driving ourselves places. I think we should stay with driving ourselves for now, until they are 100% sure they`re ready for this and have enough money for it.
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I the first paragraph it says ' Luke Bomberer had no idea his life would change soon after his high school graduation he was working two prat-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his friend Don Reist invited him to go to Eurpe on a cattle boat Luke couldn't say no He knew it was an opportunity of a life time.
That is how it began but. In paragraph 2 says. It was 1945 World War 2 was over in Eurpe 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 Abministration) UNRRA hired
Seagoing Cowboys to take care of horses young cows and mules that were shipped overseas Luke and Don signed up. That is when Luke become a Seagoing
Cowboy. And in paragraph 4 says. Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece which meant he could be drafted for military service When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle-boat trip they told me to just keep Doin that for my service By the time he was discharged in 1947 Luke had made nine trips-the most of any Seagoing Cowboys.
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I think that Lukes point of viewIf you were going to ask someone to do it then you would it might change your life. In the article is that he his a little nervous that he will be going on a ship for a long time. And he wanted to got out on sea and see what it was like.
He said that it will not be good that if he gets injured then you will have to stop working and that is bad! He said that it was a little bit bad when you hurt your self and you can't work anymore.
He said in the passage that he said that he was thankful that the metal rail saved him from going overboard. He said that was in the text was that there was more things to do like playing baseball. soccer. volleyball,and those other sports too. That is what i think that the point of view for luke is.
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Base on what I read Venus is a important planet it is the second from the sun and it's nickname is the evening star and is one of the brightest points of light in the night. Also in this passage I found out Venus is also dangerous and is referred to as Earth's twin. Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth.
Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too. However on planet Venus the surface,temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and and also atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than waht we experience on our own planet.
A long time ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth. The NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus.
This passage was helpful learning more about Venus like how hot it is and how big and what the NASA is doing to study it. But I don't think I could live on Venus it wouldn't be safe because of the pressure,heat and other bad forces.
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It is a lot of peoples dream to have cars that do not require the passenger to operate the vehicle, but at the same time the vehicle operate exactly how it should if not better than if a human were driving. In my opinion, it is a bad idea for this to happen. If there is a problem, and there is an accident, who is to blame? Would the person in the car? Or the manufacturer? Also America, and eventualy the world, is losing an experience that is almost everywhere, and has been for a long time now. Humanity will come one more step closer to being dependant on the technology around them. Driverless cars are a bad idea.
I have spent a portion of my life learning about how the car were made. We learned about it in history class; how and when the very first car was made and how the car has evolved over time. If we upgrade the car to where it doesnt require human interaction to drive it, then slowly humanity will forget the nessesity of driving. We will be dependent on our technology to "work" for us. We will become lazy as a people. As the cars get smarter, we get dumber.
Car accidents happen all the time, some more severly than others. If there is an accident and a driverless car was the cause, who is the blame? Is it the manufacturer? Is it the driver? Who would be at fault?! The driver wasnt driving, he was just in the car, he had no control. So if something happened to the machinery does it mean that the manufacturer is at stake? Are all self driving cars unsafe for all those who use them? To me this is a very scary situation, a situation where humans no longer have any control.
There are lots of benefits to self driving cars, true, but the negative side of this is far worse than the postive. We cant become lazy. We cant be dependent of something that may not always be therefor us. We cant put ourselves in that situation. If there are accidents then who is at fault? Could you get blamed for something you didnt do? Something you would stop if you could, but didnt know how? A driverless car is something i do not need.
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Driverless cars can be used as an advantage in the following ways. There is a substantial amount of usefulness in the medical field with driverless cars. The mentally disabled in many ways can have a new type of freedom. Overall driverless cars are more safe.
The medical field is advancing rapidly. The transportion for hospitals, health clinics, in home nursing etc., can be greatly efected in a positive way. In an emergency situation a patient does not have a moment to spare, and a driverless ambulance does not spare a single second. The driverless ambulance will send out a signal pulling over all other driverless cars, leaving an open path, and another patient with thier life. The medical personel can have all hands on the patient. The driverless car is more effecient in the medical field than a manual car.
The mentally disabled strive to be more independant, and what better way than giving themselves thier own transportation. Granted they could take the bus, but the driverless car is infiantly safer for them. The people that care for them can take driving them to the doctors off of their checklist. In an emergency all they have to do is tell the car where to go and it will asist them. Once again the driverless car can save lives.
The main point of the driverless car is to be a safer alternative to the manual version. The built in automatic brakes have already been proven useful in todays vehicles. Built in GPS systems can be of great value when all a human has to do is type in a location. A human mind turns to panic in an accident, but not the computer program of the driverless car. The driverless car can save lives.
The driverless car can save lives. The driverless car can grant a new sources of freedom and independece to the mentally disabled. The driverless car gives a second chance to human beings that were moments away from death. The driverless car is an atvantage for not only American's but for the whole world. The driverless car is not only an advantage, but a hope for a newer brighter future.
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The belief that limiting car use is an obtainable goal in today's world is a foolish one. We as a race of animals have developed technology that advances and propels us pass our old habits as early humans. Depriving people of the luxury of new age technology is a ludacris form of solving enviornmental problems. There is without a doubt an epidemic involving pollution in the world, but it should not be solved by prohibiting whole cities from the benefits of automobiles, the solution is solved by the contrary, which is supporting automobile purchase. What I mean by this is support of cars that have byproducts like water rather than harmful emission.
Cars with zero emission technology are usually hybrid vehicles that run on alternative fuel sources, which help in the preservation of fossil fuels. I believe just the support and production of a lot more hybrid models by all popular car manafacturers is a more feasible solution than trying to remove cars out of the entire equation. Vauban, Germany along with Paris, France and Bogota, Colombia all have tried this method and have found success, but their success is only temporary for the solution to this problem is not as simple as just banning car use in cities. Thats my story and I'm stickin to it.
THIS TEST IS UNIMPORTANT
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"Facs's" or facial action coding should be allowed to read the emotional expressions of students in the classrom and it would be valuable. Having facial action coding could help to allow a teacher to see when a student may be bored or is confused and simply needs some help.
Prof. Thomas huang of the beckman institute, and also prof. Nicu Sebe of the university of amesterdam have been working together to create and improve facial action coding for it would be extremely valuable for our classrooms. Having facial action coding would help teacher's be able to see all how the class is feeling and making sure they feel energized and happy in their working enviornment,yet also allows the teacher to see when a student needs help:"A classrom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,". In addition because of the facial actions coding capabilities to detect these emotions it could also modify a lesson to be more fit for any certain student;"Then it could modify the lesson, Like an effective human instructor". Evidently having facial action coding software in classrooms would be an extremely valuable thing, And although the opposing side may say that children should'nt have their emotions read that it's their personal buisness, it turns out most communication happens to be nonverbal anyways:"most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication."
facial action coding system is an abosolute leap in technology advancements, for its ability to detect and analyze facial musclar movements. It would be extremely valuable for our modern day classrooms. Contrary to a common belief that it is wrong to read the emotions or expressions of younger kids just to make sure they are going to be paying attention in class it turns out we already do that as humans:" in fact we humans perform this same impressive 'calculation' everyday. for instance, you can probably tell how. friend is feeling simply by the the look on her face". Evidently if we are already doing this naturally as humans furthermore it would'nt develoup conflict.
Overall having facial action coding in our modern day classrooms would be very valuable and they would be beneficial for their capabilities to detect what a student is paying attention to the teacer or lesson in class, and also be able to modify class lesson to better them for the students, and finally for their ability to analyze the facial muscular movement.
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The use of the Facial Action Coding System, or FACS, to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom can be valuabe in some subjects. Subjects like psychology, the studies of human emotions, and sociology. The study of human emotions and how to read them has been a major topic since the Ancient Roman times. There are many words and phrases to depictict emotions and there are so many emotions they are sometimes hard to explain. Emotions can also be tricky to read but with new and developed technology like the Facial Action Coding System certain emotions can be deciphered and used for research.
Reading emotions can be difficult if you aren't a professional like a therapist or psychologist and haven't studied them for many years like people in those occupations have. Being able to read emotions is vital in this current generation because if a fellow person or classmate is feeling depressed, by reading their emotions it could prevent something dangerous from happening. With technology like the Facial Action Coding System it could teach students how to read emotions like loneliness and sadness to get students the mental health care that they need.
In conclusion the use of FACS to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable to educate students and identify students at risk for depression. FACS could help students to notice other students that they may not have noticed before and get them help. FACS could also help students studying psychology and sociology to better read emotions.
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I believe that it would be fun to be a sea cowboy. In the text it says that he got to visit places the problebly never get to visit. In the text it also states that he liked taking care of the animals and people. I think that he likes to fly around the ocean which is part of his job.
I Believe that he wanted to join because of his friend asking him to. In the text it states that his friend asks him to join the UNRRA. In the text it also states the even though he gets hurt he still likes the job. I believe that is why he wanted to join.
I Believe that he kind of likes animals. in the text it states the he likes taking care of the animals. In the text it also states that he likes checking on the animals every hour or so. I believe that is why he liked being the night guard for the night other than the slipping of the ladder incidant.
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Do you think mars actually have a face on it? Funny right? Well jsut listen to what i have to tell you. NASA'S Viking camara got a glimps of a face on mars they think alines made it. Crazy right?
But here in the passage it states "a huge rock formation ...which resembles a human head,eyes,nose,and mouth.They thought it would attract attition to mars but oh boy it did ! But i think the rock formation is just the way the land forms because i see weird formations of things all the time they're just thinking of it the wrong way i belive.I agree that land formats can be the most convincing because your never going to know what you'll see. However i think that this is just an must understandment of photos. NASA has to research and discover such a thing or land format i strongly believe that this is just the land formation the way the rock is shaped and structured. In the passege is says that landforms are common around the american west so the landfromation NASA said that they aliens made was actually land formations because were there most common its going to happen often.In paragraph 7 it states "There was no alien mounment after all.". In my Conclusion i'll present to you that after all the alien monument was actually land formations because there most commen in the west. It could be some alien's work but not quite yet is there time. The land formations can create some of the most beautiful work. I Strongly agree with NASA that there were no alien monument at all because why would an alien come to mars to build a giant face like sculpture just to get attiton on mars. Kinda funny right ? Okay so now do belive that mars does not have a face on it ?
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The use of technology to read emotions in the classroom is not valuable because it would not work as efficatly as planned, it would give false info, and it would waste time and money.
The use of technology in the classroom would not work as planned because some sutdents would not want to do it. They would not want other people to know what there emotions where all the time. It could maybe even make some students uncomfortable. So the use for all students may just not fit.
Another reason it would not work is because it would give back false information. If one student had a bad day it might say that he dosen't like that class. It could say that he dosent pay attintion in class at all, but one bad day dosent make a kid a bad student. We all have bad days.
The last reason that the use of emotional recognition tech. would not be valuable in the classroom is that it would waste time and money. It would time because it would take extra time for it to read everyone's faces fast enough that it would give accuate results. It would waste money because the device that would read students face would probley cost a fortion. Then the people who et the results may try and charge you for the information.
Thats why i think that the use of technology to read emotions would be a waste of time and money, not be vary effective, and give false information.
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Driverless cars are a thing of the future. They would be very useful especially if they use less fuel than normal taxis, but in stituations where there is dangerous road conditions, like snowing flooding, and high winds, how will the car react?
With the weather always chaning will the driverless car be able keep up or will everybody just have to stop what they're doing? The weather influences driving greatly. You have to be able to drive in any condition, thats why driverless car aren't ready. If the driverless car needs someone to take over when theres road work and accidents, the same thing would happen in dangerous driving conditions. The car could not tell that there is ice on the roads. Sometimes cars hydroplane, the smart car would not be albe to right the car but, just spin out and take the impact and put lives in danger. This would increase accidents or even deaths. These cars aren't safe to drive in conditions like these. The smart car isn't smart enough to be driving in different types of weather or situations.
The car can't adapt to driving condtions, so would it be able to avoid things like pot holes and animals that run out in front of cars? Pot holes occur every where, if one of these driverless cars hits one a blows a tire the passenger could be stranded. The car couldnt have did anything to avoid the pot hole, so its not to safe. Then there are animals that jump out in front of cars last second or even people. The road is always changing and things are always happening, i dont believe the driverless car will be able to function in certain situations. Sensors can only sense so much that certain times if there is no person in the driver seat things can go wrong.
There are times in traffic that traffic ligths go out and people have to make decisions. The car can not think to stop at a flashing ready light and then yield to oncoming cars. There are situations there a person is the best option. Unless the car can think for it self. The drivrless car is too unpredicatable and can put peoples lives in danger. Accidents occur all the time, i don't believe a driverless car can avoid an ongoing accident. Then there are situations with police, or stolen cars. Would the car give away its owner if they were on the run from the police? How would traffic stops work, would the car be so perfect to not break the law? The car could be harboring fugitives or runways or even kidnapped victims. The car wouldnt be smart enought to know, its going to do what its told and drive.
i dont believe that self driving cars are ready for todays society nor will they ever be. The road is alwasy changing and the car would not be able to keep up.
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The author supports the idea of studying Venus, despite the dangers it presents, extremely well in this article. He uses both good and bad features to portray the idea that Venus is a place where one day humans will be able to study it's exquisite qualities. The article as a whole, relays many strong facts and opinions as to why one should want rearchers to further study Venus.
In each paragraph, the author gives an argument as to why researches should strive to explore the planet in depth. For example, the author says,"Often referred to as Earth's "twin", Venus is the closest planet in termos of density and size, occasionally the closest in distance too." (Paragraph 2) As one reads this sentence they begin to compare Venus to Earth. This gives the idea that Venus is an interesting and diverse place with many complex attractions to discover, as one would think of Earth. However, the author will follow up with a counter argument, such as, "Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." The author uses this technique of adding in a counter argument to allow the reader to see that the author also understands that Venus is not an easy planet to study up close.
Another tactic the author uses to persuade the reader that the planet is worth pursuing, is the explanation of their possible future plans to explore it. The author provides the reader with many detailed descriptions on their ideas. He says, "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." (Paragraph 5) Not only does this sentence explain what NASA plans to one day achieve, it once again compairs an Earth expample to something on Venus. This allows the reader to feel as if they understand what NASA is willing to do to study this planet and provides them with a reason as to why they should think the same.
Lastly, the author explains how their methods of exploring the planet in the future will not only succeed in finding many new discoveries, but will be using older technology that uses no electricity. The author then goes to say, "The thought of computers exsisiting in those days may sound shocking, but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all." (Paragraph 7) As one reads about the use of "mechanical computers" they can recieve a better comprehension of the challenges NASA is attempting to face to study this planet in more detail.
As one reads through this article, they are persuaded into believing that Venus is a planet worth exploring and trying to find discoveries on due to its close relation to Earth, NASA's perserverance to create a way to study it, and the many amazing things it has to offer. The author supports the idea of Venus being worthy of pursuit despite the dangers it presents very well.
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Have you ever studied about Venus? Well, its very fascinating, and its our "twin" planet, because its about the same size and shape as Earth. It also has landmass like mountains, valleys, and craters. Even though we haven't research much of Venus, scientists believe that their could of been life on Venus, because they used to have a ocean just like Earth does.
Why machines fail to last years on Venus. Scientist and researchers have sent many aircrafts to Venus, but when they land, they only last fow a few hours due to the planet being 97% carbon dioxide, also being 800 degrees fahrenheit. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we expericene on Earth. With these extreme weather condition, it would melt, or crush the machine that we send to Venus, the land on Venus, is also made from acid, and not very solid. There are also very powerful earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, and frequent lighting strikes. Venus is also the second planet from the Sun, so that also increaes the temperature.
What scientists are trying to do to change their aircrafts to last longer on Venus. Researchers are going back to old time mechanical computers, because with modern day compters, they can't resist acid and extreme heat, because they are delicate. Whereas the mechanical computers they can be more resistant to heat and acid. They where also trying to see if they could fly a spaceshuttle around Venus and collect data, but they knew tht it wouldn't work, because they would be to far away to see the land and whats happening. Also its foggy around the outer part of Venus.
So, If you ever want to visit Venus, then you might want to help NASA get their techn ology to work in extreme conditions, because if they don't find a way for machines to last longer on Venus, they are not going to be able to research the land, and collect rocks from it. Also they won't be able to find out if their is any form of life on Venus that is living.
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The the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author argues that humans should continue our attempts to land in the planet. Despite describing the dangers of the daunting task, the author provides several thought provoking arguments to support his/her claim.
One argument is that Venus is the most viable option for a planetary visit from the human race. Venus is almost identical in density and size compared to Earth, and may have had extremely similar enviroments and biomes long ago. Today, we can still recognize land shapes such as mountains, valleys, and what might have been oceans long ago. This provides evidence that Venus may have supported many life forms in the past, and could very well do the same again. If Humans can find a way to survive on the planet, we could possible have a second Earth,
The author also lists several innovations that would assist humans in teh examinationa nd exploration of Venus. One is a blimp-like station that would float approximately 30 miles above Venus' surface. Doing this would allow scientists to avoid the treacherous ground conditions and storms. Being above the storms would also give scientists and almost infonite amount of solar energy, and though conditions would be extreemly hot, there would be no danger of radiation.
Modified technology could also be created to function of Venus' harsh terrain. Instead of using the fragile electronic tablets and computers of today, scientists could use a machine that was used in WW2, known as the mechanical computer. The mechanical computer used gears and levers to make calculations, and didn't require any electricity. This machine could be easily modified to widthstand dangerous conditions. Other simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a simulated venus atmosphere and lasted several weeks in the conditions.
With careful planning and a new approach, humans could have a chance of getting onto Venus. the author claims that after stepping up to this challenge, the human race would be prepared for more dangerous endeavors. As the saying goes, the sky is the limit, but we aren't limited to one sky.
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I would keep the electoral college because its seems to be working well. And if we changethe electoral college everything would work differently. And a big change like this would make alot of people mad and upset and posibaly riot.
The electoral college is really not a college its a constitution as a compromise between election of the president. Electoral college consists of 538 electors. The electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors.
Under the electoral college system,voters vote not for the president,but for the slate of electors. The single best argument againest the electoral college is what we might call the disastor factor. During the 200 campaign,seventeen states didnt see the candidtes at all .
The eletoral college sould stay because not all changes are bad but this one will be. The united states needs too stop making changes because its costing not the government but the people. If the debat about changing the electol college gets out of hand, people will start rioting and alot of people will be protesting.
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Sometimes there are authors that don't ever support there facts evoght. But this
author did a great job at supporting thier essay. This author put at lease ones fact or detail in each paragraph. He kepet tell us as readeers that venus can be very dagerous.
Also that Venus is like a second sun in the solar system. In venus it is supper hot. That it is 90 time hotter than on earth. On venus it is over than 800 degerees fahrenheit. Even if you ar in a vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscapre the it is still has a temepture at around 170 degrees fahreeit.
If I have to give the aouthor a score I would give him a A bcause he did good of expain venus. He aslo gave facts on diferent sorcous. He also gave good example. He did good decribing it that i can even panit my self a picture in my head. If I was doing an essay about tvenus I would highly use this article.
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it's mainly talking about how many percent of people do not own cars or people who old there cars. If I had a good car nothing wrong with it. I would make payments on it. It might not be the best car but hey long as i can get somewhere on time. I really don't know much about Vaubans but they are knid of nice. My dream car is V8 Titans Nessian i really love those trucks I hoping my mother will get me one but that all depends on my behavior at home and school plus grades those are more important. When the suburbs came out i thought it came from china but it said "Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class familes from chicago to shanghai tend to make their homes. And that experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes.... Passengers cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." It also saids "Vauban home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile, may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life. In this new approach, stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway." I love cars well actually theres curtent cars that i like but hey you got to love them right V8 titan i love the most.
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Dear State Senator,
I am agreeing in favor of keeping the Electoral College. There is no need to change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. That is because the House of Representatiives helps elect for us, it helps us to balance our votes, and avoid problems of election. The Electoraal college helps the people out alot with the voting situation and helps us to better undrstand and know our new president.
The broader significance of the electoral College is that the House of Representatives helps us vote for our new president. In source One paragraph three it says "Your state's entitled alloment of electors equal the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each number in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators...."That tells me that we the people are not alone in this process of voting who will be our next president. Also in the same source but paragraph five it states "The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party." This informs me that not only the House of Representavtives is involved in the elections. Tthe govenment is important to the Electoal College because the votes of the government count most to the College.
It is evident that the Electoral College helps us to balance our votes. As stated in Source Three "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution..." This lets me know that we -as the people- won't have to worry to much about the voting and selection of the president. Another peice of evidence stated in the same source and paragraph "So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does..." That states that not all people and states have to worry about who the president will be. The Electoral College hepls us out alot mostly to the big states in the United States.
Above all the Electoral College avoid problems of the elections. In source Three, paragraph Twenty-two it states "The Electoral College avoids problems of the elections in whcich no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast." This lets us know that the Electoral College is doing a good job on keeping the votes clean and simple to understand. Also stated in the same source and paragraph "There is no pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a moajoity of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential electionn process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which ivariably producess a clear winner..." That tells me that the Electoral College is keeping the votes on point.
There are some people out there who don't agree with the Electoral College and dont like the way the votes are being put in because sometimes the president that they chose wasn't elected. They are wrong to disagree with the Electoral College because the College keeps everything going in order and in a clear path to let us know who our president will be. As stated in Source Two paragraph Ten "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for the slate of electors, who in tur elect the president. This makes them disagree because they think that the Electoral College doesn't vote for their president, but they souldn't worry because they way they vote is by how many states helped the electors to vote for that presient being chosen as the president. Also In Source Two "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning,focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states." That makes some people diagree also, but the Electoral College doesn't count how many people in each big or small state voted for president. All the college does is help the governmtent elect for the president that they most support and elect for.
I agree that the Electoral College should be kept in favor because of all the help that it gives us and the government. Also the College helps us stay balanced on the votes so that nothing gets missplaced or missunderstood. Most of all it avoids problems during the election so that the people and the government are satisfied with their votes. The Eletroal College is a great way to keep things going at a clear election of the year. The Electoral College doesn't need any changes for me because even if they chose on the elections of the government the votes of the people still count to them as well. The votes of the peopel are important to the Electoral College just as much as the government's votes are.
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The Face on Mars was not created by aliens. The passage states that NASA's Mars Global Survey spaceraft revealed the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa. Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Gobal Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997, eigteen long years after the Vikings missions ended.
In the passage, it says that on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Micheal Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing. . . a natural landform. There were no alien monument after all.
The pasage also states that not every one was satisfied. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien marking were hidden by haze. Therfore, researchers sent the spacecraft back to Cydonia, on a coudless day, and took more pictures of the Face. Malin's team captured extraordinary photos using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. What the picture actually shows in the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. Proving that the Face was not created by aliens.
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Luke took a trip with a friend and he went to may uneque places as a part of the
UNRRA AKA the united Nations
Relif and Rehabitation Administration. Would'nt you love to be on a cattle boat and sail to unique places and help people in need? In the passage Luke does exactally that. He sailed across to many places providing food, cattle and shelter for the people and animals lost there food and homes in the war. Just imagine how much you would others that had just experianced alot of pain ina war and had lost there homes and had no food to eat of no place to sleep and may have even lost friends and family.
In this passage Luke is also worryed about him having to go into the tmillitary because of his age and at the time you would often be shiped off to boot camps and millitary schools at the age of 18.
The main idea of this passage is a man and Luke going to sea to help others in need of food and shelter. One of the many places they went where New Orleans they arrived in New Orleans in 1945 where they where told to go to and take 335 horses and food items for the hoses so they didnt die on the way to New Orleans.
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68427ee
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There are two different optionss that could take place when deciding my opinion on driverless cars. I am against driverless cars, for a numerous amount of reasons. So many things could go wrong when having driverless cars around. Car accidents occur every single day, and I don't believe that driverless cars would help this cause. People need to be more aware of their surroundings and pay a lot more attention to the roads when driving. Just like every type of technology today, it's highly possible that these driverless cars won't work properly and malfunction. Driverless cars could ruin our world and harm our lives in so many different ways.
Today's current drivers and cars, already cause car accidents and harm to everyone's lives. If our society were to add driverless cars into the mix, it would be chaos. More people would be getting car wrecks, because they would have a reason to text, eat, talk, and even sleep while driving. These people won't realize that the driverless cars won't work 100%. It is possible that the sensors will not work, and that it is all on them to be aware of their surroundings and be alert to steer the car in the right direction. Any laws against texting and driving, would not help to stop this, because people do not always listen. Almost anywhere, texting and driving is illegal, but even today, I still see people going agaisnt these laws, and causing themselves to get in a crash. Driverless cars will all be going at different speeds, therefore, making everyone more prone to getting into an accident. If these driverless cars were to all go at the exact same speed, it could cause people to be late to certain events. Driverless cars would have so many components to them that they would need to work, so that means that they would use up more energy/fuel. If the driverless cars would need more gas, then that means that gas would be more expensive, which is a huge downside for people. Even now, we are not sure whether these driverless cars would actually work or not, but we also are not sure that if these cars did work, that they will work properly. It is very possible that these cars could malfunction and make the possibility even higher that someone could get into a car accident. There are so many factors that could cause car accidents, when it comes to driverless cars. Today, we already have so many things that could cause people to get into car wrecks, and driverless cars would add to that.
Overall, there are so many factors that could cause car wrecks and accidents, and make everyone question the safety of our people. People should be more alert and aware of their surroundings to prevent car accidents. Driverless cars and their speeds may affect our daily lives, and we are not sure if these cars would actually work.
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6847e18
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If diverless cars are in our future would it impact the way people focuse on the road? I belive that driverless cars will afect peoples saftey.
A way that driverless cars can be a negative thing is because people are not in full control of the car. What would happen if the car all of a sudden starts doing something wrong and the driver can not do anything about it? In paragragh number 7 is says that the car can do a lot of things on its own. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navagating through work zones and around accidence."
Also if people were interested in buying the diverless car would an average person be able to affort it? In paragragh number 4 it clearly says that the car needs many tools and special equitment to be able to be a driverless car. "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating 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 intertial motion sensor."
Not only would the car itself cost alot, it would also take millions to be able to fix all the roads in order for the car to be able to drive on the roads. In paragragh number 3 it states that the car requies magnets in the road to be able to read the messages in binary code, but would be too expensive. "These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical."
Finally one of my biggest concerns is that if the driverless car does not need the driver at all times would it make it easier for younger kids to get in the car, start it, and take off? In paragragh number 7 it says that all it takes is the drivers hands to be on the wheel for the car to go. "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." Since the driverless car can do alot on its own the car could make it easy for a young child to get in it and leave while not being watched properly.
In conclusion, I belive that people should keep driverless cars off the road for many reasons. For example, people are not having full control of the car. The car may not be afordable to the average person. It would take millions for the road to be fixed and be able to have driverless cars to work on the roads. Finally it would be seriously dangerouse for a young child to get in the car and the car start driving on its own.
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684e155
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In " The Chellenge of Exploring Venus" The author suggests that studying Venus is a wrthy persuit despite the dangers. Venus has value not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becuase humans curiosity likely led us into many equally intimidating eneavors
One hink tha the author suggests that stufying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dengers it presents, is that many mission was unmannned and for good reason, since not spacecraft survived the landing for more that a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challening planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us.
Another reason that the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers, is that. Aa thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more Challengingare the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 greater that what we experience on our own planet.
In conclusion studying Venus is dangerous, because the weather is too much for us; there are temperatures that our body can't support or recist. Also Venus is not touched down in more than three decades, so that can be very dngerous for humans to experiment Venus.
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Luke point of view is about how he had crossed the Atlantic ocean 16 times ,and the
Pacific ocean twice to help people who were affected by the world war two. But before that he didn't cross ocean's ,and travel alot ,before he was working two part time job's in a grocery store ,and a bank.
Luke had a friend name Don who had invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat,but when he had went on the cattle boat he new that something good was going to happen. World war two was happening in Europe in 1945 and alot of countries were in ruins .So luke .and don wanted to help this counry so they signed upto help them.
In August luke and don were sent to Orleans. when they arrived agust luke had said " the day the pacific war ended"
the war had went to greece-with alot of speed. Luke had turned 18 before he went to greece ,by then he could be drafted for military service. When his draft board learned that he was on a cattle-boat trip,they told him to just keep doing that for my service. Luke had made nine trips-the most of anyseagoing acowboy.
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In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile", Nick D'Alto describes a new software that processes emotions. The "Facial Action Coding System", or "FACS", focuses on the muscle movements of the face in order to know someones emotions. This new technology would be valuable for students in a classroom setting because of the many educational benefits.
Using this software on a classroom computer could help students learn and understand what they are learning. While learning a lesson, students can often become confused or bored (pg 6). Whent this happens a computer "could modify the lesson" (pg 6). Changing the ways students learn based on how students are percieving a lesson decreases the chances of students not understanding or not paying attention. By modifying the lesson, students can learn in a way they enjoy. All students do not learn the same way. Using this software increases the chances of students learning in a way they understand.
"FACS" would not only help students learn, but it would also help teachers teach. In paragraph six, Dr. Huang, a college professor, stated that the software would be "like an effective human instructor." It would be very difficult for a teacher to individually teach every student they have in a way the student could understand. As stated before, all students do not learn the same way. To ensure that all students recieve every possible way to understand a topic, FACS would likely have to be used. Teachers would no longer have to worry about different ways to teach because the computer would do it for them. The teacher then has more time to do other things to help with the education of the class.
Communication is a skill that students learn at school as well as other places. School allows students to learn how to interact with other people. Dr. Huang included that "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communications." (pg. 6) Students are not learning the importance of nonverbal communication. Yes, "we humans preform this same impressive calculation every day"(pg. 5) However, what if we could do it at a different level? Learning about the FACS program can teach students to not only focus on word, but the muscles in the face as well.
What FACS does to interpret people, students can use to interpret people and further understand communication.
As shown, students can benefit from this new technology. FACS can help students learn by teaching them in a way they enjoy. FACS can help teachers be more efficient. It could also push students to better understand nonverbal communication. So, should FACS be used in classrooms? Well, with all these beneifts, the answer should be pretty clear. Lets add these emotional geniuses now!
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685b699
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I think that using driverless cars are a positive thing. There are some negatives that come along, but everything has negatives with them. There are more positives to outweigh the negatives. I think it will be much safer and enviromentally friendly.
Just think about all the drunk drivers out there. With the driverless car you do not have to worry about anymore. There are also a very high amount of people that text and drive or just on there phone. That is a bg safety issue. Again, the driverless car controls everything so you will not have to worry about any crashes or accidents because of people on there phone.
It makes it easy to get places. There is a built in GPS, so the car already knows where to go. People get lost all the time because they dont know what to do or where to go. Yes the car does make the driver actually drive when there is a lot of traffic or construction, but by the time these cars come out I am sure that problem will be fixed. Even if the problem does not get fixed, the car will still have done most of the driving for you. It makes it so much easier on the people using the driverless cars.
The driverless cars are extremely safe. There are sensors all over the car to show it how close thing are, when to stop, and where to go. There is another sensor that uses satellites to give it a map out of the car on the road, and the roads at all time. That is an axtraorinary device.
The car only uses half the amount of gas that a normal car will use. That saves the owner of the driverless car a gigantic amount of money. It is also safer for the environent. If only half the normal gas amount is being used, then it is a geat thing for the Earth. There will not be as much drilling and sucking out of the gas. That will give the Earth more time to get more gas and it will last much longer for us to use.
There are some negatives with the driverles car. If there is to much traffic, construction sight, or just something the automobile cannot handle then the driver will have to take over. That is a problem because why would you need to have a driver driver a driverless car? The cars still are noot fully ready and prepared to be used yet, so that gives the manufacturers more time to fix all of the flaws. There could be technical problems with the car, but that comes with anything there is that is new. There are most likely a couple years before these cars will be ready to sell, so that leaves a lot of time to fix all the problems and flaws.
These driverless cars seem to be very safe, easy to use, easy to maintain, very helpful, and good for the environment. These driverless cars will be a ginormous help for everybody that is on the road. They are definitely a positive product for the world.
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685cd71
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A new source of technology haas been invented that has the power to enable computers to indentify human emotions. This is called the Facial Action Coding System. The first step of the computer is to construct a 3-D computer model of the persons face. This includes all 44 muscles on a human's face as well. They must move exactly as if they were human muscles for the experiment to work. Six emotions have been classified by the model that are the most common expressions of a person in their daily life. These would be happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. These are all also associated with each and every movement of the facial muscles. The new created technology seems to be valuable to the people that use it today and specifically would have a value for students in a classroom.
The Facial Action Coding System uses video imagery to track facial movements with the new emotion-recognition software created in the system. It weighs every unit and can identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared to a face that show no emotion also clled a neutral face. Dr Huang commented in the artile "Making Mona Lisa Smile" that he believes " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,". This could be a great use to teachers in their classrooms so they know what to explain more on and for which student. As a student, I can assure anyone that the worst thing at school in a class is when you can't understand something. When a student is completely confused, they can loose intrest and also motivation to comprhend what's going in in class. Dr Huang also added that "it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor,".
This new technology comes with many benifits and advatages for all people of different ages. The Facial Action Coding System is valuable for students and teachers at school during the day. It will help kids be more proactive and motivated in class knowing that if they don't undertsnad something that help from this system will always be there. It's intresting to see all the new inventions and ideas that continue to be created as years go by to benefit human life and the rest of the world. This is an idea that people need to take advatage of and use at school. For this system to be able to read the expressions of sudents in class will communicate to teachers that a student is in need of more attention than others. The help of the Facial Action Coding System could possibly change the life a kid in class and help shape him into a successful hard worker of today's society.
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6861f05
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Hello I am Luke and I joined the Seagoing Cowboys program and I am here to convice you to join it too. There are some bad things and some good things that happen when you are on board, but that is a normal day for me.
The first reason I thing you should join is we get to see all kinds of things on the boat. Like one time I got to see an excavated castle in Crete and I also marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. The reason I joined is because it is a one in a life time thing. You don't get to see castles every day or the Panama Canal.
When we drop off some of the animals we use some of there stales to play games in and we play like vollyball, and baseball, and table tennis tournaments. We also do boxing, fencing, reading, whittling, and it is a fun time on the boat.
One time when I was on one of my nine trips more then anyone I was a watchman and I was checking all the crates like I normaly do , but that night it was raining so I reported the news with the captian. Everything was good and I was coming down the ladder and I slipped down my back side and my heart raced as I shot feet first toward an opening on the side of the ship. A small strip of metal along the edge stopped my slide and that strip of metled saved me from falling over board. I could not work for a couple of days because of some cracked ribs, but I was happy to be alive.
This opened up the world to me. I'm gratefull for this opportunity and I hope you join the Seagoing Cowboys because it is a one in a life time chance. It is a fun and exsiting thing to do because you are also helping other people. That is the biggest reason why I did it was to help people. I hope if you do join the program that you will have a good exsperiance.
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6862c30
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Thomas Haung made a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model for the face. All 44 major muscels in the model must move like human muscels.
I think this system should be added in schools because during school teachers will know how their students are feeling. In the passage it states that a teacher points out that this system can recognize when a student is confused or bored.
This system is really useful in my opinion, because you can recognize all emotions someone is feeling. You can recognize by looking at them but only 1 or 2. with this new system you can find them all.
Another reason why this system is a good idea is because even if the person is trying to hide their emotions you can still find it. This new sytem is a great idea/invention. this needs to be known. mor people need to know about this amazing idea.
All in all, i think this is a great system and they should add it to schools. It will help teachers and students. You will recognize every emotion the student feels. It can help lots of people. What do you think?
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6865630
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The author thinks that studying Venus is worthy pursit even though its dangerous because no one really been on Venus before even though its very close to us because of some of the conditons it has. For example the author states in paragraph 2 " each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." so on ones really been on it to have much time to explore it and thats why they want to know more about it. Another reason its dangerous for them to study the planet is because it has the hottest surface tempertaure of any planet in out solar system stated in paragraph 3. Astronomers are so fascinated by Venus because it was once been the most Earth-like plant in our solor system so long ago it could of been just how Earth is today states in paragraph 4. Venus can sometime be our nearest option for planetary visit but the returing of Venus seems indisputable. There is many things that cannot be studied or even done because Venus is like no other planet and thats why they want to study it so bad despite the dangers of doing it.
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6865fed
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In the story, "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves," Luke is a boy from a small town and is a cowboy that is almost 18 years old. His friend convenced him to go and help the peolpe across seas that are injured from World War ll. He decided to go and help. When he was on his first trip to go to help he turned 18 and was supposte to go into the army but they said to keep helping, and that would be his serivce time.
Luke has a good idea to help spread the word. He should try to convince people to go and help people that got hurt in World War ll. He should start by telling a lot of people about the Seagoing Cowboys program. lso, he should tell people what they do. Next, he should make posters to show people that the Seagoing Cowboys extict. Then, he should say where they going and how they are seeing all of the different historial places along the way. Finally, he should tell the people what the program offers and how they visit many unique places.
Some reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboy programs are, that you get to take care of animals when you are going across the ocean. Also, you get to help people that need to things that you are bring to them. A lot of things were lost in World War ll. So, you can help give back from the people that we took stuff away from. Also, you see a lot of different cultures. You would get to see the way that people live. Then, when you are over there you can see what the country's culture is. Like, when you are in China you can see all of the stuff that they make over there. You might even see some of the places that were attacked. When you go different place, you get to see different things that you may of never seen before. When you are over seas you can see many interseting things. That is one reason that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
Another reason that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is that once you drop off all of the animals and help the people you have one or two months with open animal cages. On the way back you can play games like, you can wrestle, have table-tennis tournaments, you can fence, and you can box. There are many other game that you could play. So there is another reason that you should join the
Seagoing Cowboys program.
Overall, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program and help out with all kinds of jobs over seas.
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6866c66
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If we want driverless cars so bad why dont we just take a taxi or a train. I think that we shouldnt try and make driverless cars just yet because we dont have the money to do so.
To make driverless cars we would need millions of dollars to even start constructing the ideas. Like it said in the article no car today is driverless, they may say it is but there is some situations where the car will still need human assistance. I think driverless cars would actually be pretty dangerous because what happens if the panel where the car is running from messes up or shuts down, then your car would have major problem or go off course from where you wanted to go. Another reason why I think that driverless cars are a dangerous idea is because what happens if the car breaks down on road side? Are we gonna have a google engineer come from 1,000 miles away in 10 minutes to help us? Probably not.
Yes driverless cars would be nice, but what I am saying is that driverless cars could also be very dangerous, and put our lives in dangerous just to have luxury. To me i dont think that having a driverless car is worth putting my life on the line for. In conclusion driverless cars would be nice, but we dont have the money to afford it, and they would be a very dangerous project to construct and test out.
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6870667
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The image that Viking 1 took in 1976 was a startling one to say the least. A rather creepy face looks up at the surveyor. It is as if someone built a face in the side of the planet. And many people did see it that way.
But as the descriprion says in the story "...formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." So NASA the space program, states that it is meerly shadows and hills. I would think that they would be a more trust worthy source than anyone else telling you that this was an alien's doing.
Many people claimed that NASA was trying to hide this information but as the article states "...defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." This is because in part they are probalbly intrieged by the idea of an alien civilization, but also because it would bring in a lot of buisness. The funds that it would bring in would be enourmous. I just cannot think of a reason why NASA would wan't to hide that.
Then again in 1997 NASA snapped another picture of it ten times as sharp as the last one. revealing rocks as can be seen in the picture. And still some were unhappy with the results and asked for more. In 2001, they got their results. NASA caught a picture with "maximum resolution" and it is evident in the picture that these are hills. They state in the article "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see waht they were!" It states in the article that it is like butte or mesa-landforms which can be found in Western America. These shapes are made on earth natrually. So why can't they be made on another planet natrually?
All the evidence points to a natrual land-scape on Mars. Anyone who would read this here would understand that. Every arguement made to disolve this has been met, crushed, and surpassed by another piece of EVIDENCE not claims or theories. So conclusion: Face on Mars is just rocks and shadows not alien life.
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The author supports his idea by describing Venus in a very well way. In the text the author tell us about Venus and he tell us about how Venus could be, He also says that Venus could be just like Earth. Venus is the most dangerous planet because it has very high temperatures, is the hosttest planet but this p[lanet is important at the same time because is our planet sister. What this means is that Venus and Earth look alike but Venus a more Dangerous and it has differences too.
One reason why Venus is dangerous is because is the hottest planet. In the firts paragraph the author says how bright Venus is, he says that is bright because is closets to the sun, and that it also has a nickname. In the text he says '' Venus sometimes called the ''Evening Star'', is one of the brightest points in the night sky.'' This shows us that he is telling how bright Venus is. The author also says that Venus is actually a planet. In the text it says '' In our solar system, Venus is the second planet from our sun.'' This show us that Venus is a planet, and also how he descibe Venus.
Another reason why on how the author describes Venus is that Venus looks just like Earth. In the second paragraph the author says ''Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin, Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionlly the closest in distance too.'' This show us how the author is comparing Venus to Earth and also how he describe Venus in a very well way. Venus is a danger because is the closest planets to the sun which means that is very hot and it can burned, and damage person very in a bad way or a person could die because of how hot is Venus. In the text the author says '' Since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spacecraft has touched down on Venus in more than three decades.'' This show us that Venus is a hard planet to study because of how hot it is the planet.
In conclusion, Venus has almost 97 percent of carbon dioxide and it has clouds of corrosive acid in the atmosphere. In the text it says '' A trick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus, even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.'' This show the danger that is in Venus planet. Venus was a very high temperatures. In the text it says '' On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greather than what we experience on our own planets.'' This is show us that a human wouldn't be able to survive in Venus because of the high temperatures. If it 90 times greather then the temperature we experience in our planet then i cannot imagine a human, it would literally kill the person. Venus has the hottest surface of any other planet even tho the closest one to the sun is Mercury. Venusn is also our sister planet.
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68796bc
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I beleive that the use of the 'Facial Action Coding System' to read the emotional expressions of the students in a classroom is valuable and nearly detremental to a student that's learning online. In a classrom with an instructure leacturing, if the student becomes confused, he or she can raise their hand and ask a question. A teacher may even notice when a student is confused by the facial expression they make. Though, learning online is an independent task and most of the time, you don't have anyone to truly explain and fill you in on what you're just simply not grasping on to.
Using this new form of technology can be helpful to not only the student, but the website or app they are learning from. For example, if a student is reading an article, the website owner or app designer will know if most students find the article interesting or are able to see if the article provided is truly at grade level. The Facial Action Coding System could also be used in grade school type settings. There are plenty of websites now for the education of children, like ABCmouse.com. The program can possibly give the feedback of the child's emotions and sense of awareness to their parents while using the program. With that, it proves my point that the use of this technology is beneficial to all ages.
For instance, in paragraph 5, the author stated "In fact we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day." then later gave an example of the ability that we have to tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look or her face. As human beings, this most likely began as an instict in order to tell how one another may react, attack, ect. Although now, we are much more than that. Some are striving to be heart surgeons or rocket scientists. We need to have the technology to explain the question in a different way if the student doesn't understand.
A kid may get a bad grade on something simply because of the way the question was stated. That kid could be a genious but just learns in a differnet way. It wouldn't be fair to only provide questions with the format that only a handful of kids will understand. We should want our youth to thrive, we are the future afterall.
In paragraph 6, the author says "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." showing that the use of this progra is effective in more ways than one. Yes, you may get pleasent ads that suit you and your hobbies, but imagine the spike in IQ levels if the computers can modify the learning material for the student in the way that he or she may need to understand. Just the common use of this program in schools would have a domino like effect on the good outcomes.
In conclusion, the use of the Facial Action Coding System could have a large imapct on upcoming society. The positive outcomes would be worth a little extra money, work, and the time it would take to install this coding system. This system will effectivley teach students in ways they need and find interesting.
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My postion on the matter of " the Driverless cars," is this, I oppose drivable cars. The reasons that I explain in this draft are not proven by fact, but are instead driven by only opinons as well as personal feelings towards drivelress cars. I will us information from the previous article, but I cannot verify or confirm the information to be true. Without any delays, let's get right into the reasons on why I oppose driverless cars.
Reason number on is that sitting and watching can be rather dull. I know I am not the only one who has been sitting in a passenger side seat, looking out the window thinkiing" this is boring."
I know what your saying " Javaughn, you can just get on your phone," well what if I'm driving because the driver is know a passanger, but with less things to do. Even though the driver is no longer the driver he/she must keep their eyes on the road as stated in paragraph seven. Sure there could be a wow factor in not having to drive, but how long will that last.
Second reason is that you are no longer resonsable for yourself. No longer will you have to take the blame if you aren't the driver, right. Wrong even though your not driving the car, you might still have to pay the price for the maufacture's faults. What happens if the system fails? Sure you can then take controll of the car, if it's yours. These future taxies, what would happen if they started to maulfuction and you couldn't get out? There are to many what ifs when it comes to these things and that can be deadly.
Lastly, it's going to be expensive to make. These cars will more than likley come with a heafty price tag. Only those who are rich could be able to buy them. These were my reasons for my oppositon to the driverless cars, thanks for reading.
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The electoral college is a thought that came up long ago by our founding fathers. Many people calim that it is antiqiuated and needs to be updated but I dissagree.
Although we are the "Democracy of the USA" we are really a republic (chosing representives to vote for us!) This system is much more effective then an ATCHUAL democracy. Just imagine if on every single issue every single person would have to vote on the outcome to pass anything would take such a long time. Including the elections, the electoral college makes a short sweet way for voting, the population votes and then they vote for what we voted for (most of the time...) Some people don't trust the electorates with this kind of power but I belive that those people are just parnoid pessmist and need to learn to have more faith in the people that we elect or the president appoints. The only flaw I see is the even number which calls for a tie. Also the winner takes all system should be changes I belive that each of the electorates should only have a certin percentage of the votes example: Alaska has 3 electorates, each are assigned 33.33333...% of the population and of course due to the decimals one electorate will have a bit more votes all the votes are then added. 76% voted Republican while 22% voted Democrat and the remaining 2% voted for third parties then the first elector would recive the votes of the 22% and the 2% and do fill up the rest of his 33% he would have 9% Republican his vote goes to the Democrates but the other two are left with only Republicans so there are 2 votes for republicans and the learger the population the more electors because of the increased ammount of citizens that each elector votes on behalf. This way the indivaduals that voted democrate are shown but did not really make as much an impact but it shows and may decide the out come during a tie. The electoral college Is a clean cut way for voting quick effective. Although we may not be a democracy per say we are all accounted for, just a few tweaks and it'll be perfect.
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Cars have been used as a main way of transportation for many years. Using cars as a way of transportation can have advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately there are more disadvantages to using cars as a way of transportation, than there are advantages. Cars are ruining our environment and our society, therefore there should be a limit to car usage. Limiting car usage is not a bad thing, there are tons of advantages to limiting car usage.
Elisabeth Rosenthal has stated many advantages to limiting car usage in her articles, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars," and "The End of Car Culture." Rosenthal states that cars make people tense and without cars people are less tense. When people are less tense they are happier and willing to do more things. Rosenthal also says that less cars results in less greenhouse gases. Cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gases in Europe and 50 percent of the greenhouse gases in parts of the United States. Cars are the second largest source of America's emissions, therefore if cars are limitied the emissions will decrease.
Another author, Robert Duffer, also states advantages to limiting car usage in his article, "Paris bans driving due to smog." Duffer states that limiting car usage will lower the amount of air pollution. Paris decided to fine people on certain days if they were driving with a certain license plate number. Fining people for driving their cars enforced people to stop driving on certain days to lower the amount of car traffic. A result to Paris's new law was that congestion decreased 60 percent after the new law was enforced. Five days before Paris enforced their law, Paris suffered intensifying fog, therefore, the new law in Paris proves that cars are increasing the amount of air pollution.
A final author that has stated advantages to limiting car usage is Andrew Selsky in his article, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota." Andrew Selsky describes in his article a day in Bogota that has been designated to be car free. Every year Bogota has one day that they ban cars and only allow buses and taxis as a way of transportation and all violaters are fined $25. Bogota's plan is that limiting transportation will reduce smog and encourage people to find a new way of transportation. Selky describes that one participant in the "car-free day" stated that the day lowered air pollution and helped take away stress. The car-free day has also helped Bogota improve their sidewalks, bicycle paths, and, most importantly, their city.
Overall, limiting car usage will have numerous amounts of advantages both, for the environment, and for the citizens. The most beneficial advantage to limiting car usage is less air pollution, smog, and greenhouse gases. Rosenthal, Duffer, and Selsky all mentioned in their articles that less car usage will result in a better air to breathe. The second largest advantage to less car usage is that people can be happier and less tense. Both Rosenthal and Selsky state examples of people saying that after being forced to stop using cars as much, they began to feel less tense and happier. Limiting car usage will be very beneficial to citizens and the environment we live in.
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Have you seen the Grand Canyon? Then you probably know that it was not Pual Bunyon who made it, water carved out the Grand Canyon. Nature makes all of the landmarks that we have. Nature can also make landmarks on other planets as well. This is why the Face on Mars has to be a natural formation.
To begin with, I know that the face is a natural landform because it resembles something in the United States. Chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, Jim Garvin, thought that the Face resembles Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. He also said it was a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face of Mars. This shows that even one of the top leaders of NASA's Mars Exploration Program believes that this Face is only a natural landform. Besides, NASA would want to find aliens to prove that there is life on Mars.
Equally as important, nobody has proved that there is any other living thing on a planet except for Earth. Mars is too far away from the sun, and there is very little to no oxygen on the surface of Mars. Even if there is life on Mars, it would be mircoscopic organisms, and they could not build a large structure like the Face. This is another reason why the Face is a natural landform.
And finally, if the Face was made by aliens, then wouldn't there have to be some kind of civilization or living area. The aliens would probably want to be somewhat close to their great formation. However, nobody has located any type of civilization on Mars. With the more powerful that NASA had on the latest probe, they said that you could have see things as small as a shack. Plus, if the aliens built one landmark, why not build another one, but nothing else out of the ordinary has been found by scientists. Lastly, nobody has seen a civilization, so the Face could not have been built by aliens.
In conclusion, there is no strong evidence that the Face on Mars is built by aliens. All the facts point to the idea that the Face is just a natural landform. Scientists took planty of pictures of the Face, trying to find whatever made the Face, but they have found nothing. Besides, there is a natural formation that resembles the Face which proves that they both probably formed the same way. Plus, NASA would want there to be living things on another planet besides Earth, but even they reject the idea that the Face was made by aliens. All this shows why the Face on Mars is only a natural landform.
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The "Face on Mars" is not a face. The face is just a natural landform on Mars. It might have look like one in the 1976 picture of it. The "Face on Mars" is a natural landform.
In the 1976 picture of it, might have look like a face since we didn't have the technology to see it better. It resembled a human head, but it was the shadows that gave the illusion of eyes, nose, and head. Then in 1998 the NASA went back to mars to take more pictures and it turn out be a natural landform. From far away it might have look like a face, but close up it was a mesa. Somepeople wasn't satisfied about it intill we saw what it really was in 2001.
In 2001 NASA sent a drone to take picture of the Face on Mars. It turn to be a Matain mesa which was common around Cydonia. In article it states that that that shadows made the illusion that it was a face. NASA wish there was a n acient civilization on Mars, but wasn't. The finding of the Face on Mars spreaded to books magazines, radio talk shows and more.
The article states that MOc team snapped pictures 10 times sharper than the oringinaland got a natural landform.
It might have been cool that the "Face on Mars" was really real. There are times that we think it was a face but it wasn't took at the right angle to see the face. Somepeople think it was because of the time and date when the picture was taken. They say that the alien markings were hidden by the haze. On a cloudless summer day MGS drew close enough for a second look. When they took the picture on montier it shown that it was lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa.
The "Face on Mars" is a natural landform. When the "Face on Mars" became a pop icon. Alot people thought it was a actually face. They might just send another drone to take another picture just make sure its an natural landform. In my opioion I did not what it was intill I read this article. Now we know that the Face on Mars wasn't a face after all.
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BOOM! CRASH! BANG! "911, what's your emergency?" "HELP! we've been in a terrible accident, please get here fast!"Sirens and horns is what you hear after a terrible car crash. By limiting car usage, we could prevent less car accidents/traffic jams, pollution/greenhouse gas and we can get more exercise.
To begin with, pollution and the greenhouse effect are really bad to the environment. Car exhaust and other gases are a big contributor to that. How do we do something to help that people ask? Well you can drive less and maybe walk or ride a bike. It will limit so many big issues if you just dont drive as much. Source 3, paragraph 24 business man, Carlos Arturo Plaza says "It's a good oppertunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." You know what he did after he said that? He rode away in a 2 seater bike with his wife. Thats a business man, and even he doesn't have a problem riding his bike to work with his wife. You can do so much to save the earth. You, can make a difference. You don't have to be the hero, but you can sure do your part to help save the day.
In comparison, car accidents? They are the absolute worst. It not only affects 1 car but it could affect 2 or 3. Maybe even more. Limiting car usage could prevnt so many accidents and that means no more hospital visits. Source 2, paragraph 4 says "Congestiion was down 60% in the capital of Frnce after 5 days of intensifying smog." That means that there was 60 percent less traffic jams and accidets in 5 days! That's an amazing improvment. I always wished that people couldn't get hurt or that I could save someones life, so that what I will try to do. Drive less, or drive only when it's needed. Don't leve your car running. A big negative is don't speed and watch all around you. You can prevent killing someone, not just that, but you can decrease the amount of accidents that can happen. Don't make an asamine choice and drive because you feel like it. Help save this earth. It's really all we have left.
Lastly, you can get more exercise. Riding a bike and walking is a great source of exercising. Everyone always talks about how obeseity is a big problem well this can decrease the amount of body weight you have and you wont put gases into the air. That's 2 problems solved in 1. There are so many things you can do to solve this issue and these are only a few. I see a lot of people riding bikes or walking to school. Teachers especially which shows you that they arent always asking teenagers or new drivers to do it. Don't be the reason the earth is getting worse. Be the reason its getting better.
In conclusion, pollution is bad and so are accidents. But there is always a soulution to the madness. You yourself can make a change. This earth can't take care of itself, it needs your help, so help it. Limiting the usage of your car is a great start. Yes, cars are great and they get you from point A to point B and they can warm you up when it's cool outside or cool you down when its hot, those are all true statements and that's fine it really is. Just limit it and things will start to get a lot better, trust me. It all starts with one person willing to make a change and that person can be you.
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Its no secret that driving automobiles has alot to do with how much pollution is pumped into the air. The biggest issue with driving a car in crowded areas is the smog build up. Many countrys have taken an interest in limiting cars temporarly to decrease smog, or dedicating individual communitys to a car free area with the exception of buses and taxis.
High pollution levels is a rising epedemic that needs to be stoppped before it is out of hand or un-reversable. Many country's plan to action is limiting car usage for a certain amount of time untill the smoge is under control. It states in source two paragraph ten that "After days of near record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Within the five days that this rule was enforced the smog in the city had decreased by 60 percent.
Many people tend to rely on cars in their everday life. What people need to realize is that there are other forms of transportation that is just as easy and far less toxic to the planet and to ourselfs. In source 1 paragraph 3 a woman states " when i had a car i was always tense, im much happier this way." It is clear that the use and want for owning and using your own car has went down emensly since 1995. People call it a cultural shift excpecially in America where cars are so heavily manufactured and bragged about.
In conclusion, cars are a huge reason why the world is so polluted. This wouldnt be such an issue if so many people didnt use cars in their everday life. Once poeple realize that they can still be perfectly content without having to drive everywhere is when this planet will make a big turn around in the way we try to protect the planet.
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Presidential election is held every after four years on the first Monday of the month November. We decide who's going to be our next leader, the President. Electoral College is kind of unfair for some people because they think that whoever got the most popular vote should be President. But to think, what if the people we vote to is not right to be the next President and she/he got that most popular vote? Wouldn't that be a disaster? I say we should keep the Electoral College.
Electoral College process in consists of the electors that have been selected by the people. The ones who got selected are the ones with great intelligence and with great sense of leadership. In the first passage it mentioned that "The Electoral College has a total of 538 electoras and the majority of electoral votes are required to have 270 electoral votes." This means that for you to be one of the candidates you atleast have to have 270 electoral votes and this is a good way of picking our candidates to run for us for President.
Remember the election between Obama and Romney? It was close but, not that close. Our President, Obama got 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to 51.3 percent of the popular votes for him and Romeny. Almost of every states electoral votes is on a "winner-take-all" basis. For every slight of pulrality in each of the states, it creates a "landslide electoral-vote". This means that a tie would be possible because the number 538 votes is uneven but, it's mostly not to happen and this is because of Electoral College.
Electoral College avoids the problem of which didn't receive a majority of the votes. In passage three it gave an example about how Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had 43 percent only in pluraity of the popular votes and the winning number of the Electoral College is 301 and 370 electoral votes. Because of Electoral College the pressure that happens in electing the next President to lead us for four years is reduced and it also tells us which is the winner of the election.
If we elect our President using popular votes it migh be a disaster. Because not all of the candidates are that great of leading the whole country and If he/she got selected to be our next leader for the next four years our country would be in a huge chaos. I slightly agree with electing that person and making him/her the next President because they got the most popular votes but, then again I don't think it's the right way of picking our new leader.
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In America, cars are concidered an important necessity to life. Cars get people from one place to another in a significantly shorter amount of time than walking from place to place. Cars, however, aren't as beneficial as they may seem. Motorized vehicles are harmful to the environment and ourselves because they release an immense amount of greenhouse gases and force other countries around the world to ban the use of cars to restrict smog.
Firstly, the amount of greenhouse gases released in the United States alone is relatively high compared to more suburban countries. In some large U.S. cities, cars produce approximately 50% of the total greenhouse gases, according to "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars". That percent is extremely high compared to Europe where cars produce only about 12% of the greenhouse gases. Beijing, however, is more polluted than the United States and is said to be the most polluted city in the world. France, on the other hand, has made it a law where certain cars are forbidded to drive on certain days. As a result of France's action, congestion decreased by 60 percent in the capital of Paris. If the United States took a step forward to reduce pollution, the air quality would benefit rather than gradually decline.
Furthermore, other countries around the world have made an effort to reduce pollution. In Bogota, Colombia, there is one day a year where cars are banned with only buses and taxis permitted. The day called "Day Without Cars" is promoting alternative transportation and is reducing smog. Vauban, France, for example, is a suburban city where cars are forbidden. Ownership is allowed, however, there are only two places to park and the cost is $40,000 just for a space to park. The people in Vauban tend to be happier and less tense, according to Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two. Paris is a more urban city than Vauban but has still made efforts to benefit air quality. Motorists with even-numbered license plates were demanded to leave their cars at home on Monday. Motorists with odd-numbered license plates left their vehicles home on Tuesday. Congestion decreased by 60 percent. Other countries around the world have put an effort to reduce pollution from motorized vehicles and the results were positive environmentally and mentally.
The use of automobiles greatly impacts the environment and society negatively. Greenhouse gases pollute the air and driving cars produces mental instability in some cases. Other countries such as Colombia and France have taken a step to reduce pollution and since the cars in the United States produce 50% of the greenhouse gases, the U.S. should concider following Colombia and France's ideas.
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The author of "The Challenge of Venus" does an efficient job explaining why Venus is worth the exploration pursuit despite the dangers involved. The author effeciently supports this idea by using a number of different ways.
One way that the author supports this idea is through facts about Venus. In paragraph 4 of the article it states " Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have neen the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." After this statement the author goes on to talk about how long ago Venus was much like Earth and how it may have once been the closest thing to Earth itself. This is a good example from the author to support this idea
because there is the curiosity about how alike Venus once was to Earth. This can really fascinate and engage scientists and people who want to learn more, which will make them want to explore Venus more and go along with the risks involved.
A second way that the author supports this idea is through talking about NASA. In the passage it states in paragraph 5 that "NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to Venus."
After this statement the passage goes on to talk about how the NASA team is researching and developing new ways and technology to help people on missions to Venus survive longer.NASA is one of the most well known space programs ever, almost everyone knows who NASA is. If NASA workers and researchers are putting time and are undergoing development to go even further into investigating Venus, other people will see this and think that if NASA is willing to do this , then there is clearly something there that needs to be discovered and have more research done to.
One final way that the author supports this idea with Venus is through talking about human curiosity. The author is picking out the pros and cons about Venus when in paragraph 8 of the text it says " Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors ." This is a good use of evidence to help support this idea about Venus because it can appeal to people easily. When the author goes onto say that there will likely be other equally intimidating endeavors humans will face, he isn't wrong. People will defienitely understand that there are other things that are also scary in the world to risk, and they know this simply because they are humans living on Earth too. This could cause more empathy when it comes to deciding if the choice is worth it or not to continue exploring Venus.
By using a variation of these three examples of supporting evidence, the author gets a solid argument across the table when it comes to the exploration of Venus. The author puts key points when he is stating facts about Venus. The author also creates emapthy using the personal experience of people,and the trust we put into our famous space program. By using all three of these things the author effectively gets his point across that the risky exploration of Venus is worth the challenges that come along with it.
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