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Imagine a world when all you see is people sitting in their cars and not paying attention to the road ahead of them. That seems very scary to me. I believe that driverless cars are not a good idea or the way to be going for the future. Driverless cars could lead to many fatal accidents and also many injuries.
My first argument is that technology always seems to fail. When you get a new iPhone, sometimes not everything is right in the phone or something is messed up from the start. If we had driverless cars in the future, technology would be the key function to make the car work. What if the technology failed like what seems to happen many times to iPhone users. I think having driverless cars is putting too much belief and risk into technology. You can never say when a problem would quickly approach or is about to happen, it just happens. If a problem just happened in a driverless car when the driver wasn't paying that much attention to the road, many accidents and fatalities would be on the rise.
In conclusion, I think the idea of driverless cars are very unique and out there, but as of right now and the technology we have, I could not put my full trust in a driverless car. Today, the technology and sensors needed for a full driverless car seem very unrealistic. Sensors created for the driverless car would be tested many times, but if it fails when it isn't being tested that can cause too much harm for everyone and everything in the world around us. I believe that we should stick with normal human driving for the safety of everyone.
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Did you know that your car is taking up space in your city. Well it's true , Heridrun Walter , a media trainer and a mother of two , city has ban them from using their cars and she says that when she had a car she was always tense but now she feel happier without it. Cars are a very dangerous machine in the world , there good for transportion but also cause alot of problems. They can killl us in many ways , not knowing whats next.
Limiting cars saves money , gas and also your lives. Near the French and the Swiss border a city has ban street parking and home garage to experiment the new district on the outskirts. As a conculsion to the experinment , 70% of the families do not own a car , and 57% sold their car.
Cars are a linchpin of suburbs , where all the middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to live. Experts say that a huge inpediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. 12% of passenger cars are responible for the grenhouse emissions in Europe. Up to 50% , some cars-intensive areas n the US.
Places like China , Paris and Europe , known as popular cities , are suffering form cold nights and warmer days which cause a warmer layer of air. Not having a car will also make you feel safer and will also save yor city. In addition , it's proven that cities not having cars will make their city denser , meaning better for walking and good for your health and stores will be able to be on the main road instead of being on the side of the highways in malls. So in conculsion , not having a car can make our lives safer and make us have a better community or city.
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Is it a natural formed face or is it made by aliens? I'm a scientist telling you that it is a natural form rock. There are a couple reasons on why it is not made my aliens. It will be provided in the next three paragraphs.
The first reason is, that we here at NASA caught an image of a face in 1976 by viking 1. At first we thought it was an alien or a face made by aliens. Then in 2001 we found the same picture of the face, but got a better veiw and a better picture quialty of the face. The picture was ten times sharper than the first one. Whe the imaged appeared on JPL web site, reavealing that is was a natural landform, not a face made by aliens.
We did some more tests to be sure that the landform was really a landform or if it was a face made by aliens. We figured out that is was a natural landform.
That is was not an alien monument after all. We tried to find it again but it was hard.
There are no such thing as an alien. This was the reason why there no such things as aliens. We will be doing even more research, thank you.
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The UNRRA progam is a great progam for people who want to help around the world. Also, if you are into going on trips o different places this is great for you. They travel all around the world helping and they also get to see knew things!
You should come join because you can help around the world! Many people love to help and around the world and you should try it. On the first time my friend Don and I went on the trip it was great how we could help people after the war. Like how we brought a cago of 335 horses along with enough hay and outs to feed them. We wanted always make sur ethat we cleaned all the mess the war's had left behind.
You should also come to he program because you have the benifet of visiting all inds of places like Greece, China, Europe, and more. By the time I was discharged in in 1947, I been on nine trips. That is more than any other Seagoing Cowboy. I got to see the Acropolis in Greece and it was ver special. Also, in Crete I toured and excavated a castle. Then at the Panama Canal I marvled.
Going on the Atantic Ocean was awesome too! I went on it about 16 times in my years of being a Seagoing Cowboy. It took about two wees to cross it from the astern coast of the United States. To get to China it took a month to get there. Caring fro the animals kept me busy as we crossed the seas. They had to be fed two or three times a day. The time I almost wnet overboard was very scary, but I loved doing what I did.
it was very awesome helping around the world, going to all of the those amazin places, and traveling the Atlanic many times. I may have gottenhurt and times were rough, but I wouldn't chane being a Seagoing Cowboy for anthing. I was onne amazin adventure I will never forget.
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I think the development of driveless cars is a helpful way for people. It can bring us a lot of convience in our lives. So I support that the development of these driveless cars.
Can you imagine a time in the future when one one bus cars because no one needs them anymore? I believe it will happen someday not far from now. Like Google's cofounder said:" I believes such cars would fundamentally change the world." You might think driveless cars are so not safe and reliable. And I have to say you are totally wrong with this thought. Because driveless cars have more benefits than normal cars.And there are some reasons that I want to state.
People don't have to spend more time on learning how to drive and dificult driving skills. They can steer,accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills,such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the driver's attention whenever a problem occurs.
Manufacters are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver.
The second reason is people don't have to focus on driving.Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way,the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big concern. And the driveless car don't need to worry about the safety parts. They are even more safe than normal cars.
Therefore, I support to use driveless cars in the future,maybe someday.
I believe because of driveless cars, our lives will make throught easier and more comfortable.
And I believe someday the driveless cars will completely instead to cars.
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The believe of the "Face on Mars" being created by aliens is unlogical. The "face" is a simple landform. Why would NASA not tell the people there is aliens? There are images to prove that it's nothing but a natural landform.
First, NASA would make tons of money if there was aliens. The "Face on Mars" has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, and even radio talk shows. They would make tons of money to be the first space station to find logical information to show that aliens exist; they would go down in history. However, NASA is an informative group; they can't send out false information. That is why they aren't releaseing any information; there is nothing to release.
Second, on April 5, 1998 when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time the MOC team took pictures, pictures that were ten times better than the original. When the team uploaded it online the image revealed nothing but a normal, natural landform. That day was cloudy however so any type of alien finding could have been hidden in the haze.
However people still weren't satisfied, so another image was taken on April 8, 2001, on a cloudless summer day in Cydonia. Which showed nothing again; Garvin stated, "...you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size," and, "So, if there were objects in this picture...you could see what they were!". Which means that they enlarged the picture and there was nothing there.
In conclusion, one should not believe there is any alien activity to do with the "Face on Mars". NASA would get money off having found the first aliens, yet they aren't revealing anything, because there is nothing to reveal. There have been two pictures to prove there is no alien findings on the "Face on Mars". The "Face on Mars" isn't some alien creation; it's a simple natural landform.
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I'm more for the driverless cars than against it. Although there will never be a fully driverless car because you'll always need a person to tell it where it's going, or etc, I like the idea of it. It could help us so much more in the long run.
Driverless cars could prove that we're moving into the future. We could be saving ourselves money from digging underground to find fuel. The new driverless cars could be electric, therefore, making us able to completely discontinue looking for fuel. We could also be making the world safer by having an alert system for if the human driver gets distracted while driving. They also mentioned having a touch sensor on the wheel to make sure the human driver is paying attention. Driverless cars could be a step into the future for everyone.
Driverless cars can have their bad sides, but it's nothing that can't be fixed overtime. Look how far we've gotten already. I think driverless cars are a great idea and we should continue the good work.
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In the following ideas and information passage set we see the effects of using cars too much and how limiting our car use can have a huge impact on, not only our environment, but also on cities on people. Limiting our car usage isn't only a thing that the United States has to work on, but we see that Central America and Europe also has to work on it. Limiting our car usage isn't a small issue, but more of a global issue. Over the years we have seen the effects of global warming (something cause by fossil fuels, which is gas coming from our cars) and how they have had an enormous impact on our world. So, why is liming our car usage even remotely important to us?
In the second article "Paris bans driving due to smog", paragraph 10, the first thing it says is "After days of near-record pollution..", well, what does this say about how we're living today? Paris so close to to being on record breaking pollution, not that it's anything to be proud of. But, if that's how much pollution Paris has, which is a famous city for not only being the "City of Love", but for also being big, how will every other city's pollution be? Cities have been growing and expanding so much recently, factories are being built and more cars are being sold, how will this help limiting our car usage? If cities keep expanding, we'll just be adding to the pollution that already exists. After a couple decades all the issues we seem to be ignoring will come up and if the problems are bad now, how bad will they be in the future? This isn't just something we can ignore!
Like David Goldberg says in paragraph seven in "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car..". Why have we been focusing more on a car than on health and medicine and cures for some illnesses? Why is a car so important? Yes it makes going to places much more easier and quicker, but at what cost will we go to to make things easier on us? It isn't jsut about the pollution caused from our cr usage, but it's also about our health. There are fewer and fewer parks by the year because we'd rather have all our tax money go towards roads instead parks. More malls are opening up and more fast food places are opening up on big interstates and highways, and now all we really have to being close to nature is when we pass by the trees near the interstates and highways. We need trees in order to have oxygen, but if all this pollution is slowly killing trees, how much more time do we have left before we realize it's too late to try saving our trees and limiting our car usage? Back then no one really worried much about limiting our car usage and pollution, because it wasn't that bad. Now all you ever really hear is about pollution and how to stop it.
Even though we really have got to start limiting our car usage, there is still hope in lowering and or even stopping pollution. We could start off small, for instance, by having a day where no one is allowed to drive their cars to places or be fined if you do drive, like Bogota, Colombia does in "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota". It must've had a positive effect because it encouraged Cali and Valledupar, two other Colombian cities, to participate in the event as well.
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I dont't think that we should use the Facial Action Coding system in school. It's messing with the privacy of the kids who come into school and an ivasion on their personal space. I don't like the idea that a machine would be watching you and trying to find out how you are feeling.
There is a good side that I see to all if this as well too.
For example, it could be used to help a person who is depressed or really sad. It could help that person talk it out with someone and get the help they need, It can also catch a student while lying to a teacher. Despite these things, I still think it is like invading on someone elses privacy. It could also malfunction and say that the student is one thing but really isn't. Things like that could lead to alot of misunderstandings and confusion as well. It's okay to use it on objects like, paintings but, I don't think it would be such a good idea to use it on humans. A person's emotions is their own and not always needs shared with other people. If they want to express how they feel, then they will. If they don't then they don't. It's the student's choice. I don't think it would be fair to any of the students if it does become okay to use this. I wouldn't really feel comfortable that machine in the classroom at all.
In conclusion, I believe that this technology should not be used in schools or on people for that matter. I think that if we want to say how we feel then we do it ourselves. We shouldn't have to let a machine do it for us. I feel that it shoud only be used on objects. Even though it is a pretty neat machine, it still shouldn't be put in schools.
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The author of the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. In paragraph 1 the author states, "While venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." This sentence shows the author's beleif that Venus is a quite challenging planet to explore when up close. So far the author has given his opening formed one of his main ideas.
In paragraph 2 the author gives background information on how Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of size, yet every previous spaceship sent to Venus did not survive the landing. The author is doing a very good job at the beginning of the article to establish his main idea and giving relevant background information to support his idea. In paragraph 3 the author continues to label the reasons in which Venus is a dangerous planet to land on by giving the information that its' Is composed of nearly 97% carbon dioxide and its' ground temperatures average 800 degrees fahrenheit. So far the author is doing a very thorough job of describing the dangers of Venus, yet has not made an agrument that explains why it is a worthy persuit despite its' dangers.
In paragraph 5 the author starts to uncover some of NASA's ideas on how further exploration of Venus would be possible. One of those ideas include a hot air ballon style of exploration craft that will allow scientists to hover around 30 miles off of the planet's surface. The author goes on to say that this solution will certainly not make the conditions of Venus easy to handle, yet they will make them survivable. In the same paragraph the author also explains the importance of exploration on Venus. He goes on to say that Venus is on eof the closest planets in our solar system to Earth. This means that Venus may have at one point sustained life just like the planet Earth. This, in turn, gives an appealing reason in which exploration of Venus should definetly be considered.
In paragraphs 6 and 7 the author somewhat refutes his prior information from paragraph 5. The author does this by saying that although the blimp will keep scientists in survivable condition it will not aid them in collection surface samples or allow them to take pictures of the ground due to the overlaying carbon dioxide blocking the view of the planet. The author then goes on to explain that scientists have found a new solution to this problem. They decided that modren robots are too "weak" to explore the planet of Venus due to the amount of technology inside of them. If one wire comes undone then the whole robot is unusable. In order to combat this, the author states that scientists are planning on using mechanical computers due to their low use of actual technology. The author very effectivly refutes the opposing claim (the idea of the blimp) and then gives an example that shows how that original idea can be improved.
Overall, the author correctly supports his ideas and claims with background information and properly demonstrates how Venus is a worthy pursuit of exploration despite the dangers it presents.
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The author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable because some computers can give you wrong information. you cant always rely on a software. In Paragraph 7 , it says " your PC cant handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile. but we can write down some simple instructions that "encode" different emotions, i really think technology is doing the work for us.
We need to take time and do it ourselves and expressing our own feelings because sometimes when you actually happy you got a natural mean mug. The software is going to get the wrong information when it tries to figure out our feelings. moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. making faces cant reveal so much about the science of emotions. You gonna spend your money on something that might get your feelings wrong . That will be the waste of your money.
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Dear,
Senator of florida is send you this letter to tell you why we need to keep things the way they are. Electoral college is a process in which we decide who will be our president of the United States of America. During this process the Electoral College consist of 538 electors in which 270 of those electoral votes is required to elect the President. During this presidential election you vote for you candidate but what your actually doing is voting for your candidate's electors. All though the electoral colleges have things wrong with it they do have have some positive things that counter the negative out. Like certainty of a outcome,avoiding run-off election,you have to have trans-regional appeal(everyone's President),Swing states, and Big states.
A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible-it happened in 200-but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. Winning candidate's share the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. For example,Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular vote cast for him and Romney.... Because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner- take-all basis. A nationwide electoral vote is possible because 538 is a even number, but its highly unlikely. The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates-as we saw in 2012's election to focus more on toss-up states. As the people of these states are very thoughtful in deciding who they will pick because they are the people that pay close attention to the campaing.
The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anarchonism. People believe that it should be changed to who ever gets the most popular votes. People only believe it should be changed because of what has happened in the past with other elections. Like what happened in 200,1960 segregationists in the legislature nearly succeded in replacing the demacratic electors, and the worst being that it ends up in a tie. Things have happened in the past.
We dont need to change because of things that happened in 2000 or 1960. Its 2015 and we dont need a change to our way of deciding the president. Theres no reasonto changing it to popular vote.
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The Landform that Looks like a Face
On Earth, there are many landforms that might look like a person or a thing. On Mars, there is a landform that looks like a face. This Face has had several photos of it taken by Viking 1 in 1976, a Mars Global surveyor (MGS) in 1998, and another (MGS) in 2001. The Face looks like a face because of its characteristics. Although it looks like an enourmous head, it is really just a mesa or butte, a landform, that happens to look like a face.
One reason that this landform is not a face is because NASA revealed a close up picture of the face, revealing only a landform. That picture had a caption that stated, "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." Before, there were pictures that weren't as high resolution, so it looked like a face but is now proven to be just a landform. This shows that the landform that looks like a face, is just a landform since there is a photo that shows what the "face" actually is. This means the face is just a mesa or butte.
Another reason why this Face is just a natural landform, is because this landform is in Cydonia where mesas are common. The text states, "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an egyptian pharoah." This shows that mesas in Cydonia are common. Also, the mesa just had unusual shadows that gave it the appearence of a face. This means that this face was just a landform.
Another reason, is that some landforms, like on Earth look like something other than a landform. The text states, "'It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.', says Garvin." This shows that some landforms can represent or look different from what it really is. This would be the Face oon Mars that is a landform. This wouldn't be a face.
Though some people, like cospiracy theorists, may say that NASA wants to hide a type of evidence for life on Mars, they are wrong. The text states,"Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence for life on Mars- evidence that NASA would rather hide, say cospiracy theorists." The text also states, "Meanwhile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars." NASA responds to conspiracy theorist in this way, because if NASA were to be responsible for discovering life on Mars, they would benefit. This shows that though NASA would like to be responsible fo discovering life on Mars, NASA just wanted to prove that this Face is just a natural landform.
Overall, there are several reasons why this Face is just a natural landform. One of them is that NASA took a picture of the Face, revealing just a landform. Another reason, is that mesas are common in Cydonia, the area where the Face was found. Another reason, is that thhis landfprm like others can look different from what it really is. In conclusion, the Face on Mars is just a landform.
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First off, the technology to read emotions of students in a classroom is valuable. For good side of things, this technology created by Professor Thomas Huang can make a whole class smart and can speed up the progress while things go.
Second, what the technology helps with the students is when the students are confused or bored then that comupter is going to be able to recognize that face and really help the student out like a teacher would be able to do. This can save time and will have more students understand subject even more. The technology would be able to calculate almost any emotions
Lastly, these technology that Professor Thomas Huang owns is very helpful for the societyand for schools. SInce now that Professor Thomas Huang's technology can calculate the tiniest emotions, it can support us dramatically. This will be very valuable to classrooms, students, and teachers around the world.
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In the article the author writes about the possiblity of the exploration of Venus and how it can contribute to scientific studies. He uses many detail from reliable sources like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for example. The author seems like a very reliable source to listen to about the exploration of venus.
The author explains to us the danger of Venus exploration by talking about the tempature,atmospheric pressure, constant storms and volcanos. The author then explains to us the readers NASA plans of sending a blimp like vehicle that can fly over Venus without the threat of ground conditions of the planet. He tells us the benefits of such a expedition like it would further understanding of the planet that we dont know much about.
In conclusion of all the danger the author tells us that it is possible to explore from a distance even though it will be difficult and challenging it possible and he shows us exploring Venus could be very valuable to the human race and could contribute to further space exploration.
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I agree with the author suggests that studying is Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents becasue first reason it is a good thing to study about a different planet, second in the past nobody know that Venus is a planet, third it might be danger, but it is something that we should be studying about.
First reason it is a good things to study about a different planet because if we all just studying about Earth it will be getting boring, and we won't know anything about the other planet. According to the text " Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size." When I read this quote I was already excited to learn about Venus. As we study something different the more we are become smart.
Secodn reason, in the past nobody know that Venus is a planet because they thought Venus was one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. According to the text " Venus, sometimes called the " Evening Star". They are having thought about Venus like because they haven't never see Venus or study about the Venus. This is the reason why I agree with the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
Third reason, it might be danger, but it is something that we should be studying because the more we learn something new tge more we are getting smart. According to the text it say " In our solar system, venus is the second planet from our sun". I knew nobody can't go near the sun because we will be already melt if we go near to the sun. The Venus is the second planet from the sun, and it is danger. Even though we can't go up there and look what it is look like because it is danger, but we should at least study about it at school.
In conclusion, I agree with the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents because it is a good things to study about a different planet, in the past nobody know that Venus is a planet, it might be danger, but it is something that we should be studying about. These three reason are important because in future we can teach our kids about Venus so that they won't be suprised when they found out that Venus is a planet and it is the second planet from the sun.
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Using the new Facial Action Coding System would be great for student to use in the classroom for the number of reasons. One is the teacher gets to know if the students are paying attentions. Two the teacher gets to know if the studetns are understanding what he/she is teaching. And three so the students are communicate with the teacher with just looking at something and not even doing anything else
The teachers need to know if the students are paying attention to the lession so for a start this program would be good in schools across the world. Students can tend to stare off and get distracted with other stuff and with a simple scan the teacher would know and can tell them to get back on task. Maybe if they are having time in class to finish classwork or homework they can know if they aren't doing it and just talking with another student or something.
When a teacher is teaching they espect the students to be understanding and if they aren't they want them to ask questions. Most students don't ask questions and for this thing to just scan a face and tell they are confused can help more students pass the classes they are in. This program is basically going to encorage students to participate more.
Students sometimes are afraid to put their hand up and ask questions so this program could possible tell when they have a question. As it states in the text it can read the 44 major muscles in the face which is good so nothing won't get hidden from the coding system.
In conclusion I have stated why I think this Facial Action Coding Sytem that can detect human emotions is good in the classroom. I stated that the teachers need to know if students are paying attention. If students are understanding what the teacher is teaching. And students being able to communicate with the teachers.
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In the article,"Driverless Cars Are Coming", the author mentioned many benefits about the invention. Things like self-steering, self-accelarating, and self-braking seems intriguing. However, those benefits will not solve the multiple downfalls that the inventions will cause. The cars have not had enough trial or statisitic to prove that they bring mostly positive outcomes rather than negatives, it really is not driverless if it still nees assisting, and it will create multiple changes in our society. New technology have always excite people, but are driverless car really worth the hype?
Consumers do not maintain enough knowledge about the cars know that it will bring more positives than negatives into the society. "In most states it is illegal even to test computer-driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Cumbia had led the country in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars." Only a few states have given the "okay" to test drive these cars. Even so they are only semi-autonomous, making the car even more sketchy than it already seems to be. "Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." However, if you give most of those alerts to a computer, is that really safe?
The driverlesss cars really are not driverless. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating througgh work zones and around accidents." The cars can do basic driving functions but when it comes to the more complex tasks; they depend on the driver themselves to execute the actions. "The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." If the " Driverless car" still needs human assistance then its claim is quite contradictiv to the actual product.
The invention of the car will cause mutiple changes in today's society. "New laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident." This will cause many changes in our teenagers' driving education as well as laws throughout the country. "The cars he(Sergey Brin) foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." Although the cars save the environment by using less fuel; it will lead to the job loss of thousands of people in the public transportation industry. Many people will be out of work due to the fact that their occupations are being taken over by driverless cars.
The thoughts of driverless cars seem exciting but there is not enough facts and statistic to prover its liability, it is not really "driverless", and it might cause many downfall to the society. This is a society that loves trend and new technologies. However, some of those techonolgies are not worth the hyper. Driverless cars seem so modern and advance, but really there are multiple downfalls to them. "Safety is best achieved with alert drivers," not machines. The grass is not always greener on the other side, just like how driverless cars is not going to contribute to our society for the better.
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Driverless cars are being manufactured all over the world. Is this a good idea or a bad one? Driverless cars are a bad idea. A driverless car can cause so many problems and when a problem occurs, who is to blame?
Driverless cars are being made but have not yet approached roads in cities or a real street. Manufactures have ,are many successful cars of this kind without any problems. The cars are being sent on get droves all of the time. A driverless car model was made with magnets but had to be driven on a magnetic rode. The problem with that is it would cost way to much money to make every street magnetic. On cars today they have cameras sensors and all sorts of gadgets to help cars become more safe. On the new cars all of these factors are enhanced but not necessarily safer. A scenario is
what if these driverless cars come to a stoplight that is out of order. Normally the car that he gotten their first would go ,but how would a car know something like that. Another scenario is a kid is on a bike riding how will a computer know to stop pr process that information fast enough to make a life or death situation. There are so many reasons why driverless cars are not safe .
Also what happens when an accident occurs? Is the crash the drivers fault or the cars fault. A computer can't make rational decisions like a human can it can answers questions , but not make decisions. Having a driverless car would cause so many problems if there is no drover who is to blame and what if some one is actually driving their car and another isn't and there is an accident who is to blame. There couldn't even be a case because you would have a human arguing with a computer on what happened.
Driverless cars are not safe . New technology is being made everyday ,but a car will never have the brain of a human . A car and a human can't think the same so on a rode together who knows what will happen. Driverless cars will evuantually be on rodes ,but until their flawless they shouldn't be .
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How would you feel if there is a machine that can tell you how youe feeling or what your emotions are?
Well there is a software that is the lastest innovation from professer. I think this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in classrooms is valuable because its important for students to know how students are doing and feeling. Some students probably dont want to talk about how their feeling because there probably scared or something . Some kids in school go through depression which is bad because if kids go through depression, some kids will commit sucide and we dont want that to happen. For that computers to read humans minds, it has to have all fourty-four major muscles like in a human , then it also has to move like what humans muscle do. In this new software or invention, it can track your facial expressions and movement. Which that is amzaing because I really want to help our other students or kids out so they wont go through sad,depressed,mad,etc.
My conclusion to this is that its very helpful to have a machine to read or can tell how kids are doing now. We dont want student nor kids going to think about committing suicdue. We lost so much syduents or kids because they are going bullying. If they being bullyed you can at least talk to them or try to have the new invention read their emotions. Everyone is imporatant to this world.
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial
Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotions. This is very vaulabe and could be great for classrooms. 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 diffrent "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "then it could be used to modify the lesson, like an affective human constructor."
the facial expressions for each emotion are universal," obeserves Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" (like not smiling as broadly). using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facia; movements-- in a real face or in the painted face by mona lisa.
in fact we humans peform this same impressive "caculation every day. for instance, you can probaly tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face.
Of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc. Dr. Huang observes that artists such as Da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisley enough to covey specific emotions. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. Perhaps Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of "Da vinci code.
we should really give, Facial Action Coding System a chace because
"most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that,too."
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The evening star is the brightest points of light in the night sky however this nickname is misleading since venus is actually a planet it is close to the earth sometimes and mars also but people that have tried to go visit venus and tried to study about it have not made it back in about 3 decades so its really hard to study venus no spacecraft has survived landing up there more than a few hours because there is a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets and is even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid and on the planets surface the temperature is average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet these are dangerouse positions for the astronaunts because they will not come back and venus is closer to our planet but how is it so hot there and its not even close to the sun but NASA is trying to send some of its people up there so they can study more about it and hoverboard around it and venus is almost the same like earth they have a bunch of similarities they both have mountains and valleys and the canot even sample rocks or anything it could be a rick by putting something from another planet that. NASA on the other hand sent something really smart that they thought would last a while but only lasted three days in venus.They bult a mechanical part that was stong for gas, pressure, heat and other forces.
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I am all for this technology that reads students emotional expressions. Because i think it is a great leap into the future.¨Dr.Huang and his colleague are experts at developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate.¨ That is amazing that we can have tech that will evne better to communicate to humans.
I think Da Vinci was a very smart man because he was able to make perciesly the mixed facial expressions.¨ Da Vinci studied himan anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convey specific emotions.¨ A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr. Hauang predicts.¨ I really dont agree with this because school computures can not see my facial expreshions so how would they know that I am bored or confused on anything.
How can you tell if your fakeing a smile? In the real smile, the zygomatic major (muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth.¨ I think you could fool somone if you know this information because all you haft to do is follow the real instructions. I think that it is very hard to find out someone´s expresions because there are so many that you can imitate even the real one´s. Last, what if you are a regular person could you ever find out that they are faking or do you haft to be a professional at it? In the article it is mostly talking about how can a regular person finds about someone that is fake at showing there expressions.
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"Making Mona Lisa Smile'',the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computer to identify human emotions.
The use of this tecgnology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because not only it helps read kids mind whenthere upset and not happy but it helps you to because you dont have to try in read there mind as a teacher the comouter can automatically tell for you. In that they just wanted to make better ways for humans and computers to communicate. Also that its that good ''i could modify the lesson ,like an effective human instructor.
Can it actually calculate emtions 99% better then any smart software?
"The process begins when the computer constrcutios a 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles." Not everyone would wanna feel like getting on a computer checking to see if there happy or not. In not everyone would want to sit in front of a computer sing there moving there head trying to figure out if there ok knowing they already no. It '' we humans can tell if someone happy or if someone sad just by looking at there face'' yes its true, in yes we doo it on a daily so why neeed to have the Facial Action Coding System when we can just keep finishing what we been doing and reading people minds as usally.
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The author who wrote "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," did a wonderful job at suggesting that studying Venus is a worthy job. The author seems very educated and intellectual. The writing also seem very credible. The author backed up their idea by supporting their beliefs well with evidence. The author also provided numerous informations of planet Venus. Not only did they support it with facts, but also with wisdom.
The author started by giving readers information about Venus and how it relates to Earth, our world. The author described Venus as "Earth's twin." The author also let the reader know that Venus in the "closes planet to Earth in terms of density and size." By doing so, we may feel more connected to Venus since Earth is our home. It chatches our attention because we may feel that we can relate.
After readers get into reading, the author provided more great details about Venus. He described planet Venus conditions and why it is so challenging for scientists to study the "Evening Star." According to the author, the "conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth" and "would liquefy many metals." He also gave a background information on how each "previous mission was unmanned" and "no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This illustrates how dangerous Venus is. However, the author turn this negativity into a way to learn mistakes. The author says "Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus," in a way that those factors that may have led to fail previous missions could now be avoided. Mistakes do really teach us lessons.
After the author discussed about the dangers and challenges of Venus, readers may wonder why scientists would even bother to study such a life-less planet. Nonetheless, the author did a great job of backing up the counterclaim. The author argued back the counterclaim by explaining how Venus was once like Earth. It may have been a planet that "supported various forms of life" and "Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." This may give readers hope and maybe change their perspective a little bit.
The author knows best about the dangers of exploring Venus than anyone. However, the author supported why it is still worth studying Venus by backing up with science. He talk about how NASA is working on devices that could stand on the harsh conditions on Venus. He also provided other promising projects NASA are working on such as " a vehicle hovering over Venus" that "would avoid the unfriendly ground condtions by staying up and out of their way." By doing this so, readers may be more hopeful and trust the author more. This also give the author to look forward to the future and more energy to further study Venus. The author also believe that it may be "survivable for humans" even though Venus does not have "easy conditions." It is in human nature to fight for survival, so readers may be interested.
The author is not only intellectual, but also very wise. They finished their argument by talking about how it may seem pointless to study such a dark world, but it is not always about science and facts but also it may "lead us into many equally intimiating endeavors." The author believe that we can do so much more than what we are given and are restricted of. The author believe that we should go beyond the limit. Never to hold back our curiosity but to let it "expanded to meet the very edges of imaginaton and innovation."
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Driverless cars shouldn't be coming honestly. In my opinion, I don't like the idea of driverless cars very much. It seems a little bit too risky for me; but I'm going to give some reasons why it would actually be a good reason to have driverless cars. First, you would be able to just sit back and relax and watch the road while you're waiting for your turn to drive. Second, you could also grab something on the floor while your in the drivers seat, like if your kid dropped something in the back of the car and they can't grab it, you can try to grab it because the car will be in motion by itself, but you still need to be very cautious on the roads at all times. Third, if you were running late to work or where ever you needed to be, you can make a quick phone call or send out a text and tell them that you will be late for whatever reasons.
Now, lets talk about the negative things. Some of the negative things I don't like about this is that what is the speakers in the car went out and you ca't hear the manufactuer of the car tell you when to take the wheel, or if the car automatically went out of control and you had no poweer or stering of the wheel; you'll be screwed then. To be completely honest, I wouldn't even try to drive a criverless car because I need to know for sure that I'm going to be safe when I'm in the car or driving with a person or a few people among that. I wouldn't feel safe at all, what so ever. Espcially if I was in that car with someone else who is driving, I would feel very uncomfortable, wouldn't you? I mean, seriously. The manufactuer of the car probably doesn't always do its job right, even though it said in the passage that a driverless car has never been in a crash or accident, you don't know what the future holds and anything could happen at any point in time. The car could stop working at anytime too, espcially if it was a plug in/charge car.
Quite frankly, I don't think I like this idea of a driverless car. It seems unsafe and risky, espcially if you have the wrong people in the car with you. If we all had no choice but to buy a driverless car, looks like I'm not buying one. I'll be walking or biking everywhere I go. Would you consider buying and using a driverless car for the rest of your life?
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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author is presenting and explaining the new technology that has been made on human an computer communication. In the article he talks about technology that has been created to alter the learning curve in our new generations children. The new technology could completely change the way that our new generation learns. By taking a little movement in your face and mathematical putting your face into numbers.
For example, in paragraph six the author says, "for example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow". The author tells how this new face decoder could change your learning path by choosing if you should slow down because your confused, or keep up if you follow with a lesson. The author is just supporting the claim that this new technology should belong in a classroom.
The author supports bhis claim once again in the first paragraph he says "she's 83 percent happy,9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." The technology the author has been talking about this whole time just put Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona LIsa face into one and zeros.
If this incredible machine can help our youth than I think everyone should agree on it. The new technology the author talks about is the best helping hand to students. The computer could be the student own personal tutor. This is a revolutionary turn on the eduacation of students.
The author also talks about testing the reader in this article by making you make a smiling face in paragraph seven and testing if you felt happier just by making the facial expression. By just tensing up the muscles for an facial expression can actually give the expressions of the facial movement.
The article gives plenty of prove to show that the machine could be a benefit to are students. the article points are clear and strongly backed behind. The gives every expression that his new technology is good.
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Voting for president should be fair and democratic to all the people. Decisions for the country that affect the people should ultimately be determined by them since their lives could be greatly impacted by those decisions. Today, the country determines the election of the president of the United States by using the electoral college. Although the electoral college is effective in many ways, does it really portray what the people want? Changing the election to election by popular vote would determine what the people want in a more democratic and fair way. The United States was built upon democracy and that strong profile should be kept.
The electoral college is a process by which voters vote for electors that elect the president determined by their political party. In theory it may seem like an effective process, but it can bring many problems. Source 2 says that the single best argument we have against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The election crisis of 2000 was because of the electoral college process and that even worse things could have happened. The electoral college has brought a lot of problems. "In the same vein, 'faithless' electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please," (Source 2). Electors refusing to vote for their party's candidtate, or refusing to vote altogether could lead to things like Hawaii sending two slates of electors to Congress in 1960. The electoral college system leads to a lot of complications and using popular vote would make the process simpler.
Voting by the electoral college can bring unfairness to the voting process. Source 3 explains that when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. Your votes do not directly go to the president you want, so even if a president wins the popular vote, they could still lose the electoral college vote and the election all together. "A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538-is an even number, but it is highly unlikely....," (Source 3). Voting by popular vote would not allow this to happen because of the amount of people voting and the likelihood of that happening is even less. Also, the fairness of small states and big states is not democratic in the electoral college process. Since larger states have a greater population, they tend to get more attention than smaller states do. There would clearly be more equality in voting by popular vote than in the electoral college.
"The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a poplular vote of qualified citizens," (Source 1). Although this compromise was good in theory at the time, the process is not very fair and does not bring the right people to be elected as electors. The electors are chosen depending on how they reach certain criteria by the law. These laws vary though, which could bring a wide variety of people from each state. This would give some states the upper hand compared to others. There would be no worry about the certain people chosen as electors in the process of popular vote.
The electoral college brings complications, unfairness, and the worry of chosing electors from each state. The Untited States was built upon the idea of general democracy and the process of the electoral college does not carry out that idea. Chosing the president by popular vote would give the people a more democratic way of chosing whom they want to be in charge of the country. The people of the country are the ones most impacted by decisions of the country, so they should have more of a say in what is decided.
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People should concider becoming a Segoing Cowboy because it is an amazing experience that if you try it you will never regret doing it, because you can travel the world to help people who are in need, you can visit places such as Europe, Greece, and more. While you are on the boat travaling you can take care of the animals on the boat ! If you do decide to become a Seagoing Cowboy then while you are traviling you can learn the cultuer of the people you are visiting. Even though you are on the boat for a while you will have plenty of things
to do such as feed the animals, because the animals need food and water at least two t three times a day. And you will have to clean the animals stalls . In your spare time you can play games such s baseball, vollyball, tableyennice, fencing, boxing reading, whittling, and whole lot more. In concludsion it would be an amazing ecperience for you to
become a Seagoing Cowboy !!!! Why don't you give it a try ?
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driveless cars. However, many feel that it is very dangerous and that many may abuse the technology of a driverless car.
In the article it states that the smarter cars cannot do certain things such as park. In a few states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars, such as California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia, which have led the country to allowing limited use.
In the article it also states that the smarter cars may need human assistance, so to occupy the human, while the smarter car is working, some maufacturers have decided to put a form of entertainment and information systems that turn off once the signal that the human needs to take over the vehicle. Which many believe to be reckless.
These two examples clearly demonstrate why smarter cars shouldn't be allowed. Smarter cars are a risk to those that have them and those who do not.
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In the story "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author discused the advancement of today's technology but I believe it may be to advanced for our own good.
For example in paragraph 9 it says that driving laws are mainly focused on keeping the drivers and passengers safe and that their main goal is to make driving more safe. I dont find it safe to have a driverless car because people shouldn't put their trust and dependence in a smart comupter.Also again in paragraph 9 they say if there were to ever be complications and caused someone to be injured who does the blame fall on. I feel asthough driverless cars are to much of an advancement and that humans should drive because computers make mistakes just as a person. Driving is a learning skill that takes practice not something that can be programed into a device.
Another reason Driverless cars shouldn't be passed through because in some situtations a smart computer doesnt have all the answers. For example in paragraph 7 it states "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves" driving requires communication and directions within one driver and another. In short, having driverless cars is like ID in foreden theory because a driverless car has no fliter or emotions. Its like reckless endangerment because you never know what will happen when your not in control of your own vechile.
Finally, in paragraph 3 it says having smart-road systems are too expensive. Spending millions of dollars on technology that doesn't assure our safety is a waste of money that couldve been spent on better.
In short, There are some advanced technology that have helped inproved safety precautions and some thats too advanced for our develpment. We shouldn't risk our safety letting a lifeless computer drive us around trying to be more safe.
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In this essay, I will write an argument aginst the development of high tech cars. I believe using these cars can be good. These cars are advancing regions in the technology world with the use of more enhanced technology. One thing people must think about is how this idea is not perfect, it will run into error. Lets suppose and accident occurs, who do you blame, the person or the car? Well the car is highly developed isn't it? Well, the person could've stepped on the break?
These may be some questions pondering your mind right about now. In my opinion, I believe we should not have driverless cars.
There's a difference between having a more developed car and having a car where you do not need to drive. A more enhanced car will higher technology, sseat warmers in the back and cameras that help you view the blindspot. Man, we have come a super long way with technology. Driverless cars? That almost seems too advanced for our present time.
We must realize that being advanced in areas is not a bad thing. If anything, it's good. We must remember the safety aspect of it all. Is it safe? We must remember the cost. Is it affordable? Some of these questions will really make you think.
The idea of having more developed cars is certainly not a bad thing, just maybe now is not the right time. We can think of better ways to farm and cultivate our food. Helping other countries that are in need with more useful techniques. We should use this time to find out a more efficient way to do more for the people around us. Maybe having a more developed car is doing that, but I don't see it.
Thank you for letting me share my opinion.
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The technology that read the students emotional expressions is valuable. My reasons is that it can make you better in school. Secondly it can also keep you in a better mood more often. Lastly it will jusy make you feel better.
First, it can make you better in school I say this because in the passage it says that when you are in school it can read your expressions. This will be a good things because it says when you are reading on your computer in school it can detect weather you are happy or sad. If your said then the computer will let you read more happier things if it knows your expressions. In the passage it also says that if a ad comes on that you like and it detects that you are samiling and thibgs like that, then it will play more ads like thatg just to keep you in a better mood.
Secondly, it can keep you in a better mood on a regular basis. This will be a good thing because things like you stress level and things like that will be down. Also you will be healthier because being mad all the time and stressing is not good for you and it can also kill you. In the passage it says that when people tell you to put on a happy face when you do it this will put you into a better mood then what you was in before. It will also put everyone else in a better mood thats around you.
Lastly, it will just make you feel better. In the article it tells us how our face can really tell how you feel. It says how you wrinkles on your face will show when you are in a slightly bad mood or a all the way bad mood. It says that smailing parcialy can relly help your whole mood when you are upset or angry. The muscles begin at your cheeks bone that start all of these expresiions.
In conclusuion the technology that read the students emotional expressions is valuable. My reasons is that it can make you better in school. Secondly it can also keep you in a better mood more often. Lastly it will jusy make you feel better.
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I think the states should have a vote on what the people want, either popular vote or electoral college. Popular vote would be the way to go for me because if it is electoral college you as a citizen arent actually voting you are picking certain people to vote for you. By popular vote it means you get to have your say, or one of your powers for being a citizen.
Electoral College is for the people that depend one higher level people to make the right decision for them instead of doing it themselfes. If you are a small state you dont have that much people going in for what your states want, like Rhode Island for example they only get around eleven through fourteen electoral votes for them. For a big state Like California they get fifthy-five electoral votes. Big difference right? Since the state of Florida a big we get twenty nine votes, Not that much right. Now if we do the popular vote way it only depends on how many people vote, if Rhode Island has 200,000 that vote they have a lot more say in the presidental election. What would you take?
Now since presidents only go to states they know they will win in, so if your state is small the better way to go is electoral since it doesnt matter. The state of Florida does matter because we are big so both presidents will try to win us over. In the end I think it would be a good idea if the state has a poll on which one will they choose, but it all depends on the state and the people.
We would all think that the state want to hear our opinion, but some arent like that. Now if a tie breaks out, which is slim, now that isnt in the hands of the people but the hands of the people in the House of Representives. The chance of having a tie is unusual but it can and will happen some time soon. If that happens the HOR must try to be far and not only pick in there bias but for the better for the community.
As the state of Florida it would be a better solution of we go to the Popular vote method, because we are a large state and we would have a lot of votes the election
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Hello fellow debater! I see you believe that the rock formation on mars may have been created by aliens.As exciting as that would be for us in NASA that is sadley not the case.Here are my reasons why. My three reasons for why the rock formation on mars was not created by aliens are: one the formation has the same structure as a mesa,two the picture evidence,and three if aliens did make it would a be benafical to our belief theirs alien life and b theirs lack of evidence to support this theory.
Reason one! The formation is a natural mesa! Through out the artical we are given hints to the formation being a mesa. In the intro it even says this.Evidence in the text ( paragraph tweleve) suggest that the face on mars is mostley related to the 'butte in the Snke Plain of Idaho says says Garvin'.This means the face on mars is closely related to rock formations found here in on earth.
Reason two! Picture evidence! Picture evidence from the various NASA
spacecraft show us that. As the years went by and our technolagy we were able to get better and better picture resolution and were able to see the picture better. The picture taken by the viking 1( in1976) was a 43 meter per pixel while the picture taken in 2001 had a 1.56 meters per pixel which allows us to take better pictures to see what the rock formation really looked like which is a common day mesa.
Reason three! lack of evidence The lack of evidence about aliens on mars making the rock formation is evident. With little proof that the rock formation was made by aliens makes it hard to say aliens made it. This makes it even harder to prove aliens did this because the same struture of the rock formation can be found on earth in america also given how mars also has about the same size as earth and also having the same gargaphy its possiable that the tectonic plates under the surface of the plant did this. In short we wish it was created by aliens but it most likely wasn't.
This is the end of my statement on why the large rock formation on mars wasn't created by aliens but instead was a mesa a rock formation we can find in modern day america. To recap my reasons on why i dont believe it was created by aliens :one its a mesa, two picture evidence , and three lack of evidence it was made by aliens.
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In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," I am totally against the development of these cars.
One reason why I am against the driverless car is
because people may fall asleep while the driverless car switches over to manual driving, and you may not be aware of any of this.
Another reason why I am against the driverless car is because this car doesn't actually have a human controlling it, it's a computer. The car can accidentally hit someone then it can automatically switch to manual driving and it might cause another accident and be very dangerous.
One third reason why I am against driverless cars because this car gives many people chances to do whatever they want behind the wheel while the computer is driving.
These three examples demonstrate why I am against driverless cars. Don't be lazy when it comes to driving, so don't be a fool and buy a driverless car.
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The Face
Some people don't believe the Face on Mars is a natural landform. They believe that aliens created it. Some people also believe that it was not actually found on earth. Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, has compared it to natural landforms on earth. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times better than the original photos taken by the Viking. It took a while, but Jim was able to prove it.
Jim Garvin says, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." That is a natural landform found on earth. He also says, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. 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 says this because some people believe that it was not found on Mars.
Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times better than the original Viking pictures. The passage states, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing. . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." It was then official that the Face was not created by aliens, it is a natural landform.
Garvin has proven that the Face is a natural landform found on Mars. He gave examples of what natural landforms it could look like on earth. Viking 1 captured amazing photos of the Face. Michael was able to snap a better picture than the Viking photos. People still do not believe that it is a natural landform, but Jim has proven it.
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In the story "Driverless cars are coming" the author is talking about a
positive and negative aspect of the article. He said that the good thing about
having adriverless care is that it drives you by itself thats the positive part. But
he also made negative comments too like for example he stated that having a
driverless car
can also cause wrecks.
To me I will have to disagree. I say that having a driverless car is a bad idea.
Because how are you suppose to know how fast your going and how you are
going to avoid other cars. Say for example you had a driverless car and you
had important places to be, you were in such a hurry you drove fast how are
you suppose to slow down. And what about you getting pulled over by the
police they try to pull you over but you cant stop the car because the car is
automatic.
Now lets not forget head on cars, what if you were just driving down the
highway and you lost controll and went over into the other lane that was going
the opposite direction. You could get into a car accident in a head on collision.
So in conclusion I disagree with the author about the article having a positive
side to driverless cars, if you look at it in my point of view there are no positive
sides they are all negative aspects. So again if you were to ask me about
driverless cars and if we should creat them I would have to tell you they are
dangerous and that they have are a bad idea, and no we should not creat them
because we already have enough car accidents as it is.
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When you first hear of this new software you may not see a need for such technology to exist. However, once you take a look into what this exciting software is capable of, you might actually grow into the idea. I believe that this software could just end up being a helpful resource used in everyday life.
If executed in the correct manners, I believe that this software could be an incredible resource that serves many different purposes. Not too long ago, technology became an everyday tool in schools around the globe. If new software such as this was implemented into devices we used at school, as a student I believe that I would benefit from it greatly. The author used the example predicted by Dr. Thomas Huang of a student who is getting bored or confused. The device could potentially produce a pop-up providing help or motivation and encouragement.
This software could be put introduced to many ways of life. For example, self-checkout stations and bank ATM's. If you appear to need help you will provided with assistance. It could potentially be a major improvement for costomer service. Software like this would definitely take getting used to, but would be worth it in the end if we are optimistic enough.
Another possibility would be for this software to be used while using serach engines. If you appear to not be satisfied, you will be directed to a page of new results. Perhaps if you show interested in certain results but not others, you could get a page of new result compiled of just the results you seemed interested in. Similar to the example of web ads appearing on your screen given to us by the author.
I believe that this software could end up being a very important feature in technology. This technology may not be very extensive yet. However, it definitely has potential. It could be implemented into many regions of everyday life. I think that the possibilities are endless.
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The future is comeing and it is coming iin the shape of cars. Driverles cars hve been a dream form long ago and it might just now be coming true.
Although smoe popele think that this is is not avery good idea there many advantages to driverless cars. These cars are safe, well tested, and very helpfull.
Some peole will argue that the cars might malfunction and crash or not know if there is a work zone and i needs to go slower. Driverless cars are not fully driverless. Although these cars can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves there is still a driver. As it said in the artical, " all are desinged to noify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills." This would be like if there was a work zone at this point the car would alert the driver and he/she would have to take over. in the artical it states that the comepanis that arer making these cars have added a way of notifing the driver. Some of the formes of alerting the pasenger is by, vibrating seets, announcing that he or she should be prepered, and flash lights on the window shield. They have even thought of using cameras to make sure the driver is paying attention.
Also these cars have not just reacently came out of the factory and put on the streets. Google has been working on its driverles cars since 2009. Acording to the artical, "their cars have driven more then half a million miles without a crash. Yet, thier car is not compleatly driverless, there is still a human that takes over pulling in and oout of driveways or in complicated traffic issues. The thought of driverless cars has been here since the 1950s in the artical it states that, 'in the late 1950s, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. The track was embedded with an electric cable that sent raidio signals to a reciver on thfront end of the car. ' So then since the 1950s scientest and engineers have been working on and improving this consept of driverless cars. That is more then sixty years of resherch and work inorder to make and sime perfect these cars.
After and when driverless cars are finaly perfected they will have many significant uses. For example, public transportation, every where you go there is public transportation and it is a big need expesualy in the big cities. in this passage it states that, the cars would use half of the fule of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility then a bus." This would change the world, if cars are diverless it would give the human a great advantage. Also in a fun perspective when people go on long road trips they can normaly just drive for about eight houres before they need to rest. With driverless cars the car would do all the work aposed to the driver.
In conclusion driverless cars are coming and are a great thing. They will be safe for all users, provide great benifits, and have been well reasherched and worked on. They are a thing of the future and we are finaly there. Driverless cars are a thing everyone should look forward fore.
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Driverless cars seem like a good idea, but there are some aspects that go against it. There are many situations that could take place with a driverless car, but also the fact that they will not be made completely driverless. A person still has to be aware of the surroundings and be ready for any case that the car may stop driving and theywould have to take over.
In the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming," the author describes that the cars being developed at the moment, still do not meet the standards of being completely driverless. In Paragraph 7, the author states that, "In fact none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." These cars all notify the human driver when the road ahead requires human skills. This means thats the driver has to remain alert and ready to take over.
A downside to a driverless car is the fact that the driver still has to be monitored by the humans inside. The humans could easily get bored and/or fall asleep behind the wheel. The cars would have to alert the human that they need to take over. Car manufacturers are considering using heads-up displays that warn the driver when to take control of the situation. Imagine if the driver is asleep and jolts awake after being awakened by the displays installed. The driver has the potential to hit the steering wheel and cause the car to swerve into a ditch or tree, maybe even fly off a bridge. The manufacturers are considering making one of the displays blinking flashing lights that are placed on the windshield, but what if they blind you and you can't adjust your eyes to the light, you grab the steering wheel and try to stop the car but it is too late.
What if there is a mistake in the production of the car and the autopiolet of the car shuts off? Who is at fault for the accident? The car is supposed to drive for you and you are supposed to be able to relax. What if a person that can not afford a smart car is speeding down the street while your car is driving for you? What if the sensors don't detect them fast enough? What if there is fault with the wiring of the car, caused by weather or overheating?
The possibility of driverless cars seems like a dream come true but the reality of it is that there will never truely be a driverless car. The human inside will still have to be on guard for any possible situation in which the car cannot drive for itself. Things such as the safety of others and the possibility of a malfunction should play a major key in the develomental process of these cars.
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Dear,senator
I think you should vote on abolishing the Electoral College because it's obviously dumb.
First of all,they can be anybody which i believe is just wrongIt should be somebody who wants to be in it and works hard to do so.
Secondly,it makes zero sence what so ever that bigger states get more electoral votes because it's not fair to the other people in the state who want the other guy to win but that doesn't matter if it's the winner takes all syestem. Winner takes all system make no sence at all either. You shouldn't go by that if it's not what the people want. For example,in the year 2000 Gore won the popular vote or the vote the people wanted,and Bush lost. But since Bush won the electoral vote he became the president.
So what you are trying to say is that the peoples vote doesn't count when choosing the person that will help run this country? That is terrible! Instead of going by how big the state is and how many electoral votes they get it shiuld be the popular vote or the peoples vote!
Sincerely,
Chris
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You may think that the face on mars was created by aliens and we say it isn't it's a natural landform sorta like some natural landforms on Earth like the Grand Canyon it's a natural landform but we can't actually prve the the face is a landform but we have a spacecraft named Viking 1 and 2 that has taken pictures of it so we can see if it was formed by aliens or if it is just a natural landform.
Here is how we think that it is a natural landform, as it says in the article "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, se 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!"and it also says "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West it reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars.
Even though we think it is natural landform you guys think that aliens have made it and your point is as it says in the article "The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face perhaps alien markings were hidden by haze."
So as it says in the article "It's not easy to target Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips we just don't pass over the face ver often."
In conclusion even though the alien thing has a good point the pictures that Viking 1 and 2 got show that there are no alien markings and it is probably just a natural landform like the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho or the Grand Canyon.
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Well, I suppose it coud have been made by aliens, but as we continued to research it. It became known to us that something was casting a shadow as we said in our article about the "Unmasking the Face on Mars" said in paragraph 3. NASA
releasing it in the hopes while it was coming to public. To sale in stores and area in business ,and it did. Hoping it to be real so we can lead people into the existence of it being real. But noticing ourself that it wasn't true that it wasn't real.
Sadly for us as believers of life on other planets and creation of art from other living things.
In April 5, 1998 when we snapped some pictures ten times as better than the Viking did we notice that it was just a landform a big rock formation. The location of the Face of Mars is 41 degrees north martian latitude where it is winter in April on Mars very cloudy during this time so lots of winds,and dust blow past and covers the rock formation. The picture actually just shows us that is just like a regular formation on Earth as said in paragraph 12 ,and also looking identical to landforms in the American West area.
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Have you every heard of the "Face on Mars?" Some people even think that the face was an alien. NASA (the people who found the "face" on Mars) could say otherwise. NASA has many diffrent ways that this is not an alien. The three are that no alien monuments anywhere, that NASA spent countless time trying to make sure that they were wrong, and that the shadows and the lighting make it look like a face.
The first reason why it is not an alien is because they looked for an alien monument and didn't find one. This either means that NASA took all that time and did not find one, or there is not alien monument which means that this being an alien is slim. Not having a monument means that the "aliens" didn't have a home or a place to worship. NASA even had a camera ten times sharper than what they found the face with,"MIchael Malin and his MArs Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper that the original Viking photos"(7). This goes to show that the monument and the aliens do not exist.
The second reason is that they tried countless times trying to find more. They spent many years trying to find answers but they never found them. The only answer they got was that the alien they were hopping for wasn't present or was present. On April 8, 2001, that was thier last try. They had amazing pizels but still got nothing, "Marlin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution" (10.)
Finally, the shadows made it look like it was a face. Even though it looked like a face, we never know if a shadow hit it good enough that it made it look like that. NASA states that "only this one had unusual shadows to make it look like an egyptian Pharaoh," (2.) This states that unusual shadowing made the mesa look unusual. The later years, the mesa looks less and less like a face.
This shows that the "Face on Mars" looks more and more like a shadow. Many years have been put into this "Face on Mars." Yet there is not that much they found. NASA would have got a lot of money if they found it. Yet they turned it down because they knew that it was not an alien like they would have hopped.
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I think Driverless cars would not be a good idea. Driverless cars should have a human being inside of the car to prevent accidents. Many car accidents happen around the world everyday, this car could be the cause of over half of those accidents if there is no driver in it. Someone needs to be Maintaining the wheel at all times when driving the Driverless car. Driverless cars would slow traffick down and keep people from where they are going. Not only that, but people will have to wait to go on a green light if there are driverless cars because there is not a human being in the car to press the gas.
Having driverless cars in the world can cause a lot of damage to the car its self, and people maybe even buildings. Having the driverless car is not such a great idea to have in the world today due to what it can cause for us humans in the world. What happenes if a kid in is in the back of the car with their parent and the car gets in a bad accident?
If we were to have driverless cars, it would take forever to get the laws passed for it on what you can and can not do while driving this wreckless vehicle on the streets. The world is better off without driverless cars. We can do just fine without them.
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The advantages of limiting car usage is that it reduces green house gases and it can lower pollution percentages. Instead of always using a car to make a short trip why not just ride a bike or even walk that can greatly increase cardiovascualr health and save money. If using a vehicle to go somewhere try not to use diesel it can leave greenhose gases and pollute the envirment more than regular fuel.
While using a vehicle saves time it is costly if you are traveling a long distance try car pooling to save fuel,money and the world. And there is always public transportation which is not a favorite but it is better than wasting your own fuel that should be saved in case of an emergency. Riding a car also causes great risk for injury or death which is not a something you would want happen to you or a family member. Drunk driving is one of the leading killers of children and adults.
In some countries such as France and Columbia they have car free days were you are not allowed to use your vehicle or you will be fined. Which is a very fair law considering if your country has high pollution rates or just too many cars on the road at once. If that became a law in the United States there would be widespread controversey but if the government provides transportation then it would make it better and you would be reducing pollution percentages.
Overall riding a vehicle saves time but it is not cost efficent becuase you are spending money. Every time you fill it up and polluting the world when you drive around to every once in a while use a bike. Or carpool to save time and money whcih is always a plus if your a soccer mom. And you have to travel long distances at a time .
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luke was working two part-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his friend Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat. luke couldn't say no .he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. their was a world war 2 but is was over. Then they recover their food supplies and animals.44 nations joined together to form unrra ( the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administrtion). I think that Animals need to be care of because thy needfood water and family to stay with. Some animals need to a vet because the dont fell better and doctors need to make them better. And people can adoppte them to have a home.
people should join the program because people can learn how to love an animal that u have seen befor or not seen befor in your life. Or new Animals that are new thatpeople have never seen before Animals need to be feeded because without food they cant live for ever they can die . and their babys need to find food by themself. Without their mom's and dad's to find for the baby's to grow up like them
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The author explains to us how worthy it is to study Venus for example in the articel he claimes that Venus has so many features like earth for example like an ocean or a mountain he alos said there could even be some type of life form that could live there. There has been more and more people wanting to study this because of the fact that this one day might become another earth that we can live on and form some type of life on there but people have to test it out to see if we are able to live there for example to see if any animal life form can live there or even start bringing other to Venus for some testing. The big issue though is that the tempture gets really high like around 800 degrees for example it siads that "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volecanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightn skrikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." For example in paragraph 5 it saids " The National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus. NASA's possible solutions to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Vesusian 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 conditions by staying up and out of there way. At thirty-plus miles above the surface , temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be plentiful,and radiation would notexceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable enough for humans."
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In the article ¨Making Mona Lisa Smile¨ by Nick D´Alto Computers and technology are getting so advanced to the point where they can tell you how you feel based off your facial expression and emotions. The computer can even tell many different emotions from just one picture.
In stanza 1 the technology allowed professeors to find out that the Mona Lisa isn´t all that happy she is also 9% disgusted and 6% fearful while being 2% angry at the same time. This is so amazing because this is possible from 3-d constructed computer models which can recognize and define all
44 human like muscles in the body if they look normal. Some of the ways the computer can tell your emotions is or example, ¨Your frontalis pars lateris muscle raises your eyebrows when you´re surprised, your orbicularis oris tightens your lips to show anger¨. The computer has also learned 6 basic emotions which are Happiness, Surprise, Anger, Disgust, Fear, and Sadness. If you go home and try to make a happy face in the mirror you can easily see the muscles that are making you smile but what you didn´t know is that when you fake smile it actually causes happyness which can actually make you for real smile. Even with the cool technology most people wouldn´t want their day to be changed just because of how they´re feeling.
In conclusion the computer technology is so advanced nowadays that a computer can tell how you are feeling at anytime but do all people want that I say no if people are in a bad mood they probably have a reason to be in that mood and they don´t need a computer to try and lighten up their day.
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What do you think of when you think about the future? For many people it is either jetpacks, smart houses, or driverless cars. There is good news because driverless cars are starting to become more of the present. There has been speculations about driverless cars being non positive. One thing about driverless cars are that they are not only positive, but effiecent, safe, and you still have control of them.
Driverless cars are no more of the future; they are becoming more of the present and showing their dominace. The cars have always been here, but they are becoming more effiecent. According to the passage, "Driverless Cars Are Coming", "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009". Since then, the cars have been given more effiecent sensors for improvements. Another positive aspect about driverless cars are that they are becoming more reliable and safe.
Driverless cars are starting to be safer then what they were before. The cars have sensors that became, "more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-contol skids or rollovers". The cars can apply brakes on each wheel, and take away less stress from the engine. They also made "Traffic Jam Assistant", where the car can handle driving situations up to 25mph. Even tho the car can do everything on it's own, you still have control of it.
Many people may worry that they have no control over the car, but that is incorrect. Including information back from the passage, the car has "speical touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel". The passage always states, "none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless". The cars still alert the driver when there are situations where the driver is better equiped for a certain postion. Examples of these postions are, "navigating through work zones and around accidents".
In conclusion, I agree that driverless cars are positive. They are effiecent, safe, and you are still in control. The cars are only improving everday, and soon to be in everyones' garage. The more time and resources put in driverless cars, the more negative influences will go away. Driverless cars will always remain our future, present, and past.
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Dear,
State senator
I am righting to you today about about a very important topic, I am here to tell you that I believe we should change from Electoral College to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. There are many reasons why we should do this transaction.
First reason, why we should change to election by popular vote is because Electoral College is very unfair to the the people running for presdient, and the people voting. Its unfair mostley because of the winner-take-all system in each state. This system is ridicolus because a lot of 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. I know a lot of crazy systems like this are making people not want to vote anymore, which is not good.
Another great reason, why we should change from the Electoral College to election by popular vote is because of how out of date and irrational the Electoral College actually is. Us the people of the United States don't even get to vote for our next president directly, 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.
The last reason, why we should change over to election by popular vote is because of the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. The way the Electoral College handles ties is unprofessional to many, becasue all they do is throw the election to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. The single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters.
In Conclusion, As you can see Mr. Senator Me and many others would really enjoy if the Electoral College was changed to election by popular vote. The reason being is because of how the Electoral College is unfair and irrational.
Sincerley, PROPER_NAME
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Ever wondered why humans can not travel to Venus. Well in this eassay I will explain why. Venus is too dangerous for humans to travel on. Even though Venus is like a sister of Earth, it is dangerous to travel on. No space ship has touched Venus in nearly more than three decades. Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study. I wonder why Venus is more dangerous to travel on rather than Mercury, even though Mercury is closer to the sun.
It is dangerous to travel on Venus because the temperatures are way different than what is on Earth. Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets. A more challenging part are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth. These type of conditions are far more extreme than what humans encounter on Earth.
The conditions on Venus are far too dangerous. It would be like Earth where if you try to drive a submarine into the deepest part of the ocean, it could liquefy the metal that the submarine is made out of. Venus has the hottest surface temeperature of any planet. Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus is still the hottest planet. Venus even looks hot since it looks similar to the sun.
Beyond high pressure and heat, Venus also includes erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes. Who would want to go to Venus after hearing about all the dangerous things that Venus encounters. Astonomers are fascinated by Venus because it is the most Earth-like planet in the solar system. Even though Venus is vey hot, it resembles Earth. In the article it states, "Venus includes rocky sedimenand also includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." Venus has a few earth like features.
After hearing about what Venus has on the planet, of course someone would want to see for there self. Venus is just too dangerous to land something on the planet. It is even too dangerous to be in Venus's atmosphere. One day humans can crete something that can take any pressure and will be able to land on any planet. Even though Venus is Earth's sister, it is far too dangerous to visit for humans. In paragraph 8, it states," Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." Human curiosity will lead humans into visiting Venus one day.
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There is a new technology called "Facial Action Coding System" that allows a computer system to read humans emotions by their expressions. This new advanced technology isn't valuable in a classroom enviroment. In a classroom it depends on the reason, and the student for this technology to be used. This system in a classroom can be taken advantage, and not used correctly.
The "Facial Action Coding System" being used in a class isn't very valuable, unless a student is always sad, and not doing well in school. No one wants everyone knowing their personal issues. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" (by Nick D' Alto) it states " The facial expresstions for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" (para 4). Dr. Huang is saying that there is several emotions, even though people show expressions very little or not very much. Explaing that not everyone shows too much emotion, because some people might be to their selves. But even if a person is more to their selves the system can still read you're emotions even if you aren't really showing any. In the article it explains how the software can recognize the expressions. In the article it states " By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's master piece). Each expression is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion)" (para 4). In this qoute it explains the process of the new technology "Facial Action Coding".
Some people won't want their expressions read by people they don't really know.
They also might not even want to talk about thier personal issues, because they just don't want to stress about it or because they don't want people judging them. This system can be taken advantage of for the wrong reasons in a classroom, and not be valuable. If this system is used in a class room it has to be for the correct reasons and not just because you think someone is always "mad" or "sad", and it might not always be the case. It has to be because you want to help a student, because they might be going through a rough patch in life and need someone to talk to. But if this new system is used to help someone, it should be in private; where no one is around.
In conclusion, the new technology " Facial Action Coding System" is not valuable in a classroom. This new system shouldn't be used by students/teachers unless they have a teachers permission and only for a reasonable case. It shouldn't be used a lot, specially in a class room full of students.
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The Electoral College is a very contreversial topic when it comes to electing a president. Many people think it's a system that works fine, while others think it's a complete disaster. When it comes down to it, the Electoral College is a compromise between electing a president through congress and electing president by popular vote. In the past the Electoral College has caused problems in presidential elections and it can easily cause more problems that are much more severe than what we've seen in the past. America is all about democracy, so why don't the citizens get complete control by being able to elect their president directly? It's about time that the government finds a system that works better and gets rid of the Electoral College once and for all.
The Elecotral College has many flaws, a major one being that voters don't actually vote for their president, they vote for electors, and the elctors are the ones who elect the president. You may ask yourself, "What's wrong with this? One way or another we're still choosing the candidate we want." While that is somewhat true, the system has many kinks that need to be fixed causing errors in the process. One example of this is the "winner takes all" rule. An excerpt from "The Indefensible Electoral College" says "... the electoral college is unfair to voters. Becuase of the winner take all system in each state, candidiates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states". At a basic level, this means candidates will only focus on some states, and giving up on others. In fact, the same article also says "During the 2000 campaign 17 states didn't see the candidates at all..." The facts prove it it, the Electoral College is a flawed, and unfair system, and it needs to be dealt with.
Another huge problem with the Electoral College is called "the disaster factor". According to Bradford Plumer, " The American poeple should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse." Plumer then explains how in Louisiana the legislature almost replaced the democratic candidates with some who opposed John F. Kennedy so that the popular vote wouldn't go to him, but rather someone else. This is a fine example of how corrupt this system can become if someone actually manages to pull something like this off. Other problems like a state sending two slates of electors to congress, or a tie in the electoral vote can happen, and there are some solutions to these problems, but why even go through them when a new system can be created altogether?
People like Richard A. Posner argue that we should keep the Electoral college. Posner believes that the Electoral College balances the weight between big and small states. The Electoral College gives big states less electoral votes and smaller states more to balance things out. I don't see this as balancing anything. Now the smaller states have an advantage over the bigger states, so you still have the same problem you began with. Posner also argues that voters in toss up states are more likely to pay attention to campaigns, but Plumer clearly contradicts this in his article. He states " ... seventeen states didn't see the campaign at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't see a single campaign ad." The proof is irrefutable, the Electoral College has it's loop holes which seem fairly easy to get through. The system is outdated, it's time for a new system to take its spot.
I stand my ground when I say the Electoral College should ber abolished. The people should have full control over the election of our president, and even if that's not possible, the system is very corrupt. While some still agrue that the Electoral College is working fine, the proof shows it isn't. It either needs to be renewed or replaced altogether.
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Everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboys. The Seagoing Cowboys help a lot of people from when they were injured during World War Two. This oppertunity will help you see the real world and helping others just like you want help sometimes. I think it is so fun that I've been on the trip 18 times. If you're in the military, this will show how you serve others and help them. In this great job in which you will also get to travel the high seas! There might be a lot of dangerous stuff that will happen because your in the ocean, like the time that I cracked my ribs and I couldn't go on some trips for a while but it was an an adventure. I was scared after that but I knew that all that matters is if you have a good time and you get to see the great work you're doing. You also get to stop places and get to sightsee places that you might have never seen before, it's a blast. So come join and have a blast as you join the seagoing pirates and help the people that have been injured in other countries from World War Two.
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In my opinion i think that using the technology to read emotional expression is a cool, fun, and exiting thing to do, when the author explained the instructions and how everything workes it wouldnt be something i would go against because if the technology detect that someone is sad or someone is acting like they are happy but really are upset it has a way to make people feel like they are truly appy so if somone puts on a fake smile it will make the person actually feel joyful. The author explained it in the story where he is telling the readers the instrustions in paragraph 9. Also it would awesome if we would be able to detect excactly how people are feeling even though they are showing something they really dont feel because that way we know if someone needs a laugh we could help or if someone is feeling grumpy we would know to not even bother that human.
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The electoral college has been around for as long as our nation has reined over this land. I fervently believe we should keep the electoral college as it is. We, as people, are not ready for the responability of choosing our next leader directly viva popular vote. Some of us might be ready for this responability now, but the magority of America cannot handel this responibity. The majority has stared riots over lost football games, acknolaged said riots and justifyed them then turn around and see a riot about a kid being shot 6 times by an officer and send in swat teams and start throwing smoke bombs. Because of these actions and the many like it, I whole-heartedly believe if we leave the responability to chose our president in the magority vote that this country will become more unstable than it already it because, most people already do not vote, some are biast, and some dont follow the consititution when they vote.
To begin with, letting the majority vote on our new president would have potential if the whole of the country voted, but alas only a small essence of the country votes for our future leaders. Most people are too busy, or lazy, or just dont want to take part in voting becuse of all of the conficting ads placed on television. One of the most atrocious of these ads was the one from mitt romney when he was in the race against President Obama. They put these ads on a chanel designated for familys to veiw, along with children. These ads inculded vivid pictures of aborted fetus, saying this is what would happen if we voted for obama. I've only saw that ad once, but once was more than enough to make me side with Obama more than I already was. If our president is prepared to threten the country like that then they should not be eligable to even run, let alone become President, and it was horendus to think of all of the children watching at the time to have to see that. Most Americans who are eligable to vote have full-time jobs, full-time school, or are busy in some other aspects of life. These people do not have the time to vote for our president becuase they are working at the time, most work one or two jobs at the least, leaving little time for social graces and time alone, let alone time to vote. One other reason citizens dont vote is just hte sheer fact that they are lazy. A good precetage of Americans just do not care about who our president is or who runs for office, thus not voting out of sheer laziness.
Furthermore, letting the majority vote rule who is our president would have potential if the majority of America was not biased in who they vote for. Almost all Americans have voted baised on their beliefs, or who is running for president. These are the people who voted agaoinst obama becuase of his ethnic background, or what he looked like. This should not go against who we vote for, or who leads us, as long as they are non-biased in what they stand for and have the good of the people in their minds, then they should be eligable, or even voted, as a canidate/president/offical.
To continue, letting the majority vote on our new president would have potential if the majority of Americans followed the consititution when voting. The majority does not follow the consitiution when voting for our new president, thus inducing an unfair campaine and an biased leader. The consitiution clearly states the Church and State are to be seperated, yet many Americans vote baised on the beliefs of their Church on matters of the State. The latest case of this happening was for the ban on gay marrige. Most voters voted in favor of the ban due a passage in the bible that stated that man shall not lay with another man as he lays with a woman, even though there is a homosexual couple in the bible, mathew/mathius something. The story aout a man named Dave and another named John, if i remember correctly, one of them said "your love exceeds that of a woman" or something close to that. There are a number of testiments that say not to judge others or to love everyone, but most focus on the one against those. Baising your vote on spiritual beliefs does not help anyone and is unfair towards those whos lifes you are negativly affecting. We should all think logically when voting for our leaders, and ask questions like 'who will this affect' 'how will this improve apon the lifes of my fellow Americans' 'will this improve our dilapitiating economy and crippling structe of the government' along with other questions that relate to how this canidate will improve apon the country as a whole.
All in all, I believe that the electoral college should stay in affect untill America, as a whole, grows up, becuase most dont vote, some who vote are biased, and some dont follow the consitiution when voting. We should not have to write papers on why we shouldnt let the people of America vote directly for our leader, nor should we have to have our rights taken away from those who use their religous prectices as an excuse to hate someone. We, the people, should all live together in this country, equaly, as one, not letting our beliefs negativly affect the lives of others. We should be able to practice what we want, when we want, without having to be fearful that others might punish us baised on what they practice. We, the people, need to grow up before we are allowed to vote directly for our new leaders. And that is why i beileve that the electoral college should stay in effect.
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Dear Senator of the state of Florida,
I would like to propose you to keep the electoral college in regards to how elections are made for the presidency and vice presidency. I in my opion as well as in other feel that by keeping the electoral college decisions on votes would be satisfactory for us in due to th e couting of our votes for the elections that we face. It would be a much rather delightfulness for the state of Florida if you would keep on helping sustain the electoral college and its' bases of funtion as well as in the rightchesness that belongs in our votes for the candidates that run for election either for presidency or vice presidency. Further more I wish to ask you to maintain our votes fair in wich i mean don't do an unfairness of our votes that is to say, our votes that get sent to you so that you can put in the final vote. As you may know there are many hateful critcism on how the electoral college functions and I'd like to say that if you could put up with the so many critics and just keep doing your job on electoral college then you could put up a positive ad on how the electoral college really works so that the many people that crtisize and have doubts on how the electoral college will truely know what is happening with their votes for election times. Our nation really needs this even though it is a really old system of governmence towards our voted that fall in you hands. for instance in the article "The Indefensible Electoral college: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong"(paragraph 14) it states "...The electoral college is...outdated" this shows how even an article was written to discuss the faults in the electoral collage and how its sytem works. the electoral collage may recieve many hateful critism on how fair the electoral collage is, but all in all their shouidn't be anything to worry about knowing that what you're doing is right in terms of governance and politics. With all due respect I would like to thank you for helping sustain the the electoral college with your fellow out of state caleeges, its a pleasure having having you as our Senetor and this goes as for everyone that enjoys your supportment to the government and how its electoral elections are based due to this system. I hope this really helps on how our government system on elections are critized, and that for at least there are people that actually hope for the prosper of the electoral college and the benifits that come out of it as also the many unlawful things that could arise in the nation if we didn't have and electoral college. With all due respects I hope that your manegment of our votes in elections be used wisely in the electoral college unlike other places in the world where much is corrupted and is used against the people instead of for the people. Thank you for taking your time in reading this article Senetor of Florida.
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Driverless cars will be the future of driving, and could potentially make driving a safer task. Driverless cars will have a positive impact on the world because of the ecological benefits that will result as an outcome of the mobilization of driverless cars, along with the safety benefits that will help resolve many of driving's biggest issues, mainly crashes.
Pollution is a big concern of many people living in the world today, and cars are
major producer of pollution through burning fuel. One benefit that driverless cars will have is that according to Google cofounder Sergey Brin, "The [driverless cars]... would use half the fuel of today's taxis" (Driverless cars are coming). A big problem that many people see today is the concern of fossil fuel pollution. According to Sergey Brin, driverless cars could potentially help resolve or contribute less to pollution, because they, in theory, produce less fuel emissions than a standard taxi. Pollution however, is just one of these problems, because car crashes too are a major concern for those opposing driverless cars.
Driverless cars aren't necessarily 'driverless', but for the most part, they are. Google announced a safety mechanism included in driverless cars that would "announce when the driver should be prepared to take over" (Driverless cars are coming). This safety mechanism ensures that the driverless car would not be completely rendered useless if a problem within the computer software did occur while driving. This helps prove the safety of the driver and the car through the emergency mechanism telling the driver to take manual control if a problem has occured. This also can relate to traffic laws, in case of an accident.
A third concern of people against driverless cars is who is responsible in the case of an accident, driver or manufacturer? This question is currently unclear as development hasn't reached the pinnacle thus far. In the article 'Driverless cars are coming', it is stated that "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?" (9). This quotation raises the question of who would be liable in the case of a driverless car accident. Potentially it would depend on which party was active during the time of the crash, the driver who had taken over manually, or the malfunction during the car's autopilot stage. In the first case of manual control, the driver should be held responsible because they would be in control of the car. If the crash with another party was caused by a malfunction in the software, the manufacturer could be held responsible, but the driver too could be held responsible for not taking over the car during the time of the crash.
All in all, driverless cars are a step forward to the future of transportation, boasting both ecological and driving benefits. However, concerns outweigh the benefits of driverless cars, and it will be seen how the development equates with either benefit or concern. Regardless, driverless cars are a great step forward in technology, and they will benefit those in use of them.
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The author provides good and bad reasons you should and should not have a driverless car.Here are some pretty good reasons to have a driverless car. The important technology in this system is the spinning sensor on the roof that makes a laser beam to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the cars surronding which lets you see exactly everything before a wreck or an accident.
The driverless car can steer, accelerate, and can beable to use the brakes themselves.The driverless car can alert the driver whenever it needs human skills such as navigating through work zones and aroung accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situations requires.
Here are some bad reasons why driverless cars should not be used.The fact that laws are being made in most states that driverless cars are not aloud is one like states will not allow it until the cars are more proved more reliably and safe.Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. What if the technology fails and somone gets injured, who would be in the blame the driver or the manufaturer?
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Dear senator,
I belive that Electoral college is unfair in many ways, and maybe it would be good to keep the election by popular vote for the United States. The reasons why changing the election to Electoral college would be; smaller states would not see the candates because they would go to the bigger states like California, Texas and other states that are bigger then ohio or south carolina some of this states didn't even see a campaing ad how sad is that because this country is know for the equalness off every one but yet the electoral college forgets about seventeen states that are small because their vote doesn't matter.?
Keeping the election by popular vote would be the best. The fact that the people of the United States are able to see and vote for whom they perfer not the electors who elect the president. You might think that keeping the electoral college election is not as bad or unfair because it can help elect a president when the one of the presidents vote are majotite of vote it can help a run off election but I beive the best way to select the president of the U.S would be by letting the people chosse what they think is the best so the people know they are noticed in this contry.
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Luke (me) personaly wants people to join the Seagoing Cowboys Program. It is slot of fun you get to spend alot of time out on the ocean and the sights are absolutly magnificent. Every morning you get to wake up and breathe in the fresh ocean air and wake up to the sound of waves.
You should sign up and if you don't you will be missing out on alot of very neat experinces. And when you reach you destination you will be amazed at the wonderful sights. Not only that you get to tend to animals and help out. You also get to have a great feeling in your heart knowing you got to help.
As from the story you see how truly great it is to do this. Not interested yet well there is a chance when you are 18 years old you do not have to be drafted off to war,they may just have you do this. Now that you see that reason I bet I got your attention.
So when you do this not only do you get to have a great feeling in your heart knowing you helped, but you also get to see wonderful sights everywhere you look,and get to tend to soft fluffy animals that are so cute day in and day out,and who knows you may not even have to be drafted they may just have you do this only.
Come sign up today it will most certainly be the biggest chance of a lifetime. If you join today you will NOT be sorry, I will personaly gaurntee it. If you do not like it, join the war but when you sign up for the war I want you to think about how you could help tend to cute fluffy animals and see geat sights but its your choice. So come on what do you say, it will be a life changing experince for you.
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Just cause it looks like a face it does not mean there are aliens. When have there ever been real signs of aliens. Even if there where they would have shown themselves to astronuts. Honestly alien most likely would not be scared of us realelisticy.
If aliens where real they weapons and mind would probaly be more advanced. They would have to have made homes, spacecrafts and probably guns as well. Think about it it has to be a natural land form just look at the our worlds natural land forms. Im sure there are landformes that look like faces or objects somewhere. So it must be a landform that is the only way because aliens would have showed them selves by now it is just that simple.
The eyes where probly shadow on a rock that looks like a face and that probable the truth. Also its impossible for somthing to live with out oxygen and there are no trees meaning no oxegen. It also either really hot or really cold mening somthing would either over heat or if cold freeze and that is my argument.
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Global warming is one of the main reason, maybe the only reason the is destroying the atmosphere. Humans today are trying to prevent global warming because if we continue to pollute the atmosphere it can very well kill most of the living things, maybe all of the living thing on this planet, including humans ourselfs. I think reducing the usage of cars today is a great way to stop global warming.
One of the countries that are taking action in doing this is the countries is France. Paris has decided to partially ban driving to clear the air of the global city. In the text it states that, "on Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their car at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31)." This show that paris is trying to get rid of the smog in the air, and now they are asking their citizens to stop driving their cars, bike ect. Also if you don't partcipate in you will have to pay a fine of 22-euro. In addition one of the main subsatnces to motor pollution is diesel feul. the passage says that, "diesel was the blame, since the France has...[a] tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline." Since France favors the usage of diesel, this one of the main reason why they have forbidden the use of motor in paris. Moreover it states that;"deisel make up 67 percent of vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of the Western Europe." This again also proves that diesel plays a major role in the pollution of France. As you can see France is making changings to there country due to the global warming.
France is not the only one that has taken action by reducing the car usage. The city BOGOTA, Colombia has also changed their ways in cutting down on car usage."Millions of colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams," the text states. What this is trying to explain is that Columbia has a program that prevents the citizens from using vehicles, so the whole day they usa bikes, skates, and take the bus, even some of them go hiking to wherever they go. Consequently there are some benefits to having a car, such as basic transportation needs. In the text it states that,"but America's love affair with is vehicles seems to be cooling. When adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily."Although driving is something essential to human needs these days, it is also very killing. As you can see other countries have taken part in this struggle to prevent global warming to get any worst.
In conclusion the reduction of using vehicle today can be one big step in slowing down the rate of global warming, although taking away cars me be a major problem to in basic transportation needs, it is better than killing everything on the planet.
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In this article, Luke enjoys being a Seagoing Cowboy and views it in a positive way. This was a great opportunity for him. He was able to help people during World War II. But as said in paragraph 9, he didn't only become a cowboy just to help people, like said in this quote from paragraph 9, "It opened up the world to him." This was was many of his reasons to join this program.
Although Luke had broken his ribs in paragraph 7, Luke continued to go on his adventure and still found ways to have fun like said in paragraph 8. This can prove that Luke enjoys what he is doing and that he loves being a Seagoing Cowboy.
In this whole story, it talks about someone named Luke Bomberger decided to join the Seagoing Cowboy program. It shows his experiences and what he learns from it, and the ongoing adventure he has throughout his life. So, helping people and exploring the seas is a great adventure and can teach many life experiences. There may be dangerous sea animals, such as sharks, but don't get discouraged, this can teach to go through many hardships that you may face and be able survive and be an opportunity for your life and your family.
If you like learning, then being a Seagoing Cowboy/Cowgirl can be an experience that will change your life like said in "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves." If you don't like being what I said in this Draft, atleast reconsider your choice and think about the opportunity said in the Article. I understand, it will be really dangerous and risky, but if you manage to survive, you can learn many lessons and important life things not many people know.
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Even though the Electoral College is known as a disaster factor, it has its benefits. The Electoral College is a process that consists of the selection of the electors. Each candidate running in your state has his or her own group of electors that are voted for. When you vote on election day, which is held every four years on Tuesday after the first Monday in Novemeber, you vote for the candidate's electors. Many politicians wanted to abolish the Electoral College because of its lack of democratic pedigree, but the college doesn't allow voters of other regions to feel disenfranchised, it avoids run-off elections, and thinks that the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election.
The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have a trans-regional appeal. It would not be fair for a candidate to campaign heavily in a state that they know they are going to win. This does not gain them any electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows will win. This causes voters that are from the opposite region to feel as if their votes did not count, that their new president would not care about their interests or values. The president would not really be their president because of the fact that they were ignored.
Voters that are more likely to pay attention to the campaign by listening to each opposing sides that compete against one another should decide the election. If voters that voted didn't care and picked the weaker candidate, then everyone would pay the price. The knowledgable voters listen to the competing candidates and will receive the most information and attention from the candidates. This leads to a candidate worthy enough to become president, which will choose the country's decisions for the next four years.
Run-off elections, where elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast is avoided. There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast, which complicates the presidential election process, but is reduced by the Electoral College to announce a clear winner. The run-off election once happened to Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992.
Many argue the fact that the Electoral College method may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope for carrying their state. People knowing their vote will have no effect, will have less intentions of paying attention to the election then they would have if the president picked the popular vote. Voter's in presidential elections are people who want to express a political reference and want the best for their country's future rather than people who think one vote may decide the election and disregard the point of voting.
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The author said Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because of each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. It shows that if we want to more study and get education about venus we should upgrade are meachines and aircrafts so they can survive more time on venus and scientist can more and deeply research.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. On the venus's surface, temprature avrage over 800 degrees fahrenheit. Veanus's atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then we experince on the earth. This is why we cannot survive at veanus too much time. It is not neccessary that on venus is everything different from earth like the air pressure on venus is close to that sea level on earth. So some things are same between venus and earth but some things are so different between earth and venus. Venus is second planet from our sun. So i think this planet can be hotter than the earth.
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I evaluate my claim to support how well the author supports his idea that "studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers"
using envidence from the article Venus is the second planet from our sun, is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the clost in distance too.
Venus, sometimes called the "Evening Star" is one of the brightest point of light in the night sky, numerous factors contribute to Venu's reputation as a challenging planet for humas to study, despiste its proximity to us.
Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud raped world, Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours, in the atmosphere almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, but also astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth and can sometimes be our nearst option for a planetary visit.
Striving to meet the change presented by Venus has value also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors, solar power would be pletiful and radiation would not exceedEarth levels, Not easy conditions, but survivable for humas, should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.
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In a school, there are clasrooms upon classrooms that are all teaching different, new, and exciting classes. When walking down a hallway, it is more than possible that the sounds of logorithmic functions could be taught to your left as Shakespeare might be being recited to your right. If you take a turn, one kid may be leaving his photography class to go take pictures for the yearbook while another may be returning from the restroom to go back to her chemistry class where she is studying saturated and unstaurated solutions. Despite the intense differences and varities of classes that there are at a high school, not every one of them is "new", "different", and "exciting," as used previously to describe the classrooms scenes to all kids. Therefore, if it were at all possible that these kids could feel and want to be more engaged in their classes that take up a large portion of their week and youth, the way to do so should be evident in the classrooms. With this in mind, the idea that using Facial Action Coding Systems in classrooms would be valuable is not only true, but something that should be acted upon. (D'Alto).
In the life of someone that is attending school, there is one idea that is always looming over their shoulder. Whether it be like a cloud on a rainy day or a shadow following them on a sunny one, grades are always an important factor in a school-goer's life. Therefore, if this porgram would be able to help kids to be more interested in a topic and be more involved, they may just have improved grades from this system. In the text, the excerpt, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming cofused or bored,' Dr. Huang predicts," shows that student's attention could be analyazed. (D'Alto, 6). With this being done, if the computer would be able to recgonize confusion, the student could then be introduced to a better way to learn the material or a way that they beter understand it, then leading to better grades. (D'Alto, 6). Also, the grades of the students could improve based on what the computer decides to do with as much human touch as it can. The passage, "'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor,'" shows that there is a solution to any problems a kid may have with what they are learning. (D'Alto 6). The fact that the computer attempts to try and help the students with a human touch shows that it would have the capibilties to do it's best and help the students to learn better, overall improving the student's grades. (D'Alto 6). With both of these examples in mind, it can be seen that the inclusion of this sytem into classrooms would have the capability to improve both a student's grades and understanding.
When a kid is sitting in a classroom for an hour, atleast, every day to every other day, there is seemable reason as to why and how a kid could get easily side tracked and/or bored. Despite this being true, the inclusion of this program into student's lives may have the ability to greatly improve student's engagement and interest in the classroom. In this article, the author includes, "'Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional connection,' notes Dr. Huang. 'So computers need to understand that, too,'" shows just how the students may become more engaged and interested in their classes that take up so much of their week days. (D'Alto 6). If the computers would be able to connect with the students, there is no reason that these kids would not feel more obligatred to pay attention and more interested to learn what is being taught. (D'Alto 6). Another reason that these kids would gain more by having this system in their schools is the idea that would engage them in a fun manner. When the author included, "The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can really do," the reason is stated so in the text. (D'Alto 6). By including this piece, the author is showing that there, overall, is a fun factor to this could intrigue the students and keep them interested in their assignments and school overall. With these two ideas in mind, it can be seen that, as the attention of students is a primary need for schools, if this could improve just that, there is no reason not to include it in student's lives.
As science is an ever-budding field by it's own nature, there is no reason that a new technology wouldn't thrive among those interested in both science and technology. Therefore, as this is something that is new and up and coming, the addition of this to clasrooms may spark a pasion for this subject and inspire a career to form. In the excerpt, "The software is the latest innovation from Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckham Institute for Advanvced Science at the University of Illinois, working in collaboration with Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam," shows just how recent this technology is. (D'Alto 1). With this in mind, if students were able to be introduced and subject to this technology, there could be future scientist that want to further improve this technology and, until then, would be more involved in it's place at school. (D'Alto 1). Also, due to the fact that this technology is not only limited to the classroom, it is then evident that other jobs could be produced out of this technology being in the classroom, sparking interest in young and vulnerable students. As the author includes, "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive--for video games or video surgery," it is showsn just exactly how various the fields are that this technology could be used in. (D'Alto 6). Whether a kid is devoted to learning about medicne or engrossed in playing games, it has been shown that this technology in the classrooms would expose these kids to it's capabilities and potentially create a passion. (D'Alto 6). Therefore, by including this technolgy in the classroom with it's own purpose, the students would be subject to technolgy that is blooming in several fields and could easily inspire a child to become something that utilizes this technology in their future.
As kids are ever-subject to new and upcoming ideas, it is evident that the addition of recent techology could aid their progression in school and would be deemed as important and valuable to include. If a kid were someone that easily lost interest in a course or was not very interested in a certain class, they may then be more provoked to learn and pay attention if this new technology was included at their school and interested them. By doing so, there is potential that the student would then be able to improve their grade and get much out of this porgram. Also, if a student were to be even intrigued in this technology, there could be potential for this studen to go into a job field that dealt with this type of technology as there are many that vary greatly in doing so. Overall, the inclusion of present innovations and technology should be including the next generations, as success for them now will lead to future success for all.
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Even though venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide whis is unsurvivable for humans astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth-like in our solar system. The author explains that long time ago it was covered by oceans valleys and mountains. Venus has really high temperatures such as 800 degrees fahrenheit or even higher which makes it the planet with the hottest surface in our solar system. But The author says that the NASA's possible solution to this is to "float above the fray". A blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 miles or so above the surface of Venus. These would not be easy conditions but they would be survivable for humans. However "He explains" this is not the best way to go to Venus because could not take samples of rock or the surface of Venus to study them but The NASA says that we could use computers that would probably resist the high temperatures. In conclusion the author explains at the end of the last paragraph that human curiosity will help us to understand how to survive in extreme conditions on other planets; no matter how dangerous they are.
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In "The Challenage of Exploring Venus," the author claims on how studying venus would be a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents. The Author backs up this claim by incluiding inforamation in pargraph 7 that involes Nasa delvoping "elctronics made up of silicon cardide that is being tested in a chamber to simulate Venus acidfied surface." Pargraph 7, also includes that Nasa is "using old technology known as Mechinal computers, which uses gears and leavers which are more deriable in venus atmosphere." Nasa hopes delvoping these electronics could help scientist get a personal close up that could help researches to find out if Venus was once an earth like planet that once able to support life.
However, in paragraph 3 the authour mentions that Venus can reach an
"average tempture of 800 degress ferinhight," and Venus having an "atmopseric pressure that is 90 times gratter than planet earth. Not to mention Venus enviorment causes powerful earthquakes, and lighting strikes that mainly target the ground. Then in paragraph 5 the authour adress the issue by claming "that Nasa would allow scientist to float around the planet, so they can research planet without worrying that Venus sulferic acid would not melt the rocket, and the scientist."
However this also dosen't rectify the problem because paragraph 6 debunks the solution by claiming that "perring at Venus from a ship that is oberting the planet, would not allow most forms of light to pentrate venus dense atmosphere , which effect the photography that would make it immposabile for scientist to even attempt studying the plantes rocks, and geographical fetaures.
Inconclusion, scentist should probally put off the project because earth has not delovped the technology would be most likely destoryed once it reaches venus. Instead Scientist should begin the project once we have delvoped the apporiate equitment that can wuithstand Venus harsh enviorment, temptures, and pressure.
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We (NASA) have recently discovered the "face" on Mars which has been a big thing since we gave the information out to the world.
A lot of people think it's an actual face created by aliens because the time before we discovered it it was foggy up on Mars so they think aliens must have did it then.
Do you think it's a real face created by aliens or just something natural that happened? Since you said yes your wrong and now I'm going to give factoral information to support my answer.
First we did think that it could have been a real face too but that didn't last very long because every happening has to have an explanation.
We figured it was just another Martian mesa but it did turn out to have unusual shadows making it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
But that's all it was just unusual shadows that appeared on the "face".
We then later revealed the image for everyone to see and it sure did give a lot of attraction to Mars.
The "face" appeared in movies, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even in a haunted grocery store check out line for 25 years!
Then everyone thought that that was actual evidence of life on Mars!
NASA kind of did wish that there was ancient civilization on Mars.
It was our priority to take bunch of pictures of this controversy to come up with an explanation for all this for everyone to understand what it really is.
So in 1998 when the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, the (MOC) team shot a picture ten times that was even more clearer than the originals.
Everyone was exited, waiting for the picture to come out on the internet to figure out what it really was.
The picture then finally came out and it turned out to be a natural landform!
Not very exiting, huh?
But still a lot people didn't believe us because in the winter of 1998 it was very cloudy up there and some beleive the aliens were hidden by the fog.
So in April 2001, we went to get a second look and this time we used the best camera we could find that picked out every detail.
Do you think they found alien evidence?
Nope we didn't, it turned out to be a butte or a mesa.
So now you know the real answer.
Even though it does look like a face and is very unusual we found the facts.
But could maybe someday we find weird alien evidence up in space on a planet?
We'll see!
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Exploring Venus
I wounder why Venus called the "Evening star" I think venus sometimes call the evening star because its a bright planet and it shine like a star & its the second planet from our sun. And venus referred to earth's twin because venus is the closest planet to earth. If I was an anstronount I would love to explore venus because it would be fun to be walking on venus.
Most people should join venus just to see how it look and how is it. I think NASA
as our jet airplanes travel at higher altitude to fly over many storms to go into space and explore many plants.
The national aeronautics and space administartion have done a great job when they go into space and discover planets. I think it is very cool to go on other planets venus is sometimes closers to mars. The earth rotated its self and people dont nocited it.
The sun is the hottest planet in the solar system it is over 100's degrees. Long ago venus was probaly coverd largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth.
Today, venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth but venus is one of the best planet in the solar system.
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The limiting of car usage will have a major impact on society and the life span of planet Earth. The effects of the usage of automobiles has increased the changes in natural resources to reduce and produce much more slow. Limiting the usage of vehicles can asist society with forming a shift in American Behavior and safety.
Vehicle usage has taken a nose-dive in the past centry. From the loss of jobs, to the decrease in income, down to the death of thousands. Because of the health risk many places have set a ban on driving privlages such as Paris. According to the resource, "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." Oftenly, those who refused to respectfuly contribute to the ban were forced to pay a fine of $31.00 in United States money for not obeying the City's instructions. The pollution rate has slowly decreased as society continuously starts to decrease the mass usage of vehicles. As to sociologist, "If the pattern persists- and many sociologist believe it will-it will have beneficial implications for cabon emissions and the enivronment..." These implications have been studied by many to figure out the real reason car industires do not rebrand themselfs as "mobility". The companies that have taken the leap to stop pollution have allowed society to make a enormous U-turn in the way the government controls pollution evacuation.
The safety of society has also taken a major leap in success. Mimi Sheller, a sociology professor at Drexel University states ""Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift,"". other ways, such as speaking to friends electronically can also have an impact of the car usage. Not meeting up with friends and wasting gasoline (or diesel fuel) is the most common way to stop pollution and its hazzardous complications. Also, "With all these changes, people wo stopped car commuting as a result of the recession may find less reason to resume the habit...." thus, causing a sudden shift in the way pollution is being created. Reflecting on other major causes of a global shift such as the nations popultion dencity.
In summation, the limiting of car usage has many advantages. Limiting the usage of vehicles can asist society with forming a shift in American Behavior and safety. Do you want to risk the possibility of ending the worlds greatest issue?
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Did the author support his idea? Should Venus be studied despite the dangers it presents! The author supported his idea well by explaing some of Venus Earth like features,like the ocean waters that it has,also that it may gave supported some type of life source at an point and time."While Venus is simple to see from distant but safe to vantage point of Earth,it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely."Also explaing some of the dangers it could cause to humans.
In the text it states that space crafts dont last long on Venus but it was never manned. If an astrnaunt was sent to Venus as an attempt to see if humans could survive there. In the text it sates that humans can float in a craft about 30 miles away from Venus. The temputures in the raduis is about 170 degrees Fahrenheit with air pressure at sea level which is survivable for humans but ot easy conditions."At thirty-plus miles above the surface,temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit,but the air pressure would be close to that sea level on Earth."
In conclusion the author supported his statement about Venus being explored no matter the dangers. Also the author explained many other things like explain the look of Venus and some of the similarities it has too Earth including possible life on Venus.
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I am against the deselopement of driverless cars. Its great learning how to drive. Especially when some one you love is teaching you. It creates great times and memories for the both of you. I am against the developement of driverless cars because they can malfunction and become cause harm and because its good for people to learn things on their own.
Driverless cars can malfunction and become dangerous for the passengers in the car. They may seem great at first, but then what will happen if it breaks down or something spontanious happens that the car is not programmed to recognize? The world is very unpredictable. It would be good to have a human and alert pair of eyes on the road.
Its good for people to learn to drive on their own. Just like the text says, " ...so far, Google cars aren't truely driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadblock or accidents." Humans, or passengers, need to know how to do those things until that is programmed. Also learning to drive is a great way to bond with family members or a trusted lisenced adult. It creates memories. I know this from experience. When I turned 15 my mother wanted to teach me to drive. Our relationship was on the rocks around that time but her teaching me to drive only made us smile, laugh, and reminisse on me alonost killing us. Once i learned to drive I felt like i had accomplished something worth while. I felt I had purpose on the road. Thhats a great feeling.
Some may argue that driverless cars are a good thing and that they may be safer. That is true in some cases but not all. I believe driverless cars would be perfect for events and a large amount of passengers. For example, prom, a driverless limo would be perfect. There may be drinking involved that may be the safest way back for the promgoers, but what if theres a road block and all of the passengers are drunk? Then what?
I am against the deveopement of driverless cars because at times it can be very dangerous also its great learning to drive. Personally I love driving. Many other people do too. Also many other people are too young to drive and cant wait to learn. If technology does everything that child that dreams of getting behind the wheel of their dream car just has to watch as a passenger.
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The topic about the driverless car is that I dont think its a good idea to begin with. We have to be more careful what we use technology for . I will explain why I think this , and give reasons as well .
One of my reasons why is what if one part of the car malfunctions and stops working and then driver is left somewhere she/he doesnt know where they are at. that would cause a big problem for the company .Another one could be what if somebody hacked into another persons car , the is mainly technology and it might not be hard for them to find some way to do this, this could cause some trust issues with the manufacturer. Nobody will feel safe in thier own car know this might one day happen to them. What is also stated in the reading is a good question as well '' If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault here- the driver or the manufacturer''. This would be a good question for the people who are driving these types of cars what if the car did it all on its own and the driver couldnt do anything will they still get blamed? will they have to serve jail time for something they know they did not do. Or will the manufacturer also have a part in this , maybe they will both be blamed and punished. If anything failed in these cars how much will it cost to repair them, you might be better off getting a car that you can drive your self and know about , better than having something new and not knowing the issues it comes with.
Sure there are reasons to have these types of cars for example for the ederly who may have trouble getting places , but what if teenagers took advantage of this because they know that these cars dont need a driver most of the time. There could be many questions to be asked by the people that even the company might not know how to answer . Also the traffic laws might change just to introduce these cars not everyone might support this . There is always a good and bad part to this but i wouldnt vote to having these cars made. Just how safe are these cars for us.
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NASA found a wierd object in a planet named Cydonia. They saw faces in Cydonia they didn't know what made the faces. NASA Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites. They were looking for landing sites for Viking 2. When they spotted the a human face.
I say that the face was made by landform. If it wasan't who would of made the face? The land had hills or something so it could make the face. The face has since became a pop icon. Or something made the figures in the area to make the face.
Although a few scientist believed the Face was an akien artifact, photographing cydonia became a priority for NASA. When Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in Sept. 1997, eighteen long years after the viking missions ended. So, on April 5, 1998, when Global surveyor flew over cydonia for the firt time. Micheal malin and his Mars Orbite camera (MOC)team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original photos.
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To some people the limit of car use is very important to them, because they want to stop pollution or things. In the city of Vauban, Germany they do not use cars because, to start off with to even park a car you would have to pay $40,000 plus the price of your house to be able to park it at a parking garage. The city has worked for two decades to make Vauban, Germany better for walking. Which made Vauban home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile. This made people all around the world consider to reduce car use, in America the Environmental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduced" communities.
Other countries strictly rely on car reducing to take down the amount of polltuion in the air. Paris days after a near-record pollution forced car reduction to everyone. Almost 4,000 drivers were fined, and many had their cars impounded. People in the capital city of France were starting to get sick and get congestion because of all of the smog, and pollution from cars. For Paris to have car reduction they had to ban any cars with odd numbered license plates from driving for a certain period of time. After all of the pollution in the air had cleared enough they had a party for the people with odd numbered license plates to drive again.
In another occasion of car reduction Bogota, columbia had a car reduced day where people would hike, bike, skate, and take buses to work. They as well used this chance to clear pollution of the air and some people didn't mind it, they had a chance of a stress free day and the ability to lower air population. Any violators who chose to drive a car would be issued a $25 fine. Other countries who did not have car reduced days liked the idea of it, and thought they were generating a "revelutionary change". Due to these car reduced days parks and sports centers have been an uprise. The days without cars is a campaign that began in Bogota in the mid-1990s.
In the United States of America government officials have talked about car reducing, but have never passed it. In 2005 the miles driven in America had peaked, and dropped steadily after. Michael Sivak said, "What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two to three years before the downturn". Bill Ford owner of For Motor proposed partnering with the telecommunications industry to create cities in which "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve safety.
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I am against the developement of driverless cars. I do not t think driverless cars are safe. In my opinion, I think driverless cars are more dangerous than driving a car normally. A problem can occur when the driverless car is driving. Maybe it is simply because there was a system malfunction with the car, or it could be because when the car tells the driver to take back over the driver is not paying attention. Someone will get injured, and it is not worth it.
Driverless cars are not completely driverless. Whether it is because the driver has to keep their hand on the wheel when the car is driving its self, or because the car will ask the driver to take over when it approaches a sticky situation. Yes, drivers do get tired of driving, but what's the point of having a driverless car if you still have to drive anyway? It's a waste of time and money. In paragraph nine, the author states that traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Therefore, it is illegal to even test computer-driven cars.
If there was an accident when the driverless car was driving, who would be a fault? The driver or the manufacturer. A driverless car is too much of a hassle to me. Maybe if in the future car dealerships make cars able to drive on there own no matter the situation, and it was completely 100% safe I would agree that driverless cars are the way to go. Although, as of right now, I am against driverless cars. Drivers should drive themselves wherever they need to go and not have a car driving for them.
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We have all seen the look on Leonardo da Vinci's very own Mona Lisa's face. Some might see a blank face. Some may see happiness, anger or even fear. A machine by the name of Facial Action Coding Systems (FACS) can tell you exactly how she feels. This new technology can even be valuable in the classroom.
This recently created software scans facial movements. It weighs the different units of expression. Although Mona Lisa is just a painting that doesn't move, she is compared to a neutral face. According to Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe, researchers of FACS, "She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry."
It may seem unlikely that Dr. Paul Eckman, the creator of FACS, only uses "six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, digust, fear and sadness", but when the computer constructs a 3-D model, it uses all 44 major muscles in the face.
Imagine making a certain facial expression and your computer screen magically changes its settings. In the future Dr. Huang predicts "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". This could cause a dramatic postive change in test scores. Also not all students can gather information the same way. Students will want to know more if the information is grabbing their attention.
Allowing computers to scan information from facial expressions in the classroom setting can and will drive students to want to learn because of the personal format and reliablity.
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According to the passage using emotions and expression to show how we feel and animated characters using animations and showing facial expressions to express emotions and how they feel towards other things is not a bad idea. If a human gets hurt then the emotion and the expression would be squinting there eyes being loud or holding whatever got hurt. So giving those types of animations and expressions to robots and video game characters would be good because you would not be able to tell what happened to them if they didnt have any emotion of when they got hurt or smiling. When a human is taing a picture and you want to make it look nice they would smile so they would open there mouth and show there teeth making there face wrinkle. They need to put the same emotion and such for animated characters in tv shows and video games. Also you have to use some muscles to smile and to show facial expressions towards everything like jobs,school,and even taking pictures.
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Dear Senator,
The Presidential election is one of America's proudest accomplishments. It sets the United States apart from other countries and brings great pride to the people. As the United States grows older and wiser, it learns more than what the original Founding Fathers knew. One of their (the Founding Fathers) great contributions to this country is the Electorial Congress. This process is still being used today. Based on the positive and negative aspectsof this system, the Electorial Congress should remain the way Americans elect government leaders.
The major goal of elections is to choose a leader in a mythotical and smooth way. The Electorial Congress brings a "landslide electorial-vote victory in that state." (source 3, paragraph 18) This gives the public a reasurrence that their state was strong and sure about the decission. This comfort might not come if the elections were popular-vote based only. Also, "the Electorial College requires a presidential to have trans-regional appeal. No region has enough electorial votes to elect a president" (source 3, paragraph 19) It's important to have a system that doesn't allow one region to dominate over the others. Had this been the case, the balance among the people would be completely thrown off.
Of course, there are drawbacks to this system. There are a good number of people who believe this is not a democratical way of having their voices be heard. (source 3, paragrph 15) Along with that, close calls such as ties have shown to strain the current voting system. (source 2, paragraph 11) However, these are rare cases and when they presented themselves, the leadeers of the country were able to fix the issue in a way that appeased most. This current process does give some states power to tip the scales while others are locked in on their canadates before the voting begins. (source 2 paragrph 13) But the results over the past years have shown no party has an unfair advantage over the others. America has had both many democrats and republicans in office.
Based off of the current solutions to the Electorial Congress, for the time-being, remaining the same would be in the best interest of the nation. It is acknowleged that the people are voting for a slate of electors and not the actual canadate. But the voters who know United States elections are about "expressing their political prefernces" (source 3, paragraph 23) are accomidated nicely and reassured of the current process. The peoples' opinions are well represented in the use of this system and until it poses an unsolvable, catastriphical problem, there is no need to abolish it.
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Dear Florida Senator,
The Electoral College has been in the United States for a very long time. It has worked for the most part and we have been happy with it for the most part, but "for the most part," doesn't cut it. The system has to be one that works all the time without fail. Said system has to make sense. That is why electing by the popular vote should be our's.
Except for two states, the electoral votes are, "Winner take all." This means that if the popular vote is obtained in a state by just a smidge, the the entire state's votes go to that candidtate. This makes absolutely no sense at all. The "big states" like California, Texas, and Florida have about thirty to fifty five electoral votes unlike most other states which have three to ten electoral votes. If the "big states" were to be won by a little by one candidate, then he or she would have over one hundred votes toward his or her candidacy but only about sixty percent of the popularity for those states. This happened to Al Gore in 2000 against George W. Bush.
Another problem with the Electoral College is that the creators did not make it so that a tie is impossible. Richard A. Posner explains in his article from
Slate Magazine that although the total number of electoral college votes is even, it is still very unlikely. Now which is more likely, something to happen out of 580 things or something to happen out of many million?
When voting for the president, the voter feels like he or she has the power to choose our nation's leader. When the voter realizes they are not voting for the president, they are, in fact, electing chosen people to vote for them, it does not really have the same effect. This is explained in Bradford Plumer's "The Indefensible Electoral College." Electing by the popular vote would make it seem more personal and voting would have more meaning.
Richard A. Posner also said that the Electoral College made candidates go to more than one region of the United States to gain support. In fact, they just go to swing states and states they know they will win. Electing by the poplular vote would make candidates go to every state to gain support.
The Electoral College may or may not have worked before, but it just doesn't now. It will take a while to implement the process of electing by popular vote, but when we do, it will definitely be worth it.
Sincerely, PROPER_NAME
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A driverless car can be really interesting and cool, but that does not mean that it is the right way to go. There are many serious flaws that a driveless car can have and most of them can put you in harms way. You would have to make sure that the driverless car is safe, that you know how to drive and know all about it, and if it follows the law.
My first arguement is the safety of driverless cars. A driverless car can have all of this fancy equipment like cameras on the roof and back and everything but the real concern is how well can a driverless car withstand? A driverless car can be the coolest car on the planet but that does not mean that it is safe. A driverless car can malfunction at any time and you would have no clue how to control it. The most important part is what if you have kids in the car with you and you get in a crash? The crash could injure the kids very badly or even possibly kill them. Driverless cars need to be 100% checked if you are going to drive it. The other thing is that, what kind of gas does it use or is it a solor powered car? If it is solor powered then that is another flaw because you would not be able to drive it in the night time because it has no sun for it to be charged from. That is one reason why a driverless car should not be used.
My second arguement is that you will have to know just about everything about the driverless car because without knowledge then you will have huge problems. First things first, you will need to know how to drive a car in general before you get a driverless car because in paragraph 7 it states, "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." This means that you will still have to know how to drive just in case of emergencies. Also something that you have to make sure you know is the car itself. You need to know how to fix minor problems so they do not become big ones. You also need to know what part is what because if you try to call someone and they tell you to take off a part, but do not know what to take off, and you accidently take off the wrong part without knowing it then that is going to be even a bigger problem than it was before. So you need to know how to work the car and how to fix minor problems before they become big problems. That is why you need to have knowledge about the driverless car.
Last but not least, my third arguement is is the driverless car even going to be street legal because what if you pay all that money for something you will only use a few times every so often? It would be a waste of money and time if the driverless car is not street legal. We have no clue if it even follows the rules of the road because, most driverless cars that have people in them, people wont be paying any attention because they think that the car can do all of the work and tha will not have to do anything. In paragraph 9 it states, " Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." That is why we do not even know if driverless cars will be legal.
All of these are reasons why driverless cars should not be allowed because of the safety hazards, if people have any knowledge about it, and if it is even legal. Driverless cars can be very dangerous and that is the last thing that we need in our community. So please help stop people from making driverless cars because it could ruin or society really badly and really quickly.
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With the new technology coming upon society, there are many new ideas coming abroad. There have been companies promoting the idea of a
"smart car" that is driverless. The idea has sparked arguements whether or not the idea is actually smart or may cause more issues. My opinion on the idea is that smart cars are a good idea because they can replace taxis and would be cheaper and convienent, could relatively be more safe than a regular driver, and that it's still not totally driverless.
The smart car would be cheaper because, in the article it says, "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis..." So by that statement it would cost less and actually polute less. It also would be alot more convient. The article says, "Offer more flexibility than a bus." Which many people around the world use daily. So this idea would be more convienent for the people so they could travel easier and cheaper to where they need to go.
Google has had a car that could drive by itself since 2009. In the article it says, "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." So that proves that the smart cars could relatively be more safe . Also in the article it says, "They needed a whole lot of sensors." Which includes, "Position-estamating 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 a inertial motion sensor." After that big list could u still doubt that it is not safe. I am sure they will even add more sensors in the future to be safer .
Even if u dont want to rely on the smart car to do everything it is not totally driverless. The smart cars require you to be on standby and ready to take control when it is needed. In the article it says, "Special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel."
There have been many ideas on how to keep the driver more alert from announcing that the driver needs to take control to flashing lights on the windshield.
With all these reasons combined and more I beleive that a driverless vehicle should be in the future , readily available for the public.
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New software has been created to determine the facial expressions of students. It uses technology to give data as to what emotions someone is feeling such as happiness, sadness, and boredom. These technologies are possibly going to be used in classrooms to help students learn better based on their emotions towards the lesson that they are learning. However, the use of software to determine the emotional expressions of students in the classroom is not valuable to the students learning experience.
To start, in order for this new technology to work, students woukld have to constantly be watched by cameras that read their expressions. This is said in the text when it says, "Using imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements," (D'Alto 4). One can see from this that the students would always have to be watched and their facial movements would all be recorded. This could be an issue of privacy for some students if they do not want to constantly be recorded. It also makes it easy for outside threats to hack this system and watch students or get personal information from the videos. Emotion-recognition software can also be expensive for schools, especially since it doesnt work on normal PC computers. The text states, " Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms used to decode Mona Lisa's smile," (D'Alto 7). This shows that normal computers that students would typically use cannot support this technology, making the school buy the technology that can support it. This would be a costly job and if the school cannot pay for it then the students would have to and some families may not be able to afford it. Lastly, students facial expressions may not directly correlate with the emotion they are feeling towards the lesson that they are learning. This can be seen in the text when it says, " A classroom computer could recognize when a stuent is becoming confused or bored," Dr Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor,"" (D'Alto 6). This exemplifies that the schools want to use this technology to help students learn more effectively by using technology thats like a teacher. For some students this may cause trouble if they make facial expressions, but it's not about the lesson. Such as if a student is told something by another student and the student looks confused, the computer might see that and think they dont understand the lesson. Then it would modify the lesson for the student even if the student understood it just fine. A teacher would be much better at understanding the students emotions in a certain situation than technology.
Students need to be able to learn on their own and to communicate with teachers on how well they´re understanding what they´re learning. By using facial recognition technology, its taking away their communication skills. There are many flaws to the facial-expression technology that make it a bad candidate to use in schools. It´s certain that there are plenty of good uses for facial expression technology, however using it in schools is not one of them.
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We know it wasn't created by aliens! If it was then we could have seen it in every picture we took. Instead we could only see in in the picture in 1976. Also if we would have thought that it actually was a atrifact from aliens then we wouldnt have made it public right away we would have went to go get more information, but the public wasnt satisfied so we went back and got them the information they wanted. Last but not least when we went back in April 8, 2001 (on a cloudless day) and took a picture it clearly showed that it was not built by alien lifeforms.
When the pictures were took they were all taked in different time periods. In each picture they were different. In the first picture the face is clearly shown but we didnt get a clear enough picture, so we went back a second time to see take another one. In the second picture it is slightly hard to determened if the face is there or not. So of course we still werent satisfied, and yet again on April 8, 2001 we sent ANOTHER ship so take ANOTHER picture, i need to remind you this is on a cloudless day, and when the (multiple) pictures were taken, it was just some old hill with nothing special to it.
A few days after recieving the picture NASA made it public! If we had truly thought that this was a "Acient Artifact" we would have kept it secret and not relised it publicly until after we (knew) that it was created by aliens. Which shows that we always knew it wasnt a alien artifact after all.
I can see why most people had thought it was a acient alien artifact though. I mean most people dedicate their life finding out if there is more lifeforms out there. So most people had to have hope. For the sake of what they chose to do with there life.
In April 8, 2001 NASA went back to snap ANOTHER photo. This day (to remind you) was a cloudless day. So we knew it would be the perfect day to snap the finishing photo. The photo that would settle everything. Not long after the photo was snapped NASA recieved it, and for some it was satisfying to find out that it wasn't a acient alien artifact. Others (on th other hand) were devistated (for the same reason in paragraph 3). The debate was over it, was and is official that it wasn't a acient alien artifact.
Now do you understand? Have i finaly conviced you that it isnt and never was a alien life form. The facts i found in the article are pretty spot on to what happened so i hope i have finaly conviced you that its nothing special just a natural landform.
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The United States is a government that is ruled by the people through elected representatives, but do the citizens really have power? The Electoral College proccess does not give the citizens all of the power that they shoud be entitled to. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." (p10) If a United States citizen wanted to vote for a certain candidate, they would vote for electors pledged to that candidate instead of directly voting for them. As a government who is "run by the people", the government surely has strict power over things that should be left up to the people to decide. The eloctoral college is unfair and quite confusing to the citizen of the United States. For example, one candidate beats another by a long shot with popular vote but the other candidate wins by electoral votes, the people still have not chosen the representative. The popular vote would bring honesty to the claim that we have a government who is run by the people.
A change to the election of the president by popular vote might, in fact, cause some differences and tension across the United States but would cause more relief than it would tension. The people are tired of this out dated process and demand power. Many citizens no longer vote because they think their vote does not count, that it is all up to congress and electors in the end. If the way of popular vote were to be set in place, many people would begin to vote again and would be fullfiling their civic duty. More and more people are begining to have negative feelings towards the government and many feel like their opinions do not matter and that nothing is going to change, that it only gets worse. If enough people come togeher, we can change this old and unfair way of voting and everyone's opinions could make a difference in our nation.
"Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a politican prefrence..." (p23) The electoral College is not a democratic way of voting because you are not voting for a president, you are voting for elctors who in turrn, will vote for the president they want despite the people's vote. The trust that the electors will vote for the party's nominee is rarely betrayed but is still a possibility. The winner-take-all system is in each state and candidates only focus on the "swing states". For example, in the 2000 campaign, seventeen states did not see candidates. Voters in 25 media markets did not see campaign ads. Popular voting will erase the unfair quality of our presidential elections and bring democratic ways back to the USA.
In conclusion, "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (p14) The process in which a president is elected by popular votes is much more feesable and democratic. Many more citizens will be more likely to vote under this process thus partionally bringing the nation closer to where it should be in the modern term of democracy.
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Im going to tell about how the author of the article ''The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is trying to convince people to explore and stuying one of our 8 plants called "Venus". He starts off by geeting in detail with describing how vevus is by stating " Venus sometimes caleed the Evening Star,is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky,and saying venus is the second plant fro our sun. Earth in terms of density and size,and occasionally the closet in distance too. He also discribed the plant as a cloud-draped world, and says maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched downn on venus in more than three decades
The author also gets into some math into this by breaking down some percentages that venus has compared to other plants by saying. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus ". he also says that one the plants surface , temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and theatmosphere pressure is 90 times gretaer than what they have experienced on earth. Venus has the hottest surface tempertature of many plants in our solar system, even with mercury being closer to the sun. He basically telling us about the percentages and the deepest amont of venus and other plants we didnt reaserch about.
In more of the storyhe tells you the things yo are exprcted to see on venus. Venus was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like earth. The planet has a surfae of rocky sediment and includes familiar features suck as valleys, mountains, and craters. He changes the subject and goesminto the NASA and how they have ideas on sending humas to study venus. he describes how going out there would be like by saying imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above theroiling venusian landscape. Also at thirty plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but tha air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth
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Why would somebody think that aliens are real? There has been no proven fact that aliens are actually real. Many people believe that they are out there somewhere, and if they were out there, then how come we have not seen them. That's right, because there are no such thing.
This face has to be an artifact. There is no way that the picture would not have caught some kind of shack or alien signs. There are a lot of conspiracy theory's out there. Some people claim to see bigfoot but we have no proven fact that he is real. For all we know, bigfoot could be a man dressed in a costume when people claim to see him.
The scientists figured out that is was just another Martian mesa that was common around Cydonia. When NASA unveiled this to the public, everyone went
way to far. The people started to make movies, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! The "Face on Mars" has certainly made people believe that there are actual aliens, but then again where is the evidence?
I mean it would not hurt NASA any if there was evidence of aliens, it would only make them gain not lose anything. There are landforms similar to the face that form in Idaho. The landforms are very common around the American west. The NASA ship even had a better camera and it still did not catch any life on Mars.
If there was any life on other planets, i'm sure we would have known about it by now. Like I keep saying, there is no bona fide evidence that we have on aliens. We don't even have evidence of the crack that leades to new find's in the bottom of the ocean. What makes people think that there is such things as aliens? If you believe in aliens than you should believe in all the other myths as well. The alien theory is just an average conspiracy theory.
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Studying venus can be very dangerous but that hasn't stopped scientists and astronomers from exploring Venus and studying it and having more information on that planet.
Although you never know whats going to happen when exploring new things scientists find it very intresting to keep exploring Venus to keep finding out some of the features it has and maybe what it even used to look like. Venus is the second planet from the sun so its still very hot. Exploring Venus is very nice its diffrent from earth but also very similar it has like type features to earth like the mountains, valleys, and even craters. Venus also has a surface of a rocky sediment.
On the planets surface it temperatures over 800 degrees fehrenheit so it is extreamly hot. It also has the hottest temperture in our solar system even though its not the first planet closest to the sun. Astronomers are also discussing future visits to Venus. They are very fascinated to that planet because it may have been just like earth at one point with oceans covering it and it also could have supported diffrent forms of life on its planet at some point even if it was many years ago. Astromomers also feel like it doesnt have easy conditions but its still survivable for humans they just have to figure out how they can live around the heat and diffrent things like that. In the text it says that " Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." And the weather impediments are like some of the things we have here like the earthquakes in certain parts of the worlds and the volcanoes too. So in some ways its similar to earth but with more extreme dangers.
The author did a very good job at supporting how dangerous exploring Venus is but how it also is a very cool planet to explore. The author also stated this in the aricle " 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." Which its sorta saying that even though its dangerous we shouldnt stop our minds from exploring diffrent things and imagining diffrent things.
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Technology has evolved in many ways over the years. Yes, this technology may be very good for our expanding environment yet do we really know the real cost technology may bring us? Does auto-driving cars seem right when there`s everyday hazardous drivers out in the world?
In my perspective I`ve already seen on news, on the internet and in my own eyes cars and automobiles get torn up or pummeled together just because they forgot a turn or they didn`t stop at the right time. These cars may have innovated warning signals to alert the driver but what would happen if the warning was to late? Would we lose lives and supply that cars/trucks may be bringing? I rather have the least outdated technology then suffer a live and food or clothing that could`ve helped me and others.
The cost of making cars that self drive may just be hundreds of dollars just to make a specific part thats needed in the vehicle. Maybe all together. But the real cost is those that may suffer injurys of a unexpected accident. They probably just lost themselves money that couldve been better spent. Perhaps other people may not mind that they lost a valuable car and can throw money like its nothing. But they don`t know the impact it has on themselves and others.
If anything were to happen who will the law punish? Those that were in the car or those that it exist in the first place? It has already been declared that their are some states that banned any self-driving cars. I as a single person respect that. But, is it enough to let more states and cities still trying to invent/improve cars that can auto-drive?
If its woth getting in accidents, losing money and maybe even losinga whole business then lets hope the new and improved self-drive car can make it into the future. In other words disaster is soon to come and I never would have thought that technology was meant to hurt others.
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Driverless cars is an easy excuse to get yourself into a car accident. I truely dont think the world would be ready for a technological advancement like this.
I am against driverless cars. As the aricle states, the cars aren't truely driveless. When the author stated this, it made me still think that this idea could still be dangerous. I feel like there will be more accidents with driverless cars than with regular cars of today. My feeling is how will a self-driving vehicle sense that there is a crash? How will it know if there is a car stopping in front of them? It just seems like an easy way to get into an accident. I think it would be better for the world to have an assisting car, not a self driving car.
In saying this, the world is not ready for a self-driving car in the near future. I think that in the hands of somebody smart and responsible, this idea would be great. But i think the world has to many irresponsible people in it to have a privelage like this.
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Seagoing Cowboys is fun and I can tell you all about it and it is amizang, it makes you feel good about yourself. You get to meet many people. You have fun when you go Seagoing Cowboy and treat others well.
There are many reasons you should go Seagoing Cowboys. One cool thing is that you get to see ruins and they are awsome. You will feel good about yourself becuase you do good things for the community around the world. Do you like animals? Well you get to take care of some animals on your way to a place that needs your help. If you thought that was lame well you need to adventure outside a bit more.
There are many things that can support the things I claim. He said in paragragh 5 that besides he gets to help people in need. Another reason is that it keeps you in shape because you help the animals and it evens says it in paragragh 6. When you help others and your a Seagoing Cowboy you will feel good becuase you helped someone that day and it will be fun. You can't explain how awsome it is and you have lots of fun on these trips.
You would love being a Seagoing Cowboy. You get to meet others and you get to be the person who wants to make a diffrence. You can tell your friends that you help people. Those who you help won't forget you becuase you helped them when they needed you. You become a hero to those people that you help. Finally Seagoing Cowboys taked care of animals.
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If i was a scientist at NASA and had to do research on of the face that is on mars i would say it isnt a human face. I think it is just a natural landform.
My evidence that the face is not really a human being is first of all it doesnt even have a body. Since they took pictures of the face, they could have croped the pictures to look real. In the pictures that scientists took of the face in 1976 to 2001 the pictures look nothing like a face. The pictures show cracks that may appear to look like a face but really isnt.
When a scientist was taking a picture on mars he noticed an enormous head nearly two miles from one end to the other end and it seemed that it was staring back at the cameras from a region of the red planet called cyndonia. The cause of that could have been a shadow and not a human looking back at him. Another thing is that i dont think they seen a Martian because when they said that they had pictures of a Martian, picture cant always be true because of how people crop pictures today.
So these are my reasons why i think that that face is not really a face, just a natural landform. A lot of people may believe what thay want to believe. Just remember that eveybody has there own opinion.
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The Facial Action Coding System is an impressive creation.
It shows advancements in technology that could potentially make everyday activities much simpler.
There is a place and time when this sort of technology could be useful.
However, I feel that this technology is not for everyone.
The Facial Action Coding System is not valuable in valuable for students in a classroom, because it takes away peoples privacy, it is expensive, and students can reach out to teachers if needed.
The first reason why I think that the Facial Action Coding System is uneccessary, is that it takes away people's privacy.
We live in a world that technology controls most of our life.
Sometimes this is useful and it makes our lives much easier. However, when personal information given out on the internet gets into the hands of the wrong people, bad things happen.
The Facial Acting Coding System might make people feel uncomfotable, especially since you are giving away what you look like to the device.
Students might not want to have to be obligated to use this sort of technology, and they shouldn't have to be.
The second reason why I think that the Facial Action Coding System is uneccessary, is that it's expensive.
A lot of money goes into paying for the technology that we use in schools.
Some students get school laptops, which is essential for some of the homework that we are assigned.
Some teachers get electronic whiteboards in the classroom to further enhance the teaching that they do.
However, a Facial Action Coding System is not needed for the amount of money that would go into it.
Most highschools have a lot of classrooms, ours has three floors, and the price we'd pay to put this device in each room would not be worth it.
The final reason why I think that the Facial Action Coding System is uneccessary, is that students can reach out to their teachers if needed.
There are students who struggle with subjects they learn in school.
I happen to struggle learning socail studies since I was in fifth grade.
The biggest mistake I've made that could have lead to this, is that I did'nt reach out to my teachers.
I was getting a D in social studies in fifth grade and it came to the point where my mother made me reach out to not only my teacher, but the principal.
I sat in a room and my mother, my teacher, and the principal all discussed with me why I was going off track and they gave me a chance to improve.
I did not need a Facial Action Coding System to tell me what was going wrong.
Students just need to talk with their teacher if they confused.
The teacher should not have to modify their lesson all the time because students are becoming bored of their class.
There may be a place in time that the Facial Action Coding System is useful, like to detect if a politician isn't being truthful, as stated in the article.
However, this technology just is not fitted for a classroom, because it takes away people's privacy, it is expensive, and students can reach out to their teacher if needed.
The classroom is a place where students learn, not become subjects of distracting technology.
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When there is a decision on if I were to choose driverless cars or not, I am in the middle. I feel this advancement could greatly improve some safty hazards occuring now a days. Even though it may help in some situations, it still leads alot of room for disaster itself.
I feel as though was the driverless car could help is all the drunk drivers. With this advancement drunk drivers wouldn't be as much of a worry. They could get in the car and arrive to their destination as safetly as they would sober. If people were to take these cars we wouldn't have to worry about red lights and the car flying by running the red light about to hit you, or losing as much control. As long as the person in charge of the car can put in the right destination, I don't see why this would be such a problem. I feel the advancment would also lower the rate of texting and driving. Now if someone were to answer the phone or something they don't worry about losing control of what they are doing. The car would keep you on a safe path. The car would know about its surroundings with the spinning sensor they are talkin about. Would be able to keep everyone safe- people inside and outside the car.
Even though this may be very helpful, there are so many things that could go wrong. In the article they mentioned that the person would still need to pay attention, so they could take over at anytime. This could be very dangerous. What if the car notifies you that you need to take control, but there isn't enough time? Then what do you do? The person "driving" could also get very sleepy while they just sit there. If the person were to fall asleep and the car is needing them to take control, then they are going to wreck. People not having something to do can be boring and a hazard. You need them 100% focused, but it'll be like school. If they don't have enough entertainment or focus, they will be lost and not know what's going on. Another problem is that the car is all technology. At any minute your car could stop working or have a malfunction just like a smart phone. The car could need you to drive, but the notifier isn't working so you got in an accident. With this you could fight with the manufactutrer saying it's their fault and they think it's yours. This could cause serious arguements amongst people.
I believe there are great advancements that could come from this, but also some major issues. Nothing about this could 100% be safe but could be alittle safer than things right now. Either way this goes weither they make the cars or not, they should know they cacn fix the car all they want, but they can't fix the person "controling" it.
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The "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the autor suggests that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and I agree there are many reasons why I agree and ill be telling you some. The reason why i agree to the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is because like it said in the text on paragraph 2 "Often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size" this means tht its like earth so we could possibly breath up there on Venus and start building stuff up there. Another reason its a worthy pursuit is that NASA is working on it already and its probably kinda close to being done so we may as well just complete it since they spent awhile on it it says this in paragraph 7 "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. In conclusion yes i agree to when the Author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
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