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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author said studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because of the climate. This is true because if we, humans, decide to go well will be more likely to die than going to mars. Venus is the closest planet in shape and size to Earth, although the Earth and Venus are close to being twins Venus can be a challenge to get close to because of the climate.
On Venus the atmosphere is pretty thick. Almost 97% carbon dioxide and the temperture is 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Don't forget that it is 90 times more that we have experenced here on Earth. This environment wouild destroy a submarine and turn it in to liquid. Although almost exacly the side of the Earth, Venus has the hottest surface in our solar system.
There is stories that say there use to be large oceans on Venus that covered half of the surface where it could support life like Earth. NASA is coming up with solutions to study the planet without sending humans. The built a vehicle that hovers 30 miles or so above the roiling Venusian landscape. Reseachers cannot take samples of rocks gas or anything else that far away. This is why it could be a risk for humans, we need to be up close to study the planet but if we do de might die from the heat.
This is some of the reasons why in "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author said studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
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Have you ever wanted to save a life? You can save a life while you are apart of the Seagoing Cowboys program. You might be wondering what in the world is Seagoing Cowboys, but you can find out what it is if you continue to read this essay.
The program called Seagoing Cowboys is a program that helps contries after a natural disater, or a war, which is the reason Seagoing Cowboys was created. Seagoing Cowboys is the program for you to join because saving lives can be so rewarding to yourself, to others, and make others want to be just like you.
Even if your the type of person thats always negative, that will encourage others not be like you, but to be the person that is the better version of that you.
You might be thinking, why in the world would I want to help someone I don't even know? I can answer that, because you should care about what the others think of you. Think about it, if you help someone you don't know, they might see what a good person you are and would want to join the group that you are in.
Helping others is a service everyone needs, even after a war or a natural disaster. You need to save a life, and help a family some day, do it with the Seagoing Cowboys program to be the person to help and possiblry even help them from dieing from starvation and other dark reasons because you didn't help them.
Do you like travling? Do you like the ocean? Want to be on a boat for a couple of weeks? Then Seagoing Cowboys is the perfect program for you! You might argue that there is nothing on a boat to do, well your wrong, on Lukes way back to his mainland, he claimed that there was a lot of extra time to pass by because after dropping off the cargo at the destination, there is nothing else to look over so you have the rest of that time to yourself.
After hearing the reasons in this passage, do you now feel like helping people or would you like to just sit on your couch just eating chips off your stomach. There is only one right choice, its the first option, saving people is so rewarding in your mind and heart. Seagoing Cowboys is the program that will make you feel better as a person, and as a human knowing that you're making history with helping other human beings live a long lived life by helping them live another day in there home and helping still have food.
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Yes i think that the technolody to read the emotinal expressions of students in a classroom is valuble. One reason why i feel like this is a good diea is because it lets you help the student out if they are deprssed or something. Because not alot of students may not say anything because they dont want their business out there in public. And iIf you use this technology then youll be able to come talk to that student 1on1 as a techer face to face to solve the problems they they are delaing
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Its basically a 3-D computer model that scans your whole face. And all 44 major muscles in the model must must move the exact same just like human muscles should. It has 6 basic emotions which are happines,surprise,anger,disgust,fear, and sadness. So its like a software and you scan your face and it shows your emotions and you are basically having the human traits when
it comes down to
emotions.
Us humans preform the same task when it comes to trying to paint sculptures of peope and paintings.
For example Mona LIsa she was a human that alot of people know about because of the well known Painter Da Vinci ended up making a famous painting of her. Her painting made alot of people smile when they seen her cause it showed different types of emotions when looking at her.
But now people are starting to benfit the future as technology is only going to improve as we live life. For example say that you smile when a web ad appears on your screen because it may be something that you are interrested in. But alos say that what if a different type of ad shows up and then you have a sad or different type of expressin or emotion. Then the screen will go to a different ad because it bascially scaneed your face. And it seen how you reacted so it made up some changes.
But if i was to judge i think this is a good use of technology. aAd i feel like we could use this not only in a psoitve way. But to help benefit the next geneartion of people in the future.
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Studying Venus is a very interesting thing . He very-well wrote the article " The challenge of exploring Venus ". He includes almost everything a person should and needs to know about the planet . You can tell just by what he has written that he is good at his job , and knows what he is doing. In my own personal opinion , i think he needs to add a little more detail and answers.
I happen to have a few questions myself . For example , how long has it existed ? Is it one of the oldest or newest planets ? Are any non-like humans able to even live there or would they explode from how much pressure/heat is on them? Why is it so hot there?
If it's not because of the sun , then what causes it ? I could go on but i think you get where i'm coming from. Because he didnt answer every question that could have been answered , im left with curiosity . Other than that , he did a very good job at explaining what happens on Venus . I also dont think it's very smart how he said " 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 " .
It seems to me as if he's trying to make it as a fantasy or a game . What happens to him and others that decide to visit Venus is a very serious and real-life thing. Some people dont want to die . The way he said it made it sound like he doesn't care , just as long as he dies having fun and believing it's an " imagination ". It's definitely nothing to play around about , it's very serious and dangerous.
Peoples lives are at risk and i don't think they want to die on purpose. People have families and would like to live long enough to return back to earth to see them. They put their lives at risk everyday just to discover things from outter-space or things on another planet. This article is written nicely , i just think it needs to add more answers and be more live-like.
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In 1976 the Viking 1 aircraft that circled and took pictures of mars looking for potential landing sports for future aircrafts found a shaodwly likeness of a human face on mars. Some scientists believed it to be unnatural and made by ancient civilization on mars. The more reasonable option was that it was just another Martian mesa which are commonly found on the part of mars called Cydonia.
Nasa has proven the face on Mars to be a butte or mesa, common landforms that are found on Earth. On April 5th, 1998 the aircraft Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time. The Mars Orbiter Camera team or MOC took a picture with a way higher amount of resolution than the first one. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL website, revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all."
Even after proving the public wrong about this conspiracy many were still not satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter on Mars at the time when the Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia. Therefore some people believed that the alien markings were hidden by the clouds.
On April 8th, 2001 whatever hope people had that the Martian face was made by aliens Nasa threw away. "It was a cloudless summer day in Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look." The MOC team took an extraordinary photo of the face a million times better than the past two. "What the picture actually showed the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West."
In conclusion The conspiracy on The Face On Mars was yet only a conspiracy and proven so by Nasa. The picture only showed the equivalent of a butte or mesa according to Nasa, thanks to the Mars Global Surveyor which took a picture in maximum resolution. "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo."
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I think that driverless cars would be a bad idea. I say this because people got their license for a reason, so they could drive. It says in the text that it would alert the driver when to take control, what if the person sitting in the drivers seat wasn't paying attention and the car wrecked? Then what would happen? My third reason is it would cost a lot of money to make all of the driverless cars, what if people didn't like them? Then manufacturers wasted all their money and time building them.
I think driverless cars is a bad idea. A lot of people went and got their license so THEY could drive, not to have some car drive. I think people would much rather drive their car themselves because if someone else driving wasn't paying attention they could crash cars in the driverless car. Anything could happen since there isnt anyone to pay attention in the driverless car.
The driverless car idea is bad for another reason because in the text it says the car will alert someone if they need to take control. What if someone doesn't respond to the alert right away? Then they could crash into a person or thing. People would have to pay attention at all times and that just gives me another reason to stick to cars with drivers. When you drive a normal car you have to pay attention all the time so I would just stick with that car.
My last reason on why driverless cars are a bad idea is that what if a lot of people ended up not liking them? Then the manufacturers would have just wasted all of their time and money on the cars. The manufacturers should have a test car before making a bunch, to see how people feel about them.
I think driverless cars are a bad idea because people got their license for a reason, people wouldn't be paying attention at all times, and people could end up not even liking them.
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. I believe that his suggestion would be valid. The reasons that the author provides are apealing benefits for just the exploration of a challenging planet.
The author claims that the dangers of the planet can be overcome by just a few modifications to the average spacecraft, which would be projected to last only a couple of hours. These modifications would be made so that the spacecraft would last longer in the harsh conditions. The author states,"Each previous mission was unmanned, and for a good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This text shows the dangers of attempting to explore this planet. The author also stated, "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." This shows that even the best and strongest built technology would not be able to withstand this planets wrath.
Despite these dangerous and extreme conditions, NASA believes they may have determined a way to still explore this forbidden planet. NASA's solution would be to hover above the surface 30 or so miles to avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by not being in it. Paragraph 6 states,"At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels." This shows that exploration of Venus would be harsh but definetly possible with the right equipment provided to withstand these conditions.
NASA is also working on other possible solutions for their Venus exploring issues. For example, in paragraph 7 it states,"Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Even though the simplified electronics only last for three weeks, a lot of information can be gathered in that time. Three weeks is definetly a lot longer than a couple of hours, which is what the normal spacecraft would withstand. But NASA is also working on old technology called mechanical computers. As paragraph 7 states,"These devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require eletronics at all. modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditions." This shows that collection of data on Venus is not as complex as upgrading technology, it means that NASA should just bulk up their already existing technology for the conditions presented.
Venus is a very tricky and very dangerous planet for exploration but despite all of those factors, it is still possible with the right technology. The benefits of this trip to Venus definelty outweigh the possible negativities. Though we may never be able to stay on Venus for more than three weeks or so, it would be worth the daring exploration so that we may become bold enough for even more daring explorations of our solar system.
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My opinion on driverless cars is that they dont have enough support and they are not something that is necessary for our society. I dont think we need driverless cars, because they would cause too many problems and be too much work to take care of. Driverless cars should not be a huge focus in our society, because we do not need them and we should be focusing on being more productive. We should not focus on driverless cars but rather on the safety of the cars and roads we have now.
Driverless cars could be more dangerous than the dangers we have now, revolving around the cars, traffic, and raidlroads all around us. We already have too many problems involving cars that we don't need to add any more. The people who are involved in creating the driverless cars should focus on making sure that the railroads are safe before trying to come up with anything new. I think that creating theese new cars is already to much work. It would involve creating the sensors, changing the breaks, and making new computer hardware and software. Theese things will not protect us from getting into accidents or having cars crashes which should be our main focus.
Even though they are taking away the concept of people having to drive the cars they are not preventing anything that could happen or that needs prevention. People may think that having a driverless car would keep them from having to do the work themselves. Whn really what would happen is that they would have to pay more attention to everything around them, which would cause even more work. The cars would need to supervised more than they do now, because they would be moving and need us to take on more responsibility in controling the car. This could end up not working, because the cars could end up going out of our control. Which could cause more problems for us.
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Have you ever wonder if you car was safe? What if you were causing enviornmental damage? Would you chnage then?
In VAUBAN, Germany residents of this upscale community are suburbam pioneers, going where few soccer moms or comuting executiver have nere thought about going before. They have given up there cars. In this experimental new district they are generally forbidden to have street parking, driveways, and home garages. As a result to this , 70 percent of Vaun=ban's Families do not own cars, and 57 precent Sold thir cars to move there. Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tebd to make their homes. And that,experts say, is a hge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. . . . passrngers cars are responsible for 12 precent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe . . . and up to 50 percent in some car0intensive areas in the United states.(Elisabeth Rosenthal)
However, in Paris after days of near-recored pollution they enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france , after just five-days of intensifying smog. They all Blamed Diesel fuel, since france has a tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline. Diesels make up 67 precent of vehicles in france, compared to 53.3 precent average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, According to Reuters.(Robert Duffer)
In BOGOTA, Colombia a program that's ste to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day. Leaving the streets of the capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams. Municipal Authorities from other countries came to Bogota to see the event and were enthusiastis."These people re generating a revolutionary change, and this is crossing border," said Enrique Riera, the mayor of Asuncion, Paraguay.(Andre Selsky)
Atlast, in the United States, President Obama's ambitious goals to curb the United States'greenhouse gas emissions, unveiled last week. Fortuitious ssist from an incipien shift in Americans are buying fewer cars , drivingless and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. The United staes , with its broad expansas and suburban ideals, had long been one of the world prime car cultures. its is the birthplace of Model T; the hopme of Detroit; the place where wilson pickett immortalized "Mustange Sally". . . But Americas love affair with vehicles are cooling.
So as you drive you high byrd cars down the highway, stop and think what your doing to the air and evironment around you.
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The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) brings students a new type of learning environment. Author Nick D'Alto wrote the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" educating readers on the new facial expression innovation from Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nicu Sebe. Dr. Huang and his colleague use this tool to find new ways for computers and humans to communicate. This new system brings a new type of learning, allowing the students to retain and understand information better.
D'Alto is the writer, but Dr. Huang has emphasized that FACS would bring the students a new type of online learning, making them more interested in the lesson. Dr. Huang explains this innovation as he says, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like a human instructor." (Paragraph 6). This new change would make the lesson more beneficial to the student as it would make the student more interested in the lesson, further allowing them to retain information better later on.
The lesson may be beneficial to the student academically, but is it causing mental health issues as it supports more screen time? FACS is all computer based, meaning less time in the classroom and more time infront of the computer. The student would be conducting this program on a school computer as D'Alto explains, "Your home PC can't handle the complex algorithms" (Paragraph 7) the program ends up promoting more screen time, something that students should get less of, instead of human interaction, which our society needs more of. In a way FACS program is not beneficial or valuable to the student mentally as it promotes something that our society needs less of.
This technology could be also very beneficial to those who do not have the best teacher or education available to them. When FACS makes that facial emotion recognition it adjust the lesson, allowing the students to understand the lesson better, as Dr. Huang explained. This would be beneficial to students who have a poor education environment as their teachers might not recognize these facial expressions, causing the student to not understand the lesson which later leads them to falling behind in class.
This new technology has many pros and cons, but also brings students a new way of understanding. FACS could possibly bring grades up along with educational improvement. This program may support more screen time, causing students mental health issues, along with eyesight to deteriorate, but if this program is used wisely, none of those things should happen. This new technology should bring a new way of understanding, making FACS a valuable resource to students.
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Venus is a planet deemed to be the Earth's twin due to their relations in density and size. This has led to NASA sending unmanned drones to Venus due to this intrest in how similar Earth can be to the " Evening Star." These facts have led to people such as the author of the article " The Challange of Exploring Venus," to give his thoughts about meeting the challange that the exploration of Venus provides. Using details from the article it is conmfirmable that the author did well while supporting this idea.
At the beginning of the article I was provided many facts about Venus which told me that the author was highly enthusiastic about the planet itself. In his fourth paragraph he began to talk about how Venus had features very similar to Earth such as valleys, mountains, and craters. This tells me that there is still a high amount of interest in the planet despite its amospheric pressure being able to crush a submarine that ventures into the deepest parts of our oceans. By providing these facts despite the obvious danger he provides any reader a sense of adventure and willigness to go beyond what we know is possible, and venture into what we thought was impossible.
In his sixth paragraph the author goes on to state that peering down at Venus can only provide so much information due to a researcher not being able to take any kind of sample from a safe distance. This is all said to support the idea that Venus is a worth pursuit despite the danger presented, along with his final statement that researches are working on innovations that would allow for contributions to our knowledge of Venus. This is the author telling us that though an exploration of Venus wouldn't bring us conclusive evidence or findings currently, that these efforts would allow us to rise above the challanges presented currently. This willingness to expand our knowledge is accountable to how he is supporting his belief so effortlessly.
Before suggesting that a solution can be created the author did speak of a modern solution to our problem. The problem being that we have not been able to explore venus thoughroughly even though we have sent unmanned drones before. This problem is cause by the average heat being over eight-hundred degrees Farenheit and melting the drones metal. Despite this the author provides the idea of flying at a certain altitude that could allow us to avoid the ground conditions and rest a ship thirty miles or more above the prementioned conditions.
He also brings up the fact that the solar power would be plentiful and the radiation woudln't exceed the levels reached on Earth.
In conclusion, the authors willingess to concieve solutions is a clear sign that he has supported his idea very well. He has done so well that even I, the reader, even believe his ideas that we should explore Venus itself. Anyone can spout their ideas or opinions and turn them into a persuasive article. Despite this, it takes more than that to create an article sucha as this that can fuffill its intended purpose and show how much an author cares along with how well he can make an audiecne recieve his idealology.
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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers presented to humans. Throughout the article, the author uses multiple scientific facts to support their idea. While the facts may be persuasive and hard to dispute, the author seems to lack good enough reasoning as to why humans should visit Venus.
The main strategy the author uses to support their claim is scientific facts and evidence to prove how dangerous Venus is. This is a strong way to persuade people because facts are proven to be true and they are undisputable. Paragraph three is full of statements that inform the reader how dangerous Venus is. The author states that "temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." These pieces of information give the reader a sense of what Venus is like in terms of numbers and statistics. In case those were not enough, the author gives a shocking fact to prove their point about how inhospitable Venus truly is: "...such and environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and would liquefy many metals." This statement puts the dangers of Venus into perspective for the reader. It allows the reader to comprehend just how dangerous Venus is by explaining what would happen if something from Earth were to endure the environment on Venus. After reading the many statisctics and shocking facts, the reader can easily understand just how risky traveling to Venus would be.
Even though facts are a good way to support the claim, the author fails to provide the reader with strong reasons about why going to Venus would benefit humans. In paragraph four the author states that "astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." While this may be true, the average reader would not become convinced that that's a good enough reason to endure the journey to Venus, possibly wasting money, time, and lives. To some scientists or others interested in space, curiosity and the mysteriousness of Venus are good enough reasons to risk it all, but to the average person there needs to be more logical reasoning. The reasoning is still not quite strong enough in paragraph eight when the author writes, "striving to meet the challenge by Venus has value...because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Again, this statement is true, but it is not nearly convincing enough. Because the author described to the reader how dangerous Venus really is, they need to give very strong reasons why it would be a good idea to venture there. With that being said, the author's reasoning to journey to Venus is very broad and not nearly concinving enough to the average reader.
Overall, the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" does not adequately support their idea that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. They provide the reader with amazing pieces of information about Venus and how dangerous it is, but fail to give enough reasoning as to why the journey would be worth these drastic risks. After reading the article, it is most likely that readers feel well informed about Venus and its mysteries, but unconvinced that the pursuit is worth the dangers.
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I think the use of technology to read the emotions expressions of student in a calssroom is valuable. The reason why I think reading the emotions on the expressions of other students is valuable is that it would be important to know how your student is feeling. It is important to show love to others when they are feeling so type of way other then happy. It would help teachers understand why a student is acting the way he/she is.
It could be helpful to know how your student is feeling. A computer that knows when your happy or sad would be helpful to teachers. Having A classroom computer that could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored would help teachers know if her students are struggling with what is being taught or if they need help with anything. It would save a teachers time asking students if they are in need of help because sometimes a student might be shy to raise there hand or embarassed that he is not getting the hang of it but his other classmates are.
The use of a technology to read the emotion expressions of students in a classroom would be a life changing thing it would be helpful to know how your student is feeling. You wouldn't want student to go on with there day feeling the way they are and if there going through a tough time. A student will never express themselves to a teacher they can act one way but truly feel another way on the inside. So if a student cant tell a teacher hwo there feeling a computer could tell it all without being shy scared about it.
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The technology would be valuable to see if a student is having trouble in the class room. To see confusion and being scared that they might not perform well. this could help teachers get to the students that really need the help. Grades would theoretically go up now that the students that had trouble are getting the help they need. There are concerns about privacy to a computer tracking and watching you the moment you get on.
The technology would greatly impact teachers and students because now teachers now have a way to see how students are doing. Teachers could watch on their computers and when a icon comes up on a certain student that. They are showing signs of distress or confussion she or he could go over there and help them. Like said earlier grades of students would go up if they got the help they needed. The computer system says it watches for facial muscle movements and twitching and others like if the person is blinking a lot. Would set off signs that the computer measures and calculates how and what you are feeling. Also worry about privacy of students and teachers a machine watching you the moment you get on. That keeps a record of how long you were on and what you were doing of course most computers already do that. Maybe if it goes outside a certain range of school the software will stop but the computer can still be used.
The software like this one could help teachers help educate children to be the best they can. By going to the source of their problems seeing exactly the problem their having trouble with. There are positives and negatives like there is to everything but this could really help and boost kids to excel to their bests.
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The author supports this idea by giving information how its different from today then on the 1940s. The author is telling the reader on "paragrahp 7" to imagine a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin.
Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size with the the author wants to say every planet has is own neighbor but they got thier sapce. The author wants to inform the planet Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even thought Mercury is closer to our sun. The author claim is why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface even when Venus still has some features that are analogous to those Earth. NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humas to studt Venus.
The author is saying on paragraph 8; 'Striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also only because of the human curiosity'. The 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 innovaton.
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Vauban, Germany, the motorless city. Vauban is an upscale community, yet they have one difference than any other, they have given up cars. When you visit this motorless city, you don't see driveways, garages or any other home accessory that invloves parking, or storing your car. When you think of a city like this, you think that there is no way a town can survive without automobile transportation, well, you thought wrong. Unlike most towns, Vauban has located all the necessary stores and shops on a main street, where it is easily found and just a walk away.
Vauban is also a happier place, as suggested by Heidrun Walter, mother of two and media trainer. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." When she walks the street she sees young children playing and chatting and people riding their bicycles, but best of all, she doesn't hear that awful noise of a running motor.
Automobiles are a detriment to the ecosystem. "Automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to make their homes. And that, experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gass emissions from tailpipes..." Did you know that passenger cars are responsible for 12% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. And, up to 50% in some car-intensive areas in the United States.
Back to Vauban, the home of 5,500 residents within a rectangular square mile. This town may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban lifestyle. "All of our development since World War II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberg, an official of Transportation for America. This group promotes new communities that are less dependent on cars.
In the United States, "car-reduced" communities are being promotedby thr Enviornmental Protection Agency, and legislators are beginning to act, if cautiously. "Many experts expect public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new 6-year federal transportation bill to be approved this year," Mr. Goldberg has said.
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The Facial Action Coding System is valuable to have in a classroom. This is a great idea because if a student is lost or confused about the class or work they're doing, this computer detects it and the teacher would help. In the other hand I think most people would not like this idea because this computer would know everything and how a person might be feeling, not everybody likes to tell people what they feel at the moment. The Facial Action Coding System can be the same technology to make computer-animated faces more expressive, for video games and video surgery. Also humman communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. Meanwhile they also use muscles to show espression. Sometimes teachers know how you feel if they know you for a while the face expressions they make. Some people just don't even make expressions they always have a serious face on and people that you have known for a long time such as friends, familiy ect. You know them and if something is wrong you will let them know. This computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. Also a cool idea to see how the students feel thst day for class, everyone shpuld be happy. The theory of emotion moving your facial mucsles not only expresses emotions.
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Did you know that Venus is the brightest point of light in the sky. Sometimes people look at the sky, they see Venus and they think is just a star. Some people call it "Evening Star" wich is not often use becuase Venus is a planet. Venus is also call the Earth's twin. This nickname is given because Venus is one of the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size.
Lately scientists are discusing about making visits to Venus. The article states that "Astmonomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like
planet in our solar system" wich makes them think that long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported forms of life. Scientists know that Venus has a suface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as mountainsand craters.They claim that Venus can sometime be our nearest option for a planetary visit, which is a curcial concideration given to long time frames of space travel.
In conclusion the author of this text has given us proves that, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration well known as NASA has been studying possible ways to go to Venus wich could take a long time. Temperatures there are very high for a human been. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. They had simplified electronics made of silicon carbide wich have been tested in a chamber simulating
the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in the condition they would exoerience at Venus. I strongly agree that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents.
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Do you know who the Seagoing Cowboys are and what they do? I will be stating reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys and an explanation of what you would do. This job could be or could not be the program for you.
I think that people should join this because of internatinal travel to help people across the globe. Also if you are a Farmer this job would be perfect because you would know exactly what to do with the animals that are being taken to another country to help the people that had lost a lot to the World War 2. This program could teach you what to do if you would want to be a Farmer.
The cattle-boat trip is an unbelieavable opportunity for a small town boy.
This job can be dangeris because a crew member almost when over board injering his ribs. This job can also be fun because you get to play games in the livestock stalls and tour different cityies.
In councludion this program can be a mix of fun and dangeris to people.
"It made me aware of people and other countries needs" What do you think life as a Seagoing Cowboy was like?
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The face on mars is a natrual landform.It is a natrual landform because in 1976 Viking 1 took a photo of marses surface.It showed what it apeard to be a face.In April 5 1998 we sent globol surveyor to orbit over the spot.The picture it took was 10 timessharper than vikings photos.When the picture came up on our website it showed that it was only just a natural landform.
It was located at 41 degrees north martian latitude.It was april 98 on mars.It was a cloudy time on the planet.We had to see through the clouds to see the face.Mr garvin says its not easy to target the face.It was actually hard work.The surveyor is a mapping spacecraft.It normally looks straight down to the ground.It scands the planet for information about things.It scans it like a fax machine,In narrow 2.5 km-wide strips.
In April 8 2001, a cloudless day on mars,Global surveyor went close enough to take another picture for us.We used it maximum resolution.Each pixiel in 2001 image spans 1.56 meters,compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best Viking photo.The face on mars actually shows is the matian equivalent of a butte or mesa, landforms common around the American west.Mr garvin says it reminds him of the Middle Butte in the Snake River in the Plain of Idaho.Its a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars.
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A face on Mars? In 2001 there were pictures take by NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft on Mars. Those pictures revealed what many believe was a face. When NASA revealed the picture for all to see they had called it "a huge rock formation." They stated, "it was formed by shadows giving the ilusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." It then became a pop icon.
Some people think the Face is evience of life on Mars. Theorists say NASA was trying to hide the evidece, where defenders of the NASA budget "wish there was an ancient civilization on mars." So, in 1998 scientists flew over Cydonia taking pictures of what many call the "Face" ten times sharper than before. When those pictures were released it was revealed to be a natural landform. But many argued otherwise.
For the third time in 2001, scientists went to take another look. The camera they had used proved to be much more accurate than the one used in the first Viking photo in 76. The pixels of the camera were 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel. According to scientists if there were any objects in the picture such as airplanes or Egyptian pyramids they would be able to be seen.
It is proven that the picture actaully showed butte or mesa landform. These landforms are very common around the West. The landform found was even compared to "the Snake River Plain of Idaho." Which is a dome about the same size size as the Face on Mars.
It is sad to say that there are proven facts that reveal there is no such thing as the "Face on Mars". For years scientists have been studying life on Mars. Even in 1976, 39 years ago!
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FACS
Do you ever feel like your on class but you still don't understand what your teacher is saying? Or maybe your too afriaid to say that your not comprehending the material in front of everyone. Maybe its the oppisite, you completely understand it and now class has left you bored. This is why the Facial Action Coding System would be very beneficial because it helps tell who is truthfull, it helps teacher grow, and it can help us communicate with one another.
Not only can this device also known as FACS decipher what emotion we are making. FACS also can tell if the emotion such as a smile from a student or a polotician is genuine. These all have to with the muscle movements within your face. As it says in paragraph 8 in the article there cplete different mucles being used when
a smaile is being forced. I suppose its true that it takes more muscles for frown then it does to smile.
FACS being able to tell whether students expressions are genuine can be very benedfical to both the student and the teacher. For example if the teacher was asking the calss if they had understood the lesson and the facial expressions seemed a bit worrysome then this would help the teacher be able to go back over that certian material a few times and help the student get the help they need. In
paragraph 6 it says "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional commuincation." In this it works the same way if the student has become bred with the material.
There is alot of different things that we need to be able to understand in order to take full advantage of this technology. In order to do that we need to understand each other. Even though we communicate through many facials. FACS will help us move forward in that.
In conclusion this is why the Facial Action Coding System would be very beneficial because it helps tell who is truthfull, it helps teacher grow, and it can help us communicate with one another.
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The Face on Mars
Have you ever thought of being a scientist at NASA or have you ever seen the Face on Mars? Well I am a scientist and I have been very lucky to go to space and see the Face in person. It was one of the best experiences that has ever happened to me in life! Some people think that the Face was created by aliens even though there has been many tests and agreements that it is just a natural landform. I belive that it is a natural landform beacuse there is proof that scientists have figured it was just another Martian mesa, there are pictures that proves it could just be formed like that because it is common around Cydonia, and there has not yet been any proof to encourage it was created by aliens.
The scientists and I have done several researches ever since we first saw the Face. Everything has yet led to prooving it is just another Martian mesa. Looking through all the pictures, everything stated that it is just a huge rock formation. The rock resembles a human head with eyes, a mouth, and a nose. I believe that after all the temperatures such as the heat and coldness, it could have caused it to be shaped like that. There has probably even been spaceships that has landed in Mars in search of investigation. The spaceships could have formed these shapes when landing there.
As you probably know, it is very common around Cydonia to have these kind of natural landfoms. Yes, it is common to have shapes and forms that are unusual such as the Face. The only difference in this one was that it had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Theres not really much of a difference if you think about it. It is unbelievable that it's the first time poeple think of an alien doing this art work when they have never thought of this idea when we have found other evidence of natural lanforms like the Face.
There has been plenty of evidence to proove that the Face is just a natural landform, but there is no proove of it to be created by aliens. Looking at the pictures closely, there are no footprints, fingerprints, or marks to show any living life in Mars. If theres no living life in Mars, then how could there be aliens? I want you to think about that. There has not been any kind of creatures found in Mars which is shocking.
Now that I have explained myself of why I believe that the Face is just a natural landform, what do you think? Do you still believe aliens created it? If you do, I encourage you to do some research and tell me the reasons of why you think that the Face was created by aliens. After all the research I've done, all my conclusions sum up to the same knowledge through the evidence prooven.
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Dear, State senator we should keep the Electoral college. The college is a process,not a place. The process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice. The counting of electoral voters by congress. State's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its congressional delegation.
The college is widely regarded as an anachronism. The Electoral college despite its lack of Democratic Pedigree. We shouldnt have to change to election by popular vote for President. The Electoral college looks like a big help to President. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president. The collge has many electors.270 electoral voters is required to elect the president.
Under 23rd amendemnt of constitution district of columbia is allocated 3 electors. It could be arugues the Electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters. There may be a few things i dont agree with about the Electoral college. I dont like how voters dont vote for the presidnt but for slate of electors. The Electoral college is one by far the best things, It dont need to be taken from us. Many good things the college does.
State Senator, We should keep the Electoral college. The process is great. There are many great things about the Electoral college. Its a big help with alot. Theres no dobut about the College.
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I agree because, people who get bullyed don't have to hide their emotions but the process is beginning when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscles in the modeal must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit". to make it it will take quite a bit to just make it but Eckman has classified six basic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disguist, fear, and sadness. putting it together will help everyone one in the Gary district and every other city or state.In fact, human perform this same emotion everyday the no emotion or the let down emotion .
The Monsa Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do.It is also a bad idea because if what if a person don't wnat to share his/her emotions if that is true than. Why they not worried about how
the students might feel about the situation but young adults and children can learn how to speek out.Just trying do a emotion communication.
By doing this project it will make us feel better about how we look feel an people can start talking to everyone criminals can get help familys who struggling can get help. An people tell lies going to get catched.
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doesw the electoral college work?
yes the electoral college works cause it helps people get into a college that they would like to get into or want to it can make them happy and then later on in life they can make better choices to live free and get god jobs and have anice apartyment and other things of that sort much it is for the.
''under the electoral college systems voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president if you lived in texas for instance and wanted to vote for john kerry youd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry on the off chance that those electors won the statewide.
the electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the canidxent who recevies the most popular votes the winner the advocates of this potion.
a dispute over the outcome opf an electoral college vote is pooible it happend in 2000 but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote the reasons is that the winning candidtes share of the electoral invaribly exceeds his share of the popular vote in election for example obama receievd 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes.
cause most of the states awared electoral votes on a winner take basis even a very slight pluerality in a state landslide victory in that state a tie in the national nationwide vote is possible cause then total number of votes 538 is an even number but is highly likely.
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I am a seagoing cowboy named Luke. I've been on nine trips overseas because of my friends. They brought me there. I will be your friend for you to go there. It was such a fun time going overseas with a bunch of life stock and the adventures I was in were amazing. You sould go and sign up for the Seagoing Cowboys program.
The first reason you should join is because of the sights. The sights I got to see when I was traveling were terrific! I wouldn't wish to do anything different than go and look at those sights again. I actually got to see Europe and China. That is awesome for some small town boy. I was very grateful for that.
It sounds like all we do is see sights and deliver cattle but we play games too! We play games like you would but in empty rooms on the boat. We have table-tennis tournaments. We also had fun on board by fencing, boxing, reading, whittling and other games.
I don't want you to get the wrong thaughts but I also don't want you to think its all fun and games. Yes we have fun and play games but we do this to help people. We don't just go sailing across the seas with some cattle, we deliver it. It is hard work but it also is realy fun. We get to feed the cattle and take care of them for the two to four weeks of traveling. We bring up hay bails and take turned doing the night shift. That's when I got injured. I almost fell of the ship but I got saved by a peice of metal. I had a few broken ribs but I've healed up quite nicely.
Although we do a lot of work on board we also do have a great time together of board too. I mentioned the sights. That's my favorite thing to do off board. It's also great to see the different cultures and how we can help them and fix their food problems. It's cool to think about what I do. I take food to people who need it and save lives just my taking care of a couple cows. It makes me feel great that I can actually do something that important with such little supplies.
With the good and the bad I still love doing this. The Seagoing Cowboys program is amazing and I hope you join it. The things we do and the things we see are amazing and it's a once in a life time opportunity I, again, really hope you take it and use it to make your life better. Please join the Seagoing Cowboys program.
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the author of the story says that venus is very worthy pursuit because it is the closets to earth. What he means by saying closest is terms like density and size of venus is the same of earth. The author also says venus is our planetary neigbor. Venus does orbit the sun at diffrent speeds then us so that could be a diffulcty for us to get to venus to. we usaully are closer in time to mars then we are to venus at times.
Humans have already tried landing diffrent types of of space crafts to venus. those space crafts have all failed or have not survived more then a couple of hours on the surface. It would be very hard to survive in venus because of its condition its covered by blankets of corbon dioxide, clouds are corrosive sulfiric acid, 800 degrees weather, and the pressure is 90 times greater then earths. but venus could have all been eath like at one point. Venus could have been covored in oceans and supported many forms of life. scientist want to make blimp like cars so the humans that are sent to venus wouldnt have to touch the ground of all those gases.
This is why scientist think it a worthy pursuit to keep studying venus. they are getting closer and closer to overcoming this challange. they have allot of options on how to survive on venus. Once they get it it can help us with allot of things. thats why scientist wont stop studying venus.
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Students should be able to use technology to show their emotions; because in the real word when you dont have anyone to talk to or no one is there for you. You could get on the computer and type your emotions out because sometimes it can help you out with alot of your feelings.
In paragraph 2 it states that
"Dr. Huang and his colleague are experts at develping better ways for humans and computers to communicate." This shows that you could have better commuantion by just typing; its a better way to talk or show your emotions. Like when anyone is feelinf down, somewtimes people dont want to show there feelings or dont wont to talk about it to others so if you use your techonlogy to show you expressions; it will get better hopefully.
Just like in paragraph 6 it said "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotuonal communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that,too". It might seem a little weird for you to show a computer your emotions but to me thats a great thing to you. its better way to use techonlogy. Some hate talking to people or even telling people whats going on because most of the time perople hate opening up in front of people or to a person period so typing could be an easier way to show their feelings or emotions.
And letting it out by easily grabbing a computer and typing no matter if your happy, sad, mad, irrataited. what ever the case may be using technology is a great way to show your expressions.
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There are many advantages to limiting car usage and many people are starting to see it. In the article "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" By Elisabeth Rosenthal; She goes to explain that in Vauban, Germany there is a community that have given up on cars. Without a car on the streets you can tell its more lively with the quote "Heidrun walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked berdants streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." With that quote from the article you can tell that the streets are filled with the sound of people rather than the sound of motors and smoke from the vehicles.
Certaninly not having cars is a great advantage to suburbs, in Rosenthal article it said " there have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking... in attempt to make suburbs more compact and more accessible to public transportation... in this new approach, stores are placed a walk away..." Instead of wasting gas and filling the air with disgusting gas, stores could be just around the corner. Which in return would be easier for everyone around. Even the united states, enviromental protection agency is promoting"car reduced" communites.
Another advantage to limiting car usage is to reduce smog and air pollution, in the article "Paris bans driving due to smog" by Robery duffer he informs us that paris actually enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the golbal city. It stated " Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog... [the smog] rivaled Bejing,china, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." By banning driving they not only were able to reduce the smog and air pollution, They obviously reduced car traffic!
Also In the article "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota" by Andrew Selsky, they banned car in an effort to promote alternative transportation and reduce spog. In the article is said "parks and sports center also have bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad , smooth sidewalks; rush-house restrictins have dramatically cut traffic; and new restaurants andupscale shopping districts have cropped up." The day also is said to help lower stress, " It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air population,"said buisnessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife.
As you can tell from the facts within this essay, there are definitly many advantages with limiting car usage, from reducing smog and pollution, to having stores built closer to home. These advantages not only help the citzens but also the planet we live on, and our future children and their children and so on...
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In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was snapping pictures of possible landing spots for Viking 2, when it noticed a human face staring right at it.
A few days later, NASA released the photo publically, and it caught on fire.
The face has since become a pop icon, and appeared in a Hollywood film, books, magazines, radio talk shows, and haunted a grocery store's checkout line.
It has even attracted conspiracy theorists that think NASA is hiding alien life on Mars.
But they are all incorrect.
The face was discovered in the Cydonia region of Mars.
In Cydonia, mesas are common, and this one just happened to have an unusual shadow.
NASA also unveiled the images to the public, proving they had nothing to hide, otherwise they would have kept this secret.
NASA also stated they wish there was an anicent civilization on Mars.
And Jim Garvin, chief scientist of NASA's Mars
Exploration Program said it is equivalent to a earth butte or mesa.
Imagine if you were a scientist and saw a face on Mars.
You would've been astounded and amazed.
That is exactly what mission control felt like when they saw this bizarre looking landform.
But they quickly discovered it was just another Martian mesa.
The face was discovered in the Cydonia region of Mars.
In Cydonia, mesas are common, and this one just happened to have an unusual shadow.
NASA also unveiled the images to the public, proving they had nothing to hide, otherwise they would have kept this secret.
NASA also stated they wish there was an anicent civilization on Mars.
NASA took another picture in 2001.
This picture looked nothing like the picture in 1976 of a face.
This is because NASA used more advanced cameras than it did in 1976 to come up with a clearer image of the mesa.
The camera used in the 2001 photo had new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry.
Also, each pixel in the camera in 1976 covered 43 meters.
The camera in 2001 had each pixel cover 1.56 meters.
You can also discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than pixel size.
That's a huge difference in picture quality.
You can see NASA's not trying to hide anything.
The picture was not leaked, so we know NASA meant to show the public the picture.
Don't listen to the cospiracy theorists.
There are no conspiracies or theories.
Just an oddly shaped shadow of a Martian mesa.
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To drive or not to drive? That is the question. In the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming", both positions are explored whether automatic cars would be good or bad in our world today. In my opinion, I believe that these automatic cars are doing wonders on today's technology. Automatic cars are making it much more safer to drive on the road and adding a lot less accident risks in there. There is a lot of potential, and I say why not take it?
Advances in technology have usually made everything better. It's history and amazing how much our society has evolved with technology and machines to help us make our lives much easier, like how farming used to just be planting a seed and picking it when it's ready and sweet enough. It's the same with electronics and cars in that kind of sorts. You used to have to learn everything about being on the roads with your car, learn how to drive and navigate it, and not that long ago, you had to learn to tame horses to make travel easier. This automatic car thing is just an extension of that and the potential is extraordinary.
It's more assisting than actual driving at the moment, but we're almost there to see it in our futures. It's very similar like a person going from struggling on a crutch to finding much more ease using a wheelchair while you rest up. This potential can help us drive a lot easier without many risks except technology failing on us, but that can easily be managed. If you htink about the outcome, people who can't drive like disabled, struggling teenagers and shaking elderly can finally drive again with more ease.
Now it's easy to believe why take the risk if it can end up worse, but that's just being paranoid about the bad possibilities rather than wanting to explore all of the good that can from this. Like the article argues,
If technology fails and some is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?". It is arguable, but there are human errors and technology mistakes. This also has some potential for job opportunities, like specializing in automatic cars and troubleshooting them.
Stated in this article, it says sixteen years ago there was no potential to create a driverless car, but now that the technology to do so has evolved, why not do it? It's not like you're trying to take over the human race doing so, it's almost a breakthrough in science if you think about it. No more having to rely on people itself to keep you safe in the car and having extra assurance that the car itself will keep you safe if you mess up is a huge relief in my opinion. It's something cool that was always thought of in movies to have hovercrafts and spaceships, and creating a driverless car is a baby step in that direction.
Driverless cars will do a lot more good than bad in my opinion. There is a lot of support in this article, including my own that should show that driverless cars will be something tech savy in the foreseeable future. You have to take a risk to continue moving forward and growing, and isn't that what everybody wants to do? Move forward from yesterday? We drive today, but tomorrow, it's one less thing to think about in our busy lives.
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Do you believe that Smart Cars are positive or negative to aspects of driverles cars? Some people believe that Smart Cars are a negative because was if something happens to the technology who is going to be responsbile the driver or the manufacturer. Although ,I would have to say Smart Cars are a postive, because the Smart Cars would have sensors, and speeds up to 25 miles per hour, and the Smart Car is controlled by technology so the car can control itself through accidents , break itself, amd through work zones. Adding to that, the Smart Car lets you know when there is a problem accuring and it gets your attention.
First, Smart Cars are a postive aspect to driverless cars because the cars would have sensors. The sensors would monitor the surrounding of the Smart Car. In the aricle its says," auto makers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock breakes. With in 10 years, those sensor have become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-controll skids or rollovers". The sensors are placed everywhere aound the car such as:on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, and 4 automatic radar sensors etc. Meanwhile, those are just some of the places.
Next, the Smart Cars can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. In the article it says, " But special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. In facts, non of the cars developed so far one completetely driverless. With that being said, the Smart Car isn't completely driverless, the driver is still driving just not the entire time. The driver is needed when pulling in or out of a driveway. Also when there is an accident or a problem.
Then,since the Smart Cars are controlled by technology, the car can control itself through accidents,break itself, and throught work zones. The Smart Car also lets the driver know if there is something wrong . In the article it states, "They can steer, accelerate, and break 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 drivers must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. The necessitaties the care being ready to quickly get the drivers attention whenever the problem occur. GM has developed driver's seats to vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object.
Finally, Smart Cars, are a postive aspect of driverless cars because, they have sensors, good breaks, and still need drivers to control them. Although, some people might think its negative because whos going to be the one responsible if the technology messes up the driver or the manufacturer, it would have to fall back on the driver and the manufacturer. The Smart Cars have been tested so they should be postive and smart aspect.
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Driverless cars are developing with all the new technology advancements. While we might not be quite there yet we will be one day. Some argue that driverless cars will not be a good thing and that they will never be used becasue people are too impatient to sit in a car and have it take them somewhere. But driverless cars will one day change the world for the better.
Driverless cars are going to change the world. Maybe some people like to drive and say that they will not want driverless cars, but those people are not the ones who have to drive all througout the night. Semi-truck drivers are people who spend a good amount of their adult lives on the road. With driverless cars developing it will help these people there would not be a need for them and they can spend more of their time at home. Some argue that driverless cars are
not a possibility, even if these people turn out to be right the advancements that have been made make the lives of semi-truck drivers much easier. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph" these simple things can make a drivers life much easier.
There are people in the world who simply hate driving with a passion, but they have no alternitive which forces them to drive where they need to go. Whether it is to work and back or whatever it may be they are forced to drive. But with driverless cars coming these people have something to look forward to, now they would have a car that will take them to work and back. Which is why driverless cars would be a great deal if they were to become a normality in our everyday lives.
Driverless cars are one day going to become a great deal in our everyday lives and it will change the world as we know it. No matter who you are they will have an impact on your life. Whether you are a person who only drivers to and from work or if you drive for a living it will change your life. It might be because you simply hate driving and would like for driverless cars to become an alternitive for you. It even be because you are a truck driver who spends a lot of his or her time on the road and would like to rest here and there when making a delivery. If you are anywhere inbetween there driverless cars will change your life for the better.
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I think that using technology to read a persons emotions could work. I think it could work in lots of ways like being able to read a students emotion might help you make them feel better.
The article states that if a person is down a happy ad of some sort might make them feel better. Using technology to read peoples emotions is also a good way to tell if somone is mad and would rather be left alone or sad and would like the support of friends and family. Using technology for emotions is a very good way to tell if thats why somone is not doing their very best at work or at school you can use that technology to tell if they are sad. using technology is a great way for people to see other peoples emotions because emotions are universal and knowing someons emotions is important. Emotions are a big part of life and emotions can almost determine how are day goes like if you're happy you might be happy the rest of the day or mad you might be mad all day or even suprised you migh be in shock all day. Emotions are apart of who we are so being able to tell another persons emotions might help us. It could even help us with doctors one might be sad and down all the time but not look it but with this new technology a doctor could tell that the person might be depressed. A persons emotions can change every day like being frightend if we had this new technology people would be able to detect if somone is frightend. Some people have trouble explaining how they feel and we wouldnt have to worry about that anymore because we have thought of a new way to tell. Using a device to help tell a persons emotions this is a great new way to help everyone. Thats why I think that using a new device to detect a persons emotions would help alot.
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Participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program was one of my best choices of my life. Being a Seagoing Cowboy has times where you needed to be serious and take your work seriously, but it also has times where you could have a lot of fun. There were many things that you can do when you become a Seagoing Cowboy. You could help take care of animals, serve as a night watchman, etc. There were many things you could have done if you dont like one of the jobs, there is so many new things to experience!
After working, the guys and I would play baseball and volleyball games. A good way to just relaxand take it easy after working hard. Others even sometimes had table-tenis tournaments, fencing, reading, games, whittling, and even boxing! The activities were fun and helped pass time. The games were just a way to let loose for a while. Anyone is bound to have fun!
I also learned a few things in my time of being a Seagoing Cowboy. For instance, being a Seagoing Cowboy helped me become more aware of the people in other countries and their needs. Many people out there are struggling to do things for themselves, and their country. So help out! Whenever you get an opertunity to help someone you should take it. It's a great way to help out. Think about what it could do for you, and other people! Don't let this amazing opertunity slip through your fingers. Become a Seagoing Cowboy today! I promise, you won't regret it.
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Cars. Are they really needed? For long trips most likely yes but, there are many advandages to limiting car usage. It is a way to get out and exercise and get healthy, and also it does not produce as much pollution in the air.
Limiting your car usage is a good way to get outside and do some phycial activity. Instead of, getting into your car and staring it up and wasting gas money to go to the drug store to buy something small or anything. You can get up and walk, bike, skate or even roller blade! " Heidrun Walter of Vauban, a media trainer says "When I had a car, I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," As she walked verdant streets where the swish of bikes and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor." Also, in the story it stated while there have been efforts to make cities cleaner, and better for walking in Vauban, they place stores and, I think malls a walk away. Insead of a highway away. I think talking the extra mile is better than paying for another mile.
Another reason why not using your car so much is a good thing is that it doesnt produce as much pollution as it once did, or it is doing now. "Passenger cars are more responsible for 12 percent of greenshouse gas emmisions in Europe and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." Also after a couple days of a record pollution, Paris enforced a driving ban to clear the air from smog in the city. The stuffed up smog went down 60 percent after five days. Later on the smog moved on to China, which is probably the most polluted city in the world." Its is said that Paris has more smog than other European capitals. It states that Paris had 147 microrganisms of particulate matter (pm) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels.
In conclusion, There are many advantanges and disadvantages to not using your car so much or limiting your car usage. You can get going outside, walk, hike, bike ect. and get a good workout. Or you can choose to help save our planet and not continue polluting the world for everyone.
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6603008
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The world can't go one day without somone getting into a car accident. Even the smartest, most alert human alive has a chance of crashing. Technology has endless amounts of glitches. Scientist and technitions spend months, sometimes even years to get their idea to function properly. Although they spend endless hours developing a life-changing product, they still tend to glitch, mess up, or shut down every once in a while.
For example, smart phones are the most commen used technology. The creation of smart phones has taken years to develop. From expirience, I know that IPhones have multiple different features that tend to glitch all the time. Apple always has to come out with new updates every month or two, to fix those glitches. Not only would it take years to correctly develop Driveless Cars, but just like anything important, in the wrong hands, it could lead to something horrific.
Would the making of Drivless Cars cancel out teenagers having to earn their permit or license? Since they are "Driveless," we wouldn't need to know how to drive. Wrong. Some people may fail to notice that, although they claim to be driverless, every human behind the wheel should know what they are doing. New and inexpirienced drivers tend to be more clumsy and carless. Even if the cars are driverless, the person behind the wheel should still be as repsonsible as if the car was not driverless.
Money has been, and always will be an issue in the world. The text says, "These smart-road systems worked suprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simpily to expensive to be practical." Road work takes time. How would we get around to where we need to go if all the roads are being "upgraded" ? It would cause too much frustration because everyone already hates round-abouts and detours, how it is. Road work also tends to cause to many accidents because not everyone is alert on what is going on around them. The text says,"They can steer, accelerate, and break 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 dirver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the drivers attention whenever a problem occurs." Not only could that feature malfunction, but a driverless car could pursuae a carless human to fall asleep behind the wheel, making it even more dangerous rather than driving a automatic or manuel. Some people are prone to falling alseep through multiple alarms in the morning, regardless of how loud or annoying they are. If a heavy sleeper falls asleep behind the wheel of a Driverless car, they are more than likely to sleep through the warnings and alerts the Driverless car would give them when neeeding human assistance.
Driverless cars may sound like a good idea, but truley, they could lead to lack of responsibility, debt, and irreversable mistakes and inguries. The way the world is set up now, it would be nearly impossible to successfully pull this kind of idea off.
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venus sometimes called the evening star is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky. In our solar sistem, venus is the second planet from our sun. the author supports this idea of the study of venus because he has a investigation and the main idea is that everybody know more about venus .
Another thing is the dangers that it have because venus is considered a planet and he can explorers
more closely and safe. the planet venus is the unique in the solar system
with his temperatures ,his chemicals , and his pressure is not the same than others planets.
the explorer can see some differences in the planet venus with other planet and one thing is the orbit and the speed .
.Another
explanation to know or to discover more about the planet venus is sent spacecraft at the space is more easy and cheap this spaceceaft is used to complete mission ant to have an investigation more closely but no survived in venus for more than a few hours and obviously a spaceship can't touch down because the atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and a high grade os acid sulfuric the preassure and the temperature are very extreme for the humans. The planet venus is different of any planet in our solar system. The explanation is that the planet venus have a climate very extreme beacuse discovered and sent tools at the space is
a challenge to find something in this planet .
The evidence that support that is a challenge is that the planet venus have impediments like erupting volcanoes but years before it was an ocean with some forms of life it change now the planet has a surface
rocky
with craters and we have
a plan to come back at the planet venus it is in a discution.go to the planet venus is extreme and dangerous because the solar powe would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed earth levels.
The planet venus is not easy and dont have conditiones but is survivable for humans .it is a challenge extreme
because more forms of light
cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere. we can use or many
researches are working on innovations the would allow our machines to discovered closely. we can looking back
to an old technology
called mechanical computers to have technology more advanced with the technology of now when
it comes to extreme physical conditions . we can expanded the
imagination and innovation to a future better or to take answers that can change .
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660cbde
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that studying Venus is a worthy indeavor despite the dangers it presents. Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, because we have all the resources neccesary to analyze the planets surface. We should study Venus to figure out the history and the components of the planet.
The author believes that Venus is hard to study because of the conditions of the planet. In the text the author states,"Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." The author states factual subjects about Venus. The text states,"On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet."
Scientist are interested in Venus because it might have been the like Earth. In the text the author states,"Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The author states that NASA is coming up with sulotions to the problem of not being able to land a spacecraft on the surface of the planet. The author states,"Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way."
The author gives solid facts about why Venus is a worthy endeavor despite the dangers it posseses. They also include informational facts about why and how we could study the planet. In conclusion, Venus should be studied.
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660de37
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Many people from around the glode rely on their cars to get from place to place. Not driving cars have many disadvantages but they also can have many advantages too. limiting car usage can do much good to you and your community.
the passage ''In German Suburb, life goes on Without Cars'' In Vauban, Germany residents have given up their cars. a souce says ''when i had a car i was always tense, im much happier this way.'' One of the advantages of not owning a car in this community was the feeling of a more compact and accessiable way to public transportation. By not having cars if you were to walk down the street instead of hearing car motars distantly running, sources say they hear the sound of bikes and adults and even childrens chatter filling their ears. With not having cars it can make it so much easier to get social and connect with others in your area instead of being a hermit you can meet new people, make friends and even create plans which is a major benifit.
In ''Paris bands driving due to smog,'' Paris,Frace also had the same idea to get rid of cars to clear the air of their global city. This can help with allergies and getting sick which als can cause some to become less social towards others. This largely well know city's expectations where correct. Congestion went down 60% clearing the air for a better enviroment for residents. With the city having a lower air pollution and smog reduced, a benifit of not having a car is free public trasportation Monday-Friday. This saves tons of money that you could have used to pay for gas,car insurance,and any costly repairs or damage you might need to fund for.
The city Bogota, located in Columbia as well limited the usage of cars .In ''Car free Day is Spinning into a big hit in Bogota,'' Instead people biked,hiked,skated which makes you become more active,and residents took public buses as well; promoting alternitive transportation. This of course helped to reduce the smog and lowered the air pollution. Not having to worry about a car is also a benefit in which it reduces stress .Limiting car usage also cuts traffic making it quicker to get to your designated location safer which is more benificial.
The end of car culture also benifits implications for carbon emissions, again helping our living space. People feel more connceted with out driving to meet up with a group of friends because of the internet. saving time for the long boring drive,concerving resources, lowering emissions and improving safety are all so important to us now and later down the road if we limit our usage of cars.
Overall the advantages for limiting car usage are sky high and bring much good to our enviroment , community and personal health emotionally and physically along with finance too. This helps future generations also. The best thing to do is limit the use of cars for a happy and healthy lifestyle.
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660de82
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Using computer software to recognize emotions is not a good idea. The only person or thing that knows how we 100% truly feel is us. No one can tell us how we feel or how they think we feel, especially a computer. If a student is in class and he or she gets called up to the front to talk to the class the he or she knows if they sre scared, excited ect... We dont want to be scanned by a computer to see if they know how we feel.
Somtimes we put up fake emotions to try to fool others so they wont worry about how we really feel. They want us and computers to have better communucation. Not everyone trusts computers because they can always be hacked, traced, or malfunction. We have six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust,fear, and sadness.
Maybe it could be fine to have a computer that knows how you feel because if you're when you see a video/ad then it will play a similar one after that so you can stay happy. Or if you frown or are sad then they will swith the video/ad to make you happy. "A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored," "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This shows you hpw it can be a good thing but i see it as a bad thing. It is tryng to make things easier for you, but the real world is not easy. There is a lot of hard work and somtimes it wont get easy for you, so you shoudln't get used to things getting easier. The computer also changed things based on your emotion. If something bad happens in real life, a computer wont make it better. A lot of kids have done well in school and have gotten great jobs without a computer software that can read your emotions and make life easier.
It is good to see that they are trying to find a way for you to be happy but it is not a good idea. You need to know how to control and use your emotins, not a computer.
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6611c2f
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Luke's point of view was that his friend asked about if he wanted to go to Europe and Luke said that he couldn't say no to a opportuinty of a lifetime. He went on the trip it was after world war 2 was over. they got there on August 14.
They left again to but this time their going to Greece. When they got to Greece Luke turned 18years old. Before he was discharged in 1947 Luke made 9 trips. It took about 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and 1 month to get to China.
Luke had a job if he got bored it was to feed the animals 2 or 3 times a day. one rainy night after making his hourly report to the captain he slid down a slippery ladder and broke his ribs so he couldn't work. but after that he retired and opened the letters from the people that sent him letters
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661f303
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In 'The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author gives suggestions as to why studying Venus is a worthy persuit because of the little details as to how Venus carries a great amount as to how scientists can study to bring actual life to that planet. However, along it comes some safety hazards like extreme temperatures and high gasses in the atmosphere. I can see as to why might Venus be so similar to Earth. Venus is "often referred to as Earth's "twin" Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." If having a planet that similar to a living planet why wouldn't we do everything in our power to make a planet that is very much the same as ours. Science has been evolving a lot over the years and I'm pretty sure that with all the technology and theories scientist have came up with them being able to have a study to plan out how to bring life to Venus would probably work at and greater and more things coulud also come along with it.
The author does a good job of these statements because they give some examples to both sides as to why or why not there should be a study on life on Venus. The author seem to have thrown in a few claims to create an arguement for both sides if its a good idea or not. I have two exampes as to why sending Scientist off in to space would be a bad idea. " no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." Having that said if we send them off into Venus it would be a problem because they would'n't have any time to experiment and do research up there since theres been problems with the spaceship not being able to survive. "the planets surface, tmeperatures aveerage over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than waht we experience on our own planet." The material they use would have to be the problem as to why the spaceship doesnt seem to last long.
On the other hand I also agree on having this study happen and here's why. There's research on from the past that from long ago "Venus was probably coverd largely with oceans and could have supported various froms of life, just like Earth." There's other features that Venus similar to earth. "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel."
In addition, NASA has came up with an idea on how to send the scientists that are willing to study for life on Venus. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray."
In conclusion these were my claims as to how the author stated that the study of life on Venus should or should not happen.
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There are many times I look at my friends and i see something is wrong, ask them what is wrong but they say nothing. I feel like in doing this and having something that can tell emotions is a good invention. I could also be a bad invention too. We have never had an invention like this before so it could be very interesting.
When it comes to a device that identifies human emotions it is a sticky situation as to if it is good or not. Many people do have this issue where they feel they need to know someones emotion but they cannot read them. I honestly do not believe this device will really come in handy in every day life. I do not see someone talking to their friend and saying, "what's wrong?" Well actually do not answer that because i have a great facial action coding system that will tell me how you feel. No one would do that. It is strange for anyone to do that. In school there is also no serious need for this system many student are either sad from a break up or tired from lack of sleep. There is not much that needs to be seen in reguards to students. On the other hand i do see it to be a good thing because you can use it for like people in higher power such as the president or the vice president to see exactly how they are feeling. Overall i just feel like it is something neat to try out but it will not be of too much value.
Having something that can tell emotions is something good but it can also be something bad. To me it is a great invention but people will not use it. People will think it is great for a month or so until it goes out of trend and we replace it with the next new cool gadget. This is a cool invention but i view it as unneeded.
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6626793
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Driving cars is a big thing for people now, but have we taken driving too far? Driving has increased major problems around the world. I think that we should limit our car usage sometimes though. It can help the environment, allow us to do activities outdoors, and decrease health issues.
Helping our environment is one of the biggest problems we are facing across the globe. Have you ever thought that a car is one of the leading causes of air pollution? In "Paris Bans Driving Due to Smog," Paris had to ban driving driving because the air pollution was so bad, they had to find a way to clear the air. Also, Bogota had to ban cars except taxis and buses in order to reduce smog, as it says in "Car-free Day is Spinning into a Big Hit in Bogota.
Limiting our car usage will also allow us to do activities outdoors. We use our cars daily for work, school, visiting families, or for the park. Sometimes we even use it when we don't have to. "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars," stores are placed near the block, so people can walk instead of using their cars. A media trainer, Heidrun Walter, even admitted that she has been so calm ever since she sold her car. People seem much happier and active without cars than with it.
Lastly, it can decrease health issues. Cars make a lot of pollution in the air, making it harder for people to breath fresh clean air. Congestion was at sixty percent in the Capital of France, as it says in "Paris Bans Driving Due to Smog." In all sources, it says that driving can even increase stress.
As a result, driving is a bad habit. we should limit our car usage so we can help the environment, so we do outdoor activities, and decrease health issues. We don't always have to drive in order to get to someplace. Decreasing car usage will help a lot of our problems we deal with each day.
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662781f
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Hve you ever been in an argument before? Well I am goingto try and persuade you that the face are a natural land form.
First I will talk about the way I know that the face are not created by aliens or something. So lets get to it
So now in the paragraph I am going to provide you with facts and details from the rticle of why I think it is a natural land form. First If this really is a face made by aliens or something where is the rest of the body? Also We as on earth NASA says that they have never seen or recorded a real life alien.
If aliens did make this it would be in the news because come on how many aircrafts are sent into space a day most likly about one ever day. And we also have a satilite up in space and I bet you Countries like Russia, Canada, and probaly even the British have one up in space.
And if something like that happened I would hope one of those satilites would see that happing.
And for all you and me now is that are moon has craters in it. Right? So craters happen ever day so could something like this happen I would think so.
And NASA also said that they did there reserach by pictures taken by the space shuttles and very accurte drawing of the "Face" not done by conserise theroys.
In conclusion Those were some of my best argument reason of why I think the face is a natural land form not a face that was made by aleins. So thos eare my reasonings. So what do you think it is?
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662abe5
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The development of driveless cars is more of a complication than an advancement. There are many issues involed with driverless cars including the possiblity of techincal difficulties, liability disputes, and the maintained awarness of the driver. There is no way to fully eliminate these promblems even with more technolody.
Everyone knows technology doesn't work as planned one hundred percent of the time. Therefore it is not a good idea to be completely reliant on the technology in driveless cars to function properly all the time. Someone could be seriously injured or killed by a simple techincal error, which could be avoided by the continued use of mannually driven cars.
The idea of human error could be argued against that piont, but then you also have the problem of liability. As the article, Driverless Cars Are Coming, said, "If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" This could cause hundreds of complaints and court cases arguing who pays the fine for the accident. Many driver's may even blame technology malfunctions to avoid taking responsiliby for accidents.
Yet another problems is making sure the driver stays focused. The article pionts out that psychological aspects of driverless cars could be a challenge as the driver gets bored waiting for their turn to take over. If the driver gets bored there is a good chance they will try and find something else to entertain them, such as electronics, which will take there focus off the road. Ways to keep the driver alert were mentioned in the article, but it wasn't stated what would happen if the driver ignored the alerts because they think the technology can handle it.
Driverless cars simply present too many problems and unanswered questions. What happens if the technolgy malfunctions while the car is driving down the road? Who's fault is it is someone is injured due to technology failing? How can you be sure the drivers pay attention and are ready to take over if needed? Manually driven cars are working well enough and don't present these issues so why switch driverless car?
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The prompt that will be read is my claim for or against the use of the Facial Action System in classrooms. I will be using my opinion and thoughts on this matter. The information that will be provided to me is from "Making Mona Lisa Smile". The evidence I use to support my claim will also be coming from the passage. Should the Facial Action Coding Sytem be used in classrooms on students?
As I read this passage I couldn't help but feeling annoyed by this topic. If the system reads your face how is it getting your emotion? The passage says that the system scans your muceles and gives the feedback of your emotion. Well how can this be pen point accurate if the systems isn't reading someone's thoughts? The system can be easily malipulated by the change of the musceles in your face. Therefore, the system is not giving 100% accurate feedback everytime.
Scanning a human's face and giving them feedback of thier emotion is more complex than that. To know somone's emotion 100% accurate you need to know thier thoughts. If there is no way of knowing someone's thoughts then you will never be able to get thier emotion 100% accurate. Meaning this system is just child's play since it can't read thoughts, only can scan the face as it says. To me this can be a fun little game to do with friends but not for problem that is anymore serious than that.
Should the Facial Action Coding Sytem be used in classrooms on students? As I've made my claim I think it shouldn't. One simple reason, this is not a 100% accurate system. If this was a fun activity and the students was told the system could be incorrect, sure, what could it hurt. So, the system can be used but it is irllevant to the classroom.
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663ab69
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We have all wondered about what other planets are like, but some of the closest planets to us we have never layed a foot on. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents to a strong extent. The author supports the idea in the fact that Venus may have been very similar to Earth at one point during time, and NASA is trying to come up with a way to make it possible to explore the mysterious planet.
Venus is a planet that is very close to us, but we know almost nothing about due to its extreme conditions. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" supports the idea of attempting to study Venus because of how close it was to Earth's characteristics. The article states," Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like Earth,"(4). The idea of another planet being alike to ours is very appealing to people, and the author seems to agree that there should be trips made to explore the planet. The article also says," The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters,"(4). The similarities could potentially have a connection to what Earth could possibly be after everything is gone. If so, then scientists need to be able to study this planet with a very open eye.
The planet Venus is very dangerous to anything that attempts to get close to it. The author provides information over what NASA is doing to try and further the studies of Venus. He says," NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions,"(7). The author cares about what they are doing to try to make the pursuit of the planet more safe and attainable. The author also says," 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,"(8). The author seems very supportive when it comes to broadening our minds, and horizons of the future of pursuiting the planet of Venus.
To end with the author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" very well layed out his/her opinions on what the limits should be on the amount of discovery we do. From Earth posssibly being similar to Venus in the future to NASA coming up with ways to explore and take samples from the ground of Venus the author seems very on board with continuing with Venus even though there are many dangers at play.
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663c61c
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Yes studying venus is a worthy pursuit because you never know what we might find just like the author said their could be another form of life. Studying venus might be a very dangerous act but i mean look at who we have as our president. Just walikng down the street is dangerous in some parts. I think it could be a very interesting study.
The author said that venus has very high conditions but i mean scientists have found a way to live on mars so i mean cant we do that too. Yes it could be very hot and dangerous but what if we found the creators of life not saying we would ut you never know. I just think it is a good idea t study venus. Everyone has questions about how we got here what made life or even who made life but not one person can answer that because we dont know but if we study venus imagine what we could find.
Yes this might be a very dangerous act but it could also be a very useful act too. I think studying venus it a great ideo and i hope people agree. So yes we should study venus and try to find a way over the hurdles of venus and figure some things out.
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Dear State Senator,
I am arguing in favor of changing the electorol college to election by popular vote for the preesident of the united states. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have know. Basically, in this process, voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president. The electors could be anyone not holding public offifce. Voters cant always control whom their electors vote for. Voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate.
A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes, 538, is an even number. It is highly unlikely but one day if we dont change this, it will happen. in 1960, Hawaii sent two electors to congress, it could of ended in a disaster, luckily vice president Richard Nixon validated only his opponents electors. If their ever happened to be a tie, each state would only cast one vote, so it is not fair that say Wyoming would get as much as California which has seven times the amount of voters Wyoming has.
The election is only a few swing voters away from catastrophe. Candidates dont spend much time in states they know they have no chance of winning. During the campaign in 2000, 17 states didnt see the candidates at all, and voters didnt get to see a campaign ad. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly without much basis in reality. Abolish the electoral college!
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663fde6
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the use of this technology is valuble because students get bored in classes and sometimes mad at computers. this could help re-energize students and maybe even calm them down when their computer isnt working right.
students myself included become extremely bore when just looking at a screen and filling out some worksheet or project. but with this new technology the computer could change a lesson to make it more entertaining. making an online project or worksheet more enjoyable, and enhancing the students chances of getting a good grade. students also tend to get upset with their computers and other technology during school, and doing things like slamming the screen shut and hitting the keyboard. but the computer could detect that they are angry and open somekind of stress releiver like a video game or a desktop destroyer.
in conclusion this new technology would be very valuble and helpful for students and even people working at say a desk job.
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Wouldn't it be nice to know the honest feeling and emotions of someone? I personally like the idea. Using FACS (Facial Action Coding System) can help in so many ways, but it also has its downs to it as well.
The Facial Action Coding System was descovered by Prof., with the help of Thomas Huang and Nicu Sebe. They wanted to make it to where humans and computeres could communicate easliy. The way this works is that the computer scans a 3D view of the persons face, scanning the muscles to detect the emotion of that specific person. FACS can be benificial in a lot of ways. School, personal life, work, etc. In paragraph 6. it says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,"
Then Dr. Huang predicts that the computer would be able to modify the lesson and try to help the student learn it in an easier way. This could help the teachers by letting them know who got it and who don't go it. This technoligy could potentially help more students get into colleges and stuff like that. Another way FACS could be benificial is in the medical feild. a lot of people in this world go through something called depression, and usually go to the doctor to get some type of medicine to help with the problem. With the help of FACS, doctors could be able to tell exactly how a person is feeling. This could lead to less suicidal deaths and many more. I personally think that the Facial Action Coding System is a great idea and would be very benificial in this world today.
On the other hand, this technoligy could be hated by some people. There are people in this world that do not want everyone to know exactly how they are feeling. There are people that stay more to theirselves and they like it that way. FACS could make it harder for that specific person to be by him/her self. If a person is feeling sad and mad most of the time, FACS would just bring more people towards that person out of couriosity. Even when that person just wants to be left alone.
Eventhough I see how the Facial Action Coding System could potentially effect some peoples lives in a bad way, I still belive that FACS is a great idea. It should still be worked on more and more everyday and can start making it's way a crossed the world.
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If the face was created by aliens then their would be a civilization on the planet long before. Even if that could be really thrilling that ,however, is not true. The Face that is on Mars is a mesa because reaserch and pictures where analized, it matches to our natural landforms, and their are multipule in Cydonia. Each of these prove that it is not made by aliens, as cool as that would be. If we go more into depth we will talk about the pictures and research, our landforms, and the multipule in Cydonia.
First off, The face on Mars is a mesa ,thanks to the pictures that where analized. It could also pose as a butte like the one in Snake River Plain of Idaho. The text states that, "What each picture actually shows is the martian equivalent to a mesa or buttle." (12) It just shows how much just one picture can prove.
Second, This looks like just another one of our landforms. Like I had said before it is like the Middle butte in Snake River Plain. In the text it states that , "Thousands of web surfers waiting when the image was revealed on the JPL wedsite, appearing... a natural landform." (7) If thousands of people had saw a landform appear how do you not see that it is like the ones on Earth.
Finally, in Cydonia their are already multiple mesas. The only difference is that this one is more face like. The articale says, " It was just another Martian mesa, common aruond Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows around it."(2) If NASA had done research to see about other laandforms and they have proven that their are more than one on the plane, then it must be true.
Most people say, "The face is bona fide evidence on Mars-- evidence that NASA would rather hide." (5) However why would NASA want to ruin their entire budget by saying that their was a civilization on Mars to begin with. So these three points, landforms, pictures, and the multiple mesas, should show that The Face really is not a martian creation.
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664676c
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The use of cars has always affected society greatly. There are plans constantly being added to better the environment without the use of cars. Vauban, mentioned in Source 1, can be the start of the car-less world we want to live in. As this expiriment becomes noticed by the world, communities will realize how beneficial this experiment could be. Think about a world with no cars. There would be less pollution and less gasses being emitted into the air. For example, Pairs has just banned driving due to heavy smog. After about five days, car traffic was down 60 percent. Limiting car usage should be implemented heavily because of the greenhouse gas emissions and the happiness of the citizens of Vauban.
To begin with, cars cause many problems and the most important being the emissions of greenhouse gasses. As seen in Source 1, some of the car fillled cities of the United States suffer from up to 50 percect of greenhouse gas emissions. Well-populated cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago could be in great danger. A highly populated city in Colombia, has a "Car-Free" day. The goal of this is to allow people to open their eyes and realized how many alternative ways there are to go to work. The implimented a fee of 25 dollars to anyone who violated. I think that by adding a fee, the outcome would be greater and more people would participate. This is a great idea that would open people up to other options. For example, on the third year of the car free day, two other cities joined Bogota. Sometimes we have to open up the eyes of others to really see the change. Also, parks and recreational areas have opened up, uneven sidewalks have been referbished, and most importantly the city has less traffic.
Continuing with pollution, Paris had a near-record of pollution, seen in Source 2. This led to the ban of driving. The ban of driving could be refered to as the limiting of driving. They set up a plan in which cars with even-numbered license plates couldn't drive on Mondays. The same occured for the odd-numbered license plates on Tuesday. They heavily enforced this by implimenting a fine of 22 euros if they used their cars. This idea could work here in America. It would open up carpooling and lessen the amount of cars on the road.
People such as David Goldberg, mentioned in Source 1, are pushing for citites to be less dependent on cars. Mr. Goldberg mentions the hybrid car. Even though buying a hybrid does not reduce the amount of cars, it does reduce the amount of green house gas emissions.
Seeing the happiness and comfort that the people of Vauban allows us to see what our society could look like. We could live in a society just like theirs, filled with nature. In the United States, the number of licenses has been going down each year. Now, this does not automatically mean that American citizens want to "be green". It could be simply because of the fact that cars are expensive, and because we are living in a rough situation. In conclusion, I believe that we should limit car usage for the advantages of less pollution and less greenhouse gasses.
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6646ada
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Dear Flordia senator,
I would like to in favor of keeping the Electoral College for many purposes. The Electoral College know the process of becoming a president and some of the people voting dont really know how the process works. The eletors are the one to elect the president and not the people,people's vote will not have any affect of the election of the president.
The electoral college knows the process of becoming a president ,some citizens dont really know the process of becoming a president. what if we the people just vote and we dont know if our vote counts. The excerpt states"when you vote for a presidential candiate you're actually voting for a slate of electors". This indicates that we think our vote if for the election of the president but its not. Therefore,we should pay attention of who we elect and knowing how the voting system work out. keep on mind that the electoral college is a good system and that we should count on them.
Do you know who elects the president? well,its the electoral college the one who elects the president,many people think that we the people choose but,they are actually wrong. "270 electoral votes is requierd to elect the president",this indicates that we dont really have control of picking the president. "it's possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote", but does'nt often happen.
It all comes down to one point,we should let the Electoral College choose who they want to elect the president. We all want different people to be president but at the end we have too choose who will help the U.S to be powerful. Our nation wll be ruled by the people and for the people.
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I believe that the face on Mars is just a natural landform. I think this because there has because the time the picture was taken, it was a time when Mars was cloudy. Even though my opponet may think that there is life on Mars and NASA would rather hide this information, the conspiracy would instead help NASA with their budget. The face located on Mars would indeed look alien-like, but according to Jim Garvin, cheif scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum reolution." Each pixel in in the 2001 imae spans1,56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. This is saying that the 2001 image of the face on Mars was more clear and easier to see than the image of the face in 1976. There is even landforms found common around the American West that show relation to the face on Mars. Many speculations have been made about the face on Mars, but most have been inlogical or unreasonable to the information at-hand. The facutal evidence that has been shown is more reasonable than the evidence of the ones who think that the face was caused by alien act.
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664fb12
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I think we should use that technology to see students emotions. we would be abel to see how they really feel in that just one picture. we could see how they felt towards someone. when they lying too, becuase some students dont like to show or describe how they feel. not just on students we should use it on we should use it on friends and family too. we need to know how to help people if they upstet to cheer them up, or if there happy we need to know what made them happy.
some students/people dont like to express their emotions becuase they think it lame. especially men becuase they dont want to seem weak. everyone should know how they feel that day or how the felt becuase we might be able to help them. it can also see mixed emtions for example in the artical it said " the software can even identify mixed emtions". it saying we can see if they are feeling happy and mad or sad or mad together. it can identify what feelings are going in together.
it also very cool how just a computer can tell you the percentages of how somebody feels. like it awesome becuase you can maybe find out how somebody feels when they see you. it can let them know " oh he/she gets happy when they see me" and it might make them happy too. the crazy part of this invention he bulit is thta it parts they use for videogames. it can tell if your really feeling that way or just faking it. it can detect alot of emotions you might be hiding.
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Driverless cars have both positve and negatives aspects, but I personally do not think that we should have them on our streets. They are too complicated for people. I do not think they will ever actually be on the street because of how dangerous they are. Multiple states have already outlawed the testing of driverless cars. I am siding with those states because, driverless cars are dangerous, they will make people even lazier then what they already are, and a lot of people probably would not be able to afford these cars.
Driverless cars are dangerous because everything is controlled by a computer, the passenger is not in control at all times. Traffic laws state that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. If there is a passenger in a driverless car, and the car begins to malfunction and the passenger gets injured or even dies, whose fault will it be? The passenger or the manufacturer?
Driverless cars just make things so much more complicated, I think most people would rather drive their own cars anyways, because they will feel as if they are control of everything, rather than having a computer control everything for you.
Another reason driverless cars are bad is because they will make America even lazier then it already is today. People in this country do not like doing anything for themselves, driverless cars will just make everything even worse. If people do not have to drive, then they will act as if they do not have to do other things. Not having to drive just leads to more and more lazy actions down the road. I think their are certain things that people will always need to do for themselves, and driving is one of them.
Cars that are controlled manually are already expensive enough. I can only imagine how expensive driverless cars will be. Even if driverless cars were brought to the streets, who would really be able to buy them? Not too many people. The only people that would be buying these cars are rich people. So wasting all this money to make driverless cars is pointless if they are not going to be available to everybody.
Driverless cars will not be good for this country. They will just make things worse and put lives in danger. States are outlawing these cars for a reason. I think more and more states should follow, it is the right thing to do. People already die in car accidents everyday, this will just boost the deaths caused by car accidents. Driverless cars should not be making their way to the streets any time soon.
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665b527
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Many citizens in the United States rely on cars as a way of transportation. What they don't realize is that there are multiple options to consider instead of a car. "Why consider a new method of transportation?," you may ask. If we limited the car usage we would have great amouts of adavantages as a result.
One important result that would come if we limited car usage is having nearby store locations near by. " In this new approach stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in a malls along some distant highway."(Source one: In german Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars; paragraph six) Limiting car usage will result in new buildings, stores, houses to become at a fair enough distance to walk.
If we had stores nearby enough to walk, there's no need of a car. If car usages reduces, the amount of walking, or riding a bike would increase. This will lead to a better life style. Recent studies has showed that walking daily can improve a persons mind. "When I had car i was always tense, I'm much happier this way."( Source one: In German Suburb, Life goes on Without Cars; paragraph three.)
Another major positive affect that will result in reducing car usage is improving our atmosphere. One disadvantage cars cause, is air pollution. One example would be smog. The smog that we breath in is not good for our health."It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution."(Source three;paragrpah twenty-four). Not only if we reduce car usage we would gain positives outcomes but we would reduce pollution.
"Passenger cars are responsible for twelve percent of greenhouse gas emmisons in Europe...and up to fifty percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." (Source one; paragraph five.) We would be doing positive thing for ourself but a positive thing for the enviroment.
Our generation does not need to rely on a piece of mechanic to take them to their destination. We have the ability to get to our route, and have other options that are helpful for us and for our enviroment. We have multiple advantages if we would consider to reduce car usage. So the question would be, why dont we stop using cars, and start helping ourself and our enviroment knowing the advantages we could be recieving in return.
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Most people think that limiting car usaging is bad, but it's actually good for the environment. In Paris, they were day's of near record pollution and has more smog then other European capitals, so they desided to ban driving to clear the air. It was successful and the smog cleared.
In Bogota, Colombia, the Colombians have a day where they are not allowed to drive. The main goal is to reduce polluton and to promote alternative transportation. In a way, it is good that the Columbians have a car free day, but when a person has to visit somebody or go to work in another city, then its gonna get difficult to go to their destination. Even though Buses and taxis can be used for transportation, citizens have to spend more money then what they usually spend when they use their own car, or if they have to use a bike to make it to there destination, it will lead them to exhaustion and will take longer to get where they need to be.
In the United States, it was said that Americans are buying fewer cars since 2005. Between the years 2001 to 2009, the percentage of young people driving decreased 23 percent. At New York, they have a bike sharing program and has increased on tunnel and bridge tolls that reflected those new priorities. Honestly, this is actually great what this country is doing. The reason for that is because with fewer drivers and the percntage of fewer drivers, it will also reduce the percentage of car crashes and reduce the amount of pollution. With the bike sharing program that they have in New York, it also help people have a better lifestyle.
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66663f1
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It is hard to imagine a world without cars being controlled without humans. Cars have been a mandatory factor in most of our everyday lives. If we as humans decide to cut out the human factor to driving, there are consequences. Consequences such as the threat of saftey, the lost jobs surrounded around vehicles, and the overall question; are self-driving cars nessecary?
Not very long ago, I like many before me, got my liscense at the age of sixteen. That day will forever linger in my mind everytime I put the keys in the ignition. As a young driver, my saftey is always a concern. I learned the true aspects of saftey in my drivers education course, and saftey has been stuck in my mind since. If we create a world where us as humans are no longer in control of saftey, are we not creating an unsafe world? I am expected to put my life in the hands of some machine, rather than putting life in my own hands.
Several years ago, the auto industry was a major factor for income for most people. The jobs surrounded by cars have always been imparative for humans. Then, machines took over the jobs humans had lived off of. Making the auto industry more efficient, but leaving many without jobs. Now we are faced with a similar situation, where the driverless cars take jobs from people who live off of driving.
The auto industry has been relatively the same over the past few years. Cars have become safer, faster, and all around more productive. Now comes the change of a lifetime, the change nobody really needed. Sure, self-driving cars make life easier for everyday life. But, sometimes we need to take a few steps back and remember; how far is too far? The auto industry does not require this change.
Negativity is all that comes from this change. The auto industry will not benefit from these self-driving cars. They will create lawsuits and disaster. These driverless abominations will make the living jobless. This audacious movement will create an unneed and irrational situation for us, the people.
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666a03a
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Have you ever wondered what are the advantages of limiting car usage? Here are a few advantages that have actually helped in the real world, Less Smog, More stores in walking distance.
The first advantage was less smog. In Paris there was typically more smog than other European capitals. On mondays people were ordered to leave their cars at home or get fined a 22 euro fine ($31). It says in source 2 "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital, after five days of intensifying smog." That quote right there shows that with people using their cars less there wouldnt be as much traffic as there was in the past and it has lessened the polution that was in the air. It says "Exceptions were made for plug-in cars,hybrids,and cars carrying three or more passengers", This was probably more enviormental friendly because those cars dont really use diesel fuel as apposed to the regular cars. As a result of all of that the smog cleared enough monday for the ruling french party to rescind the ban for tuesday.
The second advantageof limiting car usage is it makes peoples lives a little more easier. For example, Now there is less space for parking and more space for stores to be placed a walk away, On a main street, rather then in malls along a distant highway.
In conclusion the advantages of limiting your car usage helped reduce smog, and make peoples life easier by reducing green house gasses and creating less space for parking and making more space for stores to be placed a walk away, on a main street rather than in malls along a distant highway.
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The use of this new technology to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable. If we can read the emotional expressiions of students in the classroom then we might be able to use that to determine if they are understanding the work that has been given to them.
Just like they did with the Mona Lisa we could do the same in the classrooms. They determined her emotions in the picture so we could determine the emotions of a student to see if they understand what they are working on. If they are confused or dont understand some5thing then the teacher could help them and get them to better understand the work given to them.
If the student does understand the work given to them then there is nothing to worry about. When the student undrstands the work that is given to them, then the teacher doesnt have to work with that student one on one to give extra help. If the student undrstands it very well then they might be able to help another student that doesnt understand it as much, then the teacher won't have to work with that certain student one on one.
With all that being said there is no reason that we shouldnt use this technology in classrooms. This technology cant harm us. This technology is going to help us in the classrooms. If we dont understand something and dont let the teacher know then how can he/she help us. If we use this technology and see that they dont understand something then we can work with them so that they can better understand the work.
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith get prepared for the elections, which is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. They're both really assured on who they are electing, Mr. Keen, the remarkable Republican canidate. Mr. Keen would most definitely operate in Mr. and Mrs. Smiths' favor, due to the fact that Keen offers a convinient medical insurance for they're family, opposes of abortion and is projecting sites for the unemployed individuals. Clearly, candidate Mr. Keen is a go for the Smiths' family, but what if they're doomed of their vote not getting qualified due to the systems', such as the Electoral College? The Electoral College is a ominous process, due to the fact that voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, disvalues ones' citizenship rights and it's going to influence the country of not voting.
Firstly, the Electoral College is a cynical process where not everyones' vote is taking account of. Imagine, voting in the upcoming election in vain knowing that organizations that only select the votes of one entire state, unconsious of the other millions individuals in the other surplus of the nation exist. The possibility of the one in fifty states choosing majorly one particular candidate, is highly risky for the goverment, and no one should permit putting in risk the goverment with this stubborn prefrence of electoral votes. Incontestably, the Electoral College System, is not a method of voting that should be unresposibly utilized to advantage the four years of presidency. Secondly, voting is a stupendous privilege that allows' one to vote in the adulthood stage. Perhaps, because in the adulthood stage one is aware of all the current economic situations and one is noticable of the advantages a former president can serve them. The former citizens' privileges are unfortunately disvalued lately, with the Electoral College system. It's dreadful that the anticipation a legal individual once awaited on, can no longer be celebrated or reinacted, with this fashion of electing states, that manage the majority votes of the respective candidate. Can voters control whom their electors vote for? That results in a false and negative answer. Thence, it is more than clear that the old-fashion and benevolent method of regrouping all the cadenced voices of all the recievable votes is appropate and suitable for the public and president. Thirdly, the Electoral college influences countries to not participate in the privilege of voting. Once the citizens, have the knowledge of these unprudent organizations, voting is going to be outlooked as an petition, that isn't necessary of taking toll of. Due to the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance in winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing'' states. The pending thought, that ones' state might be chosen out of the many, is certainly doubtful. The Electoral College, can upbring wins in the popular votes but lost in the presidency, these democracies need to be abolished because it should be a doubt that the President and the opposed public, should be uncondemed of. Clearly, the definition of this service is dooming and should be reinforced from the Constitution, to prevent the countrys' votes from going unknown. It is at time, at last, to conclude all the disadvantages of the Electoral College in one, it's ominous due to the fact that the public votes not for the president, but for a state of electors, disvalues ones' citizenship rights and influences' the country of not voting. The opression against the Electoral College, has it's witty motives. As we all know, the most popular partys are the Republic and Democrat. If the Electoral College, only selects one state out of the entire nation, that allows one states, that carries one culture of people to form the regimen of the rules of that successful party. No goverment, should suit this fashion, because it isn't right in any shape or form.
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Venus, the second plant in our solar syetem, sometimes called the "Evening Star," is one one of the brightest lights in the night sky. Venus is also often referred to as Earth's "twin," since Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. Since its distances is close to Earth, scientists have wanted to study and examine this planet up close, but this would prove to be dificult. Each mission to Venus was unmanned, and for good reasons, since many spacecrafts dont even survive the landing for more than a few hours. This explanins why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. In the following paragraphs I will desribe the dangers that are on Venus, why scientists want to study the planet, and what are some new approches to studing Venus.
Their are a lot of reasons why humans can't travel or study Venus. One of the reasons why we cant study Venus is that the atmosphere is completely comprised of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide, which is toxic to humans. The second reason, are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. Another reason is that on the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more exstreme for any human to handle; the environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of Earth's oceans and Venus's environment would liquefy many different types of metals. Beyound high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present more additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
For all the dangers towards humans, why do scientists discuss further plans for visits to Venus's surface? Many astronomers and scientists are fasinated by Venus because it might have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Many people say that long ago, Venus was probably covered with oceans and could have supported different forms of life. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planets surface is similar to Earth, it has a rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Overall Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit.
Since Venus is impossible to study at this time, NASA is working on different approaches to studying Venus. For example, simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface, and the result is that the electronics lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Another project is loocking back to an old technology called mechanical computers.
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I am for the development of smart/driverless cars. I have chosen to support these cars because they will use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer more flexibility than a bus, they can sense the road and dangers better, and the cars require little human attention.
Firstly, the cars will potentially replace taxi services. I think this will be a great idea because while you would still have to pay for the service, there is no human element of error. If there is an element of error, however, you will be the one at fault because you are the only passenger and driver. I believe the replacement of the traditional taxi service is a good thing.
The smart cars are good at sensing dangers on the road ahead. Because the cars have technology that can even start to turn on the brakes before the driver can, the driver will be safer and does not have to respond as quickly. The "Traffic Jam Assistant" is a good development because the driver must still remain alert but the car does most of the work.
Lastly, I think the smart cars are a good idea to develop because they allow the driver to be safe in a vehicle that they are not in full control of. A project manager driver from BMW, Werner Huber states, "We have to interpret the driving in a fun new way." I think that if the developers of the smart car add a type of entertainment to help the passenger stay interested, then the driver will still be alert.
I believe the development of the smart car is a good idea because people will not have to take a taxi anymore, the smart cars are more reliable, and the smart cars will require less attention from the driver. I believe that the smart cars will do a good job on the road and that there are very few risks if they are tested correctly.
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667ab9c
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Driverless cars are not a good idea. There are many reasons why having cars that drive themselves is not a good idea. Driverless cars could be a danger, they could make the public less adept with driving skills, and finally they could ruin the fun in driving a car.
Sure, the idea of driverless cars sounds great but technology is not always the most reliable piece of equipment in the world especially if its new technology. If the driverless car malfunctioned think of all the trouble that it would cause. Driverless cars could end up being very dangerous to the everyday community.
The passage states in paragraph one that Google cofounder Sergey Brin can imagine a time in the future where no one buys cars and they all use the driverless variants. If that time really came and children were growing up their whole lives having a car that drives them everywhere without controlling it I believe there skills as a proactive driver would be greatly decreased. In the passage it also states that cars can not completely handle all situations, such as traffic and workzones, so if these problems arise the driver must take over and if the driver has less skill behind the wheel than say a seasoned driver in todays day in age it could cause trouble with the driver not knowing exactly what to do.
Cars have always been something that I really enjoy, and not only just to look at, driving them is one of the most fun activities that I do. Reading the passage about driverless cars basically tells me that the only plus for having a drivleress car is that you have to do a lot less work than you would in a normal human driven vehicle. This shows me the only reason to have a driverless car is to be lazy and I personally believe that laziness is not a good thing.
Driverless cars have a place in the world but I do not believe they have a place in the everyday community. The cars would be a danger, a hinderance on driving skill, and finally something that would kill the fun in being behind the wheel of a car and driving.
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In 1945 world war two was going on in Europe. Don Reist invited Luke Bomberger to go to Europe. When they got there Luke and Don both sighed up to help with the animals that were shiped overseas.
In the story it said, in August 1945,Luke and Don bolth got there orders to go to New Orleans. Luke and Don arrived they day the war ended. the they went to greece Luke turned 18 before arriving at greece and Luke might be able to get drafted foe the millitary.
Accroding to the text, By the time Luke was drafted he had already made 9 trips the most of any seagoing cowboy. Luke was traviling from the Atlantic Ocean to the eastern caost of the united states. Luke said it took about two weeks to cross the Alantic Ocean and a mounth to get to China. Luke was carring for the animals that were crossing and they had to fed and waterd two or three times a day.
the animals food had to be pulled from the lower holds of the ship so they could eat. Luke was prepard for this because he had to help out on his aunts farm.
Conclusion, On one rany cold night Luke was on watch to watch the animlas and he went to go tell the captian the report and he slipped down the ladder and had cracked ribs.
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667bf45
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The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. Yeah, it might be cool to see how one of your friends if feeling, but at the end of the day, that's their problem. This app could be useful in some way but would you really want to calculate someones emotions? There are three ways that this app is not useful including that the app could not be accurate, it could end up making you lose friends, and how it's none of yout business on how anyone feels.
One way the use of this technology is not valuable, is that this app could be a total joke. There is a posibility that this app could be accurate, like in paragraph 3, it says, "Dr. Huang relies on the work of phychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System)", but in reality, we really can't know. Let's say you download the app and use it on a friend to see how they're feeling. They put on the brightest smile you've ever seen, and the app tells you that the person is happy. In reality, they're the most miserbale people you've ever met. This app may work, but at the end of the say, no one knows what anyone is going through and this app isn't going to change it.
Another way that this technology ins't valuable, is how it can somehow make you lose friends. In paragraph 3, it reads, "Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprice, amger, disgust, fear, sadness- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." What if you use the app on someone who you tought was your friend and you found out how they really feel about you. You're going to feel so sad and disappointed in that person that you're going to be mad that you used that app in the first place. Or maybe you make a gift for your boyfriend or girlfriend and you used the app to see how they realy felt about the gift only to find out that they hated it. You would feel upset and possibly get your heart broken even more when they break up with you for giving them that terrible gift. This app really isn't a good idea.
The last way that this technology has no value, is that the way on how others feel, is none of your business. In paragrpah 5, is states, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face." That statement is accurate, but no one really knows how anyone feels. Picture this, you have a best friend who you think is the most happiest person in the world, never in a million years would you think they're depressed. You download the app just for fun and use it on your friend to see how they really are feeling, you find out that the're really sad. You try to talk to them, but they get mad at you for being in their business and you come to the conclusion that you did do something wrong, because it was none of your business in the first place. How someone is feeling, is none of anyones concern and this app in an invasion of privacy.
In conclusion, the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is not valuable. This app can ruin your relationships and there's a possibility that it isn't even accurate.
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The author suggest that studying Venus is worthy persuit despite
the dangerous it presents, He refers to that because "noting" Venus is one of the most brightest point light in the sky, and one of the planet's of our system solar, with the most "highier" or "hottest" surface of the intere system, with 800 degrees pharenheit, even though Mercury is closer to our sun, and is not closer
to Venu's temperature.
The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet.
These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth;
such an evironment
would crush even a Submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our Oceans
and would liquefy many metals.
Venus
is complicated to study becase has a lot of impediments, Venusian geology and whether present additional impediments like erupting Volcanoes,powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface.
That make Venus complicated to study, the conditions, whether,temperatures, and preasure is hard to study his surface.
Even the light can't penetrate the dense atmotphere, and
the mores importantly, reseachers cannot take samples of rock,gas, or anything else, from a distance.
But NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus, Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. These devices were the first ebvisioned in the 1800s and palyed an important role in the 1940s during Word War ll [ 1642 ] WWll.
This project look hopefull, maybe they can study Venus on that way.
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What is the reason why there is a face shape in Mars? No one know how it become a human face or if it a human face at all, and some think the reason behind it is that there are evidence showing live in Mars. I agree that the shape is a human face shape, but I also believe is just a landform. The reason is that as it stated in the article, the face is to attrack the people. As Technology improved, the picture are showing the real image of the face which reveal to change it shape.
The first reason to support my claim is that the face is use to attrack people, so that the people who made up the idea can earn the money. According to paragraph three it said that,"huge rock formation.. which resembles a human head... formed by shadowss giving the illusion of eyes,nose and mouth." Following the evidence is that also on paragraph three it say," The authors reasoned it would be a good way to enage the public and attract attention to Mars." This evidence tell me that with the idea of having a human face in Mars, it allowed people to think and believe what they told them.
On paragraph twelve, Garvin say that," 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."The second reason is that the face was due to a land form. The evidence not only gave me the idea of how it was form, it also give me the idea of how it reminded them of the a real life thing happen in the United State. We can already agree with this evidence that the idea of the formation for a human face was due to landforms. Also when in a different planet landform are still the same as the earth by how the land change.
There may be live in Mars, and no one know that is true. In any case the Face of Mars might looked like a real human face, but if you look closely at the face that viking take in 2001, it doesn't look like a face. In the picture it show how the landform change it, and that the reason for why there are no Face in Mars. This argument will show you why the Face of Mars is just any landform like you see in earth.
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In this article " unmasking the face on mars" they are showing us a picture that was taken by a 1976 viking 1 photograph of the face on mars which is just a natural landform. In paragraph 2 scientists firgured it was just another martian mesa, which they state is common around cydonia. Another detail from paragraph 2 they state only because it had unusual shadows that made it look like an egyptian pharaoh.
In the Paragraph 3 it states "huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose, and mouth." Which means that it's just a illusion it wasn't acutually seen or proven to be a human head.
Another fact which is from paragraph 7 it states Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia and snapped about ten photos and it revealed a natural landform. In paragraph 9 garvin who is in the Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft he states "It's not easy to targey cydonia." which means that they just can fly over cydonia and spot it right away.
Finally in paragraph 12 garvin states what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. In this article "Unmasking The Face On Mars" it's just a unproven theory that its a face on mars, there is many details in this article that state that it's just a natural landforms.
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The Facial Action Coding System could and could not be useful in classrooms. It could be useful because if the student is upset, and the computer recognizes that, then it could bring up something to brighten the students mood. If the student is bored, then the computer can bring up something not so boring. This may not work for everybody though. This may cause the student to be distracted on what is on the screen, rather than do what they are supposed to do.
Say a student is sitting in a classroom on a computer. The student is upset about something that has happened. The computer could bring up something to maybe, hopefully, brighten the students mood. This might put the student in a better mood. If the student is bored, and they don't want to do what they were assigned, the computer can bring up something to bring the student mind off of what they were doing. Or the computer can bring up something to make their work not so boring. If the computer detects the student is confused, then it could bring up something to help the student.
This could be useful but it might not work for everybody. If the computer detects the student is upset, and it brings up somethig to make them happy, it might not work. They might think it is stupid or they don't care. They might think there is nothing that can cheer them up. This might work for little kids, for when they do something on the computer. This may not work for older kids though. Some would think it's stupid. They might stop using the computer if it distracts them.
Kids are easily distracted. Even older kids and adults can be easily distracted. If there were computers in the classroom to do this thing, it will cause the students to become more distracted. If the computer brings up something to make the student happier, the student will be distracted on what just pulled up rather than do their work. If they are in the middle of a test, and the computer brings up a game or something so the student isn't bored, the student would rather sit there and play the game rather than take the test. Then the student would get in trouble because they were playing a game, when they were supposed to take the test.
People may take advantage of it. If the students is told to get on the computer, and do something, and they don't want to do it, they will pretend like they are bored so the computer will bring up a game for them to play. If they are taking a test, they will pretend like they are confused so the computer brings up something to help them, rather than do it themselves.
So there are many ways it could be useful in a classroom. Such as make a student happier, make whatever it is not so boring, or help a student. There are also ways it could not be so useful. Such as when people think it is stupid, or they don't care, or when they stop using the computer because it distracts them too much. Parents and teacher also may not like this idea.
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I don´t like the way driverless cars are. You aren´t really learning how to drive if you have one of those cars because they are pretty much driving by itself except for when needed. So if you´re learning how to drive and you´re trying to get your licenses and their not using one of those drvierless cars, then you are in trouble because you are so use to the driverless car. Driverless cars are cars that drive themselves but would need the driver to pay attention to the road whenever the car needs them.
It would be a waste of car parts making them. I know a lot of people would probably be willing to pay the price and buy them because some people probably can´t drive. Lots would pay and buy but some would probably be against it . People who can drive are the people to make fun of their friends or others because they have a driverless car. I think it would be better if they actually made it driverless where they can driver through anything and anywhere. They wouldn´t need the drivers help at all. If they did, I think it would be great for some people because when they go out with their friends and get drunk, they can just use that car and get home safely without crashing or killing others on the way home.
So overall I think they shouldn´t make them unless they are really driverless without needing the drivers help. To some people it would probably be waste of money and to others it probably would. It would be awesome either way because you probably wouldn´t even have to have a license to drive but rhey still have to have an age limit like 17 or older to be in the car by yourself or something like that. You never know what would happen if a 13 year old got into the car by themselves. Stuff may happen.
Driverless cars should have lots of technology in it such as cameras, computers, tv, gps, etc. It would help a lot of people and the car itself when driving. It needs all of those so the drivers and the people with them wouldn´t be bored if they´re going on a long trip.
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I don't think that a computer can identify human emotion how about you? In this article it talks about a facial action coding system which allows computers to identify human emotions.
But my opinon is I don't think that will work because. I feel like in order to know something about soemone or know how they are feeling you must know the. A computer device can not know you in a way that a human can. Computers may know about you from another source but it will never have that human to human chemistry and connnection. It will never workout.
The author also states that faces dont lie so even if it did work thhat doesn't mean that its correct because it is so easy to fake a smile orfake emotions. But the machine also can identify major muscuular actions and can tell the diffrence between a geniune smile and a fake one just by reading the muscles. I belive that they are trying to say the computer can calculate humans like we do math which is by far not true at all because we are humans and we fake stuff we lie and we do many other things that a computer cannot read.
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In this essay I will convince you that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. Some of the evidence that I have that the Face is jusr a natural landform is that i was nearly 2 miles long that would take "aliens" quiet a while to create, another form of evidence that I have is that the Vikings missions were done for eighteen years before anyone when back to try and get another picture, and in the text it gives you an example of a nautural landform on Earth the looks a lot like the Face.
In this paragraph I am going to support my claim in the openig paragraph. The first claim that I am going to support is the one about the Face being nearly 2 miles long. If this where to be a creation by aliens don't you think that we would have seen the aliens while they were creating the Face. Also if there were aliens on Mars NASA probably would have descovered them long beofr they had tome to create the Face.
The next claim that I am going to support is the claim about it being eighteen years before another space craft was sent to camture the Face in a picture. Don't you think that NASA would have sent another spacecraft within that month or even year if they thought that the Face was an alien creation. If the Face was an alien creation NASA probably would have sent another space craft sooner because if they found out that there is life forms on Mars that could get them money.
My third and final cliam that I am going to support is that in the text they provide the reader with an example of a landform on Earth that the Face looks like. The landform that the text provides the reader with is "Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho."
That example tells you that aleins couln't have created the Face because they don't know what the landform on Earth looks like.
So in conclusion to my above claims there is no scientific evedence that aliens could have created the Face. A restateof the reasons behind why the Face was not created by aliens are that the Face was nearly 2 miles long and it would have taken aliens a lot of time to create in which NASA could have discovered them, the next resone being it was eighteen years before they sent anyone to get another picture, if NASA really believed it was created by aliens they would have sent someone sooner, the final reason is that there is a landform on Earth that looks a lot like the Face.
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One reason to join the program is because when you gradulate, you can cross the ocean more than one time if you wish to. Another reason is to do fun things for our goverment. Also, because you will travel around the world and meet new people ,and feed animals. You can do more when you gradulate and have the right attiude for the goverment. Another reason the program would be a great idea is because you will change people mind and thinking about things. You will also get a chance to join the United Nations Relief and Rehabilition Administration, and take care of all the horses overseas.And also traveling the highs seas, there is just more than during or going on the adventure you have to do work to. Also you can be able to change vistors and other things once you are done or have to take a vacation somewhere and pick someone take over your spot.
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Dear, state senator I do not favor in keeping the Electoral college. What I favor is changing electoral college to election by popular vote. I think that election by popular vote is very fair and even. Electoral College can control who their electors vote it is unfair to the other elector becuse they have no chance of winning the election. Consider that state legislature are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors always defy the will of the people.
The electoral college is unfair to voters. The electoral college is unfair because the winner take all system in most states they do not have any chance in winning. The electoral college is just outdated, and very irrational. We should abolish the electoral college it is a uncompetitive way for competeing for president. Everyone deserves a fair and even chance and by the electoral college is not.
Popular votes is a non democratic method of selecting a president that gets the the positon with the most electoral votes. It is the electors who elect the president not the people. Everyone has a right to vote for who they would like or trust as president. However it is possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Whe you vote for president your are actually have a part in who you would like.
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Cars have upgraded so such more over the years, but as the cars increasingly upgraded they also cost more which decreases people from getting cars! 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars, 57 percent sold a car to move here. In diffrent countries cars could be lower price cars, but not just the price of cars other things too!"Passengers cas are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. . . and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States". If you leave the United States and transport to Europe, things would be cheaper!
Even cars have a diffrent looks in diffrent places! In New York the suburbs looked more vauban-like in the 1950s! Some countries even get upgraded things later then other countries!
But having a car should be a good thing nomatter how it looks or how it feels its better than walking we should be happy for having the upgraded things that makes life so much easier but if you had the oppratunity to get any car you could choose wisly drive save and fallow the laws!
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Dear senator,
Imagine it being the year for choosing for a new president for the United States of America. You cast your vote, for which president you thought that would be best to run our country. After, you hear the results you become very disappointed , Because the presdient won not by the popular vote but by the electoral college. You become very angry and fustrated because the president that will now be running for America will not better our country by the things he said. Reasoning, that he won by the electoral college and not by popular vote, and you feel as if you dont feel as if it was not fair because you're not really choosing based on the state laws and how the electors are selected. How would you feel if you were in a situation like this ?
Furthermore, i think we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America. My reasoning being said is because when the president wins by popular vote it's from what the american citizens want, not what the electors chose. When you choose by popular vote you also avoide many other things from occuring. For example, the electoral college is a method of selecting the president that may turn off voters for a canidate who has no hope of carrying for their state. As explained in the text " voters in presidental elections are people who want to express a political prefrence rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election."
Moreover, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Canidates dont spend as time in states they know they have no chance of winning, and only focusing on the states that they do. As said in the text " In a 2000 campaign , seventeen states dont see the canidates at all, including in rhode island and south carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad. Making that hard for the people to see what there president wants to do for the country they have no idea because of the canidate too worried on winning and letting the citizens choose.
To elaborat on my claim, the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The disaster factor is what happened in the 2000 fiasco which was the biggest election crisis in a century , which allows the system for much worse. In the electoral college state legislatures are responsible for picking electors, and those electors would effect the will of the citizens. sometimes "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever thet please." Making another reason why the electoral college should'nt be here to stay.
Although, keeping the electoral college may not be a good thing to do.
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Dear senatoris it posible for you to change the electoral college to election by popular vote for the president of the united states because its better."Acording to source one, the electoral college consists of 538 electors"."A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president". Thats alot of votes that electoral college needs.
In source two it says "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now". More people prefer the direct vote because under the electoral college system voters vote for for a slate of electors,who in turn elect the president. acording to the article in reason one."In 2012 obama received 61.7 persent of the electoral vote compared to 51.3 percent of popular votes for him and Romeny. because almost all states award electoral college votes on a winner- takes-all basis".
for example in reaosn five "nixon in 1968 and clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes,while winning a majority in the electoral college(301 and 370 electoral votes,respectively).alot of people say that electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candident. people that are in presidental elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a singel vote may decide an election.
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The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" states in the last paragraph, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors," which means the author sides with the idea of studying Venus, even with the risks it offers.
In paragraph 5, the author gives light on NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus. NASA's idea is to allow scientists to float above the fray, like a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above Venus's landscape. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions and that the temperatures would still be warm at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. So, not easy conditions, but still survivable for humans.
The author states in the next paragraph that in order to a conduct a thorough mission to get more information on Venus, scientists would need to get up close and personal, despite the risks.
The author ends the article with "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to mee the very edges of imagination and innovation," which says that just because there are many dangers that come with getting to know more about Venus, doesn't mean we should avoid Venus on purpose. We should get to know more about Venus despite the dangers for our own imagination and innovation.
Studying Venus is a good start to unravel the secrets of not only our galaxy, but of the universe also, but until we have even more advanced technology and equipment, it wouldn't be the best idea to start doing missions on Venus as of now; However, the author of this article believes that we should study Venus despite the dangers that we could face to further expand what we know. The author is being more considerate of science than of safety.
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Good afternoon, Mr. or Mrs. state senator.
I am writting this letter to you in regards of trying to persuade you to help change the election of the president of the United States. For many years, we the people , have fought our way towards freedom, and your assistence has been with us for a very long time, but if we the people have managed to fight for our freedom, than I beleive that we also have the power to choose our president. We can't just have a president based on congres's opinion, we all have different opinions. That is why we all stand as one and decide who we vote for. Instead of having 270 people vote for our president, why dont we have thousand's of people vote for our president.
We decide what is good and bad for us, not congress . Many people ,ie Richard Nixon, Bob Dole, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO have all agreed on to abolish the electoral college. As the passage say, in 1960 segregationist nearly succeded in replacing democratic electors with new ones. that means the they might have despise Kennedy, one of our most succesful presidents. After all, the electoral college is unfair to voters, besides the electoral college is pretty old. We are living in the future, where we learned from our ancestors mistakes not just about life but also about politics. Most people consider the electoral colege as outdated or as an anchronism. By YOU helping US, we could abolish the electoral college.
Thank you for your time from PROPER_NAME
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Dear senator,
Every one has a voice and they all want to be heard. The Electoral College is an unfair method of calculating votes for the population while voting for a president of the United States. States begin to feel like it is not worth it to vote because their vote could be neglected or it would not hardly count. Electing presidents by using popular vote gives states a better advantage at choosing their president because they know their vote is in and someone else will not be able to change their choice. Popular vote is when all the people are allowed to vote for the president and every vote counts because based on the amount of votes the president recieves from the people is who wins the election.
Electoral Colleges are when the people vote for the person they want to govern them and that vote goes to a person that could either decided to vote as the people choose, or vote for whom ever he feel should run. It lowers the peoples voices, they are unable to directly choose what they want because their choices could be changed. Electors don't have to vote infavor of the person you would like. The diffrence between the Electoral College and popular vote is that in the Electoral College their are electorrs that can choose to vote in favor of what we -the people- want if they agree with it. The elector doesn't have to choose what the people want. In popular voting, the whole population gets to choose who they want as president without worrying that their vote will be put aside. It makes sure that we -the people- get what we want. They could just change the vote and choose who they want to run as presidency. The Electoral College doe shelp the counting of the votes because there are only 538 voters; however, we are in a diffrent time where electrical machines can help calculate the total number of votes for a large population.
Citizens with the right to vote feel like it is not needed for them to vote because the have a low number of electors, while having a large number of population. It would benifit them if instead of having a certain number of electors that you have to "trust" and hope they vote for the candidate you are going for, they will be able to directly vote for them using the method of popular votes to chose the president. The citizens will know that their vote counts and that it can't be changed because they wont have electors voting for them.
Popular vote gives the citizens freedom and it helps to better calculate what the people want. The United States is a nation that is governed by the people and is runned based on what we want. It wouldnt make sense to deprive us from our voting rights. The constitution states that this goverment was created by the people, from the people, for the people and allowing us to vote by popular will help reinforce this because it will give us the freedom and liberty to choose as we -the people- want.
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I am all for this new technology to read peoples emotions. If we could read their emotions it would be easier to help people to get better if they are in a bad place in life. It would help so many people that are depressed and need help but afrad ask for it. And when people get help with their emotions they become more stable then they were before.
Im all for the values of using this new emotion technology because you tell if people are faking a smile. You can tell because when you fake it you dont use the same muscles as when you really smile. When you fake smile the muscles you use are zygomatic major that make your mouth stretche sideways and the risori. But when you really smile you use the muscles called zygomatic major that begin at your cheek bones and life the corners of your mouth. The other muscle you use is called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus which makes crow's-feet around your eyes.
This is way i think we should use this technology in the futer. It could help with so many things. People could get the help they need. Life would just be so much better if we all could understand each other. This will be one of the best things you can do for someone needs and wants help to make their life and friends and familys lifes better.
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The author supports the idea that exploring Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it shows. In paragraph 2 the supports his claim by informing us that "Venus is sometimes right around the corner-in space terms- humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world". Although no spacecrat survived the landing for more than a couple hours. This adds on to why in Paragraph 3 that, "on the pantes surface, tempatres average over 800 degrees Farhrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". Another reason in paragraph 3 is that "Venus has the hottest surface tempatre o any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun".
The author then supports his reasoning of Venus being worthy of exploring with an idea by NASA in paragraph 5 that despite the hostile planet conditions of the surface "Venus would llow scientst to float above the fray". the author explains to us a vehicle that will be able to hover 30 or so miles above Venus's hostile conditions. he also explains it as "just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendl ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. Even though tempatures would still be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, the pressure would be similar to those at sea level of Earth, supported by solar energy. Altough the author does bring up insight that the vehicle will only have imited information, and it is just another challenge that many researcher are working on to innovate.
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Transportation has become one of the largest emissions throughout the world, and many do not seem to wonder how beneficial limiting car usage can be. Not only does the release of fossil fuels harm the world, but the stress that comes with having a vehicle is immense. When considering ownership of a vehicle, one must think about the pros and cons of owning one, and realize that the limited pros... are not worth the cons.
Cars, trucks, and buses have many factors in common, but one in particular is hazardous to mother nature... fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are harming our territory, the place where life has been made possible, Earth. At the streak we are going, soon enough us humans, the domain species won't have a home due to the pollutants vehicles release killing the O-zone Layer. We have become accustomed to the abuse of transportation. Even when we are capable of walking or using a bike to a nearby location, we choose to use a vehicle instead of avoiding the damage that is caused. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the city, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intesifying smog..." Source #2 states. Their are many ways to distinguish transportation, but one very adequate discription is "a death wish".
The stress that comes with the ownership of any transporting vehicle surpasses what anyone can bare! The economic standards one needs to posses is difficult. In, Vauban, Germany, one can have a car under the circumstances of paying $40,000 for a parking space, along with your home, source #1 explains. Your car needs to be fed in order to function, and it's food is quite pricey, especially when it hoards gallons of the substance! In addition, one needs to pay for insurance aswell! Dangers in streets are not abnormal what-so-ever, so the stressfulness that one has behind their back while driving is not enjoyable.
The benefits that come with limiting the usage of cars is grand
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Did aliens create an amazing masterpiece on Mars or are you just imagining that they did? Aliens surely do not exist or are for sure not on Mars. It is theretithized that aliens have formed or made an object that seems to look like a human face. I think that aliens didn't do it in many different ways. Such as, this object resembles different landforms that co-exist on Earth. Also, by using our satelittes, we would've already seen pictures of them. Finally, many different factors could've made it to look as if resembling a human face. Just because we wonder about something, doesn't mean that it's really there.
First of all, this object resembles different landforms that co-exist on Earth. Different landforms that it resenmbles are rivers, volcanos, and mountains. This closely resembles the Snake River Plain in Idaho because of it's swirly indentions. Also in one of the pictures it looks as if it have hot boiling lava bubbling inside of it. And finally it shows high elevations such as the Rocky Mountains. This "alien created object" looks very similar to the many different landforms on Earth. This is one of the many reasons why it was not made by aliens but if there were any aliens wouldn't we have known about them by now?
Concequently, using our satelittes, we would've already seen pictures of the aliens if they lived on Mars. With all of the advanced technology that we have today you would've thought that our satelittes would've taken pictures of the aliens, right? Some reasons why we should've already seen aliens are that we have satelittes that can take high definition pictures, not only but also; we've launched many different programs towards Mars to take pictures but none of them have came back with positive results for aliens. And finally the rovers that we have sent to Mars have come back with little information about vital items needed to survive on a planet. With high definition pictures we can tell if there are any shelters, food, water, etc. on Mars, however there's not. Then again many different space progams hav launched satelittes to take pictures, but there is no vital signs. Finally the rocket propelled rovers that have landed on Mars have came back with little information about items needed to survive. There it is, another good reason and reality why aliens did not create this human looking landform, but it might've just been positioning why we thought that it looked human.
Finally, many different factors could've made it to look as if resembling a human face. Different factors such as the position of the sun, clouds, and or temperature could've made this "plain" look human. The sun might've made the shadows of different hills look like eyes and a mouth. The clouds could've covered or angled the sun to make different shadows on the hilly area. Maybe the heat waves deformed the plateu to resemble a human. Nobody knows for sure and unless the exact same situation happens again we might find out, but until then I beleive that it is not possible that aliens made this landform.
It is possible that aliens exist and I don't doubt that they live without of our reach but I think that it is not possible for them to exist this close to us and we have not found out about it yet, therefore they are not real.
Everyone wonders what is beyond our reach, but just because you imagine it does that neccesarily mean that it is real? I think that all the examples like it looks like landforms on Earth, we should've seen picture of aliens, and many different factors might have effected our view are definitly reasons why aliens did not create this. Wondering and believing are both good things but if you don't focus on the truth of reality, you will not suceed.
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in this essay i am going to be writting about how a new technology called the facial action coding system enable computers to identify human emotions. an i am going to be writting that this could be valuable. i am going to be writting about why this is valuble.
first,in this paragraph i am going to be writting about how "the facial expressions for each emotion are universal."in the article it says that some individuals often show diffrent types of expression,for example they used the one not smiling as broadly. what this is showing that this new thing that can identify the emotions could be usefull because it can let ther people know what is wrong with you and why you are not happy or why you are sad. in the article it also said that it can identify mixed emotions as they used da vinci's masterpiece.
second,in this paragraph i am writting about how this could help you with your friends and other people around you. in the article it says that we could already tell how one of our friends is feeling and how they look because we already know them. but it also says that we could probobly have some trouble describing them facial traits. and that is what this new technology does it tells you and shows you th facial traits that convey happy and worried.
third,in this paragraph i am going to be writting about how this could be useful in class and how this could help others. the example they used was a computer and some ads. the ads could tell your smile and if you are happy then another ad will pop up that is similar,but also if you frown the ads will be diffrent. they used a computer in a classrom because in the article it says that this computer could recognize if the student is becoming cnfused or bored. aalso in the article it says that this means that it could modify the lesson to the way you might understand it. this is why i think this is valuable in some cases.
in conclusion,i wrote about how this could be valuable. i said that this could be valuable because this could be used to show the diffrent emotions and how people are feeling. i also wrote about how this could be used in the classrom because it could tell wether they are confused with the lesson and if they are then the computer will modify the lesson to a way that you could understand it. this is what i wrote about in this essay and i am sying that yes this could be valuable in the classrooms.
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This "FACS" program inside of a computer could change not only art, but education as we know it. For starters, if it were to focus solely on art, we may be able to understand an artist's meaning for creating the painting. If we were to import it to education, we could create much more immersive learning experiences for child and adults alike. Now, some people might not like that Idea, the fact a camera might be used to "monitor" how your feeling seems a bit weird, knowing that if your falling asleep, your computer will know this and notify whoever is in charge. That doesn't mean this can't be used for online schooling instead, maybe your teachers absent and doesn't have a way to know what your doing on your school provided computer, this program can target certain kids and help them improve in their studies overall instead of getting them in trouble. This seems like a great learning alternative for most, and art scholars could use this in the classroom to help get more points across to better express themselves in their specific field.
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The article "The challenge of Exploring Venus" is about the author trying to get me to think that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. What that line is saying is even though Venus is a dangerous place it shouldn't stop you in wanting to go and explore it, to find out more about our solar system. Me as a girl, I don't know if I would want to go travel Venus in knowing that it is very dangerous and has very big risk factors. In this article though the author made me look at it with a bigger perspective. He put some points in that I really liked that got me over the perspective of Venus is a dangerous place. Here are some of the points, if we took the challenege to go visit Venus we would get to see what the Earth-like planet looks like, the understnading of what Venus has on its planet and challenges that we have on Earth should not be limited by dangers, but it should make our imagination and innovation meet bigger standards.
The author said that the closest planet to earth is Venus. Earth and Venus are known as twins. The question is why would anyone want to go visit Venus if it is so dangerous. It's because Venus is the Earth-like planet in our solar system. It is the closest planet that you can study and it is like Earth. People want to discover more about it to see what more the two planets have in common. They know that long time ago Venus had earth like features and was once able to support various forms of life. Now they know that it still has some features earth has. Like a rocky surface, with craters, mountains, and valleys. People want to be able to study Venus so we can see why they can't support forms of life and how it came to be that way.
The second point that caught my attention as I was reading this article, is that how are you going to understand Venus without going their and putting some sort of camera or a human there to get some pieces of Venus. We want to understand Venus so we can start understanding other planets. We start with Venus because it is the closest to Earth and it is similar to earth so we can compare and see what other planets might have in common and what they are like. We want to understand why 97 percent of carbon dioxide covers Venus. We also are trying to figure out why their temperatures andd conditions are extremely worse than any human being on Earth has encoutered. This topic made me realize that starting to understnad Venus can help us start understanding other planets and not just others but our own planet too.
The third point that really caught my eye and has made me think is at the end of the article the author says "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". This is a very good point to end the article with because he is trying to tell us that don't let things that you fear get in the way of you imagination. Don't let your fears make you from doing something that might change your life in a good way. The author adds this at the end because he wants us to see that he isn't letting the fears of how dangerous Venus is from stopping him from going there and seeing what it is like in the future. It might not even be him, it could be him talking to others saying Venus is okay to go visit because it will open you imagination and innovation.
In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author makes it very obvious that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. He put in multiple points and backed them up with information. The author was very clear in stating why he thinks it is important to keep trying to find a way to visit Venus despite the difficulties. The three points that caught my eye were if we took the chance to go see Venus we would see the Earth-like planet in our solar system, the understanding of what Venus has on its planet, and the challenges that we have on earth should not be limited by dangers, but it should make our imagination and innovation meet biggers standards. I know for sure that if I had the opprotunity to find out more information that could help us in this world but it was dangerous I would find a way to still do it or something I can do to help make it safer for others to do.
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As humans, everyone is curious and want to learn new things about our world. NASA is a govermnet organization that strives to find new things every day that will improve our understanding of our galaxy. One of the planets that scientists have looked at lately is Venus. Venus is planet that scientists have trying to find out more about although the planet is very hostile and dangerous. If scientists can figure out more about Venus, we can further our understanding of what this planet is and what it once was. The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" writes his feelings about how dangerous it is as well as how desiring it is to further explore more information about this planet.
There are many different things that scientists are intrested about when it comes to this planet. Many studies have shown that Venus might have been at one point the most like earth planet in the solar system. The author states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have been supported various forms of life, jut like Earth"(4). The passage further sugests that although it would crutial to find out about this planet there are draw backs. There have been many missions for spacecrafts to land on this planet but none of them "survived the landing for more than a few hours"(2). Although the planet is so close to us, the conditions are very dangerous for exploration. The author informs the reader of the harsh conditions of the planet, but also show the reader insight to possible reasons why it is so worthy of studying.
Venus is a very interesting planet and has conditions tht sugest that it was just like earth. There even is proof that suggests that there once was some living organisms on this planet as well. The author informs us by writing, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life"(4). Scientist using this knowledge that there were once life forms, can think of solutions for people to go to Venus. This can help explorers and scientist to learn more about how life lived on this planet and what it was like. The drawback to this idea is that Venus is a planet filled with gas and is roughly, "170 degrees Fahrenheit"(5). This temperature is very harsh conditions for humans to live in or even exploring what is on this planet.
Although the planet is filled with gas and is not suitable for exploring with robots or people. The author suggest there are many positive things on exploring Venus, like studying life forms and what the planet consists of despit e the challenges that are in the way.
There are so many cool things that we can learn about Venus and scientists have no idea what these things might be. Human nature is to descover new things about our world. That is how humans learned new things over time and progressed through civilization. Venus is a very intresting planet that NASA is stil kind of confused about the planet and want to know more about it. If there were solar pannels on Venus then the "solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Never the less, Venus is a planet that is very dangerous and there needs to be many precautions before thinking about putting people on it. Not only is the temperature of the the planet warmer, it is also, "90 times greater atmoshperic pressure than earth"(3). The air pressure on this planet is so much stronger, that it is going to be harder for astronauts to be on this planet for a certain amount of time. The author brings up many ideas regarding how dangerous Venus is, but at the same time humans want to satisfy our curiosity by learning more about what this planet consists of.
In conclusion, the author supports that Venus is a worthy pursuit depsite the dangers. The writer did a very good job by using facts to support his claim regarding the exploration of this planet. Curiosity is what mainly drives exploration in humans. Scientists and explorers can not hold back from these drawbacks because in the end, we want to know more about the unknown qualities of this planet and what they consist of despite what challenges we might have to face.
Scientists will find a way to learn more about this planet although there are many challenges that lie in their path. Just like these scientists, everyone should not give up because of roadblocks that come their way rather, they should keep trying and think about it differently.
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The Challenge of Exploring Venus
The authour suggests that studing Venus is worthy pursuit dispite the dangers it presents, the aouthor in my opinon he does support his idea very well beuse he mentioned that venus is often refferd to as earth's "twin", venus is the closest planet to earth in tearms of density and size, and occasionally in the distance to,i didnt know anything about this till i just read this i think that this is a part that supports his idea.
There are so many things that i didnt know about venus that im learing by reading this paper so it is worthy."each previous mission was unnamed,and for a good reason becuse not single spaseship has landed it venus"this was a real good information that make me want to know why it can never make it to venus even though it not far from earth.a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankeys venus.
The author has really grat supporting fact on studying venus is a worthy persuit dipite its dangers.
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Where would the world be if we had flying cars? you may ask yourself the pros and cons of these creations. But what if we had cars that drove themselves? would it be safer? how would they be manufactued? what will the future depend on?In 2013 BMW
announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistan." This car can handel functions up to 25mph.
In the late 1950s, General Motors created a concept car that could run on special test track.The track was embedded with an eletrical cable that sent radio signals to a reciver on the front end of the car. In the 1980s, automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes.Within 10 years, those sensers had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers.
"The psychogical aspect of automation are really a challenge," admits Dr.Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver." We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." Some manufacuers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over--somthing not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way , the in-car system is acutally a safety feature.
In conclusion, driveless cars are much safer that car that have to have a driver .When you thing about the pros and cons you start to see that there are more pros that cons. Even though some states dont agree with the newer technology, in the future we will see these more often than most. So ask yourel again. What is the future going to depend on?
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yes i think it is good to have a emotion machine for students in school it cold possily help them and people around them to figure out what is going on are when they need to take a break are upset about something i think it would be useful in the long run. paragraph 6. the same technology can male computer-animated-faces more expressive- for video games or video surgery. most human communication is non-verbal, including emotional communication. and it also is devolping a new way for humans to communicate but i think we should just be open and just be able to express yourself on your own its easy.
but it would be really nice to see a computer that can read emotions in school like i said it can help kids learn better and help teachers know what they are doing wrong or when they need bathroom breaks or a snack time. and in the long wrong it could help students become more succsesful and have alot more knowlodage as well. it could also become a distraction as well in a class room because the students maybe just want to abuse the computer when they are souposed to be doing there work intsted of trying to figure out peoples emotions. it is also really cool that the computer can read if you got a fake smile. and how they tell is the mouth is stretched sideways using the zygomatic major and diffrient muscle, the risorius,to an expert, faces dont lie these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politaction ot celebirty is not being truthful at all.
but i think they shoud use this computer on celebirties and plotiactions to see if they stick to there word.
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Have you ever been in class and started to get bored with an assignment? Well the new F.A.C.S (Facial Action Coding System) may be able to help.
The F.A.C.S sytem is able to tell how you are feeling by reading the muscles in your face. The F.A.C.S system atrificially makes a 3-D model of your face with all 44 muscles. Those muscles are what help control your facial features for example, smiling, frowning and scowling. The F.A.C.S system is able to decode what muscles are being used to show how you are feeling.
The argument about having F.A.C.S in our school systems today is that it is constantly reading our childrens faces without them knowing. People say this is an invasion of privacy for example if a child is at home and has left their computer out when they went to go to the restroom and a parent walks up and looks at the screen it could have some teachers thinking that the students parent is doing the work for them.
I say this argument is invalid because a lot of people don't know that Google has a system in place similar to F.A.C.S where it will listen in on what people are saying and show advertisements that correnspond with that. Another thing Google does that is similar to F.A.C.S is that when you are browsing it will track what you click on and then provide advertisements for those things as well. Another example of things tracking us without knowing is that they're reports that the FBI has monitored people through their webcams if they are under suspect. With this knowledge what is the odds a hacker or someone with computer knowledge has not done this to other people as well? This is why I say the argument is invalid for F.A.C.S not to be in our school systems today.
The other side of this argument that I can support is that sometimes our kids are having bad days and with F.A.C.S monitoring them it causes them to get advertisements that make their days even worse. This could possibly cause our kids to not want to use the internet that has helped them so much and is a facle point in most schools today. Another reason why F.A.C.S might be bad for schools is that it can teach our kids how to fake an emotion to be able to hide something from us or be able to cheat the system and be able to get what they want. This is some of the reasons why F.A.C.S might be bad in our school systems.
Being bored in school can come easy at times, so the F.A.C.S system may be able to help your kid one day by making their day better. By being able to moniter the facial expressions our children have. Hopefully one day F.A.C.S can be used for crimes, mysteries, and even enjoyment;but for now it is a good sytem that is helpful for few but the help it provides is great.
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You should be a seagoing cowboy to have many adventures,see new places,ans may help you experience the world in a whole new way. If you are a seagoing cowboy you may learn a few new things and visit new places like never before. You could meet new people and become more intune with there way of life as well as having fun along the way.
Becoming a seagoing cowboy may be a great job for you if you like site-seeing and touring. You may end up seeing a famous landmark or you may learn something new from a person that lives there.
If your not really into site-seeing you may experience or see the world in a whole new way that you never thought possible. You may see something done in your own country that is done in another country totally different. You may try a new food that is simliar to one u've had before. You may see a new culture you never thought excisted. It could have many benefits or change your lifestyle to a new way that you may have never thought would have an effect on you. You may meet someone new and become friends with them. Becoming a seagoing cowboy could have many effects on you,your lifestyle,or the way you view the world.
So if you like having adventures,meeting a new person or finding a new friend or culture,a seagoing cowboy just might be the right job for you.
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Dear State Senator,
There is a big controversy between the issue of keeping the Electoral College or abolishing it. Some people say that we should abolish the Electoral College because it is unfair or outdated, and others agree with the idea of having electors choosing their party's nominee. The Electoral College should be abolished because it is unfair for the states with smaller populations, and the "swing states" don't get any attention during the Presidential Election.
If we look at the statistics about the Electoral College, we see in the article "
What Is the Electoral College?
" by the Office of the Federal Rigister, it states "The Electoral College consists of 538 electors" and "A majority of 270 electoral votes." Your states number of electoral votes is based off of your states population, which isn't fair to smaller states such as Hawaii or Alaska. Hawaii has four electoral votes and Alaska has three electoral votes, while the larger states like California have fifty-five elecotoral votes.
The way that our country today decides our winner in the Presidential Election is the "winner-take-all" system that gives the all the votes to the winning canidate. In the article "
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses are wrong
" from "
Mother Jones
" by Braford Plumer, he states that "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, canidates don't spend time in states they know have no chance of winnning, focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing states.'" But in the article "
In defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President
" by Richard A. Posner, he states that "...almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a slight plurity in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state" and "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates."
"The electoral college is unfair,outdated, and irrational." We need to abolish the Electoral College because it just isn't fair to the voters and some stes are getting more attention than other states. If we abolish the Electoral College, we would have a more fair election and more people would come and vote.
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