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4fce83a | The artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming" I'm am against the cars, because the car doesn't seem driverless if you still someone in the driver seat and at times you also still have to control the car. I feel as if, it was to be driverless no one would need to be included in the driver seat, unless the car is needed to be parked into a store parkinglot and if it was so driverless it still wouldn't need anyone to park the car into a parking lot. I feel as if Google, wanted better votes on the car they should out a little more effort into getting it to become more of a driverless car, without needing anyone to be in the driver seat or worrying about getting into any wreaks.
I would probably agree with the car if they knew who to blame a wreak on. Because, if your not incontrol of the car and just so happens the car starts to get out of control when you tried to turn the heat on but pressed the wrong button by accident. Is it the car owners fault or is it the manufactors fault for having another button by the heat and air conditioner? I feel as if the car would be safer if driverless cars had there a special road built for them, but the cost of that would be a over then a million dollars. i would agree with the driverless cars if thy had a road buildt just for the,m to drive on.
More reasons to why I don't agree with the driverless car is because, the car should be able to navigate it's self through roadwroks and they didn't really give much detail into the car and it not being able to fuction with the road work, baking out of drive ways and accidents. The article didn't explain much about the car it self, does the car take gas or will it be an electrical car.
I feel as if the car was to be electrical it would probably get more votes than what the car is getting now. I feel as if the car should be updated in many ways as in being able to drive no matter the condintion of the road. The article also didn't include if the car could drive through any type of weather. If the car was to slide on ice and crash into a pole whos fault it be the car owners fault or manfactors fault?
Positive things about the artical "Driverless Cars Are Coming" is that the cars have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash. Another thing is that in article it tells the reader about without the option of smarter roads, manufactors turned to smarter cars. I feel as both could of happened in a way and I feel that if we have smarter roads , manufactors wouldn't really have to worry about accidents happening or have to worry about the driver int eh car taking over in cause of a tight situation.
I feel the car would be a success because of the sensors the car has, i feel that with sensos on the car manufactors wuldn't have to worry about the car getting into wreaks, and i feel as if the car would be able to drive through raods that are being worked on. Another positive thing about the driverless cars is that they are willing to make new laws for the car. | 23
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60b34ba | Venus is the second planet from our sun, and it is periodically referred to as earth's twin. Both planets have the same size and density, but the similarities stop there. The atmosphere of Venus consists of 97% carbon doxide, clouds of sulfuric acid, and the hottest surface temperetue of any planet orbitting the sun. Despite this, scientists have tried to send unmanned spacecrafts to the surface of Venus. Scientists think that Venus may have been the most earthlike planet, with the planets surface like valleys and mountains and possible evidence of oceans that may have existed long ago. The author believes that it is worthy to continue trying to explore Venus despite its dangers.
The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by explaining the similarities that Venus has with the Earth and indicating that Venus is the closest planet to the Earth. In the text it states, "...Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth" This quote supports my claim because the author gives some evidence that Venus had some sort of body of water. The author might believe that Veus can be habitable. Another piece of information supporting my claim states, " ...recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." This quote supports my claim because the author believes that if the Earth becomes a place that does not support life, the studies of Venus can help us understand and mve if necessary.
Venus can be Earth's evil twin, with its poisonous atmosphere and extremely horrific temperatures. The author still believes that research should continue given the similarites between Earth and Venus. He believes that Venus is presenting a challenge and one day, with technology, scientists will be able to overcome it. Perhaps one day we will visit Earth's twin. | 23
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32ddb3a | The Face on Mars is a natural landform.
It is only a coincidence that it looks like a face.
People want to believe that there is life on Mars, but they do not have the scientific evidence that they would need to prove this.
First of all, the cameras that are used are the best they can possibly make.
They even used the maximum resolution the camera can poduce.
It can even see if there were to be small objects near the Face.
They've used those cameras and they didn't see anything that proved to be life-like.
People are indenial.
They want to believe that there is life on another planet.
The media doesn't help with this issue either.
This idea of an alien monument is everywhere in the media and some actually believe it is real.
This Face is just being used as an entertainment value and a huge money maker for movie producers in Hollywood.
There are no facts that prove there are aliens on Mars, but some people are too stubborn to listen to what NASA has to say.
They would rather believe Hollywood or other unreliable sources with no facts.
The United States of America is proof enough that this Face is in fact a landform.
Natural things like this occur all the time in the American West.
We have all kinds of oddly shaped landforms that we know came naturally.
This case with Mars seems no different than what happens on Earth.
Conspiracy theorists believe that NASA is hiding alien evidence from the public, but the photos were released and it is plain to see that there is no alien activity happening.
The Face of Mars is just a regular mesa that is normal to people on Earth.
It only looks like a face because there are certain shadows that can trick us into thinking that facial features were intentionally added.
Although it is pretty incredible, it is nothing more than just a natural landform.
It's unfortunate that it was just a false alarm, according to scientists, but it's time to face the facts. | 23
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10bf544 | Do voters some times get confused about the electers and vote for the wrong candidate? The single best argument against the electoral is what we might call a disaster facter. We the people should consider ourselves lucky to vote. 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 candidate who receives the most popular votesthe winner. If the advocates of this position is correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense . It is the electers who elect the president, not the people . It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. yet this has happened very rarely when Gore had more popular votes then Bush . It can be argued that the Electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canadidate who has no hope of carrying their state . And not having everyone vote mite throw things off too. but of courseno voters vote swings a national election, and in spite of that about one -half the eligible American population did vote in 2012 's election. It think we all think thatevery one should yote and know basic back ground on who there voting for, and avoid run off elections. Things are not always going to go your way in life so you shold just choose wisely and wish for the best. Thank you, god bless. | 12
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eafa419 | Limiting car usage can really save this earth we contribute to destroying everyday. Cars let off a gas called carbon monxide that gets trapped in the warm air layer and contaminates the air we breath in every second of the day. Paris came up with a clever way to limit the air pollution in a week by having motorists with even numbered license plates not drive on Mondays, and if cars with even numbered license plates drove on that day they would be find $31. This would have also went for odd numbered licenses plates on the following day. Vaunban, Germany has also tried something to limit air pollution from motor vehicles. They have a suburban area where no cars are allowed to drive. "Street parking, driveways, and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the french and swiss borders" Elisabeth Rosenthal said. Other ideas have been made in making a car free day. Andrew Selsky stated that "Bogota, Columbia- In a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car-free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams".
There is so much good that can come from a limitation on the use of cars everyday. A big factor is the obesity rate that is climbing in the US. This is a good way to get ppl to excerise without telling them to actually do it. If there was a resriction of car use then it will get people to make decisions like to i want to get find or am i just gonna walk to the store and get what i need, and they will most likely take the path of no fine. This move to limit car use can do so more than the obvious reducing of air pollution. It can also reduce the amount of money spent to other countries for oil and gas which can go to things that are more important like our countries education for kids. If you really take the time to thing about the benfits that can come from this you will come to alot more than whats in front of you this will set of a chain reaction to alot of other things that will help us and the earth at the same time. Elisabeth Rosenthal said "And that, experts say, is a huge imediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissins from tailpipes.... Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissins in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car intensive areas in the United States.
Elisabeth Rosenthal noticed that "when adjusted for population growth, the number of miles driven in the United States peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives, an investment research company. As of April 2013, the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and equal to where the country was in January 1995". "What most intrigues me is that rates of car ownership per household and per person started to come down two to three years before the downturn,"said Michael Sivak. This just goes to show that we are gonna end up one day coming close to barely any cars on the road why dont we start now.
Cars are a luxury and not a necessity and we are really abusing it right now. I know you may think what about when you got to go a couple miles just to get to a grocery store. well they have already thought about that Elisabeth Rosenthal stated, "while there have been efforts in the past two decades to make cities denser, and better for walking, planners are now taking the concept to the suburbs.... Vauban, home to 5,500 residents within a rectangular squaer mile, may be the most advanced experiment in low-car suburban life". So thing about this and be open mind to new ways in making the world a more healtier place. You can't walk a thousand miles if you dont take a single step. | 23
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bce6378 | Venus is the second planet form our sun, while Venus is simple to see from the distant vantage point we have here at Earth, it has been difficult place to examine closely. Venus is oftern referred as Earths "twin" and is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size this is why we should research Venus as a planet more. Venus is also relatively close to us so we should definetly invest more money researching even though there are some problems.
The athor states that Venus has proven many times before that it is not an easy planet to study. Each mission to land on venus was unmanned and for good reason, no aircraft would last more than a few hours. This explains why not a spaceship has touched down on venus in more than three decades. Many things contribute to Venus's reputaion as a challenging planet for us humans to study. Some of these things are a thick atmosphere of 97 percent of carbon dioxide covers the Venus, even more challenging are the clouds of extremely corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere and on the planets sufare the average temperature is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure of the atmosphere is 90 tines greater than what we experience on our own planet. These conditions are far more intense than anything humans can find on earth. An enviroment like venus's Would crush a submarine accustomed to driving in the deepest parts of the ocean and would liquefy minerals. All these things plus more is why every mission so far has been unmanned, and why there hasnt been a singe spaceship that has landed in Venus in almost 3 decades.
Despite all of the potentially dangerous things about Venus there is still alot to benefit. NASA or The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has an compelling idea for sending humans to study the cloudy planet. NASA's possible solution to the hostile condtions on the surface would allow scientists ti float above the fray and study without harm. It's a blimp like vehicle that hovers 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian. Hovering over venus would avoid unfriendly ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere. The author says "Maybe we should think of them as challenges."
By the end of the article the author says "striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value, not only becasue of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." | 23
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076539f | My friend and I decided to go to Mars just to have a lot of fun in space and we came down on Mars I saw a face and he says "Aliens" and i go "Aliens where did you get that from?" But it is a 3D fugure "New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA's Mares Global survey, and spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is", and he goes thats coo and tries to touch it and i said "dont touch it" just in case cause if its not our we shouldn't touch it at all. But every since its been found its been revealing its self over the yea, itsbeen there every since 1976 or maybe longer but thats when they discoverd it. Some scientists believe that is was an alien artcraft and most of them were shocked to see that. they say it looks like Mesa whatever that is. | 01
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673ec30 | Dear Senator of Florida,
Though long-standing and "fair" to both citizens and Congress, the Electoral College is completely unnecessary and faulty. Election by popular vote is much more practical and leaves room for less errors. First off, the Electoral College warps the perception of voting, for when citizens vote, it is not directly for the president. Also, the Electoral College leaves many loopholes, which cause many issues and disputes.
To start off, the Electoral College does not allow citizens to vote directly, like a true democracy. This is unfair, unjust, outdated, and irrational. The natural right of a citizen should be to directly vote for something of a passionate matter. Controversies are everywhere, and citizens should be able to have a direct say in what is done. In
What Is the Electoral College?, the Office of the Federal Register declares, "You help choose your state's electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors" (1.6). This seems quite indirect and faulty. Can the electors be trusted? We do not know - and we definitely do not want to find out. In
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong , Bradford Plumer says, "...according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore - thanks to the quirks of the electoral college - won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now" (2.9).
Moving on, the Electoral College also contains many loopholes in the system. It is very possible to have issues arise. Electors can become faithless, the number of electors for a certain state can be controversial, and legislatures can "defy the will of the people." In
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong , Bradford Plumer says, "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John. F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy)" (2.11). This unfortunate fact really shows how faulty the electoral college system really is. Do we really want so many loopholes when it comes to choosing the person who will run our country?
One may say that the electoral college has less disputes than that of just the popular vote. In
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president , Richard A. Posner says, "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible - it happened in 2000 - but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote" (3.18). However, this is untrue in my opinion. The Electoral College has already created so much controversy and dissension, along with faults and problems. For the well-being of our country, it would be best to simply get rid of the Electoral College alltogether.
Overall, the Electoral College should not exist - choosing the president should rely on simply the popular vote. The Electoral College is not a direct way for citizens to vote, which shows signs of America not being a true democracy. Also, the Electoral College has many loopholes that are sources of dispute and issues in America. To sum it up, this method of choosing the president, is irrational, unfair, unjust, and outdated. The Electoral College should be abolished.
Thank you for your time,
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b0831b6 | This new technology is going to be very valuable. As in paragraph 6 the auther tells of when kids are in a class that are not understanding or comperhending the material. The computer can tell the teacher if the student is having a difficult time understanding. The teacher inturn can give help to the student as its needed.
As this day and age of the technology countines the teachers are not going to be able to realie on the students to ask questions. This is where the program will come into play. For the students that keep trying the questons and dont ask questions or the students that just sit there and are mad about something and there not working. The teacher can look on there computer and realize etheir they dont know what there doing or if their getting mad from keep trying the problems and not getting them correct. So in this case they can hopefully stop the issue before it gets out of hand or give the student help when nessacary. When you look at your freind or teacher that you now there facial experestions. You can often tell if something is wrong. This new program will take this idea that we use and turn it into a way for teachers to help students in the class room setting. There is also no way to cheat this program as it takes a 3-D model of your facial muscles and with this said. There's a sertain type of look you give when you nervous so the teacher can ask whats wrong.
This is a great program for the teachers all around. For them to be able to tell if you need help without asking. And not have to worry about people not understanding and leaving the class not comperhanded anything. Your lab parter may understand alot but you understand a little so in this case the teacher can ask your lab partner to tell you what is happing. | 12
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380aeda | Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because its the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, it has some fammiliar features, its close to Earth.
One reason why Venus is a worthy pursuit is because of its density and size is so close to earths and the distance is close too. In the text it states "Often reffered to as Earth's "twin", Venus isw the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." This shows that Venus is close to earth in size and its not that far from earth.
Another reason why Venus is a worth pursuit is because it has some familiar features like valleys and mountains.In the text it states " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and creaters. Furthermore, recall that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit". This shows that Venus would be a great planet to visit because it has features that humans are used to and its the nearest option.
Another reason why Venus is a worthy pursuit is because its the nearest planet for us to visit. In the text it states " ...sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner-- in space terms-- humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land this cloud-draped world. This shows that venus is the closest to Earth.
In conclusion Venus is a worthy pursuit because its the closest planet to earth, it has the same density and size and it has familiar features to earth . | 23
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0dbae6d | Google Recently came out with Google cars Or smart cars, Cars that can drive themselves. A few negative aspects are that These cars can crash easily if not used properly
These cars tend to vibrate when backing into an object so they can be a bit hazordous. Many of these cas can be explained to cause numerous amounts of crashings and such so people need to be aware that these cars aren't very good or as you could say that professional, So people should start looking at using normal everyday cars rather than Smart cars because you never know what could happen with cars like this. Many people believe that this car will be easy because you could sit back relax and text or watch Netflix but the cars may not be that Well and Improved so you never know what could happen so you would still have to watch out for other Vehicles, Animals ,Humans Etc.
So what i'm saying is if you get a google car chances are you may not be as impressed as you think so be careful on what decisions you make. | 12
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b7108d5 | In America cars are the number 1 means of transpertation they also making up for 50% of the polution in America. Using a walking tranzit instead would obviously be the easiest and most immediate solution to this problem, but what about the people who can't get where they need to go without it. This solution also could help America's obesity problem.
The practice of banning automobiles is obviously obserd, but is the easiest to tackle the growing obesity problem and pollution problem at the same time. On the border of sweden and Europe there is a close-nit community called Vauban and in this community there is a ban on vehicles. This pollutant free community and high density is essentially what we should be shooting for. The city/town needs to be built for this kind of transportation obviously you can't have the general store 12 miles away and not have an automobile to get there.
Cars are the most affordable means of automatic transportation it really is hard to the habit you have already forged over a century ago, But the fact remains thats why the air is so polluted and why kids are so fat tyhese days.
In America the natural use of automobiles is going down without the implication of any bans on automobiles. This is belived by sociologist in paragraph 34 to be because the decrease in employment and income of citizens in America.
European countries have set the stage for the automobile revolution it is only a matter of time until we stop letting cars own us. The atmosphere and money income will improve naturally,
Because we will spend less on cars and mind more to to Earth. | 23
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a51fdac | Today we already have so many technical advances, and technology is in everyday lives. This technical advance is one of the best one's in our day and age. Schools and so many buisness incooperate technology in our lessons and tests and just everday task, that technology is taking over. I think that the FACS would be a great idea to have within schools because it would be a great benefit to those students that may have harder times learning. I believe this new technology could make a difference for the greater good.
If the FACS machine was incooperated into todays schools, it would be one of the greatest accomplishments. Students who struggle, like IED students, could maybe enjoy their everyday lessons. In the writing it says that the FACS machine would be able to recognize that a student is becoming confused or bored. When this occurs, the FACS machine would be able to change the lesson and make it a better fit for the person to understand.
This technology wouldn't only help the needed students, it could help the students that maybe have a little patience problem staying focused at the task at hand. It also may help the kids feel more enjoyed to come to school because they can learn at their on rate and pace. If the FACS were to help student like this, schools may have higher percentages with test and other important task they fulfill.
I think this machine would help the teachers connect more with their students as well. If certain teachers let their students work with technology like this, this would help the teachers learn how every student is different and how they learn. It would also help the teacher learn how to teach better and more suitable to make sure their students succeed and understand things in real life.
The FACS could also help create confidence and self-esteem in certain people who think lower of themselves and who feel alone. If the FACS can understand your emotions, it could maybe help you feel better about yourself by maybe helping you link up to somebody else who has similar emotions so you could have somebody to maybe talk to.
One reason I would think not to have the FACS machine in schools, is that it may be distracting to some students. Also, it may feel intrusive to some students because they may not want their emotions told. And for the easily distracted kids, it could hurt their grades and cause their focus to be on something else like how that the FACS machine can do the ads by determining emotions on them, they might get distrated by this.
In all seriousness though, I do think that the FACS machine would be a great enhancement within the schools. I think this because even with the few cons and repurcussions it may have, I think that the pros outweigh the negativities. I think the FACS machine will be more beneficial then destructive. | 23
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795e183 | Have you ever thought about purchasing a driverless car? Well In this passage it states that there is some bad flaws to having one. Like in 2013 BMW announced the development of Traffic Jam Assistant. The driverless car that can handle drving functions at only speeds up to 25 mph. But the google car, only tells the driver when they still have to steer the vehicle in some many ways these cars are not safe to be released to the public. Because if they do more laws will have to be made and will cost money. Also that will take some time to be passed. Like even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in case of an accident. If the technology fails and someone were to be injured then who`s at fault the person who drove the car or the manfacuture. So in this case The author made sense of it being a negative aspect. I believe there may be one day there might be a driverless car in the 8th paragraph but maybe passed 2020. So in conclusion the author stated hard facts that prove right now in this present there not safe for us to drive in, but maybe in the near future they will be safe enough to drive passed 25 mph, also work sites or work zones and or other accidents the car will be able to adknowlege a accident to prevent another one. Also the cost of these cars will sky rocket to only the high end rich people will be the ones purchasing one. High end computers already cost over 30 thousand dollars, thinking about a car theat drives for you will be in an anmassive price range. Another thing is what would happen if one of these cars got into an accident to think how much damage to them? Would it do and how much will it cost to replace a car that will barley come out. Would they also have to make changes to the roads to make them drive or will they know exactly where to go? | 12
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aa66e68 | Have you ever wanted to get away from home, see the world, and have the amazing opportunity to help others?
If you have, this is the job for you!
Sign up to be a "Seagoing Cowboy."
You can travel the world, meet all kinds of people, all while helping many people in need.
Have you ever wanted a way to fill your service time, without actually having to fight?
Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy is the best way to do it!
I served two years in service before I was discharged, without ever stepping foot near a weapon, battlefield, or military base.
While others risked their lives, I was taking care of horses and cattle, seeing the world, and helping others without ever having to be in dangerous situations.
Another reason I was happy to have joined the Seagoing Cowboys is, like I've said before, I had the rare and amazing experience of seeing parts of the world I would never get to see.
I saw places such as Europe and China, but what really was special was seeing the Acropolis in Greece.
I was also breath taken when I took a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, as I called it "a city with streets of water."
I also got to tour an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China.
Without becoming a Seagoing Cowboy I never would have had any of these amazing experiences.
Besides helping out with others, getting to see amazing places, and filling my service time, I had fun on the trip itself!
I enjoyed tending to the animals (and this will be especially fun for people who love or appreciate live stock), we had table-tennis tournaments, we fenced, boxed, whittled, and played many other games.
Of course you could bring books or board games along with you as well!
On the return trip after we had already unloaded the animals we could play baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been housed.
Perhaps the best part about this is that when I signed up, I was a normal boy with a highschool degree and working two part-time jobs.
I didn't have to have any certification, degrees, or even a full time job.
I was completely average until I signed up.
If you wanted to, you could sign up right now without a degree or training.
Last but not least, this job will make you aware of how lucky you are that you have the opportunites you have, that your country isn't war stricked, that we aren't completely devastated.
Joining this really helped me and my family realise this fact.
To recap, there are many different reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys. Get away from home for a time, while visiting places like China or Italy, have lots of fun playing games on deck and tending to the animals, all while filling your service time, plus you don't have to have any special qualification! The whole ordeal really made me happy of my current life; it helped me realise how lucky I am.
For all these reasons I think joining the Seagoing Cowboys is the quintissetnial thing to do. | 23
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3d0cbc9 | Is Venus worth studying? Venus being Earth's alike twin is one of the most hottest plant on our solar system, yet not one you can visit for more than a few hours. Scientist have thought about sending machines to study and deeply reasearch more about the planet Venus, but Venus being too hot they overthink it about the temperature and how hot it is. Venus is a very hot planet that can melt anything that's metal and a human-being could not even survive on this planet.
Venus is known as Earth's "twin". People believe that venus was once just like earth, that it was covered with oceans before it got extremely hot and became like hell because of it's temperature. the the article, In paragraph 4, "Surface of rocky sediment, familiar features such as valley's mountains, and craters." There was or still are some land features on Venus, but as we continued to read the article it told us that if there were any land seeking on it's planet that it would be stroke by lightning. "Temperatures average over 800 degrees fahreneit, atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet." Venus being one of the most hottest planet on the soaler system and presenting impediments such as volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightening strikes. Overall, Venus is known as earth's alike "Twin". It is one of the hottest planets on the solar system, no human being could survie on it by it's high temperatures. Land can't be seeking or else it gets destroyed by lightning. Scientist do believe that it was once like earth, and had oceans.
Venus being too hot and such a risky planet to explore. Researchers have been overthinking and trying to invent technology that's able to resist Venus's temperature. "Researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." NASA has thought about sending people to explore Venus on a jet airplane, that's able to stay high above ground suface. Reasearchers do know that if they risk and send people out to explore, it is going to be callenging to get samples of rocks, gas, or anything else from a distance."Electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface, having lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Venus with such high temperatures and metal not lasting long that can melt very quickly, they've been testing, trying to get machines made out of different material so it can last on Venus. In other words, Venus is too hot and exposing a phone, tablet, or any electronic to acid or heat can be melted tin and no machine is resistant to such an exaggerated heat. NASA have thought and been wanting to send people to explore Venus but the thought of it being too risky, dangerous is what they wonder.
In conclusion, Is Venus worth studying? No, It is a very hot planet, that's risky, challenging, and dangerous for humans to explore. Not even a machine can last on land. Reasearchers have tried and invented machines to try and get somewhere, it's hard for them to even get a smaple from a distance. Venus is a very hot planet that can melt anything and huam-beings couldn't even survive on this planet. | 34
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0b059bd | What are the advantages of limiting car use? The germans don ussally use cars. Paris bans cars due to somg in their state. Car free days are sping to a big hit in Colombia,Bogota. The end of car culture is near in the United States Of America.
The Germas have given up their use of cars. Some residents of the upscale community in Germany are suburban pioneers and a few scoocer moms are the ones who give up their cars. Street parking and driveways are fobidden in some districts. Germans can buy a large garage that cost $40,000 along with the home. 70% of Vauban's famileis don't own cars and 57% sold their cars to move into that distric.
Paris had to ban cars due to somg in their state. On monday motorists with even numbers had to leave their vichle at home if they refused they had to pay 22-euro fine ($31).Almost 4,000 drivers were fined by the international agency headquartered in London. In fact Paris has more somg than European capitals. The somg cleared enough to rescined the ban for odd-numbers on tuesday.
Car free day in Colombia Bogota is a big hit. Three srtight years cars have been baned with only buses and taxis permited."Rian didn't stop people from participating, said Bogota Mayor Antanas."For the first time two other cites,Cali and Valledupar, joined the event. The day with out cars is parr of a improvement campian.
Some of the contries are take a step foward to stop gasses from going up into the atmosphere. For instance Paris baned even number licence plates on Monday and ood number on Tuesday. Germany stop using their cxars and some of them say they're happier that way. In colombia Bogota have a day where they can not use their cars unless for buses and taxis. | 01
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81e7d02 | It is not a brilliant idea making driverless cars. Why you may be asking? Well first of all cars would still need a human to drive in case of an emergency. Second, most people including me love to drive. Lastly, it would cost a lot of money trying to built driverless cars and special roads.
If Sergey Brin envisions a future with driverless cars; he should probably save all that in his brain. In my opinion, this would bring a huge debat on saying goodbye to cars and saying hello to driverless cars. I am saying this because I think the world isn't ready (talking about technology of course). Even if they do find out a way in making this project work they would still need a person to be alert at all times for any emergency. Which means that you still would need a driver in a driverless car. Which is absurb because it would all be a waste of money.
The majority of people in this world own a car. That mean's that there is a good chance that they also love driving. Whether it's racing or just simply going to the store. It would be completely boring if we just sat there and having absolutley no control of the car what so ever. Dr. Werner Huber mentions that they are thinking of displaying an entertainment system so the driver wont get bored. So then what's the point of all this?
Lastly i think it would cost a lot of money trying to built these driverless cars and special roads. In the article it mentions that google has already made a car and a road but end up saying that it is not something you can buy at a radio shack. Im guessing it would take forever to built roads.
In conclusion i think it is an absurb idea in making a driverless car. First it would still need a driver to be alert , it would be boring and lastly it would cost a lot of money. | 23
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1a651c3 | venus in one of the brightesrt points of light in the nigt sky, this nickname is misleading
since venus is actually a planet, venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. numerous factors contribute to venus reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study.
A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus. even more challenging are the clouds of highly carrosive sulfuric acid in venus atmosphere . on the planet superface, temperatures average over 800 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greaer than what we experince on our own planet in ine condition for everyone than humans.
the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa) has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus . the nasa is working on other approaches to studying for example venus study the surfaceand have lasted for there weeeks in such conddition, by comparation, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces.
earth and beyond be expanded to meet the very edges of imsginstion and innovation one big example is the exploration of planet vanus | 01
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b5b5033 | Can a facial action code system accurately detects human emotions? Making Mona Lisa Smile is written by Nick D'Alto,and it points out the fact how computers can tell how emotions by calculation. A technology known as the facial action coding system enables computers to indentify human emotions. Some of the advantages of the computers is that it can observe, calculate and identify the human muscles.
One way the computers can identify how emotions is by observing the 44 major muscles bone in human. Creating a 3-D model of the face the computers has been able to observe this muscles and where they are located in the body and their movement, in paragraph one the text states that "
the process begins when the computers constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. without observation of this mucles movement in the body the computer wouldn't be able to indentify the muscles that actually produce this emotions. Therefore they also need to calculate like humans.
in anothert different way the computers have been able to calculate this bones that makes this emotions in the body through the producers. The producers observes the way human tell emotions by calculation, on paragraph five the text states that " in fact we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" everyday. for instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling by simply looking on her face. Calculation is one important thing the computers need to do for better result without them calculating like humans they would probably give us wrong result, and they can do this by observation of the bones shape. whereby can tell emotions.
Way other way computers would provide specific answer like angry, happy... is by knowing the parts of the body to identify the positions of the bone. Emotions as we know can be told by looking at the face at an individual face, on paragraph 7 it says "while looking at the mirror: raise your lips at the cornersof your mouth, then squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling ("cow's-feet) at the corner of your eyes, holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up. toward your eyes" basically the computer has to identify parts of your body to detects the bones which can produce excellent result.
In conclusion, we can now see that computers can actually detect exactly and maybe more accurately than human's. struggling everyday to find out if he or she has actually forgiving you about yesterday would be more easy than ever. Through calculation and observation we see the ability and capacity of how this technology can make our life easier, teacher wouldn't have to confirm if students understand the topic if they act like they do. | 23
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3889cc7 | Hello, I am a scientist from NASA I am here to tell you that the Face, found on Mars, was not created by aliens, the face is just a natural landform. We have new high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from the NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is. The Face is just a mesa created by natural landforms. I am sorry to tell you but aliens do not exist, we haven't found any evidence proving that aliens exist.
Twenty five years ago NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet Mars taking some pictures of the possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking. While it was taking the pictures for the possible landing sites, something funny had happened, it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face on the plant. It turned out to be an enormous head nearly two miles form end to end. No this was not created by aliens. Us scientist have been working as hard as we can to see how this "Face" was created. We haven't found anything about it being created by aliens. The Face is just a natural landform. Us scientist at NASA figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, this mesa had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.
A few days later us at NASA released the image to the public to see. The title of the image was "huge rock formation ... which resembles a human head ... formed by shadows giving an illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." A few of us scientist believed the Face was an alien artifact, but it was talked about with the scientist of NASA and we decided that it wasn't created by aliens because there is no sign of life on Mars that we have found. On April 5, 1998, is when a Mars Global Surveyor flew over the Cydonia for the first time. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera, also known as (MOC), team snapped a picture 10 times sharper than the original Viking photos. The pictures revealed that it was a natural landform. There was no proof that it was created by aliens. Aliens do not exist they are just made up and scientists, like me, at NASA have never found evidence about aliens existing.
Not everyone was satified with the picture. Everyone thought that the weather conditions were different because the Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98. Since it was winter in April '98, it was a cloudy time of the year on the Red Planet. The camera on board, MGS, had to peer through the wispy clouds to see the Face, so people thought that the photo that was taken was not a fair photo. The people wanted a fair photo that they could see in almost the same weather condtions. We gave people what they want and we went to look for it again. Mission controllers prepared to look again but it was not easy. The face is very hard to track and get a picture of. The Mars Global Surveyor on Apil 8, 2001, went to take another picture, and it was a cloudless summer day in Cydonia. The Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. The spacecraft had to be 25 degrees to center the Face. Each pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo had 43 meters per pixel, but when it was compared to he 2001 image it spans 1.56 meters. The picture was easier to look at and they got a closer view. They came to the conclusion of it just being a natural landform.
In conclusion, the image from NASA, known as the Face, was not created by aliens. The image is just a natural landform. According to scientist, like me, at NASA there was no proof that the Face was not created by aliens. Thanks to the technology that we have it is very clear that the image is just a natural landform that created itself. | 34
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2472175 | The things you can do to help yourself, and others is just don't drive ride a bike, or take public transportation. Never the less having a car is a great responsiblitiy, like driving the right way, and not driving reckless. That could end up bad, because you know how law enforcement is they will pull you over for anything. Then on top of that they will give you a big fat nasty ticket to pay, so that really ruins what you have to like pay your bills or something. Plus its always better to just take public transportation, because trying to get a car that's worth $40,000, isn't even worth it, if your still paying for it, then you will have to take really good care of that car.
The car is at its lowest did you know that, because nobody buys them anymore, or nobody gets there permit. Cars are becoming nothing anymore, the roads America bulit will be soon for nothing. Like I said your better not buying a car, then spending all that money, and you have to spend more money on it later, Like if you get a ticket, or you have to pay to get it fix. Pointless absolutly pointless cause most people just uses cars to get from A to B, nothing else like what's the point of having a car if your not going to use it all the time might as well just take a bus, and spend like 50 cents, or something.
If you really want a car, at least use it instead of just showing it off, and letting it dust in your driveway, or garage. People in other countries like say Germany, all they use is bikes. They live a life without cars, and look at them saving all that money, and what if it is a poor country at least there not greedy and selfish. Also the cars are literally a poison to the enviorment, we are literally killing off our enviorment, and for what the nicest car that you have and probably won't even use that's pretty dumb as if i should say. Having a car, and showing it off doesn't make you cool it make's you look like a selfish greedy person who could have nothing else to spend his, or her money on but who am I to judge right? Soon you will realize that all that money you spent was all just a waste, and you could have done somethimg else better to spend it on.
I'm not saying don't buy a car, Like I mean don't buy the most expensive car ever cause like that's just herendous. Like just buy something that's nice and cheap like maybe a Nissian not a Ferrari. Imagine if you run out of money what are you going to do ask people to help, Your going to have that fancy car, and be like "oh what will i do". You will realize that you messed, and that when you were being all selfish and greedy, nobody will care to help you. It's like all these other regular people who use there money wisley and not be selfish. The car is nearly at it's end cause soon there will be no more gas, what will you do. It's at the time where you make your own desisions, and think about do I really want to spend my money on a car, or do I want to be smart and ride the bus, or a bike and save my money and help the enviorment. | 12
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66de556 | I think that driverless cars are an amazing example of what humans are capable of doing. I also believe that they can be dangerous. They can really become a big help to society if they can make them as safe as possible.
The reason I think the driverless cars could be dangerous is because they could lead to wrecks. In paragraph 2 it says that the car alerts the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating through roadwork or accidents. The driver might not be paying attention and if he doesn't take over the wheel, that could lead to an accident. The driverless cars do offer great things that could help us. In paragraph 1 the article tells us that the cars use half of the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus.
My conclusion is that we should take some more time with these driverless cars. I think we should work on them more and make them even smarter than they already are. This is the best option because it could make them even safer and that is the most important thing. | 12
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7efc5dd | Driverless cars have always been seen and thought about in an idealistic world where the human population wears shiny silver jumpsuits and talk in weird tongues. However, with the recent advancement in this feild, our generation will most likely see driverless cars, turning the idealistic into the realistic. Driverless cars are a positive step forward for humanity, but we must stay coherant about the skills used to drive. There are many positive attributes that driverless cars attain. It is a feat in itself that science and engineering have advanced this substantially. However, we can not become completely depenable on driverless cars.
The driverless car frontier is one that has many positive effects. The main attribute to driverless cars is that it eliminates the area for human error when on the road. This not only makes the roads a safer place but it will also decrease the percentage of fatalities by car accidents, which is the number one cause of death for teenagers. However, because driverless cars can also make errros, they still have a driver who in reality, has a lot of the control. This factor will help work around certain variables such as construction done on the road, or an accident nearby. Not only do driverless cars present safer roads, they also have the oppurtunity to be less harmful to the enviornment. Sergey Brin predicts that these cars will use half of the fuel of today's taxis, causing less pollutants to be released into the air, which will make the world a less toxic place. Taking everything into account, driverless cars will most likely decrease the accident rates and pollutants released into the air, creating positive results that will significantly change how people consider driving.
The fact that the technology for driverless cars is available is astounding and contributes to culture growth. This technology offers inspiration and a bridge to discover new technologies that will help the world. Today it is a driverless car, that will decrease the amount of accidents and make drving safer, but the possibilities for tomorrow are endless. This could cause a rise in young people that want to make the world a better place inventing things in the name of science, which could create amazing results. However, even though this technology offers so much to humanity, it could also take away.
When driverless cars are available, humans still must have the skills to be able to drive on their own. When humanity is presented with a new toy or resource, everyone usually becomes lazy and does not take into consideration the skills that they are losing because of it. Driverless cars are not truly driverless, a driver still must be present to deal with the variables that the technology within the car cannot predit. Because of this, it is vital that the general population does not become lazy and still knows the basic skills to drive. As a culture, everyone has become so dependent on technology because it makes our lives easier. Everyone must retain and remember a world without all of the technology and driverless cars to still have a general knowledge of how the world works. Driverless cars are an amazing technology that will be presented to us, do not take advantage of it.
In conclusion, driverless cars present many positive attributes and the technology used to make it will inspire many other new invention and advance the engineering feild in a monumental way. However, humans must not take advantage of the technology that will be given and become lazy, it will make the cars counterintuitive. Driverless cars are the next step forward for humanity, but we can not become lazy. It is truly difficult to imagine of a world where manual drving is considered odd. But, driverless cars are the next step towards turning the world into something completely safe and truly amazing. | 45
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eb466f4 | There are many advantages to not driving or not owning a car at all. Though i have a vehicle and do drive it the world could be a much better place if people did not use their cars so much. In this passage i will be telling you some advantages of not driving so often. So lets get started.
The first advantage i am gong to talk about has to do with pollution. The exhaust from our vehicles is terrible for the atmosphere and creates smog. one major occurance of pollution from cars afecting the atmosphere occured in Paris where tehy had to enforce a partial driving ban to clear the air. There have been many other cases of this same thing being caused by cars so too much driving can and will harm the atmosphere.
Another advantage to not driving so often is that it saves money. Not driving so often saves money in many ways one being that you dont have to pay for gas as often. Also if you never buy a car in the first place you will not have a car payment every month or an insurance payment. So save yourself some money and stop driving everywhere.
The last advantage of not driving so often that i am going to tell you about is that you will not be as stressed. Driving can put alot of stress on a person one way of doing so is road rage. Road rage can be causd by many things such as people driving to slow or not paying attenion to other drivers around them. Some people also get stressed when they are drivin somewhere they have never been before.
So all together driving less often can help stop pollution, save you money, and cause you less stress. Driving to much is a bad thing for us and the environment. So when possible walk, ride a bike, or carpool to get where you need to go. | 12
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754690b | A wide range of people make conspiracy theories based off of tv and maagazines. Most of their theories are false due to lack of research. A lot of people make conspiracy theories, and a lot of people come to believe they are true and they start making false accusations against the government not revealing discoveries to the public.
A global surveyor orbiting Mars captured an image of a face like figure on the surface of mars, NASA thought it was a mesa. It turned out to be a rock that had formed on the surface of mars.
NASA revealed the image to the public, The image caused an outbreak of conspiracy theories. There were a lot of debates on whether NASA was hiding something from the public or if they were being truthful. The majority of the public thought that NASA was hiding the truth, and they thought that the face was the result of foreign life forms.
Mars surface can form rocks and a vast majority of things that can be spotted on Earth. The rock formed | 01
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a55c186 | Hay you should go join the program of the cowboy or cow girl rode the waves.!
Why i say go join the progam is because you have the big's opptunity of your life to see and do neww thing's you never done befor. The resone that you should do this is because you can have that great's time of your ife to get out of the house and go arounld the word not only to see or eat but just be friendaly. Why not join this porgram to help your animals that you love.
You wnat be on your only becaues my dear old friend Luke the cowboy who rode the waves not onld did it one time but he did it nine time's he was loving to all the animals and he did do it all by him self he did it with his friend. I fill like every kid in the age of 17 shounld go and helpand become betterat wat they where used to likr playing on the phone or being on the phone. Kids like him just porbly was in the house playing vidoe games
Those are the the thing's that i think you should do or look into one day if your kid is being or doing bad in or outof school. Make sure that when me or engoht body go or do this they are better then be fir cause they have matte new friend's and did ne thing's. | 12
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d3b40cd | I believe that the electoral college should be changed and be ended oncce and for all.
I think that the electoral college is a certain way of cheating in a presidency that you dont want to win. When people in the states vote for a new president they're giving all of they're votes to the electors. This is one of the biggest reasons I think its not fair. They're trusting the elecotrs with all of they're votes when they dont even know who the electors will vote for.
Almost nobody in the states even know's who the electors are. Why should everyone be putting they're trust with votes into people they dont know? Even when I read the passage I saw that the electors could possibly get confused and vote the wrong way and if many of them end up doing that you can ultimately end up with the wrong president.
Another big flaw that the electoral college consists of is what if it does end up getting a tie? then we would have to pass it all onto the House of Represenatives. If the house of rep, end up picking the wrong president, it could be even worse. I'm personally not into politics but I can already tell that if I was I would hate the electoral college, I dont even understand how you couldn't.
The electoral college I feel is something that first started out helping the elections for when it was first created but has changed massively over time, and it hasn't changed in a good way at all. It's almost as if our own american citizens can pick they're president. We have to leave that all up to our electors, which I dont this is FAIR at all to all our voters.
If it wasn't for our electoral college, we would've never had George W. Bush as are president. He didn't even get the most votes! but since our electoral college can vote for whoever he ended up winning anyways. I think this topic is obviously a one sided question cause there's obviously a right answer here. Abolish the electoral college!
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c03c5de | In recent years, the fascination of driverless cars has boomed. Movies and television have depicted a world in which driverless cars are the future. This imagination is now becoming a reality. Recently companies, such as Google, have been making driverless cars. While having a driverless car would be something extraordinary, these cars should not be produced and sold on the market to the consumer. A driverless car could be even more reckless than an irresponsible human driver.
Driverless cars should not be produced because of the saftey hazard they can possibly create. All of the cars deemed "driverless" that have been produced are, in reality, not actually driversless. While these cars do have different features that allow them to drive, a driver must still be present. Also, these driverless cars are not fully equipped with the skills necessary to navigate on a road. The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" says, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." In a driverless car, the passanger must still remain alert and ready to take control if issues were to arise. Cars such as these could possibly malfunction even more than a regular one. A car in which a human is not in control posses threats such as the car not judging the distance between itself and others cars correctly and crashing, or the car continuingly accelerating due to a glitch in the system freezing the ability to break. On top of the safety hazards these cars make, new traffic laws for these cars would have to be made because it is illegal in most states to even test computer operated cars. The cars would have to be proven reliable and safe.
In conclusion these driverless cars should not be made. They should not be produced due to the many hazards that can happen. Besides, who would buy a driverless car just to end up having to drive it anyway in the end? Getting a driverless car would just be a waste of money. A car that has safety features that assist and enhance a driver would be a good idea. But as for a car that totally drives itself, it's safe to say that they wont be on the market anytime soon. | 34
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f6aceb4 | I think that driverless cars aren't an appropriate idea for this time period. There are multiple reasons why I believe this. We would need to do a lot more developing on roads, we would need to put an abundance of sensors in the car, there would need to be new laws made, and there's no practical use to a driverless car.
Firstly, there are very few roads in America, let alone Indiana, that would be suitable for a driverless car. Many roads have unexpected twists, turns, and dips that no sensor would be able to make a fast enough reaction time. If the sensors stopped working, or if there wasn't a fast enough reaction time, it would cause multiple wrecks. If we had to fix a majority of the roads for driverless cars, taxes would go up to pay for it. Nobody would want to pay that kind of money, especially when most people wouldn't be able to afford a driverless car.
Secondly, there would need to be an abundance of sensors in the car. Sensors aren't necessarily a bad invention for a car, but people shouldn't solely rely on them. Multiple things could go wrong with the sensors, sometimes without the driver or car even knowing. If the driver doesn't know that a sensor isn't functioning, they could be relying on it to mimic them at the wheel. Multiple wrecks could happen this way, and the only person to blame would be the driver with the driverless car, because they're the car who had their sensors malfunction.
Thirdly, there would be too many laws that would need to be changed and added. Paragraph nine says, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." A human driver is needed to make these laws and to enforce them. There would have to be new liability laws, and there would be conflict with the manufacturing company. Technology is the not the subject that should be at fault in this situation. The person who should be at fault is the driver, because the driver would be putting themselves, and everyone on the street at risk for driving a car that they are not in control of.
Lastly, there's no practical use for a driverless car. Driving is a privledge for young adults and adults. People are not given the right to drive, but they're given the privledge. There couldn't be anything more important for a driver than to focus on driving. If driverless cars are released to the public, what would people do while their car is being driven? They could sit on their phones or do something that wouldn't be worth their life or someone elses. Manual cars have been around for an abundance of years, and they've been doing just fine.
To sum this up, I believe that driverless cars are not worth the risk, or money, in people's lives. There would be too much developing roads and laws, and there would always be the risk of the driver not being in control of their car. | 34
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9727e8b | THE PASSAGE IS INFORMING FELLOW CITIZENS ABOUT THE ADVANTAGES OF LIMIT CAR USAGE IN A WAY THAT, CAR OWNERSHIP IS ALLOWED,BUT THERE ARE ONLY TWO PLACES TO PARK LARGE GARAGES AT THE EDGE OF THE DEVELOPMENT, WHERE A CAR OWNER BUYS A SPACE FOR $40,000, ALONG WITH A HOME. AND UP TO 50 PERCENT IN SOME CAR- INTENSIVE AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES'' HOW MUCH YOU DRIVE IS AS IMPORTANNT AS WHETHER YOU HAVE HYBRID. WHERE EMISSIONS FROM AN INCREASING NUMBER OF PRIVATE CARS OWNED BY THE BURGEONING MIDDLE CLASS ARE CHOKING CITIES, IN THE UNITED STATES THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY IS PROMOTING ''CAR REDUCED'' COMMUNITIES, AND LEGISLATORS ARE STARTING TO ACT IF CAUTIOUSLY.
MANY EXPERTS EXPECT PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVING SUBURBS TO PLAY A MUCH LARGER ROLE IN A NEW SIX YEAR/MR.GOLDBERG SAID.IN PREVIOUS BILLS,80 PERCENT OF APPROPRIATIONS HAVE LAW GONE TO HIGHWAYS AND ONLY 20 PERCENT TO OTHER TRANSPORT.BUT IT'S BASIC PERCEPTS ARE BEING ADOPTED AROUND THE WORLD IN ATTEMPTS TO MAKE SUBURBS MORE ACCESSIBLE TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.PARIS ENFORCED A PARTIAL DRIVING BAN TO CLEAR THE AIR OF GLOBAL CITY CONGESTION WAS DOWN 60 PERCENT IN THE CAPITAL OF FRANCE, AFTER FIVE-DAYS OF INTENSIFYING SMOG DELIVERY COMPANIES COMPLAINED OF LOST REVENUE, WHILE EXCEPTIONS WERE MADE FOR PLUG-IN CARS, HYBRIDS,AND CARS CARRYING THREE OR MORE PASSENGERS.
PUBLIC TRANSIT WAS FREE OF CHARGE FROM FRIDAY TO MANDAY, ACCORDING TO BBC.STREET PARKING,DRIVEWAYS AND HOME GARAGES ARE GENERALLY FORBIDDEN IN THIS EXPERIMENTAL NEW DISTRICT ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF FREIBURG,NEAR THE FRENCH AND SWISS BORDERS.VAUBAN'S STREETS ARE COMPLETLY CAR-FREE'' EXCEPT THE TRAM TO DOWNTOWN FREIBURG RUNS AND A FEW STREETS ON ONE EDGE OF THE COMMUNITY. | 01
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d80032d | The Facial Action Coding System is it useful? Yes, it would be useful because people might be able to be into things that they would probably get board with. Students may finally be willing to learn stuff on thier own instead of being forced to learn something they are not intrested in. this can all come true if we make the facial action coding sytem available to stores around the world.
The Facial Action Coding System is a program that can read a person's emotions. When a person is frustrated the program can alter the screen to help the person better understand something or to help them become less frustrated. This program can also inform a teacher that a student does not understand what they are doing. This also can help the teacher do his or her job better. the advnced science at the university of illinois working in colaboration with prof are developing better ways for humans and computers to comunicate.
This program is able to help read emotions and determines what a person is feeling. It does this by reading complex algorithms that were also used to decode mona lisa's smile. This program picks up the smallest details like when you raise the corners of your lips. Also it can pick up when you squint your eyes you produce a wrinkle called crowsfeet at the croners of you eyes.
This program should be available to stores world wide because it could create a solution to much confusion and frustration. This program could make people want to learn stuff. Also this program can be cool and fun for people to try. Another thing would be that Ferinsics caan use this to tell what people are feeling and determine if the are nervous about somthing or not. | 23
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9468359 | The face on Mars has a lot of people thinking there is life there but studies show there is no sign of life on Mars. The face on mars is very big so people dont really think it was made by aliens. Just because it big that doesnt make it made by aliens but in outer space there are a lot of astroides flying around so some of them may have hit a mound of rock to where it has made a face. People still want to believe that there is life out in space there could be but there are no studys to prove that there is life. In conclusion there is not lif on mars and that face could have been made naturally because how long has the face been there before we took the picture. There could have been someway that the face was formed. Look at Earth there are many formations that have been naturally made. There are other studies that the ice caps on Mars have tiny bugs in them. | 12
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141f967 | The Electoral college is a very important part in the constitution allowing the citizens of the United states as well as congress voting as well. This usally would seem fair but to some it seems like it does not matter what the people vote but what congress and the electoral college vote on. Im going to side with the keeping on the college. The reasons i want to keep the college is the simple fact that it lets states electors decide on whom they want to vote for. The college itself has 538 electors and in order for a memeber of the republicans or democrates to become president they would need more then half those votes 270 to be exact. You do have a word in this say when you vote for your canidate your actually voting for its electors not the person whos gonna be president.
For me i believe that those who want to remove the electoral college possibly look at is as it being unfair. But its actually a fair voting system. Consider how many people are in the United states. If every single persons vote would be tallyed it would take a massive longer time to tally up the votes. Also another reason why they think its not fair is each state might have a higher percentage of one party like more republicans and less democrats. I think that in a way most people dont really have a party so their vote goes unjudged and they choose who they want in the office.
Lets take a more indepth look on why people want the electoral college being removed. They say that under the electoral college system voters vote not for the president but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president. They believe that over 60 percent of voters prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Apparently this years voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could lose the presidency. Heres the peoples best argument against the electoral college is what they might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. Consider that state legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy.(So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.) In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate.
This Mr Senator may seem like alot of words to you but this is actually talking about changing the electoral college so that the people word would seem more important to them instead of voting for electors. So i believe we need to keep the college and avoid the possibilty of the peoples word going it a bit higher then what it already is. | 23
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0fc8125 | Dear State Senator,
In my experience, I strongly believe that you should get rid of the electoral college to a popular vote. If you do that, the votes would become fair to voters, and more voters would actually pay attention to the campaine. On the other hand, i do see why you would want to keep the Electoral college, but let me explain to you two of the many reasons why you should get rid of it.
First, people do argue that the electoral college does pay attention to some of the regiment in voters. In Plumer's article he says," - thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election" To me, the voters who do like the electoral college pretty much just want to see that they can trust them just for the popular votes to succeed. But honestly, I think they still shouldn't be the ones to choose. Even if they may help the popular votes a little, they aren't fair in a lot of ways. Way more voters are against them than with.
So let me explain one of my reasons, I believe you should get rid of the electoral college is because it isn't fair to voters. A lot of the time voters don't trust that the electoral college pays attenetion to the votes sent out. Acorrding to Plumer's article, 'The Indefensible Electoral College:' he states, " In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please." When voters hear that, chaos starts. They want to have say for who the next President will be not just the electoral college's say. There have been some real incidents where the electoral college has voted based on what they believe and not other voters. For example, in Hawaii in 1960, The vice president, Richard Nixon, validated his opponents votes. Voters worry and get angry when there trust is broken. They want to be the ones to vote because of course they trust themselves. If you do get rid of the electoral college, voters would be more satisified and feel that their vote would be fair.
Lastly, the second reason why I believe that getting rid of the electoral college is that voters would pay more attention and actually put thought in who they vote. If they think that their vote won't matter they won't care who wins. They would most likely jot down a random candidate and send it in. In the article, ' In Defnse of the Electoral College:', Posner states, " Republicans in California. Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were to be picked by a popular vote..." With that said, there is support that states people would have beter interest in voting if they had popular vote and no more electoral college. I believe people would actually spend more of their time on debating who should deserve to be President.
To conclude my reasons, please take them in consideration. Voters would be treated much fairly and pay more attention to voting than they do now. I believe you should get rid of the electoral college so there will be less arguing.
Sincere, PROPER_NAME | 45
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08dab5c | First of all I will agree with the development of driverless cars. As we all know that the technique is improving, the new technique is shows the good way of them to serve us. The driverless cars is one of these new techniques.
The driverless cars will help us by a lot of different ways. For example, the driverless cars will improve the safety of cars, it can let the drivers have time to sleep in the long-term travel, it also can help old man or childern to drive. The car will be really helpful, it will be more popular than the old car than we are using now.
If the technique of driverless cars improved and don't need human driver anymore. That's a good news for old people or childern. Because they don't need to drive at all, the computer will fix all of the problems.
In the article it talking about the driverless car is still waiting for the Law. There are a few states is allowing the driverless car. That is a good start, in the future there will be more states and more counties allow the driverless car.
The article also talking about the driverless car's bad way. It's still not really safty yet. I know the driverless car is not safety yet. But we should give the driverless car some time to improve. I believe in the future the Driverless car will be more safty than normal cars. Because the normal cars are contrl by humans, humans will make mistakes. For example, in the long term drive the driver will be really sleepy or maybe the driver will take a phone call when he is in the driving. But the computer will not be tired, so it is better than the human drivers. But we should give them some time to improve the driverless car.
The technique of the driverless car still imporving now. I think the technique will be progress and become well-done some day. At that time the technique have already grow up and it will be a lot save than human control cars.Maybe now the driverless car are still have a lot of questions but in the future the driverless car will be more safty, more common and more confutable. So I think the Driverless cars will have a great development in the future. | 23
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2835045 | I am in the Seagoing Cowboys program and you should be too.
You take care of cattle that are shipped over seas. Some people are proud of me some people are not. The text states, "UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped over seas."
We take not only cattle but supplies like food supplies. We took these to help. We help countries that were in ruins. The text states, "It was 1945, World War II was over in Europe, and many countries were left in ruins."
The text also states, "To help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more."
I turned 18 befor we got to greece.
Which means I can join the military.
They let me keep doing what I was doing for survice.
The text states, "Luke turned 18 which means he can be drafted for military survice."
The text also states, "When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle-boat trip, they told me to just keep doing that for my survice. | 12
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b21b1dc | eletoral college can be a very good thing cause it can mean also picking other electors. this can help us and our state alot. But it would depend on witch state we are located in.
Electoral Collge gives a chances for people in the Republican or Demicrat party to also vote. You would have to let your state elctors also have the chance to let them pick a canidate chance on who they would want as president. According to the
Office of the federal register they qoute "The Electoral Collge consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to electoral votes is required to elect the president" (source 1). Each canidates electors are chosen threw witch partys they are in and are also chosen to give a chance to vote. I do think we should keep the Electoral college because it gives a chance for even electors to vote.
when we vote we are also voteing for electors to work with the presidents and help him make desions. Accoriding to bradford plumer he qoutes that " The single best argument against the electoral colloge is what we might call the disatser factor" (source 2). Even though electors votes it can lead to more of an unoraginized distaster. it can mainly lead to a lot of confusion and miss counts. a lot of people do not like the fact of electors being one just like the presidnet of untied states. what a lot of people dont know when they vote they are also voteing for other electors.
A lot of americans do not trust the Electoral College because they feel its not right to also be chooseing electors at the same time. they feel it is unfair and not nesscary. They should have sepreate elections for electors.
Richard A. posner qoutes that "When you vote for a presidential canidate you're actaully voting for a slate of electors" (source 3). Alot of people do not like the sound of that because they think its kinda like a secret. | 12
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5b4da4a | Using new technology to "calculate" peoples emotions will be a new and very advanced way to comunicate wiht others. For example, someone could just scan a person's face and tell if they're worth talking to or not. Also , some people may not want to be scaned and get told their emotions. The only people that should get this kind of technology is either , police , therapists or, people who willreally use them to study people.
Most people will not wants to be scanned by this new type of technology because , will probably not know what its used for. For example, the person may be scanned without their consent or the person can be a lot older and could make a big deal about it. Also, someone may not approve of this software being used by anyone because it will be to advanced or not good enough. The FACS software is going to be the new way to read a persons facial expressions.
FACS (Facial Action Coding System) can "constuct a 3-D computer model of the face and read all 44 major muscles. Movement by one or more muscles is called an "action unit", this new type of software cannot be used by a normal home PC becuase of it complex algorithims. | 12
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778e6fd | The article about driverless cars makes cars without drivers seem great the only part they did not mention is. What happens if the car bugs out completly and explodes with the driver inside. Since we don't know how much technology will be in them there is no way of knowing if something like this would happen. Other things that seem to good to be true is uses less fuel the car would need to be arrow dinamic and lighter for this.
I think that a driverless car would be good for long trips for incase you fall asleep it will wake you up but also keep the car steady and reduce the risk of a person dieing from falling asleep at the wheel. It would be bad because if the technology needed you to look forward the whole time your driving then it would be a boring trip.
Then there is the problem of whose fault is it if a crash happens a near impossible thing to figure out. The person at the wheel could have taken control and then crashed or the technology could have bugged out and both parties could it was the other's fault. It would be an endless cycle of arguing back and forth.
Inconclusion the driverless cars could be good if they were able to be in control the whole time even if there was anything out of the ordinary. The whole debate about a crash and who's to blame would be constant and niether party would be happy. Just think if you won and the person fixing your car holds a grudge they could mess with your car to get back at you.
Another problem is if they have a recall and those are the only cars out. Then if everyone of them are on the recall list then people would be layed off for messing up so bad. Some people would have to run all the way across town to there job and many other problems would occur. | 23
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5413de8 | A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves is a program where you get to go on many adventures and visit unique places, but you also get to help those in need. Many countries were left in ruins after World War II, and to help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more, nations joined together to form UNRRA. You sign up and can help take care of horses, young cows, and mules.
A good reason to join this program is if you like helping people in need. The countries were left in ruins and lots of their supplies and animals were gone. You would get to help recover all of these things and help take care of animals.
Another reason to join is that you are allowed to experience many adventures and travel across oceans. Some of the Seagoing Cowboys had the benefit of seeing Europe and China. You would get to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and make your way to China. There are many other countries to visit, one including Italy.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy can be more than just an adventure. Sure you get to tour many great countries, but you also get the benefit of getting to help all those that were affected by World War II. | 23
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cd0a006 | Has someone ever told you that the face on Mars was real, but you knew it wasn't. The face on Mars is a natural landform called a mesa, but people mistake for a face because of the shadows it formed. The face on Mars is a natural landform because research with space crafts and the study pictures over time.
The face on Mars is a natural landform because of research with spacecrafts. Research with space crafts has shown that the face on Mars is just a landform. Many people thought the face was an alien artifact when it appeared in many books, a Hollywood film, magazines, radio talk shows, and even in haunted grocery store checkout lines. People still may not believe it, but there is more to say.
The face on Mars is just a mesa because of pictures shown overtime. The pictures between 1976 through 2001 show the face fading away. They show the face was nothing other than a moutain like landform. The pictures were taken with high-tech gear that they had back then. They were taken when Spacecraft Viking 1 was looking for another spacecraft, Viking 2. It was Snapping pictures and it got the face. Later, NASA found out it was just a mesa.
In conclusion, people still may believe that the face on Mars was real, but studies show that it was just a landform. The face on Mars is just a landform because of research with spacecrafts and and the study of the pictures over time. My final thoughts of this is that the face was cool until I saw that it was just a mesa. It was cool to learn about this, but it was just a goofy looking mountain. | 12
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5057e4f | The future is a very strange place.This article talks about having driverless cars in the future.Also, this artilce reads about the advantages and disadvantages of these "driverless' cars.for instance these cars shall save you from buy a new car when your old one breaks down.
A driverless car seems like something nice to have, which it is. Having a driverless car can bring lots of easieness into your life. These smartcars can detect when theses dangers ahead. In these cars there are sensors that have become way more advanced over the years, these sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on the wheels to reduce power.Its allowing the human a better resonse and more control than a human could manange. They may be "driverless" cars, but there still needs to be a human inside to stay alert so they can be ready to take control when a problem occurs. Also, if the driver is not paying attetion the car will immidately notify the driver,The seats will vibrate if theres danger ahead. Athough there are laws saying that a human driver must be engaged at all times. In most states, it is illgeal to test computer driven cars. | 12
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30b20ea | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" there are different sides and reactions to driverless cars. Personally I think that driverless cars are a bad idea. They can cause crashesand problems, costs lots of money and need more modifications.
Driverless cars can cause alot of crashes because if it is a contructions zone, the car does not knowhow to get through it or manuver around it. A problem that might happen is you can tell the car where you want to go but it might not take you there. That can be a dangerous situation. If you have a driverless car, the driver is not going to pay attention to the road at al, so if something does happen in the car, the driver will not be paying attention enough to take control of the car.
Making these cars cost losts of money because of all the sensors you have to put on them. Not just the sensors, but you have to get someone to install the sensors. And if the car malfunctions then the car company will face alot of court issues which also costs alot of money. Spending all this money on making the cars will not be worth it all when people come to complain or get hurt by the car.
The driverless cars need more modifications because they are not completely driverless. You still need the driver to assist the car. If you need the driver its not a driverless car because you still need someone to take the wheel when certain points come along the road.
This articke shows me that driverless cars are an bad idea. Too much money, more modificatio, and crashes are only a little bit of the priorieties that need to be ficed with driverless cars. When these get fixed then driverless cars may be a better idea, but until then they need to try to fix these issues. | 23
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5ceec09 | Car's? everyone has one right? or at least knows someone that has one. Do you ever think if car's are bad for the world? When i was younger i always wanted to have a car. Do my own thing and go where ever i wanted. Then growing up i heard all the bad things about them. How they hurt are environment. How the creat so much smog. They harm us everyday. That's why i think we should limit the car usage.
limited are car usage right like how will beable to do what we have to. They might say i'm crazy for not wanting people to drive car's but in actuality i'm just trying to help and make the world a better place for the kids of the next generation. In a article i read "paris bans driving due to smog" "by robert duffer" He tells all about how car's were making so much smog that on monday paris enforced a partial ban to clear there air of the global city. That everyone had to leave there car at home or get a ticket of 31 dollars. Almost 4000 drivers were fined and twenty seven had there car impounded.
Even in other places like germay it's ether a car or house. Everyone would take the house thats somewhere to lay your head every night were your kids make memories that you will forever cherish. Car's there isnt know really point to them but just to drive and get somehwere. You can take a bike or even walk while at the same time helping the world and helping your self. I'm not saying stop using car's there so bad you will die if you use a car no. I'm just saying use your car when you really need to.
If something is close by you just have a nice walk and enjoy the air the beauty of being outside. If your going somewhere far? take a bus it might cost a dollar or two but just think about it. You dont have to drive your not using your car and your saving the world little by liite. Even encourage your friend's and family memeber's to do what your doing. maybe by 2040 we would have a whole new world.
We would be feeling better, breathing better. There is a endless possibilites to how better we could be. Have you ever thought about being a supr hero? or helping people? for one you can stop using your car so much. Then you would be everyone super hero, even mine. | 23
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c13993d | Poof! Cars are starting to disappear. Many cities and countries are prohibiting car use, they feel it would be drop pollution rates. Your probably thinking right now; this is crazy, who would ban cars? Just think about it there are many advantages to not having a car. First, you wouldn'nt have to worry about gas, theres no need to buy gas if you dont have a car. Second, you'll become healthier. Third, more interraction with the world.
All the money you spend on gas.. what a shame! If we didn't have cars you'd have more money, imagine what you would do with all that money. Maybe a nicer house or maybe a nice big pool in the backyard, you'd never know unless you give it a try. I know what your thinking how would I get to work or how would I get to the doctors; they're would still be public transportation to get you to important places.
If there were no cars, many people would be a lot healthier. Not just people, the environment would be a much healthier places. Polution rates go down, less asthma attacks, more fun, no honking, no worrying about wether the kids are alright to be outside by themselves; sounds good to me. There would also be more family bonding, go for nice walks to the park or beach.
Imagine your walking down the street, you know everyone, you stop and talk, maybe laugh. That's what it'd be like with no cars. Not one face on the street that you didn't know. Many gatherings with friends, many laughs, a lot of fun it sounds like.
The car culture is starting to end in many countries and cities including the United States of America. No cars sounds nice, yes maybe you you think there would be many poor effects on the culture but you also have to look at the bright side. More money, you'd become healthier, and you'd have more interractions with world. | 23
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6edf6de | Im going to tell about how the author of the article ''The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is trying to convince people to explore and stuying one of our 8 plants called "Venus". He starts off by geeting in detail with describing how vevus is by stating " Venus sometimes caleed the Evening Star,is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky,and saying venus is the second plant fro our sun. Earth in terms of density and size,and occasionally the closet in distance too. He also discribed the plant as a cloud-draped world, and says maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched downn on venus in more than three decades
The author also gets into some math into this by breaking down some percentages that venus has compared to other plants by saying. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus ". he also says that one the plants surface , temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and theatmosphere pressure is 90 times gretaer than what they have experienced on earth. Venus has the hottest surface tempertature of many plants in our solar system, even with mercury being closer to the sun. He basically telling us about the percentages and the deepest amont of venus and other plants we didnt reaserch about.
In more of the storyhe tells you the things yo are exprcted to see on venus. Venus was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like earth. The planet has a surfae of rocky sediment and includes familiar features suck as valleys, mountains, and craters. He changes the subject and goesminto the NASA and how they have ideas on sending humas to study venus. he describes how going out there would be like by saying imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above theroiling venusian landscape. Also at thirty plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but tha air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth | 12
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214e706 | The world need the cars not just for hang out with your friends or family the are a lot people who need a car like transportation when they going to the work also for emergency that means car they has to continue in the world peolple they neede.
Car they are necessary for a better style of life that way the humanity but aslo how many life are they die driving a car something people they don't control what they are doing and that kind of people put on danger other and that way can be affected that both.
People they atre traying to use the tecnology to made a car more save and inteligent for the humanida and that way less car crash but the thing most important is the life of billion of people who are driving in the world.
The world need peolple who invent new thing that work better in the car or if really necesisary destroy the cars in the world or invent a new transportatio for the humanida. | 01
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4442f3c | Have you ever wondered what students are emotionally expressing? Well now a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System are trying to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. Do you think the use of this technology is valuable? A new piece of technology is coming out called the Facial Coding System it enables computers to identify human emotions.
A piece of technology that enables computers to identify human emotions is called the Facial Action Coding System. I think the technology is valuble because so that the teachers and students now what each other is feeling. To backup my claim it says in the text " Most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc."
Which means that the technology is valuble so that you don't have to describe it will tell you.
I think that the techology called the Facial Action Coding System would be valuable because it could help with communication so they know if you are sad, happy, etc. In the text it states that " Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." Which means that most communication is non talking just by emotion.
Finally, my last reason I think that the new technology called Facial Action Coding System is valuable is because it helps produce your facial muscles. In the text it states " According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them". Which means that the technology helps produce your facial muscles.
All in all the technology called the Facial Action Coding System is valuable in many ways. By the facial muscles, the nonverbal communication, and how the students are feeling. There are also many ways to back it up. The Facial Action Coding System is reading the emotional expressions of students. | 23
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d4fcd5c | My thoughts on driverless cars, I don't think its a good idea to have these driverless cars. They could have techonical problems. They could also go against the driver laws we have today.
I think cars should have techonogly inhanced in the cars, but I don't think that driverless cars is a good idea. Say if you own one of this driverless cars, and it just turn on by itself and drive down the street crash or even run someone over, who's going to be the blame, the driver or the manufacturer. In the artical, in paragraph nine it states that "traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times."
And humans should be reponsible what they do with their car and how they drive their cars.
My second reason I go against driverless cars is that, if we do have these driverless cars, change of laws have to be done and even maybe new laws have to be added.
That might affect teens or even young adults who wants to own thier perment. But they wouldn't have to even drive the car, because the car is mainly is driving them.
In conclusion, driverless cars might be trouble for most of us or not. Eventhough automakers are still continuing their work for the development of these cars. We still might have a couple of these cars driving around, but I think maybe we still have a chance of just non-driverless cars and having humans drive cars. | 23
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f932640 | What if we could get to a new planet? What if humans got off of the Earth, and onto another planet? Would we build a new civilization? Could we even survive? In an article titled "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author explains many problems for why getting people on Venus will be difficult, and they present some potential solutions to these problems. The author supprts the idea that Venus exploration may be possible by using facts already known about Venus, presenting problems with getting on Venus, and presenting solutions for those problems.
First, the author knows a lot about Venus. Paragraphs 2 and 3 especially shows plenty of the knowledge the author has, and shows that they did research. The text supports this claim by saying "Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus... A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus... On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." All of these facts show that the author did plenty of research and found some facts that can help support his future claims.
Next, the author presents multiple problems for why Venus exploration will be a difficult task. It is apparent once again that the author did plenty of research to find as many potential problems as they could. The text supports this claim by saying "No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours... Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study... On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees... 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 the author knows many potential problems that could harm chances at landing a manned mission on Venus.
Finally, the author presents many potential solutions for the problems. The most important solution is for the surface and weather on Venus. The author presents this idea by saying "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Farenheit, 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 there is a solution to the problem of Venus having unsurvivable conditions by hovering above Venus's surface to flat out avoid the harsh conditions.
In conclusion, the author gives a good explanation for why we might be able to conduct studies on Venus. The author supports his claim by presenting knowledge about Venus, presenting potential problems for making it to Venus, and presenting a solution that would negate almost all of the problems presented previously. Perhaps one day, we might be able to land a manned mission on Venus. | 34
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6b3ba23 | This articall is about the planet Venus a nabor to eath but yet millions of miles away. One may think this planet is not much different from earth but it is very different. Venus is closer to the sun so the suface tepertur is some times over 800 degres Fahrenheit. this is where the problems come in and hanestly makes it harder to bealeve it is posible to explore Venus.
In the artical the author sounds very confident about this exploration but the conditions seem to risky and how are they 100% shore about these thiges anyway. In the artical it states "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, teperatures would be around 170 degrees but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth". I mean how can you tell they temperature of a planet that far away and even more know how hot it will be at different altitodes.
What it all come down to is the author did not give enough evidance or they did not prove it. They just gave us some numbers that we did nit even know where they came from. And they use the word "about" in the quote in my second paragraph. I don't know about you but we probubly should not be voying peoples lives on the word about. | 12
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6fb84c0 | Do you think it is a natural landform or a face? It is obvisouly a natural lanform! Mars has a lot going on, people wondering if there can be life on Mars or not, and now this.
First, how could there ever be life on another planet? Mars does not even have enough water for human life. In the passege "Unmasking the Face on Mars", it states, "The caption noted a "huge rock formation...which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth" The reson why the rock formation looks like a face could be from rocks being inside the sand to formate the face and the rocks could have shrunken or have gone away.
Now, this face is a land form, it just looks like a face. This can happen anywhere in the world, not just on Mars. In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars it says, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural land form. There was no alien monument after all." This proves that the picture that was taken may looked like a face but was in fact, a landform, and thd cause of this face can be from anything out in the environment.
In conculsion, the "Face of Mars" is not a face, its alnd form, no faces can still be dented in a land form for that long. The cause of making this face can be from rocks, or any other thing on Mars. | 12
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202b78d | This essay is about the story of a cowboy who rode the waves. It is also about reasons why you should join the program. It also is about details from the article to support Luke's claim.
These are some reasons why you should join the program. One reason why you should join is because it is fun. Another reason you should join is because you have alot of time so you can vist places you always wanted to vist.
This paragraph is about details from the article to support Luke's claim of joining. In paragraph 1 he said that it is an opportunity of a lifetime. Another reason is because he gets to ship cattle across the world to help people. The final reason is because you can go to places you have never been like China and those type of places.
This is the conclussion of this essay. So now you know why you should join the program of a cattle boat driver. Also now you know the reasons why Luke likes his job of a cattle boat driver. Also you know more about the cowboy who rode the waves (Luke). | 12
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9c28fb0 | What is, UNRRA? Why should I join it? I can answer that question! With so much destruction happening out there how are we going to keep this world stable?
There is just not enough people out there that are joining this organization and we need all the people that we can get. All of us people put together into a group that cared and did everything for everyone that they could would turn us all into heros.
UNRRA, stands for the, ( United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), UNRRA hires people called, "Seagoing Cowboys". Seagoing cowboys are people who go on cattle-boat trips to usually far away places. These cattle-boats carry things such as, cows, horses, and other farm animals. Sometimes these boats also carry medical stuff so that the people that go to the other side have stuff that they can help to cure the wounded with. For example during the, Pacific war, seagoing cowboy's were sent over seas to go and be carers for the men and women in which were wounded in battle.
Imagine all the people that are out there fighting for your country while you enjoy the peace in your nice quiet humble home while the people that are out there get to sleep on the ground if they even get to sleep. What if the people that are fighting for you run out of food what if they run out of horses to carry them across the battlefields so if in a case where they almost die they might very well be able to get away with quick speed. Without these items delivered where would we be right now would there be any peace still on earth would we lose the race and get our lives taken from us people that we don't even know?
The courage that these people have the people that fight the fight and the people that help the people that fight the fight fight the fight. You could help with that and it would just be in one easy step and you have to take that step with your help and your time did you know that you could save somebodys life or if anything you could save one hundred peoples lives or maybe even more. To many people you would be a hero. To some you would be a savior.
You I bet would want to be that person it is fun caring kind and heroetic and you might even get extra time. There is some hard work that gets put into it as well but still think of all the lives that you would save all the people that would love you forever. All the things that you could do for your country and it would all be done in just one easy step into the doors of, UNRRA! You can do it you have it in you. | 34
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40ac432 | In many areas of the globe countries are trying to limit the use of cars for tons of reasons. Elisabeth Rosenthal explains in source 1, "in German suburbs, life goes on without cars. In source 2, Robert Duffer explains that, "Paris bans driving due to smog. In source 3, Andrew Selsky tells us, "car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota. As for source 4, Elisabeth Rosenthal also talks about "the end of car culture," in the United States.
Source 1, in Germany, residents of the Vauban {an upscale community} are subrban pioneers, they are giving up their cars. Rosenthal says "street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in tihs experimental new district on the outskirts of Feriburg, near the French and Swiss borders" they only have two large garages for car-owner at the edge of the development, but they must pay $40,000, along with a home. 70% of Vauban's families do not own a car, and 57% sold a car to move there. She qouted someone by the of Heidrun Walter sayed, "When I had a car Iwas always tense. I'm much happier this way." Meaning he gave up he car so he did not have to pay so much money to keep it and a home with a garage. She explains how, "automobiles are the linchpin of suburbs, where middle-class families from Chicago to Shanghai tend to make their homes."
In source 2, "Paris bans driving due to smog," says Duffer. Paris enforced partial driving ban to clear the air. Duffer says, on Monday motorists even even-numbered licecnse plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31)." On the next day odd-numbered plates would do the same. Nearly 4,000 drivers suffered this fine. As of the 27 other peoples' cars were impounded for their reaction. "In the capital of France 60% congestion were down," explains Duffer. Days when was "cold at night and warm in the day were causing the warmer air to trap car emissions. Diesel fuel was blamed, since France has [] tax policy that favors diesel over fasoline," explains Duffer. Diesel is 67% of vehicles in France, compared to 53.3% average of diesel engines in the rest of Western Europe, according to Reuters.
Andrew Selsky tells us about, " car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota." Bogota, Colombia has a program that's set to spread to other countries. Millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or even took buses to work during a car-free day. For 3 straight years cars have been banned with only buses and taxis premitted for the "Day Without Cars" in this capital city of 7 million. Selsky says, " the goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines." Even when it would "rain it never stopped people from participating," said Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus. For Carlos ARturo Plaza, a businessman, said "it's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." The day without cars is an improvement campaign that there in the mid-1990s. Many parks, sports and businesses bloomed throhtout the city. | 01
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9f244ee | When looking at the Facial Action Coding System and seeing what it did for this peinting, I think it would be a great idea to use in the classrooms to reqd the students emotional expressions. Dr. Haung observes that many artists likr da Vinci did, and he relized that tney studied human anatomy, this is how they were abel to paint facilmuscles precisely. Dr. Haung relized that by haveing a machine like this one, doctors would be abel to performe better surgery by useing video surgery and or better graphics for video games, beter quality images of human faces and better muscel pictures would become a huge hit in the medical field.
Dr. Eckman and Dr. Haung were both abel to figure out that if you raise your lips at the corner of your mouth, squint your eyes slightly, and raise the outer parts of your cheeks toward your eyes, your lab partner would be clueless on what emotion you were performing. These are the instructions on how to look happy says Dr. Haung. The Facial Action Coding System can even detect when you are forcing a fake smile instead of a real simle.
This is why I feel that putting the Facial Action Coding System into schools acros the globe would be a good thing. Not only would this give the schools feed back on how their students mental state changes throughout the day, but also this machine would help detect early signs of depression and posibly signs of bullying. When students tell teachers they are not getting bullied or hurassed, the Facial Action System might be abel to detect when a student is lying an d or not wanting to share all of the details in his or her life.
These are all the reasons I personally think the Facial Action Coding System should be placed in schools everywhere. People were interested in the face and how the mucels work even whe da Vinci was alive all the way to today when we are atill intdrested in how the fave and muscels not only work, but how they can be minipulated and how each emotion brings on different muscels. | 23
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2254f30 | There can be many advanteges and disadvanteges to having a car but the advanteges to not having a card greatly outweighs having one. There can be many reasons why not having a car is great but the main three are it reduces pollution, reduces stress, and having less cars reduces the noice pollution in a city. Can you imagine a place with no cars?
First off the main advantage of limiting car use is less pollution. Cars account for 12% of gas emissions in Europe and 50% in America. Without cars the air would be much cleaner and the Smog would be gone over the cities. London had so much smog over the city that they had to cut car use in half with all of their cititzens. After only five days most of the smog was gone and people could go back to driving. Imagine if we had everycar in the world stopped driving we could get rid of most of the smog in less than one week.
Another great point on how limiting car use can help is it will reduce the stress gratly in peoples lives. In the first source a man from Vauban Germany said, "When I had a Car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Also another man from Columbia said during a day without cars, "Its a good opportunity to take away stress..." Most stress comes from roadrage or getting stuck in a major traffic jam. Imagine how stresless people will be without cars
Finnaly reducing car use will graetly reduce the noice pollution everywhere. When you go out side whats the first thing you hear? People? Childrean? NO, all you can hear is the engine of cars everywhere. In a city where they banned most cars the sound of childrean drown out the occasional car engine not the other way around. Can you imagine how peacefull that would be not waking up to the sound of cars?
In conclusion having a car can have its advanteges but limiting there use would be far better for people. It would help stop air pollution, reduce stress, and reduce noice pollution in cities and suburbs. Is having a car really worth it? | 34
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41de9e7 | Cars are one of the main causes of air pollution is the United States and the world. If everyone would limit their car usage, one would see all the great benefits of not using a car as much. Limiting car usage helps keep our planet clean and people would be a lot happier.
To begin with limiting car usage would help keep our plant clean. In the article, "Paris bans driving due to smog", the author, Duffer, states "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." After this ban was enforced Paris' air was cleared in a less than a week. This proves that one doesn't even have to limit their car usage a lot, even just a little bit helps. In the article, "The End of Car Culture", the author, Rosenthal, claims that Bill Ford, chairman of the Ford Motor Company, wants to create cities in which "pedestrain, bicycle, private cars, commerical and public transportatons traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lowers emmissions and improve safety." This shows that even Bill Ford, the chairman of FORD MOTOR COMPANY, even agrees that limiting car usage would help lower global pollution.
On another hand, limiting car usage makes people a lot happier. In the article, "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars", the author, Rosenthal, states "'When i had a car i was always tense. I'm much happier this way,' said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two...." A normal person, a person like everyone else, claims that they're happier without a car, less stressful, imagine what just limiting your car usage would do. In the article, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota", the author, Selsky, says "'It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution,' said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as her rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife." This shows that limiting car usage for just a day, takes away stress and helps the planet. Wouldn't it be nice to have a stress-free day?
In conclusion, limiting car usage, even just a little, reduces pollution and causes happiness. One can help themselves, while also helping the planet. | 34
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5a87202 | ON THE WATERS
Have you ever thought about taking a ride in a cattle boat to europe? Well now you can have a chance to. This ride is to take care of horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped over seas. This is a great oppurtunity to go and help. In
a different way called the Seagoing Cowboys.
The people that go on this cattle boat are there to help countries that were left in ruins of World War II.This is a gruop to form the UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rebelion Administration). This group of people has 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA. This is how great it would be if you were to join this group. 44 nations is a lot and it shows you that the Seagoing Cowboys is a great group to help. You dont just go to help you can explore the places you pass through. Or you can go sight seeing and maybe see some animals, places, fivers, or maybe plants you've never seen before. That why we want you to join bacause it's a great group to join and it can get better starting with you.
The UNRRA doesn't just help animals and allow you to go sight seeing. You may not no or realize, but you are helping a lot of people, because this is the main idea of the UNNRA. We would love for you to go and come with us it would be a great expierence for you and a great expeirence for other to know you. So what's your idea of the group how do you feel, would you like to come? | 23
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ea1e99d | Driverless cars are in theory is a good idea, but when put to the test with real humans inside of them they are far too dangerours and not practical. With no one driving the car, only relying on senors, there is way too many possiblities to injury wether it is the riders or pedestrians. The smart cars would be too expensive for the average american and just not realistic.
In the article, Driverless Cars Are Coming it states that "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009" What are the specific conditions? Certainly not in a hard rain or heavy snowfall. In real life situations no one watching the road is a huge risk, anything could happen that a senor could not detect. People should not trust a senor to carry their family to their destination, wether it is ten mintues away or an hour.
Who would be at fault if in an accident a driverless car hit another cart that did have a driver in it? With a driverless car the driver would get bored, doze off or spend time on his/her cell phone. With a distracted driver the likelihood of an accident increases dramaticly. The driver presuming that no accidetns will occur would look away from the road, but when a car B pulls out unexpectidly infront of it whose fault would it be? The manufacturer? The driver in the driverless car? Or the driver in car B?
Puting ones' self or ones' family in that kinda of danger is really testing their luck. Smart cars that can drive themselves would be extremly expensive. Brands like Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan are already in the hundrend-thousand dollar range. A car like is is not practical to the everyday person.
Those who ride in driverless car are put in more danger than those who ride along with a driver. Driverless cars are likely to cause more accident, especially because the car is not seeing what is going on infront of it. The car will not be able to notice black ice, a heavily trafficed area, road construction or know exactly when to use the brake if an accident were to occur infront of it. These types of cars are way too expensive, not realistic and not as safe as they seem to be. | 23
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1c3aaf7 | I dont think driverless cars should be invented because some computer or gps systoms can get a glich or shut down while driving.I think that would just cause more accadents and make it unsafe for the people. When someone is walking they can get hit or if the car just stopped working without a driver it wouldnt be stopped .i think it would be better if the is a human driving so that there can be accorit eyes on the road.And you can see every thing that is going on or come to a stop at a short notice.
Driverlass cars can also be useful because if a person was driving to a far place and there was no one to help them drive while they get rest the driverlass car would be very helpful. And also if you were to tired to go and pick kids up from there schools the car can come in handy.
driverlass cars i beleave are very dangerous because you never know if there is somthing wrong with the car and it could loose control and
be the cause of a really big reck or if the is a on going road that was a on going
road before but changed into a dead end. i beleave it would be to dangrous and there shouldn't be
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5b79a2b | New software has been develpoed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. The new software, the Facial Acion Coding System, has promising applications for a variety of industries.
The use of the new technology called Facial Action Coding System to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable.
The author says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Facial Action Coding System is valuable in classroom as, if a child doesn't understand anything what the teacher is teaching, the teacher will get to know that the child is confused or not understanding something by just looking at the computer.
The author says,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." So, when the teacher will know that the student is confused or bored, he/she could teach the lesson in a better way, and also the computer could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.
I would conclude by saying that, this new technology is very useful in a classroom because it helps the students understand everything that teacher is trying to expalin and helps them learning better. | 23
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eaf37c0 | Dear dumb Republican ,
The Electoral College is stupid and we should not use it. I have many reasons to believe that this is an unfair system that is adulterating our country's wonderful ways.
The first reason for why I despise this system is because we have had people with more than half of the country voting for them not be elected President. This is due to winning by just enough in certain states that you get their elector votes. If you win by 51% in a state with 4 electoral votes, but someone else wins by 99% in a state with 3 electoral votes, you will have more electoral votes, but less popular votes. In the system that we are set up with, electoral votes is how you will get elected for President. This happened during the Presidental Election in 2000, when Gore won the popular vote, but Busch won the electoral votes and was elected President. It also happened several times before, most recently in 1888.
With the Electoral College it is more likely that a tie will happen. This is beacuse there are only 538 electoral votes, which is a lot less than 300 million popular votes, for every U.S. citizen. If there is a tie, then the Senate and House of Representatives has to do all this stupid stuff to figure out who wins.
In the process of the Electoral College, the voters in the smaller states are given more power than those in the larger states. Every state gets a minimum of 3 electoral votes, and then more are added depeding on the size of the state's population. WIth 3 votes for a population of 500,000, Wyoming has more votes per citizen than the larger states do. Large states with ten of millions of people may have only a few more votes than Wyoming does, giving it's individual citizens more power in choosing the President.
Because of the Electoral College, Presidential Canidates spend a large portion of their time in "Swing States," like Ohio or Florida, and little or no time to states with predictable outcomes. A swing state is a state that could go either way in the election, so the canidates spend a lot of time convincing it's populants to vote for them, because of the winner-takes-all method. This is unfair to the states with predicted outcomes.
In conclusion, the Electoral College is old, useless, irrational, and hurtful to our country. This is why we should abolish it. | 34
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b87afab | Driverless cars are fuel and it more active than a bus. An article entitled, " Driverless Care Are Coming" discusses how the author present both positive and negative aspects of driverless care. In the article, Google cars are not correctly driverless. Some people are argument for or against the development of thses cars.
The positive about the driverless cars are that it's become smarter. According to the article," Antilock brakes and driver assistance still seem a long way from the dream of calling a driverless cab to take us wherever we desire, but Sebastian Thrun, founder of the Google Car projec, believes that the technology has finally begun to cath up to the dream." A BMW project manager driver stated that, they hope to bring enterainment and important informaton system. They hope that driverless car can be entertainment and safety.
The negative aspects of driverless cars is that it would make people boring. It would not be entertainment to wait for people turn to drive. According to the article,"Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotationf sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirroir, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor." Some people argue that, the most important part of technology system is the spining sensor that on the roof. Some said that, sensor are not new to them because it respong to the hazard of control.
The argument for the development of these cars are that some states are allow to used half stonomous cars. So the manudacturers thought that more state would allow limited use of the half autonomous cars. It continuing saying that, if the technology didn't work and someone is hurt they can't blame the river or the manifacture. So, new laws will be need if the traffic laws change to cover an accident in the future.
The automakers are working on the project for the a car driving that can drive themselves around 2020. People are hoping to see this new driverless cars in the future. People believe that driverless cars world change the world. | 12
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a7bb990 | For more than a hundred years now, we have been relying on autombiles for many things. Since the beginning, we've seen a tremendous increase due to the more factories built and more companys founded to create different versions and models of cars. We use them to go place to place. However, it does have its downfalls. The majority of pollution caused by cars driven around the entire planet is caused by the emissions released from the car itself. Obviously that's nowhere near healthy so why not try limiting the car usage?
Many places round the world have already begun trying little projects inorder to cut back on smog or pollution. In Vauban, Germany, for example, a tremendous amount of people don't own cars. According to the excerpt from "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars" by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it mentions how 70 percent of Vauban's families do not own cars and 57 percent sold one to move there. The streets are completely car-free minus the main thoroughfare where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs. All of this turned into a growing trend throughout Europe to seperate suburban life from car usage. It's referred to as "smart planning". Experts say these changes are a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. Another positive effect of this experiment, stores are placed a walk away, on a main straight, rather than in malls along some distant highway. Think about living in an environment where you can actually breathe in the fresh air and not choke on it thanks to the smell of exhaust fumes coming from all of the automobiles congesting the streets and cities you'd like to walk in.
Another advantage of limiting car usage is reducing stress and tension caused by driving. In Bogota, Colombia, millions of Colombians either hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work during their "car-free day", according to the excerpt from "Car-Free Day is Spinning into a Big Hit in Bogota" by Andrew Selsky. The only permitted automobiles are buses and taxis during those days. The goal of the entire event is to "promote alternative transportation and reduce smog." Anyone who violated the program would face a $25 fine. "'It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower pollution,' said businessman Carlos Arturo Plaza as he rode a two seat bicycle with his wife." During one of the years, two more cities from the country joined. Due to event, it improved a campaign which began in the mid-1990s where there's been a construction of 118 miles of bycicle path which is the most of any Latin American city, according to Mockus who is the city's mayor. Another positive result of this project was the blooming of parks and sport centers throughout the city. Even the uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced, rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut the amount of traffic and new restaurants have cropped up. It was as if the entire city itself was reinovated thanks to their Car-Free Day.
Considering the fact that transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions according to the excerpt from "The End of Car Culture" also by Elisabeth Rosenthal, it's not a bad idea limiting car usage. At the end of the day, we have more advantages than anything else. Those include reducing the amount of smog and pollution caused by the automobiles' emissions and reducing stress plus the tension while drivng. Again, who wouldn't want to be able to walk around town enjoying the outside beautiful environment nature provides us with, without having to hold their breath everytime a car or truck passes by with their nasty exhaust fumes? Make the world a better place to live in. | 34
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9b8bb52 | I think that the Electoral College should stay because it it a good helper for electing a governer and a president. There are many differenty way of chosing a president, but this is the better ans easy one. One example that chouse how the Electoral College is helpfull is were it says, "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizenz." This is mostly saying that the votes help finda president by the most popular or voted person.
The secon evidence I found that shows that Electoral College is very helpfull is where it says," won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of the voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." This shows how it is easy to get a president with this method, but it is not what they would prefer. Even though it is not what the prefer, it is the best, easy, and fair way to get a president. | 12
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b62cbf6 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents, but he does not support his idea that well. The author mostley stated the bad things about studying Venus and very few positive things.
The author states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system". This statement supports his idea but not good enough. "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" says the author. I love this comment, but he does not eplain why he thinks this.
When I read this I disagree with the author because he puts a lot of negative information into
the aticle. "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" this tells us that if we wee to try this mission again we wouldn't survive, and if you add on "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth" this is telling us we would not be able to handle it because we have never incountered such temperatures and and dangerouse acids.
The author of "Challenge of Exploring Venus" should have put more positive information into his article rather than putting a lot of negativity. The author's article was detailed and provided a lot of information, but not enough to back up his suggestion to study Venus. | 23
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ca093d9 | I argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states. The electon could have a bias opinion and go against what the people want. "It's offical: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." Also, in 1976 if a mere 5,559 voter in Ohio and 3,687 voters in Hawaii would have voted differently it would have been a tie. That would have been a catastrophe.
In 960 segregationist almost succeded in replacing the democratic electors with electors who would haved picked John F. Kennedy's opponent. Also, during the 1960's in Hawaii Vice President Richard Nixon had been presiding over the senate, validating only his opponent's electors. Although, he had done so without creating a precedent.
The Electoral College is a non-democratic method of selecting a President. The five reasons we have retained the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree. All are practical reasons not conservative and non-liberal reasons. With other things being equal other things are not. Also, larger states will get more political attention from presidental candidates in a campaign verse a smaller state. | 12
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88e1bf9 | Luke was offered a trip to Europe on a boat by a friend and of course he couldn't say no. So Luke took the offer but World War II was going in Europe and many countries were left in ruins. A group called UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the animals that were shipped over seas.
According to the text in August 1945, they received their orders to report to New Orleans. They arrived August 14 the day the Pacific war was over. Luke turned 18 the day before arriving in Greece, which meant he could be drafted for military service. He was discharged in 1947 but Luke had already made nine trips the most any Seagoing Cowbody had ever done.
Luke had a great experience doing something he loved and also helping out others. He went to Europe to have a fun vacation but ended up helping fourty-four countries that were in ruins. I would encourage a lot of people to join the Seagoing Cowboy program because you get to travel around and visit a lot of countries but also you get to help out countries that aren't at there finest at the moment. This supports why I would suggest people to join. | 12
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f3cbad7 | Now that we are more advanced in technology each and every day people want to have the latest iPhone, watch or even car. We have advanced technology a lot and by a lot it is so much that car companies are starting to manufactor driverless cars. Yes, that sounds good for when you do nott want to drive but have to go somewhere but not all the time. By " driving " a driverless car comes a few risks of the technology failing on you while driving, less attention to the roads, and forgetting how to drive.
The author states in paragraph 9 that, " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufactor?" The author is right who do you think would be more in trouble or at fault the company or the driver. Yes, the driver can sew the company but the odds are not likely of winning that, because the driver assummed all the risks of getting into a wreck when you first bought it.
Another reason why driverless cars are not good are because the person driving the car will pay less attention on the road. They will think that since it's a driverless car that nothing will affect them. Their are some drivers that might still pay attention to what is in front of them but again what if another person is not and the technology fails.
You may even forget how to drive can you believe that. No, because you do not think that you will forget that; however that just may happen. By driving a driverless car you will not be the one driving it will be the car itslef. You will not be able to control it how you want it to. In paragraph 10 the author states, " Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time." he says 90 percent of the time in just 2016 but later on will it be all up to 100 percent?
Now that we are more advanced in technology the dreams of people that thought that something could not be invented now can all thanks to the greater technology. Television and movies have been in love with the new and improved cars that can drive themselves and go fast. The viewers see them and want them and start planing for them in the futre. Do not get me wrong who would not like cars that would drive themselves when we have to go somwhere but do not want to drive. It would be nice to go somwhere far and not have to drive but not all the time. Driverless cars would be great for most part but then think of the risks of having one. | 34
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938a199 | Dear Senator,
I believe that people like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole were all right in saying the electoral college should be abolished. I have two simple reasons for this. One being that it is not a 100% way to elect a entire nations leader for four years. The other reason being that 60% of people don't even want it.
First off, the process of the elcetoral college isn't always accurate. For example, in 2000, Al Gore ran for office against George W. Bush. During this election, Al Gore won the votes of the people, but lost in electoral votes, giving the presidency to George. Since we all know how his presidency turned out, we wonder how Gore would've handled things. Voters cannot always control who their electors vote for, which means if an elector is chosen to vote for Billy Joe, he might just decide, when it becomes time, to vote for Jimmy Washington. This would leave voters of that candidate upset, so maybe they too will understand this flawed system. Another reason we need to abolish the electoral college is something we like to call the disaster factor. This is nothing compared to what happened in 2000; the system allows for much worse. Consider that a states legislature is technically responsible for picking said states electors. Also consider that said elector could always defy the will of the people. In 1960, the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing democratic electors with new ones who would oppose John F. Kennedy. In the same vein, electors without faith, have occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and cast their vote for whomever they please. Ask yourself Senator, if this were to happen again, would you do what is right and try to dispose of this system? I hope so.
In reference to my second point, do you realize that (According to a Gallup poll) 60% of our people don't even want this system. The way I see it, if i asked three people if I should buy a new car or a used car, and two out of the three say I should buy a used one, I'm not going to go buy a new car despite them. This is the same with the electoral college. We shouldn't be forcing this corrupt way of decididng this nations leader for the next four years, down their throat. This nation is based on beliefs that include the peoples right to have a say in how this nation is goverened. It's so simple, a majority of the people are against the electoral college, so it needs to go. If you, like 60% of the United States agree with my points and views on the electoral college, then you need to do what you can with your authority, to put a stop to it.
All in all, I have strong beliefs, like most Americans, that the electoral college is a corrupt way of giving this great nation to somebody who people think don't deserve it. Based on my emphasis of these two reasons that this failing system needs to go, I think you , Senator, need to put all your power into the downfall of it. | 34
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f6d3c54 | Dear State Senator,
I am writing you a letter in regards of the electoral college. I believe we should abolish it completely. I believe that we should change our voting system to election by popular vote for the president of the United Sates. While it is a good system, it is not reliable and does not let the people truly decide who their representative will be. It does bring some certainty of outcome but not as much as it should.
The electoral college must be abolished because it does not let the people truly decide who their president will be. While it does allow them to vote for a slate of electors who then elect the president usually based off of the popular vote, they do not always vote for who they are supposed to. The slate of electors that the people vote for are supposed to be trusted to vote for what the popular vote says, they do not always do so. A good example of that is in 2000, when Al Gore ran against George W Bush. Al Gore won the popular vote nationwide over Bush, he still didnt win the presidency because the electoral college did not stay true to their word and voted for Bush. That is because, as shown in Source 3, paragraph 15, " When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. So while you might think your individual vote makes a difference, it doesnt at all, for you are not choosing which presidential candidate to vote for, you are voting for someone else to vote for the president who might not always stay true to their word and vote for a different candidate.
Although the electoral college does bring better certainty of outcome than a popular vote, it does not have the certainty it claims to have. In Source 2, paragraph 12 it states, "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." This is a big worry because the electoral college holds a total of 538 votes which is definetely possible to cause a tie. If this were to happen, then the vote would be thrown to the House of Representatives where state delegations would vote on the president. Then the concept of the presidential campaigns would become pointless because the point of campaining is to try to win over large, swing states to ensure more votes. Because the bigger the states population, the more votes they hold in the electoral college. But that would only work if it was in the Senates hands because the amount of representatives in the Senate for each state is based off of population, whereas the amount of representatives in the House of Representatives is always two for each state. So if the vote was thrown into the House of Representatives hands, then whichever candidate who holds claim over the most states, regardless of size, would almost automatically win the election because each state holds equal say in their vote.
So because the electoral college is obviously unfair, it should be abolished. Because the voters are told they decide who reopresents them, yet they do not. There is a possibility, while slim that a president could win the popular votes, yet lose the election because of the way the electoral college is set up. So because it unfair to the presidential candidates, it should be abolished and we should have elections controlled by popular votes. | 45
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4465999 | Dear state senator,
I believe that the United States election should be changed to popularity vote. wouldnt that be easier than a Electoral College? I beleive so and i bet many others also believe that a popularity vote is way better. I stongrly encourage a(n) Popular vote becuase its easier, less complicated, and faster.
Dont you think a popular vote would make it way easier for not just the fellow citizens of America but for you guys? I believe that this would be a great change not for the bad but for the good. The popular vote all you have to do is count and state who had more and bam! its that easy! Its just 123 and your done. Isnt that much easier? Not a long process or any of that. imagine just voting once for the president and being done with all that?
Wouldnt having a popular vote be less complicated? you wouldnt have to do the state elector or have any more requirements. All you have to do is whoever has more wins! also in the Elecoral College the voters dont even vote for the president but for a slate of electors?? what is that nonsense? shouldnt citizens have the freedom of voting for who they want as president? I thought this was the land of the free? How would bigger states have a voice if it was the same as the smaller ones?
Dont you believe that a popular vote would also be a faster way of the elections? its just 123. Electing electors to vote for you just takes way to long. By the time your done with that you couldve been done with the presidential elections if you wouldve just had a popularity vote from the start. Everything you do is based on time so wouldnt it just be easier for everyone to vote and boom! its all over. Its not just faster for us but for y'all also. | 23
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92bb58b | The FACS (Facial Action Coding System) program can be used to detect human emotion through complex algorithms on a advanced computer. Since this program cant work on the average PC, Dr. Huang wrote down some simple instructions that encode different emotions. These instrutions are not as advanced as the FACS program but they are simple enough for the average PC. This can dectect your muscular action units to detect all your current emotions. It can also detect fake emotions as if you were trying to fake a smile or frown just by looking at the major mucles on your face.
Dr. huang would like to use this program for kids in schools. He says the program would help detect when a student is becoming confused or bored of a lesson. When this happens the FACS program will modify the lesson such as an effective human instructor would. This in my opinion could change the learning process for many people and create a new learning system across the world. But this could also take many jobs away ruining the carrer of a teacher. This whole program could end horribly making teachers go on a strike. But no special computer is needed as in the article states that this program could run on a school computer.
All together this program could change schools for the students, and effect the jobs of teachers/professor. This program was made to detect human emotions but can be used as an advanced learning process. The things that this program can do are impressive but Dr. Huang aslo says that humans can also detect emotions. But a teacher can't teach every student in their ways needed, teachers teach the whole class using the technique. Overall this program should be tested in a few schools before going active to each school. | 23
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746e6d5 | In the story "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" Luke Bomberger is a boy who crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times. He also crosed the Pacific Ocean twice. His friend Don Reist invited him to go on a trip with him on a cattle boat. In his point of view he thought it was an opportunity of a life time, so he couldent say no.
Don and Luke signed up to sail over seas to ship animals to other countries, states, cities, and more. On one of there trips they received their orders to New Orleans. But Luke turned 18 wich ment he could be drafted to military service. Luke kept going on his journies over seas instead of joining the military. Luke was verty exided that he went to a lot of places and crossed many seas.
On one of his missions it took about 2 weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. But they loved caring for the animals and sailing it kept them busy. Luke and Don had fun on board they made up games. They liked when after the trips when the animals have been unloaded. Luke thought being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more then an adventurer. Luke and Don loved what they were doing. | 01
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cbc28c7 | The Challange of Exploring Venus is the name of this article that I have just read. The author of this article seems to be in full support of pursuing the dangerous planet, but why thats what I'm here to tell you.
First I'll begin with a description of some of the harshness of the planet. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venu's atmosphere." That is a description of the air and sky of Venus, now I will give a description of the surface of Venus. "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 time greater than what we experience on our own planet." Those are some harsh conditions. The author seems to be with the idea of exploring Venus. There are some very interesting things that the author brings up such as "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way." this seems to prove that it could be possible but what about power, the temperature, and air pressure well the author also included that. "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, the temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees farenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful." So then what about the danger of radiation well it turns out that that is also brought up. "Radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." so that explains almost all the troubles of this trip and exploration, but there won't be much to see through all the clouds and the fact that going to the ground is too dangerous what could you possibly do. The author seems to support the idea of studying Venus really well, but I don't think that we know enough about the planet to determine whether going is in our best interest. | 23
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62720f4 | Some people like boat trips. Some people don't like them. For the people who like boat trips you should join the Seagoing Cowboys.
One reason to join this program is because you have so much fun! On my first trip I thought the cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for me. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was really special. Also taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water.
Another reason why you should join this program is because you get a chance to help people. The Seagoing Cowboys is about helping people with what they need. I went just after World War ll ended. A lot of small towns and cities were ruined from the war and needed help on getting their farming equipment. We were on a cattle-boat that had about 335 horses plus oats and hay to feed them. We had a lot more animals on our ship.
Some of the bad things about joining this program is the hard work and danger. The animals had to be fed and watered two or three times a day at least. Bales of hay and bags of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship and stalls had to be cleaned. But the worst part about joining this program is the danger. When I joined this program I cracked a couple of ribs. One rainy night, after making my hourly report to the captain, when I slid down a slippery ladder on my backside. I was happy to be alive, but I could not work for a couple of days.
No madder if you like boat trips or not you should join this program. Don't think about yourself. Just remember, the best thing about this trip is that you will always be happy when you think about all the lives you saved and helped by joining the Seagoing Cowboys! | 23
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f723eae | I think the Facial Action Coding System should be used to read how students are feeling because it would help teachers communicate with their students. The computer can see if the students are into the subject or are confused. This would make the computer help with troubled students by changing the work into a something easier than the previous work.
The amount of missing work would go down if the Facial Action Coding System were to be installed into students' computers. Like I said in the first paragraph, the computer would help students by giving them something that they would actually get. The struggle for students would be reduced with this \ technology.
Most students don't ask a teacher for help because they might not be feeling it and they would get behind. This is where the Facial Action Coding System would to play. The student who is emotionally frustrated or simply confused would be helped with easier problems on their work. I myself sometimes have problems like this and I think the technology would help me and other students.
Some students might not be comfortable with their face being scanned but after a while of receiving help they would realize that it is worth it. I believe that more students would show up to school if this technology were to be installed. They would see how much easier it is to learn by showing their expressions. It just might make them smile. | 23
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3c65b42 | The "Face on Mars" was not created by aliens. NASA has literal proof of the Face. It may be on pictures, but the things they put in movies and magazines isn't real. They use that to get attention, but they didnt actually go into space and get the pictures. NASA took time to build those space technologies that are made to go into space and look for things like that.
Hollywood movies and fiction magazines aren't true about the "Face on Mars." They say the "Face on Mars" was made by natural land forming. That is true. On Earth we have rocks formed naturally, or fossils were made using the imprint of dead animals and plants, but still formed naturally over time.
Do not believe what movies and sometimes even the internet says. Who you should really believe is the people who actually saw the "Face on Mars" with the technology they have built to study it. You should listen to the team of scientist who know all about space and the planets. They study the galaxy inside and out and know way more about the "Face on Mars" and the planets then the movies and magazines do. | 12
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7348136 | In 1976 NASA got a blury camera shot which kinda looked like a face. Then they relised that the face on mars needs to be looked at agine. In 1998 NASA sent another ship to look at the face on mars agine. This time it loooked differnt is kinda looks more clearer than the other one. Then when they took back the pictuers of they face they were amazed what had happened to it.
In 2001 NASA sent more people to get pictures of the face with better camura. When the picuters returned to NASA they were stuned. The face looked so much differnt than the pictuer in 1998 it looked like somthing hit it. Then when the people came back to earth they heard about the news and the picture got released into the public. Then something happened someone leared that it was not a face on mars it's just a rock building.
When NASA learned that it was just a rock building they started to loose hope with the face on mars but, something werid happend. When the wired thing happend they wanted to know what happend? When they saw the pictures they noticed that half of the face was smashed. Then they pointed out agine that the face was destryed but it still waan't really a face it was agine a stone builing. Then there was still no hope to find the face in the desert.
After that there was the last trip to see if the face on mars was a face or a stone building?
When they got to mars they took pictures and tryed to see if they could take a picture of it to close. Then they relesed that it only really was a rock building or thing. When they learned that they stared to give up on the subject and just forget about it. Then when there was only a littel group of people who still think there something on mars they kept on going and never give up.
When they got really close to mars they noticed something it looked like a face but they could not be sure. When they got even closer they found the face on mars and they was very happy for themselves. After they came back to earth they told everyone that they found the face on mars. Then people tried to understand what they said beacuse they were told that there was no face on mars. After all that the face on mars is still there this very day and time and people want to see it in person like feet on mars and see the face on mars | 12
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10642eb | I know this wasn't created by aliens in many ways. It is just a naturally created landform that looks like face. If it was created by aliens then NASA would benefit from discovering life on a different planet, so that shows that everyone in NASA is sad that we didn't find life. Landforms created from nature shouldn't be lied about just to get attention. That is why we don't tell other people a lie when it is just a landfrom like the Grand Canyon. Here are also reasons how I know it wasn't created by aliens.
Some rock formations on Earth are created by wind chipping off peices until one day the rocks are completely gone. We didn't have any control of the winds that created the rock formations, so that shows that nothing living created it. Around the face is other landforms that were created the same way the Face was made. The Face is the only one that people pay attention to becuase it looks like a face, but if you look at the entire picture you can see that other landforms are there that might not look like a face, but they show that landforms are created naturally there.
These examples show us that these landforms were not created by aliens, but by the weather that accurs there. That is why we shouldn't lie just to get attention and make everybody believe something that isn't real. This concludes that the Face was only created by weather like the landforms on Earth. | 12
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220280e | Being a Seagoing Cowboy was one of the best times of Luke's life. He got to travel the world and explore. And he got to help people around the world.
Paragraph 3 tells us about how in August 1945, Luke received orders to go to New Orleans. He arrived Agust 14, 1945. There Luke got my seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster headed for Greece. On the ship were a 335 horse cargo with hay and oats to feed them. In paragraph 4 we learn that Luke turned 18 before he made it to Greece. This meant he was able to be drafted for military service, but his draft board said that he should just keep the service he already had. Luke was discharged in 1947, but he had made nine trips by that time, the most of any Seagoing Cowboy. Not only did Luke help people, but he also got to see Europe and China. Paragraph 5 tells us how Luke got to see the Acropolis in Greece and how he take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy.
Being a Seagoing Cowboy was a lot more than an advemture for Luke. In paragraph 9 he quotes, "I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says. "It made me more aware of people in other countries and their needs." | 01
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bcec00b | The Venus is second planet from our sun. The Venus is the hottest surface remperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. It is 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
Venus is the closest planet to earth densigy. People sent numerous spacecraft to land on his cloud draped world. No spacecraft survived that land for more than a few hours.
A long time ago Venus is cover with largely oceans and various froms of life just like Earth. Venus still has some feature that are analogous to those on Eart. The planet has a surface or rocky asediment and includes familar feature such as valleys, mountains, and craters. At thirty-plus miles about the surface, temperature would still be toasty at around 170 degree Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth.
NASA is working on other approaches to studying venus. For example, like electronic made of silicon and it been tested in chamber simulation the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted for three weaks in such conditions. They have another project to look back an old technology call mechanical computers. This devices make calculation by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick but tend to be more delicate when it come to exterme physical conditions. By comaprison, systems that use mecanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. | 01
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d2d6be7 | Dear state senator,
I think that every person who wants to go for president should go to electoral school, just so when ever the person runs for president they don't win because they are well known and popular vs the other person who is not well known. Also if they do go to election school they could learn how to run for pesident and learn how to write speeches, and also teach them that some of the 50 states in the united states have to have his/her vote.
The out come of a person running for president that went to electoral school their electoral vote will be above average for one year and if they do good as president then the outcome for next year will maybe bet higher or lower. When ever a US citizen votes they are also voting for the electors canidates. and when you do vote that person who is running for president that helps his/her's group get elected. Every president has to have a Vice president. | 01
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f8db3e1 | When people first say this "face" it was from a picture that the Viking 1 spacecraft took. Additional reasearch and pictures have been done to see if this is actually a face, just a huge rock formation, or an alien monument. It has shown that it is just a huge rock.
I say its only a huge rock because the passage mentions unusual shadows. THese shadows gave the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth causing it to look like a face. They did not just form any
"face" that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. So we know now that t was just a huge rock formation with shadows on it. It is not an actual face carved into rock.
The passage mentions that Michel Malin and his MOC (Mars Orbiter Camera) took a picture of the same landform only ten times shaper thn the original. When they looked at this picture it revealed a natural landform. So after all this it wasnt an alie monument after all.
Now the image doesnt show a face and its not an alien monument it is a butte or mesa. Those are commo landforms aroung the american west. So we know for sure not that the "face on mars" is actually just a landform with a bunch of shadows that give the illusion of a face. Well thats the truth about the "face on mars"i kinda hope you dont still blieve that it is an alien monument or an acutal face. If you still believe that then you might want to reread this paper. | 23
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3605e2a | World War ll was and horrible war because it happened all over the world. My name is Luke and I was a Seagoing Cowboy that help the ones that were affected by World War II. I think that you should be one too.
The Seagoing Cowboys are real amazing people that help other in need of help. The Seagoing Cowboys get to go to place that are far out like China and Italy. Also while you are in these amazing places you can sight see. That isn't the only thing you will be remembered by those people in those different places. You will be remembered as a hero to them because you helped them while they were in need.
Now I'm gonna tell you about my experience as a Seagoing Cowboy. The traveling was amazing because I got to go to different place and help people and see their homes. Then as I went to these different place I got to see the different building and sculptures that have probably been there for decades. So the thing that I did you can probably do as well or maybe even more.
As I said in the began World War II was a horrible war for everyone and some people's homes were destroyed and they have nothing to go to at night. So this why you should be a Seagoing Cowboy so that you can help people and be a hero in their eyes. | 12
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a323e3f | 25 years ago, around Mars, a spacecraft from NASA was circling the planet.
It was taking pictures, until something strange happened. An enormous head appeared and seemed to be staring back at the camera.
A few scientists believed the Face, was made by an "alien." NASA has been discussing of what have may cause to make a face on Mars. We had millions of answers but didn't know which one was right.
Aliens did it. They are the ones who created the face! "Scientists believe the Face was an alien artifact." First of all, no one knows for sure what have may of caused it. It could've been the atmosphere, or it could've been an "alien." Scientists thought it was probably a "Martian mesa", only this one almost looked like an "Egyptian Pharoh." You see, the shadow gave an "illusion of eyes, nose and mouth."
It was a good way to attract the public to the attention of Mars. "There was no alien monument after all."
Thousand of people wondered and were curious about the Face on Mars. "On April 8, 2001 , Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look." Close enough, they could predict what the image appeared. "So, if there were objects in this picyure like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" The pictured showed landforms most common , and you could relate to Earth. "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," said Garvin.
In conclusion, from 1976 to 2001, no one knows exactly what does the Face mean. The sensation was short.
NASA says it could've been a "huge rock formation..." It became a popular icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazine, radio talk shows." Some people think the Fcae is "bona fide" evidence life on Mars. BUt what do you think? Do you think it was made by an alien?
Do you believe that aliens do exisit? Well, were not sure . You see it coul be anything. | 12
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55481c2 | I don't think its Aliens, it has to be the way the land formed its self. My space partner totally disagrees with me, saying that it is aliens. Some people believe in Aliens unlike me. We have not discovered any site of Aliens for a very long time, intill we discovered this face. How could Aliens even do this? Did the Alien just die and sit there for 10,000 years?
It is very possible for landform to make a odd looking face. My space patner thinks that Aliens made the face by dieing and sittig there for s long time. He thinks that they are so smart they made that face to drag humans into Mars. Some Alien maybe had to make a sacrifice? I think that landform and the sun had something to do with it. The sun probably melted some land, or maybe it moved just right to make this face.
The fact that "The Face of Mars" got popular and got out there suprised me. I would be kinda shocked though, if I was someone at home and someone comes and tells me "They descovered a Face on Mars". I would defentely be a little curious. Me and my partner have came to a conclusion that it was landform. That there is still no site of Aliens. That dosen't mean we woun't stop looking. | 12
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d8a5142 | NASA's first time going to mars was in 1976 when they were just going around taking photos then they spotted something on mars. They didnt know what it was at first they thought maybe it was aliens so they took the photo,and a few days later NASA unrevailed the image for everybody to see.
The caption noted a huge rock formation whitch resembeled a human head. the human head was formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,mouth,and nose. Michaels team MOC snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all.
the team would have known if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian style pyramids or even small shacks. You could see what they were.The picture was revailed and they did figure out what it was. it was a butte or messa in the martian's. Buttes or mesas are just land forms common around the Amereican West.
You could actually find the spot that the picture was taken of. The face was found at 41 degrees north martian latitude. It was winter in april of 98 a cloudy time of the year. So it was difficult for them to get a actually good picture of the face. NASA wasnt even out looking for the face. They were just taking photos and thats when the face was shown.
NASA went out again on April 8,2001 thats when they attempted the picture again. The picture came out perfect this time. and that was when the picture of the face was discovered and NASA said that the face was just a butte are mesa. everybody thought it was aliens,nobody would have thought that a fave 2 miles long would be a landform.
Michaels team thouht that NASA made a mistake so they went out and took another picture but this time the picture was 10 times as strong as jsut a regular picture. You could actually see pyramids Shacks anything that would have been there from aliens. They didnt find anything anything strange are anything and they did there research to and thats when they said NASA was right. it was just a butte are mesa. the people on the enternet were shocked.
They said no aliens had to of put the face on Mars. it wasnt landforms it was alien activity. but they were proven wrong when NASA put the picture up for everybody to see. Thats when they beleived that it was just a 2 mile long landform and that the only reason it looked like a face was because the shadow was a illusion that made it look like a face. | 12
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f9b6317 | Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, venus is the second planet from our sun, while venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth,
Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too, but now the scientists are more interesting in venus they want to know more about venus. Numerous factors contribute to venus's reputation as a challenging planet for human to study. The scientists and
Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system. Venus has some danger for human for example the temperatures would be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions for humans.
NASA is working on other approches to study Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber similutation the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such condition, that mean scients going to explorer Venus. | 12
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9ecd3e3 | Do you want to live and see your family another day? If you say yes to this then help us take a stand against these driverless cars. These cars can not guarentee your safety with just a few cameras and sensors. These cars also basically do not do much to help if we're the ones that have to, park, pull out of spaces, navigating through work zones, and around accidents. Your life is more important than relaxing while a car drives for you and can most likely wreck and cause death to you and many others.
First, Driverless cars can not save your life with some cameras, a GPS system, sensors, and a inertial motion sensor. A lot of people might be thinking that this is a good idea, an idea to let a computer drive for you but no one is thinking about what could happen if something malfunctions on the car and you wreck and get injured or possibly death. Also there might be a possibility that the Dubbed LIDAR (camera that uses laser beams to create 3d models of the car's surroundings) gets broken by hail, a storm, or even someone breaks it off. These cars never said anything about how this car can guarentee the driver's safety. That should give everyone the general idea that they might not really know what could happen to you but they don't want you to know.
Next, These "Driverless Cars" aren't doing much driving for you if you have to be the one to do some of the most simplest things that even the computer can't do. Your the one basically doing most of the driving since they need you to park, pull out of spaces, navigating through work zones, and to go around accidents. Does that seem like you should even spend way more money because of how much they put into it, for no reason? They should've made more extensions to the vehicle if all it does is steer, accelerate, and brakes themselves. These cars they are trying to put out there on the market when they only do 3 small things for you and could still possibly malfunction and cause the deaths of innocent lives.
Finally, You shouldn't be letting a computer drive for you. Your life is way more important than relaxing for a few minutes and for you to most likely wreck and kill innocent civilians. These cars can possibly danger the lives of families. There is no point in buying a car that could kill your family or a loved one just for you to relax for that short amount of time to get to your destination. These cars already didn't say anything about guarenteeing your safety let alone trust your life with a copmuter.
In Conclusion, Your lives matter to the world more than a smarter car to save you a few minutes of relaxing. Don't be the one that takes your hands off the wheel and could possibly kill the people you love. The people you care about in that car could be dead in seconds if you let a computer take over your car for that small amount of time. Rise up today and take a stand against the people that are building cars to kill innocent people or even the ones you love dearly. | 34
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ad20e23 | Are you interested in taking care of animals? Do you like going on boats out in the sea? If both of your answers are yes then you should be a seagoing cowboy. A seagoing cowboy is a person who goes onto a boat and takes care of the animals on the boat.
I think that you should particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys Program because you could explore all of the oceans. Also you could see Europe and many other countries. You could help all of the people that need food supplies, animals, and more. To support this in the text it says "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special,"
Also I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys Program beause it was an oppurtinity to have fun on board. I know this because in the text it says "Luke also found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed.
To conclude, I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys because you get the oppurtunity to explore all kinds of countries. Also I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys Prgram because you got to have fun on board playing all kinds of different games to past the time. | 12
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1fbf8b4 | The face on mars is a natural occuring phenomon that occurs over time. It may look that it is created by some kind of super natural being. Jim Gavins cheif scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program said " It remindes me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes form of an isolated mesa about the same height as teh face on Mars,". That means that the " Face on mars" is a natural occuring phenomon caused by lava.
Althought not everybody beleives that the face is a natural occuring phenomon they believe that is evidence of a ancient Martian civilization. This therory is highly impossible that it is evidence of a ancient Martian civilization. But there are still people that believe it is a ancient Matian civilization, but most of the people on Eart believe and know that is a natural occuring phonomon that is caused by something natural to that planet possbly lava or maybe pressure. | 12
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30c179a | Driverless cars, is this in our future? Driverless cars have become a growing topic in the past years. Recently, more information has become visible to the general public. Are these cars a good idea? I believe driverless cars are not needed in the near future. Development of these cars is an unneeded advancement in technology. Driverless cars, as of the technology we are now given, are not as reliable as an independent driver, they invade your privacy, and it would take more money to install technology in roads to be able to make use of these cars. Driving is a symbol of independence, in the sense that you are given the responsibilty and freedom to go virtually any location you please by driving yourself there.
Self driving is a commonly used way of transportation amongst many individuals. Driving is a way of transporting ones self from point A to Point B. When most individuals are driving, the average spped exceeds 25 mph. Driverless cars are only reliable for simple driving functions up to 25 mph. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. In fact, none of the cars are completely driverless." If driverless cars were to become a prominent part of every driver's life, would it be very practical? In the article, the author states what the cars are capable of, even with the driverless technology, the car will never be fully independent. The car is not completley driverless, this will be an unneccassary advancement until manufacturers create a truly driverless vehicle. So, using these new cars may be seemingly pointless, as the driver will still need to be paying attention and the car has sensors to make sure the driver is paying attention. This leads me to my next point, is a driverless car worth giving up your privacy?
Driverless cars not only have sensors on the wheels to make sure you are paying attention, they have cameras on your dashboard to ensure you are paying attention. "Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the road. While the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." While some people may argue this is for the safety of the driver, there is no valid reasoning that there should be a manufacturer watching your every move to ensure you are paying attention on the road. Cars that have been driven that are not driverless have been doing, overall, well. While drivers are able to pay attention to the road regularly, having a camera creates an unwanted pressure to the driver. Adding the pressure of knowing you are constantly being watched as a driver can raise your stress levels, resulting in frustrated driving. Frustrated driving is an unsafe form of drivng, where as driving while relaxed and unwatched, relieves the pressure of knowing you are not the only person in the car. In addition, in the current days and in the past, has there ever been a need for manufacturers to put a camera in your dashboard to make sure you are driving safely? The answer to that question is no. Drivers, while not being watched, are expected to follow the laws and pay attention. Using cameras in the car and invading the privacy of the driver is an unneccasary addition, as there will only be use for the driverless portion of the car for up to 25 mph; therefore there is no further reasoning to begin developing these new vehicles.
If driverless cars are only useful for up to 25 mph, is there really any practical use for them? If driverless cars become the new form of transportation, there will be money involved that a lot of people do not have. Having smart cars requires smart-roads, ones that can communicate with the car to ensure the safest possible driving experience. "These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." When manufacturers create these smart roads complementary to their smart cars, who will be paying for them? The most likely answer is a raise in already inflated car prices. When the smart-roads are installed, hypothetically speaking, will the road be smart enough to communicate with all different manufacturers types of cars? Will they allow regular cars to drive on them? How long will the instillation take and will it be on every road? These are all things that require time and money. Manufacturers see the big picture of driverless cars running the roads, but that simply can not be the case, given all of the obstacles needing to be overcome and all of the questions that require answers. With all of the money it will require to run cars that are still dependent on drivers, will there be any valid reasoning to spend all of this money on new roads and new car development?
With all of the advancements in technology, there should be a threshold to the items consumers want versus what they need. Manufacturers should not be trying to create new technology, but improving what they already have created. Using driverless cars, still require a driver to pay attention and take control after a certain point, invade your privacy by watching you with a camera, and require more money to create the new road systems and create new cars. In conclusion, I believe there is no practical reasoning that these cars should be further developed. | 56
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4e616fd | I personally think that completely driveless cars are a bad idea. As a 16 year old, I'm finally the legal age to receive my licenses, but I can't receive my licenses if I don't have a car to drive. With driveless cars, we are literally allowing cars to think for us.
If driveless cars do become the new thing to have, what would the driver do? The driver would simply stop paying attention to the road, and the car would do everything for them. With the car doing everything for them, more drivers would focus their energy and attention somewhere else, causing more accidents. With more accidents, who would be at fault? Would it be the driver, or the company?
How will the laws be made in order to keep others safe if the car happens to break down? With actuall drivers driving a car their attention, and energy is on the road they're driving on. If they do cause an accident, there's cars that are made to prevent an accident before it happens.
Being able to drive a car is a privilege, and with driveless cars, we're taking that privilege away for others who have waited so long to be able to drive. | 12
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c2ac052 | Many peeple own a car and later one more will but the car usage is limited. Some familys just want two or three cars or the insucre dont want the same people having to many cars on their name because it can caused a problem. A car owner iwll buy a space for $40,000 just for it car or cars
In the world like 70% of the families dont own a car at least not even one. And at least 57% sold a car to move somewhere because they need the money. In paris 4,000 drivers where fined with a 22-euro fine($31) because they had old lisnce plates and they had thier car impount because of the way they reacted to the fine. In the U.S.A had a uniqiu car culture because it buiold the model-t car in detriot
But in April 2005 had low milages meaning not many people used cas that much or didnt own that much cars but in April 2013 the number of miles was increased by 9% and that nine percent is getting bigger and bigger because we are now having teenagers owning their lelinces and they will want a car for them selfs. So this will take the 9% even higher each year | 01
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6299beb | Venus is a worthy pursuit because it is or can be more resistant to pressure, and to heat, and to other forces. Venus also is a worthy pursuit because it has rocky sediments, and venus has valleys, it also has mountains, and craters. 97 percent blankets carbon dioxide. Venus also is a worthy pursuit because it is the closest planet in terms of density and size, and occasionaly the closest in distance too. Venus is a worthy pursuit because it orbits the sun at different speeds.
The dangers of venus is the clouds have a high corrosive sulfuric acid, the atmospheric pressure is very high, has the hottest surface temperature in our solar system, has erupting volcanoes. It also has powerul earthquakes and frequent lighting streaks to probes seeking to land on its surface. Another danger of venus is that radiation would not exceed earth levels.
I think studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because you can learn something about Venus you didn't know about, and you could learn new things you didn't know about venus. I also think studying Venus is a bad thing because it can lead to some dangers like getting to hot cause it has a very high atmospheric pressure. I also think it is a bad thing cause it has powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting streaks to probes. | 12
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4bfbf8d | The advantages of limiting car usage have are there's going to be less smog in the world. More people going to play sports and excersise. It's better too walk,ride a bike, instead of driving a car. Car usage is really bad for the earth.
If they limiting car usage there's going to be less smog in the world because in the second story it stated that, "cold nights and warm days caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions". That means when you keep driving your car and it cold or warm the warmer layer in earth trap the car emissions. And its hurting the earth. Also, in the second story it said that "the smog cleared enough Monday for ruling French party to rescind the ban for odd-numbered plates on tuesday". They use less car in French becuase they had ordered motorist with even-numbered license plates to leave they car at home.
More people going to play sports and excersise, because alot of people not going to want to pay alot of money for a car and a place to park it. in the first story it sated that "A car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home. Not everybody going to want o pay that much money for a car sapce with the house. Also,it stated that "As a result, 70 percent of vauban's families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move her". That tell me a car is really expensive and not alot of people got enough money to buy a car, they would walk instead of driving.
It's better too walk,ride a bike instead of drive a car, because when you drive a car its releasing smog in the air and that's bad for our health. The air the car release's can get us sick. Alot of people rather ride a bike or walk."it's a good opportunitty to take away stress and lower air pollution". that means walking help u alot if you stressing you can take a walk its going to take away your stess and its going to be less air pollution on earth. Also,thres going to be less air polution.
The advantages of limiting car usage have are there's going to be less smog in the world. More people going to play sports and excersise. It's better too walk,ride a bike, instead of driving a car. Car usage is really bad for the earth. That's why i walk most of the times beacause I want to save the earth. | 23
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c8ac4d3 | We should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. We should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom because they can help students learn better, shows how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video, and it will also help us feel someone else's emotional states in a video or play.
One reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it will help students understand a teaching better. In the text in "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it states that "A classroom computer could recognixe when a student is becoming confused or bored". It also states that the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom could modify the lesson just like an effective human instructor.
Another reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it can show how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video. It states in the text that the technology has six basic emomtions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness, this can help us understand how one feels in the classroom if they are sad and the technolgy shows that they are sad, a teacher or anyone can help the student out outside or inside school.
The last reason why we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom is because it will make us feel someone else's emotional states. For example in the text it states that a drama coach had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as ways of creating emotions on stage, and that we feel someones empathy because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions. This can help students feel what a person is feeling in a video and express it in an essay.
Overall, we should have the technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. We should allow this because they can help students learn or understand better, shows how we feel in the moment we took a picture or video, and it will also help us feel someone else's emotional states in a video or play. | 23
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