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As Luke says you can take many great expeditions, and it made him more aware of people and their needs. Luke had just turned 18 and that meant he could be drafted into war. But he was on a cattle boat so he could keep doing service there. By the time of 1947 he was discharged, Luke had taken nine trips! That's a record for any Seagoing Cowboy. A big reason that you should join it (as Luke recalls), is because you get to help people in need. And get to lean more about there country. In the story Luke says that he got to see the Panama Canal. Wouldn't that be amazing? Luke felt that it would be a chance of a lifetime to go and be a Seagoing Cowboy, and he just couldn't say "no" to Don. In 1945 WWII ended and many countries were left in ruins. So Don and Luke signed up to help. They helped for about two years before they were released. He says that he also has much fun on board as well, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. They played games of tennis and volley ball where the animals once were. You'd have much fun on board and on trips. Those are just a few examples of why you should want to be a "Seagoing Cowboy". As Luke says it is much more than an adventure. It opened the world up to him and is grateful for the oppertunity that he had. There is so much more to learn about as well but if I were to try to explain it all I would need a lot more space.

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My opinion on driverless cars is that i dont think they should be legal, because they are driverless and they don't have control from other drivers, such as a instructor or someone that can control it, Another resason i dont think they should be allowed is that they might cause a lot of accidents. Some accidents could be harful others might be just a dent or something like that. In the passage it was talking about how the law keeps focus on the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe. If they focus so hard on that, the driverless cares wouldn't be okay, because the people safe they would need someone to pay attention to the road and not the distracting suff. If people were distracted while in a driverless car... How would they know when something is coming or their about to crash (besides the seat vibration)? In my opionion driverless vehicles shouldn't be allowed due to the fact that no one is driving them, and that they could be a harm on other people. I think when driving these vehicles someone should still pay attention to the road even if they are working on something bad, such as a report for a job or anything like that. some people might think differently, but some might not. Some people might think that they need to have someone watching the roads. Some other people may think they don't need anyone watching the road, and etc. Finally I think they should be allowed if they have someone at least paying attention to the road, and etc.

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From the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming," there are many good and bad things about the driveless cars. My position is in this article is that it is not a good idea to have driverless cars because, for example the cars needs to always have someone holding the wheel, many driving laws just want cars where the driver is in control at all times, and new laws would have to be added just in case someone is injured. The cars that are in now are still not driverless because they still need someone behind the wheel just in case the car has to go through wok zones, accidents, and traffics. In the text it stated, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." This means that the car has to alert the driver to take over in case of any situation they are not programmed to do, so the driver has to remain alert and ready to drive the car whenever it needs to. Many states still do not accept "driverless" cars because the traffic laws require that there is a human driver behind the wheel at all times. In the article it said, "Presently, traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." This quote means that traffic laws do not accept any cars that are driverless because they want to keep every driver, passenger, and pedestrian safe especially just in case technology goes wrong at the wrong time. Finally, there would have to be new laws added just in case someone gets hurt driving one of the driverless cars. In the texts it stated, "Still, even if the traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technologly fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-- the driver or the manufacture?" What this is trying to explain is that in case of an accident whos fault is it going to be? Will it be the driver even though he is not supposed to be driving, or the manufacture because he was the one who invented that technology. In conclusion, there are many things wrong with this idea of a driverless car.For example, still needs a driver behind the wheel at all times, traffic laws require that there has to be an alert driver, and that there would have to be more laws added just in case there is an accident. These were very valid for there not to be driverless cars in the United States.

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Venus is the brightest planet seen from Earth, the second planet from the sun, and one of the most dangerous planets for space scientists to explore. At just around "800 degrees Fahrenheit" the planet is rich with carbon dioxide, corrosive fulfuric acid clouds, and atmospheric pressure (3). These conditions alone should be solid reasons as to why the planet should not be touched, but despite this scientists continue to look towards it for research. Some of the supporting reasons as to why Venus should be explored are actually quite intriguing and can provide good support for reasoning exploration. Although the conditions of the planet can be horrednous the fact that the planet gives us Earth like pasts to study, vehicles are being made in order to combat the hazzardous areas, and technologies are making studying more possible, the planet may be worth investigating after all. The fact that Venus was once like Earth is just one good reason as to why the planet is worth being studied. Even scientists believe that the planet was previously embodied with oceans that could have "supported various forms of life" (4). These long lost oceans are not the only Earth like feature that this planet has; according to paragraph four Venus has "valleys, mountains, and craters" that also match Earth's description (4). These features of the planet are fascinating and can help scientists uncover more of Venus' past which makes it a great planet to examine. Venus has many earth like features worth studying but the different ways in which Venus can be visited is also a great reason to continue the research being done on the planet. NASA has been studying the use of vehicles that may be used to study the planet in the near future. They describe it as a "blimp-like vehicle" that hovers over the surface for about "30 or so miles" (5). This mechanism allows the blimp to stay out of reach from the horrendous temperatures and atmosphere of Venus. It also gives the blimp a way to maintain a sufficient amount of "solar power" (5). This blimp is one of many great upcoming studies on what kinds of options we have for reaching such a dangerous planet. Futuristic vehicles are not the only positive part of upcoming Venus exploration, for technology in itself is continuing to evolve and provide ways to research the planet. For example, in paragraph 7, it shows how one electronic made out of "silicon carbide" was able to last "three weeks" under a simulation of Venus' harsh planet conditions. Another type of technology mentioned in paragraph 7 is from the past; they are called mechanical computers. These machines are "more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces," which is exactly what type of climate Venus harnesses. Both of these types of technologies provide a great way to look at examining Venus and why the pursuit of the planet is, and can be, worth it. Even though Venus may be a dangerous planet to explore, its earth like terrain, specially designed vehicles made to withstand harsh conditions, and advancing technology made for research are some of the main reasons why the planet is worth studying. In the future technology may be able to resist harsh conditions and vehicles may be able to reach closer to the surface without being damaged. The terrain may even be looked at more closely to uncover some of the secrets of Venus' past. Before all of these changes can be made they must be looked at, judged, and accepted as reasons to overlook the dangers of the planet and to expand on our knowledge with the exploration of planets.

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The author think that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because astronomers are fascinated by it. And also Venus is the hottest planet in our Solar System. It brings curiosity to humans, just because its dangerous doesn't mean it should be limited. The body paragraph will get into all the texual evidence. The text states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becasue it may well once have been the most earth-like planet in our solar system." And since Venus is the closest planet to earth that makes humans want to visit even more. But also the text also states, "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, tempatures would still be toasty at around 10 degrees fahrenheit." That proves that even though you could be so far from the surface it is still very hot to us humans, which is very dangerous but can survive. "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."Which is why we should study Venus despite the dangers. In conclusion, i think that although Venus is basically the most dangerous planet in our solar system. I think that it shouldn't stop us but should want to make us study the planet even more. But find safe ways for us to do so.

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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author describes a new technology that allows computers to identify human emotions. The author also describes how this new technology can read the expressions of students in a classroom. This seems like an extremely valuable peice of technology. There are many ways that this can help students with there education. This technology can help students understand what they are learning better, which can result in a better education. For example, this technology can help a student that is having difficulty on a lesson they are learning just by identifying there emotions. In paragraph six of the article it states, that a class computer can identify when a student is becoming bored or if the student is having trouble understanding the material, then the technology can change up the lesson so that the student does not get bored or confused. This results in a better education for students. With this type of technology students will be more educated and that will help future generations to come. In the article, the author describes to us, this new technology, Facial Action Coding System, which can identify human emotions. This is indeed valuable to students in classrooms. This tech can read students emotions and modify the lesson, so that the student understands the material. the Facial Action Cosing System will soon be essential for learning in the future so that students can be more educated for when they are out in the real world. With this tech students will soon have an education that is right for them.

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In today's world our environment is not as healthy as it was year's ago. There are many green house gases disturbing our atmosphere and our ozone layer. One of the main reasons this is happening is due to motor vehicals. Car's, trucks', motorbike's, gasoline powred or diesal powerd, they all hurt our environment. There are some place's that are trying to stop the gases from hurting us and it is helping. Owning a car is an important way of transportation. It allows us to get from point A to point B in time's that would be much slower if we did not have a car. Yet car's and truck's can sometimes be hurtful. Owning a car can be cost effective, you must pay for the fuel that is hurting the atmosphere, if it breaks down you must pay for expensive parts and service. Even if you have the money and the time to own a car, you are realy still hurting the environment by burning fosil fuels and causing green house gases. In some place's in the wrold they are reducing car usage. They are having national days where if you use your motor vehical you are to be charged by ticket for some money. In paris there was a week of regulated driving to reduce smog emision. On several day's of the week car's with even numbers on their tag were not able to drive. The next day the odd number did the same, if caught using a motor vehical you would be fined 22£ ($31). People were outraged and some were so angered they didn't like he law and got thier vehical impounded. That is how Paris did their part in helping the atmosphere. In Bogota, Colombia they had a similar ocasion, but only for one day of the year. They have done the same thing on that specific day for the past 3 years, they too have been charged with tickets for $25 if found using a motor vehical. They also had this day in two other citys in Colombia, Cali, and Valledupar joined in on the fun of helping the environment. In the U.S President Barack Obama has had goal's to also reduce emision's of motor vehicals. The United State's being one of the main counrty's in car production see's owning a car a culture, they see driving, working on your own car, and racing as a way of life. But some american's have had enough of trafic jam's, stressed out lives in a jam packed city full of car's and truck's causing green house gases. They have reduced the miles driven since 2013, and a good amount of people don't even want to have a license. In crowded city like New York they have started a new bike sharing program, their tolls for bridges and tunnels have skyrocketed. A study last year found that driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. This means people are getting more involved in helping the environment and reducing hurtful gases that hurt our ozone and our atmosphere.

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The 'face on Mars" is not an alien created thing but an landform. The way that we can back this up because is they took a second photo and it was clear and you can see that it was just a landform. People said that the photo was cloudy so then they went out again in 2001 and the pixels are much better. They went out again and it was not cloudy either. It was clear that the photo was a landform. The last reason is that people from NSA can back up that the face is actually a landform. Gravan said "that it reminds me of most Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho". He also said " that's a lova dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same size of the face on Mars", so don't believe everything random thing a person says who doesn't even know the facts. The "Face on Mars isn't a alien or an alien created thing, but a landform that is on Mars.

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What I think about driveless cars is that I think it will cause more accidents. The reason why I say is because today we have alot of accidents already with people not paying attention. So just think about how many we are going to have when people won't pay attention to their car's warnings. Also stated in the text people will try and blame the manufacturers because the driver wasn't paying attention. The invetion I feel like it would cause alot of unnessesary deaths. I do think though that sometimes it maybe the manufacturers' fault. The rason I say so is that they may have accidently put in a faulty part inside the car. Also the passage did state that the car was going to be made by Google, so it would be safe to assume that all the sensors would be on a wireless network of some kind. Wireless networks are known to be hacked or they shut down fpor some reason. This would most likely cause the cars' "safe" functions to not work as they are supposed to. Those are just some ways that smart car accident could be manufacturers' fault. Lastly I think that the smart car could be a good idea for these reasons. The idea of letting the driver know of oncoming danger is crucial to parents and newbie drivers. It could actually save lives like telling people that ther is a truck coming or they are getting too close to a cliff. The text also said that it can tell drivers if ther is an accident,traffic stop, or anything in the way that would hinder the driver. I think that the idea in the text of it being on autopilot in some situations but will require the driver to drive sometimes. This would mean that the car will try to save the driver from dangerous situations, but it doesn't mean it voids the act of driving entirely. These were some pros that I thought were the best. All-in-all I think it isn't that good of an idea just because so many bad things can lead to the deaths of many. If the companies making the smart cars tweaked a few of the ideas and made sure to test every car for faulty parts then I guess some people will be ok. The people that won't, which makes me still think is a bad idea, are the ones that don't pay attention or care for the well being of others. A idea that the text said was that they make the car record the driver to see if they are paying attention. Another idead that I think should go along with this is that the drivers that don't pay attention get severe punishments and have their licenses revoked. Even though I think this is a bad idea I am not against it, and I would like to see what inventions will be made in the near future.

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If someone wishes to travel somewhere, such as a normal commute, proably the first transportation method they think of is a car. Cars are everywhere. They're the things hiding in a home, waiting for someone to enter the depths of the dark garage. Unless the grage is truly empty of the world-killing machiene, such as in Vauban, Germany where people have done the unthinkable: got rid off cars. Though it may sound proposterous, or even critically insane to even concider giving up a car, the citizens of Vauban are a lot happier to be rid of the burden. "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happpier this way" (Rosenthal, In German Suburb, Life goes On Without Cars). As you may have forgotten, car payments, maintnance, check up, oil changes, and gas are all part of owning a car which may be a financial strain for most. Again, those robots that you move with pedals and a steering wheel are seriously affecting our Earth. We're Earth murderers. "Passenger cars arw responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States" (Rosenthal, In German Suburb, Life goes On Without Cars). Fellow humans, we are not the only species on planet Earth. We are so used to cars it's like watching something interesting on TV and trying to pull away from it; it's nearly impossible. "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clean the air of the global city" (Duffer, Paris bans driving due to smog). Less driving cars is less greenhouse gasses that destroy our Earth. In our society today, cars are the dominant transportation method. When you go outside in today's world it is most likely not the sound of nature, but a manmade vehicle. Without cars, a whole new world will come forth, or most likely the beautiful world we forgot about that is mercilessly trapped beneath unessesary layers of greenhouse gases. When Paris banned cars, it improved the pollution stuck in the air. "The smog cleared enough Monday for the ruling French part to recind the ban for odd-numbered plates on Tuesday" (Duffer, Paris bans driving due to smog). If we stop driving cars, it will help most people financially, help our Earth, and ease the worry and stress over the maintenance of a car. Once again, we are not the only species on Earth. Can't we all just share?

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Don't you think that the Face is a natural land form? The Face was a land form found on Mars.They took a picture of it using Viking 1 on May 24,2001. It was shaped and shadowed to look like a face. I believe that the Face is a landform because they have photos of it . The face is a landform because they have pictures of it. It says in the passage, that on May 24,2001, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a face . An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the red planet called Cydonia. This except from the text shows that there was indeed a picture taken from the planet. This proves that the face was a natural land foom because since there are no living creatures on the planet, there is no way it could have been created. So in conclusion, The Face is a natural landform because there are pictures of it. Pictures equal facts and truth. There is no other way it could've been created.

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Do you want to go on a little adventure and save some animals? Well then you should join Seagoing Cowboys program. You get to save some animals and while your doing that, you can see some things you haven't seen before and be on a adventure. After the return trips we play baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals have been housed. We also have table- tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing,reading, and whittling. Here it from me, Luke Bomberger. I had no idea that my life would change when I joined the Seagoing Cowboys program. You know, being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for me. It opened up a world for me. I'm grateful for the opportunity that I got. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. That's why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. I'm sure it will change your life just like it did to mine.

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When you think of smog what do you think of,thick blanket of cloud covering a citie like China or Los Angeles. What if it was all over becuase of cars in every crowded country around the world. People like Mr. Goldberg have built suburbs that have it has a new car zone in Vauban,Germany. They have done this because there tail pipe emmisions,the smoke is unhealthy to breathe,and most people cant afford a car. The emmisions from the tail pipe that comes out of the car is cause in most passengers car is the cause for the 12% of the greenhouse gases in Europe and 50% in the U.S.A.most cities have been trying to cut back on the car use or public transportation many will still ride a bus or drive to avoid walking or bycicling. The united states EPA is sugesting to promote cars reduced communities as it is stated in the article to play a larger role in a new six-year transportation program. Ever walked out side and it was reallly foggy and it didnt clear up for the whole day or week even, that is the un-healthy way of saying your citie is polluted,its smog. Smog is that thing that hangs in the air like fog,ecept its alot of chemicals,nasty water droplet,and other stuff you probably would fear smog if you knew what it was. Are cars do that in Paris,France mondays nobody with a Even-number license plate were ordered to leave there cars at home or pay a fine. The officials of France enforced the ban after a near-record breaking pollution, they only did it to clear the air of the city. I dont know how the econime is in Europe but most people in america cant even afford a car. Mostly all of america is strapped for cash so buying a new car isnt there on there mind. They either live close to work to were they can walk,but if they dont have a job then why even bother with a car were do you really need to go,come on now. The percentage of miles driven per person was nearly 9% below the driving peak in America and almost equal with the same percentage taken in the year of 1995. Michael Siviak said "the rate of car ownership per household and person went down by two to three years before the downturn. Most people dont realize that luxury comes with a hevfty price in life. You want to get there fast to that certain place and destroy what helps you breathe and survive or do you want to get there still and keep alive this rock.      

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People in the United states have a voice of opinion towards voting,but in the end it is the electoral college that has the final say. To many americans voting is a very important event. The united states is a democracy. A democracy is a form of government where people have the say, The United States does not follow that route because of electoral college. Senator of the United States, I ask that you put a stop to the electoral college. First of all, I believe that The United States is a corrupted democracy. The electoral college is a unbeneficial way of voting because they may be bias towards the people, for example, one might know what another so it can be considered as favoritism. In a sense this voting system can be manipulated in ones favor. How the voting system works is considered wrong to many Americans. Workers in politics such as Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter also do not believe in the electoral college and they even wanted to get rid of them! Most people want to get rid of the electoral college because of the "winner take all' system. If it wasnt for the winner take all system George W. Bush would of never been elected as president while john kerry would've taken the spot. Many politicians believe ingetting rid of the electoral college such as Bob Dole when he said "abolish the electoral college!" In conclusion Senate, Citizens of this country and I believe that we should put an end to the electoral college. Politicians even disagree with the idea of giving specific people to give the final vote. As senator you have the power to put a end to this unconstitutional doing. The United States is a democracy where everyone matters. Because of the electoral college our opinion on who should be elected has been taking away from us. this event is undemocratic and I ask you senator to think this through and take action on making this voting system to a popular voting system. 

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The Electoral College was established in the Constitution by the founding fathers. "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress" is stated in source 1. This is process has been around for decades, but things have changed. This process does not fit with what is happening in the present and is outdated. The election should be by popular vote. There is a disaster factor.  According to "Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong", it's says that the state legislatures are responsible for picking electors. The thing is that those electors can betray the trust which has happened before. You do not want to risk having someone defy the will of the people. Some people may argue that the states know what they are doing and are cautious on who to pick, but in the past the electors have refused to vote for their party's candidate. You do not want to put this in hands of someone who will not help you and the other people on such an important event like voting. When you vote, there is a slight possibility of a tie occuring. If this were to happen, the state delegations would vote on which president. Each state will cast one vote, which is not fair because of the amount of representives in different states. "...the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters" is stated in source 2. Some people may say that the bigger states are helpful with voting because the Electoral College will balance out what the large states loss by the population votes. This still isn't fair because this is saying that the smaller states with less representatives do not have much say in the voting and this will turn off potential voters. Some presidents may have a stronger appeal to some states then others. It may have to do with where the president is from (North, South). This goes back to how the bigger states have more power. "...such as Romney was in the South, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states," is stated in source 3. This means that the bigger states in the South will be known for all voting Romney since that is where he is the strongest and well liked. There may be voters in the South that were more for Obama. Smaller states may hate what Romney is doing and vote for Obama, but they do not have as much power as the bigger states. This is like the winner takes it all, they may know that they have no chance in winning. (Obama did end up winning and was titled as the 44th President of the United States. To others, they may say that each persons vote does count but it doesn't seem like it. The voters in the South didn't see any campaign ad by Romney which was not fair because he was not concerned about them not voting for him. The Electoral College is not a fair process. It worked in the past, but not anymore. Using the popular vote process is more fair for all of the people. They have more say and there votes feel more important. This will encourage potential voters to vote and to become more involved with the political events. We need to encourage potential voters because one day, when they become older, they will be the voters of our country.

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Attention fellow citizens! Like most things, cars have it's advantages and disadvanteges. Cars have developed more problems from the usage on a regular basis. Limiting car use in cities can reduce the issues related to vehice usage to a minimum. To begin, many cities have already set limitations on automobile usage such as Vauban, Germany and the outskirts of Freiburg near the Swiss and French boarders. Freiburg has actually banned cars except for the main thouroughfare and a few streets on the edge of the community. 70 percent of people in Vauban do not have a vehicle and 57 percent sold their car to move to Vauban. As we all know cars take a toll an the atmosphere itself by adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. 50 percent of greenhouse gasses in the United states are emited through cars, but on the other hand cars are responsible for only 12 percent. It seems to be that the car-less cities tend to be declining the negative effects in the atmosphere. Next, Paris took the no-car rule to another level by banning all cars, depending on the day, to reduce conditions in the air quality because of the emitiones from the vehicles. A thick smof loomed over the city because of the gases produced form the automobiles. Drivers with licence plates with even numbers would not use their cars for the day and odd cars would be off the next in an attempt to redice the smog. After numerous days of reduced cars the smog began clear from it's usual state. Also, another city that's cutting down car usage is Bogota Colombia. Bogota has created a "car-free" day to reduce the harmful gases created by cars and to encourage alternative forms of transportation. Anyone driving a vehicle would be fined $25. The turnout was big with many people participating showing reat results on the atmospheric conditions above the city. Another great thing that came out of this is the enthusiasm it brought to other countries who wanted some thing like this to encourage other formes of transportation and reduce pollution. As seen in the article, limiting the time we use cars has a great impact on the environment and people around you. So what do you say? Put down the keys and ride a bike today!

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Dear State Senator, The Electoral College has been an election process in the united states sense the constitution was created. But it has come to the time where it no longer has a valuble position and is beginning to deteriorate. Over 60% of voters would prefer to only have a popular vote for Presidential elections, rather than the Electoral College. Recently it seems as if every election has been very tight and the winner of the popular votes loses due to the turn out of the Elecoral College votes. The Ellectoral College system should be abolished and banned from our election process. In the Electoral College voters vote for a slate of electors who in turn elect the President rather than them directly voting themselves. Source 2 States "The Electors can be anyone not holding office." Therefore anybody can put theirself in the position to be in the Ellectoral College, even if they are unqualified for the responsibilities it requires. Also voters can't always control who their electors vote for so the efficiency of the election has already decreased. This system allows for disaster. The electors could always defy the will of the people. Source 2 brings up "Segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic elecors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." "Faithless" electors in the past have refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whoever they would like, and there is no guarentee that this will not occur again. When it comes down to the core, the Electoral College does not provide an equal election to all voters. You will not find candidates dedicating their time in states where they believe they do not have a chance of winning. In effect, the representation and campaigning is not equally distributed throughout all the states. Some states may get no campaigning at all. Source 2 includes "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen staes didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad." All the focus is centered into the tight races of the "swing" states. It is said that rarely will the electoral college voting come out as a tie but it has happend. In the situation of a tie the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, and the Houses selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people. The Electoral College is out dated and irrelevant to our modern society and it is too indirect to present the true votes from our country. It is time to leave the vote to the people and only the people, and it is time for our country to mature and abolish the Ellectoral College.  

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The facial action coding system has many promising applications, Mona Lisa has 83% of happiness 9% disgust 6% fearful and 2% ssanger. According to some new computer software that can reconize emotion the sofware is the latest innovation from prof. Thomas Huang, of the beckman institute for advanced science at the unversity of amsterdam. The process begins when the computar constructs a 3-D computar model of the face: All 44 mayjor muscles in the model must move like human muscles movement of one or more muscles in the model is called an "action unit" then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologist, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS. Eckman has classified six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristics movements of the facial muscle. I think i like the new technology that the person invented it can detect your emotins and feelings. And i doubt others can invent something like that

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Technology is constantly changing our world. There has been incredible things made. Driverless cars would be another big change that would greatly impact our lives. It could either positively or negatively change society. The passage talks about the pros and cons of driverless cars. But there are not many negative things about these cars. I believe that driverless cars would be a good thing for our society. In the passage it says that driverless cars have not had any accidents or crashes while testing them for over half a million miles. This shows that these cars are safe and there are still being more improvements made to make the cars even more safe. It also talks about how these cars would save money which is a good thing for everyone because we could use the money for other important things. Personally, I am running late often which is not a very good thing but these cars could help anyone who is in a rush and needs more time to finish something because they would not be the ones driving. You would just need to be prepared to take control of the car at any time in case the car needs human skills to accomplish something. The cars can break, steer, and accelerate by themselves but they still need help from a human driver when it requires human skills. Which means you still have to be paying attention to the road which is really one of the only bad things about this car. These cars are safe, save money, and help you finish things that needs to be done by giving you time in the car to do it. The cars would truly benefit you. Many companies have already started making them so why would we stop them. It is also not like someone is going to be in a driverless car tomorrow, it still needs time but when the time comes I think it will be great.

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THE ADVANTAGES IN LIMITING CAR USAGE ARE VERY DRASTIC. IN THIS NEW APPOROACH STORES ARE PLACED A WALK AWAY, ON A MAIN STREET, RATHER THAN IN MALLS ALONG SOME DISTANT HIGHWAY. ANOTHER POSITIVE ON PUTTING LESS TIME IN YOUR CARS IS THAT THE POLLUTION LEVELS WILL DECLINE VERY MUCH SO. CONGESTION ON THE STREETS WENT DOWN BY 60% IN FRANCE AFTER 5 DAYS OF TESTIFYING IN SMOG. "THE SMOG" WHICH IS BEJING,CHINA WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE MOST POLLUTED CITIES IN THE WORLD. WITH LESS PEOPLE AND COMMOTION IT LEFT THE ROADS CAR-FREE AND DEVOID OF TRAFFIC JAMS. THE MAIN GOAL ON PEOPLE USING LESS OF THERE CARS IS TOO PROMOTE ANOTHER WAY OF TRANSPORTATION INSTEAD OF SOMEBODY USING THIER CAR. IF PEOPLE WERE TOO USE LESS CARS THAN IT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPURTUNITY TO TAKE AWAY STRESS AND LOWER AIR POLLUTION. IF PEOPLE USED THERE CARS LESS THAN THE COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE TO CREATE A PLACE FOR THE PEOPLE TO BE SAFE ON WHICH MEANS MORE SIDEWALKS FOR THE KIDS AND ADULTS THAT WOULD BE USING THEM. RUSH HOUR WOULD BE NO PROBLEM BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE LESS PEOPLE ON THE ROADS BESIDES ALL THE TAXIS AND BUSES. RESTURANTS WOULD BE INPACTED GREATLY BECAUSE ALOT MORE PEOPLE WOULD STOP ON THERE WAY HOME FROM THE JOB TO GET A BITE TO EAT. IF THE POPULATION KEEPS GROWING THAN THAT MEANS THE POLLUTION WILL TOO AND SO WE HAVE TO MAKE A STOP AND BETTER THIS EARTH BEACUSE BEFORE WE KNOW IT WE WILL BE BREATHING IN TOXIC GASES AND DYING! SO HELP SAVE THE EARTH AND DRIVE LESS IN YOUR CARS PLEASE FOR THE SAKE OF US ALL!

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How would you feel if robots had your life in their possesion? Driverless cars are being developed by many different manufacturers. Driverless cars are not safe enough to be put on the road, as they can cause accidents and injuries if they glitch out or malfunction. Driverless cars are a bad idea and will be a big problem going into the future. One reason is becasue the cars can cause an accident and seriously injure someone that wasn't even driving. In fact, traffic laws in most states do not allow driverless cars to be on the road, as the cars have not been proven safe enough to handle most extreme conditions. Another good point is the cars could have a glitch in the system and get into an accident. The robotic cars would be in complete control of the passenger's life and other's once it starts driving on the road. If they do not alert the passenger to take the wheel, it could injure them and other drivers. A counter-argument could point out that the cars have various safety precautions and will alert the passenger to take the wheel, but glitches in the system could occur and fail to alert the passenger. The manufacturers could get into big trouble even if the car didn't malfuntion because people wouldn't know if the passenger or the car was at fault in the situation. Driverless cars are not needed in this world. Of course they would be a cool and convenient thing to have around, but they are too risky and dangerous to be brought into everyday life. I do not approve of this until the manufacturers prove that they are safe enough to withstand a storm. The same question could be asked. How would you feel if robots had your life in their possesion?

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A studying of a Venus is a worthy persuit despite danger because the authors explain many things about Venus and how Venus is also one of the brightest points in the night sky. The authors provide that Venus is actually a planet and Venus is the scond planet from our sun in solar system. The author supports the ideas very well by explaining how they works and how challenging. This is a challenging exploring because the author provide the texts from the article is that "Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely.'' This is shown that it is challenging for us human to explorings. Some of the reasons it is challenging because for a good reason there was no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours and why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Venus has the hottest surface tempperature of any planet in our solar system. I believe that Venus is a challenging planet for us humans to study and not easy conditions but we are still trying. This is not going to be easy for us to studying that but we are still trying to exploring about our Venus. Venus is like our planet because the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes fimiliar features such as valleys, moutains, and craters. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and they could supported various from of life. I believe that we can be try to studying about Venus and try to learn about it because in the articles is saids that "Many researchers are working on innvations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." This show that we have a chances to study about our Venus. This exploring challenge can worthy because NASA is working on the other approaches to studying Venus. They are trying to create machines that can be resistant and the ideas that they trying to recreate is from the old technology called mechanical computers. The mechanical computer is a devices that can make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all. The ideas of NASA is to create part of machines that can resistant of pressure, heat , and other forces. I believe this is going to be succed for us to study venus even though it is going to be cahllenging for us. If the recreation is succed we can exploring and learn about the Venus and our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers.

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My opinion on driverless cars is a good start for the new "future". As seen in movies people have created amazing things to the world today that no one could think it could be created do to the fact of our resources. Also in todays world poeple are gonna develope these cars do too the fact of creating something different to the human mind and nature. The reason behind making driverless cars is a good idea to the delievering company. I think the first driverless anything should be semi's due to the fact people get paid over a 1000$ a week. In this way people will start being able to transport stuff a lot cheaper and more effactive then what it is today. If they make the driverless car its good for the use of traveling due to the fact of you can sleep while your car is drivering and show up to a place a lot faster than you should. It takes 24 hours to get across the USA without stopping. If a human is driving it willl take most likely 2-3 days to complete this trip. Due to the fact of driverless semi's delivering goods and supplies if that make it possible to where a driver doesnt even have to be in the car or truck there will still be a question asked. How will you fill the gas tank? Like they said in the passage of driverless taxis.(Pargraph 1) How would a taxi be able to fill the tank up if a driver is not presant. You cant ask the passenger too. There are some problems with driverless cars but most of them will be fixed in the next few years due to more and more smarter people and more technology being made.

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Ask yourself, would I like to see driverless cars for public transport? I mean even if you did not there are a ton of positives with it. In the passage it gave tons of examples of why it is good and why it is bad to have driverless cars. Some readers such as me are on the positive side and others are on the negative side. One individual will not decide the entire decision on whether we have driverless cars or not but it might help. The future of driverless cars is in our future as we know it. In the passage it says that driverless cars have drove over a half a million miles without a wreck! That is a ton of miles without a single wreck, I bet that is way less wreck than what a human driven car has. In my mind that is one huge advantage to the driverless cars because it would help with less accidents and be safer for everyone around. Even though they are not completely driverless that is still very impressive, I mean the only time they driven would be in and out of driveways for the car to get started. The car stops at stop signs and lights by itself and has had no crashes, that is unbelievable! With all the people driving and all the cell phones around you can imagine that people still text and drive even though it is illegal right? If you have a driverless car people will stop texting and driving and start texting and ridiing. With the driverless cars those people who think they need o get a text off every minute will actually be able to without crashing into you! Although there are parts where they will eventually have to drive that is a lot less time for them to text and drive than it is when they text and rvie the entire time. Even with out texting and driving that is a ton less crashes and ton of more people saved each year. Even if you are not still into the driverless car experience yet, just wait there is more! If you are one of those people who ask; Can you still drive? Obviously you still can! The car will have back out of driveways and onto roadway construction and through accidents. So there is no need to worry about it ddriving through bad areas or location becuase you have to! Plus when it driving and it getting ready to do something bad it sends a vibration into your seat to let you know that you have to take over the wheel and start driving. With all of the facts listed how can you not be with the flow of driveless cars? Well really they are not completely driverless but pretty much close. With all the less accidents how can someone not want a driverless car? Even the pedestrians will be safer without all the drunk and texting drivers around town. To be even safer if you do not trust it you can still take over the wheel in certain situations. Most importantly you have more time to do the things you want like maybe knit while driving or catch up on a book. You can do many things with a safe driverless car!

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NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circiling Mars and snapping photos of possible laninding sites. It spotted what looked like a shadowy likeness of a human face. There are many conspiracy theorists that think this is proof of life on Mars. I disagree. The article states, "What the picture actually shows is the Martain equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." The face like shadows that were captured on Mars can be compared to landforms on Earth. I think that what is thought to be a face, is just a hill-type mass with shadows that look like a face at certian angles. The article also says, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeares on JLP web site, revealing . . . a nautural landform. There was no alien monument after all." So what this means is that the landform has nothing to with life on Mars, just the planet itself. When NASA released the picture, they captioned it, "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." I personally think that what they had captioned the photo is all you need to know about what it is, a huge rock foundation. If what NASA captured was an actual aliens face, they claim they would release that information because it would do so much good for them. With scientists who studied the pictures, the declaired it was only a landmass. So without the evidence of other life on Mars, that's all anyone can call it for now.

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This new peice of technology called the Facial Action Coding System, or FACS, is able to show peoples emotions and tell when people are hiding and masking their emotions. It is a new peice of technology developed by Prof. Thomas Huang, and Prof. Nicu Sebe. This product is revolutionary in many diffrenf ways. It not only valuable to a modern day life, but it also could have many real-world and technilogical applications. The FACS system is a new and valuable peice of technology that has many interesting and strong applications. Like it was said im the text, it could adjust an assignment for a student to make it more engaging for them. “A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,” Dr. Huang predicts. “Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." (D'Alto). That would make teachers lifes easier, and have less annoyed and out of control students, because they would be doing an assignment they would want to do, and not be extremely bored throughout class. Another way this could be valuable is for when cops do lie detector test. They would be able to pick up movements in the face that could show them that they are lying, or not telling the whole story. There are also many real world applications for this technology out there. The FACS made by Prof. Thomas Huang could have many real world applications that would make life easier or more fun for some people. One of the many real world applications for this system would be Police Videos. You would be able to see the emotions on the criminal's face while he was being recorded on video, helping the police aid in the investigation. Another brought up by the article could be politics. You would be able to see how the politician is feeling, or which emotions. You would also be able to tell if they are faking emotions they are emitting while they are giving a speech, or if they are outright lying to you. The article itself says "To an expert, faces don’t lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a “smiling” politician or celebrity isn’t being truthful." (D'Alto). The final point I want to bring up is how this could be used for therapy or working through yout problems. The FACS system could be a great peice of technolgy for therapists to use, working posple through their issues. People could tell how angry or depressed you were actually feeling. It would be a good way to work through the problems you have been facing, because people would know how you are feeling. The machine is able to sense the emotions you have been feeling, so people would be there to comfort you and work through your emotional turmoil. It would make venting about your problems much easier, and less hard to agknowledge The FACS system is an important and valuable peice of technology for people to use that will most likely become valuable in the near future. It has countless applications, from Police work to Emotional Therapy. In conclusion, Prof. Thomas Huang and Prof. Nibu Sebe has most likely make an invalubale innovation in the scientific feild with many real world and scientific innovations.

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Who knew that a planet referred to as Earth's "twin" could possibly provide so many unknowns to humans? Venus is the second planet in our solar system and is the "closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too". Venus has a more harsh environment than Earth. With a surface temperature of over 800 degrees, and a thick atmosphere of nearly 97 percent carbon, Venus is not tolerable for humans. Despite these presented dangers, the author of the article suggests that studying Venus is worth the risks. The author of the article mentions clearly in paragraph three the intolerable living conditions of the planet Venus. Although the author has knowledge of these dangers, they claim that studying the Earth-like planet is worth it. In order to back up their claim, the author provides facts in the texts to convince the reader of the following: "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." This excerpt for example, may cause the reader to make inferences about other similarities between Earth and Venus, and would spark more interest in learning about Venus. In addition to similar physical features, the author mentions how Venus is "our nearest option for planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel." This is a very vital fact, and significantly backs up the authors claim. Many planets and stars are several hundred light years away, making space travel and new discoveries by humans difficult. The closeness of Venus would allow humans to visit Venus, if there was a safe way to get there. Leading off of the previous statement, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been formulating a solution to "the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus... Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape". This would allow scientist to get extremely close to the surface of Venus, yet not close enough to gather samples from the planet itself. The author of the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author was able to effectively support the idea that studying Venus is worth the risk, as it is the nearest planet to visit, as well as the idea of a blimp-like vehicle allowing close access to the planet to make new scientific discoveries. Despite the dangerous temperatures, and atmosphere composed of nearly 97 percent carbon dioxide, the author provided many examples as to why studying Venus is worth the risk to make new discoveries, and gather beneficial information about Earth's so- called "twin".

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Using tecnology to detect the emotional expressions on ones face may be of a useful tool that could save lives,make for better security and mabey more. This tec may sound great but this may be a thing people might want to keep in schools for if people felt as though they were being watched by an electronic may keep them a bit on edge but children in schools may not halfto know seeing as kids now adays may not quite care. Taking the thought of using this tec. in schools may be able to save lives of children who are feeling depressed sensing the emotions in one and alerting a counsaler or another profetinal to help the child befor the begin to have thoughts of suiside or worse. Not to mention this tec. could be used in testing or regular class rooms and a way to see if a child is strugoling to pass a test or do there normal work alerting a teacher for help. Now this may seem unfair to the children cuz some may not want the help but them knowing they will have someone there will make them feel better making them more relaxed and ready to do there work without stress. This tec. can also be used for security in schools detecting hints of nervas or anctios children with melevolent intent sensing there emotions of there action may be the one way to lower the risk of attacks apon school around the world. Thats why this tec is something important that would be good to have in the schools of america and other schools around the world.

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I think that driverless cars could be a good thing or a bad thing, but I think that the pros out weigh the cons. First of all the numbers of deaths and car accidents would be derastically decreased. If all the cars were automated you would have no human emotions getting in the way of driving and there would be very few mistakes made on the road. Driverless cars are becoming safer and safer over the years. The article states that Google has had cars that could drive independendtly under specific conditions since 2009. It is now seven years since that point and the reliability and the safety of driverless cars has gone up. If we have driverless cars the roads would be much safer. There are some people that are driving to and from work very early or very late at night. Withought a doubt these people are suffering from sleep deprivation. These people have a higher chance of having a car accident then the rest of the poppulation. If cars were driverless then these people would not have to worry about driving. In later years, as technology advances, they might have the oppurtunity to relax and maybe sleep on the car ride home or to work. Because of these arguments I think that driverless cars are a very real possibility. I think that people underestimate the power of the computer and what it can do. I would have more trust in a highly inteligent computer to drive me somewhere then a taxi driver. As long as technology continues to progress and evolve I think that within a few years there will be a few driverless cars in the mix with our normal traffic.

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Fellow citizens, there are advantages of limiting car usage! Many of citizens are estatic about barely using their cars. Media trainor and mother of two Heuidrun Walter said "When I had a Car I was always tense. I'm Much happier this way." As You see Not having a car gets that stress off your shoulders. In the united states the environmental protection agency is promoting Car reduced communtities. Meaning the air pollution would go down a huge amount. In Source two " Paris bans driving due to smog"  Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the city. After a few days after they enforced that partial driving ban Congestion was down 60 percent ! Public transit was free of charge from friday to monday. In source 3 "Car free day is spinning into a big hit in bogota" A program set spread to other countries .Millions of colombians hiked, biked , skated or took buses to work . In colombia cars were banned for almost three years can you believe that!! Bogota Mayor atanas Mockus said " the rain hasnt stopped people from participating" from the program. This shows that the people of bogota do care about their daily lifes and that they care about the environment. Not having a car is a good way to get out and be more productive with your life. Lots of authorites from other countries came to bogota to see how many of bogotas citizens participated . This program was apart of an improvement capaign That began in the 1990s . Colombia has seen 118 miles of bicycle paths ! Parks and sports of colombia had revealed itself to the city. Rush hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic. Shopping districts have cropped up .In " The end of car culture " Prseident obama plans to to talk about the greenhouse gas emissions .Recent studies  show that americans are driving less and buying fewer cars . That leaves a big question to the president "Has america passed peak driving". America has been one of the worlds prime car cultures . " It is the birthplace of model t ". What makes me wonder is the rates of car ownership. Michael Sivak who is a research professer at the university of michigans transporation Says " I think that means something more fundamental is going on " Which is actually a really smart way of thinking  

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The argument that the face is a natural landfrom is true because there is evedince in the passage backing up my fact. First he took three pictures one in 1976,1998 and 2001 in 1976 they didnt have good camera he just showed the outline of the butte or mesa landform. In 1998 it was in the winter for the planet was so it change the outlook on the butte. 2001 was the best by far it was during the summer and it was the most recent one taken Second in 1976 the camera was even close as it is now. In 1998 the camera made a big step and made the image have the best resolution having a stuning 1.56 meter compared to the 43 meters in 1976 they only problem it was in winter and it was really hazy. So in 2001 they took another image it was not even close to ether of the photos in 1976 or 1998 It made it look like it was a face but thank to better cameras we can see that it is not a face it was just a butte.

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Have you ever been to a Seagoing Cowboys program? Well my name is Luke Bomberger, and I am going to tell you that their are fun games and nice people that will help you, you will see things you never seen before,andyou will help people in diffrent places and save the animals too. First,you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you will see things you never seen before. But what if the people are scared to go on a boat? The texts states that Luke's friend Don invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat and Luke knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. The text also states that when he sighed up for Seagoing Cowboys program the animals that are on the boat kept him busy and he probely didn't know that he was on the boat. Next, you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you will help people in diffrent places and save the animals too. But what if people are scared of thoses people? The text supports Luke helped people at Europe and China. The text also supports that Luke had a night job and the animals had to be feed every hour. Finally, you would want to go because their are fun games and nice people that will help you. But what if there aren't nice people there? In the text it states that they have cool games like table tennis, fenceing, boxing,reading, whitting, and etc. to pass time. The text also states that when it was a rainy day Luke sliped on a latter and his friends were there to safe him and help him get up from a small strip of metal. This is the 3 reasons I want you to go because their are fun games and nice people that will help you, you will see things you never seen before,andyou will help people in diffrent places and save the animals too. the last thing is try something new and don't be scared!

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The article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is an article that talks about the idea of exploring Venus. In the article, it mentions a plethora of challenges that come along with exploring Venus. The challenges include such things as: 97% carbon dioxide atmosphere, clouds of highly corrosive sulphuric acid, atmospheric pressure greater than that of Earth, and many other things. However, the author still thinks it is a great idea to explore Earth's sister planet. I happen to be one of the few, or many, individuals who think he supports his ideas very well. Although Venus is not the safest place to explore, the author points out ways in which it can be done. He mentions NASA's idea of allowing humans to float above the fray as a way to see what is on Venus. When he says "above the fray", he is saying is that we could just place a blimp-like vehicle that hovers about 30 miles above Venus's treachorous landscape. This could work because as the author mentions, jet airplanes fly at a higher altitude in order to avoid dangerous storms. Storms that could knock them out of the sky and send them crashing to the ground. The author also points out some interesting caveats that might prevent us from doing anything scientifically productive. They mention how just simply floating above Venus only allows us to see only a limited amount of stuff on the planet. This would be due to the conditions on the planet, such as the atmosphere being too dense to allow light to penetrate it. They also mention how researchers would be incapable of taking samples of things like rock or gas. Luckily, scientists are working on innovations, possibly groundbreaking, that can help achieve an actually productive exploration of Venus. One such innovation is a simplified electronic that is made of silicon carbide. This is put to test in a chamber that simulates the conditions on Venus. The researchers are also looking back to old mechanical computers, which aren't a whole lot like the computers we have today and are more resistant to extreme conditions. Unlike our computers, these compuers make calculations using gears and levers. In conclusion, the author supported his claim well that we can explore Venus despite its dangerous atmosphere. They rightfully point out good technologies that can be used to circumvent the atmospere and still be able to have a productive exploration. An example of such is the old mechanical computer.

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This is not valuable to have in a classroom with students , it could casue problems with each other depending on how someone feels about what one another is talking about. This is also not valuable because what if the computer messes up and read a persons emotions the wrong way , you can always put a fake smile on your face just like when it says while looking in the mirror to raise the corners of your mouth , thats fake smiling. This also seems very personal , what if you didnt want somebody knowing how your feeling you didnt want to tell anybody then somebody brings a computer towards your attention just so it can read you . It says to an expert that faces dont lie , that is certianly not true i've seen so many faces lie just like on t. v how they say they put on a fake smile making everybody think that there just oh so happy but in reality there really hurting .This would also kind of do good in a classroom to help out confused kids when there to shy to ask for help , but this also could be bad because if the computer just throws the kid on the spot it would make the kid even more shy or nervous then what they already are. So no i dont think this is valuable in the classroom but then again it could help out alot.

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I believe that this technology is very usueful. This technologhy would be so amazing to have around, it would help students and teachers out so much. it can tell when you are bored, happy, sad, scared, worried, and can even tell when you do not like an ad. It could really help out in classrooms and other places. For example, if you are sitting in class and you are doing something online, the computer can tell if you are bored and adjust itself so you are more into what is going on, or the teacher can come over and help you out too. It could also sense when you do not like an ad, all you have to do is smile or frown at the ad, if you smile you should get more ads like it, but if you frown it will try to find an ad you will be interested in. Another example would be if your friends are worried about you because they cannot tell how you are feeling, then they can put you in front of a computer and the computer can tell them your mood so they can try to help you, or if you are going to see a therapist for help with a mental issue or anything, they could set you in front of a computer so they know your mood without you trying to explain yourself to them. One final example would be if you are worried or stressing out about something, the computer could tell someone so they can take you somewhere so you can just chill and relax and forget about everything that you are stressed or worried about, then you will be able to go back to whatever you were doing and complete it. This unique piece of technology can help out with so many things. It can tell when you are upset, scared, worried, angry, and bored. Every classroom should have one of these. It would make being able to read people so much easier. It would also keep the students interested.

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Manyresident of the community of suburban pioneer are going  to a place where many other never gone before and even give up thyeir own cars. The street parking,drive way,and even garage are forbiden in new district. In outskirt of freigburg,near the french and swiss borders. Vaubam is almost car free exect themain thoroughfare where i down town there owner a space for around 40,000 and even come with a house a 70% of family donot own their own car other wise a 57% dold their own car to live suburman community. France has a problem with cars  the car where made to stay in a garage og a house until fuder notice but all owner were charge a 22 euro fine (31$) other wissw around 27 cars have to be impounded because of their reaction. Then around monday the smog had clrear out enough for some of the license plates where let ou also by tuesday. In bogota colombia the spread other country millions of colobians hiked,bike skated or took buses to work  during  a car free day for people not had use there car to be motivated to do new thing by riding bike having fun and ecercise car starting to be banned only buses and taxi where in use they also banned car that way they reduce the amount of smug in the enviroment the people where charge a 25 dollar fee if they wouldnot obey the law of no cars. Rain started in bogota people couldnot participate in the event. Two other colombian cities started the events. This made big improvement its started in the 1990s. Many good things happened the uneven side walks were fix and many store and resturant the rate went up because receive more custormer in rush hour. President Obama said "ambitious goals to curb the United States greenhouse gas emissions" people are buying fewer cars as the recent studies have shown fewer license were being out as each year goes by; population growth has increase by the years the number of mile driven by a person was around 9 miles per hour in 1995 the people couldnot really afford new cars and it will not help the uniploment rate. People think with changes stops car  commuting as a result of recession may find less reason to resume the habit. The internet helps people communicate without having to go out of their home to visit them. New York bike sharing program helps many people to share time as family. they have done a study young people drecease the driving. Ford motor made partner with the telecommunications industries the crated cities connected network to save time conserve reasources and lower emissions and improve safety for child,teen and mostly use adult.    

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Mr. senator i think we should get rid of the electoral college and change to popular votefor the presidency. I know im not even old enough to vote yet and your probably thinking what is this kid talking about but i dont think it is right to vote for the president of the united states canidate and really not even vote for him. The electoral college should vote for us because believe it or not it isnt always the right desicion sometimes. They say people of age and an american citazen that we can vote then let them vote for who they want they shouldnt have to vote really for an elector people want to feel like there vote matters. The peoples votes should go right to the box and count the votes and see who wins. The electoral college is of no need for the election process we the people can vote for ourselfs please just let us. And i know it isnt really in the writing format the way they want it i just want you to know my oppinoin and i know your probably going to just skim right over this but please if you have the time just please read over this and take the time to understand were im coming from.

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I disagre with technology to read the emotional expressions of students in classroom . I dont like the fact that technology can read students emotional expressions because teachers dont always have to know whats going on in teens personal life . one reason teachers shouldnt know everything about teens personal life because teens in highschool go through alot . Teens have house problems that they dont want know body to know about ,teens get bullied,and also some teens deal with personal body problems . This is the reason i disagre with technology reading kids emotional expressions . In the text it states that the facial expressions for each emotion each universal observes Dr. Huang ,so that means he can se every thing you are feeling .THE Text states that to an expert , faces dont lie ; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a smiling politician or celebirty isn't being truthful . This are other reason why i dont perfer technology reading people faces .But i also have a good thought on technology reading people faces . One reason is that when a kid get in trouble at school and lie about something he did the teacher can get the computer and tell if he is lieing . It also tates in the story the it can tell if you are being truthful . Another reason i like the tecgnology reading people expressions is because police can use the computer. The police can use the computer for bad people that does bad things . The police can scan they face and their fingerprints also . Also judges can use them when people have a to go to court for a case they have . The judge can scan heir face and see if they are lien .And paremts can also used the computer on their child . And people can also used them to see if other people are lien or however they feel. In the text it states that even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression "(like not smilingas broadly). using video imagery , the new emotion -reconginition softwaretracks these facial movments -in a real face or in a painted face of mona lisa . By weighting the different units,the software can even identify mixed emotions .Each expression is compared aganist a neutral face (showing no emotion). this explain how advance technology can be . We as humans practice on this same impressive evey day . For example we can tell if our freind or families are upset .

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The author struggles to explain the advantages of what will happen if NASA explores Venus. It is close to impossible with the technology out right now for NASA to be able to explore Venus. It is really worth spending years and millions of dollars to build a spacecraft that will tell NASA about Venus. We do not even know if the spacecraft will even make it there knowing that the atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbob dioxide. The auothor of this excerpt thinks it will happen. In the excerpt "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author states "each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, sice no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours" (Challenge). Landing spacecrafts on the Venus is almost impossible. There is too many factors that NASA will not be able to figure out for the next fifty years. Also the author says "today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth" (Challenge). One of the major reasons why people still want to explore Venus is because astronomers believe that it was once covered in oceans. The author calls Venus "our sister planet" because of how it was formed, like Earth. Knowing the dangers of what might happen to someone or something on Venus is a very scary trip that many people are not willing to take.

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Is using a computer that reads people emotion called Facial Action Coding should be used of students in class. I Think IT should to show if the student is going trough some hard times and may need some help. Onereason is that students dont know how to handle things thy can get caught up in soem things that can effect them long term. Some student may come to school and get bullyed and they might not know how to handle something like that and wind up getting hurt because they wont speak up. In stead of talking to a teacher about it they get in to fights and no one will want to hire them and they wind up on the streets with no jod. Another reason is that people may have trouble with money at home and it would help to talk to them about that because they might try to steal and get arrested for it and wind up in jail when they could have better things to do. there dad might be a drunk and beat him when he is drunk so using this machine we could see the proublems they have and help them with it. One last reason is people need to get out and see the world and find new things. you never know they might like what they see and want to find a job like this one reading people emotione. In concultion it is good to have some thing to read people emothins so we know whats going on in there life. You never know it might save someones life.

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0302537

I am for the development of driverless cars. I think it would be cool if we had cars that did the work for us. They are just like smart phones in a way. However I don't think we should completely have no control over the car. People may start thinking that they can do whatever while the driving is in progress. That is not the case. Drivers should still pay attention to the road as if they were normally driving. Driverless cars will benefit us in a positive way. One reason why i am for driverless cars is for the disabled people who can't drive like others can. Those people deserve a way to get around town too. Another reason why i think having driverless cars is a good idea is because of the simple fact that it is an option. People can buy a driverless car but still take over if they want to or need too. Another good reason for having driverless cars is for long distance drives. Sometimes flying a plane to a far destination is too expensive but if a car could take people long distance to where they need to go without themselves having to drive such a long way it would be more easier for themselves. The only concern with driverless car would be "Who is at fault" but that could be easily depicted i'm sure. Driverless cars would benefit us greatly. It shows no harm to anybody who would like to have no driver. For all the reasons previously stated it is a good idea to have driverless cars. After all, it is our decision to make whether or not we want to have driverless cars.

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"The Face" is a land formation and my proof is that NASAHas sent astronauts in tospace to orbit Mars, and these astronauts ahve taken many pictrures. These picturesclearly show that it is a land formation. Also NASA has taken high resolution images and used 3D altimetry photos. The pictures they have taken with them clearly show that it is a land formation. Some information in the text states that when they put pictures of "The face on the internet that it revealed a land formation. Other information statesthat theyb took photoes of "The Face with digital images, which enhances the picture three times more than a pixel picture. It also statesthat that NASA took a photo with "absolute maximum resolution. So this picture clearly depicts "The Face" as a land formation. Then the article goes on to say that if there were anything around "The Face that it would be very clear and easy to see, such as airplanes,shacks, and pyramids. The article then says that it is the "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa. Both of these examples are natural land formations made over time,and since that it has been proven of water on Mars what if the surrounding area of "The Face" eroded but "The face didn't.

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In my opinion I think it will be a good idea for the teachers to know if a student is in a good mood or not. When a teacher calls on a student and dont not want to go the teacher might think it is because that child is being rude, and all that the child want is to be left alone. With the scaning programs, that could scan your face and can tell if you are in a good mood or not, teachers and student could have a good bond. If the teacher scans a kid face in morning when they all enter class she could know who to call on ,or maybe even after class she could even have a talk with the child. If someone can tell how a person feel if it's fear , anger ,digust, happiness,and surprise. Those are some examples of ways it will be useful to have the "Facial Action Coding System". That type of technolgy would be very valuable in the classroom,and maybe even outside of school.

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The way of seeing how kids feel in a class room, this new technolgy shows it all. Will this change teaching and everything else in the class room, lets find out. Professor, Thomas Huang of Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the Universty of Illinois, working in collaboration with Professor Nicu Sebe of the Universty of Amsterdam. Are construction a computer with a 3-D computer model of the face; it uses all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles, this is called an "action unit". I support this idea and here is why I do. This will show very high improvement in class rooms, as this it will show how a kid can learn, if they are happy about this subject and if they are highly entertained, or this could go another way of teaching say we didn't have this type technolgy. A math teacher gives there students a test, the average over all is a 72%, that is not good, a teacher will have to go over the subject again majority due to failing of the subject. Was it the teacher, or was it the students, who will ever know, but if they had the technogly in the room to read their facial expressions, for that the teacher may have post poned the test due to the results of the facial expressions coming back, which could have showed alot of confusion over the section. That could have saved alot of time and get better grades, as they could of not gone back over the section. This would show a lot of improvement in testing scores over all, as teacher would not mine going back over a answer if a student or students or confused what is going. There are 6 different basic emotions in the system, happiness, suprise,anger,digust,fear and sadness. His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. In fact, we humans preform this same impressive "calculation" everyday. We can tell when a friend is happy, or upset, due to how much we around them. Its that this 3-D facial computer system can even tell more when you can't. If we had this in a class room , this would help so much, schools could see higher test scores and better improvements. I think it would even better if they took this to even more places. Such as Jails, Conceling areas, Thearpists, as it could show in their true emotions, this could be a lie dector, shows the emotions. Say they can't get anything from someone in a jail, they use that, they could see a fear emotion, or a blank emotion, or sad emotion. I just say this could change the future of alot things in every day life. This could also mean that, school corportaions might recieve rewards for really high scores in testing, which could really help out and some schools, for instance my school, we have don't have some of the newest technolgy as some other schools due, and why because i go to a small school, so we don't recieve high standards as other schools around us do. So that is why i agree we should have this newest technolgy and alot of the schools, to suceed in life and to help kids get better.

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Driveless cars are cool and very furtristic, mainly appleaing to a handful of people. Driveless cars don't use much gas or any at all, there for helping the enviroment. They have to run on something though, and that is battiers or rail ways. Many people are blinded by the fact that they are driveless cars. They don't see what is really happening with the cars, My statement is that I don't think they should be making driveless cars. There are so many things people haven't consiterd. For example Google hasn't mastered the driveless car yet, it could take them years or even centiures. When they do "master" it they'll have to make more and more cars. If they mess up on one little thing the car wont be able to go or get into an accident. The cars don't run on gas, which is good for the enviroment but then how would we get around? Google would have to rebuild all the roads, which will cost thousands maybe even millions. They would probably go to the big cites first and then forget about small towns, leaving them with regular cars. The sensors are probably very fragile, not to mention the most important thing for the car. What would happen if one of your sensors broke? You couldn't just run to the auto store and ask them to fix it, they wouldn't know how or even have the part. There you would be missing important things. They're so many things that could go wrong with with these cars, but that's also true with regular cars, Since regular cars have been around though we know what to do when our car breaks down. We also have built all the roads so we wouldn't be spending trillions of dallors on that, Plus with these new cars we would lose jobs and millions of people wouldn't be able to go back to college to learn about these new cars. There for I don't think we should get driveless cars.

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The use of the Facial action coding system technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, because that would mean our technology intelligence is improving. The more improvement we get in technology, the more the world will change. The Facial Action Coding System will show how the person that is getting tested or is using this, how they feeling. What if your look is the opposite than what you are feeling or you, as in yourself dont feel anything? The Facial Action Coding System can help identify the look you are given from another person. This technology wouldn't be like math homework, your science teacher grading your lab assignment, or a robot giving out data, it would be more like a clear resulting answer. It would not be a percentage, so that would help others who are younger and have yet learned about percentages. The world would be controlled by a computer rather than humans. Computers can give out wrong data, for example, if you would determine to search something up for a project and it came up with different websites,(different websites can give different answers) like Wikipedia, it could give you a wrong answer and then you would ask your teacher or professor if your data seemed right he/she would be like " This is not the right information" then pulls out a book determining the answer to your question that gives the right information you need to complete your project. Anway, if technology starts controlling the world, who would control the technology? This will lead to another device and then another, then finally we would completely be controlled by technology/ electronics more than what the world is at the moment. the technology could have a malfunction and cause people to start worrying and frightened. sometimes your facial expression is different than what you are actually feeling. In conclusion, the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System can be a good idea, but at the same time can be a horrid idea. It all depends on peoples perspective. Different people result in different answers. Not everyone will result in ahving the same exact answer like others.

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From the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars", it leaves two questions unanswered. Is it natural or not? Is there other life or just things happening to be that way? My vote goes to natural non-life forms. There is no acurate way to say that there is life forms but if there were other life forms and the government isn't just hidding things, then we would have found out about it by now. When the picture was taken it could have just been cloudy and maybe the rock formation has been there for awhile. "'As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size.'" This face or figure that we say we see isn't really that at all. For instance a car doesn't have a face but yet you could easily imagine it having one. If we see two slits and a larger one below it, to us, this resembles a face. This figure juts from it's frame because over time things change. The mars dust or sand could just as easily have been blown by wind and formed this "creation". In this article,"'It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.'" The plain in Idaho could be natural and so why can't this "face" be natural. There is nothing wrong with nature's beauty giving us questions and allowing us to make accusations. So therefore, there is no other life forms. There is no "face" on mars. This is all just a mixup and it shows up one way our minds work. One way we can see nature's beauty. Instead of trying to argue, why not trust science?

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da7edab

Dear State Senator, I think our country should choose the president by popular vote. So the people get the president they think is the best for the job. But to do this we will need people motivated to go and vote. Because not many people normally go and vote during the election. or any election for that matter. It will help with the problem of canidates going to a certain state to get the votes. But they can just go to densly populated areas. The flip to that though is they will need to spend more time convincing and/or explaining what they will do in office. Even if we need to find a way to break a tie if a tie happens with popular vote. The only way to fix the Electoral College vote is not all of one states vote goes to a canidate that way they can't abuse the strategy of going to the states with more votes. From your sender, PROPER_NAME

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The Electorial Collage should continue on as a way of electing for various resons with this in play "it avoids the problem of elctions in wich no candidate recieves a majority of the voters cast"(source 3),which would reduce the complication process to produces a clear winner". Next,this has gone on for centry's its in our constitution thank's to our founding fathers (source 1) also there is less of a dispute of the outcome versus a popular vote.(source 3) a process that simplifies the entire states personal elections is definantly a pro, senator yes this system is we the people actually voting for our state elctors but we have chosen them and they are more informed on this compromise so they should  be entitled as two votes. Plus for example in wich no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast and should be kept this is Given that the votes outway the elctorial vote with the process of the college electorial vote enshuring a fair election

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The author of this story uses a lot of information about exploring Venus. He writes about the history of Venus and the dangers of travling there too. But, is it really worth sending people to Venus if they are just going to die ? The author talks about the dangers of going to Venus very well. He inculdes that the atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and the clouds are highly corrosive sulfuric acid. He also says the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on earth. That type of environment would crush a submarine, which are meant to dive into the deepest parts of earth's oceans. The one thing the author does well is he covers all of the dangers of going to Venus. Even thought he is trying to convince the reader that it's a good idea to explore Venus. The one thing the author does not write about is how much all of this is going to cost and who is going to pay for it. The one thing people care about is money and if the author is trying to convince someone to make this happen they are most likely going to want to know how much this would cost. If people who pay their taxes are going to end up paying for this I don't think people would be to happy. Most likely a trip to Venus would cost more than when NASA went to the moon. Other than the author not talking about the cost, he covers everything else pretty well. The author also talks about how NASA is trying to figure out new projects and using old porjects to get to Venus. He says that scientists are making simplified electronics made of silicon carbide to be tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venu's surface and have lasted for three weeks in these conditions. I think the reason the author gives you this information is because he wants you to think that there are other people who want to explore Venus as well. Another project the author talks about is scientists looking back at old technology called mechanical computers. He says that these mechanical computers would be better than the new computers because the new ones are very frail and can't be under rough conditions. But the old computers are not frail and can be put into rough conditons, such as Venus's rough conditions. The author supports his idea about going to Venus very well. His idea would be better though if he added some information about how much it would cost to go to Venus. He did have a lot of infromation on the new projects that NASA was developing and how dangerous it was to travel to Venus as well. Other than not having the costs this was a pretty intresting article and well developed.

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Venus it's called "Evening Start". According to the author "Is one of the most brightest points of light in the night sky". To beginig Venus it's a importan planet important because it's on our solar syste. Acording to the athour, "Venus is the second planet from our sun". In other words Venus is the most close to Earth. Another immportant poin is that is not only Venus that it's close to our planet it's "Mars too". According to the author," These differences in sped mean that sometimes were closer to Mars and other to Venuns". In other words this means that it depends on the speed that it's rolling our planet is the more close to one of this planets. Futhermore, the temperature of Venus is one os the most hottest temperature. According to the author "Venus has the hottes surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even thought Mercury is closer to our sun". In other words Venus is one of the hottest planets in our solar system, and Venus is not the close to our sun. To clonclude Venus shlould be study and see if in the future it can create live.

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4f2f54f

We all have an imagination, do we not? The people in 1976 had an imagination. I think the "Face on Mars" is just a regular landform. I think the face is a landform, because they don't have any proof of life on mars, it couldn't have been a Martian mesa, and with or without clouds, the face was not seen again. Even if it was to been seen again, we do not know if would be a shadow or a actual mesa. First off, the Face on Mars doesn't have a lot of backup proof about it. The article says that in 1976, Viking 1 was orbiting around mars, when it snapped a photo of a shadowy likeness of a face. That is just it, a shadowy likeness of the face on Mars. We do not know if it is a mesa or not unless we actually scim the face of the landform I see, in my opinion. Next, it couldn't be a Martian mesa. If their was any source of life besides the ice caps Mars has, there is no remains of people or any housing or animal life anywhere.Without this life on Mars, the mesa would be impossible to build on Mars, making it just a landform.Like the article states, "So, if their were objects on the ground like airplanes or egyptian-style pyramids... you could see what they were!" Lastly, even in a couldy situation or not, we never saw the face again! In 1976, the camera might have just made the landform look fuzzy. After the two pictures NASA took in 1998 and 2001, their was never any outline of a face or anything anymore. It was just a bunch of landform shaped like a regular mountain. To conculde, the face on Mars was just a landform. We know this through the fact that it could not have been built without population, in a couldy situation or not we never seen it again, and it couldn't of been a martian mesa. I think people got to carried away by the fact that there would ever be life on mars. We never fully know yet, but in my opinion, the face on Mars is just a landform.

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Do you drive a car? A truck? Or any kind of vehicle? If so, did you know your polluting the air? Why drive when you could car-pool, walk, or even ride a bike? Why risk your life everyday while driving your car into town to go to work? To start off with, pollution is a big affect in this world today. China is one of the most polluted cities in the world. As stated in the article "Paris bans driving due to smog'' states that diesel fuel was blamed for pollution. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France. Have you ever seen someone black smoke? They probably think they are cool, but they aren't. What they are really doing is polluting the air, and it isn't cool. Ever thought about car-pooling? Riding a bike? Or even walking to work, or school, or even to the mall? In my opinion those are some great ways to get around town. I understand if you live far out of town and you cant walk or ride a bike but maybe think about car-pooling. I would love  to car-pool with one of my friends to school. You have a friend to sit there and talk to you. Your doing someone a favor. Plus you never know when you'll see them again. You could always organize your life so you could walk or even get someone you could car-pool with. Everyday you wake up not knowing what could happen. You get in your car not thinking anything bad could happen to you and then BAM ! Another car as ran the red light or the stop sign and ran into you. And just like that your killed. You see, walking is easier to get around. Your still risking your life but not as bad as you are if your in a car. There is so many stupid out there that is driving drunk, high, or whatever. Their is even people out there that think they are cool when they really aren't. There are a lot of deaths out there that are caused by vehicles. So before you get in the car, think about walking. It's safer. Now did you think about car-pooling, walking, or even riding a bike. Did you think about pollution or even your life. You might not agree with me but think about it for a little bit. I rather walk and get some exercise then sit in a car.  

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It is vary dangerous to explore it because because of the extream heat and the high pressurebut i think it would be worth it. I think it is a vary interesting planit because i would like to know if there is any other life than what is on earth. I dont think that earth is the only inhabbited planet. In The Challenge of Exploring Venus the author says there are valleys, mountains, and craters. I think it would be nice if they could think of a way to explore venus but i dont know if that will happen because we might not be advanced enough. If we where able to get on the planet with out dieing we might find out that there was life on it or there might still be life on there that had to adapt to the envierment. There are alot more planets out in the univers we shout see how far we can get. We might find other planets with life on them. I dont think we should just focus on this one planet. All they are doing is waisting recources on one planet that they could be using on other panets.

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e962f04

I am writing this paragraph about a argumentive essay and to say that the face that was found on Mars was not a alien it's a natural born landform. The face that was found on Mars was not a alien, I think that because it had the shape on a human face and a human face does not look anything like a alien face, they are two different types of faces. The reason is on May 24, 2001 when the face was spotted it even says " When it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face", it does not say anything about it looking like a alien face. Then, the NASA opened up the image for everyone to see this caption had a huge rock resemble they said, " which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving a illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth". This little sentence that was stated when they took a good look at the picture pretty much states that they is a possiblity that it could be a alien head but a very low chance, so most likely this head is a human head (90%). This little sitiuation attracted a nice amout of attension to Mars. Also, on April 5, 1998 Michael Malin and his camera got 10 good pictures of the face the pictures were better than the vikings pictures so now they can really look into the picture. Then the pictures that were taken a lot of people were waiting on them, and finally they first appered on a JPL web site, the picture that first appered on JPL's web site revealed a natural landform. They said, " There was no alien monument after all ", so that means that the head was into a human head and it was not a alien head. So they were planning a date to take more pictures just so they can look at it and make sure that there evidence is not wrong and they said everything right. In Conclusion, I wrote this argumentative essay to explain how the head that was found on Mars is a human head not a alien head. It so happend to be that it was a human head and it had thne natural landform to even show that it was a human head. After all it takes alot of research to get things done and have them done the right way in science, but it was a human head.

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limiting car usage can be a great thing to. Lowering the usage of your car can help you get more of an active lifestyle,cuts down on polution and it makes a person more happier. In vauban, Germany people of a upscale community are suburban pioneers, they are giving up there cars. Vauban's streets are completely car free."Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park"...Owners can buy a space at a parking garage for $40,000 along with a home. Heidrun Walter said 'when i had a car I was always so tense. I'm much happier this way." After day's with near-record pollution in Paris. They inforced a partial driving ban to clear air of the global city. On monday motorists withe enen numbered livense plates were ordered to leave there cars at yhome or fave a 22 euro fine ($31). It would happen to od numbered plates the following day. The smog rivaled Bejing, china which is known to be the most poluted areas of the world. Diesel was the big blame for it because france has a tax policy that favors diesel over regular. One week had 147 micrograms of particulate matterper cubic metter. Dilivery companys were complaining of lost revenue. In Bogota, Columbia they have a car free day which is that millions of people drop there cars and hike,bikeor take busses to work or anywere. Violaters faced a $25 fine if they didnt comply. Parks and sports centers are blooming because of this day which means that people are choosing an active lifestyle. The rain was ok but it didnt stop anyone from participating. In conclusion the car free way is the way to go it helps people be more active, cuts down on pollution and makes people more happier in general so i say put down the car keys and grab a bike and be happy.

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2187f01

I had just returned home after my long journy to China and we needed knew Seagoing Cowboys. So at the dock I gave a mighty speech but no one thought that being a "Seagoing Cowboy" interested them. Well atleast after this one person started an argument. Have you ever wanted to travel the ocean blue? Are you good with animals? Do you want to help conties ineed after war? If so you should join thye "Seagoing Cowboys." People were starting to come up when a young man shoted out "stop". "Do you really want to go out to sea and have to work with stinky animals? And have no exictment in your life. You could stay home and care for your family or join the army." The crowd then started to move back and no one wanted to sign up. I was not giving up this easy we needed more help. I then shout their is plenty of exictment. Also " The cattle boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small town boy." I got to see Europe and China. When you get to a new coutry you have some down time to explore. Also listen to this " The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been." Then the man shouted again " Do you really think playing were animals pooped and peed and who knows what would be fun?" Everyone backed off again. We then kept shouting till a few people joined. I could not get everyone to join because of the young man but a handfill was good enough. To end it all i said ' I'm greatful for the opportunity." " It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." A few days later we borded again just waiting for our journy to begain.

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d37a1d4

While you may believe that this is the work of an advanced and unknown species, then you're wrong. But, let us look at the details and evidence we have to make a final determination. Let us use the information provided by Nasa to clarify this arguement. There is no evidence of life on Mars. There isn't even water or oxygen. Without water or oxygen, the planet cannot sustain such life. Futhermore, natural land formations on earth do exist like this. In Paragraph 12, Garvin says, "It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." He goes futhermore, clarifying information about the phenomenon, saing, "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa. It's around the same height as the Face on Mars" Garvin goes on with the rule of thumb, stating, "You can discern things in a digtial image 3 times bigger than the pixel size." So even 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 2001 photo taken of the face shows that it really spans 1.56 meters, not 43 meters. This also clarifies that aliens didn't create this object, because it's measurements are closet to that of natural formations found on Earth. Looking at the Evidence provided, we can discern, friend, that this isn't the work of aliens. The research provided by NASA has no record on file of any extra-terrestrial lifeforms. Also, the research indicates that this is natural because the formation's measurements are closer in proximity to Earth landforms. Also, conspiracy theorist lack validity and credibility, as well as research or evidence. In Conclusion, provided by this, we can determine, that this is just a natural formation.

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Venus, a giant ball of carbon dioxide, hot surfaces, no life, but said to be Earth's twin. If we're learning so much about the dangers of Venus then why even begin to consider to approach it in any way. Why not push it to the back of the line and continue to study Mars, a place where you can actually step foot on it's surface. Although Venus is shown to be extremley dangerous and risk taking, scientists can't seem to let it slip through the cracks. Venus is made of about 97% carbon dioxide, has an atmosheric pressure of 90 times greater than Earth, and is considered dangerous but has yet proved to be worthy of studying. The author states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." Venus has also been hypothesized that years ago it was likely that Venus was covered largely with oceans and could have even supported many different kinds of life. So despite the challenges the author sumarizes that because it resembles so closely to Earth it wouldn't make sence not to study it and try to rehinder all of the information they can from Venus. So even though there are several factors that take play in the study of Venus it doesn't seem by the authors statements that they're stopping anytime soon. They will continue to advance their technology until they are able to explore it to the fullest.

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A world without cars. Around the world many places have decreased in the use of motorized vehicles. Wether it be government inforced or not vehicle useage has dropped a staggering amount in the past few years. This new habbit has had many effect on the environment, car industries, and even the way cities are built. What will become of the future if this trend continues? It says in "The End of Car Culture", "...transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, just behind power plants. Therfore if the use of cars decre4ases as it has then carbon emmisions will also decrease along with it and will in turn cause the greenhouse effect to ripidly slow. Evn though we would all love the world to be "greenhouse free" it is still quite far away, one thing thats this decrease in vehicles is effecting is Motor Companies. The decrease in sales has caused major car companies such as Ford and Mercedes to, "rebrand themselves mobility companies with broader product raange beyond the personal vehicle. One example of this happinging is shown in soure 4: "Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Companu, laid out a bussiness worl plann in which personal vehicle ownership is impractical or undesirable." As you can tell this recently discovered trend has caused major companies to resolve into making almost entirely new products. The worl is slowly but surely loosing the desire for personal vehicles and it has many positive effects but it also has plenty of counter, negative, effects. They always has said "no good deed goes unpunished", all we can do is sit back and see what happens.  

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You wonder if Venus could be explored? Well we could one day. I think we could explore Venus. These things can help us to reach that goal is mechanical computers, allow scienists to float above the plant surface, silicon carbide, and other inovations. One way is using mechanical computers. mechcanical computers don't have to use modern technogoly in them. In the text it says, "but these devices make calculations by using gears and levers and do not require electronics at all." Then it says, "systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." This tells us that the mechanical computers are resisent twards Venus's harsh enviroment. Then another way is sending scape craft to hover around venus, so that sciencetists who are studying Venus would be space. In the text it says, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." Then it states says again' "a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. " This tells you that the sciencetists would be safe and sound in the ship while they are studying Venus. Then another way is to make materials that would survive the Venus's terrian. One material would be silicon carbide. In the text is says, "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus’s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." then the text says, "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus." This tells us that silicon carbate would survive on Venus's terrian and other inovatoins. In conclusion humanity will go to Venus at some point in time, but with the proper tools and edicatoin. I still think we cen explore mars. well do you still think we can go to Venus?

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Dear Florida Senator, Our country, the United States of America, elects our presidents by something that is called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a selection of 538 electors who vote to elect the president. The popular Presidential vote ties into the Electoral College by when a person votes for a presidential candidate, that person also votes for their chosen panel of electors from that state. Many citizens of the United States believe that this electing process is unfair and takes away the freedom to elect our President, but the Electoral College is fitting for our country because the candidates can campaign in all regions and that there will not be as big as a dispute in the Electoral College election than a popular election. To begin with, the United States should keep the Electoral College for the presidential election because the candidates campaign in all the regions. "The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have a trans-regional appeal." (Source 3, stanza 19). If the United States only had a popular vote election, the candidates would only campaign to the big states(higher population), and not the the smaller states(lower population). Then the smaller states and regions we feel like they are not involved or matter in the election. "The residents of the other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised-to feel that their votes do not count, that the new president will have no regard for their interests, that he really isn't their president." (Source 3, stanza 19). Also, a presidential candidate does not want to stay in a region where he will know he will win. The presidential candidate wants to be desired and win the elections in as much regions as possible, so more of his campaign electors go to the Electoral College. "This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president." (Source 3, stanza 19). Secondly, the United States should keep the Electoral College for the presidential election because there will not be as big as a dispute in an Electoral College election than in a popular election. "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." (Source 3, stanza 18). And most of the time in an Electoral College vote, the popular vote candidate wins! "...it is entirely possibel that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely." (Source 3, stanza 16). Also, in a popular election, anyone can vote. That means citizens who don't know many things about the candidates or the politics can choose the future president for the United States. In the Electoral College vote, popular voters vote for a candidate's electors, who are knowledgeable about their candidates and politics, and who are carefully selected by the candidate's party. "Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party" (Source 1, stanza 5). In conclusion, the United States should definitely keep the Electoral College for electing the president because it is fair to all the regions and there will not be as big as a dispute in the Electoral College vote than the popular vote. In the popular vote, if a person's desired candidate did not win, they could lash out, maybe violently, at other people in their community who voted for an opposing candidate. Also, the Electoral College vote is fair for the smaller states, for in the Electoral College, they get a number of electors based on their state's population. This is better than in a popular vote, where the whole state of California could vote for one candidate and the state of Rhode Island could vote for an opposing candidate. The California candidate would have more votes than the Rhode Island candidate, for Rhode Island is considerably smaller than California. Over all, the Electoral College election is the best way for the United States to elect their president. It's the way it always has been, therefore it should stay that way. Sincerely, A Concerned Student

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Luke has many more adventures coming up and you can too. You will be able to visit many unique places just like Luke did. Being in the Seagoing cowboy program will also give you the oppertunity to help people by sending food and animals over sea with you. You would have to care for the animals too as to help on the trip. A seagoing cow boy can visit many places. Luke got to visit Europe,China,Acropolis,Greece, ride a Gondola in Italy,and tour a castle in Crete. Besides visiting all the great places when you are still onboard there is plenty to do besides feeding and watching the animals all day. Luke played games and you would be able to also. There is baseball,volleyball,tennis tourments,fencing,boxing,reading and more. You don't have to sit around and do nothing. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a great idea. You get to help people in need of resources, visit different unique places,and even have fun onboard. You can do all this maybe more like Luke did.

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"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy and i thinks so to beacuse its like Earths twin "Often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance too." If there where something to happened to Earth then Venus would be the closet pleace to send people but since they don't know anything about the place because there has been no spacecraft survived the landing for more then a few hours. Also there hasn't been a spaceship that has touched down on Venus in more then three decades. Other peolpe don't want to study it because its dangers the atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid in Venus atmosphere the temperatures average over 800 degrees farenheit and the pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planet. A long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and might of supported various forms of life just like our Earth.

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You're walking into a classroom seeing different faces, different attitudes, and different emotions. Do you think you'll be able to tell the emotion of each student? What if you were sitting in a classroom? Do you believe a computer or any technology that's able to read you and your classmates emotional expresionsis valuabe? If you do, then I disagree. I believe the use of technology that's able to read the emotional expressions of students isn't valuable.First, I believe this because the software is able to show only six emotions. In the article, it states, "Eckman has classified six basic emotions - happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness," This shows that emotions like empty or basic won't be shown. If these emotions aren't shown, then what would the system show for an empty-feeling person. Next, I believe this system isn't valuable because some people can have deceiving faces. In the article, the author, D'Alto says, "...and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." This shows that the system is using people's facial expression to tell their emotion. A student can have a bored look on their face, but be very interested in what's going on at the same time. Therefore, the system will believe the student is bored, even though the student is far from it. Finally, I believe this system isn't valuable because no mater what emotion a person is feeling, some people just have a natural neutral face. In the fourth paragraph it says, "Each expression is comapred against a neutral face." This shows that when a person has a neutral face they're only showing no emotion. Even though a person shows no emotion, deep down inside they might be happy or sad without anyone knowing. This is why I believe the Facial Action Coding Sysytem is not valuable at all. The system is only able to show basic emotions. The system can't detect deceiving faces. This system clarifies the neutral face as no emotion. I hope you agree.

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Is it a really a good thing to read someone emotions? well it is, if you see someone who's mad, sad, fearful, you can help them to calm down, to feel better, or to feel less scare. emotions really lets someone to show everyone how they feel. But using the Facial Action Coding System (or FACS) on classroom full with students could be a good/bad idea. One teachers can see if students are confuse or lost, two they see if there's something wrong with one of the students, three some students don't want their's teachers to be in their's problems. Before I explain more about why it's a good idea for teachers, I want to talk about how i feel about FACS. It something that i never heard about and i think it's somewhat a good idea, but i dont recommaning it to put it in a A.I. It would get a bit weird and creepy if it's in a robot, but that's how i feel about it. Back to the topic, if a teacher is given out a lesson and some students don't get it they use the FACS to see if they get it or don't. They can even use it as they teach and see what they in to work on long until they understand the lessons or topics. You know how some teachers would ask the class how are they doing before they start the lesson? well there are some teachers who don't ask that but do care for their's students. If they use the FACS before they start class and see someone depress or sad they can wirte their names down on a note or peice of paper and after class or school they talk to them one on one to see whats wrong or if there ok. they can even try to help them or make them feel better. There are some students who need help or need to talk with someone, but they chose not to get help because they feel like it's gonna make it worst for them. I know some people who really need some help but they dont want to get help, but we had they FACS in my school they get help faster. than again they would get mad with teachers fast becuase they don't teachers to help them with their problems. Thats what's I got to say about the FACS being a classroom. It would be really helpfull for teachers, but some students would be annoy by it easily or would think that teachers are trying to be apart of there personal lives.

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If it is not broken why should we fix it? The electoral college system has been with us for as long as we have had presidents and one flaw if going to make us scrap eveything? There are many ways to fix the electoral college and throwing the system in the trash should be the last resort.  Although the election of 2000 is an example of a problem that shoud be fixed it is not a reason to do away with the system. To commence with, the electoral college is a fine system that has easily fixed flaws such as the election of George W. Bush versus Al Gore in which Gore won the popular vote while still losing the whole election. An obvious solution to this problem could be what Nebraska and Maine are doing and introducing proportional representation as opposed to the "winner-take-all" system. Also if we were to switch from the electoral college it would take citizens time to get used to the new stystem. Although the electoral college seems unreliable there is a certainty of outcome to it, while some people dispute over the outcome of the vote it is likely an arguement about the popular vote. Although we have had the system for so long and it has been reliable and there are ways to fix it some people would still like to move away from it and create a new system.  If we were to shift from the electoral college to another way to vote what would we have, a voting system fully based on popular votes? no, because a popular vote system would rely too much on citizens being able to make informed decisions which would result in unreliable outcomes. Henceforth, the electoral college is a reliable system with easily fixed flaws, therefore we should not fix or replace the system. If the electoral college was to be replaced there would be pandemonium as to what system shall replace it, how we will adapt to the new system, and if the system is an improvement or a step back in innovation and our future leaders.  

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I am about to tell you, from Luke's point of view, why participating in the Seagoing Cowboys program is a great opportunity and why you shouldn't pass it up I'f you do get invited to go. The first reason is becuase you could go on so many journeys,and trips that you've never even thought of in your head before. Like it says in the article Luke couldn't say no to an opportunity that huge. Anyway,like I was saying there's so many unique and fun places that you could go. Luke went to Europe and China,and Acropolis in Greece, it's an amazing journey. Sometimes if the journey that you are taking is a very long one,like in the passage You could do a lot of things. It took two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast and a month to get to China. In addition, they would play baseball,volleyball games,Table-tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading and whittling. The second reason is becuase if you've never taken a trip anywhere out of the U.S then this is an amazing chance for you to get out there and explore different places of the world. Why would you wanna pass up an amazing chance like that? Being in this program could take you anywhere in the world from places ranging to Venezuela all the way to Athens,Greece and those are beautiful places in the world. Wouldn't you like to go see them? I'f you've already been to the places that the program would take you,then,hey, what's the harm in seeing those places again? You never know they could've built new homes,stores,hotels,and everything awesome like that. Okay,yes,it says in the passage that One rainy night,after making his hourly report to the captain,Luke slid down a slippery ladder on his backside and cracked his ribs. Everyone gets physically in their lifetime. The third reason, this reason is for parents. Wouldn't you love for your child to go and explore the different places of the world? They would be so excited if they were to get a chance like that to go to all different places of the whole world. I mean of course they would probably hesitate at first because they would be so far from home. They could go to Fiji,Thailand and just work work with animals and play games,do every fun thing that a kid is supposed to do while their still young. In the article,Paragraph 9 Luke says ''I'm grateful for the opportunity'' It made me more aware of our people and countries and their needs''. Fourth Reason is you get to help people in other countries who are homeless,doesn't have any food,tired,sleepless nights and going through everything. Your child could become a doctor from benefting from this trip and helping people. Their are countries and people in need,and this is a great chance to help people out and benefit from what people are going through. In the passage it says he even went to Venice,Italy,streets with water''. He visited a castle in Crete and loved the viewing at the Panama Canal on his way to China. Like I said in the other paragraphs their are so many places for your kids to go and have fun in this world. Just know it's an amazing opportunity. Concluding this essay. What I'm trying to point out is that this is an opportunity of a lifetime. You could explore places and countries around this world you didn't know existed. Kids it's a great opportuntity. Don't pass it up. There's so much in this wrold that you would accomplish just being out in the world. Luke went to so many places it was unbelieveable all the beautiful and magical places he described.

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How valuable would a Facial Action Coding System in a classroom actually be? What kind of actions should take place after the information is recorded? Finaly, what other "great" sounding eduacational sytems that used new technology actually work ? In the classroom i have seen new processes like this one come and go usually not making it to the next generation of students. As a current student this comes from a first hand source on how technologies like this one are repetetive and seem forced onto modern eduacation. Lets say an F.A.C.S were implemeted into the classroom and its program showed that students were about 40% happy. The next day the teacher decides to change up his method of teaching but couldnt satisfy the students enough to boost the percentages. This would become repetetive and translate into something that just feels like an extra step in eduacation because the teacher is forced to give feedback to the board and grow upon the bad percentages. This scenario sounds common due to the extra steps necesary to fulfill the technologies potential. When learning something new information must be repeated to one's self more than one time to ensure that they remember better. This is not allways fun it takes hard work to fully understand a topic. The simpler the learning process, the easier it is to learn. The emotions one feels when studying does not contradict if they will actually learn it or not. Following through with the process will show results if they are willing to pull through. Facial sensors are not needed to show how hard learning is. Cost of the product will also affect the schools funds that could be used to do much more. Also to put one system in each classroom is an outrages idea.That much money could be used to improve schools in much better ways like having updated text books new uniforms for school teams or repairs on thebuilding. The F.A.C.S

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I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need. I thought it might be boring and a lot of work on board herding animals but its alot more to it than that. Its a wonderful job becuase you do not only get paid but you get to go sight seeing, see places you never been before, work with animals, and lets not forget help people. This job changed my life within a second of being on board i use to work at a boring old bank and grocery store now I know I made the right chose choosing to work here I knew I wouldnt have a chance like this again so I took it with out a doubt. Mayby you might want to travel the world and see new amazing places and see ancient palaces ike Geece and at the same time help people in need.

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Should the Electroal College be removed? Thats been the arguments, talks, and thoughts over many years. If they we'er to ask me, I would absolutly say "Yes The Electroal College should be removed." But many people ask "why?", to me it's simple. All the votes that "U.S Citizens" make every four years, never really goes directly to the runners for presidents. They always go to people who decide weather or not they should be approved, wich abviously the should if their whole or majority of the state voted for him/her. But thats not what the the feel, they feel like they need to aprove the runners. "why?", you ask? I'm not sure. If they need to do all that, why dont the people of the House Of Representatives just make their decisions? Since it always come down to them, then there's no point of the U.S Citizens voting for president. But then agian, I feel like why should they choose who is the president? If the whole USA are the one's who need to worry about the president.

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Driverless cars would be very usefull, epecially in this generation because of all the teenagers now a days using their phones while driving, and causing accidents. A driverless car would help that problem. A driverless car would help all people ranging from all ages. The diverless car also pays closer attention to the road thatn any individual would. A driverless car in general would help people of older age as well. The driverless car would prevent teenageers and from getting into accidents. Teenages now a days don't know how to stay off their phones so that causes accidents, with a driverless car the car does the driving for you all you have to do is sit there and pay attention every once in a while. The driverless car would protect the driver, especialy when they are not paying any attention to the road. With all that being said, the driverless car would pay closer attention to the road. Say there might be a deer in the middle of road and the driver isn't paying any attention. The car would sense it and would stop automatically. Say somehting just pops up out of nowhere, the car would know and would sense it. What the car does is it senses it and it reduces power from the engine as it is applying the breaks. That is how that works, and as technology advances this will advance as well and only get better. My final reasoning is very simple. The driverless car would help out elders who may not have the eye sight that they may have had when they where thirty years old. Also people who loose their hearing, they wouldn't be able to hear certian things that might be going on around them. So the driverless car would help elders get around town a lot better than having to pay a lot of money for a driver or car sevice. Some elders do no pay attention to what is going on, so as long as they would have a driverless car I think they would be good to go. With all that being said I am all for having driverless cars. They would help prevent accidents epecially with teenagers who are constantly on their phones. The car pays closer attention to the rather than and iduvidual. And finally the car would help elders get around rather than them having to pay alot of money to have a driver or alwasy use a car service. Just in general I feel a driverless car would be great for everyone now a days.

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In "THE CHALLENGE OF EXPLORING VENUS" the author of suggests that studys venus is worthy pursuit despite the danger it peresnts. people say that venus is the twin to the earth you may agree and alot of people will but there will always be someone that wont some people call it the the evening star because its the only thing that will be shining in the sky they dont blevie that its a plante but the people that belive that is a plante often they say "often referred as earth's "twin," venus is the closest plante to earth in term of destny and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too" (pargraph 2). this shows that venus is the closest plante to earth as of looking and sistence. venus is the only plante that scintest studyed to see if humans can live in it they tried everything to studie it if humans ca n breath in it but they only found the resultes when they stoped working on it because they couldnt understand it so they had to change the way they were going to send humans to venus so they just quit but they started studying some more stuuf coming up with names for it and stuff in the text it says "venus, sometimes called the "evening star"( pargarh1). this shows that that they came up with names for so people under stand what the star is. the artecal shows you how people can make nothing into something even if they fail they still can gt something else right or make something even though they tried to do something else.

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Dear Mr. State Senator, I think that you should change election to popular voting for the president of the United States because the Electoral College is unfair. Everyone should have a say in who our next president will be. That is a very important thing because we are choosing a ruler of our country and somone who will take care of us. Allowing only a few people to vote in each state does'nt make any sense because people are only choosing from their opinion and there is lots of other in that state that probably don't agree with what they chhose. I think that everyone should be allowed to vote for who they want for president because it is fair. It is fair because everyone is voting based on their own opinions of a person. When the electoral College votes, its kind of like favoritism and the voting ends up being not even and not justified. In the artical it says, "Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." To me, that is wrong because again, it is showing favoitism towards a small group of people. No one else gets anything, just those few people. Another line from the passage says, "Perhpas most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." If there happened to be a tie then the election would be thrown the House of Representatives where they would vote for the president. There's a different number of representatives for each stare and they differ from verry large to small ratios making it even more invaild and not right.  

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Do you think a world with driverless cars would be safe? Well, if you ask me, my answer is no. Let's look at my reasoning as to why. In the article we read, the author says that some car manufacturers are "bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays". I, for one, don't think "heads up displays" are a great idea. I mean, we may as well put mini televisions in the steering wheels while we're at it! In addition, GM's new vibrating seem less than lovely. Do you want your designated driver's seat massaging them to sleep? I most certainly do not. It just does not seem safe! Are we gonna start showering with the help of robots? I think taking away the privilege of driving is not good. It makes it seem like such a chore. What will teenagers look forward to? Where is the responsibility? Imagine how you felt when you finally turned and sixteen and got to get your hands on a wheel. It must be a feeling like no other! While it is a cool thought, we must really think these thing through, people! Think of the people who have jobs in public transportation. What will they do to support their families when they lose their job to a robot? Driverless can potentially ruin the lives of many. All in all, I think the negatives outweigh the positives in this situation. Say NO to driverless cars! In a world where everything operates itself, it's nice to have a little responsibility.

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Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth. Therefore, scientist seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value. 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. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditios by staying up and out of their way. At thirty plus miles above the surface, temperature would still be toasty at around 170 degrees, but the iar pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth. Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various form of life. Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on earth. Astronomers fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most Earth like planet in our solar system. Venusiam geology and weather presents additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent ligtning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even to Mercury is closer to our sun.

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The "face" on Mars wasn't created by martians. Because through disoveries in technology we have discovered that the "face" on mars is not a structure made to look like a human it is simply just a mesa. The evidence in the passage supports my thesis because it states that since the original photo was taken in 1976 when they were looking for the Viking 1's sister ship Viking 2 places to land they saw the "face" "NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face." NASA have been taking pictures and researching the "face". Their research has helped them come to the conclusion that it is a mesa and not a martian creation to look like a human face. Also they state here that new technology has helped them take better pictures "New high-resolution images and 3D altimetry from NASA’s Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa.". NASA shortly after discovering the "face" realized that it was just another martian mesa and the facial features that it had were just shadows as stated here "the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.". As I stated in the introduction the face on Mars is simply a mesa and not a martian creation and through the data in the passage I supported my answer that there is not an actual face on Mars.

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What is Venus? In paragraph one, Venus is the closest planet to earth and often they known as Earth's "Twin." And according to the article, Venus has the hottest surface temperature than any planet in our solar system. A thick atmoshphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Venus also has similar features to Earth. Such as Mountains, valleys, craters and others. According to the author, studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the troubles it may presents. In the article from paragraph five, The National Aeronautics and Space administration known as "NASA" has an interesting idea of sending humans to study more about Venus. They allow scientist to float above the fray while seeing the rolling Venusian landscape. Just as how jet airplanes fly at the higher attitude, passing the storms and also that way, they could stay safe far away from Venu's surface area. Since it is dangerous to be on Venus surface area, researchers could not take any samples of rock, or gas, or anything that's on the planet. In conclusion, it is a worthy exploration and it is somewhat important to learn more about Venus. So that way, we could also discover things that we haven't yet discover and study from it. As it said on the article, in the very last paragraph, Venus is challenging to all of us. Because not only the facts that it attracts scientist and researchers out there, it also lead human curiosity to explore more about it.

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In the article " Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. They both have a good argument wether it is a bad idea or a good idea to have driverless cars. I agree with it is a negative idea to have driverless cars. why do i think it's a negative idea to have a driverless car? First,It's expensive. Second, it could create more ruckus. Third, something bad could happen to the car and to the person, but we wouldnt know who to blame. One reason why i think it is a negative idea is because it is expensive. If a new human driving cars costs 20,000 thousand, think about how much a driverless car might cost. of course it will be more expensive. Also just fixing the car. If you have to fix and expensive car, just one body part might cost a thousand. Unless everbody suddenly becomes rich in the future, then not everybody would be able to afford a driverless car. Second, it could create more ruckus. In the text it stated, GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object." What if the diver gets use to the vibration and not wake up? Wouldn't that be a bad thing? What if the car lost self control? It would do more damage then the people driving the car themselves. Third, we wouldn't know who to blame if something happens. In the article it stated, "If technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault, the driver or the manufacturer?" If they don't know whose fault it is going to be then how will we know when we buy the car? It will be a waste of money if we buy things without them giving insurance if the cars fails because of technology. We should think carefully before buying expensive things like cars. Ultimately, having driverless cars is a negative idea. It is a negative idea because it's expensive for most people and they won't be able to afford it. It'll create more ruckus then people driving the car themselves. We wouldnt know what to do or who to blaem if technology fails. Even though there are positives thing when buying a driverless cars, I think the negative thing are more important to think about. We should think clearly before make driverless cars or buying one too.

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Dear state senator, The Electoral College should be changed to election by popular vote. I say this because, as successful as the Electoral College has been, it has many flaws. In the first sentence of the eleventh paragraph, the article mentions something called the disaster factor. This is an alarming possiblity. State legislatures are, in a way, responsible for choosing electors who may ignore the will of the people. During 1960, in the Louisiana legislature, people titled Segregationists almost succeeded in removing the Democratic electors and replacing them with new electors. These new electors were supposed to oppose John F. Kennedy so that any popular votes for Kennedy would not have really gone to him. If those Segregationists had succeeded in their plan, John F. Kennedy would not have won the popular vote. That was indeed a close call, and it could happen yet again in the near future without fail. On another similar topic, "faithless" electors have, from time to time, denied the option to vote for their party's candidate. Instead of voting for the candidate of their own party, they cast a vote for whomever they wish. Also occuring in 1960, a state sent two slates of electors to Congress. Vice President Richard Nixon validated only his opponent's electors. Thankfully, he was presiding over the Senate at the time. He made sure to validate the slate of his choosing "without establishing a precedent.", as stated in paragraph eleven, sentence 9. Hopefully, this will not occur again anytime soon. The most worrying occurance would be a tie. However, if a tie were to happen in an electoral vote, the election would be thrown towards the House of Representatives. There, the state delegations vote on the president. In 1976, a tie would have happened if 5,559 voters from Ohio and 3,687 voters from Hawaii had voted the other way. This is bad because the election is only a few voters away from a distaster. In conclusion, the Electoral College is not only unfair, but outdated and irrational. It should be shifted from the way it is now to total amount of popular votes for the president of the United States.

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Scientists wants to keep on exploring venus even tho it is dangerous. One reason I think they should is because they should get information about things they brealy know about. My second reason is because they might find someuseful things if they keep on studing it. My last reason is because it might not be as dangerous as people make it out to be. These are some reason why scientist should keep studing venus. In addition I do think that the scientist should keep studying venus for some of these reasons. Reason one is because of the information that they can find id they keep looking into it. My second reason is that they might find some useful information if they keep studing the plant. My last reason is because it might not turn out to be a dangerous place as people say it is. In conclusion I do think its a good idea for people to keep studing venus. My first reason was because it could give the scientist more information on the plant. My second reason was they might find some useful information that coild help them. My last reason was venus might not be a dangerous place as people make it out to be. So i think this is why some scientist should study venus more.

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In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author explained many reasons why studying Venus would be helpful and advantageous to us as humans and scientists. Especially since Venus is the planet most like Earth, this would benefit Earth's knowledge at how we could study and explore Venus and grasp the research it would reveal. In Paragraph 8, the aouthor wrote, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value..." This quote means that Venus is valuable, yet challenges face the journey. In Paragrpah 4, the author compared how Venus was like Earth a long time ago. The author described how Venus seemed to possess analogous features to our planet, like valley, mountains, and craters, except the long time frames to Venus are a crucial consideration. " The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable...," though in Paragraph 5 the authour explained how NASA had a possible solution for the problem of traveling safely and Venus's hostile conditions. NASA introduced an idea of a blimp-like vehicle hovering over Venus; the vehicle would remain floating above Venus's surface to remain away from the storms. Even though Venus has unavoidable dangers, for exmaple, the erupting volcanoes and powerful earthquakes explained in Paragraph 3, we will come prepared for the challenge. Paragraph 7 states that NASA is working on different approaches as to how to study Venus so far off the ground. Safe in the hovercraft and away from the high pressure and heat and sporadic lightning strikes, scientists discoverd there was no possible way to collect the samples of rock, gas, or any component of Venus without getting out. The scientists sought to conduct a mission to bust the bubble of safety dispute the risks. Simplified electronics made of silicon carbide were tested to have withstood the chaotic surface of Venus for up to three weeks. Mechanical computers would also serve an important role now, just like in the 1940s, by making calculations with gears and levers that do not require electronics at all. Overall, the point made across by the author of this passage was that even though studying Venus will definitely bring problems and challenges, there are loopholes and many ways to solve the solutions. Science is worth the risks, especially since it is for our planet and can better our understanding, so finding ways around the problem, and even facing them head on are our only solutions better comprehend Venus, and other planets in our solar system as well.

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Car free cities can have a advantage due to being able to get from point A to point B without causing any harm to the enviroment, but the price is risky to have a car, in some countries, your better without a car. Such as in "In German suburb, life goes on without cars"By Elisabeth Rosenthal. And in "Paris bans driving due to smog". By Robert Duffer. German residents in VAUBAN are know as "suburb pioneers" because of them not having any motor vehicles. An additional affect is that in order to put your car in a parking garage it will cost you an additional $40,000 along with a house. Another in paris "almost 4,000 drivers were fined for 22-euro $31 U.S dollars, 27 people had there cars impounded for their reaction to the fine". An extra effect was that  the city had "cold nights and warm days causing the warmer layer of air to trap car emission". In another passage they show that in Bogata,Columbia "millions of Columbians hiked,biked, skated, or took buses leaving the capital city free of traffic jams". It was the third straight year says the Author:Andrew Selsky,"cars had been banned in order to set there goal to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog". The day without cars was part of a campaign in the mid 1990s. Another source by Elisabeth Rosenthal was "The End of Car Culture" showing and sharing information that in America recent studies show that people in America are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer license, Car free cities have a positive affect around everyone by helping reduce air pollution like smog,and to avoid injuries from traffic jams.             

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Who would have knew that technology what be so advance that it would be able to detect our emotions. Recent techology has been made to detect an humans basic emotions just by facial expressions we make. This new software is something that can be valuable in a classroom. The facial action coding system is a software used in computers that dectects a persons feelings. this software can dectect the feeling of sadness, anger, fear, happiness, surprise, and disgust. In " Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author gives example of how this software dectects ones emotion. It states, " your frontails pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surpried; your orbicularis oris ( around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger." Behavior analysis is a big part of what is software does and it's something we do everydayto tell when a friend is sad or angery. FACS should be used in a classroom for multiple reasons. This software will be able to detect when a student is having a hard time with the work they are doing so the software will change the difficalty of th work. In "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the article states, " "A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming bored or confused," Dr. Huang predicts. " Then it can modify the lesson, like an effective human instuctor." " This would make things a lot easier for the student to understand what they are being taught. Having the software will make it a lot easier for the teacher. The teacher wont be able to tell if the student is having a hard time unless he / she tells them. Having the software the students won't have to tell the teacher if they are having trouble and FACS will help the teacher. A teacher has an average of 18 students in each class, making it hard to focus on one student at a time. So FACS would help the teachers and the students a lot. Who would have knew that making a facial expression of fustration at a computer would help you learn easier. Or make your job a little bit less hard. Well thanks to FACS software it can.

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Cars are a big deal in our everyday society. We use cars all the time because they are what get us from place to place. As we go further into the future, more improvements on cars are being made each day. One major invention is the driverless car. The development of the driverless car is a good thing because it is convenient, safe, fuel-saving, and beneficial to our knowledge on cars. Many people are always needing to travel from place to place and don't always want to drive. It's more convenient to just hitch a ride from someone such as a friend or a taxi. But sometimes those aren't always the most convenient options. Taxi drivers could take someone anywhere or your friend could be under the influence. Driverless cars are safer because they could take you where you need to go safely. They are also more convenient because sometimes people could be impaired and unable drive, so they would just have a driverless car pick them up instead. This way, it is convenient for people to travel without worrying if they are going to be safe or not. A main factor in people buying cars is if they are safe. According to the article on Driverless Cars Are Coming, these independent cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash. People could be safer in a driverless car than with someone driving a car. Safety is a huge deal in our society and people buying cars want what's best for them and their families. If driverless cars are safer, companies will have good sales and produce better profit. This way, the economy is being benefitted and so is society. In the world today, we try to conserve our resources as much as possible. Fuel is a major resource that is used to power a lot of things in everyday life. By using driverless cars, we would limit our use of fuel to half of what taxis use, and that is phenomenal. Inventions like the driverless car can lead to preserving resources. Conserving our resources is an important thing we need to do, and fundamental developments like the driverless car can help us achieve our goal in doing that. The research on these cars is significant for people in the future. Many years ago we would have never known all the important things about technology that we know today. By researching and testing the technology of the driverless car, we have produced more efficient knowledge for the future. Driverless cars need sensors to operate similar to a human driving the car, which is important to creating cars. Without researching and inventing these important products, we wouldn't have half the knowledge on cars that we have today. Driverless cars are beneficial to us because they are convenient, safe, fuel-saving, and important to our knowledge on cars. Driverless cars can help people in society and people in the future. The development of these cars can influence people to create even bigger things in the future and that is incredible. The future is brighter than it has ever been, and the development of such a product has made this possible. The future is bright and driverless cars have led us further down the road to creating newer, better inventions.

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The challenge of exploring Venus showed a great amount of evidence to support both opinions, supportive of the idea or not. As we lnow venus is 170 degrees on the surface but ships can take it. Then theres the fact that no spacecrafts sent by humans has ever lasted more than a few hours on the surface of venus. there is a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets on venus, and even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in venus's atmospher. Venus distance wise is a time consuming yet possible feet. Venus and mars are the closest neighboring plants to us and Venus more than mars shows there could have been life long ago on this planet. Venus consists of valleys, mountian ranges, craters , and many believe oceans once inhabited this planet. Talks of NASA doing a human ran investigation thirty miles aboves venus to do reaserch. NASA belives that Venus has not easy condistions but survivable for humans. There has been talks of even sending people down there to do research in the future and that could go bad knowing the knowledge you have on this planet. the challenges would be very intimidating and unpredictable. In the end these talks on further exploring Venus is very intresting and inthink is should be done at the right place and the right time. Us as humans are curious creatures and should have all the knowledge we can gather on these forigne planets before human exploration. A lot of questions un answered and a lot to answer.

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The face on mars was not made by aliens or anything else. The details from from the old camera made it look like a face because it was blurry. They told people about the face and showed to help make money for Nasa. it was made naturally from volcanoes and other things like sand storms. It would be impossible for aliens to do it from this distance and make it look that much like it from a bad camera. The detail from the camera made it look that way because we didnt have the best technology back then than we do now. Also, each year we got better technology and it started to make it look less like a face each time. In the story before paragraph one it show pictures of each year they took a pic of it and it slowly became less of a face. Once we got better technology it made stuff much easier for us to see and tell if it was made or it was just a coincidence. Next, nasa told everyone about there discover and that made a lot of new movies and magizines come out from it. they wanted money so in paragraph five they talk all about it and about how they wanted stuff to happen. People thought they were trying to hide somethings about aliens making the faces as proof. The people wanted know a lot about this and waited for the pictures to come up on a website and many was disappointed. After, that face is made out of it sand and mostly rock from volcanos when they burst into flames and creates land forms. The wierd shadowing is comeing from all the sand around them and makes slight shadowing on the face to make it look like a face. it took many years for them to find something like this and then they realized it was just a landform. The only way for smoething like that to happen is by luck not aliens because aliens didnt do anything here or on mars. the sun was a big helper in making the face because nothing could cause that shadowing to happen on mars. I know that some people beleive that aliens are real and some people don't beleive in aliens. I kind of get why people think that in the first place because what possibly can creat such huge thing that looks like an humans face. All you have to do is think about it because it is impossible for there to be aliens around us. We are to far away from other life to be found by aliens; there are trillions of trillions of stars with more planets by them. The possability of them finding us so fast is merely unbelievably impossible in my opinion. So aliens did not make the pyramids on earth and they did not make the face on mars . Lastly, the face on mars did not get created by aliens; it was created by nature. The only reason we thought we saw a face is because of the old camera that couldn't see it without blurring stuff out. the main reason they told people about the face is just to make some money for nasa in the first place. The face is not made out of metal or some alien material because all it is made out of is rock and the red sand that is on that planet. That is why aliens didn't make it because they couldn't of because they aren't real.

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In the past, owning a car has been very beneficial and very efficient in order to go about our daily lives. In the past few years, however, people are buying less and less cars and taking the train or bike to get around. All this has been brought up by environmental conditions some countries have had to deal with recently. There are advantages to having a car, but there are more advantages without one. Driving cars allow people to get from point A to point B in a matter of minutes, but this harms the environment drastically. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe... and up to 50 percent in some car-intesive areas in the United States" (Rosenthal, paragraph 5, Source 1). These emissions can cause major damage not just to one location but the whole planet overall."Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London, Reuters found" (Duffer, Paragraph 17, Source 2). Smog has caused a problem in Paris recently, having more smog than other major Western European cities. "Diesels make up 67 percentof vehicles in France, compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of Europe, according to Reuters" (Duffer, paragraph 16, Source 2). Paris and other cities like it are faced with a huge environmental problem. Later on , however, Paris put a plan in to stop all of these emissions. On one day, motorists with even-numbered license plates had to leave their car at home or face a 31$ fine. The next day would be the odd-numbered plates. Congestion went down 60 percent, allowing the French ruling party to cancel the ban of odd-numbered plates on the next day. With this decreased use of cars, many cities are reforming the suburbs, such as Vauban, Germany. "Vauban's streets are completely 'car-free'..." (Rosenthal, paragraph 2, Source 1). In result to this change, less carbon is being emitted while providing a safe and secure environment for the families that live there. Another city who has made a similar change like Vauban is the city of Bogota in Colombia. "It was the third straight year cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for the Day Without Cars in this capital city of 7 million" (Andrew Selsky, Paragraph 21, Source 3). The goal of this event is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Here in the United States, car sales and the amount of people getting a driver's license has diminished. "...the Internet makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends... Likewise, the rise in cellphones and car-pooling apps has facilitated more flexible commuting arrangements, including shared van services for getting to work" (Elisabeth Rosenthal, Paragraph 35, Source 4). So even though we may not realize it, technology has allowed us to stay connected without having to burn gas and harm the environment while trying to go to your friend's house. These efforts to decrease the use of cars have been a success in the amount of people participating and the beneficial effects to the environment, like Paris and the decreasing amount of smog. As countries start to realize the amount of cars and emissions they produce, projects have gone in to make city streets more accessible for alternative vehicles. "...stores are placed a walk away, on a main street, rather than in malls along some distant highway" (Elisabeth Rosenthal, Paragraph 6, source 1). This approach forces people to walk or ride a bike instead of driving a car into the city center. "...uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks...rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic..." (Andrew Selsky, Paragraph 28, Source 3). In conclusion, there have been many efforts in order to promote alternative ways of transportation into cities . In conclusion, the advantages of limiting car usage include the decreased emissions of carbon into the atmosphere, the use of alternative transportation through exercise, and the reformation of cities to become safer with easier access to certain shops and venues. As time goes on, awareness of greenhouse gases and carbon emissions increases, and more and more things are done in order to stop the diminishing of our environment.  

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Car accidents are one of the leading causes of death in America. With driverless cars, these accidents would be far less frequent. They have faster reflexes than any human. Also, once they are fully developed, accidents resulting from texing and consumption of alcohol will be a thing of the past. In 1980, speed sensors were put on the wheels of cars to create antilock brakes. Since then, they have been further developed to sense dangerous situations and react to them. They can apply brakes and reduce engine power in a much faster manner than any human could. As this technology develops, cars will become much safer and more capable of handling situations on their own. Most car accidents are caused by human fault. People consume alcohol, use drugs, are distracted by their phones, eat, and sometimes simply don't pay attention. With driverless cars, these things wouldn't be an issue. When driverless cars become fully developed, people can endeavor in whatever mindless activity they choose and not hurt anyone on the road. Road rage will become less of a problem. Speeding will be a thing of the past as well as many other traffic violations. Driverless cars are a great idea. They will make the road a safer place and will be more convenient for people who like to multitask. The judicial system won't have to waste time and money dealing with traffic violations. All around, these would be benficial and I can't wait for them to be a part of our everyday lives.

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In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", the author makes really good points on how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System can benefit us in the future. In the article, Nick D'Alto makes a few points on how this new technology can benefit students in a classroom. Having this new technology in the classroom would be great so teachers can detect wether their students are bored or tired. Having a Facial Action Coding System will benefit an ordinary classroom in various ways. In the text it states," A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," This shows that if the students get confused or bored then it'll instruct the teacher who will then explain it to the student or make the lesson seem more interesting. This is important because it can help teachers out when they teach a new lesson. In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System will benefit classrooms all across the globe. It'll be able to detect the students' emotions and report the information back to the teacher. Then the teacher will then know how their students feel about the curriculum and if they need extra help or not.

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Dear State Senator, My name is PROPER_NAME and I am in favor of changing to election by a popular vote for the president of the United States. I believe that the people should have more of a say in who runs our nation and I also believe that we might be a better nation if we were the ones who decided who ran it. The Electoral College does not let the people of the nation speak, 538 electors speak for the billions in the United States of America. Also, if the electors vote and the results come out to be a tie, the election now has to be put into the hands of the House of Representatives. Being as there is only one vote from each state allowed the results will probably not reflect the choices and wishes of the people. The Electoral College is an old compromise the was made by the founding fathers, but some changes have to be made to fit the modern times and ways. With the way society is built now changes to some of the political aspects of the country have to be made. Although the Electoral College has its pros, such as its setup for if a tie is made, there are more cons in the situation. So with that I am asking that you think about the people and try to change some of the ways of the United States political system. Sincerely, PROPER_NAME

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There is a lot of things people want to do in this world. Usually people would want to just go to a beatiful place but reading this passage theres a different goals going on in this passage and in life. When I had started reading this passage I hadn't known that much about the planet venus at all. I knew in my head deep down that venus is closer to the sun. Deep down its scary to think that someone wants to go to that planets its so hot on the planet and there a lot of dangerous and unhabitable things going on there. An example of what goes in venus would be there being a heat wave of 110 degree's farenheit. Venus would be 8 times more heat than that of earth and thats just the climate that is on that planet. In one of the passages it had that '' If our sister planet is so inhospitable, Why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface?'' I would say that scientists want to explore more planets because they want to see what is out there in space even though the risks. The thought about going to a different planet has been in scientists head for a long time so doing so would be a huge accomplishment done by us. One of the goals the scientistes want to do is inhabit venus because it was once like earth time-ago. I would say that there is a lot of goals in this passage and in life, I had talked about somewhat the goals in this essay. The passage was good and interesting learning all the thing that I had read.

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Venus is a strange planet, not only seen as a strange planet but also as a risky, planet in which scientists and researchers are trying to land on. The fact that the author say that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger is because venus is the closest planet to earth, so it may contains some news and important things that scientist or human haven't discovered yet,and for the fact that venus is the closest planet to earth make people get excited to visit it, (also contains analogous things), the fact that visiting venus is also a despite danger is because venus is the hottest planet in the world with a temperature of 800 degrees.Which a kind of this amount of temperature can cause erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent litghting strikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface. one thing is sure, venus is one of the challenging and difficult thing for scientist or researchers to study and know about,for the reason that they are not allowed to bring samples of rock, gas, or anything else there(in venus), cause it can cause serious damage. but also a planet that contains important information especially for scientist and may add a big importance to the science and the study of the earth. The hope is that maybe one day the researchers and scientist find the solution to make it to venus with safety and protection.

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Have you heard the scoop about "driverless cars" yet? well many powerfull people in the world actually are. They actually have some very good points about them, but there always is a bad in every good too. First I'll explain the good fetures about these driverless cars in my opinion or "position" if you will. these cars are very good for using the telephone while driving. Also if you would like to eat a snack or have the ability to be mobile inside your car you can.Many people have a hard time getting around because of there limit to things they could do in their past such as one exzample as navigation. Another good feature about these cars are the gas ability is less. There also is sensors that allow the car to be able to detect when there is danger of an accident around. Those are just a few of the good features of the driverless cars. Next i would like to share some of the bad features of the driverless car in my opinion or "position" if you will. I believe that one of the biggest arguments twoards these cars is accident responsibility. Many manufacturers will become upset and astonished when it is their heads on the line if i may. They dont want anything to do with the causes of accidents made either by the cars or the drivers. The people want to blame others but themselves for the accident causes. Thats just how the world is today. Some other reasons that really affect these cars are that poeple have said things like, "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver"? and these questions need to be answered. The people most likely would get bored and tired of waiting around all day waiting for the car to need to be assisted and i agree with that. Also this is just a start to a completely far ahead future, and nobody can predict it. Those are just a few of the bad reaons about the driverless car. So there you have it, now that you kindave have an idea about these driverless cars many people can do the reaserch on them more and really dig deep into what many powerfull people in the world are saying about these cars.

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Venus could have been just like earth a long time ago with life on it, but it has changed and is now to hot for humans or anthing to be on the planet. In the text it says," Long ago , Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." In many ways venus is just like Earth becuase it has all these features just like Earth. The only thing different now is that the planet is alot hotter and has acid. The planet Venus is alot like earth because it has rocky features and it used to have oceans, it just so hot more then 170 degrees Fahrenheit. The text in the artical says," The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as vallys, mountains, and craters." Which in terms is just like another Earth. Venus has changed and became very different from Earth over the years, but it is still the closet planet in our solar system of being like Earth. Venus is a hot planet. yes, it isnt as close to the earth as other planet but it is still a very hot one, hotter then some of the planets that are close to the sun. Even high above the surface of Venus the temptures are crazy high. The text says," At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatues would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." The pressure on Venus is so high that if someone would put a submarine onto it, it could get crushed. That could be on of the reasons that NASA has not sent any human subject to Venus. Going to Venus, NASA has sent probes and robots to Venus. But never any human subjects. Why? Well the pressure on Venus is way to high and would probably crush any human if they did not have the right gear on. It is also very hot way hotter then tempures you see here on earth. Which in case would be miserable for many human to bare on another planet. At the end of the day human kind still wants to go to Venus and it coming up with ways too. In the text it says," Striving to meet the challenges presented by Venus has value, not only becuase of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also becuase human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." the people thing that will get to Venus one day, it may not be today or tomorrow. But techinally changes every day and ti would be in the near future that onday a human will step foot onto Venus. No one should have doubt of going somewhere becuase of the dangers or the doubts of getting there, but should be thriving off the idea and imagination of what is out there, and what could be held for man kind. "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to mrrt the very edges of imagination and innovation."

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A claim that the author uses is that there are allot of different kinds of percents that affect different things at different ways. Another reason for exploring Venus is that they try to look at different kinds of atmospheres at different times to see if anything has changed overtime. One explanation about the evidence is that they all try to complete everything that they try to do and they do it in a good way so that nothing bad will happen. The last thing about Exploring Venus is that they all have to meet the challenges and accomplish the challenge to have new challenges happen so they could do those to. Venus has allot of dangerous things happening there because of how much light it has coming. Venus is the closest plamnet to Earth. No other spaceships has landed on Venus for allong time.Venus has the hottest planet surface. Venus has more things that Earth doesn't have.NASA has found out how to send people to go to Venus with a hovering vehicle. All the challenges has value when you get it done correctly.

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Venus is considered the Earth's twin because of it's similar size to the Earth and how close it is. However we can not send a spacecraft on Venus because of it's dangerous environment that doesn't possible for humans to land in. The author supports the idea that studying Venus is worthy despite the dangers by explain how there's interest in Venus, the dangerous factors in Venus's environment, and how scientist are trying understand Venus. Despite having unhabitable conditions, Astromoners are interested of how Venus used to be the earth-like planet in the solar system. In the fourth paragraph the author states, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." These raises the possibilitly that we could travel to Venus since it's geostructure and atmosphere used to be so similiar to Earth's. The author explains that while that dangers in studying Venus, these factors present more of a challenge for human-space activity. In the article, the author states that Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is close to our sun. Beyond high pressure and heat, Venisian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting Volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on it's surface." However the author also states, "Striving to meet the challenge presentted by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The authors explains that while Venus's environment may not be survivable for humans but we let our travel into space be limited by the dangers of one planet. Finally, author explains that reseachers are working and innovating to make it possible for us to study Venus. In paragraph 7, the authors states, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted three weeks in such conditions. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers." Reseachers are conducting experiment to see if we have resources that handle the conditions of Venus's surface how we can use old technology to help us on the journey. While the journey to travel to Venus may prose dangerous, the author supports that Venus is worth the pursuit by explaining the motivation for explorating Venus, how the dangerous environment may prove to be a challenge and how researchers are working on innovations to help us understand Venus.

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Dear Florida Senator, The Electoral College system is unfair and irrational. Some people would say that the process is more practical than a popular vote, but after some of the mistakes involving the system, it would be more accurate than popular vote. Bradford Plumer brings up in his article The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong the incident of 2000 (otherwise known as Bush v. Gore.) Over sixty percent of voters wanted a direct election instead of the Electoral College. Electors can always defy the wishes of the people. IN 1960 segregationists almost succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would opposed John F. Kennedy. Electors have refused to vote for their party' candidate before and have just chosen their own to vote for. Source one says that in most states there is a winner-take-all system meaning that if one elector gets a majority of votes, then all of the states electoral votes go to that candidate. This is unfair to the voters. If there is only a 100 vote difference and the one with the most gets the electoral votes. The presidential candidates do not even visit the states they know they have no chance in winning. In the election of 2000 neither Rhode Island nor South Carline saw the candidates. The Electoral College system has flaws. Such as the incidents involving electors and the unfairness of winner-take-all. It is unfair and irrational.  

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Self driving cars are a step into the future that is vital. For so long we have had to put up with the hassle of driving from place to place that it sometimes gets old. Self driving cars are more than just for acomidation or a fine example of how well off you are, they help with many things such as scientific understanding of computerization, fuel consumption and waste, as well as those who are visually impared or have any other kind of dissability that prevent them from driving. We as a nation must work together to bring notice to the regulaters who will not allow testing of Self atonomous driving cars because without the testing we will not be able to help that pregnant neighbor get to the hispital to deliver her baby in time, or help our grand parents get to a crucial doctors appointment, or simiply enjoy the clean and emmition free enviroment with our very own family. These and many other things are possible if we bring attention to regulaters and let car manufacturers work together to come up with the perfect car. I'm not saying it will be easy or quick because that is simpily not true, but together and with our needs we can make it happen. We really do need self drving cars it is only a process of advancement that should not be taken out of the equation of scientific evolution.

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Should we keep the Electoral College? Dear state senator, i been reading all these arguments on whether we should keep the Electoral College or not. My opinion is, that we should most definitly keep it. We can avoid run off elections, there could be a great outcome, although we dont pick who gets to be president, we're still picking so people can elect that one president. But that's just my opinion. So please read on and just look into it. Mr. Senator sir, did you know that in "1968 the election of nixon and in 1992 the election of Clinton both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College (301 and 370 electoral votes, respectively). That's pressure for a run off elections... when no canidate wins a majority of that votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, which on the other hand if they had gone with the Electoral College that would have invariably produced a clear winner" I read that off of an article. Now that sounds pretty reasonable to me Senator sir. You wouldn't want to complicate an election just because of something little would you now? American population did vote in 2012's election but voters in presidential elections are peopls who want to express a political prefernece than the people who think that a single vote of theirs might decide an election. Think about that sir. Don't you ever think to compare what the outcomes would be if we voted a certain way? Well if you went with the Electoral College you would have a certainty of an outcome senator, like for example in 2012's election, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes. Almost all the states award the electoral votes on a winner takes all. The Electoral College requires a presedential candidate to have a trans regional appeal. Whoever wins the election its going to be everyone's president so why not pick the best guy for the job. The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance in that large states by popukation. Although we might not particularly be voting for the presidents but for the people who vote for him we are techanically still voting for him thats just one of the cons about this. That's why people are argueing in the first place, some people know that we don't vote for the president himself just the people he chose to elect him. Other peopls think that yeah we do vote for him that they want other people to know that they're a republican and what not , but that isnt the point. The point is that we need someone good enough to run our country! Not just to show that theyre republicans or democrats. That is my opinion on which process to go on for electing president. you might get other people's opinion but I think its better if we just use the Electoral College process. It wont complicate things for you or anyone else. It is a clearer way of showing who has one the election and who hasn't. This process would make life way easier , and it won't waste more time that shouldnt be wasted! So Mr. Senator sir, look into that process.  

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