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203dcec | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of cars that drive themselves. Although, there are bountieous reasons why driverless cars are a good thing, there are also myriads of reasons as of why this could also be a bad thing. From upgrading roads to the invasion of privacy, driverless cars are not looking too good for the future.
The article mentioned "many futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday wasn't so much smarter cars as smarter roads." What that piece is stating is in order to have smart cars or driverless cars the U.S will require "massive upgrades," hence the mention of smart roads.
The roads will need to have built in radio signals to send messages, in binary code, to the car, to alert the car of road conditions or any problems. In response to knowing this the author states that this was "simply too expensive to be pratical." So now that smart roads are out of the question, it is up to technology to teach the car human skills.
Technology is being used to help the cars "mimic the skill of a human at the wheel," as the article states. It has the proper sensors, but sensors alone could not possibly be enough. According to the article the cars are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills. Everything about driving a car on the road is a human skill, not to mention technology is known to have loop holes and gaps hidden throughout it. Statistics most likely shows that there are many ways to hack into the technology and change how a company programs their product to work. If it is not being hacked into, technology and the internet is also known to malfunction often, which could lead to innumerable amounts of incidents.
Another concern with driverless cars is invasion of privacy. The article mentions that while the driver watches the road, the car will be watching the driver. An issue with that would be that if the footage gets out and private information is shown in the footage will the company be held responsible. This could cause issues as identity theft and more to rise. Wanting to be sure that drivers are focusing on the road is one thing, but if it causes a stir with privacy that could potentionally be bad for the car companies and the people in charge.
My position of driverless cars is no technology could drive a car better than humans. Driving is a human activity, it started with humans and should end the same way. I do agree the world would use less gas, but I don't believe it is quite as safe as it seems. There are countries and people who are already in debt, we should be trying to help them out before we try to spend billions on smart roads. We also can not just rely on technology to keep us safe, there are already an aboundant amount of technology malfunctions going on, adding this to the equation would not help. Lastly, one that will probably have more of a concern with everyone would be privacy, I do not believe most people would feel safe knowing they are being watched as they are driving, and knowing that fact could even possibly make them unfocused. Driverless cars was a good idea, but I personally do not believe that anyone is ready for them. | 34
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5cdef55 | Dear State Senator,
I feel a need to adress that changing election by popular vote for the president of the United States over keeping electoral votes is, in my opinion, better for the people because it brings the U.S's people together in many ways.
The people of the U.S deserve to make great decisions like these, on account of the fact that us, the people, make most of what we have in America today, and though we work hard and may have fights sometimes, we still make choices together,voting being one of them, and this unifies us even more. Allowing this will bring a sense of unification . We already consider doing selfless acts just to make peace. Example: Our taxes pay doctors', polices', etc. salaries. We at least deserve to decide who enforces laws.
Another thing, to begin this reasoning let this question be asked: What is the government doing right now, this very moment? Who really knows, for sure? Not us. The people of the U.S really haven't an honest clue what's really going on behind the government, so it wouldn't be too wise for us to entrust the government into completely making every decision, decisions in which we could perfectly make ourselves. So it not only gives us, the people, a sense of unification, it also gives a sense of direction so that we feel that we are not being blindly controlled by the government.
To commence the third reasoning let another question be asked: First, say for example that you work a double-shift, full-time, day and night just to keep food on your childrens' and wifes' plate, clothes on their backs, and a roof over their heads. When the bills roll in, your paycheck isn't won't arrive for weeks and you still haven't enough to pay, so you may have to work overtime if possible or pick up another job. No one gets rich off the government clearly, and yet we work so hard to just make it. Now here's the question: Doesn't it all feel worth it when the paycheck come in? Okay now for the deeper question: What is the sense or feeling you specifically get when you see you happy families' faces? Now for the point: Our work pays off. We work for the government (at least most of us does) together, whether to put bread on the table or otherwise. Now wouldnt it give us that sense of freedom that us hard workers get to make great decisions like these? It would. All of these things bring us together more than we might even think, whether its families, friends, or just us as a nation.
To conclude all of the reasonings of arguing to change election to popular vote for the president of the U.S which are the sensation of unification, direction, and freedom, I'd be obliged to state that this is just one thing that finally unifies and brings the U.S's people together. Those three senses that this gives us is a seemingly small, yet great difference. And even though most don't realize it, it's definitely there. | 23
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098c450 | The Seagoing Cowboys program is a wonderful program. I really liked this article it gave me a lot of information about this program. The Seagoing Cowboys program is a helpful program. I think other people should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I will give you some reasons to support my opion.
One reason is they are very caring, because World War II ended, and it is 1945 and many countries were messed up from the war. so 44 nations joined together to help it's called the UNRRA, the UNRRA hired the Seagoing Cowboys. So they both were helping these countries. So that is a reason why you should join because they are caring. Another reason is they go across the world to help countries. So when you think about you can go on tours to some places across the world and go sight seeing, so that is pretty cool. Last reason is just doing the right thing it is a very caring and helpful program to help innocent people who were not in the war, that died and houses got damage. so it is a helpful thing to do and fun thing to join.
some details that support luke claims is in paragraph 5 it says that one of the boys in the smalltown said besides helping people he had time to see Europe and China so like luke said it's not only just helping people you have time to go on tours of places in some of these different countries that you never ever seen that place before and go on a tour of that place in that country. Another detail is in paragraph 8 it says that it is fun on board coming back because they played baseball, volleyball, table-tennis tournaments,and a few other games so joining will be fun because when you are on board or on the ship you can play games.
So that is all I have. I think people should really recommend participating in
Seagoing Cowboys program beacuse I think it is a wonderful program. I agree with Luke point of view you should convince others to participate in this program. It helps others and yourself. I would participate in this program if I could. | 12
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d3eed9a | If you want to help take care of animals whose countries were destroyed during World War II then come be apart of the program
Come be apart of the seagoing Cowboys program. You can take care of horses and other animals that need help while others are fighting overseas. And we will travel around the world! You will be feeding the animals giving them hay, oats, and water. You will also have to make the stalls are cleaned and not dirty. The will need to check on them every now and then to make sure they are ok. And then we try to find a place for the animals to be housed and taking care of. And you will be grateful that you did this. You will get to visit other countries and lands that were destroyed by world war and help all these animals.
That is why you should join the seagoing Cowboys program!
Thank you for reading. | 12
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757a6c3 | Hi my name is Luke Bomberger, I am a Seagoing Cowboy. We need new recruits. Being a Seagoing Cowboy is a onece in a life time chance that most people never get. You're not one of those people. I am here giving you a chance to become one of us. I know you're probably thinking to yourself ,"why should I do that?" or "what is a seagoing cowboy?" Well before I was here, I was working two part time jobs when a good friend of mine invitted me to come onto a cattle boat with him so I did.You'll be amazed at what we can do and what this job can teach you!
A Seagoing Cowboy is when peopel get on boats or ships with animals such as, horses,sheep e.c.t. We take the animals and the food to the destination and drop them off. Now it may sound "lame" or "boring" but it actually is fun and interesting. You play some games with your shipmates,when we go to a destination for example, Greece you could go sight seeing or just walk around but we do not have to get on the ship directly after work is done! We get to have loads of fun. Which is why you should become a Seagoing Cowboy!!
When or if you decide to join me and my friends you should know what exaclty you're getting into. So we'll start with where we go. We go all around the world for a matter of fact, we've been to Greece, China, New Orleans, Venice,Europe, and we saw the Panama Canal.Some advantages of being one is that , one of course you get to travel to so many places and see and experiance so many new things.You meet awesome people who will become life long friends.Not only that but the pays not bad either.
In all you get to have me as a caption which is an automatic plus, you get good money, you are helping others and you get to travel for free with amazing people who can teach you incredable things about life.
If you still haven't signed up i think you're crazy. This is your lastchance for the best adventure of your life with memories that will never leave you.I am glad that i was able to recruit si many young people who want to help out in the world.Thank you so much and remember all of the good things that will come when you sign up to be a Seagoing Cowboy. | 23
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5736882 | The Facial Action Coding System would not be very useful in the classroom because most teachers do not change their lesson just because one of their students is confused or bored, the FACS is not even able to read past the basic six emotions so it will not know when a student is bored or confused, and most teachers do not use computers all the time or even at all in class.
Teachers do not change their lesson when one of their students is bored or confused. Everyone that has been in school is well aware of this. Most teachers do try to make it less boring and more fun if multiple students are feeling the same and they do try to explain things better for those that are confused. A computer that "senses" when a student is becoming bored or confused, will not be able to do the same and have the same result. The FACS could help the computer see that a student is becoming bored and modify the lesson, but how much help would that be? People learn better when other people are there to explain things. A computer cannot provide the same effect.
According to the fourth sentence in paragraph three, the FACS only knows how to read the six basic emotions-- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Meaning that the FACS would not actually be able to tell if the user or student is bored or confused. If the program cannot actually sense those two emotions, how will it be able to modify lessons for students to learn a little better without being confused? In paragraph four, it does mention how the software can identify "mixed emotions" but it would ot be very helpful for those two considering that they are harder to tell by just looking at someone's face when it is better to ask.
Most teachers do not use computers in class often. Sometimes, they do not use them at all. Unless the students are in a typing class or a program coding class, teachers for other subjects rarely use computers outside of taking tests or doing projects. They rarely ever trust a computer to teach their lessons for them. That is why they are called "teachers". So the FACS software program would merely go to waste.
The Facial Action Coding System would not best suit being in classrooms since the teachers do not change their lessons so the computers should not either, humans express way more than just six emotions and a computer would not be able to detect them all, and very few teachers actually have full computers in their classrooms to help them teach instead of small laptops or just very little technology altogether. | 34
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fbd60ab | Driverless cars are a great idea in concept, but they may be further off then we expect in the masses. While cars that are capable of driving themselves do exist, they rely on the driver to be attentive. The cars are good in concept but lack in the areas of econimic availability, self control under its own awareness, and the possibility of a human driver taking over the reigns at a bad opportunity.
Now, save for the upper middle and upper class, the cost of a car is generally too high for someone in the middle to lower middle class to even think about purchasing a brand new car. Newer model cars are expensive enough from common brands like Chevy, Dodge, and Ford. The manufactures like Mercedes-Benz, Audi and some newer sport-class Nissans are too high to even think about. The idea of a car like that would be just a dream to some people. Who knows how much a self aware car would go for. The amount of programming and man hours it would take to get the car going does not even surmount to the possible costs of maintenence. You could take the mechanics already aware of the technology and upcharge everyone just because you get greedy, or you could take small shop mechanics and force them to understand new concept and possibly even invest in new technology. After that, what about the accidents. Imagine you total you brand new smartest car. Who is to say that your insurance will even have a policy if you become one of the few first people to own the smartest car. With inflation, it only makes things worse. All in all, economically, the "smartest" car may not be your smartest choice.
One of the subjects I plan on touching on is the cars capability of driving itself in the first place. Now, I know the author brought up the point that while there is "Traffic Jam Assistant" from BMW the author very well shows that this is still somewhat a ways away from being capable of driving itself. The full self-awareness of a car is the suspected dream in my eyes, so the Traffic Jam Assistant by BMW is not necessarily a step in the wrong direction, but rather a baby step into the foothold of what will, possibly be, fully automated and self driving cars. While I do not necessarily agree with the full development of mass quantities of smartest cars,
I do believe small aspects such as the Traffic Jam Assistant and other small changes into a vehicles capabilities could definitly make a change in the world and possibly create a relatively safer driving enviroment in the future.
The final subject I would like to touch on is possibly the worst thing that could happen if these cars are produced in the masses; What if a human driver took over the wheel, in fear or for some other reason, and caused an accident. Now, I know what you may think, "Oh but they're fully automated, they can drive themselves why would you need a human behind the wheel." Well, when you think about it, neurologically, the brain has more computing power than the average computer (courtesy of the book "What If") and may be able to react faster or even alter the cars movement and take notice before a computer does. Now this is a good thing. Or is it. When you think about it, it is really a coin toss at that point. While a human may be able to react faster and better, we may also overreact to a situation. What I mean by this is imagine there is a deer in the road. Now the computer may attempt to purely stop but human instinct makes us want to avoid this dear at all costs. So you swerve and avoid the deer. Lucky you, you just totalled your smartest car on the biggest oak tree you have ever seen. Now this is just a worse case scenario but I am sure you can see the picture I attempted to paint with my crude situation.
At the end of it all, looking back, the smartest car is not necessarily the worst idea we have ever com up with, but it is by far not the best. One could argue that the smartest car could be a new revolution of vehicles and could change the way we think about driving. That is true, but who ever said it would be a good change. Sure a self aware car would be cool, but whenever something can go wrong, it will go wrong. While the concept is good, I just do not believe that it is the proper time to be bringing self driving cars onto the roads of this world. Maybe one day it will be, but I hope that it remains a concept car until we can work more kinks out of its base structure. | 45
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c4f0bd2 | Studying Venus is worthy pursuit despiting the danger, becuase many astronomoers are interested Venus. Astronomers think Venus might be the most, "Earth like planet in our solar system."
In the article they say that NASA is figuring out ways they can send people to Venus without being on its surface. NASA is also trying multiple ways to make their equipment more resistence to the heat in Venus.
Atronomers think that venus might compare to Earth. In the article is says, "Long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life. just like Earth." Venus also has some features that look alike to Earth. in the article it also says that there were, "valleys, mountains, and craters" just like Earth.
Another way to study Venus is that NASA is creating ways to go to Venus, but not to be on its surface. NASA is wanting to have Aircraft to hover above Venus. They would use solat power for energy, but radiation would exceed earth's levels. In the article it say, " Not easy conditions but survivable for humans."
The last way to study Venus is that NASA is tesing and making material that can handle Venus's tempature. In the article it says, " Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulation the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three week in such conditions." Another ways is to use old technology which is called mechanical computers.
In conclusion studying Venus would be a benefit for us. If atronomers are right that Venus is a look alike to Earth. We can get materials that we need or learn how to use new material that we find there. With the help of NASA making new materials and ways to get there. Atronomers can get there in no time. | 23
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6b78b40 | In " The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a wothy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. Exploring the solar system is one of the most fascinating things to explore. Finding places that will inhabit life other than just earth is something that presents some challenges. Is putting life in danger worth exploring Venus? The author supports his idea by naming the consequences, telling us how we could benefit from exploring Venus, and giving scientific reasearch.
The human mind is filled with curiosity. The idea of living on another planted is exciting to some, but to others it seems too dangerous for exploration. The author states, in paragraph two, "No spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." If a spcecraft cannot survive more than a few hours on Venus, then how can I human live of Venus? The author also states, in paragraph three, "Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planets surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." These details from the text show just how dangerous it could be to explore Venus at a closer look. The author does present all of the dangers of exploring Venus. Is curiosity worth putting lives in danger?
The author gives some supporting evidence as to how we could benefit from exploring Venus. The author states, in paragraph eight, "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." Our questions about Venus would be answered by getting a closer look. The author also states, In paragraphs six and seven, "Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." Scientists are creating new and improved technology and spacecraft that we are benefitting from. The safety of traveling to Venus is being improved. The research that will be done on Venus will help us to grow more knowledgeable bout the solar system and the planets around us. Learning more about a planet that could inhabit life is beneficial to us.
We need to get a closer look at Venus to aid our scientific research. The author states, in pragraph six, "More importantly, researchers cannot take sample of rock, gas, or anything else, from a distance. Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." We will never know if we can live on Venus unless scientific studies are done.
Exploring Venus will be dangerous even if we can improve our technology and spacecraft. Our curiosity is what will drive us to explore beyond our fears. The author gave reliable reasons and research as to why Venus is a worthy pursuit despite all its dangers. We should exoplore what is close to us. After all, "Venus is the second planet from our sun." (paragraph one). | 34
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8efa809 | Reasons to participate are, he thought,"He knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime. Plus you get to go out into the sea and enjoy the veiw of the sea's.
And it is a fun job for example," Luke found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time."
And he could see the lands of other countrys and what they do. For example, "He was taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water."" Luke also toured and excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to china. And he was doing service to, so you don't have to join the military.
It made him more aware of people from other countries needs. And that awareness can help you if you get lost in a diffrent country. And it opens up the world to the Seagoing Cowboy because they get to go on trips to diffrent countries and see what the world needs. So participating is a great way to learn about the world and the people in diffrent countries. | 12
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0fc32e0 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming the author displays positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Although driverless cars are very fascinating, they pose several negative aspects including safety hazards, liability issues, and the car's technological abilities.
Safety is the most important thing when it comes to developing a driverless car. Right now driverless cars "... can steer, accelertate and brake themselves, but all are designated to notify the driver when the road ahead required human skill, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." The driver must remain focused on the road, even in a driverless car. According to Dr. Werner, this poses a psycological hazard because a driver is prone to get bored while the car is normally driving. This can result in an accident due to the driver's faliure to respond to the driverless car (that needed human support, while navigating through a problem in the road). If driverless cars still need a driver, the car is still not safe enough to be out in the public because it is a risk to both pedestrians, passengers and drivers.
Furthermore, driverless cars can also lead to issues in traffic laws and liability. Since now traffic laws are made based on the assumpution that the car is under the control of a human, if driverless cars became available it would lead to problems in deciding what traffic laws will apply to what people. One very important issue posed in the article was that "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?"
Some people may believe that the development of driverless cars is a positive thing since our technology is capable to making driveless cars that are safe (to a certain extend) and have a ability to mimic human skills. Although this all sounds very exciting and futuristic, driverless cars are still not driverless. They still need human support , and regardless of the smart technology, any technology has the ability to malfunction, which will then lead to other issues.
To sum it up, driverless cars seem like amazing vehicles that can make transportation easier. However, if you look deeper, you can undertstand how difficult the development of these vechicles is. In this case, the negative aspects of driverless cars definately override the positive ones. | 34
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8be1708 | In the article Making Mona Lisa Smile, the ariticle states, " She's 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, 2 percent angry."
The value of using the technology to read read students' emotional expressions is a good thing. in the the text it states, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." Each muscle has a different job to do in the artical one of the examples that is given it the orbicularis oris muscle. This muscle is aroound your mouth and it tightens when you get angry.
"Eckaman has classifiied six basic emotion- happiness, surprise,anger, disgust, and sadness- and then associated with characteristic movements of the the facial muscles." All muscles are different, each muscle controls a different part of the face. In the article, " The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model musr move like human muscles." People show various amount of facial expressions and by using this technology researchers can tell what peoples emotions are.
In this study of facial expressions researchers found out that there are many types of facial expressions.
The subjest of Leonardo da Vinci's painting of Mona Lisa during the Renaissance is a major topic of this research. Mona Lisa shows four emotions: happy, disgust, fear, and anger. The software that Dr. Paul Eckman has created known as FACS which stands for Facial Action Coding System. The FACS can recogmize all of Mona Lisa's emotions. | 12
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e8d2ce4 | In my opinion driverless cars are safer and more efficien than nomal car.In paragraph five of the passage it says, "the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and ruduce power from the engine,allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." A driverless car can be safer on the road because it wont get distracted by something else and will have better reaction time than a human.Humans can easily sometimes get distracted by things they see while driving or by their phone.A driverless car will still need a driver when needed to navigate a work zone or around accidents.
If the driver gets tired or needs to call or text someone the driverless care can drive itself safety and the driver will not cause an accident,because he did not pay attention to the road. The driverless cars can be used to reduce traffic because it will cause less accidents. It can also be used to get a drunk person home safe without any accidents occuring.The driverless care can also help people that are learing to drive by assisting them on the road and preventing accidents.Driverless cars can also help people get to their destination without getting lost.
Driverless cars are smarter than humans.They can break by themselves when the sensors detect another car behind them to prevent an accident.Driverless cars also have the ability to break faster than a human can.In paragraph five of the passage it says, "the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and ruduce power from the engine." They can also assist old people while they are driving to reduce road accidents.
Driverless cars can also help our planet.Driverless cars will use less fuel and be more efficient than normal cars are now.In the first paragraph of the passage it says " The cars he forees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." The reduction of fuel beign use will help our ecomony and our planet.It will help our planet by reducing all the harmful toxic gases that go up into our atmosphere every day.
In conclusion driverless cars will make the roads safer,reduce accidents, help our planet and our economy.With driverless cars on the roads it wil make our roads safer.It will also help our economy grow and rise.It will also help our planet and ruduce the toxic gases in our atmosphere.Driverless cars are the future. | 34
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408e427 | To the
Senator of Florida ,
I am in not favor of the
Electoral College , because the
Electoral College is made so the political people have the say so
NOT
the people. The last time I checked it was By the people, For the people. I believe that the American people have the right not a berucratt sitting on his butt all day doing
Nothing other than voting with the Electoral Voting.
Thanks to the Electoral College Mr. Barack Obama got a second term in office and now the country is suffering from it. Even us students thanks to Mrs. Obama we are not having nice lunches like we had before the Obamas got elected. The Electoral College joined the anachronism club after President Obama join his first term in office. Also the Electoral College gave Obama plurality. There are 538 people in the Electoral College(according to "
What is The Electoral College?
" by the Office of Federal Register) and there are at least more than 4 million people maybe 5 million in the United States of America. There are more of American people than Democratics and Republicans in the Senate. So actullally we out number all of you slick polictions.
Yeah sure Florida is one of the top 4 states that give out the major electoral votes but it is only a number 29 its not that big of a deal unless the people you have counting votes cannot count over 538, then ok those are some pretty stupid people you should send them back to school. My grandpa at age 70 can count much better than that.
Answer me this. Is America still for the People, or is it for the slick polictions with there Electoral College? Which one is it? Just face it the Electoral College is old school and for the polictions not for the people. Get Rid of the Electoral College and Let the actual living American people vote. | 23
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aac4bfe | The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" was a interesting factual article to read. My opion on driverless cars is they're not a good idea. I am against driverless cars. My reasons for this are an increasing rate of accidents, technology failing, and the cost. In the following paragraphs are reasons why I am against the ideal of driverless cars.
Starting off, my first reason for being against driverless cars was the increasing rate of accidents. Not all drivers pay attention to the road while driving (especially teens) and riding in a driverless car, coming into a situation that requires a human being to take control of the wheel can lead to accidents if they're not paying attention. The rates of car accidents are already high till this day, just imagine how high the rate would be having driverless cars. It may not even be the drivers fault, a glitch can happen with the car causing it to get into a accident injuring somebody, as said in passage 9; who's fault would it be then? The person or the manufacturers fault? That is my first reasoning opposing driverless cars.
Next, my second reason was the technology failing. We live in a society where technology advances EVERYDAY, but there is always a complications with technology. Updated technology isn't always perfect. For instence the computer system in the car could crash, shutting off the whole car, there might be a hay wire causing the car to spin out of control, causing an accident, and even a more dangerous situation the car could explode or catch on fire due to the technology. An example of today's most updated piece of technology that went bad is the "Hoover Board," many people could just be riding on it, and it could burst into flames. The same thing could happen with driverless cars.
Lastly, my last reasoning was the cost put into the car. Many companies say they plan to have driverless cars by the year 2020, the amount of the Driverless Car would be a ridiculous amount of money. If someone were interested into buying it the first thing, they should ask themselves "is it worth it?" Knowing the bad outcomes that could possibly happen. Not only would the car be super expensive, but also having to fulfill the tank with gas, and gas nowadays isn't the cheapest. But the most important question asking yourself before buying the expensive piece of technology, is it really worth how much it costs?
In conclusion, I am against driverless cars. The reasons are, increasing rate of accidnets, technology failing, and the cost. I myself would not buy this knowing the reprecautions. That is why I am against the ideal of Driverless Cars. | 23
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98dbc96 | Presidential elections have always been decided by electoral votes. The elections today should be voted on using popular votes. All though electoral votes keeps the amount of work tallying up votes down; popular votes will give you a more accurate percentage of votes each candidate recieves.
Initially, when you use popular votes to decide a victor, there will be a more accurate percentage or number of votes per candidate. Popular votes are counted by each individual voter. This allows a more accurate voting scale to be used, since there is an exact number of voters. Electoral votes are based on a state's population and each region in the state is assigned a democratic elector. This only accounts for the majority of the population's votes, which means some voters' votes are irrevelant if the majority voted for an opposing candidate.
Additionally, counting popular votes, while time consuming, is worth the effort. Popular votes, when used, are to make sure that everybody is accounted for in the poll. More people would probably vote if they knew that their vote actually matters. When popular votes are used it may take a longer time to tally all of those up than it would for electoral votes, it shows exactly how many people are actually voting. This will let the government know how many votes they should expect to see on each poll.
In summation, popular votes, though time consuming, are a better way of electing a new president; instead of electoral votes. Electoral votes are an easier and faster means of counting votes but, popular votes show and acount for everybody that contributes to the poll and/or election. Using popular votes will most likely make more people want to vote, since they can see the amount of voters instead of the number of regions through out the country. | 23
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db2e65a | The techonology to read people emotions of their faces is a good idea. If the technogoly was used in a classroom on a student to see if they were confused or bored, but what if the techonolgy didnt always work. A student could havea look on his or her face and the computer could read the wrong emotion of them. There is always that chance it could not work. Sometimes people can´t always tell is someone is smiling or not, maybe that could happen to the computer.
It might be usless in the classroom on students because Dr. huang said you cant wlays tell the full trait of happy. The computer might not be able to tell the whole trait of any emotion. It could tell you a emotion about your face maybe that you are feeling and could be completeing wrong. Some people might just have a blank experrsion on the face and have no emotion, or maybe they have a little emotion that the computer can´t see. There are 44 muscles in the model that must move like human muscles. Dr huang says this could modify lessons if the student is confused, but what if the machiene makes the lesson even more confsuing that what it really was.
The idea to read other people emotions is a good idea. It wouldnt be sucha good idea in the classroom with students. It would probably read the emotions wrong and try to help woth the lesson and make it more confusing. Therefore the computer that can read people emotion(FACS) should stay out of the classroom. | 23
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bbd6e25 | What is Venus often reffered as? Venus is often reffered as Earth's "twin". This is because Venus is "the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distence too". But this doesn't mean that it is possible for humans to live in the planet yet. The author suggests that we should keep studying Venus despite the danger it presents.
The author says this in a lot of ways. One way he does this is by giving us more information about Venus. This helps the reader understand how bad the conditions are in Venus. This also tells us that no matter the conditions humans should still explore it. This shows that the author is going to stay with his claim that we should keep on exploring it.
Another reason how the author supports his idea is by telling us that we've tried exploring it before. In the article it says "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on the cloud-draped world...Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has tocuhed down on Venus in more than three decades." This shows us that Venus is a challenging planet for humans to study. With a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide blankets and temperatures averaging around 800 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a real challenge for humans.
However, the author also tells us that NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example in the article he says "some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface...lasted for three weeks in such conditions". This helps the author support his claim by telling us that there has been some progress on studying Venus. Another example is NASA coming up with diffrent ideas to explore Venus. The author says "imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape". This helps prove how well the author supports his idea of pursuing Venus despite the dangeres it presentes.
In conclusion the author supports his idea well. This is because he gives the readers information on how astronomers tried and failed. But also that astronomers are not going to give up so they come up with new ideas. In the article is says "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself..". This shows that we are not going to give up on exploring Venus no matter the challenge. | 23
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f3b8391 | Facial Action Coding System enables computers to identify human emotion would be great for students in a classroom. I am going to give the most outstanding reasons and examples on why this would be excellent for students. Once, I am done you will be able to fully understand my point of view and how it would be great for students in a classroom. Also, be sure to notice the way I verifiy my answer for you to draw the same conclusion as I do. This technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom would be great. Well because it'll inform teachers on how a student feel about the work, notify if the students have things going own in personally life, and it would decrease the rate of students dropping out of school.
First, it'll inform teachers on how the student feel about the work. For example, "if you were to give the student work that they don't understand but wouldn't tell you". Due to the fact of having the computer reading the student expression you will be able to know and find out what is really going on with the student on the subject they are stuck on. Once, you notice that you will be able to help the student out on the things that they are stuck on. Then, the fact of you knowing things about the student revolve around the computer providing information.
Secondly, it would notify if the student is going through anything in their personal life because of the facial expressions that is being read. For example, "a student is getting beat at home very badly but choose not to let anyone know". Then there is the computer that will tell the teacher what is going on and why they are acting the way they do. The Facial Action Coding System will report that the students is holding something in and is showing fake emotions on how they are really feeling. In a way, this would means this type of technology would become literally a life saver. Well because something bad at home can really come to the light and better the student from the things they are going through.
Finally, it would decrease the rate of student dropping out of school. For example,"students that are likely to drop out are the ones who keep quiet about them not understanding something". Then, theres this type of technology where the truth about the students have no choice but to come out and recieve attention for the things that they are struggling on. This specific technology would inform teachers that the student is confused and needs help on the things that you are giving them. If you were to think about it, what is a better way to get the truth other than technology providing it for you.
In conclusion, Facial Action Coding System for students in a classroom is valuable. For informing teachers on how a student feel about the work that the student is given. Then, you can fully agree that this will notify if the student have things going on in thier personal life. Finally, you can conclude it would decrease the rate of students dropping out of school. So there you have it, why Facial Coding System is great technology to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. | 23
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9a044fd | Venus is a worthy because Venus is closer to earth and it's a good planet. Sometime people called Venus is a Evening Star. It's the one of the brightest points of light in the night sky and it's making it simple for the amateur stargazer to spot it. It's on paragraph one and two that saying all the things, how nice is Venus. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioside blankets Venus. When that even more challenging for the clouds for highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere. People thought that Venus is a star but it's the planet that by earth.
When peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited sight on ground conditions because of the most of forms light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere and rendering standard forms of photography or videopraphy ineffective. The more importantly researchers cannot take like samples thing of rock, gas, or anything else. | 01
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66b5046 | in this essay i am going to be writting about how a new technology called the facial action coding system enable computers to identify human emotions. an i am going to be writting that this could be valuable. i am going to be writting about why this is valuble.
first,in this paragraph i am going to be writting about how "the facial expressions for each emotion are universal."in the article it says that some individuals often show diffrent types of expression,for example they used the one not smiling as broadly. what this is showing that this new thing that can identify the emotions could be usefull because it can let ther people know what is wrong with you and why you are not happy or why you are sad. in the article it also said that it can identify mixed emotions as they used da vinci's masterpiece.
second,in this paragraph i am writting about how this could help you with your friends and other people around you. in the article it says that we could already tell how one of our friends is feeling and how they look because we already know them. but it also says that we could probobly have some trouble describing them facial traits. and that is what this new technology does it tells you and shows you th facial traits that convey happy and worried.
third,in this paragraph i am going to be writting about how this could be useful in class and how this could help others. the example they used was a computer and some ads. the ads could tell your smile and if you are happy then another ad will pop up that is similar,but also if you frown the ads will be diffrent. they used a computer in a classrom because in the article it says that this computer could recognize if the student is becoming cnfused or bored. aalso in the article it says that this means that it could modify the lesson to the way you might understand it. this is why i think this is valuable in some cases.
in conclusion,i wrote about how this could be valuable. i said that this could be valuable because this could be used to show the diffrent emotions and how people are feeling. i also wrote about how this could be used in the classrom because it could tell wether they are confused with the lesson and if they are then the computer will modify the lesson to a way that you could understand it. this is what i wrote about in this essay and i am sying that yes this could be valuable in the classrooms. | 23
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3122de5 | The author supports that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers represents. Venus is a planet closest to Earth. It's conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth. Venus may be the most Earth-like plannet in our solar system. Venus has more characteristics than Earth does.
Veus conditions are far more extreme than anything human encounter on Earth. Venus has the hottest surface of any planet in our solar system. The atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet. It is crazy imaging Venus having way more pressure than Earth. The text sasy, "Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupying volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes." This shows that Venus has many powerful climate changes. The author states this becaue, he wants to inform us how dangers Venus can be, but yet so interesting and gives readers want to know more of it.
According to the article, Venus may be the most Earth- like plannet in our solar system. The text says, "Often referred to as Earth's twin." Venus is closest planet to earth in terms of density and size. This shows that people may know Venus as a different version as Earth. This relates that the author supports the idea of studying Venus is worthy because it is very similar to Earth, so why not study it and explore it? The author may think that Venus can be somewhere people can survive in and look more forward to.
Venus has way more characteristics than Earth does. The author stated how it is the hottest surface temperature, more powerful climate cahnges, more atmospheric pressure, etc. Venus is a unique planet. The author want us to invest more to Venus, because it has some features that are analogous to those on Earth.
Venus has dangers it despites, but can be so interesting to invest more on. The author thinks Venus may be the most earth-like plannet in our system. It is like Earth's 'twin'. So, if it's similar to Earth, why not look more forward to studying Venus. It is important to know what's surrounded in Earth. | 23
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dddc521 | Emotional Expressions
Professor Thomas Huang has created a revoluntionary computer that can read a person's or a picture of a person's emotions. For example the computer has decoded the expressions of Mona Lisa. She is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Computers that can see if you're bored or happy can really affect what you see on the internet, especially with students learning. On the other hand, teachers and students will want their privacy while they are using the internet and using technology like these computers might cause a problem. Using technology to read the emotional expressions of student in a classroom is valuable because it can keep them on track with things that can interest them by looking at their emotions and show if how the way the are learning is positive or not.
Paying attention in class while watching documentaries and videos can be challenging for most students. Watching documentaries about the things they learn in class can be very repetitive and boring. Technology created by Thomas Huang can help students be on track by suggesting education related videos or documentaries. The computer will read a student's emotional expression and will see if they are bored or happy. If the student is bored, the computer can suggest a similar thing, but suggest a more interesting way of learning it. All this technology can really help a student by making them more focused on what they are learning at the time.
In school, teachers ask students for feedback on what they teach. Students, most of the times, give honest feedback, but on some occasions they give out false information. Using the technology created by Thomas Huang can help teachers see if they need to make things more interesting or keep it the same by their facial expressions. As time goes on, teachers will be able to make their lessons or homeworks be more engaging and more fun for the students participating. This technology can help teachers get specific feedback and fix their lessons depending on that feedback.
Privacy is valued in many places around the world. Schools like to keep things private on the way students learn and the way they process things. Students and teachers have different ways of learning and teaching. Computers that can read your emotions, facial expressions, and see what you're doing might not be liked by
students or teachers who want their privacy. The students might not want people to know what level of learning they are on and teachers might not want people to see the way they teach because they could get criticized. This technology might be appreciated by some people, but can be disliked by other people too.
Using technology created by Thomas Huang to read emotional expressions can be valuable to classrooms because it can show if they are interested about what they are learning at the moment and see if they are learning it in the way they prefer to learn. Students can be easily distracted or bored. Being able to see if they are statisfied can help the computers suggest things that would make them be more interested in. Teachers can also see if the way they teach is having a positive influence on them with their facial expressions. Although having computers that can read your facial expression is interesting, privacy has to be included in the conversation of putting these computers in classrooms. Using this kind of technology can be beneficial to the future of kids and classrooms all around the world. | 34
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ea31ba3 | Driverless cars are an important imporovement in technology that will make commuting easier for everyone. Driverless cars will be safer than human drivers. Making driverless cars will create more jobs. Creating driverless cars could lead to other advances in technology. Driverless cars should be created and allowed on American roads.
Driverless cars will be safer than human drivers. They are not capable of getting distracted and causing an accident like humans do. They will be constantly aware of their surroundings. They will also eliminate human error, such as not stopping quick enough or running a stop sign, and will have a better reaction time than a human. Their better reaction time will allow them to stop quicker than a human would and cause less accidents. They will also have technology to make driving safer, such as a spinning sensor on the roof which forms a 3-D moldel of the car's surroundings, which the typical car does not have. Driverless cars will also eliminate drivers driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or otherwise not able to drive safely, and save more lives. They will allow people who are afraid to drive a car a chance to drive because the car will be driving for them.
Driverless cars will create more jobs. There will be people needed to run the machines that create these cars. There will also be people needed to make the technology it needs. Engineers and scientists will have to be constantly working to make sure all the technology works as it is supposed to and does not need to be improved. The jobs the driverless car creates will improve the economy.
Improvements in the driverless car could lead to other scientific advancements in this field. Scientists could learn from making this car and apply that knowledge to creating other inventions. Driverless cars could lead to using the technology they built for the driverless car in other inventions. Scientific improvements always build off of eachother.
The driverless car will be a great thing to have on the roads of America. Driverless cars will make the roads safer. They will create more jobs which will improve our economy. The advancements scientists make while creating the driverless car could lead to new inventions. The driverless car should be created and allowed in the United States. | 34
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4d6a8a9 | In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author explains reasons why the human race should study the planet Venus. The author presents ways how NASA for example, is trying to gain knowlegde of thr planet and thinking of ways to make that happen. With saying the planet is very interesting the author provides counter arguements on why people shouldn't study Venuns, and that's because of thr many dangers it has. Even if the planet is dangerous, the author still suggests that studying the planet is worth the time, and it's presented by saying how alike Venus was like Earth, the very different atmospere it has, and finally how studying the planet can lead to new innovations for our own planet, Earth.
The first way the author suggests why Venus is interesting to study, is by saying desribing the different kind of atmospere it has. By starting of the author goes right into their idea by saying how the tempertures, pressures, and what we would call natural disasters are much different then the conditions on Earth. For example in paragrapgh 3 when the author say "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system", it makes the readers curious because they want to know why the conditions are very different. The author may include the dangers of the planet, but says them in a way the readers enage more curiousity on the planet. Which is why the author suggests the planet is worth studying because of it's difference.
Despite the conditions of the planet Venus now, the author also includes that Venus was once similar to our own planet. In the article in paragraph 4 the author states that Venus is like "Our sister planet" and also that "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system", and because of this he/she presents their ideas well it's just makes the idead of studying the planet more important. In the rest of the paragraph the author includes that Venus was onced covered in oceans and had various forms of life just like our own planet. By including this detail readers can see that studying the planet isn't only important because of the many differences it has, but because if it was once like our own planet, how would the planet just drastically change?
Finally the last deatil the author includes to suggest that Venus is worth the time to study it, is by saying how many researchers are working on new innovations that would allow our own technology to last longer here on Earth. In the last few paragraphs mainly are about how NASA is working on new technology to be able to last long enough the dangerours planet, but in paragraph 7 the author implies that by gaining new information on Earth's sister planet helps the human race improve their daily lives when he/she states "Systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces". By making new technology to last long enough on the inhospitable planet, scientists can learn to make better technology to last longer on Earth.
So by including the details of how Venus has such different conditions, how it was once similar to the planet Earth, and how studying the planet can lead to new inventions for our planet, the author supports his idea that studying Venus is worth the pursuit. The author suggests that the details are not only fascinating, but also important in in learning how planets drastacially change. Because Venus now has a very hot and dangerous atmosphere, understanding that it was once like Earth, helps scientists know more about Earth. If Venus did have oceans and life, scientists can make new technology to better take of Earth so it doesn't end up dangerours and hot like Venus. The author suggusts that stuyding Venus is worth the pursuit because researchers or scientists can learn better ways on how to take care of Earth. | 34
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9932ed8 | Dear Mr. Senator, electoral college is a process that consists of selecting electors,meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. electoral college should not be changed to election. electoral college should be kept because it will help save the tress by saving paper, one wouldnt have to go anywhere because the electoral college is not a place,and because there are 5 different methods of choosing the president.
saving paper is extremely important. paper comes from trees and many animals and wild life have homes in trees. with electoral college one wouldnt need paper to vote, which is a paper saver. the electoral college helps a lot when it comes to selecting electors,metting of the electors and where they wil vote for the president, and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. by saving gas one is saving money which can be used for any nessessitites.
gas now a days is extremely expensive,but with the electoral college one would be saving money because the electoral college is a process, not a place, and it doesnt require one to travel anywhere,whch saves gas and money. with the oney saved one can buy the nessessities that are needed. the electoral college offers a lot by just being a process. it helps save paper and money,whch is good for wild life and humans.
when it comes to methods for choosing the presisent and reasons to keep the method there isnt just 1, theres 5! the first method is that certainty of outcome.. it states that a dispute over the outcome of an elecotral college vote is possible and it happened in 2000,but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. a winning candidats share of the electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. for example, in the elections that happened in 2012, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney, b ecause almsot all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis,ev en a very slight. method number 2 is everyone's president. the electoral college requires a presidental candidate to have trans-regional appeal. no region(south,northeast,etc)has eneough electoral votes to elect a president. method 3 is swing states. the winner-take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates-as we saw in 2012's election-to focus their campain efforts on the toss-up states. voters in toss-up states are more likely to poay more attention to the campain-to really listen to the competing candidates, knowing that they are gouing to decide the election. method 4 is big states. the electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population0 losy by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the consitutuion. mthod 5 is avoid run-off elections. the electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast.
Mr. senate you should keep electoral ollege because it saves paper,saves gas and because it shows us the 5 methods that should be used for choosing the president. the electoral college offers a lot to wild life and also to humans by savikng trees and gas, which saves us humans money that one can spend on nessessities. | 23
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8087773 | My thoughts on using technology to read students' emotional expressions are for it. The reason I would love to have this is so when I don't know how I would feel, I could figure it out by using my computer. The reasons I would want this are; I could know my emotions at any time, I could learn more information, and I could know how other people were feeling.
I could know my emotions at any time because of this program. I sometimes don't know how I feel and want to know what emotions I am feeling. I would want this so that I could know how I felt about the thought of something or someone. I would also want to have this so that I could find my input on things that I am unsure about. I think that I would personally like this program.
I could learn more information by using this in the classroom by being more interactive in every class. I wouldn't get off topic in the classes and would never be bored with the class. I would get all of my work done and have time to spare and would be happy in doing so. I would love to have this in the classes that we don't have enough interactants in. I would be more into the class and have an overall better time understanding what we wouldbe learning.
I could use the program on other people to see how they were feeling. That would make me less confused and let me be happier. I would love yo know what other peoples' emotions were always so that I wouldn't make them have a worse time. If we were to use this in class, this would make the class a better overall experience.
Overall, I think that knowing how I feel, retaining more knowledge, and understanding peoples' emotions, would make life much easier. I wouls hope that this would make me a better person in general and help everyone who is emotionally unstable. I think that this would be a great thing to have in school. | 34
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821f6ff | In todays world of technology, not everything made can be trusted. There have been many flaws in the sources of technology that we use today.
One reason why this stands true is the "Driverless Car" was first discovered in movies and television. Taking something from an animated commercial, tv show, or movie and making it into something that we can use in real life could in some situations, be very complicated to do so. How would the car know when and where to come get you? Will they always be reliable? Often, some of todays people can't even trust that their cell phone is going to keep all of their information private. Making it hard to trust developing technology.
In addition, some of the ways that creators have come up with to make this happen is way out of our budget. As said in the section, instead of building "smarter cars" we could invest in building "smarter roads". This means that instead of putting all of the technology just in the car, it would also be included in the road system. This would cost millions, billions, maybe even trillions which is way out of our price range. The nation has too many things to take care of just to put all of our money towards something that we don't absolutely need.
Lastly, how would we know that the sensors built into the vehicle are going to work all the time? How would we trust them? Failed sensors could result in many incidents such as car accidents, fires, or car pile-ups. Even if we do develop the vehicle, we can't always trust it because accidents do happen. Using this car in todays society could risk many lives, even if we're not in the vehicle. Yes, it would be a success for our world of technology to make this happen. But is it really a success for everyone? There's no problem with today system of people driving on their own so why change it.
Ask yourself, do we really need this "Driverless Car" added to todays technology? Will it really benefit us that much? Can we trust every piece of technology handed to us? | 23
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80c09f7 | The author supports this idea by explaining the planet Venus and why Venus is a challenging planet to explore but a worthy pursuit. In the article it says ''Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors.'' Based on this sentence from the article I know that the author believes that studying Venus will better humans understanding of the planet and give them knowledge of its surface. According to the article the author believes that there is no limit to meeting challenges no matter the dangers and doubts. I know this because in the text it says ''Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.''
The author says that NASA is working on other approaches for studying Venus which means they are willing to take the challenge along with the dangers that come with studying Venus. Because of this I know the author thinks studying Venus will better the future. In the text it says ''Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow or machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. This means that scientists and researchers are pursuing the idea of maybe one day being able to explore Venus. Based on thst sentence from the text I know that the author believes that the challenge of exploring Venus has value.
To summarize the author believes that not only will studying Venus better our future but also that human curiosity will lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. The author is pursuing the idea of maybe one day being able to explore Venus. I know this because in the text it says ''Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks.'' This means the author and scientists are willing to take the risk and dangers of exploring Venus. Because of this I know the author believes that we should strive for the best no matter the dangers, doubt or risks and that there is no limit. | 23
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cd27691 | The author supports his ideas by show and telling that NASA is working on other prouches to study Venus. In paragraph 7 telling use about how electronics played an important role in the 1940s. so more ideas of electronics would help the author study even more an get even more info about Venus. Dispite the dangers it presents if they make robots that have the mind set on studying Venus that would change the danger of othes and we will have more info of how humans will be in harm of. i just feel like that humans should have 2 planets and were more then capable of doing that so and the author has a point that our travels on earth and beyond should not be limited by danger and doubts but should be expanded to meet the vey edge of imagination and innovtion. Thats shouldnt be a challenge theres so much value cause this planet will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavor. | 01
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66a8d72 | Transportation has become one of the largest emissions throughout the world, and many do not seem to wonder how beneficial limiting car usage can be. Not only does the release of fossil fuels harm the world, but the stress that comes with having a vehicle is immense. When considering ownership of a vehicle, one must think about the pros and cons of owning one, and realize that the limited pros... are not worth the cons.
Cars, trucks, and buses have many factors in common, but one in particular is hazardous to mother nature... fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are harming our territory, the place where life has been made possible, Earth. At the streak we are going, soon enough us humans, the domain species won't have a home due to the pollutants vehicles release killing the O-zone Layer. We have become accustomed to the abuse of transportation. Even when we are capable of walking or using a bike to a nearby location, we choose to use a vehicle instead of avoiding the damage that is caused. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the city, "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intesifying smog..." Source #2 states. Their are many ways to distinguish transportation, but one very adequate discription is "a death wish".
The stress that comes with the ownership of any transporting vehicle surpasses what anyone can bare! The economic standards one needs to posses is difficult. In, Vauban, Germany, one can have a car under the circumstances of paying $40,000 for a parking space, along with your home, source #1 explains. Your car needs to be fed in order to function, and it's food is quite pricey, especially when it hoards gallons of the substance! In addition, one needs to pay for insurance aswell! Dangers in streets are not abnormal what-so-ever, so the stressfulness that one has behind their back while driving is not enjoyable.
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5e64b9b | In the passage, The Challenge of Exploring Venus, there is a passage explaining what Venus looks while they send machines to discovers the planet. The author tries to explain to us what kind of challenges they have found while exploring Venus. The point of view that the author see is that Venus is a worthly pursuit despiting the dangers on it. Each passage has its own main part about Venus, however, it will tallk about the challenge that are face in Venus
In this parts of the article the author has the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despiting the dangers and he explains his reasoning with the context that is left behind this article. The passage tells us about why its worthy to pursuit it, in passage 8 it says, "striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The meaning of this part of the passage is telling us how people just think about how or what it is like to explore Venus. NASA has been trying to make inventions to help them go to Venus an have a closer look." NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus."
Althouth people want to go and explore Venus, there are some challenges that Venus provides for people. The dangers in this article tells us in passage 1 " While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." its hard for us to explore something from far away but during the attemptes we still can get close to Venus. In the passage it says, "A lot of spacecraft haven't survived the landing in a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." These are some reason why we can not reach Venus as worthly it is, it is challenging to explore.
The author does not care what kind of dangers there is because he thinks Venus is a planet that is worth to study. As he tries to get a closer look at. NASA has been also trying to help make machines and new inventions that are safe for people to go up and for themselves. Although the challenges that they have read, seen, or have heard kept stopping them from figuring out how to get closer to Venus. However, they did not give up because they kept looking for other ways to explore Venus. | 23
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ea722cd | Dear state senator ,
Despite some of the risky things that can come along with Electoral College voting ,voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election .Some people therfore think it is useful and some on the other hand think that it is unfair and that it should be changed .
Fortuatntly though one thing that a Electoral College can promise you is a certainty of outcome. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible. It happened in 2000 but it is less likely than a dispute over the poppular vote . For exmaple in 2012's election with Obama and Romney , Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney. Because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner -take-all basis , even a very slight plurality in a state creates a big elecoral - vote victory .
Moving right along , the Electoral college also can aviod Run - Off elections . The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast . For instnace , Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes while winning a majority in the electoral college . That situation then creates pressure which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral college. Therefore ,there would be a clear winner . | 23
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e5c857d | Driveless Cars can be good and bad to anyone. It all just depends on the person. Whether they think the car is good or not.
In my opion the idea of Driverless Cars is a good idea. It is a good idea because in the article it says that the drivers will get an alert to when they have to take control over the wheel. In paragraph 5 it states "Special touch sensors make sure the drivers keep hold of the wheel." The car isnt dangerous or anything. The car will be safe and smart. In paragraph 2 it says that "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." maybe we could reduce the amount of car crashes per year.
Yes , there is some negative results but what are the chances? People want a safer car and about half of the world will accept the Driverless Cars. It has more positives results than negative. "Sensing the World"? the cars have sensors that detect a problem around the car. In this article it said that sensors arent new. Sensors should be a problem to the people since they have been out. Also in the article it says " The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone." This statement means that the car is safe for drivers. Not just for the drivers but for the car too. It would be a great improvemnt.
This is why i accept the Driverless Cars. It is a good plan on the future and to people that text while driving. Not only will we have a safer world but we will also have people safe in the cars. | 23
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49f2f88 | The author gives several points as to why exploring Venus is a good move scientifically. For one, it could provide some information regarding how our planets were formed. Venus is the sister planet to Earth, and as the passage says, it could've once had the capabilities of sustaining life, and exploring it might give some insight on what caused it to become so uninhabitable. The fact that all previous attempts to land spacecraft on Venus, well, didn't work, designing a machine that is able to withstand the harsh conditions that Venus presents is pretty challenging, but
NASA claims it can be done. They say having a vehicle floating abouve the chaos that is Venus' atmosphere would be feasable. we'd also have to take a step back in the technology department. Mechanical computers, which were a huge help in WWll, don't require electronics, but use gears and levers to make calculations. Another possibility is simplified electronics, made from silicon carbide. The simplified devices have been tested in conditions similar to Venus, and lasted for three weeks.
So while exploring Venus will prove to be a great challenge, it can be done. | 23
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91f2d1b | Is studying venus a worthy pursuit ? Venus is a worthy stuying pursuit because it has many challenges but it may have been earth like. In the beginning it talks about the plant being hard to examine up close and venus havingthe hottest surface. the middle talks about Venus once being a Earth like planet and the idea from NASA and machines that will let scientists float above the venus landscape. The end talks about silicone carbide being tested over Venus's surface.
Venus is a challenging place to examine because it is really close to the sun which makes it hard to examine. According to paragraph 1 it says " While Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vanatage point of Earth, it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." Venus is a hard planet to examine because of how close it is to the sun. None of the spacecraft's have survived the landing to Venus so no spaceships have went to Venus since. According to paragraph 2 it says " Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." A spaceship has not went down on Venus because ofthe fails with the space creaft's.
Venus is way hotter than the temperatures is 90 times greater than what we experience on Earth . According to paragraph 3 it says "Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the sun." Even though Mercury is closer to the sun Venus is so hot because of all the erupting valcanoes, earth strikes, and lightning strikes that may land on Venus's surface. Astronomers believe that Venus was once similar to Earth because of its features. Paragraph 4 says "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 valley's mountains, and craters." The Astronomers think since Venus looks similar to Earth because of the rocky, mountains, and valley's type of features.
Some people may think studying Venus isn't a worthy persuit because of how dangerous it could be for astronomers to examine it. People also may think coming up with devices to make scientists float over the surface is putting them in a position of getting hurt due to all the fails that have happened.
In conclusion studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because it will make people more curious about the planet and it will also allow scientists to learn more about the planet and get a better insight up close of the planet rather than far away. With their examiniation the electronics they make will help them figure out howbthe planet was before. | 23
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e7a28b3 | I think that the Facial Action Coding system sounds really cool and unique but I don't know if I fully agree with the being able to read the emotional expressions of students in a class room because I defintley feel like It would take alot more work than just a simple computer program and a computer. The reson why I would say I don't fully agree with that is because I feel like somethings are good without having technology and today alot of teachers know when your sad,borad,happy,mad and so on. But the main thing is with this is somthing I wouldn't wanna take away from friendships because I feel like a lot of good friends can always or always know when you are sad or mad and things like that and your friends could also help you through that. Another thing is that I feel like if a kid gets confused I feel like thats why there are teachers there in the room to help and be able to personally walk through physical and mentally be able to help him them, also I think that most of the kids would understand a little bit better than what they would with the helping of an instructor on the computer. But I really do think that it sounds like a really cool idea its just that some of that stuff you don't wanna take away from the actual feelings part or help from others. | 12
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4a406d9 | My claim for this story is people are trying see how are people feeling in a picture and trying to hdie thir emotions. My quote from the story is "Imagine being able to dectect exactly how other people are feelings, even when they are trying to hide their emotions.
Mona Lisa is in the picture, she 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. At some schools there are some computers sofware that can recognize emotions but not all of them. Dr. Huang is terying to find better ways for humans and computers to communicate. they are suing alot of techology to find how are people emotions in the picture. I know when people lok at a picture people wanna know how are that person is feeling in that picture.
Dr. Huang is putting the computer constructs in 3D and trying to put 44 muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Eckman has classified six basic emotions like happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. when your in a picture your going to have some type of face expression. It all depends on what type of face that the person in the picture is looking like. Even your mouth can depend if your face expression is good or bad by tighting your lips to show anger.
When your round people you can tell their face expression just by the look of their face. A lot of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy. And their face expressions can depend on how their hair looks. If their hair looks all over the place its probably bad and if their hair looks all nice its probably happy.
My conclusion is to find someone feelsing is look ing at their face and their hai and how their face looks. Just like actors be doing reproduce smilling and frowning. Moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. Whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions. | 01
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369a78f | There are many good reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys. For example they get to help others from different cultures, the seagoing cowboys can learn about their different cultures, and maybe even learn a different language. The seagoing cowboys get to deliver different animals arcross the ocean to also help others in need of livesock. Seagoing cowboys helped a lot to help fix the ruins that World War II left behind.
After delivering the animals or other things the seagoing cowboys get to go exploring in the area that they had to ship the animals and others to.
Luke had just came to Europe on a Cattle Boat not even thinking that he was going to be a seagoing cowboy. Luke and his friend Don Reist had heard that the job helped other families around the world. They decided to sign up for the job. The Seagoing Cowboys helped recover all of teh land, animals, and supplies after many, many wars. Luke may have gotton hur during the job, but he still kept going. | 12
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89daab8 | As our world continues to develop into a more technology dependable world we are always looking for a way for make life easier and simply. During our time on planet Earth we have created amazing inventions such as the phone, car, plane, and other marvelous projects that better our world. Now in our current generation we are looking for ways to improve what past generations inventions and make life easier for future generations. One way people are looking to improve past generation's inventions is through creating driverless cars. Even though driverless cars seem like a great idea they will bring a negative impact towards the world through increasing the number of deaths and injuries, and creating conflict between manufactures and drivers.
When a human is driving a car they know their surroundings and they're able to make a quick decision in small ammount of time. If driverless cars were to be released into our society they would be covered with sensors and cameras all over the car. When you get into a driverless car you are putting your life in the hands of a piece of technology that is capable of malfunctioning and killing you. Already in 3 states and Washington D.C. it is illegal to test computer-driven cars. Those states are taking precautionary measures to make sure that people safe and avoid unecessary death. These driverless cars could increase the number of deaths and injuries significantly causing an uproar in the society where huge riots and protests could outbreak. Even though buses, taxis, and other forms of public transportation are hurting the Earth significantly,people are safe.
If driverless cars were to become popular amongst our society all the car companies would try and develop the best and safest driverless car possible. However, those car companies already get our money when we buy regular cars that sometimes have malfunctions that lead to death. These deaths could spark a huge disagreement on whether to blame the driver or manufacturer. In my opinion I would blame the manufacturer because they are the ones that made a "driverless car" key word driverless meaning there no driver required. In order for driverless cars to be safe they have to win the trust of the people and if driveless cars cause a ton of deaths and injuries people will have no faith in driverless cars.
Overall our world has developed into a world that needs technology in order to function. Previous generations were able to create inventions that we still use today such as phones, and cars, but driverless cars are not the next step in our technology based world because they will cause way more negatives than positives. | 34
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87a984f | Have you ever wanted a self driving car where you could sit back and relax well Google cofounder Sergey Brin has envisioned a future public transportation system. This new transportation system will use half the fuel of today's taxis, you will not need to takeover as much, and manufacturers hope to bring in a in-car entertainment and information system.
My position on driverless cars are they give you more time to do other things while on the road. They give you free time to relax and clear your mind when you may not at home. This would also be a huge jump and improvement in today's technology.
The new transportation system will only use half the fuel of today's taxis. In the article "Driving Cars Are Coming", they state "offer far more flexibility than a bus." They believe such cars will fundamentally change the world. You will just get in the driverless car and set your destination and sit back and relax and do whatever makes you occupied.
In the driverless car you will not have to take over as much as a driver. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." The car alerts the driver with a vibrating sensor on the seat, and consideration of flashing lights on the windshield to alert you.
The manufacturers also think by "bringing in-car entertainment and information system" will interpret the fun driving in a new way. These displays would be in a head-up display so hey may be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over.
New cars that are driverless have only been a concept because "There was no way, before 2000, to make something interesting." The new driverless transportation system will include only using half the fuel of today's taxis, only needing to take over when situations occur, and will have a entertainment and information system. | 23
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a7407bc | "Imagine being able to detect exactly how other people is feeling even when they are trying to hide their emotion,".
Did you know moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions but also may even produce them? "The Mona Lisa demonstration is really intended to bring a smile to your face while it show how much the computer can really do",. Also just by making someone day you can make his/her smile and yourself smile because it feels great to give back to people , now i understand why leonardo da vinci made this because he had gotten tired of seeing people sad faces so by making the Mona Lisa he brought cheer and smiles to the world." A renowned drama coach Constantin Stanislavsky had his actors to carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating theses emotin on stage".
Overall Facial Actin Coding system was a great idea to put that in action and get the world to know and Nick D'Alto has made it better. | 12
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d331726 | If your thinking about joining the Seagoing Cowboys here are some reasons why you should, it is very unique and you get to go to the see and learn about many new things. You get to experience things you have never seen, it would be so amazing! You could go on very many adventures. Luke says," Im grateful for the opportunity, It made me more aware of people of other contries and their needs."
I think you should go beause it would keep you out of trouble and you would have a great time! You could bring a couple of friends, and you could even bring some of your siblings. I would go, I mean I owuld probably bring my whole family. Maybe, you could go one time by yourself and then go again with some friends and look like a smarty pants because you can show them what you know!
I hope you go and have a great time. I'm about done here so enjoy your day! Just remeber if you go soak up a ton of information. | 12
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1591b94 | Hi! Have you ever wanted to find a way to help people and animals when they think they have nothing to live for when they actually do? Do you want to give people food and shelter? Well we got just the right group for you to join! Join the Seagoing Cowboys program so you can help people in need!
We think that you would be perfect for the program! Here are some reasons why you should join!
- You can help people and animals when needed. Trust us there might be a lot of people who need it.
- You would also see great places like China, Greece, and other places in Europe! You might get to see the Great Wall of China, too! Wouldn't that be amazing!
- You might save lives and meet great people who are talented and smart and would also need you.
- You get to travel on seas! The Alantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and others! You might get seasick, but we have some ginger for you that might help.
So those are the reasons why we think you should join the program. If you like the idea of all the things that are listed feel free to join! Thank you, and we hope to see you there! | 12
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9c72dba | Changing the world is seemingly hard to do on this Earth today. Our society has made so many breakthroughs in technology and science that it's hard to find someone who doesn't have the knowlege of the world in their front pocket (a cell phone). However, cars that don't require a driver or that are "self-driving" could be one of the biggest breakthroughs in history. Imagine, "...a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system." that would be magnificent! Right?, maybe not.
The text says that these cars would only use half the fuel of today's taxis, offer far more flexibility of a bus, and they would be driven by computer or binary code road systems. But such cars lead to the question, "Are they safe?". My position on this topic is, if it is not proven that these cars are sufficent and lives are being saved before they are put in danger on the road then I want no part in them. All throughout the history of technology there has always been a shadow. You cannot have any peice of technology that doesn't have difficulty, a crashing sytem, or complexity closely following. What if these seemingly robot cars happen to have a system failure and take the lives of all it's passengers? Who is to blame there the manufacturers? Now, I do agree that the roads today are dangerous due to wreckless drivers, people driving under the ifluence among other things, but if a new automatic transportation sytsem causes more problems then what exactly is the point?
Sometimes it's best to sit back and be satisfied with what we have before we have nothing to sit back on as well as nothing to be satisfied about. People today are so focused witht the "hip" and the "now" that us as human beings are becoming more and more disconnected everyday. We spend more time in technology then we spend with those around us and it is very heartbreaking. We aren't going to live forever but some of us aren't even "living" right now. I understand that we are trying to better our world for the generations to come but is new advanced technology really what is best?
From the way we treat our planet right now there won't be any green for the next generations, we'll have to tell them stories and show them pictures because we took all of it away from them. So if you asked me about "advancement" I'd say I'm more focused on preserving. Maybe instead of new cars that drive themselves, we need more people driven to save our planet. Because cars don't "... fundamentally change the world." , we do. | 34
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29d4a8c | As a student, if I don't understand something in class, I will ask someone about it. Whether that is a teacher, a student, or a parent there is almost always someone who knows. If any one of these reliable sources does not know, I can most likely look it up on one of my devices that has the internet. If we were to introduce the new FACS technology, it may have unindended lasting impacts which could be detrimental to our society.
It was mentioned in the passage on paragraph 6 that " 'A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then it could modiy the lesson, like an effective human instructor.' "
The first reason that it could be bad for our society as a whole is that it is not the computer's duty to explain how to do everything and to change to our will. While computers were made to help us, it cannot be our only source of information. On the other hand, teachers are st school for the sole purpose of helping you learn. It is their actual job to be there to help you learn things. While computers are a tool to help achieve this goal, there are other ways to learn about things and get them explained to you.
When you are in highschool, many teachers and parents will say things to you along the lines of "In the real world" and " Highschool is preparing you for the real world". Later on in life, "in the real world", if you get bored at a job you cannot just change what you are doing. You have to continue on with it because it is your job. If we implemented this system now in schools, many kids and teens would get in their mindset that if they are bored or don't understand something, things will change for them. Kids should not rely on a computer to help them understand everything. There are teachers, classmates, parents, and other adults who can help.
The second reason why this could be bad for our society is the accessibility. Not every school has computers and not every class uses them. If we were to implement this software, it could be giving an unfair advantage to the students who had acsess to it. There are still plenty of schools that may not have a computer in every classroom. Similarly, not all students and parents can afford this kind of technology. Because of how new and high-tech this software is it most likely will cost more money to be put into effect. This would cause the schools with more money to be able to get it while the schools with less funding and less money to be pushed aside and not get it. This causes the students at the schools that cannnot afford it to have a disadvantage.
The third and final reason why this could be bad for our society as a whole is simply that people may become less sensitive to reading other peoples emotions. Without needing to have face- to- face human interactions to see how people are feeling, it could result in a decline of being able to recognize emotions in facial expressions.
I learned a few chords on the ukulele this summer. I could piece together a song or two. Now after a few months, I can't remember the first thing about playing those chords. This example shows that if you learn something then don't do it for an extended period of time, it will take a while to relearn how to do it. Although reading emotions is nothing like playing ukulele, the same holds true; if you learn something, and rely on something else to help you do it, it is going to be hard for you to re-learn how to do it again.
People also have a right to privacy and some people may not enjoy those particular rights being breached. I am a person who does not let all of my emotions show. Other people may bottle these feelings up in hopes that nobody will see. If people want to keep in how they feel, they should be able to do that as it is what they want.
Because it is not the computers duty to exlain everything to you, not everyone has accsess to this kind of software, and people may lose their sensitivity to the fine art of emotion reading, I am in opposition of implementing this FACS technology. | 45
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e9269d6 | Everyone knows what landforms look like. So why when everyone sees an object on Mars they automatically assume it is a face. It is just a natural landform on a different planet then everyone else. Just like if some random person lived on the moon which is not possible, and they see a face looking object, does not mean it is a face. It could just be crater holes. Craters are a reasonable and convincing explaniation. A crater could have hit Mars without anyone knowing. Convincing someone that the Face is just a natural landform is very hard because NASA has got everyone thinking different.
If everyone is thinking what NASA is saying how is anyone suppose to figure out what it really is? Everybody need to convince each other that it is just a landform. Who would believe that anyone is living on Mars. After all, there is not any oxygen there, so how would any humans survive? Very few " Scientist believed the Face was an alien artifact." Even scientists do not believe that it is any type of living thing on Mars. If scientists do not believe why should anyone else. After all, they are the ones studying the planets and atmosphere for us.
When scientists study our planets they also study our moon. Our moon has a bunch of craters. Which means they study craters too. Scientists know craters well enough to know that they can hit anywhere at anytime. Craters can make any type of shape or size even if you do take a quick picture of it. Pictures could be mistaken. It could make things bigger, or even look like some other things. Like if you took a picture of the " Face" " What the picture actually shows is the Martain equivalent of butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West." It even looks like landforms. Just like the ones here on Earth in the West. Once they cleared up the picture taking in 2001 they saw that it looked liked landforms here. So it is very likely that it could have just been a mistake. If the scientist do not believe that it is, or if it looks like landforms.
All the information in the article and in this essay shows some good points. Landforms could form anywhere. One could have just struck Mars one day. Or the camera could have just taken a mistaken picture. Either way scientists do not think it is any sign of a living breathing thing. No oxygen is on Mars so we would die instantly. Earth can not load some oxygen and there are not trees in Mars which means no oxygen. No life, no humans, no aliens. | 34
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7a5185a | The technology called the "Facial Action Coding System", or FACS, that enables computers to identify human emotions is a way to destroy the teacher's way of teaching because Dr. Huang quoted, "A Classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," and "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". In this argument, if the computer can do such, then there is a high chances that the job to teach will be replaced. In an intellectual student's view, it is best to be taught directly from a human teacher since it has emotions, efforts, and its struggles.
There is also another reason why this technology isn't the best to teach. The author states that, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too." It's only because then the teacher can't be that person who only teaches, it got their students as their great friends to talk, to trust, and to learn from them. Without teachers, then what do the computer teach? There is so many informations in a computer, yet the teacher teaches only one subjects. It's best to be taught by a teacher who can be your friend you trust and to learn, as well.
Another reason why it is not best to have FACS is because of this text that the author states, "For example, if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a smiliar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different." This is what is not great in the classroom. The students might not be entirely happy, or frown. They would be bored most of the time, and if that happens, an ad will try to make the students smile, which means it can leads to inappropiate ad such as pornography, online games, etc. It's a valid reason that FACS shouldn't be in the classroom, and isn't worth to have it.
Another reason that FACS shouldn't be accepted into the classroom is because the auther states this from the paragraph 6 about ads example. They can be a lot distracting if you're taking a test as well as quizzes. Ad changes based on your feelings, which means it would bring out games that makes you excited, and play that game, which will causes a huge amount of distractions in the classroom.
In conclusion, it is best not to bring a FACS to a classroom. You'll only get distractions from it. It's also recommended to be taught by a teacher since it can teach you one subjects you choose, and possibly makes you better than before. The emotions may be important, but in a teaching matter, a computer technology that can identify emotions isn't important at all. | 23
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12095b2 | Dear state senator,
I believe that the Electoral College is quite sneaky. Some people have no idea that it even exists, let alone what it is, so why have it in the first place? People vote on the president because they like what they say that they are going to do for our country. For example (in line ten, the author says), under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." Basically, the people are not voting for the person they want, but for others to make the decison on who they think would be the better president .
Sometimes the candidate for president is a favorited in the north, south, south west and so on, so that gives the candidate no incentive to campaign there. If there was not an Electoral College, then the candidate would have more of a chance to actually win people over instead of taking advantage of what reigon that they come from. For example, some people think that some candidates are anachronisms because their ideas are very outdated. With the Electoral College gone, the people who are "zoned," for lack of a better term, for that specific candidate, can freely choose who they think would be a better choice for president.
So, basically, I believe that the Electoral College is a terrible system because people do not even know what it is or that it exists and that favortism plays an emense part in a system that is "ruled by the people".
Sincerely,
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4f00e86 | I personally think that it is a big step forward towards a better future, if used properly. I agree that many politicains lie these days, but with technology like this can make a better nation out of us. This example is, i feel the best example of the story. Using this technology properly is the safest way to do it, but. I believe that using in a classroom full of students can be a disaster, i am a student myself. It's why i perfer not to be emotionally monitered throught these computer, most likley because alot of things happen putside of school that teachers arn't aware of. So using that type of technology on students, the'yre emothion would constanly be changing due to being around drama in and out of school. Another reason this would not help the students is because they need to learn how dectect these emotions themselves, and so do the teachers. Using this type of technology can help our courts determine wether a criminal is guilty or innocent. We could use this in way to get people out of danger, such Zologist. they feed and tame animal to be less aggressive, if this computer can detect emotion, then it can help avoid attacks from wild animals. This technology is impressive and can be used in different forms to make things better around us, they can make life easier and get us farther in future. being able to make computers that can detect emotion, can make a robot detect when its being theatened, can see when criminals are up to somthing. technology like this can help us get farther then the planets we know now. I my opinion on this is, i can agree it is an amazing invetion, and can be used an a lot of good, and bad ways its just the way people see on using it. we can both beleive that it should be used to get are nation farther then it already is, but lets not let are own technology controls us. | 12
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e66f424 | Dear state senator, I strongly disagree with the Electoral College. In my opinion, it is extremely unfair to voters. Candidates don't even spend time in the states they know they have no chance of winning because of the winner-take-all system. They only focus on the tight races in the "swing" states, which isn't very fair at all.
Also, it is outdated. We need something new, something way better. Not all of the states even seen the candidates at all and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad. And to me, that isn't very good at all. They all should be able to see the candidates and all the media markets should be able to see a campaign ad.
The article "The Indefensible Electoral College; Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" written by Bradford Plumer, he states that "The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best." I agree with Bob Dole! Abolish the electoral college! It's unfair, outdated, and even irrational. In my opinion, there is absolutely nothing good about it. | 12
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7444b30 | The concept of the automobile in the early 1900s was enough to make others pursue the dream of having one. As car dealerships made better looking, faster, high performance cars, the more people wanted them. After World War II when cars became inexpensive, more and more people had them. But it's also becoming an issue. Recently, that trend is going down.
To begin, the car industry has been at an all time high. We're making cars so fuel efficient, it almost seems impossible. We even have hybrid cars, which run on electric and fuel (respectively). But with all of the cars out there, especially in the US, the pollution in nations and our own cities are at an all time high. China's air pollution is the worst in the world. Nations have been taking the initiative to partially ban car use for a few days. Paris for instance, banned motorists with even-numbered license plates from using their vehicles, switching to odd-numbered the following day.
Furthermore, we have Bogota, Colombia who took a different approach to the rising air pollution. Instead of what Paris did, they banned automobile use in general, for one day. Buses and taxis still ran, but private vehicles did not. This seeminly little feat over time has done wonders on the city. More and more cities, including nations, are beginning this practice.
To sum things up, we see that there are advantages (and of course disadvantages) to limiting car use. Companies may lose money if they transport items. But as a whole, it's only a few days. Or even one day, that no one drives a vehicle. It's a perfect time to ride a bike, and lower air pollution in a city. | 23
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2a52391 | I agree that this technology is hepful, I believe it can help a lot of different people in many ways. I believe that this could be helpful because some kids/adults go through hard times and turn to death as an option. Many others may not agree with this technology because they don't want help nor do they want their emotions being able to be detected. This type of technology could help others in a various amount of ways. Here are some examples, a kid at home could be upset and the parents will never know because they don't pay attention to their childs emotions.
The parents would be required to do an everyday scan so they are aware of their childs emotions. Some parents could find out how their kids really feel and get them help. This technology could keep the suicide rate from uprising.
Doctors could use this in their offices to help patients. Especially infants, infants can't state how they feel. The doctor could scan the babies face and see their emotion.
" Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness."
Those six emotions detectors could be very helpful. Who knows they might even come up with more emotions to detect. This could help large amounts of people. So I agree with this technology. | 23
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259ee08 | Life without cars would be a world that would be much healthier. Cars are what help people get from point A to point B.But they do help kill Earth slowly. I honestly think that it is a good idea for Germany going life without cars. Which is gonna create less traffic which is a big plus for everyone that drives. Bikes are a lot safer espicially. They are less dangerous , cars are metal which would make the impact a lot harder. Buying a car is very expensive espicially.
A lot of people can't afford any type of car or insurance for cars. It does cut down a lot on pollution which is better for the environment. Every argument for someone that wants cars, there is a counter argument. There is no reason people should argue about keeping cars, at least in my opinion. If I was living in Germany or Paris or Bogota I would definetly be happy with that descison. America would also be a lot healthier.
America is known as the most obeise country in the world and I agree 100%.People would start to buy a bike or start walking which is an exercise for people who are overweight. It would make America loss a lot of weight! There is no reason why the world should keep cars. All it does is create problems , causes many deaths from accidents , causes pollution , causes laziness. I don't want any kids in the future to think life is easy. Cause it honestly isn't. By keeping cars it makes things easier. Which is sending the wrong message to young ones.
People are also always judging people for what type of car they have or the year it was made or how much it costs, taking out cars would definetly keep those type of people from ranking your belongings. Cause not everyone is as well off as you are. They might not make the same amount of money as you do, or have to pay more bills than you do. So you should'ny ms | 12
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7cfa897 | The idea of driverless cars is an incredibly hot topic at the moment. Although it may have some downsides, they are out weighed by the good. Becuase of this the idea of driverless cars is a good one. As a matter of fact this idea has and is already being tested. The year of the driverless car may be arriving sooner than you think.
Driverless cars have already became some what of a reality. Many different companies have been working on different ways to make cars that could drive independently. However, they have all either been to costly or the ability to actually make it work the way the car was designed may have been out of reach. But Google has been able to find a way to work around these problems. "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009"(2). These cars are in actually able to drive by themselves but they still require human drivers to take over at certain times. Some may not view this as a huge acheivement but it actually really is. This allows for safer driving and it could possibly cut down on accidents arround the world. This because it would allow for human intervention in emergency sittuations. As well as a way for people to get to there destinations safer without the imediate worry of being to tired to drive or other hazardous driving conditions.
While all these things are great it still has a few down sides to it. For example, "if the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufaturer? That is why it is best that these driverless cars are not 100% driverless. This will give people a chance to prevent an accident if their car mualfunctions. Also, some people believe that drivers may get board while wating for their turn to take over and drive when needed. Some manufacturers have already answered this question. As an attempt to keep the driver from getting board, some manufacturers plan on, " bringing in-car entertainment and information systames that use heads-up displays"(8). These display will be instantly turned off when the driver is need to drive.
Driverless cars is a very controversal topic. There are in deed a few down sides to this idea but many people are working to eliminate them. The amount of good that "could" come from driverless is greater than the bad.If we are able to actually work out most of the kinks about these driverless cars, then it would help to cut down on a ot of car accidents arround the world. As well as maybe even boost our technicological capablities accross the board. Then who knows what could be created next. | 34
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12a4ba5 | this is my stance for am i agaist or for using this tecnology to read students' emotional expressions. my anserw is yes we should supoort it. for futher detail on why keep on reading.
this technology could be one of the most benifical things for students. A great example of how it can help is people with depression. If the technology is acurate with its calculations we can help the people that are suffering from depression and are sucidal. The only promblem is how hard is it to hid your emotions from the system. if it is easy to hide from it then it will not help at all. the best way to get the 3-D constructs of ther face would be ethier a test when they sit in front of a computer or blend it in with picture day. in the future every school sould have these so they can figure out what is going on with a student emotions to help them.
that was my stance on if we should be for or agaist the technolgy to read students' emotional expressions. I suppoet this because of the promise the system shows.
I hope that some people dont run it into the ground. | 12
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7e6f8db | To Whom it May Concern:
The Electoral College is the cause of many political disagreements and problems whenever mentioned. Although established in the constitution, it is seen as undemocratic by many. The Electoral College takes away the ability of citizens to vote for their president; instead they are voting for Electors, not always loyal to the canidate. As a result, I believe the Electoral College should only be used in instances of a tie between two canidates.
Each presidential canidate has a group of Electors, which will be part of the Electoral College process after the popular vote is taken. The Electoral College proccess consists of the selection of electors, the meeting in which the vote for both President and Vice President occurs, and then the votes are counted by Congress. (Office of the Federal Register)¹ When the popular vote occurs, and the canidates are selected, the votes are tallied, and then the electors of the two canidates attend the meeting, and then the final decision for President is made. This is viewed as undemocratic, because there have been instances where the Electoral College dissagrees with the popular vote. Such as the case of Al Gore in 2000, who won the popular vote, and then lost the Electoral vote and therefore his presidency.(Bradford Plumer)² This caused over 60 percent of voters, to wish for a direct election opposed to the electoral proccess, according to a Gallup poll, also occuring in 2000. (Bradford Plumer)²
Anotherr issue within the electoral college, is the electors themselves. While they may claim to be loyal to their canidate, loyalties can be bribed, changed, or electors may even be replaced with only a certain party (Republican or Democratic). Which occured in Louisiana in 1960. The segregationists almost replaced Democratic electors, with ones who would instead oppose Kennedy, as a sabotage attempt at Kennedy's Presidency.(Bradford Plumer)² There have also been cases in which the loyalty of the elector was switched, and the citizens were seemingly forgotten at the electoral college. While there are over millions of people residing in the United States, there are only 538 Electors, and the fate of our country is put in Electors who can't be trusted.
Over 60 percent of Americans oppose the Electoral college, but there are still some which still believe in the compromise established by our founding fathers. The Electoral College provides a smaller chance of election ties, and an equal vote from each state. While a tie is possible in the popular voting system, it is also possible in the Electoral College, with 538 electors, 269 votes from each side can cause a huge dissagreement within our Legislative System, which could be avoided by using only the popular vote. When politicians and presidential canidates are looking for votes, they most commonly travel to the larger states, because of the larger population. A larger population provides an even larger chance of obtaining voters. But, this leaves the small states with no attention from canidates, and a smaller population weakens the states chance of the canidate they desire. Every vote counts for a canidate,5,559 voters from Ohio, and 3,687 from Hawaii stopped a tie by voting. (Bradford Plumer)² Even the small states contribute in a presidential elections, their votes are just as big as ours, even if their states ae small.
The founding fathers formed the Electoral College as a compromise, and hundreds of years later, I believe it is time for a compromise once again. The popular vote, should become the deciding vote for who is elected as President, Vice President, etc. With this, the chance of a tie comes, so i propose that the Electoral College remain only for the purpose of a tie in the popular vote, or if state legislature has reason to believe this canidate is not the best for America.
¹Excerpt from "What is the Electoral College?" by the Office of the Federal Register,from www. archives. gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about. html. In the public domain
²Excerpt from " The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best laid defenses are wrong" from Mother Jones by Bradford Plumer. Copyright © 2004 by Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. All Rights Reserved. Permission Pending. | 56
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70a17a9 | Quick question can you remeber your first time behind the wheel, blood rushing from all the excitement from this new experience. So nervous but so anxious, filled with fear that you can't help but to embrace. Boy what a rush, but what about those who haven't had that experience yet? I guess that's one thing we forgot to stop and think about hmm.. That's because when it's outside of ourselves it doesn't really faze us. Sure taxi rides are fine at times but it would get old and boring sooner or later with out a doubt. So driverless cars are not really what I think we need at this point.
Driverless cars seems like a fun futuristic type of thing so I understand why people would want them , not to mention that in certain situtation could be lovely to have. Why wouldn't you want a driverless car you may ask. Well First off the price of one of these machines cost up to two hundred million dollars and I know for a fact I can't afford this and neither can lots of others in this world .There is also things that just don't add up, we have been told nothing about warrinties or how any payment go, do you get the same insurance as you did with a regular vechicle, and if something breaks or goes wrong and your injuired or injure someone else who's to blame.
The text even ask it's self " If the technology fails and someone is injuired' who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?".
If that's not a clear cut reason of why these are nothing but a risk then I don't know what is. People can be put at fault for an accident that they had no control over at all because the car drives its self, therefore its like a game of Russina roulette you never know whats gonna happen or who will be blamed.
In conclusion to some of these terrible possiblitles I still take into consideration that everything right now is just he said she said no one really has proof that it will shut down and cause accidents or if it will even cost two hundred million by the time it comes out. But there are some things we do know and that is that in : California, Nevada, Florida, and District of Columbia it is illegal to have even semi-automatic cars and changing laws for something unproven is highly doubted. As of now it sounds safer for a driver to be paying full attention to the road then to be in a unpredictable driverless car where anything could happen, safety comes first. So for the sake of the people who haven't had a chance to experience their first time behind the wheel and for the safety of all on the road driverless cars are a no in my book. | 23
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e90de0d | Dear senator,
I strongly believe that we should demolish the electoral college system. It is highly unfair and can cause the wrong person to win. The system also has and will continue to cause controversy and rightfully so.
To begin with, the electoral college system is extremely unfair. With this system in play it is fairly easy for the wrong canidate to be elected it has happened before where the person with the most popular votes meaning they had the majority rule has lost because of the way the opposing system is run. This occasion may occur from time to time because when voting you are voting for the electors not the actual president that you want to win. The system is very faulty and there is no guarantee that the electors will vote for whom they are saying they will.
To continue, the system has caused and will continue to cause great amounts of controversy. Some people may refer to it as undemocratic, outdated or even irrational. Even though all people may not agree with it there are reasons it is still in action. It is highly unlikely for there to be a tie, the swing states play a huge role in being the deciding factor of who wins and it allows all states to be equal in the amount of electoral votes they put in in ratio to the population of the states. So there are some good things about the electorlal college but some will surely argue that they are not enough to outway the bad. Maybe we should just get rid of the college and take the easy way out by using majority rule. It really does make the most sense.
Lastly, the system makes some people feel as if their votes are worthless. In states such as texas that is made up 0f mostly republicans the democrats do not feel it necessary to vote because of the system. If most of the people are republican then the democrats already know that the opposite side will get the most electoral votes therefore it is pointless for them to vote. Another state in which this occurs is california where the majority of people are democratic therefore the republicans dont feel the need to vote. In my opinion everyones vote matters so we should run the elections that way.
To conclude. the electoral college should be done away with. It makes people feel like their opinions on the matter of who runs this country dont actually mattter. It is highly faulty meaning the candidate with the most votes does not always win and lastly the system causes loads of contraversy and will continue to until the problem is solved. | 34
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072c8a3 | I think that it is a neat idea to have driverless cars but only if all of the things that could go wrong have been evaluated. I can also tell you that they will never work out everything that could go wrong no matter how much they think they have. What if there is a malfunction and the car swerves and drives off of a cliff. That wouldn't be the drivers fault it would be caused by faulty technology. There would have been nothing that the driver of the vehicle could have done to prevent that from happening. What happens if one of these cars runs into another car because the technology stopped working. As stated in the passage would it be the drivers fault or the manufacturer.
You have to keep all of these things that could go wrong in mind you can't just think about the upsides of these smart cars. It would be neat to have a car drive for you i'll admit that and that is amazing that we're working on something that can do that and that we have became that technologically developed. There is just many things that need to be taken into consideration. There are so many ways someone could get hurt in something like this smart car. I think it would just be safer to not have these type of cars out and about on the street. What if they malfunctioned and ran a pedestrian over and neither the person in the car or the pedestrian walking would have seen it coming. There are already so many people being killed by drunk drivers now a days. I think achieving the development of this kind of technology would just make the death rate go up and this world doesn't need that happening it is already heart breaking how many people die in a day already.
People should not have to dread walking around if they do not have a vehicle just because they fear of this technology hitting them. They would have to take the necessary precautions in order to have this kind of technology on the streets. I don't think that the developers think of all the dangerous things that could happen by having these cars. They all just think of how cool it would be to drive a smart car. Well I can tell you that I think that to many people die from drunk drivers or people that aren't paying attention to where they are going when they are driving around. Yeah were still going to have people die from these things. We don't however need there to be more people dying because of faulty technology.
They can think that they have worked every kink out in their technology but, I can assure you that they haven't. There is always going to be a risk of something happening with this kind of technology. It's not just safe because the manufacturers say that it's safe that is just not how it works. All i'm saying is that we should be more concerned with what could go wrong than what is cool. I would rather be safe walking on a sidewalk then not wanting to leave because im scared of dying. I think that we just need to stop being lazy it's just steering a steering wheel it's not rocket science. | 23
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bf2e7ce | Dear senator, voting on a president is a big deal. it decides who has power over the U.S. Now the way we elect our president to me is a very efficient process, this is as you know is electoral college, (EC). For the past 200 some odd years, when the founding fathers created this system, it has worked everytime. yes, there have been recounts but those were human mistakes, not a break in the system. when electing a president, I think we need to keep electoral college
President Obama, in his state of the union adress, said, "If it isn't broken, dont fix it". This is true for EC. it still works so why in the world would we want to change it. Would you fix a car if it ran to it's maximum capacity? Some on the opposite side may say that their is a chance for a tie, isn't that fair though? In any fair competition there is always a chance of a tie.
EC is also the most fair in the sense of political party, (liberals and conservitives). It dosnt favor any one party. It does this by giving equal amount of vote for the size of state and for each to win the greater number of electoral college. "The EC requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region (South, Northeast, etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president."(source 3) This, in basic terms, means that if the southern region is more conservitive (which it is in most cases) doesn't have enough electoral votes to elect a president. The other regions have as equel of a vote as the south does, thus keeping a nice fair election.
In colclusion, EC is, in my opinion, the best and most fair way to elect our leader. other ways may be more efficient but EC is the most far and it has worked since it was created. So these are the reasons that it should remain in use. | 23
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c81e8b2 | What happen on Mars. In May 24, 2001. One of our spacecraft took many photos of a human face that look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. People think that this is a symbol of life. What they dont know is that we have studied this symbol for a long time and there is no symbol of life on Mars.
NASA sent one our space man Michael Malin to take some pictures with a better camera, revealing that their is no sign of alien life on Mars. "But not everyone was not satified." In April, 1998 we sent another spacecaft to take pictures of Mars but it was to cloudy witch made it look like an alien markings.
April 8, 2001 cloudless day, we sent another one of our viking spacecarft with a better camera so that we could see what we were really into. "Malin team captured an extraordinary photo using maximum resolution."What the picture actually shows is the martian equivalent of a butte or mesa lanforms common around the American West." | 12
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592c884 | This is why I am for and against the development of all of the new cars they are making.The driverless cars are very interesting and sound like fun.You are still driving but your car is also driving by itself.The only thing i disagree with is when it comes to the law the person driving and the manufacturer should have fault.The person driving should have the most fault for driving recklessly but the car could have done it by itself also.I think the cars should aslo be tested so we know what it is capable of doing in certain situations.The cars should have crash test like the other vehicle's do.
They say that they want the cars to be safe for the people to be able to drivve in them.But how are the cars going to be safe if they are not tested or anything.The cars are changing while the years go by they are just getting better and better.The cars have very like human minds and do what human do when they
are driving.But when there is an accident no body wants to take the blame for what happened.
Google can make all of this good technology for things like cars and everything but is it going to be safe to use.Even though the person driving the car doesn't have to do much they should still have control.They should have control over everything if their is an accident or not.The sensors for the car might work a couple of times doesn't mean they will work all the time.The cars are going to have camera's in them to watch what the driver is doing.The camera should see that the driver is watching the road while driving the car.This is why i am for and against the car. | 12
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2a585ab | Our world had been "centered on the car, and that will have to change" and europe is taking a stand on this subject. europe takes a stand and tryed and experioment on a new suburb and influnses paris to partake in car-free week and all is a rage and influnces colombia to try.
Europe is taking a stand to the enviromenting harm that cars are causing by conducting an experiment. They have now made rules and regulation abut the Parking of cars in the suburban. An artical writen by Elisabeth Rosenthal states " street parking, drivewaysand home garages are generaly forbidden in this experomental new district on the out skirts of Freiburg... Vauban's streets are completly "car free". this is forcing people tio complie and live with a car. Heidrun Walter a media trainer and mothere of two telles the writer " when i had a car i was always tense. i'm much happier thid way". she belive that a car is not nessacery to make her happy and now that her carless she coulf never be greatful.
Car are a handy tool to have but the damage that they are causing our environment is unrelistic. "
paris bans driving due to smo g" by robert duffer enlightens us that " Paris typically has more smog then other european capitals...[last]week paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (pm) per cubic meter comp[ared with 114 in brussela and 79.7 in london". this is a very dis heartining thig that is being caused to our enviroment. luckly people are relizing the damage thate they are causing for generations about ahead of us and trying to solve the problem. paris awhated to try to sovlve the smog issue. paris plan of action was " Public transit was free of charge from friday to monday... the smog cleared enough monday for the fuli9ng french party to rescind the band of odd numberes plates on tuesday". this experiment did not please alot of people but did show the dramaptic effect that not driving for a five day period can positivly hgave an affect on out enviroment.
In corosponding to hearing about all of the enviromantal news for europe. BOGOTA, Colombia decided to participate in this movevment about cars and had a "car-free day"This fananium has spred liek wild fire and is having millions of people participating. andrew selsky tells us " millions of colobians hiked, bicked ,skated or took the buses to work during a car-free day." People are wuilling to suffer with incovelents to help or enviroment for the generations to come. this car-free move ment is not only for the enviroment. Carlos Arturo rode his two seated bick with is wife and told us " it's a good opportunity to takeaway stress and lower air pollution".
These countrys and people are taking steps and leading other epeople in the right direction and creating a better enviroment by participatin in car-free week. | 23
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eefdc66 | The author makes a really good statement about humans should study venus more because it is worth it. I also believe us humans can actually make it happen and study this planet.
The athour really uses alot of detail when he explains how dangerous venus could be because in the article it says venus surface temperature is 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the air is 97 percent carbon dioxide. Also, the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience here on earth. According to pragraph 3 Venus has the hottest surface temperature in all of our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to the sun. But beyond high pressur and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volconoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. Also, Astronomers have had theories that Venus could have also have been like earth and could have had oceans and life down there. So I really see a good reason to study this planet because human curiousity will eventually get the best of us and our neighboring planet will later be discovered with new information us humans never knew.
The Author also states that NASA has an idea for sending humans to venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions of the surface of Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray. So like a blimp like vehicle hovering around 30 miles above Venus's surface. Like the Author states just like jets flying above storms, a vehicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. But at 30 miles or more above the surface the temperatures would still be hot around 170 degrees states the author. But, the air pressure would be close to sea level on Earth and there would be plenty of solar power. The conditions won't be easy but it's survivable for humans to do.
In conclusion The author gives many reason and details that we should really give Venus a chance to study. I totally agree with this idea because every year humans and inventions are evolving and possibly in the next 100 years we definetly could already be exploring other dangerous planets like Uranus or even Saturn. But it will never be easy to do those explorations. In other words I know we can do it because humans have already gotten so far we cannot just stop now. | 23
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7f5780c | I believe that the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable, because students would try to hide their emotions. Students would probably be going through some tough times in their life, and they need some help but they are to scared to say it to an adult. The teacher might no be interesting to them. Teachers want to know on how to get all the students attention in class and do their work. This technology will be useful for teachers to be more interesting, seeing what makes the students happy, and helping a problem in their life that needs to be fix.
Let's say Alex is a student and is having a hard time at home because of their parents arguing every single time, being scared that they might one day not be together. The Facial Action Coding System will help an adult figure out what's making his emotion change and becoming sad. It will get an adult attention to talk to his parents and fix thing out. It can make you be even happier in the article it says " If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow". It can help you if your depress in the article it says " But if you frown, the next ad will be different".
In conclusion The Facial Action Coding System is useful to reading the emotional expression of students, or photos of someone that lived long ago and figuring out how they lived, and seeing what emotions they were having in the old days. It helps seeing how the people were treated during those days we wern't alive, and adding new history. | 23
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a145382 | I think this artical is important. Our emotions are always changing. This new technology can help us in different ways. I'm for this because learn how someone feels is important in some cases. Facial experssions show how someone feels through their emotions.
The creator of FACS is an psychologists named Dr. Paul Eckman. The Facial Action Coding System is able to read an identify peoples emotion. Only the six basics which are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust ,fear , and sadness. The way they found Mona Lisa's emotions was by using a 3-D computer to construct the face. They found all forty-four major muscles, the movement of one or more muscles is called an action unit on the computer.
If the FCAS was used in school it can be a benifit to students and teachers. It can show how student are acting in class to see if they're under standing or not. If someone isn't understanding then the teacher can see and talk more on that subject. If the students id doing an assinment on the computer and get the answer wrong and see confusion the system could reword the question and see if that's easier.
The main idea of the Facial Action Coding System is to see emoition. It can help in many situations. In school we can now see if student are confused or paying attention. | 12
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d4cf520 | Earth, it is a beautiful planet, really one of a kind. Sadly every day billions of people around the world drive vehicles that emit fumes that are poison to earths atmosphere. If we want the earth to live as long as possible, if we want a safe enviroment for our children to live in the future, then we need change.
There is a settlement in Europe called Vauban, it is a car-free community, for the most part. There is only a couple streets in the entire community that are hospitable to cars. None of the houses except for a few have garages. 70 percent of the population does not own a car. It is a trending lifestyle in Europe, and i can see why. 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are from cars in Europe. That number is raised to 50 percent in some parts of the United States.
In Paris, it was so smoggy that they had to ban the use of vehicles for an entire weekend, one day even license plates would be banned, the next day odd. If you were caught driving with a banned license plate you would be fined, and approximately 4,000 people were fined on that weekend, 27 people's cars were impounded. This was all part of an attempt to clear the 147 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter that was congesting the air. Compared to London with 79.7. Public transit however was free during this time, and hybrid cars, electric cars, and cars with 3 or more passengers were allowed.
In Bogota, Colombia, they celebrate "Car-free day", where everyone in the city leaves their cars at home and either hikes, bikes, skates, or takes the bus to work and school. Violators face a $25 fine. It all started back in the mid 1990s, the city has added 118 miles of bicycle paths since then, the most out of any latin city. Parks and sports centers have also made an appearance around the city.
Basically what im trying to get across here is that all cars do is make us get to work faster, but if you think about the cons, it pollutes our earth, it dirties our streets, it congests our cities, and it makes everyone unhappy. We need to change, not all of us, but some of us, for the children. | 23
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ca4bd9f | Driverless cars are the future. I feel that they are some of the coolest inventions since the invention of the smartphone. Just think about it, hopping into the car, telling it where to go, and not having to do anything along the way. To me, that sounds like the ultimate luxury. Lots of people feel this way, and this passage shows how driverless cars are amazing, such as increasing flexibility of the average person's day, and the ability to be entertained while being in the driver's seat of the car. I simply cannot wait until these machines become mainstream, and I will become one of the first to purchase one.
Driverless cars would increase the flexibility of the average person's day. If it was as simple as typing in where you want to go, I'm sure children would be able to operate the cars, also. This would allow the kids to get to their after-school activities easier and to school easier, too. This would widen opportunities for parents to be able to do more things everyday.
If driverless cars became truly driverless, imagine the multi-tasking opportunities that would be available in the car. Heck, I could work on homework in the driver's seat, and my dad could make business calls and paperwork while "driving." Parents could interact with their kids, and anyone and everyone could get more work done. They could also be entertained while in the car, and who doesn't like entertainment?
And last but not least, driverless cars are super cool, I mean, come on, they're DRIVERLESS cars! The concept is out of this world. I think it's totally amazing what technology can do these days, and I look forward to more inventions along the lines of these. These inventions make life easier, more fun, and a whole lot more productive, and to the best of my knowledge, these are all good things.
So, in conclusion, driverless cars are the bomb. They can make life easier, more fun, productive, and entertaining. The whole concept is spectacular, something right out of a sc-fi novel or TV show. I look forward for their breach into mainstream, where I will be waiting, waiting to purchase a driverless car. | 23
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d9311a7 | How Can We Explore Venus?
Today many scientists are looking on how to get to Venus and study it, researchers have been trying to find a way but had always failed. Now they're still looking on what to do because the planet Venus is really facinating and amazing for them.
Why does until today scientists keep wanting to visiting Earth's twin (Venus)? Because the planet itself is incredible. And it says it in the text in paragraph 4 that "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in ouir solar system." The studies that they researchers have made so far is that " Long ago, the planet Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth.
Based on the text we can see that the next planet's fascinating, according to the passage it is really hard to get just one foot on Venus, you won't even last a minute or more, we can see it's impossible to land on it. But that doesn't affect scientists. The writer said that "It's a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets..., and the temperatures average are over 800 degrees Farhenheit, the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." But it does not matter to them.
In the fourth paragraph the writer state that the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and " It includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Recall that Venus can sometims be our nearest option for a planetary visit." The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable for scientists,"but what are the options for making such a mission both safe and scientifically productive?" That's the questions they're asking themselves until today.
NASA have been testing some electronics made of silicon carbide at higher temperature in a chamber, the same as Venus's, and it lasted for three weeks in those conditions, they're still believing in landing on Venus, because "human curiosity will lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." said the author. | 12
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f89a159 | The "Face on Mars" had been something that fascinated Scientist's at Nasa and conspiracy therorists alike. With the publication of the pictures, it brought up the question: Was it made by aliens? No, it was not, in fact it was just a nautral land form.
The first picture of the "Face on Mars" was taken by Viking 1 spacecraft. It was looking for a landing spot for its sister ship, then made out the shadowy aperance of a face. While this did shock scientists, it didn't last. They put down as just another Martian landform, it's only special charateristic being it looked like a ancient egyptian pharoah. Later the Mars Global Surveyor took another snapshot, the picture being ten times sharper than the orginal. To reveal nothing but a nautral land form. It was actually a mesa, a land form or lava dome.
The "Face on Mars" was not alien monument or even an actual face. It was a bunch of shadows and just in general a low pixelated picture. | 12
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6058b9a | The author emphasis how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents is very important to Astronomers. "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" mainly supports how Venus is worth the riskand challenge to explore to see if it's as much like Earth as it's said to be, because it is close to Earth in size and density, has similiar geographics, and is known as Earth's sister planet.
First, Venus is set up with similar distancing as Earth it's sometimes often referred to as "Earth's twin". The text says that "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." Venus is so similar to Earth, but yet so challenging to explore.
Second, just like Earth Venus has mountains and valleys. Some might even say long ago there were oceans, because the text says "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like Earth."
Then, Venus is known to be Earth's sister planet! Venus has always been the closest planet to Earth other than Mars, but if Venus is so much like Earth astronomers can't figure out why it's so much more inhospitable than Earth.
In conclusion, Venus is a very challenging place to see and be. Venus has not been touched in more than 30 years! In the text it says ".. not a singlr spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." So although Venus is the sister of Earth astronomers know very little about her. So they keep in pursuit to learn more despite the dangers it presents everytime. | 23
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5fbd61b | You should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys because they help animals that are young and animals that were shipped overseas. They also headed oversea with the animals and they had packed a lot of food for the animals to eat while going overseas. Luke helped alot with the animals because he didnt want them to get hurt or die out on sea.
I chose the claim that you should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys because they helped a lot of thing in Europe when World War 2 was over. In the passage it says," World War 2 was over in Europe and many conturies were left to ruins." Also the passage says," To help these countries recover their food supply, animals, and more, 44 nations joined together to form the UNRRA."
The UNRRA wasnt only helping animals they were also helping people. My evidence to support that claim is," Luke Bomberger crossed the Atlantic ocean 16 times and the Pacific 2 to help people who were affected by World War II." It was thoughtful that Luke did all of those things to save people that were affected by World War II.
Luke made nine trips which was more than any Seagoing Cowboy has ever done. Luke was brave and thoughtful for joining the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke saved many lives after World War II. He didnt save only human lives he saved animals lives too and i feel that was thoughtful.
In coinclusion, Luke was very thoughtful and nice to save people after the War went on. Luke said that being a Seagoing Cowboy is much more than and adventure. The awarness he has stayed with him and now he is leading hus family to a host a number of international students and dexchange visitors for many years. Luke helped people by joing the UNRRA and that was kind and thought i hoped Luke had a fun time doing his job. | 23
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8ede676 | There is a limit to car usage. A car can really come in handy but its not nessary. Gas is not all that cheap for evryone either. Cars don't need to be used for everyhting but since thats an easy way to get around people just take advantage of that and use it. People can cause lots of damage with the way they use there car. Weather people of the millennial generation will start buying more cars once they have kids to take to soccer practice ans schoolplaus remains an open question.
A car can really help you out in some cases. But it not nessary at all. There are lots of other things you can do to help help out. Their are things you can do to get you places and also helping you out. Example riding a bike, gets you to exercise and also take you places. Needing of a car isn't so needy anymore."But america's love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling.
people do can cause lots of damage with there vehicles. The amount of care people have with driving is rediculous. Parks and sports centers have also bloomed throughout the city. Their are sidewalks that have to be replaced,rush-hour restrictions that have dramatically cut traffic. All these can happen for careless people instead of following such simple things.
Not only do people use up gas in there car but also miles. The number of miles used in your vehicle does matter. The number of miles driven in the united states peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily thereafter, according to an analysis. Means car usage is very high in the united states. My opinion cars are no nessasary for everything. There are more to use or do to get to places which may take longer or faster but still getting there.
Some advantages of limiting your car usage. Yes there are much limits to it which are important. People should really start using or finding other way to go."Its's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution". | 12
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db6bf94 | I am Luke Bomberger and I have been to very unique places in my life time. Right now I work part time at two jobs in grocery store and at a bank. But what I didn't know that my life would change soon after I graduated. So thanks to my friend Don Reist he invited me ot go to Europe with him on a cattle boat. So of course I couldn't just say no because if I would have to be just carzy It was a life time opportunity.
It was in the year of 1945, it was the time of World War II. So to help people recover, 44 nations joined to form a UNRRA. The UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. So the next thing you know Don and I were signed up.
In August 1945, we received our orders to go and report to the New Orleans. " We arrived August 14 ," Luke said. Which was the day the that the Pacific War ended. They got their Seaman's paper and boarded up the SS Charles W. Woodster, headed for Greece with a cargo of 335 horses and plus enough hay to feed them all.
Luke's birthday happened before arriving to Greece. He turned 18 which meant he could be drafted to military service. " When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle boat trip, they told me to justto keep doing that for my service."
But the trips we went on were unbelievable opportunities for a little small town boy like me.
It took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the Eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. Caring for all the animalsand the crossingskept me busy. They had to be fed and watered two or three times a day. Bales of hay and bag of oats had to be pulled up from the lower holds of the ship. stalls had to be cleaned.
Helping out on my aunt Katie's farm as a little boy helped me a lot to prepare me for this job. But not for the dangers on the seas that I had to face. On my second trip I was watch man for all the crews out on the boats. My job was to check all of the animals for every hour | 12
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2504d68 | Their are three reasons why Luke's point of view convince people that they should participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. One reason was that it was an expirience of a life time,he does what he likes to do,and he gets free time to do fun things. Thoes are the reasons why Luke's point of view convinces others to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.
I can support this answer that the Seagoing Cowboy's program was an expirience of a life time when the passage says "but the Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger"."It opended up a new world for him". I can also support that it was an exprirence of a life time when the text says,"I'm greatful for this for this opportunity,"he says."It makes me more aware of people in other contries and their needs."thats the reason that it was an expirience of a life time.
I can support that he gets to do what he likes to when the texts says that "Biside helping people ,I had a side benifitt of seeing
Europe and China. I can also support that he likes what hes doing when the text says "Luke also tored and excavatede Crete and marvoloues at the Panamna Canal on his way to China."
I can support that found free time to do fun thing when the text says the cow boys played baseball and volleyball table tennis and more fun things. They also boxed read whiting and more those are the reasons how he got to do fun things
In conclusion he did alot of things to inspire people to be a Seagoing Cow boy. If mre people were like hime the world would be a better place. | 23
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5739156 | Do you like going to a lot of new places? Do you like unique places? Do you like seagoing Cowboys? will today I am going to tell you something you might like to join it is seagoing Cowboys. The fun part is that you get to do all the things that you might of what'd to do like visiting a lot of unique places.
So we are going to enter view a person his name is Luke bomberger he crossed the Alantic ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War Il. But before all of this happened he did not know what he was going to do with he life he had 2 jobs and one of the jobs he .worked with he's friend. He's friend invited him to go Europe on a cattle boat. Luke he couldn't say no because he knew ' it was only in a lifetime thing'.
But if your not a rise taker you probly should not take this job because luke he broke his ribs and he couldn't work for almost a month. And he almost slid off the boat and if you didn't know he could of died how crazy is that. But not only that but you have to be resonspable because Luke had to care for him self and for the animals and had to change there cattle. But if I think about that I could not even do that job Icant even barely take care of my cat and puppy at home . Not only that Luke's animals were not the size of a kitten or a puppy they were cows, horses , and prolly even goats.
But if you really want this job you have to be all this 6 things 1. Caring 2. resonsable 3. reliebole 4. heping 5. Rise taker 6. *You have to know what challenge you are going to be up to* | 12
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0719241 | I will be writing about why you should paticipate in the Seagoing Cowboys program. I will include details from the story. Also reasons to join the program. the last thing i will include is examples from the text.
My frist reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is just to experiance new things. You should not be on your phone all day doing nothing. Get up and at least try to have a little bit of fun. if you have never been there or even heard of it how do you know it is going to be boring. You never know until you drop your phone and actually join. You might end up having some fun.
A second reason is well look what Luke Bomberger did. He joined 44 nations to form unrra (the united nations relief and rehabilitation). UNRRA took care of horses, young cows, and mules that wers shipped overseas. Wouldnt you want to spend your days with nice and loving animal that wont hurt you. You never know, if no one joins Seagoing Cowboys then maybe there could have been animals who were in dangered, or might be extinct. I think that animal are really fun to hang out with.
The last and final reason is you dont just take care of animals but you help the places that were dastroyed because of world war II. It would be great if you actually got to see where many people were fighting, got killed, injured, or much more in world war II. Just like Luke in the story, you can also go to may places that he went like new orleans, or greece. This is your oppertunity to visit beautiful places that you have never been to before. You could also meet new people.
To summarize everything up those are some reasons why you should join Seagoing Cowboys. You just never know until you try it out. | 23
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0fc7b60 | "Making Mona Lisa Smile," with the facial action coding system, is a way of a computer being able to read a humans emotions, isnt it kind of weird? technology is progressing more and more everyday, but this isnt something we need, why do we need to read peoples emotions? is it important?
This program allows other people to invade the privacy of others, i would want someone or something reading my emotions just because, even if who ever is trying to "read" your emotions asked for permission its still called personal space, this program to me is kind of useless, maybe there are some ways it could be useful?
In some cases it can be used for people in the hospital, you know when you go get checked up the doctor normally asks you how you feel, and sometimes you dont know how you feel but the doctor needs to know in order to treat you.
But in some other cases, it should not be used in schools or in working areas, dont you think that the students will kind of be scared of that? theres no use for it, maybe some people will make use out of it but some people dont want you "reading" their emotions at all, and you have to respect that. | 12
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aee6430 | The face is actually not a natural landform because as you see in paragraph 3 it says "A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see.The caption noted a 'Huge rock formation. . . which resemles a human head . . . formed by shawdows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth." The authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attention to mars. In paragraph 5 it says The "Face on Mars"has since become a pop icon.it has starred in hollywood film, appeared in book,magazines,radio talk shoes ,even haunted grocery store chechout lines for 25 years! Some people think the face is bona fide evidence of life on mars evidence that NASA would rather hide,say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile,defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on mars. Paragraph 3 talks about how 25 years ago
something funny happened around mars which was the face that actually appeared on mars. NASA viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping photos of possilbe landing sites for its sister ship viking 2 when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face an enormous head nearly 2 miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the red planet called cydonia. On the left here it shows pictures of the face that appeared on mars it shows 3 different pictures from (1976)(1998)(2001) side by side a viking 1 phonto from 1976 a mars global survey image from1998 and the latest image from 2001,theres another photo after paragraph 5 and it's a 1976 1 photograph of the face on mars. Also in paragraph 8 it says but not eveyone was satisfied. the face on mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in april '98 a cloudy time of year on the red planet.the camera on board images had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face perhaps said skeptics alien markings were hidden by haze. In paragraph 9 it says mission controllers prepared to look again it's not easy to target cydonia says garvin in fact it hard work. | 01
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bb18184 | How well does the author supports his details. The gives reason abotu venus that make it sound intresting to reserch and find information about. As the Author sayed Venus used to be mabye just like earth that had oceans and etc.
what the author is stateing. The author is stating that even thought thier is some dangers on Venus onday might have to leave earth and have to move to a driffrent planet. Venus is the only one that is most likey like earth and used to have oceans and rivers and mabye even used to have living creatures. The earth won't always be thier one we will have to leave earth one day which is like not intill a billion years.
Resonsings about Venus that make you carious about or want to do some reserch on it. Venus is the brightest light in the night sky and it is a evening star. Venus looks just like the other stars up in the sky only ecept venus is the brightest. Venus is the one closet to earth and is more like a twin to earth. Venus could have had living orgnasim living in Venus.
NASA has tryed many times to land on Venus. NASA has tryed to land on Venus but have never been able to get it to land on Venus without seomthing gouing wrong with it. NASA and scientist have work on trying to land on venus and to see what on it so many times bu really haven't been abel to accoplish it.
NASA won't give ethier way intill they make it to a diffrent planet. The author is saying to just imagine what it would be like to be abel to land on a driffrent planet and see what is on it and what you can find. Mabye someday that will happen and we can see if thier were living things that survived on the planet. | 12
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4761e38 | The objective of the article the author wrote was to explain why Venus is a worthy pursuit even though there are dangers to it. The article itself mostly described the dangers of exploring Venus but did not give us many reasons of why we should do it. The author did not support the idea that studying Venus is worth the pursuit despite the dangers it presents that well.
Even though the author said that studying Venus can be an opportunity to challenge our limits and can "lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors", they gave us more negative reasons than positive reasons about Venus and why it would be a good idea to explore it more. The first big negative statement about Venus and attempting to explore it was when the author said "no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours". The author did not give the reader any possible solution or even an idea on how we might be able to fix that.
Another negative statement about Venus and why it is a difficult planet to explore is when they mentioned "temperatures average over 800 degrees Farenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". These factors are just about impossible to survive in for even more than a few minutes probably. The author did not mention any possible solution of what scientists might be able to think up. He didn't even state a positive reason why Venus is still a worthy pursuit.
A final negative statement about exploring Venus is when he said that "our jet airplanes could travel at a higher altitude to fly over storms" and that "temperatures would still be hot at thirty-plus miles above the surface", but then gave the readers more problems with flying high over the surface of Venus in the next paragraph. The author told us that "far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere". Because of this, any pictures or videography would be useless. The author told the readers that "researchers are are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus", but he did not give us any example to prove to us that researchers were actually doing that.
This article attempted to argue that even though Venus was a worthy pursuit even though there were many challenges to it, but it did not argue why very well. It could think of more negative features of Venus and gave us more reasons of why pursuing that planet would be risky than stating why it was a good idea. The author did a poor job trying to convince its readers that exploring Venus is worth the risk and challenges. | 34
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3072ba3 | At first he worked at a to part time job a banking and grocery store and then his freind invited him to be on a cattle boat luke could not say no to him.
The reason he joined was because his friend offerd he the job and he new it would be worth a life time of fun so he joined. Why because he wanted to have a new and fun job. And to help devistated countriesthat need help getting food and water and livestock. When he was walking around the boat to check on the animals he climbed a slipper ladder and losed his grip and started sliding towards the side of the boat. But their was a peice of metal that grabed his coat and stoped luke from going over board.
So he joined it was right after World War II and many counteries were left devistated and alot of countries needed food, water and livestockand then fortyfour nations joined together to help countries in need and the. Contries were caled the (United Nations Relief and Rehabitation Administration) Also nown as the UNRRA.
He said that he broke two ribs so he could not work the next day but after that he said it was a fun job. To have when they unloaded the animals the get to play volleyball, table-tennis, baseball, fencing and boxing. On the long journey back to america.
In Augast he recieved oders to report to New Orleans, he said we araived in August fourteenth, the day the Pacific war ended. they got their seamen's papers and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster, headed for Greece- with a cargo of 335 horses plus enought hay and oats to feed them. | 01
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6f3bcc5 | Why do you think aliens created it? Aliens did not create this it is a natural landform. The face breaks and gets more real each couple of years. If aliens created this then they couldn't of had NASA's Mars Global Survey spacecraft reveal the Face of Mars , it is a mesa. A mesa is natural so therefor it has to be a natural landform. I think it is real because they got a lot of facts about the mesa and if it was fake they couldn't of gotten facts on it. They seen a image and the note said it was a human head. Now if it was created by aliens and then it couldn't be a human head. I think it is real and so should you. Believe what they say becaue it is real and they are not making it up. This mesa was not created by aliens. Aliens are not even real in the real world. So believe what they say because i think it is real. If you dont think it is real then see if you can find facts about maybe even more facts than they found. If you cant find more facts then them it is obviously not true about it be created by aliens. | 12
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dbcfa50 | In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars", there is information showing that the Face is a natural landform, and was not created by aliens. I have to agree, and say that the Face is a natural landform. Reasons to back up my thought would include, that the Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped quite a few pictures showing that it wasn't a real face, they have never seen anything like this before, and more scientists believed it was a rock formation rather than an alien.
The Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped quite a few pictures to get closer looks on the formation, to see if it could be a real face or not. In paragraph 7 it stated, "...Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." Malin and his team took sharper pictures to prove to other people that they were right about it being a natural landform. Scientists also haven't seen anything like this before. In paragraph 9 it mentioned, "We just dont pass over the Face very often." If it really was an alien you would see more things like this because there wouldn't be just one alien, there would way more, causing there to be more faces. More scientists also believed that the Face was a natural landform, while only a few believed it could have been an alien feature. Within paragraph 8 it stated, "But not everyone was satisfied... Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." By the article saying this, they showed that some people disagreed with the other scientists, and actually thought it was some sort of alien marking.
Although, most of the scientists say that this is a natural landform, there will always be someone who wants to disagree with them. No matter how many people would say that something is right, there will always be that one person who has to be different then everyone else. In the article, there are more facts saying that the rock is a natural landform, even though that leading it to be bias. There would be a better argument, if you had one story saying it was natural, and one story saying it's because of an alien. | 23
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cf8bb28 | Venus is our sister planet how. You see at on time in our solar system venus was the most Earth-like planet. long ago it was probably covered with oceans that could had sopported various forms of life. It still has some features like earth like valleys and mountains.
It the closes to earth in terms of density and size. but that means that its not to close to the sun if it was it be hot to hot for life to live on it. life cant live on it cuz of that thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide. Cuz of hat atmosphere it temperatuers average over 800 degrees fahrenheit the pressure is 90 times greater then Earth.
We should not be limated by danger but by imagination and innovation. However if we peering at venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely above the planit at 30 miles. WE whould not have to deal whith its unfriendly ground by staning far up and away from its atmosphere. but orbiting or hovering venus whoude be limited insight on ground most forms of light cannot penetrate its thick atmosphere. | 01
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9763ea8 | Venus, often referred to as Earth's "twin" is an astouding planet in humanity's solar system.
Venus measures out to nealry the same density and mass of as Earth and is sometimes even the nearest planet to Earth as well.
Humans should find studying Venus as a neccessity to human survival because of the advanced intel that NASA and humans all aorund the world could contain, society on Earth has came up with numerous ways to explore its challenging dangers that Venus envokes, and Venus is worth the exploration because the things soicety can learn and takeaway to help further Earth and the way that Earth functions.
Venus, without a doubt, is a worthy pursuit despite its dangers.
Venus and Earth are extemely similar yet different at the same time.
Many years ago, in paragraph four, Venus was, "...covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." thus implying the similarities Earth and Venus both share.
Also, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." this being a description of Venus, Earth has all of these qualities as well.
But in contrast, Venus's surface today, "...temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experince on our own planet." thus explaining that the temperature and atmosheric pressure is extremly different than what Earth is today.
To make up the these dense hazards that Venus portrays, NASA and many sister companies on Earth have came up with thorough plans to match that dangers Venus depicts.
For example, because of the harsh temperatures on Venus, NASA has envisioned a blimp-like structure that would hover close to 30 miles above Venus, decreasing the temperature about 630 degress and far enough up in orbit to decrease the atmospheric pressure to about equal to a submerged submarine in the ocean.
Thus doing so, NASA could get closer to Venus despite the dangers of extreme temperature and pressure to unveil intel and knowledge about Venus to help expand what we know about Venus.
Another idea that NASA is working on is with the study of electronics made from silicon carbide.
These materials can withstand Venus conditions. To go along with these ideas, other people came up with computer systems from pre and post World War II era.
These computers cn operate and calculate without using technology sensitive materials like today where they got heated easily.
These computers can as well withstand harsh temperatures and pressures that Venus envokes.
Furthermore, through old and new elctronics, and bolstering ideas with different materials NASA and society on Earth can safely study Venus despite the dnagers.
To add, by pursuing Venus society can learn neccessary intel to help further Earth and the way that Earth functions.
For example, by making the trip to Venus, scientists on Earth could study and soon figure out more analogous similarites to Earth and Venus.
They could also help as find out more about how society's world on Earth operates and functions through geology and weather and other things like the the way volcanoes erupt, the earthquakes the Earth has, and the lightining strikes that happen on Earth.
Therefore, with the travel to Venus, society can expand its knowledge on how both Earth and Venus works through the studies that scientists can perform.
In conclusion, by taking the initiative to take on the challenges of Venus, society can gian intel for themselves and for Venus as well as answer unanswered questions that society has had forever.
Thus doing so, society's lapse cannot be stopped by the dangerous challenges it envokes but be stopped by society's dense imagination. | 23
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b2c4a9a | Student Emotion Reading Argument
Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, and Prof. Nicu Sebe of the University of Amsterdam study better ways to find out human emotions faster. These two Professeor's have created a computer that makes a 3D model of your face and it calculates your emotion by the way your facial muscles are being used. Many people are asking "could this kind of technology be valuable in schools for students".
The use of this technology should not be allowed in schools class rooms. Thats not the teachers buisness wheather an student is feel happy, surprised, fearful, angry, or sad. If the student wants someone to know how they are feeling they can go to the teacher and tell them. They could even go to the gidance counselor, or the priciple. Basically I am saying that i student show be able to expresss their feelings if they want to without everyone knowing.
Then this kinda has an up side to if this kind aof technology was in schools. Teachers could help student more if they are angry, or sad. Therefor I kinda see why the question is "should this kind of technology be in classrooms?".
In conclusion i feel that this kind of technology should not be in classrooms. If it is in classrooms for the school to use it on a child they should have parent parmission. Also notify the parent that they are gonna use it before doing so. | 12
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ce5eebd | An computer that can read your face expressons is and good way to see how teen emotions are, in the article the aurthor say that if you're on an classroom computer it could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, as an result of an basic device trying to read your mind almost i wonder how many people will find this important or good it's not bad but maybe some people don't want others trying to get in they're life but its probably for the best then sooner or later there will be computer detecting when people is under an huge amount of stress and can put an ad up so that person could maybe get help with their situation or something like that so many people will never tell whats wrong with a smile in their face since people are scared of others hurting their feelings so why not use an device that can read face expressions we might be able to help so many people because its an way to try and get to know a person you never know what might happen if an person dealing with intense stress might do it can lead to bad things in their life and others around them so to me its an very important for people who has low self esteam about to get as much help as needed just to prevent some things from happening, you'll never know when that person might be screaming for someone to help and it better to deal with somethings with help because everybody who think
their alone they're not many people are willing to help, but for the most part creating devices that maybe do even more than just reading your face expressions it will do a lot of help for people to create an device that can help people. | 12
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bddecb4 | i agree that we should use the facial action coding system, it even told Mona Lisa emotion, she was 83 perecnt happy, 9 perecent disgusted, 6 perecent fearful, and 2 perecent angry. I think that it could help student, beacuse some student are to scared to ask qustion and they get confused, so the system could help us with telling us our emotion. and we humans like to tell people our emotion, and if you don't know how you like for example sad angry you can us the facial action to tell you how you feel.
well it work by the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face, all 44 major muscle. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." 'The facial expression for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" like not smiling as broadly. Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements.
by the way, did making a happy face in this experiment also make you feel slight happy? According to the facial feedback theroy of emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help producethem. | 12
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524f91a | Drivelesss cars should not continue to develop. There are many reason for it,and three of the could be that it can still cause problems on the road even though it been developed fully. Even though its been fully developed not everyone is okay with it. The driveless cars can also take away the experiance way from a young adult wanting to drive their own car. These are only some reasons driveless cars should not be developed even more.
One reason is that driveless cars can be a problem on the road because yet being fully develop there is a possiblity something could go wrong with it. On the road anything is possible and it will come when least expected. Maybe with all this developing in it it can cause a greater damage then a regualar car would. In the article they talk about who's fault it would be if something would go wrong with it. The people driving it should not have to take the fault for because they didn't make. Yet they would only by it because of what the manufatures say about they will try persuading the people to by it.
Another reason is that not every state is okay with this because they might know the damage these driveless cars are capable of doing. With not every state okay with it, the manufactures could have a less chances of selling much of thses cars. In the article they only talk about four places that have considerer the driveless. They would also have to have new laws in order to over they rules of the driveless cars.
A third reason is that driveless cars would take way learning expireances from young adaults that would actually like to drive their own car. In the article paragraph eight they say "We have to interpret the drivnig fun in a new way."This is like say you can as well stay home and do nothing. When you drive you can learn many things like road signs and road name without even knowing it. Something they also talk about is about driveless cars bieng safe because peole will be able to text on their cell phones while driving. This is not okay maybe the only way some poeple can stay off their phones is when they are driving and they are trying to take that way. People can as well just stay home and be on their phones all the time and text all the time. This car would probably just make people more lazy.
With all these negative things that could happen with this car is why it shouldn't be developed. They can be a problem on the road,not every state is okay with it and they could take away driving experiance from young adults that would like to drive their own car. There are many other reason out there for this car not to be developed even more. It would just probably just cause more problems in place were there is plenty of problem. This is why driveless cars should not be developed more then they already are. | 34
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da6aebe | Are you guys wondering about joining a program where you can take care of animals and travel a lot? Well, you guys should join Seagoing Cowboys. It really is an awesome place. Trust me, you are going to love it there!
My experience there was very unique and full of adventures. I made a lot of animal friends. I would recommend this trip to anyone who likes to travel and likes to take care of animals.
One reason you people would like to go there is because there are a lot of animals there. Some of them including horses, young cows, and mules that are shipped overseas. So, if you like animals, you should join Seagoing Cowboys.
Another reason you should go there is because as a Seagoing Cowboy, I have traveled overseas many times and the reason is because of cattle boat trips. I have went on them nine times. I have also seen Europe and China. Although, seeing the Acropolis in Greece was a special visit for me. Also taking a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with a lot of water. I also toured a castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal. So that is another reason I enjoyed joining the Seagoing Cowboys.
Last but not the least, I loved when we played games. We usually played after the animals were unloaded. We played baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals had been housed. We also played Table-tennis, fencing, boxing. We read too, these were all the things we did to help pass time.
I hope that when some of you join Seagoing Cowboys, you have as much fun as I did and hopefully you return safe and sound from Seagoing Cowboys. Thank you very much for considering to join Seagoing Cowboys!
This was all in the point of view of Luke Bomberger. I hope that you consider joining Seagoing Cowboys! This is the News Channel. Keep watching! | 23
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fd4c8f9 | In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto we can see different studies such as the Beckman Institute for Advance Science at the University of Illinios and experts like Prof. Thomas Huan and Dr. Paul Eckman are saying that a computer software "Facial Action Coding System" can recognize emotions, the process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face with all the 44 major muscles they had classified 6 basic emotions which are happiness,surprise, anger,disgust fear and sadness.
"the facial expressions for each emotion are universal"
Dr. Huang observes, In my opinion computers should not learn or know how to read your emotions even thought it could help in a classroom by recognizing when a student is becoming confused or bored, i don't think every single human expressions of each emotions are the same, in the introduction of this article we can read that the "New software has been developed that improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of other" but how accurate can it be? for example when your not making any face expressions or when you're not feeling any of those 6 expressions listed what is the computer going to say, In paragraph 7 and 8 we can see how the computers "can indicate the difference between a genuine smiled and a forced one" this is possible by using the Zygomaric major muscles but what about when you're making a forced sad face can the computer recognize that too?
because it doesn't really clarify in the article. Other reason why i think computers should not be able to read or recognized your emotions is because even if it does help teachers and advertisers see what the other people is feeling i don't think it would be very usefull.
In conclusion the software Facial Action System should not know how to recognized what you're feeling beacuse is not very usefull and it doesn't say how accurate it is also not every single human express their feelings, emotions or face expressions the same futhermore i think it is usefull for some people but not everyone would like a computer to tell them what they feeling. | 12
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75d4b67 | I think that driverless car would be a waste a money. I dont think that anybody would trust a car driving itself around. i personally think that people would feel safer driving themselfves around than a computerized car. Some people may think that a car that can drive itself could be useful and it some ways it may be. It could be safer because less people could txt and drive, or drink and drive, that could cause lesss wrecks. On the down side if they cant fix the car when it goes through traffic and the person is asleep then the car wont know what to do and it could cause another wreck going through one. It could also cause another wreck if it was going through a construction site. That could be b ad because construction sites are already buisy enough and cramed enough.
Most people would prefer to dirve them,selves to work or to school every day. I dont trust technology, i think that it has brought our world to crap. The governmant isusing it just to get money and that is what these cars are for. Its just to gets civilians money. I would feel safer because i know where i am going and if there is a crash or a construction zone i know how to handle it and know where to go or how to get where i need to go. Also i wouldnt half to worry abput falling asleep and the car not knwoing what to do or some one ramming into the back of my car. The safest way that i would think to have a caar that could drive on its own is to have magnets in the road and the opposite polarity in the car some where so that the car has a path to guide it.
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09df111 | In The Challenge of Exploring Venus the aurthor suggests studying Vens is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.
I believe that the aurthor thinks this because Venus is the closest plant to earth by the means of density and size because of that it is often referred as the twin of Earth.
On Venus the planet in its self is a challenging planet to land on.
The clouds in Venus are made of highly corrosive sulfiric acid.
The temperature on Venus is about eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
The atmosphereic pressure is ninty time greater than Earth.
The tick atmosphereis almost ninety-seven percent carbon dioxide.
Compared to Earth these conditions are far more extreme for humans.
So extreme that there has not been an attempt to explore VVenus in over three decades.
Out of all the planets in the solar system Venus has the hottest surface temperature.
Astronomers believe that Venus may have once been like Earth a long time ago.
Venus might hav had oceans and could have probably supported many forms of life just as Earth.
Venus still has some features that are analogous to Earth though.
The surface of the planet is a kind of rocky sediment and has familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.
In conclusion I have discussed why the aurthor thinks Venus is a planet worth studying.
I have talked about the conditions of Vens such as the atmosphere and the temperature. Finally I talked about the terrian of Venus and how similar it is to the terrian on Earth. | 12
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98e52e7 | The use of Facial Action Coding system and the technology to read the students emotions is quite frankly valuable because it can produce special neeeds to the objective encounter. Imagine being able to detect exactly how others are feeling even when they are hiding their emotions inside. Leanardo da Vinci's Reanaissance painting computer software can recognize hidden emotions. They can caculate emotions like math homwork. In the text i states, "Computers construct a pure 3-D printed model of the whole human face like the six basic emotions: happiness,suprise,anger,disgust,fear and sadness weighing in on diffrent units in the facial expressions of others. In the text it also states that, "In fact we humans can detect emotions every single day by simply looking at our friends, family etc.
Say for instance that that your watching a YouTube video right, If you are currently smiling while watching the video then your good it pops up a nice calm smily like ad. And say for Instance your watching a YouTube video while frowning and tensing up, its a likely chance for a mean ad to come up. In the text it states, "There are these muscles called orbicularis ocuil puris palpabraeus make crow's feet around your eyes. Also According to Facial Feedback Theory Of Emotions, moving ur facial muscles can produce emotions indeedly and fragily.
Finally, I am with the argument that this technology is vaulable because it includes specific, nice and comfortable details that influence my interest. | 12
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725701a | 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. | 01
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c7930e4 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" should there be driverless cars? There are a lot of negative and postive things about this movement. My opion on driverless cars is that sometimes it could be good and sometimes is could be bad like for an example. when your very tired and you need to go somewhere your car can take you were you need to go without you having to drive it. If you are ever in a hurry your car can drive you without you being late.
Now for my opinion on the bad things about driverless cars. Driverless cars are also bad because you could be texting and you would'nt here your alert that the car gives you when it can drive at that certain part in time and you end up crashing into something or hurting someone. This means a human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires.
I think that driverless car would be a good experiment because we would be able to see who could handle it and who can't handle it. Some people might think that they can handle it and they go and bye a driverless car and go to start it and dont no what to do but the other half would no what to do right off bat. I also think that the car would be more expensive than any car that has ever been made because if what it does this car is basically the future.
But why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver half of the time? Well i guess ill tell you why. Most of the people think that it would be fun sometimes because not often you get to drive a driverless car its interesting in my opinion. But in a way the car system is really a saftey system if you pay attention to what all that you are doing but if you don't it could be hazert.
Most of the driving laws focus on keeping people safe but what is you arent the one who crashed who's to blam? Traffic laws will even change new laws will need to be reinforced. If you crash into someone who also has a driverless car who crashed into who. | 23
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f8d6719 | Being able to detect other peoples and even your own feelings when you want to just by looking into a computer to detect whether you are happy,sad or angry is unique. But if you are not willing to share or show that information at a public place it would not be. Especially when your surrounded by your own classmates and one of classmates accidentally sees what the technology detects on you or someone else.
I personally think the use of this technology to determine what your mood is pointless in a classroom full of students. I mean what would be valuable about it? Besides detecting your mood. Students come to class just to learn, be creative and open their mind to knowledge. The Facial Action Coding System would be more of a distraction to kids they would not be worried about the right things.
Also some students would not take it seriously they would just play around when it comes to this just by making faces into the computer. And inviting their friends to come along and do it with them. Which would be a huge distraction to to both the students themselves and the students that are actually trying to learn. When it comes to stuff like this students would just use it as a toy and will not actually use it for what it is for or see the bigger picture for it. The authority would be very angry once students are playing with it and not paying attention.
The Facial Acting Coding System could possibly start some problems with students and their classmates. For example say their is a student sitting down in front of the technology and it detects the student is angry and sad. What if they are other classmates watching what it detects and ask the student "Whats wrong why are angry?". The other student would not want to tell him because it is probably something personal they would like to keep to themselves and not share with others. This will cause the other classmate to go around and tell everyone that the student was angry and sad. It might possibly cause chaos.
Therefore these examples show perfect evidence on why this technology should not be available in a classroom. It can cause a lot of problems, playing around and just an unecessary distraction to not one but many. And possibly it may not even be accurate in some cases. | 34
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ad20e23 | Are you interested in taking care of animals? Do you like going on boats out in the sea? If both of your answers are yes then you should be a seagoing cowboy. A seagoing cowboy is a person who goes onto a boat and takes care of the animals on the boat.
I think that you should particapate in the Seagoing Cowboys Program because you could explore all of the oceans. Also you could see Europe and many other countries. You could help all of the people that need food supplies, animals, and more. To support this in the text it says "Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special,"
Also I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys Program beause it was an oppurtinity to have fun on board. I know this because in the text it says "Luke also found time to have fun on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed.
To conclude, I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys because you get the oppurtunity to explore all kinds of countries. Also I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys Prgram because you got to have fun on board playing all kinds of different games to past the time. | 12
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