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Do you know what the electoral college is? I didn't know what it was or what it did until the seventh grade. Well if you don't know what it is it's a group of 538 people who vote for the next president of the United States. But I don't think we should vote for a president like this. Now your wondering, why dosent this guy like the way voting is set up? Let me tell what I think it should be. First of all I think it removes our voting right as an American citizen. Some of you are probably asking yourselfe, "how does this remove your right to vote?" Well you see if the Electoral college votes and whoever they vote for wins. Your basically voting for nothing because the Electoral College is basically the vote that counts twords the election. Another thing I would want to change is if the Electoral College is the main vote we should just not vote. Whats the point in wasting our time to vote if it doesent even count. I thi9nk voting should be by popular vote because it lets the citizens choose who they want there leader to be. Finally I think If we could choose the president it would be better becuse the people would get what they want. If they dont get to choose there leader than there is no point in doing this stuff at all. This should be a real democracy and let the people vote. In general I think voting should be by popular choice and not by the electoral college. As the people of the United States we need to vote for our leaders and keep our rights to vote in this country.

In the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", the author supports the idea of finding a way to explore and study Venus despite the challenges that would need to be overcome. The author supports this idea very well by noting and explaining possible solutions and explaining how succeeding can be scientifically productive. In paragraph 3, the author explains the many factors that makes Venus an inhospitable planet and then explains the scientific value of being able to explore it in paragraph 4. This is done to show the extent of the challenges and the rewards of exploring Venus and how the scientific value would be worth overcoming the challenges. On paragraph 5, the author then explains an idea from NASA on how exploring Venus can be possibly done. The author also explains possible technologies that can be used in Venus's harsh conditions on paragraph 7. Paragraphs 5 and 7 are used support the idea further by giving possible solutions explaining how exploring Venus can be potentially done sometime in the future. In conclusion, the author supports the idea of exploring Venus very well by explaining the benefits of doing so and giving evidence that exploring Venus can be eventually possible in the future.

Technology is getting smarter and better and is now able to percieve the chaotic idea that is emotion. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto, a new technology is introduced that is able to read emotion using algorithims based on our facial muscles. Technology such as this can be incredibly effective in a lot of fields, whether it be games, advertisements or art. Howver this technology does not hold much value inside of a classroom. To be able to apply this technology to a classroom, a teacher would have to have a computer or multiple computers with the software installed and cameras constantly monitering the students. Although the cost of this is unkown, the application of the technology cant be cheap. In the article it says "... modify the lesson like an effective instructor." This sentence implies that the computer would also have to substitute the teacher and programs would have to be made to teach the kids. The biggest problem is that there is a lack of human presence on the teaching methods that come with this technology. Human presence is undeniably irreplaceable when it comes to teaching, because a computer could never impart knowledge onto someone quite like the interactions between two human beings. A teacher is also able to eaily read the emotions of the students without the use of this technology. A teacher is also needed to moniter the classroom and is much more flexible. Another problem is that the student may feel a lack of privacy from being costantly monitered. The students emotions could be put on full display at all times. The cameras or the computers could also easily beccme a distraction to the students. The computers may be able to moniter the behavior and emotions of a student, but other than changing the lesson plans, they can not do much about negative emotions a student is having. A student also needs a teracher to seek help and advice from the teacher. Some students have faces that are "harder" to read. Students that have burns, scars, or other facial impairments will make the technology faulty or it will cease to work at all. Other students have habits like leaning their heads on there hands or other habits that cause some of the face to not be visible. This can also affect the technology and it may be inaccurate. All people think different and the ways that we learn are also not all the same. A good teacher is able to recognize these ways and can adapt so that the studnt will learn the material better. A computer is not able to tell these things from just the emotions someone is having. Technology that can read emotions is truly wonderful, but is uneeded in a classroom. A teacher can already accomplish all of the things the computer can do inside of a classroom much better, and is able to create interactions with a student. The cost and likely innacuracies in reading emotions are also cons, along with the lack of flexibility. Computers that can read emotion are usefull in many different situations, not including a classroom.

Driverless cars are a relatively new concept in the automobile industry, and the benefits they offer could potentially decrease the risk in driving, especially given the inconsistencecy of drivers in today's world. While this is a tempting and seemingly perfect solution to reducing the number of car accidents, I do not support the idea of driverless cars. The author states in section four that, "The combination of all of this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel". While humans are not in any way perfect drivers, the natural instincts and reactions of a human behind the wheel are impossible to capture in the form of sensors, robots, or mechanincs of any kind. In situations where unorthodox solutions are needed to remain in control of the car and keep from crashing, veteran drivers have the knowledge and experience to do so. Robots may have programs to react in certain situations, or to move out of the way if an object is coming towards the car at a rapid speed, but not all situations can be programmed. Robots simply cannot react the same ways humans do, which brings me to my next reason for not supporting driverless cars. Section eight of the passage focuses on the psychological aspects of driverless cars, and introduces thd idea of laziness and boredom in human nature. Later on, the author states that some manufacturers hope to address this problem by including entertainment in the cars to remedy this boredom. Bringing in car entertainment wuld only further distract the now obsolete human drivers from the road, which in the case of an emergency, could prove fatal to not only the driver, but the passengers in the car as well. The Google car mentioned in section 7 "Announces when the driver should be prepared to take over". If the human did not hear the car announce this, and the car was reverted to the drivers control, the driver might end up in a crash. If the driverless cars provide more distractions than are at hand in the world today, no matter if a human is driving or not, the human driving the car could end up dead along with the passengers of the car. If driverless cars do become a reality, human drivers may one day become obsolete. Today's world is focused heavily on transportation and getting from one point to the next. Driverless cars would fufil this requirement, but without the help of human drivers. The more that driverless cars would develop and improve, the less and less amount of humans would know how to drive. While this does not seem like a major problem if driverless cars were a reality, but the malfunctioning of systems would prove to be chaotic. If there was a systemwide problem with driverless cars, all of the vehicles in use, malfuctioning or not, would have to be recalled and fixed, causing mass hysteria. Because of the loss of driving skills, nobody would know how to drive. Humans would be unable to travel places, go to work, or do recreational activities. Driverless cars may promote many benefits to humans seeking leisure and comfort while driving, but driverless cars could prove to create some very serious safety issues, especially on the busy roads of today's society.

Do the advantages of not driving a car outweigh the disadvantages? As cities start to give options for transportation like buses, terminals, and taxi's is it worth driving and spending money on gas. driving produces carbon dioxide which is bad for the air so some cities have banned cars for a day or even banned cars forever. In the city of vauban, germany the residents have decided to give up their cars. the city provides transportation with buses but most of thew stores or places to work have been placed in walking distance. as a result people started to ride bikes more which is a pollution free way of transportation. in the united states the enviromental protection agency is promoting  car reduced communities and expertes believe public transportation serving suberbs will play a major role. its horrible when there is so much pollution you have to ban driving for a day. in paris they had to ban driving because there was so much smog that they had clear nthe air. as a result the smog was clear just after one day just because half the city of paris didnt drive. in the city of bogota, colombia they ban driving one day every year to promote alternative transportation and to reduce smog. the people of bogota like the idea of using alternative transportation because it relieves the stress of driving. but for the first time two other cities decided that they wanted to participae in it so maybe one day the whole world will participate. the idea of not driving might be a shock to some but not driving only has positive outcomes towards the enviroment and the only people that would suffer would be car companies. so what if the world stopped driving for the day how would the planet be affected?        

The Author suggest that studying venus is a worthy pursuit dispite its dangers in this article. In paragraph 3 it states, "On the planet surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." These coditions seem to make the task of traveling to venus sound difficult almost impossible but the author talks about another way we can observe venus man probed. "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of venus would allow scientist to float above the fray." The scientist at NASA want to fly above these clouds that venus has like the planes here on earth today when there is a storm. This blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape. "NASA is working on other approaches to study Venus. For example, some simplified electronic made of silicon carbide have been tested in chambers simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." One other way nasa is looking for a way to look at venus is using silicon carbide which were tested in chambers in NASA with a simulating like condition of Venus surface and have lasted for three weeks. The author of this article supports the idea, the challenge of exploring Venus very well with many supports from the text. The author talk about the conditions on Venus are nothing compared to earth and the importance of getting to venus. In paragraph 4 the article states, "Long ago, Venus was probably coverws largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like Earth." The article explains that Venus long ago may have been sum what like earth with oceans and various life forms, but we will not know for sure if we never get to Venus and last there for only a few hours. The article is well explained and has more than enough details to support his claim.

Traveling beyong Earth shouldn't be be restricted by the the dangers and doubts, but should be thouroughly thought about, expanded on, and innovated on. Being bound by thoughts will lilmit our satisfacation of curiosities of humanity being met. Not only should we meet the challenge of travelling to Venus, but exceed at it. NASA is working on mehcanical parts and electronics that will be resistent to the dense pressure, heat, and other forces of Venus's surface. NASA is also thinking of vehicles that will make it possible to withstand the hostile conditions of Venus. Though they may have limited insight of the on ground conditions, the scientist will be be able to study what they can. Although this may be a challenge to them, they are innovating everyday to allow our machines to withstand and last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. There are dangers along the way such as the extreme temperatures, the acidic atmosphere, and high pressure. But scientist are trying to make it possible for success of making equipment that will last through all of those hazords on Venus. Even with the problems along the way, scientist still work on ways to reach Venus beacuse it is the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago it most likely covered by oceans and was able to support life. In conclusion, figuring out a way to reach and study Venus for a long time period is worth the risk of failure. We will learn from our mistakes and study the conditions of the planet more to make it possible to actaullly be able to study and retrieve results from the planet surface.

When a student is confused in school they are supposed to raise their hand. It's been taught that way since day one. Whether that is followed or not is hard to say. Some students are scared to raise their hand however, as they grow older and mature, they seem to find more courage to ask questions which is the way it has always been taught. Students generally make faces when they are confused, that can be beneficial to the teacher if they're paying attention. A recent computer software has been developed by Professor Thomas Haung that indicates peoples emotions. It was used on the Mona Lisa to get every percent of each emotion on her face. It was suggested that this software be put in schools to benefit students. However, this innovation should not be put into schools because of the varying ages of kids, how much it would actually be used, and the convienence of the schools budget and space in the classrooms. This computer software that can tell every percent of what emotion on your face is a very fascinating concept but is not the most convienent for pre-school and elementary students. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it was said a classroom computer could recognize confusion or boredom from the students and then in which change the lesson for a more beneficial class (para 6). If this were to be put in place into an younger classroom it could be misleading. Younger kids have spunky behavior as their minds are still maturing and developing. They might find the software fun and amusing and make many facial expressions which would alter their lesson plan in class unaccordingly. Others may argue that little kids could possibly get bored of doing that every day and eventually calm down about it so then it would be useful. Though you never know when a little kid could find something fun again, it's just that easy and would then again rise to misleading lesson plans for the young students. If this technology was put in a highschool classroom where students minds have better matured and developed it would be more successful. However, there would need to be a computer for every student and not all schools can provide that. Some students may even find it uncomfortbale to have their expressions and themselves being watched and analyzed all day. As a result of knowing they are being recognized as confused, they could easily act and prevent their expression from giving that result or not even use them. People can already do the work of this software, friends can tell how you're feeling based on your facial expression (para 5). Also mentioned in "Making Mono Lisa Smile" people use their knowledge to tell whether a politician or celebrity is faking a smile or being truthful (para 8), again proving that people can already do what this software is, just not as precise with numbers. On the other hand, if these computers were installed in schools and became a regular thing, then it could eventually be excepted by students and they would actually use the software to their benefit. Teachers would find this innovation helpful. They could argue that not all students express if they trully understand material or not. If they had this software it would accurately show them the truth about their students. But students could still refuse to use it which would lead teachers back to square one. Maybe even before a students first day of school they were taught to raise their hand if they had something to say, it's normal. So let students do that because the computer software that tells every percent of every expression someone is having is unecessary to have in a school because of the varying ages of kids, how much it would actually be used, and the convienence of the schools budget and space in the classrooms.

Often times within a classroom setting, it is easy to become bored or confused. One second of being off track can lead to being completely lost for an entire 90 minute class. While most teachers do their best to keep students engaged and learning, often times it can be impossible to keep tabs on the emotions of 25 people at once. However, Facial Action Coding System can track the emotions of all students. Introducing the Facial Action Coding System would be incredibly helpful within a classroom setting. The Facial Action Coding System would be able to "recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". This skill would be incredibly useful, as sometimes it can be hard to pick up on exactly what someone is feeling within an efficient time frame. Sometimes while teaching, it is difficult to focus on students emotions and the lesson all at the same time. However, the Facial Action Coding System would take over the task of recognizing emotion, thus allowing the teacher to focus on the lesson at hand. According to Dr. Huang, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication". Being able to see all of these nonverbal queues would help teachers to see the level of engagement that each of their lessons creates, as well as help students that aren't engaged. The Facial Action Coding System would additionally allow for the computer to "modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". This modification would allow for students who are bored and not engaged to better understand the lesson at hand. This would likely increase the learning that occurs within the classroom, as more students would have access to a lesson that made sense to them. Additionally, this eliminates the guess work of a teacher trying to come up with an effective lesson. The computer can do it for them. Thus, time can be used more efficiently when teaching students. The Facial Action Coding System would also give a practical application for anatomy and coding within the classroom. This application uses a "3-D computer model of the face", which must contain "all 44 major muscle groups". Some complex subjects taught within schools are often seen to have no practical application. However, the implementation of the Facial Action Coding System would show students that the complex skills of coding and anatomy can come together to form something that they see everyday. The use of such an interesting implement as the scanning can help students to develop newfound interests within these fields. This can serve as an excellent teaching point for students looking into the fields of anatomy and coding. In conclusion, the Facial Action Coding System would have significant benefits on both the faculty and students of a school. It would help to make the teacher's job easier and more effective while enabling the student to learn better. This system would create a lasting impact on the learning done by students.

In the classroom, a teacher may not be able to fully understand and realize the feelings and emotions of the students in their classroom. The teacher will not be able to meet with every single one of their students to make sure that they are doing okay and understand everything in class. However, with the Facial Action Coding System, things may change. The Facial Action Coding System is extremely valuable in the classroom because it may allow teachers to focus more on students that are confused, sad, angry or fearful. Furthermore, the system can be used to make sure everyone understands what the teacher is teaching at their own pace. First, the Facial Action Coding System can help students learn at their own pace. The computer would be able to recognize whether a students thought the subject was too easy or too hard by their countenance. For example, in the text, Dr. Huang predicts,"A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. Then, it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." So, since a teacher usually teaches everything at the same time, these computers may be better because some students excel where other students don't. These computers would help the excelling students have a constant challenge while students that take time could slowly grasp and understand a particular subject or idea. Evidently, the Facial Action Coding System is something that can be valuable to a class and help everyone learn comfortably. Another benefit from the Facial Action Coding System is that the technology could inform teachers on how their students are feeling. In the article, Dr. Paul Eckman associated six basic emotion- happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness- to specific facial muscle movements. Through this technology, the teachers may be able to help support students that are feeling sad, angry, or fearful. The teachers would be able to become a counselor figure for those students that are feeling unpleasant emotions and help them overcome the difficulties that they are having. Through the removal of unpleasant emotions in the classroom, all the students can be happy and work together to bring knowledge and success into their lives. Also, the Facial Action Coding System could help create a classroom atmosphere in which all students feel welcome and happy. To certain students, the way they like to learn or study may be different than how other students may. To solve this, a teacher could try out different types of classroom settings, lesson plans, activities, etc. Then, the technology could help the teacher determine what the students liked the most by their facial analysis. This could help create a classroom where all the students are having fun and engaging with the subject rather than being bored and reluctant to study. In addition, this type of technology could help provide a safe learning environment for students. Through this technology, teachers could see students that are feeling malicious and angry, which would allow them to prevent future problems or consequences by helping them through couseling. If teachers were not able to understand or see the feelings of a very angry and upset student, consequences could occur such as fighting and misconduct. So, the Facial Action Coding System can also provide safety to students and teachers alike. Some critics of the Facial Action Coding System may say that a student has their right to their own personal feelings. However, although it may cost a minute amount ot privacy, the Facial Action Coding System may save many lives. For example, by knowing a student is sad, teachers would be able to prevent suicides by giving emotional support and making sure everything is safe. In addition, teachers could help prevent child abuse or bullying by knowing if a student is constantly showing fear. Preventing the abuse or bullying of students could prevent a gruesome future and allow them to pursue their dreams and be themselves without fear. The benefits of the Facial Action Coding System substantially outweigh the negative aspects. The Facial Action Coding System may be the key to successful education where all the students grow in knowledge while having fun and actively enjoying the subject. The teacher may also be more aware of what is going on in the classroom through this technology, allowing them to meet individual needs of their students. Because of the benefits that would come from such a technology, the Facial Action Coding is a valuable tool for the students and the teacher in a classroom.

After reading this controversial essay on Electoral College and how it affects other and our "American People" I feel personally a bit ashamed at our own country that we allow all this nonsense to have happened. In my opinion I would want too ban the choice of Electoral College, because first off we're looking way too deep into our system of voting, is it really necessary too compare our states number of votes with another's just to possibly get noticed? Why dont we take things into our own hands and not count on voting for some stranger to do the work for us. In one of they many paragraphs I had read, it simply stated "The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that out to be (overruled)" that doesnt sound like everyone here in America is fully williing too agree to all of this, and I wouldn't blame them.  I don't understand why we cant just vote directly for the president ourselves! I mean after all, he is going too be our leader. I just would never put that type of a big decision in somebody else's hands who I don't even know at all, and especially if I know its not completely certain that whomever I had put my vote in for is at a 50/50 chance of winnning as it is. If there is already an apparent list of five reasons all about retaining the Electoral College because of its democratic pedigree, just is another reason as too why I'm against this kind of voting system. With having the first reason listed as being "Certainty of Outcome" should really make the person reading that question themselves on if they're making a right decision or not. You would have too go through a lot of trouble and paperwork as it is whenever voting for someone, At least I would like too know that I'm not basically giving my one vote away for technically someone else to do it for me.

Hello my name is Luke Bomberger and I was seagoing cowboy after World War II. I helped transfer animals to Europe and Asia .It was after the war ,"and many countries were left in ruins".(paragraph 2).I enjoyed it a lot because I got to go see other parts of the world. I would recomend this job for anyone who likes to adventure. This job is full of fun and exploration. It takes a lot of wateing because "it takes about two weeks to cross the Alantic ocean from the eastern coast of the United states and a month to get to china".(paragraph 6).Theres also a lot of running around and getting the animals fed. When your waiting for the animals to fed you can have a lot of fun like playing table-tenis,vollyball,boxing which will pass the time. This program done be dangerous at times because there might be a storm or a hauracane. I acually broke my ribs trying to get across the Alantic. though it does pay out in the end. I would totally recomend this program to anyone. We talked how it was good. It can be dangerous. Though you get to go to places you never thought you would go. In the end your doing this for a good cause.

In the past, if society was told that cars would be able to drive themselves people would have called you crazy or would have laughed it off,calling it wishful thinking. Throughout life, we as humans have worked towards new advances in technology. We are always looking for a way to make life easier and simpler. The queastion is where so we draw the line. Saftey. Saftey has been a concern through time because we are less independent and have become more dependent on machines that could easily break, causes permanant damage. With this in mind, it is not safe to have drivless cars. Having driverless cars could be harmful to not only to the passenger, but other drivers as well. The text states, "In reality, Google has had cars that could drive independetly under specific conditions since 2009." If this is the case, why are they just coming out with it. It is probably due to the fact that there are casualties. For example, the passage mentions that they have not fully developed the driverless car to handle complicated traffic issues, which is basically what driving requires. This could definatly result in drivers getting injured. Not only could they cause injures, but they could also cause legal issues. If one thinks about it, most people don't want to rely on a car's driving if there is a chance it could cause an accident. There are no laws about driverless cars so it could be caos if something goes wrong. What if the car causes an accident because of an malfunction? There is no law about driverless cars, which means it could be blamed on the driver or the manufacturer. These are very concerning points that has to be taken in to consideration. Some may argue that driverless cars are better than human drivers. Although there are numerous drawbacks to driverless cars, some may say they are better drivers than humans. The passage states," 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 shows that driverless cars opperate breaks better than humans do. Although driverless cars are good with brakes, thay can't be relied on enough to put ones life in their hands. The passage states,"They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." This means that even though the point of driverless cars is that humans don't have to drive, we technically still have to drive and stay alert. This seems to defeat the whole purpose of creating driverless cars if it is not actually driverless. Even though we rely on technoloy for various activities, that doesn't mean we have to rely on them to do everything. The reality is that driverless cars are more trouble than good. They compromise the saftey of people on the road. They also don't have any regulations or laws, which could impact driving and saftey. When taking into account that there are no laws or order for driverless cars, it is no question that driverless cars should not be sold to society. We,as humans, have a responsibiliy to protect and mantain the saftey and life God gave us.

The Electoral College is a process that should be around for plenty of years to come. It was established by our founding father as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualitified citizens. It's a simple process in which a running candidate would need a majority of 270 electoral votes. Our founding fathers came up with this process in order for the election of a President to run smoothly. When using the Electoral College you have an exact percentage of the outcome of the votes, no guessing or estamating. The Electoral College has a method of awarding electoral votes, inducucing the candidates to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states. This is because voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign, making it easier for the candidates to study what the certain states needs are and convincing them that if they vote for them, their needs will be met. Some may say that the winner-take-all system isn't fair to some states because most of the candidates don't even bother going to the states that they know they have no chance in winning. Well this can be argued by saying that this method may help the candidates because if they know that they have no chance in winning in some states, they might specifically prepare a certain speech that may persuade the state to vote for them. Also no voter's vote swings a national election. The electoral college has many ways that can help a candidate win the election and it might make things more easier for him/her. The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have a trans-regional appeal. This means if the voter is from the south, they have no reason to campaign heavily in those sates. Instead they can spend more time in states that need a little more convincing fot the candidate to gain their vote. It also restores some of the weight in the political balance that a large states loses by virtue of the mal-appotrionment of the Senate decreed in the constitution.  Some may say that the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote is something to worry about. But the Electoral College avoids the problem of there being a run-off election. If there was no Electoral College, this would put pressure for run-off elections, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, which it invariably produces a clear winner. So all in all, the Electoral College should be kept and stay the way it is. It isn't complicated and makes the election run more smoothly. It provides multiple ways for a candidate to win the vote of a certain state and avoids major problem during the election.      

Technology does not determine your mood. Technology are used to search of dectect information. It is used to help others to learn about something. You can't calculate how people really feel. You'll never know how people feel unless they tell you theirselves. Technology does not tell how people feel because the results of people's feelings may not be accurate. It does not detects how really happened. Also, it don't express people's personal issues. Just because people smile, don't mean they're really happy. Some people may frown. But that does not mean if they are really upset. You never know how people feel because they do that just to make it seem like everything is okay. But things they people go throught is not alright. Technology does not tell the actually truth when it comes to personal problems. Also, it will not express what people have going on in their life. The results when technology will not be a hundred percent true about human emotions. Technology are not always accurate about people. Dectecting people's emotions may by looking at facial expressions by technology will not work out. Technology is for research, networks, tools,power points, and also microsoft word. Technology on my opinion don't determine people's mood. But technology can show things that you don't know about. Finally, Technology does not determine people's emotions. Technology is for research about thing or people that you don't know about. It can't show you the truth about people's emotions. Sadly, it will not express how people really feel about something or someone. Therefore, people theirselves can only tell you what their emotions really are when they frown or smile.

In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it states many reasons why, how and when these cars are coming. My position or point of view on this matter is that it is a negitive thing. There are many reasons stated on how it can be positive, such as fuel and less time consuming, or negitive, such as safety and money. I will tell you many of these reason and why i find it a negitive solution in the next few paragraphs. The positive ideas stated in the paragragh are less fuel, safer, and you dont have to completely manualy drive a car yourself. In this article one of the many reasons why driveless cars would be safer is they can steer, accelerate, brake themselves, and they notifie the driver when the need to take over the controls for certain situations. Safety is a be concern to modern drivers, the article states manufactures want to bring entertainment to the cars while you enjoy your trip. These displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature. The reasons why these cars have not been made yet isn't because we don't know how to make them or even manufacture them. Which leads us to our negitive effects, It's because of the law and expense of redesighing a mass restruction of all the roads. According to the article, Lawmakers focus on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and safety is best acheived by this if the drivers are alert. Another concern is what happens if there is an accident? Who is to blame the driver or the manufacturer? The article says that these smart cars will have to use the binary code. These smart-road systems worked well, but required massive upgrades to existing roads, somthing to expensive. My position on the article is that driveless cars is not the way to go because of money, safety, and the need for future generations to know how to manualy drive a car. Its not safe in some aspects such as what if the driver isnt fully alert to perdict when they need to take over. Yes the fuel is half as much as it use to be but the road construction op front is way to expensive for us to do for the cars to be as safe as possible. Future generationd will not know how to fully drive a car and if something were to happen where they would need to, they wouldnt be able to. That's why my position on this argument is that it is a negitive idea and we should just stay the way we are. In this article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" it gives us many good facts aon why cars driveing themselves should be a thing and why not. My position on the matter is that cars should be incontrol most the time. But there are many postitive ideas on the subject and if the laws change may help us to be safer in, on, and out side the car.

In my opinion, driverless cars are a good idea. Having driverless cars can help us in many ways, including preventing crashes, and increased safety. However, driverless cars can also hinder us because technology can always fail, which could have catastrophic consequences. Firstly, numerous crashes can be prevented. General Motors once created a concept car that ran on a track, therefore creating smarter roads instead of smarter drivers. The only forseeable problem with this is that it would be extremely expensive to redo all of the roads in the country. Another way that crashes can be provented is by improved sensors. Google modified a Toyota Prius with many new sensors, the most important being a spinning 3-D sensor on the roof that scans the surrounding area to see the road conditions. This scanner can inform you if a car is coming at you way to fast and inform you if you need to sspeed up or slow down, or it can have the car do it for you. Both of these are adequate reasons to standardize driverless cars. Another reason that driverless cars are a good idea is that they improve people's safety. As previously mentioed, the improved sensors will increase safety. There are all kinds of sensors that sense all different things such as the 3-D sensor, position estimating sensors, GPS reciever, and many more. all of these sensors can tell you if you're to close to the edge of the road, if you have a caar in your blindspot, if you're driving to fast, or to slow, the road conditions, and many other things. All of these sensors are so helpful in informing your car upon what to do to keep you and your family safe. Also, driverless cars take away distracted driving. Recently, a friend of mine recieved a text, picked up his phone to reply, and ran over a trash can. Imagine if that trash can had been a child, or a car containing you and your children. If he had a driverless car, then he would not have hit that trash can, in fact he would never run over anything again. Having driverless cars would infrease the safety factor for everyone. On the other hand, having driverless cars could be a bad thing. Technology could fail, leaving a catastrophic mess in its wake. The GPS system could misjudge a distance, causing the car to turn to soon, and run headlong into a building, killing people inside. Another thing is that the self-driving system could fail all together, leaving someone who doesn't know how to drive eiter stranded, or having to drive themselves. Therefore, driverless cars could be a bad thing. In essence, driverless cars can be both good and bad for mankind. They can reduce the liklihood of crashing, and increase safety, but the technology can fail, and harm many people.

Using the facial action coding system is useful for students and is valuable in the classroom. It is better for humans and for computers to communicate. The author uses technology, facial expressions and students. To prove why students need facial action coding systems in classrooms. First the begin with talking about the technological side of it .In paragraph 1 they being to to talk about what the mona lisa was actually expressing through her facial expression by using FACS ( faical action coding system). The mona lisa is one of the most famous and staple pieces of art. Their have been many debates on if the mona lisa was happy and using this technology proved she was 83% happy. They used FACS to figure out her emotions from that exact moment. in paragraph 2 they begin to talk about the use of the FACS computer. How they use it to figure emotions for intance the mona lisa's emotion. The process isnt that hard use stand in front the computer and make facial expressions and the computer can figure it out for you. Secondly they being to talk about facial expression. In paragraph 4 Dr. Huang talks about how facial expressions are universal. facial expressions are truly universal it is key on figuring out how others around you could be feeling. In paragraph 5 they talk about how humans come with an impressive calculation to what people may be feeling such as friend and how we can tell the difference between each emotion. Humans come with bein able to understand human emotions through expressions but not always seeing as people can mask true emotions for instance at one point he beings to talk about different smile and which is real and which is fake. Lastly he beings to talk about how it would be useful in a classroom enviroment. In paragraph 6 they talk about how if a student is using a computer and the computer has FACS ( facial action coding systems) that it will being to recognize if a student is confused and bored and will able to modify the lesson for the student to regain interest in the lesson. The student will be A able to pass his or hers class and B have fun and be interested while doing it. In paragraph 9 they talk about how it help a theater teacher and his actor ( his students) to be able to udnderstand the theory of emotions. Emotions are always around and may work in your favor from you getting a good grade to putting on a great performance FACS will be able to help to do that. In conclusion FACS seems to be very useful from the class room to the stage FACS can be used for being able to fully understand somebody's emotions all by looking at their face .The author used technology , facial expressions , and students to do that .

Before reading this passage, I had no idea of anything being trully driverless. I couldn't imagine a world with driverless cars, but i guess it's going to happen sooner or later. I think that it is a big step in the industrial world, but I don't think it's practicle for day to day life because it is dangerous, it will cost a great amount of money from who know's where if the government funds it, and it will cause a lot of problems between the manufacturer and the costomer. My first reasoning for this project to be dangerous is because no one knows how long the computer inside can stand doing all these things for the human driver. The driver might not know what's really going on with the car or how to use it. Something may happen between the computer in the car and the driver wanting to drive it. The driver may be incapable to drive a such advanced car and might not know what to do in a dangerous situation that might occur. Thousands of bad things can happen with this new invention. The computer may go dead and the driver or passenger may get hurt badly, and this goes for my third point. The cost of these new cars has to be very expensive. If this does take off and is a very popular thing, the more of these cars that are made, the more money will have to be used to make them. If the government goes for them and tries to fund and support them, then the citizens of this country may have to pay a great amount of tax dollors to support the making of all of these expensive cars. If people are not happy about this happening, and it does, and their money is going to that cause, then more problems will arise from that. I think that would be last thing that anyone would want to happen. If we do have to start paying tax money towards that and they fail, a big outcome from that might happen, and even more money could be lost in result. My third and final point is that it could cause great problems between the consumer and the manufacturer. If something were to happen while the driverless car was in control and the driver wasn't really involved and that person got hurt, someone will be to blame. It was either the customer's fault for not paying attention and taking over, or it was the machines fault for messing up in the first place. The whole point of these cars is to make the roads a safer place by making the driving perfect, so there shouldn't be any doubt in anyones mind that these automated cars would let the customer down. This arguement could go on forever if this really happened. It could very well happen, and it could be a very scary outcome. The things that are happening in this time with inventions and upgrades are un thinkable. No one from three decades ago would imagine a world like this so advanced in the technology we all have, and to think that there would be a driverless car on top of that. In the end, it's just an opinion on whether this will fit now, or if it's just a mess up waiting to happen. Soon enough, these cars will end up coming, and whether you like them or not, you'll still be amazed by what people are doing today.

My position on driverless cars is that they shouldn't exist. I think this because technology can have so many issues and it could cause so many accidents. Even though technology gets better and better every year they always have problems and people are always having to fix it. In paragraph nine the passage states that the law is trying to make things safe and the safest way to things like this is that a human is alert at all times, taking charge of the road. That already tells you we shouldn't have these type of cars because with something not going right or working with the google in the car, you never know what can happen. Sensors don't always see everything or feel everything so it could always lose its signal or something. Lastly what if one day the google isn't connecting again, and the antilock brakes aren't working. You aren't paying attention and boom you run into something and for all we know you could lose your life. The point that i'm trying to get across here is that making these google cars is very pointless. If you want things to be safer and better, than they shouldn't be created. Sure humans driving isn't the safest, but the way i look at it verse google cars humans make it safer.

Most cities are banning cars I don't think thats a good idea but limiting the usage of your car is better . Some people drive just to drive with or without license and thsts not safe . Also there are some people struggling and are only doing what they can. To most people safety always come first in a automobile. Its not safe to drive without license , it might seem cool but its really not. Its putting your life and maybe someone elses life in danger. Driving without license will always have you at risk because if you get stopped you going to jail . If you were to be driving a car without license and its not yours you and the person who car it is , is going to get in trouble. Limiting car usage isn't as bad it saves you from getting into any trouble or even saves you from getting hurt . Riding a bike or getting on the bus will get you from one place to another safer than driving without license . Furthermore , we have people in the world that say they need there car to get from one place to another. Cars are not really need it , it just get you to where ever you need to go quicker. The bus will get you from where ever you are to where you need to go just not as fast as a car will. A bike will do the same thing . They both also saves you money because with a car you will need to put gas in and if it mess up its really expensive to fix it . Limiting car usage isn't really a bad thing but banning cars is . Like I said before cars are not needed but it need to be taking good care of because its expensive to fix on the other hand, the bus cost but not as much as a car do and the bike just takes up a lot of energy and can cost some money but not as much as a car so yeah to me limiting car usage is not as bad as people say or think it is .

Transportation will only advance throughout time. Today's so ciety has advanced from horse and buggy, to steam powered engines, to trains powered by a magnetic field. Cars have advanced from a gasoline powered engine, to an engine that can be charged up from an outlet. The next thing to do is to make transportation easier for the public by making it unnecessairy for them to do much work. The way to achieve this is to mass produce driverless cars. Driverless cars are very efficent. They don't cause the driver to have to waste time doing the work. Now, the drivers can make phone calls or eat lunch safer than ever. Driverless cars will still require the driver to be aware of its surroundings and be alert for a problem to occur. This causes maximim amounts of safety for the driver, and others on the road. The car is designed to notify the driver if there are any difficulties. Today's society is already halfway to driverless cars, so why not take that extra step? It couldn't do harm, besides many lawsuits, but those could be prevented by making laws for these cars before they're made for the public. Driverless cars could be very beneficial to society. It could cause so many improvements for other things to technologically advance, too. The work and studies are continuously being made for driverless cars. All transportation could be just as high-tech as driverless cars only if they are released to the public.

To the State Senate, Addressing my ultimate opinion, I believe should change the vote of the Electoral College into a popular-based vote. Examining a large number of articles which has fufilled my understanding of the Electoral College including the process and diverse opinions of the Electoral College. This essay will propose the counterclaim the opposing side of why we should not change the process of vote in the United States and address the counterclaim of why the Electoral College should be changed to a popular vote. In order to understand each side, we must first comprehend the process behind the Electoral College. Posner stated, "...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors" (3). This is the one of the most important concepts to understand in the process of the Electoral College, for we must know that each vote you compose, you vote for a slate of electors, who will basically vote for their candidate. "The Electoral College is a process, not a place" (Office of the Federal Register, 1). This lets us put down a foundation of the Electoral College as well. According to Plumer, "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote" (2). This indicates how the tie could carry the vote to the House of Representatives, where the federal judgement takes place of voting for the president. Not only this, but Plumer also stated,"Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters" (2). This statement from Plumer strongly imposes the knowledge that this tie carried to the House of Representatives would hardly reflect the will of the people due to census of the population. This article highlighted that the vote in 2000 where the system actually seemed to flaw when Gore recieved a higher popular vote than Bush, however, Bush received a higher electoral vote. In this situation, is this truly fair? This example dipicts how the vote is truly determined on a group of people from the population rather than a vote depending upon the entire nation itself. Plumer stated, "...the electoral college is unfair to voters...swing states..." (2). This brings us the idea of the swing states and how the candidates in the winner-take-all system do not bother to go to states they know that they have no chance of winning, which harshly reveals that some votes may be biased from the electors ignoring other states. "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer,2). This concludes how biased the Electoral College can be when it comes to ties, representatives, the disaster factor, and a great multitude of concepts and situations where the Electoral College has flawed. Now, I have also read articles that contained letters that emphasized why the Electoral College should not be changed in any way, due to the "...Certainty of Outcome...Everyone's President...Swing States...Big States... Avoid Run-Off Elections..." (Posner, 3). These subtitles are points that Posner focused on that he believes can persuade why the Electoral College is somewhat efficient. In each of these points, I can counter that the certainty of the vote is false due to the fiasco of Gore and Bush in 2000, as well as the concept of the House of Representatives that I mentioned earlier as well. In the factor that Posner mentioned in his point of everyone's president, I do not find this very accurate due to the reason that our vote relies on a slate of electors, not us entirely, as it would in a popular vote. In swing states, it mentions in the article of Plumer that a winner-takes-all method is unfair to voters because electors ignore states that they do not have confidence in winning the vote. A major point that I disagree with would be the point that Posner pointed out with Big States, where he mentioned that,"The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution..." (3). In this, I would argue that this is unfair, because of the inequality of representatives due to population, which is not the voter's decision. In the statement of Avoid Run-off Elections, Posner states that, "The Electoral College avoids that problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast" (3). I find this false due to the reason that the Electoral College is based on a different amount of voters and electors in each state, which in turn is viewed unfair because there is a factor of the swing states once again, explains that some electors choose states over another which lets us show how unfair the Electoral College is, generally speaking. In conclusion, we have established our opinion on why the vote should be changed into a popular vote instead of the Electoral College due to a myriad of concepts, such as the disaster factor in 2000, why swing-states are unfair, the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote, just to reveal the tip of the iceberg in our arguments of understanding why the Electoral College is biased, irrational, and unfair. We have also covered the counterclaims and reasoned them with logic, reality, and true rationality of why the Electoral College shoud be abolished in the vote of the President of the United States of America. So, ask yourself as a state senator, who is truly in the hands of the final say for the President?

The race for the smartest car has started. This new trend of building the most intelligent vehicle is taking place. Is this really what is needed? Smart cars that drive themselves may sound cool, but the requirements for them are not. Computer driven cars are costly, unsafe, and a legal hassle. Google has had self driven cars since 2009. They have been researching and creating new ideas for them since, however the required sensory components are exspensive. A car like the modified Toyota Prius, that can drive itself, requires over 7 sensors. One sensor called the LIDAR uses lasers to map out the vehicle`s surroundings. It is not cheap to make. One must stop and recap. It requires 7 sensors to make one car. If companies plan on mass producing these vehicles the amount of mechanics needed would be enormous. Another important step in creating these vehicles is dealing with the laws. Many states have created legal barriers stopping even the testing of self driven vehicles. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia do not have these laws. Laws are created to protect the populace from dangers. If the government thought these cars were safe for people to drive then why would they make specific laws blocking their use? The major factor in the debate is safety. Anytime a new vehicle is manufactured tests are ran to make sure it is safe. Almost all self driven vehicles actually require a driver to be present before it will drive. Many of the cars need the driver to be alert at all times in case the system doesn`t work. This proves that technology is not perfect. How can one put their lives in the hands of a computer. Not one piece of technology out on the market today is perfect. What if the sensors in your car fail. Then the car is driving blind. That is a grand issue. It could mean life, or death for not only the driver, but any passenger inside the vehicle. Overall, these self driven vehicles have far more negatives than positives. Their price, questionable safety, and legal restraints keep them off streets for now. In the future will they be better? Only time will tell, but for now stay away from these robotic traps. Stick to reliable manually driven vehicles instead.

Driverless cars are an innovation to the 21st century that have been dreamed of and worked on for many decades. Many people have dreamed of driverless cars but couldn't share their dreams in a tangable form because the technolgy to make these futuristic automobiles did not exist at the time, but just recently this has changed. There has been much debate on driverless cars with many skeptics. My positon on driverless cars are that the automotive and technology industries should merge together and share their ideas to embrace this new form of transportation many people have been dreaming for. Not only would driverless cars be more convenient but would aslo be much safer. All drivers have human error but if there was to be and an intelligent, automonous computer driveing there would be little to no crashes. Fully automonous vechicles are still many years away, but laws of many states prohibit testing of driverless vechiles. These laws are causing the consumer to wait longer because companies need important development testing to be conducted in order to improve and devlop these cars. Driverless Cars have many imortant and reliable senors have been put strategically on the cars to maximize efficency. For example Google's modified Toyota Prius has position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel and a rotating sensor on the roof with many other senosors. The sensor on the roof is the Dubbed LIDAR and is one of the most important one. The LIDAR makes a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings. This allows the car to see all of its surrondings unlike the human eye which can on see one direction. Driverless cars are coming to the marketplace and the consumer needs a relible and well tested car but with laws in place companies will not be able to devlop and test their cars to the best of their ablities. I am completely for driverless cars for a more convenient and safer future and driverless cars are a step to that dream. Thousands of people die in horrific crashes each year and to limit progress of trying to make the roads safer is just wrong.

I believe that driverless cars should still be worked on. They would make life much simpler, and could also save a lot of people a lot of time. Driverless cars are the future, and we should be ready to embrace them. If driverless cars do become a thing in the future, lives would be more convenient. If they managed to make them able to work completely without human assistance, then people wouldn't have to focus on driving. If they need to get something done in a short amount of time, they could just use a driverless car, that way they could work on it while on the road. Of course, since the few driverless cars there are now still need human assistance, this could take quite a while to develop, but I'm sure they'll get that far eventually. There are some people who drive really slow, and some who drive really fast. With driverless cars, this would not be an issue, as all the cars could go the same speed, so everyone could get to where they need to go in time. As for the issue of possible crashes, if all the cars would be programmed the same way, this wouldn't be a problem. If there are still crashes, that would be a manufacturer thing. They were the ones who built and program the cars, it's their responsibility to program all the cars to be as safe as possible, so no one can get hurt. This could also save people money in the long run. Since all the cars would be programmed the same, therefore no more wrecks, people wouldn't have to worry about having to buy a new car in that event. Also, they could just take the public transport car, and have it go wherever they need to go, since they would be much more accessible. In conclusion, Driverless cars should definitely be a thing we need to keep working on. They could benefit the world so much. Plus, things would be a lot more interesting with driverless cars.

Most likely im in a car every day of my life and the odds are so are you. But What if cars were never invented how many lives would be saved? how much money could we save? And over all how much better and cleaner our world will be. These things are just some of the advanatges that pertains to limiting our car usage. Have you ever heard of the good out weighs the bad? well in this situation the good defiantly out weighs the bad. Our life source is breathing we need to breath air and at that fresh air, but we never are, not with fumes from millions of cars roaming around. Stated in (source3 par24) "Its a good way to take away stress and lower air pollution". That to me sounds like two gains already, whats better than fresh air and less stress. Things just as simple as car pooling makes the world better but what really would is not useing you'r car daily. No, i dont mean walk every where you could use bikes, eletric operated golf carts which are all fun but much better for the air. By useing these we have fewer fumes in the air which makes for better air. If we all began useing these instead of cars in just towns it would become normal to ride bikes and, golf carts rather than big bulky air killing machines. For an example in (source4 par29) "Americans are buying fewer cars and driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by". It just starts with one to make something drastically change. Now i know were not gonna take family bike trips all the way from florida to georgia or drive a golf cart that only goes to 40mph,but thats when it would be decent to make a "car trip". Im not saying stop useing cars completely just only when its not neccassary. Just think about the world you live in the world that God has created is being pulluted every day, but we can all change that. Money, money ,money Seems to be the big talk in America weather its the money were making, the money were loseing ,or the money we just dont have. But Wouldent you rather put your money towards the mouths of your family or the roof over your head, rather than in your gas tank ? Useing less cars would give us more money on more important things in life and, would cause more people to become happier . Just by useing things like bikes can make things more smoother in your every day life for an example(source3 par28) "Rush hour restrictions have dramatically cut traffic". No one i know loves sitting or, nearly wrecking during traffic with this mehtod of less cars we could cut deaths and, stress in half . And i know you would say, but millions of people would lose jobs big money by car usage being reduced,but think of all the new things they could make their money from . People are always looking for the next big thing , well this is it. Dealerships that promote this could now turn into safer mobility shops and, make nearly as much. Stated in(source4 par32) "Americans could not afford new cars and the unemployed wernt going to work anyway". This goes to show that were already leaning towards the idea of less cars we just need to be pushed. All the new inventions that will arise weather its cute bicycle covers to built in tops to block the rain people will be gaining and saving just as much. But what were really gainig is the saftey of people. Kids fall off their bikes everyday and probably get hurt but, a scrape is better than taking your last breath. We all gain from this , and our human nature is to want whats best for yourself, well this is surely better for every one. Almost every day im in a vehicle, but maybe that could soon change. We could gain so much from losing just a little bit of driving time. We would absolutley gain lives,money,and happiness from useing less car usage. Im a firm beliver in useing this method i couldent imagine a better world of things going just so smoothly all of the time. But It takes getting on that bike or walking to the corner store to strike a revolution like this. So get out of your cars and, go make a better place for you and for the world.                                

The face of Mars is a landform in the region of Mars called Cydonia. Because of limited photographic resolution at the time, the Viking 1 photo from 1976 makes it look like a face. Some people say that the face was made by aliens, but there is scientific evidence against this. The reason it looks like a face is because the 1976 photograph was blurred. A later photo taken in 1998 makes it look less like a face, but some claimed it may still be a face due to the fact that the photo was taken in cloudy weather. In 2001, a photo was taken that did not look like a face at all, but a natural landform such as a butte or mesa. It is unlikely that aliens would make a landform like this, because it has no actual structure. Statues and monuments made by humans are meant to look like something and tend to be uniform in shape. The Face on Mars, in more recent photographs, doesn't look like anything but what it probably is, which is a natural landform. Another reason it is probably a natural landform is because theories that it was made by aliens were created purely by the public. There is no actual evidence that would suggest that the the face on Mars was made by anything that was alive, other than the fact that a blurry photograph taken 40 years ago makes it look like a face. There is not any evidence to suggest that Mars would have even been able to support life in the past or is able to support it now. The evidence against the Face on Mars being made by aliens or an ancient civilization on Mars is far too substantial to be dismissed in favor of speculation by conspiracy theorists or depictions of it in fictional movies. In fact, the face on Mars strongly resembles landforms on Earth that were formed naturally. The most likely explanation for the face is that it's a natural formation that looked like a face in a photograph, and that anything special about it is purely speculated. It is completely illogical to think that an optical illusion means anything, and until there is evidence to suggest that it isn't, the Face on Mars is probably nothing more than a hill.

Cars have always been apart of American culture. From the "...birth place of the Model T; the home of Detroit; the place where Wilson Pickett immortalized "'Mustang Sally'"(The End of Car Culture, Rosenthal) Cars and automobils have impacted our everyday lifes from going to the store to hanging out with friends, but car usage has been stedily decreesing and for all the right reasons. A new movemnent is trending everywhere, it's called "smart planning". It's simple, separate subarban life from auto use. In doing so this movement is going to help out the econdomy and also the enviorment. "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 perecent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." [empheses on original] That many emissions are horrible for the enviorment and even worse for our pockets, because they're just going up in smoke. New cities are rising and are acctuly trying to adopt this trend by making cities denser, which means that all the stores and your work place are in walking distance. By being able to walk to your local shopping store or favorite move theatre means that you're saving gas, and by saving gas the ecodimey is saving money which will make prices in all the stores and other bussnesses cheaper for the consumer, you! The infamous smog is not only in Bejing, or the United States, but also in The City of Love. "Paris typically has more smog than other European capitals...[Last] week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (PM) per cubic meter compared with 114 in Brussels and 79.7 in London..." (Paragraph 17, Duffer) The city is not so lovely as you'd think it would be, but the trend has cought on in Paris! Not only that but it also has been great for the enviorment. "Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog...[The smog] rivaled Begjing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world." (Paragraph 14, Duffer) Most people would think "I could never do that! No one could live like that and still make a living!" Honestly though, it's been doing the city of Bogota in Colombia, a city comprimised of 7 million citizens a favor. They held a event for only one day evey year since the mid 1990s to improve and "...promote alternive transportation and reduce smog." (Paragraph 21, Selsky) Doing this has sparked a revolution of change thoughout the whole city. More people are willing to walk insted of drive to help the enviorment and the place they live in, and the city is giving right back to them! "Parks and sports centers have also bloomed throughout the city; uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broad, smooth sidewalks; rush-hour restrictions have dramatically cut trafic; and new restaruants and upscale shopping districts have cropped up." (Paragraph 28, Selsky) Just one day a week could cut down smog and other green house gasses a lot and help our enviroment and the edodomey. Back in the 1950's people had to use cars to do eveything. From talking to a friend face to face to going to the nearest resturant. But now you can do all of that in your own living room, due to technology that has advanced us to be able to use Facetime, Skype, or Oovoo to talk to our friends face to face using out phone, tablet, or personal computer. And to drive anywhere we need to we have apps the diliver taxies to our houses for us."...the Internet makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends...Likewise the rise in cellphones and car-pooling apps have facilitated more flexiable commuting arrangements, including the evolution of shared can services fro getting to work." ( Paragraph 35, Rosenthal) Working everyday will effect this because no one wants to miss work. Missing work means less money and creates more stress for the person missing work. By saving maybe $10 on gas that day you're missing out on the $125 you could've made by working, but there's another solution to this also. Car-pool! Even if you're driving the car yourself or you're in the car you're saving fule and money. Once a week you could to this to stop in increes of smog in our enviorment and even help with traffic jams. And without traffic jams eveyone is less stressed out and a lot more happier. By not using our cars as much, we can help ourselves and everyone aroud us by making a better world that makes it better for our children, or even our childrens' children. We can save money by just taking one day off of not driving. We should limit car use so we can stop car accedents from happening, getting stressed in traffic jams, to helping out the economical heart of the United States, and just to make our world a better place to have fun and thrive in.

"Look Adrian, I know you might think that, that landform is a face carved in Mars by aliens but the facts are right here," Keilah says gesturing around the room. Adrian scoffs and chuckles saying, "I know a face when i see one, especially if it is up on Mars because none of our astronauts could have been able to make something like that and for what?" - he pauses then continues, "Of course it had to be aliens!" Keilah starts to explain, "First, us scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa. You know something common enough around the Planet Cydonia only this one had shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." As Adrian jumps right back in almost as he wanted to interrupt her but had waited, he gives his own reasons. He says excitedly, " Yeah but, after that a few days later we (NASA) unveiled the image with a caption saying that there was a huge rock form which resembles a human head, formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. Right after noticing all the features I had to believe it was real! Not only that, but that aliens had put it all together! KEILAH, DONT' YOU SEE IT?" "No I do not Adrian. I see the facts and what the picture actually shows. It's clearly the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- LANDFORMS COMMON AROUND THE AMERICAN WEST! hmm I seem to agree with 'Gavin' when he stated that it had reminded him of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. Also when Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos it revealed a natural landform and there was no alien monument after all. Sorry buddy I guess you'll have to do more research or look a little closer next time haha." Keilah says as she puts an end to the 'Face on Mars' argument.

Poeple should really join the Seagoing Cowboys program because it could be very fun. I had a lot of fun. If you ever whated to cross the sea's. I cross the Atlantic 16 times and the Pacific 2 times. If you also like long trips this is for you. It takes two weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and a month to get to China. We got to save a lot of animals too. I got to care for some of the animals, that kept me busy. The had to be fed and watered 3 times a day. Taking care of the animals was very fun. There was also time to have fun on board,especially on our way back when the animals have been unloaded. We played baseball and volleyball games were the animals were staying. We would also have tennis tournaments. With all this it kept us busy and took time and helped past time. This opportunity was more than amazing. It open the whole world to me. You should try to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.

In this passage it mentions many reasons why " the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents." In paragraph 1 it mentions that " it has proved a very challenging place to examine more closely." Since the planet is close to earth they can study it. In the passage they say " Venus is sometimes right around the cornor - in space terms-." Even after the fact that no spacecraft has survided the landing for more than a few hours or that there hasn't been a single spacecraft in more than three decades. You might think that these factos would want them to stop studying Venus. Well, actually these factors make them want to study Venus more. Venus has a thick atmosphere of 97 percent carbon dioxide. It also has a temperature over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater. So you might think to yourself so why would they want to keep studying if someone goes to Venus , they might die. You are thinking just like me but no harsh situation makes them want to stop studying Venus. It's enviroment would even crush a submarine. Even though another planet like Mercury is closer to our sun Venus still has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. Most astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar syetem. It was probably covered with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like earth. To this day Venus has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. For example features like valleys, mountains and craters. Even due to all of these almost life-dangering features Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. NASA has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. There idea would allow scientists to float above the fray. They would use a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditons by staying up and out of their way. To understand Venus you would need to get up close and personal despite the risks. Many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. There has been some simplified electrons made of silicon carbide that have been tested in chamber simulation the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditons. A lot of the mechanical computers were used on the 1800s and played a major role in the 1940s during World War 2. Even after the fact that Venus has so many challengs that doesnt stop NASA and sciencetist to stop trying to get there. They are trying many solutions to send a person to Venus, even after its harsh features.

Limiting car usage might be a thought most of us wont even think about. But thats not the case. Countrys from all over the world are partaking in this new way. The reason why people are doing this is to clean the polluted air we breath in A growing project that europe introduced is suburbs without cars. In Europe  a town in Germany constructed this experimental suburb project . For little to no cars in the community. This place is home to 5,500 residents and there are practically no cars, the main source of transportation is a tram. You are allowed to own aa car but its an extra $50,000 a year. In America they are not close to carring out this idea. But in the last year the number of license are going down and the number of cars being sold and hiw much we are driving. This concludes that we are taking i consideration how much emissions we are putting into the air. In FRance, Paris enforced a partial ban on driving to clear smog of the city. On monday motorists with even numbered plates were ordered to leave cars at home. The same would apply for the odd numbered plated the following day. Public transportation was free from friday to moday. These ideas helped clear the air of pollutants. But it took a long time because of hoiw much pollution was in the air due to France favoring diesels over gasoline. Another way people are cleaning the air and limiting car usage is a car free day. In Bogota, Columbia  the gial of this is to promote alternative transportattion and reduce smog. Bogota is a large city homed to 7 million citzens. This idea of a day without cars was started in Bogots in the 1990's, because of this parks and sports centers have booms and many miles of bike trails have been constructed for the recreational; use but also to urge people to not use cars and clean the air. These ideas have been expressed to reduce the usage of cars. Using cars less will have a huge effect on the ozone and how much pollutant is in the air.          

Driverless cars would be able to handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph. Driverless cars would be a great advance in technology and would be safe as well. In fact, none of the cars developed are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead rquires human skills. Three ways driverless cars would be much more safe are, the car will notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. The car is quick to get the drivers attention when a problem occurs, and the car can turn off electornics when the driver needs to take the wheel. In the passage it states, the car will notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This feature gives the sense that the driver is still in control at all times. The driverless car is in assistance to the driver, and it sees what the driver does not. The driverless car can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves decreasing the chance of accidents greatly. While the driver is focused on watching the road, the car is focused on keeping the driver safe. The car is quick to get the attention of the driver in many different ways. The driverless car has limits and there are times when it will need the driver's assistants. The driverless car alerts you in ways you can not ignore. For example, the driver's seat vibrates when the vehicle is in danger and the google car simply annouces when the driver should be prepared. In the passage it says there are other options that are under consideration like flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays. Electronic use are often a problem while driving. The manufacturers want to make driving fun, or while your waiting you're still able to text and check social media. Manufacturers are hoping to bring in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays. Such displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature. Three ways driverless cars would be much more safe are, the car will notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. The car is quick to get the drivers attention when a problem occurs, and the car can turn off electornics when the driver needs to take the wheel. These ways show that the driverless car would be more efficient and safer for the human driver.

In the artical "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D' Alto, he talks about the use of technology to read the emotional expressions. This technology classifies six basic emotions such as, happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Although I don not believe this will be valuable on the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. This technology could be helpful for some, but I don't believe it will work or be valuable for others. For exapmle a student can look down due to lack of interest in a subject and the device would predect the student was sad when they may not be sad they are just not interested. And considering the technology only has six emotial expressions, it limits the outcome of how the student is feeling. For example the student could be feeling hungry but that is not one of the emotions the technology has listed. Although this technology would be valuable figuring out someone's basic emotions, they are too many emotional expressions that this technology does not have. Therefore, I do not believe that the use of this technology would be valuable in a classroom.

Do you like having to drive yourself ever where, everyday? Google has came up with a driverless car. Now, if you think about this, eventually no one will have to drive. We will not have to buy cars anymore. This driverless car has traffic jam assistance, antilock brakes, and last but not least they have necessities to alert the driver if the driver needs to take over. The driverless car has traffic jam assistance. The car can only handle up to 25 mph. This is why the driver has to keep ahold of the wheel at all times. The car itself will notify the driver if at some point the road ahead needs human skills, such as navigating through work zones. This means the driver must remain alert at all times. The car also comes with antilock brakes. The car has motion sensors when you are pulling in or out of somewhere and you get to close to an object the car stops itself. The car does not only come with motion sensors on the back or the car, the car comes also come with a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automative radar sensors, a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion sensor. The driverless car come with necessities that alert the driver when the driver needs to take over. GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The Google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over. Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays. Driverless cars would be a lot more convenient than the cars we have today. They practically drive themselves. This driverless car has traffic jam assistance, antilock brakes, and probably the most important are the necessities the cars have to alert the driver if the car is in need for the driver would like to take over. Driverless cars are the new beginning!

Dear state senator, i just want to inform you on a few things about in favor of keeping the Electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I think we as a natioin should keep the Electoral College. We should keep it because each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that trust is rarely betrayed and because the electoral college requires a presidental candidate to have trans-regional appeal. We should keep the Electoral College because each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that trust is rarely betrayed. It is entirely possible that the winner of eletoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000 when Gore had more  popular votes than bush. Yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888. The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region...south, northeast, etc. has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the south, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win. This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is likely to be successful president. Therefore us as a nation should keep the way we do things. We should keep the Eletororal College because each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that trust is rarely betrayed. Another thing is that the eletoral college requires a presidental candidate to have trans-regional appeal.             

The Seagoing Cowboys program "A Cowboy Who Rode the Waves" article talks about how Luke participated in the Seagoing Cowboys program, the adventures he was in, and that he visited many unique places while in the program. It also made me or somebody else reading it want to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program also. The Seagoing Cowboy program lets you meet new people who also joined the program. While traveling on a cattle boat on the sea can be a bit dull but with new people that you just met can be a bit entertaining. Whenever your done doing you work which can consist of unloading the animals you can play many different activities. You can play volleyball, basketball games in the empty holds where they house the animals. To help pass the time they box, read, fence, and they also hold table-tennis tournaments. The program can also includes you to visit many unique places. You get to go to many new countries that you haven't seen before. You get to visit many new places like Greece, China, Europe,you also pass and see the Panamal Canal. To some people the Seagoing program can be a opportunity to see many new people from different countries and see how people live differently. It can also make a huge amount of inpact on the people that they vistit because they might even help them. It can make them aware of the people in the other countries and their needs. The Seagoing Cowboy program can let you meet new people, it also lets you vistit many different and unique places you've never been to. It can also make a huge inpact on you and other people you visit in the countries you go to. Whenever you want to join a program, Will you choose the Seagoing Cowboy program?

I think that we should use facial recognition in school. There are many possibilities to what we could use the technology for. We can (like the article says) use it to let computers help us when we are confused. It can also help companies to get their ads out there. We can us it in animation Computers can help us when we are confused by offering help or changing the lesson. If a computer can see if we are confused then everyone will be helped. Students will be able to know how to do what they don't get. Teachers will be able to see what they need to teach better for the whole class. Companies can get their ads out there easier based on a person's reaction to the ad. If we smile at an ad we like then the computer will know to give us ads similar to that. If we look upset at an ad then the computer knows we don't want to see it. Finally companiies will have more profit because we see what we like. Animators can use actual faces to give emotions to digital ones. It would make watching animated shows much more enjoyable. It would really help the animation industry. In conclusion the expression recognition system could greatly helpmm us all. Teachers and students will be able to give/recieve help. The population will see the ads they want to see. And finally animators will be able to make animations more lively.

Most people own cars and rarely do you see anyonw without one. Well, there are many benifts that come with limiting car useage. For starters one would be much happier without a car. Because when you have a car your always tense. And that can come from almost anything when your driveing. Another great benfit of limiting your car useage is beacause of traffic. owning a car, your often stuck in between cars waiting for lights to change or for people to move. But if you limit your car useage then you won't be stuck in traffic jams. You can move from point A to point B in no time. Again there are so many things that can benfit you from less car useage. For example in Paris they ban driveing because of "smog". Limiting your car useage will also lower the pollutiion in the air. Like I've been saying all this time car useage is something that only causes stress arond the world. There is more than just these three things that benfit you if you use less car useage. You can also lose wait if your walking all the time. Its a great way to burn those calories if thats what you want. You will also be super healthy because you will excerciseing alot more than you would with a car. Your body is moving and thats all that really matters. There are so many advaanges of no car useage. Another thing that is that your body will become stronger. Because since you will be walking or running to where ever you need to go you will improve your strength. You won't be weak or like a noodle but muscle will be built. So like I've been saying there are so many advanages to less car useage. Mostly becaus ein the end you will be happier, calm, and well excrised. Something that is alot easier than what we may have thought. Those are the advages of having less car useage. because its more benfital than what everybeody may think.

In the passage The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author is stating that he thinks people should study Venus. The author stated many reasons on why he thought they should study Venus no matter what the dangers or conditons are on the planet. I think it would be good to explore and study Venus because it was stated to be very similar to how Earth is now. The author stated Venus is offten referred to as Earth's "twin", and that it is sometimes one of the closest planets to Earth besides Mars. Venus is also called the "Evening Star", because sometime you can see it from Earth. The tempatures on Earth and Venus are very differant, although the author thinks that at one point, Venus could of had living people, oceans, and could of been very close to how Earth is now. Venus still has features that make it similar to Earth. Venus now has a differant atmosphere. The atsmosphere is thicker and 97 percent carbon dioxide. NASA has tried to study Venus in the past, but no space craft survived the landing for more than a few hours. NASA has not tried to take any kind of space craft to Venus for more than 3 decades. On Venus, the surface averages over 800 degrees fahrenheit. The conditions are for more extreme. Venus has the hottest suface temperature of any other planet. NASA eventually wants to send people to Venus, although they would not be able to touch the surface. They would float about 30 miles above the surface, similar to a jet airplane. Although through pictures they would not be able to know how the surface is, I think they still need to study Venus. The author wrote this passage expaining many reasons on why scientist and NASA should explore Venus. Although there is many dangers to exploring Venus I think it is important to study a close planet that could have possibly been like Earth now.

We should keep the elcetoral college because it was made by out founding fathers and should be kept alive. Not only that but it has been around for so long that it would be difficult getting use to the change. By keeping the electoral college we keep a non-democratic way of voting for out presidents. Betrayal dosent often happen because we put trust into the people we sent to the electoral college. By keeping the electoral college we also keep the chance of any runner winning, unlike if normal people got to have their votes count someone would always ain by a landslide. By also keeping the electoral college we make it so their is no chance of a tie. Like if a person from the electoral college were to betray his state. If it were to happen the state would be very disappionted and would look down upon him or her. By keeping the electoral college we make it so the its difficult for one person to betray his or her  state. We all expect them to make the right choise for the whole state and they feel that pressure. Everyone only influences what the person is going to pick. But some people fold under pressure and do what the  other person wants. That can also be a good thing. By putting people under pressure with a whole state on their back people would choose who ever their state wants. If every state thinks differntly then their would still be a chance for the other person to win even if other states voted for the other person. If one person got a lot of states to like them then the other peson wouldnt stand a chance if real people were voting and they would lose against a landslide victory. There would also be major fights and outbrakes of violence if we got rid of the electoral college. If you had a friend that voted for the person you didnt want to win and they won you would mad and argry. They would just rub it in your face and say you lost and could lead to fights or even killings. The smart desion would be to keep the electoral college. By keeping it everyone is happy and will accept things easier. But if we were to abolish it the towns and cities would go and rampage with families borken and friendships being torn apart. And we can prevent that by just keeping the electoral college.

In "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author presents facts about how the cars drive themselves, and how a human is still needed for absolute safety. My point of view is that cars that can drive themselves aren't needed. Some people may agree with driverless cars, but I don't. From what I can tell about driverless cars, is that they don't even fully drive themselves yet. They still require a human at the wheel in order to be able to go around a construction site. The text states"They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation required." If it is not a driverless car, than why try to tell people it is. Humans are already driving all over the world, and doing a good job of it. From what I can tell, nobody needs to make a car that can drive itself. They only need to improve cars that we humans drive to make it safer and easier for us. The main reason they are trying to make these driverless cars is because they are trying to prevent accidents. But there is an alternate way of doing that. You can help drivers be more aware of there sorroundings. We have already started doing so by placing cameras on the back of the car for driving backwards. So if manufacturers would just put the camera on the left and right side of the cars than they could help people see past that blind spot. Right now people have to look away from where they are going to see if there is somebody else in the lane next to them. If it just so happens that they are in their blind spot, than they may think that it is safe to switch lanes and end up getting in a crash instead. It's not hard for us to drive ourselves, it just that we need help with some things that are challenging for us. Cars don't need to drive themselves. People just need another way of seeing where they can't see so that they know it is actually safe. Drivers shouldn't need to take over and do what a car can't do. The car should help the human with what they have trouble doing.

Having Facial Action Coding Systems for classrooms may seem fun to have, but it really isn't valuable. One reason behind this is that students don't go to school to have fun they go to learn, so they don't need their boredom to be recgonized. Another reason is it will cost a lot of money when it can be used to buy other utencils. There are some benefits from having face scanners but it doesn't outweigh the downsides. For example, students will get bored in class frequently. That does not mean that the lesson has to change just to make it fun. It depends on how the teacher sets up her classroom. Every teacher is different. Some are boring, and others are entertaining. School isn't meant to be fun, but more to be educational. Another example on why Facial Action Coding Systems aren't valuable is because they are bound to cost a lot of money. The money that will be used on installing that type of technology can be used to buy other supplies that are needed. Some of those supplies include paper, books, sports equipment, etc. That money can also be used to better the school if there are any problems going on. Students will be better off having more utencils to use that having their emotions read. On the other hand, it isn't hard to see why a school would want that type of technology. They would all like to be more advanced. As stated in the passage, "... it could modify the lesson.." Modifying the lesson can help make it more entertaining. If it is more entertaining, students will be more interested and will focus more on the subject. In conclusion, there are more reasons on why Facial Action Coding Systems are not valuable than on how they are. For one, students need to look forward to coming to school to learn more than to have fun. Also, the cost for that type of technology could be used for other resources. Instead of wasting money on a luxury, it could be spent on needs that will help the students with learning. People might think it's fun and exciting to have a computer tell how you're feeling about a subject in school but that won't help much. In conclusion, reasons on why Facial Action Coding Systems aren't necessary outweigh the reasons on why they would be.

Today, I will be discussing why to join the Seagoing Cowboys program and participate in the program. This essay will talk about how you can visit many different places and how it can change your life. Those are my 2 main points that I will be discussing in this essay. This paragraph will discuss on how you can visit places and learn things. This is great opportunity to go visit unique places. First, when you go and visit you can go learn new things and you can see the world the world better. Secondly, it can make you change the way you see the world. You can also experience new adventures. If you were to go see Acropolis it would suprise you and traveling can probably give you experience to the world. This paragraph was about how you visit places and about how you can learn things. This paragraph will talk about how it can change your life. In the passage, it says it opened up the world to him and that it was great opportunity. If you were to join the program it would make see the world better and change your life. It can help treat the world better and you can help people. Helping is big part on changing your life. It can make you more aware of people in need that need help. This paragraph was about how it can change your life. In conclusion, those are the reasons I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. The reasons were on how you can visit places and on how it can change your life.

In 'Making Mona Lisa Smile', the Facial Action Coding System purpose is described as to enable computers to read human emotions. Should it be brought into classrooms? I believe that it should, as it will engage students in lessons, content will be taught more efficently and effectively, and students academic performances will improve. If emotion reading technology is brought in to classrooms, it will spark interest in them. As Dr. Huang explains," A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored...Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This could help students focus on the material, better helping their comprehension and understanding, therefore improving their academic performances. Overall, the Facial Action Coding System should be introduced to classrooms. Students will value the impact it will have on the content being taught. Why keep the facial reading technology from students when it can benefit them?

Join the Seagoing Cowboys Hello its Luke. I was wondering if you would like to join the seagoing cowboys. I enjoy it very much. You can make a difference in so many peoples lives. The seagoing cowboys are a group of people who help others during the war. We take and bring things overseas. If you join the cowboys then you will get to go to different places.You will be able to meet new people, some of the people you meet are excellent mentors and friends. While on the cowboys you may be able to go places you will never get the chance to go again.Also the cowboys do what they do for a great cause. We help so many people. The cowboys all started because of the 44 nations who joined together to create the UNRRA. The UNRRA stands for ( The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration).The UNRRA hired "Seagoing Cowboys" to take care of the horses, young cows ,and mules that were shipped overseas. Besides helping people you can get the side benefit of seeing and adventuring the place town or city your in. There are many good reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys. It is a great thing to be a apart of. Other then helping people you get many benefits. So if you have a good heart and like helping people this may be the job for you.I will look forward to seeing you join the Seagoing Cowboys.

Dear Senator, The Electoral College is unfair to not only the state but everyone in the country. If only a few people are allowed to vote as electoral and then the rest is individual whats the point of having both? It does not make sense for the fact that the electoral votes are more imporatnat then the peoples votes. Its not fair because maybe the person who received more individual votes would be a more better president than the person with more eletoral votes. The Electoral College should be changed and who ever wins by the most popular vote should be president because that person may be better off. To start off with, the electoral college shoudl be changed because in soure 2: " The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenes of the system are wrong" the author Bradford Plumer states "voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." (paragraph 10). What Plumer is saying is that the people who vote dont vote for the president, but for the people hwo come with him. Even though it should be the president you should be voting for. He does control our country and our future of what might happen. So why should the electoral college be voting for the slate of electors? Also in source 1: "What is the Electoral College" the author statea "election of the President by vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." (paragraph 1). The author is saying that the candidates have electoral votes and individual votes. Why have both though? Shouldnt a citizens vote matter more than a electoral because we know who might be best for us? The electoral college probaly doesnt even listen to the canidate, only their electors slate which is not fair. It should be the canidate who seems to be best for us instead of who works best for the president. Also, shouldnt the person who wins by the most popular vote be president? In source 2: "The Indefesnsible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" it states "Al gore received more idividual votes than George W. Bush nationwide, but Bush won the election, receiving 271 electorl votes to Gore's 266." Plumber is stating the fact that even though Gore won buy individual votes, Bush still became president because of his electoral votes. This is completely unfair though because Gore had more of the countries attention than Bush since he won by more votes. Bush only got the attention of the Electoral College because of the elector slate he had. Isnt that wha the electoral college looks at? The electoral slate? How about the public, they know what is best for their country and if the person with the most individual votes is it, then let it be it. Furthermore, in source 1:"What Is the Electoral College" the authore states "Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all the electors to the winning president." (paragraph 7). This is unfair because the candidates dont actually spend time in states they know they wont have a chance of winning in, but shouldnt all votes count? They never know if that state wants to pick them so why not show them who you are? In 2000, the candidates doing the campaign didnt send it to seventeen states. They didnt send it to Rhode Island and South Carolina including voters in 15 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a single campaign ad. Now thats not fair because everyone vote should count. If a person doesnt get to see then they wont vote but the person with the most votes should win. So why think that no one would vote? You never know. Although these reasons state that switching the electoral college is a good idea, there are some benefits of it being there. In source 3: "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" the author Richard A. Posner states "The electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution..."(paragraph 21).This states that despite the fact that not a lot of people like the electoral collage they help balance the votes of the states and help continue the rights of the Constitution. This helps with th popular vote of the states and gets the most attention than smaller states. On the other hand, even though the electoral college evens the votes of the oublic, what if they choose the other candidate then the one that the public chose? It wouldnt be fair not only to the state but the other people who choose that candidate and the candidate him or herself. Furthermore, the Electoral Collage should be switched so that the candidate with the most popular vote wins instead of the candidate with the most electoral vote. They should win because the person who has the most votes is better off with the public. Sincerely, Fellow Citizen

Vauban,Germany where the trees grow ,The suburban pioneers and soccer moms live in but wheres the cars near the city of freiburg just across the french and swiss borders the streets of Vauban are car free . Car free? but wait at the the main throughfare tram downtown is where all the cars park well a few cars park there. Vroom Vroom if your going to buy a car you need a garage and a house dont you you need a house to store all your belongings and your family inside and you need agarage to put your fancy new car in all the cost comes up to about $40,00 thousand dollers. About 70% of the people who live in Vauban,Germany do not own a cars and the other 57% sold there to move here. but once you come here all youll see if bicycles and people having good convosations and children just wondering about the streets of gemany. The  city of Vauban finished in 2006 growing a trend in Europe the suban city of Germany isnow called smart planning. Other suburbs in other countrys have to have to pay gas its about 12 percent of the greenhouse gas in Europe . While in  the city the government is trying to make the city denser and for people and kids to walk around in a health enviornment about 5,500 within a mile have a low- car actually live in a low car suburban life. In the new life thats going on now its goinf to be easier for people to walkin in and out of malls they can finally walk in the main street rsther than walk a long distance way to get to their destionation. Around the world where they have tight spaces like New York and maybe Georgia are starting to look like these little surban cities in Germany and France . In the cities that we have talked about about 80% of people have gone to law highways and the other 20% use the transportantion that there to bring them around. In Paris they have banned the clear air globe city people who ride on motorcycles were orderd to leave their transportant at home or they wouold have to suffer a 22 euro finr the the united states that means about $31 dollars (hey thats not bad at all ) about 4,000 drivers were fined and 27 people had their car impounded. In Bogota,Colombia large grey clouds are caused by cars and people not giving a care ( you know what i was about to say) about their country its like they dont even care this is like the third year that the city of Bogota has been banned of cars the only thing they have right now are buses and taxies i guess they dont want cars anymore just tell them (the government of bogota that they dont want it ).  

In the article, the author goes into great detail about the exploration of Venus. He goes into great detail because he wants everyone to know that Venus is a facinating planet worth exploring. Venus has many challenges, but we can go and explore this odd and facinating planet. The author wants everone to explore Venus because he belevies that the challenges that Venus presents shouldn't hold us back from exploring it. In the article 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 also presents the readers with ideas on how to approach the studying of Venus. For example, in the text it says, " NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. For example, some simplifed electronics made from silicon carbide have been test in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions." He also states that they are other benefits to exploring Venus like learning about the history of the planet. In the text it states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The author did a very good job expaining why we should study Venus. He has givin lots of good information and evidence supporting his claim. The author has also givin us many reasons on why we should study Venus. Although there are some challenges, we should overcome them and find a way to explore Venus.

Luke was a sea cowboy he described every thing wonderful and great but is he just saying that to bring more people in the business . My first reason that shows that Luke is maybe trying to bring more people to work with him is that in the whole script he only comes across one problem but everything else is great which is hard to believe because in the sea there could be storms ,waves,floods or leaks on the boat but surprisingly he never comes across any of those problems which is odd. My second reason that shows that Luke is just trying to bring people into the business is in the text it said that Luke kept on saying that he got to ride gondola in the streets of water in Spain,and got to excavate a castle in create , and even got to see the Panama Canal on his way to China so he is basically saying that all of the things he did where fun he got to go siht seeing but not everything he did could of been fun he also had to feed animals and clean stables so not every thing he did was fun. In conclusion these reasons show Luke maybe is liens but maybe he is telling the truth its up to you to choose a side is he lying or not so maybe just maybe he could be telling the truth.

If you want to be a helpful person who also wants to have a fun and hard working experience, come and sign up for Seagoing Cowboys. I have had a great experience on the cattle boat and it also felt great helping others in need. When you are on the cattle boat you will experience an oppertunity of a lifetime. I think that the cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable oppertunity for a small town boy like me. I also think that besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special. One time, I took a gondola ride in Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water. I also toured an excavated castle in Crete an marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. I also found to have some fun aboard, espeacially on return trips when the animals had been unloaded. We played baseball and voleyball game in the empty holds where animals had been housed. We also played table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, and whittling. So as you can see, being a Seagoing Cowboy is fun and hard, but it is worth a shot.

Dear, state senator I do not favor in keeping the Electoral college. What I favor is changing electoral college to election by popular vote. I think that election by popular vote is  very fair and even. Electoral College can  control who their electors vote  it is unfair to the other elector becuse they have no chance of winning the election. Consider that state legislature are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors always defy the will of the people. The electoral college is unfair to voters. The electoral college is unfair because the winner take all system in most states  they do not have any chance in winning. The electoral college is just outdated, and very irrational. We should abolish the electoral college it is a uncompetitive way for competeing for president. Everyone deserves a fair and even chance and by the electoral college is not. Popular votes is a non democratic method of selecting a president that gets the the positon with the most electoral votes. It is the electors who elect the president not the people. Everyone has a right to vote for who they would like or trust as president. However it is possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Whe you vote for president your are actually have a part in who you would like.

Why should you become a Seagoing Cowboy? Well first let me tell you about a boy named Luke who was a Seagoing Cowboy. A Seagoing Cowboy is on this boat with other Seagoing Cowboys. To go help Europe where World War II just ended. They were heading over to Europe because, many countries over there were ruined. So they were coming over to bring them food supplies, animals, and more. If you love to help, this would be something for you that you would enjoy. Luke traveled through the Atlantic occean and pacific. Trying to help these countries that were left in ruins. When Luke was on the boat he had a job to do. He had to feed the animals and keep them healthy. He also had to clean the animals and keep there stalls clean. When your a Seagoing Cowboy you have a big responsibility. You also have alot of jobs to take care of. Another job Luke had, was a night watchman. That job was to check on all the animals every hour. Then make his hourly report to the captain. A Seagoing Cowboy wasn't always working. When they unloaded the animals and were heading back there was an empty space. So sometimes the cowboys played games. Like baseball, volleyball, table-tennis, fincing, boxing, and more. Luke always enjoyed that part. So this is what a Seagoing Cowboy is and what he does. If your someone who's willing to be on a boat for a long time and take care of animals and if you also love to help people. This job is perfect for you. While your on the boat you get to make new friends and explore unique places. It was just a big adevnture. Also if you love dealing with animals this is another good reason to become a Seagoing Cowboy. Take the information that I gave you. Luke loved being a Seagoing Cowboy and if you have the heart like Luke, this is the job for you.

The Author for the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" gave both good key points on why we should have driverless cars as well as key points on why we shouldn't have driverless cars. My position on this specific topic is that i believe that having a driverless car would be proficient to the human life because then you wouldn't have to wrooy about if your tired or not and you don't have to worry about taking those harmful energy drinks when you drive because you need to stay awake. Because since you have a driverless car you are capable of practically doing anything you have to do within the time period you have from your starting destination the your final destination. You could finish up work you didn't get done, you could actually eat your breakfast, you could actually look into some important things while your car gets you to your destination. although there are cons to driverless cars there is always room for improvement and this generation has plenty of time to improve on that situation. concluding this I believe having driverless cars would be a tremendous achievement for man kind knowing that we are advancing in the technology that we started off creating and that the driverles car would help millions and contribute to all good beings.

All humans can express the way they are feeling. The feelings that are shown are one of the following, happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Not all are truthful in the way they express it for others to see. Being a high school student, I see many kids who are happy on the outside but inside they are sad. When a person is sad and covers up their true feelings like a blanket, it is hard to understand how to help them. With this being said, we must do everything we can to truly figure out how students are feeling in the classroom. By understanding the way someone is feeling enables us to help them or accomodate them in some way. For example, a man may go through life appearing to be happy but inside he is truly sad. Since he was wearing a metaphorical mask of happiness, no one was able to understand his true feelings. Prof. Thomas Huang, of Beckman Institute of Advanced Science at the Universty of Illinois, has found a way to understand peoples emotion.There may just be a solution that could help change societal problems relating to schools such as school shootings. Recently our schools have been not such a safe enviroment due to the high activity of school shootings. Why exaclty do school shootings take place? In most cases, it is because that person was not understood emotionally by his or her peers. Now with the Facial Action Coding System we would be able to understand who throughout our school is feeling the angry, and sad emotions. Dr. Huang stated that, "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." Since the facial expressions are universal, this statement only proves the accuracy of the FACS. After knowing who these students are allows the councelors in the school to go and talk to them. This breakthrough discovery may be over looked by some but could be beyond valuable and beneficial when it comes to helping students who are hiding their feelings. The aspects of enforcing safety comes into play with this Facial Action Coding System. But this could not only minimze school shootings, but can also be beneficial in the way students learn. If a student is angry in class, they are most likely not going to be listening to the teacher. They will be focused on whatever it is they are mad at. If we were able to scan such kids, we could sit down with them and help reduce their anger in attempts to put them back on track to learn. The students who show no emotion make it hard for teachers to understand them. When a teacher makes a student smile, or surpirse them they are doing their job correctly. Now for a student who is unable to convey his true emotions, the teacher may not know if the student understands the material being taught. By having the ability to tap into the emotions of a student is a paramount discovery. The benefits outweigh the negatives in every category. The implementation of the Facial Action Coding System within schools is going to be beyond valuable. This can be the turning point in the education system. By being able to understand how students are feeling, it can reduce violence, and ultimately allow for maximized learning.

Imagine turning on the news to hear that a piece of equipment NASA sent to Venus melted within hours of making contact with the ground. That would be crazy, right? As it turns out, countless probes looking to land on Venus's surface have melted on contact. The author, however, still supports the exploration of Venus because the planet used to be similar to Earth and it's exploration could be scientifically productive. The landscape of Venus is very similar to that of Earth's. Even featuring spaces in which there used to be oceans, Venus could very well have been almost the same as Earth. From what the text tells us, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth," (The Challenge, 4). Venus could give us clues as to how Earth might decay, since it used to be so similar, so why not study it a little? It seems like we haven't quite made it onto Venus's surface yet, but studying these methods are still very scientifically beneficial. For example, we can now infer that modern technology likely wouldn't make it as far as old, mechanical technology. The author concludes, "Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate [than, say, a mechanical computer] when it comes to extreme physical conditions," (9). The study of Venus is opening our minds to new problems that may even arise on another, or even our own planet. Although it seems difficult to get there, the travel and study of Venus could be very useful and beneficial to us on Earth. That being said, to Venus!

Dear Mr. Senator, there is a huge concern over who's vote is the real vote, Americas, or the Electoral College "Your vote counts" is what the citizens of America always hear when it is finally time to vote. But does it really count the way that it should? The tuesday after the first monday in November, everyone is going crazy lining up outside of the voting polls and waiting to make their vote count for who they want their new president to be. But are they really voting for a President or a state of electors? Whats the point of even putting in our vote if the Electoral College is gonna take over and vote for who they want. It makes no sense at all. It is completely understood that they use the peoples votes  for who they pledged on but that really has no purpose. Instead of having the people of America vote then why don't we just have the Electoral College be the only people to vote? So basically when the people of America go and vote they are not voting for any president at all. Instead they are voting for Democratic and Republican electors. That completely overrides the whole purpose for the Presidential election. In 2002, Al Gore lost the election due to the Electoral College. He had more individual votes but George Bush had more electoral votes. That proves that many peoples vote doesnt count. If more people voted for Gore thats what the people of America wanted and there was proof. So it was very unfair how Bush won because of electoral votes. Why do the people of America even vote if things like that may happen, how come they encourage us to vote, why not just let the Electoral College do all the voting for who they preffer? If the people cant get what they want then why do we even vote for it? The only real reason that the people are to vote is to be played. America is being fooled by thinking that their vote does something when really it does nothing at all. If Bush won because of the Electoral College and not individual votes why did the people even vote?  If noone were to vote then we would still have a president because, the Electoral College would just vote for who they wanted instead right? So why must America vote? If our votes count then why would we need an Electoral College to assist in the presidential election? America should be able to get who they want not who the Electoral College wants. So the question usually asked should not be, "Did you vote" but instead, "Did the Electoral College vote"? Sincerely, PROPER_NAME                                                                

The use of the Facial Action Conding System would be valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom because it will detect how the student feels about the task at hand. If it detects that the student is bored it could modify the lesson to make them more awake and begin working on the task at hand. This technology could also help find each students way of learning. For example if one student works hands on and another works by taking notes then the system can mofify both programs to fit their learning style. This technology also could help teachers see if a student understands a topic, and if they see they don't or they are becoming frustrated with it they can modify the lesson. Using this system would be of value to students and schools, because it not only would help students learn but it would also help teacher teach. If a student is feeling bored with his or her work the Facial Ation Coding System can modify the task at hand and make the student more prone to continue and finish the work. This claim is supported by the article because it says "A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored" This would help the teacher help the student make changes. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.'" This technology not only helps students become more inclined in school work but it also helps teachers This technology could help find each students way of learning by detecting each facial expression to see if they are inclined in the task at hand. For example, if one student is understanding and enjoying the way a lesson is being taught, the system could modify each of their lessons to fit their way of learning. But if another student doesn't like the way a lesson is being taught the system can test out different styles until the correct one is found. The article supports this by stating "if you smile when a web ad appears on your screen, a similar as might follow." This example could go for both advertisment and school work. "If you frown, the next ad will be different." This system can be used to see if a student is enjoying and understanding a lesson as well as not enjoying and understanding a lesson. The Facial Action Coding System could help teachers see if a student is understanding a topic or lesson. It could do this by detecting their facial expression then letting the teacher know if changes need to be made. This would help because it allows the teacher to know if thier methods of teaching are acually being of value to the student. This claim is supported because the article includes "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." This supports the claim because it shows that the software can identify not only one emotion but serveral. "Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." The technology can analize and detect certain emotions and allow the teacher to see all of them and make modifcations if they are needed. Using this system would be a value to schools because it not only helps students learn but it would help teachers teach. It would allow teachers to see how certain kids learn and modify their lessons to fit. It would also allow students to be more inclined in the task at hand. This system would be a great value to education and how kis are taught.

The author of "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" does a good job supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit, despite the dangers. The author uses interesting and good facts/ information regarding this topic. The author tells us all the bad stuff about Venus that makes it "inhospitable" and says that it would be a very dangerous and risky mission. He tells us that humans can not handle the atmosphere of Venus. He gives us all the bad news and then lightens up and gives us the good news. In the exerpt the author informs us that we can make it work if we float above the fray. The excerpt then tells us to imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. Still, being so far above the surface the conditions are still not easy but they're survivable for humans. Since we would have to hover over the surface, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else from a distance. But to understand Venus we would have to be up close and personal despite the risks. The author tells us that 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 also working on other approaches to studying Venus. They are looking into and testing different technology that can withstand the harshness of Venus's surface. In the end the author concludes that "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." 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. I think the author did a good job on supporting his claim with good evidence and facts.

Lesser the car, the better the world will become. Life goes on without cars, Fellows citizens the advantages of limiting car usage is you are reducing pollution in the air. Fellows citizen the advantages of limiting car usage is you're reducing pollution in the air. experts say that "a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes. that explains that there's effort that people are reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes."After days near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city." that's showing there was alot of pollution in the air, so paris had to enforced partial driving ban so that they can clear out the city."congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of france, after five-days of intensifying smog." that's showing car traffiic was reduce after a big smog in the air pollution. On car-free day people don't get in their car and drive to work, instead they ride a bike or take a bus to work leaving the streets from having a traffic jam."Bogota, Colombia in a program that's set to spread to other countries, millions of colombians hiked, biked, skated or took buses to work during a car free day leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams."Days without cars goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. That's showing the day with cars is increase alternative transprotation and decrease air pollution."it's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." That's expains it's a good idea for not driving on the road, So that you can take away stress and lower air pollution. The day without cars is part of an improvement campaign." It's saying that the day without cars is helping the campaign. In conclusion, Life goes on without car, Citizrns helping the world to reduce air pollution in the air by having a day called "A day without cars". By people taking buses, riding their bikes or walking on the side walks will benifit the world.              

I personally do not like the idea of having driverless cars. I believe there are many reasons to avoid creating cars that are driverless or in other words, automatic. I understand there are some positve outcomes of having driverless vehicles, but I feel the negative outcomes override the positive outcomes in this particular situation. Because the negative outcome are far more than the positve outcomes over having driverless cars, I do not agree on the fact that we should use driverless cars in our everyday lifestyle. One negative outcome of using driverless cars is how potentially dangerous these automatic vehicles could be. New technologies are always risky because we do not always know what could malfunction. Malfunctions of new technologies are very common. I think there would be many vehicle malfunctions due to the technology that has not been allowed to test fully. In this case, I do not think a new car is worth the risks that would proceed a technology malfunction. Creating this new car could potentially risk many lives of the people riding in the car. I do not believe risking the life a person would be worth a driverless car. Another negative thing about driverless cars is how expensive creating the driverless cars would be. The expense of these new and improved driverless vehicles would be ridiculously high. In my opinion, I do not think such high amount of money would be worth having an automatic car. I feel the current cars we drive are doing the job they need to do. I think it would be a waste of money to make these driverless cars when we already have cars that do what they need to do. Driverless cars may not be equipped for every possible occurence. Because the driverless cars are automatic, I do not think they would be programmed for everything that could happen in real world situations. In the real world, you never are really prepared for what could happen. I think occurences in the world are completely random and unexpected. I feel having an automatic car during these random and unexpected events are not always the best for these particular situations. I do not think it would be safe for the people in the car even if the driverless cars were set up to where the driver would take control during these situation. I think the best option to be safe would to have manually operated vehicles. I do not think driverless cars are a good idea because of the negative things that would come about them. I think there are many negative things that would come from having driverless cars. Driverless cars would very dangerous for the people in the car. Driverless cars would also be very expensive. The new automatic cars would not be equipped for every situation that would be thrown in its way. I feel like driverless cars would solve some problems we have with vehicles, but I feel they would create many more problems on the way.

This is Luke's point of view to join in the Seagoing Cowboys program. These are Luke's reasons to join the program. Luke said that being a Seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure. Another reason is Luke found time to have fun on board. Another reason why to join the program is the caddle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity because he says he had a side benefit of seeing Europe and China. Another reason Luke said to join the program was that you can help out with the animals. These are the details from the passage on why Luke enjoyed the program. Luke said "I was grateful for the opportunity." Luke also said "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." Luke also said in the passage that it opened up the world to him. Another thing stated in the passage was that "Besides helping people I had the side benefit of seeing Europe and China." That's why I think that Luke is trying to convince people to join the Seagoing Cowboys Program.

Imagine driving to work, but catching up on the latest news at the same time. Imagine commuting no longer being a hassle, but an enjoyable experience. That is the world that the driverless car is able to bring our society. Driverless cars should be developed because they are safer, more affordable, and more relaxing to the passengers than the cars of today. On the roads, safety is a top priority, and driverless cars are being made with this in mind. Since 2009, driverless cars have been nagivating roadways with little issue. The author states, "Their [Google's] cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." That is an extremely long distance to drive, and most humans can not drive that far without a crash. This shows that the technology in driverless cars is even better than a human's brain. If technologically advanced cars such as these were to come into the market, one would expect them to be expensive. However, this is not the case. The author writes that Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, believes, "The cars he foresees would use half the fuel of today's taxis..." While it is true that driverless cars might cost more at first, the money saved on fuel would make them a worthwhile investment for everyone after a few years. Contemporary cars create a stressful environment on today's roads that can be difficult for humans to manage. On the contrary, driverless cars would reduce stress while also providing an important source of entertainment. Cars typically require the driver to always be paying attention to the road, which can be mentally taxing. According to the author, manufacturers of driverless cars are developing "in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays." With driverless cars, people can relax while the car pays attention for them. Additionally, the removal of stress from driving would drastically reduce road-rage incidents stemming from the stress. Driverless cars are safer, more affordable, and more relaxing to the passengers, and so should continue to be developed. They offer a new transportation experience that will improve our opinions on cars for decades to come. These marvels of modern technology will, in the words of Sergey Brin, "fundamentally change the world," and companies such as Google and BMW are proving his words to be more accurate with every passing day.

Since the day the first car was made cars have only gotten better. Now there are hundreds of different cars with differents styles and purposes. Recently driverless cars have been added to the list. Yes, cars that drive them selves are finally here. In my opinion driverless cars are a great idea. Imagine if u could just sit back and relax while your car is casually stolling through traffic. In paragrapgh 2 it says the cars arent truly driverless. Which i think is a good thing. If our car was 100% driverless we wouldnt have controll of how we get to places. And what if your car accidently makes a wrong turn. You should have the power to put it back on the desired path. Driverless cars are closer to being apart of every day life than we think. Google has been developing self driving cars since 2009. Imagine the progress they will have made in 2020. Yes driverless cars have negative aspects but the positives are just to much to ignore. Driver less cars are indeed the future.

In 1976 Viking 1 spacecraft was obiting Mars, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sester ship Viking 2. When it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. This face is actually just a common landform. Scientists have taken several pictures of the "face", and scientist would benefit from These are the reasons why I believe the Mars Face to be a simple landform. My first reason is the fact that there are similar landforms like it on Earth and Mars. Such as mesas in the American west. One specific mesa is the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. There is also several other landforms like it on Mars. The passage states that "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." My second reason is that scientists have photographic evidence that it is nothing more than a mesa. April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and His Mars Orbiter Camera team shot a picture ten times sharper then the original photos. Revealing that it was just a natural landform. April 8, 2001, Malin and his team took an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute Maximum resolution. Did you know that you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size meaning that if there were objects on the ground we could tell what they were. Some people might say that NASA would rather hide evidence of life on Mars, but NASA would actually benefit from an ancient civilization. Defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars. These reason are why I believe the Face on Mars is only a natural landform. There are similar landforms on and off Mars, there is photographic evidence, and NASA would actually benefit from life on Mars.

Ths technology is has helping the humans by their invention over the time. The software that detect how people are feeling, while they are try to hide their emotions. The system is called the Facial Action Coding Systemis now on variety of industries. It classifien on the basic emotion like happy, surprise, anger, scary, and sad. The computer it structure by a 3-D model of the face to detect their feeling. When you are happy and smile looking on the computer it going to detect, so how has you been. In school, is better and helping in students doing better on their grades so, facing to the screen of your classroom that students if they are boring or just confused on their class. Showing student they don'tlike the class by their teaching. Also students it just wanted it to be an interesant topic on each of their class. It also developing wat to communicate with humans and computers. It help us by recognize the face of our peer, "For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Of course, most of us would have troubles actually describing each facial triat conveys happy, worries, etc.". Just the computer can know the feeling you feel. if we face with an angry face but meanwhile it showing a happy face to us."They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forces one". By identifity a real smile not a fake one its muscle it go the cheek. A fake smile the mouth its stretched sideway Is describe how the computer can detect on a real face or just on a painted face descrbing of the facial movement were. The muscle of the facial is not expresses their emotion, and also can structure of their face with a smile. By feeling other their emotinos it can also us feel it,as just of creating an emotions. Describing a face is can't lie because of their different muscles, is just telling the truth of your self. It just to communicate between humans and computers with their feeling.

The emotional exprssions of students in a classroom should be vauluable . Why do i think that ? Teachers could know how there students feel about the topic there learning or how much the get it or not. Another one is when your a manager at a store you can see how people feel about your store if theres alot of stress going on in their head. The text states that " Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion , moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them ". Which means it helps them com alive in the real world. If your sad and was to put on a happy face it would probably help you get happy or to get a better attuide for the day. In this story it says a " Drama couch, Constantin Stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emothions on stage" to better them when they had to come on stage infront of people to peform. The actors had to make it come real for people to enjoy it. He would also put them in other peoples life to see what there emotional state was and how they were feeling. The muscles are called " orbicularis oculi par palpabraeus" these muscles are acting when you get mad,sad,happy,frustrated and other emotions. So yes, i think you should have this in the world to see what people are feeling around you . It can do what computers can do . Like if you were to smile at a ad they could bring it up to make you even more happy or to get you to buy something. If you were to frown you would get a ad to help you smile or to laught. It can also perdict when a student is bored of a topic. these are my reasons why I feel this way about this.

Who needs a car anyway? that is what causes polution in the world. driving all the time is not such a good idea. People are getting lazy now a days. What is wrong with walking? I love walking, i can get excercise and have fun because im with my friends. car riding can be exttremely dangerous too. First of all, driving a car could be very dangerous. For example, some people like to drive while texting which could result in a serious accindent. Another reason is not paying attention to the other drivers near you. Kids should not be behind the wheel of a car yet. I say that because they do not take as serious as aldults. Teens also like to drive fast to show off or have loud music blasting, these are also advantages of limiting car usage. Car accindents would derease dramatically. Second of all, cars take up too much gas which takes up a lot of our money, Walking would be super cheap because you do not have to pay to walk. Driving around 24/7 makes us really lazy. Walking to where we need to go gives us excercise, and quite frankly everyone needs some excercise or a little work out. The goverment will even make more pathways or trails for us to travel on. I understand if you are leaving town for a family vacation or going somewhere that is not walking distance, the city has various types of motor transportation, like city buses, cabs, bikes, and do not forget about our planes. Third of all, im not saying completely get rid of cars just limit how much you drive. Instead of buying car after car after car carpool with friends. That way you can still get to where you gotta go quickly and lower emissions. People do not drive as much as they used to, i found out by a study that driving decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. Lets try to make that 50 percent. People do not really care about a car, they just want a quick way to get from A to B. All we gotta do is Find a safer more cheaper way for them to do that and the percentage will drop rapidly. In Conclusion, limiting car usage can be improved by getting people to walk more. Carpool with friends, ride bikes, takes buses, cabs, even planes to where they have to go. This will help our enviorment to be  much safer and healthier. We not saying give up your car just try not to use it so much.                     

Electoral College is the way American people get to chose who they want to represent their state or country. Why get rid of a system that has few flaws and gives people a since of picking their people? Electoral College should be kept because gives candiates a fair chance and lets everyone pick a representator. To begin, electoral college gives candiates a fair chance. In source 3 it states " The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region has enough electroal votes to elect a president. This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president." This expalins that even if only a candidate only represent one region of the country electoral college can still give them a chance to win presidency. In source 1 it states " Each candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors." This means electoral college gives a candidate a group of supporters to help him or her win a election. Futhermore, electoral college gives the people a right to pick a representator. In source 1 it states " The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens". Everyone who is a United States citizen has the right to vote for who they want for representation for each state. In source 3 it states " Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign to really listen to the competing candidates knowing that they are going to decide the election. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average, and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election". Thoughtful votes or people who just vote because everyone else is doing it doesnt matter. Everyone could vote for anyone with electoral college. "Its official: The electroal college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguements in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguements against direct elections are spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college". I disagree with this statement because the electoral college gives candiates a fair chance to win electons and the people get to pick who they want to represent their states. In conclusion, electoral college should be kept because it gives candidates a fair chance and allows the people to pick who they want to represent them.

Citizens of German, As you may know that you have to own a car to get around in some cases you may think to your-self that you dont have the money to get a car or the job to keep a roof over your head. Well in French and Swiss borders, Friburg runs a few streets on the adge of the community. More or less Friburg has you paying for a $40,000 car-ownership with space along with a home. 70 percent dont own a car, everyone should have a car and park where ever they want to its not right for them to have to have a $40,000 car-onwer-ship with a house just to have space. Vaubran homes are $5,500 within a rectangular square mile, 80 percent of laws have been gone to highways and the 20 percent have went to another transports. Paris has band driving due to smog they know the amound of license plats that were order to leave their cars at home or fined a $32 fine. It shouldn't matter if ther were to leave their cars at home or park it somewhere they are grown people and if something was to happen to them or the car then thats on them. It's not right to have all of these rules because, if someone was to vist a loved one and they didnt know or understand what was going on or they had gottan a fine then their going to get mad. Diesel fule makes up at least 67 percent of vehicles in France, 53.3 percent of diesle engines in Western Europe. in the mid-1990s cars without improvement campaign in Bogota. People all over wants to be safe and have nothing to worry about so why on earth would you put out there tha you have to have a car to buy a house or to have more space?. Children that are now coming out to the world that are driving is going to look at the world a different way. Between 2001-09 found that driving by young poeple decreased about 23 percent. America's love affair with its vehiclse population growth the number that had been driven in the U.S. peaked in 2005 and dropped steadily. April 2013 the number of miles drien is 9 percent below the pea an equal to where the country was in Janurary 1995.         

Using technolgy to read emotional expressions of students in a class is valuable. This generation today is capable of taking technology to another level, so why not take advantage of it? Bringing the Facial Action Coding System to existences can be a great thing. It's fairly easy to know how somebody is feeling simply by the look on their face, but that usually just gives off one emotion. With the Facial System in use it will be capable of giving off multiple emotions on how somebody is feeling. Also, with the system it will be easier to detect Whether somebody is lying or telling the truth. It'll be easier to detect because the percent numbers from your emotions with identify everything your feeling whether its, gulit,mad,sad etc. Another thing that is cool about this system is that it's not just used for the computer it also can be used for game systems and video sugery. Being able to read emotions from other people using technolgy is cool. supporting this movement can be a big step for this generation. Also,bringing new technology into this world can change the world in many ways.

Having different technology helps people. People like it, it can be helpful in many different ways. For example, if a person can't speak their is a techonolgy that helps people that don't have to have a voice with a computer. Techonolgy is useful in many different ways. The use of the technology in the article Making Mona Lisa Smile by Nick D' Alto would be really vaulable. The new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code. Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad says the author. Examples that they use when a computer can tell if you are happy or sad is if you smile when a web ad apperas on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But, if you frown, the next ad will be different. That would be great because if you are watching something and then all of a sudden an ad comes on and you can't skip it, you want it to be entertaining and fun and not boring and dumb. It would also be very helpful if you are at school. "A classom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored", Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lessson, like an effective human instructor" that would be really helpful for some people. Just, in case somone dosen't want to speak up if they are confused the commputer will know right away. There's also other examples for this. The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive for the videogames which would become more fun for the person playing the videogame or video surgery. Dr. Huang also says "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so computers need to understand that, too." I would think that the use of this technology to read the emotional expression of students in a classroom is valuable. By, the way it works and the way it could help in many different ways. In this passage it wants us to understand that a new technology could be coming soon, in which it could help in many different ways.

Studying Venus would be worth it because what if they find stuff that are amazing but at the same time what if they come across some mysterial creaturet that has never seen before. First, a dangerous thing that can happen is that if they come back and something bad happen like if the engine of the spaceship shuts down. What if they can"t communicate well with the people on earth like in the article it states "each previous mission is unmanned,and for good reasons,since no spaceship survived the landing for more than a few hours." It also says how why not a single spaceship has touched down on venus for more than three decades. Even if you tried to take a video it is only limited because the light cannot penetrate the dense of the atmosphere,renderignthe standard form of photography and videography ineffective. Secondly, Venus is a very hot planet which can be over 800 degrees and the atmoshperic presssure is 90 times more greater then what we have experienced down here on earth. like in the paragraph it states " Beyond high pressure and heat,venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes,and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to ladn on its surface." All of the weather happens here on earth which is why they call venus the twin of earth. Although it is easy to see from the point of earth,it is proved a very challenging place to examine more closely. finally, apart from all the danger it presents,there may be something good about that planet,it is similar to earth it also ahs similiar features as earth. So in the paragraph it states " Today, Venus still has some features that aer analgous to those on earth. the planet has familiar features such as valleys,moutains,adn craters." Even though people can't really manaeg to go down to venus for a very long time like they can in mars,im pretty sure they would find very good things there just more deeper. In conclusion, venus is very dangeous but it os worth it because we can find very different things from here on earth.Also Venus is very hot,it is the hotest planet on earth.

This author supported the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by showing many details and giving good examples of how it would be possible. From information we could gain from exploring Venus to humans curosity, the author gives clear evidence that exploring Venus is going to happen. The author throughout the text keeps the readers attention by giving physical attributes about Venus and explaining how NASA is involved in finding a way for humans to survive at least 30 miles above the surface. In this text the author covers many different facts about venus itself and how we can explore it. For example in paragraph 3 the author starts by giving us specific details to get a picture of venus in our head. The author did this by making the statement that, "Venus has a thick atmosphere of almost 97% carbon dioxide that blankets it. The author also compares Venus to other things we might know like the "evening star," or earths "twin." This helps the reader undertand that the author really wants to make a point that Venus isn't uncommon to most people. Jumping back to paragraph 4, the author tells us about Vesus's features and possibly its past features. They explained that Venus at one time probably was capable of supporting life because of signs of oceans and features still there like mountains, valleys and craters. In conclusion the author in my opinion did a very good job supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. The author used clear examples and ideas that kept my attention reading the text. One day maybe we will be able to survive on Venus as long as people like this author can inspire people to take actions.

Studying Venus What is Venus? Is it dangeries to study? Venus is one of the brightest plant in the sky .How well does the author support the idea of studying Venus? To continue the way the aunth supports the idea is by talking about how NASA is working on studying Venus,How scientists want to discuss further visits, and ways we can study venus without any harm being involved. Fisrt reason why is NASA is working on how to study venus. For example, Some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulatign the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions(''Paragraph 7''). They are working on all these of projects to see how they could study Venus in a better way. NASA is trying to find ways that They could have less heat to bring someone on the rocketship. This in formation proves that studing venus is not that hard unless you find ways to approatch it more sucessfully. The second reason why is how the scientist want to discuss about making more visits to Venus. When they are saying that Venus is a Inhospitable. Astronomers are fascinated by Venus it could of been one of the Earth-like planet in the soloar system( ''paragraph 4-5'').There are trying to send people to study venus, but they want to say how it is inhospitable. This information proves on that Venus is something to study about if scientists want to study it then why should we not. The third reason is ways we could study venus without any harm be involved. Think about a blimp-like vehicle hovering over 30 or so miles above the roling Venusian landscape(''paragraph 5''). If jet planes travel at a higher altitude and avoid storms. If we can get a vehicle to be over Venus, then we could avoid any really hot heat. This information proves that they are ways to study Venus without any harsh harm being involed to the human. In conclusion, the author has supporting evaluations to studying Venus. The ideas are how NASA is working on studing Venus, How scentist want to disscuss abot Venus, and ways we could study Venus without any harm. If Venus is so harmful to study and travel to then why are scientist still trying to study it?

In the artilce "The Challange of Exploring Venus" The author strongley supports his claim that humas should explore and study Venus despite its many dangers by using strong evidance and logic. Studying the planet may be dangerous but the author gives a fair amount of examples showing why it is important to solve the mysteries of Venus. The secrets of venus could be vary important because they could help us learn more about life on other planets and even seolve mysteries of our own planet. Throughout the writing the author uses stong evidance to support his claim that we should explore and study the planet Venus. In paragraph four the author shows that Venus already has some similar geographical features of Earth and also says it used to possibly have even more similar traits. The author claims it has things such as mountains, craters, and vallys and could've used to have oceans too. They use some logic too and state that the conditions may not be easy on Venus, but are survivable in paragraph five. The author continues to use logic and evidance in the writing in paragraph seven. In this paragraph it is stated that scientist have alreadey created some electronics that can last up to at least three weeks of the harsh venus conditions. This proves that we can at least send a robot to explore Venus to help us better understand Venus. In the last paragraph of the writing the author claims that if we solve the challange Venus has presented us we will only find more amazing things to find that will furthur our knowlage of our imaginations. Gaining knowlage of this planet will lead us into gaining even more challanges and endevours to solve. Throughout the article "The Challange of Exploring Venus" the author supported his claim well that humans should explore and study Venus using strong evidance and logic. They showed how it could lead to us finfing out new things about life on other planets and even our own. They also proved that their is no good reason to not do it besides the fact that the conditions are slightely dangerous.

Most of us know how far we have reach with modern technology, defitnetly far. Due to this is not that surprising that nowadays computers are able to recognize people's emotions through this new software. Where is technology taking us? It all starts by the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a system that basically makes computers identify the movement of human muscles in the face that show different human emotions. This lets computers know if you are either sad or happy, uninterested or bored, etc. So now what? Computers are being able to comprehend our emotions, interact and even understand us? As crazy as it sounds, it can actually work in a good way. How can a software on a computer actually benefit us, and indeed work in our way, especially if you are a student? Well, this makes computers able to understand student's feelings towards an assingment. It will indentify students emotions and help them benefit by trying to work with them. As Dr. Huang (1 of the innovators of this software) states on the passage on paragraph 6, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored". This could help students by trying to make the work easier for them, making it more interesting, or making it easier by a change of words we'll understand better. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effetive human instructor". Basically like a teacher, but the "teacher" is really the computer that helps you understand the content better by your facial expressions or emotions in regards to the work or assingment you are taking. In this era where technology is such a big thing, we can expect a lot of things, even computers being able to comprehend our emotions and make something out of it. Whether it is telling us if the Mona Lisa was really happy or not, make us have more interest on an assingment or make a videogame better, all those things add a value to this software which can be a helpful thing in the future.

I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. It is very fun, who wouldn't want to travel around the world and go to many new places? Who knows? You might meet some nice people and make new friends? I have, I've met people from places I never thought I'd go to before. But I did and here I am. Telling you that if you get on this boat. There is no turning back. But trust me, you wont regret it. When you go on this trip to many new places. You get to meet new poeple. Now they may not look the same, act the same, or even smell the same. But that doesn't mean that they are any different from us. Most of the people I've met are really nice and caring. They don't talk hateful to you or anything. Even the people on the boat are nice. They have manners, they will respect you and everyone else on the boat. Now, I've been to many different places before. Nine in fact! The places that you go to are amazing. So many have different languages and different cultures! For example China. Now that place was bueatiful! Somany bright colors. They even have a different language! I've gotten to see things I've never seen before. Not to brag or anything but of all the places I've ever seen. They all had so many different landmarks. It's kinda like their culture. They all have something different. Which is what is so cool about being on that boat. When you go places you see so many new things. It's amazing! Now have you made up your mind? If you haven't then I guess that is you loss. But trust me on this one thing. When you get on that boat, you feel free. Something that you don't feel when your stuck in town all the time. But if you decide to go, then good for you. But it isn't all fun in games. You have to work too. Now it's either you get on that ship or you stay here. Your choice, not mine.

Would you ever consider giving up your car? No, well you probably should since it seems to be the trend these days, and there's seemingly countless advantages of limiting car usage. Acording to The End of Car Culture, we hit our driving peak in 2005, and the amount of miles driven has been going down steadily. There has also been a large drop in how many 16- to 39-year-olds are getting a license, while older people are likely to retain their licenses as they age as was stated in Mr. Sivak's research. With the amount of car usage going down other things are taking place and helping shape our future, as Mimi Sheller says, "Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift. As said in The End of Car Culture, Instead of driving to meet and talk to people, we have the internet that makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected, unlike the tense, stressed feelings cars give you as shown with Heidrun Walters response to having gotten rid of his car, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way." Cars dont only create stress, they also produce large amounts of smog. As stated in the article, In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars, up to 50% of the greenhouse gas emissions are caused by passenger cars. All of the smog is destroying the ozone layer and causing major problems such as global warming. Limiting car usage can be a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution, as Carlos Arturo Plaza says. Cars not only destroy the health of your enviroment by doing damage to the air around you, they also do damage to your brain and cause you to stress and feel tense over imaginary things.      

The 1900's  was much different then it is now. For example new technology and new discoveries.  What else has changed is wether to keep the electoral college or not.  The Electoral College is a big part in our government and plays a big part in wether who will be our next president. According to the passage"What is the Electoral College" by the Office of the Federal Register, the Electoral college is a process, not a place. This means that it is not in a certain place it is all over the United States.  The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a popular vote of qualififed citizens.  The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Admittedly, I feel that we should keep the Electoral College because it will help us with the voting process.  According to the passage" The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer he states that under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors, who in turn elect the president.  As a result I feel that this isnt much of an issue for us citizens because if you make the right choice then they will vote for your president.  So if you think about it there really isnt much of an issue because your president will still have your vote. The Electoral College is widely regarded as a non-democartic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner. Proceeding further, the Electoral College is based of the electors you pick and then they decide of who becomes president by the popular vote.  When you are voting for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors.  Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee. In conclusion, the electoral college is about voting for electors and then they become president if enough popular votes are met.  Some people like this  method and then some of the people dont.  We all have our opinion by mine is i like this method.                 

Driveless Cars are a great impact in the world and it can change the lives of others , also. Driveless cars are cars that can drive by it self without having help with a driver. Well, in certain occations. It depends on the condtions that are happening in the streets. For instance, backing up out of your drive way or trying to avoid a object in the street but that is all simple things drivers can do with their cars. In the article, "Driverless cars Are Coming", the author states alot of negative and positive things about driverless cars. However, Driverless cars are a positive aspect. In addition, these cars can help and impact many peoples lives. Going for driverless cars can change the way people drive and will make it easier for the drivers to drive. Driverless cars can change the way how we see cars now, change the way of drving, and how it makes it easier for the drivers to drive in the streets. For instance, " The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheel and reduce power fro the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could ever manage alone",(p.5). Driveless cars have more potential in driving than humans do. They are more aware in whats going on in the streets than humans do drving on the streets. To add, they have better responses dealing with danger, such as, people crossing the street unexpectedly or cars turning out of nowhere whe there suppose to do so. Another example is, " The can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, suuch as navigating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over whe the situation requires",(p.7). Driverless cars have all the basic fundamentals in order to drive on the streets. In fact, they notify humans when they need help in certain situations. This car idea will help drivers pay more aware whats going on even though the car can drive by itself. This is like helping a baby to walk. The parent lets go as the baby starts to walk. Trying to catch its balance and the baby falls. The parent is aware that the baby falls and the parent picks the bay back up to continue on walking. Nothing is wrong will a little help even if the Driverless car is struggling to go around something or backing up for it to drive independently. The driver is aware and alerted and will guide the car to its direction and the driverless car will continue driving to where you want to go. There is always going to be problems with driverless cars. However it can make your life much easier, espcially, driving wise. The examples explain that driverless cars can have its ups and down but it will make people's lives much easier. These cars will help people become safer and alerted to whats going on around them and in result, there would be less car accidents In summary, driverless cars can change the world deeply and will make it a saver place on the streets. It will make it easier for the drivers. Futhermore, driverless cars are more smarter, driving wise, when on the road than the drivers. That would create less stupidity of driving and more of boat smarts.

Driverless cars should not be allowed to be manufactured in any states or in any countries in the world. Driverless cars could cause conflict after an accident occurs. These cars could make drivers not pay attention to what´s going on around them more than they don´t pay attention now. These cars could also make driving boring. First off, these driverless cars could cause major conflict after an accident occurs. Who is at fault during an accident? The manufacturer of the car or the driver that just wasn´t paying attention to the road or anything surrounding them? Second, these driverless cars could make people too lazy to pay attention to anything because they would think that since the car is driving itself, everything will be fine and that everything is under control. Next, these cars would have traffic laws and safetly laws would have to be changed in a nig amount of significance. There are only 4 states that allow semi-autonomous cars because the other states are still concerned about safety. Lastly, these cars would make driving boring. Who would want the car driven by itself while the driver is just waiting for a time to have to take over and take control of the car? Where is the fun in driving if you are not even doing it? Therefore, these driverless cars should not be allowed to be manufactured or driven. These cars could just make driving boring and dangerous. These driverless cars could also cause many conflicts and changes with the law.

Dear state senator, The Electoral vote should be converted to election by popular vote. By using popular vote, the majority of voters will be satisfied when it comes to the election of the president. When you use the Electoral College System, you dont vote for the president of your choice, you're voting for the how ever many representitives that pleged for them. (Source 2, Paragraph 10) “Over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now.” (Source 2 Paragraph 9) Even the voters would perfer majority rule. The map in Source 3 shows that some states have more representitives then others. Thus meaning that many states were treated unfair when it came to elections because they didnt have many votes to represent them. “Especially during the 2000 campaign. Seventeen states did not recieve any candidatesat all.” (Source 2 Paragraph 13) If some states dont get represented the people wont be happy. If the people arent happy then hectic will end up breaking out. As well as if the people arent happy, then they wont do what they are told because they are unhappy with it. People would like to vote to express their political prefrence more so then thinking a single vote could decide an election. (Source 3 Paragraph 3) In conclusion, the citicens of the United States would be more appreciated if they got to choose themself and put their own political input in on who became the president. Then so, Americans will be happy and riots, political protests, and/or hectic will not break out in the United States of America.

Driverless cars are not a good idea for the future. They will create safety problems, cause more people to become obese, and cause more problems between the manufactuer and the customer. Driverless cars will create a lot of safety problems. Drivers will think it is okay to sit back and relax on a road trip. If they were to fall asleep and there were to be a bad accident, the driver could have a possibility of sooner death. The driver would be more alert without a special car to drive for him. In the article it said that some manufactuers of the driverless car wanted to put entertainment in the cars. The driver will be too distracted. Putting entertainment in front of the driver is basically the same thing as putting a phone in front of them, which is illegal, and killed many people in car accidents. Needless to say, there can be many safety problems. Driverless cars will cause many to become obese. Some people are already too lazy to walk a block down the street so they choose to drive. If driverless cars were to start selling, can you imagine how much more lazy people would get? They wouldn't have to do such a simple task such as turnihng the wheel, or turning there turning signals on. People will start bringing more and more food in the car if there happens to be entertainment. People need to excercise even if it is just a walk down the block. Obesity is not what people want. Imagine getting in an accident in a driverless car. Many people will not take the blame because in all honesty, it wasn't their fault. They weren't the ones driving the car, so how it could it have been their fault? Customers will want their money back from buying the "amazing" driverless car they bought. Manufactuers will only be making more trouble for themselves. This will only result in more conflict. This will create worldwide problems. As a result these futuristic cars are just not a good idea. It will only end in conflict. I think that people should stick to the regular cars they have. There is nothing wrong with cars we have in todays society.

I don't think having technology to read emotions is a valuable thing. People did it before technology ever did. We have been doing it all our lives. It would be just another thing technology can do,so we don't have to and I don't think it's a good idea. No I don't think it is a valuable thing for students. I could see where people would think it was a good idea to have something like this.For example the Mona Lisa now we know for a factede she was happy and smiling. With all this new techonogly coming out making our life easier the less brain cell we use. If you think about it like I have people use to mimorize their moms numbers. Now it's all at the touch of a botton the have it. people had to write so the had to able to spell words, and have decent hand writing. Now a days people aren't sure how to spell. Thanks to auto correct we don't have to. If it looks right good if not oh well. People had to have books to actually learn the stuff now we don't have to know anything long tirme. Why when you have google? Now dont get me wrong I use technology but something are better left the alone. To have a computor be able read you emotions is just not something the youth needs right now. To make the ad's you see better. The youth just needs to stay how it is ,or go back to the older days. When you actually had to know what you where reading and writing. So no I don't think this is a valuable thing for students to have. Kids need to work out ever part of their brain and I feel like this will not help. More the less get in the way. Of what kid's need to strive for these days. Yes this is a new age but a computor that can tell if you don't like an ad just seem a bit over the top. What about finding away to get kids in to healthier mindsets? Whats going on in todays world I really don't think an emotion scaning computor is one.

In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it talks about how technology could read the faces of peoples mood. Hearing that right now shows how much technology has advanced from how it used to be. A few years back we would have people specilize into reading peoples facial expressions, they would study them and tell what they where feeling. But now they are going to have computers come in and either put them out of work or help them out. Eithier way i think that computers should be used in classrooms. Why FACS should be let into classrooms is because of how in paragraph six where it states that if a student is becoming bored or confused that the lesson woud be changed and modified like a regular human instructor. That reason alone made me agree that FACS should be allowed in classrooms because there are students out there who are either confusd or bored, but most teachers would not be able to tell if a student is feeling in any of those ways.For why is because they have many students and they woudnt se every one of there students faces to recgonize that they are confused. Also if a teacher is a bad mood they would just be mean and not care about the students. But a computer it would never have to deal with any of those things. A coumputer would always know what is going on with every student. It would always know what to do and always be more accurate to a students level. To conclude i would agree that FACS should be brought into classrooms. They could really do some good for students especially because im a student and i believe that it could help some one like me.

Yes it is valuable to use the technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. It's valuable because you will be able to see if they're happy or angry. The technology is good to use on the students because it can show if they're happyor angry. For example in paragraph 5 sentence 4 you'll be able to read the muscles precisely to convey their emotions. Next, it's a good idea to use on students because what if they're angry and in paragraph 9 it states "putting on a happy face actually works on a renowned drama coach". Also using this technology is useful because in paragraph 4 sentence it says you "facial expressions are universal" "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" for example not smiling, the technology will pick up on what your emotion really is by weighting the different units. The use of this technology would be excellent to use on students. To show what their real emotion is. To know if you need to cheer them up or talk to them. Lastly, the use of this facial expression recognizing technology would be useful because it can precisely paint facial muscles to know how you're feeling so you won't have to.

Luke is telling people to join. He wants more people. Luke is convincing people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. He would see and adventure other places. Another detail about Luke convincing people is to help him go to other places. When he was going to graduate, soon his life would change. When it was 1945, they saw their seaman's paper. They headed to Greece. When luke turned 18. He could be draft to the military service. By the time he was dischared in 1947, Luke had made nine trips. Another reason Luke would let you join is he would let u travel with him. It will be a good opportunity. He led international students and exchange visitors for many years. He said it might be difficult for him. It took him time to do everything. he had to check the animals for one hour. He was so tierd. On one night he was a night watchman. Luke had alot of bad days. He had to clean the ship. He was busy the whole time but he was ok because he had food to eat. it was fun for him. Luke was a kind and brave person. He was really cool. I think he convinced a lot of people to join. It was really hard for him. He had to work and do stuff. He is a nice guy.

The Facial Action Coding System is a new descoverage of the scientifics. This new descoverage can help in some situation. It can help in many situations with the acception of the person. Fothermore it could be and not helpfull used in school. FACS can be used in school for knowladge. In school can be used for give a lesson,because it will give examples of muscles on your face, for example on of them can be orbiculris. It can teach the kids that good to show they emotions and how they show them and how they muscles act when they do them. Fothermore it can show the students that they muscles not only express emotions they can make them to. Also this can help with students that have problems in they houses and they try to hide they problems, It can be also used for bullying to see why kids are quiet and scared. This experiment it can be help in differents part of the country no only in schools, it can help for example in hospitals, to see how the people that can't move they face or have a muscles problems can tell how they feeling. It's always important to know how other person feel about, because if they sad or angry make them laugh so they can have a big smile in they faces.

you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you do not know how your life going to be and it is a huge and amazing opportunity. You will be helping others who been affected by World War ll. You will be able to travel places you never been like China or the Pacific Ocean. You can get a chance to go to Greece and see wat it is like out there and get a chance to get out of the USA. You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program and help the poor and homeless people get in the UNRRA so they will not be hungry and live a better life. You casn help all the people. in Europe and give them food and stuff so they do not starve to death and try to get them a home and thery will not be left out and hungry. If you join the Seagoing Cowboys Program you can see the horses and feed them and stuff. Some people love animals so they can help out with the horese and other animals. You will have the Nightwatch and go and see iuf all the cows and horses are on the ship. But when it is raining and nyou on nightwatchb you will have to be careful because you can slip and break your bone or crack them and even worse you caN slip off the deck and be in the ocean or where you go but if you slip off there are some strong currents that can pull you down and you can drown or they can pull you away from the ship and take you to a island

"Life goes on without cars."(Rosenthal).There are many advantages of limiting car usage. Two advantages to limiting car usage is it reduces smog and it helps with greenhouse gas emission. To start of with limiting car usage helps with the reduction of smog. To illustrate,in the text "Paris bans driving due to smog"(Duffer) the city of Paris decides to put a ban on driving:"On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31).The same would apply to odd-numbered plates the following day."(Duffer 10). This ban was put to good use by some but others still did not follow with the ban about 4,000 people were fined. People will still find away to break  a ban or regulation that is put out  . This just shows how many motorists are actually out on the streets of Paris but still a good number of people went through with the ban. Many people did participate inthis ban,it helps reduce the smog that is desperatley needed in this city. To further illustrate , in the text "Car-free day is spinning into a big hot in Bogota." (Selsky). Bogota, Columbia decides to put into place a car-free day to "reduce smog. Violators faced $25 fines."(Selsky 21). Also like the ban in Paris this ban was put out to help with the cities problem with smog. In a capital city of over 7 million and people trying to get to work and on with there day of course there would be a problem with smog. The smog can cause many problems with the enviroment and health of the people in that community,especially in a city with a hot climate like Colombia. Also two other cities joined in this car free day: Cali and Valledupar. In both of these stories the ban / limit on the usage of cars is for the one problem that many big cities face like Paris, Botoga , Beijing and many more:smog. To continue , limiting car usage also helps with greenhouse gas emission. For example, in the text "In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars"(Rosenthal) one of the reasons that Vauban, Germany decided to become a car-free suburb " is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduc greenhouse gas emission from tailpipes..."(Rosenthal 5). "Passenger Cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emission in Europe"(Rosenthal 5) by having this city in Germany go car-free its going to help that 12 percent of greenhouse gas emisssion go down. Also, with that many cars in Vauban the enviroment is healthier which makes the people in that city healthier more stress free. Another example is in the text " the End of Car Culture."(Rosenthal). With less Americans buying cars and driving less " President Obamas ambitious goals to curb the greenhouse gas emission"(Rosenthal 29) is beginning to happen. The greenhouse gas emission will be reaching a decline with the miles that people are driving going down. If the driving rates continue to go down and Obamas goal to reduce the greenhouse gas emission in the U.S. will go down and the country would not be responsible for up to 50 percent greenhouse gas emission in some parts of heavily populated car areas in the United States. Limiting the usage of cars can help with greenhouse gas emission. In conclusion, There are many advantages to limiting the usage of cars. Two advantages to limiting the usage of cars is it reduces smog and it helps with greenhouse gas emission. Having a limit on car usage helps with the well being a the community.  

Driverless cars are the future for the world. There is a need for driverless cars that is slowly being filled by prominent car manufacturers. Although the government makes assumptions that there is no safe car without a human driver, the steps being taken towards a future with driverless cars are showing a different alternative to human drivers. Many of these driverless cars still require a form of human drivers to guide vehicles through special situations such as road blocks or work zones however, there are now many driverless vehicles that can transport a passenger without any problems. As these vehicles become more popular, affordable, and practical in everyday life it will cause a change in the driver laws for human controlled and driverless cars. With projected release dates for these modern vehicles approaching so fast it is now time for us to begin thinking about the future. Driverless cars are the future. There is a future for driverless cars and that future is now. Driverless cars have the ability to change lives positively and remove many of the dangerous actions we face now in driving. There will be no more fear of texting and driving or an adult not being able to focus on the road while checking their child. No more fear of drunk drivers or operators under the influence. Driverless cars are more important to the safety of our country than many realize. So let's begin to take the initiative to bring driverless cars to the forefront of technology and make these technologies accessible to the public. There is a great need for these products that must be filled as soon as possible. Driverless cars are the future and that future is now the present.

Do you believe in aliens? I mean, do you honestly think that aliens are roaming around in our solar system? Some say yes, some say no. Do you believe that aliens created the Face of Mars? Let me tell you, they didn't. Aliens are not here & they didn't create this Face on Mars. Plenty of research is found to back it up too. First, research has been concluded & done to prove that this is a natrual landform. In an article called 'Unmasking the Face on Mars' it states, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web sit, revealing...a natrual landform. There was no alien monument after all." Websites aren't enough for some people though. Next, this face on mars simulates some landforms on Earth. Therefore, it would be a natrual cause that happened. It states in the article of "Unmasking the Face on Mars", "What the picture actually shws is the Martian equivalent of a buttle or mesa-landforms common around the American West. 'It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.' says Gravin. 'That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa around the same height as the Face on Mars.'" By reading this, it is making it clear that this landform is somewhat common. It stated that landforms such as the Face on Mars is common around the American West. If it can happen on Earth, why can't it happen in outer space? On the other side, the "Face on Mars" has attracted a lot of attention, especially in the social world. It states in the article of "Unmasking the Face on Mars", "The 'Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It starred in a Hollywood Film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows-even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! Some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars." People seem to think that they can believe everything they hear & see on television or on magazines or even in movies. Presenting us all with fake gossip & fake news is how these businesses get money. They know, one person will believe it, leading to thousands more. We tend to believe in the 'juicy' filled drama. Not everything you hear out in the world is true. I know, I'd rather believe real scientist, than businesses thirsty for money. In conclusion, evidence from scientist (like me) from NASA is much for believable than Hollywood movies & headline magazines. There are no aliens. The Face of Mars just so happens to be a natrual landform.

I am Luke Bomberger and today I will attempt to convince you to participate in Seagoing Cowboys Program. I was around the age of 18 when I started and it was an incredible experience.I really hope that what I say today will influence you to join. One reason why you should join is you get to help people. The Seagoing Cowboys take care of animals that are shipped overseas to other countries because during the war many people lost their animals. You see, when World War 2 ended many nations formed an organization called UNRRA who hired the Seagoing Cowboys to perform this task. Another reason you should join is you get see many places and sometimes you get to explore them. I got to take a gondola ride in Venice,Italy. I also got to tour an excavated castle in Crete and I got to marvel at the Panama Canal which was an incredible experience. The final reason I will use to convince you is it can be very fun. On the return trip we Seagoing Cowboys would play many games where the animals had been held. We played baseball,volleyball,and many other games. I know that this is a big choice and that giving you a few reasons will not convince you right-off-the-bat but hopefully what I have said has planted seeds in your mind that will eventually grow and in time you will come around. If you are not entirely convinced that you should join go home and think hard about it because it is a huge decision but hopefully you will decide to join. It has been an honor to speak with you and goodbye.

I think it would be fun joining the Seagoing cowboys. We would have to work hard macking sure the animals where cared for rightly. Also it takes a long time to cross the Oceon. Lastly we do have a little time to have fun onbored maybe. We would have to work hard macking sure the animals where cared for correctly. They had 335 horses plus enough oats and hay to feesd them. That is a whole lot of horses to take care of see I told you we would have to work very hard. It will aslo keep you busy, infact we barley get to sleep. Also it takes a long time to cross the Oceon. It takes about two weeks to cross the Atlantic Oceon from the eastern coast to the United states and a month to get to China. Try doing that without getting sleep. It is hard to do all this work. We do have a little time to have fun onbored. Especially on return trips when the animals have already been unloded. We would play baseball and volleyball games in empty holds where animaks had been housed. Table-tennis tournements, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. That is why I think it would be fun joining the seagoing cowboys. WIth all the hard work having to care for the animals. It takes a long time to get there and back so it is lick a very ling vacation. We have time to have fun when the animals have been unloaded.

Venus is a marvelous planet. The Evening Star is very dangerous however, the planet is inhabited by a high amount of sulfiric acid. In the article, it supports the idea that studyig Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by being Earth's twin, supporting the idea that there was once live inhabitants, and that humans don't really know what is on Venus. There are many planets in our galaxy however Venus seems to proportionally the same as planet Earth. According to "The Challenge of Exploring Venus", "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too" (paragraph 2). This quote exemplifies that Venus is very similar to Earth relating to size. Venus is very dangerous however, that does not stop human beings from wanting to explore the planet. Scientists are also interested in Venus from the close resemblance of Earth. According to the article, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (paragraph 4). On Venus, there is evidence of rocky sediments as well as features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. This suggests that Venus was once a planet just like Earth until something happened to destroy the chances of being able to inhabit that area. With Venus being a "sister planet", that brings the question of was there actual life on Venus? As stated in the article, "Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life..." (paragraph 4). This quote essentially states that the "Evening Star" holds many forms of evidence that suggests Venus could have inhabited many forms of living species. As well as theorizing, there is actually concrete evidence that life may have inhabited the planet. The article states that, "The planet has a surface of rocky sediment ad includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters" (paragraph 4). The quote shows the concrete evidence that is needed to say that humans or other species of living creatures could have inhabited the planet at a point in time. Despite the dangers on Venus, the planet has sparked some curiosity. As stated in the article, "...peering at Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions..." (paragraph 6). Venus has very dangerous features of "protection" all throughout the planet. This prohibits, at this point in time, for humans or land rovers to go to the surface of Venus. Although it being a severe risk of getting a closer look, NASA has been developing several tactics to get closer to the surface. In the article it states that, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Vens would allow scientist to float above the fray" (paragraph 5). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been working on better ways to get closer to the surface of Venus without the metal melting. In conclusion, Venus that has been a place that has a curiosity of discovery for many years. In the article, it supports that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by being Earth's twin, supporting the idea there was once live inhabitants, and that humas don't really know what is on Venus.

In "The Challange of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers presents. The author defends his idea by stating that Venus is like Earth in ways such as its size and density, current landscape, and the environment Venus possibly housed in the past. One way that the author thinks that Venus should be furher explored is that Venus is how similar Venus' terrain is to Earth's. Currently Venus has valleys, mountains, and craters atop a surface of rocky sediment like Earth. Theoretically in the past Venus' surface was covered witn large oceans for the most part. These conditions made it possible for life forms to grow there. Another piece of information used is that despite the dangers on Venus expeditions can both be safely carried out and fruitful. Various technologies are being created and innovated for Venus' harsh environments. In the cirsumstance that scientists are stationed at Venus they will be equipped with blimp-like vehicles so that they may envade the storms that are near ground level. Even with these safer ways of navigation collecting material data such as rock or gas would not be possible. Another solution to this problem has been intoduced. Simple electronics made out of silicon carbide have been tested in simulation spaces similar to Venus' comditions and environment. Scientists are also proposing that mechanical computer are used to collect dataon Venus. These computers are much more hardy then their modern-day cousins. In conclusion with these innovations the author belives that Venus' exploration would be a worthwhile puruit despite the challanges becuase obviously a large amount of information can be found there. Not to mention there are solutions to some of the problems that would arise while exploring Venus.

Their are many reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys programs. One of Luke's reason you should join the the Seagoing Cowboys program is having the ability to see the world. Luke did this when he was with the Seagoing Cowboys program. He traveled to Europe and China. Luke saw the Acropolis in Greece. Luke was also able to take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. Another one of Luke's reason you shouls join the Seagoing Cowboys program is helping the animals. The Seagoing Cowboys program was hired by the UNRRA to take good care of horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas to other countries. Luke was able to feed the horses with hay and oats. Luke had to water and feed the animals two to three times a day. He also had to clean the animals stall. Luke had to haul bales of hay and bags of oats from the lower holds of the ships. Luke also had the job of checking up on the animals at night every hour. Another one of Luke's reasons you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program is how much fun you can have. On the return trips when the animals have been unloaded. Luke and his fellow cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty stalls where the animals had been housed. Luke and his cowboy friends played table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading and other games also helped the cowboys to have fun and pass the time. Those were three of Luke's reason of why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys programs. Lets review what those three reasons are the first one is being able to see the world, the second one is being able to help and care for the animals, and the last reason is being able to have fun.

Dear Mr./Mrs. Senator, In light of previous research I've done on the Electoral College, I would like the opportunity to voice my opinion on how the voting system should work in this country. Based off of the information acquired and with the best interest of the country at heart, I believe that the system should be changed to the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. First and foremost, when voters vote, they aren't really voting for their candidate, but a slate of electors, which in turn elect the president. Don't you think that this method is a little impersonal? As well as the matter of possibly having one's chosen candidate not win the presidency-even when they've won the popular vote- as a result of losing the electoral vote. According to 'The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong', the best argument against the electoral college is what we call the disaster factor. The system allows room for crisis; technically state legislatures are responsible for picking electors, who could always defy the will of the people. An example, would be in 1960, when segregationists almost succeeded in replacing electors of the Democratic party with new ones who opppesed John F. Kennedy; as well as the case of some faithless electors refusing to vote for their party's candidate and pick whomever they like. Another valid reason as to why the system of voting must be changed to popular vote is due to the unfair winner-takes-all way the electoral college works. In most cases, candidates do not see all states as important, only those they think they have a shot in winning over. A way to look at this, according to 'In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep out desspised method of choosing the President', is that a regional favorite, such as Mitt Romney in the South during the 2012 voting, has no incentive to campaign in states outside of the region because he gains no electoral votes. However, this is also a disadvantage, for he cannot expand his popularity to other regions of the country. If he does so with the new popular vote system, winning the presidency will be guaranteed. Neglecting voters that are potential supporters of one's campaign is, in my opinion, the worst way to go about winning. In summation, the Electoral College should be replaced with a popular voting system. I assure you that even though this system might have worked in the past, but in the ever changing world of politics, some things have to be done away with, and the Electoral College is one of them; with holes in the way the system works and outcomes that could possibly do more harm than good leave the Electoral College with nothing more to offer the future of this country. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, A skeptical citizen