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I believe they should change the voting to popular votes. In my perspective voters are the most important in the elections. There opinion on the president should be able to count either way. Lots of voters feel left out like there opinion dont count. Sometimes the president elected by the electoral college is not the one every one wanted; he has diffrent points of view in what he want to do. The president that the electoral college has elected is not always the one everyone expects to be. Lots of presidents have won by electoral college not by the voters. These presidents that are elected by the electoral college can possibly be the presidents to bring the United States to the ground. The voters feel they know what is best for our country. They always elect the person that will bring America to the top. For example Barack Obama he is helping immagrants go back to school be able to get a job and be something in life, like maybe a mechanic,doctor, or even a federal officer. They chances that he has gave us lets people know that these are the type of presidents we need. People feel left out because if the electoral college ar the people that are going to select the president what is the point in voting. Lots of them feel that electoral college is more important than what we the people think. The electoral college doesn't let people feel that the person hat they have selected is the president that will help out the United States Of Americam to become number one. On the other hand people believe that the electoral college is good and we should keep having it. They believe this because because they think that they know what is best for us. Also that their vote is the best option than ours. I believe that the president should be able to win by popular vote because we the people shall select the best president. The president that will once again put the U.S back on top. The president that wins should win by popular vote not by the electoral college.

As the years go on and we grow what also grows is the advancement of technology. Since the new era of technology has taken place the possibilites have become endless. Years back they didnt even have electric window control it was all done with a handle that you had to turn and turn until your window opened. Looking back on that compared to this day and age we have cars that are so close to driving themselves is that the safest idea no, but in my mind i think its a great idea to make self driving cars because everything technology wise is growing rapidly so we cant just leave cars old and boring we need to keep up with the technology we have at this time in our lives and make something new and awarding. So we all know how many safety concerns we face in cars when on the road and this is exactely why people believe we shouldnt have self driving cars. Therefore i believe self driving cars are getting a bad rep without even getting a chance. if you dont test an idea you will never know if it would have worked or not and with the technology we have today i believe that in the near future sometime soon we will have a full self driving car. I understand that it will be hard to do and i agree that it can be very unsafe and so thats where the trial and error part comes in you have to try new things to know fior sure if they will work and i can say now that in the near future if we do end up having self driving cars that everyone who uise to say dont try it its not safe will themselves be buying self driving cars. In conclusion, i know that the speculation with self driving cars is odd but the real truth of the matter is that thats our future. Every few years new inventions come by surprise and shock the world and this is just another thing that i can confidently say will come soon and take the world by surprise. Will there still be people trying to get rid of this invention? of course people will try but thats the key to sucess having people say things about what you have made and making it something so big that those same people will be shocked that ever thought something bad of you. So time is not slowing down for anyone its going fast and so soon hopefully by 2020 as seen in the article companies can start to announce self driving cars and change the way we look at cars now.

The challenge of Exploring Venus was an interesting essay about Venus and it explained the challenges for studying Venus. Such as "it's clouds being made of corrosive acid sufuric acid in Venus' atmosphere" but the author hardly explains why its worth stuyding Venus despite the dangers. Although this essay was great for informations about Venus and it's conditions it Barely explained why its worth stuyding Venus despite the dangers, it also got off topic for some time and the majority of the essay described the rough conditions and possible solutions for those conditions First, the author barely talked about why its worth studying Venus. The one time the author even brings up why its worth studying is in paragraph 4 lines 2 through 4 "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becuase it may have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." Next it goes on describing what Venus could have looked a long time ago. After that though the author states "The Value of returning to Venus seems indisputable". After this statement the author never really comes close to explaining why Venus would be worth studying despide it's great dangers. Next, this piece was off the topic of Venus it self for a certain period of time. For instence, in paragraph 2 it talked about Earth and Mars and its distance due to the orbit of these planets in line 3,4 and 5 "Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars". In paragraph 2 lines 7.8 and 9 it states "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." now itis talking about the spacecrafts that has been sent to Venus instead of stating things like the dangers of Venus and why it's worth it despite it's dangers. Third, a good 2/3 of the essay is talking about the conditions and the solutions to those conditions that humans have came up with. the explanation of the condtions really start in paragrph 3 as it starts off by stating "Athick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets" that instantly lets the readers know how bad the conditions are in Venus and the of paragraph 3 continues to describe the harsh environment. After that about 1/3 or 1/2 of paragraph 4 is decribing why it's neccisary to study Venus dispite it's dangers. Then in paragraph 5, 6 and 7 it talkes about 2 different stratigies that NASA ( the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has came up with. one was about a ballon that was 30 miles above the Venusain landscape to observe and the other was using computers that used greas and levers instead of the modern technology and both of those things are not talking about why Venus is worth studying what so ever. Finally, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" was quite informational it rarely specified the reason why Venus was worth studying despite the fact that it's very dangerous. Maybe the author can change this essay into an informational piece about Venus instead of an argumentery Piece. The fact that it includeds lots of information was a great.

Dear State Senator, most people in this country may argue that th Electoral College is well layed out system in which according to source #3: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing a president "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces candidates to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states", which means presidents are always looking for support from small states, which is based on population, to be voted for because in the big states little to no votes are accepted by the Electoral College. I disagree, I believe that this method is wrong and unfair for the peope so I argue against it. To begin with, according to source #2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races on the "swing" states", this means that in some states one candidate might have a better chance of winning than the other candidate and even though a candidate is at disadvantage because the other takes all the votes because of the electoral college that candidate might win and the people of that state will not even know who is this winning candidate until they see him on tv as an actual prsident, which probably means that the winning candidate won't help that state because he does not know well enough about it. Additionally, acording to source #3 "The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite, such as Romney ws in the South, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plularity in states that he knows he will win", this means that in order to win the presidency a candidate must get to know other regions but because in this case Mitt Romney vs. Barrack Obama, Obama was the regional favorite for the North Romney was at a disadvantage, which is what the Electoral College ultimately wants. To conclude with, I think that the method of using the Electoral College to elect presidents is wrong and unfair. Furthermore, according to source #2 "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdate, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality" this means that the electoral college is just not fit for the modern democrat world of today and mostly people argue against it.

The Facial Action Coding System is a great idea for students to use. With technology advancing so much it is essential for the school assignments to advance along with it. This technology is the next step for students and teachers alike. The FACS should read the facial expressions of students because it could keep students engaged, and addresses whether or not they understand the subject. The FACS is able to keep the student from getting bored. While working on the computer for so long a student can easily get bored and tune out the lesson. The FACS though, can use its technology to make the content more engaging; like making "computer animated faces more expressive" (D'Alto). By making faces and other aspects of the lesson more interesting students have a higher chance of keeping their interest in the lesson. This is just one example of how useful the Facial Action Coding System could be for the students outside of class. The FACS also would tell when the student is struggling or is confused with the material. Normally in a class setting a student can ask a teacher for help, but it is not that simple on the computer. Instead of the student continuing to not understand the work the system "could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" (D'Alto). This way the student can be sure to get the correct information and not miss out on anything from lack of understanding. This is another reason as to why the FACS would be a great tool for the learners. To close, the FACS is the right step for helping students. Not only does it keep them interested in the lesson, but also helps when the student is confused. This technology can be beneficial to students and teachers because of all of the usefull features that it offers. Since "most human communication is nonverbal, including emotiuonal communication...computers need to understand that too" to fully utilize the technology that is available to help the children learn.

Driverless cars seem like a neat and fun idea but they are not as great as they seem. Driverless cars can be dangerous and are not more efficient then a normal car. These cars seem to have many good things about them but actually have plenty of negative effects. The diverless cars ahould not be developed. Driverless cars are not practical because the cars are not 100% driverless. The driverless cars can only be alone in 25 mph conditions. The car also can not be alone in traffic or near construction. As stated in paragraph 7 "the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." The human in the car can not even relax while the car drives itself because he/she must still watch the road and be ready to drive when the car can not. Then the driver will be nervous waiting for their turn to drive when it is time. The driver will just feel much more stressed. Is it not better for the driver to just drive at all times and avoid stress about getting on the wheel on time? Some might say that the driverless cars are great because you are much safer in them. These cars have a lot of new and smart technology that helps in making a car trip much safer for the driver and its passengers. Also it alows the driver to multitask while the car drives. Drivers can be on their phones or finish up their hair and/or makeup. When the driver is in a tough situation they can just let their cars get through it and take back the wheel whenever he/she is ready.. The driverless cars are not as safe as they seem with all its technology. The number one reason people get into car crashes is because they were distracted ,usally by their phones and encouriging drivers to be on their phones in a "driverless " car is very dangerous. With these new cars it will be very hard to try and even multitask. Since they are not self-efficient the driver must pay attention to the road at all times ,therefore making it very hard to safetly turn around and do something else. Drivers when trying to do something ,in a hurry will have to leave what they are doing to attend to the wheel when the car can no longer drive. Since the car will only be able to drive in specific conditions the driver must attend to the wheel constantly. The driverless cars are in fact not so "driverless" and beat their own and only purpose. These cars have many negative sides to them and should definitely not take the place of normal and safe cars. Driverless cars should not be developed by car manufacturers!

Have u ever thought about going to space to explore one of our planets? specifally Venus? well Venus has alot of challenges and dangers to get there but i promise it is worth it. In a text called " The Challenge of Exploring Venus" talks about how Venus has many dangers if trying to take a trip into space down there but it worth the challenge. The author uses many details and facts to state how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it present. Despite the dangers that can come along with studying Venus, Venus is alot like earth so it will be interesting go and study a planet like ours, venus is the nearest planetary visit, and lastly, NASA is studying ways so we wont have to worry about the amount of pressure and heat. The planet Venus is built just like the earth and has about the same features as the earth. Venus is called our sister planet because " ... it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system.. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth". This states how Venus is just like the earth itself and has features just like the earth so it makes Venus even more interesting to study because its our "sister planet". By the information stated above, it proves that Venus is worth the challenge and should be continued to be researched to make it more interesting to visit. Venus is the only planet out of all the planets that is the closest to us ( Earth). Venus has many features that comes along with it and also " ... can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel. The value of returning seems indisputable..." . This quote clearly states how Venus is the nearest option for planetary visits which means its the closest to us compared to others. Also it will not take as long to visit Venus compared to any other space travel. The author directly uses the astronomers as an example to show how Venus is worth the risk. Lastly, NASA is finding possible solutions to make the visit more compelling. One of the possible solutions to the dangerous conditions is " .. allow scientists to float above the fray...just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many sotrms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up out of their way". This quote shows how NASA as a team is trying to find possible solutions so astronomers and humans could go around Venus with no issue. They are trying to find ways where it wont kill humans but something that humans can bare. They are also trying to find a electronic where " some simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditons". This also shows how NASA is trying other approaches to limit the amount of pressure and heat for when astronomers/ other humans tries to visit spaces. They are trying to make electronics that can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces present in Venus. In conclusion, the author has provided many examples and details to prove to us that Venus is worth studying despite the the dangers that our present around the planent. As stated earlier, Venus is built just like how the earth is and it would be interesting to go to a planent that has the same features as ours. Second how Venus is the most conveient option for us because it is the closest to earth compared to any other planent and lastly how NASA is coming up with ways so it can be studied easier and easier for humans to explore the planent without worrying about the conditons. Overall, Venus is worth studying and the author has clearly stated the facts on why it is still worth the risk.

Wow! The world has hit a new level of science by using (FACS) to detect human emotions. I am both for an opposed to this technolgy. The way this tech should be used is for intructional help only in the classrooms, but other than that if people want to use it in their own lives go ahead. This tech should be used in classrooms, at home, and used to dectect when someone is lying. The FACS system should be used in classrooms but only for class and if the student needs help. The article told us that it could be used to help students by telling us when they need help or if they had the topic down and udertsood. This could send real time data to the teacher so they could determain if they need to change the way they are teaching the lesson. This technolgy should only be used at school for this one reason and it should wipe the data at the end of the day. The computer should not store any data of what the kids look up and that just for privacy reasons. So in school this tech will help students and teachers but only if its used for the lessons and nothing else. When it comes to home its the users choice if they want this tech to implied on their computer. The article states that the FACS system could detect what we like and what we are interested in. This could help us find books and articles we like to read or videos we like to watch. This could help block things that you aren't interested in from showing up when you search for things. This will also help with ads that you don't want to see but it works the other way around too. So if you want to see certain things this tech will help with areas and give us new places to look for things. This can show us things we could never dream of and now it could be at the tips of our fingers. This tech can also detect when some one is lying by the way thier face moves. The article said,"that it could detect when a politician was lying just by their facial movements. This tech can be used to help us make judgement calls when we need them the most. This could help us determain if we can trust someone and also make hiring people easier but also harder. We need to take this slow and really find out what its potenial is. This could lead the world down a dangerous place and we need not to be so depentent on tech because one day it might not be here. So I am both for an opposed to this FACS system. The FACS system will have its up and downs. The technolgy can both be used for good and bad. If it is used in classrooms, homes, and workplaces it will be okay. If the technolgy falls into the wrong hands who knows what they will be able to use it for. We may never know what this could do if we dont try it but we must be cautious for may different reasons.

There are many different opinions about the whole "Driverless Cars" idea. They're good, they're bad, etc. Why are they so good or bad? Well in my opinion they are a very bad thing. "Driverless Cars" are a very bad thing for multiple reasons. First, there's the increased risk of an accident. Sure technology is highly advanced now a days, but that doesn't mean there are zero problems. "If the technology fails", there is always a chance that something could go wrong. For example, how many times has your phone crashed or shut down on you? That could very likely happen to your driverless car. I know I wouldn't want a malfunction in my car and not be able to get anywhere, let alone get in an accident because something went wrong in my car. Secondly, it's encouraging our already lazy society to be even lazier. Everywhere you look there's someone being lazy. For example, instead of going outside on a nice day kids will play their video games or they will find an easy way to get something done quickly (shoving stuff under the bed instead of putting it away). All people do now a days is sit on there high tech devices. "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver?" These cars will just be that much more of a reason for people not to do something. "[T]he dream of calling a driverless cab to take us wherever we desire, [. . .] has finally begun ot catch up". As soon as there are "official" driverless cars people wont have to worry about "drunk driving", speeding, falling asleep, etc. Finally, the financial cost of all of this. Everytime something new comes out it's expencive and "high class", but everyone still wants it. If driverless cars become an actual thing then they're going to be high priced. Plus the production of them will be just that much more expensive. The United States already has enough debt to deal with why would we want to put ourselves in even more? Sure people would still buy them, but if the police can't ticket anyone for speeding then we loose money from that. Car accidents are one of the leading causes of injury. If the driverless cars happen to help with less accidents then hospitals would loose major profit from car accident pacients. Of course, if the technology was perfect, the cars could benefit in a lot of ways. As we all know, though, technology isn't perfect. Which is exactly why the "Driverless Cars" are a terrible idea for our society. There are too many flaws with the idea of driverless cars. That is why I would not feel safe or comfortable in one.

If you like going over seas the seagoing cowboy program is for you they have a amazing crew and amazing things to do one of the most popular things to do on this program one of the things are you have the abiltiys to help people take thing over sea. Another great reason is you can work with the animals if you would wish also in between things you can rome around the place to see all of the activtys that are going around like tabel tennis ,and boxing and so much more. We also have a great communty of people! Many people who came here were very satisfied if you want to join the army this is the perfect place to start we had a hand full of people who left here and went to the military. Also if you have young children you can send them to the junor classes there is something for every one. The progrm even has anamals to care for. If you dont like to go on long trips this offer is not for you. But if you love to take long trips this offer is for you. You might even run into someone that has the same things in common with you. These are the reasons you should join the seagoing cowboy program. This is a one in a life time offer. If you come get ready for the time of your life. Please come and have fun. Remember they also have a programs for young ones.

Have you ever wanted to save a life? You can save a life while you are apart of the Seagoing Cowboys program. You might be wondering what in the world is Seagoing Cowboys, but you can find out what it is if you continue to read this essay. The program called Seagoing Cowboys is a program that helps contries after a natural disater, or a war, which is the reason Seagoing Cowboys was created. Seagoing Cowboys is the program for you to join because saving lives can be so rewarding to yourself, to others, and make others want to be just like you. Even if your the type of person thats always negative, that will encourage others not be like you, but to be the person that is the better version of that you. You might be thinking, why in the world would I want to help someone I don't even know? I can answer that, because you should care about what the others think of you. Think about it, if you help someone you don't know, they might see what a good person you are and would want to join the group that you are in. Helping others is a service everyone needs, even after a war or a natural disaster. You need to save a life, and help a family some day, do it with the Seagoing Cowboys program to be the person to help and possiblry even help them from dieing from starvation and other dark reasons because you didn't help them. Do you like travling? Do you like the ocean? Want to be on a boat for a couple of weeks? Then Seagoing Cowboys is the perfect program for you! You might argue that there is nothing on a boat to do, well your wrong, on Lukes way back to his mainland, he claimed that there was a lot of extra time to pass by because after dropping off the cargo at the destination, there is nothing else to look over so you have the rest of that time to yourself. After hearing the reasons in this passage, do you now feel like helping people or would you like to just sit on your couch just eating chips off your stomach. There is only one right choice, its the first option, saving people is so rewarding in your mind and heart. Seagoing Cowboys is the program that will make you feel better as a person, and as a human knowing that you're making history with helping other human beings live a long lived life by helping them live another day in there home and helping still have food.

This essay is on if I think the use of technlogy to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable . I believe It is valuable and heres why . I believe the use of tehcnology to read students expressions is valuable because as a studnt myslf i know how it feel to have to do a computer assignment and not get whats going on or its moving to fast so u get frustrated or angry .If they were able to put that in school computers i feel more kids will do better in school . Like if my facial exprassions are showing a teacher some they cant really get it because they are humans ad they cant really read faces s good as a computer could . Now on the other hand you have this computer that when i look confused it is willing to slow down or break things down more simplier for me and me only . I feel sometimes thats all kids need is extra help because honestly im a student that needs extra help thats only a little bit of the reasons why i think that is valuable . Students facial expressions show everything you need to know you just have to get something to catch them . Of course they are going to have to make sure its spot on . What if i completely understanding everything and then they start to break it down then what ? Because tehcnology is not perfect . That is a counter arguement someone can make . What if my facial expression is showing one thing but im feeling a different way . Technology always has a bug or something that nees to be fixed . So whoeer makes this needs to make sure that it is perfect . Thats why i think this ablility to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable .

So in my opinion, I am definantely for the development of driverless cars. I find they will be useful in the future for these reasons: 1) They will most likely cause less wrecks. 2) The will probably be safer for the community. 3) They might bring new ideas to the table. I find that these three reasons will bring a positive outlook on driverless cars. I do however have one problem with driverless cars: carelessness, but i will explain my reasoning later. I think driverless cars will be the future. So as i said in my first reasoning, they will most likely cause less wrecks. I say this because if everyone had a driverless car, the the programming in the cars will mostlikely correspond with each other and (in my thinking) they will react to each other as they get close to one another to prevent any damage that comes up. This leads to my second reason why i think thety should keep working on driverless cars, it ill probably be better for the community. Like i said, if the cars can correspond and react to each other, thanthey will have a greater chance of not hitting each other and causing less injuries to cars, the driver and passengers, and pedestrians. This could definantely decrease injuries by cars per year and could possibly save thousands upon thousands of lives. This is of course a goos thing and if driverless cars could prevent this, then i'm pretty sure anyone would approve and want this car. Now my second reason for why driverless cars is a good idea and should be promoted is because this might bring new ideas to the table of creativity if you want to call it. The reason i say this is because if they can create cars that drive on their own without human needs, then this might spark some new ideas for new inventions (doesn't have to all be car related in my opinion). Like they could be at the verge of creating inventions that people might have never thought of before. Now i know it does seem like that i'm getting a bit off track about the driverless cars thing, but for a second, just imagine all the possibilities that could come out of driverless cars and their technology. This could bring about ideas one could only dream about. This could be a serious change to the world as it is if companies can bring fully driverless cars to the world. Now for the reason why I think that driverless cars might not be a good idea in the first place: carelessness. Now what I mean by that is mostly two reasons: 1) problem with the technology. 2) Problem with the person behind the wheel. About the problem with technology, If the company who makes the car provides a misshap with the technology they used to make the car, then there might be a problam when time passes along while driving the car. Like there could be a miscommunication with the cars (Assuming that everyone has a driverless car with the same or somewhat similar technology that correspond with each other.), there could be a problem with the way it works if not made the way it should be, and the list could go on forever. Now to the other negative of this reason, the person who is behind the wheel of the driverless car. What I mean is that the person who is behind the wheel of the driverless car could cuase a problem with the inside or outside of that car like: Mess around with the controls, damage a part of the car through human or nature contact, shortage of a wire or battery or whatever is in or out of the car, and this list has almost unlimited downsides to it, but hopefully you understand my point. So as I said, driverless cars in my opinion will become the future if made at all. There is a certainty at the rate this world is going today because people these days have many ideas to come. I know that there will be more problems to come, but as the saying goes "There is always a solution to every problem", and i think that people or companies that are creating this type of machinery knows that there will be new problems that they will have to overcome. I hope to see them grow and possibly be on the market for the consumers to purchase and experience real and true driverless cars.

Cars have been around for awile now and they seem to have developed into our everyday lifestykes. But for some countries there is no such thing. Having limited car usage can be great in some cases. It could really help the envirorment effectiviely, Provide less funds for people, and even challenge companies to pursue a bigger idea than just cars. Our ecosystem is in dangered. All of the pollutio and waste that people put into the air needs to stop. The idea of having imited use of cars can provide a healthy and great looking earth. In the article by Robert Duffer ''Paris bans driving due to smog'' we see the understanding that paris can help support the idea for having limited usage of cars. ''After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city'' a sentence stated in the article. Paris typically has more smog than other european captials. ''Last week Paris had 147 micrograms of particulate matter (pm) per cubic meter comparied with 114 in brussles and 79.7 in london''. With nobody driving their cars for a day, they managed to clear up alot of smog and make the earth look healty again. Having the idea for limiting car usage can also have a very big impacted on people financal funds. its common sense. Not having to pay for gas, car insurance, car payments, and even mechanical payments as well. And having not having to pay so much of those bills can provide person with a greater amount of cash in their pocket. But there can be a down side to not having a car also. Cars are made to get a person from one place to another and if there isnt any transportation how are you supposed to go to work or make some food stops. The solution is simple. Ride the bus, Walk, Bike, get some exercise for once, thats the biggest reason why america is  so lazy. Car compaines such as Ford, Dodge, Toyota all compete with one another. But as the days go on by. Studies state that less and less people are buying cars. In the article ''The end of the car culture'' by Elisabeth Rosenthal states that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes on by. This has left researches pondering a fundamental question: Has america passes peak driving? My answer would simply be, No america has not passed peak driving, but how can you by a car and pay a buncg of bills with no money? Thats my question. People dream of cars everyday. Wishing they could drive a brand new converible Ferrari to school. But welcome to reality, were that really doesnt happen. And are economy does not help it one bit. ''at the Mobile Congress last uerar in Barcelona, Spain, Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford motor company, Laid out a business paln. Discussing things like trying to collab with the telecommunications industry''. This could be and opening for are future. It could save times around a city and ensure that its also safe at the same time. In conclusion the advantages of limiting car usage can provide the earth, the earth, the people, and Finance to be nice, beautiful, and simple. But nothing can happen if we ont act now.              

Have you ever imagined a world without drivers? Google cofounder Sergey Brin has envisioned public transportation systems that are driverless. Driverless vehicles is a bad idea because of, safety, more money being wasted in production, and driving itself. First of all, the saftey of a driver is in danger when a computer takes over. At any given moment, the car can fail, and the driver can get injured. The text states, "The human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires." In the 21st century, we have cell phone. If a people already today use their phones while driving, imagine when driverless cars are introduced to the public. People will be paying more attention to their cell phones that the road. Secondly, making these car will take a large amount of money. The text say that a Toyota Prius was modified with numerous cameras and sensors to make this driverless car mimic the skill of a human at the wheel. Buying a car made with all those modifications will cost you. Also, adding more systems in the car such as, entertainment and information systems, will cost money too. Driving was always fun to everybody, but with the idea of a driverless car, the fun goes away. "The phsychological aspects of automation are really a challenge." To fix the problem, BMW project manager says that they have to interpret the driving in a new fun way. BMW says they will add entertainments systems. That is a dumb idea because you need to be paying attention to the road. Driverless cars, will become worse thorughout the course of its production. There will be failures within the car itself and the technology inside it. There will also be more problems to worry about, such as the systems breaking and the car breaking down. Do you really want to sit and watch a computer drive you to your destination?

In the story luke had no idea his life was gonna change after highschool. Once he joined the progam he loved helping out. He visited a lot of cool places a long the way. I would joion cause of all the places you visit and you get to be outside most of the time. In chapter 2 it said he went to europe after world war 2 ended. That cool to see the remains of the war. Its great to help animlas and people with whatever they need after the war. 44 nations joined together to help its not just one it is a lot. Everybody is wanting to help. There is one thing you have to take a boat over sea and that took two weeks! In chapter 8 it says luke has fun on board of the ship. There is table tennis tournaments and boxing,fencing and other cool stuff like that. Luke had a great time it opened up the world for him. He said he is greatful for the opportunity. Not every person has what they need in the world. Thats why we have nice people and luke is one of them. His family hosted international student for many years.

Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because its alway good to know, not only about the moon and earth, but our whole solar system and how each planets works. Venus is known as the"Evening Star".Venus, however is the second planet from our sun.It could be very challenging for us to discover venus because of the acid in the air and how high the temperature can get,consequently one day we'll have a chance to discover what really goes on in Venus. In "The challenge of Exploring Venus", paragraph 4 opens up about how Venus is probably covered with various oceans and could support various forms of life, like earth today. We can find something important in the planet of Venus such as curing any possible diseases, flu's,etc. About 97 percent of carbon dioxide covers Venus,temperatures average to about 800 degrees amd about 90 times greater than what we originally experience.If we can discover the moon with certain risks, then why can't we test out Venus? We can think of Venus as another challenge we've faced in our lives. Most researchers have been working on innovations that can allow machines to last long enough to get the knowledge we'd need about Venus. If we started the beginning of research now, why would we stop halfway?NASA has been working on some things such as:Simplified electronics made of silicon carbide that has been tested in a chamber simulating venus's surface.So far that electronic has lasted three weeks. Another device they've focused on to help get closer to venus would be mechanical computers, envisioned in the 1800s.The computers can make calculations for gears and levers, although we might have to watch out because in venus the air is acidic which can ruin the mechancial computers. There are many challenges we are facing all around the would and Venus can be a good start to deciding on whether we'd like to discover some more new things. People in this world are meant to discover new dangers and doubts. We should feel the need to expand our knowledge of imagination and innvoation.

Most people would think of an electoral collage as a place rather than a system. The Electoral collage was a process that was create to help make voting easier when in fact it complicated things. I agree with with source 2 paragraph 14. paragraph 14 clear states "It's official: The electoral collage is unfair, outdated, and irrational." i am completely convinced that the electoral collage is no longer necessary. There is a lot wrong with it, such as having to trust people to be honest and vote the right way, or simply just discrediting a state because of it population. With the electoral collage, you are to have state representatives. Your state is to take a majority vote and relay that information to the state representatives. Then the state representatives will then vote according to how the majority persuaded them to vote. However many things can go wrong with this they can simply vote their way or like paragraph 10 states, they can get confused and vote for the wrong candidate. Due to the fact states have electoral votes based on size and population that one vote could cost the election. on the other hand, the electoral vote are very unfair. i believe everybody should have their own individual say so in elections. Some of you may believe that this saves time, but in reality everybody has to vote anyway. in fact it takes more time by deciding state representatives and so on and so forth. i really couldn't think of any other reasons you would want such a corrupt system like thus one. this system is obscured. I guess its all in what you believe. i personally believe this system is outdated. i doubt this system even worked well in the old days. Now-a-days there is some crazy people in this world. it is hard to trust anybody, even family. Also America always preaches against discrimination however they still portray it. the have discrimination against some states because they lack people. however some states choose to lack people so the don't have to become an industrial state. they may want to maintain that farm state feeling. farmers tend to take up a lot of land pushing people away. frankly we still need farmers. just like we need a new system. 

In this article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author talks about Facial Action Coding System, this enables computers to identify human emotion. This would be very valuable in the classroom because it can help us understand if a kid is confused and needs help or if they are doing good. It can also identify mixed emotions. This article says that showing emotion is good for you and this would enable kids to show more emotion. Having these technologies in the classroom would be valuable. "A cumputer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, Dr Huand predicts." If they had the Facial Action Coding System it would help the teacher to know if he had to change his way of teaching or slow down and go back if students are confused. This could help them as teachers to help their students really understand what they are learning and make it stick. Not all people learn the same and having this kind of technology could help us figure out better in which way we learn. The Facial Action Coding System can even show mixed emotions, so it can get the best identification of our feelings. "By weighting the different ubits, the software can even identify mixed emotions." This could help our computer to but the adds up that apply to our mood. Such as if we are sad put something that makes minds think of happines. Or if we are anrgy put something up there that makes us laugh. This technology can really help us change our bad moods into good moods everyday. Showing emotions like putting on a happy face can actually work according to this article. The article says "Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotion, but also may even help produce them." If we put these in our classrooms it will help kids want to show good emotion. This would overall help the mood of the classroom feel a lot happier. If kids feel more happier in the classroom the more they are going to want to work hard. Having these in classrooms sounds like an amazing idea! The world is becoming more and more reliant on technology, the more we show our kids technology and teach them how to use it the better they are in the future. If we get our kids to show their emotions more and get computers that help to changes their emotions to better ones would only help. This system is so smart that it can even read mixed emotions. These things can helpt teachers truly understand how to teach in a way that is positive fore their students and the way that they best learn. The Facial Action Coding System is a truly wonderful thing and we should have them in the classroom.

Back in the day they did'nt have technology. They telephone to call they friends and mother & father. They couldn't not even go outside to see they friends they mother where so hard on them. Some would let them go over there friend house to have fun. Some had to stay home and clean up cook dinner and watch there little sister and brother didn't get to go nowwhere what to ever. It was a time they had to be in the house a certain time before the street light come on. Now, Parent letting there kids do what ever they want now. Now, They have internet, phone now, facebook, snapchat & twitter. Agnry on social media over boy and want to fight peolpe no reason. A bullying peolpe cause they look better den other people. Peolpe killing there self cause peolpe bullying. It a lot peolpe killing there self in different city and state for being pick on. And kids have so much anger on there self. Some peolpe need make a progra for these kids that has anger problem and wanna hurt there self. Some kids don't have mother and father they have to foster care. Till somebody take them in till there hand to peolpe there parent. Some teenger will live with there boyfriend insted of there father and mother. That you will have happiness, surprise,anger,disgust, fear, and sadness on your self. And then associated each with characteristic movement of the facial muscles in your body. Some peolpe bring you down you have to get back up and stay in a good ways. Some classroom computer - animated faces move expressive- for video games or video surgery. Meanwhile, muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's - feet around your eyes. The expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spowhen a smiling politician or celebrity isn;t being truthful. Whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions.

Vote for me the other guy whats to take all your money no vote for me he fail english in high school thats al you hear when its voteing time. they put them all over  like  the malls sides of roads. Its all stupid they saying things to make eachother look bad but that the end of the day no one is perfect. So what he did in his passed and in high school is just pointless to bring up. As teens and kids we do stuoid stuff but we do grow up so why bring it back up to make you feel better about your self. this is what i really dont get we the people are suppost to vote to see who will be leading us for the next four years but we really are not. We all vote but then if the electoral college chocies some one else that who it is so what is the point in us votin. If even when we the people vote for this person and he wins with us and yall want the other guy he wins thats not fair to him or us. It should be popular votes take all. did you know that when you vote for your canidate you are actally voting for your candidates electors. Then our governor prepares a certificate of ascertainment they all so decllare the winning presidential candidate. I think its all just not worth it all that work for what if we could just vote on who we want and the person that gets the most votes wins.  I dont understnd why this have to have all that other stuff that is not needed. They say the electoral college restpres some of the weight in the political balance. They have 538 electors whats the point if we the people could just vote why i really dont understand whats the need for them the person with most votes wins i dont see why all that other stuff is nesseasy. I know you people probley think im crazy but i dont care it just dont seem to me like there is apoint for all of that this is just how i see it in y point of veiw

Dear senator we know that there been many changes in the united states of america voter increase there equal right to vote for the president of the united sate. but does the electrol college work? yes becuase if there was not a electral college to vote we wouldnt have a president in the united state. We just need to follow the goverment  step to consider there vote. but the electral college consists of 583 electors that means that everyone had the right to vote. We all have the right to vote because many people dont have the chance to vote for the united sates president so do you think we would have the chance to vote. n and can imagrats vote to thier part of the state we have a big population of imagrant in the united sate they are hispanic, lations. we had save the imagrant because we all vored to come to the united state to serve a better life taht they coulnt have in there counrty. so we all have the right to vote in the congress constitution Do we all to serve the right in the united even if they are not from the united sate .the population grows even more with the imagrants the reason we have to vote for them was becuase they need a better future to help there family. senator i would say not to change any of the decided thing you would want to do to the voter in the united states.

Lets talk about abolishin the electoral college. When you vote, do you think you vote for the president? No. When you vote u dont vote for the president you vote for the slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. The people of America should consider themselfs lucky that the 2000 fiasco election was the biggest election crisis in a century, says the article in setion 2. Honestly if the article syas that Bob Dole was right why even have the electoral college! Mister senator listen to the people, give the people what they want. Votes! almost everybody votes in America some dont but the mojority does. What you should do Mister Senator is give the people what they want and get rid off the "Elecotoral college. why have the program if we are not the once choosing who is going to be president. The electors does that not the citizens they just use the votes and later they would choose who ever they want. My opinion is to take the Eletoral College away for good because is useless and pointless. Five reasons why the Electora College should be restained despite its lack of democratic." The winners takes all bases". What is that, why would we use that. In 2012 President Obama received 61.7% of the electoral votes compared to only 51.3% of the popular votes cast for him and Romney, says in source 3: In defence of the Electoral College. My point here is that we "DO NOT" need the Elecoral College. The voters in presidential elections are people who wants to express a  political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. So Mister senator what do think about the Elecoral College, should it be or should it not? "The people in upper state are most likely to pay attention to the campain", says the article. Why would they do that?. Because they would have resived the most information and attention there is from the candidates. They are likely to be the most thoughtful people when its comes down to voting. It says "the most thoughtful voters should be the once to decide the election". Do you agree with this statement yes, or no?. My answer would be no, because everybody is living in the country that wants a vote from everyone so why only accept the votes that are thoughtful. We are all one so we should all vote and choose who we would like as a President of the United State.               

The author of this article did a decent job at explaining why studying Venus is worth it despite any dangers that it has. They don't really explain why we should risk ourselves to study Venus but rather how we could do it. The author talks about how NASA have an idea to hover people above Venus and sending machines down to the surface of Venus. The first thing that the author talks about is NASA's idea to hover people over Venus to get a closer look at it. In paragraph five it says, "scientists to float above the fray". It also states, "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans". This dosen't give us a reason that Venus is worth exploring even though it's risky. It only tells us about ow we are able to get a closer look at the planet with our own eyes an not just some pictures or videos. Informing the reader about how to do something won't make them believe that it is worth doing. The second thing that the author talks about is getting machines on the surface of Venus. In paragraph seven it states, "mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces". It also says, "looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers". These quotes demonstrate that the author is more focused on informing us on how we can do this rather than why we should do this. If people don't know why they should do something, then they wont care how they should do it. The author should have put more evidence on how we could use what we learn on Venus in stead of how we could get there safely. In conclusion, the author didn't do the best job on explaining why it's worth to go to Venus because they focused on how we were supposed to get there. If they didnt just talk about how we were planning to get people and achines there, then it would have been alot better for explaining why it's worth it to study Venus despite of the many dangers.

Do you think that technology to read emotions is good for teachers and students? I think that the use of this technology would be good for teachers to use for their students. I think that if we had this technology students would not be so bored or disguested at school beacuse of boring or hard assignments. In this essay im gonna tell you why I think that this technology would be good use. The reason why I think that this technology would be good to use is so teachers can tell if a kid is happy, sad, angry, suprised, disguested, or in fear and then act on how to handle them. In the article the author says that " a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." If a student is to shy or scared to ask a question to the teacher the computer can pick it up and let the teacher know so they could go help out the student. Say that a student is being bullied but they are too scared to ask a teacher for help beacuse they think that the bully is going to bully them more the technology could pick that up and alert the teacher. The technology could most likely do so much more than i just explained to you. If you didn't think that it would help out when I asked you the first time, do you think it would help out now? In this essay I explained to you that human emotions explain and could help out a lot in the world. This concludes my essay, I hope that I was able to persuade you into thinking that this technology would help out teachers and students both.

The Facial Action Coding System is a very valuble computer software that I think could help save the lives of many students who are suffering from depression and thoughts of suicide and also students who are struggling with school and here is why. According to Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees "( like not smiling as broadly). Also according to the article, " Using video imagery, the new emotion-recognition software tracks these facial movements- in a real face or in a painted face of Mona Lisa. By weighting the difference units, the software can identify mixed emotions ( as in da Vinci's masterpiece)." The article also states " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored," Dr. Huang predicts. "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." And that's how I think the Facial Action Coding System is a very valuble software that could many students suffering from depression and thoughts of suicide and also those who are struggling with school.

Limiting car usage is a good thing for the environment but can also cause people to be late to work or be late to a family party. Riding bikes and skating are healthy but some older people can't ride bikes and they shouldn't drive either it's dangerous. Limiting car usage has many advantages good ones and bad ones. The more people drive cars the worse the environment gets. Cars send out pollution. Some places don't allow vehicles in there city helps them build parks for children or new stores it causes less pollution to the environment.  There are 70 percent of Vauban's families that do not own cars, and 57 percent sold there car. They say it makes you alot happier to not have a car don't have to worry about paying for gas to get somewhere. In the United States there are jobs you can drive to or go on a train or bus to get there. Buses are bad for the environment also and you can get late to work unless you wake up a hour or two earlier. In Vaudan, Germany there are only 2 places you can park your car which is in large garages at the edge of the development but you have to buy a spot for 40,000 along with a home. If car usage was forbidden children would have to walk to school or ride there bike it would take them awhile because not every child lives down the street from school. Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city. On a Monday even- numbered license plates were ordered tp leave their cars at home or they will have to pay 31$ it also applied for odd-numbered license plates.

Not many can imagine life without a car. Yet despite how essential these machines may seem to our daily routines, the modern-day automobile is in fact another redundant aspect in our pursuit of more efficent transportation. The fact and concept of pollution comes into play. On a sunny day in the streets of Paris the sky runs a depressing gray, and it feels difficult to breath. Paris is known for its near-record pollution, prompting officals  to enforce a temporary cesation in the use of automobiles. As Robert Duffer States in the article "Paris Bans Driving Due to Smog": "On Monday motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine ($31)," this procedure has been followed to the letter and approximately 4,000 drivers were fined in total. Subsequently, the net amount of smog has been drasticaly reduced over time, with ignorant blames on diesel as a correlatin to France's favor of it over gasoline which completely ignored the other constituant:the effect cold and warm wheather itself had in the proces of containing CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) and other pollutants in the lower layers of the atmosphere. However, the desired levels of pollution have been reached, and the ban on driving lifted. With the concept of pollution among others, the future of the automobile as we know it is being threatened with extinction. Perhaps one day when China completes its plans for an intercontinental Mag-Lev transportation system and when Virgin Mobile perfects its new scram-jet design in tandem with Lockheed-Martin as well as Elon Musks countless innovations in electrical engineerng, the human race will look upon this era with pride to know what they've come from and what they've achieved thus far.    

The Electoral College is a group of selected electors for deciding the president. Each state has its own amount of electors depending on its population. States like California have fifty five electors, while Wyoming would only have three. This factor makes the Electoral College flawed. The electoral college can also ignore their states votes. On the other hand, popular vote is not dependent on the population of the state. Having all the votes go directly to which candidate they was voted for. This would allow the presidental candidates go to all areas of the United States. So although many think their vote goes directly to who they voted for, the Electoral College has the final say. The main problem with the electoral college is that every state has its own number of electors. Smaller, less populated states are ignored during the election, while the presidents focus directly on high population states to get more electoral votes. Since most states go off a winner-takes-all basis, all the votes for the other candidate are ignored. Also in the occurence of a swing-state, candidates focus all attention on them. The voters in the swing-states then know more about the presidents and are more thoughtful on who to pick, while the voters in the parts ignored know nothing about the presidents. Some states can also be completely ignored, having no campaign there at all. On the other hand, the popular vote is more interesting. With this, state population does not matter. As a nation the voters can vote on the presidents. Although it is used today, it almost doesn't matter if you have it. In the 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, Al Gore toke had the popular votes, but Bush toke the electoral votes. This allowed him to become president. The popular votes were ignored in that situation and allowed a president with less of the nations liking to take office. The final factor is the electers themselves. Another cause of the 2000's election being won by the elector college is some of the electors completely ignored their states voters. They decided to place their own vote. If the state is small and one of the candidates have a big lead, it won't matter. Although if they are neck and neck it can be those few votes that decided the election. This would also cause a less liked president to take office. Without the electors there would also be no favoritism. The electors can be choosen by the candidates themselves and can a bias electoral vote from them. The point is, the Electoral College is unreliable. The nations voters can be ignored. If the government wants a certain president to win, they can hire electorals who are baised for that cadidate. Without it, the nation's people can have their say in the election. No state would have to be ignored due to its population. So although many think their vote goes directly to who they voted for, the Electoral College has the final say.     

The author of "The Challenege of Exploring Venus," reasons for exploring venus are the planet could be the one that most resembles earth and to further scientific research. The author wants us to be aware if Venus is the closest planet we have to Earth, and I dont mean proximity, im talking about most alike. They believe that It once had green life on it, oceans, and a livable atmosphere. The text states,"Long ago,Venus was probably covered largely with ocens and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth." The text also says,"Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but surviable." With those things in mind scientist feel it is a need to go see if it is like or if it was once like Earth. Venus could also be used to just to further scientific studies. The text states" More importantly, researchers cannot take samples of rock, gas, or anything else, from a dstance." The rock and gas samples and all the other things can be used to compare to rocks and gases here on Earth, see what is the same and what is different about them to get a better understanding of how alike or diiferent the two planets are. To conclude, what the author wanted us to get from that article was that, the planet Venus could be very similar to Earth and that they could use it to futher scientific studies by studying the nature on the panet.

Hi am a scientist who works for NASA I am here to disscuss the inconvenience of the "Face on Mars". The Face isn't a landform created by aliens the Face is a normal landform that was created naturaly Mars. The inconvenience is that picture that was sent to NASA and viewed by the public from the shuttle Viking 1 was taken at angle that made it seem like a face. Around the year 2001 the cameras we had used before were developing with technology created with that time period. In 2001 we had taken a picture of the Face to get a clear shot, as you can see in the passage the landform is just like a normal landform here on Earth. The landform was created naturally just like how the Mountains and Naturally made landforms on Earth were. The picture taken in 1976 by the Viking 1 was just a huge misunderstanding to the astronaughts on the shuttle and to the publics eyes. That is my arquement as to why the Face on Mars was not created by aliens but it was created naturally like our natural made landforms on earth.

venus is our twin planet and it has a variety of interesting festures. the author provides us with plenty information of how we could explore mars. although the conditions in venus are different and far more dangerous than the ones on earth there are some ways we could still study the amazing planet of venus. NASA alredy started these expeditions. so far they have failed due to the conditions of the planet, but as the author said there are some ways we could still study the planet. he gives us ideas and tells us that some of the ideas are alredy in progress. like the silicon carbide electronics have been tested and proven to able to ast up to a week in places like venus with high temperatures. a week could be enough for us to bring a smaple from venus where we could study in our labs. also the idea of bringing back old computers made out of gears is good too because they could be made in a way where they can stand the environment venus has because of its properties. also the fact that an old invention like these computers could hepl us this far into the future compared to when they were made is fascinating and should be given a try. the planet that once could have been another "earth" is worht studying, it could answer a lot of questions and bring some ideas to our world. like the author said "our travels on earth should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" he gave us enough ideas of why we should explore this planet. it will be a challenge but nothing we can't solve.

I think the use of technology to read emotions in a classroom is valuable to classrooms. Students can learn alot more when using the Facial Coding System. It can help them be aware of their own emotions, and can help them have more fun learning. To start, it can help you have more fun by learning because it can detect your emotions and change up the lessons. In paragraph six, it says, "...Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Its saying it can be aware of how you are feeling about the lesson. Weither your bored, cunfused, etc. It can make it less confusing for you, and make it a little bit more enjoyable and easier for you to learn. Also, in the same paragraph it says, "If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad will be different" By either smiling or frowning it can go on the the next thing or ad that you would most likely enjoy. It can make waiting for what you are waiting for more enjoyable so you don't sit in boredom. For example, while waiting for an ad on youtube or any video you are watching that wont let you skip,or any game. It can detect your emotion and go on to a diferent ad the next time. That can make watching or seeing ads more fun then the last ad that had. Next, It can help you be aware of how you are feeling either happy or sad. In paragraph four it says, "Even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression, using video imagery, the new emotion recognition software tracks these facial movements" By them tracking your movements, it can help not only them notice you are sad, happy, bored, or any of emotion you are feeling. It can also attract your attention too and helping you realize it. Your mouth is stretched sideways and uses the "Zygomatic major" while you fake a smile. If you pay attention, you can tell if you or others around you are smiling like that. It can help you be aware if they are faking their smile and happiness. It can also teach you a little bit of science, and you wouldn't know. Dr. Huang talks about about how the process begins, and how many muscles you have. The System can teach you how about all the emotions we have also. I think the Facial Action System is a good idea for the classrooms. It can teach you a little bit about science. Also, about how to reconize yours and others emotions, and make learning and wiaitng more enjoyable for you.

Who do you vote for.? or what whould you do if there was no president?. well i think we can find out. But not to worry most states have a "winner-take-all"system. It's for giving awards to electors to the winning presidental canidate., But every canididate has its on electors & if u are becomeing the president then u have every 4 years then you have to be relected. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors.,And a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. But even so your state's entitled allotment of electors is equal to the numbers of its congressional delegation, for each member in the house of Representatives plus 2 for senators. Each candidate running for president is your states has his or her own group of electors, But"Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral college. You can help choose your state's electors when you vote for president because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. After the presidental election, your governor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment". It lists all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also delcares the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of electors in december of the election year. Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote, for (John) Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Demorcratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off-chance that those electors won the state wide election. But 34 electoral votes go to Congress and kerry whould get 34 electoral votes. But who are the electors., You might ask we will never know because it can be anyone not holding public office. But back on the electoral college. The single best argument against the electoral college is what is call the disaster factor. The american people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century;. The system allows for much worse. Lets consider something, Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that thoes electors could always defy the will of the people. Back in 1960, segregationists in the louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors Electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please Oh, and its happend before a state send two slates of elsecotrs to Congress., It happend in hawaii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was presiding over the Senate, validated only his opponent's electors. The Electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism, A non democratic method of selecting a presdent that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. The advicates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense            

This article main idea is about the advantages of limiting the car usage. This doesn't just benefict the enviorment but it also beneficts us in health and many other way like economy. The way that we can limit the car use to do a day-free car use world wide,like there already doing in Colombia,Europe and Paraguay, it wouldnt be everyday but once a month would still help out in so much. The advantages of limiting car use help in so many reason. This experiment have been done in the outside of freigburg, near the French and Swiss borders in the new districts, what they do is, forbid street parking, driveways, and home garage . A 57 percenct of families that move to this expiremtal district, have said "when i had a car i was always tense. i am much happier this way. This proves not this expirement is not a lost cause , it can be solve many things: save every penny you would have to spend in gas, help the ecosystem, and the robbery of cars one less worry. In Colombia they be spending there car-free day hiking, or in  there bikes. It has been the thrid year straight cars have been banned with only buses and taxis permitted for does who dont follow the rule the $25 fine. This movement hasnt stop , what has done is giving peolpe conciusness and now not only Europe (PARIS) and Colombia , now the next country to follow this step is Paraguay. This all beging in the mid-1990 in Colombia (bogota), with this came the constrution of 118 miles of bycicle paths, more than the any other Latin american city. In the United States car lover has decrease sense 2005 according to a study made . It has been major causes that made the car buying decrease like for example not all of the peple involve in a car-crash / accident can afford a new or even use car , others just perferd moving somewhere they have it all close from there job, and home , most people just see as a way of working out and maintaing there physical health . The limiting of cars can sure help out the ecosytem but not every one lives in a city, state , country that everything is close by . One major reason out of many others is that you may live somewhere that you'll have cross,  by suburn neigthbordhood that can be implicated with drugss or even arms dealers. With this idea of limiting cars most peolpe are not even going to care to get there license. This can many more car accident it wouldnt be a resposable thing to do. sense you have a daugther , son or memmber of you family does , think about the possability of one of them in this type of situation. Every year everywhere in the world they create thousands of cars imagine if we just decided stop using them how many would be dissaemploy , not just that all the materials that they will be losing, all the time they lost , and most important the money they spend in materials, and payckecks to every singul one of the industrial employes. A car is a space that keeps you safe from the outside when you're in the road , just imagine you're self on your way ready to go to work and in the way it starts raining, you have find a place where to wait until it stops raining mean while , you're paycheck is decrease due to the cause that you're not in you're work , sure you can explain it to your boss but is he/her going to lett you off that easy. The weather is just one of does things that you can't controll or predict , so by take the risk . With out a car you're saving you money but with a car you're protecting you'rself , familiy and others. The car is one of the eays ways to transport not just you're self groceries,shopping items and many others things . If the plan is to help the ecosystem lett me tell you that electric cars exist , the technology is evolving is creating new ways to live better safer life . With the evidence just given to you . We can say that the experiment that everyday is evolving , expanding. The limintinf of car is one excellent way to contribute with the ecosystem and all that have given us. All the evidence is there the reason and cause , when you analys it no can agree with this essay that the idea  liminting car is a great idea that can solve many things to many peolpe it does'nt mean that it has to be a measure to everyone but does that are on board shoul considate more and spread it out into the people .

The study of Venus is an exciting but dangerous journey to go on. The planet being so similiar to ours it gives thoughts or ideas on what's there. The only part about it is that the dangerous conditions of the planet is holding us back a little in the devlopment of learning about it. The author belives its a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and I think that as well. I feel like the author supports his idea very well throughout the passage. He puts alot of benifits of visiting Venus and he shows examples of how we can overcome the dangeours of Venus. He states," It's worthy because its the most Earth-Like planet from the features like the rocky sediment , valleys, mountains, and craters and how if it's similiar to Earth". We could also explore and find more Earth like things to help us or either just cool things to discover. He also states, "How learning about Venus could lead us into many equally imitanding endevaors and expand our innovation and imagination for other planets". In conclusion I feel like the author provides good enough points and details to overcome the dangers of Venus. He made good points on how Venus is the closest thing we've seen to Earth and we should see if we can find more Earth-Like things about it or even new things we've never seen before.

Venus the Hardest Planet to Explore Venus is the hardest planet to explore because the ships only last a few hours on Venus,it has high tempertaures than Mercury even though Mercury is closer,and its weather conditions and atmosphere are bad compared to ours. First, reason why Venus is hard to explore is because that the spacecrafts can only stay for a few hours. Since the planets have different orbitational speeds sometimes Earth and Venus are closer in some ways. So humans decided to send spacecrafts over to explore .There were a few previous missions that were unmanned. Not one spaceship has survived the landing. So for more than three decades there has not been one spaceship that has touched down on Venus for that specific reason. Second reason is that Venus's temperatures are very high in scale. Even though Mercury is the closest to the sun Venus's temperatue is still higher. Venus's temperature can reach up to 800 degrees fahrenheit. which is 90 times greater than Earth's temperature. Even the deepst parts of Earth's ocean can liquefy any metals. So putting a submarine in the deepest parts of our ocean can damage the metals around it. Finally thr third reason is that Venus's weather conditions and atmosphere are dangerously bad. On Venus there are many powerful earthquakes, frequent lightning stikes, and erupting volcanoes. The atmoshere contains 97% of carbon dioxide blankets. That being said humans wouldn't be able to live on Venus. in conclusion Venus is the hardest planet to explore because the ships only last a few hours on Venus,it has high tempertaures than Mercury even though Mercury is closer,and its weather conditions and atmosphere are bad compared to ours.

I think that driveless cars would be alot more convenint if you dont feel like driving or if you just want to be lazy, but way to much stress. what if your an elder and you have no clue how to work the car. I feel the more we keep upgrading to electronics the easier it is for something to go wrong. You never truely know when or if your vehicle could malfunction. What if your on the auto ban and your going 120mph and your vehivle just stops? if you are going about 120mph then other people are going 120mph if not more. you could get rear ended and going as fast as 120mph that would defintely kill you. Everyone only thinks of the idea of having a driveless car like "oh my that has to be so cool and awedome i wont even have to do anything". wrong you still have to pay attention and be there for when roads are getting worked on so you can navigate your way through it. the even tell us in the passage "they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out if driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating theough roadwork or accidents" there not all as great as what people make them out to be. If we stick to the basic do it your self then we know we can control it beacause we would feel comfortable and we would know the basics. Maybe im wrong maybe it would work and be more simple for people, But think about would you ever truely trust a car that can drive it's self?

Imagine yourself as a teacher and one of your students clearly skipped your class yesterday and is lying about where they were yesterday, and all you see is a smirk, well what if you could teel if they were lying by a device that could read their facial expression. Well i think it can and should be brought to teachers and schools to really crack doown on well, reckless teenagers. In paragraph three the passage states, "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit." Then Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of FACS (Facial Action Coding System). Eckman has classified six basic emotions- happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness-and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles." What this can prove is that the process of expression recognization requires no harm to the face or person and is created by the studies of not only technological professionals, but also psychological preoffesionals as well. To conclude, it would be a whole lot nicer if teachers and all educators knew what students were really thinking when being taught. And what would be neat is if students also new the real expression teachers made and what they really felt about the students.

I'm going to tell you why you should join or why you should't join the program. I'll be giving my reason and also Luke's reasons to support my claim. I will be arguing on why others should join the program. Others should join the program because you get to travel around the world. Luke stated that he went to China and Europe! He traveled the Pacific and Atlantis ocean several times. He's been to Greece. If you like to travel, this would be a great program to join. Luke feeds and waters the animals. Luke has to check on the animals every hour. I would join this program because I'm an animal person and I would love to spend weeks, maybe even months with these animals. Others who aren't animal people maybe shouldn't join this program. It would be a great way to interact with the animals if you don't like animals al that much. Joining this program could teach you something. It could teach you many things. It could teach you to be more cautious about things. As Luke stated "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." This program can make you more grateful for everything. It could make you work harder instead of being lazy. You could actually get things done if you were to join this program. That is why I think you should join.

If you think that the mask on the fave of mars is reall? Well im here to prove you wrong and to show you that there is a scientific reason why there is somtheing like that on mars. First, I'll talk to you about how it is that it got to be like that. Secondly, i will explain how it was made. Lastly, I will show you how and prove to you with facts of how it was proven to not be aliens who built this face on mars. First, I am positive of what you said about the aliens creating this face and then the government taking them to area 51, is a lie. The alines weren't the ones to create this face because it was what we like to call the mesa or you can also call it the butte. Anyway, the mesa is like a lot of landforms that we have here in western part of America, just as it states in paragrph 12. Secondly, when people started to make assumptions it was because NASA had not been able to take a clear image. So you can not say that it was the aliens because the rest of the world was sayng it. Thirdly, we really couldnt find it whenever we wanted because it was hard to find. As it states in paragraph 9. ''We have to scan the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips'' said Jim Garvin. so this are some small but really to the point facts so you can have and understanding about the face of mars and so you can stop thinking that it was aliens who created this face.

Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore ? Well no I can't really imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore . I can't imagine that because theres always gonna be a time where you need to go somewhere & your gonna need transportation to get you there . If there were no cars in the future so many lives would be so miserable because who would wanna walk everywhere they need to go? I know I would get tired of walking . There's so many places where people need to be on time but only with some kind kind of transpotation . Life wouldn't be so great without cars because just even walking the house or even to go down the street for something important would really get annoying & tired . When reading paragraph 7 it talks about how BMW announced the development of ''Traffic Jam Assistant in 2013. Well just because there were alot of "Trafic Jams'' in 2013 doesn't mean just think about the future without any cars . We need transpotation everywhere we go. I know that there's many of ways for transportation but walking , I don't think that's really a great idea knowing that we walk 24/7 365 days out of the whole year . Having a car & knowing that you can drive it around anytime you would like to is actually good , because even though the gas that you put in your car goes up a dollar or 2 every week doesn't just give up or think about not having cars in the future. There are teenagers all over the world that are looking foward to getting them a car when they get older & even teens and adults now that are wishing that they could get them a car. My position on driveless cars is that what is a driveless car if you still need a driver to drive the car ? You will always need someone to drive the car even if it is a driveless car. There are car crashes everywhere you go , but you can always fix that problem by sharing the road with the other drives . Watching out for other drivers and the people that are walking is a big step of getting behind the wheel . Making sure that there aren't other people in the way so that you will not hit them & even following the rules of the road , like making sure that you stop at STOP signs & even waiting for your turn to turn while driving. There's no need to imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore.

In my opinion, I do not think that the electoral college should be abolished, but I do agree with some of the points that Mr. Plumer claimed. Mr. Plumer stated, "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." While it is somewhat unfair and outdated, the electoral college is needed in a sense of today's society. Everytime someone who is African American is murdered or killed, people always think it's a racial matter. Take a look at the incidents that were going on in Ferguson. Michael Brown, an African American teenager, was shot and killed by an officer, who was a white man. The people of Ferguson were literally rioting in the streets over a matter of a cop defending himself. So if that kind of society were to directly vote for our next president, it would be extremely biased. If another African American were to run for president of the United States, most Blacks would vote for him and say things like, "If he doesn't win presidency, then this country is racist!" To me, that's how American society is and that's why we should keep the electoral college. In addition, the electoral college is needed to keep balance and fairness among the country. If there was no electoral college, and the votes came straight from the people, there would be problems regarding the states and the population of those states. For example, California would have a huge advantage at deciding who the next president is over a small state like Maryland. The electoral college is meant to keep balance among most, if not all, the states. Another reason to keep the electoral college is that it requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal, according to Mr. Posner. He states, "No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. If there was no electoral college, the votes would heavily swing one way or the other, because of regional culture. People in the South would generally vote for someone who is white and Republican, where as the North, or states like Florida and California would vote for someone who is democratic, and since race is a exponentially large matter in today's society, people who are African American would vote for the runnning candidate who is African American or of black descent. A vote straight from the people could work if racial perspective wasn't a huge factor like it has been since the civil rights movement. But right now, this country needs an electoral college because without one, votes would be based on race, state size, and culture.

Dear senator, I belive that we should change the election to a popular vote for the president of the united states. We should have this for two reasons, one we should make the choice ourselfs so it matters more in the long run and two it will make more potental voters. We as americans should have more power when it comes to chooseing our president. Some people may argue that the electorial college avoids the problem of run-off elections as stated in source two. I think if there is a tie then there should have the previouse presedent of the united states vote to brek the tie. I dont believe any vote should count more than a citizens vote. If we are suppose to have a goverment run by the people why cant the peoples vote matter. I feel that people would vote more if their vote could be that single vote that decides who`s president. In the electorial college only their vote matters the popular vote doesn`t make a difference in the long run. The reason people vote is so that the person they want as president will win the race not so the person the electorial college wants to will win. The popular vote is simply deciding electors who can vote however they please which means the citizens vote doesnt make a difference wich unfair. In conclusion america should have a popular vote not an electorial college because the peoples vote should matter. If you want a fair and honest goverment everyones vote should matter equaly and there should be no electorial college. If you care about what the american citizens opinions and what they have to say get rid of the electorial college.

A good reason for other people to join the Seagoing Cowboys Program is it's a good way to bond with animals, and you would get to see some cool places around the world that you can't see at home. In the story it says that Luke got to see the Acropolis in Greece, and he got to take care of the horses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. They traveled on the ship alot, so they had alot of time with the animals, since they took care of them. I think that if I were in the story I would join the Seagoing Cowboys Program because I like taking care of animals, and I like traveling and seeing new places. I dont know if going to war would be so great, but it would be like serving your country, even if the most that you're doing is taking care of some animals. you still had a part in serving your country and that's all that matters. Luke joined the Seagoing Cowboys Program because he wanted to help people, and besides helping people he also got the benefit of seeing Europe and China. He also got to take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. Luke toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on his way to China. Luke got to see some extrordinary places that some day I'd like to see too. And I know many others that would like to see some nice places too. These are just a few reasons why I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys Program, but I'm sure there are alot more resons why you should join. Why'll Luke was on board, especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing reading, whittling, and games also helped pass the time. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. It opened up the world to him. "I'm grateful for the oppurtunity," Luke said. "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." And that awareness stayed with him, leading his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years.

The electoral college has been around for as long as our nation has reined over this land. I fervently believe we should keep the electoral college as it is. We, as people, are not ready for the responability of choosing our next leader directly viva popular vote. Some of us might be ready for this responability now, but the magority of America cannot handel this responibity. The majority has stared riots over lost football games, acknolaged said riots and justifyed them then turn around and see a riot about a kid being shot 6 times by an officer and send in swat teams and start throwing smoke bombs. Because of these actions and the many like it, I whole-heartedly believe if we leave the responability to chose our president in the magority vote that this country will become more unstable than it already it because, most people already do not vote, some are biast, and some dont follow the consititution when they vote. To begin with, letting the majority vote on our new president would have potential if the whole of the country voted, but alas only a small essence of the country votes for our future leaders. Most people are too busy, or lazy, or just dont want to take part in voting becuse of all of the conficting ads placed on television. One of the most atrocious of these ads was the one from mitt romney when he was in the race against President Obama. They put these ads on a chanel designated for familys to veiw, along with children. These ads inculded vivid pictures of aborted fetus, saying this is what would happen if we voted for obama. I've only saw that ad once, but once was more than enough to make me side with Obama more than I already was. If our president is prepared to threten the country like that then they should not be eligable to even run, let alone become President, and it was horendus to think of all of the children watching at the time to have to see that. Most Americans who are eligable to vote have full-time jobs, full-time school, or are busy in some other aspects of life. These people do not have the time to vote for our president becuase they are working at the time, most work one or two jobs at the least, leaving little time for social graces and time alone, let alone time to vote. One other reason citizens dont vote is just hte sheer fact that they are lazy. A good precetage of Americans just do not care about who our president is or who runs for office, thus not voting out of sheer laziness. Furthermore, letting the majority vote rule who is our president would have potential if the majority of America was not biased in who they vote for. Almost all Americans have voted baised on their beliefs, or who is running for president. These are the people who voted agaoinst obama becuase of his ethnic background, or what he looked like. This should not go against who we vote for, or who leads us, as long as they are non-biased in what they stand for and have the good of the people in their minds, then they should be eligable, or even voted, as a canidate/president/offical. To continue, letting the majority vote on our new president would have potential if the majority of Americans followed the consititution when voting. The majority does not follow the consitiution when voting for our new president, thus inducing an unfair campaine and an biased leader. The consitiution clearly states the Church and State are to be seperated, yet many Americans vote baised on the beliefs of their Church on matters of the State. The latest case of this happening was for the ban on gay marrige. Most voters voted in favor of the ban due a passage in the bible that stated that man shall not lay with another man as he lays with a woman, even though there is a homosexual couple in the bible, mathew/mathius something. The story aout a man named Dave and another named John, if i remember correctly, one of them said "your love exceeds that of a woman" or something close to that. There are a number of testiments that say not to judge others or to love everyone, but most focus on the one against those. Baising your vote on spiritual beliefs does not help anyone and is unfair towards those whos lifes you are negativly affecting. We should all think logically when voting for our leaders, and ask questions like 'who will this affect' 'how will this improve apon the lifes of my fellow Americans' 'will this improve our dilapitiating economy and crippling structe of the government' along with other questions that relate to how this canidate will improve apon the country as a whole. All in all, I believe that the electoral college should stay in affect untill America, as a whole, grows up, becuase most dont vote, some who vote are biased, and some dont follow the consitiution when voting. We should not have to write papers on why we shouldnt let the people of America vote directly for our leader, nor should we have to have our rights taken away from those who use their religous prectices as an excuse to hate someone. We, the people, should all live together in this country, equaly, as one, not letting our beliefs negativly affect the lives of others. We should be able to practice what we want, when we want, without having to be fearful that others might punish us baised on what they practice. We, the people, need to grow up before we are allowed to vote directly for our new leaders. And that is why i beileve that the electoral college should stay in effect.

The author suggestion to still try to visit Venus knowing how dangerous it is very risky. Although Venus has a lot of similarties when it comes to Earth, there are even more differences that play a big part in the visit. The author's theory on trying to visit Venus it will be very hard and with take time. It would take a lot of time because of the harsh weather conditions and the high atmospheric pressure. In the third paragraph, the author states that " On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenhit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on out own planet." which provides the exact numbers for what it would feel like compared to Earth and is very dangerous becuause of the extreme temperature and the crushing atomphic pressure. The author provides more information that it can be very dangerous by stating that even 30 miles above the surface it would be very hot, around 170 degrees but the pressure would be lower. A benefit of visiting Venus is that we maybe able to know if there were anymore human like species or maybe even aliens because of the large amountof comprasions and history believed to be on Venus. One of the last problems is that it would be very hardto get any type of samples because if they got too close to the surface then they would melt to death so what would be the poin tof visiting a place that you may not be able to do actual studies on and may not be able to get more then a picture or video of the surface from 30 miles above the planet unless you take time to heavly prepare and create something to with stand the conditions. Those are the reasons why it is very hard for NASA to visit venus and why it may benfit our history and future generations to come if we can make the visit even though it is very risky right now.

How do you think the human race will be able to collect knowledge of Venus? Studying Venus is important and should be studied. Venus is often referred as Eath's "twin" because it contains the closest density and size along with the closest to us as well. Humans have sent multiple spacecrafts to Venus but failed to do so because of Venus's harsh environments leading to only last a few hours. How harsh do you think the environment is on Venus? Humanity has failed to study Venus becuase of how thick the atmosphere going to almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. The environment worsen's becuase the avergae temperature of this planets surface reaches over 800 degrees Fahrenheit and the pressure the atmospheric has is 90 times greate than what we have ever experienced on our planet. How long do you think the harsh environments of Venus will last? Our sisiter planet maybe a challenge to observe, then why do we continue to attempt to collect research? Astronomers are breath taken by the fact that Venus may have actually been Earth-like. They believe that Venus may have actually been covered with large oceans and contained various life forms like Earth. Astronomers have noticed that Venus contains familiar chracteristics like Earth, for example valleys, mountains, and craters. What type of technology do you think we'll contain in the future to be able to safely collect research of Venus? NASA has a solution that may help. Their idea is to float 30 or so miles above Venus's landscape and collect data there, but the temperatures would still be very heigh at 170 degrees Fahrenheit, and air pressure would be close to sea level on Earth. Researchers howover say that rock, gas, and anything else would be able to be collected with this idea. What year do you think we'll be able to inhabite Venus? Nasa took this into consideration so they began to create simplified electronics made of silicon carbide. This material has been tested in a simulation chamber recreating Venus's chaotic surface and resulted to last 3 weeks in this condition. Humanity should keep trying to complete this challenge becuase who know what we'll find.

In this essay Im going to be explainig about the advantage of limiting car usage. First of all a man says that when he had a car he was always tense. Now he says his more happier with out a car. Cras are good in some ways but bad in other ways because cars contaminate the air with the smoke. Their good because they take you places faster and more comftorble. But many European cities are not permiting cars, and they say is good for them. They live better now."All of our development since world war II has been centered on the car, and that will have to change," said David Goldberge. In the United States, the Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "car reduce" communities, and legislators are starting to act, if cautiously. I think that the United States should take reducing cars in consideration, too see how it goes. After five-days of intensifying smog... The smog rivaled Beijing, China wich is know as one of the most polluted cities in the world. So imagen what it would do in the United States. In Bogota, Colombia a program that set to spread to the others countries million 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. It was the third year that they been doing this. The goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. For the first time other colimbian cities joined the event. We should have a Car-Free day here in the United states to see how it goes. American behavior: recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by. Maybe these means people are getting over about the car fever. People should vote to have a car-free day. It would be good people would be less tens, they would get more excercise and pollution would dropp. This would be good for you and for me.

The dispute over keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote has been going on for awhile. "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." (Source 1). However not everyone thinks this is fair. "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." (Source 2) So as a result, it is not the people voting for their president, but it is the slate electors. Voting should be based off of popular vote because theb electors might not always be picked fairly, the "winner-take-all system," and what happens when there is a tie. "Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes the presidental canidates themselves." (Source 2) This can be a problem because voters can not control who their electors vote for, because now the decision is in their hands. Also, voters sometimes will get confused about the electors and then will vote for the wrong canidate. The electoral college is also unfair because of the winner-take-all system. According to source 2, "Canidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races." Another common concern in the electoral voting process is "What happens when there is a tie?" If there is a tie, the election then goes to The House of Representatives where they then have the state delegations vote on the president. This is your country, so don't you want to have a say on who runs it? "Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for Congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect then will of the people." (Source 2) In Conclusion, we should change voting to popular vote. "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (Source 2) The Electoral College is not always fair, and at times can be uncertain. As the people we should be able to vote for our president, and not have to leave it up to The House of Representives to make the right choice for us.

Electoral College is where we pick our state elector to choose our president. We as citizen get to help choose our state's electors when we vote. It's a benefit to keep our Electoral College in the government system. After all, Electoral College do have their negatives. In the source "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid denfenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer claims that "voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors." We are not voting for our own president, but choosing an electors for our own state to go on and help us vote for our United States of America's president,but with an Electoral College every state get two Senators and one House of Representatives. Which divide everything equally. Our votes are counted by our population of people. So, the Electoral College shouldn't be change. Mainly, Electoral College help us vote for our president. In the source "What is the Electoral College" by the Office of the Federal Register assert that the winner of the president is "election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens." The more popular votes our states is given the higher chance that president is going to be elected. "Majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president" out of 538 votes for a presidnet to win. With an Electoral College each president have to get at least 270 elector votes from all the 50 states for them to be president. Lastly, Electoral College have no run-off elections. In the source "In defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner mentioned that with no run-offs there wouldn't be any "complicate the presidential election process." There will never be a tie votes between an election. For example, between Nixon and Clinton both got 43 percent popular votes which is a tie and hard to pick, but with an elector vote their votes are 301:370 which is a big difference. In summary, Electoral College is a useful system in the government that should be kept in place. It has been used over the years and it would be a pain to change everything now.

The author suggests that stuudying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the danger it presents. The differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus because Venus is sometimes right around the corner in space terms humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land this cloud draped world. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humnas to study, despite it's proximity to us. For an example Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system. even though Mercury is closer to our sun. High pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like errupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lighting strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. The author really wanted to let everyone who was reading this article were sure they knew Venus is a worthy pursuit despite. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. Peering at Venus from ship orbiting or hovering saftely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on gorund conditions because most forms of light cannot pepetrate the dense atomsphere, redering standard forms of photogrpaphy and videography inffective. Also Researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas or anything else ,from a distance. Scientists mission was to understand Venus would need to get uo close and personal despite the risks. Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value , not because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself. but because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Maybe the issue why not a single spaceship has tounched down on Venus in more than three decades. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Like today Venus still has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features sucha s valleys, mountains, and craters.

Dear Senator of Florida, Recently I have begun to research the difference in effect on the people of Ameirca, between the Electoral College and the result of popular cote for President. I have found out that our founding fathers created the Electoral College in the Constitution, so that while the votes between Congress and the people may be different, ther could be a compromise. Our country; well our world, is evolving with the changes in generation. 2015 has come upon us, and with this year brings a whole new change in cutural diversity and tehcnology. So while I believe sticking to our coutry's Constitution is vital for some reasons, I also believe it is outdated in others. Today, people are slowly coming out of the shells of the past and embracing the change of the future. Every year, children grow older, new children are born, and people pass away from our fine Earth. Though this new generation we have built is going to, one day, become the generation that decides who leads our country and who doesn't. I believe that the Electoral College puts a restraint on the freedom our people, new and old, should possess. Our people have to vote for a party, a group of people that don't show either their faces or their true personalities, to trust well enough with their vote to go for the President they think is right for the Country. Although that is very rarely ever betrayed- as noted by my recent research -I do believe that it is against our certain rights as a United States citizen not to know who exactly we are putting our faith in. Also, even if we do put our full faith in these mysterious political parties, like we have for years and years, who's to say that our vote will even matter? Al Gore, in the year 2000, had more popular votes from the people than Bush, yet he received fewer electoral votes, which decided the winner of the election. Why have us put in our vote at all, if it means nothing to 538 politicians? Our country is made up of millions, upon millions of strong women, men, and children and they should be the deciding factor in the  elections. It's our country just as much as it is the men that make up the Electoral College. A requirement of 270 electoral votes must be made in favor for one presidential candidate over the, though why should such a small number mean more against the millions from the citizens of this great country, the same people that make up the great state of Florida. I understand the need for the Electoral College, when it comes to some decisions. Like avoiding a national catastrophe when it comes to the nuber of swing-votes. While I am a woman of passion, I do allow myself to see both sides of the story and I think while the Electoral College can do good, it can also do bad for this country. It is outdated, overused, and wrong. Our founding fathers built the Constitution and this country we call home, and while that is a great thing...times are changing and the power of the House, and the Senate, should now be moved on to the people. Some states, like North Carolina and Rhode Island were even unable to know close to anything about the current eection between Gore and Bush in 200. I say every state deserves to know the news circling around their country and how it may affect them. The power should now be given to the people, allow them to decide and make decisions. Let the people know they are heard, they have the freedom that our founding fathers gave them in the Constitution. They can speak and let their minds roam for the good of this country. The Electoral College should be taken down and gicen too the hands of the people, for the good of our future. Sincerely, A woman who cares both for her state and her country. PROPER_NAME  

The Case of the Driveless Cars How many movies have you seen that depict the future with advanced technology such as holograms or even driveless cars? How much of a reality could that be? The case of driveless cars has been something that has been going on for awhile. Even around 2009 Google came out with their first almost driveless car. Although driveless cars are depicted as futuristic and magical, really driveless cars seem like more of an endangerment to our economy, our safety and our time. To begin, the manufacturing of driveless cars is insanely expensive. Where would all this money even come from? We would have to fund it to provide research for a car that doesn't know how to back out of a driveway yet. There has already been 200 million dollars spent on radar a device on a hiltop. So why waste money on something that only goes up to 25 mph and won't even drive if you don't have your hands on the wheel? It seems like driveless really just means assissting. But assissting to who? Obviously not the wallets of the buyers. Secondly, the driveless cars are supposed to help for the better of the people, they say it would be "safer". But where is the proof that it is safer? Many states have already banned the use of any self-autonomous cars, just leaving out four states who have left them limited use to test out the cars. How can the world just expect for these cars to be safe when we already have superstition over these cars and those who don't will barely let them use the cars too? They also suggest since the driver will probably be bored that they should put in some entertainment in the car. But what happens when, the car stops and has the driver do what they're supposed to, but they aren't prepared because they were entertained by something else? It's unsafe to assume that having all these distracting things around people who are supposed to be driving won't effect how they do in a sudden situation. There is also the hastle of having to reconstruct the roads, which goes back to the point of money and also safety. It is never safe when there is construction going around, especially when they have to reconstruct the whole road in order to make the driveless cars work. This also leads to the third point. Time is very limited in this day and age. We barely have time to do anything, we have so many errands to run, so many things to do, but it's like we never have enough time. If the expansion of driveless cars would continue we would have to reconstruct the roads, delaying many people with getting to work or going to school, or just everyday things. Then we have to go to the government too, to repeal the ban put over on many states. So, naturally, that will take forever too, because when does the government ever get such controversial things solved super quick? Why waste the time of millions for something we aren't sure of yet? All in all, the manufacturing of driveless cars is pointless when the car isn't even really driveless. It seems more of a hazard to the economy, the safety of many, and the time of others than it does as an ensuring safe way to get around. In the case of the driveless car, the driveless car lost. There are too many negative effects for it to ever succeed.

The world has become extremly evolved and is now able to create software that can read every single emotion on a person's face. It can be used in several different situations. From the text, the author talked about how it is used to read emotion in paintings and also read emotions of students. This emotion reading technology would be a good addition to the classroom because it could help to make sure kids are more engaged in the lessons. Today, school can feel long and tiring. If we had emotion reading technology in schools, it would help to engage students more in the lessons. The author explained how if a student begins to show boredom during a lesson, it would be able to change it in a way to please the student. If that was added to schools, students would be able to focus more since the lesson is being tailored to that specific student. Not only will it recognize when a student is bored, but also confused. If a student gets confused during a lesson, the computer can help by reapeating that part of the lesson. In a normal classroom with a teacher, you would have to stay after class to be able to get more explanation of the lesson. In paragraph 6, Dr. Huang notes, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication." What he means by this is that people don't express their emotions by telling them to others. We don't share how we feel. We simply try to express it on our faces. A teacher wouldn't tailor the lesson to each and every person's emotion based on their facial expression. It would be impossible to tailor the lesson to a classroom of 25 students and their needs. Each student in the classroom has a different mind set. Some are able to concentrate well and pass with straight As. Others are unable to concentrate and will only pass with a C. With this new technology, we would be able to tailor the lessons so that each student is able to pass with good grades. The technology to read facial expressions of emotion would be helpful in the classroom to help students focus more and understand their school work more. If you stop paying attention for just a second, you'll be lost for the majority of the lesson. When there is technology to read your emotions, it'll be able to understand when it needs to modify the lesson to suit the student's needs.

Driverless cars is certainly an amzing idea. It has captured the ideas of filmakers and writers around the world. It is a great idea and should be pursued. The reason for this is because it would make the roads safer, and give people more free time. The reason this is a great idea is because a driverless car would make the roads much safer. There would be very little room for human error. If all cars were driverless operating under the same systm then they would always be doing the same things, meaning they would never crash into each other. With new technological advances in society, we would be able to create new sensors that could locate the objects around them and drive on the road. The article already list a few of the advances in sensors that can lead to very safe cars. This would also give people much more free time. You can do things on the internet within your car that you would not have been able to do otherwise, considering the idea from the article about the heads-up displays. Also if you had a systme driving your car for you, you could travel at much higher speeds. The car would never leave the road because of a jerk of a hand. They would run, completely safe at higher rates of speed, giving people more time to do the things that they need. These are just two of many reasons why we should have driverless cars around the world. It would be a huge step in society and technology. We need driverless cars to make the roads safer and to give people more free time.

What could come of harm from these driverless cars? There are two ways too look at this senaryo. On one side, yes, it would be cool to have a car that you do not even have to drive it hardly. On the other side, no, too much harm can come from these cars. I for one am totally against driverless cars for the following reasons: technology glittches a lot, the driver could fall asleep, there is a lot of road work, and something could happen and the car could reck. Has anyone ever had a piece of technology that did not glitch? In paragraph nine, the author asks one of the most important questions a driver of these cars would want to know: "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" This is a very important question, but of course the manufactuer says, " Automkaers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved." But will they really is the question. What if by fixing one problem, that creates more problems. We as a whole have to start saying no to the advances in techology or everyone is going to be hurting. In the passage that is provided, it states somewhere in there that the drivers have to stay alert because sometimes the car will need a driver, but if the driver accidently falls asleep and the alarm glitches then what will happen? That is one of the very big problems of these "driverless" cars. Start asking yourself questions. Will this car be safe? No, because they run of technology and its not like everything is perfect. Yes, maybe it would cut the rate of car crashes down from drunk drivers, but what if it doesn't? My last reason of saying no is kind of adding onto my other two reaosns, but when there is a lot of road work, and there is, especially in the bigger cities, what is going to happen. BOOM, another car crash. I have stated many different reasons on why these driverless cars are not a good idea, so it's now time for you to choose. Do you want to take the chance of the technology glitching, or you falling asleep, or maybe even falling asleep in a constructin zone? I don't think you do.

Do you like seeing different places and different countries? If so you should join the seagoing cowboys. You will be able to see lots off different cities and countries. Do you like to help people in need then you should join the seagoing cowboys. Lots of people need help ,they need food supplies ,animals and many other things. You will also be having lots of fun and you will be able to enjoy yourself. There are lots of other place to see and different foods. If you join now you will see different cities,countries and foods. There are lots of diffent types of food to try and maybe you might really like one type of food. Cities are diiferent from other ones they may be alike but not really. There are different types of cities to see . Countrys are way different nthan other ones and some other ones speak a different langue. Don't you think it would be great if you to lean a different langue? When you would come back to your home you would be ale to teach others different cultires and lanuges. Helping others is a great thing to do and very inportant. There are lots of people without food or cloths to wear. People need help because their towns have been destroyed and they have nothing left for them. They also need animals to perduse meat, wool, and they can sell htem so they can get money to buy things. Lots of those people are dieing from hunger or they are out side with no place to sleep or even sit. They need our help,they need your help. You might be think how am I going to get there. We will take you by boat but you might be wondering that seems boring and we will have nothing to do on the boat. There is lots of things to do on the boat. You can feed the animals as we take to different places. Does that seem boring to you if so you are right but there are othering things to do such as baseball and volleyball games and other games. On the back that is when you can really start having fun. SInce there are no animals on the boat that extra space can be use as a table-tennis room and you can have tournamets. You can also have fencing,boxing,reading, whittling. Do you still think you will not like being Seagoing CowBoys? There are many different food,cities,and countires. Helping the people in the need who dont't have food suplies and animals. Also all those fun games you would be able to play and how you would be able to make new friends and talk to different people. That seems like a great program i would join and i have joined the Seagoing CowBoys. To see different things,to help lots of people ,and to meet different people and have a good time with them. I don't know about you but I sure would want to be a part of the Seagoing Cowboys. If you would join the Seagoing Cowboys program you would have a great time.

In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author tells us about how Venus is a planet in our solar system that is almost impossible to explore. Venusian geologist haven't been able to figure out to successfully land a spacecraft on it yet but someday they might be able to. Venus may never be able to be examined up close but it has been from a distance. Scientists have made many trips to other plants and dwarf plants like Mars (r.i.p. Mars Rover 2006?-2019), Saturn and even as far as Pluto. Scientist could potentally one day make it to Venus and land or have some kind of drone spacecraft on it for exploration. For example, "Imagine a blimb-like vehicle hovering 30 miles or so above the roiling Venusian landscape." this could potentially happen some day if we keep working towards it. Maybe some day in the near future scientist will get something on Venus so we know more about it.

Have you ever thought of trying new things or to discover something incredible ?Even if it is dangerous ? i know i have , but I've never gave it chance. Reading this passage makes me want to take risks because we only have one life and we should take risk and discover our planet because it is worth it. Would you take a risk? In this passage it talks about taking a risk to discover some information of our planet called Venus. It is one of the most dangerous planet on Earth , but Is it worth it to take a risk? just to discover how Venus is ? Here are some information that the author has given us that he claims that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Venus has the hottest surface even though Mercury is closer to the sun. Maybe that is the issue of why not a single spaceship has touched down to Venus. Discovering Venus could be worth it because we would know more information about our planet. Venus once was covered with oceans and had support of life forms just like Earth. Today , Venus still has features that are analogous of Earth. There are many ways on how we can discover Venus as the author describes we can use machines and test other people in space with different techniques. So, there is ways on how you can discover something without being dangerous and is worth to discover for .Take a challenge because us humans have curiosity that will likely lead us into many other things in life. Our decisions in life should not be limited by dangers and doubts about discovering our planet , but should be expanded to meet the very end of discovering.

Driveless cars sound really cool and up to date to many people. People would think they wouldnt have to pay any attention to their surrondings, the road, or have any sense as to where they are going. These driving cars are developed to have vibrating drivers seats when the vehicle is in danger and the car has absolutley no control over itself no matter how dangerous the situation is. The driver himself would have to do everything he could to get the car in control and to avoid the incident as soon as possible. So why would even get a driveless car if you have to take control every once in a while? Driving cars sound pretty dangerous and could possibly put you in an accident. When you hear about driveless cars, you'd really like to think you dont have to do much of anything since the car is in control itself and you have all this time to relax. Wrong. The driver DOES have to take immediate control when the car is in danger, (could be of backing into an object etc.), navigating through work zones, and having to work your way around accidents. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph." Only 25 mph. How come these things can't handle being on the highway or interstate? The driverless car sounds usless and it's another excuss for people to be lazy. Actually, couldn't you lose braincells if not paying full attention to what you're doing in the car/on the road? Maybe not lose braincells but in a way this driverless car could possibly mess you up in a way mentally because in that moment you dont have a care in the world and thing you don't need to pay attention to what's going on around you inside the car. It could maybe make you lose hope for yourself because now you can depend on something else to do something for you even though you're still in the use of danger inside a driverless car. Manufacturers are wasting their time.

Cars come in different colors, and are what we use to transport anything. Whether it a family going on vacation, going to  work or going to school.  With all of these possible benfits and more is what we gain from cars. We don't realize how cars really have an effect in our everyday changing world. That the moment we put the car key in to turn on the car we are creating are more hazordous world for the present time and  the furture to come. By,limiting car usage in the world we can do many postive and beneficial things like in our atmosphere,  becoming a independent person without the need of a car, and to be relive as oneself. To begin with, pollution can be reduced like never ever before in are world named history. Pollution now in days is just terrible to have. It not just make it difficult  for us to breathe but, as well it destroy the atmoshere that we need protect us from the harmful rays of the sun. The greenhouse effect can be lowered if we limit the use of cars. This can be actually proven with the following exert of the passage," And that experts say, is a huge impediment to current efforts to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States." (Source #1) The point that I'm really trying to convey, is that we can do this all together if we limit the car usage. There should be a well and profounded effort to do so. Another example would be that if we dont limit the usage of cars we can not have a fresh and clear atmoshere. Can you imagine a day that you wake up to find, that all that was around you be nothing but a smog and prevent you to see and do anything? The car we have produce dangerous toxic that can up in are air and can be very hard for us later on. But if limit car usage, we can prevent this from happening. Not, just us but to other place in the world. This was what happen in France ,to prevent the usage for cars producin that smog they created an renforce day to prevent the use of car. Which lead to a shocking over turn of news. Like so in the following,"Congestion was down 60 percent in the capital of France" (Source #2) What I'm trying to inform once again is that we limit we can create a better fit living world to be in. This is one advantages that we can do as fellow citizens in our country Which lead to me to my othe point, there is more that we have in advantage of limiting the usage of cars. It is a way of "smart planing" ourself as a community. We can live a more free caring world without the need of a car. Technology can play a part in the limit of of car usage. As stated in the folllowing "The Internet makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends." (Source #4)See this occur and happen this a will fitted advantage to us all. Another, advantage that we have in hand is the ability to relieve our stress level to a much stable level. which lead to me to my other insight of information, "When I had a car I was alwaystense. I'm much happier this way" said Heidrun Walter" (Source #1) Being in the car makes it complicated and diifficult. This is another way for us take advantage to limit the use of cars. In conclusion, there are many advantegous for that we can benifit from that if we limit the use of care by lower pollution in are atmospher, creating a more benficial way for ouself without the need of a car, the relive of oneself. So, the next time you get on your car think is it reall a need to do so?

In the aricle "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System enables computers to indentify human emotions. Details I found from in the article show that computers can read a persons emotions. It can also tell from a painting or a video. It tells us in the beginging of the paragraph 1 that in the Mona Lisa paiting it shows emotion. According to the new computer software that can read emotions they tested it on paiting. She shows 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 perecent ferful, and 2 percent angry. I believe this new technology is valuable for our use. It can give us bettter ways to explore and to communicate with computers. It tells us in the artilcle that computers can actually "calculate" emotions. It can recognize how a human feels and how humans express themselves. A psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman a creator for FACS constructed a 3-D computer model of a face and all major muscles in the model must move like a human muscle. One or more muscles that move is called a "action unit". An example, your pfrontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyues) raise your eyuebros when your surprised or shocked . Using video imagery, the new emotion-regonition software tracks these facial movements- in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. Humans perform this same impressice "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her or his face. I think to read the emotional expressions of students in classroom is impressive. A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. It could also make computer animated faces more clear and expressive for video games video surgery. But also most humans communicate in nonverbal, including emotional communicaton. I think the use to read the emotional expressions of students is valuable. It can help them in the classroom if there confused or distracted. It could really help a lot more then just students in a classroom. I think it could be used around in daily life maybe at a hostpital or military. This is why i think the Facial Action Coding System and technology is valuable.

The new technology called the Facial Action Coding Sysytem that enables computers to identitfy human emotions is a geat idea. I am all for the new technology. I plenty of reasons why. One reason the new technology is a good idea is so you can tell wheather a child is bored or no in school. In the text it states,'' A classroom computer can recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored,'' Dr Huang predicts. Also in the text is states,'' The same technology can make a computer-animated faces more expressive for video games and video surgey. Second reason the technology is a good idea is because the computer can can tell how your feeling one day and how your feeling the next day. In the text it states,'' The computer has six basic emotions- happiness, suprise, anger,disgust, fear, and sadness, and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. Also in the text it states,'' For example , your frontails pars lateralis muscle ( above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when your suprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger. The technology system has diffrent emotions. Finally a third reason why the technology is a good idea is because it helps produce your face expressions. In the text it states,'' According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emtion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them. For example; coach Constantin stanislavsky, had his actors carefully reproduce smiling and frowning as a way of creating these emotions on stage. The new technology is a great idea because One it can tell wheather a child is confused or bored, Two the technology can tell what face expression and how your feeling one day or the next, and finally Three the new technology helps produce your face expressions.

The Electoral College should stay because it lets other people choose the president on behalf of the people. The Electoral College helps so that there is not a big problem with people going and having to do all that work themselves. Some people dont like having to vote the way the Electoral College does so they just take the majority vote and puts that in for us so we dont have to do it. It lets us choose and go home so that were not goin out all day waiting for so many people to do the majority now its all online which makes it even easier to tally it all up and see who gets the vote. The Electoral College is just making everything alought easier for us and we are able to spend less time in a voting area waiting for people to get done. The online voting helps out alought because we are able to get everything done a whole lot easier then others. There is also a smaller line with the online thing so that most people dont have to wait as long. Unless you get that one person who is taking forever and doesnt want to leave the booth then you are there all day and nobody wants that to happen because that would not leave you having a good day for nobody. But the majority vote could be good to only having to split up the vote and the president is whoever got the most votes. But the only outcome of that is someone not liking the president or the president isnt doing very well in anything and he just sits there not doing anything. Then that president would have to be impeached and we will have to get a new president and nobody wants to go through that. Some people might want to go through that and get a new president only because they dont like him or hes not doing to well in anything or he is just a stoubern president and doesnt like makeing rash decisions. But that president is going to have to get over that.

Dear Senator, Every four years, citizens of the United States ages eighteen and up, gather at local voting locations to elect the President, our government leader. From Washington to Obama we have always elected our leaders as such. The Constitution has given us our way to vote- the Electoral College. This process, of course, consists of our 538 electors, the place where they meet to vote, and the counting of said votes. But how effective is this process? Honestly, I believe the Electoral College should be diminished. Statistics show that direct voting is preferred by the majority of the citizens in the U.S.. According to a poll taken in 2000, 60% of voters would rather direct voting over the current system. With the current " winner-take-all " concept in most all states except Maine and Nebraska, many people find that even if 45% of all the votes in the state are for one party, all of the votes go to the opposition. Citizens may as well not even vote under this standard if they wont even be represented. Although not one vote will decide an election if we had direct voting, many single votes can. Take the 1.4 out of 3 million people in California who voted one way and got all their votes thrown the other because of the other 1.6 million people. With that 1.4 million, mixed with tons of thousands of voters, one party may actually win the election rather then the canidate who would have won with the Electoral College process. For example, in 2000, George W. Bush won the election and most of the Electoral College votes. However , Al Gore got the most individual votes. How can that be fair at all? When "we the people" vote for the president, we are not actually doing what we have come to believe. In reality, we are actually voting for representatives called Electors to vote for the canidate. These electors cast their vote depending on the votes that we (you and I), cast. These electors that we choose are generally very trustworthy and reliable, being the reasons we choose these government officials to elect our government leaders. Sadly, however, not everybody is who they say they are, as we all have flaws and sins; occasionally one of these electors will be unfaithful and vote for the canidate they deem fit, instead of who we have chosen ourselves. Although this is rare, the possibilities would be negated completely if we simply had direct, individual voting. To wrap up, I vote that we abolish the Electoral College and allow the citizens of the United States to vote for ourselves. It would make the majorty of the U.S. happier, it will make us better represented, and we will be directly electing our own government officials. I believe that we should amend the old ways and evolve and adapt to newer, better ways, as we always have in the past. Thank you, Jerica

In a competitive world where automobiles keep getting faster, drivers are more reckless, and the death toll is rising, a solution to maintain public safety is necessary. Distracted and careless drivers may no longer be a public menace with the rise of a new technology, driverless cars. Driverless cars are beneficial to the public because the cars will have a better sense of the world around them, and they will eliminate most of the dangers of drunk and/or drowsy drivers. The continued evolution of a self-driving car has created many advanced sensors that can sense and adjust to the world around it more efficiently than any human. According to "Driverless Cars Are Coming," a sensing system called LIDAR that "uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings." This would eliminate the current problem of blindspots and reduce the rate of collisions dramatically. The LIDAR system would also be able to instantly sense any changes in the surrounding area, where as a human would only be aware of a change if he/she looked in the correct mirror, or when a collision was already happening. There has also been an advance in wheel sensors. According to "Driverless Cars Are Coming", these sensors can detect various dangerous situations and 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." Obviously, these sensors can keep the passengers and general public safer than just one unassisted driver. Along with more advanced features, comes the elimination of many public menaces and dangerous drivers. If a driver is drowsy, they won't be endangering the public, because the car would be driving for them. There won't be any slip of the wheel to send a car into a ditch, a heavy foot excelerating the car into a tree or pedestrian, or fender benders because the driver was unable to apply the brake. Of course, if the car would happen to need a driver, the safety sensors could easily wake up the sleeping passenger with vibrating seats, as mentioned in paragraph seven of "Driverless Cars Are Coming," voices demanding the driver to take over, and other alarms to wake the driver up. In the case of drunk driving, even though they may need to take the wheel in certain situations, it would be quite rarely, and would still decrease the danger of drunk drivers. Someday the self-driving car may no longer need any human assistance, which would eliminate the danger of drowsy and drunk drivers all together. In conclusion, the creation of self-driving cars would be beneficial to overall public safety because the developing sensors can already detect and adapt to changes more efficiently than a human can, and it would eliminate the danger of sleeping, distracted, and drunk drivers.

The Face on Mars is a mesa found on Mars in 1976. NASA's Viking 1 space craft was snapping pictures to find somewhere for it's sister spacecraft ,Viking 2 when is saw this figure/face. On April 5, 1998 MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper. It just revealed it to be a natural landform. After taking the picture they saw no alien monument. They decided to take another picture just to clarify. On April 8, 2001 Malin's team captured a picture using maximum resolution. Each pixel was 1.56 meters compared to 43 meters per pixel which is the best they could have done in that time. If there were any form of alien artifacts or anything like that we would have seen it. The picture actually shows a form of a butte or mesa. They are landforms Common around the American West. They have done other research to try and prove that there is no alien activity. Why would they lie? Defenders of the NASA budget specifically said they wished there were an ancient civilization. Typically if someone has an opinion of something they try to fight the opposing side. So why would NASA lie if they weren't against what the American people had to say?

The author explains in the article "The Challenges of Exploring" Venus that studying Venus is a wrothy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. "Therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission to understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks." (Paragraph 6 lines 6-8) This supports that idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because in the quote it's basically saying that they're thinking about having a mission but they understand the dangers in Venus. The author has a lot of ideas that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. A lot of his ideas about Venus is that it's the closet planet that is like Earth but there are a lot of problems with Venus. Two dangerous things about Venus is "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." (Paragraph 3 lines 3-6) This means that the surface is way hotter than ours so that would be a major problem and also the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than ours which is another major problem. If we lived on a surface that was over 800 degrees than how would we even survive? Also, "Humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good readon, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades." (Paragraph 2 lines 7-11) This also supports the claim that Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because this tells the reader why a spaceship hasn't touched Venus. The Good things are that "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too." (Paragraph 2 lines 1-3) This would mean that we wouldn't have to worry about going to a planet that is way smaller in density and in size than Earth. Also it would mean that whoever would go to Venus wouldn't have to go a long way because Venus is the closest planet to Earth distance wise. The author did an amazing job supporting the ideas about why studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because he gave examples of why Venus could be considered a good or bad planet. The author did this by supporting his claims which is very good. So the author did very well on supporting the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despiting the dangers.

Driverless cars are positve tools coming to our future. With the new technology that is being created today, it will be possible to create a safe and effective way of transportation. A person will simply not have to worry about transportation as often as today. A positive aspect of driverless cars is the capability to flexible transportation. "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus." While there are many methods of transportation in the city, such as trains, buses, taxis, and even Ubers, people still plead for a better method to transportation. Driverless cars will fundamentally provide a way for people to get to their destination safely. Safety is one of the biggest concerns of America. Many people are injured and killed each year from car accidents. Driverless cars will provide safety to reduce and potentially eliminate car accidents. "Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." The developing driverless cars have a positive report on eliminating car wrecks. This information is in favor of road safety. While driverless cars are in the making, the current "Traffic Jam Assistant" is a feature fully available. This is helping the development of driverless cars as a whole. "The car can hand handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." Improvements in technology are advancing toward driverless cars. With the current model of driverless cars, people can still drive the car in difficult situations if necessary. "The road to the truly autonomous car stretches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination every day." A problem many see arising is the liability charges that could potentially happen if a driverless car makes a mistake. "If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" As many believe the technology can fail, automakers are solving these problems. "Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that problems ahead will be solved." Many of the problems people are worried about and opposing driverlss cars are in the works of being solved. Driverless cars can benefit everyone. Better transportation, safety, and convenience are a few of the positive benefits that can make a difference in the world. As technology is advancing, driverless cars are near the future.

Although Venus has a reputation for being difficult to study, scientists have tried numerous times with unmaned spacecrafts. Each time, however, the spacecraft has not survived on Venus for more than a few hours. The author of the article "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," suggests that Venus is a worthy puruit despite its many dangers. The author does this by describing the planet's similarities to Earth, Venus's location in the solar system, and by describing the vast differences between Earth and Venus. Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin due to its many similarites. Both planets have similar sizes and distances from the sun. Scientists also believe that Venus was once a hospitible planet due to its similarities to Earth. Scientists have discovered that Venus has some features that are similar to those on Earth, such as land formations. Even though Venus is so hospitable, it is the closest planet to Earth and is the quickest travel throughout space. If Venus were to once again become hospitible as it was before, humans could potentially travel there. Venus has a similar distance from the sun as Earth, meaning that it should be similarly hospitible. However, Venus has high temperatures and pressure which does not add up to the distance from the sun. The temperature on a planet is determined by the planet's distance from the sun and how much heat and light is able to travel to the planet. Since Earth is hospitible at a similar distance as Venus, then why is Venus plagued by severe temperatures? This and other mysteries about Venus are being questioned by scientists, but without the ability to get close to the planet, most exploration is impossible due to the thick atmosphere. Although Earth and Venus have many similarities, their living conditions vastly differ. Due to Venus's acidic atmosphere and severe heat, living on Venus is impossible, while Earth is currently populated by a variety of creatures. Venus has temperatures that average over eight hundred degrees Fahrenheit, while the pressue is about ninety times greater than that on Earth. Venus also has the hottest surface temperature of any of the other planets, even hotter than Mercury. Venus is also plagued by volcanos, earthquakes, and frequent lightning. These differences may seem confusing because Mercury is closer to the sun and should, in theory, be the hottest planet in the solar system. Venus should also have a surface temperature and pressure similar to that of Earth. If scientists were able to figure out more information about Venus, it may provide more information about the solar system and about Earth. Since evidence suggests that Venus was once more similar to Earth, studying the planet may provide insight as to why Venus was turned into such an inhospitable planet, and if it could happen to Earth. Scientists could also potentially develop a way to live on Venus or turn its living conditions back to how it once was in the past. In conclusion, the author uses this evidence to support the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite its many dangers.

lukes partipation in the seagoing cowboys program allowed him to experience adventures and visit unique places. Ithink others should go join the seagoing cowboys program. The text states " it was 1945 world war II was over in Europe,and many contries where left in ruins. The text also states that " to help these countries recover their food supplies, animals, and more 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA . Luckes claims helped me choose to convine people to join the seagoing cowboys program by you get to see all the historical places and get to see whats left in ruins. in the text he also knew it is a chance of a lifetime that he'll never get again. the details from the article that supports lukes claims are " Helping out on his aunt katie's farm as a boy prepared luke for hard work. "But not for the dangers at sea". People who think that they should not convince ohers to join is because they think that they would be away from their family's for a long period of time. And it's a lot of hard work. these people dont know the good it will do thecountry. And the people who really need help. they dont want to help out other people. In conclusion i would convince people to join the seagoing cowboys program. I have stated that a its a once in a life time chance to have. Also they could help out other people by doing so. And you'll be aware about others people's needs despite your own. So i would convience others to join.

Do you think the Facial Action Coding is 100 percent valuable and correct? In my personal opinion I say no. I have three reason that can explain why this technology is not valuable. I could be frowning and be happy ,but showing a sign of joy. Don't always trust technology; it sometimes can lead in the wrong way. Im amuse that people are relying on technology to lead them in a direction that could be wrong. In the article it said " For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feelging simply by the look on her face." That's very incorrect because many times I'll ask my friend how she is feeling when she looks grumpy. She would say im good with me not knowing that because me thinking her facial expression is saying something different. People ask me all the time whats wrong with me when; I turn out to be just chilling. Some people natural look might just be a mug. I learned that the hard way its so very true. Trusting technology can give you false information. I remember this time I sprained my foot. I went to the doctor to get in x-ray and the x-ray information was showing that nothing was wrong with it for a period of time. Although, im glad the doctor knew what he was doing ;he then figure out that the inner of my foot was spained. The bone was slightly bent and I needed time to heal it and recover. It sounds like the Facial Action Coding System is like a x-ray machine. I understand that the Facial Action Coding System is a use of technology. With that being known we can believe that the technology want always be right. You can get stuff off the internet thats not true information, but yet it's a source of technology. Many people just go to get there information off of wikipedia for a research project. You never know if the stuff is true because any one can edit it. So you can compare the Facial Action Coding Sysytem with gettig information off of the internet these are both sources of technology. Is it a possibility that the Facial Coding System is valuable? Yes but I wouldn't put all of my trust into it. Just because im frowning don't assume that something is wrong with me. Or if someone just has a mug as a look don't think that their mad. It can come back that your wrong. Believeing that everything with technology is true is very false. It a good chance that the technology is off. The Facial Coding Sysytem like a x-ray scanning. Sometimes it can give true information sometimes it can't.

The facial action coding system for emotions was developed to detect different emotions. It may seem creepy to know everyones emptions but it can benefit teachers. It can even help out people in general to identify different emotions on people. The technology should be used to read students expressions. The technology should be used in school for its uniqueness, lessons, and overall connection to students and teachers. With the system, teachers can detect truthfullness in their students. It can help connection with students and their teachers, or even just peers. People can force different faces to convince others to think they are different that how they actually feel. But, with the system you can tell when someone is genuine about a emotion. For example, there are certain muscles that move when someone is truly happy. The muscular units move around, the muscles at the cheek bones lift, and the crow feet around your eyes move. The system itsself is highly intelligent, and completely new to our generation. The technology is advanced and had never been created before. The sytem can calculate the percentages of different emotions on people. There are a variety of emotions that it detects such as happiness, surprise, anger, disguist, fear, and sadness. It can even be used for ads to see if someone is interested in a certain thing. If they remain happy, they will show similar ads. The coding sytem can be used by teachers for lessons. Students can appear bored and not interested in class. With the sytem, teachers know when they are into and engaged into their learning in the class. The system would detect the facial muscles to recognize them as uninterested. Then, they can adjust the lesson to engage more students and improve their learning overall. In conclusion, teachers and schools should utilize this system and work it into their lessons. It has tons of benefits to learning. It is something new and advanced to the society. Also, it can be used to get more students invloved in learning, and ensure excited engaged students. Overall, the coding system can help with lessons, connection, and its uniqueness to society.

Space the last place humans have to quench their thrst for exploration. Venus has a highly hostile atmosphere it's tempatures round to about 800 degrees fahrenheit (Challenge, 3). The author states that exploring venus is a worthly pursuit the author claims, this is how he supports that claim. The author shares that, since venus has one of the closest orbits to earth, It will save on travel cost (Challenge, 2). This is based in fact the fuel cost to even get a rocket of of the earth is astonomical, to enter a steady orbit around venus that will drive the cost up even more. however that cost will still be a lot cheaper than if NASA shot for jupiter or another planet further away in our solar system. The author goes on to say what NASA plans are to support a scientists life above the surfice of venus. He says "A blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the above the rolling Venusian landscape. just like our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way" (Challenge, 5). the Blimp-like vehicles can possibily support a human living on it for a few months while staying out of the way of the storms. In conclusion, the author seems to have stated his points well with exstenive research. He wrote a well thought out essay, with facts and science to back it up.

The electoral college process consist of the selection of the elector, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president in a way to let us the people choose to keep our country safe and to help our community. So therefore i think we should keep the electoral college. Under the 23rd Amendment of the constitution, the District of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purpose of the Electoral College. Also we help choose our states electors when we vote for president, but if we did'nt have an electoral college there would'nt be any reason to have a president or government. But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the partys nominee ( and that trust is rarely betrayed ), what they mean by that is that if he or she were to become president they could not lie or betray anyone. The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of votes cast. I think they should really make people vote because its not fair or equal if only half of us americans voted. The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates as we saw in [ 2012's ] election-to focus their campaign efforts on the toss up states. which means almost everyone voted that year. The electoral college method helps see who the right person is to help our country. Therefore they need to keep the electoral college for us to see where it will take us all through the years and for us to acknowledge how it has helped americans all around the world to get where they are today.

Being a seacowboy is amazing! I have been on nine trips and, it is the experience of a lifetime! We go around the world in ships taking care of the animals that are being shiped to other countries. You will be given all the things you need, you just have to feed the animals and give them water, also sometimes clean the pens. The administaration you will be working for is the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration but, we usualy call it the UNRRA for short. At this point you might be thinking why should I even join, it sounds like you do not have any fun? You do not just work all of the time you get to go sight seeing too. I saw things like the Acropolis in Greece, and took a gondala ride in Venice Italy where the streets are made of water! I toured an excavated castle and the Panama Canal also! After the animals are off the ship and you are returning you get to have fun then too! We did things like baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where the animals had been kept. We also had table tennis tournaments! Sometimes we did fencing, boxing, and other games to pass the time. If you want to just relax we did things like reading and whittling. I joined the sea cowboys and I loved it. I think you will too! This opportunity will not come again! So join now.

From the time that school had been implemented as a necessary component of modern society, the emotions and behaviours of students have correlated to the interest they have in the lessons they were learning. The behaviours are sometimes not analyzed, causing the teacher of the class to either bore his students to sleep or giving his students so much freedom that they don't have the patience to carry out the work required of them. Teacher and class evaluations have been formed to try and fix this issue, but they are not reliable. But a multiple choise questionare isn't the way to determine the characteristics of a human being. A device that could analyze the behaviours of a student would better represent that person.Using technology in order to read the emoitonal expressions of a student in a classroom would be valuable because the students emotions show how they respond to a given lesson. Implementing technology that would allow a teacher to know how his sudents were responding to a lesson being given would improve the quality of the lesson being given in order to fit the needs of tthe student, as well as helping the teacher better improve his lesson plan to balance out the amount of mentally taxing work and relaxing activities that corrospond to the lesson. It is a well known fact that many students do not enjoy a class because they do not like the way the teacher goes about informing his students. This problem often leads to students being disengaged in a lesson and not learning what was taught. The teacher, however, is not aware that the student is not engaged and continues teaching the same unappetizing lesson. With an algorithm that would be able to analyze the way a students is reponding to a lesson, however, the teacher would be able to alter the lesson to engage his students. Most students do not tell their teacher that they are not interested in what is being taught, but as D'Alto explains, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication" (D'Alto 6). Analyzing the nonverbal actions of the student help give an accurate representation of what the way a student responds to the information being taught. Teachers have tried doing evaluations to learn the way the students feel, but these are unreliable and often take up unnecessary time. With technology that allows the teacher to know how the students feel automatically, it would save time for both the teacher and the student, as well as let the teacher respond to any issues much more quickly than with an evaluation. In conclusion, implementing technology that would allow the teacher to know exactly how the student responds to a lesson being given would be valuable. This process could potentially allow the teacher to alter a lesson in a way that it becomes more engaging, and it would also eliminate the need for inaccurate teacher evaluations that waste time. The changes that come with technology will be beneficial to classrooms everywhere, and could potentially fix the long lasting problem of students becoming unintersted in a lesson or a class.

Facial Action Coding System in Classroom's? Have you heard about the new computer software called Facial Action Coding Sytem? This software can detect what kind of emotion you are feeling. This latest innovation comes from two profesors and some colleague experts. They are all developing better ways for a computer to communicate with people. The use of this technology could and should be used to even read students facial expressions in a classroom. My first reason as to why I believe that this latest technology should be used to read students facial expressions in a classroom is because it can modify the lesson. For example when a student is in class and is looking at a computer screen and becoming confused or bored the computer will recognize this. When it recognizes this it can than modify the lesson in a way where it can make that frown go upside down. The lesson will than become more interesting and the student will than be willing to do the work because he/she enjoys it. My second reason on why the Facial Action Coding System should be used in a classroom to detect students facial expressions is because it will help them academicly. For example when a student has to work on something on the computer that is visually interesting he/she will do a better job on actaully putting in some effort. The computer will read the facial expression on the student and continue giving them things on the screen that will keep a smile on there face. This will result in the student scoring well in whatever it was they were working on because it drew there attention in enough for them to continue reading and looking at the screen. In conclusion using the Facial Action Coding System has its benifits.When using this new technology in a classroom the students will not only be happy but it will help them do well in school as well. You won't ever have to read anything in class that is boring so make sure you take this new computer software into consideration the next time you are working on something on the computer.

i think it would be valuable because you could help the kids stay focused and you can make it so they dont stress over little things. if you could change your emotions, that would be great because anytime you were sad of something you could just change your emotion, because why not. i'drather be happy all of the time then sad. like if you're having a bad day. just smile and change it. in my experience, i feel happy when the people aound me are happy. if im having a bad day i just surround myself in happy people so then i will get happier. if i dont feelwell of wanna throw up or something then i just smile, because i probably could have a good day if i just smile. its hard to deal with emotions and stuff because they dont work out the way you always want. emotions are a big part of us though, if you were emotionless then what would you be. you would definitly be a robot. in this world so much has changed; like now there are so many school shootings and other things like that, most people's emotions are wack. because if you dont have a solid base to work off of, you're gonna get no where because you will crumble. dont stress it, just bless it. this essay may not be the greatest, but it could put a smile on your fac, because apparently emotions are everything.

Did you know that if you are a Seagoing Cowboy than you will have a lot of unique adventures? Some of the adventures I went on were going to tour an excaveted castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China, Going to Europe and China, And seeing the Acropolis in Greese was very special to me. You should join because there is lots of fun on deck like playing baseball, volleyball, and table tennis tournements and much more. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was a gret adventure. One great reason to join the seagoing cowboy group is you go on a lot of unique trips on the way there. I went to the excaveted castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. I also went to see the Acropolisin Greese and that was very special to me. Last i went to Europe and China. Another great reason to join the Seagoing Cowboy group is you have a lot of fun on the deck. One thing we used to do was play baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where the animals used to be. We also played table tennis, boxing, and fencing. To make the time pass we used to read and study a lot after playing the games. The next reason you should become a Seagoing Cowboy is you will have much more than an adventure in your life. I am very greateful for this opportunity. It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure to me. Being a Seagoing Cowboy changed my life and made it an adventure. All the fun I had on deck all the trips and being a Seagoing Cowboy enspired me. It will change your life to an adventure and you will have a lot of fun with your crew if you join. Would you like to become a Seagoing Cowboy?

The planet Venus is also known as the ''Evening Star," due to how it is one of the brightest points of light in the sky during the night. Venus is also sometimes referred as the Earth's ''twin,'' this is because Venus is the closest of the planets to Earth when comparing density size, and occasionally distance. Even though Venus is safe to see from a distance, but it has been proven that Venus is extremely dangerous when to close. Venus's physical conditions are so lethal that trying to study the planet isn't worth the risk. Furthermore, An article called "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" states reasons otherwise, as how a way a human can examine Venus with a special kind of technology. Venus's conditions are so lethal that trying to study the planet isn't worth the risk. The atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide surrounds Venus. Along with the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere of Venus. In addition to, the planets conditions are very high compared to Earth. For example, in paragraph 3 it states, "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." This information reveals how lethal the planet Venus truly is when compared to Earth. Secondly, NASA is working with an old electronic that further supports the idea of studying Venus. Even though this electronic is stated to survive the lethal conditions of Venus, it isn't going to be retrievable from the surface of Venus, as humans can only get as close as 3 miles from Venus's surface. Including, the piece of technology is extremelly old and outdated. For example, in paragraph 7 it states, "These devices were first envisioned in the 1800s and played an important role in the 1940s during World War ll." This information proves against the authors point, and shows how invailed and outdated the technology is. To conclude, The study of Venus was attempted and failed. Knowing more information about Venus will have no purpose because the living conditions are unstable. Venus's conditions are so lethal that trying to study the planet isn't worth the risk. The temperatures are way to high and the air quality is sad. There is no technology at this moment that can survive the extreme physical conditions of Venus. Even if the technology is new or old. After all, Earth is ten times better.

Driverless cars are developing with all the new technology advancements. While we might not be quite there yet we will be one day. Some argue that driverless cars will not be a good thing and that they will never be used becasue people are too impatient to sit in a car and have it take them somewhere. But driverless cars will one day change the world for the better. Driverless cars are going to change the world. Maybe some people like to drive and say that they will not want driverless cars, but those people are not the ones who have to drive all througout the night. Semi-truck drivers are people who spend a good amount of their adult lives on the road. With driverless cars developing it will help these people there would not be a need for them and they can spend more of their time at home. Some argue that driverless cars are not a possibility, even if these people turn out to be right the advancements that have been made make the lives of semi-truck drivers much easier. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph" these simple things can make a drivers life much easier. There are people in the world who simply hate driving with a passion, but they have no alternitive which forces them to drive where they need to go. Whether it is to work and back or whatever it may be they are forced to drive. But with driverless cars coming these people have something to look forward to, now they would have a car that will take them to work and back. Which is why driverless cars would be a great deal if they were to become a normality in our everyday lives. Driverless cars are one day going to become a great deal in our everyday lives and it will change the world as we know it. No matter who you are they will have an impact on your life. Whether you are a person who only drivers to and from work or if you drive for a living it will change your life. It might be because you simply hate driving and would like for driverless cars to become an alternitive for you. It even be because you are a truck driver who spends a lot of his or her time on the road and would like to rest here and there when making a delivery. If you are anywhere inbetween there driverless cars will change your life for the better.

We cross the Alantic ocean and adventure the world. Amazed at how beautiful and wonderful everything look. Becoming a Seagoing Cowboy was the opportunity of a life time, I had to take it. Why wouldn't anyone want to join us?As we sail through the oceans helping people and the animals. People all around the world should be apart of the Seagoing Cowboys! The amazing things we do have really inspired me to really show people the real me and you can too! In 1945 World War ll was over in Europe. Unfortinatly many countries were left in ruins. Of course we had to do something about it. We were asked to take care of the hourses, young cows, and mules that were shipped overseas. Of course we did! it took about two weeks to cross the Atlantic ocean from the eastern coast of the United States and one month to get to China. We had a lot of free time exploring the world and trying new things. I found new ways to have fun once we unloaded the animals. We played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals were housed. Whittling, reading, fencing, boxing, tennis tournaments, and games also helped time go faster. It was a great opportunity for me and my friends to learn more about the things that surrond us. Our journey to Italy was wonderful! Seeing the Acropolis was special, so was taking a gondola ride in Venice. The text says being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than adventure for Luke Bomberger, but a way to open up the world to him. "I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says. "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." Awareness stayed with Luke Bomberger. He led his family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. I would love to be apart of such a wonderful program!

The author supports this idea well and its about studying is Venus is a worthy pursuit. Even if there are some dangers to it they are not as big as to the reasons we should and without fixing the problems on why we can't. There are many reasons to studying Venus and visiting and its because there are possibilities that it could happen. Venus is the most like planet to earth but it'll just take time to get there. And we could go to Venus because it is the planet next to us and closer to the sun but then sometimes we do get closer to Mars depending on how it rotates but Vensu does have the most similarities to Earth. The only thing is that we need to have the right spacecraft to make it to Venus and have it last because some don't last that long or they break. No spacraft has ever survived the landing longer than a few hours. But they want to know if the air in that planet is accessible to us to the point where there could possibly be life, or discover new things. Before Venus had was covered with ocean and could support life, but Venus today has some of those features, but are mostly a surface of a rocky sediment. But when wanting to go to Venus comes challenges because not everything is easy to do because the temperature there goes up to 800 degress fahrenhiet and the the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than what we expirience and the stuff in Venus are things that our body couldn't handle because we don't handle those type of things in Earth. But the author still wants to believe there could be away and will make sure there will be. So i think there could be a chance to go to venus and i thik there should because it would be a good idea to discover new things and make new changes. If it's not now I know it will be later on in the future. The author made good points to why Venus is a worthy persuit dispite of the dangers that come with it. It is also a human curiosity to see what is really inside of Venus. the author says," Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limitted by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to me the very edges of imagination and innovation", and that's why he would want to do things out of his way even if it seems impossible.

I do not think that having the use of the Facial Action Coding System is needed in a classroom, because it is not necessary. The emotions are not necessarily that important when it comes to teaching. Students get angry, sad, happy, and more all the time during school. Knowing when a student is happy or mad is not going to help a teacher do their job. Feelings are a normal part of life and everyone experiences them. However, during school a teacher does not necessarily need to know your emotions unless you want them to. A teacher knowing that a student is upset might be a good thing. Dont get me wrong, I have had teacher's before ask me if I were okay and it was nice to know that they cared but there shouldnt be a machine to tell you that. Teacher's knowing that youre upset is one thing, I completely understand a teacher wanting to know if there is anyway they can help you when you are upset but a teacher does not need to know that youre extra happy or mad at your best friend unless you want them to know. Teacher's do not have time to make sure that every child is one hundred percent happy all of the time because they are busy doing their job.

Hello, I would like to talk about the Electoral College. I think we should change to to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. I feel this way because i don't think it's fair for the people running for president or for the people voting for president.. Or fair to the people of the United States. Your votes go to somebody that decides for you, how is that fair? As it is stated in source 1 , number 2 , "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress." Wouldn't it be much simpler if we all voted for president and which one has the most votes is president? Why does it matter which state had so many votes and etc.? It just seems to me that they are making things more difficult than they need to be. If you didn't know, as they state in source 1, number 5, "Each candidate running for President has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsiblities are. . . ." Do you see the little things they run into just to be able to run for President? One other thing I noticed was that it said they varied. You usually want to stay the same when you're doing something so serious. I just don't think it's right. Also you can win the popular votes and still not be elected. I think there should just be one vote and who ever recieves the most is our new President. One thing that caught my attention from source 2, number 14, was " It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college!" This person seemed so angry t o me and I can see why. All of the things that they were talking about are unfair. The electoral should be abloished. There is no need for it. It doesn't help us, it just makes things more difficult.  

My opinion on driverless cars is that they should not be legalized. My reasoning behind that is i dont want something else taking over my car when i dont know that its one hundred percent safe. You can be severley hurt if one thing goes bad with the operation because its such a major invention. In paragraph nine it talks about how in some states its illegal like California,Nevada,Florida, and the District of Columbia. It aslo talks about the technology failing it says "if technology fails and someone is injuried, who is at fault the driver or the manufacturer? One other detail would be that in paragraph eight they say that "why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver"? and it says next that "wouldnt drivers get bored waiting on their turn to drive. In paragraph seven one more conflict is that the human driver has to always be on point because certain problems can occur with the creation and thats not good at all. All in all its simply not a safe thing to create or already have because its not completely safe. In paragraph three it says the one thing that makes alot of since they talk about cost they say that "the smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, somethat was just too expensive. If you come to a roadwork situation or driveways or compicated traffic issues you have to immediately take over or the worse will happen. In conclusion this creation is not safe for the public there are to many problems that can occur at any time that are life threatning especially considering your on the road and your around others that can possibly be injuried along with you. If they want this project to succeded they need to fix all the bugs with this creation because i just dont agree with the situation.

The author does not support his idea well. In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus." the author never really gives us a good reason to explore and investigate Venus. The author mainly supports his idea with the fact that Venus may have been like Earth a long time ago, but it is not really necessary to learn about Venus. In the article, "The Challenge of Exploring Venus." the author supports his idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents by comparing it to Earth and how it has many Earth-like features, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth" paragraph 4. And even though this may have been true this is not nessacary. If we do somehow figure out a way to study Venus, what would we do with that information, it's just useless information. The author gives us some information about Venus in paragraph 3, "temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet." from this description we know that Venus has extreme conditions, and that it is inhospitable for humans, paragraph 4, "our sister planet is so inhospitable". If human cannot inhabit Venus what would be the purpose of spending a lot of money in order to obtain information for our curiosity. In the article the author spends more time talking about how we would be able to explore Venus than why we should explore Venus. Out of 8 paragraphs the author gives us 2 paragraphs on why we should explore Venus, in paragrpah 2 he tells us that it is one of the closest planets to us. In paragraph 4 he tells us that astronomers are curious about Venus because it is so alike to Earth. Then in paragraphs 5, 6, and 7 he talks about NASA how they will go about exploring Venus, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venusian landscape." instead of just giving us more than 2 reasons on why we should spend our money and time to do something pointless. The author did not support his ideas well. In the article he wrote more on how we would get to explore Venus rather than giving us more than two reasons on why we should explore Venus. In the article he gives us one big reason why we shouldn't try to explore, we can't inhabit Venus because of the extreme environment. And if we can't really do anything with that planet why bother trying to explore it.

Driveless cars are coming isn't that great? What will the world be without drivers? Are their going to be people who will forget how to drive? Or is driving going to become an unnatural part of the human society? The idea of having cars that drive by themselves seems wonderful. Personally I'm against that were going to have driveless cars. For example if one day the system fails, who are we going to blame.? Also whos going to be at fault, and how are the damags going to be solved or payed for. Througout time soon this will become a conterversial deal. Secondly, are people just going to forget how to be independent and drive, or are they going to start relying on a computer to make all their decesions? As a driver myself I would'nt like a car taking me places without taking a hold of the wheel. Just imagine a driveless car will take all the enthusiasum out of driving. Lastly, since technology is getting so advanced now in days and hackers are also coming along with the cyber world, the chances of getting kidnapped or fraud can increase. For example, lets say that a person needs to go somewhere by taxi. The taxi picks that person up and takes her to the correct destination, and when the time comes to pay she pulls out her debit card and swipes it. But instead of taking the correct amount a hacker takes all the money from her debit card. That again is fraud. Or lets say the instead of the driverless car taking her home, it drives out to an unkown part of the city and shes never seen again. Thats a perfect example of kidnapping. Therefore the security system will also have to increase. In concluion, this technology would be great have abd a very useful tool that people can use. But it can aslo become an issue with society bringing up many issues. Especially if some people are going to try an use it for the bad. I would recommened to limit the time that would use driverless cars.

The auther suggedts that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. I agree with the author, studying Venus could be a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presests. Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot, and the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distance too. "Venus, sometimes called the 'Evening Star', is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot"(Paragraph 1)."Often referred to as Earth's 'twin', Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closest in distant"(Paragraph 2). However, I think studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. I have couple reasons why I think studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. First of all, about 97 percent of a thick atmosphere blankets Venus are carbon dioxide. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working on study about the planet, Venus. If NASA is possible to make spacecraft that could go to land on the surface of Venus, it will be difficult people research on the planet because 97 percent of the atmosphere are carbon dioxide. This condition makes different envionment from Earth."A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus"(Paragraph 3). Secondly, the average temperatures of Venus is over 800 degrees Fahrenheit. "On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit"(Paragraph 3). It is not possible that people stay on Venus on this very high temperature. Finally, the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what they experience on Earth."the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet"(Paragraph 3). For example, if a person's weight is 70kg, the weight will chage t o 630kg on Venus. It is difficult to work on researching on enus. In addition, beyond high pressure and hean, Venusian geography and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful eathquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. "Beyond high pressure and hean, Venusian geography and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful eathquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface"(Paragraph 3). Therefore, Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density nd size, and occasionally the closest in distance. However, because of some reasons that I mensioned above, studing Venus could be a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents.

Do you like going on fun adventures, saving lifes and vistiting many unique places? Well if you join or participate the Seagoing Cowboys program you will get to go to so many places like different countries,and castles. Not only that, But save lives in different countries. You will miss out on so many fun adventures and other peoples lifes and countries if you don't join the program. If you join the program then you will have so much fun with all the different places and adventures. One of the people who come here, named Luke has been to so many beautiful places. Luke has made nine trips, more than any member in the Seagoing Cowboys. Luke has toured an excavated castle in Crete and went to the Panama canal on his way to China. If it wasn't for Luke's friend, Don Reist,he would have never been a member and he would have never seen any of these places that he has been to. Luke knew it was an oppurtunity of a lifetime. At the time Luke joined, World war 2 was over in Europe. Many countries were ruined and needed help, so Don and Luke joined to go on a mission to go to other countries that were ruined to help the countries recover their food supplies,animals,and more. "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy," he says. Luke has gotten hurt for other people, because he knew that what was going on in their lifes,are far worse than his. He has traveled alot and seen alot that has happend in other countries, and they need more people to save them. Being a Seagoing Cowboy was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. "I'm grateful for the opportunity," he says. "It made me more aware of people of other countries and their needs." That awareness stayed with him throughout his life. He lead his family and international students and exchanged visitors for many years. You can join this program and save lifes of other people in different countries,and visit countries and places just like Luke Bomberger and Don Reist.

Dear, state senator i think that the elctoral collage should not be here anymore. In source 2 the auther states that the voters vote not for the president,but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president. The problem with that is that the electors  can be anyone who is not holding public office. When i vote i would like to know who i was voting for not letting electors vote for me then they would just be wasting their own time.''Inthe same vein ''faithless'' electors heve occasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and a cast a diciding vot for whom ever they please. Plus that winnier take all thing i really dont like because i like other people to have a chance to see what they say. Perhaps in source 1 they have a winner take all system that awards all electors to the winning presidental canidate. The electoral collage is a prosses not a place. It was established by the founding fathers in which they put it in the  constitustion as a compromise. By the way in source 3 the auther states that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the popular vote. There are five reasons for retaining the electoral collage despite its lack of democratic pedigree all are practical reasons ,not liberal or conservative reasons. The first reason is certainy of outcome. the second one is everyone's presidents. the third one is swing states. the fourth one is the big states. the fifth one is avoid run off elections. Soo yeah honestly you should listen to source number 2 he knows what he talking about so be smart choose wisely.

Im going to tell about how the author of the article ''The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is trying to convince people to explore and stuying one of our 8 plants called "Venus". He starts off by geeting in detail with describing how vevus is by stating " Venus sometimes caleed the Evening Star,is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky,and saying venus is the second plant fro our sun. Earth in terms of density and size,and occasionally the closet in distance too. He also discribed the plant as a cloud-draped world, and says maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched downn on venus in more than three decades The author also gets into some math into this by breaking down some percentages that venus has compared to other plants by saying. "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets venus ". he also says that one the plants surface , temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and theatmosphere pressure is 90 times gretaer than what they have experienced on earth. Venus has the hottest surface tempertature of many plants in our solar system, even with mercury being closer to the sun. He basically telling us about the percentages and the deepest amont of venus and other plants we didnt reaserch about. In more of the storyhe tells you the things yo are exprcted to see on venus. Venus was covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life,just like earth. The planet has a surfae of rocky sediment and includes familiar features suck as valleys, mountains, and craters. He changes the subject and goesminto the NASA and how they have ideas on sending humas to study venus. he describes how going out there would be like by saying imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above theroiling venusian landscape. Also at thirty plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty around 170 degrees fahrenheit, but tha air pressure would be close to that of sea level on earth

Think about the planets in the solar system, how about Venus more than the others. Studying Venus is like trying to study the bottom of a valcano or the inside of Earth. The planet, Venus, has many challenging aspects. Although the planet has these challenging conditons it also is the closest planet to Earth in density and size, it is one of the brightest points in the night sky, and many scientists think that there may have been life on Venus before. Venus is the closest in density and size to Earth. "Often referred to as Earth's twin, Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size..." The planet is sometimes so close that scientists have tried to land spacecrafts on it. "Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner--in space terms--humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world." Venus is one of the brightest points in the night sky. "Venus, sometimes called the Evening Star, is one of the brightest points in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot." The name however is misleading. "This nickname is misleading since Venus is actually a planet. In our solar system, Venus is the second planet from our sun." Many scientists think that there may have been life on Venus before. "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." The features on the surface are somewhat like Earth too. "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogus to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." Some people might argue that Venus is inhabitable and should not be visited by any human because of the highly corrosive sulfuric acid and thick atmosphere. "A thick atomosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus." However scientists want to create a ship that hovers safely over the planet. "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." Visiting Venus and studying it would be ground-breaking for the science field. Even though trying to study Venus is like trying to study the bottom of a valcano or the inside of Earth, it would still help scientists to know what the planet is like. The planet is the closest to Earth in density and size, it is one of the brightest points in the night sky, and many scientists think there may have been life on Venus before. So, before people go right to thinking about the dangers of Venus, think about all the good that could come about studying the "twin" planet to Earth.

Everyday people die in car crashes with them driving manually. So why would they trust a vehicle with a computer programming the vehicle? I believe that the driverless cars would be a tragic disaster in the world because, there could possibly be just as much car crashes. For example, Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, said that they would have to put sensors everywhere on the vehicle. What if one of the sensors were to brake or just go out while driving a person? Or if little kids were riding their bycicles on the streets and get hit by one of the vehicles? These vehicles would not make a good impact on the world. Yes, it would be fun to experiment with but it wouldn't be when the vehicle goes dead on the streets and you have to get out and walk the rest of your destination. It could be possible that the GPS they were talking about putting in the car could go out and run a red light or stop sign and seriously injure or kill the passengers. Have they ever thought about a tire going out on a highway? You not having anywhere to go? Or having to wait on someone to come and get you? I believe that when they say the google car always lets you know if you are going to get into a car crash they are over-exagerating. Because, when you are driving you always have this think called a blind spot. If you have a blind spot then there is no way that the vehicle can see everything. They say that the car can only speed up to 25mph, but when you are driving on highway that isn't really helpful. Or if you are in a hurry to get somewhere that wouldn't be helpful either. The author says in paragraph 7 line 3-4 that they have special sensors to make sure that the person is holding on to the wheel when driving. Who would want to do that when they here that a vehicle is driverless? It wouldnt be driverless when the driver has to hold on to the wheel. When people are driving a car manually cars will still malfunction here and there. So why would someone want to risk their own lives off of a piece of technology? I wouldn't trust my life with a piece of tecnology and i know that there has to be people out in the world that one hundred percent agrees with my statement. Question is would you danger your life with a driverless vehicle?

Not using cars is not a bad thing in fact it's a plus. The record shows that 70 percent of familes of Vauban, Germany's population does not have a car and are way more happier. One lady stated "when I had a car I was always tense. I'm much more happier. I would agree with her because on top of driving in germany you have to make sure you ddont hit anybody either and thats more tensse and stressful. Being "car-free"is not so bad actually i mean im not the only one that hates all the bad smoke it produces. It does not make sense that a beautiful city like Paris can't be enjoyed because of pollution. I applaud Paris for there act on this pollution problem as they have put a partial ban on car use throughout the global city. In my honest opinion i think that was a smart move because Paris has a thing for diesel fuel and that has been to blame for the polluted airs. Diesel makes up 67 percent of vehivles in Paris. Diesel has polluted ais so bad the city of paris has been compared to there rival Bejing , China which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world. The facts dont lie so take this into consideration of limiting car use .

"A new president, really, How many votes did they win by?" If someone were to ask you this what would you say, thirty electoral votes? The "Winner-Takes-All" system is flawed and needs to be either fixed or completly taken down, and here are two reasons why. First a president should be chosen by the people, seeing our county is a democracy meaning that we elect representatives to rule for us, a popular vote fits the sene a bit more than an electoral vote. Secondly if there was every a tie in the electoral college it would catostropic because intead if being in the peoples hand it be in the representatives hands, aslo known as the ones who already have power. "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. because of the winner-takes-all system in each state canidates dont spend time in states they spend no time in stats the know thy wont win." Some states can get no canidates out and its because the electoral college is unfair. "It`s official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best argumants in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct election ar spurios at best. Its hard to say but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college!" This Quote states that the electoral college is not fair and down right rediculus. You may say since its getting the job done and there has been no ties whats wrong? there are manny thing wrong startign with popular votes can lose to electoral votes, also some states can get on people to come and campagne. " In 1968 a sift of just 41,971 could have cause a tie in the polls." in this article just that many people and the representatives could have chosen a president and the reason this is bad is because they will get a president that will do what ever they want. "If there were just 5,559 voters in ohio and 3,687 voters in hawaii that went the other way the electoral college would have tied making a representative choose." " in this article just that many people and the representatives could have chosen a president and the reason this is bad is because they will get a president that will do what ever they want. So to finalize The "Winner-Takes-All" system is flawed and needs to be either fixed or completly taken down, and here are two reasons why. First a president should be chosen by the people, seeing our county is a democracy meaning that we elect representatives to rule for us, a popular vote fits the sene a bit more than an electoral vote. Secondly if there was every a tie in the electoral college it would catostropic because intead if being in the peoples hand it be in the representatives hands, aslo known as the ones who already have power.

In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming." it talks about how its expected to have cars that drive theirselves very soon. Humanity has always dreamed of seeing self driven cars or flying cars. It has been portrayed in movies and television shows, but is it really a safe thing for humans? In the artice the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. Driverless cars should not be developed because, they do not really drive on their own, people would get bored of these driverless cars, and new laws would have to be developed. There really is no such thing as a "Driverless Car". In the article it states that in 2013 BMW announced that they developed something called "Traffic Jam Assistant", which means that the car can manage driving itself to speeds up to 25 mph. Except they can't really continue driving theirselves all the time. The author states that "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." If the car is still notifiying the driver to take charge at times then the care isn't really a driverless car. The author also says "This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires. This necessitates the car being ready to quickly get the drivers attention". A driverless car should not have to get the drivers attention if it is suppose to drive by itself, the driver should be able to remain safe and calm in a driverless car. Another reason why driverless cars should not be developed is because people would get bored of not being able to drive their own car. Yes the driverless car would relieve a lot of the stress that you get knowing you have to drive but not driving at all seems boring. In the article it says "'The psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge,' admits Dr.Werner Huber, a BMW project manages driver. 'We have to interpret the driving in a new fun way.'" This shows that even the ones manufacturing the driverless cars beleive it would be boring for people to not drive all the time. Next reason to why driverless cars are not good for being developed is because new laws would have to be developed. The development of new laws is not easy and according to laws now its only safe when an a actual person is driving the car. In the article it states that "traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. As a result, in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars." This shows that if driverless cars are developed then new laws would have to be developed and some laws would have to be changed too. It is possible that it could change safety laws aswell. In conclusion driverless cars should not be developed because, they do not really drive on their own, people would get bored of these driverless cars, and new laws would have to be developed. Although it sounds like a fun thing the outcome of driverless cars is never known. These autonomous cars could change the world in a negative way. The old fashion driving we all know wouldn't be the same.

I personally think self-driving cars is the way to go for now and in the future.As long as the driver is alert and responsible behind the wheel,there should be little trouble.Smart cars are equipped with motion sensors to help detect any danger.So the number of car accidents could potentially decrease.Nearly the entire world revolves around technology now,including cars which use GPS systems that can work well with self-driving cars. Driving would be less stressful because the GPS system would navigate where to go,and a car that can drive itself too would make driving much easier.Companies like BMW already use cars that can handle driving functions up to 25 mph,but there are also special touch sensors.The touch sensors make sure that driver keeps their hands on the wheel at all times.But the law isn't convinced of self-driving cars.Which is why human driven cars dominate the roads. Driving laws focus on the safety of drivers,passengers,and pedestrians.Law makers think that humans should be in control the car instead of having machines do everything.Which is why traffic laws in certain states don't allow self-driving cars on the road.States that include California,Nevada,Florida, and the District of Columbia,have classified computer driven cars as unsafe.Making it illegal for these cars to even be test drove.Automakers claim that the concerns being made will be handled down the road,and I beleive so too.Computer driven cars are very helpul to people who can't operate human driven cars.In my opinion, I think self-driving cars would be better for most of world.Because I beleive they can drive safely better than any human can in a regular car.