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With the information that has been found there's no prove that the Face has been structured by aliens. Scientist have stated that the Face was form by natural causes, others say that they may have found more information about the Face but than what they are saying. The Face was made by natural landform not created by aliens. The face wasn't stuctured by aliens so therefore was made by natural landform. NASA has plenty of evidence that the Face was form naturally, for example that it hasn't really been discovered that aliens actually exsist. Throught the years of 1976 and 2001 there were pictures of the face not yet comepletely form so therefore scientist think it took 25 years to form comepletely. Others may say that NASA has more information than what they are telling us. For instants in the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars," in paragraph 5 it states that "evidence that NASA would rather hide." I argue that the Face wasn't created by aliens but from natural landforms. Natural landforms, created by aliens no one will actually really know what they think. I think it was naturally formed not created by aliens there really is no real evidence about it created by aliens. There could be thousand possibilites that it was form naturally or created by aliens. There are plenty reasons to believe that it was natural causes but not as much as it being created by aliens, after all who doesn't love a good mystery.

As a scientist of NASA, I can say that "The Face" is in fact a landform. We made this conclusion when we first snapped a picture 10x faster of the face, we also took a second look and picture, and it has simalarites like a natural landform from the Snake River Plain of Idaho on Earth. But, there are people that think our conclusion to this is a conspiracy theory. In 1998 on April 5, for the first time, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia. A picture was captured 10x better than the orginal viking photos. they were later posted on a website for the public to see but for the people who thought it was a sign of life on Mars, they were wrong. Scientist's said it was just a natural landform. For the second time, the scientist could yet again reach Cydonia once again to turn their conspiracy theory to fact. Others back on Earth said it was too windy and it made the clouds affect the picture. This time researchers used a maximum resolution camera to prove the theorists wrong. Yet again Garvin said, " If there were objects in this picture...you could see what they were." Scientist said that the "face" was equivalent to a butte or mesa. They made this staement because there is something similar to it on Earth in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. These are found around the American West. Garvin said, " That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the "Face on Mars." On the other side of things, there were many conspiracy theorists that questioned NASA's claim. Everyone wasn't satisfied with the pictures that were first taken people said it was during a cloudy season, that's why there was another trip with more advanced equipment. They also stated that the camera on board had to go through the clouds and dust to see the face so the picture couldn't been shown clearly. Another claim they made is that since there were wispy clouds the alien markings could be hidden in the haze and scientists just didn't look hard enough. In conclusion we have the facts that we need to prove that " The Face" is just a natural landform. We have provided the public with two pictures. Plus we also made observations that it looked like a landform from here on Earth. As NASA, we would like to see the conspiracy theorists prove us wrong then they could state the facts for once.

The Face on Mars The Face on Mars is a natural landform. The formation is just another Martian mesa. Many conspiracy theorists get too overwhelmed when they see this face, because they are so eager for scientsists to find life on another planet. Although it looks as if something made the Face, it was made naturally. First, the Martian mesa is very common around the area of Cydonia. It was not a big surprise to some scientists to find that it was formed naturally. NASA revealed the image captioning, "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." The unusual shadows made the landform seem to be a human face. Next, the Mars Orbiter Camera team captured a photo that was ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. This made the picture even more accurate. When the picture was first unveiled on a JPL web site, people found that the Face was a naturally landform. It was not caused by aliens or other life forms. Then, Malin's team took a clearer photo than the 1976 Vikining picture. Malin's team's captured a picture on April 8, 2001, in which each pixel spaned 1.56 meters compared to the 43 meters per pixel in the Viking photograph. According to the article, you can distinctly view objects three times bigger in a digital image than the pixel size. In paragraph 11, the author says "So if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" The 2001 picture shows that the Martian is equivalent to landforms that are common near the American West. Ultimately, the research and pictures were clear, the landform was not made by any life forms. The Face was formed naturally. The Martian mesa is very common in the area of Cydonia, where it was found by. Scientists and their teams captured photos that showed that this was landform was caused naturally. With the technology the scientists like Malin used, it is easy to tell that there was no aliens that affected the mesa.

In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" the author expalins both the positive and negative benefits of driverless cars. Driverless cars have been something only people could dream about and could only be seen in movies or TV shows. However, that idea is changing rapidly with the advancement of smarter cars. Many car manufacturers are beginning to formulate ways to design driverless cars including BMW and GM. The idea of a driverless car sounds crazy but in actuality it is something that is very capable of happening over the next decade or so. In todays world we are constantly using technology for almost everything in the world especially transportation. The reason we are not far from designing complete driverless cars is because most of our cars today basically already have the capability to drive on their own if it really had to. Take the Toyota Prius for example, it uses position-estimating sensors, rotating sensors, video camera on the rearview mirror, radar sensors, and inertial motion sensor. All of these forms of technology allow the driver to be completley aware of his or her surroundings. Even if the driver is not at full attention when driving, these sensors are able to alert the driver if something is wrong. Another advancement in cars has been the development of brakes and how they are able to stop if there is something in front of them or if they need to stop abruptly. All of these advancements in the car industry sound like maufacturers could make the smarter driverless car by next week, but there are other opinions. The opposing side's point of view is that driverless cars can become dangerous if the technology malfunctions. And they also beleive that the safest way to drive a vehicle is if the driver is at full alert. It is also still illegal in most states just to even test these smarter cars let alone manufacture them. And there is also the law abbiding side of it in the sense that if there were to be an accident with a smarter car, would the driver be at fault or would the car manufacturer. However driverless cars can be a major advancement in technology if the technology produces good results and can be consistent. If the world converted to smarter cars the accident rate would decrease due to the fact that driverless cars all had sensors and cameras allowing them to avoid accidents that humans might not see in time. Driverless cars would also decrease the urge of wreckless driving or driving under the influence. Also, less accidents means less traffic and busier cities could be able to run more smoothly through out the day. If car manufacturers can one day prove that smarter cars are just as safe, if not safer than regular cars, then we should be all for the development of these smarter cars.

A Facial Action Coding system sounds like something that would be invented or created in the far future. So if there is a real such thing as a facial action coding system it seems that there aren't many negatives as to why it shouldn't be used in a classroom setting today. The Facial Action Coding System should be used in the classroom setting because it will show students understandment, interest level, and overall thoughts over a topic or subject. Also another plus is it could show students themselves something they may be interested in which they didn't know even themselves. So imagine a class where there is a Facial Action Coding System on a computer for each student to use, there would be so many benefits to using something like this, it sounds perfect for a classroom setting. First of all, it would show teachers the understandment level of students to a certain topic or subject, so if there is a subject or topic in which kids faces were scanned for their feelings about that subject, the teacher could maybe improve or make the lesson easier for students, which overall would create a better education system for the sutudents in the class and better oppurtunity. The second reason as to why it would be valuable to have the facial action coding system int he classroom would be because it would show students and teachers levels of interest kids may have on a certain subject or topic. For example say there are kids in a class and they begin there science notes or studies etc., and some kids have more higher interest feelings than others on the topic, that can show both teachers and even students what they truly feel about science, and it can lead to helping kids making bigger decisions in their lives, such as whether or not they want to pursue a career with lots of science involved or not. The third reason to use facial action coding system would be because it is universal. From the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile", it is said that "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal." The facial expressions for each emotion being universal means that anyone from anywhere around the world can use this as a tool to help them succeed in school, no matter what ethnicity they are from, and if they look different. Also if this facial action coding system is universal, imagine how accurate it is. So it definetely would be valuable to classroom setitngs all around the world, and would creat greater oppurtunites for students to get a better education. To conclude, the Facial Action Coding System would be valuable to a classroom setting because it shows understandment, shows interest, and is universal which could also mean it is extremely accurate and enhanced. The Facial Action Coding system has many benefits to it which would be a great help to teachers in a classroom as well. The Facial Action Coding System could be used as a tool to succeed to many around the world. And so overall, the Facial Action Coding System is great and would be extremely valuable to classroom settings.

Alien comics are the real deal? The average conspiracy theorist might think the picture of the "Face" was created by aliens but science and reasearch shows otherwise. Many people connect space with aliens but it's all really fiction. Everyone wants to believe that those comics and fairytales they used to read when they were younger are actually real. So any piece of information from mars that could be the slightest bit connected to earth makes everyone go bananas! Here is why your ideas and the rest of the conspiracy theorist ideas Are way off. First, How are you putting out their ideas and beliefs but we have yet to see you guys give any evidence whats so ever. See, The team at NASA has actually done research and it's our job. When we went out to the sight where the "Face" is located Us and other scientists figure it was just another Martian mesa, Also, these are common around cydonia, Only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Next, If this accusation was in deed Truthful why in the world would we hide this from anyone!? It would honestly help us and make us even more financially stable. Even when we revealed the picture it engaged many common citizens and it attracted attention to mars. So, even if the whole alien thing was true it would really benfit the people. Not only are they going to learn about possibly Alive aliens but they get to learn even more about mars and how they function in space. Also, We've provided all the evidence that we possibly can. We even went back out to The sight and took pictures again to prove these you and the rest of the conspiracy thoerists wrong. When we went back out to the sight we used a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size. So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were! Now you and many might say "Well i still don't think their telling the truth, their probably hiding something because it might discredit them and their business." Well, NASA and the rest of the scientist have done all we can. Our job is to explore space and find new things that might help us on earth. So, after all the reseach we've done. Plus all the trips we've made back out there to provide the community with evidence and pictures and you guys still don't believe us thats your problem. When conspiracy theorist provide us with 100 percent credible and sufficent information then we can look into it more but for now you guyses Arguement is full of opinions. In conclusion, This is how you and the rest of the conspiracy theorist ideas are very false and irrelevant. NASA has been in business for awhile now and we like to be looked at as very honest, diligent and hardworking people. We do not at all appreciate you and you team degrading us. We spend thousands and thousands of dollars each mission just so we can have evidence and Information that is accurate. We take our jobs very seriously. After speaking with you today i hope you can rethink your ideas and your beliefs because we've done everything we could to provide you and the rest of the people with good sources to support our decision and our arguement.

My fellow citizens, there are many reasons why we all should depend less on our cars as a way to travel or to get to one place to anouther. One of the many reasons is that there are some neighborhoods that are doing it so that their families can not drive a car and if they do they have to pay money, and there are already many places that are doing car free days or somethimg like that. According to Elisabeth Rosenthal there is a city in germany named VAUNBAN were they can not use cars and if they do use cars then they would have to park it in a place that is very far away and they would have to pay a total of $40,000 to buy that parking space this is better because there are many ways that polution can polute the earth and we do not want that to happen. Also there are many places that are doing car free days in which the citizens must not use there cars and ride the busses to work so that there izs less polution. this is good because there will be a major decrease in polution which is good for the earth and also good for the soul. In conclusion i think that there should be less places for cars to drive and polute the world and mother earth and you should to.

There is many times when a student sits at a computer doing an assignment that is not the most exciting, but they can not do anything about it. The latest innovation from Professor Thomas Huang, called Facial Action Coding System can read the emotions of a human and can possibly change the way classes are run. This innovation can help some educational problems. The software Facial Action Coding System would be valuable to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom. There is certain schools who have days where all their work is online for students and they do not have an actual instructor. With the new software when a student shows a face of confusion, the computer can bring up different ways for the student to be able to understand the work that they are completing. Also, a student might seem bored and is falling asleep, with this software the lesson can be modified as Dr. Huang states in paragraph 6. The modification would help keep the student out of trouble and awake in class. When doing this the student has a better chance of finishing his/her assignment while still being capable of understanding what they are doing. Often times, teachers will make students do online assignments so they have time to do other things. Depending on the class, there is often times when students have different ways of learning and are at different levels of understanding. The new software can benefit both the teacher and the student by changing up the assignment based on the level a student is at. The emotions that some students show when they do not understand what they are reading is confusion, anger, frustration, or sometimes sadness. When the new software detects those emotions it can change the lesson until the students emotion are calmed. This can all be done without being a disturbance to the teacher. The software can benefit many parts of the educational system with the students. It can help students better understand activities online to helping students stay awake during class. The Facial Action Coding System would be very valuable to students in classrooms.

The Face on Mars was not created by aliens. It is simply a natural land form. You can find similar land forms on Earth. Also, why would NASA even want to hide the existence of aliens? It is simply illogical to think that it was made by aliens. The Face on Mars may look like a mask or a face, but that doesn't prove that it was made by aliens. There are many landforms here on Earth that look like faces or animals. NASA has taken photos of it, and it is clearly just a mesa. Why would NASA hide the existence of aliens from us anyways? Considering that it "has become a pop icon" and "has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows--even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years," wouldn't NASA benifit from the existence of aliens? NASA has not covered up the existence of aliens. The Face on Mars is just a naturally occuring landform that happens to look like a face. It's fun to think about what would happen if it was an actual face or created by aliens, but it was not made by aliens. Anyways, NASA would be trying to prove that there were or are aliens there if it was actually made by aliens. They would benifit greatly if aliens made the face.

I beileve that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author supports the idea of studying Venus because the author says that Venus could have been the most Earth-like planet in the solar system and the curiosity researchers have to Venus, but thinking about the dangers and doubts that can occur. In paragraph 4 it says, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth." The author talks about how NASA has a idea for sending humans to go study Venus and has a possible solution to do that, but it will be risky. In paragraph 5 it says, "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Vernusian landscape. At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth." Another reason, the author talks about how NASA and researchers are working on other ways to study Venus, doing innovations to contribute the knowledge of Venus, and doing comparsions on how it will affect them or improve on while thinking of studying Venus. In paragraph 7 it says," Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers. Modern computers are enormously powerful, flexible, and quick, but tend to be more delicate when it comes to extreme physical conditons. Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin. By comparsion, systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces." In conclusion, the author explains some of the ways researchers think about when wanting to explore Venus. They also think about the consequences, but really thinking on how to overcome them. This is a challenge and also a valuable way to gain curiosity and information about Venus. In paragraph eight it says," Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation" This is why I believe that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents with the supporting details of the author.

in the story the author explains several resaons on why studying venus is fasinating and interesting despite of the danger it presents. venus is a very earth-like planet and has many features like earth. researchers still to this day are working on innovations that will allow the machines that they send to venus last longer. this shows that many people still have an interest of visiting venus and learning more about it. there are still ways this can happen. in the story "the challenging of exploring venus" the author belives that studying venus despiting the dangers presented is a worthy pursuit. in the text the lists his reasonings for his belief. he states that venus is a "earth-like planet in our solar system , he describes earth-like features that venus has still till this day. "the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys, moutuntains, and craters". he also explains that venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit. in conclusion of this there are possible ways that venus could be studied overcoming the dangers that might come with it.

Dear State Senator, Lately there has been lots of tense debates on whether to keep Electoral College votes or not. Well I agree with the citizens who do agree on keeping our votes. Its just rude to take away something we rightfully deserve. Electors come to the campus or a specific area to give their great speech that appeals to what we want to be done just to get our votes. Well Mr. Senator it isn't ok for you and the others in office to just take away Electral College voting. According to this article written by : The Office of the Fedral register, " the Founding fathers esatblished it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popuar vote of qualifed citizens." that little bit of information says a popular vote I believe the Electoral College is that popular vote. After the electors are selected and meet to discuss who would be Preident and Vice President but also need to count the Electoral votes. Not only does the congress count the electoral votes , there is 538 electors but at least 270 votes are required to elect the preisdent. In another article it explains how the year of "2000 was a fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century." There is a example Al Gore he won the popular vote but not the presidency .And that majority would have preferred a direct election. Also the electoral voters system voted slate, an example given from the story was if I lived in Texas I would vote for Jonh Kerry, then vote for slate of 34 democratic electorsthat pledged to Kerrry. Even with great arguments of wiping out Electoral votes , it will still remain "unfair outdated and irrational " I see a picture which shows the number of electroal votes that each state is granted. Some states are granted more than other states but that doesn't stop them from voting. There are fueds over the outcome,picking the president, then goes into the swing states, Big states, and run-off elections . Now the certainty of outcome of a Electoral vote its not likey to beat a popular vote. But electoral votes win because those votes are more than popular votes. Back in 2012 voting the article says" Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to only 51.3 percent of the poplular votes." and that help Obama win on the winner-take-all basis. Now with picking the president they can't recieved gain of votes where ever there from or very well favored. A president with regional appeal isn't likey to be a successful president. Now those swing states, with the winner-take-all method and being awarded with electoral votes. But voters in the toss-up states are the ones who really pay attention and listen to competators in the campagion. And decide the election. But in the big states electoral college restores the political balance which large states lost by virtue. The bug states get more of the canidate attention than small states because big states has more population. Refering back to the article it says electoral avoids the problems with elections , with that no canidate recieves no votes from that majority. Imagine back in 1968 with Nixon and Clinton in 1992 both only gotten 43 pecent of the popular votes . The pressure of a run-off election is when no canidate wins , it will greatly make things complicated in the presidental elction. So no Senator you and your fellow peers whom decided to eliminate electoral votes is dispicable. When we actually have a chance to vote you take it away. Its very clear that without the electoral votes it woud be more than just presidental complication it would also be complication with decideing electors, presidntal electors and the big states who canidates get there precious votes from would have a hard time winning. I agree to keeping the Electoral College vote and not to change it to no popular vote because popular vote over rules most of the time. So please over think your decsion with other senators and keep Electoral College votes.

In the story, the author talks about why Venus is a plant that NASA would love to study and know more about, but its very difficult to do that with alot of difficulties and challenges to face wanting the ability to know more about the Planet. In Paragraph 3 the author talks about The planets surface and temperatures. One reason why it would be difficult to land on Venus, is because the temperatures avarage over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure of the atmosphere is 90 times greater than what humans on planet earth ever experienced. The author also states that in his words by saying "These conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth". Venus also has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in the solar system, meaning our sister planet is one of the hottest plants in our solar system by far. Another reason why it would be difficult to land on Venus and study the planet, because in past missions no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Thats a good reason why spacecrafts havent landed on Venus to get the ability to study the planet in more than three decades. In Paragraph 3, the author also states that in his words, "A thick atmosphere of almos 97 percent of carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere". The author also says that weather present additional impediments like powerful earthquakes, frequent lightning strikes and erupting volcanoses seeking the land on the surface.

The Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of Earth. Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself. It the Venus’s reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us. Also notable, Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun. That would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus. The challenge of Exploring Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. The value of returning to Venus seems indisputable.that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. At Venus from a ship orbiting or hovering safely far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere. I'm think Venus systems that use mechanical parts can be made more resistant to pressure, heat, and other forces. The chaos of Venus’s surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. The idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. At the evidence from the article that supports your claim Venus is the second planet from our sun.

I think that having technology that reads kids emotions would definetly be bennefical. I think it would help kids learn and grow as a student. There are way more advantages in doing this than not. I think this could make students happier and enjoy school more, they will be more engaged becuase their emotions will tell the computer what they are or are not interested in, they will learn more, get more done in a quicker time, and help those struggling kids. In this day and age, many kids have emotional or tramtic experiences. I think a lot more now than ever. A kid could have been beat at home the night before and they would have to go to school, get on the computer and go through the computer program or whatever and the computer wouldnt care that they are sad or struggling, that they dont want to do this. The emotional stability of students are very important and I think we should pay way more attention to that. In the article, It states that in everyday life our friends can tell when we are sad or upset, or even happy. But when we go to school and get on the computer, it has no clue. It doesnt take our emotional state into account. If we go to school everyday and have to sit on a computer, why not let it get to know us? If we are engaging with a computer that much...and we are, it should take all of us into account. However, I am split. I am a technology fanatic. I love everything about technology, its facinating to me. But this could also be one step closer to technology taking over our planet. With technology being able to read our emotions, what would be next? Technology having emotions itself? Then people would probobly start to fall in love with technology and we are already lacking in human connection. It could honestly be a complete mess or it could go very well for struggling students. All in all, I think we should give it a whirl. I think that technology is very helpful and to the kids that need it, it would level out the playing field and get students all on the same level. All students learn very differently and I think that this would definetly help. As for technology taking over our planet, its going to happen anyway so why not? I think computers knowing our emotions would be very helpful.

Whats up with the electoral college? Can we really trust it? Ofcourse you cant and all that apose can stand up and walk out the door .The presidental race is a fake!!! So the goverment wants to tell you that you need to be a citezen to vote but what are you voting for? The electoral college is a fraud, your supposed to send your personal opinion to vote for the president of your country, not some lazy bum that sits in a chair all year and when time comes to put his vote in he overides yours and the peoples votes for you and not even care because they are getting paid to? It only takes two hundered and seventiy votes from the electoral college to elect the president when theres over two billon residents in the united states? You mean to call this a demcracy when its really a underground dictator ship. I dont know how hard it is to bribe a person in a high postion but it is hard to bribe a whole country and thats why I belive we should get to actually vote for the next presdent theres no trust into the peoples belifes i mean yes theres alot of bandwagon fans and people who really have no idea of whats going on in their country but i promise you we wont fool around and compirmise the whole system beliving in our own belifes!!! these fancy bosos mignht thuink they know what their doung but they really dont there just a bunch money thisrty pigs and it isnt fair to the people to rely on theb electoeral college to pick the fate of our country as long as we live on it The fact that we cant even pick the electors make it even worse i mean how are we even supposed to trust them i dont know who they are do you? how do you know what the legislators a caplble of they could have been bribed and no one would even know i mean the goverment already has alot of secterts and they could be asdding on the them and you wouldnt evem knowwhy beacuse its the goverment there broken up into little pieces of fruadery its incredibly anoyying to know that if you even try t fight about the rights of a cietzen you'll lose not even having to walk into the court room because the goverment runs that too!!! When I read the title for source two i automaticlly agreed with the incredbly percise source because I have been asking myself the same question ever since i first learned about it in  middle school. Every time i would ask the teacher I would always get the same responce "thats a good question let me get back to you on that." I know that its not the teacher because im pretty sure the presidnet cant even ansewr that. Even in source three it dosent answer my question and its the electoral colleges defence but their defense isnt that strong sorry to tell you that it gives me five reasons but there not strong reasons and I belive source two out battles the both  source one and two. So in conclusion i have stated in almost every pargargh DO NOT TRUST THE SYSTEM!!! I may be little kid but when I speak I bark and I hope the readers understand why I wrote this.  

I personally am not for driverless cars. I think that a person needs to operate a car not a computer. I think we need the brain of a person behind the wheel. When people hear driverless car they might think the car can do everything anot be be focused on the road for an emergency to happen. There is alot of problems with technology now such as cell phones, computers,ect. There will be a big problem if something happens with the car and a wreck takes place who is a fault the technology or the person. All people need to be safe on the road or walking on the road so we need an alert persom behind the wheel. People won't be focused on the road and if something is about to happen someone needs to be ready for an emergency so I think there will be alot of accidnets with the cars people will not be foucused like they are now not reliying on technology. We rely on technology to much now. I think people will be bored behind the wheel and wait on their turn to drive. Technology is expensive to create and to buy. The cars will be over priced and won't sell that many. Not everyone will be offord one. So i think cost will be a problem with the cars to and taxes will be raised on the people to fun these cars and I don't think people will like that. Driverless cars are not a good idea. They will not be safe because people will not be focused on the road anymore and that can be a problem for passegers or people on the side walks. Funding will be a problem I feel many people won't be able to buy them and with technology means people will lose there jobs and that's not a good thing.

Over twenty-five years ago a face was spotted that looked almost like an Egyptian Pharaoh, but was soon found out that this was just another mesa in the Cydonia region. Once this was seen by alien theortists though, they really believe it was made by aliens, but here's my reasoning why they are wrong. When the Face was first spotted by NASA's Viking 1 spaceship, in 1976, the scientists in the Jet Propulsion Lab were amazed by what they saw. Though it was only a little while when the scientists figured out it was just another Martian mesa, but the shadows around it gave it the illustion of a face. Once this was released to the public not my people believe it was a mesa. The alien theortists said, "The Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars." Even when the defenders of NASA said, "Wish there was an ancient civilzation on Mars." This still did not make the alien theortists want back down. Years later, in 1998, Michael Malin photographed the Face with his Mar Orbiter Camera. This picture was ten times sharper than the Viking photos years before. Soon thousands of people were waiting for the Face to appear, but when it did, it was shown to be a natural landform, no alien formation. Even when shown this, many alien theortists said that the clouds were blocking the alien markings. In 2001, Mars Global Surveyor took a picture of the Face. There is no excuses on whether or not this is a mesa or an alien formation. The sky was clear, the picture was 1.56 meters per pixel, than the Viking fourty-three meters per pixel. There is not argument that this a natural landform. Even if there was something as big as the Egyptian pyramids or as small as a shack, you whould be able to tell what it was in a picture like this. After that picture was taken Jim Garvin said,"It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain in Idaho." also, he said, "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated measa about the same hieght as the Face on Mars." This is proof on whether or not the Face is a natural landform. After the first sighting in 1976 to the lastes picture taken in 2001, the Face on Mars is clearly a natural landform, not a alien formation.

Yes, because with Facial Action Coding System we can find out did someone lie to us or not, we can also find in picture person was happy or not, and we can find person's emotion weather he/she is happy or not. My first reason Facial Action Coding System we can find out did person front of us lie to us or not. "To an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful." According to me it will be helpful because we can find person in front of us is lie to us or not. My second reason we can find person in picture is happy or not. In picture Mona Lisa was "83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry." According to me we can express how person is feeling while taking picture. My third reason we can find person's emotion weather he/she is happy or not. "The facial expression for each emotion are universal, observes Dr. Huang, even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression (like not smiling as broadly)." According to me with Facial Action Coding System we can express others feeling if they were not happy we can help them and make them smile. These are my three main reasons why Facial Action Coding System is helpful in our life.

Are Driverless cars safe for the future? In the Article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", it talks about how driverless cars is not an imagination for the future but how it's coming to a reality and how the idea is coming together. Even the company Google has starteed having cars that drive independently since 2009. But in my opinion, I believe that driverless cars are unsafe and that car companys should stick to manually driven vehicles. There are reasons that driverless cars are unsafe; they can't drive around complicated trafics issues and navigate through road work, and still need assistance of a human to navigate and drive the car, and repairing the roads to be suitable for these vehicles is costly. How can a car navigate around traffic and know what to do in the situation? The car doesn't have capability of a human mind to work through these problems. In paragraph 7 in the article it staes, " But all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating work zones and arund accidents." This proves that these vehicles don't have the capability of human skills and problem solving skills to work around these obstacles. Another problem with driverless cars is that there still needs to be a human driver on the wheel and to be alert at all times. There is no point on having driverless cars if the car can't succesfully drive itself without a human. These vehicles are still not equiped and aren't safe for the pasangers becuase the driver needs to be alert at all times and wouldn't it get boring not driving but just watching? Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver says, " The drive psychological aspects of automation are really a challenge." If it's really that much of a challenge then it most likely will be impossible to fix this problem. Lastly, another big downside of driverless cars is repairing the roads to a smart road system to accompany the drivrless cars. These smarter roads will make the cars safer and easier for the cars to navigate throught but it will be costly and every road would have to be repaired. In paragragph 3, Enigeers at Berkley stated, " These smart-road systems worked suprisungly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." This statement shows that these engineers are agreeing that is impossible to rebuild every road to accompany these vehicles for a safe ride. Driverless cars was an imagination of the past but has started becoming a relaity in our furture. But these cars should stay an imagination and have been proven to not be safe. Driverless cars still need a driver in the seat to take control in complicated siuations and it's too costly. Why have "driverless cars" when you still need a driver?

People believe that the image that Viking 1 found in 1976 was a face like structure that was made by aliens. Others believe that was not made by aliens and is just the structure of the ground. I believe that it looks like a face, but I do not think aliens would make such thing. Even if there is aliens that are real. I am one of the people who believes that this face like sturture was not made by aliens. As Garvin says "As the rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel sixe." This means that they can look three times the amount closer to the structure than most others. He also states that "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" "It's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin. "In fact, It's hard work." Although not many scientists believed the Face was an alien making, Photographing Cydonia was NASA's priority when Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997. The people who believe that this is a face and was made by aliens may be right, but people who think the opposite my be right. Because we do not know who and how this was made, makes it hard for scientists to figure out what and why the Face is there. So, thought some people think that this is just the shape of the land like Garvin says. Others saying that aliens made the Face and that there is really aliens. We still do not know what and how this was, therfore why this was made.

The face on the planet is just a natural landform, it just happened to form like a face, because of how the shadows where formed by the small hills. Acording to the imformation in the article, the image just looks like a face, because how the rocks are formed and the shadows. "It is just another martian mesa, common enogh around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows". The shadows gave the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. Also the camera did not have the best pixels and they where far away from the planet, so the picture was not the best. It was also a cloudy time of the year on the red planed "April '98". The camera had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. What the picture actually shows is the Martain equivalent of a butte or mesa, landforms common around the American West. This is why it is just a natural landform, and not made by the aliens.

I think you should join the Seagoing Cowboys because you can have a lot of fun and take care of horses and other animals and go sightseeing. When I first went to the Seagoing Cowboys program my friend invited me and I couldn't say no to him. So I went with him I had a lot of fun i took care of horses and after we unloaded the horses we would use the hold where the horses had been kept and played games like volleyball, basketball, table-tennis and stuff like that it was really fun. Anytime I go there I have a lot of fun. Once we went to Italy and i reod the gondola reide in Venice, Italy and the we went to Greece and I got to see the Acropolis. This is why i want you to join the Seagoing Cowboys program so you can have a lot of fun and go on adventures and sightseeing.

Technology improves every minute and it seems like there is no stopping. Reading emotions on a persons face can be confusing sometimes, so Prof. Thomas Huang, of Beckman Institute, and Prof Nicu Sebe, from University of Amsterdam, worked together to come up wiht technology that can read human emotions. Using emotion reading computer can be useful when it comes to school, because teachers and students deal with different emotions from their classmates/ colleagues every day. The first benefit is that it will help teachers and student figure each others emotion. Second, is it will make others be more active. Lastly, it lets others know what your emotions are. First of all, because there are so many facial expressions that teachers often have difficulty reading their students emotions and lots of times that causes confusion among each other. For example, the text states that, "The facial expression for each emotion are universal," observes Dr.Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees od expression'(like not smiling as broadly)." This technology will be able to help teachers and or students have an easier way of reading each others emotion. In advance, it can calculate the different types of emotions that a person may be expressing all at once. The text states, "By weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpiece)." Secondly, it will help others be more active, that meaning students will show more happier emotions if the teachers can understand them. More over, Understanding students emiotions will help teachers have more of a positive way of viewing their students. In addition, recognizing a student emotional expression when learning a lesson can help the teachers teach more effectivly with the help of the technology. For example, the text states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confusd or bored, Dr Huang predicts. "then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." Third, although letting others know your emotions can sometime be scary because some emotions can mean weakness, the computer can give specific emotions that a person is expressing. When you see a friend or teacher sometimes it is very hard to tell their emotions that they are expressing, but maybe with this technology it will be easier for us to understand them. Because most human connect nonverbally, our emotional communications is considered nonverbal communication and the computer has those skills. The text says, "Most human communications is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So the computers need to understand that, too." In conclusion, using this technology in classrooms can be very useful. It will help teachers and student figure your emotions.

Dear state senator, I believe that the Electoral College is quite sneaky. Some people have no idea that it even exists, let alone what it is, so why have it in the first place? People vote on the president because they like what they say that they are going to do for our country. For example (in line ten, the author says), under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." Basically, the people are not voting for the person they want, but for others to make the decison on who they think would be the better president . Sometimes the candidate for president is a favorited in the north, south, south west and so on, so that gives the candidate no incentive to campaign there. If there was not an Electoral College, then the candidate would have more of a chance to actually win people over instead of taking advantage of what reigon that they come from. For example, some people think that some candidates are anachronisms because their ideas are very outdated. With the Electoral College gone, the people who are "zoned," for lack of a better term, for that specific candidate, can freely choose who they think would be a better choice for president. So, basically, I believe that the Electoral College is a terrible system because people do not even know what it is or that it exists and that favortism plays an emense part in a system that is "ruled by the people". Sincerely, PROPER_NAME

There are many advantages of limiting car usage. Using cars less reduces pollution, stress, money spent on gas, and it also brings people together. When people give up using cars they seem generally happier. Heidrun Walter states in In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way," The community of Vauban is a closer community because they don't use cars. They have to walk everywhere so they're talking more with their fellow neighbors. People are creating stronger relationships with the people in their community which creates trust. Strangers are now becoming friends. Businesses are popping up in every corner. The economy is probably up as well as their happiness. The suburb of Vauban may only have 5,500 residents but those 5,500 people surely are more excited to start and continue their life than cities where people are constantly using cars and not talking to each other. Cars cause so much pollution that huge cities, like Paris, have to have a partial driving ban to clear the air. Paris ordered vehicle users to leave their car at home on a certain day if they had an even-numbered license plate. Car pollution are ruining beautiful cities like Paris and Beijing. The warm days of Paris caused the warmer layer of air to trap car emissions according to Paris bans driving due to smog by Robert Duffer. By just not using cars for one day the smog cleared enough so the odd-numbered license plate users didn't have to leave their cars at home. Imagine if cars were banned once a week; Paris and other cities might actually be able to breathe fresh air. Bogota, Colombia is having an annual Day Without Cars, the only exception being buses and taxis according to Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota by Andrew Selsky. Columbians have stated that the day takes away stress as well as the obvious air pollution. Car traffic is decreased which would obviously decrease car accidents. Without using cars, people don't have the stress of having to pay for gas or if they're car breaks down. They can ride a bike and enjoy being outside instead of being in a mobile machine all day. Research shows Americans are generally buying less cars each years. This is great news for America seeing as transportation is second largest source of America's emissions says The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal. The telecommunications industry is higher now because people can communicate online rather than driving to see their friend. The younger generation is not using cars as much because cars aren't a priority anymore. They can use public transportation or walk to the places they need to go. There are many reasons why cars shouldn't be used. This is a gradual revolution because people aren't going to stop using their cars out of the blue. People must see the many benefits of not using cars.

So a letter to my state senator into keeping the Electoral College, Well the Electoral College is a proccess not a place, Its basically a comproisme between the election for the President by the vote of congress. Also it was founding by the fathers and it was established in the Constitution. After That, A consists of 538 electors and majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President our state's entitled allotment of electoral equals the number of members in its Congressional. To Begin With, Even the best- laid defenses of the system are wrong , what have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bob Dole do, well let me tell you the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in thier time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college!. Also over 60 precent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. whats wrong with the electoral college, Well under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president , but a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Before That, For example if you lived in texas and you wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, you'd vote for the slate of 34 Democratic Electors pledged to Kerry. Also state conventions, And the state party's central committee, also the presidental candidates themesleves can voters ever contoral whom they are voting for answer not always. After That, 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana Legislature Nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. Well Its agreed that the electoral college is unfair,outdated, and irrational. the best arguments in favor of it are mostly asstertions  without much basis in reality. Finally, We can argue that Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying thier states- Demoracts in texas, for example, or Repiblicans in California, knowing that thier vote will have no effect what so ever...

Studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because it may well once have been the mosth Earth-like planet in our solar system as the author says. The author also says that Venus was probably covered with oceans. It may also have some different forms of life. Venus can have some of the features that Earth has such as surface of rocky, sediment, valleys, mountains and also craters. Venus can be our nearest option for a planetary visit. As I was reading the article the author was giving evidence that long ago Venus had some features like the ones I mentioned in paragraph one. Venus still has a few of those features but now it is hard to see those features due to the terrible conditions on venus. The author says "venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system" and with those conditions is very hard for a human to survive.NASA is working on creating some importan strategies for humans to be able to go to Venus without a big complication. Venus is an amazing planet. It may be hard for humans to get close to it but with all the information that we are learning is going to help us prepared for Venus conditions. Venus is an incredible planet due to its unique qualities. Venus is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky as the article said. As I was reading this amazing article I learned a lot of things about Venus and its conditions. I also learned that is hard for human to get a chance to go visit Venus but is not impossible either. In the future humans will be able to visit Venus because it will be survivable for humans. Venus is an incredible planet that everyone should learn about. Its interesting to learn new things about our solar system.

In the passage "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because venus could possibly be a planet that once had life on it. Venus may have once been the most Earth like planet in our solar system. The author states in Paragraph 4, "Long Ago, Venus was probaly covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, like Earth." The author put this in the passage to explain why we should keep trying to explore Venus despite the dangers it presents. If we were to continue exploring Venus and there was life on the planet then we could possibly find out what killed the living things and how long they survived on venus and if something similar could happen to Earth. The author also states in Paragraph 8, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." The author put this in the passage to explain that if there was once life on Venus and whatever killed them could happen to us, so we need to explore Venus so we know what things to watch for so we don't end up like the forms of life possibly did on Venus. The author sugests the idea "that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents" because we could possibly explore Venus but may not be to that level because there are still many things that need to be figured out before anyone can land on Venus and survive longer than a couple hours.

Are driverless cars neccesary? in my opionon driverless cars are not neccesary for one i belive driverless cars are more for amusment than anything else. for example in the artice"telivision and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves" so companies are going through all this trouble to make a driverless care that will amuse peaple. secondly i dont think driverless cares are very safe driverless cars are not driverless yet they are more of an asistant for the driver. the driver can not pay attention and that could lead to acdidents. finally driverles cars are technolgy and technology can always have glitches and i dont know about you but i would not like my life to depend on a machine that can have glitches if a driverless car were ever to harm a driver the driver could sue the comapny and that would be a loss for the companies so the companies would be taking a risk so in conclusion i dont think driverless cars should be something that peaple can go out and buy.

Driving smart cars that drive by themself has it's pros and cons. People can come up with a great deal of reasons on why we should or shouldn't have them. Every time someone thinks of the furture they think of fyling cars, cars that drive by themself. But is the furture really that far away from having driverless cars? Should people be allowed to drive cars that drive themself? In my argument against the development of these driverless cars you will hear the pros and cons having this and why we should or shouldn't have them. First let's start off with the pros of having driverless cars. One would have to be that it would save a ton of fuel, and protentionly help the earth as the yers go by. Driverless cars could also save a bundle of car wrecks everday. By limiting the careless drivers that are in a hurry to get places or not paying attention. Another pro is that it would help people that would be killed by drunk drivers. It would bring down the numbers of death due to car wrecks. It would save a mass of time on the roads for people who are traveling, because there would not be tons of traffic jams due to the lack of car wrecks becasue they won't be in a hurry and driving wreckless. Now for the cons of having driverless cars. For starters it would cost a bundle of money to make all these smart cars. What if you don't want to get a smart car that drove itself, would you have to? Also would everyone get rid of there old cars and where would they go? Another thing is as a mass of us know technology does not always work when we want it too and is not always on our side. So the car could stop working on us. In the article it said that they made a road that was smart, but that would cost way to much money to replace all the roads and a ton of time spent doing it. The whole car would relay on sensors that could go out at anytime, whenever they wanted to, and however they wanted too. In my personal argument, I would not trust a car that could give out at anytime it wanted to nor would I want to. Another reason it would cost way to much money to make. Although it could save a big deal of car wrecks due to wreckless drivers, the cars could be just a dangerous. As I stated before technology is just something that is unexpected and you can't really relay on it.

Do you like adventure and fun. If you do the seagoing cowboys program is a great opportunity to do something great. Its not just adventure you make new friends, you have fun, and you see new things. You help people that got affected by world war two. Its a great cause for helping others. You have time to have fun and you can sightsee its a great chance to do something great with your life. My thoughts on the seagoing cowboy program are,its great you help people recover from world war two. World war two was a horific time for everyone and you get to help people who was affected thats good. You should participate in this there are things you never seen before and you get to tell your family you did something great for a living. Do you want to work at Mcdonalds if you don't participate in this limited time offer. You get new friends, to see new things, help people feed them help them be a good person insted of sitting at home doing nothing so please help. You need adventure in your life not a boring old job. So if you get a chance to help people through rough times do it you get a chance.

What if there was a program that helped countries around the world? There is and it's called the Seagoing Cowboys program. This program is amazing and I know because I was in it. By the time I was 18, I made nine trips with the Seagoing Cowboys program. I'm Luke Bomberger and here are reasons why you should join this program. The first reason why you should join this program is you can see lots of amazing sites. I had the benefit of seeing Europe and China. I also saw the Acropolis in Greece, which I thought was special. In Venice, Italy, a city with streets of water, I got to take a gondola ride. I also toured an excavated castle in Crete and marveled at the Panama Canal on my way to China. Also, you should join because you get to take care of horses, young cows, and mules. That's how they started the Seagoing Cowboys so that they could take care of animals. When I went the first time, there was a cargo of 335 horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them. If you like animals, there's one more reason to join. Another reason you should join is because of what happened during World War 2. What happened during that war was that countries were left in ruins. I went and trust me, this really changes the way you think about other countries and the world. This is my favorite reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys, the fun games during the trip. We used to always play baseball and volleyball in the empty holds where animals had been housed. We would also have table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling, and other games. I have to say that they were awesome and helped time pass by. The final reason why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys is because it can open up your world like it did to me. I used to work at a bank and a grocery store and I never expeced this to happen to me. I'm grateful for the opportunity because it made me more aware of other peoples lives and what they and their country need to continue thier lives. Now, that awareness is still with me and I lead my family to host a number of international students and exchange visitors for many years. Take it from me, being a Seagoing Cowboy is awesome and helps you learn about the countries around the world. You can see and do cool things and make a difference in a persons life and a countries life. You should agree with the reasons why I said to join the Seagoing Cowboys because I went and joined and it changed my life. That's why you need to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.

The Facial Action Coding System or FACS, in my opinion could be very helpful and useful in the future. The reason I say this is because, there are many students that get very bored, very unamused, confused and irritated with school work. And if we were able to have The Facial Action Coding System, it could possibly help students get back on track very easily. In the text I read about how The Facial Action Coding System was able to, "calculate emotions". And like I said I think this could be very beneficial to students and adults in the Educational Field and the Work Field. For example, in the text 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." This shows that the FACS is following your mood, so whatever mood you have the following ad will appear. This could be the beginning of participation. In addition, they also say that a classroom computer could detect or recognize when a student is becoming bored, confused, or unamused, according to Dr. Huangs prediction. They also say, "It could be an effective human instructor.". This could be very effective on students and teachers. I say this because, if a student is bored or confused an ad that pops up could help them realize some things and help put them on track and hopefully get interested. "The same technology can make computer-animated faces more expressive-for video games or video surgery. Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. So computers need to understand that, too." according to Dr. Huang. This not only is efficient for students or teachers but, it is also beneficial to Surgeons. This technology is valuable and very useful it seems. The Facial Action Coding System is, a human emotion identifier or detector and this would be very useful to a classroom of students. And others.

You are in class keeping up on work while trying not to fall asleep. Rocking your head back and forth with your eyes are in the back of your head. Then computer realize this putting something on to wake you up! This technology can help people with their life everyday. In this article the techology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it can modify lessons, help computer understand us more, and can know the emotions we have. First of all, this technology can help modify lessons. Computer could look at us and make some justments to our lives. In the text it says "A computer could recognizes when a student is becoming confused or bored" and "Then it could modify the lesson" showing that this techology could help us learn better. Secondly, the techology can help computer understand us more. If people are talking with emotions the computer will need to understand that and help. In the article it states "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, so computers need to understand that too" stating that if the computer knows our emotions it could help more. Finally, the techology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable because it can tell want we feel. If computers knew that people felt something it could try and do somthing about it. In the text it says " if you smile when a wed ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow" showing that if the computer knew your emotions it would help and stick to would like. This techology modify lessons, help computer understand things, knowing the emotions we have is valuable in the classroom. No more will we fall asleep in class trying to figure out what to do. We would benifit from our emotion reading computers. Smiling at our computer could help us learn.

New technology is constantly popping up every day thanks to cell phones, computers, and all kinds of other devices we use on a daily basis. Since we keep obtaining new technology, we also obtain new services that this technology can perform as well. One of the newest type of technological programs is one known as FACS or Facial Action Coding System. This program allows the technology to be able to detect the emotion on a person's face and which emotions they are currently feeling at that time. There is a possibility in the future for this technology to be used in classrooms everywhere to assist teachers and students. While the FACS program is indeed a good one, I personally am against the use of it in the classrooms. Here's why. The author writes in paragraph six, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student it becoming confused or bored." He then proceeds to say, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." To me this sounds like teachers are getting a break when they should actually be stepping up. Growing up in a time where school is all about standardized testing, good grades, and college, I can speak for every kid in the country when I say that we need our teachers now more than ever. If a student doesn't understand a subject or topic, then it should be the teacher's responsibility to either help the student out themself, find another source of help for the student, find a way to make the sunject matter more appealing, or move the student into a different level of that class that may be easier for them to understand. There shouldn't be a computer that just changes the lesson and makes it easier for the kids because who is that going to help? While it is on the teachers to do their job and make sure that their students are able to succeed, a lot of the weight also falls on the students as well. Kids should be able to take control of their own academic future and have the intelligence to ask for help when they need it. It teaches multiple valuable lessons to kids when they do so. It teaches them to not be shy or embarrassed and ask for help when help is needed, and it also shows them that not everyhting in life will be easy and come without a challenge. As kids we should be able to stand up for our education and future and have our teachers, not computers, help us like they're meant to. In conclusion, I think that it is a bad idea to have FACS technology in the classroom. As a generation in today's day and age, we are already criticized for being soft and not pushing our kids in school. If we use technology like this, will it really do anything but hurt our case as one of the smartest countries in the world? I believe that this technoloy should stay away from the classroom because it lets teachers get away with not helping their students, allows kids to get through school without getting help from the person who got a college degree to teach them, and it makes us the soft country that many people in the world think we already are.

I think driverless car would be a bad investment for car manufacturers. I think this way because driverless cars could caused more accidents, they aren't a hundred percent driverless, and you don't know that it will be efficient or not. Driverless cars have sensors in them that apply force when there is danger but how can you be for certain that something won't block a specific necessity of the sensor and make the sensor invalid to apply force. If the sensor didn't detect a sign of danger when there was a pedistrian or wall or car in front of them. The cars sensors would not be able to automaticly brake. Some driverless cars also have cameras in them. How do we know that what the camera sees won't mistake it with a different action. The sensor on the roof updates the car with a 3-D image of its surroundings. This 3-D imaging could pick something up that is different than what it makes or it could make the thing it saw and apply force when they needn't be any. The cars still need a little help from the humans when there is a road block, jam in traffic,work zones, or accidents. The car doesn't have the skills yet to navigate around things that can be in the way of the road or its course it was on. The driver will be alerted when the car has a difficulty and can't manage to reroute. These cars can handle only twenty-five MPH. Higher than that the driver itself will have to drive such like on a highway when you can go 60 to 70 MPH. Manufacturers have applied different kinds of alerts such as a vibrating seat, announcing itself, and another option could be flashing lights on the windshield. How do we know if those alerts will actually alert us. Everyone is difeferent and get alerted differently, how will the manufacturers know that any of these alerts will actually be affective to people. So could driverless cars be effecient? They could in a sense, but most information about these cars and technology could be doubtful and guesses. All technology has its flaws and bugs that no one can fix. These driverless cars could mess up or brake whenever and the humans in the car would not know. Then their life would be in danger. Driverless cars have to much new technology that they can't be reliable. Driverless cars have a lot more to work on before it's time to come out to drivers. Manufacturers should focus on accident prone cars, a hundred percent drivable, and if it will be efficient in todays society.

The author seems to be engaged in the idea of exploring Venus. But, Venus is a very dangerous place. It is very hot, and it has very strong winds. It is also mostly Carbon Dioxide, which is deadly to humans if too much of it is inhaled. But, despite all of that, the author believes it is worth a chance giving it a deeper look. It was said earlier on in the article that no space probe has landed on venus in nearly three decades. We got close, we explored the outside of venus to get a good look at it's yellow color, but its been awhile since we struck ground on the deadly planet. They say that Venus is Earth-like. For example, it is said that Venus is home to craters, valleys, mountains, etc.. Just like here on Earth. The Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Mount Everest, Mount Fuji, are all examples of what we have on Earth that could be similar to what is on Venus. If Venus is as hot as it is, there are probably volcanoes located somewhere on Venus, if not all over. Which brings back the point that the author believes that it is worth studying Venus depsite the dangers. We would never know for sure what is on Venus if it goes without studying. The Earth-like structure is more or less a belief. Plus, if no probe has landed on the surface of Venus in three decades, then Venus could've changed massively and we wouldn't know how much of a change it has because we can't land on Venus. It isn't our fault that we can't land though, as Venus' clouds are very thick. The atmosphere itself is very thick on Venus, which makes it harder for exploration to occur. It was said probes can't last for more than a few hours. The point is, if we can't explore Venus we may not truly know what lies beneath the clouds. The author believes that the exploration of Venus is worth pursuing even though it is dangerous. They believe that we should explore Venus. In paragraph 8, the author says, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." That is a powerful quote. It shows that we, as humans should not let fears get in the way of exploring to open up our imagination. The author is syaing that we shouldn't not explore Venus because of the dangers, but that we should continue exploring. We shouldn't let dangers and doubts limit our exploration. Our travels should instead be expanded because of imagination. Imagination goes a long way, and if we can get past these dangers, and explore Venus, then we can get to the edge of imagination. But, we can extend that imagination, and take exploration further. This goes not only for the exploration of Venus, but for any person in general. Don't let dangers and doubts stop you from seeing your imagination through, in some cirumstances. If it is very dangerous then it's not safe, but in a situation like this, we go unmanned. And so, we should explore Venus. The author thinks that explortion is a worthy pursui despite the dangers because of imagination and innovation. In conclusion, Venus is, well hard to explore due to the dangers it presents. Thick atmosphere made almost entirely of carbon Dioxide. Storms and strong winds. Extreme heat. However, the author believes that we shouldn't let those dangers stop us. We shouldn't let the dangers of Venus stop our exploration forever. Instead, the author thinks that we should instead be powered by imagination and innovation to explore Venus. Let our ideas and our minds take us into a world we have yet to uncover. We have uncovered some of Venus, but not much. It has been 30 years since we landed an unmanned spacecraft on Venus. The author thinks that we should let our ideas fuel the engine that explores Venus. And uncover some of its secrets that were hiding from us all along.

Have you ever wondered that in the future it might be driverless cars. I personally think that it should be driverless cars because of what it can do to us in the future. Let's say that your'e driving for 4 hours straight with no sleep on a highway and the car takes over if you fall asleep while driving. Well that's when the driverless cars come in handy. So my question is that are driverless cars going to take over in the future? First, let's talk about how can the cars be driverless. Well Google has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions since 2009. Google cars aren't completely driverless because someone is actually inside that takes over if it looks like something is in the way. In the late 1950s, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. So do you think cars can really be driverless. Secondly, what can driverless cars do? For the driverless cars it needs a whole lot of sensors so that it can identify where the car is going or what's in the way of the car. Googled modified the Toyota Pruis so that it can be almost like a driverless car with so high tech things on it. The combination of all this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel. Lastly, is the cars assisting or are you driving? Sebastian Thrun the founder of the Google Car project, believes that the technology has finally begun to catch up the the dream. In the driverless car do you think that you are driving or is it assisting you while you drive the car. I think that the car is assisting you because why would it be called the "driverless" car. In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." Basically what it is that they can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves. In conclusion, do you think driverless cars are going to take over in the future? I think they will because most people will get tired of diving everywhere they go so the driverless cars will help them out. It really started in the late 1950s General Motors created a car that can drive on a special track by itself. Originall, many futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday wasn't so much smarter cars as smarter roads. Driverless cars are going to take over the future.

The author supports the idea that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers by explaining how fascinating Venus truly is and how there are ways of getting around the hazards involved. The author goes into detail about how Venus is so fascinating because it is our Earth's "twin". Although there are numerous safety hazards for the space travelers, NASA has developed many theories on how to get around it. With this he is able to support his view that studying Venus up close would be benefitial despite the dangers at hand. Venus is one of the closest planets to resemble Earth in the entire solar system. The author states, "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size..." This is the author's way of introducing the idea that other planets in our solar system could have been able to harbor some form of life at some point. The author also states, "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." The author uses these excerpts in order to explain to the reader why there is such a fascination with studying Venus and why he supports it. Venus has its fair share of deadly hazards including erupting volcanos, atomic pressure beyond what any human can stand, intense heat and many more serious hazards. The author states, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray...a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way...Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." The author includes this to show that although Venus has it's dangers there are ways to get around them, he does this in order to support ,or convince the reader, that studying Venus would be more important than the possible dangers. In conclusion, the author supported his belief that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers excellently. The author explains that Venus could have once been exactly like Earth and even now Venus is the closest to resembling Earth. He explained that there are indeed many safety hazards but with NASA working on ways around these hazards, the trip would be worth it, even if it's just from a bird's-eye view.

Have you ever though about being a seaging coyboy? I have and I think everyone should be a seagoing coyboy. There are many resons I think everyone should be a seagoing coyboy. I am going to tell you about how this program will let you experience many amazing adventures. I am also going to tell you about how you get to visit many unique places. The SeaGoing Coyboys program will let you experience many amazing adventures. In August 1995, we recived our orders to report to New Orleans. We arrived August 14. The day the Pacific war ended. We got our seaman's papers and boarded the SS Charles W.Wooster, headed for Greece-with cargo of three hundred thirty-five horses plus enough hay and oats to feed them. The Seagoing Coyboys program also lets you visit many unique places. Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing Eroupe and China. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special. So was taking a gondola ride in Vinice, Italy, a city of streets and water. I also toured an exavated castle in Crete and marvled at the Panama Canal on my way to china. Those the reasons I think you should be a seagoing coyboy. This program will let you exerience many amazing adventures. You get to visit many unique adventures. You should consiter being a seagoing coyboy.

Some children nowadays don't like to confront people with their prblems or they are too scared to ask for help. The use of this technology to read the emotional expressions os tudents in a classroom is valuable. Its is valuable because it can detect problems in students before it's too late. It's impotant to know what students are feeling to make sure they are comfortable, genuinely happy and interested. Since this technology can calculate the emotions from the way muscles contract on your face, it'll be easy to detect a problem without asking them when they can easily lie. You need to keep the students interested because if they are not interested in what you are teaching then they will not pay attention and won't get anything from the lesson at all. With this technology, they can have a better chance of getting better grades or have a better prespective on the subject. There are many risks from not knowing exactly what the student is feeling. They could be feeling anxious, depressed or even scared. Anxiety and depression are two major and risky mental health problems. People who have it may not want to talk about it or even share that they have it. With thus facial recognition, they will be detected as sad or scared and you can be able to get them the help they deserve and need. We have many muscles in our face and all of them can identify in the categories of sad or scared. As the author includes in the passage, in papragraph 3, "The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit."" This technology can really help a student's life in the long run. You will not regret getting this technology that will get a better understanding of children then we ever will.

Being in class knowing that if the lesson gets boring on the computer, it can change it into a more interesting lesson for students. This machine created by Dr. Huang and his colleague prof. Nicu Sebe can impact students in ways that are good or bad. For some people it can be a good thing but for others it can mean a bad thing. The bad thing of this emotion recognition is that students with medical issues that affects their learning because of it affecting them from using technology. For u schools who use this technology have to focus on their students with medical problems that affects them from even using it. Also another thing that schools have to worry about is the finance for the computers that break and has to be repaired. The good things about having this type of technology in schools is that it have more students be more interested in learning and can help them plan out what they would like to do in their future. Having the emotion recognition can help students in advanced classes who struggling with their classes have a more easier way for them to pass and graduate with the diploma they wanted. This can technology can have more students graduate and have less high school drop-outs. The emotion recognition can be a good thing for certain students and can be a valuable thing, but for other students it can affect they way they learn if they are more hands on or have a medical problem that makes them unable to use technolgy. Even though this machine created by Dr. Huang and prof. Nicu Sebe is a great thing for schools but it can have different impacts on students wether it's good or bad.

The electoral college should not be used and the popular vote for the president should be in active To begin with,the 'electoral college' is not fair. The people should vote for who they want and most popular vote wins.'under the electoral college system voters vote not for the president ,but for the slate of electorals, who turn elect for president' (paragraph 10 'whats wrong with the electoral college,)Citizens of america should vote for the their new leader. The slate should not then decide the election of the president. To countine with, many problems can be caused with the electoral college.'the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisisin a century;the system allows for much worst .Considering that the state  legistarter are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people.' (paragraph 11 'whats wrong with the eclectoral college.')the system had caused a big diaster in voting history do to the electoral vote. with the electoral vote people have then no choice but to blame the state considering that their the ones who are responsible for the voting. To continue with another reason why it should not be used is because depending how big the state is (population) thats how many elecctoral votes they get. 'obama ,who won the vote,got 29 electoral votes' (paragraph 21 'big states') 'if you lived in texas, for instance, and you wanted to vote for for john kerry . on the off-chance that those electors won the statewide election,they would go to congress and kerry would get 34 electoral vote' (paragraph 10 'whats wrong with electoral college') people should have all equal votes its not fair for rhode island to get less electoral votes then florida because its size. if the state of rhode island people vote for either party there vote should count as much as florida. in conclusion the electoral college should not be in use and the popular vote for the president should be in active. because every citizin should have the right to vote for who they want to be their president.      

Limiting car usuage will give us many benefits. A projects such as Vauban and BOGOTA were completed to  show us the multitude of advantages recieved from it. Reducing car usuage would be excellent for our enviorment. Research shows us that "passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenshouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United States"(Rosenthal). Our world is very materialistic and sometimes we forget that to even have life, we must have the enviorment. "Cars owned by the burgeoning middle class are choking cities"(Rosenthal). Therefore, limiting the amount of cars would allow us to have more efficent green houses, and more land area for plants. Money is also a huge factor here. The government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in the transportation department. By lowering the number of cars on the road, the less wear and tear is done to them. This would be beneficial in many departements because then we would have more money for the things we need but cannot afford in our area and or country. Infact, "80 percent of appropriations have by law gone to highways and only 20 percent to other transportation"(Rosenthal). Driving also causes stress. Traffic jams, new or confusing road signs, attitudes of passengers, are all distributions of stress, especially when you get lost! If the amount of driving we did by ourselves was cut back, we could also cut back stress. BOGOTA helps to prove this, and even says that violaters of no car day were "fined $25(Selsky). Lastly, if we do not put a stop to so much driving, our personal health may be in risk. According to souce 4, "the car industry is the second largest in the world." This means that the air is constantly being pulluted with exhuast. Which also means that what's in your lungs at this very moment, could be a lot more than just oxygen. It's very scary to think that the same chemicals it takes to run your car, might just be what's floating around in your body. This could lead to multiple health problems and future diseases. Therefore, this issue needs to be taken control of immediately. In conclusion, reducing car usuage would be an amazing thing to do for oursleves and the people around us. We would save our air and bodies from being polluted, we would save money, and save time not stressing out. Who doesn't want these things? Limiting car usuage would be a fantastic idea.  

America: land of the free, the brave, and millions of proud citizens who live in a country that prides itself on its preservation of human rights and everything else that makes up a proper society. However, in order to remain a fair republic that truly takes into account the opinions of all citizens, we must make one major change. The flawed Electoral College must be abolished and replaced with election by popular vote in order to ensure the well being of our country. Proponents of the Electoral College would gasp in horror at this suggestion, arguing that their systematic method is virtually foolproof. Nevertheless, with a voting method as complicated as the Electoral College, the room for error is far too great. Just look at what happened in 1960, when racist legislators tried to replace the democtratic electors  chosen by popular vote in order to sabotage John F. Kennedy's chances. Then yet another electoral disaster occured in 2000. Both of these events could very easily happen again and the consequences of such mistakes are unfathomable. History has been proven to repeat itself, and this is no exeption. Who's to say that electors won't just ignore the wishes of voters or that legislators won't manipulate the system? When it comes to choosing our leade, whose actions will ultimately decide whether or not America will continue to survive and thrive, it would be a huge mistake to leave this resposibility to one group of individuals. After all, nobody is perfect. Furthermore, advocates of the Electoral College make a major fallacy when they claim that voters in swing states are more informed on election information, therefore it's good that the electoral system causes candidates to only focus on them. Just consider the fact that by completely ignoring all of the other states, campaigners are ignoring millions of individuals who deserve to have a say in who will be in charge. Through this one argument, advocates are essentially assuming anyone who doesn't live in a swing state doesn't care about the election as much and therefore they shouldn't have a say in the matter. This is simply not true. In fact, these advocates fail to acknowledge that if voters in other states are not as educated or interested, it is a consequence of the Electoral College. While politicians are focusing all of their time and effort on the 'thoughtful' voters, other citizens don't get the information they need from seeing campaigns and meeting candidates. They are deprived of the opportunity to make an educated decision like swing voters and that is a fault of the college, not the voters themselves. The problems with the Electoral College only go on. If a tie were to occur, the election would be determined by members of the House of Representatives, who do an even poorer job of representing the people considering each state casts only one vote. Also, due to the fact that the Electoral College mainly operates with the winner-take-all rule, it is easy for individuals in Democratic or Republican states to feel as if their vote doesn't matter. It is also important to note that at the end of the day, election by popular vote accomplishes the goal of reflecting the opinion of the public far better than election by Electoral College. The popular vote is a clear statement of voters' opinions and is virtually unable to be tampered with. On the other hand, the Electoral College only complicates the situation by introducing a middle man who is prone to bribery and mistakes. Why should we allow candidates to win because of the electoral vote if they do not recieve the overall approval of the public? Compare the opinions of 538 electors to the opinions of hundreds of millions of voters. Evidently, the opinions of all these voters cannot be properly represented by these 538 electors. It's just impossible both logistically and logically. For all of these reasons, I urge you to change the system to election by popular vote. It is without a doubt the only way this country can continue to be the great nation that it is for centuries to come.  

Popular vote is the way that the presidential voting should be because, of the fact that peoples votes arent actually making a difference in who is to become president of the untited staes of america. Electoral College is the way that  the gov't wants it to happend. Voters dont vote for the president no  ore that for for the people that vote for the president. The american voise is not being heard. "The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."(1) "The Electoral College process consists of selectioms 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."(2) The pluthora of just votes of the people dont really endure in the face that its not counted in for the vote of the President. "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, focusingonly on the tightraces in the 'swing' states."(13) when the candidate know they arent going to win they just step back and try other states if not they know they are going to lose the elections. "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favo of itare mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections ae spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dle was right: Abolish the electoral college!"(14) The depate between the electoral college and the popular vote is a hard war because, while also the people voice is what matters but while also the electoral college helps out america in the fact that some of the people aren't aware of the votes and who the vote for what so also they might pick a wrng person. While also the people of the unted states of america can be segregationist and some one completely wrong just because of the the candidates race. In conclusion, the Electoral College isn't the best way to have prsidents elected into office. But it's in the heart of the American people that stand strong hat should vote for the Commander in Chief.   

Technology should be allowed to read other student's emotions. It is a wise way to help the student and also help the teacher if he or she knows how the student is feeling in their classroom. It is a brand new use of technology. It is also a new, useful, and entertaing way to use technology. First, if a computer can read a sudent's emotions, then it can allow the teacher to know if that student is doing well of not. Dr. Huang, a professor at University of Illinois, states that "A classroom computer could recognize when as tudent is becoming confused or bored" he then continues his statement with "then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor" This will help students to better understand the subject that they would've had trouble with if the teacher didn't know how the student felt. One may argue that there are other ways for the teacher to help the student; like extra help after school or the student can ask the teacher for clarification on the topic. Dr. Huang describes that "most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication. In modern days; people, especially students, don't feel comftorable with expressing their emotions. Which is why we should have a way to help all students succeed in school. Second, being able to find out others emotions would be entertaining. A popular item several years ago was the mood color ring. When the ring would come in contact with your skin, it would change colors based off your hand tempeture. The colors would match up with a key that told you what colors meant which. For example, red would mean angry and yellow would mean happy and purple meant sad. The idea of technology being able to state your feelings is just an advanced mood ring. There are other reasons that this idea would be entertaining. It's an annoyance t have web browser ads that aren't interesting to you, but ads that do interest you are kind of nice to have. If your computer can read your expressions while seeing these ads, it can show ads that would possibly interest you. An argument could be that it's an invasion of privacy. The computer isn't reading you mind or stating you thoughts. The computer is just being helpful with what happens on its screen. Finally, the ability to read one's emotions with a computer is a brand new and special use of technology. The way it works is descibed in paragraph 2 where "the computer constructs a 3-D model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles" after this, Dr. Paul Eckman, creator of Facial Action Coding System (FACS) "classified six basic emotions- happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness- and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles" That is amazing! Dr. Eckman created a way for technology to scan the many muscles of a human face and classify them with a variety of six emotions. This is a revolutionary new advancment in technology. In conclusion, it is helpful for a computer to read your emotions. It's a fun way just to mess around and interact with friends. It also has educational purposes to allow the teacher to discover ways to be helpful to all of his or her students. And it's a large advancment in technology.

The Electoral College does infact work for most states in USA minus Nebraska and maine. The santor should keep the Electoral College to keep the presidents and vice presidents intact. Without it we the people wont focus at the process of the Electoral College and will become history of dissapointment. The Electoral College consists more then 538 electors wich keeps this place together, without them what else would they do to help the country? More then 270 electoral vote helps people pick wich president would be best for this country. If we didn't have the Electoral College we would likely have bad presidents that would use they're power to have "fun" with this country for they're enjoyment. So some people may hate the process, but its because of winner-takes-all system. Some people will see a campaign ad and think that person should or should not win the election, and have a good argument about that person, but at the same time they trust that person. sometimes the votes that voters vote for may not or may not go to the person that voted for, but that isnt a big issue bigeest out of all the people in the USA the vote that they did made a person feel happy about themselves because it shows that some amount of people care.

Using an software on students cound be a helpfull software that could make it easier for them to know if the topic they are teaching is interesting or an boring topic. This could be helpful for teachers to know if they should go more in depth on the topic or should they stop and move onto something more interesting. Being on an un interested topic for so long can cause students to get off topic, be distracted, play games, sleep. In the article it gives out examples how they could possibly test this new software out. They thought of an idea with the use or ads that pop up constantly on website. They came up with the idea that they can use the ads to tell the encode of how you feel about the ad if you smile at it. If you smile at it, a simlilar ad will show up next. If you frown at the ad an ad that is completly diffrent than the one defore will show up to see which one is the most effective to an human beings mind. Technology can make computers animated face more expressive for gaming and video surgery like an human instructor.

In the article "Unmasking the Face on mars" their was a landform face shape on mars located at 41 degrees north latitude. Many people believe that the face on mars was alien marking but truth is it was a natural landform, there was no alien monument after all. "Thousands of anxioius web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform.There was no alien monument after all." This was located in paragraph 7 sentence 2 this is stating that this was just a landform. From the looks of it, it would be questionable about aliens becasue it looks like a face that people wouldn't exspect for a landform to look like, but stutistics shows that it was just a landform and nothing else. Not everyone will agree to this day but scientist have done all the research as it is stated in this passage but the its a landform and research can prove it.

One of the largest sources of pollution around the world is transportation, such as in automobiles being used in everyday life to get around from point a to point b. Many cities and countries are trying to find ways to decrease the amount of smog and pollution caused by car edmissions. People are finding ways such as banning cars or even having days where a car is not allowed to be used. Finding new ways to decrease the greenhouse effect is a revolutionary way by starting out with automobiles, since it plays such a great factor in many peoples life everyday. In Vauban, Germany a community has a limited restriction toward cars. Cars are only to be parked in a garage on the edge of the development with a payment of $400,00. 57 percent of residents have sold their car to live in a community where no cars are allowed. Residents claim to be more happier and have felt tense with a car always around. This effort to decrease the number of emissions and now only has Europe responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas, as in the United States it is resonsible for 50 percent. Numbers are dropping in Europe which leads to a healthier enviroment to live in. Another way,that Cities in Europe have started to take part is, banning cars off the streats of Paris. Paris has a large portion of smog than other European Capitals. Congestion was low during the five- day period that automobiles where banned off the streets of paris. Within the five-day period public transportation was free to get people places. The results of this car banning was a success to clear out the smog which is a risk of endangering a person's health. Other countries such as Colombia have cities that have a car free day. Bogota is a capital of seven million that have people partcipate in a car free event taken every year. Businessman Carlos Aruto Plaza has claimed that it was a "good opportunity to take stress and lower air polllution". Rain also doesn't stop millions of people from partcipating in this event to reduce traffic jams and pollution. This campaign is enticing municipal authorities from other countries to start this revolutionary change that soon may be the future. Also,car production is steady decreasing in the United States due to less young people getting a drivers licence. Young people do not bother on getting a licence or a car because they have public transportation or either car pool with friends. It has led a 23 percentr drecrease of young people on the road. Not many people go out to meet their friends and rather do it via internet, since technology has been increasing and is another part of daily routines. Cities such as New York have been taking part in a bike-sharing program to reduce traffic in large cities. These new ways to decrease pollution are still being tested but it seems like less people will be off the road and more engaged in less traffic. Decreasing driving is a major priority to decrease smog around cities and the greenhouse effect. Having car free days and banning cars promotes healthier lives. It decreases the risk of having health problems and stress which can have major effects on one's well being. Supporting communities without automobiles and car free days results in living happier lives. Traffic has decreased and people are left happier breathing in less polluted air.

The use of this technology is an extremely valuable thing. A computer can tell how you are feeling just by your facial expressions. A computer can know how to change what you are seeing if it detects that you are not interested, confused, or unhappy with what you see on the screen. Knowing how to keep someone interested with what they are doing is a huge challenge. Sometimes people get bored with what they are doing and don't want to do it anymore. The computer could tell that you are getting bored and will try a variety of things until they find one that you are interested in. For example " If you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if you frown, the next ad wil be different" (Paragraph 6). A computer can also tell when a person is becoming confused with what they are learning. The computer can detect the confusion and change the lesson to make it easier to understand. For example, " 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" (Paragraph 6). Not only does it make it easier for that student to better understand the lesson, but it makes it easier for the teacher too. The teacher wouldn't be able to detect exactly how the student is feeling with what they have, and ocasionally the students don't feel comfortable enough to let the teachers know. Computers may have a code that help identify the facial expressions, but some humans don't really show much facial expression on how they are feeling. For example, "" Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang. "So computers need to understand that, too" (Paragraph 6). However, humans who do not show a great amount of facial expressions can still show a slight amount, which would be enough for the computer to detect. It can also detect when you are showing false facial expressions because they are more strained than genuine. For example, " It's all about those muscular action units. They even indicate the difference between a genuine smile and a forced one. In the real smile, the zygomatic major (muscles that begin at you cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth" (Paragraph 7). It can also figure out if it's a genuine smile by looking for crow's-feet, which are wrinkles around the corners of your eyes. The important message here is that computers being able to identify the facial expressions on a human face is an extremely valuable thing to have in classrooms. It can detect boredom, confusion, and unhappiness. There may still be things that need working on with recognizing the emotions because there are stoic people, but overall it could be a great help to a student and teacher in a classroom.

Their are alot of dicusions on wether we should get rid of an electoral college. But i think we should keep them for five reason. Cernainty of outcome,Everyones president,swing states,big states,and to avoid run-off elections. People think that it wouldnt reliable if we changed the way we elect a new president. Not everyone will agree to this,and the majority will stick to electoral college because if been working for us since the 1800. Cernaint of outcome basically decides everything because it doesnt allow to be a tie. Like in 2012 when obama and romney were running obama won because he new that people want a winner take all basis. Obama got 61% of electorla votes and Romney got 51%.Because almost all states award electoral votes on a winners take all basis the state creates a landslide electoral vot victory in that state. The electoral college reguires a presidential candidate to have regional appeal. Not one region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. Romney was from the south so people in their voted for him. But people up north thought that would be greedy and our nation needs a president for all. It was a situation that he would only apply or do anything for the south but nothing for the north. So candidates with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a succesful president. The winner takes all method focuses their campaign efforts on the toss up states. People in the toss up state are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign to really listen to the competing candidates knowing that they are going to decide who gets elected. They are the more thoughtful voter and they will give more attention than normal. So people who care about who gets elected should get their votes in. Last,the electoral college avoids the problems of elections in which no candidates recieves a majority of the votes cast. The presidential election process is reduced by the electoral college which proves a clear win. Knowing people who dont care shows the candidates that their votes wont count,and voters in elections are the people who want to express and show political preference rather people think that one vote wont change the fate of the election. So as you can see the Electoral college method is very reliable and will keep our nation safe.  

Imagine you could tell exactly how someone felt, just by looking at their face. This is precisely what a new technology, named FACS (Facial Action Coding System), does. This technology could have some amazing applications in the real world, like to suit web page ads to someones liking, to make computer-animated faces more expressive, and to monitor students emotion in the classroom. FACS should be used to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom. FACS should be used to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom. One reason FACS should be used in classrooms is because it can monitor if the students are becoming confused or bored. The article says this here, "A classroom computor could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." This is valuable information for the teachers, because it can help them make lesson plans that are liked by and are more efficient for their students. Another reason FACS should be used in the classroom, is because it could adapt the lesson based on the emotions of the student. The article says this here, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This is important because it can modify the lesson plan to help the student directly, when they need it, even if they are not wanting to seek help. FACS should be used to read the emotional expressions of students in the classroom because it can monitor if the students are becoming confused or bored, and adapt the lesson based on the emotions of the student. This could be one much needed, huge change in the educational system. All in all, FACS is a great piece of technology that could help brighten up the future the same way the lightbulb did.

There are a few reasons why it's good to not drive your car. One, is that your car emits so many greenhouse gases. And greenhouse gases are baad for the enviroment. Two, is that it promotes the use of bicycles and/or public transportation. Three, you really don't need your car anyways. Those are the reasons why I say that it would be good to limit car usage. My first reason why I say we should limit car use is because of the greenhouse gases we are releasing into the air. In article, "In German Suburd, Life Goes On Without Cars", paragraph 5, it says, "Passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe...and up to 50 percent in some car-intensive areas in the United Sates.", which means that 50 percent of the greenhousse gases that we release comes from cars. My second reason why we should limit car us is because if we use cars, we would use something else to get around like a bicycle. And if we use a bicycle we wouldn't be releasing any greenhouse gases."It has seen the construction of 118 miles of bycicle paths, the most of any Latin American city, according to Mockus, the city's mayor." stated in article, "Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota". This is prety much encouraging us to use bicycles instead of cars. My third and final reason why we should limit our car usage is because we really don't need cars. We only use our cars to get us from place to place, stated article, "The End of Car Culture", paragraph 40 which says "A car just a means of getting from A to B when BART deosn't work." And why use a car, when you can use public transportation instead. Now that yo know my reasons for limiting car usage, maybe you can try doing it. Limiting our car usage will give us less air pollution and give us a reason to ride our bikes instead of driving our car.

Since the invention of automobiles, cars have become a neccessity in the world. They have shaped our society today and are used by virtually anyone you see nowadays. However, car usage has had its toll on many aspects of our life today. Some places in the world have even gone as far to ban cars to promote a better lifestyle. Limiting car usage is a great idea because it helps the environment and the intrigue of having a car is slowly degenerating. Cars are part of the reason that our environment needs constant monitoring. Transportation is the second largest source of America's emissions, only behind power plants. Our polluted air is mostly made by all of the smog that cars create. Even every-day citizens have taken a step in helping our environment. According to Source 3: Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota, A businessman, Carlos Arturo Plaza, stated that "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." This shows that the problem our environment is facing has even caught the attention of ordinary people. Smog has also become a big issue due to the excessive driving of cars. According to Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog, "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear ther air of the global city." This evidence suggests that excessive smog has become such an issue that now driving has to be banned in order to help our environment, even if just temporarily. The increasing concern for the well-being of our environment has been directly blamed to the use of cars. Cars are not as ground-breaking as they used to be. In fact, the driving of cars has been steadily decreasing throughout the years. According to Source 4: The End of Car Culture, "recent studies suggest that Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." This evidence shows that peolpe seem to be losing more and more interest to cars as the days go by. People just seem to be driving less which has given a sharp decline to the number of miles driven in the United States; the ownership of cars per household has also seen a drop and may continue to drop, according to many scientists. Also, driving somewhere seems to be a waste of time and energy. In todays society, new technology has helped people communicate in the same ways that driving would, but without the hastle. According to Source 4: The End of Car Culture, " the internet makes telecommuting possible and allows people to feel more connected without driving to meet friends." This suggests that ebcause of technology, cars are not relied on as much to get messages from people or to go see someone; everything and everyone is just a click away now. In addition to that, riding bikes doesn't sound so bad either and other new forms of transportation has helped question why cars are still heavily used. The limiting of cars could lead to a variety of new possibilities. It could help better our environment and help make the world a better place for future generations. Also, cars just do not seem as appealing as they used to. New technology and forms of transportation has reduced the need for cars and one day, cars may not be needed at all for our society to thrive. Limiting car use could have a very beneficial effect to not only people today, but also to the people of tomorrow.

The planet venus is kinda like a extra star in our soler system, in the article it says it's "sometimes called a Evening Star" and it also said that "venus is a planet" and it is the second planet from the sun it's a good pursuit. The people of start to work on spacecraft so they can see what is out there and the first place they went to was the moon then mars and now venus in the article it says "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus" and the article also says that the challenging part is the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere so for the people that want to pursuit the planet venus it would be a good idea to look for information online or ask for information from any space programs that might be happening near you or if that doesn't help you ask people that work with stars planets and constlation at the planetarium.

A boy named luke that graduated for high school and had worked two part time jobs in a grocery store . His friend had ask him if he wanted to go to Europe on a cattle boat ,luke said yes he said he couldnt have said no beacuse he doesnt like saying no to people. And he also said that it was a oportunity of a lifetime. It was 1945, world war ll was over in Europe, and many countries were left in runis . And too hope that those familys recover on food and animals. Then there were sign ups for a UNRRA Seagoing Cowboy and so Luke and Don sign up for it .In August 14,1945 ,'' Luke said , the day the Pacific war ended.'' they got their seaman's paper and boarded the SS Charles W. Wooster , headed for Greece- with a cargo of 335 ho rsees plus enough hay and oats feed them . L uke turned 18 before arriving in Greeece , which meant he he could be draft ed gfor military service. When my draft board learned that i was on a cattle- boat trip , they h ad told me to just keep doing t hat for my service . 'by the time he was discharged in 1947 , Luke had mde trips - the mast of any saegoing cowboy. The cattle boat trip were an unbelivable oppportunity fo ra smalll towm boy,; he said , besides helping people , I had the side benefit of seein of seeeing Eurpe and China. Then time past and Luke found time to hhave fun on board , especially on return trips after the animals had been unloaded . The cowboys played baseball and they aslo had played volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table-tennis tournament, facing , boxing, reading , whittling , and games als help pass the time . But being a Seagoing Cowboys was much more than an adventure for Luke Bomberger. it opened up the world to Luke e. '' i'm grateful for the opportunity'', he says . its made me more aware of people of other counties and their needs.'' And that aareness stays with him leading his familly to host a number of international students and exchange wisitersfor many years.

In "The Challenge of exploring venses " the author suggests that studying venus is a wrothy prsuit despite the dangers it presents. The author thinks studyinfg venus is a worthy pursuit because venus is the most earth like planent in our soloar system. "venus is the closest planet to earth in term of denstiy and size, and occasionaily the closest in distace too." the author belives one day that people cuold go there and vist and study on venouse more or maybey even live there, " imagine a blimp like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling venusian landscape. just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher ataltitude to fly over many stroms,a vehicle hovery over hovering over venus wuold avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out their way" But studying vesue is pretty challageing and dangeus because being able to study tha planent you have to be on it and that diffcult because " a thick atmousephere of almost 97% carbon dixide blankets venus. even more challenging are the clouds of hihly corrosive sulfuric acid in venuis atmoahere." and "since no spacecraft suurvived the landing for more then a few hours. maybe this issue explans why not a single spaceship has tuoched down on venus in more than 3 decates." " noumerous facters contrirbute to venus's repuaton as a challenging planet for humans to study on."

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

My thoughts on using technology to read students' emotional expressions are for it. The reason I would love to have this is so when I don't know how I would feel, I could figure it out by using my computer. The reasons I would want this are; I could know my emotions at any time, I could learn more information, and I could know how other people were feeling. I could know my emotions at any time because of this program. I sometimes don't know how I feel and want to know what emotions I am feeling. I would want this so that I could know how I felt about the thought of something or someone. I would also want to have this so that I could find my input on things that I am unsure about. I think that I would personally like this program. I could learn more information by using this in the classroom by being more interactive in every class. I wouldn't get off topic in the classes and would never be bored with the class. I would get all of my work done and have time to spare and would be happy in doing so. I would love to have this in the classes that we don't have enough interactants in. I would be more into the class and have an overall better time understanding what we wouldbe learning. I could use the program on other people to see how they were feeling. That would make me less confused and let me be happier. I would love yo know what other peoples' emotions were always so that I wouldn't make them have a worse time. If we were to use this in class, this would make the class a better overall experience. Overall, I think that knowing how I feel, retaining more knowledge, and understanding peoples' emotions, would make life much easier. I wouls hope that this would make me a better person in general and help everyone who is emotionally unstable. I think that this would be a great thing to have in school.

"Does Electoral College Work?" Today I am going to write about how electoral colleges work. The Electrical College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of a President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Do you want to learn more? Then just keep on reading and I will tell you more. 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. Our state's entitled allotmeant of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for our Senators. Each candidate running for President in our state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidiate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. Most states have a "Winner-take-all " system that awards al electors to the winning presidential candidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of "proportional representation." What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! They're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore- thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the President, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the President. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central commitee, sometimes the Presidential candidates themselves. The single best argument against the electoral college is what they might call the disaster factor. Perhaps most worrying is the prospct of a tie in the electoral vote. At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anarchronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a President and ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense. It is the electors who elect the the President, nort the people. When you vote for a Presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. Yet this has happened very rarely. It happend in 2000, when Gore had more popular votes yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888. There are 5 reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of Democratic pedigree Certainty of Outcome Everyone's President Swing States Big Sates Avoid Run-Off Elections

In many ways, driving is a great resource.  But with this great resouce, comes flaws.  When cars burn gas made of fossil fuels, it causes many environmental disadvantages.  Limiting the usage of cars could be good for the people who live on this planet (everyone) in many ways. To start, one reason why limiting the usage of cars would be an advantage for our society is the reduction of smog.  Smog is caused by the smoke and fog of car exaust and it is very harming to the environment as well as to humans.  In Paris, in 2014, driving was banned because of smog.  "After days of near-record pollution, Paris enforced a partial driving ban to clear the air of the global city.  On Monday motorist with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home  or suffer a 22-euro (31 dollar) fine.  The same would apply to odd-numbered plated the following day."  (Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog) This quote from the souce shows that because Paris is such a huge and global city, the amount of cars needed to have the city function in the way society has been making it function for the past years has created serious pollution.  This crazy amount of pollution created smog in Paris.  In fact, according to the article, "[The smog] rivaled Beijing, China, which is known as one of the most polluted cities in the world."  (Source 2: Paris bans driving due to smog)  This type of pollution is know for causing certain kinds of cancer in people, and is what is thought to be the reason for the O-zone hole above Antartica.  Not to mention it makes the day gloomy and not as bright because of the trapped smoke and pollution.  In Vauban, Germany, the "streets are completely 'car-free'" (Source 1: In German Suburb, Life Goes on Without Cars) A resident from this suburb said "'When I had a car I was Always tense.  I'm much happier this way.'"  Heidrun Walter says this as an example of how it is less stressful to walk places and hear the sounds of nature rather than feel the responability and worry that comes with driving her children place to place. Another reason why it is more advantageous to limit the usage of cars is that it makes people be forced to start working on healthy habits (walking, riding bikes) as well as keeps pollution levels down with car pooling and other different means of travel.  "Bogota, Colombia- In a program that's set to spears to other countries, millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated or took busses to work during a car free day yesterday, leaving the streets of this capital city eerily devoid of traffic jams" (Source 3: Car-free day is spinning into a big hit in Bogota) This car- free day program in Bogota is a good example of how people choose healthier ways to get around the city.  Skating hiking and biking are all great ways to get around the city to work because they cause the person commuting by these methods to exersise.  Also, if some peopkle so choose to take the bus, they are still helping to make the city, and world, more healthy by reducing the amount of pollution.  There are also trends within the youth of the United States that shows a decrease in wanting to drive.  "Demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerate.  There has been a large drop in the percentage of 16-39-year-olds getting a license..." (Source 4: The End of Car Culture)  This shows a distinct drop in the number of new aged drivers getting their license.  Most teenagers these days don'r see the big deal in driving as was seen when it was a new phenominon.  "He (Mr. Sivak) and I have similar observations about our children.  Mine (19 and 21) have not bothered to get a driver's license, even though they both live in places where one could come in handy."  This was stated by Elisabeth Rosenthal (Source 4: The End of Car Culture)  Rosenthal isn't the only parent to see a decline in the interest to drive from their kids.  Many people have arguments with their children everyday trying to get them to drive, but there is far less of an interest from teenagers anymore.  Most young people see a car as "just a means of getting from A to B when BART doesnt work." (Source 4: The End of Car Culture) With this disinterest, there could be a large decrease in the pollution given off by cars, and cause a much healthier future for Earth and the people who inhabit it. In conclusion, by limiting the usage of cars we would be given several advantages.  Of these advantages are a healthier life style, and the reduction of pollution and smog.  Both of these would lead to a happier and healthier Earth for humans, and the future of human kind to exist and live on.

Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin planet because of the many similarities between both planets. Although, Venus may be a great planet for humans to live in there are many limitations when it comes to the planets surface. Venus has been known to be a suitable planet for humans because its size and density are alike to those of Earth. Along with being the closest to Earth in distance Venus has also been very difficult to study. None the less Venus should continue to be studied in order to find more comparisons between both Earth and Venus. As the author explains, Earth and Venus have many similarities that would have allowed for Venus to be hospitable. It is stated that " long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth." (paragraph 4) This section from the passage explains how Venus could have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. Not only did Venus have oceans but it now has various surfaces that are alike to those on Earth. Venus has valleys, mountains, and craters that are easily compared to those on Earth. Demostrating how these planets can be compared helps the author support his claim by giving detail as to why NASA should continue studying Venus. Since both planets show many comparisons Venus could be considered our planetary visit however, not only are there various similarities but there are also numerous limitations as to why the planet Venus is inhabitable. Although, both planets can sustain life there are various differences that demostrate why the planet Venus is incapable of doing so. As the author states in paragraph 3 there is a "thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus." making it very difficult for any light to enter the planet. Not only will the planet be dark it will also have high temperatures reachign 800 degrees Fahrenheit. It is also stated that " Beyond high pressure and heat, Venusian geology and weather present additional impediments like erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface." Many of these limitaions described by the author are similar to those we have on Earth however, they are "more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth." (paragraph 3) In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus " it is stated that although Venus has many dangerous aspects astronomers are still debating on future visits to its surface. Astronomers are doing all possible research to find a way to get to Venus and study it because, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited bby dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginations and innovation." (paragraph 8) In general further studies on Venus could allow NASA to gather more knowledge and explore more planets that could be similar to Earth. Overall, the author does a good job supporting his idea on why NASA should continue to study Venus despite the dangers it presents. The author fully explains the reasons why we should continue the studies by explaining the countless similarities both Earth and Venus contain. Not only does he explaint he reason why we should continue but he also describes the dangers that could be encountered while attempting to study the planet. In the end the author states numerous solutions that could be used to hava a safe and scientifically productive misison.

Do you ever dream about sitting back and relaxing on your way to work? Many people have. With the new technology that is being improved upon each and every day, that might just become a reality. Tesla projjected a 2016 release for a car that can drive on autopliot for 90% of the time. I don't want this new technology to be a part of my life. I think it is too dangerous of a concept to just "give it a try." Cars have been driven by humans for over 100 years, that's how I believe it should stay. There are a few states that believe so too, as they have laws that prevent testing computer driven cars there. I think they should continue to develop the technology and get it spot on perfect before I'll accept it. There are also Lawsuit concerns, if there is an accident who do you blame? the one in the vehicle or the people that made the car? That's a little bit confusing isn't it? Many people believe in this whole driverless car technology, but I say just leave cars alone and continue to let humans drive them to avoid all the confusion. With a little more investigation into the topic and a little more research I believe this could become a smoother process for the manufactures, but as for now leave the cars be.

I dont not feel driverless cars are needed,because driverless cars are only going to make humans more and more lazy. There not safe for the driver or for the pedestrians. If the was to be a crach or the car were to hit someone who would be resonable the buyer to the car or manufacturer of the car? These are just some of the thing that could go wrong that the artical has pointed out. There are also thing the artical didnt say like how meny job there getting rid of by making the cars driverless. There are job like taxi-drivers; bus-drivers; lemo-drivers and semi-dervers all out of jobs. Then you have people who aren't comterble not being the one driving and get car sick. What happend if theres ice on the ground and the car reads the spead limit as 60mps. It may break, but its going to slid and hit something or someone. There's also the fact what if someone doesn't have a driverless car and there trying to run a red light a human that was driving might be aware and stop, but someone in a driverless car are more likely not to see it because there mor then likely texting or playing on the phone then watching the road. Then there's a huge crash. These are someone of the little things no one thinks about because people think the more lazy we're able to be then the better off the world is, but its not. I can see all the good things that can come of driverless cars but bad thing weight out over the good things. There isn't a way to be sure of the safty of drivers, pedestrians, and property. To meny things can go wong that if there was a human driver if wouldn't happen. Thing like driving slow in rain and snow or even being able to pay attention to the road the someone with the money to buy a driverless car is trying to run a light. I feel if we can't garanteed the safty of all perple animals and property around us im not for driverless cars.

Myths. Fables. Tall tales. What do they mean to you? People just want to believe things that are not true. Some may say NASA is just not wanting to tell people about the Face that was created by the aliens, but NASA claims that it is not true. The Face found on Mars cound just be the seasons changing, it is the size of a natural landform, and there is no actual true evidence that it is extraterrestrial life; however, some may say that in fact there is no real evidence and the Face looks like an actual face. All in all, the Face is just like any other natural landform. Strangley, the author of "Unmasking the Face on Mars" suggests that the season changing might have affect on the Face that was found on Mars. To clarify, in the text the author states that in April of the year 1998, it was the middle of winter in Mars. The author also explains this was "a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet," referring to Mars. By this strange thought, the author is trying to explain that the landform might have just looked like a face through both the clouds and the winter being in full swing. Although, several years later, scientists returned on to take a closer look at the Face with newer technology and to find a better view with the clouds being gone. At this point in time, scientists found that the Face was the size of normal land form that would exist on Earth. Ultimately, the Face is the size of what a normal land form on Earth would be. In the text, the author stated, " What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa—landforms common around the American West." What the author is trying to explain is landforms including volcanos, some mountains, and rock sculptures (like Mt. Rushmore) are about the same size of the Face. Chances that the Face is just a landform is extremelly likely. If you truely think about it, what creature is as big as even just George Washington's face on Mt. Rushmore? All in all, there is no "true" evidence that the landform was a real face or creature. There is no recorded history of the face moving. Also, what "face" is the size of man made Mt. Rushmore? In the text, the author states, "Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform." The author is trying to explain that technology has grown with the landmark, and a sharper picture actually reveals an alike picture of the landform that had no sign of any life. The author explained in the text that the high resultion camera was so strong that pyramids, airplanes on the ground, or even the small shacks that you see when you drive down the interstate were crystal clear. This means that the Face had to have been landforms that one person might have mistaken for life on another planet. On the other hand, some may also say that they is no proof. The Face could just as well be life on another planet, but there is no true evidence to prove so. In fact, scientist have came up with more ways that the Face is not life rather than if it was. For instance, in the text the author stated, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa—landforms common around the American West," and, " Michael Malin and his MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform." With all this said, the Face could have a slight chance of being real life; however, it is highly unlikely that it is true life on another planet. Ultimately, the Face shown on Mars is just a nautral landform. The Face cound just be the seasons changing, it is the size of a natural landform, and there is no actual true evidence. All in all, life is changing all around us. New technoloy is being formed, but with a new generation who is ready to show the world what really is in the solar system. The future is in your hands. Find out what is next. Make your mark on the world.

Driverless cars will be the newest editiion to our generation. Some people are against the idea of them, others, are impressed with the idea. The cars are durable enough to, drive on their own without any hazards in the way, warn you of an emergency that is ahead of you, the cars are able to use sensor technology to add onto the left rear wheel of a car and the car includes many feautures such as, a rotating sensor roof, a video camera (mounted near the rear view mirror), four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. I agree with the idea of the driverless cars because of the safety that the car will provide for the people. For example: if the driver is injured and needs to be taken to an emergency room, the car will be able to drive there safely and the driver would be able to recieve help. Driverless cars are not fully driverless still, they acquire human help when anything comes into their way, the allow the driver to take control of the wheel when there is a mishap of some sort. A major question asked, is the car driving or assisting humans? The answer is simple, the car, as of now, is only assisting humans. If the car were driving, it wouldn't need any of the drivers help when it came to a bump or an accident in the road. When we think of driving, we tend to think that there is a driver who is holding the wheel and not sitting back and relaxing. Driving is in fact a stressful thing. Most drivers get to worked up to think about what is happening. This is another example as to why the car is good, it will help with driving anxiety. Whether the car is in favor or not, it will always be an idea that we knew made an impact of the world. The car is durable, smart and flexible when it comes to driving itself. The major problem would include the cost. If the car isn't driving now, when will it?

There has been a lot of debate circling wether or not the infamous "Face on Mars" is an actual alien made structure of a face or just a natural landform. In my professional opinion its safe for me to assume it is just a natural landform. Although it resembled a face in the first picture it doesn't necesarrily mean it was created by life forms to look like a face. The only features you can make out on the so-called "Face" are deep holes for eyes, a pointed part for the nose, and a line for the mouth. It doesn't have any distinct features. If if was made my martians they most likely wouldn't want a monument of a human's face so what is it supposed to be? I'll you what it is butte or mesa, a natural landform that is common on Earth. Another reason you know it isn't a face is the camera quality of the first image. The camera quality in 1976 wasn't as advanved as today's technology is. The pictures in both 1998 and 2001 were both much more clear than the original photograph. Although you can make out somewhat of a face it doesn't mean thats what it was. It could have just been a blurry picture. Conspriacy theorists say it actually was aliens and they made the face but NASA would greatly benefit from finding actual life on Mars. If NASA found legitimate alien lifeforms it could benefit the whole world. If they were non-hostile they could teach us how to make and use their technology. We could learn a lot from them, like why the landforms on their planet resemble faces. NASA has been trying to find alien life for years, if they found it they woudln't deny them and say they don't exist. There are a lot of people that think it has to be a face. And the pictures are from 25 years apart, so anything could have happened to the landform in that long. Natural wear and tear could have washed across the surface of it and rendered it a natural landform. In all seriousness they could be right but it would take a lot more than 25 years to ruin solid rock. The "Face on Mars" had a good 25 year run. It was mostly scaring people and giving conspiracy theorists ammunition to shoot at the government to try to get us to admit there is other life out there, but its time to face reality. It is not a face. It really is a landform. If there was life on Mars you could see it with the cameras we have today, but sadly, no such luck. It's not a face on Mars, we just have imaginations that run wild with wonder.

For many years scientists have studied the planet called Venus. Venus is the second planet from our sun and it is the most Earth like planet in our solar system. Scientists have brought different types of spacecrafts or rovers on Venus for them to observe, but no spacecraft has survived a long amount of time. They have attempted to land these craft on Venus but not one of them has landed and stayed for more than a few hours. The article says that, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth today." This just makes scientists and people want to explore more of what Venus could have been. The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents. A lot of scientists have thought of the same things and wondered what if it was possible. Some space programs such as The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have already taken action on this mission.They have had an idea of sending humans to Venus for studing purposes. Temperatures would vary from 170 degrees Fahrenheit but the air pressure would be close to sea level on Earth. They have said, "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans." This is a mission that can most likely be done despite the risks or challenges. Every scientist has had this mission on their mind and wondering when it will happen. They have said, "Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors." Which means doing the mission could change a lot of things in this world. They also said, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubt but should be expanded to meet the very edges of immagination and innovation." This is something everyone should think about and with everyones help this will be done and no matter the tough obstacles they will face, it will make them do it more and work harder for it.

I myself are against driverless cars . I dont think this is a good idea what so ever . It may sounds like one but when you get into more detail it really isn't . There is also many reason why i believe what i am saying . I will help you understand me by giving a few examples . A car that drives by itself . Sound wonderful doesn't it ? Untill something goes completely wrong right ? Well look this why i think it isn't such an great idea . What if the car gives out on you in the middle of the road ? What if the car isnt correctly program ? What if this car put you in a very dangerous sisuation just because you were to lazy to drive on your own ? This is why i dont think its a very good idea . Sounds good but safety wise sounds horrible . I think the car should be looked into more though . Like if it can be adjusted a couple things then sure why not by a driveless car . It will help you a very lot . But i believe it needs to be worked on more n certified before there put on the market . Thats just my opinion .

Twently five years ago something funny happened around Mars. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the plannet, snapping photos of possible landing sites for its sister ship Viking 2 when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face. An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a regions red planet called Cydonia. The face of mars is an all natural landform Its a huge rock formation which resembles a human head ... formed by shawdow giving the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth. The face of mars is a natural landform there was no alien monument after all. Research shows The Face of mars is a natural landform there was no alien monument. As said is research what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa - Landforms common around the American West. ''It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho.'' Thats a lava dome that takes the of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars . As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size , so if there was more to it than the fact its just the Face of mars . If there were objects in the picture like airplanes on the ground or Pryamids or even small shakes you would be able to see what they were .

World War ll was over and alot of damage was done to many countries. Some countries didn't have any food, animals, or supplies. So, Seagoing Cowboys, which are a part of the UNRRA, travel back and forth on a boat that carries a cargo of about 300 horses and enough food to feed them. This is a tough job for just a few guys becasue the animals need food, water, and their stalls had to be cleaned. If you were a Seagoing Cowboy you would have alot of amazing opportunitys. In the story Luke states in paragraph five " Besides helping people, I had the side benefit of seeing China and Europe. But seeing the Acropolis in Greece was special." You would also get to help people. You would get to take things that families need to them. Lastly, you could also have fun! On the way back when you don't have any cargo, you play or do fun activites. You could play baseball or volleyball where all of the animals where at on the way to your destination. Also you could box, fence, read, and have table-tennis tournaments. Some people say they would not want to be a Seagoing Cowboy because of the long trip, but if you were doing fun activites such as reading, boxing, fencing, playing baseball, and taking care of the animals time would pass by. You also have the opportunity to see many new things. You could see China and Greece and lots of other countries. They also don't want to be a Seagoing Cowboy because they think you don't do much, but you get to take care of the animals and play games. In conclusion, being a Seagoing Cowboy would be fun. You can help others and serve your country also. You would see many new sights and do many fun daily activites.

I believe that it would be fun to be a sea cowboy. In the text it says that he got to visit places the problebly never get to visit. In the text it also states that he liked taking care of the animals and people. I think that he likes to fly around the ocean which is part of his job. I Believe that he wanted to join because of his friend asking him to. In the text it states that his friend asks him to join the UNRRA. In the text it also states the even though he gets hurt he still likes the job. I believe that is why he wanted to join. I Believe that he kind of likes animals. in the text it states the he likes taking care of the animals. In the text it also states that he likes checking on the animals every hour or so. I believe that is why he liked being the night guard for the night other than the slipping of the ladder incidant.

Having driverless cars would be cool, right? Not having to drive it yourself, being able to sit back and relax, while getting things done. Driverless cars would have their perks. But imagine the dangers and problems that having driverless cars could cause. You think it would be easy to have a driverless car, which it probably could be. But so many bad things could happen. Your car could mess up and wreck, hurting you or someone else. Maybe your car can't drive itself through certain parts of road or around work zones because it isn't programmed to do that. There is also the possibility of if your car gets damaged, or if you get hurt in a car accident, is it really your fault? You would most likely be going to court against the manufacturer, but you would probably not be able to win because of legal documents and the power the manufacturer has. Maybe driving a car yourself isn't so bad. The possibilities of driverless cars causing problems are hugher than driving a car yourself. The safety of the driver is important.

We run our elections by a process called Electoral College. This process consists of tje selction 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. The Electoral College consists or 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoal votes is required to elect the President. There also is another process which is the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. We could change to popular vote but why would we change how we run the election if this is how we have been doing it for years. Also there are many other reasons why we should keep the Electoral College. Such as certainty of outcome, everyone's president, swing states, Big states,and also avoid run-off elections. A dispute over the outcome of an Electoal Collge vote is possible but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning canidates share of the Electoal College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes, 538, is an even number, but it is highley unlikly. Also the Eletoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a priesident. The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the politial balance that large states ( by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the constitution. The winner take all method of awarding electoal votes induces the canidates. Voters in toss up states are more likely to pay more attentionto the campaign to really listen to the competing canidates, knowing tjat they are going to decide the election. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters. It can be argued that the prsident may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no hope of carrying their state. I believe that we should not change our electorial process to popular vote and i think we should stick with the process we have now ; Elecoral College. I listed my resonas why but the main reason is that everyone is so used to the Electoral College process because we have been doing it for years so to change it, it might confuse everyone and actual make the elections even more difficult and it might end up messing up our election and cause an unfair vote.  

It is possible that schools and their administrators want to know if their way of running the school and the activites they choose to do are in the best interest of their students. Children tend to not want to say much or tell the teachers how they really feel about a homework assignment or how boring their class really is. With the new technology called the Facial Action Coding System teachers and administrators can view how the students really feel about the way things are devised. This technology can perceive and recognize the subtle facial movements of humans based off a still image of the person. The Facial Action Coding System could be valuable to read students' emotional expresions in the classroom and help schools become more sufficient. In the article the author says "if you smile when a Web ad appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow." Some type of software is seeing what one takes interest in and making it a priority to stay consistent. School could be the same way. If the Facial Action Coding System sees that during a specific activity or certain topic students are engaged and very pleased with the task, it could help the school follow up with those types of tasks more often. The author quotes Dr. Hang by saying "a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." What Dr. Hang is initially saying is, if the computers have the asset of detecting if students are confused or having trouble the new technology could transfer that to teachers. He also says " Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human intstructor." Sometimes students have trouble asking the teacher for assistance. Or some things just may be too hard for them, but they will never say anything. With the help of the Facial Action Coding System, lessons can change to where as it approaches each student differently. This could possibly provide a boost to essential test scores for a school. However, not to say that the software could potentially read the emotions of others wrong, because in some cases humans tend to have a look on their face that contradicts their actual emotion. Not to mention the software is compared against a neutral face. That means that the software is going off of a blank expression extracting a emotion from it. But, that's what makes the Facial Action Coding System so unique and valuable because students often have blank expressions protrayed on their face anyhow. All in all, the Facial Action Coding System could be a great value to assist instructors in reading students emotions in the classroom. Not only could it give a stepping stone to major test scores, but it could assist school becoming students best interest.

The author feels that Venus has much potential of we explore it and overcome it's dificulties. The author also feels that the exploration of Venus was once like Earth and can hold many secrets. The author thinks it is a good idea to explore Venus because it may have been an Earth-like planet in our solar system. The author says, "Long ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like earth," (4). The author explains that Venus was likely a planet similar to Earth today. If we learned about why Venus has taken up such harsh conditions, we may be able to predict the way Earth will die. The author says that even though the conditions on Venus are harsh, we would be able to get vast amounts of solar energy from the planet. The text says, "Solar power would be plantiful, and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans," (5). The author thinks that even though the conditions are harsh, it is worth the risk. If we are able to collect the large amounts of solar energy from Venus, then we could help power our planet when we rus out of non renewable resources, making it worth the risk of traveling to Venus. In conclusion, the author thinks that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because we could learn about future evnts on Earth and also help our planet by harvesting energy from the solar power on Veunus that wouln't be accesible here on Earth.

In the article "Making Mona Lisa Simile" the author describes how a new technology called the facial action coding system enables computers to identify human emotions. First, The author in the story "making Mona Lisa Smile" is telling us that a Dr. Huang is making a computer that shows emotional. It says that the computer has the ability to see how happy you are and sad and angry and all the emtionals in side your body all at once. It says that Dr. Huang was working with Dr. paul Eckman the creator of the Facs (facial action coding system). It says they both were working on a computer that could see the emitionals of other people. Second, In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" it talks about how they would process the computers 3-D constructs. It said in the artice that the human had 44 major muscles and it said in the midel must move like human muscles to see how they feel or react to this. It says that Dr. Huang "relies on the work of psychologist,". It said that the two doctors had "classified six basic emotions and that is happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facual muscles". it says for "example your frontails pars lateralis muscke (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when your surpised: your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger". Third, it is talking about how the muscles of the 44 major muscles react to the emitions in the article of "Making Mona Lisa Simle,". It says that Dr. Huang observes that artist such as Da Vinci studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convery specific emotions. It says that Dr. Huang's emotion algorithns are a different soft of "Da vinci code"! it aslo says that the new computer software stores siilar anatomical information as electronic code. It says that Dr. Huang's computer might have found out how computers can see how your feelings are. In conclusion, This story about "Making Mona Lisa smile," is trying to discuss that you can tell peoples feelings on a computer by getting an electroinc code. This story is also taling about how Da vinci was a artist that studyed emitional feelings with people that want a picuture of how they felt feelings. It said that the two doctors figured out that most artist study people for there feelings and to show how they felt about it. The studys show that you can see how a person feels on the computer by a code that goes their electric.

Technology over the years has been growing greatly. There are many things technology could do for us now that it couldn't do in the past. In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," the author describes how a new technology called the Facial Action Coding System or FACS enables computers to identify human emotions and how it could potentially be used in a classroom to help students or people in everyday situations. In the article, it states that this new technology can be helpful in reading the emotions of students in a classroom. I believe it could be helpful but I do not think that it should be used in a classroom. Even though it states that it may help students by reading when they are confused and modifying the lesson for them to understand it, it beats the purpose of teachers. If they are confused, students could ask a teacher for help and teachers could explain it in order for them to understand it as it is wriiten and there is no need for any modifications and they know how to do it if it is worded in the same way in some other point in time in which they encounter the same problem once again. Testing is another issue. During a test, even if students are confused, the question can not be changed or modified in any way, so it wouldn't really serve much of a purpose at that time. If it were to help and it changed or modified the problem in any way, it would be unfair to the other students that, that specific student had an easier question than they did or it was modified or worded any different than it was for the rest of them. If a computer modifies a lesson because a student is confused or bored then what's the point in learning. Teachers try their best to make learning fun and some even achieve it but what the computer will do to make a lesson more fun or less confusing, is what really matters. If the computer gives a student a break because they are bored and allows them to play games, the student will be less bored but once the computer switches back the student will be bored again reguardless. Privacy is also another reason that could cause problems if it were to be used in the classroom. Some students may not be comfortable with the computer watching them and reading their emotions the whole time that they are in front of the screen. Lots of people would like to keep their emotions to themselves no matter what they are and if a computer is reading their emotions the whole time, then it is a violation of their privacy and their comfort. Many schools don't have enough funding to even afford textbooks or even computers, so there would be no use for that type of technology if the school can't even afford it. Many schools barely have desks or chairs for their students and if a technology like that comes out, they won't even be able to aquire it, much less use it to help students. So it wouldn't be of much use in those situations. Especially, since the majority of the schools barely have funding for even repairs. Nobody said learning was fun all the time or easy either. Teachers have their jobs and many do them well. A technology such as the FACS is not needed for school and classrooms. Many won't even help in making any lessons any less boring or confusing and human instructors are best. If a student thinks the lesson is boring or confusing they can inform the teacher and they will modify the lesson in a way they know would be fun because they were young once and they know that when they were their age, they wished they could do certain things in order to make learning fun and they can make those wishes come true now that they are a teacher. So either way that the FACS technology may help, it isn't needed because everything that it may help with can be solved by a question or a statement or even just the creativity of others. Why would FACS be needed now if for the past years it hasn't been needed in any way? The answer is it isn't. If we have gone this many years without it then we still don't need it. Teachers and current technology have all assisted and have not required FACS. So therefore, FACS isn't valuable and it isn't needed.

luke wanted to join the seagoing program because it is his dream to traval around the world and new places like new orleans,greece,china. it was luke's dream to traval around the world because when hid friend don reist invited him to go to europe on a cattle boat. luke couldn't say no he knew it was an opportunity of a lifetime because that's probally the last time someone invite him to traval with them. before luke dream happend he was a farm boy because he used to work with his aunt katie it was her farm luke was served as a night watchman his job was to check on all the animals every hour. luke also found time to have fun on bored. The cowboys played baseball and volleyball games in the empty holds where animals had been housed. Table tennis tournaments,fencing,boxing,reading,whittleing,and games also helped pass the time. Being a seagoing cowboy was much more than an adventure for luke bomburger because he knewq taht he is gratful because he had the oppertunity to be an seagoing cowboy.

Do you know who the Seagoing Cowboys are and what they do? I will be stating reasons to join the Seagoing Cowboys and an explanation of what you would do. This job could be or could not be the program for you. I think that people should join this because of internatinal travel to help people across the globe. Also if you are a Farmer this job would be perfect because you would know exactly what to do with the animals that are being taken to another country to help the people that had lost a lot to the World War 2. This program could teach you what to do if you would want to be a Farmer. The cattle-boat trip is an unbelieavable opportunity for a small town boy. This job can be dangeris because a crew member almost when over board injering his ribs. This job can also be fun because you get to play games in the livestock stalls and tour different cityies. In councludion this program can be a mix of fun and dangeris to people. "It made me aware of people and other countries needs" What do you think life as a Seagoing Cowboy was like?

Have you ever been sick just because you went outside, maybe it was because of the air pollution that thousand of cars give everyday. So don't you you ever wonder how it would be like if there were few cars, would it make a difference on the world. Many people are strating projects to see how it would be like to have no car. Residents in Vauban, Germany have given up there cars a become surburban pioneers. They walk or ride there bicycle were they need to go. Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two said that "When i had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way". So should't we try having few cars around. Not only i vauban promothing a free car zone but also in the United States, the environmental protection agency are promoting "car reduced" communities to reduce the smog on the world. Did you know that Paris ban driving due to smog. Paris was typically had more smog than other Europeans Capitals but duo to the banding many people had there car impounded for their reaction to the fine and conestion was down to 6 percent in the capital of France. BOGOTA, Columbia strated a program call a car-free day, millions of columbia hiked, biked, skated or took bus to work, leaving the streets devoid of traffic jam. The goal of this program is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. Many people were happy because the parks and sports center have bloomed throughout the city the ,uneven, pitted sidewalks have been replaced by broed, smooth sidewalks. Also rush hours were restriction have dramatically cut traffic. Would you love to ride the car with your frieds instead of the old same rutine of being alone all the mornings on your way to school. Like kids that make new friends when they ride the bus to school wouldn't like to meet new people like that too. Many people don't like riding their bicycle to work because they would get dirty. but isn't it better to be dirty than live in air polluted word that affects your life. passenger cars are responsible for 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in europe and up to 50 percent inib the united states. Fewer people are buying less cars years is a start that people are not depending are cars that much. A study shows that cars driving by young people decreased 23 percent between 2001 and 2009. Should we help the world and reduce global warming. We still cars but we should retuced haw many we have. Lets improve our safety by reducing have much we use cars.                                        

I think that the face on Mars is fake because on the day of the original photo the wheather was foggy and the camera had to see through the fog, I also think it is fake because the face was aproxamently 2 miles long which is a verry big rock, the last reason I think it is fake is because the pictures taken were verry bad camera and on lt had a little amount of pixles. The face on Mars is fake because on the day the face was first seen, outside was verry foggy. This means that the cameras would have to see through haze. However some still thought that the face was made by aliens, even though it was winter and in bad wheather. Then later we took a picture of the face on a clear day and didnt see a face. This makes me think that there has never been a face on Mars Another reason that I think that the face on Mars is fake is because the statue was to be aproxamently two miles long and maybe even longer. This makes it seen unreasonably tall. If the face were to be two miles tall then that would mean that many of the other rocks would be smaller, but they are not actually the surrounding rocks are much bigger. My last reason that I think that there isnt a face is because our pictures arn't the best. The cameras that took the original picture took 43 meters per pixel, and the camera that took the picture in 2001 made a pixel every 1.56 meters. This leads to the fact that no face had ever been found on Mars. Only the camera made it look like a face. I think that the face on Mars is fake because on the day of the original photo the wheather was foggy and the camera had to see through the fog, I also think it is fake because the face was aproxamently 2 miles long which is a verry big rock, the last reason I think it is fake is because the pictures taken were verry bad camera and on lt had a little amount of pixles. The fog made it nearly impossable for the camera to take a clear picture of the mountain on Mars. The face was also suposed to be about two miles tall which means that this mould be a verry big rock, but the rock besides it is much bigger then it. The old cameras that NASA owned were bad compared to what the more modern pictures were taken with. In conclusion everyone now needs to know that the face found on the mountain is fake.

I am for driverless cars I would think it'd be cool. To have a driverless car be driving you around. With a driverless car sleep would happen a lot faster, you could prep for meeting and not worry about going to work unprepared. Of course you'd still want to be alert in a driverless car well because it has no driver. If I owned one I would always be to places on time and not get too frusterated with it as long as the car don't talk then I'm okay with it. Having driverless cars make me wonder if transformers saw it coming of course by the movie's cars. I'm saying all of this because according to the co-founder of Google these cars would take up half of the avgerage fuel of a normal car, and is far more flexible than a bus route. Television and movies have been fascinated with cars that could be driverless, see Transformers it'll happen. All in al developing smarter cars involves having to develop smarter roads. I'm going to stick to my decision of agreement. I have and always think it'll be cool to see that happen.

Is the Face on Mars created by aliens? Certainly not, as NASA has created many pieces of evidence to prove to conspiracy theorists that this is nothing but a Martian mesa. In the article, "Unmasking the Face on Mars," it is discussed that many people believed that the Face on Mars was created by aliens. In 1976, a picture from NASA's Viking 1 was sent to mission control. This picture was what seemed to look like a face. However, scientists quickly derailed that idea, discovering it was just a mesa, a type of landform common in western America. Days later, NASA released the photo to the public. This stirred up lots of conspiracy theories and became an iconic landmark that isn't on Earth! However, they were wrong. So many people were in the thought that the picture was a face built by aliens, so NASA decided to take another picture in 1998, proving that it was just a natural landform. But once again, skeptics thought otherwise, which brings the case to where it is today. In 2001, NASA launched another spacecraft to take a picture. This picture was taken using a maximum resolution camera spanning "1.56 meters per pixel," compared to the "43 meters per pixel." This is about 30x the resolution of the 1976 photo, ensuring that the picture would stop all consiracy theories. It is now impossible to say that this is not a Martian mesa, as photographs at the highest quality have been taken in perfect conditions. Although it might have been possible to claim the landform on Mars was build by aliens 30 years ago, technology and science today have proven that theory entirely wrong. The face can continue to live as a pop icon, but now it is now impossible to say the landform was built by aliens. So to answer the question, "Is the face on Mars created by aliens?" One can now easily say, "no."

Unmasking The Face Of Mars Imagine if you saw a face on another planet what would you think? NASA saw one and thought it was a mesa others thought otherwise. I think it is a mesa on the red planet. In 1976 Viking 1 took a photo of formations on mars. The picture looked like a face so the people of the world thought oh my god. Aliens invaded mars and they will invade us run! But NASA kept saying other wise. But two decades later (give or take two years) another picture was taken and to more and more people thought it was a face. No matter NASA tried to say it was rock formations but no one lisitened. No one lisitened to NASA because the conspirasicy theorisits of the world were feeding the fire way too much. Then three years later NASA relased another picture of the "face" but captioned "huge rock formation which resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth". Now no one thought anything of the "face" everyone but the consipary theorists said it was a cover story but science won the day. But i think it is just a mesa formed by astroids. If this keeps happening every time NASA relases a picture i think were in trouble. Well you herd my thoughts what are your thoughts.

Have you ever wanted to own a car that does your driving for you? Well now you have that chance to own one. Now you may be thinking the same way I am thinking. How will the car sence a pedestrian? Or how will the car know that theere is a stop light or a top sign ahead? These are some things you might want to focusing on and focus less on, WOW a car can actually drive it's self? Now I on the other hand am against driverless cars because I don't think that it would be a good idea. What would be the point in being in the drivers seat if no one was actually driving the car? How more expessive is the driverless car than the original regular car? How is the driverless car exactly safer than regular cars? I personally think that there would be the same amout of aciedents happening than what there is today in society maybe for vary of reasons but there most likely would still be plenty of accidents. Another reason on why I do not think driverless cars would be a good idea would be because what if one of the cars has a misfunction or a error and doesn't stop while someone is crossing the street? What if the car doesn't stop at a stop light and you have a three car pile up because of it? Having a driverless car would make people that it would be okay to drink and drive because technically they are not the one doing the driving the car is doing the driving. There will probably a lot of people who try and sue the driverless car company because their car had a misfunction and caused them to wreck and now they have a hospital bill on their hands because they got ito that accident that was not their fault. Or maybe the car hit a pidestrian and now the car owner has someone elses hospital bill to pay for but don't have insurence or the finances to pay the bill even though it was not his/her fault. Again there are multiple reasons to rethink this driverless car reanactment. There are to much things to be worrying about if you owned one. You would be waisting your money buying something you absolutly do not need. You would be waisting money on a case you would most likely lose. These are just a few reasons on why I am against the "Driverless Cars Are Coming."

Want to know how it would be to be on the surface of venus? Scientists are trying to work on discovery on this planet closes to earth. Scientist want to be able study this planet because of how well this planet was once the most earth-like planet. They also been wanting to send people to venus so they can go and study the planet. Scientists also have been working on a vehicle to be able to be on venus surface. Scientist have been working on studying this planet for a while now and it have got worst. This planet was once in the better condition in fact in the article it says "Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. So scientist are still studying while knowing the danger this planet conditions are in. Scientist have been working so hard to know about this planet and it conditions to know if there a safe way to arive on this planet without any struggles. In fact in the article it says "The national aeronautics and space administration (NASA) has on particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus". Scientist have been trying to find ways for this to happen. NASA have been studying ways where humans can be on the surface of venus without getting in any danger. So NASA is trying to come up with a way to be able to stay on the surface of venus with a vehicle. In the article it says "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovering 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape". So they have been trying to come up with ways for humans to hover above the surface of venus. With Scientist studying the planet because it was the most earth-like planet and with scientist trying to send humans to study this planet. Also with NASA trying to make a vehicle to stay 30 mile above surface so it would not be in any unfriendly ground conditions. Scientist are coming up with ways to explore this once earth-like planet.

Dear state senator, Do you think that we should keep the Electoral College? We should keep the electoral college because the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. You help choose your state's electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state ad shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in December of the election year. Your state's Certificates of Ascentainments are sent to the Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election. Abolishing the electoral college! According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore,Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter,Bob Dole,the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. The single best arguement against the Electoral College is what we might call the disaster factor. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please. Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. 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 in the "swing" states. It's official: The Electoral College is unfair,outdated, and irrational. The best arguements in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguements against direct elections are spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college! The Electoral College is a widely regarded as an anachronism,a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular vots the winner. There are five reasons for retaining the Electoral College. The first reason is certainty of outcome. The second reason is everyone's president. The third reason is swing states. The fourth reason is big states. And the last reason is to avoid run-off elections. It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. But of course no voter's vote swings a national election, and in spite of that, about one-half the eligible American population did vote in election. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election [source 3: In defense of the Electoral College: five reasons to keep our dispised method of choosing president]. That is why we should keep the Electoral College.

The author presents the idea that Venus is a worthy contestant for exploraton despite all of its present dangers. Despite all of the authors reasoning, there is yet an actual valid reason as to why we should keep attempting to explore it. Everything we have tried to send there has melted due to it's inability to cope with Venus' extreme temperatures. We cannot attempt to send people up there if were not sure whether or not its safe for people to stay there for long due to its inhabitable conditions. Also i would imagine that these machines we send to other planets are not very cost-friendly at all, so what would be the point to send all these machines that would only last a couple hours. Venus has an average surface temperature of 800 degrees Fahreheit and that's not even close to anything we experience here on earth. We don't really have any metals or materials that would last for very long in those types of conditions, we're just not there yet. The idea of sending people to go and study Venus is absolutely horrible. We're not anywhere close to 100% sure of humans could comfortably live in those types of conditions. It would be too risky to send a bunch of people up there to study Venus but then have something so wrong and end up with people dead or harmed in an way. Our machines only last for a matter of hours on the surface of Venus, these things that we send to go and explore are most likely very costly. Why would you want to waste that much money on something that only last a matter of hours. I understand that we cant get much information from watching from afar but we can't keep spending money on such things just to keep sending them back there to only get destroyed after a while, it's just not worth the time or money in the long haul. The author presented some pretty "ok" arguemets as to why we should try to continue to study Venus allthough it presents some obvious dangers. The reasons as to why we shouldn't continue it's study are stonger than the reasons as to why we should. We can't survive in its inhabitable conditions. We can't send anything there for long due to it being destroyed after a matter of hours. Lastly, we can't waste money on such a useless project that will serve nothing to helping the human race. We should not continue to study Venus, it is not worth all the hassle.

The main advantages that people seem to find in the less use of cars is that the bad and harmful emissions given off are being reduced. The amount of emissions entering our air daily is beyond belief. In Germany, passenger cars are guilty for 12 percent of the emissions; while here in America we give off 57 percent. Germany has made the change to allow you to have a car if it is parked in a city garage not near the living quarters, or you can pay $40,000 to have your own "large" garage. All malls, stores and parks are just within a walking distance. With the decrease in the number of cars, the access of public transportation has rose. Paris has recently joined this trend. Days after the record amount of pollution in the air clean air was just a must for these people. the next day you were ordered to leave your cars in the garage or you would be fined a fine of 22 euros($31 dollars). Within the lack of cars moving around the people, digestion was down 60 percent in as little as 5 days. 27 people wanted to avoid the fine so they had their cars impounded. France blamed the Diesael fuel. Diseal makes up 67 percent of vehicles in France. The goal is to promote alternative transportation. The idea that transportation emissions need to go away has led to this, " these people are generating a revolutinary change. This change is crossing our borders." Imagine bright red and yellow slides, green and blue swings with tons of kids runing and screaming together, or 24 kids all split up into teams for a fun, friendly neighborhood game of kickball. This is what could happen if more countries begin to do what Columbia did. Children would have more access to parks and sports centers. With the sidewalks cleaned up, new restaurants and shopping malls have been added in which makes th city seem more inviting, clean and happy place to be.

In the artical the author talks about driveless cars I belive this is a great idea. i belive with this there will be less car crashes and make the road a safer place all together. i have many resones why. including backup from the article. I belive the car would be able to drive better then some people. in 2009 a google car was drivin more then half a million miles without a crash. The car will have a sensor the sensor has become advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. they also can cause the car to apply breaks on individule weelsand reduce power from the engine,allowing far better response and control than a human driver could mange alone. To make things more safe you are to be alert at all times its like going for a drive and relaxing but you know if you ever feel unsafe you can take over. The cars are developing so fast not only google is making one as other car companys such as mercedes benz, audi, and nissan are putting in effort to make one by 2020. Most driving laws focus on keeping drivers, passagers, and pedestrians safe, and law enforcement know that the best way to get that is with an alert driver. the nlaw questions how they are going to get around the car such as if an axident happens. Who is reliable the driver or the maurfacture? even if traffic laws change new laws will need to be made in order to work with the cars. I belive if the car will make everyone more safe then it is worth it. In the new cars drivers need to be aware as if anything goes wrond with the drive they are there to take over. why would anyone want a driveless car that still needs a driver? Wouldent it get boring waiting for your turn to drive? i dont think so if it makes the roads safer then noting should be to much of a hassel. in the artricle 'the psychological aspects of automation are really a challange." says Dr. Werner Huber. So the BMV is trying to make it more fun. The maurfatuers are trying to do it by bringing in car entertainment maybe tv. To keep things safe the entertainment would turn off as soon as the driver needs to take over. In conclution I belive cars that drive themselfs will be more safe and effective on the road. As people can use their time for other things while in a car. driveless cars will be smart and less of a hassel then cars today. They will use less fuel and make people happier.

The Seagoing Cowboys program is great for people who like animals, sailing, and like to travel. Getting paid to travel is a great way to earn money. Being a sea cowboy isn't alway easy, but it's worth all the hardwork and effort. It's a great job for any hardworkers and is fun for anyone who decides to join the Seagoing Cowboy program. No one will regret joining the program. Those who like to sail this is a great job. It will be a couple weeks on the water to sail and experience the waters of many oceans and seas. One trip is to China and takes two weeks. That is a great time to enjoy sailing. When not working, on the way back, all sea cowboys can play volleyball, baseball, and other games too. It's not always work so they can have freetime during their travels. Not only is it great for sailors, but it's also good for animal people. People who like to work with animals or just take care of animals have a great oppourtunity too. One of the animal jobs is a night watchman. They checkup on all the animals once every hour during the night. That means it's not just all work. There are other animal jobs too, like feeding the animals and giving them water. There are great things for animal workers with the Seagoing Cowboy program. With the sailors and animal caretakers there are oppourtunities to see the world. The sea cowboys travel to many places to ship animals. When they get to the place where they are shipping to, cowboys can see the places and explore forein lands. Not only do they get to see other places, they also get to see the waters of many places and may see lands off in the distance. There are many great oppourtunities for everyone! Seeing the world is fun, even if someone has to work during it. Caring for animals is great for people who have or like animals. If a cowboy just wants to sail they can man the ship. Being part of the Seagoing Cowboys program is amazing for anyone. Being a part of this program is a great way to have fun and earn money at the same time. Come be a sea cowboy to help many nations in need.

Is it worthy to pursuit the study of venus? Acording to the author he or she says yes. But is there enof evedence that suports this clame. In "The Challenge of Exporing Venus," the author suggests that studing Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. But is this realy true? I say that it is very danerous because humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and no spacecraft survived. This tells me that it is not safe to explore Venus. The story also states that the thick atomosphere of Venus is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide. That is not good because you cant breath. The tempertures are also exremely high. Do I think it is a good idea to pursuit Venus despite the dangers it presents? No, because it has no value to me and it is proven to fail.

The human mind is complicated, but technology can help decipher its emotions. The article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," by Nick D'Alto, introduces the idea of being able to decode human emotions to help students. A software that understands students' emotions is an undoubtedly valuable technology. Students around the world would be helped in a new and improved manner if they used this innovation. Technology used to read emotional expressions would be very helpful in classrooms because it would help students progressively learn. A piece of technology that detects students' emotions would assist students and teachers in and out of the classroom. Every student learns at a different pace. However, a certain software, created by Prof. Thomas Huang, of the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science at the University of Illinois, would make each student grasp the material at his or her own speed. In the article, "Making Mona Lisa Smile," Nick D'Alto writes, "'A classroom computer could recognize when a students is becoming confused or bored,' Dr. Huang predicts. 'Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.''' The previous quote demonstrates that the computer software would help students learn in an adjustable manner. After the students' emotions towards the assignments are detected, the assigment would be modified to help the student progress with their understanding of the subject. In fact, the computer software would not only help students while in class, but it would also help students afterschool. For example, the software would allow students to complete and understand computer homework. This would help the student learn even when a teacher is not with them. Furthermore, teachers' jobs would be made easier. Even if students have further questions, they would always be able to go to their teachers. Lastly, a software that reads people's emotions would be an extremely valuable tool for students and teachers in classrooms. It would allow students to learn at their own pace and way. In addition, they would be provided with additional school help. In fact, their teacher's would benefit from this because they would get help teaching. So, a software that depicts students' emotions toward assignments would be used widely in classrooms.

Imagine it's 1976 and Nasa reveals an interesting photo looking down upon Martian landscape. The photo catches your eye as it contains what apears to be a giaint face made of rock coming out of the sand. Nasa states that the "face" is a huge rock formation that resembles a human head formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. But you also hear other people saying that the face is an ancient alien artifact! What do you believe? Pop culture quickly jumps on the idea of aliens because that view point is exciting. Meanwhile NASA is a government backed and very credible source. I say that the educated person would listeto NASA. I believe that the "face on Mars" is just another natural landform becasue the face looks just like a butte or mesa does on Earth, NASA's powerful cameras haven't captured anything alien looking on near the face, and becasue the majority of NASA and other creidble scientists don't believe that the face is alien. According to the article Martian mesas are common around Cydonia, the area where the famous picture of the face was taken. There is nothinig unusal or different about this specific mesa exept the shadows on top of it. These shadows give the illusion of eyes, nose, and a mouth. Mesas and buttes are landforms that are also very common on Earth around the American West. The Middle Butte in Idaho is a an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. I'm sure if pyramids started being discovered on the surface of mars thats one thing, but just a single mesa that looks a bit like a face is no reason to immediatly blame aliens. Another reason why the face is just a natural landform is because we have seen proof that is nothing but a landform.. On April 8, 2001 which was a cloudless day in Cydonia, another picture of the face was taken with a very powerful camera that used its maximum resolution for the picture. When you look at this picture it is almost hard to immgine a face even being there! The illusion of a nose, eyes, and a mouth is gone. All that remains in this picture are some cracks and rough edges on the rock structure. To many seeing is believing and this picture has allowed many to see the truth that the "face on mars" is nothing but a myth. Some suporters of the idea that the structure was created by aliens argue that NASA is hiding more evidence and mabey even distorting images that point to the face being built by aliens. This is wrong because alien civilizations would increase NASA's funds and popularity. Also it would be almost immpossible to keep an alien secret from the public with so many immployees knowing. These examples show why the "face on mars" is just another natural land formation.

Why would people use this type of technology to read students emotions and why is it valuable. I'll tell you why it's valuable. I'll also tell you if it's wrong to do this. I'll tell you if it's right to do this. I think this type of technology is great to read students facial expressions. Because if a student is feeling sad and the school didn't know the school can help that kid if there is something wrong. They could figure out weather that kid is always bored in a certain class so maybe the teacher can make the class funner. They can use this technology to see if a kid is angry in a certain class and that the school can ask why the student gets so angry in that class like is he getting bullied or he just hates the class. Im all for this technology i think it's really cool. But there are also the negatives to this technology. Lets say a student dosent want anyone to watch him when he's trying to do work or when he's at home doing stuff. Students don't want their privacy invaded. If students don't want people to know what feelings they are going thorugh then maybe they should'nt do this. That is my opinion on this new technology. I don't know if it's wrong to do this or if it's the right thing to do. I think they should take a vote if students want this or not.

My reason why you should join the seagoing cowboys program is because it allows you to experience adventures and visit many unique places. Another reason why you should join the seagoing cowboys program is because you help people around the world that need help. Another reason why you should join it is because if you get drafted for the army you don't have to go beacuase of the trip your on. Luke liked it because he had fun especialy after the animals were unloaded. In the passage it shows why luke liked the seagoing cowboys program it show many reasons like you help people and help animals and you do all this stuff and it opened the world for him. Another reason is you won't get bored there many activities you can play like table tennis, fencing, boxing, reading, and many more it also helps the time go faster. In their spare time they somtimes tour in the controus they go to like excavated castle in crete also the panama canal on his way to china. To show you in idea of what luke did he traveled the alantic ocean 16 times and the pacific ocean twice just to help people affected by world war 2. This essay tells you why you should join the seagoing cowboys program. Also that you won't get bored and have no fun you can do many things just to help people. It might be long but worth it for helping people. It shows why luke liked the program so much.