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The electorian collage is a very popular thing amonst states and well some states have a just one law for it others are a lot more strict on there laws one of the ways they can win is by a winner take all vote but the other way is by a more popular vote where the people can vote and then the winners of the voting will vote agenst eachother and thoes two states are nebraska and maine So what is the electorial collage you might ask well what happends is voters vote not for the president but for a state of electors who in turn elect the president if you lived in texas and voted for john kerry you vote for a state of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry. on the off chance that thoes electors won the statewide electon they would get 34 electoral votes and kerry would get 34 electoral votes.                    

Luke is trying to get other people/friends to join the Seagoing Cowboys program. He asks his brother John to join. "It's a lot of fun," I said. "You get to explore and go around the world to see places that you've never seen before. The best part is that you get to go and help others who don't have a lot of supplies." "I don't know." says John quietly. "I just don't want to be away from home, and something bad could happen to Mom and Dad. I'm just not sure about this one," says John. "You're right," I said. "You're just not willing enough to help others in need. Who am I kidding. You would never want to actually go exploring with your brother. You would never want to leave your job for awhile. You juat can't handle it." "Hey, who said that I couldn't handle it? I just don't want something bad to happen while I'm gone. You never know what could happen. Mom and Dad are getting older you know. They don't know what's best for themselves." "Hey Luke, John,"says Mom. "Why are you kids fighting? You could have just asked me what you wanted, instead of fighting all the time." "It's nothing, Mom." says John. "We can handle this one." "Come on, John. Just tell me. I can give you an answer." John is silent. "Ok fine." He says quietly. "You know that Seagoing Cowboys program Luke goes to?" "Ya I've heard of that wonderful program," replies Mom. "Well, Luke wants me to go with him on his next trip. I'm just not ready to leave you guys yet. You will need help around the house, and you'll probably miss me." "John, your 18. You can leave your dad and I, I promise you that we will be okay. We have eachother, and we have our wonderful neighbors to help us with any task." Replies Mom. "I told John that it is a trip of a lifetime," I exclaimed. You will never forget the moments that we have together. If you come with me, it will make me feel stronger. I'll have you by my side the whole time. We can help others in need together. John, just please agree and come join me for this one. We will never forget the experience." "Well, I suppose so." said John, trying to hide his grin. Mom clapped her hands together. "I've never seen you two actually come to an agreement. I'm very proud of you John, and I'm also very proud of you too, Luke." "Thanks Mom," We said in unison. We both gave her a big hug. "I'm going to miss you Mom," said John. "I'm going to miss you more!" said Mom in reply.

Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents and the author supports this idea by stateing how earth like it is and how even thought there is a mass of co2 and the clouds of highly corosive sulfuric acid and tht the planted is on average 800 degrees Fahrenheit they still belive that we can live ther because it is our nearest planet to earth and could at onew point be our backup planet. They also want to study it for its land feature "valleys, mountains, and crater." NASA has found out how to send humans to study the surface of Venus, "Venus would allow scientist to float above the fray."- NASA "Imagine a blimp-like vehicle hovoring 30 or so miles above the roiling Venusian landscape." It wont work due to the fact that it will still be at a "tosty 179 degrees Farenheit" they could still do it, "the air preasure would be close to that of sea level on earth" and "Solar power would be plentiful, and radiation would not exceed that of earth levels." It is survivable for humans. Alothough venus may not seam like the best planet to live on one day it might be the only planet to live on if we keep poluting the planet we have now and not take and helping our planet out of its situation. NASA does say that " human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginationand innovation." Life as we know it will one day end and by exploring these new planets we may have somewhere else to go if our Earth decides to regect us as humans due to our events of life and destruction we have done to it. By the time that we may have to leavecomputers may be more advanced and scientist may figure out how to make humnas live without oxygen but for the meantime we need to take care of the Earth that we have so our species and others to come may use this beautiful planet and treat it better than we have. Venus is known as the twin to Earth due to is closeness tho earth in terms of density and size. "Earth, Venus, and Mars, our other planetary neighbo, orbit the sun at different speeds. These differences in speed mean that some times we are lcoser to Mars and other times Venus." Mars is another planet that we plan to look into moving mars has beter living conditions but not a lot of plaants but it dies have ice and water inside it but Mars has a very large Nebula (large huricane of gasses) that is quite dangerous for human life. Thank you for reading, -STUDENT_NAME

Everyone has emotion. From sad to happy to scared to maybe even disgusted. They are all very different from each other but if you take one look at someone you most of the time can tell how they are on that specific day. when talking about students in a classroom is it really that valuable to know their emotions and how they feel about certain things? The knowlage of how to read someone is really a good thing to have. Everyone has emotions and a lot of times they are not always the best. in the Classroom as it says in this article that if computers were able to analyze how you or the majority of the class felt about something the teacher would be able to change the lesson or make it more engaging for the students. Also the fact is that if someone is not okay the computers could pick that up and maybe a teacher would be able to talk to that student. In concluson the use of this technology can be very valuable in the classroom setting helping further education and helping teachers learn how to engage students better.

The idea of Venus is a worthy pursuit despite of the dangers beucase Venus it like the closest planet to the Earth because of the density and size and even of the occasionally closest in the distance too. Even though the other plantes orbit the sun as a differnt speed. The speed be changing because sometimes we are closer to Mars or Venus depending on the speed of the Earths. When the spacecraft would go try to land on venus there mission were unmanned. There missions were unmanned becuase most of the spacecraft did not survied on there landing for more than a few house and that's when they knew they could not send spacecraft to Venus because they would not be able to survie thier so about more than three decades no sapceship go sent there aging. Venus is also sometimes called the "Evening Star" because it's one of the brightest planets. Venus is also the second planet from the sun but even though we not able to see the sun we are able to see Venus from a distant poin of the Earth. Trying to go and examine Venus more closely is like very dangerous for you because you will not be able to survie the for long. The spacecraft really want's to know morw about Venus and try fo there and there research and they also trying to take a risk by going. Even though they can't really go to Venus many of the reashers are trying to make machines that can last in Venus. Reashers are trying to make innovation that can allow the machiens to last long engough to knowledge of Venus. They have send electorns made of silicon carbide and got test in surfeace of Venus but it only got to last for about three weeks only. The NASA is the one working on the approaches of the studying of Venus. The NASA is looking at another project of an old technology called chanical computers. This technlogy was made in the 1800s and was used in the 1940's during World War II. It sounds a little weird that they had technlogy that old. It sounds werid that they alredy had computers but these computers were really powerful, flexible, and very quick. If the computers were really pwerful, flexible, and very quick these could really help. The computers could really help on the studying of Venus because you need something that technology not a spacecraft because will really not survie in Venus. You need like good technology that can be able to go to Venus also becuase the technology in Venus could expoled or something can happen to Venus and you will not be able to get good reachers about Venus. That is why you should really have good technology to study Venus. Venus should be able to have people study it and see what's around it and everything. If you go to Venus it would very changllening but there has to be something that you can be able go to there without somethig happing to you. Traving on the Earth and other stuff should not be limited of dangerous. There has to be stuff that you might do and it might be chanllenging to do Venus. There might be doubts also but you should expanded and meet you imaginatio and ivvovation of Venus.

Do you ever wonder how your student is doing in the classroom, or if they actually get what the teacher is teaching them? Well now you can thanks to the new technology called "the Facial Action Coding System", which detects facial emotions. I feel that we need this technology in our schools to help students actually get what they are being taught. This new technology can detect weather the child is into what they are learning or if they are bored and can change the subject depending on his or her's emotion. Not every student has the same intrests, for example on kid might love football while his bestfriend loves horseback riding. This is the same thing as school subjects, and how students learn way different. We need this new technology in schools to help kids learn in the way they want to learn it. This is now possible because of "the Facial Action Coding System". In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the Facical Action Coding System was able to detect emotions on the Mona Lisa painting. Mona lisa was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and 2 percent angry. How does it know all this? With a 3-D structure of the face the model of the face the 44 muscles of the face must move like human muscles. This information is in paragraph 3. After the computer has scanned the model they rely on a psychologist to figure out the rest based on the expression of the face. Alot of things can be detected by facial expressions, and it can help us understand why people act they way they do or feel the way they do. Like i said as for students if it can detect wether they are happy or bored with the lesson it can also change the question that doesnt make them bored so they actually like learning. This is why i think all schools need the Facial Action Coding System because it can help students learn more in the classroom without having to learn about stuff they arent really into. This technology also gives them a chance to learn subjects in the way they understand learning it. Hopefully one day the new technology the Facial Action Coding System will be in schools helping students learn they way they need to. We have the technology we might as well take advantage of it!

Some people believe that the "Face on Mars" is just an alien artifact. Although these people believe this, it is not true. The "face" that was discovered on the surface of Mars was really just a mesa. This was proven, when scientists used a special camera to capture what we were really seeing. The camera used showed everything that it captured. It was so clear that no matter what it had taken a picture of you'd be able to tell exactly what it was. This was a huge attraction to everyone. This topic bacame very popular. The truth was then revealed. The huge attraction, the "Face on Mars", was just a landform. Things like this were commonly found around Cydonia, thus proving that things like this are somewhat common in this area. The picture taken showed a butte or a mesa which are said to be commonly found in the American West. It was even compared to the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa. In conclusion the disception of the "Face on Mars" was all just a misunderstanding. The truth was unfolded an now the world knows what the "Face on Mars" really was; a mesa.

The way I think about this articale is that I dont think that it will be a good idea for use. because what if you where puting on a face. If we put this technology into are computers it would mess with people that look like they are struguling for a person that is just boted and does not want to do it. So they would wast there time if it would go throw a deminstration about how to do it. Even if was a thing that was just for your computer it would not be fun. Do to the fact that it mite mess with what you are trying to do. One the part with people puting on a face what if you where smiling but was acutually sad just for the fact that you had to. Many times when you see a picture it may look like he/she are acting like that but are actualy not so it could through it off and mabey get you confused on the way. On the other hand it could help you like if some one was thinking of some thing and you could not help them or dont know if to do somthing or not. Mabey you could make it into something small like a app on a phone. People would use it to have fun with while walking or try to make it a game among friends that are around you and see if you can tell one anothers expreshons.

If you had a choice to join this event , would you or would you not. If you like helping people this is the program for you. In this program you will be able to travel the world to help people in the other countries. For example , A war is going on and they need medical or food help than you can go over and help those people in need of those things. If your going to travel by ship Luke found the time to have some fun on board so maybe you can too. The ship will feed you and give you a bed to sleep-in. Luke said``It made me more aware of people of other contries and thier needs``.There are lots of reasons to be a part of this program. Also you have jobs on the ship like cleaning up the ship or getting the food ready for the other people on board to eat. Also on the ship you may run into a storm so the crew will determan how bad the storm is , and if the storm is to bad you will have to go inside till the storm clears. Then when you arive in the country that is in need you do what they need like getting a water suply or getting food for the people or getting the medical care the people need need and if you dont believe me than just ask Luke. Then when you are don with what that contry needs then you can get back in/on the ship or waggon you came on than you can leave and return home and wait for the next country that needs. So you really should join this program, but im not going to force you. So it`s your decistion.

In vauban, Germany Residents of this upscale communitiy are suburban pioneers, were a few people like to call home because street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district. Also as an advantage there are only two places park a large garage or buy a home for 40,000 and u get a parking spot. As a result 70 percent of vaubans families do not own cars and 57 percent sold there car so the could move to there. The good thing is that some people were really tense when they had a car and now they are more happier in there new enviorment. In 2006 they were an example of a growning trend in Europe, the Unied States and elsewhere to seperate suburban life from auto use, as a component of a movment called ''smart ''planning''. The good news also is that parks and centers also have bloomed throughout the citiy. New Yourks new bike sharing program and its and its skyrocketing bridge  an tunnel tolls. with all these changes people who stopped car commuting as a result of the reccesion may find less reason to resume the habit. An also pedestian, bycicyle private cars, commercial an public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network.    

i fell that this computer program counldnt do so well becase if your a teatch and you have had the studens say for 4 months you should have an under standing on how this person fell and what faces they make when mad, happy, upest, angry, and more. what if this program works it could open a lot more programs to the world and help you with every day life or just work. for example say your going to ask your boss for a rase you could just walk by make it look like your texting your frinds and but you find out your boss is upset or mad you can know when a good time is to ask for your rase or more houres. but on the other hand this program could work for a while till it it gets something wrong and you lose your job and or say something that will hurt the other person. eve if they do all this programing whos has the money to go out and buy the software and program and whatever else you need most schools spend money on what they need not what makes them happy. and just simpily most school wouldnt want to have a prodct like this. for example apples vs samsung they both make phones, they run diffrent software, have mostly same apps, they are made same places, and many more but people are paying for apple simply because famouse people same thing with samsung. and to be 100% honest i dont see famouse peopel haveing this. " a classroom computer recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." i think if this how the world becomes that we would become even more scumbags than were are already. it would make us lazy and we will loss ourselfs in more tech. me personly i think that this programing could be good and or could be bad. but if this comes out you will not have most schools buy it or just most peolpe. i feel this would be something of the highher class and privet schools.

In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both negative and positive aspects of driverless cars in the future. Of course there are people out there who are against or for driverless cars. I certainly do support the development of the driverless cars. The cars are very benetificial, it'll reduce car accidents, relax the driver and they are just simply just easy to use. First, the driverless cars will just benefit everyone. As the the Google cofounder, Sergey Brin explained in paragraph 1 that he envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars from a public-transport taxi system. It's going to benefit the gas in the future, also. Surgery stated the he forsees that the driverless car would use half of the fuel of today's taxis and other transportations. These amazing cars can change the world tremendously. Secondly, the cars will reduse the amount of car accidents due to the driver not paying attention to the road. I know everyone knows about the amount of deaths that takes place because of texting and driving, drinking and driving and more. But, with these cars being in control of driving, there won't be as far as many accidents as there are now from those reasons. The driverless cars will have many sensors in the car to control the amount of accidents. There are many sensor put into cars nowadays for things such as starters, rotating system on the roof, a video camera on the rearview mirror, gps's, and an inertial motion sensor. All of these sensors put together is necessary to develop the driverless car. Finally, the idea of it just being simple, safe and easy to use comes in hand. Today, many car manufacturs hope to add more features to the car to make it the ideal of a smarter car, In reality it is just causing more confusion to the driver and making it difficult. Just imagine being in a car on your way somewhere, without you being in control but in the knowing that you are safe. It sounds relaxing and chill right? That is the way the future should be. The passage also states that the driver will get bored from just sitting there on there way to their nest destionation. That's when an idea from Dr. Werner Huber came in and stated that they will have to interpret the driving in a fun way, in which the driver will be able to control. I am aware that there are people that agree and disagree with the idea of having the driverless cars. But, I agree with the develpment of them. They will benefit our future, reduce car accidents and make the future more relaxed about driving scenarios and safe. The cars are just a positive attribute in the future. In my future I certainly look forward to being the driver in the cool driverless cars and I think everyone else should too.

Have you heard about the face on Mars? If so it really isn't a face on Mars it's either a natural information or a alien artifacted. I'm going to tell you about what scientist think it is about another mission that got more pictures. Scientist figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around cydonia, only this one had unusal shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh. Although few scientist believe the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Gobal Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in Sept. 1997 eighteen long years after the viking mission eneded. Then Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snappped a picture ten times sharper than the origianl Viking photos. Thousnad of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on JPL web site, revealing ... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all. What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around American West. It really isn't a face on Mars it's either a natural information or a alien artifacted. All this information was from the Article and I believe that it is just a landform.

As a student in high school i think the new Facial Action Coding System should be used. My reason for saying that is teachers could use it for their lesson and see if the kids are getting bored of the lesson or liking it so the teacher could use the new technology to help change the lesson or keep it depending on the students facial expressions using the new technology. For example in paragraph 4 Dr. Huang tells us even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression like not smiling using video imagery. The new emotion- recongnition software tracks these facial movements. The Mona Lisa is just a painting and the new software technology can even tell thats shes 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful, and 2% angry. That in my opinion is amazing who would of guested that we could tell how she was fealing through a painting a couple hundred years later. The computer contructs a 3-D model of the face and uses the 44 major muscles in the model must move like a human muscles. Their are six basic emotions happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness and by the movement in your muscles they can tell what emotion you are feeling. They tell us in paragraph 7 that our home PC can't handle the complex algorithism used to dicode the Mona Lisa. While looking in the mirror by raising your lips at the corner of your mouth. 2 then quinting your eye slighty to produce wrinkling at the corner of your eye. 3 holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up towards your eyes will describe your emotion being happy. My introduction is that the new technology is a great idea for for teacher or anyone to use on students it can change the way teachers teach and also change the world.

The author makes a valaid point. In the passage he said that Venus may have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. It is often referred to sa Earth's twin. As it is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size. Venus might of had been largely covered by oceans and could have supported various forms of life. To this day Venus has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. Venus has a surface that has rocky sediment, valleys, mountains, and craters. The dangers of traveling to Venus are extreme. Unlike Earth, Venus has an average temperature of 800 degrees and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than on Earth. The clouds that surround Venus are highly corrosive sulfuric acid. NASA has one compelling way to battle the harsh conditions. They would send astronauts and scientists to float 30 or so miles above surface in a blimp-like vechicle. The scientists would be above the fray. It will not be easy conditions but surviable for humans. However it would be limited because they are above the surface. At least they could study some of the planet. The author states that our travels should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. The author stated the the pros and cons of the exploration of Venus. He implies that we could learn alot about Venus and even Earth by studying Venus. So he did a support his idea well.

Dear State Senator, I believe that the electoral college works and that its a problem solver. Since our electoral college was established by our founding fathers, according to the article, "what is the electoral college? " Since the electoral college consists of 538 possible Electoral votes, i believe that the majority being at 270 electoral votes is more than enough to being able to decide our United States President. The best the thing about to the electoral votes is that it has a certanty of an outcome, according to the article, " In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our method of choosing the President " by: Richard A. Posner, which also states that another thing thats good about the electoral college is that it avoids having run-off elections. As said in this aricle this means that it "avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast." There are so many things that electoral college does right and thats why i beleve it should stay. On the other hand, there are also things that the electoral college does wrong. For example, us voters don't vote for the president but for the slate of electors who later vote for the president, accordingto the article " The indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defences of the system are wrong. " Another thing that is wrong with electoral college is that its a disaster just waiting to happen. Its a disaster just waiting to happen because in the year 2000, it was most likely the biggest election crisis in a century, as stated in the aritcle "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defences of the system are wrong." The last and final reason why electoral college isn't the beat thing for choosing the president of the United States is because the electoral college is unfair to voters. For example, the winner-take-all system, senators only focus on what they care about and not whtas important. In conclusion senator, i still belive that the elcetoral college should stay becuase it was worked all the way up to now so why will it all of a suddent stop? From, PROPER_NAME

The idea of having a teacher that changes its lesson for a student who is nodding off in class is intiment. Think of all the more your student can be learning by 1 piece of technology. At the University of Illinois, history is being made. Prof. Thomas Huang inovated the FACS, or the Facial Action Coding System, to litterally read peoples faces and tell how they're feeling. How cool is that! Not only will we be able to know how people are feeling but the teachers are able to change their lesson just for one kid that shows that they're confused or bored and help them and the whole class right then and there. it says in the article,"According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only express emotions, but it also may even help produce them,"(paragraph 9, Making Mona Lisa Smile, D'Alto). Not only when you slap on a happy face makes it look like youre happy or having a good time but it'll eventually make you feel alot better too.

Everybody's got a car, right? Having a car to many is either required, out of convenience, or even as a status symbol. What if I told you that cars are becoming becoming a burden to the rest of the world. The negative aspects of everybody owning a car have now taken a physical position amongst the world's issues. Not everybody has realized it yet but there are several cities in other countries that are choosing to take on the issues head on. Let me tell you a bit about a couple of them that I have found to have taken the most drastic of steps and by the end of this, I intend for you to have chosen a side to stand with on the issues that lie ahead. First off, we have VAUBAN, Germany. According to Source 1, the city has made it outright difficult to own a car here. You would be hard-pressed to find anywhere to park as the city has made street parking, driveways, and home garages illegal. You are able to own an automobile but you must go out of your way to drive to a garage at the edge of the district or pay up to $40,000 for a parking space. The city is trying to make its citizens less dependent on automobiles by designing the whole district to be easily accesible through alternative means of transport and by foot. Their example must be getting our attention because the Environmental Protection Agency is also promoting "car reduced" communities. Are we looking at the future of suburban environments? Next, we have Paris, France. Recently, according to Source 2, the city of France has put a restriction on the amount of cars driving in its streets to reduce their monstrous smog levels. The plan was to have cars with even numbered license plates drive only a particular day and have the cars with odd numbered license plates drive on another day. The plan worked and because of this decision smog levels that leveled near the ones present in Beijing, China which is said to be one of the most polluted in the world have gone down to a reasonable level and they are no longer living in such toxic conditions. Maybe the rest of the world can adopt a similar plan when the need arises. Lastly, we have Bogota the capital of Columbia. According to Source 3, in Bogota, there is a program in place that banned all motor transportation except for public transit and taxis for a day. In a city of seven milion the need for transportation is pretty high but the citizens who participated managed without a hitch by using other means of tranportation such as by bicycle. This event is part of a long campaign designed to promote smog reduction and alternative means of transport. The campaign has also seen the construction of 118 miles of bicycle paths throughout the city. The city's culture has had no major trouble adapting to the change and places of commerce and recreation have begun to crop up to facilitate the change of pace. All of this change is beginning to affect our own country as the government is taking notes from the success of these campaigns happening in other countries. According to Source four, studies show that we are seeing a reduction in the ammount of people buying automobiles and earning drivers licences. Is this because of choice or is it because of Americans not having access to enough money to buy new cars? According to the author of this article, Elisabeth Rosenthal, we are seeing the end of the Car Culture. With this thought in mind, which side will you stand with when it is time to decide our future? 

In the artical "the challenge of exploring Venus" the author suggets that studying Venus is worthy. The question would be, would you like to study and explore the planet of Venus? In the solar system the planet Venus is the second planet from our sun, Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantag point of Earth. Venus is clostest planet to Earth. Studyng about another planet is really not that bad espically with facts and information you will learn about a certian planet like for example in this situtaion you are talking about the planet of Venus. Planet Venus is bad as you think , you learn alot about it in this text that you , yourself probably didn't know. The author provides alot of information that you will probably be suprised about for example did you know that the tmpatures are over 800 degrees fahrenheit and the atmospheric prssure is 90 times greater than we on earth experience. meaning its way too hot, then here in earth. Unlike planet Mecury which is closer to the sun. Venus is more likely to experince impediments for example erupting volcanoes , earthquakesand mostly lightning strikes and land on its surface. Venus still has surface of rocky sediment and also include familiar features just as earth like valleys ,moutains, and craters. Imporantly researchers cannot take swamples of rock , gas or anything but from a distance , therefore scienctist seek through mission to understand Venus. Venus tend to be more delicate when it comes to physical conditions as the example the author uses "just imagin exposing a cell phone or tablet to heat of melting tin" the author here is trying to get your attention and make you think about it and have you wondering what would happen if you wer too expose someting like that to heat. In conclusion studying a planet is not bad nor is dangered to anyone unless you are going pshically there. So therefore the author is telling you its a good idea to study about Venus andf meet new information about the planet.

Driverless cars are the future. I feel that they are some of the coolest inventions since the invention of the smartphone. Just think about it, hopping into the car, telling it where to go, and not having to do anything along the way. To me, that sounds like the ultimate luxury. Lots of people feel this way, and this passage shows how driverless cars are amazing, such as increasing flexibility of the average person's day, and the ability to be entertained while being in the driver's seat of the car. I simply cannot wait until these machines become mainstream, and I will become one of the first to purchase one. Driverless cars would increase the flexibility of the average person's day. If it was as simple as typing in where you want to go, I'm sure children would be able to operate the cars, also. This would allow the kids to get to their after-school activities easier and to school easier, too. This would widen opportunities for parents to be able to do more things everyday. If driverless cars became truly driverless, imagine the multi-tasking opportunities that would be available in the car. Heck, I could work on homework in the driver's seat, and my dad could make business calls and paperwork while "driving." Parents could interact with their kids, and anyone and everyone could get more work done. They could also be entertained while in the car, and who doesn't like entertainment? And last but not least, driverless cars are super cool, I mean, come on, they're DRIVERLESS cars! The concept is out of this world. I think it's totally amazing what technology can do these days, and I look forward to more inventions along the lines of these. These inventions make life easier, more fun, and a whole lot more productive, and to the best of my knowledge, these are all good things. So, in conclusion, driverless cars are the bomb. They can make life easier, more fun, productive, and entertaining. The whole concept is spectacular, something right out of a sc-fi novel or TV show. I look forward for their breach into mainstream, where I will be waiting, waiting to purchase a driverless car.

This would seem like a good idea having known when a student is struggling or confused and then being able to change the lesson to a more understanding lesson. I don't like the idea of this because I don't think that this would give students their privacy. It freaks me out if I think that someone is watching me through the camera of my smartphone or my laptop. If I knew someone was using my camera on my smartphone to watch me I wouldn't use my smartphone as much just because I wouldn't feel safe. Facial reconition is very interesting and facinating, but it is just not normal and it's scary. This technology is being used in new smartphones where the phone can use facial reconition to unlock your phone and yes, it's cool but it is also a little odd and it's never been done before. This technology could be good for goverment help too, but I don't think this software should be put in student laptops just for if the student gets confused or lost and it can switch the lesson. The administrators could like this idea but if the student is stuggling with something then they could ask their teacher, if they aren't near their teacher than most teachers would reply to email and help a student through email. Me personally as a student I don't like the idea of this software being put in student laptops. I think the idea of the software being put into smartphones is a bad idea, juust because of people privacy and identity being secure. If someone got a hold of this software and they used it for bad reasons such as identity theft that is a reason I don't like the idea of this software being put into smartphones and laptops. I do however like the idea of this software being able to read emotion especially non human emotion, I think it's very facinating that this software could tell the emotion of the world famous Mona Lisa. Being able to replicate human muscles and and facial structures in a computer to be able and get this kind of technology is absolutely amazing. Emotion is sometimes very complicated to understand when you see someone's facial expression. There are nearly eight billion people on earth and being able to use technology to figure out someone emotional state is nearly ground breaking. This break in technology is outstandind and extremely impresive because there aren't many people who could make a piece of sowtware that can do something like this. I doubt that when Da Vinci painted this world renoun panting that in the future someone would be looking for what emotion Da Vinci put in the Mona Lisa. This painting has had very many conspiracies done about it but I dont think anyone in the world who has seen it has ever went "I wonder what emotion she is feeling right now"? In the end I like this software being used to find emotion in humans and paiinting but I don't like the idea of it being used for phones or laptops.

Making computers understand human emotions and feelings, sounds like a great thing to have personally I thinnk that it could be. Having a computer or your phone basically know you and what you like can really make things easier when it comes to looking for things, shopping online and like in the article school work and understanding lessions. This is a resouce that is very valuable to all students in the classroom, I feel that it is useful because like in the reading it states " A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Meaning that the computer will automatically change its way of teaching to find way that is fit for you, something like this in schools could completely change the way of school all together, and a great way for easy teaching. Now some might think other wise because of alot of problems that could possibly go wrong with it such as the cost of that software, If the software makes any mistakes, and weather or not the software would work for every student I also can see kids becoming lazy being a big problem too. why I still feel that this is a great idea and should actually be in school I also think for the fight of it that the parent should have to choose weather they would want there kids to experiment with it. Overall this software should be out there for every child to use if they so please.

The author of "Driverless Cars Are Coming" did a pretty good job of weighing out the positives and negatives of driverless cars. He seemed to be leaning towards the development of driverless cars. My position is very similar to the author's. Driverless cars could be very useful in the near future. While compiling a list of pros and cons, it can be seen that the ratio of the two are about one to one. The first positive of driverless cars is the fact that no one will have to spend the money to buy a car anymore. The text states, "...a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system." If this public-transport system was to occurr, no one would have to spend the ridiculous amount of money it takes to buy a car. These people could put the money they saved from not buying a car towards other expenses. Over a person's lifetime, they would be more likely to spend less money on the taxi fees than they would on buying a car and putting gas in it. The overall expense of gas in a person's driving lifetime adds up to hefty amounts. The topic of gasoline is talked about world wide. Countries are producing it and using it just as quickly. Soon, the world will be dried up of all it's oil and we will have to resort to other means of power for our cars. One way we could slow down the consumption of gasoline is by developing driverless cars. If a public-transport system is set up, less people will have cars to fill up with gas, therefore less oil is being used annually. The text states, "The cars...would use half the fuel of today's taxis..." If the United States made the switch to driverless cars, we would only use about half of the oil we use today. This would not only be good in the sense of saving precious fossil fuels, but also in the sense of saving the environment. More people would use the public-transport system meaning there would be less cars on the road. This would reduce the amount of carbon emmissions and help save the environment. If the mass public-transport system would come into existance, how would it be any different than the public-transport systems we have today? Most people who use public-transport ride a bus. Busses stick to schedules and will not change according to a specific person's schedule. This can pose many issues for people. If driverless cars were used as a form of public-transport, there would be more flexibility in schedules. A driverless car service would function almost identically to a taxi service, but as stated earlier, would be more environmentally friendly. The text states, "The cars...offer far more flexibility than a bus." Many people forsee populations becoming more environentally friendly and hopping on board with the driverless car idea. With the positives of driverless cars, there are also some negatives. With these "driverless cars," the human driver still has to be alert in order to take over in certain traffic conditions. The text states, "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." Why call them driverless cars if they aren't entirely driverless? Even though human drivers occasionally have to put in small amounts of work, the car does most of the work. The text states, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves..." After that, what all is left to do? The car just needs a little assistance every now and then. Everyone has formed different opinions on whether or not driverless cars should be used widespread. After weighing out the pros and cons, it seems like the positive aspects out-weigh the negative ones. If driverless cars were more widely used, we would see improvement in the environment, less fossil fuels being used, and less money being put towards cars and being put towards other expenses.

The "face" on Mars was not created by aliens however it is just a natural landform that was created. "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," he added. "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 land form known as the "Face on Mars" is just a Mesa. On Earth we have these mesas too. "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." Even though it may look like an artifact its not because it was just formed like that. The mesa has nothing to hide becaus eour satelights have take many pictures of this mesa and this is no evidence of an alien presence on Mars. There are no sybols of any kind on or near the face or shacks or anything that could lead to the conclousion that aleins had built the face. This is my evidence that the "Face on Mars" is just a common landform that was misconceived as a face of sorts built by aliens. Even though it may just be a common landform it is hard to belive this is not an artifact from an anceint civilization that lived on Mars.

Why would the author ignore the dangers of venus ? The author believes that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers. Because of how hot it is it's very dangerous . The author says, " Astronomers are fascinated by venus because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our solar system ." The author has believed that the ,"Conditions aren't easy but humans can survive in venus ." The author wants to explore it no matter how dangerous venus is it's like earth and if so they want to see if there is people living on venus and if there like us since humans could live there. Reseachers can't take gas or rock samples from venus so that is why no matter how dangerous venus it's so interesting for the author. The astronomers are planning visit so they can see the different things on venus or the earth like things on venus. The dangers of venus aren't dangerous to astronomers they are just challeneges. Why is venus called the evening star? Well it is as know as that because it is one of the brightest points of light. Or the twin of earth. Venus and earth are just like each other same density, size, the closest distance. They both could have humans living on both planets. That is why the author believes that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite it's dangers it presents.

The author states that Venus may have been like Earth at one point. Venus may have evidence on the surface about what could have happened to cause it to be inhospitable. Also at some point humans are probably going to run into other challenges like Venus. These claims are some of the reasons the author thinks Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. According to some scientists Venus may have been like Earth at one point. If it really was like Earth before there could be much to learn about it. We could find out what the atmosphere was like before it got too extreme. There may be evidence of life that was once on the planet. In paragraph two the suthor states "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size¨ This is a reason many people believe Venus could have been even more of a twin to Earth than it is now. On the surface there could be the evidence we need to know if there was life forms on Venus. In paragraph five it is said ¨The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters.¨ This statement makes it seem that Venus really was like Earth at one point and may have proof if we could land long something on Venus long enough to study the land. In the future humans will continue to explore the solar system and will very likely run into a planet like Venus again. So if humans can learn how to study planets like Venus or land on them then they would have the knowledge needed for the next planet. If we have experince with planets with extreme conditions before finding another planet that also has extreme conditons we could get more information from the plant and at a lot faster rate. In conclusion, the author makes multiple points that support their idea of wanting Venus to be studied. Venus possibly being like Earth at one point and giving us experince of planets like that are very important to the author.

In the article "Driveless Cars are Coming" there are many opinions on if we should procced on with the thought and dream of driverless cars. The article supports both sides of the argument and makes vailed points for both sides. Although postive points brought up in the article there are some negative. In the article in paragraph nine, there are many reasonable questions brought up in the article regarding the safety of not only drivers but pedestrians. What is to happen if the technology glithes and someone ends up dying? Who would we blame for these accidents happening? People may argue that we have made many advances in technology but to this day we still have everyday household items blowing up. One other negative feature about having driverless cars is brought up in the article as if there was an emergency on the road what was that car supposed to do. Although there are some negativies to having driverless cars there are also some postivies. Like in paragraph seven the article brings up some postivies to the situtation as the car having more features making driving safer and less diffcult. Another postive thing mentioned in the article about driverless cars is the thought of us using less fuel. With the use of less fuel is that we are saving our enviroment by our pollution rate going down as well. Another postive thing about having driverless cars is the safety of the person driving the car may increase such as if the seat belt is not put or put on correctly the car will not start. The article " Driverless Cars Are Coming" shows both sides of the argument. Although there are negative aspects of the car. There are also some positive aspects that wil increase the safety of drivers.

In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author has shown how Venus is a planet that is worthy of our exploration through a few different points in this essay. However the author also uses many different examples of why Venus is/has been too dangerous for humans to venture on. But the essay does lean towards how necessary it is for humans to be curious about this journey more so than not, and they author does this using a few examples. Overall the author uses a large amount of their evidence from NASA mainly to describe certain ways they are trying to solve the problems and how they have started to already. The author does introduce the con aspect of their essay first by explaining why humans have not been able to journey onto Venus' surface yet. They start by saying, "Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe the issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades"(paragraph 2). This is not the most reassuring few phrases when the goal is to get humans on the surface of Venus. But by adding this in the author is placing an understanding of what the dangers are. The dangers are plainly that if a spacecraft cannot survive the surface of our neighbor planet. . .then how can a human possibly do it. So by adding in that scare factor the author then switches the tone to describes the certain parts of Venus that scientists need to get close to. Because in order to study it they need to be close enough to see it clearly. The author tells us all of the different features that are similar to Earth and because of all of these similarities scientists can learn and discover so much about our planet from Venus. The author names all of these similarities which are: "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system . . . has a surface of rocky sedimet and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountians, and craters"(paragraph 4). When the author says this they are leading the reader in to want to know more about what Venus is like. This is because when they say that Venus is "the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" they are making the reader wonder what Venus must be like. Also making the readers curious as to what humans can learn from this planet as well. Which is a major benifit in a risk management scale. Next, the author also introduced a possible solution to the problem that is Venus' surface. They found out that NASA is doing their own research on how to land safely on Venus and to be able to withstand a longer duration of time there as well. The author said, "NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray. . . Just as our jet airplanes travel at higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus woud avoid the unfriendly groung conditions by staying up and out of their way"(paragraph 5). This is a major point because if NASA is already finding different ways that they can have ships on Venus, they are a step closer to having a ship survive on the surface as well. This is also very important because as they are discovering different materials that are lasting in Venus-like condition, and they are learning more about what could work for humans. Because if they were to create the ship that would float above the fray; then they would be able to have scientist there to observe and learn about Venus. The only problem with this is that the scientists wouldn't be able to collect samples from the surface yet. Furthermore, the author explained a few different points throughout the entire essay. Some of them consisting of cons to the situation, like how a spacecraft is unable to last longer than a few hours on the planet. But other parts of the essay were how important it is for people to go and search Earth's sister planet because of the very similar landscape that the two share. The author also added in some of the different solutions NASA is trying to decypher and perfect. For example the plan to have a ship floating over the fray so that scientists are close enough to make observations but they are just far away enough that they are unable to take samples. Over all, the author portrayed Venus as a highly worthy planet to explore and that there are many different factors as to why it is so important.

Ever since the invention of the car people have driven over walking or biking. while it does cause gas emissions as well as other forms of pollution such as smog, there is no better way to get from point A to point B in every day life. Henry ford revolutionized the world when he produced the model T. Ever since then driving has been a huge part of life in the world. it makes life easy and it has almost become our own "coming of age"  ceremony to when you can finally get your lisence. having a lisence is just more freedom and it as become in most societies more than just a piece of plastic showing you can drive. now it is used as your ID. it is used to show your age, where you are allowed into, whether or not you can buy alcohol. getting your lisence is almost a necessity now. Now, if the entire world were like the Vauban where there were individual suburbs with wide sidewalks, their own restaraunts, and own grocery stores all with in reasonable biking distance, then sure, I'm all for  ditching the car. But, in every day life the car is a necessity. Now im only speaking from what ive seen in my little town on the coast of Florida. I agree that the car in New York carries less value and need than where i live. But people still own them, the streets are still always full, and taxi cabs are still cars. It'd be different if you took the subway of the big eat coast cities or the cable cars of the west coast ones. But taking a taxi is still burning precious fuel that is harmful to our air. These "car free utopias" sound very good. They may even be a success, but the main thing they lack is practicality. There is nothing practical about these places. They reduce fuel use and smog and air polution sure. But the use for a car or a truck cannot be replaced. lets say there is apractical emergency, your wife's water just broke. you are not going to be able to get to the nearest hospital on your bike in time. calling an ambulance may take too long as well. or lets say you need to evacuate. (not a threat that happens often, but still a pliable scenairo). I'm not saying these cities arent amazing nor am I bashing them. I find them very progressive and excellent. i think that they can really make their mark. There just is no replacement for the automobile. These cites can grow and sprout all over the world. they can prosper and get phenomenal feedback and support. However, they will never replace the automobile. At least not in my lifetime, probably not even in my childrens' lifetime and perhaps not even in their childrens' life time. Every sinc Mr. Ford produced that first model T. The automobile was here to stay for a very very long time.      

Dear, Senator of Florida I think that we should change the electoral college to the election of popular votes for the president of the United States. So, that the people of the United States can elect which President and Vice President they want in the White House. In the Electoral College there are 538 electors and 270 out of 538 electors are required to elect the President. To the people of the United States thats not fair cause if 269 electors pick one President and the other 269 pick other President who wins then. Let's not forget about the U.S. presidential Race in the 2000. When Bush won the the election because he had 271 electoral vote s and Al Gore only had 266. But, Gore had more individual votes than Bush only if we didn't have the El ectoral College . that's why Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL CIO all agree to abolish the electoral college . The reason why the electoral college is wrong because when voters vote there not voting for the president your really voting for a slate of electors, who might or might not vote for the president you voted for. If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of electors pledged to Kerry. And if they won the nationwide election, they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electors votes. This is the reasons why I think the electoral college should be changed.

Dear senator, I was meaning to ask you can you please leave the electoral college. In way many people were grateful for this kind art education in many ways people use this place for so long to know how many scarefices that many people choose this area than no other. There got to be a diffrent reason to come in mind for can stop this idea from elimanating this fine place to construct for all years of hard work. For so long many people still would like to choose this college as great example for their success. This my letter to you senator. But if you refuse this than i don't know what i would do,but  what I do know is you choose what it came from your mind I can not stop you from picking the good or bad  choices but I can help you pick the right choice. As well making a election area that only happens in four years is not really worth anything many would disagree for this nonsense build and just forget what just came in mind and pick the right choice.    

The further development of driverless cars should be pursued in their respective manner. It should be taken in to consideration that technology will be upgraded and evolve to better suit and cater to human needs as people progress throughout time. A lot of people will not have the oppurtunity to have their driver's license, and some will not be allowed to retain one. In the even that one does have their license, they may not have access to their own car if they live in a large, populated city. That leaves them to hail a taxi, catch the bus, or the train/subway. Not all of these are reliable sources of transportation. Taxi or alternative transportation drivers will run late, get lost, or unfortunately, get in an accident. A subway or a bus could also be running late, or be involved in an accident. A smart, self-driving care could cut down on navigational problems as well as time managment. Though a driverless car is still in its infancy, many developments and advances have made the concept worthy of further thought, investment and speculation. While the car would still need a human driver to be alert and take the wheel in a sophisticated or compromising situation the car does not yet know how to deal with, the car remains as a safe and advanced way of articulate and advanced driving. This would also help developments in how to make a car drive effeciently in the even of a car accident, or roadwork is being performed. In the financial state, smart cars would be a much less expensive than a smarter road, which would be equipped with magnets or another energy source that would send signals to the car. Of course, those roads would have to be upgraded, that upgrade would come out of taxpayers pockets and the government as well. The one thing holding back tests and further advancements for this futurisic riding service would be the law. While it is still assumed in most states in America, that the only safe kind of car is the car with a driver, it should be considered that humans still must trust themselves behind the wheel instead of the driver beside, behind, or in front of them, since not everyone's judgement is on the same wave-length as the others. In fact, there is already a car out on the market that has a safety feature that allows the car to stop itself if there is a hint of danger, in the even that the driver's reflexes are not fast enough, or just simply cannot stop the car. The possibility of a safe, self-driving car is not a far leap as it may seem. After all, America has put man on the moon, and is working to do the same thing with Mars, already having two rovers on the red planet. There are satellites and spacecrafts that leave our solar system without the help of the human hand. The Hubble Space Telescope sends pictures to its headquarters on its own accord. If all of those achievments can be done, why not a driverless car? it was thought impossible to send a human in space, much less on our moon, but that has been said and done, time and time again. The only thing keeping this project of more efficient cars and driving tethered to a chain is doubt and second thought. The concept and development of a driverless car should be purusued and achieved, so tehcnology can continue to advance as it should. Of course, the car would improve over time, as do all things, given the chance. So, let the car have a chance at showcasing its potential.

I remeber My sixteenth birthday I woke up bright and early and went stright to the BMV. I was about to get the best gift that could be given to a teenager a gift of freedom,trust,and responsbility I was going to get my lisence. I was so excited to begin driveing I loved it driverless cars would take the joy of driving away. I dont think we should continue to spend a bunch of money devolping driverless cars. There will always be need for human alertness in the vehicle. What happens when there is a crash who is responsble the manufacture or owner of the smart car. With driverless cars there would no longer be any excitment of getting your lisence. Driverless cars are so expenseive its not practical to own one. On googles driverless car there radar system for one car cost two hundred million dollers. Who realisticly has two hundred million dollers to spend on a prius. With cost like that these cars are mor of a televison fantisy than a practicality. If you were to buy a driver less car you would expect to relax during the car ride. Actually driveless cars still and will always require human assitance. " all driverless cars are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navagating through work zones and around accidents. This means the human driver must remain alert and be ready to take over when the situation requires". These driverless cars arnt really driverless the will always require human alertness and asitance while in the vihicle. What will happen if you are in a smart car and there is a crash. All it would take to breack my computer at home is to spill some grape soda on it. What will happen if the technolgy fails and you hit a pedestrian or anothier car. Who would be responsible for an accident the owner of the car or the manufacturer. "new laws will be needed in order to cover lialbility in the case of an accident". " Driving laws focus on keeping drivers, pasengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that saftey is best achieved with an alert driver". The devolpment of driverless cars is a waste of our time and money. Cars will always be somewhat dependent on humans the will never be truly driverless. there will be many liability issuse if an accedent takes place. And what will be the fun in getting your lisence to just sit in a car that drivers itself. I want my children to feel the same way I did when I turned sixteen. I want to be able to give them same gift my dads gave me the gift of reponsbility, trust, and freedom.

Imagine a world completely pollution free. A world with no worry about greenhouse gases or global warming. While it's highly unlikely that we will get to that point, we can still try to reach this perfectly healthy world. The are many advantages tolimiting car use, some of those advantages would be: reducing stress, reducing the amount of pollution, and saving money. Stress is a feeling that everyone can relate to. Whether it be work, school, money, or home life stressing out about things is not healthy. There has been several studies showing that getting proper exercise has tremendous health benefits. The only problem is that no one ever seems to have time to work out or go on a walk. However, if you had to walk to get wherever you're going, you would easily recieve enough exercise to help lower your stress. Plus, driving can be extremely stressful. Without having to sit through traffic or deal with bad drivers an average person's stress levels would plummet. The first passage contains a quote from a suburban mom of two, "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm so much happier this way." Recently, I feel as if all I hear about on the news is Greenhouse gases and pollution. Honestly, hearing about global warming is a frightening experience, almost like a glass of cold water being thrown in your face. 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe are caused by passenger cars and in parts of the United States it's up to 50 percent! While car companies are helping by rolling out hybrid and electric cars, those cars are very expensive! Not everyone is willing to shell out that kind of money. By reducing car use, the harmful gases polluting our air will greatly decrease and places like Paris,France and Beijing, China (both ver heavily polluted places) can have clearer air. Money. Money seems like it rules our world and it really does. Do you enjoy throwing moeny away? Of course you don't! Well, if you drive a car everywhere you go, you might as well be. Gas prices are high and it takes upwards of 50 dollars to fill the tank of the average car. Not to mention the price of the car itself! While you have to pay for gas, car insurance, maintence, and the bill for the car if it's not paid off yet, people who walk to work or to the store and don't own a car are saving thousands of dollars a year. To conclude, when you reduce the use of cars you: reduce stress, reduce the amount of pollution, and save money. If you want to leave the planet Earth healthy and livable for the future generations, you should seriously consider ditching your car and buying a nice pair of walking shoes.

Voting has always been something special for almost everyone. From African Americans fighting in the Civil War for the right to vote and women in the nineteenth-century also fighting for voting rights, Voting had always been a controversial topic. This privilege has changed many times in the beginning of the United States and since its birth, the primary way to vote for the president is the Electoral College. The Electoral college is a process of electors in it voting for the president. It is almost always an one-sided battle for whoever that agrees or disagrees with the Electoral Colloge. For someone that is usually neutral, i am in favor of keeping the Electoral College as the United States choose their president. To begin with, even though the Electoral College is critisized of it not being democratic, it still allows the peoples' voices to be heard and expessed. The trust between the people and their electors is rarely betrayed, however it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. The Electoral College will  almost always gurantee an outcome while if it was another way, more ties and balancing will happen. from the article itself, it stated "Because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state."- Richard A. Posner. The Electoral College will always let the people's voices be heard even if it was in a indirect way. Furthermore, The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. No single region in the United States ave enough electoral votes for a president to get elected. Regional favorites, such as Romney in the south, will have plenty of problems if he is just a regional favorite instead of all over the country. This system will caused presidents to be more diversed in the country to be able to spread hierachical diffusion of the idea of geting themselves to be elected. From source number three, it also states that "a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president."- Richard A. Posner. The people will get to experience the president themselves instead of jst voting for the one they are biased upon. Lastly, The Electoral College method of selecting the president avoids the problem of elections in which no candidates recieves a majority of the votes cast and also dissovles the problem of few potential voters not wanting to vote. There is a pressure in which if no candidates win a majority of the vote,there will be a run-off election. that would greatly complicate the presidential election process by wasting more time and money. however, that process is reduced by the Electoral College method, which invariably produces a clear winner. The Electoral College System can also be argued against that it can turn off potential voters for a candidate who had no hope of carrying thier state. "Knowing their vote will have no effect, there will be less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote."- Richard A. Posner is one of the quotes in source number three. But of course, no single vote can change the outcome of a presidential election since voters in presidential elections are mpstly people who want to express an opinion than thinking that a single vote will change a election. In conclusion, our current way of the Electoral College system is the best way to vote for presidential elections. Even though people could argue that it is un-democratic, the way they elect the electors and having the president promote themselves in a certain way does make the system every one bit of it democratic. To remind you senator, the Electoral Collage system should stay because it still allows the peoples' voices to be heard and expessed, requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal, and it avoids the problem of elections in which no candidates recieves a majority of the votes cast and also dissovles the problem of few potential voters not wanting to vote. That is why i truly believe that the Electoral Collage is here to stay.

wat i think abou drivless cars, i dont think we should have them and i think we should beacause its not fun haven someone drive you around all the time and how much would we ahve tp pay but the eldery could ude this a advantge and there would be fewer recks less people off the road. but it would be dangerous wat if a storm comes wat would the google cares do keep driving or wat or when kids are getting offf abus would the cars stop and just last week a google car got in a wreck how safe are these cars really and thhey say they been around since 1950 so why are they getting in wreacks im a tenneanger and i dont want someone driving me around i want my own car so i can say i havee the best car .but why are they motion how can they ssee the whole road , it doessnt add up wat are traffic cops gonna due put people out of there jobs then peoplw wolund be out of a job and how would people pay for these the wealthy yeah but even the poor have cars and the pay taxis so who rally coul ddo it so i dont think we should have cars like that just for the eldery thats all we should have them for and no i dont want the eldery to just ride in them ethier but they have to have a way to get ouround and its hard for them but it is a sekf driving car so thtas my postive and negative

Have you ever wonder what over planet is like earth? Studying venus is a wortthy pursit despit its dangers, venus has simlair features to earht in fact the text it referred to as Earth "Twin" becaus e of its size and density and sometimes the distance from the sun. venus long ago,"probably" had oceans and spme type of forms of life living on venus, at this moment in time if you look at a picture are captured of venus you would see rocky sediment and features such as valleys,mountains and craters. Now that we've understand the good aspects of venus their are some very dangerous cons about veunes. at thirty plus miles above surface the temperature rises at 170 degrees farenheit it sounds nice and toasty but air pressure would close to sea level on earth,solar power would be plentifull and radiation would not exceed on earth so its not survuable for humans. many spaceships landed on venus but many didnt make it back due to conditions of the tempature in closing as much as we want to disciver new things and find somewhere other then earth we must look at the terms and conditions

My argument is in favor of changing the election by popular vote for the president of the U.S.A. This is because the Electoral College is unfair. The citizens are voting for the candidate's electors. The Electoral College is a process which consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is needed to elect the president. The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. You help choose your state's electors when you vote for president. After the presidential election, your governor prepares a Certificate of Ascertainment. Which lists all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of the electors. This is sent to Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidetial election. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, agreed on abolishing the electoral college. They are not alone. According to a Gallup poll in 2000, over 60% of voters would prefer a direct election. Under the electoral collegen system, voters vote for the slate of elctors, who in turn elect the president. Sometimes the voters vote for the wrong candidate. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The biggest election crisis was in 2000. So, it is official that the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The Electoral College depends more on the big states than on the small states. My argument is in favor of abolishing the electoral college, because it is not fair that we vote for someone else and not the president.

This new technology is actually valuable. In the story they talk about how making yourself smile still can make you happy. This technology could really help because then they can tell if someone is really unhappy. Most people do not want other people to know what they are feeling but it helps people around you. This technology can tell you like what percent happy you are or digusted or fearful or angry. Like Mona Lisa's percentages were 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, and 2 percent angry. With people being able to know how people in paintings were feeling you can put together what might be happening or what they are trying to point out. This technology is actually very helpful because they can tell everything by just using a computer and using it on a painting to see what their emotions are. The computers can detect all 44 muscles in someone face. All the muscles have to move like human muscles. They say in the article that the movement of one or more muscles is called an action unit. The Eckman has classified six basic emotions and those emotions are happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. An example they used by telling any of those is your frontalis pars laterials muscle which is above you eyes raises you eyebrows when you are surprised. A way they can tell that you are angery is when your orbicularis oris which are around your mouth tightens your lips. There are many different things that this technology can tell about you which could really help because it could let people around you know how you are feeling instead of having to answer and you just say your fine. Like you can kind of tell how a friend is feeling by just looking at their face. Everyone can have trouble describing like the reasons why they feel like that but atleast you can tell how they are feeling. Even if you do not know why they are feeling that way you can try and change how they are feeling. Like most people do not want to have to explain why they feel that way they just want a friend to be there for them and help you boost your mood. Computers are unstanding what peoples emotions are but they are still trying to figure out how to nonverbal communicate with someone. The article gives you instructions to do while looking in the mirror. The first instruction is to raise your lips at the corners of your mouth, the next one is to then squint your eyes slightly, to produce wrinkling at the corners of your eyes, the last one is holding that, raise the outer parts of your cheeks up, toward your eyes. They ask if you express in the mirror suggest an emotion and it does it is a happy emotion. Experts can even tell by just looking at a celebrity and they can tell if the are being truthful about being happy or if the are sad. This technology could help many people. Do you just sit there sometimes and think what are they feeling or are they sad or happy well now you can tell by just doing some very easy things. Like you can use a computer that can recognize what you are feeling even if you are just sitting there doing something the computer can still tell. You can even learn ways to just look at someones face and can tell how they are feeling by just the muscles on their face. This can help friends they will be able to tell how their best friend is feeling and they can try and change their mood. Even if it does not seem helpful it really is, by just telling what someones emotions is by just looking at them can actually change a lot of things.

Being a Seagoing Cowboy is an honor and would be a great opportunity for you. A Seagoing Cowboy is a wonderful job to have. You get to go over seas and help out and take care of animals. I was a small town boy and thought I would never be able to go and see sites like the Panama Canal or take a gondola ride in Venice, Italy. But since I became a Seagoing Cowboy I not only got to do my wonderful job ,but also get to see beautiful world natral wonders while doing it. While being a Seagoing Cowboy I learned what the job was. It was about helping others. A Seagoing Cowboy is the best job in the world for me because of all the opportunities to help people and not only did I get to help peopleI belive I made a difference in their life. I also had fun while on the sea. I got to bond with people and begin new friendships. We mostly had fun on theway back since all the animals were picked up andwe didn't have to water, feed, and watch them. We liked to play fun games like volleyball and baseball games in the empty rooms were the animals used to stay. It's also fun to have table-tennis tournaments, fencing, boxing, reading, whittling and games for fun too. But being a Seagoing Cowboy is more then an adventure it helps you come aware of the people who truly need help. Being a Seagoing Cowboy also opens your eyes as well as heart to the other people around you.

The Sea Going cowboy may interest many people. You may wonder why. Lots of people all around the world are suffering from world war 2. You may want to help them. This program will let you do that for many different counteries. If you were to join this program you would sail on a ship. It may contain animals,food,and other helpful items. Many things were destroyed in world war 2. Including homes,animals,and people. All this stuff will change that. You will save countless lives. China,Europe,and many other places were destoryed because of world war 2. Luke is deffinetley a hero because of his bravery. He even got his ribs hurt on the ship. Many people would quit after an accident like that,he didn't. He kept doing his best to help those people that were suffering. In conclusion,I think Luke is a hero. I know many people would say no to helping other people because of the danger. Others may do it in a heartbeat. If you don't,I understand. If you do, then you will be a big hero just like Luke.

Transportation is now used everywhere. Whether it's planes, bikes, motorcycles, or cars. Cars is our main source. They've gotten better and smarter over the years. There's ton of new ones every year. According to the article, Google cars have been developed since 2009. Google cars are smart cars. They drive independently, without having a person function it on certain conditions. My personal opinion on driverless cars is that it's a very smart idea. Many people drive every single day, and probably get very tired of it. So why not have a break? Transportation like this may be very expensive also. I think it's worth the amount of money. In the article it explained how these cars are not completely aware of everything. So you may not want to sit all the way in the back of the car and take a nap during the ride. The article gave a brief description on how the cars may need navigation in difficult situations. These situations could be finding its way around a car accident or a road that's getting worked on. In the article it talked about how in 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." Now what is this? It's another car thats getting developed to drive on its own without human guidance. The car can handle driving functions up to 25 mph. It can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. So this explains that humans must be there and alert incase a serious situation may come up and they have to take over. The Google car has actually made a situatiion with the car and planned ahead with possible situations. They have a function where they simply annouce when its a time where the driver shoud take over and handle whatever is going on. If that's a problem, it has other functions to get the drivers attention. Flashing lights on windshields or noises are a few examples of the indications. I feel that cars has came a long way, and they're getting nothing but better. I also feel that in a few years or so, everyone is going to be driving these cars. Whether it's Google, Apple, Toyota, or BMW. Smart cars are going to make a major impact. It will be easy transportation, and a luxury. They're going to keep improving and people will look back at the "classic" cars, which are the ones we drive today.

I think that this Facial Action Coding System will be benefitial to the classroom. Most parts of the day we spend on our computpers reading articles, typing papers, or searching for information. I think that if the computer could read our facial expression, it would help teachers know what way of learning works best for students. Your teacher can't always tell if you don't understand something or if your having a rough day. If the computer can, I think that it would help teachers help students. When I read an article online for a project I usually get bored from it. If a computer can tell by my face that I am bored it could change the lession plan to have me play a game or vistit a different website that might be more hands on. The computer would be able to reconize the main 44 muscles in the face to determine the persons emotion, and from that it would know what to do next. The computer is a tool we are constantly using to help benefit us. This would help benefit teachers. For example if an ad popped up on your screen and you laugh or smile the computer will know you enjoyed it and show you more things like that, but of you frown or have a look of discust it will know that it needs to chnage the plan of your study path. In conclustion I think that Facial Action Coding System would be a good idea for our school. I think it will be a good way of learning. This could also help out teachers being able to know if kids understand. I also think that it will be a good perspective to have for teachers and students. Not all people can read emotion so if a computer did it for us it would be easier to know who needs help and how they learn best.

Someone has been working hard for 16 greuling hours at their work. Their drive home is two hours on long, boring, quiet back roads. How are they supposed to stay awake and drive in those conditions? Driverless cars could be the solution to that. Driverless cars could whisk that person to their house safely and securely. Driverless cars should be made because they would provide extra safety when in cars, give unqualfied drivers more transportation, and make driving more enteraining. Driverless cars would provide extra safety when in cars. Technology is so advanced today that a driverles car would have several sensors to keep the car from crashing, swerving, and other disasters. There would be sensors on almost all aspects of the car, such as a 3D camera for vision, speed sensors on the wheels, and motion sensors. There would be very strong motion sensors to track moving objects around the car within s wide radius so the car can detect when to slow down or stop in traffic. Also, the frame of the car would be bigger and stronger, so if an accidident occured the driver would be less affected. Driverless cars would give unqualified drivers more transportation. Elderly people who have trouble seeing or other problems with their body can pose a serious threat to other drivers. Instead of kicking them off of the road, they could be placed in driverless cars so they will not have to drive. They would be able to sit back and relax while the car takes care of the driving. Also, it could help people with temporary conditions. People who are very tired,have broken limbs, or have certain disabilities or diseases possibly cannot operate a vehicle properly. While a sleepy driver takes a nap, the car would drive them home safely and when they get home, it would wake them up with an alarm. Driverless cars could help out mostly anyone. Driverless cars would make driving much more entertaining. A car that could drive itself would already be very cool, but what makes it even better is that a person does not have to multitask while the car drives itself. If there were important matters that needed to be dealt with, the peron could get it done in the car. A person can eat and not have to eat and drive at the same time. If they had to make a business call, they could do it right there on the spot. Drivers would not be bored or distracted while driving anymore. Driverless cars should be made because they would provide extra safety when in cars, give unqualified drivers more transportation, and make driving more entertaining. There are so many accidents that happen because drivers are careless and oblivious. With driverless cars, there would not be that problem. Ther car would drive itself, and would work in unison with cars nearby to avoid accidents. Driverless cars is the next step to being a safer place on the road indefinitely.

Dear State Senator, Even though you're most likely aware of this, as the United States,we are currently using the Electoral College system as our voting process. This system should be abolished due to all of the factors that could go wrong. The Electoral College is a multiprocess system, which can confuse some of the voters. As an exapmle, there could be a case like this, "Is it Robert Peterson that's the elector for Jacqueline Smith, or Peter Robertson?" With uncertainty like this, we can't be sure if our leader was intentional or an accident. Some other confusion that can occur within electors is that they might say that they're going to vote for Jacqueline Smith, when in reality they are planning on choosing Henry Harrison. Another negative is that They often only visit swing states so they can over rule the large state. This isn't fair to other smaller states who may need the candidates motivation. Last, but luckly least possible, is that the number of total electors is an even number. Hopefully it doesn't get to the point of being a tie, but it will be a possibility for as long os the Electoral College is standing tall. An alternative process to this current system would be Popular Vote. This would solve all of the problems listed above. If the election process is done by popular vote, there will be no confusion because it will all be done individually. An aditional plus of the direct voting being more straight forward is that the voters won't have to worry about whether or not the elector will vote for the candidate they want. With Popular Vote, the candidates will have to visit many more states in order to reach most potential voters, this is because they will see that the poeple of their party is spread all over the United States. There will also be less of a chance for there to be a tie becuase the voting is based per person, and with a bigger number there's less of a chance for the votes to be split evenly. Hopefully after this being read, there will be a change to the current voting system the America. From, Your greatly concerned fellow Floridian  

The use of a facial reading computer in a class seems a bit useless. Why use a computer to think about lessons if the student is purely bored or sad when school isn't ment to be fun. Yes, being happy is the greatest feeling in the world, but in a classroom, students shouldn't always get what they want but what they need for the near future. Technology shouldn't always be used for lessons or homework most of the time, but it is sometimes neccsscary to create online lessons for either snowdays or 2 hour delays. In a quote; "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." In that quote, it states that a facial reading computer could change lessons like a effective human instuctior. How is the student learning? Yes, the lesson could be changed into something more easier, but why give the student something hard at first then explain it? That's a waste of valuable time for any type of lessons. If the student is bored, he or she is not taking school seriously. School isn't a playground where students have fun. They could have fun in their specials like art or gym etc. But in a classroom, students should take their time with their work like their life depends on it. In the same paragraph it states; "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communications," nostes Dr.Huang, "so computers need to understand that too." So if they bring a face reading computer into a classroom, is the teacher gonna be fired? The use of a face reading computer inside a classroom is still useless. Why bring a 10 thousand dollar computer into a classroom that is used to read faces and change lessons when a student is bored? Thats why schools have actually teachers, cause they're already there. At the end of this, expensive face reading computer are still useless and less valuable when there is already an actual human that could do that for less.Yes, being happy is the greatest feeling in the world, but in a classroom, students shouldn' always get what they want but what they need for the near future.

i agree with the article, knowing that a technologly can be use to see how people emotions are is pretty cool for someone to know how you and another person is feeling. the resson why i agree to this passage is because i mean it has all sorts of context. the emotions that people have are very important because thats why we all ask each other when somwthing looks wring we always ask and say "whats wrong" because we can tell by there emotions. some people lie and say there fine but we know deep down there not. In the picture you can see that Mona Lisa Smile is not real. so many peoole love with stuff amd keep in there back of there head and just leave it alone, but deep down we all know their thinking about it. " movement of one or more miscoes is called an "action unit" Eckman has classified six basic emotions happiness. surprie, anger , disgust, fear , and sadness. movement of the facial muscles." that how Mone Lisa feels. As you look really close into the picture you have see 83 perecent happy , 9 peecent disgusted, 6 perecent fearful, amd 2 perecent angry. artists can make a picture not look like whats the person is feeling Mone Lisa as we all know is a very strong independent woman. we all kmow she was going through some tuff times. i feel like everyone asked her if she was okay. and than everyone had went to a conclusion. "lets make a system on peoples emtions." everyone believed that their was gonna be thsi system to figure how peoole were gonna react. And when we tried it in Mona Lisa we all knew that the technology was gonna work. Mone Lisa was a cery hard working last who never would show her emtion to anyone. until the technology was imvented. Nicu sebe of the university of amsterdam had memrion feom the text that " expert at deveopling better ways for humans and computers to communicate. people really know now on how people feel and there real feelings are being shown. i think its for the better anyways, reason being is because if we did not know how people felt that mean we would not be able to stop people would harm them selfs. i think this techology is a good way to start this world into a better way than just asking peoole on how they feel and making them think about it more. people can find all different ways to makes somene else feel better. Mone Lisa never speaked up she would always say she was fine. she wiukd always bave a smile in the back of her head. but she knew no one would ever understand her so she never told anyone and just never spoke like the feeling she always felt.

Yes, the idea of the face being a creation of intellectual life, outside of our planet, is certainly quite intriguing. However, the idea isn't entirely ethical, and I do not agree with the theory that it is a product of martian life. However "uncanny" the face is, and aidmittedly, it is quite detailed, so I could see how one would think that it was constructed by intellegent life forms, but it just isnt logical. We have yet to recieve any other signs of current life on mars, and why would this be the way of reaching out? As far as we have found (although, i would love for this to be incorrect) there is currently no life on mars, intellectual or otherwise, and with no one around to construct it, obviously all fingers point twards it being a natural land form. There are many other examples of images, resembeling human faces showing up throughout space (although the "face on mars" is quite detailed compaired to some of the others). one common example would be the "man in the moon", which was likley formed by either asteroids, or other natural happenings that occur on the moon. Obviously the face on mars, is not the product of an asteroid impacting the surface of the planet, because an asteroid would imprint, but the face is raised, but it does show that sometime things that look human, are simply a product, caused by nature. The first picture ever captured of the face, was taken in 1976, by the ship "Viking 1" as we all know the technology (cameras, and photo quality included) wasn't the best, and the article tells us that the resoloution was limited, it says "43 meters per pixel in the best 76' Viking photo". That was when the theory of the face was most avid, and it could very well ahve been partially due to the limited resoloution and quality of the photo. however in the 2001 photos of the face, which were used to conclude that it was simply a mesa, and not an alien artifact, the quality is much higher, which would obviously enable them to reach a far more sound conclusion, than any based off of the 76' photos. Like I said, the idea that the face could be an alien artifact, is entirely unfounded. The idea that NASA would cover up a discovery like this is entirely lewdacris, because a discovery of this nature is not only pretty much the entire point of th eprogram, but it would aso attract more attention, and taxdollars.

If you become a seagoing cowboy like me then you will never see the world the same. You travle to all these places like Greece,Venice,Crete,China and The Panama Canal. I have been to all of these places and they were beutifull. You get to try new foods and meet new people. You can wander away to explore in your free time. You can even see famous buildings and landmarks. By helping people you will feel better about yourself. Your making the world a better place every day. Your giving people food and water. Your also helping animals. You learn how to take care of cattle and horses. You have to feed,clean,and make shure they have enough to drink. It may sound hard but its fun with all the friends your doing it with. Sometimes you have to work other jobs on the ships like being a watchman. On the ship you have some free time. You can play games like baseball and volleyball in emptey holds were animals have been kept. You can play other games like table-tennis, fencing,and boxing. Reading,whittiling and games like checkers or chess also helped pass time. Being a Seagoing cowboy was somthing more than an adventure for me. I got to see so many new places . Im so gratefull my friend Don Reist invited me to go to europe ono a cattle boat. I couldn't pass it up becase it was the opportunity I would never get offerd agian. I crossed the Atlantic Ocean sixteen times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people recover from World War II. I was aware of people and ther needs. My faimly hosted international students for a number of years. I really hope you consider becoming a Seagoing Cowboy after reading this.

Driverless cars might sound awesome but at the same time they can be dangerous. I say they can be dangerous because even if the car has more nice details to it, there might still be a fail on the car. Driverless cars shouldn't exsist. In the article it says that cars will be smarter, but the real question is will they really work well being smart? Driverless cars will be real expensive, also it will take a long time to create them. If driverless cars are to be used by everyone, it won't be good at all because not everyone can offord it, it might sound cool but it can also be dangerous. These cars won't be as smart as we want them to be. A driver will always be needed to conduct the car. The article aslo says that the laws to driving will change when these cars come to exsist. As much as we would like to not drive anymore and just let the car do all the work without our help, its not a great idea to have these cars around. We cant always trust on them, the roads won't be the sameas they are now. Driverless cars will make a huge change in driving and also, on the streets. My overall opinion is to get these cars. Like I said at first they sound cool, but you can't always trust the car. As much as I would like to get it cause it sounds cool, I will not get as driverless car. I'd rather have an ugly looking car that i know I won't have much trouble on, than to get a smart car that I dont know if anything can go wrong. They can exsist but I say that they shouldn't make everyone get a driverless car, unless they want one.

Dear State Senator, When our great leaders died they're visions didn't die. They wanted the people to be in charge of who runs there country and what happens in them. Why is this not happening the way our founders wanted it. Having the Electoral College is not a bad idea but, its not a great one. Demolishing the Electoral College is the only fair way. In the article " In Defense of the Electoral college: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" Although it mention how good the Electoral College is it also mentions how "the Electoral College method of selectin the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carry their state....Knowing their vote will have no effect". Popular vote don't seem to matter, The Peoples vote don't seem to matter. Others may argue that the Electoral college helps break a tie but, that only happened one time. If we ever had a issue like that again we could just enforce the Electoral College but, the people the say of who leads us after all we are one nation under god. In the article" The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" Bradford plumer states" Voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." Furthermore he goes on to say "  state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." Can't we just enforce the Electoral College when we need a tie breaker. The Electoral College consist of five-hundred thirty-eight electors which happens to be an even number. Even if its a slight chance couldn't an Electoral College voting happen to be a tie. The population doesn't have even or odds in this case because every year new people are getting to the age that  they can vote. In the article "what is the Electoral college?" The Office of the Federal Register states that" the founding fathers establish it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the presidentby a vote in congress and the election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens." As you see it says a comprimise not total dictatorship. Everybody has rights voters rights are being tampered with. freedom to vote doesn't seem neccessary because we may have freedom to vote but our votes isn't making a difference. As Plumer said if there is a chance of a tie " the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president....Because each state cast only one vote ,the single reprsentative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representative from California, who represent 35 million voters." From a future voter waiting for a change    

Driverless cars can be very useful in the near future. When we all recive one, that can be alot more safe for us but only if we all get them. Having a computer that is programed for our safety can be very helpful protectiong our lives. We all should have driverless cars as soon as they get out because they can save lives and help free up our very bussy scheduals. If we get driverless cars everyone has to have one for this to work the best in my oppinin. If we all have driverless cars on the same roads as some other normal cars, that can bring danger to us. Trafic can't move as smoothly as wanted because the driverless car would have to worry about the normal car and consily deal with his driving decitions. This will end up slowing down trafic and possible making the human take over which is not the goal. If everyone had driverless cars they will be no chances that the cars will crash. They are programed and in comunication with the other cars relaying information back and forth of where it is going and what lanes it needs to be in. The cars will let you in and you will never be hurt in a car crash again. Having a driverless car can free you up to get some much needed free time, or get some last minite work done. If the car is driving you can sit back and relax. You can even just sit and look out the window and see all the things you would have missed driving with your eyes always 100 percent focest on the road. No more consitly worring about what the person ahead of you is doing or some one comes out of nowhere and hits you, causing your death. With the computers everyone will be driving the same, meaning you can get to your desination fast and safe. All in all the driverless car is the safest and smartest idea I can think of when it comes to the future of driving cars. It has so many advatages to it you couldn't cover it all. To the safety of your body, to getting what needs to be done. Taking away driving is the most resonable thing you can think of doing. Driverless cars is just the smart way to go.

Having cars is great for getting around efficiently but ther are some down sides to driving motor vehicles.  Some reasons are the way it affects our atmosphere and how it decreases our phisical activity.  This is why we need to cut back on driving motor vehicles. My first reason is the way driving affects the atmosphere.  In Paris the government enforced rules stating that "motorists with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their cars at home or suffer a 22-euro fine."  This is because the cars were emitting smog which is a gas that lingers in the air polluting it.  The smog was getting worse than Bejing, China "one of the most polluted cities in the world." The second reason we need to cut back on driving motor vehicles is it is limiting our phisical activity.  In Bogota, Colombia they started a movement "a day without cars."  the were fining everybody with the exceptions of buses and taxis.  On this day a lot of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took buses to work on this day.  "Municipal authorities from other countries came to Bogota to see the event and were enthusiastic."  Some effects of this movement were straight paved sidewalks and sports centers for people to enjoy. In conclusion, if we cut back on driving motor vehicles we will have cleaner air and no smog and we will get more phisical activity by using other methods of getting around instead of using a motor vehicle.

Back in the day getting a car was a right of passage into the adult world, now it just seems silly to get a car. Biking, walking, trains, buses all seem be taking the place of cars. Why? Seems to be the big question that car companies are asking. An here are the answers new towns are being constructed all over the world where car are unnessacery, also new programs to show other ways of transportaion, but also for less population. The Europeans seem to be taking ton the idea of a "car-free" life. In Vauban,Germany they have created a community where street parking, driveways, and home garages are geberally forbidden. 5,500 residents live within a a rectangular sqaure mile, making it more compact and more accessible for public transportantion. This makes stores a walk away, there is a main street, rather than a distant high way. Vauban, is an example of a growing trend in Europe, United States, and elsewhere. They are separting suburban life from auto use, a start of a movenment called "smart planning." Bogota, Colombia is starting a program that is spreading to other countries. Millions of Colombians hiked, biked, skated, or took the bus yesterday. This is the third year cars have been banned, using only buses and taxis, these are only trasportantion permitted for the Day Without Cars. In this captial city, the goal is to promote alternative transportation and reduce smog. The turnout was large even with the rain showers, "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating..," said Bogoto Mayor Antanas. And for the first time two other cities are joining the event. The day without cars is part of  improvement campaign, they have constructed 118 miles of bicycle paths, the most in Latin America. In Paris they have started to enforce partial driving ban to clear the air of smog. On Mondays motorists  with even numbered license plates to leave their cares at home, and on Tuesdays odd numbered licenses plates must do so as well. If they use their car they will get fined, 4,00 people were fined that Monday! This new plan of action is due to the intensifying smog in Paris, that monday 60% of the smog was down. In the Untied States less people are starting to use cars, not because they will be fined but because a change in culture. Many sociologist believe that a decrease in car usage will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and enviroment. To conclude limiting car usuage seems to be a trend around the whole world. The advangtages of less car usuage, is they are building communties where cars arent nessacery, making programs to show there are other ways of trasportant, and less cars means less smog. The whole world is starting this new trend of less cars, you never know cars might not be a thing 50 years! We seem to be heading towards a new age, that only seems to be increasing throughout the world.

Can you image a day without cars? with pollution in a high rate, and smog began to cover the roads and sky. A capital city of 7 million how is these possibe,well the goal is to promote alternitive transportation and reduce smog. Violators faced a $25 fines. when people have cars they began to become tease because of the stress of driving especillay all the crazies behind the wheel. with cars free day is stop all traffic and provide a day away from stress and lower air pollution. car free day was started in Bogtoa,Colombia in the mid 1900s with a plan to spread car free day to the countries, to encourage millions of colonbians to hike,biked,skated or took buses to work during car free day and to create a 118 mile bicyle path. even the side walk that was once uneven and pitted,and replace by broad smooth sidewalk. rush hour restrictions have cut traffic and new restaurants and upscale shopping disricts have cropped up. parks and sports centerts also have bloomed throughout the city. for the first time two other colombian cities,cali and valledupar,joined the event. the turnout was large,despite gray clouds that dumped occasional rain showers on bogota. but the rain hasn't stopped people from participating in car free day.             

Driverless cars shouldnt be a option or even a car to use. Technology can fail which isnt worth risking lives over. Even though the google car has driven more than half a million miles without a crash something can fail. These cars use post estimating sensors to control the vehicle. Imagine if one of these sensors got damaged and caused the car to go out of control. The cars seats also vibrate when the car is in danger of backing into a object. How does that give enough time to the driver to realize what is going on. And what danger the drive is in. Car entertainment can also distract the driver if the driver has to take over. Anyting can happen why should we trust technology with our lives. People also can get blamed if their car gets in a accident when that person was technically not driving the car. So who would be liable if the car did get into a crash? Its not logical to think that a car has a better reacion time than a real human being. A human can see what is going on before his or her gets in a crash. But now its the car that isresponsible for always being aware. Have these cars been tested on different terrains? People can drive anywhere but if its in a different place with no signal how would you drive the car? im sure the car would need signal o drive. Some places that could shut down and you wouldnt be able to drive the car.

I'm going to tell you why you sould participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program.I am hoing to include the animals, the traviling and the fun you can have while being a Seagoing Cowboy. First im going to talk about the animals, us as cowboys love animals, and with this program you can do your thing by taking care of tha animals. People would really apretriate your work as well they would be happy that you are helping take care of the animals. It may be hard work but it is worth it. So thats one reason to join. The second thing that is the traviling. You get to go to deffirent places and see new things you don't always get to see. You could go to London, China, Russia and lots more just from joining this wonderful program. You might never go and see these wonderful places in your life if you don't join. I think that is the best part about being apart of this program. Finly I'm going to talk about the fun you could have in this program. In your free time the crew will play baseball and Volleyball and much more. It is not only fun but it passes time and you won't be bored. You can make lots of new and cool friends as well. So see? This program is something worth joining. It may be dangorous but there are more Pros than Cons in this situation and i really think you will enjoy it. Well these are the reasons I'm here and this place is great you should join. WE could all have a great time.

Autonomous cars are not the thing of the future. At this point in time, our technology can not match real life situations. There are too many conditions and too many saftey standards that are virtually impossible to accomplish while creating a "Driverless Car". In the subtitle; Sensing the World, it explains how most of the driverless cars act and how they truely work. Many of the first productions were meant to run a specific track rigged with wires, magnets, and etc. This technology would be far too expensive, so we must rely on sensors and other features connected directly to the car. The problem with sensors, video cameras, and laser systems, is that they all can malfunction. The last thing anyone wants to do is to rely on something may indeed malfunction and put them in danger. Even if we were to say that the sensors and other technology was working in top shape, there still are limits to them such as poor lighting, bad weather conditions, and even animals. Overall, we as human should not rely on technology to perform one of the worlds dangerous daily functions. Instead of progressing AI control, we should focus more on how the car would react if we the humans lost control. We have come this far by manual control, why switch now? Most accidents that occur on the road are drunk driving, distraction, and un safe conditions. Built in technology would be able to counter both driving under the influence and distractions.

In 1976 NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars when it spotted what appeared to be a likeness of a human face in a region called Cydonia. Over the years there has been speculation that this "face" was created by aliens. But over the years new equiptment has revealed the "face" for what it is: a mesa. There are three key points of evidence that disprove the alien theory: the equiptment first used to photograph the Face on Mars is rudimentary compared to the equiptment used for the 2001 image, the sky was clear on Mars when the 2001 image was taken, and Earth has similar landforms on its surface. For example, "Each pixel in the 2001 image spams 1.56 meters, compared to the 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." Technology has advanced much from since 1976 and 2001 image is a clear example. The 2001 image also has another detail that can't be left out: it was taken on a cloudless Martian day. A last piece of evidence sure to disprove the alien theory is the fact that Earth has similar landforms on its surface. The Face on Mars, "...is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West." To conclude, the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. The image from 1976 was photographed with equiptment that is rudimentary compared to the equiptment used for the 2001 image, the Martian sky was cloudless when the 2001 image was taken, and the 2001 image proved that the Face on Mars is the Martian equivalent of a mesa, something commonly found on Earth.

Do you ever wonder why the world is becoming so much warmer by the minute? Not many people stop and realize what's the real problem. Us humans are the major problem in this situation, we don't see that we are taking what we have to an advantage. To our factories, cars, or even trash. The main one that is causing our greenhouse gases to rise is our Power plants, but following behind the power plants are vehicles. Cars have become a major impact in our lives, from hurting one another, to hurting the place we live on. Car-free cities are going to help make a big, helpful change in peoples lives. In the city of Vauban, Germany 70 percent of the families do not own a car. Vauban is called a "car-free" place, cars aren't allowed on the streets of vauban. Many people sold their cars to live in vauban, all around vauban wants a healthy way of living. Vauban allows car ownership, but the cars are only to be parked in two places which are the garages. "When I had a car i was always tense, I'm much happier this way," Heidrun Walter said. It is a much healthier and less stressful way of living, new ideas will always come in handy. The United States Enviromental Protection Agency is promoting "Car Reduced" communities. Hopefully they get someone to tag along with this promotion, and get supporters to enforce it. Bogota, Colombia is going on their third straight year of a "Car Free" city. They are wanting to reduce smog, so buses and taxis are permitted. "It's a good oppurtunity to take away stress and lower air pollution," Carlos Arturo claimed. There was a consequence to the ones who didn't follow the rules, which was a $25 fine that they had to pay each time. Eventually, Two other Cities in Colombia, Cali and Valledupar, latched on to the idea of a "Car reduction." You see many people walking, running, riding bikes or skateboarding. A lot of people like this new idea that people are going by,  it's an great way to step foward to save the earth and its problems. Over time, Americans haven't been buying cars, driving less, and over years less people get their license. America is hitting its driving peak, The number of miles driven peaked in 2005 and then decreased signifigantly since then. Not many can afford a brand new car, or the insurance, most people are unemployed and dont work at all. Cars have been around for a long time, but over that time period it has caused major life impacting issues. "Different things are converging which suggest that we are witnessing a long-term cultural shift," said mimi sheller. Many people aren't aware of this "Car Free" idea, which is an disadvantage.  If this idea was spread through televison, newspapers, or even social media many people will pick it up and take it into consideration. In an overall sum up, it is better to live "Car Free." You wouldn't have to stress yourself out about gas prices, fixing your cars, or your world becoming a big ball of heat. If Transportation and power plants are the two major impacts in our lives, we need to knock one out. Until, we can get some second options on power plants our best choice is to forbid cars. We have many other options to get around our city, running, walking, riding bikes or etc. The "Car Free" idea is very creative, not many people would take inisuative to help make the world a better and safer place. With an exception of a few, buses and taxis will be there for long distance trips. Cars caused a huge impact on our lives, but hurting us and our home which we call earth. The business plan is "pedestrian, bicycle, private cars, commercial and public transportation traffic are woven into a connected network to save time, conserve resources, lower emissions and improve saftey." Think of all the advantages cars have given, but think about all of the disadvantages the cars have showed. Which one out weighs the other? Cars aren't always there to help us, life is all about choices, it's time to make yours.

Have you ever wanted to explore or learn more about other planets? In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy persuit despite the dangers it presents. Venus is a near by planet, and it has much intel that we need to understand. Is the data, and research we could get from this mysterious planet worth the risk? The research we can get from Venus is well worth the risk it may take to retrieve the data needed. We have never been to this planet before in person, but we have had unmanned ships come to Venus but with the outstanding temperatures of 800 or more degrees Fehrenhiet, and the thick atmosphere they only last on the planet a near only few hours. With the planet atmosphere 97% carbon dioxide, and Highly acidic and corrosive sulfuric acid in the atmosphere there is a big challenge even landing a ship for a day. You may ask why would we even keep atempting to go there when there when we can't even have a ship there for even a day. We could get a lot of things from there that may help understand more about the planet and space travel. Long ago scientist believe that is once just like earth. Holding bodies of water such as oceans, lakes, and more with trees and other life forms. The planet this holds some features of a planet that was once habbitablem, the planet has a surface of rocky sediment which includes features such as valleys, mountains, and craters. Even if we did need this, and people all around the world wanted to go there you may be thinking just how could we since the planet seems to destroy everything we send there. With better technology, and using computer sytems from the 1800s, and early 1900s we may be able to with updated sytems. These computers consist of a systems that use gears to calculate everything, meaning they aren't as fragile as other newer faster computers. Scientist believe they may be able to use these and more reinforced materials to make the ship stronger, they tested them in a chamber that had conditions like Venus and so far the materials have laster as long as three weeks. At this point is it worth not taking the risk to get to Venus? We have improved and even may get there very safely. The risk don't present as much as rish but challenges. With all the benefits of traveling there, they overway the risk. Venus is worthy of pursuit to get anwsers and understandings we need to know such as did Venus once have life.

Earth is the only plant that humans can stand ,talk,walk and breath on by your self with no help . haves 800 degree farenheit when lading from space while the perssure will be 90 times greater with the atmopheric .some peoole want to know is other plants save to vist . Mars ,Venus are the close to earth neigboor from speed of time mars be closer to earth then others venues closer to earth . Veuns has the hottest landing point temperture in the solar system .veunes try living there your car woul be floating 30 20 feet above the floor .venus do have features as like earth rocky mountains valleys craters . some say we may can vist that plant soon. The NASA has only one particularly compeliing to study whats beyond what people dont see or dont know for hummans can travel to other plants. earth the best to keep all living goods in things, poeple ,and creachers alive Thats why its good for people to studdy about thinks an just do so they would know what they getting into .earth right now never sound back to me but earing an learing about differnt plants that maybe we might be able to vist in years is aswome to learn an hear about that its not just one plant we could live on.

The Electoral College has been used for years. I agree that we must keep it this way. Yes, It is possible that the outcome of the popular vote that the people have chosen is not in agreement but it has been the best way of selecting a President. It is highly unlikely that when the people vote for certain selection of the candidates group of electors will change their mind. It has happened before but It's rare. I suggest that the electoral college stay, and not change the election because It has not only been used for years, but also some of the citizens may make a mistake in who they vote for, and atleast with the Electoral College we can make sure we have the right President. Each Candidate has their own electors and it take 270 of electoral votes to choose a President and since they are from the same group, they wouldn't choose someone else. It has happened in 2000, as it says in the excerpt. This system has been used for years, why change it now. The Electoral Collge has worked this way for years, the founding fathers came up with it as a good process. It is completely fair to all. The people get to select their candidate and the electors know what their responsibilities are. The citizens aren't completely able to control the electors ideas but they might have a bit more knowledge on the subject. 'Some citizens may get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate' excerpt from passge. This refers to the fact that we may have chaos if we let the people decide directly who is our President. We need an insider to review our peoples choices and make sure that it is the correct one, and what better way than to have the Electoral College do it. It depends on the state and the candiddate's political party, In which you chose. The People will get what they asked for, their has been times In which it that is not always the case, but the electors usually make the decision the people has asked for. As said in the passage "In defense of the Electoral Collage", Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee, and the trust is rarely betrayed, This system is the best one yet. Our people are well informed but not always, If we take out the Electoral college, we are leaving our country in their hands and people make mistakes sometimes, with the electoral college we have various people making the right decision. It's like when an author writes a book, they don't get it published right away, they have people to make sure their spelling is correct and they make many other different corrections. It's the same with the Electoral college and the way the president is selected. As my state senator, I suggest we keep this system.

Driverless cars are trying to become a thing you know? How do drivers even thing that is okay? How does the law think it is okay? Driverless care, are you serious? It would reduces the wrecks that is forsure, if people wasn't so wreckless on these roads today we wouldn't have any wrecks, but drivers just don't care anymore they would let someone hit them just for the money. Some people have been told the drivers seats will vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. It would reduce the cause of a-lot of wrecks, He says, " Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a crash," A million miles is a-lot, with a brain driving, not a human that is far. Human Are in the car respond when needed or told to take the wheel cause danger is around. What if the driver falls asleep while they are waiting to drive again, or waiting for danger to come? It says "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The google car simply announces when the driver should be prepared to take over. Other options under condideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays." He also says, "Why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive? How would someone respond to a dead body or how would the drivers family if they knew he was in a driverless car, trying to sleep and the car wrecked because he was asleep and didn't hear, see, or feel the warnings? The drivers family would want to sew the car manufactures. He says "The Manufacturers are also considering using cameras to watch that drivers are remaining focused on the raod. While the driver watches the roas, the car watches the driver. Driverless car shouldn't be aloud to become a thing even tho is has some good things, it also has alot of bad things too. To much stuff goes on behind a car that humans and only humans should have to take in responsiblity. They can be they cause of their own death, don't leave that up to the car.

Since remotely times, the man had look for some way to make his life easier, since primitive hunting weapons, to carriages. The carriages were pulled by horses mostly, and on those times, the most that those animals could do for contamination was pooping but the owners had people to clean for it as well as someone who took care of it. While the times had change, the transportation media has too as well with the cars; which it actually result to be a doble sided blade contaminating with smog. In Paris the government has banned driving due to smog, the smog has caused a huge impact on this city, giving to it cooler nights and warmer days, many habitants blame Diesel fuel, but it does not matter which fuel you would use, it would burn and produce smog anyways. On the other hand, Vauban, Germany, is offering a new life style that many people has decided to adopt; the suburbian comunity has no cars at the streets, people there does not own a car because they do not need it, the public transportation works very well, so it is not a primary need. They can live perfectly without cars, then they are not that necesary. Many people even sell their cars in order to move to Vauban, and had said that their lifes are so much less stressful than when they did own a car. Mothers can let their childrens to play in the streets without thinking that a car is going to kill them, and kids can let go technology if their moms want them to play outside; most of the kids are so attached to technology because it is a way that parents have to keep them away from the streets. Maybe these changes like in Germany were too radicals, but it can start by a day a year like in Bogotá, Colombia where once a year people take a car-free day, being buses and taxis the only ones allowed to produce smog, the violators are charged with 25 dollars fines. Even in the U.S., from 2003 to 2009 young people driving decreased a 23%, young people are considered the most dangerous driving people. There is so much for young people to do that they are not focused on driving, this could be the beginning of a new era, in April 2013 the number of miles per person was equal that in 1995 where the cars where less than right now. There it is even a program in New York promoting car-pooling! But for example, here in Florida the public transportation is not that good, you actually need a car that drives  you to the bus station and then take the bus; a bus that will let you on a train station, that train station will offer you a ride of an hour to another bus that takes about half an hour to get to your job (if you live in Homestead and work in Miami). That is about three hours just arriving to your job, every day for five days in a row; that is about thirty hours a week, just to get to your job! But if you have a car, those three hours now are one hour, which seems reasonable (and it is still a lot!). If someone lives at Homestead and needs to do something (which is generally at downtown Miami or Doral) you would have to dedicate a whole day just doing it, if you are going in car because the distance between cities are ridiculous, can you imagine if not having it? For doing something you would have to take two days and do it by parts or wake up at the very morning when it is still dark so you can complete everything by the afternoon. So defenetly the car is a primary need. Analyzing the life style that people at Vauban have, they are less stressed than the average person who owns a car; people starts to be more social with their neighbors because they have to walk everywhere and the faces are the same, so they actually get to know each other. They also got the benefit of a cleaner enviroment because they do not have the daily doses of smog that someone living in a city would have; cars cause the 12% of the contamination in Europe and more than a 50% in the United States. That is a problem that Paris maybe would not be facing right now if they had payed attention to contamination levels. Since World War II, science has been centered on developing new and better cars; can you imagine what would we have right now if some other would center the science in medicicne or something else?. In the United States an 80% of the budget goes to highways while just a 20% goes to public transportation. But, how can people in Bogotá or Vauben survive without cars? The distance between the comercial and suburban areas are close enough so a bus could take you there (just one bus). Defenetly, making the change would be hard due to our attachment to our cars, but little by little we can change or life style.

Base on what I read Venus is a important planet it is the second from the sun and it's nickname is the evening star and is one of the brightest points of light in the night. Also in this passage I found out Venus is also dangerous and is referred to as Earth's twin. Venus is simple to see from the distant but safe vantage point of earth. Venus is the closest planet to earth in terms of density and size and occasionally the closest in distance too. However on planet Venus the surface,temperatures average over 800 degrees fahrenheit and and also atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than waht we experience on our own planet. A long time ago, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life just like Earth. The NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus. This passage was helpful learning more about Venus like how hot it is and how big and what the NASA is doing to study it. But I don't think I could live on Venus it wouldn't be safe because of the pressure,heat and other bad forces.

In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggest that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents because it could become our new home. Venus is often referred as Earth's twin, as it's similar in density and size, and the closest in distance to Earth. Humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on Venus and were unmaned for a good reason as the spacecrafts can only survive for a few hours after landing. The planet Venus is challenging to study but we humans want to learn more about it. Venus was once an Earth like planet, can be the nearest option for a planetary visit, and be studied with new ideas. Venus was once an Earth like planet in our solar system. Venus was probably covered largely with oceans long ago. The planet Venus would have most likely been able to support life. Today, Venus still has some analogous feature like valleys, mountains, and craters. As though Venus was a Earth like planet and no longers supports life it still is a planet that scientist want to study. As the knowledge of this planet is unknown. Venus can be our first planetary visit in the near future. NASA has a compelling idea for sending scientist to study Venus, NASA is thinking of scientist to float above the fray. They are thinking of having a blimp-like vehicle to hover above 30 or so miles in the roiling Venusian. A vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the dangerous ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. Although these is an option it would be difficult to study venus as most light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere and scientist can't go down there and get rock samples. Venus is an interesting planet to study but it will be difficult to even see the surface. NASA is trying to study Venus by using simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber that simulates the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for about three weeks. Another project that will allow the study of Venus is looking back at old technology called mechanical computers, this devices were envisioned in the 1800s and were used during World War II. Those computers uses gears and levers to make calculations and don't require electronics. Mechanical parts are more resistent to pressure, heat, and other forces. This ideas can be used to study the planet Venus. Venus is worthy of been studied as it resembles Earth in many ways and the closest to us. Venus is similar in density and size and has similarities to Earth. As humans sent numerous unmanned spacecrafts they have only lasted a few hours after their landing. As we humans want to study the planet Venus we come up with ideas to study it. Although Venus is the closest our knowledge is very little but we know it was once an Earth like planet that could have supported life.

Would you want to live on Venus? If you had a choice would you stay on earth or leave and go live on Venus? Well if you were to even want to live on venus you will come up with many challenges. Exploring Venus is challenging enough there are some dangers that you have to look out for. Venus has the hottest suface tempature of any planet in our solor system,high pressure and heat,erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface. The author of this artice makes very detailed explanations on to why this is very challlenging to explore let alone live. Venus is referred as the "twin" planet to our Earth, but if venus is so inhospitable why are scientists to making plans for more people to visit. Yes many astronomers are very amussed and fascinated by Venus but does that make up for the fact that venus is very dangerous? "...it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar sytem."If this is true then why is it so dangerous now? Why can people live in Venus and Earth? Venus stil has features that are just like Earth. For example,"...surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valleys,moutains,and craters....recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for planetary visit.." "...researchers cannot take samples of rock,gas,or anything else from a distance....would need yo get up close and personal despite the risks. or maybe we should think of them as challenges."If the reacherers can't take some samples of the real life object how can we reallt test them the right way and ger correct information about them. If they can get information then we wonr ever know if som say we would be able to have life on another planet. Could you imagine being on another taking picture to remember exactaly how things were? Well keep using you imagination just like the scientists."Modern computures are enormously powerful,flexible,and quick,but tend to be more delicate when is comems to extreme physical conditons. Just imagine exposing a cel phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin."Would your pictures even ,make it back to earth? Due to th high pressure and heat,erupting volcanoes,powerful earthquakes and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface, most things wouldnt survie on Venus. You could bake to death over there. Everything would melt. It is to dangeous to explore on Venus but we can all hope one day that it would be safe enough for good research on that planet "Earth's twin".

People all over the United States, even the world, drive their cars to get to where they need to go; work, school, the mall-- its a normal thing. But, the increasing number of greenhouse gas emissions are not normal. Imagine our world crumbling down, our air supply at its all-time minimum, the exeding amout of smog forming around us, our families and friends too ill to breath; all because of cars. Along with many advantages, there should be a limit of car usage worldwide. In the article 'Paris bans driving due to Smog', it explains the drastic change in smog formation, leading Paris officials to temporarily ban driving. Though a small percentage cictizens citywide ignored the ban, the pollution was lessened enough to end the law after a day. Adding on in a different source written by Andrew Selsky, Bogota started the revolution of a car-free day once a year which promotes "alternative transportation and reducing smog". The productivity of this event has caused other countries to do the same, lessen vehicle usage. Although there are a small number of cities and countries that have reduced their car usage, people can not hold the reliance on those multiple thousands of responsible citizens. Said in 'The End of Car Culture' by Elisabeth Rosenthal, "... Americans are buying fewer cars, driving less and getting fewer licenses as each year goes by." and that is without putting an effort like Vurban. Vurban is a small city in Germany that has little to no cars. Stores are purposley placed on a walkway or a main street which eliminates the excruciatingly long car rides needed to get to a specific place. Because of telecommunication, sociologists believe that sooner or later people of America will take iniciative and there will be no more vehilces, that the internet will be our form of connection. Therefore, eliminating the threat of greenhouse gasses. During times of panic and frustration one is tempted to blame. If the beautifully lush world we live in goes crashing down, we all are the ones to blame. We, the ones who use our productivity wisley, will know we did our part; limit the usage of cars.  

In todays day and age, technology is just absolutely mind blowing to many. I can make food, search the internet, and it can make future plans for you. To many technology gives away many diffrent emotions though. Technology sometimes makes people happy, mad, sad upset, frustrated. But if technology could read our emotions, just imagine the wow factor. Technology should very well be tested and who else to test it on instead of students that are in school. Studets are the best test subject for a couple reason, but there is really only 1 good reason, and that is becasue most of them are teenagers to young adults. Facial reconization technology would be great for society. A great example would be during a presidental election. Now in the article it states that with this technology, would we be able to if poiliticans were lieing or not. When U.S. watches the election wouldnt it be nice to know if a politican would actualy was telling the truth, because the the citizens of America they are told one thing that that canidate would do once in office and as a country we vote for them, just for them to never fufill there promise. The people never know who to trust anymore, and to the point to many people just decide not to vote, becuase no one can belive a politican. in the article it says this tech can read the face of Mona Lisa herself, but shes just a painting. Imagine a child who doesnt understand whats going on, they need help but dont know how to tell anyone. They can be scanned and be given help. The value of using this new equimepnt of students would be tremondus. it would give what the scientists need to be build a machine that could eventuallly produces medicines that could end up changing the world. many people think that studenttesting would be a horrible thing not only to do, but harmful to them and possibly thinking it could harm them,but the future we could have with technology would greater thanks to them and this device

An Introduction Venus, sometimes called a "Evening Star," as nickname. In the night they were one of the brigest light in the sky. However the nickname could possibly not called as "Evening Star," because the Venus is second planet from our sun. Venus Often refferred as Earth twin because Venus is the closest plant to Earth, But at different speeds Earth sometimes closest to Mars and other times to Venus. A Body Human become more curious about Venus and plan to visit Venus, and its like no one could survived for few hours. In the text says, "Because Venus is sometimes right around the corner in spcae terms human have sent numerous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. Maybe this issue explains why not a single spaceship has touched down on Venus in more than three decades. Numerous factors contribute to Venus's repuation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." A Body Scientist had discuss about Venus that, Venus was probaly covered largely with oceans and could have supported various from of life, just like Earth. In the text also says, "Long ago, Venus was porbably covered largely with ocenas and could have supported various from of like, just like earth. Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters." A Body The National Aeronautics and Space Administration also known as (NASA) has come up with idea of sending huamn to study Venus. For example, "NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus. NASA's possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray." A Conclusion Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained in the planet itself, but also because human couriosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond shouls not be limited by dangers and doubts but shouls be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation.

I believe that driverless cars are not the best answer to drving. To me it's just another reason to make america or the whole world to be lazier. Yes it would be nice to have a taxi service that doesn't have a driver, but what about the people who drove those cars for a living, they would be put out of buisness. When making a new car safety is key, in order to make such a car you have to be sure that everything is optimal for consumors to buy. If one car goes malfuntioning that would be bad for the company. Although the idea defeats the point of the driverless car. When people are stuck in traffic they don't want to sit there behind the wheel moving inch by inch, but the car cannot drive in such conditions as close traffic, consrtuction, sites or around accidents, Which is one of the reasons people want the auto driving car so they don't have to sit through that. So to me driverless cars need more improvement in safety and manuverbility, or they're not going to get many sales on this product, and if it is produced many people will complain and probably end up with lawsuits and refunds. On the other hand though if this idea was a possibility with more safety with no driver needed at all then any company that perfects the production first will be very rich indeed.

In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars," NASA finds a rock on Mars that looks like a human face. When people first see this they go crazy and jump to conclusions saying it's an alien. When I say going crazy I mean that they put this rock face in all kinds of movies and magazines. The people later find out, it's not an alien after all. After finding this out, people still find a way to believe that the face isn't a landform. On April 5, 1998, Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time and snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original photo. This photo revealed a natural landform. The camera had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face and people said alien markings were hidden in the haze. On April 8,2001, they got an even better picture of the rock. The picture shows the Martian equaivalent of a butte or mesa which is a landform common around the American West. "It reminds me most of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain in Idaho," says Garvin. The Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain in Idaho is a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars. In conclusion, the last picture that was taken of the face on Mars was taken on a cloudless day and if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could have seen what they were. The first two pictures may not have been great but after the last picture that was taken, all evidence points to the face on Mars just being a landform and not an artifact of aliens. Also, the face is Martian equaivalent of a butte or mesa, which is landforms common around the American West such as the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho, which takes the form of an isolated mesa that is about the height of the Face on Mars. All real evidence leads us to the conclusion that the face on Mars is just a landform.

This technology should not be used in a classroom environment. This way of telling emotions is just telling your facial expressions but not judging your emotions on the inside. The pronblem is that technology can't tell all emotions. sometimes people look mad or sad but are really happy, if the computer is just looking the expression on your face then its really not doing anything. "Empathy (feeling someone else's emtional state) may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expression"(Ph9), when the author states this it shows that not all of our humanliy facial expressions give off our emotions. They have only tried this on a still frame pricture. Emotions are not just expressions on a face but its also a feeling inside so if the computer can actually feel the way someone is feeling then this sort of technology could work. "of course, most of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait..."(Ph5), we have these troubles because we are notfeeling what they are feeling. In all this would not be a good idea because the results would not be accurate. Emotions are like feelings and can't 100% told by a computer. The pricing on this all of this must be tremendous and if school do want this technology they would have to consider that aspect of the deal.

Dear Florida Senator, I understand that every 4 years on the first Tuesday of November, the United States undergoes a change in Presidency. This change should be decided in a properly manner by the people and citizens of the country. This explains the purpose of this letter, to abolish the Electoral College. I have this opinion because it is unfair to the people. Sometimes, the electors tend to provoke the system too. However, if there is a way to keep it, we can use it if there is a tie between the Presidency voting. The best argument that I have towards this action is plain and simple: it's unfair! Voting is all about going to the poll and having the excitment of knowing that your vote can change the next 4 years of your life, including America's life. This should not include the other electors in the house or the people in office. This is a democracy country, therefore, we the people should decide who the President is. With the Electoral College in process, the citizens votes are not a 100% necassity. The Winner- Take all voting should be established. It's just floating around because it's the first step in voting. The next step is the Electoral College where Congress makes the next decison. This is wrong because the people need to have the final say on the voting because we are effected the most. Another important reason why the Electoral College needs to be voted out is because the electors in Congress tend to provoke the voting. According to Source 1: What is the Electroal College, you are actually choosing your candidate's electors, not the actual president. Now your trust is in the candidates hands. At this point in time, you probably think its safe right? That those people know what  there doing, but chances are that they dont. There goes many other things to stress about! At one point, the candidates did not even vote for the "correct" President which is a stab in the back to the voters. This is why there are trust issues with the voting. Besides all the negativity that you've been hearing throughout this letter, there is a possibility that we can compromise. First, all the people that want to vote will vote, but the Electoral College will only be needed if there is a tie between the people to Presidency vote. If not, then the people decide. Without the Electroal College present, the smaller states have the same equality and strength as the larger states as Source 3: In Defense of the Electroal College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president says. That source clearly implies that voters tend to pay too much attention to the campaign but everyone including the people in Congress see it, so what really makes the difference in voting? Without the Electroal College, voting would not be so indecisive. To sum it all up, the Electoral college is just an unnecassary back up plan when there is not one needed. It is unfair to the citizens and the candidate's electors are unreliable. If there was a way to keep the Electoral College, it would only be for ties. It wouldnt be needed if the vote was a clean win. When the President Election comes in the next 3 years, I hope that you consider my thoughts, because there are plenty people out there with the same perspective.

The Face on Mars was not created by aliens. The passage states that NASA's Mars Global Survey spaceraft revealed the Face on Mars for what it really is: A mesa. Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact, photographing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Gobal Surveyor (MGS) arrived at the Red Planet in September 1997, eigteen long years after the Vikings missions ended. In the passage, it says that on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Micheal 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. There were no alien monument after all. The pasage also states that not every one was satisfied. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien marking were hidden by haze. Therfore, researchers sent the spacecraft back to Cydonia, on a coudless day, and took more pictures of the Face. Malin's team captured extraordinary photos using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. What the picture actually shows in the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West. Proving that the Face was not created by aliens.

I'm hear to tell you my oposing opinion on the use of using technology to determine someones emotions. And whether or not I agree or disagree with the authors statements. I do not think that we should use technology to determine people's emotion(s), It wouldn't help us out on advancing as a soceity. Also not everyone makes the same facial expression for the emotion they are feeling so its going to be based on generalized facial expressions which won't be accurate. And also what kind of information would be collected by the way peop[le are feeling and how would that help us old in our daily lives. Also having some camera watch you the whole time while your online doesn't seem like the most enjoyable experience for everyone. Dr. Haung predicted that it would help for video surgery, but i dont see that helping much at all because knowing someone's emotions won't effect the way that the surgeon will go through on the operation. Those are my opsing thoughts about usuing technology to determine someone's emotional state.

Could you ever imagine being in class and actually being genuinely interested or entertained? I know I couldn't. However, it might just be possible for the teacher to read you emotions and adjust the lesson for you. I am going to give you two reasons why I believe that using technology to read emotional expression of students in a classroom is highly valuable. One reason this is valuable is so students do not get bored. One of the things that makes school not so fun for kinds is how uniteresting the lesson is. In paragraph 6 of an article tited "Making Mona Lisa Smile," Dr, Huangs says " A classroom computer could recongnize when a student is becoming confused or bored, then it could modify the lesson like an effective human instructor." With this technology you would never have to worry about another super boring lesson. Another reason why this is valueable technology for classroom use is because teachers can see how the student is feeling about the lesson. In paragraph 6, it also states " Imagine a computer knows when you're happy or sad. For example, if you smile when a web as appears on your screen, a similar ad might follow. But if your frown, the next ad will be different." This could also be applied to a teacher. If the teacher sees that the lesson is making the students happy they can go on teaching the way they are teaching. Now, I have given you two reasons why using technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable. This technology will definetly bring up the grades of students if they are throuroughly intertained, interested, and happy with what they are learning.

"Venus, is sometimes called the "Evening Star,". Venus is a planet where life cannot exist because of it's life surviving and high temperature conditions. In our solar system Venus is our second plannet close to our sun. The author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pusuit despite th dager is presents. There is a lot of danger in this planet, Life can't be found in this planet do to the extreme temperature of the sun which it could go up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit and 90 times more the pressure of the Earth. Why would the author think that studyng venus would be a good idea? According to the text " Astronomers are facinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like." This show how the author that studying venus is a worthy. Another reason why the author suggest that studying venus would be a worthy pusuit despite the danger is that Venus was probably covered with oceans and it could be our nerest option for a planetary visit. According to the text " The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes famliar feature sych as valleys,mountains,and creaters. Furthermore, recall the Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crusial consideration given the long time frames of space travel". This supports what the author suggets. What the author suggests is something thst is really worthy pusuit the danger is presents because Venus could even become the next "Earth" in a near future.

"Thats incorrect!" Sara shouted to her colligue. "Theorys are very unbelieveable myths, especially one with aliens." Many believe research to be true, but others still believe in theorys. Research is not always correct, but it can be proven correct after trial and error. The following agrument is concluding whether to believe theory or research is most truthful in the scenario of the "Face on Mars." Theory is false in many ways. It is based on an assumption or a belief that something irrelivant has happened. For example, believing in aliens or the Big Bang Theory is quite inaccurate. We have no proof of their existance or records of their happenings. Some believe "The face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars." This was proved wrong by NASA scientist Michael Malin when he "flew over Cydonia for the first time ... his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." Malins major accomplishment had "thousands of anxious web surfers waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform." This spread news to the people that the research is in fact correct. The "Face On Mars" was not an "Alien Monument" because it is "a natural landform." Theorists still refused to believe this as they keep their hopes up to one day see alien forms of life. Although the "Face On Mars" was proven not to be an "Alien Monument," it does have to be specified to the public of an assumption on what they believe the formation might possibly be. "Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars exploration program," concluded that it is a "Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa." Yes, this is a type of theory, but it is a relevant theory based on a previous discovery of events. The previous statements prove that research is the most truthful way to belive in the scenario of "The Face On Mars." Scientists Michael Malin and Jim Garvin proved that the what was believed to be "Alien monument," was actually a landform that is common around the American West. "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa." In conclusion, the "Face On Earth" is proven by research that it is not an "Alien Monument," but an American West resembled mesa.

I think the use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is a good idea. Olny because in paragraph 3 it explains how the computer can recognize the subtle facial movements we humans use to express how we feel. Dr. Paul Eckman has classified six basic emotions and he explains really good how the six basic emotions express how we feel. Dr. Paul Eckman explains it in paragraph 3 he says this "For example you frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're surprised". Then that's when Dr. Huang comes in at he says "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal". Dr. Huang uses things like video imagery, the emotion-recognition, it tracks the facial movements. It can track the facial movements in a real face or in a painted face of Mona Lisa. Dr. Huang explain that " by weighting the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions." In paragraph 5 it says that "Its a fact that humans perform this same impressive calculation every day". It also says in paragraph 5 that "you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face" and 9/10 times that's ture. When your with a friend and he/she is mad your going to know and ask he/she wht's wrong. Paragraph 6 says "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." That's something I never knew or heard about! Dr. Huang and other DRs. is stating things I never knew about in this artitcle. The artitcle is well explained. This is why I said it is a good idea becaue they explained it really good. They had facts and had a good reason for it. I think this artitcle will make you think it's a good idea. So that's why I said this was a good idea.

I think that Luke should get back in the Seagoing Cowboys program,because then he can see the sea, and he like's to take care of the animals he get's different types of job's while he's there the problem is that he craked some ribs, so he wont be able to get back in the program for a while if it wasnt for his friend he wouldn't have been in the program at all I think that Luke really likes his job he gets to see the world as he is going around the world if I was in the Seagoing Cowboys program I would want to stay because it would be fun to be able to visit new type's of places most of the time i would want to help the animals! because I would have to check up on them like every hour just like Luke he didn't know he was going to be in the program but they just told him what to do unitl he get's back he he just got done with high school and now he has to deal with the seas it seems like he wants to go back home so he can finsh his two job's and then he could go to collage either way i tink that he was a good guy in the Seagoing Cowboys progarm

After reading "The challenge of exploreing venus" i belive that it is a very interesting idea. Scientists want to exlpore futherer and learn more about this mysterious planet that in ways is very similar to earth. There are many problems though such as venuses voilet and trechorous weather, many probes they send dont last a few days due to such harsh conditions. Venus is a very strange planet, it is so similar to earth but also very different. It is belived to have at one point been covered in noting but vast oceans which may have held aquatic life just like the ones on earth. Venus also contains valleys,mountians, canyons all very much like earth. To send humans to explore venus would be impossible due to the fact there atmoussphere is made up of nothing but charbon monoxide and there is lots of sulfhric acid which would burn humans. The best way of exploration is by probe which can go places humans can not. In conclusion exploreing venus would be a great scientific discovery and would make history. But are the risks really worth it? thats up to everyone else, our travels into space shouldnt be limited but sometimes they ned to be.

The face on Mars is it a alien message or a natural landform. I would say it is a landform. Why I will give several reasons why I think it is a landform latter in the argumentative essay i will be typing for Istep. One reason I think it is a landform is how in the world could aliens bulid such a good looking face that looks a lot like a real human. I don't get how would the even know what a human even looks like. If they had some sort of device the going around Earth taking pictures of us would NASA already know about it or the National Goverment. My second reason why the face on Mars is a natursl landorm. Is how could the make it when it is made out of rock. Did they go find a rock and start just carving a human face into it, NO you want to know why because things like that on Mars can't be used, Why because if they could be NASA would have traveled to Mars by now. PLus how would they move heavy equipment to mve the rock with out NASA seeing it, we have several microscopes going around different places of Space looking at different plants and such. So how could they not have seen that. And for my thrid reason why the face on Mars is a natural landform. The text stats that their was no sigh of alien sighs or symbols the made us think that the aliens made this creppy looking face. BUt people say sense the 1998 trip to Mars was very cloudy when they toke the picture of the face. So they had to go back for a third time in 2001 a final prove that it is a natural landform and that is what they did. They shot a amazing photo that provide that there was no alien sighs or symbols by the face or around it. The 3 reasons I gave you today are reasons why this face is a natural landform not any anilen made thing. That would be creepy and not right in my eyes. And maybe other peoples eyes. But to some people they think this is a alien made face which makes them crazy because it is definently a natural landform made form high winds and strong storms.

The planet called " Earth Twin" is called Venus. Venus is the most alike planet to earth density and size. Another name for Venus is the "Evening star" because not only its the closest to look liike eath density ans size it also the closest planet to earth. So at night you can look you and see Venus. Venus even had some space craft send to the planet but noe of the survived the landing on the planet over three decades. This planet surface and atomspher both have extream conditons. The atomspher of venus is 97 percent carbor doxide and the clouds rain corrosive surface acid. And the surface is over 800 degrees fahreheit and the peressure is 90 time than earth. Even thought Mercury is closter to the sun Venus has the hottest surface. And thats because of the weather patters and the voclanos. Or it because the powerful earth quakes or the lighting strike. The NASA want to still try to send thing to this planet it lear thing they cant touch. They know the probly they have to solve before they really send anything up there. There was people in the 1800s trying to figur out Venus mistorys and people even going over that to see if they miss anything. Alot of researchers was trying to past the challenge but didnt know how because the heat of the planet was messing upthe rocket they was sending and there tryinh to fiuger out that problem now.

The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of a student in a classroom is valuable because it can help teachers or even other students know when someone is struggling on a certian topic. When being able to tell if someone is struggling is important because teachers would be able to get the student extra help for them to understand the topic fully. Letting this technology into a average classroom would be very helpful for everyone. For students it would be able to see if the lesson needs to be slowed down or if the lesson should go by quicker for the best learning experience. Dr. Huang states, "A classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored"(Paragraph 6). One big problem in a classroom for the teacher is knowing if the student fully understands the topic because most don't ask quetiosn when they are confused but with Facial Action Coding, it would remove that barrier and let teachers know how students are feeling. It not only tells the teacher if they are confused but also if their lesson is keeping the attention of her students or if her lesson is boring to most and she can adjust the lesson with that information. In the future the teacher might not have to change the lesson themselves because, "Dr. Huang predicts. “Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor.""(Paragraph 6). The new technology, Facial Action Coding, has the potential to adjust the lesson for the student in the future because sensing emotion is just the start for the new technology. Some people might debate the opposite saying that knowing the emotion of the students is not important for them to learn because its been the same for many generations. But knowing if someone is happy during school also transfers to the life outside of school. The article states,"According to the Facial Feedback Theory of Emotion, moving your facial muscles not only expresses emotions, but also may even help produce them"(Paragraph 9). Being able to put a smile on a students face in the classroom even if it a fake smile helps real happiness come out and continue to stay throughout the day as long as they are enjoying the lesson. With this technology students and teachers would be able to see which students are sad in the classroom to see if they are having personal problems or if they need help too. Most schools care about the well being of their students but some students are to scared to ask for help but by having Facial Action Coding teachers would be able to inform the student's parents or guardians that their is something wrong if the student has a sad expression the majority of the time. Being able to have this technology to identify this probelm would help get the student the help they need in or outside the classroom. In conclusion, the good out weigh the bad when it comes to Facial Action Coding because having it in the classrooms becomes a valuable tool for many to use. It is a great tool for teachers to help create a happier and more enjoyable learning enviroment for the students.

Technology is so amazing nowadays. Imagine a technology that could tell your emotion...well, it is a thing. The technology that can see and detect your emotion, it is called the Facial Action Coding System. This technology could be very useful in some situations. Professer Thomas Huang is the inventer behind this magnificent technology, also with the help of Professer Nicu Sebe. Professer Thomas and his colleague are very brilliant and are coming up with better ways for computers to be even more smart. This technology may even be useful in classrooms. The Facial Action Coding system can tell your emotions. It all starts when the computer comes up with a 3-D model of the face it will be indentifying the emotion for, it will look at the 44 biggest, and most useful muscles of the face, any movemnt of any muscle can show how you are feeling and the emotion you have. The muscle called frontalis pars lateralis, is the muscle that moves and does the most when you have an excited or suprised emotion. The muscle called the orbicularis oris is the muscle around your mouth that tightens when you are angered. The Facial Action Coding System can detect all emotions. If you are happy, sad, angry, suprised, disgusted, or in a state of fear, the Facial Action Coding system can detect the emotion. The image may not always show a singe emotion, the model being shown could be happy, but still could be in fear of something, the technology will detect it. The technology can detect a single emotion, yet it can detect weather an image has a mixed emotion. The Mona Lisa picture is a good example to use explaining this technology. Professer Thomas Huang used this technology on the picture of Mona Lisa and it not only said what emotion was in Mona Lisa's face, but it calculated the percent of what the image was showing. The Facial Action Coding System calculated that the image of Mona Lisa was 83 perecnt happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. All technology could buffer sometimes. This could be a downfall in the technology. Never rely on the technology always working properly. The Facial Action Coding system may be a great invention, but it may not calculate the model perfectly everytime. The Facial Action Coding System could be a great oppurtunity for students in classrooms, not only could they just see the emotion that the model or image is feeling, but they will know the percent and the exact emotions the image is showing. The students could learn more about the face muscles and how they play a big part in what emotion an image is feeling. It would be very valuable for the Facial Action Coding System to be in classrooms for students to get to use.

We know it wasn't created by aliens! If it was then we could have seen it in every picture we took. Instead we could only see in in the picture in 1976. Also if we would have thought that it actually was a atrifact from aliens then we wouldnt have made it public right away we would have went to go get more information, but the public wasnt satisfied so we went back and got them the information they wanted. Last but not least when we went back in April 8, 2001 (on a cloudless day) and took a picture it clearly showed that it was not built by alien lifeforms. When the pictures were took they were all taked in different time periods. In each picture they were different. In the first picture the face is clearly shown but we didnt get a clear enough picture, so we went back a second time to see take another one. In the second picture it is slightly hard to determened if the face is there or not. So of course we still werent satisfied, and yet again on April 8, 2001 we sent ANOTHER ship so take ANOTHER picture, i need to remind you this is on a cloudless day, and when the (multiple) pictures were taken, it was just some old hill with nothing special to it. A few days after recieving the picture NASA made it public! If we had truly thought that this was a "Acient Artifact" we would have kept it secret and not relised it publicly until after we (knew) that it was created by aliens. Which shows that we always knew it wasnt a alien artifact after all. I can see why most people had thought it was a acient alien artifact though. I mean most people dedicate their life finding out if there is more lifeforms out there. So most people had to have hope. For the sake of what they chose to do with there life. In April 8, 2001 NASA went back to snap ANOTHER photo. This day (to remind you) was a cloudless day. So we knew it would be the perfect day to snap the finishing photo. The photo that would settle everything. Not long after the photo was snapped NASA recieved it, and for some it was satisfying to find out that it wasn't a acient alien artifact. Others (on th other hand) were devistated (for the same reason in paragraph 3). The debate was over it, was and is official that it wasn't a acient alien artifact. Now do you understand? Have i finaly conviced you that it isnt and never was a alien life form. The facts i found in the article are pretty spot on to what happened so i hope i have finaly conviced you that its nothing special just a natural landform.

Mona Lisa's 83 percent happy, 9 parcent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. The process begins when the computer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression." in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. In fact, we humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell how a friend is feeling simply by the look on her face. Dr. Huang observes that artists such as da Vinchi studied human anatomy to help them paint facial muscles precisely enough to convery specific emotions. His new computer software stores smilar anatomical information as electronic code. Perhaps Dr. Huang's emotion algorithms are a different sort of "Da Vinci Code"! The Mona lisa demonstation is really intended to bring a smile to your face, while it shows just how much this computer can do. Imagine a computer that knows when you're happy or sad. The muscles called orbicularis oculi pars palpabraeus make crow's-feet around my eyes. The muscles will not make lie, so Mona Lisa have wonder parts of human. Empathy may happen because we unconsciously imitate another person's facial expressions. Whoever thought that making faces could reveal so much about the science of emotions. These are essay, so we can know the Dr., Hung and The Vinci are so good person and very smart because my summary shows that. I thought the Mona Lisa had not alive at their time, so she is just picuture. I will find some good art. It will be better than Mona Lisa. We colud get informatin if we have science knowlende. I understood the art world of little.

electoral college is a process not a place. the Electoral college work on the selection of the electors where they vote for president and vice president couting each voter by congress. large populations in states lose by virtue in the mal-apportionment in Senate decreed in the Constitution. popular votes were mostly in florida but in the year 2012 when obama was just beginning to be president, he got 29 eectoral votes it was a success in the same margin in wyoming would net the winner only 3 electoral votes. other things being the same alot of large states get more attention from the presidential candidates in a campaign than some small states do. the electoral college is supossed to be a procces for the electors to vote for president and vice president and every 4 years theres gonna be someone new thats facing the president to be voted for the new president of the united states but when the electors come and vote if the president will still stay the president then he,ll become it for another 4 years but if the guy facing his way to be our new president mr. obama will have to stay as vice president. in columbia the district is allocated 3 electors and something like a state for purposes because of the electoral college. the reason in the following discussion the word "state" is also refered as the district of columbia. each person who is running for president your state has his or her own group of electors they are generally chosen to the candidates political party but the state laws vary on how there electors get selected on what there

The face is just a natural landform because of the environment. You can't just look at an unusual figure then automatically assume that it's something totally different without even observing the details around that object. Few scientists believe the 'face' was an alien artifact, though it was just a mesa. It takes a lot of time and money for the correct equipment to take in and to judge whether or not this is a face. People have taken many missions and explorations to Mars snapping photographs as soon as they could get a good shot of it. In today's generation people have a better chance to prove somebody wrong or right by getting evidence. Luckily technology is more advance and accessible, so the evidence will be more clear and approving to your target. Though it's very hard to spot your target in outerspace, the Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine. The Mars Global Surveyor was close enough to get another view. They had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the face in the firld of view. They captured a photo using the camera's maximum resolution. The picture was better than the phone that was taken 30 years in the past. The picture was actually shown to be the Martian equivalent of a mesa.

The Facial Action Coding System created by Dr. Paul Eckman, it is a man-made computer, in which it constructs a 3-D computer model of the face. Many would say that this new break in technology is useless, but there is more that meets the eye when it comes to the Facial Action Coding System. This coding system can read the emotional expressions of any student in a classroom! This is extreamly useful as it can recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored, it will then modify the lesson to fit the needs of that student, and human communication is nonverbal so therfore the computers are trained to react like a human in any situation. When a child is sitting in a classroom with many other students while the teacher is explaining a lesson plan, they might fall to boredom or simply be confused. Many students could say, that they have at one point or another felt overwhelmed by a certain lesson in their classroom. The Action Coding System can, as said by Dr. Huang, "..recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored." Imagine having a computer that would allow you to read into the emotion of a student. This device could be the greatest asset to any teacher. Many students will subside their emotion for the thought of being cast out by their peers for not understanding a lesson, now with the Action Coding System created a student will not feel the pressure of being discriminated against, and teachers have a reliable source of technology to make sure their classrooms are being used to the best of their ability. As well, the Action Coding System not only can scan a student's emotions, but when it finds a student confused or bored, it will modify the lesson for the child. As said by Dr, Huang, "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor." This piece of technology can even modify a lesson plan for a child struggeling to understand the curriculum or a student who struggles with ADHD. A teacher with this device could always know what is happeing in her class and how his/her students are feeling. In a sense, the teacher can have a weight lifted off their soldiers as he/she knows all students are taken care of. Finally, the Action Coding System is wired to run like an actual human being. Therefore, since humans are mostly nonverbal, the system will produce in the same way. Dr. Huang said, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication, So computers need to understand that, too."The computers will work in the same sense as an actual human. In a classroom, the students and teacher will feel as if they are being cared for by an actual human other than a piece of metal and plastic. This is a key attribute in the foundation of the product, as it is better to have a new technology that acts like a human, rather then a robot that tries to contol. In conclusion, the Action Coding System is a must have in any classroom. It can recogzine when a student is becoming confused or bored, it can then modify the lesson, and it runs functionally like a human being. This piece of technology is universal and has a vivid array of uses.

Ching Ching! This is the sound you might hear more and more as our world starts to rely less on outomobles. There are some advantages to this, there will be less air polution, less fossil fuels being burned, and less accidents. As with everything, there are always two sides of the arguement too. First, there will be less polution because there will be less, or no automobles creating it. cars contribute 12 percent of the Earth's greenhouse gasses. Other countries have begun setting days that people can't drive becasue the polution gas gotten so substantial. Another reason it would be helpful to use automobles less is because the majority of them burn fossil fuels to make them run, and this is devistating our worlds fuel supply. Fossil fuels are non-renewable, and if we burn up all of it that we have, we will never have it agin. Last, there will be less accident, which will result to less people getting injured or worse. There are so many automobile accident every year, if we cut them out of out society, the accident rate would be decreassed substansally. In conclusion, there are many different reasons why getting rid of cars would be a positive movement for our society. It would reduce pollution, accidents, and the burrning of fossil fuels.

Dear Florida state senator, as a citizen of the United States I would like to get rid of the electoral college and replace it by the most voted canidate wins the election. The electoral college system is curropt and is not fair to some states. Some states with lower population have a smaller voice than Callifornia, Texas, Florida and New York. Their voice is not heard or their state is not even visited by the canidates because the canidates want " bigger fish ". This is not right and I will not stand for this nonsense any longer. Maine is a small state we can agree on that right? Now compare Maine to a much larger state in population and size. Maine has a 4 and now look at the big bad wolf state of Texas. Maine is in the shadow of many other big states and Maine is not alone. Arizona, Marryland, and even North Carolina are pip squeeks compared to other states and they barrely even get a say. The outcome really only comes down to the bigger states with a bigger population and some states are big but they dont have a large amount of people like California and Texas. Peopel who vote are not even votin for the canidate himself! They are voting for a person who will most likley vote who we are voting for. Now rarely they will vote for the other canidate which is not right and is a waist of time in my opinion. It would be better if we as a nation would just cut out the middle man and let our votes directly go twords who we want to win the election and not take any risks. If the electoral college goes on there will still be a chance of betrayal of who the person we are voting for will vote for the oppisit person we want to win the election. If we cut out the middle man there will br no more risks of the person we are actually voting for will not betray us and vote for the other canidate. If that were to happen there would probably be chaos and alot of people outraged. If you gave somone 1 dollar and they have to give it to another guy to get a candy bar, than the guy dont have one. The guy you gave the dollar to might just want tp keep it and now your out a dollar. Why not just cut the middle man and get whats right and what you want? People should get what they ask for and desreve. I say lets just drop the electoral college plan for voting and do it ourselfs. Lets not take the chance of getting robbed a vote and take no chance whats so ever. Lets not leave out the states with the smaller popualtion in the shadows of Texas, Florida, and ec. but make everyone equal. Lets say screw the electoral college voting system bacause me and a million others thaink its unfair to the states and us citizens.      

The Author supports the Idea that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because they call venus the " the Evening Star" it is one of the brightest points of the light in the sky . but it is very misleading because venus is actually a planet and because each mission they have done was umanned and not successful. In the Article it says that " on the planet's surface tempetures average over 800 degrees fahrenniet " which means it doesn't matter if it gets that hot in venus they are still willing to study venus. either ways saying in the article " Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system even though mercury is closer to the sun." there are some very good reasons on why scientists want to explore venus another reason why is because there is some stuff that are similar to the earth's surface saying in the article " Today Venus still has some feautures that analogus to those on earth the planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familar features such as valley's mountains and craters " In conclusion the author supports the idea that studying venus is worthy pursuit despite the dangers such as NASA is working on other approaches to studying venus.

Driverless cars can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. I personally believe that we should not use driverless cars at this time. In the future when the car is more advanced and made more properly maybe. But for this point in time I do not think they are a good idea. In the passage the author talks about the pros and cons of using diverless cars. A big point that he used for cons was how unsafe it is. In paragraph 2 in states "Their cars have driven more than half a million miles without a cars." They make this sound like a good thing but really it isn't. Google only has a small amount of these cars that are driving on the road. So of coarse the number of crashes will be smaller. Think about everyone having these cars the risk of crash would go from 0 to many very quick. These cars arent really "driverless" as the name says. The driver of the car will still have to drive the car most of ther time. Like it staes in paragraph 2 " They will still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues, such as navigating througj roadwork or accidents." If you think about it the driverless car reallly isnt driverless. Even thogh the car has some defults some may say it is our future. The article says in paragraph 1 "The cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." This is a very big statment for many reasons. For one, us cutting down on the amopunt of gas we use wpuld preserve our fossil fuels from a bit longer. We would also cut down on the air pollution due to the car exhust. Which at this point any little bit would help the Earth. The pros and cons of driverless cars are pretty endless. For one they arent really driverless. But on the other hand would help our enviornment. But for right now I dont think that these cars shoulfd be used. You nevr know though they could be our future.

I the first paragraph it says ' Luke Bomberer had no idea his life would change soon after his high school graduation he was working two prat-time jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his friend Don Reist invited him to go to Eurpe on a cattle boat Luke couldn't say no He knew it was an opportunity of a life time. That is how it began but. In paragraph 2 says. It was 1945 World War 2 was over in Eurpe and many countries were left in ruins to help these countries recover their food supplies animals and more 44 nations joined together to form UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Abministration) UNRRA hired Seagoing Cowboys to take care of horses young cows and mules that were shipped overseas Luke and Don signed up. That is when Luke become a Seagoing Cowboy. And in paragraph 4 says. Luke turned 18 before arriving in Greece which meant he could be drafted for military service When my draft board learned that I was on a cattle-boat trip they told me to just keep Doin that for my service By the time he was discharged in 1947 Luke had made nine trips-the most of any Seagoing Cowboys.

Cars have been producing smog and causing problems with countries. Therefor countries such as France,Germany,and Bogota have been making national days where vehicles are not allowed to be driven to reduce smog that diesel engines produce. This international day in these countries have enforced the use and caused a 25$ fine to must users prices can range. Also scientists in the U.S have started to notice the decline in vehicles bought,after all America was the maker of the first vehicle the "Model T". But in France the smog was getting as bad as China and Beijing. France was one of the worst countries for smog out of most European capitals it was compared with Brussels and London and its numbers toppled them over with one hundred and forty seven micrograms unlike Brussels with one hundred and fourteen and London with seventy nine point seven. Delivery companies were complaining of the lost revenue. While there were some exceptions made for some plug in cars which had capabilities of carrying three or more passengers public transit was free of charge Friday through Monday. In the country Columbia cities such as Cali and Valledupar have taken work in the event to reduce smog people were riding bikes and even if it rained they really didn't mind it. This event has reduced rush-hour traffic sidewalks refurbished with smoother ones, new restaurants,and even new upscale shopping districts. The shifts of car business in America have gotten car dealerships to worry about how many people are buying cars from dealerships due to the fact there's hybrid vehicles coming out which  lowers the use of gas and pollution on most vehicles such as the prius. There has been studies to show that young people that drive have decreased by Twenty three percent. Also another reason is that kids are able to carpool with friends or take local transport such as buses or taxis which limit the needs for a car.             

In the classroom there are many issues of boredom, like having a boring teacher or boring subject. Well there could be a possible fix to that, in an article called "Making Mona Lisa Smile" by Nick D'Alto we are introduced to this concept and idea through the Facial Action Coding System. This system is a program that can read facial expressions and muscles to identify emotion in a person. This could help students a lot if applied right to the classroom. It could help them focus more on the topic, it could help them learn better in there own way, and it could help them get higher grades. In class many kids have focusing problems because they're simply not interested in Chemistry or Algebra, but what if it was taught in a way that did interest them? Even if so a little this could help the kids find their focus in class. The FACS can read the emotions of the kids in the class and detect boredom (as said in the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile") and change it up a bit if it needs to, in online schooling this could prove very useful. By getting the attention of the kids, they begin to focus more on the lesson at hand, and maybe even begin learn better. In the article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" the author gives the idea of applying the FACS technology to the ourside world when its develpment is completed. The author states many idea's about how to include it in the world, including in the classroom. Once the attention of the class has been caught and they begin to pay attention they will actually begin to learn something, and the dominos begin to fall. Once they begin to learn something they understand it better and maybe even remember it better. Then they begin to do better on tests and finals and leads to better grades and GPA's. The article explains how the FACS technology works in more detail than not. The software creates a 3D verson of the faces with muscles and all, then it determines emotion by tracking muscle movement. By this format it determines how the emotional state of someone is. When classrooms begin to grasp attention and kids learn, you begin to see higher scores on tests and thus higher grades in classes like Biology, Geometry, Chemistry, and Algebra. This raises GPA's, and though it may seem like a long shot, could increase college application rates. The FACS software can prove to be very useful in society, most importantly in schools with large ammounts of failing students. In the article it uses the experiment of using FACS on the Mona Lisa itself, and it determines Ms Lisa is 83 percent happy. This ability could majorly help the students that need new methods of lecturing and homework. It could increase focus in class, and the learning rates because of it, and in result of it all could push out higher grades and GPA's across the country and help society as a whole become more interested.

The author suggest that studying venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The resaon is we have to find out things about the planet venus. It's important to know what is going on with this planet. The planet could have things on it that we could use. If we need to find certain things to learn about the planet we have to go there. Also this isnt a safe trip to be going on. It's been three decades sense someones went to venus. a example of thing we could use is resourecs from they planet venus. We could get sediments from the planet to study it. also its good to know what is happening to venus to have data. evan tho their are risks we have to know for alot of reasons. many researcers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledgeof venus. This is the evidence from they author that studying venus is a worthy pursuit. By studying venus there is alot of positives and one bad thing is you could die. my claim is that it would be worth the trip for all the data. my evidence is that studying venus for things like simplified electrons and more. The planet is the hottest planet of them all. we have to creat innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of venus.