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The founding father's wanted a good amount of power to the people so the president wont have full control over the country. With the electoral collage in act it will give less power to the people, gives more power to the electors, and the disaster factor. The electoral collage gives less power to the people. This is true because the people have to vote for a elector instead of the president himself. People may get confuse on who is voteing for who. Ultimately the only types of votes that actually matter end up being the electors votes. Sometimes "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whomever they please. This makes the peoples votes almost worthless. Electoral collage gives more power to the electors. The founding father wanted to give power to all the people; not small groups of them. Stae legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. This means the electors have the vote not the people. When the actual people vote they basically fliped a coin hopeing that some person they don't know voted for the right guy. The electors vote is what matters; not the peoples. The single best argument against the electoral collage is what we might call the disastor factor. The 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. State legislatures pick the electors, and these electors can disregaurd the people's votes and pick who ever they want. Back in 1960, segregationists in the louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. The electoral collage system is a bad idea because it gives less power to the people, gives more to the electors, and it is a disaster factor.

Port S.t Lucie FL . MONTH_DAY_YEAR Good morning Mister senator for start I have to thank you for your work and all the good things that you do for us. In first stay I want to tell you that this letter is mainly for  remind you your promises when you weren't the senator of the state ,so this is for the welfare of the inhabitants in this place. May be you are very busy in the business or the trips for the improvement in the state, but we need your help to try recover the old time or to begin  the change in the state . Your understanding can save all the memories and also can help you in your work or things that you have to do for the improvement,you don't have to do other thing that we don't need,because we only wan't that the government can tell us that we can trust in you and with ours help everybody have the hope in you that the futura that is coming is better than this. For be honest I wan't to know you for put in order the points that each other have to know and share for the welfare of the state,basically we only have to explain what thing is wrong for example , the elections for the presidents,vice presidents and senators in the country and each other of the states and places on it. The smallest states in the country can be not used like a thing or somethin like that because although the government says that we are in a samll state we have straights and that straights says that we can be free in the limits that we have. thank you for your help PROPER_NAME                                  

Our population is booming and with it, our car industry. Cars have provided us with mulitple pros for example, getting us places more quickly, and transportation of goods and services is more efficient. We have to know though that with every good follows a bad, and our beloved cars might not be as great as we belive them to be! Pollution from cars has affected our enviornment severley, we have thousands of accidents daily, and we are stressed due to traffic congestion and daily driving. So, limitting car usuage could provide us with many advantages because our enviornment will not nearly be as polluted, and we will be less stresssed out. Our enviornment has been infected with toxic greenhouse gasses, and carbon emmisions which comes from our cars' tailpipes. Mixed with rain, the pollution causes a heavy smog making it nearly impossible for people to even see what is right in front of them making it very dangerous. We are now forced to hold days where no one is able to use their own cars because the pollution is so bad. Arturo Plaza explains that "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution. (Par 24)" On these special days, we are able to see and enjoy how much better it is living in a cleaner enviornment! It is much healthier for us and is a major advantage says Elisabeth Rosenthal. She explains that by not driving our cars, we'll drasitcally reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses. (Par 5)" This is a great advantage and isn't intangible to us! Everyday we carry stress on us from school, work, and family life so why add on any more? When driving, the level of stress in clearly inevitable. Worrying every second on how other people are driving, being cautious, and traffic jams amp it up even more! By not driving, our stress levels will subside quite substancioully. Heirun Walter is a civialian in a town with no car usage. She explains that "When I had a car I was always tense. I'm much happier this way. (Par 3)" Even though she is a mother of two and a media trainer, she is able to live a life less stressed without her own car. Also for example, people living in the town are much less stressed because their children can play in the front yard with out them having to worry about the passing cars. Heidrun Walter explains that she can walk down the streets where the  sound of children and passing bicycles drown out the sounds of motors. ( Par 3)" We can help ourselves and our enviornment by limitng our car usage daily! Limiting usuage could provide us with many advantages because our enviornment will not nearly be as polluted, and we will be less stresssed out. This is not intangible to us, and can only bring our living standards to another level! We will be healthier, and live a better life.  

In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despitebthe dangers it presents.The first paragraph is going to be about the worthy persuit in things about venus.The second paragraph is going to be about the the dangers in the challenge of exploring Venus. The worthy persuit in thing in venus are that they are closest planet to the earth.The evidence is that it says that "Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size,and occasionally the closest in distance too."Another piece of evidence is that these is some differences in speed mean that sometimes we are closer to Mars and other times to Venus. There are very many dangers in the challenge of exploring Venus."A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent caron dioxide blankets Venus.""At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to the sea level of the Earth." Humans could be able to live on Venus."Not easy conditions, but surviveable for humans.The might not be able to complete the challenge."They are striving to meet the chellenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors."

Every four years there is an election.  The election is used to decide who our president will be for the next four years.  The Electoral College is currently being used for our elections.  The articles "Does the Electoral College Work?" and "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard Posner believes the Electoral College should continue to stay in use.  On the other hand, the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer believes that the Electoral College should be removed from the system of electing the President.  While the Electoral College has been in use for a majority of the time, it is time to start a different process called popular vote. The Electoral College has been in place for many years and has produced good results.  One good thing the Electoral College does is it prevents a candidate from becoming President if they only have regional appeal.  This is crutial because "a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president" (Posner).  With the Electoral College in place it makes it impossible to for a candidate with only regional appeal to become president because no region has enough electoral votes to elect them.  Another helpful thing the Electoral College does is it has a certainty of outcome, so it is less likely for disputes than popular votes.  It is less likely for disputes because "the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote" (Posner).  Even if a state has a few more votes for the Electoral College it still creates a huge victory.  Even though the Electoral College has produces some good results, presidents being elected through popular vote will be better, more efficient, and more equal. Again, the popular vote will be more fair.  It will be more fair because a president with more popular votes will win.  In the Electoral College, a candidate with the most popular votes does not ensure victory because the other candidate may have more electoral votes.  This happened in 2000 when Al Gore got more popular votes, but lost the presidency (Plumer).  The Electoral College is not fair to the citizens of this country and to the candidates.  If more people prefer one candidate over the other, then the president should clearly clearly be them.  The Electoral College is also not fair because if there is a tie, then the vote goes to the House of Representatives.  The House of Representatives' "selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people" (Plumer).  The majority of the House of Representatives is Republicans, so the president elected will be reflected by that, and it will not give the Democrats equal representation.  All in all, popular vote should be used to determine the President because it is a more fair and an equal way to do so. Equally important, popular vote should be used to elect the President because then candidates and voters will pay attention to the campaign.  With the Electoral College candidates only spend time trying to win the votes of the "swing states."  They will not pay attention to the states that they already know have their vote.  In fact, in the 2000 campaign, there were seventeen states that the candidates never visited.  Two of those are Rhode Island and South Carolina (Plumer).  Every state should be able to see the candidates so the voters get to really know who they are voting for, so they will make a better decision.  Also, with the Electoral College people in states that know their vote will not matter will not pay attention to the campaign.  A person such as, a "Republican in California... have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote" (Posner).  Everyones opinion should matter and should be taken into account when electing the President.  To summarize, popular vote is the only way to ensure that the voters get all the knowledge they need to elect the President, and so that everyone's vote matters. In conclusion, electing the President is a painstaking task and should be done using popular vote, not the Electoral College.  The President of the United States plays an important role in our country.  The President has to make many difficult decisions, and those decisions should be a reflection of the entire country.  It should not just reflect the certain states that contributed their electoral vote.

In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both positive and negative aspects of driverless cars. These cars have been thought of in 2009 and have been driven more than half a million miles without a crash. The negative way is that most people will still have to be alert and this will cost more money, and depending on the crash of both veichle and drive we will not be able to fiigure out who has done it. Most people are having a hard time focusing on the road just because of texting or being on the phone with others. There were positive ways of the driverless cars,but there are limits these cars can face. There are some positive ways of the driverless cars. In 2009, google cars has had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions. These cars read the positive and negative polarity as messgae in the binary code.There were also sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes, they have become more advanced in the pass ten years. Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer. Driverless cars will give the driver more time to text and finish phone calls with others. Also help in keep drivers, passengers, and pedestrains safe while driving in control. The negative way of observing driverless cars were the price of how much all this will cost, how most people would react, and weither or not whose fault would it be if a crash has happened. Even though these smart-road systems in the beginning worked, the requried massive upgrades to existing roads and that is way to expensive to be practical. These sensors that car needed you would not just go buy at radio shack, but some where at a highly expensive manufacturers. People would need to be alert the whole time. Some signals would be sent out if you needed to address the wheel, such as a viberating seat, announces when the driver need to take over, or flashing lights on the windshield. Manufacturers are trying to set cameras to watch if the driver is paying attention, but means we are being watched and our privacy will be invaded. Some countries are allowing limited use of the driverless car because traffic laws are written with the objective that is only safe if a car has a human driver in control. If technology fails and someone is injured whose fault is it the driver or the manufacturer. Something could have broken and maybe a signal was not given to the driver causing them to crash. It could aslo be the driver was heavnily intoxicated and could not take control of the car. In conclusion there are positive and negative ways of the "Driverless Cars Are Coming,". The positive side of seeing this is that there will be less accidents. Cars will also be able to drive independently letting us have more time to text or be on the phone. Sensors will be way improved in near future with the brakes and sending us alerts. The negative way of the driverless cars are that America will be pushed more into debt because of the expensive parts that are needed, if there is a crash no one will know who has done it, and how fast will people react to the signals of the car.

"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is about how dangerous other planets are to humans but in this passage they specifically talked about Venus which happens to be one of the most dangerous planets. Venus is the second planet to the sun which makes the surface very hot and dry and so it doesn't allow for us humans to land there easily and just explore. The passage even says "Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans" this shows how we can land on Venus and survive but the conditions make it so hard that humans usually die after a while. and even though Venus is a dangerous planet I understand why people explore the planet regradless. Scientists and NASA have been trying to figure out if we can survive on a different planet or if would be able to build there and have people live there because the world could get over populated. So, when they search new planets it's not for fun its because they want to see what else is out there and as dangerous as conditions may be I repsect the people who go out and discover things we didn't know existed. As of right now the only way to find out more about Venus is by going there, however, "NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus, some simplified electronic made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weeks in such conditions. Another project is looking back to an old technology called mechanical computers." These projects could work one day and we wouldn't have to risk lives to find something new, we could just use the resources found here on earth. The very last sentence of the passage says "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation. I strongly agree because if we didn't take risks and put ourselves out there we wouldn't have half of the stuff we use on a daily basis. Having the technology we have today we will be doing great things one day with the amount of knowledge we have rn and we will only build off of what we have.

Exploration is key to a humans curiosity.Many people will indeed be anxious to explore something that is said to be impossible or dangerous because of curiosity."The Challenge of Exploring Venus" is a prime example. In this article the author states different reasons why it is worth stuying Venus depite the extreme dangers it brings. One reason why the author of this article supports his ideas well is because he used statistics or in other words he used pathos.In paragraph five, he said"...a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way."He mentioned the idea of NASA creating a "blimp-like" vehicle to fly over the Venusian landscape.Then he went on and entered his counterclaim by saying"...far above the planet can provide only limited insight on ground condition...,"therefore Venus would only be visible but not accesible and NASA would not be able to take samples of the planet. Secondly,he states some facts about Venus itself.He added that "...Venus is the closests planet to Earth in terms of density and size."This is a good fact to add in to give the idea as to why NASA would choose to attempt studying Venus.Also he siad that"...humans have sent numerous spacecrafts to land on this cloud-draped world."This gives the idea that the study of Venus has already been attempted before and has unfortunately failed every single time. Last but not least,in his conclusion he built a strong conclusion by mentionding in his opinion that"Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginataion and innovation." This can be used for both life and NASA continuing on trying and trying until they succesfully study Venus. In conclusion, the author supported his ideas well in the article. He supported his idead with statistics from NASA theirselves and he gave facts about Venus. He also included his counterclaims. Over all he gave a well informend and structures article.

Wow , seeing technology that is getting bigger in bigger every year like last year they had made the car called "Tesla", On this type of car just use's light for it to drive an no gas at all in it can actually drive by it self in a lot of hell technology is coming soon . Now that am reading about this passage that is new technology called Facial Action Coding system that can read emotions from people at are famous , Died, In can evening tell from a picture what kinda emotions they had in there picture i gotta say that awesome becuase now in days people always lie to people, Plugs it can be more easy for the police's in actually see what was going now insect of asking the crime what's going now in i know some of thses people like to lie thing they can run away from lie they won't becuase am pretty sure police would know about this technology coming up in everything would be more easy probabrly be less drama in get the job done! I gotta say am happy that these technology is awesome in am happy this technology is out here in the reason why is becuase i had a little couisn that pass away in i just wish i could be closed to that technology in show them feedback of my little couisn pitures in explain to me "What did she felt or what was in her mind what was the last words that she could of say in that piture felling her emotions i wish i can have that moment . But about this technology about these students in classroom is varible about there emotions how they feel,sad,happy,bull,any type of emotions,That these student having there type of emotions how they facing there self into other computer in telling each other about there feeling of there piture in isee there going along with it in see the cool techology around in am pretty sure it nice beucase you proabrly your friends feeling towards someting eles in see how they feel .

The Facial Action Coding System is a new software that developes the improves accuracy in perceiving the emotions of others. The system has six basic emotions-happiness, surpise, anger, disgust fear, and sadness- and then associated each with characeteristic movements of the facial muscles. The software can even identify mixed emotions. Each expression is compared againest a neutral face (showing no emotion. How does it work? The process begines 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 argument talks about if the use of this technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is valuable or not. The technology will idnetify what the students behavior is like. If a student doesn't want to show what they are feeling, the technology will solve it out. Empathy (feeling someone else's emotional state) 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. I think this technology is not valuable in a student's classroom. The student's emotional expressions will be easy to find out what they are feeling because it's in person. Mona Lisa painting needed the technolgy because no one knows what she is feeling like. This technology will be good use for paintings, pictures, etc, that it can't be expressed. The technology should only be used for educational purposes, not to find out what the student is feeling in daily. It is easy to see a genunie smile and a fake one. In the real smile, the zygomatic major (muscles that begin at your cheek bones) lift the corners of your mouth.

Facial expressions can tell a lot about you, but do you really know what your facial expression is actually showing? Well being all about the new technology will tell you a lot about your self. Being about the technology will tell you about facial expressions, how the muscles in your face can tell how you really feel, and how the technology works for people. This technology will tell how a person really feels. Facial expressions can tell a lot about a person and how they might feel. When someone is frowning others may think that your mad or sad. But when someone is smiling others may think that they are happy or excitied. Facial expressions can tell a lot about people but noone really knows what the true facial expresson is. When a person is happy they might simle, when a person is scared they might make a frightened facial expression. Each facial expression means something different."The facial expressions for each emotion are universal", "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression.". Muscles on your face tell what expression a person is using. Someone who is smiling muscles are shaped different from when they are sad or mad. Depending on how you feel is the way your muscles are shaped. "your frontalis pars lateralis muscle (above our eyes) raises your eyebrows when your surprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger.", said Dr. Paul Eckman. You may be wondering how this technology works and what it really does. Well "this process begins when the vcomputer constructs a 3-D computer model of the face; all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles.". "Movement of one or more muscles is called an "action unit..". " There are six basic emotions- happiness, suprise, anger, disgust, fera, and sadness- and then associated each with characteristics movements of the facial muscles." By weighting different units, the software can even indentify mixed emotions, meaning that the weight of it can tell. Each one of the expressions that are used are compared to neutral faces. Imagine if a computer can tell weather your confused or mad or even sad. What if when it could tell what facial expression you was meaning it woud change to your intrest. This technology could help a lot of people. For an example it could help school kids become more intrested in school work if it could tell you was bored and made it more intresting. By showing the students facial expression this technoloy can better the student just by changing it into something that makes it better for them.

I agree with NASA that the face was not made my aliens, and that it is a natural monument. My reasons are because the shadows are what makes it a face. Another reason is because you can really ress it unless there are shadows and your rihg tover it. My last reason is that Mars Global Surveyor Cyldonia took pictures of the Face and proved that it is natural. The shadows give is it's face because there is bumps on mars, so that when shadows go a certain direction, it casts shadows and makes it look like a human face on Mars. In the article it says " A few days late NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation...whihc resembles a human head.. formed by shadows giving the illision of eyes, nose, and mouth." The author reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and atrract attention to Mars." This goes on to prove my next point. Marc Global Surveyor Cyldonia has taken better picture of what they so call "the Face" on Mars. It says " And so on April 5,1998, when Marz Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera(MOC) team snapped a picture tem time sharper than the original Viking photos. THousands of anxious web surfer were waiting when the image appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." This goes to show that it was not formed by aliens and it was not created there on purpose. My last reason is that you can really see it unless there is a shadow or you look at it at a exact angle. The article proved this by saying this " Neerthe less, on April 8, 2001- a cloudless summer day in Cydonia- Mars Global Surveyor drew close enought for a second look. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degees to center the Face in the feild view," said Garvin. "Malin's team caputred an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resoltion." Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meter, compared to 43 meter per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." This is proving that with a better camera and a better view that it was naturally made and you have to look at it from certain angles to see the face. Yes, I agree with NASA that "the Face" is nothing but a natural landform, and not something created by life on a different planet. My reasons being the shadows are the only thing that gives it it's face, Mars Global Surveyor took better pictures of the landform, and you can't really see it unless you look from a certain agngle or direction. The momument is VERY natual in my eyes.

Would you like to participate in the Seagoing Cowboys program? I think you would love to. You would be able to get to help people and save people, you would also get to travel the world and learn about different cultures. Even though you it might right now seem just like work, work and more work, you also get to have fun. When your a Seagoing Cowboy you get to help people, and save them to. Maybe some of their houses got destroyed, or maybe then don't have enough supplies top trade care of themselves and their loved ones. Well being a Seagoing Cowboy you get to do this for people all around the world. You would definitely be able to meet new people and I think you would have a lot of fun. During 1945 many countries were left in ruins. Wouldn't you love to go help those people find food, find or build a shelter for them, and more? This would be an all around great experience. In this experience of a life time you would also be able to travel around the world. Wouldn't traveling around the world seem fund? You be Abel to learn so much, like, maybe a new language, or some new facts that maybe you didn't know about that country. You would be able to learn about cultures and have a new experience. Being able to travel around the world would be amazing. Even through you are still doing work you would still get some free time too. It's now just work. Even though you will be working most of the time, you can not just work, you have to have fun with it. Like you get to see animals and stay with them on the ship. Like when you have the shift to watch over the animals, you get to see them and check on them. Maybe even pet them. Ther could be all sorts of animals on the ships. Who's knows it a surprise. You also have the opertunity to see different places. When you get to your destination you get to explore or stay on the ship. You will be able to see like Greese, or China. Tidi would ave an awesome experience to me. So now do you think that being apart of the Seagoing Cowboys would be fun? You would be able to help people across the country, you would be able to learn about different cultures, and would would get to have fun. This would be an experience that probably no one really has done. You could become a hero by justly helping people. I think that you should join the Seagoing Cowboys. What do you think?

That the author did good job at explan the evidences like he saws, "Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a veicle hovering over venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditition by staying up and ount of their way" That it is imported to study Venus even if it dangers. Venus ounce look like earth, like "Earth-like planet in our solar system. Long age, Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and could have supported various forms of life, just like Earth." That it tells us that it you'st to be livible. Venus is a challenging planet to study like it saws, "numerous factors contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us." Venus is a challenging to travel to even if it so close. Traveling to Venus isn't imposible like it saws, "Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imaginatin and innovation." It is posible to trave to Venus. Venus is a challenging planet, that we like to study about and learn how it was formed.

In my opinion, I feel that drivless cars are both a pro and a con. I say that because there are some great points that comes along with the idea of drivless cars, and there are also some not so great ideas. Meaning that having a drivless car may give you many benifits and set backs all in one. A pro and also a great point for having a driveless car is that there will be way less accidents. It states in the passage that, " while the driver watches the road, the car watches the driver." Meaning it will send an alert to the driver if they're texting and driving, or basically just not paying attention to the road. A con to having a driveless vehicle is that it'll be very expensive to buy one because of all the technology and sensors they're using within the car. It states in the passage that, "Within 10 years, sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to danger of out-of-control skids. Meaning that they puts lots of work into this car to make it safe for the customer, but in the end they put lots of money into it as well. In conclusion, I still stick to my opinion on having a drivless car is both a pro and a con. Although the car may be highly advanced and gives you a higher advantage of being safe, it'll also be alot of money. If i was ever asked the question, " Do i see myself having a drivless car in the future?" The answer would be, I dont know.

In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author informs us about the many difficulties we would face trying to get a closer look at Venus. Although it is the hottest plant in our solar system with air pressure unlike anywhere on Earth, I believe the auther does a great job explaining how we could overcome the challenges and maybe even send humans to Venus. The author suggests that the humans stay above Venus' atmosphere and lists what technology should be used to send down to the surface of Venus and retreive information about the planet. The author's first idea to support the claim that we could do more to explore Venus in the near future is keeping the people sent there in a spacecraft, kind of like a blimp, about 30 miles above the surface. The author compares this to how planes fly above storms, which we already know is a good way to complete the task and stay safe. Although the pressure and temperature would still be intense, the astronauts could still do their job under these conditions. Another suggestion the author does a good job of explaining is thinking about what technology should be sent to the surface to collect samples. In paragraph 7, the author uses examples of what could do the job, such as lab tested tech that could withstand the conditions for weeks and older computers which are stronger than today's. The use of these factually supported examples helps the reader get an idea of what we could send down to Venus and how it could be possible. The facts the author uses to support their ideas of how we can better explore Venus, along with the descriptive details used to explain these ideas give anyone reading this a better understanding of how we could make this a reality. The ideas that astronauts could stay in safer conditions and send down strong technology to collect the data they need sounds like it could one day be a reality. Until then, we just have to keep exploring ideas to make it one.

The article is essay about "the challenge of exploring Venus" sometimes called the Evening star, is one of the brightest points of light in the night sky, making it simple for even an amateur stargazer to spot. Venus is the second planet from our sun, our NASA want exploring Venus planet. Often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is closest in distance too.Earth Venus,and Mars, our other planetary neighbor, orbit the sun at different speeds. A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the the clouds od highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere.On the planet's surface the temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmosphere pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our planet. There conditions are far for extreme than anything human can survive.Also notable, Venus has hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system, Venusian geology said that weather present addicinal impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthqueakes. The NASA has one particularly compelling idea for sending humans to study venus, and want send cars or airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly around Venus, but want create the better technology in this materials. The challenge of exploring venus is awesome because has a lot things relationated with our planet Earth and has impressionated things that happens inside the Venus so my explanation is that the author put good information for can create my claim, and support claims. The NASA should be create the better technology for exploring Venus. NASA striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus value,The curiosity is so bigest for all human. NASA wants known all about Venus, and want to be the first company and goes to other planet.

Future, a single word with various meanings. Since the evolution of men the human race has create or invented various things to make life easier. As time progress so does people, new artifacts are introduced to society but they become useless over time. Everything becomes harder to create since its already invented but only make them better is whats left. All this changes in people's life are for a better chance to see the future. As stated in the beggining of paragraph 2, the men have facied about what would it be like to fly or have a personal non-living helper. At the moment people has look through those wishes and start taking over them. Since before the most advanced technologyother companies as stated in paragraph 3. This means they have wanted to grant those wishes. Going further, the idea of a driveless car will make a positive impact to humanity due to fact manufactures are focusing on the safety of the people. Having this smart machines will not only reduce car crashes but car accidents, deads due to a wrong turn or not stopping in time will have a considerable amount of positive views. This car project will watch out for humans as the end of paragraph 7 stated. But not everything will be that easy as the article "Driveless Cars Are Coming" have stated too many times, a driver would still be required and that will might lead to dissaster. Mistake is a common word used to describe the human race, they declare war on themselves and don't share the goos they have. Once the human take over the wheel, distractions will come as they always have. People might think its crazy but leaving the control to a smart machine sounds much better than leaving it to someone who doesn't know what he's doing. The possible accidents will be stopped because the car will be alert and will respect the law. I would trust my life to smart machine rather than a human.

Technology is constantly changing our world. There has been incredible things made. Driverless cars would be another big change that would greatly impact our lives. It could either positively or negatively change society. The passage talks about the pros and cons of driverless cars. But there are not many negative things about these cars. I believe that driverless cars would be a good thing for our society. In the passage it says that driverless cars have not had any accidents or crashes while testing them for over half a million miles. This shows that these cars are safe and there are still being more improvements made to make the cars even more safe. It also talks about how these cars would save money which is a good thing for everyone because we could use the money for other important things. Personally, I am running late often which is not a very good thing but these cars could help anyone who is in a rush and needs more time to finish something because they would not be the ones driving. You would just need to be prepared to take control of the car at any time in case the car needs human skills to accomplish something. The cars can break, steer, and accelerate by themselves but they still need help from a human driver when it requires human skills. Which means you still have to be paying attention to the road which is really one of the only bad things about this car. These cars are safe, save money, and help you finish things that needs to be done by giving you time in the car to do it. The cars would truly benefit you. Many companies have already started making them so why would we stop them. It is also not like someone is going to be in a driverless car tomorrow, it still needs time but when the time comes I think it will be great.

Imagine you were on an anlantic and it was storming and you were sliding down the ship but you did not fall because there was a small meatal strip that saved you from falling. That would be so scary and exciting so that why I think you should participate in the seagoing cowboys because I want you to have have great opportunity like Luke did and I want you to have lot of more expirences. First think of all the fun you will have. Like playing baseball and volly ball games. Also table tennis, fencing, boxing,reading,and whittling. Alot of the games you will play will pass the time. Another reason is all the places you will be visting. Like Europe, China,and seeing the Acropolis in Greece. You can take gonda rides and see the citys and streets and water of these places you see. Last reason is seeing all this animals and feeding and taking care on them. Like seeing elhpants, tigers,and horses. The resposablitile you will learn like taking care of when they sleep, what to feed them, and to clean up after them. To conclude you should join the Seagoing Cowboys because of the great opportunity and of all the expirences. You will have fun, you will be visting different places around the world, and you will see lot of different animals and you will have to take care of them.

Driverless cars are seeming to become more of a reality than an idea. With todays technology driverless cars would be possible and there are even some right now. Personaly I think driverless cars could be a good idea but there are many complications at the moment. These complications involve mostly law issues like if a driver were to get into an accident, and who would be put at blame. Through out history driverlesss car have been made going all the way back to the late 50s. This proves that the technology is availiable and it is possible. I think they could be benefitial to our society because if the driver gets distracted then there would not be a crash because they are not actually driving. The cars today, however still need a driver to be ready to take over in certain conditions. "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,(Paragraph 7)". The cars need for assistance would reduce the number of crashes because if the driver didnt take over and the car got stuck there would be a large traffic build up that could lead to injury. The driverless car would remove the risk of human error when tired, distracted or even under the influence. They would also be nearly perefect when it comes to driving because of certain sensors in the vehicle, "The information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine, allowing far better response and control than a human driver could manage alone,"(Paragraph 5). Theses sensors not only make the car safer but they also help the car handle more tasks on their own. "Further improvements in sensors and computer hardware and software to make driving safer are also leading to cars that can handle more driving tasks on their own,"(Pragraph 5). Many of the cars that are meant to be driverless will also be using half of the fuel used in cars today. This is also reducing the amount of polution in the world to making it eco freindly as well. The cars can also monitor the driver to be sure that they are paying attention to the road and not texting or sleeping. There have been many developements to make sure the driver is alreted when the car comes up against a road block, "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 the car. Other options under consideration are flashing lights on the windshield and other heads-up displays," (Paragraph 7). These would be sure that the driver is prepared to take over the car at all times and is not distracted. In conclusion driverless cars can greatly benefit the comunity increasing vehicle saftey and being eco freindly. There may be some consequences at the moment but in time they will be sorted out and delt with. The driverless car is one of or if not the safest option for the drivers and pedestrains at this age in time.

I'm going to be against to their technology that they're using because they are using the technology to see what other people feel about something. The technolgy could tell how we feel by the facial expression and your movements of the facial muscles. They are looking for a better way for human and computer to communicate. The computer could model the face of the 44 major muscle like a human muscles movement is called a action unit. i don't like the computer to see our emotion because its like someone watching or i feel like someone stalking like watching what i'm doing. They could use in the classroom to see someone who is bored or confused of the worked. The computer could when u smile but we know it doesn't lie about what u feel. If u fake smile it could tell that ur not really smiling. They were studying the picture painting of mona lisa to see if it show the feeling what she have. They want to studying the facial expression on the painting or real life face. They are studying the emotion of what people feel about. They are creating the emotion on other people feeling.

I know that people are saying that this is proof that aliens inhabit Mars, but trust me, this is not proof. I wish this was proof. It's exactly what we need to hear right now. It's exactly what we've been needing to hear for years. We wan't to find evidence of life on Mars, so why would be hide any signs from you? If you still don't belive me, look closer at it. Some images the face is more clear than others. That means that the eyes and nose that you see are just shadows. Aliens wouldn't make an artifact that only looks like a face from certain angles. They would want it to stand out. Some of you say that the alien markings are hidden behind the wispy clouds. Well, we checked again at a time when it was clear and you could see everything fine. There were no alien markings. Like I said, if there were we would have been extatic. The whole world would have known about it within a few days. I know it has become a huge pop icon, and I'm sorry yo ruin this for you, but it has to be done. It's just a landform. It's very common around the American West. It resembles the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. If you still want to think that it's a face created by aliens then be my guest. Nobody can stop you. For those of you who now believe that it's a natural land mark, Nasa is just as disapointed as you. We wanted it to be created by aliens too. It would be pretty nice to finally have actual proof in the existence in aliens. Hopefully our trip to Mars will help us find proof in their existence.

Driverless cars, am I for or against the idea of them? I am against the thought of driverless cars for two main reasons. One, drunk drivers and two, kids using the cars. Technology has been becoming more advanced over the years from phones all the way up to cars now. In paragraph four lines one through two says, "Without the option of smarter roads, manufacturers turned to smarter cars." Smarter cars are not going to make the world safer because not everyone will be able to afford the new "smart car". These new "smart cars" will probably be hybrids running on electricity instead of gas. Which will make gas prices for normal cars sky rocket. Now thinking of driving safely that means no drinking, texting, or sometimes even eating. With these driverless cars more than likely people will go out to drink and take there driverless car with them thinking it will still be safe to drive even though they have been drinking. Just because the car drives by its self you still have to hold the wheel. "special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." paragraph seven line three. Thinking of safety also includes the protection of kids. Teens will think that it's okay to take their parents driverless car because all they will have to do is hold the wheel which is wrong because in paragraph seven lines six through eight reads "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." In conclusion the driverless car would not be safe for this generation.

12% of all green house gas in Europe is from is from car emissions and up to 50% in the United States. The earth needs a change while it still can. Theres already many countries that are trying to do something, France; the U.S. ;and Colombia just to name a few. Taking a break and not driving cars has so many pros and very little cons. Yes, you might have to walk and might lose some wieght but it may decide how much longer humans can stay on earth. What comes out of your car, that's what you are breathing. Would you rather breath burn gasoline fumes or fresh clean air? Its your choice, every year billions of people driving cars that are releasing a gas ,CO2, into the air which is posionus to humans. What happens after the world gets full of it? I honestly don't want to see. Not only is car pooling and taking public transportation cheaper that paying for gas but it also helps keep the green house gasses down more that if everyone was driving. A recent study by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives shows that more Americans are driving less cars every year. Join your fellow Americans, you won't regret it. Soon enough cars are going to get banned and fines will be put in place that are given to people who drive gas powered cars. Do you really want this to happen? People getting fined just becasue they had to go to work or to see there family? I'm pretty sure you o don't, so lets make the world a little more car free. Then thus make the world CO2 free. Now there's a reletively new car that runs on electric. Although these cars are not exacly cheap, but they are motorless and gasless and they don't release CO2 into the atmosphere and they look nice too. If that doen't suit you there is a hydrogen powered car coming out in 2015. If you dont think you can handle that then there is always busses, taxis and bikes. Then if you still can't find something you like there's walking, humans where built with legs, use them. Think about how you want your children and there children to live there lifes and how you and the rest of the earth can effect them and how you can keep there lifes free of poisonus CO2. Consider the walk or bus ride and maybe even investing in an eletric car or a bycicle.

"Congestionwas down 60% in the capital of france after five days of intensifying smog" (duffer par.14). have you ever thought how bad cars are for this planet? "Its a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air polution"(plaza par.24). I think it is a good idea to banned cars for a few days. This  is my opinion because if we take cars away then people will see how much more clear the air is, how much easier it is to breath, what good excersie it is for you, it will open some peoples minds about how the enviroment works and how bad cars are for our economy. "These people are generating a revolutionary change and this is crossing borders"(riera par.26). It is good because there is so much fog and pollution in the air that it is bad for society and how it is bad for us and the planet that we live on. "amaeicas love affair with its vehicles seems to be cooling. when ajusting to the population growth" (rosenthal par.32).people are realizing that their love with their cars isnt as big as their love for their own life and for their friends and familys lives."as of april 2013, the number of  miles driven per person was nearly 9% below the peak and equal to where the country was in january 1995. Part of the explanation certainly lines in the recession, because cash-strapper amaericans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed werent going to work anyway"(rosenthal par.32). people now a days dont have enough money to by a car for themselves because there arent enough jobs for all the people becayuse of the big population growth of america. people are using technology to talk to people, and this means that people dont have to drive as often to go talk to someone. "demographic shifts in the driving population suggest that the trend may accelerste. there hasa been a large drop in the percentage of 16- to 39-year-olds gettin a license"(sivak par.38). younger people dont really want to drive to places if they can just talk to people on the phone. some people of this society are lazy because they dont want to get up and go places when they have their phones, but sometimes its for a good reason even if they dont know it they are not polluting the air as much as they would be if they drove to their friends/familys house. how do you feel about how cars are affecting this planet and the way it works. these ideas and actions people are taking are going around the globe and it is saving the earth one day at a time with one little idea.                                      

There are parks place were you need ot pay and other parks places are for free. Let's says that rich residents you need to pay and it will cost more money. In germany there are steets completely car-free and who pay a parking places for who know how much money,that are only who are rich they will do it. Result ,70 percent of vauban families do not own a cars ,and 57 percent sold there cars. who will do that just there car something isn't worlthy and peolpe should think twoas what are they doing. If they don't have a car they should to a transport or someone could take you. That will be less money that you are spending and think about the environmental. Peolpe should think to pay there license plate first or the police will get you. maybe the police could take your car away unitl you need to pay and if you are drinking that could be a problem for you. Drinkig and drive is the wose idea that you ever have or texting to. Using biked,skated or riding a bus isn't that bad at all for some poelpe think that. Those things are for car-free because you don't need to pay at and you are having fu n out in the streets then other peolpe out there in the world. That could save the environment from the gas that come from your car and the smoke that come your car that effect it. Those things will change your life to live and having fun with your family. President Obama want's the united state greenhouse gas emission,unveiled last week,will get a fortuious assist from an incipent shift in american behavior. In the united state  we need to change with the cars and having a car is more respesilitly than your family. In april 3013,the number of miles driven per person was nearly 9 percent below the peak and who know how much percent peolpe that don't have car. Even know car were invinit way in past and who know what willdo without a car .Our lives will change and there many ways to get were we to go places to places.

I agree with the claim against the value of using this technology to read student's emotional expressions. First off, we perform these calcutions everyday, as we can tell if our friend is happy or sad by looking at their face most of the time. Also, video imagery tells us that the facial emotions for each emotion are universal. Another big reason is that we really don't know just how much computers can do, it can be where computers detect whether you're happy or sad. Performing this calculation every day, we would have trouble describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc. However, we can also use human anatomy to help paint precisely enough to convey specific emotions. New computer software has anatomical information as electronic code. Video imagery which is the new emotion-recognition software which tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. The software can detect mixed emotions by weighing the different units. We really don't know how much the computer can do, it can detect if you're happy or sad, and make computer-animated faces. In a whole, this is a lot to disagree with, since computers are taking over our world now so I believe this is a great idea. Reason being is that we have video imagery, the amazing and undiscovered knowledge of a computer, and our own brains because we calculate expressions on our own every day. These our all major factors that align with the fact that I believe technology should be able to read students' emotional expressions.

Technology is often pushed furiously in society today,especially when it concerns students in the classroom. When it comes down to Dr. Huang's innovation, FACS (Facial Action Coding System) which is shown and detailed in Nick D'Alto's article "Making Mona Lisa Smile" , which shows in the article FACS has been shown to have the power to determine one's facial expressions and determine their mood. People are left in awe of the creation and many would like to see the extent of its power, which leaves people wondering whether FACS should be used in the classroom or not. Although the use of FACS in classrooms might be difficult to implement in classrooms at first, it would be a great boon to have use of such technology in class, due to the advantages provided. If FACS were to be used in classrooms, the applications and advantages provided would be numerous. One of the examples that was given in the article by Dr. Huang, was how facs could be used to alter the speed of a curiculum and provide feedback from the students by analyzing their emotions and expressions, by doing this the machine is able to determine whether the student or students are interested in the subject, or if they are confused or not. The data then provided adjustments could be made to the lesson to better fit the students education and help them learn better, as you can see from the statement Dr. Huang says, " "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 intstructor." . . . "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," ". From what the text shows, you can see the power of the FACS being able to determine and effectivily teach students based off facial expressions which give insight into whether a student understands the lesson being taught or if the student just does not understand the material nor care as a result of being bored. The use of the facial recognition software would speed up the process of student's educations and would be more effective since it was specifically engineered for the purpose of analyzing patterns in human faces, versus using one instructor to relying on verbal feedback to properly understand the needs of his or her students. If the FACS were to be used it would help students who need help due to the facs being able to read students emotions which are valuable since it affects their attituted towards learning and as a result of their skill. Students who feel confused, angered, nonchalant, or fearful of a subject are less likely to be able to suceed in that subject, by removing and helping qualm those emotions the FACS is able to sucessfully impact the qualtiy of said students educations. All in all, by using FACS to analyze the emotions of students and their facial expressions, the instructor of the software it's self can make adjustments to better fit the students mind and ease the negative emotions that directly impact student's ability to learn. With the corelations between emotions and ability to learn, it is a no brainer that having technology analyze emotions of the students to better augment the lesson to their needs.

Driverless cars. What are they? They are the future altohugh no one knows that 100% I believe that they are becasue as my generation and as the next generation grows sure we are all verry smart but we dont use our potential anymore at all. For example this is one of the esiest test and yet some people still fail it. How I do not know the answer to that. Anyways my point is that we are lazy really lazy and we want people/ AI's to do our jobs and objectives for us so we dont have to put in any work. Has it always been this way? sometimes I ask myself this question and no it hasent. I have whitnessed many things in my lifetime and I have done a lot in my lifetime. Personaly the google car is great I have seen them and many poeple I know have tested them, But what have we learned about evolution its good and bad well just think of the whole Jurasic Park story the pople want more they get more and then they somehow mess it up. There are many people who belive it is good and then there are the ones who think it is bad I personaly think it is a step in the wrong way, becasue it makes us worse as a human race. Sure not everyone would be able to afford one but eventualy they will and we will al be like the movie Walle have you seen that movie its messed up a bunch of overweight people in a space ship probably becasue they had self driving cars lets be real. All jokes aside we could and it is verry likely to end up like that. Not just from self driving cars but also from thinks that will come after that maybe next we will have self flying planes and that would put me ou tof my job of being a pilot. Just think of how many kids dreams are being crushed that want to be drivers for people they can't do that anymore because all the cars will be driving themselvse. Yea think about all the little kids dreams you are crushing. Also what would happen to insurance on cars if you mess up now is it your fault or the cars fault and then in turn the manufactures fault. This was what paragraph nine was about. This would crush our economy, sure people would be buying the car-> Great for the company-> Not great for jobs. maybe you could tell those insurance companies and drivers "Hey since we took your job and messed up your whole life lets put you in a factory where you can build more cars like the ones that ohh wait rememer those the ones that TOOK YOUR JOB" yea happy ending right? People would get payed a lot less and if google was the only one who released it then that is called a monopaly yes you thinking like the game yea you know where you try to buy out basicaly the whole economy just for one thing and you better hope you dont land on the go to jail spot becasue if you do your SOL (well im sure you know what that means). i hope i made someone laugh not its not the best essay but you have gottent this far and i hope you laughed at least a little. "Ohh but wait theres more for only $4.99 you could own your verry own self driving car and (wait for it) and free airfreshener" well thats dandy lets buy one i got to get that google airfreshener it probably smells amazing. No it doesnt you know why because it doesnt exist. probably does honestly. So there are two ways you can go about this the world can get stupider and stupider with this evolution and the people in the world its like a circus not good at all but then AI would control the world ohh thats fine lets just you know give our nukes to computer and hope that it doesnt get mad at us and blow us up. see then the AI would hold the most power in the world the president would be like one atom in sometihng that has 100,000,000 atoms thats like a fly on a winsheild its powerless. You know you shouldnt kill flys on winsheilds you know why? hmm ill tell you later you just have to keep reading. this is probably a pain for you to read. But this is very well what could happen in not my lifetime nor yours becasue your obviosuly older than me whoever is grading this paper. Im guessing about a few generations that self driving cars will be the norm maybe my lifetime probably not thought hmm I dont know. Ohh yes that was just my introduction are you read for the next two paragraphs that you have to read. Well first guess what this one is also wabout self driving cars but it is about there saftey (with more jokes). Why does the car cross the road??? ... To get to the other side I know pretty good I came up with that one myself. Ohh wait they die thats what happends when you kill flys on the winsheild the fly dies after it cries and tries to synthisize. you know as a human you can control that, but as a car that is opperated by an AI it wouldnt know if you kiled the fly or not it could just turn on the wippers and gone that fly is. Also the person is at risk if the car messes up and your not paying attention then waht happens you could get hurt really badly and whoes fault is it then how do you prove in court that the car crashed not you or what if the car wanted to crash becasue it didnt like you and you treated it poorly. Also whay happens if you are speeding and then the cop pulls you over and says sir do you know how fast you were going and you so no my car was driving itself sorry sir. Then is it your fault or the cars. In the end it all boils down to a few things you know after it evaporates. you have you and your car and its your choice in the end.

The Face On Mars is famous, known for the first phtographs of it that came out in 1976. It's a rock formation in the area called Cyndonia. It gets its name from the way it's shaped, and the fact that when light hits it the shadows make it look as though it is a face. Some conspiracy theorists think that the Face is actually an alien artifact, but there's evidence going against these claims. The Face on Mars isn't really a face, it's a rock formation called a mesa. The Earth has mesas as well, common in places such as the American West. Mesas are common around the Cydonia area (where the Face is located). Shadows cast on the rock give it the appearance of a face. Though it is simply a natural rock formation on Mars that just so happens to resemble a human face. Conspiracy theorists will say that aliens on Mars created the Face, and that NASA is hiding the fact that aliens exist. These claims and accusations make no sense though. It would benefit NASA if aliens were on Mars, so there would be no reason to hide it. Back in April of 1998, NASA took another photo of the face. Since the sky was cloudly and hazy, theorists stated that if civilaztion on Mars was there, it couldn't be seen due to the fact of how hazy it was. This was debunked later on in April 8, 2001 when NASA took a better, more clear photo, where if there where any pyramids, shacks, anything hinting at the fact that Mars did indeed have aliens on its surface, you'd be able to see it, and there was nothing there. The Face on Mars is just a natural formation called a mesa on the surface of Mars. Despite claims that the formation had been created by aliens, those claims are considered false, and cannot be backed by scientific evidence.

The author supports the idea that exploring Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it shows. In paragraph 2 the supports his claim by informing us that "Venus is sometimes right around the corner-in space terms- humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud-draped world". Although no spacecrat survived the landing for more than a couple hours. This adds on to why in Paragraph 3 that, "on the pantes surface, tempatres average over 800 degrees Farhrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater than what we experience on our own planet". Another reason in paragraph 3 is that "Venus has the hottest surface tempatre o any planet in our solar system, even though Mercury is closer to our sun". The author then supports his reasoning of Venus being worthy of exploring with an idea by NASA in paragraph 5 that despite the hostile planet conditions of the surface "Venus would llow scientst to float above the fray". the author explains to us a vehicle that will be able to hover 30 or so miles above Venus's hostile conditions. he also explains it as "just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendl ground conditions by staying up and out of their way. Even though tempatures would still be around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, the pressure would be similar to those at sea level of Earth, supported by solar energy. Altough the author does bring up insight that the vehicle will only have imited information, and it is just another challenge that many researcher are working on to innovate.

Some people argue that a new technology callled the Facial Action Coding System is valuable to read emotional expressions of students. The Facial Action Coding System is valuable to read emotional expressions of students in a classroom. The use of the new technology to read students expression should be used because it can help communicate, it can help identify certain things, and it can help teachers. The new facial techonolgy could help with communcation in classroms. In paragrapgh 6 it states, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communication," notes Dr. Huang." "So computers need to understand that, too". This shows how this new technology helps communication between other humans be more understanding. Also, knowing what someone is really feeling when a conversation is being held in a classroom. Instead of students hiding their emotions teachers will really know how kids are feeling. FACS, the Facial Ation Coding System is improving other techonolgy. According to paragrapgh 8 it says that to an expert, faces don't lie; these muscle clues are sometimes used to spot when a "smiling" politician or celebrity isn't being truthful. This reveals how identyify humans emotions could be accurate even when they face may look like something else. Also, being in a classroom it would help determine if a student is lying by a guilty look students may try and hide. This technology could help the classroom in many other situations. The FACS could help out teacher in various situations in class. In paragraph 6 it cites that a classroom computer could recognize when a student is becoming confused or bored. This shows how the coding system could help teachers spot out the right students who needs help. In some situation where teachers may ask students do everyone understand something and someone is not brave enough to speak up and say no and move one without knowing what to do this could help teachers know wether students truly understand or maybe not on task. The new technology, the Facial Action Coding System gives teachers relieable and accurate information about students which will help out teachers tremendously. The use of the new electronic device used to read students expression should be used because it can help communicate, it can help identify certain things, and it can help teachers. Using the Facial Action Coding System in class to determine emotional expression of students is valuable.The techonology provide helpful use according to Dr. Huang.

I believe a life without cars is a far simplar one. The natural gasses in our atmosphere is being polluted every day by artificial, man made smoke. For example, writer Robert Duffer, highlights the fact that many people are too attached to their cars, thus causing them to drive, equalling out to our polluted atmosphere. The line, "Congestion was down 60 persent in the capital of France, after five-days of intensifying smog", said by Duffer, shows how the impact of cars has ruined our clean air and how the use of less cars has cleaned our air in as quick as five days. Many wonder how our air becomes polluted in the first place. It becomes polluted by something called the green house affect. The green house affect is the theory on how our air is polluted and why smog and contaminated air is all around us. The same way a green house works, by keeping in natural gasses (maybe even polluted ones), plus the solar rays from the ball of fire we call our sun, produces, is the same way that our multi-layed atmosphere works. The UV rays shine down sending heat, and the mixture of pollution from cars and factories, creates a barrier that traps in horrible cemicals and intoxicating fumes. Thus suffocating us on a daily basis. Until someone will do something about. For example, Vauban, Germany has taken the next step into cleaning our atmosphere, by creating an experimental city, occupied by 5,500 people, none of which use cars. That's right. No cars. Whatsoever. Heidrun Walter, a citizen of the small city in germany, says "When I had a car Iwas always tense. I'm much happier this way." I agree. I believe that a life without cars will be a hard one to adjust to, but if our ancestors were able to do it for hundreds of years, I believe we can do it for another thousand years. Another great example is the city of Bogota, Colombia. Bogota experienced what is called a "car-free" day, making millions of Colombians hike, bike, skate, and take buses to work. Even despite the rain that seemed to pour down on the people, "The rain hasn't stopped the people from participating," said by Mayor Antanas Mockus. Another participator of the "car-free" event was Carlos Arturo Plaza, who rode a two-seat bicycle with his wife, procalaimed that, "It's a good opportunity to take away stress and lower air pollution." If we joined these other countries in going "car-free" for a day, maybe making it as often as once a month, I believe we can reduce the levels of air pollution in our atmosphere and  all across the country. I believe a life without cars is a far simplar one and a far cleaner one

For years, many people have argued with scientists (at NASA) that the Face on Mars is alien made. Conspiracy theorists and most of the general public are set on believing that the Face is an ancient alien artifact. But, NASA has reliable evidence to back up and prove that the Face is just a fascinating natural landform. First off, you cannot argue with the pictures that were taken of the Face. Even from the first picture ever taken of the landform in 1976, scientists were able to conclude that the Face was just another Martian Mesa, that just resembled a human face, specifically an Egyptian Pharaoh. In this photo, there was no evidence of any alien markings on the structure. On the other hand, conspiracy theorists and skeptics argue that the picture isn't clear enough for someone to make out any markings on the landform. So, in 1998, another photo was taken of the face. It was ten times sharper than the original Viking photo, and it still revealed only just a natural landform. People still weren't satisfied and pressed on though, arguing that the picture was taken on a cloudy day and the haze in the photo blocked out any special markings or evidence. But then a couple years later in 2001, scientists got another image of the Face on a clear day with the camera's absolute maximum resolution, (and you would be able to see any objects or markings that was there) and there was still no signs of markings indicating alien interaction. Also, the face is just another Martian Mesa, a natural landform. I will say it is a fascinating landform, but it is still natural. The Face resembles natural landforms found common in the American West, like buttes and mesas. It especially looks similar to the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. This proves that yes, it is possible to have natural landforms like the Face, and it is comparable to some of the landforms we have here on Earth. In conclusion, there is multiple credible sources to back up scientist's (at NASA) claim that the Face is just a natural landform. There are a few different photos of the structure, each photo having higher resolution and being easier to make out than the previous one. With all three photos, there is no evidence of any special markings or objects that would suggest or prove of alien life. Also, there are similar landforms like the Face here on Earth so it's not like it is a freak of nature that nobody could ever see how something so interesting was made; it's comparable to things here even in America. Even with all of the conspiracies, NASA has reliable and credible sources to prove that the Face is just a natural landform.

I think Luke would advertist the Seagoing Cowboys programs as place where your giving back to people and also getting to travel the world to some fun place you might have not been to. Some details from the story to support what Luke thinks is, if you join Seagoing Cowboys you get to help coutries like Europe recover supplies that the people need to live. Also take care of many different kind so of animals and even get to site seeing when your done with your hard work or have free time. Some fun places that you might want to vist is Europe and China because they different kind of historial and beautiful sites. Before you can get to theses countries one thing you might want to consiter is the different dangers of the the sea. Details from paragraph 7 this sentence is when luke served as night watch man and he slid down the slippery ladder onto his backside. Luke had cracked his ribs and was out of work for a couple of days. Beside that is only thing you have to be worried about because if you think about the Seagoing Cowboys programs, you are making so many people happy because you are help them get back to lives. Your also changing and benefiting your life. Evidence from paragraph 1 is ",Luke Bomberger had no idea his life would change soon after high school. "So come and join to make your life and our lives a better place.

Letting go of cars is the next big thing treding here in the U.S to all the way in France. Cars have been one of mankinds great accomplishements and has risen since World War two. Although its has in some cases made our live "easier" its has also brought issues. Some of the reasons why we should start to let go of cars is because it will stop the gass emissions or popultion, there public transportation to fall back on, and it will help releave stress. There is going to come soem sort of trouble but there are also great advantages we shoud think about of liming car usage. Starting off, liming the amount of cars is a good thing because of the fact that it helps stop gass emissions. Which is the gas waste and polution it brings adn destroys the enviorment we live in. In Pairs they have took an act on this by banning driving due to smog. They have put in a rule that states "on Mondays motorist with even-numbered license plates were ordered to leave their care at home or they would have to suffer a 22-ero fine($31)". The congestion was down a 60% in the capital of France, after five-days of intensiifying smog. The congestion from the smog that was produce was  because of the high rate of cars were leting out great amounts of gasses. This causes our air to be poluted and us to get sick. Continuing, another great advantage in limiting care usage is because it means that we will be promoting public transportation. If we have soemthing that is provided for us that we know is going to help why don't we use it?. Public transportation is a lot cheaper than having a car of our own and it does the absolute same thing it gets us from one destination to the next. In soem place that I can't really find in the passage because my eyes are getting irritated and yeah I know I probably spelled that wrong but I am trying to improve. Now I have kind of lost my train of thought because I felt the need to say that, because if I someone here the most they'll say is go to the bathroom and splash some water of them. I actually do like this test not that bad I expected but there is some minner adjustment I think you should consider (if your even still reading this) like giving us a break ? at least a five minute one my eyes yeah you remeber that and siting for this gets me all tense. The stories needs some improvements I mean cars? I know I need to do a little better on these things but that's why im in school pluss this is a practise I think by the real one ill do better. I like to write (or in this case type ) I do but mostly about things that I can either relate to or expressing my self I mean come on aren't I doing good so far ? okay maybe not really but its cause im pretty bet, but next time trust me i'll do better. Also the fact that I miss the same periods these days keeps me from doing what I need to in that class and its a  class I need, sorry but just saying. I'm debating whether to contintue with this essay I think i'll just try. In additon, stress is something that also comes with havign cars. The fact that there is so many cars they cause traffic jams, which causes us to be late to our destination and that brings a great amount of stress. Another is reaching that age were the younger genertation reach that age to get their licenses. It is known that teenagers have the highest amount of leading accidents. This brings griefs to families and if survied post tramatic stress. In conclusion, Cars may have brought us some kind of accompishment but it has also caused some negative effects. Reasosn why we should think about the advanges of lemiting the car usage is because of the gas emissions, promote alternative transportation (public) and it releaves stress. What has been to be done by the amount of cars there are has a great affect on us. We should want to stop it before it get to late.

"The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy and i thinks so to beacuse its like Earths twin "Often referred to as Earth's "twin," Venus is the closest planet to Earth in terms of density and size, and occasionally the closet in distance too." If there where something to happened to Earth then Venus would be the closet pleace to send people but since they don't know anything about the place because there has been no spacecraft survived the landing for more then a few hours. Also there hasn't been a spaceship that has touched down on Venus in more then three decades. Other peolpe don't want to study it because its dangers the atmosphere is almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid in Venus atmosphere the temperatures average over 800 degrees farenheit and the pressure is 90 times greater then what we experience on our own planet. A long ago Venus was probably covered largely with oceans and might of supported various forms of life just like our Earth.

My position on driverless cars is that im against the developing of these car because of what they bring. Things like this would probably cause chaos. More than likely to have accidents and whos fault would it be. Some situations with these driverless cars can also be crutial. Im against it because the laws, what wil happen after a accident, and how these things would actually work. If the law focuses on how safety works and keeping everyone in the car safe, what if theres a malfunction and theres a accident ? Then who will get the blame for it ? The way it will work is if a human driver is in control right, but then the driverless car looses control or has a breakdown who will be affected ? The developer or the ones in the driverless car. The traffic laws are for someone to be in control of the car so therefore it is safe. Maybe a change in laws can solve this problem and conflict that may possibly happen. Accidents happen daily, so will the driverless decrease the chances of that happening ? In my opinion is that technology goes wrong here and there not always but it happens. If these cars arent deveoped the proper way where theres accidents daily, who gets the blame. I personally think that the developer and the one who had the idea to make this should take a part in it. Why ? Simply because if you took the time to make something so cool and fun, it should also reach state safety laws. When accidents happen and if its the drivers fault they get blamed for it right ? So if this driverless car where there is no driver who get the blame for a injury, the driver or manufacturer. How will this driverless car even work or be developed. The car is gonna have a sensor input system to take over when in traffic. Sensors arent really the best thing to have because something can cause it to stpo it from working then what happens there. If you still need to be in the driver seat and paying attention to the road what is the purpose of this developement ? It has its own brakes but you can take turns, but cant you do that in a normal car just takes alittle bit more time. This driverless car isnt a bright idea just because of the way it works and the problems it can cause. Im against it because the laws, accidents and what can possibly happen, and the way this technology might take place. States are gonna have to change safety laws which in some the car needs to be proven to be safe. The accidents and the way things will be faced and who will be blamed is gonna be insane in most peoples opinion. The way technology might take place is also gonna be a factor because it can go wrong if not built right. Therefore im not so convinced about the developing on this driverless car.

i would make cars to use for transportion but i would not let everybody paid 500 for the car notes. then telvison have a long been fascinated cause it been there longer so when i get done i would make my cars and telvison. we got make alot drive way and it going be alot traffic. some people dont crash that mean it alot people can drives. Some people can't drive because they didnt pay attienion on the road because text and drive then they crash. people like us we follow the direction on the road so we wont get crash or ran over anything so the car wont get hit by any thing. but we can get together on the road some people like to text and die i dont wont nobdy to see that. Some people dont pay attenion to the light on the street oor not in the right lane or turn when u suppose to turn that why we got lot driverless. Then alot people dont got they driver liences. Then people dont be in the lane right turn when u suppose to turn. some people can't park right because they dont pay attetions. that why we dont get caught. if you can't find what you want then u can get a navigating so you can be on your way to whatever your you go. that why driverless are coming.

Driverless cars, sounds like a figment of a childs imagination,but that figment may become an actuallity in the next decade.Google has proven since 2009 car have been able to operate autonomously under certain conditions and, many car dealerships have trying to make perfect autonmous or at least semi-autonomous car.The thought of driverless cars ferrying passengers to thier destinations is quite the thing to marvel at,Think of the time saved that could be used to for greater purposes, but several states have laws preventing computer driven car from even being tested which may be changed later on The first benfit of these semi-autonomous vehicles would be that the driver would be free to preform other tasks for work, school, or simply catch up on rest.And should a situation that the car could not handle arise, the car will be alert the occupent of the driver seat so that they could take control.This idea is stated clearly in the passage,"the Google car simply announces when the driver should take over." thus preventing any mistakes or accidents caused by the on board computer. Secondly,another benefit of the vehicles would be a decrease of accidents and accidents related deaths.While human drivers have a high degree of control over thier car, an on board computer would be able to control all the functions of the car with the utmost precision thus leading to less mistakes, along side the fact that the cars will have sensors of all varity to insure a constant awareness of of it's surrondings. Finally, some people argue that due to current driving and trafic laws testing, let alone driving, an autonomous vehicle is illegal.And they would be correct that current traffic laws prevent this, who is to say these laws won't be changed and that there won't be new laws made to specificlly govern these vehicle. So in conclusion, while we may be a distance away from hitting the road it's still going to come ,and it will come new laws, new technology, and new ideas.so the last question is will you join in this innovation or will you be left in the dust.

Why might spending time on a ship of animals be fun? Well there are many benifits of doing this act. At the same time there might be some small downsides to going on this trip. Like if you get sick easy you might not go on this trip. Before you decide let me tell you the highs and the lows of this. Lets just get the not so good facts out of the way. If you are allergic to animals with fur or just animals in general this is not the job for you. Because you are going to be on the ocean, if you sea sick easy. Do not do this job. These are the down sides of this job, but the ratio of good to bad there will most likely be way more positives then negitives. These are the terrific things about going on this trip. Well first of all you get to meet new people. Also you can get to know animals and lear ablout animals, too. So this will help you if you plan to work with animals when you grow up. You get to travel to new and incredible places that you haven't been to before. If that does not grab your attention then I still have more to tell you how amazing this would be! "The cattle-boat trips were an unbelievable opportunity for a small-town boy." Stated Luke. Luke had fun you would, too. If you think you had fun working with the animals on the boat, just think about what incredible things you do when you unload all the animals. Well I will tell you what they do. The cowboys play baseball, and volleyball, boxing, fencing, and so many other games when there are no animals on the ship. This is also a good time to get to know people. So do you think that you are going to join now? All the games and fun you have. All the people you meet. It's amazing what you can fing on a trip like this. Isn't it? I think it's facinating what you will learn, see, do, and discover. I will leave the chose up to you now.

Unmasking the Face on Mars! Wow, people might think the Face was created by aliens. But is not created by aliens because it was just a natural landform. It might looked like a human face,but is not.That why I am going explain to you why the Face on Mars was just a natural landform. First of all,I can see why people could sy it's a face becuase it has nose and our eye shape but it was just a huge rock formation..which resembles a human head...formed by shadows.Some scientists even believe that it was an alien artifact.(Jim Garvin,6)"Although few scientists believed the Face was an alien Artifact, photofraphing Cydonia became a priority for NASA when Mars Global surveyor." Scientists prove that it was just Martian Mesa(Jim Gravin,2) "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." All in all, at the end. It was just the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent a butte or mesa---landforms common around the American West.If that was a face, you could find a spacecraft or airplane but we didn't so that also prove that it was just lanform.Jim Garvin also say that "It reminds me most of Middle Buttle in the Snake River Plain of Idaho"(Jim Garvin,12).

Have you ever wanted a self driving car where you could sit back and relax well Google cofounder Sergey Brin has envisioned a future public transportation system. This new transportation system will use half the fuel of today's taxis, you will not need to takeover as much, and manufacturers hope to bring in a in-car entertainment and information system. My position on driverless cars are they give you more time to do other things while on the road. They give you free time to relax and clear your mind when you may not at home. This would also be a huge jump and improvement in today's technology. The new transportation system will only use half the fuel of today's taxis. In the article "Driving Cars Are Coming", they state "offer far more flexibility than a bus." They believe such cars will fundamentally change the world. You will just get in the driverless car and set your destination and sit back and relax and do whatever makes you occupied. In the driverless car you will not have to take over as much as a driver. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." The car alerts the driver with a vibrating sensor on the seat, and consideration of flashing lights on the windshield to alert you. The manufacturers also think by "bringing in-car entertainment and information system" will interpret the fun driving in a new way. These displays would be in a head-up display so hey may be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over. New cars that are driverless have only been a concept because "There was no way, before 2000, to make something interesting." The new driverless transportation system will include only using half the fuel of today's taxis, only needing to take over when situations occur, and will have a entertainment and information system.

The "Face on Mars" was not created by aliens. It was a natural landform that appeared through mars grounds. Most people think that the face came from an alien which is not true at all. The reason people think that is because they believe there are aliens on the other planets. But, scientist did research and found out that is was a natural landform. The face appeared on the monitors of Jet Propulsion Lab. They figured that it was another Martian mesa. I know that the Face of Mars didn't come from an alien because it was a humans face, they said. Aliens don't have human faces, so thats how it is a natural landform. Even a few scientist thought it came from an alien , thats when Mars Global Surveyor flew over cydonia and snapped a few pictures to get a better look at it. So, well thousands of sites waited for the picture to appear on JPL web site. It was revealed a natural landform, no alien monument after all. The Face of Mars was not easy to see because it wasn't really easy locating cydonia. The face shows either the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms. But there are still people who thinks otherwise so...... In conclusion, The Face of Mars wasn't created by aliens, it was a natural landform. Scientist did their research and even took pictures of the face on Cydonia. There were no evidence of aliens or UFO around the face. As of now most people will follow the truth and most people will still think that the face came from and alien.

When ever a president gets elected in the United States of America, the votes that they recieve are from the electoral college process. The electoral college has 538 electors, each state in the United States of America has a certain amount of voters, one state might have more than others. For example, The state of California and Texas have the most votes throughout the whole country. Some people don't really agree with the electoral college process because they belive that if you vote you are voting for electors of your state that eventually vote for you at the end. For example, if you lived in Texas and you wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. And everyone's question might be "who are those electors?' The electors can be anyone not holding public office. That's why there's a 60% vote against the electoral college. The electoral college is widely looked at as a person, a non-democratic way of selecting a U.S president that is going to be overruled by saying the canidate who recieves the most popular votes is the winner. It is the electors that elect the presidents, not the people. But each party selects a slate of elector's trusted to vote for the party's nominee, it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral votes doesn't win the popular votes. This happened in 2000, when gore had more popular votes, but yet he had less electoral votes than George Bush. I think the electoral college is a fantastic method of electing the United States of America's president, because for instance, let's say a person older than 18 who is allowed to vote and knows nothing about politics goes ahead and votes for the presidential canidate that has better hair, or maybe because he's taller, or he has a nice voice, then the next thing you know that the president knows absolutely nothing about the government or politics and votes a president based on their outside characteristics and not by the presidents knowledge or his intelligence or ability of helping the country out. And it's sad because at the end of the day the president that they chose can become so mean, rude,and clueless of what he/ she's doing. So then at the end we the people are stuck with bad leader for example, like Cuba, and north Korea and other harsh leader that are the president or maybe even  country regret having that disrespectful person that they chose just becasue of his characteristics on the outside instead of paying attention to the presidential canidates knowledge, and thats why we should still stick with the electoral college method.  

The Facial Action Coding System would be a good thing for students to use in the classroom. Outside of the classroom as well. Not only is it good for class work, but it is good for video games or video surgery. The Facial Action Coding System could recognize if a student is getting confused and alter the course. So many students using computers for school aren't getting the full potential out of their computers. They stay confused and move on hoping they don't fall behind evryone else. Dr. Huang says, "Most human communication is nonverbal, including emotional communicaton. So computars need to understand that, too." Once again I say that the Facial Action Coding System would be a good thing to use in the classroom. Not only would it help students, but the same technology could be used for video games to make faces more expressive. Or to use with video surgey. The possibilities are endless with all the new technology coming out.

The author is using this article to suggest the idea of exploring and studying Venus. Venus is a very dangerous planet to study because a thick atmosphere cover the planet and it is the hottest planet in our solar system. However, the author still believe that studying Venus is going to beneficial despite the dangers. In the article, the author is suggesting that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit because we can use a vehicle that can hover over the ground and it's the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. One reason why the author suggest the idea of studying Venus is because NASA has an idea for sending humans to go over Venus and observe it closely. Even tho Venus is the hottest planet, NASA can use their technology to make it survivable for humans. "Just as our jet airplanes travel at a higher altitude to fly over many storms, a vehicle hovering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out of their way"(Paragraph 5) That way, the scientists can study Venus up close without touching the ground. "At thirty-plus miles above the surface, temperatures would still be toasty at around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to that of sea level on Earth... Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans"(Paragraph 5) The temperature would still be very hot but it will be survivable for humans. Another reason why the author think it's worth the risk despite the dangers is because Venus is our sister planet. It is the planet we should study because Venus has alot of stuff in common with us. "Today, Venus still has some features that are analogous to those on Earth. The planet has a surface of rocky sediment and includes familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters."(Paragraph 4) Venus has alot of features that are familiar with Earth. It is critical that we study Venus because it might just be the planet we have the option of visiting. "Furthermore, recall that Venus can sometimes be our nearest option for a planetary visit, a crucial consideration given the long time frames of space travel"(Paragraph 4) We can also learn alot from Venus that can be beneficial to us. In conclusion, the author used this article to suggest the idea of studying Venus, our sister planet. We have enough technology to study Venus closely while not touching their unfriendly ground. We also have alot in common with Venus so it's worth the risk of studying that planet, Earth can benefit from studying Venus and learning what to avoid.

Driverless cars are coming may be good or bad. The passage support mutliple good and bad reasons. I myself am against driveless cars. The passage indicates that, " Automakers are continuing their work on the assumption that the problems ahead will be solved. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves."(Driverless, 10). Many cars are being taken in to be a driverless car as you can in the sentence quoted above from the passage. Even though driverless cars may become popular I am against this because stated in the passage. " The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph." From my own point of view the car can maybe lose control. ( Driverless, 7) People who accept these cars has to realise that the car can be harmful in many ways. " These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." ( Driverless, 3) The sentence before states it may require huge upgrade to roads. If the roads take to fix that means the other regular car drivers cars may get damaged. The cars may get damaged because it is a massive road ,for cars that are driverless. The passage may state a good reason such as, " something not available to drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In the way, the in-car system is actually a safety feature, and safety is a big dream." (Driverless, 8) But what if you are texting and the car alerts you that it needs human access and you are so concentrated on your phone you do not pay attention. Therefore the car keeps using the non-human program and it would be a possibility you may wreck something or someone. Most driving laws concentrate on keeping drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe at all times. I agree with this quote from the passage, " traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only car has a human driver in control at all times." (Law, 9) In some states it is , "illegal even to test computer-driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have led the contry in allowing limited use of semi-autonomous cars." (Law, 9) Antilock brakes an ddriver assistance still seem a long way from the dream of calling a driverless cab to take you wherever you would like to go. So they are not as driverless as you think. In the passage stated , " The sensors weren't there, the computers weren't there, and the mapping wasn't there. Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars. It wasn't something you could just buy at Radio Shack." " So just how driverless will the cars be in the near future?" (Assisting, 6) Now as you can see and read over the cars are not all that driverless but the cars are a very high price. The cars are not worth it. I supported against because I felt cars should always be human controlled. Just in case of an accident you may can save your life if you are focus on the road. These were good and negative resons stated throughtout but citizens have to realise that would hurt the some profits because the cars are so high in price that no one will buy the product and some car places will lose businesses. Those are my reasons to go against driverless cars.

The "Face on Mars" is a a butte/mesa landform on Mars, that has started a huge controversy between skeptics and Nasa, because it depicts a human face. At first we were skeptical about the validity of this landmark, and we were not sure about what it really was. Some of our other scientists got on the case and according to paragraph 12 of the "Unmasking the Face on Mars" article, "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa--landforms common around the American West. People were not going to easily accept this easily. According to paragraph 5 in "Unmasking the Face on Mars" article, "It has starred in a Holywood film,. appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows--evne haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!". This transformed and fueled people to start being skeptical about wheather or not it was a sign of life or not. They started to deny that me and other scientists at NASA were telling the truth and even thought that we would rather hide it then tell anyone. I can prove that the "Face on Mars" is just a landform on Mars because, we have taken high quality pictures on a clear day of the landform, we would share with the world if their was life on Mars, and we have studied it enough to see it is just a rock, thats shadows that make it appear as a face. The first piece of evidence of this Face just being a landform is that we have taken the highest quality pictures possible, and we even did it on a clear day. The pictures were way more high quality then the original pictures, and accoriding to passage 10 "Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. This showed clear as day what the "Face on Mars" really looked like. We then even took more pictures on a clear day because people started to speculate and according to passage 8 "The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze." Us scientists decided we had to take it on a clear day, so we did and now we can tell you that is 100% what the landmark looks like. The second piece of evidence for the Face only being a natural landform is that if we knew their was life on Mars we would tell the people. We would make a lot of money and we would be able to keep NASA going and get enough money to keep funding us. According to passage 5 "Some people think that the "Face on Mars" is a bona fide evidence of life on Mars--evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists." This just proves my point of we would tell the people, and we would let everyone know because their is no reason for us to hide this from the people, and we would make a lot of money and would be able to keep funding NASA. The last piece of evidence about the "Face on Mars" just being a natural landform is that we have observed the landform for long enough, and according to paragraph 12"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa- landforms common around the American West." This proves my point of us being able to identify just from the picture that it is a butte or a mesa, and it is easy for us to know, because we already have some all across the American West. We also know according to paragraph 3 that "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." This shows that we have observed this landform for long enough and taken enough pictures that we can identify that it is just a landform that has shadows that just make it portray a human face. In conclusion me and other scientists at NASA know what we are doing, and would like to inform everyone that the "Face on Mars" is just a landform. We would tell the people about this as quick as possible if it really wasn't, and we would not try to hide it from the public at all. I hope all skeptics understand that we have enough evidence to believe that this is not a human face, that is just a landform, that we have taken enough pictures to understand what it is, and that there is nothing to worry about.

Earth twin, Venus is mainly known as being around the same size and dstance between Earth, but the thick carbon dioxide atmosphere prevents us from exploring our sister planet. Scientists have been planning and have been making progress and adventions on exploring Venus like, making an aircraft that would sustain living conditions while being able to explore Venus wthout being harmed. Scientists have concluded that Venus's geography was once like earths and could contain a livable lifestyle like no other. Venus is the most hottest planets, while being second in line from the Sun. The atmosphere is 90x greater than Earths, along with the 97% carbon dioxide and reaching over 800 degrees fehrenheit. Venus's Earth like feature consisting of moutains, valleys, and craters can furthermore be our new nearst option for planetary visits. But would the crucial value of going to venus be approcable. Living on Venus would be around Earths living conditions, with the same amount of pressure and around the same amount of radiation. Not easy conditions but survivable for humans. While scientists are still working on machines to last the challenge of Venus, the innovations would allow them to last more than three weeks in such conditions. Another project scientists are looking in is old technology like mechanical computers like todays. The devices were envisioned in the late 1800s and was a important role in World War II. The devices would make calculations without electrionic need. In comparison the device would need to rendure extreme physical conditions like, being able to stand up to acid, heat and other forces. In conclusion the exploration throughout our planets should not be stopped or limited from the danger and risk of finding out beyond your imagination about our neighbors.

My fellow citizens, some advantages of limiting car usage is that its better for the earth  and reduces the greenhouse effect. Also there wont be as much smog and there will be a lot less pollution in the air.  Limiting the usage of cars can be a better for you. not using a car can really benifit us. People use cars everyday for everyday things.  If people cut down on the usage of cars and took the bus or even rode a bike to work it really could help the earth.  Less cars means less of the greenhouse effect.  Less of the greenhouse effect means a better world. Billions of people driving cars can really pollute the earth.  Paris had to ban driving because the smog was to great and needed to be cleared from the sky.  The smog was so serious that if you didnt leave your car at home you would get a fine.  almost 4,000 people were fined.  Beijing, China is one of the most polluted city in the world becouse of smog. If you dont take a car you could walk, bike, or skate witch could be fun.  If not then you could always take the bus and still help of the earth.  If you didnt take a car to work then it could reduce traffic.  Some people enjoy riding a bike instead of a car because it reduces stress and also reduces pollution to the earth. Limiting car use is not only good for you but also good for the earth its self.  there could be less greenhouse effect and smog.  Lets all help and limit the usage of cars.    

In "The Challenege of Exploring Venus", the author belives that studying Venus can provide insight on the planet and also provide new discoveries. The author uses the idea that humans can't help but explore against the reader to prove that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. If Mars fails to host the human race, we might still have a chance, and that chance is called the "Evening Star" also known as Venus. The authors main point of the passage all revolves around the idea that we will explore Venus someday, or maybe even live there. In the passage it states " Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system" (4). The author isn't saying we should study Venus for fun, he's saying that people will start studying it eventually. In the passage it also states, "Solar power would be plentiful and radiation would not exceed Earth levels. Not easy conditions, but survivable for humans" (5). Venus might one day be our last hope which is the reason why the author is trying to convey people to start studying it. All in all, human courisity as said by the author will lead us everywhere. Venus though, will bring people insight on the planet and new discoveries despite the dangers, and the author supports that idea very well.

Dear senator, I wanted to write you this letter to say that we should keep the electoral college. Because they tally the votes fair to elect the goverment and president that the people of this powerful country have elected to be their leader. The electoral college was one of the rules that our founding fathers made for our country which has kept our country stong in the past so why would we want to take away that cause that would be like erasing our countrys past and our fathers rule. The electoral college consists of 538 electors for the electoral college so if we take away this process cause its not a place then we are putting 538 people out of a job. First things First, we should keep the electoral college cause it is a great process that lets our people choose a leader of this brave and powerful country fairly by having the electors read the votes and tally them up and pick the leader the most people voted for but sometimes its not the most cause if bigger states with more powerful people vote for a diffrent president and the one president has the most votes but if the other one has the more votes from bigger states and cities like california then he gets the popular vote. The electoral college has never technically failed us it has gotten close in the John F. Kennedy election when state legislators were technically responsible for picking electors and that the electors could defy the will of the people so say like if John F. Kennedy got the popular vote then it could possibly not go to him cause the electors could get replaced with new ones that could oppose him. The mistakes were never to the point that it messed up our country just little mistakes that got fixed by a direct election which we have now a day so that these little mistakes cant mess our whole voting system up. We should keep the electoral college because it is proven that people have out voted electors in the Gore vs Bush election cause Bush got the electoral votes but Gore got the popular vote by the people. Second of All, we should keep the electoral college because it was one of our founding fathers rules and processes and they were the people who founded and discovered this brave, powerful, and beutifal country so if we throw that away then we are betraying our fathers and our anceistors. Another thing is electoral college has of america and they aint running for president and they are aloud to vote which is fair cause it's everyones president not just only the people not appart of the constitution. The great rule that our constitution made for the electoral college was the mal-apportionment which means even if the large states has a bigger population they still could lose by virtue so if we dont have an electoral college that will not be possible then we would just get out voted by heavier states and electors. The electoral college is a great process for fair voting for our goverment and president and if we keep that running then we keep our country running as a healthy country. To Wrap it up, I think we should keep our electoral college for many of reasons. one because its the fairest most strongest process of voting. two because it lets everybody vote including the electors. and last but not least it keeps our founding fathers rule going and keeps us loyal to our brave and powerful countrys leader.

Technology is somthing that is growing world wide, but should we let it take control of driving our cars? It could malfunntion, lose purpose in learning how to drive and it could cost a lot of money. We shouldn't allow to have driverleess cars because you could never know when a malfunction could occur. Sure Google has had cars made but if they actually produce more of these cars and say it is safely tested but for example if they make one mistake in the binary code and not look over it there whole technology could crash. These are some consequences to keep in mind. Another reason we shouldn't have driverless cars is because it would take away the purpose and joy of learning how to drive. Learning to drine is a joy yet a nervous pain to do but if we allow technology to take over there is no real joy in it anymore. Young adults wo't get the same experience there parents got because they will start depending on technology to take ocer these things. Lastly, by creating these cars we would we investing millions of dollars that could be put to something more useful. Also we would have wasted millions if the technology were to fail in error. That would mean if the system were go and shut down as somene were driving, they could have the power to sue not only the company put also the makers of the sytem whuch would mean more money going down the drain. In conclusion, the reason listed above are suitable arguments to go against the developement of these cars. The question in the end is are we going to allow technology to take over driving our cars?

Making Mona Lisa Smile This article of ''Making Mona Lisa Smile'' it talks about how a computer seastem can raed student emotional expressions such a Mona lisa emotion. This sieastem can recognize emotions whether you're angry, happy, surprise, disgust, fearles and ect. This process begins when the computer constrac a 3-D computer model of the face. all 44 major muscles in the model must move like human muscles. Action unit are movement of one ore more muscle. Dr. Huang relies on the work of psychologists, such as Dr. Paul Eckman wich are the creators of FACS. Dr. Eckman has classified six basic emotions; happines, surprise, anger, disgust, fear and sadness and then associated each with characteristic movements of the facial muscles. For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscle, above your eyes, reased your eyebrows whe you surprise also your orbicularis around your mouth, and tightens your lips to sho anger. This example we can se it in the firts pharaghaph when it talks when shes 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful and r percent angry. And yeah i dont have nothing to arguing because i think the cumputer is a good a idea for student because it can tell whether the emotions are. Thats what i think about this article of ''Making the Mona Lisa smile''.

My argument is for "Driverless cars", the reason i am for driverless cars is because there are many positive aspects on the driverless cars. I think that they are good ideas because of the fact that there are many tasks you can get done with a driverless care. Perhaps you have a baby on bored and he/ she is crying and u are in a rush to get the baby to daycare because you are late for work, with a driverless car it allows you to turn around and attende to your infent child in the back seat of the car without any mishaps. Driverless cars also used for public transportation tacxi systems systems. in the text in states that the driverless car uses less fuel then today's taxis, with that being said less fuel = less polution in the air and a safe enviornment with less toxic waste. I also believe that the driverless cares are safe because in the passage it also states that the driverless cars still alert the driver to take over when needed. For some people the cars in their eyes are dangrous and forosious, in the passage others such as lawmakers believe that safety is best achived with an alert driver, " Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times, as a result in most states this care is illegal. the only down fall in this case is if in an accident while driving a driverless carewho would the law find acountable for the crash. Driverless care=s can be very use full if taking care of and used correctly, and i rest my claim.

Do you think it would be valuble to use the Facial Action Coding System is a technolgy that read your emotions and read it off with a percentige here is an example as it says in th first pargraph she is 83 percent happy.9 percent disguested,6 percent fearfull,and 2 percent angry. The process of the FACS is th computer constructs a 3-D model of the face all 44 major muscles in the model must move like hummans muscle's. Dr. Huang relies on his work for pschologist such as Dr. Paul Eckman creator of FACS Eckman has classiflied 6 basic emotions such as happpnies,surpise,anger,disgust,fear, and sadness. Anf then associted with characteristic's movemnet's for ecample your frontails pars latrerails muscle's raises your eyebrows when you're surpirsed your'r orbiuclas oris tight your lips up show anger. "The Facial expression for each are univesal"' obsevers Dr. Huang "even ttrough indivduals ofeten show carry's degree of expression like not smiling as brodly well using a video, in a real life face or in a paiting by weighinh the diffent units the software can even identfy mixed emotions as in Da vincis master pice each expression is compared to a neutral face. Yes but no do i think this is valuable because i feel like my emotion's is my personal problems but if pschologist are using it to hep kids and people then yes i belive it is very valuable.

The Challenge of Exploring Venus article gives multiple reasons for why we should continue i n our research on Venus. Although it could be dangerous the author believes "we should not be limited by dangers and doubts". The author supports his claim with evidence and facts. He starts out in the second paragraph by talking about why we should visit Venus, and his evidence for why we should is that Venus is the closest in size to earth and is often closes in distance to earth. He uses this evidence to show that we are very similar planets in size. The author also goes on to talk about how the features on the crust are very similar. His evidence for this statement is that both crusts have mountains, valleys, and craters. Although the trip to Venus can be dangerous, the author belives we should continue our journey because " we should not be limited by dangers or doubts". When the author makes a statement he is very good about backing it up with data. He uses real facts in almost every one of his statements.

I think the Face On Mars is a natural landform because there are other landforms already like it on Earth, and there are other mesas like it around the Cydonia region. I think if aliens were on Mars I think we might have discovered them by now, but you can never be sure. The Face is just formed by conveniently placed shadows. NASA wishes there was life on Mars becase they would benefit from it, so why would they try to cover up something that could get them a lot of popularity and money. Scientists researched this farther and released even better pictures proving it was just a landmass and not an alien artifact. People believe that the clouds could've covered up alien markings but that seems illogical because in 2001 they went back to the face and took more pictures with even higher resolution and found that there were no markings at all, meaning more evidence leaning towards the Face just being a natural landmass and not an alien artifact. It was just a mesa the whole time. So there is a lot of evidence leading you to believe that the Face on Mars is merely just a natural landmass called a mesa, combined with shadows gives the mass a facelike texture. Lots of research shows you that the mass is very natural and not made by Aliens.

The Dissapearene of the Electroral College The United States of America has come a long with in regards to its legal system. For example, the new laws that are currently being added to allow gay couples to marry. That shows true progress, however there are other laws that we have, which simply are not needed anymore and are quite outdated. An example of this would be the Electoral College. The system that it abides by is horrendous and unjust. In the eyes of many the Electoral College should be removed from the law and will make Democratic decisions within this country much better. Now there are quite a few well known people who believe that the Electoral College should be abolished. These people include Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter,and Bob Dole just to name a few. One of the biggest controversial events that had to do with a failure of the Electoral College was the election of 2000. In this situation Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the precidency due to the methods of the Electoral College. It all seems to just be an irrational method as well as a waste of time. This is to be believed because you have citizen voters who add up to the popular vote, yet afterwards it is then turned over to the electors who may be unfair and corrupted. The votes would be much simpler and much more fair if it was a direct popular vote. Not to mention that over sixty perecent of voters whould prefer a direct election as oppossed to the method of voting we have now. (Source 2, Brad Plumer) The way that the Electoral College works is selection of electors, then a meeting of electors where they vote for the President and Vice President, and finally the elctoral votes are counted by Congress. All thats done is adding a middleman who makes a decision for the people who spent their time to vote for the candidates they elected. Also with this "winner-take-all system (Source 1, The Office of Federal Register) it leaves those who "chose wrong" left with nothing, however let it be noted that in Maine and Nebraska there is a variation of "proportional representation". Finally, after the election the governer of your state prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment" which lists all the candidates who had run for President in your stae as well as a list of the representing electors. Along the lines of voting not only do voters practically have no say in who they are voting for due to basically voting for representing electors thus its up to the electors to vote for a President and Vice President, not the people of this nation. For example, if you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you would end up voting for a slate of thirty four Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. With the very small chance that the electors won the statewide election kept in mind, they would then have to go to Congress and as a result Kerry would have thirty four more electoral votes. To be honest this whole system seems to be rediculously unnecessary and tedious. As said beofre a direct method of voting from the citizens would be more beneficial to the whole nation. In the end, that is one of the most important things to keep in mind because that is what will end up being affected the most which is the entireiety of the U.S.A. Lets not forget that in this whle voting via the Electoral College, there is a very apparent disaster factor looming above their heads. When you put it into context that a candidate that a majority of the population of voters appealed to and voted for did not end up being elected because of the choices of the electors theres going to be a huge problem as a result. Not to mention the fact that many are afriad of the chance that there will eventually be a situtaion where there is a tie. Furthermore, this can also be taken into account in a vice versa manner because if there is a candidate that lost the popular vote but won the votes of the electors there will be ridiculous amounts of uproar to follow. In the close there are just too many comlexities and problems that follow the Electoral College and it would be for the benefit of all if it was abolished.

It seems that others still believe in the theory that the natural landform was created by aliens, even though the face on Mars was finally unmasked. When it was first just discovered, scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, which was common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyption Pharaoh. Only a few scientists believed that the face was an alien artifact. Scientists wanted to prove that the face was just a landform and nothing more, so they soon come up with a plan. On April 5, 1998, when Mars Glabal Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. The first image that appeared on a JPL web site revealed a natural landform. There was no alien monument. However, not everyone was satisfied with the results. It took another journey; Mars Global Surveyor went for a second look in Cydonia on April 8, 2001. Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo. The image was three times bigger than the pixel size. With these final results, the questioning of the face on Mars should be concluded. The picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a buttle or mesa - landforms common around the American West. The human shaped face on Mars was no alien artifact after all, it was only a natural landform this entire time.

I think that it wouldn't be valueable to have technology be able to read emotions because the fact that its really easy for someone else to get into your phone or tablet through face reconition. People use face reconition alot and it can be a quicker way to get into your tablets and phones or any other electronics, but people can easily crack into the electronic and take any personal infomation that they need. I mean electonic ability to read people's emotions is cool and all, and its a huge next step into newer tecnology for the future, but the fact that you know say you needed to be happy to get into your phone, some one else can act happy and, well unlock your phone. In paragraph six the article talks about how they could make different ads show if you were happy or frowning. That could be good but if your watching, like youtube or videos and an ad shows, your going to want to keep watching your video and not the ad. If a person is watching a show and an ad pops up and they smile, then it shows another ad that the person didnt want to see because they wanted to keep watching thier show. I think people would be angry if that happen, because not a lot of people like ads. Ads can be good for promotion of products, but i think we all know when your playing a game on your electronic device that you want to keep playing or watching and not the ad. The reasons why i said that this would be unvalueable is because the reason of security,like anything could go wrong because everything in technology can be unexpected. thats why i chose the reasons I did.

Dear Senator, I am writing you to explain why the Electoral College system of choosing the president should be changed. The president should be chosen based on popular vote instead of the current system. The Electoral College system is unfair to certain states and somewhat confusing to others. I am certain that my views on this issue are not the only ones. First off, the Electoral College system is unfair to states. Candidates for president don't spend time in states that they know they have no chance of winning in. This is due to the Electoral College morphing the states into a winner-takes-all system as said by the Office of the Federal Regiser in "What is the Electoral College?". This means that the winning popular vote in each state wins the electoral vote for that state as well. The thing is, however the number of people voting compared to the number of electoral votes is unfair. I am aware that the number of electoral votes comes from the state's population, but imagine this; California, which has 55 electoral votes gets visited by this to-be-president and wins it over only by a small margin. Wyoming, which has 3 electoral votes, doesn't get a visit by this candidate because he thinks that 55 votes is more important than three and a large majority of this state votes against him. The candidate then loses three electoral votes, but wins 55. Sounds like everything works out well right? Wrong. The other half of the voters in California combined with the majority of voters in Wyoming could have taken the vote if it weren't for the Electoral College. With popular vote the candidates would have to actually care about the states like Wyoming instead of ingnoring them with Electoral College. With the popular vote system everyone has a say. To continue, the Electoral College should be replace because of the confusion it causes. Most people believe that when they vote they are voting for president. However, what they dont know is that they are actually voting for a slate of electors. This slate of electors then votes for who they want to be president, and this might not always be the choice you want. With the popular vote system there would be no confusion and no voting on people who you want to vote for you. Do we really know who we're voting for? Or are we just going on luck? The reason why so many americans do not vote is because they think that even though they vote, they do not have a say on who's gonna win. With the popular vote system we could directly vote on who we belive to be the right choice for president. In conclusion, the Electoral College system should be replaced because with a popular vote system there would be fairness to all states and no confusion on who you're really voting on. With all of this said, I hope you consider my request and try to make a change. Yours truly, PROPER_NAME

To drive or not to drive? That is the question. In the article, "Driverless Cars Are Coming", both positions are explored whether automatic cars would be good or bad in our world today. In my opinion, I believe that these automatic cars are doing wonders on today's technology. Automatic cars are making it much more safer to drive on the road and adding a lot less accident risks in there. There is a lot of potential, and I say why not take it? Advances in technology have usually made everything better. It's history and amazing how much our society has evolved with technology and machines to help us make our lives much easier, like how farming used to just be planting a seed and picking it when it's ready and sweet enough. It's the same with electronics and cars in that kind of sorts. You used to have to learn everything about being on the roads with your car, learn how to drive and navigate it, and not that long ago, you had to learn to tame horses to make travel easier. This automatic car thing is just an extension of that and the potential is extraordinary. It's more assisting than actual driving at the moment, but we're almost there to see it in our futures. It's very similar like a person going from struggling on a crutch to finding much more ease using a wheelchair while you rest up. This potential can help us drive a lot easier without many risks except technology failing on us, but that can easily be managed. If you htink about the outcome, people who can't drive like disabled, struggling teenagers and shaking elderly can finally drive again with more ease. Now it's easy to believe why take the risk if it can end up worse, but that's just being paranoid about the bad possibilities rather than wanting to explore all of the good that can from this. Like the article argues, If technology fails and some is injured, who is at fault- the driver or the manufacturer?". It is arguable, but there are human errors and technology mistakes. This also has some potential for job opportunities, like specializing in automatic cars and troubleshooting them. Stated in this article, it says sixteen years ago there was no potential to create a driverless car, but now that the technology to do so has evolved, why not do it? It's not like you're trying to take over the human race doing so, it's almost a breakthrough in science if you think about it. No more having to rely on people itself to keep you safe in the car and having extra assurance that the car itself will keep you safe if you mess up is a huge relief in my opinion. It's something cool that was always thought of in movies to have hovercrafts and spaceships, and creating a driverless car is a baby step in that direction. Driverless cars will do a lot more good than bad in my opinion. There is a lot of support in this article, including my own that should show that driverless cars will be something tech savy in the foreseeable future. You have to take a risk to continue moving forward and growing, and isn't that what everybody wants to do? Move forward from yesterday? We drive today, but tomorrow, it's one less thing to think about in our busy lives.

Venus is a very interesting planet, who wouldn't want to discover more about it?Studying Venus as the author said is a good idea because it allows people to discover something new that could possibly become the second home of humans, expand people's imagination, and finding new innovations for a new planet or new "earth" for humans. In the passage it said in paragraph 2," Numerous factos contribute to Venus's reputation as a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity to us", meaning that if its going to be challenging to discover and examine Venus, these scientists will do everything possible to learn its weaknesses and strengths, even if it takes decades to make it possible. The passage also said in paragraph 4," why are scientists even discussing further visits to its surface? Astronomers are fascinated by Venus because it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system", meaning that astronomers are doing everything possible to examine Venus, and possible that these humans are able to exist in this planet futher more centries. Many people may not notice, but Venus has many things that not many know of or are aware of. For example, in paragraph 3 it says", a thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus... these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth", meaning that these conditions that Venus has may be very extreme and humans must be cautious when entering this planet. In the passage it also says that ", Venus has the hottest surface temperature of any planet in our solar system... Vensian geology and weather present, additional impediments like erupting volcanoes, powerful earthquakes, and frequent lightning strikes to probes seeking to land on its surface", meaning that Venus is also comparable to Earth, although they do have their differences. Venus is not only allowing people to make new innovations, but expanding their imagination and allowing them to challenge themselves and keep pushing themselves until they feel satisfied for how much they have discovered. In the passage it stated,"The national Aeronautics and Space administration(NASA) has one particulary compelling idea for sending humans to study Venus", showing that they will keep inventing and creating new ideas until they are able to discover enough information to allow any human being into this planet. Lastly these creative scientists have created new innovations and materials allowing them to enter this dangerous planet called Venus. In paragraph 5 it said", NASA'S possible solution to the hostile conditions on the surface of Venus would allow scientists to float above the fray" showing that these scientists are working from their failures and improving from them. Also in paragraph 6 it said," therefore, scientists seeking to conduct a thorough mission understand Venus would need to get up close and personal despite the risks... many researchers are working on innovations that would allow our machines to last long enough to contribute meaningfully to our knowledge of Venus", showing that these scientists are doing everything they can, and examining on what they are able to create despite of their failures and trying to contribute to the planet. In paragraph 8 it also says," our travelson earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation", showing that people will expand more their ideas, and push more their imagination allowing them to create and discover new things and materials for this planet Venus. In conclusion, the author should be able to study about Venus and attract many people's attention showing them new discoveries, and new innovations. It will show these human beings that they will be able to live upon another earth and allow them to face new challenges on this planet called Venus.

The elector college is a controversial subject today in america, based on many questionable policies that leave many americans confused and cheated. This is why I argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states. With the electoral college way of electing a president voters arent actually voting for the president, they are voting for a slate of electors who will then vote for the candidate. There are so many things that can go wrong when electing like this. Voters can't neccessarily control who their electors vote for, you may vote for a certain slate of electors but they may still go ahead and vote for someone else. Sometimes voters get confused and may vote for a slate of electors who are for the wrong candidate. For example, in 1960 segragationists in the Louisiana Legislature almost succeded in replacing the democratic electors with new ones who would oppose John F. Kennedy, so a popular vote for Kennedy would not actually go to him. Although these things dont happen all time their is always the possibility and why take that chance on such an important event, choosing our president the person who will lead our country. In an election their really is a process of voting and voting again. Instead of couting the number of people who want a certain president and so on. We are viewed as a state and some states having more say than other even if the votes are in the same margin. This is the reason why some states are focused on more by the candidates and are heavily educated on the topic and given more attention than smaller states whose votes wont change much. an even bigger problem is te fact that most states operate on a winner-take-all basis so even a slight majority vote one way will give that person all of the votes. A very worrying prospect as expressed in source two is the possibility of a tie. in which the election would be given to the house of representatives. Each state only gets on vote so a representative representing 500,000 people would have as much say as representatives representing 35 million people. Why not just cut out all of the extra processes and focuses on the decision of the people directly. Although there are many arguments against the electoral college there still are people who argue in favor of it. There is a certainty of outcome with this process. There will less likely be a run off election with this process. All in all the major arguments agaisnt this process outweigh the pros of it, which are few. With all of the reasons to go against this process I think it is necessary to change the election to popular vote for the president. We need to give the voice directly back to the people of our country so we know that we really do choose our fate in these elections.            

In the story the aurther is describing why Venus is the 2nd Earth and there coomon and there diffrents and what would be the best matterial to use for the Vehicle Witch Nasa is working with some simplified electrons made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus surface and have lasted for 3 weeks in such conditions . Then Nasa also has a nother project were they are looking to work with the old technology called mechanical computers werefirst envisioned in the 1800's and played a inportant part in the 1940s during the World war ll. But the reason for the old tecnolagy is because if we were to have a cell phone on Venus is because it would melt because of the acid or heat capable of meting tin. You all so have people striving to meet the challenge presented by venus has value ,not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself , but also because human curiosity will likely lead us into many equally intimedating endeavors.

I kinda do agree with this problem. Tech can tell whats everyone mood is at at the moment and i also agree on you can read on people faces if they are upset or something. Tech tells you how to handle your problem and tell you what you should do. but, face emotions can speak louder than words and thats true. also wehn people take pics of each other, that show it all as well. there are many ways that your emotions can be shown not just by phone and other Tech. People try to lie about there emotions and sometimes, that can lead to life risks. If that person really sad then and always upset, then that person might think something that you dont want to see. over the years, people is scared to tell other people what they think or what they should do. Some people dont relized that other poeple can help that person that is going through something that they should be going through. everyone shounld think about the bad stuff and always should think about the good things. now that being said, computers can read other people emotions and i believe it should give them tips to forget about whats going on.

dear senator, I have come to a conclusion on how I think the president and his candidates should be voted for. In one hand we've got the Electoral College, and the election by popular vote. These two thing have been around for hundreds of years but you've got to know if you prefer one or the other. So which one works better? Why do you prefer this one over the other? The Electoral College, electors meeting and voting for our president and vice president. This electoral college consist of 538 electors that vote to for our president. I myself dont think this is a very sensable thing. Because when you think you're voting for the president you are actually voting for a state of electors who will in turn vote for the president not you. Why should there be a select few people out of the billions of people who live in america to vote for the president while we just sit and wait for the results. To only have their opinions voiced. Does'nt seem like a very fair way to elect someone who will be changing our country. This is a winner-take-all-system. Election by popular vote, this means you and I will be voting for the president and his cabinet ourselves. That we will have a say in who we want to change or even fix our country. Although the person we vote for may not win, we still got a say in what we believe would have made our counrty a better place. Although the Electoral College might give a more clear winner, if we know that our vote will actually have an effect in the election we might pay more attention to the election and vote more wisely. Knowing that we have voiced our preference rather than knowing maybe one single electoral vote might have set the election. Now there are some benefits if the Electoral College. In the case of having a precise vote on who gets to be president is one. Also maybe the fact that you voted fo the people who will be electing the president in a way is just the same. However this does notmean that it is better than you just voting yourself. Because those are onlyabout the two thing that are evn remotely good about the Electoral College. So when you decide who you want to be president think of how you would like your vote to be heard. through your own vote or maybe/possibly through anothers vote. I know which system i would choose. Giving that it would give me more voicein the matter. What would you do?            

This argument of the face on Mars been going on since 1976. Many people and even some scientest believe it is craftmenship of no other than aliens. Their have always been stories about how so called aliens live on the planet Mars,or how there is life on Mars. I am here to ease your mind and tell you it is no more than a mesa. Their has been alot of talk about the rocky terrian we call Mars. First off this isn't the first case of where a face has been captured. On a nother part of the Red planet there is an area called Cydonia. Their was an image of a something that resembled an Egyptian Pharaoh. That was just a shadow giving the unusal look of the pharaoh. This proves that not everthing is what it seems. Next after discovering that this unusal look for Mars was just a shadow creating the illusion of having a human face we were fasinated and had to indoulge ourselvs in more reaserch. On April 5, 1998 our Mars Global Surveyor had gone over Cydonia. Our magnificant team of reashers got a picture that was a wopping ten times sharper than the origional photo. We had thousands of people waiting to see what was on our Red Planet it was nothing other than... a landform. Then after that find we couldn't stop there. We were so close and we were desperate to find the truth. So we had studdied the pictures,and yet still nothing. The face on Mars was no different than your common landform on earth. We were sure right there it was nothing more than a lava dome that has molded its form into an isolates mesa. Now some might say that our picture we claim that is extremly crediable could be nomore than a fluke, and there could be aliens and a chance for a new civilization on Mars. Now for us we wish there was an acient civilization on Mars, but we can't hide the truth. Finally for our picture in a digital image three times bigger than the pixel size, and if their was any sign of life like houses,airplanes,or even Egyptian styled pyrmids you would be able to see them. This how we know our information is credable. Now it seames the whole " Face on Mars" in movies, books, magazines,and radio talk shows were all false. That whole franchisement was a total bust. Now that you know the truth and the face on Mars was nothing but fraud i hope that you listen to the people down at NASA. Now i hope i have eased your mind that there are no aliens running arround.

I am against the idea of having driveless cars.There are many flaws to the idea of driveless cars. Although the idea of driveless cars sound exciting, there are also many things that could go wrong with them. It is better to be safe than sorry because you can not go back. Driveless cars can be a great danger to many people. They can always malfunction or go out of control. Technology does not always work the way we plan for it to. In the article it was mentioned that the cars can cause crashes but it would be hard to determine who was responsible for the crash. Can you blame the manufacturer or the driver? The driveless cars are illegal in the following states: Califonria, Nevada, and Florida. The cars are illegal in those states until the cars are proven to be more safe. The lawmakers of these states believe that safety is at best with alert drivers rather than driveless cars. The cars can not fully drive on their own and still need help to navigate through traffic or construction. Driveless car be harmful to many people. The are mostly useless because they still need humans to control them through certain situtations. They can also malfuntion and lose control. They are not proven to work one-hundred percent of the time. If one of the cars were to cause an accident it would be hard to determine who is at fault. It would be much safer to wait until we know for sure that the cars will not malfuntion and figure out all of the flaws of the cars to increase the safety of other drivers on the roads and pedestrians.

You should join the Seagoing Cowboys program because you get to participate in many things while saving lives in the world. You get to travel and sight see, help animals and humans, and you can even have fun! The Seaging Cowboys program is a program that you can sign up for. In this program you transport animals to different parts of the world on seas. Luke crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times, and he also crossed the Pacific Ocean two times durring World War Two. In this program you save people's lives by helping them. Also, by transporting animals to them. In this program, you take part in helping the animals, but you also get to travel to many places. You travel all around the world. When you have free time, you can visit famous monuments, museums, or just have some quiet time. Luke went to the Acropolis in Greece, and he got to take a gondola ride in Venice! So, there are many fun things to do when you are a Seaging Cowboy. Speaking of fun, you also have time to have fun onboard. You can play table-tennis onboard, volleyball, boxing, reading, whittling, and even more! You would mostly play these games on your way back from unloading the animals because you would have no more animals to take care of. So in concusion, you should become a Seagoin Cowboy beause you get to participate in many things while saving lives. You get to travel and sight see, help animals and humans, and also have fun!

The technology in today's world just keeps getting crazier and crazier! What do you think about Driverless Cars? Driverless Cars shouldn't be developed. The thought of this idea just sounds dangerous. Driverless cars shouldn't be develeoped for many reasons such as; saftyness, expenses, and lazyness. Safetyness is a big issue when it comes to cars. Just think about all of the rules that we have today reguarding safety with cars. Driverless Cars could cause accidents and many new laws to be made just because of the safety issues. As stated in paragraph 7, "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless." By saying this, who knows if they ever will really have a completey Driverless Car. Without being completely driverless, something could go wrong at any time and that isn't a good or safe thing. The expenses of cars today are outrageus, but think about the cost for a Driverless Car. The prices of a driverless car will cost the inventors and the buyers. The inventors have to pay billions of dollars to complete a car that functions all by itself, which is going to be very expensive. All of the parts and technology are already high in todays vehicles, so a Driverless Car is definitely going to be high in price. The money being put into Driverless Cars could be going into more important things. Driverless Cars will cause a lot of lazyness in today's world. Many people already text and do other things while driving, so imagine what they would if they didn't have to drive at all. The population of texting in driving would increse. People would probably fall asleep while driving, which can result in car accidents. This invention also involves people being lazy because they wont even have to learn how to drive anymore. The less people don't know about driving the lazier they can be, because they won't have to do anything when it comes time to drive. Driverless Cars shouldn't be made due to safetyness, expenses, and lazyness. The car could mess up and cause an accident at any time, which isn't safe. Expenses for the Driverless Car would be very pricey and a waste. Lazyness will increase, because people won't have to learn to drive.

"Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo." This statement would lead anyone to believe that the details and magnification in a camera 25 years younger and improved would lead to better and more eye capsuring photos right? Right. So, why would there be controversey over the likelyhood of the face actually being real? Here's why: people see something one time and they are automatically drawn into the idea that it has to be real. The Martian Mesa was said to look like a Egyptian Pharaoh. That statement leads people to believe that there had to be life to build something like that. But, with the shadow showing groves perfectly and the holes in the mesa made it look real. The "Face" is just another Mesa on Mars. First, the pixels and the picture produced by the camera at that time weren't as developed as the camera used in 2001. You also have to take into account that, as time goes on, most products will be improved and made better, in this case that's how it was with the cameras, with a 25 year gap in between. The text says, "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos." The text also supports the claim by stating, "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all." Additionally, the shadows had appeared to be hitting the natural landform just right. The scientists belive this because, they have seen many other mesas while traveling in space, this on just happened to have a interesting impression at first sight. The text proves this by including, "A few days later NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption noted a "huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusoin of eyes, nose, and mouth." The text also says, There must have been a degree of spurise amoung mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on their monitors. But the sensation was short lived. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia only this had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh." Believers in this "face" may claim there was never a clear picture of the "face" taken after the first photo. To support this they may think that the photographer taking the picture may not be able to see the clouds. The text says, "But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter in April '98 - a cloudy time of year on the Red Planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to the Face." However, NASA was able to take another picture of the Face when the clouds weren't in the way and it wasn't winter. The text says, "Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001 - a cloudless summer day in Cydonia - MGS drew close enough for a second look. What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa." The Face captured on Mars has proven to be a natural landform. With shadows covering it and dips to make facial features it can across as an Egyptian Pharaoh. This is proven because, of the high tech cameras and the shadows only lasted one day allowed scientists to prove their claim - the Face was just a normal mesa landform.

I think everyone should join the Seagoing Cowboy program because it allows you to experience adventure and visit many unique places. In the story is says that his friend Don Reist invited him to go to Eurpoe on a cattle boat and it also says it changed his life. Being a Seagoing Cowboy will allow you to to experience adventure. And when you experience something for the first time it can be scary and it can be really fun. Also you can visit unique places that some people will never get to go to. And when you go to those places you can tell really good storys. I remember when my family went to Flordia for the first time together and when I got back I had a lot to write about. By doing something new it could change your future and you might realize you like doing this in sted of doing what you had planed. But you have to want to try something new and you have to give it a chance. When you try something for the first time it might not always work out but most of the time when you keep trying and not give up it will end up going really well and you could learn to like it. But if you look at it at a diffrent way going into the sea is dangerous and you would have to be really careful. And if you where in a storm you would have to be careful not to tip the boat and you have to remember there would be cattle on the boat. Also you would have to be careful around the animals so they wont bite or try to kick you. However it can change your life by seeing new things. And you would get to see unique places that a lot of people can't go. You will get to experience adventure and be able to tell great storys about where you where and what you did there. So therefore i think everybody should try something new and be a Seagoing Cowboy.

Google has made a new improved car that does not require a driver. I am against the project that Google came up with recently. Google cofounder Sergey Brin beleives that the future can have a transportation system without a human driver. So far, Google cars aren't truly driverless because they still alert the driver to take over when dealing with complicated traffic issues. This makes me think that I am not safe when I'm in the car. The development of these cars require many sensors that can be really expensive. Google made a Toyota Prius that used a sensor on the left rear wheel, a sensor on the roof, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor. This is a total of eight different types of sensors including other important technology for only one vehicle. They combined many necessary inputs for the driverless car "to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel." These driverless cars still need assistance of a human. No type of technology can mimic the skill of a human. Some people ask why would anyone want a driverless car that still needs a driver ? Manufacturers are hoping to bring an "in-car entertainment" system. This is a safetly concern because many accidents happen on the road and a driver shouldn't be anymore distracted especially knowing that they are not personally driving. The passengers in the car and pedestrians surrounding the car should be more careful as well especially when the driverless car can not handle a complicated traffic issue. The lawmakers know that safety is achieved when the driver is alert. The driving laws focus on keeping the drivers and passengers safe. In most states it is illegal to test a computer driven car because they do not rely on the safetyness of the driverless car. Even if the driverless cars were to be approved and legal that only means that new laws will be needed. If technology were to fail and an accident happened it will be complicated to blame the driver or the manufacturer. Automakers can continue with their projects with these cars but I personally think that technology can not mimic the skills of a human.

I know that this "face" was not created by aliens, because it changes over time.The MGS Viking 1 and Viking 2 could have caught pictures of what ever came back and changed it the other two times. If there were really aliens that created this "face", then there would have to be some kind of evidence. Also for more evidence, in paragraph 7 it states that, when the MOC flew over this "face" that there were not any signs that it was an alien monument after all. The scientist zoomed in alot on the "face" to see if there were any signs and nothing was found out or looked to be alienise. According to the passage, "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia... The reason you may think an alien created is, because the way it resemables a face. While according to scientist the only reason it looks like a face is because there are shadows around the object allowing us to see,what we think is, a nose, mouth, and eyes.

My position on driverless cars is i think that this is a good idea. I yhink this is a great idea, and could help a lot. It could help a lot with mothers on the go with a lot of kids, the simple fact of a major improvments on cars for the future, and people that like to text and drive or put on make up while driving. The driverless car concept could help a lot in the future. It would help those mothers that need to turn around or reach back to give there child something while she is driving. It would help because she could just put it into driverless mode and do what she needed to do. It would be a major help for those people that happen to text and drive, or put on make up while driving. The driver could then put the car into driverless mode, and send that last text or finish their make up before work, and prevent them from crashing. The overall concept of driverless cars is a big acomplishment and could bring us closer to bigger, and better things for cars in the future. The concept of driverless cars is far from being a every day thing, like it says in paragraph 10. Once driverless cars are finished, and everyone will use them it will be a whole new thing for driving on the road.

Who would want a driverless car that still needs a driver? Wouldn't you feel bored waiting for your turn to drive. If by chance, you got in an accident, who would you blame? The driver which will be you or the manufacture? I were in your shoes, I would rather drive around myself. I would rather drvier around myself, because I trust myself more than their driverless car. I believe any company should not try to developed driverless car. First of all, I believe that any company should not try to developed a driverless car because it cause more accident. I believe it will cause more accident because the driverless car they develope is not 100 percent safe. Imagine a 50 cars driving it self in high way. You don't know who they are going to break or stop working. Even tho "GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object" I still would not trust it. Will you be ready when it's vibrate? Second of all, I believe that any company should not try to developed a driverless car because it can lead to serious trouble. For example, If you get in an accident, who will you blame while driving driverless car? Will you blame yourself or the company. I can tell you this. No one won't want to lose their money. You won't want to lose your money nor the manufacturer. When this happen, someone will fill lawsuit. The company and the people will hate each other. Another reason I believe that any company should not try to developed a driverless car because anyone won't like a driverless car who need assit. What is the different between you driving the car and you have to be ready when ever the car need assit. I can tell you that many people hate to wait. Also you can trust 100 percent that when the car need your assit. You don't know for sure that it will alert you. It is man mad car. Anything can happen. If I were you I will not trust them because they can lead you to death. Finally, I believe that any company should not try to developed a driverless car because you can drive as you please. Pretend you are late for something. And you need to get there fast. You need to go faster and driverless car has certain speed. This are the reason I believe manufacturing should not develope a carless car.

I say we dont need driverless cars cause we already have to many accidents when we have drivers. If one thing goes wrong when there is no driver it could be deadly cause unlike when your driving you can swerve out the way if a car is coming from the side fast, but if there no driver then that means the car isnt able to change directions fast enough to get out the way. You could also argue that it would be more safe to have driverless car, say u were drunk and u couldnt drive you could easily get in the car and it would drive by itself but there would be many downsides tothat. The car sometimes has the driver take over and it wouldnt be good to have the driver take over when he or she is drunk. It says in paragraph 7 that the driverless cars arent completley driverless. "But all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents" that dont really make sense to me because why would u have a car that is "driverless" but still have to pay attention to the road and keep your hands on the wheel. I say that we dont make driverless cars because they are very exspensive and dangerous if someone were to get in a crash they are most likey going to sue the company for a lot of money.

In "The Challenge of Exploring Venus," the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers it presents. The author saying that many people are very interested in discovering Venus because it's very similar to Earth. But this planet is also a challenging place to examine closely. With thick atmosphere, high temperatures, and the atmospheric pressure is greater than Earth, no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours. That making it difficult for humans to discover it. The author supports the idea of how studying Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers is pretty well. Because he had good evidences and details answering the questions. The text states,"Striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus has value, not only because of the insight to be gained on the planet itself, but also because human curiousity will likely lead us into many equally intimidating endeavors. Our travels on Earth and beyond should not be limited by dangers and doubts but should be expanded to meet the very edges of imagination and innovation." This shows how well the author supported the ideas about studying Venus. Venus is a dangerous place for humans to visit and examine. But it's worth once you tried it. Many people are interested in Venus and wanted to study more about it in the future. The author did a good passage to supported his ideas about Venus. With many helpful evidences and details.

If you join the Seagoing Cowboys program i can gurantee sastisfaction. I've been doing this for 2 years and it's been a part of my life. Somethings that are great if you join our program is you go siteseeing,you get to on amazing journeys, and just knowing that your helping someone in need is gratifying. I hope i will see you in the future. May this be your opprotunity to change someone's life . One of the most enjoyable things to do is go sitesee. It really makes time fly by so much quicker . I've beenn doing this for what now,2years? And i've already been on 9 trips! Though sitseeing is not the only thing we do we trasport animals to country's in need . So far it's been a huge success and we don't want to look back, not yet. There are there flaws though it's kinda hard to be constantly on the move with a spouse or heck maybe kids too just at home. So, why not bring them with you i'm pretty sure we would have more then enough things for you children to do. Remeber this is a very serious and dangerous job . I've gotten through a only one bad injury where I broke a rib .(paragraph7). That will be very unlikely to happen though considering none of my parteners have ever had that happen to them. So as you can see our program will be grat for you with amazing siteseeing , journey's tat are kid friendly, and your helping someone so will you come work for us.

Aliens vs. Knowledge Twenty-five years before 2001, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft spotted a landform in the shape of a face on Mars's surface. This, after being released to the media, caused an uprising of speculations. Did aliens make this? Were there other beings on other planets? Are we not alone? A famous scientist once said that we researched for other life on other planets because humans didn't want to be alone in this vast galaxy. He also said that it could cause either fear or excitement. The media wanted to grab the attention of the common people, and to do that they needed something extraordinary. The media spins the truth to benefit their needs. You can't believe everything they say because all they can do is gain by your speculation. NASA hardly thought this was the work of aliens. They didn't want the people to think they were lying, they wanted to seek the truth. Even if they were hiding something, they could only ever lose everything for covering it up. More attention on the dying out NASA program would gain the support and money to fund them. So, on April 5, 1998, they sent another spacecraft to take pictures of the landform. Not everyone thought the image that came up, the one of a landform, sufficed. They argued that it was probably too hazy and that the image wasn't a reliable resource. They said that the haze was blocking the alien markings. Again, NASA sent another spacecraft in 2001 to take better pictures in different angles. The picture showed a landform much like a butte or mesa here on Earth. Some people stated that it was a conspiracy. Mars has unique quirks like every planet. Here on earth we have natural landforms such as a mesa, and mountains, and rivers. Mars isn't much different. Scientists have special catogories for classifying a planet, and Pluto did not meet those requirements. So, every planet has to have at least one thing in common with another. Just beacause Mars is a different planet, doesn't mean that it can't have landforms much like those on Earth. To say that one planet has aliens because of a landform, is to say that we are aliens as well. Don't we have mountains? Yes, you might say, but it's because of tectonic plates pushing against each other. Science has taught us many things, so now we know something foreign to people back then. Take Christopher Columbus as in example. Before he sailed the ocean, everyone thought that the earth was flat. After he disproved the theory, people saw the earth for what it was: a round, water planet. Another great example would be Galileo, who disproved the theory that Earth was the center of the galaxy and the sun and everything else rotated around it. People had to have curiosity, and the willpower to go on with these expeditions. After they disproved a theory, it made more sense, and the world around us just is. Now, we don't question on how the mountains were made. We don't question on why we have day and night. We are more educated now, but there are still things we haven't learned. That's why people should have a more open mind about finding the truth. Once we find the truth, we'll move on to bigger things and so on and so on. This mystery is one which piques people's interest, but turning to myth and false facts isn't the way to go. Exploring and learning from new innovations is what makes scientists who they are. They took the time to go through the process of being a certified scientist. To say you are smarter than one is disrespectful towards them, saying all their hard work was worth nothing. So, to summarize, aliens did not make the landform on Mars. It was a natural occurence that got blown up into bigger proportions because the media wanted to satisfy their own needs to get profit. NASA knows what they are saying, and we should respect their statements until we ,for sure, know ourselves that the statement is false.

Would you want somthing that reads your emotions and finds out weather you are happy, sad or depressed. If so read more to find out some more information about this device to see if you would want this at your job or school. The reason why this can be a major impact in the class room is that it can read your facial expresstions. Teachers can see if students are struggling or if they are goofing off in class. Teachers can use this type of tool in the class roon to see what they can't see from their desk. This device can read six emotions such as happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. Also can associate with peoples movements of the facial muscles. For example, your frontalis pars lateralis muscles (above your eyes) raises your eyebrows when you're suprised; your orbicularis oris (around your mouth) tightens your lips to show anger. "The facial expressions for each emotion are universal," observes Dr. Huang, "even though individuals often show varying degrees of expression" (like not smiling as broadly). Using video imagery, the new emotion-recogntion software tracks these facial movements in a real face or in the painted face of Mona Lisa. By weightign the different units, the software can even identify mixed emotions (as in da Vinci's masterpice). Each expresstion is compared against a neutral face (showing no emotion). We has humans perform this same impressive "calculation" every day. For instance, you can probably tell hoe a friend is feeling simply by the look on his/hers face. Of course, msot of us would have trouble actually describing each facial trait that conveys happy, worried, etc. Yet Dr. Huang observes that the facial recognitinal machine works wonderfuly and would be amazing in any class room. In conclustion, i belive that this device should be in schools all round that United States. My reasoning is when people come in the school that system can do backround checks on parents or adults that come into the buliding. That makes sure they keep the school safe for teachers and students in the process of everyone else in the building at that time. Plus they can have data that will be saved for when they know when that person can to the school and left the school.

Cars, they're one of the most important means of transportations, varing from busses down to smart cars. The more cars being bought and used, the more pollution it makes. Researchers are saying that cars, their dense amount of smog being created, are damaging the Earth. Logically, it would be easier to say that limiting the amount of vehicles being used would allow for a cleaner city or town. Limiting car usage in the past and present already shows a positive feed back upon the community. There has been cities dedicated to create a car-free city. An example would be in Vauban, Germany. There the city runs purely on no car usage and showed to be much cleaner, safer, and easier to navigate around in. It says in the first passage how the city is "...better for walking..." and that it is "...more compact and more accessible to public transportation..." In other areas, where car usage is an everyday expense, they have started to enforce driving bans to reduce pollution in the area. In Paris, they almost reached near-record pollution which reduced greatly ever since the ban. They limited the use of cars has cleaned the air and their "congestion" was down 60 percent allowing getting around easier. Although having car free cities and bans, others thing differently. Others, whom oppose the idea of limiting cars use, has done research to show that it isn't necessary to limit car usage. They state that in America "Americans are buying fewer and fewer cars" They claim that the drop of perchasing and that the usage of cars is dropping to the point where pollution won't raise up anymore. In source 4, it states "If the patterns persists it will have beneficial implications for carbon emissions and the envrionment" It also states that people will "find less reason to resume the habit" Although some advantages are seen in the opposing ideas, it still would not be enough. The passage focuses to much in one area instead of looking around. Limiting car usage would asist around the world proving to be much efficient. There are programs that are created to reduce the usage of cars for one day, which showed to be a success. In source 3 it shows how 118 miles of bicycel paths has been created since the day. Also shows how the day cut trafic and allowed for constructions of new buildings to be much easier to do. People started to go outside to the point where "The rain hasn't stopped people from participating," said Bogota. The advantages of car limitations has shown to be much more efficient and benificial towards cities and towns which participated in it. The advantages are that it made the town more productive, cleaner, efficient, and better to walk around in. Car limitations has proven to be an outstanding practice to be used around the world.

Dear. State Senator Electoral College should we keep it or change it, to election by popular vote? Well alot of people dislike it and some like the electoral college. There are certian asspects about both electoral college and election by popular vote that should be looked at closey before you choose which one works and wich one dosen`t. Keeping electoral college I believe its best for our voting proccess. Why because in 2012 Oboma received 61.7 percent of the electoral votes. His percentage with popular vote was 51.3 percent, so if you voted for him electoral college bumped up his percent by a good amount. The electoral college also helps avoid problems of the elections such as no candidat receives a majority of the votes that were cast. Electoral college also restores some of the weight in the political balance that larger states lose by vitue of the ma-apportionment, witch means to me that larger states have larger percentages and between the two candidates the percents can be close so the electoral college just helps us pick one of the candidates. Popular vote has some good asspects to it aswell. Popular vote helps bump up your percentage of votes before electoral college is added, so it makes it an even better chance for the candidate you voted for to win the election. I believe people perfer popular vote because to me if I'm correct popular vote is the amount of votes acandidate got from the people and I know alot of people like it when their choice gets picked and no one else tried to i guess you could say meess with the votes. Electoral to me is the way to go so I believe you should keep it. It seems that it gives candidates a better chance of their percentage going up so the have a better chance of winning.                                                     

Although exploring Venus would be dificult, it would add enormous amounts of knowledge about the possibility of other life forms. However, none of the spacecrafts that have arrived at Venus had a long life span. In order to send humans to Venus, NASA needs to find out how to get through Venus's hefty atmosphere. The author presumes that if NASA can get people to Venus though, the rock and air samples would conclude if our alien counterparts had once thrived there. Despite Venus's toxic atmosphere and unhabitable heat that is currently present, the author stated that, years ago, Venus was likely to be covered in large oceans that could have supported many different life forms. Astronomers see that Venus is very equatible to Earth. With its rocky surface, valleys, mountains, and craters. The idea of Venus being so alike has brought greater attention to the thought of sending humans to the planet. Nasa had planned to hover over the thick atmosphere of Venus, but the results of that would be imennsely limited because they would never break the atmosphere. Overall, Nasa has found that Venus will be stupendously hard to study, but worth it to start thinking of the possiblities. With the intense heat and pressure in mind they have not yet found a way to land humans, or even small spacecrafts, on the planet. But human curiosity will lead us into many intimidating endeavors.

The use of technology to read the emotional expressions of students in a classroom is smart and could be usefull but, it could also be a bad idea. Being able to know everything that the student is feeling can help teachers understand them more. If a student was in danger and didn't feel safe the teacher would know and be able to help them. Teachers will have to ask their students if its okay to read their emotions because peoples emotions are very personal. A teacher being able to uderstand students through their emotion can help teachers know more about how to work with them. For example, in the article this is said by Dr. Huang "Then it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor". According to this part of the text computers know how to change a lesson based off your emotion. That means that teachers being able to know your emotion can do the same. I also feel that this is invading someones personal space. If someone wanted you to know what was going on in their life and wanted you to know how they are feeling they will tell you. Thats why I think asking for the students permission is important before updating their technology. Another thing is why understand computers, in the passage this is said "developing better ways for humans and computers to communicate" but why? I dont think computers and humans need to communicate but, I do think humans need to communicate with other humans. I feel that you don't need technology to know how someone is feeling because you could just talk to them if you think something is wrong or if they arn't understanding the lesson that you are trying to teach them.

What if we always knew what everyone was feeling? It sounds like it would be great if we could always detect one another's facial expressions. However, every human being has a different individuality which sets them apart from everyone else. That individuality is what makes that person unique, and can effect the way that a technological device percieves them. Everyone thinks differently, learn in different ways, and expierence different things. While it seems like reading the expressions of one another may be a good thing, you cannot depend on the technology when you do not even know how accurate the technology is. By the way that the technology is described, it seems that the process reads one's emotions based off 6 basic emotions: happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear, and sadness. However, humans feel much more than these 6 emotions. We can feel emotions such as confusion, passion, and boredom. If the technology is basing some one's emotions off those 6 universal emotions, the data cannot be completely accurate because those emotioins do not work together to create boredom or even confusion. The feeling of confusion is a comeplelty different emotion, it is not affected or made up of one's happiness or anger. A person cannot detect confusion simply from reading only 6 universal emotions. "'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,'"(D'Alto). While that would be particularly useful in an academic field, it may not work as well as anticipated. Every human being is unique and different, so therefore, they can become confused for different reasons or get bored of different things. What one student may find boring, another may find quite interesting. If that lesson plan changes for the student who is becoming disegaged in the lesson, it will affect the other student who use to find the lesson interesting, it may cause that student to then become confused or disinterested. That is a flaw with technology, it cannot benefit everyone equally because every human being is uniquely different and can be affected in different ways. Many tend to hide their true feelings simply because they do not want others to know their true emotions. To read students' emotions in that way is an invasion of one's privacy. When people are sad, they hide that feeling because they either do not want to think about what is making them sad, or becuase they do not want to make the people around them sad as well. Reading the facial expressions of people, especially those who conceal their emotions, is similar to reading one's thoughts, which invades their private thoughts and emotions. When some one is hiding their emotions, that is their private feeling and should not be shared nor invaded unless with permission granted by that person. All-in-all, the technology cannot be proven to be accurate since it can only read 6 emotions and many people expirence a much more vast variety of emotions, than the simple 6 universal emotions. Including the fact that everyone is unique in the way that htye think and project emotions and thoughts differently. The technology also cannot change the plans for students effectively since a change for one student could harm another student academically. And finally, to read one's emotions, including the emotions that they conceal would be invading their privacy. People hide their emotions for a reason, and those emotions should be kept to them, they should not be read because they are considered one's personal thoughts.

Many people, and car companies, are beginning to come up with the idea of driverless cars. Driverless cars have always been an idea to people but never a reality, they have been featured in many things, such as movies and books, companies are now trying to make this idea an actual reality in our lifetime. There are many pros and cons to driverless cars, but we have to think will this be an advantage or disadvantage to our society? My opinion on driverless cars is on both sides, I see many advantages and disadvantages, such as; driverless cars are said to cut the use of fuel by half which would be great for our planet, but also it could be very dangerous because we all know that if we have driverless cars we will have people who use the cars as excuses or reasons to do things that are not considered lawful today without driverless cars. People who may be for the driverless cars may not be wanting the driverless cars for good reasons, they may think that because they are not in total control of the car at all times that gives them the excuse of they are not one hundred percent reasonsable for anything bad that may happen while they are in the car. They may think that they can get away with many more things because they are not driving the whole time, they could get away with texting and driving, or even being under the influence while driving. Yes, these cars will give them signals for when they need to drive but who knows if they will actually pay attention to the signal. If people today do not think anything of the laws we have set in our country what makes us think that just because they are not driving that it is any safer? People who are for the car for good reasons are thinking about how much driverless cars could help our world. Driverless cars cut the amount of fuel used in half, that would help not only our economy but our ecosystem. These driverless cars are said to decrease the amount of wrecks happening everyday, they will have automatic brakes, these cars would basically be able to tell when we are in danger. All of the sensors on these cars could maybe even take sensors into homes and stores that could make our world so much safer. If you were not able to tell I think I may be against the development of driverless cars, in my opinion I think there are many more things that could go wrong with the car than things that could go right. People may not take the idea of these cars seriously, but we need to realize that these cars may become an actual reality and there is nothing that we can do about it but accept it and become aware of the things that we should be doing rather than the things we could do with driverless cars.

The idea of driverless cars sounds pretty amazing right? Driving in a car and not having to lift a muscle sounds like the life to live. Being rode around all day,not even when you have to pick your kids up from school or practice. Lavish right? ' Now what if I told you,you had to be alerted when you have to pull in somewhere, dealing with traffic issues,road blocks, pedestrians, and most importantly,pot holes! Nobody want's to be going 60 on the freeway and unexpectedly rise out of there seat's because of a pot hole launched them into the air! Think about all the little animal's thats in the road that won't be avoided due to the "Driverless car". ' Heres another reason driverless cars aren't worth waiting for. Remember how fun driving looked to you as a kid? How you just couldn't wait to get out of the backseat and into the driver seat? Even the passenger seat at that! Now what will we tell our kids when they want to drive,and the streets are filled with driverless car's. It could probably put alot of kids out of the dream job as a NASCAR racer too. ' To be real,and completley honest. Driveless cars should just be in "Television and movies" like quoted in the second paragraph. They aren't the safest way to travel. There are so many variables that could change in the street that would completley catch the car off guard! I think that we should just keep it to the hands on steering wheel. It maybe old fashioned,but I gurantee you'll miss every pot hole and squirrel without it!

Driverless cars might be the future but is it safe. Their are still arguments o weather this is safe or not but their are already driverless cars today. Driverless cars have been tested and driven for many miles without accidents but they are not fully driverless. Their might be smart cars but they still have their compications such as pulling out of the drivway and driving through constuction work on the roads. For these reasons and more I am against driverless cars. Although they are supposed to be driverless the help of driver are still needed. What if the car cannot handle the situation and the driver needs to take control and the car malfunctions. This can result in an accident that wasnt neccecaraly the drivers fault. Would the blame be the drivers who couldnt do anything but struggle to take controle of a malfuntioning driverless car. If its not certain wether the driver or the company gets the blame for the acident then these should not be out on the streets. I think they are dangerouse and not as reliable as a regular manuale driven car. If the law cant back you up for these types of things yet then I dissagree with the use of driverless cars. Peoples lives are in danger with cars that are not yet fully operational to take on the road. If driverless cars cant guarante no malfunctions do to probable causes then I stay against these driverless cars of the future.

There´s nothing better than the Seagoing Cowboys Program! There´s no doubt that you´d feel great about joining it. The Seagoing Cowboys Program is a program designed to help other nations after the struggle of the Pacific War and WWII. Seagoing Cowboys deliver food and animals to areas that have devasted by these wars. First, an obvious reason to join is that you would be helping citizens of struggling nations, and helping to make them prosperous again. After reading that, there should be no doubt about the good you would be doing. Next, you would have free time to do whatever you wish in whatever nation you visit. I myself have seen wonderous things from China and all over Europe! You might see even more impressive things than I have! At last, I think you are beginning to see things as I do, not only are helping others, you yourself are having a blast as well! So what what are you waiting for? Get out there and make a difference!!!

The author presents the idea of exploring Venus well. But what about walking on the surface to explore from the space craft? If we could walk on the planet without being harmed by all of the outside forces, then we coulf run more tests. In the passage, the author states,"Each mission to Venus was unmanned because none of the spacecrafts have survived landing." These factors show that with the materials we have, we should be going for a safer planet like the moon or mars. The author also states that the planet atmosphere is 97 percent carbon dioxide with highly corrosive clouds. This shows that most metals we have can be melted by the clouds and the temperature at the surface is too much for a human to handle. Like I said in the intro, If we had the materials to keep a human safe to walk on the planet and take samples. We would have plenty of things to test here on Earth. Venus also has the hottest surface temperature in the solar system. If we could find a way to keep the hot air out and the cool air in, we could do it. In conclusion, scientists should not be looking into trying to land on Venus. There are too many risk factors to take and we don't have the resources.

Imangine being able to know the emotions of students during class, such as when they are bored, or when they are confused. Thats what the new Facial Action Coding System would achive. This kind of technology in the classrooms would be a nessestiy for teacher to effectivy teach to thier students, and idetify when they need help, or when they are getting bored during thier lesson. Studnets get bored during class, and dont pay attention becuase of that. Students also get confused during class, but sometimes a bored student can get confused with a student that is confused on what the teacher is taling about and needs help. The FACS would change that, becuase teacher would be able to analyze whether their students are either board or confused, or enjoying their lessons.. It would also help teacher identify which lessons thier students are enjoying, and would be able to use that data to plan which lessons to include, and which lessons or activitys to throw away becuae they are boring and would not do the theire students any good."'A classroom computer could reconize when a student is becoming confused or bored,' Dr Haung predicts 'Then, it could modify the lesson, like an effective human instructor"' (D'Alto). Meaning that the FACS can help with digital lessons too, improving the effectinsy of them as well. Another asepct fo the FACS, is that it can help students learn more about identifying emotions. "To and expert, faces dont lie; theses muscles clues are somtimes used tospot when a 'smiling' politician or celebrity isnt't being truthful" (D'Alto). This tecnolgy can spark an interest in psycology in students making the more interested in learing about emotions and how they can idedetify them in their peers. It can also cuase students to be interested in the technology behind it all. "His new computer software stores similar anatomical information as electronic code" (D'Alto). This can also spark a interest in coding and working with computers. Therfoe, the FACS will be a valuabel tool for eaching in the classroom, for both the teachers, and the students. people assuem tht sudents do bad in school becuase they dont pay attention, but thsi is usualy becuase the lessons are either confusing or boring.

The face is just a natural landform. Because shadows represented human features. The face is a butte or mesa. Three pictures show that the face is just a butte or mesa and that there are no carvings or something close to it. The face had bumps on it that created shadows to make it seem like there were human features on the mesa. The 2001 picture shows this very well you can see multiple bumps and lowered areas creating shadows. Compared to the others you would still thing aliens created it. Three pictures accurately represent the mesa for the technology used. For 1976 it looks like a face but they could only get this as the best shot for thier time. In 1998 the picture is much more clear and you are able to see exactly what it is but with some doudt because it was cloudy that day. The technology of 1976 was much worse then what it is now. For this specific time this picture was the best they could of shot. 1998 Was much more clear but skeptics were not happy. In 2001 they went to find a clear day that would work for finding cydonia and snapping a picture. This was clear and there werent any doudts in the picture. Skeptics influenced the public opinion. With many skeptics giving different reasons to try and defy their research the public took thier side. This most likely happened because they want to know if there is other lifeforms. This made them want to believe that there was aliens and that this was a statue or relic of some sorts.

Hello! I'm Luke. I joined the Seagoing Cowboys Program and you should too. I loved it since day one. You should join this program because it is a great learning experince. I just could not say no when my friend Don invited me to go, I mean it was an opportunity of a lifetime! First I went to New Orleans, the crew and I arrived there on August 14th. I got there the day the Pacific war ended. We got our seaman's papers and headed for Greece. We had 335 horses a long with us plus enough hay and oats to feed them! I will tell you what though you get attached to these sweet and loving animals. I turned 18 before arriving in Greece. Instead getting drafted to the military service I got to keep going on with my cattle-boat trips! You should join because instead of fighting you could be on a ship full of lovable animals! By the time I was discharged I made nine trips! I think I broke a record of the most trips of any Seagoing Cowboy! I hope to see that you have joined this program, just like I have. Think about it you get to be with a bunch of adorable horses. You don't have to go to military services. Going to exotic places is a rare oppertunity...unless you join the Seagoing Cowboys Program! I can not wait to see your dission.

Driverless cars are the new future to this planet and in technology. There needs to be a new and improved way to drive cars, even if the driver does not need to touch the steering wheel. To support my reasonings would include what Google cofounder Sergey Brin has developed and thought about. The cars that he foresees would use half the fueld of today's taxis and offer far more flexibility than a bus. Secondly would be that of the Toyota Prius that uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel which would allow you to estimate how far away or close you are to a curb or another vehicle. Lastly would be the safety that the car would be capable of. The first reason behind my opinion is that it would be less cost effective in the long run which means that over time, you will get your money back from the car. The manufacturers have thought of a way to allow the car to drive and think for itself and allowing the driver to relax until they get notified that they should take control. Cars that are smarter will allow you to save more money and cost less mechanically, as well as save on fuel. Secondly, would be sensors and displays in the car that allow you to focus on the task at hand when you are driving. Dr. Werner Huber, a BMW project manager driver said, "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." In the car that he is overseeing, it uses heads-up displays and information systems that will notify you of an accident ahead or a roadblock that calls for a detour. The displays can be automatically turned off which is something not available to drivers who are texting and driving. Another detail would be that of manufacturers consideration of using cameras to watch the driver to make sure that the driver is paying attention if he or she needs to take control of the car. If the driver is paying attention to the road, then he will not need to be notified and or have the company of that car be notified. It allows the driver to pay closer attention to the road and not his surroundings. Lastly would be that of safety. Safety is a number one priority in cars and in life as a whole. If your car is safer to drive on the highway, it will reduce the cause of accidents and save you and others around you money. That is why manufacturers are considering using displays that will automatically turn themselves off so that the driver does not get distracted behind the wheel and cause a serious accident. GM has developed driver's seats that vibrate when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object, which would then notify the driver that they are too close to an object and that they should stop immediately and look at their surroundings. All of the little gadgets that are put into this car as well as other cars, are allowing the driver to pay better attention to the road and the objects around him. Cars are getting smarter by the year which is reducing the number of accidents per day. Which is why driverless cars are a must for safety. The reasons stated above show how and why that driverless cars are a must for everyday life as we know it. They save you money by not having to pay so much for gas everytime you have to fill up. The car is being driver by the hardware that is inside of it and it will notifiy if you need to take over and steer. The last reason is safety. If the car is not safe, it should not be on the road. Driverless cars are allowing the driver to pay closer attention to the road as well as what is happening around him better than if he had all the lights in his face and his phone placed in the cup holder or in his lap. The driverless car is being developing to become something greater and more useful for everyday human life. This shows how and why driverless cars are a must for everyday life and why I agree with the developement and manufacturing of these cars.

Have you ever thought it was a good idea to have driverless cars in the world? I think there are positive and negative things about this; but I agree more on the positive side of things. How would you feel to relax while you're on the road? How would you feel if it was finally legal to be on your phone while you're in the drivers' seat of the car? I think it is a brillant idea of having driverless cars. Like i said you could relax while on the road. You could be on the phone while in the car. I also think this would be a great idea for people whos job is to make deliveries, such as UPS and FedEx drivers. This also would be a great idea for people who travel a lot and people who travel far distances. I think more states and car companies should be more open about this idea. They should be open to this idea because all the good things that can come out of it, especially an idea that already has a prototype. More states should allow Google to test their driverless cars. Also lawmakers have to be open about this idea because this could possibly be our future. Other companies such as BMW, Nissan, Tesla, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz should team up or have a meeting, and create the first ever street legal driverless car. All of those companies have great cars. Also all of those companies have something unique about their cars. So if they all work together, I know they could create a safe driverless car. Then, if they prove to lawmakers that driverless cars could go "half a million miles without crashing" maybe lawmakers might make it legal; and maybe more states would be open to having them. So what do you think about the safety of driverless cars? Do you think driverless cars are too risky or dangerous? Do you think that lawmakers need to make driverless cars legal? Do you think those certain states are over thinking what could be the future? I think driverless cars would be a great idea. Hopefully in the future we could come to an agreement about driverless cars.