7-Amat Pacific Garbage Patch

Pacific Garbage Patch

1. Great Pacific Garbage Patch: http://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Great Pacific Garbage Patch: http://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

2. The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean discovered between 1985 and 1988.

3. The National Geographic page has more information about the garbage patch while the Marine Debris Program Website only has what it is and what the problem is.

4. The author's views were similar because they both expressed the danger of the patch against the oceans and their marine life.

5. One article talks about photodegradation which is when the sun breaks trash in the ocean into other tiny particles. This may explain why these patches are full of trash and how dangerous they are to the ocean.

6. This Pacific Garbage Patch is dangerous to the world's oceans and must be cleaned up by every government possible of donating money in order to do so. It is imperative that this patch is cleaned up so that the marine life does not feel the aftershock of the trash.

7-Amat Autonomous Cars

In the Future, We Might Live in Roaming Autonomous Cars

http://www.seeker.com/in-the-future-we-might-live-in-roaming-autonomous-cars-2208968746.html

Cruise Automation Posted a Video of Its Autonomous Chevy Bolt

https://www.inverse.com/article/26720-cruise-automation-autonomous-bolt

2. An autonomous car is a vehicle that adapts to its environment and it is driven without human intervention and it is being made by many different companies such as Apple, Audi, and BMW. Some advantages for these cars are safer roads, improved traffic and fuel efficiency, and increased free time, while some of its disadvantages are accidents will be blamed on the companies who created the car, weather difference can affect the vehicle's navigation, and reading human signs is difficult for a robot.

3. While one article talks about vehicular future of autonomous vehicles, the other article talks about how Cruise Automation released a video of its self-driving Chevy Bolt.

4. Both articles complement each other because it shows how these new autonomous vehicles are much more safer and efficient than present cars that use fuel to cause pollution; in other words both articles talk about the future of efficient vehicles.
5. The second article talks about Arnold Schwarzennerger's autonomous vehicle and how he has stopped using cars that consumed fuel and this switch has caused him to create zero pollution. This detail is excellent because it provides an example of how useful and efficient these autonomous vehicles are.
6. I think these autonomous vehicles will be the future because humans will eventually have to stop using fuel and this change will greatly improve the living conditions on the whole planet because of a great decrease in pollution.

7-Amat Tesla Gigafactory

Tesla Flips the Switch on the Gigafactory: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/tesla-flips-the-switch-on-the-gigafactory

This Is the Enormous Gigafactory, Where Tesla Will Build Its Future: 

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/tesla-gigafactory-elon-musk/

1.  The Tesla Gigafactory 1 is a lithium-ion battery factory under construction, primarily for Tesla Motors, at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in Storey County (near the Community of Clark, Nevada, US). In these factories, lithium-ion batteries are being produced.

2. The first article talk about the creation of jobs in the factory and its expansion, while the second article talks about what the factory is and how important it is for Tesla's future.

3. The author's views were similar because they talked about the importance of the factory and how it will help expand Tesla's technology in the future. For example, both articles talk about opportunities to expand the factory, such as doubling its current size.

4. The first article talks about energy transformation and how it is a better way to power other machines because batteries are often unreliable in nature. This topic shows how the factory works and how it uses energy transformation rather than batteries to power other machines, while the other article does not mention this.

5. Giga factories are awesome because of their size and the amount of power they can produce to power other machines. For example, the assembly lines will do everything from make the individual cells—cylinders a bit bigger than an AA battery—to assembling the immense packs that power a Model S or store energy in someone’s garage.

8-Amat: Donald Trump blasts recount as 'ridiculous' and 'a scam'

Donald Trump blasts recount as 'ridiculous' and 'a scam'

  President-elect Donald Trump ripped the election recount on Saturday, calling it "a scam" and "ridiculous" and noting that Hillary Clinton had already conceded. Trump charged in a statement that the effort was nothing but a fundraising ploy by the Green Party and its nominee, Jill Stein. Stein has already raised more than $5 million online for the recount in Wisconsin, which may begin some time next week. Green Party officials filed for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday after reports of possible voting discrepancies in areas that used paper ballots versus those where electronic voting took place. Both the Clinton campaign and the White House have said they see no evidence that any voting systems were hacked, although the Clinton campaign said Saturday it will take part in the recounts, joining with Stein, to ensure the recount is "fair to all sides."

7-Amat: Engineering Silicon-Based Lifeforms

Engineering Silicon-Based Lifeforms

1. Paragraphs 1 and 2 establish the tone of the article by explaining the creating of new lifeforms based on a study and the possibility for their creation. The words "bred' and "environmentally" establish the tone of the article.

2. The author is setting up an ambiguous tone by stating a new study that has never been performed by anyone except chemists.

3. The author is saying that this experiment is a test to see of nature can adapt simultaneously with silicon the basic living block.

4. The word choice helps develop the tone by expanding on how this experiment is important to engineering. The word choice helps explain the importance of silicon-based lifeforms and nature.

8-Amat Kanye West abruptly cancels remaining leg of Saint Pablo Tour

Kanye West abruptly cancels remaining leg of Saint Pablo Tour

    Kanye West has abruptly pulled the plug on his Saint Pablo Tour a few days after making statements onstage about how he "would have voted for Donald Trump" and after a stormy weekend in which he abruptly canceled a show after four songs. The move comes after a complex weekend for the musician, who abruptly ended a concert in Sacramento, California, on Saturday, then canceled a performance Sunday in the Los Angeles area. The latest drama comes after West went on a wild rant about Trump and others at his Saturday show. Captured on video by concert-goers, West in an over 10-minute tirade told the audience he was on his "Trump (expletive) tonight." He talked about Beyonce, Jay Z, Hillary Clinton, Mark Zuckerberg, the radio and MTV at the stop of his Saint Pablo Tour. Saturday's outburst and truncated show became a hot topic on Twitter and other social platforms Sunday morning, as amateur videos circulated of West's rant where, among other things, he said he was hurt because he heard Beyonce refused to perform at the MTV Video Music Awards unless she won Video of the Year over him. He also urged her husband Jay Z to call him and "talk to me like a man." West’s tour was slated to resume Tuesday night in Fresno, but LA Times music writer Gerrick Kennedy reported that West had told Saint Pablo tour crew members that the remaining U.S. dates were canceled.

7-Amat Will Banning Killer Robots Prevent Robots from Killing?

Will Banning Killer Robots Prevent Robots from Killing?

1. The first 2 paragraphs establish a mock-serious tone by explaining how killer robots can be a possibility for the future even though we have not yet fully learned to make successful, advanced robots. The words "solution" and "weapons' establish the tone for both paragraphs.

2. The author is trying to establish a tone in which the readers should think back of technology that is used for robots to be built and programmed to work.

3. The author is saying that although people think killer robots are not real, some agencies are working to ban any robot companies from creating them.

4. The author's word choice varies from serious to mocking because it describes this robot issue as important but it also compares it to fiction movies. This word choice is trying to say that this issue is not impossible and must be stopped before people begin to get hurt.