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4a286a79b426 | 046703375973 | what's the point? everything is fine just the way it i. why change it? | Claim | Effective |
8f4e8a5b4c72 | 046703375973 | the students are keeping up their grade, and when their grade is getting lower (to a low c) the coach talks to them, saying that they better be careful. it scares the students to be getting a c because that's the boundary line. they shoot for getting an A or B anyways so it wont make a difference. It is just going to scare the kids. Also by changing the grade average it is most likely going to bring down the team numbers. Not as many kids are going to try out because of that. changing even just a little thing makes a big difference, and changing this will make even a bigger difference. | Evidence | Effective |
968514a54cb0 | 046703375973 | there is no need to change the grade average to a B. There is no point to it. The team and kids are doing fine just the way it is and changing the grade average will make a big difference, and not in a good way. kids will stop trying out because there is just too much going on and they cant keep up. plus a C is a passing grade and students want to get a higher grade then that because its risky at a C itself. some kids are already struggling and raising the grade will just make it harder. Leave the average the way it is because i could guarantee you that it will not be a good idea. you don't know what kids have to do after school, or go through, and if the students and teachers and coaches are happy then what is the harm? | Concluding Statement | Effective |
9f25d19af48c | 0471B0EB1919 | The Electoral vote should be converted to election by popular vote | Position | Adequate |
eb75e7c63abc | 0471B0EB1919 | By using popular vote, the majority of voters will be satisfied when it comes to the election of the president | Claim | Adequate |
bf7783fb3d43 | 0471B0EB1919 | When you use the Electoral College System, you dont vote for the president of your choice, you're voting for the how ever many representitives that pleged for them | Evidence | Ineffective |
e677733c9d2f | 0471B0EB1919 | Over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now.
(Source 2 Paragraph 9)
Even the voters would perfer majority rule | Evidence | Adequate |
67a0d404d1c7 | 0471B0EB1919 | The map in
Source 3 shows that some states have more representitives then others | Evidence | Adequate |
b76006b3c8bf | 0471B0EB1919 | Thus meaning that many states were treated unfair when it came to elections because they didnt have many votes to represent them. | Claim | Adequate |
ee672580b296 | 0471B0EB1919 | Especially during the 2000 campaign. Seventeen states did not recieve any candidatesat all.
(Source 2 Paragraph 13)
If some states dont get represented the people wont be happy. If the people arent happy then hectic will end up breaking out. As well as if the people arent happy, then they wont do what they are told because they are unhappy with it. People would like to vote to express their political prefrence more so then thinking a single vote could decide an election.
| Evidence | Adequate |
25337ff93420 | 0471B0EB1919 | In conclusion, the citicens of the United States would be more appreciated if they got to choose themself and put their own political input in on who became the president. Then so, Americans will be happy and riots, political protests, and/or hectic will not break out in the United States of America. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1154e0d6ac9b | 048CE592752A | Community service is something that most people that like to help clean up there neighborhood do. | Claim | Adequate |
47c84db1f8d5 | 048CE592752A | some people prefer to spend there time doing thing that help there self. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
c699f2606340 | 048CE592752A | Some times community is for people that do things wrong and expect to get away with it. | Claim | Adequate |
248cb191f44c | 048CE592752A | So there county make them do so many hours of community service to pay off debit. I think that is why some people choose not to do community service. so other people shouldn't force this on them if they haven't done anything wrong, they just choose not to do community service. | Evidence | Adequate |
0af3497c076e | 048CE592752A | It may also be that they have a busy schedule and can't make time to do community service at that point in time. | Claim | Adequate |
5c0e0a579b72 | 048CE592752A | Maybe if you tried other ways of asking people to volunteer | Claim | Adequate |
a4360188e074 | 048CE592752A | like putting a sign up sheet in the main office or forming a pto to help clean up. showing the importance of some things can change peoples minds on how they look at something. Also showing someone how good it feels to do something good for some one else in there neighborhood, can change their minds about doing something like community service. | Evidence | Adequate |
ce38e80bcf5b | 048CE592752A | In my opinion community service helps every body if its teaching them that they shouldn't do bad things or helping clean up the earth.
| Claim | Adequate |
3859a1683c80 | 048CE592752A | Community service is a good thing that shouldn't be looked at like a punishment. | Position | Adequate |
872712b21878 | 048CE592752A | so show them that just because your doing his doesn't mean your in trouble it just mean you like help taking care of your neighborhood. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a7d0c3417f78 | 048CE592752A | So basically you shouldn't require it but give other choices and ways of showing how important it can be to do community service. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
56bd923327f7 | 04ACF5873DE9 | Is the Face on Mars created by an alien? No, the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. | Lead | Adequate |
0893cd4d68d5 | 04ACF5873DE9 | The Face on Mars is a natural landform. The Face on Mars was not created by aliens | Position | Adequate |
4b4fce9021af | 04ACF5873DE9 | because mission controllers checked twice | Claim | Adequate |
1f2a9b3709a9 | 04ACF5873DE9 | Scientist figure it's a Martian mesa | Claim | Adequate |
fe1ed3683d26 | 04ACF5873DE9 | NASA was looking for Viking 2. | Claim | Ineffective |
55812df5cbd4 | 04ACF5873DE9 | Mission controllers checked twice to make sure it wasn't created by aliens | Claim | Adequate |
b9d50e14da58 | 04ACF5873DE9 | In the article the author states, the first time we took pictures of the Face we had to go through clouds, skeptics thought that alien markings were hidden by haze. The author also states, "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, so, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" These two details prove that mission controllers checked twice to make sure that the Face on Mars was not created by aliens. | Evidence | Adequate |
5e0c785c362d | 04ACF5873DE9 | Scientist figured it's a martian mesa | Claim | Adequate |
4a5971e482ae | 04ACF5873DE9 | In the text the author claims, "Scientists figured it was just another martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egytpioan Pharaoh." The author also says, "A lava dome takes the fror of an isolated mesa about the same hieght as the Face on Mars." These two details prove that the scientist figured it was a martian mesa.
| Evidence | Adequate |
4b369bb85712 | 04ACF5873DE9 | NASA was looking for Viking 2 so they could find Viking 1's sister | Claim | Ineffective |
fb342c81522c | 04ACF5873DE9 | In the passages the author states, 25 years ago NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars snapping pictures looking for Viking 2, when it spotted the human face 2 miles big staring back at the camera. The author also says, "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."
These details prove that NASA was looking for Viking 2, so they could find Viking 1's sister. | Evidence | Adequate |
afdf2c08c545 | 04ACF5873DE9 | The Face on Mars was not created by aliens, it is a natural landform. The Face on Mars was not created because mission controllers checked twice, Scientist figure it's a Martian mesa, and NASA was looking for Viking 2. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5fe05b1a7688 | 04C632140E83 | My friends do not like community service they think it is a waste of time and energy. | Lead | Adequate |
aa5f16bd2e10 | 04C632140E83 | I say that they shouldn't have to do community service if they don't want to. | Position | Adequate |
bdd5ede1bbca | 04C632140E83 | community service is about giving and doing in your free time not in time given to you or being forced to. | Claim | Adequate |
417bc53cce38 | 04C632140E83 | then they do the job with a frown and a groan for example say my friend OTHER_NAME is helping the elderly with OTHER_NAME.
OTHER_NAME likes doing this so he helps during school after school and during the community service class he happily does it with a smile on his face. OTHER_NAME will only do this if he has to and, during this job he will moan groan talk back and slack off. | Evidence | Adequate |
030d8a196950 | 04C632140E83 | If you warn him to be good and not make noise he will think stuff in his head. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6186336868df | 04C632140E83 | I ask you not to make this mandatory not just for me and my friends but for the school let this be extracurricular for character education or something along those lines. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
3c786f80c3ff | 04D4F9F350F6 | Have you ever take classes online? | Lead | Ineffective |
a2628d456b58 | 04D4F9F350F6 | Here is my opinion about it: I do not think that students get benefit by studying in this way | Position | Adequate |
fc41f00ede8d | 04D4F9F350F6 | because is not the same as if the student go to school, | Claim | Adequate |
cd5a7b97e40b | 04D4F9F350F6 | because in online classes there is no teacher to explain you clearly how to do the work that you are studying. | Claim | Adequate |
a44827950c7e | 04D4F9F350F6 | For example: I'm taking one class online and is not the same as if I take it in my school, because like I said there's no teacher to explain it to me how to do it. | Claim | Adequate |
e27c7cd87d69 | 04D4F9F350F6 | Also, I have some friends and they are taking classes online either and they say that it's a little bit difficult for them understand those classes, because there is no one to teach them how to do what they have to do. They have to figure it out (teach themselves)
how to do their works. | Claim | Adequate |
54892cd77fdf | 04D4F9F350F6 | This could be a disadvantage because people who go to school could know more things that you know because of that.
Some people unfortunate have to take this classes because they have some obstacles. Maybe they work, they missed that class in the past, or they just want to take it online. Online classes use to be easier than regular classes that's why some people take them. I did not take because of that. I take it because I missed that classes. Take regular classes will always be the best way to learn a lot about some subject, because you will have your teacher explaining to you how to do some things and stuff. Classes online will always be a good option but not as much as regular classes are. People always say that classes online are good, but that they do not feel that learn enough. | Evidence | Adequate |
342a2946165c | 04D4F9F350F6 | In conclusion classes online could be good,but not that good. Is a good option for people who work during the day and they can take them during the night or conversely. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
91f32234c1f2 | 04D653441263 | Online education has always been a controversial subject with the risk of not understanding the material, and students getting answers from their peers most of the popluation seem to be against the possibility. However, I believe there are new ways to look at the subject. | Lead | Adequate |
00544f9fb25c | 04D653441263 | The pros for online education are very proactive to the needed change in the school system | Position | Effective |
100368970cf0 | 04D653441263 | flexibility, | Claim | Effective |
b35fb9f4b45d | 04D653441263 | time management | Claim | Effective |
a939d1bc1c93 | 04D653441263 | mental health.
| Claim | Effective |
b86b53a4cf29 | 04D653441263 | As a current student at a in person educational school, I have first-hand experience on how time consuming school may 6 be. An online education means that you are being told what you need to have done here before a certain time and, how you are expected to do so. It throws away the possibility of time consuming dialogue that students may have with other students or the teachers getting off topic with a personal story. Doing these little things that happen frequently can turn an 8 hour system into 3 hours. In the mist of giving these students 5 more hours in the day that is 5 more hours for students to work, hang out with friends, do chores and etc. These little things let us teenagers be teenagers just a little while longer. Adding to things such as, the employment rate, students taking college classes during high school, and the amount of teens volunteering. | Evidence | Effective |
0247efe6e76d | 04D653441263 | It gives teen the ability to be more flexible with their lives which is what we should strive for. | Claim | Effective |
d5f2ab5f13e2 | 04D653441263 | Secondly, When giving a student their own time to finish their work and nothing but the guilt of not getting a good grade being their motivation, there will always linger the question of "Will they get it done?". To that I asked, is school not meant to teach us the tools we need to survive the "adult world"? As teenagers we are always told to learn the importance of time management before we get into our careers and even college. However, there are no courses for these types of things but, instead we are expected to learn them through first-hand experience and natural growth. | Evidence | Effective |
52d6fb1cab4b | 04D653441263 | This online school will teach students their obvious subjects such as Math, English and etc but they will subconsciously teach the importance of time management. | Claim | Effective |
e748406e22a6 | 04D653441263 | Students will be expected to finish these lessons on their own because, if a teens prefers to do their work early in the morning in about 2-3 hours does it matter that they're possible hanging with their friends all night. These helps us teens understand the importance of time management without throwing it in their face they subconsciously come to that conclusion on their own. | Evidence | Effective |
e45850f4f965 | 04D653441263 | Lastly, the importance of mental health in the education system is lacking and to be quite blunt is part of the problem. | Claim | Effective |
cfa83b19db02 | 04D653441263 | Most, adults may argue that this is a false narrative because of the of outlets that the education system may offer to students. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
9c61280b877d | 04D653441263 | However, my question is "Do these outlets reach out and succeeded to out way the bullying and stress of a normal public school?"
because the answer is "No.". | Rebuttal | Effective |
1d24bd354340 | 04D653441263 | As student at a public school the amount of work that is pilled on and the emotional stress of bullying enough to fall into depression. However, these problem turn into other problems for example, as a teenager your friends become and big part of your life in terms of what makes you happiest. What the current education system fails to realize is that two days of seven are not enough to truly cherish your time. Online school eliminates the possibility of those students who are to busy because of school work and because of it have no social life. | Evidence | Effective |
abb3fa9db0bb | 04D653441263 | To concluded, Online school is and will most likely always be a controversial topic for as long as those who have been to in person school are around. However, I believe it's a matter of noticing that the pros of this new way of thinking out way the cons. These truly serious issues are being over looked because our older generation are extremely set on the mind-set that all generations need to grown up as they did. Let's look to innvoatote new ways. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
31980a8a5b64 | 04DEFB0B11C5 | The united states has this ellection system called the electoral collage. The electoral collage is a system of voting for verious comities. When the founding fathers of The united states made the constitution the electoral collage was a part of it | Lead | Adequate |
eb6a4a5868a1 | 04DEFB0B11C5 | Why would any one want to change the electoral collage because i would like to know. In my oppinion in is the best thing i know of for a working government | Position | Adequate |
d0f4bb08177b | 04DEFB0B11C5 | Over the years there has been a larg number of amendments to the constitution, but that was to adjust it to the chang in todays tecnology. Under the 23rd amendment of the constitution, the District of columbia is theated like a state for purposes of the Electoral collage.
The electoral collage consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electorsvotes is required to elect the President. Most states have a "winner-take -all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. So another words whoever gets the most votes wins but the odds are which ever side has the larger amount of people voting republican or democrat is normaly who wins. because if your a republican your most likly to vote democrat.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
cd59bb6a7a03 | 04DEFB0B11C5 | Everything that is rong with the electoral collage | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
15c9fe0f67d1 | 04DEFB0B11C5 | Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. If you lived in texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for Kerry, you'd vote for slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to kerry | Evidence | Ineffective |
61e10912920a | 04F277F6562D | Was the Face on Mars really created by Aliens? Or was it just a very unusual rock formation, even for Mars? Well, the answer is no, | Lead | Adequate |
d34d6cead52a | 04F277F6562D | it was just a natural landform. | Position | Adequate |
947b00712c09 | 04F277F6562D | This giant rock formation, which stretches for about two miles from end to end, isn't uncommon at all. Actually, it is a mesa which just has shadows that cast on it a certain way, which makes it look exactly like a face. | Claim | Effective |
7a16d43a3eed | 04F277F6562D | I know what you might be thinking. How could it only be a natural landform? It looks exactly like a face, so it must have been created by something or someone. | Counterclaim | Effective |
6b6f9a792dbc | 04F277F6562D | Well, there are actually plenty of reasons why it is just a normal landform with unusual shadows. | Rebuttal | Effective |
afc8ddabed97 | 04F277F6562D | For example, the Face was found in an area of Mars called Cydonia. Cydonia is actually known for its common Martian Mesas. This means that it isn't too shocking that it is natural. | Evidence | Effective |
9d86ab6a9e27 | 04F277F6562D | Don't get me wrong, a face is a pretty rare and unusual thing for a mesa to look like. | Evidence | Adequate |
45873a137ede | 04F277F6562D | Even though this one has strange shadows that give it features of a face, it is still just a mesa. | Claim | Effective |
5ac94a516b16 | 04F277F6562D | After multiple pictures that were taken of the Face, the one taken on April 5, 1998 was the first one to fully reveal that the Face was indeed just a natural landform. | Evidence | Adequate |
2c34c8707005 | 04F277F6562D | Even though the picture clearly showed that the Face wasn't a man-made structure, | Rebuttal | Effective |
88137d086bb6 | 04F277F6562D | some people still weren't convinced. They said that the picture was taken on a cloudy winter day, so many skeptics thought that maybe there were alien markings that were just hidden by haze. | Counterclaim | Effective |
5f940e46cda9 | 04F277F6562D | No matter what people believed after they saw the picture taken in 1998, the picture taken on April 8, 2001 was the one that proved to the skeptics that the Face was a naturally occurring landform. | Claim | Effective |
34937b2531dc | 04F277F6562D | Since the picture was taken on a cloudless day the next time around, there were no excuses for those who thought the Face was made by aliens. This picture actually showed that the Face was a martian, and it was about the same size as a butte or a mesa. Buttes and mesas are landforms that are commonly found in the western regions of the United States. | Evidence | Adequate |
bc1979a0c9c1 | 04F277F6562D | There you have it. The Face sadly wasn't built by aliens, it was just a natural landform that happened to have some pretty neat features to it due to shadows. There is no way around it, because the pictures don't lie. It is even more obvious that it is a landform because ones just like it exist on Earth! Even though it would've been very interesting for it to have been actually created by aliens, it was just a natural landform in the end. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
32c97715045b | 051C3A22AEE0 | I think that the online or video coferencing wounld not benefit high school student | Position | Adequate |
4c0619d503c2 | 051C3A22AEE0 | because they many pros and con. pros student can work on thier own | Claim | Adequate |
2a7a7ccc9c7f | 051C3A22AEE0 | sudent can work on home cons | Claim | Ineffective |
94e0d44b4089 | 051C3A22AEE0 | Not all student have a acces to the internet | Claim | Adequate |
77d6daac5c8e | 051C3A22AEE0 | student cannot understand the assessment it make it not English speaker to understand student cannot benefit for attend classes from house | Claim | Adequate |
33dfb35e5883 | 051C3A22AEE0 | because take classes from home cannot improve the student educated. In the school class student are alllow to work with group and work with teacher | Evidence | Adequate |
9274718af79c | 051C3A22AEE0 | home school can cause distraction, worries | Claim | Adequate |
edf73b1ead20 | 051C3A22AEE0 | For Example when you're work or take exam and your family member call you to do something for her. | Evidence | Adequate |
b339ee882ccb | 051C3A22AEE0 | in online class you don't learn lots of thing. but in school classes you learn of thing. | Claim | Adequate |
a32244094c76 | 052136F20DD1 | Isn't it crazy that a face on Mars would be created by aliens? NASA sure seems to think it is. Many sciensts have discovered it's a natural landform. | Lead | Adequate |
303d3bb03a53 | 052136F20DD1 | The face on Mars is indeed a natural landfom | Position | Adequate |
6e620926d49f | 052136F20DD1 | NASA has had the Mars Global Survayor fly over Cydonia and take pictures to prove it | Claim | Adequate |
37da6189a8d2 | 052136F20DD1 | Jim Garvin has said,"We photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot of it." | Evidence | Ineffective |
e7a0ad8be533 | 052136F20DD1 | Many people will say that the face on Mars was created by previous creatures living there | Counterclaim | Adequate |
cd723ee80980 | 052136F20DD1 | The planet humans live on, Earth, even has landforms that humans didnt make that just happen to look like faces, As Garvin says,"It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho." | Evidence | Adequate |
8b7264285eee | 052136F20DD1 | The face on Mars is nothing but land that has been formed in the shape of a face.
| Rebuttal | Adequate |
2c112192be11 | 052136F20DD1 | The face on Mars has been proven to be a landform. They have taken pictures, the scientists have studied it, and all these studies have proved that the face is just land. In conclusion, sometimes things aren't as they seem | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bb22d855e1ed | 053B8755A4FB | You have listed two possible policies about cell phones at school. The issue is common among all schools, considering that children are texting in class. You have presented two very common ideas about cell phone usage; the first allows students to use their cell phones during lunch and other free times, while your second suggests banning students from having phones at school. While both ideas can be considered good, | Lead | Effective |
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