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210e12150fb0 | 082598CC8955 | or you can text but you can never have it out in class or the teacher can take it and keep it until a parent comes and pick it up and they have to sign a paper to get the phone. I agree that we should only let them take the phone if there using it in class but like when we are switching to are class we can talk or text for a min but when class starts then no cell phones. But are school we cant have are phones out until the end of the day and we have to wait until we get outside its like unfair. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b3e69a7d2d79 | 082598CC8955 | it is ok for us to have are phones out like a lunch or on are free time. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
71be598a0c95 | 083C3AE77587 | With the election coming up in 2016 the debate for how the election should be run is now in dispute. So what does that mean? That means that some people disagree with the way our election is run and some dont. | Lead | Adequate |
8e5c626b1810 | 083C3AE77587 | In my opinion the electoral voting system is unfair and outdated. | Position | Adequate |
a0c49394d0c8 | 083C3AE77587 | My first reason is the electoral college is not fair to the small states. | Claim | Adequate |
b0b148fb9ed5 | 083C3AE77587 | Because small states only get a small number of electoral votes canidates do not visit the small states that often. So how is that fair? | Evidence | Adequate |
d1f27c5cd749 | 083C3AE77587 | My second reason is why not just let the poplar vote choose who is the president? After all the poplar vote is the only honest way of doing things | Claim | Adequate |
faf61e0b76cb | 083C3AE77587 | The canidate that has the most votes in a poplar vote should win every time. That way is fair. | Evidence | Adequate |
3eb7d2155c0b | 083C3AE77587 | My third and final reason is with the electoral voting system there is actually a chance of tying. | Claim | Adequate |
04e2d2d431e8 | 083C3AE77587 | if they tye what do you do now? Should we flip a coin to see who wins possibly one of the most important descisons | Evidence | Ineffective |
e777f7238396 | 085CACF9DE2B | Some think that driverless cars are in our future. Others think that driverless cars are, and should stay, merely a product of science fiction. | Lead | Adequate |
69b8aaeef5bb | 085CACF9DE2B | I believe that driverless cars are not a good idea. Driverless cars are not a good idea for several reasons. | Position | Adequate |
514b282bc789 | 085CACF9DE2B | The first and most obvious reason is safety. | Claim | Effective |
d5e144be41c7 | 085CACF9DE2B | A second reason is the large cost of manufacturing these cars. | Claim | Effective |
e832d638cef7 | 085CACF9DE2B | And finally, a third reason we do not need driverless cars in this day and age, is people would forget how to drive a regular car or neglect to even learn if the car drove itself. | Claim | Effective |
dfb087eef01a | 085CACF9DE2B | The first reason that society does not need driverless cars is safety. | Claim | Effective |
eca4a419382f | 085CACF9DE2B | Of course, people can argue that if a car were to drive itself, there would be less accidents. It is true that driverless cars could reduce accidents from drunk driving and other impaired states, or just simple driving errors. | Counterclaim | Effective |
dec2e26505a0 | 085CACF9DE2B | However, some of these problems are easy to prevent now. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
74c970ec8adf | 085CACF9DE2B | It is illegal to drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The simple solution is not to do it. Most crashes caused from simple driving mistakes could be prevented as well. The problem is the driver, not the car. | Evidence | Adequate |
077e9fcd5d94 | 085CACF9DE2B | In addition, driverless cars would be at an increased risk for technolgical malfunctions causing potentially fatal crashes. As of right now, the technology in driverless cars is only experimental and theoretical. It would take many years to iron out all the bugs, so to speak, to make these cars function properly all the time. As mentioned paragrpah nine of the article, in most of the Unites States, it is illegal to test drive driverless cars. It is illegal for these very reasons. It is illegal because experimenting with that kind of technology is dangerous.
| Evidence | Adequate |
95a8c7d926c1 | 085CACF9DE2B | A second reason that driverless cars are not necessary is the unimaginable cost it would be to manufacture these cars. | Claim | Effective |
2bfe742fb492 | 085CACF9DE2B | In addition, millions of dollars would be spent first to research and perfect the workings of the driverless cars. Not to mention, driverless cars would probably cost a larger sum of money than regular cars because of the time and cost of manufacturing them. In the past few years, in the United States has been going through a financial crisis. While our economy is now doing better, where would the money to fund these cars come from? In the article, the author mentions building smarter roads for cars. If that was the case, it would cost even more to fund this grand scheme. So much money is spent on paving and repairing roads every year, it would cost so much more to have to change or rebuild all of the roads in the country. In addition, if cars were to drive themselves, many laws would have to be changed for the new cars. Right now in the United States, one in five children will go hungry, there are clearly more important things to spend money on right now than to fund driverless cars. | Evidence | Effective |
e0a5ec69e2dd | 085CACF9DE2B | A third and final reason that we do not need driverless cars is if we did, people would forget how to drive a regular car, or neglect to even learn. | Claim | Effective |
61cb5e6cc7f0 | 085CACF9DE2B | The article mentions that cameras might be needed to ensure people pay attention to the road. There are already enough distractions for drivers to worry about. Texting and driving has become a major issue in recent years. Imagine how easy it would be to be distracted by a phone or other device if the car you were in were driving itself? This is a slippery slope. It starts out with relatively small things, such as not paying full attantion to the road if the car drove itself. But soon, if people did not have to worry about traffic laws and safety, then they would soon forget them. Hypothetically speaking, what if someone who had been driving a driverless for a period of time one day had to go back to driving a regular one. This person may still have their liscense, but would they be able to pass a test for it now? Problems like this would make the road more dangerous than it already is. In addition, that same person who is now driving a regular car, may forget that he or she is controlling the car, being that they were so used to the car driving itself. There is enough reckless driving, that we do not nead people operating vehicles with no memory of how to do it! Or people might even neglect to learn how to drive a regular car at all if they depended on a driverless car all the time. If society allowed this to happen, the results could be catastrophic. | Evidence | Effective |
6b23e57f80de | 085CACF9DE2B | In conclusion, driverless cars are not a good idea. Maybe in the distant future if more problems that we are currently dealing with are resolved, but not at this time. Driverless cars are not currently safe, and will not be for many years to come. They would cost a significant amount of money, money that can be spent elsewhere for better causes, especially when we already have cars that work perfectly fine. Finally, driverless cars are not a good idea because they could cause people to forget how to drive a regular car, which could lead to a very dangerous and potentially deadly situation. There are benefits of driverless cars, however there are even more downfalls to the idea that certainly outweigh the benefits. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
d7d768de8f23 | 0878DADF1B3C | I firmly believe that we should keep the Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
a039165ecfa8 | 0878DADF1B3C | Many people say that it is "outdated, irrational, and unfair" | Counterclaim | Adequate |
0121133dcfd0 | 0878DADF1B3C | but that is an opion. Their are meany rational reasons about why the Electoral College is benificaial rather then destructive. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
713005eafd0e | 0878DADF1B3C | Everyones President | Claim | Adequate |
fbd3c315dcbc | 0878DADF1B3C | Swing States.
| Claim | Adequate |
ee41020904e9 | 0878DADF1B3C | "The Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have a trans-reginal appeal. No region (South, Northeast, etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president." | Evidence | Adequate |
c1bef6e4e438 | 0878DADF1B3C | In PLumers article he states that, "candiadtes dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the the tight races in the "swing" states. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
e19fb7cc2740 | 0878DADF1B3C | The Electoral College assures that the President isnt just wanted in one area that is wanted all around the country. Electoral Colleges assure that the President is wanted in many differt parts of the United States. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
af632855d33c | 0878DADF1B3C | Some people argue about the Electoral College turning off potential voters, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
fd071b7455b3 | 0878DADF1B3C | but this may actually determine the election. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
2ab7968f3ccb | 0878DADF1B3C | If those other party people dont vote who knows mabey if they had voted their party might have been luckly. Statistics prove that when certaint parties win contriversial states thats because some people from 1 party didnt vote. | Evidence | Ineffective |
2c12f406d894 | 0878DADF1B3C | No voting especailly in swing states can make your party, or your wanted candiadate loose the election. Every year some of the swing states change so everyone should vote especially those in the swing states to insure your party or your candidate win. | Evidence | Ineffective |
46d5e87cb3b1 | 0878DADF1B3C | The Electoral College is something that this country needs for our benifit. It helps us Americas get a President that will benifit us all not just those in certaint areas. Although some peopel dont think that the Electoral College is helping there are twice as many people who believe that just a popularity vote is a bad idea. Having swing states, and having a way that finds "everyones" president are just few of the many exaples about why we need the Electoral College. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
c9950ec542bb | 088C3E8EBAE7 | I write to argue in favor of the Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
8a1d4e1bdf2c | 088C3E8EBAE7 | The Electoral College is as it says on the 3rd source "widely regarded as an anchronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidates who receives the most popular votes the winner." | Claim | Effective |
fe54df790286 | 088C3E8EBAE7 | First of all, I would like to start by saying that the Electoral College is helpful to avoid problems where no candidate got a majority. | Claim | Effective |
cb74bc4b643b | 088C3E8EBAE7 | For example in the 5th part of the source 3 it says "Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College (301 and 370 electoral votes, respectively)" which backs up my claim. | Evidence | Effective |
e3a26a1f8cd6 | 088C3E8EBAE7 | I understand the "wrong" part of it like in the 2nd source it says "If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for [John] Karry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry." meanning voters vote for a slate of electors and they choose the president. | Counterclaim | Effective |
c2a10bfed65d | 088C3E8EBAE7 | Honestly I dont see it as that "wrong" but thats my opinion.
| Rebuttal | Adequate |
0ee0e55fc4d4 | 088C3E8EBAE7 | Second, I agree with the Electoral College despite the lack of "democratic pedigree" for five reasons. | Claim | Effective |
746488456bd2 | 088C3E8EBAE7 | First, "Certainty of Outcome" meanning winning candidate's share of the Electoral College exceeds his share of the popular vote, example, Obama vs Romney. | Evidence | Effective |
dea80c33f929 | 088C3E8EBAE7 | Second, in the Everyone's President part it says that no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president, for example, "Romney was in the South, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win". | Evidence | Effective |
6773da8800bb | 088C3E8EBAE7 | Number 3, "Swing States" the "winner takes all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates-as we saw in [2012] election-to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states". | Evidence | Effective |
8b238a41f4dd | 088C3E8EBAE7 | There is also number 4 where the Electoral College "restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution" | Evidence | Effective |
69f6acbc2370 | 088C3E8EBAE7 | number 5, "Avoid Run-Off Elections" which is what I used in the second paragraph as a claim. | Evidence | Adequate |
9fe0f7fc9200 | 088C3E8EBAE7 | In summation im in favor with the Electoral College for many reasons. After reading through this side and the opponing side of the argument I can honestly say that I prefer this method as it is. Yes there is a bad side to it but there is a bad side to everything and it shouldn't be big enough for anyone to oppose it. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
e9a9dfc2edcf | 08BE7B30414F | I agree with Bob Dole about abolishing the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
ee8e11207e99 | 08BE7B30414F | The Electoral College is unfair to the voters. It's called the diaster factor for a reason. | Claim | Adequate |
cc629c9fc181 | 08BE7B30414F | The American people should be able to vote for who they want. It states that when a person votes you are clearly voting for a slate of electors not the president himself. The Winner-take-all system in each state, candidiates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning,focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states.
The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. It is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. | Evidence | Adequate |
9b8dc114908c | 08BE7B30414F | No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. Residents of the other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised- to feel that their votes do not count, that the new president will have no regard for their interests, that he really isn't their president. | Claim | Adequate |
6600ecaf77ee | 08BE7B30414F | Should residents of another region feel like their votes do not count? No, they shouldn't each vote should be counted in order for the president to get into The White House. The president is their president as well as mine and yours and they shouldn't have to feel as if he wasn't and wouldn't want to know what their interest were. They should be treated equally. | Evidence | Adequate |
b6f1db61ef2e | 08BE7B30414F | In the big states the Electoral College it restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution | Claim | Ineffective |
2c17870822cf | 08BE7B30414F | Other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campain than a small one does.. Every state should have the same amount of attention, not be treated differently. | Evidence | Ineffective |
5b39fe1bb510 | 08E7FC23D9C9 | I'm in favor of changing to election by popular votes for the president of the
United States, | Position | Adequate |
6e448d883915 | 08E7FC23D9C9 | under the electoral college system they voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors. | Claim | Adequate |
7d0699334d50 | 08E7FC23D9C9 | According to the aragument of changing election by popular votes the author says that the electoral collage is unfair to voters because of the winner take all system in each state, | Claim | Adequate |
4e39a9f94a4c | 08E7FC23D9C9 | this shows that is unfair to vote for someone who takes all the system in each state, the author also mentions that during the 2000 campaig. seventeen states didn't see that candidates at all, this includes South Carolina and voters iin 25 of the largest media markets, one evidence from the text is when the author mentions that the election is only a few swing voters away catastrophe. | Evidence | Adequate |
41e99c9dbb16 | 08E7FC23D9C9 | The electoral college is a process that consists of electors the majority of the electal votes is required to elec the president, each candidaate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors, for this reason in the following discussion, the word "state" also refers to the District of Columbai.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
59fff4f32d8f | 08E7FC23D9C9 | In sum they both are a good way to select the president but to select the president by popular votes is more acordable than the other argumenet. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8ac4e559348a | 08FBDF474AA2 | I would know if it was real or not if only i had seen it with my own eyes but, im against the fact that they're saying that it's a real face made by the aliens because nobody would really think that there are aliens living in space. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f33c28940528 | 08FBDF474AA2 | I also would know that it's not a face of the pharoah because the text says that it's a "huge rock formation". | Evidence | Ineffective |
319fe27d59b9 | 08FBDF474AA2 | Nobody would really think that aliens created a face that big, even if there were aliens living in space i would not think that those type of creatures have any clue of how to build big structure like that. Only if i were out there in space looking at the face then i would know my self that it's real or not. A humans eye could tell if anything is real or not. If the world had something to prove that it's not a face then i would be with them and i would agree to everything they say about it, cause the person who thought that it was a face built by the aliens then i bet the majority of the peoples would disagree | Evidence | Ineffective |
92413e6169f2 | 08FBDF474AA2 | All im trying to say is that i dont't believe that the aliens would build a face like structure. | Position | Adequate |
a660a8a9fae7 | 08FC0154E0EF | Well,I think students can be benefit this program,if they can work at home by the way of online or video conferencing | Position | Adequate |
73fe405ba88e | 08FC0154E0EF | because students have more opotuniry to study like have more time to work | Claim | Adequate |
312e422f2a67 | 08FC0154E0EF | they don't need to walk or take a bus to come school | Evidence | Adequate |
7ceb729e0ed8 | 08FC0154E0EF | ,students can feel better when they try to stury because in his home there is not people talking a lot abuot things,but people talking not about the class. | Evidence | Adequate |
0bd0abafb81b | 08FC0154E0EF | Also student can choose the time to they can star the classes | Claim | Adequate |
7480543e377e | 08FC0154E0EF | because some students have to work in a job, | Evidence | Adequate |
64938071cb23 | 08FC0154E0EF | so when is cold outside and students they don't like to come school,they can wort at home by the way of online or video conferencing | Claim | Adequate |
0adb82cec288 | 08FC0154E0EF | students can be more responseble | Claim | Adequate |
e6e12efb3500 | 08FC0154E0EF | Some students feel good working at home,there is not streess for them,they can take a break,they can eat and his work. | Claim | Adequate |
372871e10702 | 08FC0154E0EF | But also is depent waht classes student do you are,because some student are lazy when they work at home. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
b64da36edd67 | 08FC0154E0EF | Also parent can check his work in look if they do his work good or bad | Claim | Adequate |
b4b722490e27 | 08FC0154E0EF | inconclution students have benefit from being able to attend classes from home. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
bb145dff6a68 | 09035E72A3AE | I think students shouldn't have at least a B average on their grade to participate in sports or other activities | Position | Adequate |
de0633be6f20 | 09035E72A3AE | some students try very hard in school but don't have good grades | Claim | Adequate |
ba813215e3ce | 09035E72A3AE | lots of students like sports or any other activities but they don't have the grades for it.
| Claim | Adequate |
b3fc54bd4a12 | 09035E72A3AE | its just not fair to students that have bad grades but are good and intelligent that they have to improve to be able to participate in a activity.
| Claim | Adequate |
f5e121be3ea1 | 09035E72A3AE | There are students that try very hard in school but cant get higher than a C on their grade, wile others don't even have to try to get an A.
But some students try even harder than students that have an A but they can only get a C. Its not easy to get a good grade you have to try but sometimes when you try your hardest it doesn't work out. | Evidence | Adequate |
edfd763f67d0 | 09035E72A3AE | Lots of students love to participate in activities, its good to stay active and to have fun in school. But when some of that fun is taken away because you don't have a specific grade it can become a problem for some students. | Evidence | Adequate |
8774731d0308 | 09035E72A3AE | Those are the reasons that students shoulent have good grades | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
6199a67cde21 | 0910E011143F | Community Service is very important, it's important because how will we live in this community if we don't keep it clean | Lead | Adequate |
3e4f01412fcc | 0910E011143F | I think that students should have to do community service. | Position | Adequate |
91382cee736f | 0910E011143F | We as kids should learn more about service, | Claim | Ineffective |
949c022baed1 | 0910E011143F | when the future comes we will know, how and what to do to keep our community clean. Also, students should do this because, we do make most of the mess that, we should just clean it up. But, if students do not want to do service then we should not make such a big mess, we should just clean up after ourselve | Evidence | Adequate |
b74bcafdb242 | 0910E011143F | Doing community service could also hep us students in a way | Claim | Adequate |
6b53c79f9c5d | 0910E011143F | . In High School doing community service gives you a "leg up" for college. Well you get an extra stamp on your diploma and colleges look for things like that | Evidence | Adequate |
811b6fee0d4a | 0910E011143F | Helping the community will make everybody grateful; everyone will be happy that people are actually doing something to help their community. All in all this will help the community immensely.
We will not only be keeping the community clean but we will be helping everyone. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
817d0ea30e28 | 091315F8E9A9 | As you may know, there is a huge dilema with the voting system we have as of right now. | Lead | Adequate |
2697e1b26e43 | 091315F8E9A9 | I am writing to you because it is in our best interest to abolish the Electoral College and change election to popular vote for the next presidential election. | Position | Adequate |
08232f940951 | 091315F8E9A9 | The reasons we should make this change is because the Electoral College is unfair for voters, | Claim | Adequate |
108dd11cee01 | 091315F8E9A9 | also a disaster waiting to happen | Claim | Adequate |
eb3944bfd494 | 091315F8E9A9 | the popular voting system bring so many more benefits and opportunities for the people. | Claim | Adequate |
ac0e86f54dcb | 091315F8E9A9 | The Electoral system simply takes away the people's say on who they think the best candidate is. It is simply unfair for the voters. | Claim | Adequate |
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