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a40156b8f56c | 0C0E56A1FB05 | The Electoral College is a great way to elect a upcoming President. The Electoral College was created by our founding fathers. The Electoral College has 538 electors. You would need a majority of 270 electoral votes is needed to elect a President. | Lead | Adequate |
d4d394ba3426 | 0C0E56A1FB05 | We should not abolish The Electoral College becaude it is a great way to elect our
President.
| Position | Adequate |
f5697c16c250 | 0C0E56A1FB05 | First, The Electoral College is the best way to elect your President. | Claim | Adequate |
1489740e2900 | 0C0E56A1FB05 | There are some drawbacks like it is outdated and irrational | Counterclaim | Adequate |
5116f35adbd3 | 0C0E56A1FB05 | but it has been working in the country since the founding farthers. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
4a9e6b4adf49 | 0C0E56A1FB05 | The reason why we should not abolish The Electoral College is that every state counts as a vote. One example is that Florida has 29 electoral votes, but big states with less people has a lowerer electoral vote.
| Evidence | Adequate |
0a6d69901b46 | 0C0E56A1FB05 | Second, "The Electoral College avoids the problems of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast" | Claim | Adequate |
15f6504636f8 | 0C0E56A1FB05 | said In Defense of the Electoral College: Five Reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president. Another reason why we should keeep the Electoral College is that it doees the vote cast on how many people are in the state not how big the state is. | Evidence | Adequate |
2551d2f2d05f | 0C0E56A1FB05 | Third, The Electoral College has each canididate running for president in your stare has his or her own group of electors" said In Defense of the Electoral College: Five Reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president. | Claim | Ineffective |
1acab12850aa | 0C0E56A1FB05 | In conclusion, we should not abolish The Electoral College because it is the best way to vote for our candidate. The popular vote may be good but The Electoral College is the best choose we have in America. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
438a4f0c50e1 | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | Some people may not be able to make A' s and B' s in school so they try there best | Lead | Adequate |
09a1580b82b8 | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | it wouldn't be right if the students had to make good grades to play sport | Position | Adequate |
48146717f63d | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | people aren't always really smart, | Claim | Adequate |
a361c5c09a8e | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | they cant focus during school cause of distractions, | Claim | Adequate |
f05e1a3a0007 | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | people may be having home problems or something like that and that's stops there focus from doing any thing productive with there lives. | Claim | Adequate |
9545926b618e | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | that throws off grades in school so i don't think it would be equally fair if you couldn't play sports with a "C "average | Evidence | Adequate |
67a3920b059f | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | there probably wouldn't be enough players to play any of these sports at these school related activities | Claim | Adequate |
74eb125c11fe | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | some schools get to play with "D" average students that's not really fair as I think of it all . | Claim | Adequate |
adce6157ef65 | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | like fights and other things that not really cost for during the school hours people need to learn how to control there self, at school with people in the public it is crazy in this world now in days back then it seems that it was probably no burglary or nothing like that. But now it is crazy in the streets of certain places. | Evidence | Ineffective |
bc12ceacc3ad | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | they are probably stressing out and thinking of what is going on at there house ecspeacillay if they are taking care of some one or something like that which is making them worry alot at school which another way of distraction to other kids and it is also taking away of there good grades in order to play those sport at school .
| Evidence | Adequate |
bdff5f9119e9 | 0C1BFE5E9F69 | if they are going to try and make students make good grade just to play sports not all students can do as I say because making an A or B is hard for some of these students, and it will mess them up if they were hoping to go pro in some type of sport . So I don't really think that is a good idea to make it were you have to have a "B" average in order to play some type of sport its crazy I think so anyways. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
11d668703cde | 0C1D8179D5F3 | i believe that you should get rif of the electrical collage | Position | Adequate |
a8ddec215971 | 0C1D8179D5F3 | the votes are biased and with the citizens voteing you can get better results. | Claim | Adequate |
d5a4b8a0696d | 0C1D8179D5F3 | first of all,even though the electoral collage consists of 538 electors | Evidence | Ineffective |
89e217672bd7 | 0C1D8179D5F3 | i think it would be better if all of citizens from across the globe can help more | Claim | Ineffective |
ed0efc0bde73 | 0C1D8179D5F3 | due to more people and more relibilty then with 570 people. | Evidence | Ineffective |
547a855b1cbc | 0C1D8179D5F3 | secend of all,if "the popular vote"was gone and was taken seriesly then we would have better quality presidents | Claim | Ineffective |
6fb391d65588 | 0C1D8179D5F3 | like al gore even though he was popular he still lost the presidency. according to bradford plumer over 60 precent of voters would perfer a direct election also,how are we sure to trust the electors anyway? is texians vote on john kerry they might not lisin and vote on whoever they want out of spite | Evidence | Ineffective |
aca702df8bec | 0C1D8179D5F3 | also we don't want to repeat the 2000 fiasco agein and the system allows much worse | Claim | Adequate |
226258c33e59 | 0C1D8179D5F3 | and they occasionally refuse to vote for the party canidate. and disaster will happen is two slates of electors to congress like when it happend in hawaii in 1960 when richard nixion only wanted elector voters but luckly he did it "without establishing a precedent". and what would happen if theirs a tie in the electoral vote? then the electorals would be thrown to the house of represenitives and they vote on the president there. | Evidence | Ineffective |
068b7ad5eb04 | 0C1D8179D5F3 | incluclosion,we should get rid of the electoral collage because it's unfair,outdated and irrational. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ee4106743697 | 0C2BEA6C812A | I feel as if we should have a say on who we vote for President...Am I right? But at the same time we do need a majority of votes from a Electoral College who knows a little bit more then us. | Lead | Adequate |
293b93953e86 | 0C2BEA6C812A | That is why Im here to say that Election by popular vote for the President of the United States would be better then having a Electoral College that is most likely Segregationists vote for us. | Position | Adequate |
22dce0567ef5 | 0C2BEA6C812A | It is said that if we would had popular votes for the President instead of Electoral College,we would most likely have a better chance of getting a President that would be the best at his country then to get someone that is just a favorite of a country of a state by segregationists | Claim | Adequate |
3c35d065de76 | 0C2BEA6C812A | meaning someone that just like you from your race or skin color,but at the same time the Electoral College is established cause of our founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote. A Electoral College is consist of 538 electors and 270 electoral votes are required to elect the President,we on the other hand,get a few people that we voted on for voting for the president and vice president,and sometimes that can be the wrong president we pick or get confused picking the wrong candidates. But I feel the people who support who we have as Presidents should be abled to have a say on what they think and feel on the President,cause after all,we need someone to look up to. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f49c14a9ff3e | 0C2BEA6C812A | Another way that I feel the popular vote should be the best thing then the Electoral College is that in Source 2:Pharagraph 14, it explains how the Electoral College is unfair,outdated,and irrational | Claim | Adequate |
3dc6caaad5c8 | 0C2BEA6C812A | its like even if we won our votes then basically the Electoral College won dued to The winner-take-all system in each state. I feel this is unfair cause its basically stating that the Electoral College vote is the vote that they will accept even though we are voting to,but at the same time they have more say and know how on what we dont know about the Presidents and the Vice Presidents,but having favored seperation based on race. Source 3:phargraph 23 explains that the Electoral College method of selecting the President may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state | Evidence | Adequate |
0b3fd94d5c3a | 0C2BEA6C812A | I feel as if popular voters dont look into political preference then to just pick a vote and hope that their pick is going to be the President. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
afa29db0a3d8 | 0C2BEA6C812A | The Electoral College gets into all the questions and discuss who would be the best, however, a popular vote would just be that the person is their favorite just like the Electoral College. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
966fc1ee5935 | 0C2BEA6C812A | If I had a choice between keeping the Electoral College or a popular Vote, I would pick a popular vote cause the Electoral College is pretty crashed and it really fair. I say give people a chance and let them vote. Picking a pedigree plurality of votes from the Electoral College then from the Popular votes isnt fair based on us. No voters vote swings a national election,and in spite of that,about one-half the eligible American population did vote in the election of 2012,as said in pharagraph 23. I think that Voting for the popular vote would be better then Electoral College cause it would be the states vote instead of just a majority of peoples vote that only want a president that is not validated for success for us. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
6893fb82e4ae | 0C2CD7E1B791 | keep the electoral college | Position | Adequate |
5b20b09c7295 | 0C2CD7E1B791 | The electoral college is a easy way of picking the president the most popular canidate with most votes is the winner. | Claim | Adequate |
2b3dd1562420 | 0C2CD7E1B791 | Also each party picks a nominee and trust is very rarely betrayed. | Claim | Adequate |
a54a404d0b52 | 0C2CD7E1B791 | The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast. | Claim | Adequate |
dee3d82edcdc | 0C2CD7E1B791 | The electoral college system is a fairly simple way of voting that most people understand replacing it with something else would just instill alot of mis understanding in people ,wich could possibly result in a huge decrease in the amount of people that vote | Claim | Adequate |
d3450a337080 | 0C2CD7E1B791 | Also the negatives of the electoral college are not really a big deal that coud cause a fixing or a inbalenced vote towards one side over another | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
21486a95f428 | 0C2CD7E1B791 | In conclusion I think sticking with the electoral college is a wise decison because there isnt anything wrong with it ,why fix something that isnt broken? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b3a89f364b4d | 0C95E489AC08 | I am in not favor of the
Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
61ebb6c7c5f4 | 0C95E489AC08 | Electoral College is made so the political people have the say so
NOT
the people. | Claim | Adequate |
005634150ba7 | 0C95E489AC08 | The last time I checked it was By the people, For the people. I believe that the American people have the right not a berucratt sitting on his butt all day doing
Nothing other than voting with the Electoral Voting. | Evidence | Adequate |
2cb442339183 | 0C95E489AC08 | Thanks to the Electoral College Mr. Barack Obama got a second term in office and now the country is suffering from it. | Claim | Adequate |
b5f7e1c530af | 0C95E489AC08 | Even us students thanks to Mrs. Obama we are not having nice lunches like we had before the Obamas got elected. The Electoral College joined the anachronism club after President Obama join his first term in office. Also the Electoral College gave Obama plurality. There are 538 people in the Electoral College(according to "
What is The Electoral College? | Evidence | Adequate |
529655a082ce | 0C95E489AC08 | there are at least more than 4 million people maybe 5 million in the United States of America. There are more of American people than Democratics and Republicans in the Senate. So actullally we out number all of you slick polictions. | Evidence | Adequate |
462fc9577df7 | 0C95E489AC08 | Yeah sure Florida is one of the top 4 states that give out the major electoral votes but it is only a number 29 | Counterclaim | Adequate |
00dacf4d6664 | 0C95E489AC08 | its not that big of a deal unless the people you have counting votes cannot count over 538, then ok those are some pretty stupid people you should send them back to school. My grandpa at age 70 can count much better than that. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
16d7ba78af93 | 0C95E489AC08 | Answer me this. Is America still for the People, or is it for the slick polictions with there Electoral College? Which one is it? Just face it the Electoral College is old school and for the polictions not for the people. Get Rid of the Electoral College and Let the actual living American people vote. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a2b2500c1ed9 | 0CA9AC7879C9 | We should forget about the system of electorial college to vote for a president. It just isn't fair, reason why is beacause you are electing people to vote for the person who is trying to be president of the U.S although that doesnt mean that you both are voting for the same person that's trying to be president of the U.S. | Lead | Adequate |
75100244ef32 | 0CA9AC7879C9 | The electorial college system is corrupted and needs to stop being used to elect a president. | Position | Adequate |
811aedc1b7c0 | 0CA9AC7879C9 | To begin, In the source 2 they state the following "60% of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." | Claim | Adequate |
e828207173c1 | 0CA9AC7879C9 | Reasons why is because the electorial college is unfair it can make the person who had most of the votes lose because of the people who voted for the person to vote for a president choose the other runner up and make the person with the most votes actually lose. This is why people wish to have a direct election so they wont have to worry about their vote not going to the other runner up president. | Evidence | Adequate |
b8cc27b0a011 | 0CA9AC7879C9 | Secondly, The reason why the electorial college is wrong is because we dont have our own voice; but the slate of electors do which can be pretty much anybody. | Claim | Adequate |
66cfdd3bafa4 | 0CA9AC7879C9 | For example in the article "What's wrong with the electorial college" they state (If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors that pledged to Kerry) these elctors can be anyone and still doesn't have to be voting for him though. | Evidence | Adequate |
e5d8a2667d3f | 0CA9AC7879C9 | Although, If the people can rebalence the electorial college system then it can be somewhat a good thing. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
1b4242cf87c0 | 0CA9AC7879C9 | I can see how it can be somewhat balenced already; stated in the first source "the whole electorial college has a total of 538 electors. The president you wish to elect has to have a majority of 270 electorial votes in order to win." That means they need to have 270 more votes than the other president too. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c2be36449a86 | 0CA9AC7879C9 | unless people can find ways to limit the loosing president to come back with electoral votes, then yes this system should be banned. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ab0cba6eccc9 | 0CE521F8D172 | I think that students should have the choice to do community service | Position | Effective |
4015c784be9c | 0CE521F8D172 | I think the only time a student should be forced to do community service is when their being punished. | Claim | Effective |
7e38012b9f25 | 0CE521F8D172 | Most students might have too much to do for community service | Claim | Effective |
ca3b44621454 | 0CE521F8D172 | If there too busy doing community service the students might not be able to take care of there more important responsibilities. Students might have homework or house chores to do.
| Evidence | Effective |
fc41e0bb29a3 | 0CE521F8D172 | I think you should let the students that want to do community service do it | Claim | Adequate |
90c8c3229e01 | 0CE521F8D172 | If they're always doing community service, when will the students be able to have time to enjoy for themselves. Doing community service takes a lot of time out of a persons day. If there was a test a student had to take the next day after doing community service when schools over and if that student spent a lot of time to do that, then when that student got home, he would be restless and probably wouldn't have enough time to study for that test. I just don't think that community service is healthy for a lot of kids learning environments | Evidence | Effective |
55bc2b5c58f6 | 0CE521F8D172 | So, this concludes my theory on students doing community service. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
66f4633765ab | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | Community service offers an opportunity to kids and adults who feel they want to do something for the community. | Position | Adequate |
455fc8e3dc89 | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | I being a person who very much appreciate the place we live in, have decided to write this letter to tell you why community service should be required for at least 10 hours every school year | Claim | Adequate |
919cb466d5a3 | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | Of course some students wouldn't like that, | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
2fc645d60bbf | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | but it would be a way of teaching them to do good not only for themselves but also for others who do appreciate and want to feel good for what they do. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
87ad2948f39e | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | Knowing that no one wants to be in a dirty or bad community, community service helps build self-control as well as self confidence. | Claim | Adequate |
1346942fd287 | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | Helping out seniors in homes is a great way to help others that after so long of hard working now need a way to know they did a great job in their life and that they're being appreciate. Doing some garden help might be a big mess but it's a great way to help the community out, even at a school. Another good way of helping a student is to have them help those in need, which helps them be thankful for what they have and to not give up on their goals. I am not only saying this for the good of others, I am also saying this with experience, not only from myself but other friends of mines that have changed from the help of doing community service for their school or for another requirement. | Evidence | Effective |
18ba60f8039c | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | I being a helpful person to the community and others who needs the help feel that community service is a pay-off to knowing your helpful. | Claim | Ineffective |
16691d331f4c | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | I believe that community service should be required because no doubt that every teacher wants a self-controlled person in their class, I am not saying that every person will be made to be caring or controlled, but they will know that doing those things do pay off when you look back and think at them. Some studies have also showed that helping out does build a self-made person with respect for themselves and others. This will also make the school look good with all the students who do help to create the community better. | Evidence | Effective |
93c63617c56f | 0CE6E6BF8EA4 | I am hoping you think about my discussion and see every way that benefits the school to be better then it is. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b35015e761cd | 0CFDDC1CF75A | I think they should not let them to bring cell phones during school | Position | Adequate |
5e12970383e5 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | because they will be intertain. | Claim | Ineffective |
bb7bc81349f9 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | And they will text every time when the teacher is not looking | Claim | Adequate |
edf35965af12 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | and when ask them a problem they say oh I wasn't paying attension. Or they sometime will say could you repeat it again. | Evidence | Adequate |
2f94cf418716 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | Sometime they are texting to there friend or boyfriend what they are doing instead on focusing on there studying or on there future . | Claim | Adequate |
ffa0f1907a98 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | And sometime when they are passing the street of school a car come an have an accented just buy texting and not focusing if a car is coming. | Claim | Adequate |
46d5180dff67 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | They don't bother to come to school | Claim | Adequate |
1bda249d39ba | 0CFDDC1CF75A | because her friend told her to not go to class. | Evidence | Adequate |
da6751ab0413 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | they talk about people and spreads it around. | Claim | Adequate |
b2796c1e3346 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | they don't care about school but only texting to her friends. | Claim | Adequate |
cec934b17dfd | 0CFDDC1CF75A | And they have low grades buy talking to her friends | Claim | Adequate |
c4458a5594b5 | 0CFDDC1CF75A | And they are just talking and talking. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0eb2812d7f75 | 0D18BDF22C59 | I believe that doing community service is a great thing. | Position | Adequate |
79d3b7cd2fa1 | 0D18BDF22C59 | The world needs our help, and would do greatly with the support. Community service is a great way to keep the world and people healthy and happy. I personally think that community services are a great way to get everyone together to do positive things that can make a great benefit towards everything and everyone. | Evidence | Effective |
7df9e32a28f1 | 0D18BDF22C59 | There are many community service projects that we could start doing. | Claim | Effective |
1879ec5a4004 | 0D18BDF22C59 | We could clean the communities from all the trash and glass on the earth, we could volunteer at homeless shelters and nursing homes, we could paint houses and help civilians with simple tasks like walking their dogs, raking their leaves, mowing their lawns, simple little things like that. | Evidence | Effective |
b4c1b1bc8f25 | 0D18BDF22C59 | Of coarse we're going to need help persuading people to do these little things. | Claim | Effective |
b5303274e3a8 | 0D18BDF22C59 | We could inform them about the benefits of having a healthy world and about the things that are happening right now because of the careless acts of others. Telling people about these things will help them get an understanding of how bad things are right now and to do simple, but hard-working things can cause a great change to the world. | Evidence | Effective |
f5ab8ca41670 | 0D18BDF22C59 | I understand that some people think that community service is a waste of time. | Counterclaim | Effective |
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