tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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ab00f2755334	22603B44E550	"this quote explains how Electoral College makes the voteing process easier and has less pressure on canidates and voters.	Evidence	Adequate
7d5b5c4fd688	22603B44E550	also the Electoral College restores some of the weught in the polyical balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apprtioment of the senate decreed in the constitutuion	Counterclaim	Adequate
8afb3c3ee639	22603B44E550	last,popular votes/majority rule are in all a better way of voteing in the U.S because of the fairness and rights the U.S citizens all deserve,yes the Electoral College votes are easier but in the end who really wins? noboby does	Concluding Statement	Effective
7449f801322d	22B0E90D524E	I think all students should have a certain amount of hours on community service to do each week.	Position	Adequate
c0fe0c4bb4e8	22B0E90D524E	Even if some kids say they are busy they should have to get the hours in for a grade.	Claim	Ineffective
82cd3c8e65da	22B0E90D524E	Most students these days don't help out enough or anything and they need to learn how to help up the community so when they get older they can volunteer to do something like help the community out. I am a student and i think they should make kids to community service not just by kids volunteering i think they should make everyone do it and not by getting in trouble by the cops neither.	Evidence	Ineffective
4f7c16a4736a	22B0E90D524E	They should have it as if you fail any of your classes you get more community service and then if you don't get the community service is results in bigger punishment.	Claim	Adequate
14c96f3fe4d5	22B0E90D524E	They should net let students bring cell phones to school because it is a distraction from class and that results in bad grades. Another thing is when you go home your parents should check you to see if you have any homework instead of asking the student because most of the time they will say no because they do not want to do the homework or and wanna do something else instead of homework.	Evidence	Ineffective
799b933a0e58	22B0E90D524E	I think the school should have uniforms because people cant make jokes on someone else because of what they are wearing.	Claim	Ineffective
0e957e7e5e70	22B0E90D524E	My old school we had to wear uniforms so no-one really made jokes on them for what they are wearing. Its worse to bring a cell phone to school because when you bring it to school its a distraction from class and if you where to be texting in class and get caught and the teacher wants to take your phone sometimes a student will refuse and that will get them more in trouble or the student will give them the cell phone but throw the teacher a attitude and if you are texting in the hallways and knock someone over or fall its your fault for texting in the hall ways they should of left the phone at home or put it in there lockers so they wouldn't get in trouble or i took. Kids should only need cell phone incase of a emergency and like someone gets kidnapped or break in the school the kids can call 911 if they are in trouble. And if someone crazy comes in to the room if a kid has a cell phone they can call the cops or someone for help.	Evidence	Ineffective
ee6535fd1cc2	22BB7EEA0475	Humanity believes this land structure is a face left by aliens, we will never know.	Position	Ineffective
6696a2f03fe9	22BB7EEA0475	We have to find out and learn.	Claim	Ineffective
3542b08a09e5	22BB7EEA0475	People have questions about this "face" on the moon, what does this mean, what next, how did this happen. That will remain a mystery. We have seen strange objects in the sky, strange "ships" and UFO's and what not. But we have never had any proof that aliens exist. we have never seen one, captured one or anything. But we also have never seen them in space. These mysterious objects on the moon are just a coincedince. Until we have proof that we have captured, seen, or caught on camera a extraterestrial thing we cannot say this object was made by aliens. This land structure could be a manmade structure and we would never know it. We would never know if othe people made a trip to the moon. Till we have proof this was not a human manmade structure, it will be a mystery till it is prooved. There ar thousands of craters, dents and all kinds of odd looking things on the moon, what makes you think this could be made by someone or something. It will remain a mystery till we know who or what did it.	Evidence	Ineffective
55009ff766fd	22ECC2FD37EE	If i was to be voted for president i would like to be voted by Electoral College because , electoral college is not voted for the presidents it is voted for the electors , who in turn elect the president . In conclusion , each candidate running for president in your state has thier own group of electors.	Lead	Effective
37a248d309c7	22ECC2FD37EE	There are somethings wrong with the electoral college	Position	Adequate
097cf6c52aba	22ECC2FD37EE	american people dont consider themselves lucky with any election that happens	Claim	Adequate
7042dd9e0301	22ECC2FD37EE	Americans are not grateful cause they might not have wanted the same president or wanted different electors. If you wanted to be president and you had good electors people all over the world would vote for you just because the electors you got.	Evidence	Ineffective
24f120d14f17	22ECC2FD37EE	Americans vote for you to get the electors , i believe that is not good for our state because the electors of the president can switch the statements of one another	Evidence	Adequate
4bc0b1cc3513	22ECC2FD37EE	The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The electoral is Abolish !	Claim	Adequate
0fd803a2317d	22ECC2FD37EE	At the most basic level the electoral college is unfair !	Concluding Statement	Adequate
9d5e7279a734	23011CDB368B	I believe we should have policy one	Position	Adequate
ac178e35afd5	23011CDB368B	Policy one seems fair enough for everyone	Claim	Adequate
2c8c910598a0	23011CDB368B	because it allows you to use your phone at lunch and free periods (passing period) and some students might need to use their phone in case of an emergency. Some students use phones anyways when it is not even allowed on the campus. In my opinion kids should be able to use phones as long as it is on vibrate or silent and they cant disrupt other kids or play music. I think they can use it in classes for a calculator or a timer, etc.	Evidence	Adequate
0d7d090aec0d	23011CDB368B	Policy two you cant even use the phone at all. I think each school that's thinking of having phones should do a vote with the parents and students, and have students write an essay on why they should have phones and if twenty out of one hundred students have a convincing essay about phones then they should be able to have there phones during lunch and passing periods.	Evidence	Ineffective
fccab2c8a949	23011CDB368B	If this rule is abused then we get one warning then another warning and finally just not be able to have phone at all the third time you tell us to not have phones out during class	Evidence	Adequate
0475cf164d7d	23011CDB368B	A lot of kids don't follow the rules at school but maybe if you let them have the privilege of having their phones they will end up becoming more responsible.	Claim	Adequate
7c86e701fd6c	23011CDB368B	I hope that we will be able to use phones at school and if we aren't able to have the phones at school right now than at least consider it later in the years. In my opinion and other kids opinions we believe that we should be able to have our phone during school.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
a72479457f7d	233A9C9D748F	In this essay I will be talking about the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars." The face was not created by aliens it is a natural landform. I have a lot of evidence for my claim. They all prove that it is a natural landform.	Lead	Adequate
5a58b18a462d	233A9C9D748F	The Face on Mars is just a natural landform. It was not created by aliens.	Position	Adequate
0e8cb59400cf	233A9C9D748F	"Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform."	Evidence	Adequate
3bd30f7dffa0	233A9C9D748F	it was describes as a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.	Evidence	Ineffective
6aa2fcc5c707	233A9C9D748F	"We just don't pass over the Face very often."	Evidence	Ineffective
2ecf8d2a758a	233A9C9D748F	They thought is was made by aliens because they usually don't see this face	Counterclaim	Ineffective
bbd48ea5ef22	233A9C9D748F	Now that they know it is a natural landform they will always see it.	Rebuttal	Ineffective
1acf08412cfa	233A9C9D748F	In conclusion we can prove that the Face in Mars is just a natural landform.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
9228e564dd78	233A9C9D748F	At the beginning everyone thought that aliens made this. "It has been shown in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk showseven haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!"	Evidence	Ineffective
d6c9d586357e	234C54F93ABC	I would like to put my opinion about students being required to perform community service.	Lead	Ineffective
ee134f62718e	234C54F93ABC	I believe community service would have good looks on to our schools.	Position	Adequate
16de2eb7a9d3	234C54F93ABC	Also it would make our students look like they want to help and change the world	Claim	Adequate
d95158cb32cd	234C54F93ABC	Actually make it a better place for the children that live in the area.	Claim	Adequate
31338175653e	234C54F93ABC	Community service can help the students that are in high school get into colleges. It can help the students be able to choose what college they want to go to not what college they have to go to	Claim	Adequate
8df3fa4572f2	234C54F93ABC	To the older people the younger people may take out the trash for them, mow their lawns, etc. If that would happen this world would be an better place. A place where everyone would get along and peaceful.	Evidence	Effective
6e0c75f61f0a	234C54F93ABC	Also the students would actually be communicating wit each other	Claim	Adequate
b7e62e340759	234C54F93ABC	Having fun, making new friends would be amazing.	Evidence	Adequate
250b9697289a	234C54F93ABC	The only thing that may be wrong about it is the whole work time.	Counterclaim	Adequate
6e64f130ca68	234C54F93ABC	You have to know how to manage to keep your grades up and be able to perform in community service.	Rebuttal	Adequate
3386aef197ca	234C54F93ABC	I strongly believe community service should be required for elementary school students and up	Concluding Statement	Adequate
1cc69b7f245c	236ACE5E8FC3	Okay hey, I just wanted to introduce myself before we get into this subject my name is PROPER_NAME and i'm writing about changing the Electoral College to election by popular vote.	Lead	Ineffective
10781991f684	236ACE5E8FC3	The reason why I am writing about this is because there are a lot of things wrong with the Electoral College	Position	Adequate
c913790cc902	236ACE5E8FC3	under that sytem, voters don't vote for presidents they vote for slate of electors who then elect the president and can elect someone completely different than who the voter wanted to be president.	Claim	Effective
caeed6260f60	236ACE5E8FC3	So there is a possiblity that your not going to wind up getting what you wanted out of the outcome.	Evidence	Ineffective
27e5dca938eb	236ACE5E8FC3	Also in electoral vote the most worrying thing is the prospect of a tie.	Claim	Adequate
0c465b02cc0e	236ACE5E8FC3	In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where the state delegations vote on the president. (The Senate would choose the vice-president on that outcome.)	Evidence	Ineffective
74af5432c590	236ACE5E8FC3	At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to the voters.	Claim	Adequate
4fb559fe17cc	236ACE5E8FC3	Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in the states they know they habe no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode ISland and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio, they have yet to make it.....	Evidence	Adequate
136568de9e9b	236ACE5E8FC3	It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. THe best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the argument in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elsections are spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolsih the electoral college!	Evidence	Ineffective
09337d4d6652	2375E96B7653	I think that my school and I should be required to do community service. I also think it should be a choice for students to say whether or not they want to do it,	Position	Adequate
5755a31f6efe	2375E96B7653	like putting out a flyer or asking if they would like to help clean it up or something to that nature.	Evidence	Ineffective
debd67a190ee	2375E96B7653	The reason i think this way is because some students i know, including me does litter and don't think nothing of it, and its not a good thing.	Claim	Adequate
870569e2bcf1	2375E96B7653	but then again we are 8th grade students and yes we know right from wrong but some students don't mature like others.	Evidence	Adequate
a4fb545a9d09	2375E96B7653	And I know a lot of people that wouldn't help. But if u asked me I would be more than happy to help pick up around the community. Sometimes I pick up things and my friends ask me why I'm doing it, and it kind of offends me but i just roll with the roll. So that might be an reason why some students don't want to help out, because they think it is uncool or their to cool to be picking up litter after others. And i can come up with many more reasons why some student wouldn't help. But i have to stay positive.	Evidence	Adequate
ba276feae0cd	2375E96B7653	i do think that student should be required to pick up litter around the community, but my thinking has a limit.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
5ac96190ffcc	237968EDE68A	I think community service should not be a requirement ,but strongly suggest it to the students.	Position	Adequate
ab243c76df38	237968EDE68A	I think if you want to do it as a whole school put it in a field trip. If you're the principal of a public school you should go to a big public area and split the kids into groups. If you're the principal to a small private school with around one-hundred kids go to a public park.	Evidence	Adequate
dc5edacd78d4	237968EDE68A	I go to a small private school and we did it last year. I found it alright because I were with my friends and we were talking and making jokes the entire time. Plus we played on the playground when we were done. As strange as that sounds it was a ton of fun. And where we went was a small zoo so I got to look at animals too.	Evidence	Ineffective
29b9e1f43010	237968EDE68A	I remember when we walked there I was playing with my plastic bag and I popped it. I figured out how to fix it by tying it. It wasn't a big rip so I could tie a knot by it to close it up. I certainly had better field trips but it was alright. I hope you use this idea for your school. At a public school I'm not sure how well this will turn out.	Evidence	Ineffective
e22cef807b3d	237968EDE68A	For a public school you might have to make it a requirement. I think you should hand out sheets to the students and have them write down the hours they did and have the person who was in charge sign it. Oh yeah also have them have a requirement of at least ten hours a semester.	Evidence	Adequate
29f553e5d154	237E08ECC729	How does the Electoral College affect the selection of the presidency and is it a positive force? Many may answer "No." or "I don't know." to these questions, only doing such because that's what they've been or what they've heard others say.	Lead	Effective
f29b05201997	237E08ECC729	While many have negative feelings, or no feelings at all, towards the Electoral College, it is a very useful force in electing the President because of its	Position	Effective
19e4a787d0a9	237E08ECC729	certainty	Claim	Effective
d7e21fbff91c	237E08ECC729	its transregionality,	Claim	Effective
6db18c62f762	237E08ECC729	and it lets "the most thoughtful voters" (Posner Source 3) decide the election.	Claim	Effective
58f567c24211	237E08ECC729	And in turn voters in these states will definitely receive "the most information and attention from the candidates" (Posner Source 2). Voters from these states at the end of the campaigns will no doubt be the most informed voters in the nation, giving them the right to decide the fate of the election for the future.	Evidence	Effective
3dd5e0bf2f4d	237E08ECC729	While popular voting can be skewed naturally to one region or another due to their preferences and populations, the Electoral College ensures that one region can't win a campaign alone. If the President was to win due to popular vote and only because of regional appeal, "residents of other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised..." (Posner Source 3) and that their president will not best represent everyone's interests.	Evidence	Effective
feb3b714e142	237E08ECC729	Although there was one "fiasco" in 2000, as Bradford Plumer calls it in Source 2,	Counterclaim	Effective
b3918f01e4d6	237E08ECC729	the chance of this happening is very small since "even a very slight pulrality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state." (Posner Source 3) For example, in 2012, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of electoral vote while he recieved only 51.3 percent of the popular vote.(Posner Source 3). A 1.3 percent from a tie is much, much more close than the 11.7 percent that that the Electoral College gives us.	Rebuttal	Effective
ba144864e639	237E08ECC729	While some may still believe that the Electoral College is outdated and unneccesary, the usefulness of the swing states, its transregional approval system, and its certainty over popular voting proves it to be the best method of selecting our presidents for now and for the future.	Concluding Statement	Effective
17ddb1c7d6de	2396B6BC4F67	I think we should change the election by popular votes for the President of the United States.	Position	Adequate
b6401e3c794f	2396B6BC4F67	It's a more accurate process and who knows what people running for office has up there arm. The electoral college voting has a repeated tendancy to vote for the state of electors and that way they end up voting for the President. People prefer to vote for exactly who and what they choose to vote for and Electoral college isn't the way to go for it. What would happen when we run out of electoral votes just stick and choose a President? In what world is that fair and accurate?	Evidence	Adequate
c557575207f9	2396B6BC4F67	Popular votes will actually help the voters voting and it might even be a faster process, whose to say, it could even be better.	Claim	Adequate
2fd63ebf7e30	2396B6BC4F67	People aren't voting for President anymore which is the most important person in the senate, besides you the right hand man. The Citizen's voting are starting to vote for the state electors do to where they originate or live in. Citizens have not yet grasped the rules of voting and tend to vote unfairly and not for the real reasons we urgently need these people in house,senate, or office.	Evidence	Ineffective
0e07cf4de445	2396B6BC4F67	In some states electors refused to even vote for their particular party's candidate and choose to vote for who ever they wish to vote for	Claim	Adequate
c6b4dc62efe8	2396B6BC4F67	which is a good thing. these electors prefer to vote for whoever will do a better job in office and that's what were scoring for with popular votes.	Evidence	Ineffective
759b98d0c3eb	2396B6BC4F67	What happens to votes when there's a run off, because there isn't enough votes to be held accountable for?	Claim	Ineffective
ff7e3743bb6a	2396B6BC4F67	Thats a question to think about , because there could be a lot of problems to be the cause of it.	Evidence	Ineffective
987f790a8f3c	2396B6BC4F67	To have a certain number of people vote for who they choose to be President is surprisingly unrealistic.	Claim	Adequate
7bd61095afa4	2396B6BC4F67	Why choose the majority rule when you could have thousands of People praying for a change vote for a change in their their future for a better life. The "winner-take-all" system has to be the most challeging systems of them all but seems to work out after all. "Electoral College is the best way!" what happened to the People actually living off of the rules that the Electoral college Voters choose for the people all together? It's time to make a change, why not start now and see how the congress feels. The biggest Decision that should be made should be made fairly by the people, the citizens.	Evidence	Ineffective
0d11f4a6042b	2396B6BC4F67	In paragraph 13 it even states "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters."	Claim	Adequate
688d3118c687	2396B6BC4F67	Big States are the main key. If we could get the big states to take part in the Popularity vote the smaller states will join in. Hoping for the best the Popularity Votes will soon rise and all the discrepencies won't be needed. If you understand where I'm coming from you'll think about what I'm saying if you care about the citizens your trying to help out.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
e9dea8217d9d	23A3812CE15F	Right now there are many disputes and arguments over wether or not to keep the electoral college	Lead	Adequate
4c8aabcbdcee	23A3812CE15F	I think that the electoral college should have less power, but not be totally rid.	Position	Adequate
f18e38887940	23A3812CE15F	Reason for my opinion is that alot of times the electoral college has too much say, and we the people dont have enough say	Claim	Adequate
2ccc9e570382	23A3812CE15F	For example, Barack Obama recieved 61.7% of the electoral vote compered to 51.3% of the popular vote. The electoral college had the most say and impact upon the outcome of the election	Evidence	Adequate
379b2aab7c35	23A3812CE15F	Most of the time electoral college makes mistakes on who they pick.	Evidence	Ineffective
76dfb7fefff4	23A3812CE15F	Everything they say is based of an intellectuall standpoint. The pick shouldnt be based off of all intellectuall.	Claim	Ineffective
b9cd4330bf2d	23A3812CE15F	That doesnt mean the electoral college is bad, if it werent for them I think we the people are too stupid to make the decisons just ourselves. we need intellectual. Most voters dont even know much about who they pick. We shouldnt be trusted with all of the say in the election.	Evidence	Ineffective
b5b855faa0b7	23A3812CE15F	Thats why we need electoral college to balance it out and make it right in the end. Alls im saying is dont give them all the say in who wins the election just lower it a bit to be 50-50.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
edd1ccbde036	23CC3629CEC0	I know you are trying to decide if all students should participate in community service. I am writing this so you have a better point of view of a student	Lead	Adequate
dee139592dd5	23CC3629CEC0	I think we should have to do some kind of community work	Position	Adequate
784afed3311f	23CC3629CEC0	because it could help us students have a better look into life,	Claim	Effective

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"this quote explains how Electoral College makes the voteing process easier and has less pressure on canidates and voters.

Evidence

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also the Electoral College restores some of the weught in the polyical balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apprtioment of the senate decreed in the constitutuion

Counterclaim

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last,popular votes/majority rule are in all a better way of voteing in the U.S because of the fairness and rights the U.S citizens all deserve,yes the Electoral College votes are easier but in the end who really wins? noboby does

Concluding Statement

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I think all students should have a certain amount of hours on community service to do each week.

Position

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Even if some kids say they are busy they should have to get the hours in for a grade.

Claim

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Most students these days don't help out enough or anything and they need to learn how to help up the community so when they get older they can volunteer to do something like help the community out. I am a student and i think they should make kids to community service not just by kids volunteering i think they should make everyone do it and not by getting in trouble by the cops neither.

Evidence

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They should have it as if you fail any of your classes you get more community service and then if you don't get the community service is results in bigger punishment.

Claim

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They should net let students bring cell phones to school because it is a distraction from class and that results in bad grades. Another thing is when you go home your parents should check you to see if you have any homework instead of asking the student because most of the time they will say no because they do not want to do the homework or and wanna do something else instead of homework.

Evidence

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I think the school should have uniforms because people cant make jokes on someone else because of what they are wearing.

Claim

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My old school we had to wear uniforms so no-one really made jokes on them for what they are wearing. Its worse to bring a cell phone to school because when you bring it to school its a distraction from class and if you where to be texting in class and get caught and the teacher wants to take your phone sometimes a student will refuse and that will get them more in trouble or the student will give them the cell phone but throw the teacher a attitude and if you are texting in the hallways and knock someone over or fall its your fault for texting in the hall ways they should of left the phone at home or put it in there lockers so they wouldn't get in trouble or i took. Kids should only need cell phone incase of a emergency and like someone gets kidnapped or break in the school the kids can call 911 if they are in trouble. And if someone crazy comes in to the room if a kid has a cell phone they can call the cops or someone for help.

Evidence

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Humanity believes this land structure is a face left by aliens, we will never know.

Position

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We have to find out and learn.

Claim

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People have questions about this "face" on the moon, what does this mean, what next, how did this happen. That will remain a mystery. We have seen strange objects in the sky, strange "ships" and UFO's and what not. But we have never had any proof that aliens exist. we have never seen one, captured one or anything. But we also have never seen them in space. These mysterious objects on the moon are just a coincedince. Until we have proof that we have captured, seen, or caught on camera a extraterestrial thing we cannot say this object was made by aliens. This land structure could be a manmade structure and we would never know it. We would never know if othe people made a trip to the moon. Till we have proof this was not a human manmade structure, it will be a mystery till it is prooved. There ar thousands of craters, dents and all kinds of odd looking things on the moon, what makes you think this could be made by someone or something. It will remain a mystery till we know who or what did it.

Evidence

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If i was to be voted for president i would like to be voted by Electoral College because , electoral college is not voted for the presidents it is voted for the electors , who in turn elect the president . In conclusion , each candidate running for president in your state has thier own group of electors.

Lead

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There are somethings wrong with the electoral college

Position

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american people dont consider themselves lucky with any election that happens

Claim

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Americans are not grateful cause they might not have wanted the same president or wanted different electors. If you wanted to be president and you had good electors people all over the world would vote for you just because the electors you got.

Evidence

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Americans vote for you to get the electors , i believe that is not good for our state because the electors of the president can switch the statements of one another

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The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The electoral is Abolish !

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At the most basic level the electoral college is unfair !

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I believe we should have policy one

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Policy one seems fair enough for everyone

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because it allows you to use your phone at lunch and free periods (passing period) and some students might need to use their phone in case of an emergency. Some students use phones anyways when it is not even allowed on the campus. In my opinion kids should be able to use phones as long as it is on vibrate or silent and they cant disrupt other kids or play music. I think they can use it in classes for a calculator or a timer, etc.

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Policy two you cant even use the phone at all. I think each school that's thinking of having phones should do a vote with the parents and students, and have students write an essay on why they should have phones and if twenty out of one hundred students have a convincing essay about phones then they should be able to have there phones during lunch and passing periods.

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If this rule is abused then we get one warning then another warning and finally just not be able to have phone at all the third time you tell us to not have phones out during class

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A lot of kids don't follow the rules at school but maybe if you let them have the privilege of having their phones they will end up becoming more responsible.

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I hope that we will be able to use phones at school and if we aren't able to have the phones at school right now than at least consider it later in the years. In my opinion and other kids opinions we believe that we should be able to have our phone during school.

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In this essay I will be talking about the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars." The face was not created by aliens it is a natural landform. I have a lot of evidence for my claim. They all prove that it is a natural landform.

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The Face on Mars is just a natural landform. It was not created by aliens.

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"Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform."

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it was describes as a huge rock formation . . . which resembles a human head . . . formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth.

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"We just don't pass over the Face very often."

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They thought is was made by aliens because they usually don't see this face

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Now that they know it is a natural landform they will always see it.

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In conclusion we can prove that the Face in Mars is just a natural landform.

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At the beginning everyone thought that aliens made this. "It has been shown in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk showseven haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years!"

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I would like to put my opinion about students being required to perform community service.

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I believe community service would have good looks on to our schools.

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Also it would make our students look like they want to help and change the world

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Actually make it a better place for the children that live in the area.

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Community service can help the students that are in high school get into colleges. It can help the students be able to choose what college they want to go to not what college they have to go to

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To the older people the younger people may take out the trash for them, mow their lawns, etc. If that would happen this world would be an better place. A place where everyone would get along and peaceful.

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Also the students would actually be communicating wit each other

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Having fun, making new friends would be amazing.

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The only thing that may be wrong about it is the whole work time.

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You have to know how to manage to keep your grades up and be able to perform in community service.

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I strongly believe community service should be required for elementary school students and up

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Okay hey, I just wanted to introduce myself before we get into this subject my name is PROPER_NAME and i'm writing about changing the Electoral College to election by popular vote.

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The reason why I am writing about this is because there are a lot of things wrong with the Electoral College

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under that sytem, voters don't vote for presidents they vote for slate of electors who then elect the president and can elect someone completely different than who the voter wanted to be president.

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So there is a possiblity that your not going to wind up getting what you wanted out of the outcome.

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Also in electoral vote the most worrying thing is the prospect of a tie.

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In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where the state delegations vote on the president. (The Senate would choose the vice-president on that outcome.)

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At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to the voters.

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Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in the states they know they habe no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode ISland and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio, they have yet to make it.....

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It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. THe best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the argument in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elsections are spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolsih the electoral college!

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I think that my school and I should be required to do community service. I also think it should be a choice for students to say whether or not they want to do it,

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like putting out a flyer or asking if they would like to help clean it up or something to that nature.

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The reason i think this way is because some students i know, including me does litter and don't think nothing of it, and its not a good thing.

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but then again we are 8th grade students and yes we know right from wrong but some students don't mature like others.

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And I know a lot of people that wouldn't help. But if u asked me I would be more than happy to help pick up around the community. Sometimes I pick up things and my friends ask me why I'm doing it, and it kind of offends me but i just roll with the roll. So that might be an reason why some students don't want to help out, because they think it is uncool or their to cool to be picking up litter after others. And i can come up with many more reasons why some student wouldn't help. But i have to stay positive.

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i do think that student should be required to pick up litter around the community, but my thinking has a limit.

Concluding Statement

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I think community service should not be a requirement ,but strongly suggest it to the students.

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I think if you want to do it as a whole school put it in a field trip. If you're the principal of a public school you should go to a big public area and split the kids into groups. If you're the principal to a small private school with around one-hundred kids go to a public park.

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I go to a small private school and we did it last year. I found it alright because I were with my friends and we were talking and making jokes the entire time. Plus we played on the playground when we were done. As strange as that sounds it was a ton of fun. And where we went was a small zoo so I got to look at animals too.

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I remember when we walked there I was playing with my plastic bag and I popped it. I figured out how to fix it by tying it. It wasn't a big rip so I could tie a knot by it to close it up. I certainly had better field trips but it was alright. I hope you use this idea for your school. At a public school I'm not sure how well this will turn out.

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For a public school you might have to make it a requirement. I think you should hand out sheets to the students and have them write down the hours they did and have the person who was in charge sign it. Oh yeah also have them have a requirement of at least ten hours a semester.

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How does the Electoral College affect the selection of the presidency and is it a positive force? Many may answer "No." or "I don't know." to these questions, only doing such because that's what they've been or what they've heard others say.

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While many have negative feelings, or no feelings at all, towards the Electoral College, it is a very useful force in electing the President because of its

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certainty

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its transregionality,

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and it lets "the most thoughtful voters" (Posner Source 3) decide the election.

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And in turn voters in these states will definitely receive "the most information and attention from the candidates" (Posner Source 2). Voters from these states at the end of the campaigns will no doubt be the most informed voters in the nation, giving them the right to decide the fate of the election for the future.

Evidence

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While popular voting can be skewed naturally to one region or another due to their preferences and populations, the Electoral College ensures that one region can't win a campaign alone. If the President was to win due to popular vote and only because of regional appeal, "residents of other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised..." (Posner Source 3) and that their president will not best represent everyone's interests.

Evidence

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Although there was one "fiasco" in 2000, as Bradford Plumer calls it in Source 2,

Counterclaim

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the chance of this happening is very small since "even a very slight pulrality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state." (Posner Source 3) For example, in 2012, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of electoral vote while he recieved only 51.3 percent of the popular vote.(Posner Source 3). A 1.3 percent from a tie is much, much more close than the 11.7 percent that that the Electoral College gives us.

Rebuttal

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While some may still believe that the Electoral College is outdated and unneccesary, the usefulness of the swing states, its transregional approval system, and its certainty over popular voting proves it to be the best method of selecting our presidents for now and for the future.

Concluding Statement

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I think we should change the election by popular votes for the President of the United States.

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It's a more accurate process and who knows what people running for office has up there arm. The electoral college voting has a repeated tendancy to vote for the state of electors and that way they end up voting for the President. People prefer to vote for exactly who and what they choose to vote for and Electoral college isn't the way to go for it. What would happen when we run out of electoral votes just stick and choose a President? In what world is that fair and accurate?

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Popular votes will actually help the voters voting and it might even be a faster process, whose to say, it could even be better.

Claim

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People aren't voting for President anymore which is the most important person in the senate, besides you the right hand man. The Citizen's voting are starting to vote for the state electors do to where they originate or live in. Citizens have not yet grasped the rules of voting and tend to vote unfairly and not for the real reasons we urgently need these people in house,senate, or office.

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In some states electors refused to even vote for their particular party's candidate and choose to vote for who ever they wish to vote for

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which is a good thing. these electors prefer to vote for whoever will do a better job in office and that's what were scoring for with popular votes.

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What happens to votes when there's a run off, because there isn't enough votes to be held accountable for?

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Thats a question to think about , because there could be a lot of problems to be the cause of it.

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To have a certain number of people vote for who they choose to be President is surprisingly unrealistic.

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Why choose the majority rule when you could have thousands of People praying for a change vote for a change in their their future for a better life. The "winner-take-all" system has to be the most challeging systems of them all but seems to work out after all. "Electoral College is the best way!" what happened to the People actually living off of the rules that the Electoral college Voters choose for the people all together? It's time to make a change, why not start now and see how the congress feels. The biggest Decision that should be made should be made fairly by the people, the citizens.

Evidence

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In paragraph 13 it even states "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters."

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Big States are the main key. If we could get the big states to take part in the Popularity vote the smaller states will join in. Hoping for the best the Popularity Votes will soon rise and all the discrepencies won't be needed. If you understand where I'm coming from you'll think about what I'm saying if you care about the citizens your trying to help out.

Concluding Statement

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Right now there are many disputes and arguments over wether or not to keep the electoral college

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I think that the electoral college should have less power, but not be totally rid.

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Reason for my opinion is that alot of times the electoral college has too much say, and we the people dont have enough say

Claim

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For example, Barack Obama recieved 61.7% of the electoral vote compered to 51.3% of the popular vote. The electoral college had the most say and impact upon the outcome of the election

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Most of the time electoral college makes mistakes on who they pick.

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Everything they say is based of an intellectuall standpoint. The pick shouldnt be based off of all intellectuall.

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That doesnt mean the electoral college is bad, if it werent for them I think we the people are too stupid to make the decisons just ourselves. we need intellectual. Most voters dont even know much about who they pick. We shouldnt be trusted with all of the say in the election.

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Thats why we need electoral college to balance it out and make it right in the end. Alls im saying is dont give them all the say in who wins the election just lower it a bit to be 50-50.

Concluding Statement

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I know you are trying to decide if all students should participate in community service. I am writing this so you have a better point of view of a student

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I think we should have to do some kind of community work

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because it could help us students have a better look into life,

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