tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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9a5e157d5d12	259706C1BBC3	In most states it is illegal to even test the computer driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the Dristrict of Columbia have led the country in allowing the use of semi-autonomous cars. It should be illegal in most states, because it is dangerous. If one of these "smart cars" were to crash who is responsible? The driver,the car company, or the state?	Evidence	Adequate
96f39c1cbe55	259706C1BBC3	New laws will be needed to cover liability incase of an accident, in these states before the cars are tested.	Claim	Adequate
79dfa11db350	259706C1BBC3	All of these "smart cars" that have been created, and are on the road still need a person in the car	Evidence	Adequate
160470a8893c	259706C1BBC3	Why would someone want a driverless car that needs someone in it?	Claim	Adequate
814e5a317142	259706C1BBC3	All these big name car companies are claming to have these "driverless cars" soon, but how safe is it going to be for states, and pedestrians on the streets?	Position	Ineffective
86aa297a6851	259706C1BBC3	If these "smart cars" are created, states need to make sure that the cars are 100% safe for everyone.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
fdbd6f5a798e	259C2BDB1FFF	I think that every student should do community service	Position	Adequate
7a844bbc4e47	259C2BDB1FFF	you do this to help the community not to satisfy your self. Community service is to help people in need that is the real meaning of community service.	Claim	Adequate
b8c2a9a35b68	259C2BDB1FFF	Also community service is about doing thing with out receiving and not getting anything back because you do it only to help.	Claim	Adequate
22d2f38e45ea	259C2BDB1FFF	Also another reason of why the principle should make his students do community service is because if they do not do it they will never do any thing for poor or other people, or if they do service hours they won't do it to help they will just do them because their parents told them.	Claim	Adequate
dd23c1654a92	259C2BDB1FFF	Also the principle should help them see how hard is for other people to live so they will relice that they are lucky have parent or to go to school because there are people who do not have anything.	Claim	Adequate
ac6b6575f7b6	259C2BDB1FFF	That is why I think the principle should make his students do service hours, so that they can help others.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
6f9538010119	259CAA746857	in my opinion, i would want to keep the electoral college,	Position	Adequate
6b0b5c4e5aa0	259CAA746857	because the electoral college been around since our founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise.	Evidence	Adequate
ade325f5bbb5	259CAA746857	it consist of a presidency election on which who wants to be in office. for instance each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. which electors are choosen by the political party.	Evidence	Ineffective
5b3905304f5b	259CAA746857	you ahhve a right to vote. you can help choose your state's electors when you vote. because when you vote your actually voting for your canidate's electors to help them out.	Evidence	Ineffective
0f19cf26dc8f	259CAA746857	in your state it shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in december of the election year. but then if you think of its actually wrong because its of how many votes can the electors can get not the president. after the presidential election, your state governor prepares a 'certificate of ascerainment'. over 60% of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we would want to have. this year voters can exspect another close election in which popular vote winner could again lose the presidency, but yet the electoral college has it defenders. for example like obama had 61.7% of voters against romney who had 51.3% of votes but people say it was a tie which most likely i disagree on that. becuase its a like a win or lose game who ever wins gets the treatment, but really the president doesnt really dont do nothing.	Evidence	Ineffective
092b37b87526	25A752FB734B	is about what is eletoral college. It's about who is the founding father who established the constitution. And its about which president gets selected to take the offfice. And it depends on which people vote on which president at the time of voting. And after you selected that president there is no going back to change the answer ant any given point when in the voting booth because once you selected your answer there is no way going bak to change it. And you vote every 4 yrs and presidents cant sttay as president after two term if reelected. And the governor prepares a certififcate of ascertainment for all listing canidate who ran for the president that won the election.	Evidence	Ineffective
1f1d2998369a	25A752FB734B	is about the indefensible electoral college:why even the best -laid defense of the system are wrong. Richard Nixon, Jimmy carter,Bob Dole,the U.S. Chamber of commerce,and the AFL-CIO all ,in their time agreed on Aboilshing the electoral college. but electoral college you you dont vote on the president you vote for a slate of democratic or republican elector to pledged for what ever president you want to vote for. But if they take electoral college away it will cause a disaster factor for all american that want to vote. But the american are all lucky that 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century.	Evidence	Ineffective
21198a25d64b	25A752FB734B	is about in defense of the five electoral college:five reason to keep our despised method of choosing the president. The electoral college is widely regarded a an anachronism ,a non-democratic method of selecing a president that ought to be [overruled] by decaring the candidate who recives the most popular votes is the winner. But each party selects a slate of electorstrusted to vote for the party;s nominee(and that trustis rarely betrayed).Yet that has happend very rarely. There are 5 reason for retaining the electoral college despite its lack of democrat pedigree; all are practical reasons,not liberal or conservative reasons.	Evidence	Ineffective
cf66e86098f7	25F9B9BAA02A	I argue in favor of keeping the electoral college	Position	Adequate
22b11035d525	25F9B9BAA02A	because of the fact that if the popular vote and the vote in congress were to fail, there would be a backup way of casting, counting and recording votes by a qualified group of citizens, as stated in the first paragraph of the prompt	Claim	Ineffective
2a0a8fd258e5	25F9B9BAA02A	I believe the Electoral College should not be abolished also, for the reason that each candidate for president has an amount of electors chosen, varying on the state laws in effect in the given state he or she is being elected from.	Claim	Ineffective
d1abc166aa43	25F9B9BAA02A	an advantage of the Electoral College is also that the winning presidential candidate is awarded all of the electors in most states, except Maine and Nebraska, stated in the seventh paragraph.	Claim	Ineffective
d0d32b070fea	25F9B9BAA02A	Just like almost anything, the Electoral College has flaws, such as electors can be any person not holding public office, and, dependng on the state, whoever selects electors may vary. Plus, not everyone can control who their electors vote for	Counterclaim	Adequate
f77dfa284b94	25F9B9BAA02A	but the Electoral College has been in effect for over 200 years, established by the founding fathers themselves in the Constitution, so why not trust that they knew what they were doing? Besides, when each party selects a slate of electors, they put their trust, which, might I add, is rarely betrayed.	Rebuttal	Adequate
21d9ac125782	25F9B9BAA02A	But there is the problem that not all winners of electoral votes will not win the national vote; such an instance happened in 2000, when Al Gore had more popular votes than George Bush, yet fewer electoral votes.	Counterclaim	Effective
5727047f9b51	25F9B9BAA02A	Even so, that was the first time since 1888, as said in paragraph 16.	Rebuttal	Adequate
30722810b2e7	25F9B9BAA02A	There are a few practical reasons the Electoral College, even though it lacks a democratic pedigree, should be retained. Reason one is a certainty of outcome	Claim	Adequate
68a4a2124c19	25F9B9BAA02A	An example is in the 2012 election, when Obama recieved 61.7 percent of electoral votes, while Romney recieved 51.3 percent of popular votes.	Evidence	Adequate
65fbd7149520	25F9B9BAA02A	Another example is how the electoral college restores some of the weight in political balance, in which large states, population-wise, lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution.	Claim	Adequate
5aeaed80d3c6	25F9B9BAA02A	The subject of the Electoral Coolege's method of selecting a president is controversial in the sense that it may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state, such as Democrats in Texas, or Republicans in California,when they know their vote will have no effect, their incentive is much less than if it were picked by popular vote	Counterclaim	Effective
7acee992d06e	26453BA910DE	Would you rather be a cockroach or an ant? This isn't in a size match up but a living condition. A lone ranger roach or a society of workers like the ants. The same aspect can be applied to when people ask if offering classes at home would be beneficial for students. Students that would take classes at home would be enclosed away from peers and friends, while a student at school would be surrounded by peers and many people alike.	Lead	Effective
734c257e010c	26453BA910DE	So to a small extent students would benefit from being able to attend class from home, because this would let them learn at their own pace as well as in their best learning technique.	Counterclaim	Effective
92ccfc22a577	26453BA910DE	However, to a greater extent students would be at a loss from taking classes at home,	Position	Effective
55a4f76a8c35	26453BA910DE	they would lose their social interaction	Claim	Effective
6c7ec29e3b20	26453BA910DE	challenges brought on by the environment of schools.	Claim	Effective
d3a5dc3ce053	26453BA910DE	Education is about efficiently farming the minds of youth to grow great minds. Without the challenge of competing peers and uncomfortable situations for students the techniques would be less effective. To begin there is evidence to support that students in unfamiliar habitats like a school test better than students that are familiar with their testing environment. So students learning from home would test worse than students at school just due to the simple fact that they are more relaxed in their environment. Continuing, in schools peers push the learning potential upon themselves because of the social hierarchy with grade status. This is a key element with having a generalized system, this system creates competition among students to be at the top.	Evidence	Effective
8b7351b22b06	26453BA910DE	The ability to take classes at home would hinder the students inner strength by proposing no challenge for them.	Claim	Effective
8d51f9f05272	26453BA910DE	If you never went to school or work, how many friends would you have?	Evidence	Effective
d4085e87b147	26453BA910DE	Students offered classes at home would have minimal social life due in part to the lack of social interaction with the people in their area.	Claim	Effective
3c9522ce0be7	26453BA910DE	Students make life long friends from school: college roommates, kindergarten best friend, or high school sweethearts. Taking away the random dice roll of interactions by lowering the rate at which kids interact would create students with minimal social lives and students more likely to become sad or depressed. Students taking classes from home would loose touch with societal standards and become worse adults by not respecting things like: dress codes, rules of the office, or authority figures. This would be because of the lowered interaction with these rules and could lead to people who aren't mentally tough. Students without friends would become lost in society and could be unable to speak about their situation because of their lack of original social interaction.	Evidence	Effective
fccaff401eb4	26453BA910DE	Students taking online classes could have the ability to learn better, this is because they could learn at their own rate and they could learn with their best suited technique.	Counterclaim	Effective
d8e8e678ea14	26453BA910DE	Students aren't all the same, and having one technique used on all can hinder some of their abilities. Students taking online classes could use outside resources for study and this could create the situation best suited for their learning style. This could lead to better retention of the knowledge and a greater understanding of the material. Students could take the course at their speed, this could mean some would finish faster than others, but the main argument in this is students would have better material retention because they would be in the mindset of learning and not just going through the motions of school. Online school has its niche benefits for its population of students willing to take the toll.	Evidence	Effective
cfad9e6fa83b	26453BA910DE	To conclude students are better off taking classes at school, but there is a small population of students that taking online classes could work better for. Students would have to test out the options first and see what works best. Because even though online school sounds good on paper, it could very well be horrid in practice. Students always want to find the easy way out, and online school could be that no challenge road. That would lead to a greater number of students failing out of rigorous courses, and a potential of uneducated students because of a lower retention of material. Overall students should stay in school because it would create the fun challenging environment and a better social understanding for students.	Concluding Statement	Effective
059d90ae3a9a	264C52745EE1	I think helping out in the community would be fun. To me helping people out is a good way for people to get to know you. It also helps make out world look better!	Position	Effective
27aceb1104b8	264C52745EE1	I think you should have the school adopt a road and help pick up trash that people have left behind.	Claim	Adequate
2f95c0ea3fc9	264C52745EE1	It would be great for people to understand that just because people in jail are doing Community Service doesn't mean that its a bad thing to do. I think if you required us to do Community Service that maybe at first not very many people do it, but i think in the long run a lot of people would join.	Evidence	Adequate
a137b4ba5318	264C52745EE1	Second, i think Community Service would be great because most people in our community that are doing Community Service are the people in jail. To me when i see people doing Community Service i think of that too. But if you get more kids to do it, people will realize that, Hey maybe this would be good if all people did this.	Evidence	Ineffective
7a532f682c4f	264C52745EE1	Also the air we breathe in wouldn't be as polluted, and if we got together people not in the school district ,but out of our town it would be a lot cleaner.	Claim	Adequate
1310ad0744da	264C52745EE1	I understand that maybe it might be a bad idea because a lot of kids my age have a lot going on like basketball, baseball, football, school work, and much more.	Counterclaim	Adequate
8a18d1e9b7c9	264C52745EE1	But i promise if you just did this like once a month when there is nothing going on I'm sure there would be no problem. Also even if there was a practice on the schedule, the coach for the team or whatever there is a practice for the he/she wouldn't mind them doing some community work.	Rebuttal	Adequate
33b2400ed4ae	264C52745EE1	All i have to say, I think this would be good for our community, and you have my vote!	Concluding Statement	Adequate
847d6d8556ed	2689E413844D	I believe that the electoral college should be abolished.	Position	Effective
342b063fd68f	2689E413844D	The system is unjust and prevents we, the people to have our individual voices heard. When americans vote they're supposebly voting for the next president, when indeed they're votes only sway the opinion of the elector.	Evidence	Adequate
aab704332fff	2689E413844D	Think back to a little over a decade ago, to the 2000 presidential elections. Al gore received the popular vote, meaning that he was the one that us, the americans had wanted.	Claim	Effective
32cce8c4edb1	2689E413844D	Due to the fact that George W. Bush, his rival, received more electoral votes, Bush won, leaving an unfavored president running the country. According to source 2, a gallup poll was taken shortly after Gore had lost the presidency, an entire 60 percent of voters would prefer to have a direct vote, rather than go through the electoral process.	Evidence	Effective
7dd817866566	2689E413844D	Granted, that the electoral college does give a certainty of outcome and that no region on its own can vote for a president, it does give an equal chance for everybody to have their mostly preffered president	Counterclaim	Effective
1a516f6e2458	2689E413844D	there is however some flaws to these so called "pros". Faithless electors exist. These electors totally ignore what the people have to say and cast their own vote.	Rebuttal	Effective
5b3fc9660abb	2689E413844D	This occured in the 1960's with hawaii and louisiana, and when vice president nixon validated only his opponents electors, he made sure to do so without "establishing a president", though it can happen again.	Evidence	Adequate
9abcfadcd1e4	2689E413844D	We should all agree with Nixon, carter, and dole on the fact that this system isn't fair. Our voices as individuals aren't heard, and we just vote for the state of electors. We, the people of the united states of America wish to do away with the electoral college.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
fd072e366aae	269483FFAB82	I think that we should be able to have our phones in school during lunch and free periods.	Position	Adequate
448d99cd5d55	269483FFAB82	The reason is what if you had a medical emergency? and didn't have the phone number of that parent?.	Claim	Adequate
602c0a67a324	269483FFAB82	The policy's you made were very good and if we were aloud to have our phones in school it would make everyone a lot more happy.	Evidence	Adequate
6fc1be4d7ec0	269483FFAB82	The only bad thing to this is that everyone knows that the students keep there phones on and the interruption to the class would be aggravating.	Counterclaim	Adequate
2febcc725a61	269483FFAB82	I'm not saying that having phones during free periods and lunch is a bad thing but it may be in some situations. To be specific they might text during a test or maybe in the middle of class and its embarrassing not only to them but the teacher. The class may think its funny but some people just find it aggravating if this does happen i think that the students phone should be taken away.	Evidence	Adequate
de813046ce84	269483FFAB82	If you do accept this policy i think that you should do some sort of phone check just make five or ten minutes for them to check the phones, or even take the phones from the students and then give them back to them before lunch and during the free periods	Evidence	Ineffective
abca65d45ff7	269483FFAB82	The reason i like this policy is because we are teenagers and for some people there phone is there lifeline. But for others they have a phone for "Emergency's" only which is not always the case.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
faaab289dc9d	269F6428008E	It a long time ago that a spacecraft discover Mars. there was a lot of things that the spacecraft found on Mars. Mars is a differnet planet away from here.	Lead	Ineffective
d39c37e793d0	269F6428008E	It was twenty five years ago. Thar Mars was discovered by a spacecraft it was going around Mars and found a shadow that looked like a human face and it was getting enormous. The head you could found was from two miles from end to end. The face on Mars is found in 41 degress north martian latitude and also it was winter. A few days later there was a change that mars is becoming a pop icon	Evidence	Ineffective
338cce6981e1	269F6428008E	Scientist found out that it was a Martian mesa and that those shadows made it look like an Egyptain Pharaoh.	Position	Adequate
84b0b4c91b29	269F6428008E	The Martian mesa just not had a head it also had a mouth,eyes, and a nose like a real human will have. Since the spacecraft discover it. It came out in books,magazines, and radio talk shows. Some people say that there might be life on Mars. The author engage the public to know and attract attention to Mars. For this disover from the spacecraft and the scientist it was hard work to discover Mars Global. The lava dome that is form like a isolated mesa it is the same height as the Face on Mars.	Evidence	Ineffective
9c51bfa36d8a	269F6428008E	So in conclusion there could be life on Mars what scientist and the spacecraft discover. It takes scientist and a spacecraft to find these things in Mars Global. it was hard work for the scientist to learn about the mesa and could there be life on Mars.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
3e953f69402f	26F5F129E53A	I would like to keep the Electoral College. I think it would be better for the people.	Position	Adequate
89266c9a289e	26F5F129E53A	Voters in presidential elction are people who want to express a politcal preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. The Electoral Collge, ancachronism, a non-demoocratic method of selecting a president that should be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner. The Electoral College method is not democatic in a modern sense. It is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential candiate your actully vting for a slate of electors. Our fouding fathers established it.	Evidence	Ineffective
44c24b8825e7	26F5F129E53A	A magority of 270 elctors votes are reqiured. 3 Electors and treated like a state of purpose. Running for president has their own group of elcetors. Help choose the states electors when you vote for canidate. Governer prepares a Certificate of Ascertanaiment.	Evidence	Ineffective
c57afb97f186	2710BC110FD2	There are both positive and negative aspects mentioned in having a driverless car.	Position	Adequate
b2c248f9ca72	2710BC110FD2	While driverless cars seem new and exciting, they aren't practical. I don't think that having these new cars is a good idea. I feel like there are a lot better ways to spend our time than trying to develop this car that we don't even need. We are doing just fine with the cars we have currently.	Evidence	Adequate
5cf1cc59be16	2710BC110FD2	They mentioned that they aren't even completely driverless as of now.	Claim	Adequate
5ac676efe98a	2710BC110FD2	Why do we call these driverless if that's not even true? We need to stop relying so much on our addictive technology and use our brains and money for more important matters. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", it states that currently these cars still need humans to work. They are still alerting the driver to take the wheel when necessary. By calling these driverless it is false advertising. These cars still need humans to help out.	Evidence	Adequate
5b0dec27acc2	2710BC110FD2	The cars can't even pull in and out of driveways yet.	Claim	Adequate
8d7dcf3f2519	2710BC110FD2	Shouldn't we spend our time and money on something more worthwhile? To me, this concept of driverless cars doesn't make a lot of sense. I don't see the point of owning one of these cars.	Evidence	Ineffective
f9ffb62e30bc	2710BC110FD2	It seems incredibly boring just sitting there and not having to drive at all.	Claim	Adequate
4ee722eb033c	2710BC110FD2	Driving helps us learn to focus our attention on the road. It teaches us how to make responsible decisions.	Evidence	Adequate
5922887d9d34	2710BC110FD2	Driving is a privelege and I enjoy it. I don't understand why we would want to take this away.	Claim	Adequate
b56d27c9d186	2710BC110FD2	Kids look forward to getting older and being able to drive. Now they would learn to be even lazier by sitting there and not doing any work. Aren't we lazy enough now with all of our technology? We have phones, iPads, Kindles, computers, laptops, iPods, and so many more things that we put all of our attention in. Technology is addictive and we have plenty as it is. We spent countless hours on our devices already. We've lost contact with actual human beings. We can't keep relying on our devices to fix all of our problems. The younger generation doesn't even know what a dictionary or encyclopedia is, let alone how to use them. Yes, using Google is convenient, but we need to learn how to do things on our own again. The smarter technology becomes, the dumber we will be.	Evidence	Adequate
30ec8b1570b3	2710BC110FD2	Driverless cars are not a solution. We can drive just fine as it is. There are so many causes we could be supporting with the money we are using to fund the driverless car project. We are perfectly capable of driving on our own. We should be using our money on things that are more important. It is selfish to spend all of this money and time on such unecessary ideas than on meaningful corporations. We could be funding medical research and feeding the poor. Our generation has gotten so caught up in technology that we tend to forget about what is really important. In my opinion driverless cars are not a practical idea. They aren't necessary or completely reliable. If you got in a wreck in one, it would be blamed on you anyway. It just seems a lot simpler to stick to the cars we already have.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
99782ca26927	2714214F7D9E	I think students should be required to perform community service.	Position	Adequate
db74e61d8a4f	2714214F7D9E	Community service helps everyone in the community.	Evidence	Adequate
71675b8f6ec6	2714214F7D9E	Students need to learn how to help their community so it stays nice for everyone.	Claim	Adequate
e22c47d447f0	2714214F7D9E	Students need to know how to take care of the environment	Claim	Adequate
be40b0cebd9f	2714214F7D9E	so they stay aware how much work it takes to make the community stay nice and not a bad place to be.	Evidence	Adequate
64b84753b096	2714214F7D9E	Students should be required to help the community because otherwise the community could turn into a bad looking place	Claim	Effective
549782b21529	2714214F7D9E	no one will want to live there because they don't want to live somewhere no one takes care of or cares about	Evidence	Adequate
01516b94c7e0	2714214F7D9E	Students should be required to help tutor kids so they don't get bad grades so they can get into good schools and have good futures.	Evidence	Adequate
ee12e5d38b22	2714214F7D9E	Students should help out where help is needed the most like homeless shelters or cleaning up trash around town.	Claim	Effective
aecb6256a054	2714214F7D9E	f you pick up trash with a group of people it's fun because you become friends with those people.	Evidence	Ineffective
6f06959a228f	2714214F7D9E	Students should be part of an ecology club and work together to make the community healthier. Students could also shovel city side walks in the winter or mow lawns of houses people don't live in or of elderly people. Students can help out at nursing homes or daycares.	Evidence	Adequate
51b734d89d9a	2714214F7D9E	Students can help people in there neighborhood by shoveling driveways and helping carry groceries into peoples homes	Evidence	Adequate
bf5405ce3de2	2714214F7D9E	Community service makes students feel like they accomplished something and feel proud of themselves.	Claim	Adequate

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In most states it is illegal to even test the computer driven cars. California, Nevada, Florida, and the Dristrict of Columbia have led the country in allowing the use of semi-autonomous cars. It should be illegal in most states, because it is dangerous. If one of these "smart cars" were to crash who is responsible? The driver,the car company, or the state?

Evidence

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New laws will be needed to cover liability incase of an accident, in these states before the cars are tested.

Claim

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All of these "smart cars" that have been created, and are on the road still need a person in the car

Evidence

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Why would someone want a driverless car that needs someone in it?

Claim

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All these big name car companies are claming to have these "driverless cars" soon, but how safe is it going to be for states, and pedestrians on the streets?

Position

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If these "smart cars" are created, states need to make sure that the cars are 100% safe for everyone.

Concluding Statement

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I think that every student should do community service

Position

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you do this to help the community not to satisfy your self. Community service is to help people in need that is the real meaning of community service.

Claim

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Also community service is about doing thing with out receiving and not getting anything back because you do it only to help.

Claim

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Also another reason of why the principle should make his students do community service is because if they do not do it they will never do any thing for poor or other people, or if they do service hours they won't do it to help they will just do them because their parents told them.

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Also the principle should help them see how hard is for other people to live so they will relice that they are lucky have parent or to go to school because there are people who do not have anything.

Claim

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That is why I think the principle should make his students do service hours, so that they can help others.

Concluding Statement

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in my opinion, i would want to keep the electoral college,

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because the electoral college been around since our founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise.

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it consist of a presidency election on which who wants to be in office. for instance each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. which electors are choosen by the political party.

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you ahhve a right to vote. you can help choose your state's electors when you vote. because when you vote your actually voting for your canidate's electors to help them out.

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in your state it shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in december of the election year. but then if you think of its actually wrong because its of how many votes can the electors can get not the president. after the presidential election, your state governor prepares a 'certificate of ascerainment'. over 60% of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we would want to have. this year voters can exspect another close election in which popular vote winner could again lose the presidency, but yet the electoral college has it defenders. for example like obama had 61.7% of voters against romney who had 51.3% of votes but people say it was a tie which most likely i disagree on that. becuase its a like a win or lose game who ever wins gets the treatment, but really the president doesnt really dont do nothing.

Evidence

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is about what is eletoral college. It's about who is the founding father who established the constitution. And its about which president gets selected to take the offfice. And it depends on which people vote on which president at the time of voting. And after you selected that president there is no going back to change the answer ant any given point when in the voting booth because once you selected your answer there is no way going bak to change it. And you vote every 4 yrs and presidents cant sttay as president after two term if reelected. And the governor prepares a certififcate of ascertainment for all listing canidate who ran for the president that won the election.

Evidence

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is about the indefensible electoral college:why even the best -laid defense of the system are wrong. Richard Nixon, Jimmy carter,Bob Dole,the U.S. Chamber of commerce,and the AFL-CIO all ,in their time agreed on Aboilshing the electoral college. but electoral college you you dont vote on the president you vote for a slate of democratic or republican elector to pledged for what ever president you want to vote for. But if they take electoral college away it will cause a disaster factor for all american that want to vote. But the american are all lucky that 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century.

Evidence

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is about in defense of the five electoral college:five reason to keep our despised method of choosing the president. The electoral college is widely regarded a an anachronism ,a non-democratic method of selecing a president that ought to be [overruled] by decaring the candidate who recives the most popular votes is the winner. But each party selects a slate of electorstrusted to vote for the party;s nominee(and that trustis rarely betrayed).Yet that has happend very rarely. There are 5 reason for retaining the electoral college despite its lack of democrat pedigree; all are practical reasons,not liberal or conservative reasons.

Evidence

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I argue in favor of keeping the electoral college

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because of the fact that if the popular vote and the vote in congress were to fail, there would be a backup way of casting, counting and recording votes by a qualified group of citizens, as stated in the first paragraph of the prompt

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I believe the Electoral College should not be abolished also, for the reason that each candidate for president has an amount of electors chosen, varying on the state laws in effect in the given state he or she is being elected from.

Claim

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an advantage of the Electoral College is also that the winning presidential candidate is awarded all of the electors in most states, except Maine and Nebraska, stated in the seventh paragraph.

Claim

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Just like almost anything, the Electoral College has flaws, such as electors can be any person not holding public office, and, dependng on the state, whoever selects electors may vary. Plus, not everyone can control who their electors vote for

Counterclaim

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but the Electoral College has been in effect for over 200 years, established by the founding fathers themselves in the Constitution, so why not trust that they knew what they were doing? Besides, when each party selects a slate of electors, they put their trust, which, might I add, is rarely betrayed.

Rebuttal

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But there is the problem that not all winners of electoral votes will not win the national vote; such an instance happened in 2000, when Al Gore had more popular votes than George Bush, yet fewer electoral votes.

Counterclaim

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Even so, that was the first time since 1888, as said in paragraph 16.

Rebuttal

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There are a few practical reasons the Electoral College, even though it lacks a democratic pedigree, should be retained. Reason one is a certainty of outcome

Claim

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An example is in the 2012 election, when Obama recieved 61.7 percent of electoral votes, while Romney recieved 51.3 percent of popular votes.

Evidence

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Another example is how the electoral college restores some of the weight in political balance, in which large states, population-wise, lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution.

Claim

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The subject of the Electoral Coolege's method of selecting a president is controversial in the sense that it may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state, such as Democrats in Texas, or Republicans in California,when they know their vote will have no effect, their incentive is much less than if it were picked by popular vote

Counterclaim

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Would you rather be a cockroach or an ant? This isn't in a size match up but a living condition. A lone ranger roach or a society of workers like the ants. The same aspect can be applied to when people ask if offering classes at home would be beneficial for students. Students that would take classes at home would be enclosed away from peers and friends, while a student at school would be surrounded by peers and many people alike.

Lead

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So to a small extent students would benefit from being able to attend class from home, because this would let them learn at their own pace as well as in their best learning technique.

Counterclaim

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However, to a greater extent students would be at a loss from taking classes at home,

Position

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they would lose their social interaction

Claim

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challenges brought on by the environment of schools.

Claim

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Education is about efficiently farming the minds of youth to grow great minds. Without the challenge of competing peers and uncomfortable situations for students the techniques would be less effective. To begin there is evidence to support that students in unfamiliar habitats like a school test better than students that are familiar with their testing environment. So students learning from home would test worse than students at school just due to the simple fact that they are more relaxed in their environment. Continuing, in schools peers push the learning potential upon themselves because of the social hierarchy with grade status. This is a key element with having a generalized system, this system creates competition among students to be at the top.

Evidence

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The ability to take classes at home would hinder the students inner strength by proposing no challenge for them.

Claim

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If you never went to school or work, how many friends would you have?

Evidence

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Students offered classes at home would have minimal social life due in part to the lack of social interaction with the people in their area.

Claim

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Students make life long friends from school: college roommates, kindergarten best friend, or high school sweethearts. Taking away the random dice roll of interactions by lowering the rate at which kids interact would create students with minimal social lives and students more likely to become sad or depressed. Students taking classes from home would loose touch with societal standards and become worse adults by not respecting things like: dress codes, rules of the office, or authority figures. This would be because of the lowered interaction with these rules and could lead to people who aren't mentally tough. Students without friends would become lost in society and could be unable to speak about their situation because of their lack of original social interaction.

Evidence

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Students taking online classes could have the ability to learn better, this is because they could learn at their own rate and they could learn with their best suited technique.

Counterclaim

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Students aren't all the same, and having one technique used on all can hinder some of their abilities. Students taking online classes could use outside resources for study and this could create the situation best suited for their learning style. This could lead to better retention of the knowledge and a greater understanding of the material. Students could take the course at their speed, this could mean some would finish faster than others, but the main argument in this is students would have better material retention because they would be in the mindset of learning and not just going through the motions of school. Online school has its niche benefits for its population of students willing to take the toll.

Evidence

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To conclude students are better off taking classes at school, but there is a small population of students that taking online classes could work better for. Students would have to test out the options first and see what works best. Because even though online school sounds good on paper, it could very well be horrid in practice. Students always want to find the easy way out, and online school could be that no challenge road. That would lead to a greater number of students failing out of rigorous courses, and a potential of uneducated students because of a lower retention of material. Overall students should stay in school because it would create the fun challenging environment and a better social understanding for students.

Concluding Statement

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I think helping out in the community would be fun. To me helping people out is a good way for people to get to know you. It also helps make out world look better!

Position

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I think you should have the school adopt a road and help pick up trash that people have left behind.

Claim

Adequate

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It would be great for people to understand that just because people in jail are doing Community Service doesn't mean that its a bad thing to do. I think if you required us to do Community Service that maybe at first not very many people do it, but i think in the long run a lot of people would join.

Evidence

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Second, i think Community Service would be great because most people in our community that are doing Community Service are the people in jail. To me when i see people doing Community Service i think of that too. But if you get more kids to do it, people will realize that, Hey maybe this would be good if all people did this.

Evidence

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Also the air we breathe in wouldn't be as polluted, and if we got together people not in the school district ,but out of our town it would be a lot cleaner.

Claim

Adequate

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I understand that maybe it might be a bad idea because a lot of kids my age have a lot going on like basketball, baseball, football, school work, and much more.

Counterclaim

Adequate

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But i promise if you just did this like once a month when there is nothing going on I'm sure there would be no problem. Also even if there was a practice on the schedule, the coach for the team or whatever there is a practice for the he/she wouldn't mind them doing some community work.

Rebuttal

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All i have to say, I think this would be good for our community, and you have my vote!

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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I believe that the electoral college should be abolished.

Position

Effective

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The system is unjust and prevents we, the people to have our individual voices heard. When americans vote they're supposebly voting for the next president, when indeed they're votes only sway the opinion of the elector.

Evidence

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Think back to a little over a decade ago, to the 2000 presidential elections. Al gore received the popular vote, meaning that he was the one that us, the americans had wanted.

Claim

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Due to the fact that George W. Bush, his rival, received more electoral votes, Bush won, leaving an unfavored president running the country. According to source 2, a gallup poll was taken shortly after Gore had lost the presidency, an entire 60 percent of voters would prefer to have a direct vote, rather than go through the electoral process.

Evidence

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Granted, that the electoral college does give a certainty of outcome and that no region on its own can vote for a president, it does give an equal chance for everybody to have their mostly preffered president

Counterclaim

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there is however some flaws to these so called "pros". Faithless electors exist. These electors totally ignore what the people have to say and cast their own vote.

Rebuttal

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This occured in the 1960's with hawaii and louisiana, and when vice president nixon validated only his opponents electors, he made sure to do so without "establishing a president", though it can happen again.

Evidence

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We should all agree with Nixon, carter, and dole on the fact that this system isn't fair. Our voices as individuals aren't heard, and we just vote for the state of electors. We, the people of the united states of America wish to do away with the electoral college.

Concluding Statement

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I think that we should be able to have our phones in school during lunch and free periods.

Position

Adequate

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The reason is what if you had a medical emergency? and didn't have the phone number of that parent?.

Claim

Adequate

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The policy's you made were very good and if we were aloud to have our phones in school it would make everyone a lot more happy.

Evidence

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The only bad thing to this is that everyone knows that the students keep there phones on and the interruption to the class would be aggravating.

Counterclaim

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I'm not saying that having phones during free periods and lunch is a bad thing but it may be in some situations. To be specific they might text during a test or maybe in the middle of class and its embarrassing not only to them but the teacher. The class may think its funny but some people just find it aggravating if this does happen i think that the students phone should be taken away.

Evidence

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If you do accept this policy i think that you should do some sort of phone check just make five or ten minutes for them to check the phones, or even take the phones from the students and then give them back to them before lunch and during the free periods

Evidence

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The reason i like this policy is because we are teenagers and for some people there phone is there lifeline. But for others they have a phone for "Emergency's" only which is not always the case.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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It a long time ago that a spacecraft discover Mars. there was a lot of things that the spacecraft found on Mars. Mars is a differnet planet away from here.

Lead

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It was twenty five years ago. Thar Mars was discovered by a spacecraft it was going around Mars and found a shadow that looked like a human face and it was getting enormous. The head you could found was from two miles from end to end. The face on Mars is found in 41 degress north martian latitude and also it was winter. A few days later there was a change that mars is becoming a pop icon

Evidence

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Scientist found out that it was a Martian mesa and that those shadows made it look like an Egyptain Pharaoh.

Position

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The Martian mesa just not had a head it also had a mouth,eyes, and a nose like a real human will have. Since the spacecraft discover it. It came out in books,magazines, and radio talk shows. Some people say that there might be life on Mars. The author engage the public to know and attract attention to Mars. For this disover from the spacecraft and the scientist it was hard work to discover Mars Global. The lava dome that is form like a isolated mesa it is the same height as the Face on Mars.

Evidence

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So in conclusion there could be life on Mars what scientist and the spacecraft discover. It takes scientist and a spacecraft to find these things in Mars Global. it was hard work for the scientist to learn about the mesa and could there be life on Mars.

Concluding Statement

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I would like to keep the Electoral College. I think it would be better for the people.

Position

Adequate

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Voters in presidential elction are people who want to express a politcal preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. The Electoral Collge, ancachronism, a non-demoocratic method of selecting a president that should be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner. The Electoral College method is not democatic in a modern sense. It is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential candiate your actully vting for a slate of electors. Our fouding fathers established it.

Evidence

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A magority of 270 elctors votes are reqiured. 3 Electors and treated like a state of purpose. Running for president has their own group of elcetors. Help choose the states electors when you vote for canidate. Governer prepares a Certificate of Ascertanaiment.

Evidence

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There are both positive and negative aspects mentioned in having a driverless car.

Position

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While driverless cars seem new and exciting, they aren't practical. I don't think that having these new cars is a good idea. I feel like there are a lot better ways to spend our time than trying to develop this car that we don't even need. We are doing just fine with the cars we have currently.

Evidence

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They mentioned that they aren't even completely driverless as of now.

Claim

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Why do we call these driverless if that's not even true? We need to stop relying so much on our addictive technology and use our brains and money for more important matters. In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming", it states that currently these cars still need humans to work. They are still alerting the driver to take the wheel when necessary. By calling these driverless it is false advertising. These cars still need humans to help out.

Evidence

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The cars can't even pull in and out of driveways yet.

Claim

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Shouldn't we spend our time and money on something more worthwhile? To me, this concept of driverless cars doesn't make a lot of sense. I don't see the point of owning one of these cars.

Evidence

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It seems incredibly boring just sitting there and not having to drive at all.

Claim

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Driving helps us learn to focus our attention on the road. It teaches us how to make responsible decisions.

Evidence

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Driving is a privelege and I enjoy it. I don't understand why we would want to take this away.

Claim

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Kids look forward to getting older and being able to drive. Now they would learn to be even lazier by sitting there and not doing any work. Aren't we lazy enough now with all of our technology? We have phones, iPads, Kindles, computers, laptops, iPods, and so many more things that we put all of our attention in. Technology is addictive and we have plenty as it is. We spent countless hours on our devices already. We've lost contact with actual human beings. We can't keep relying on our devices to fix all of our problems. The younger generation doesn't even know what a dictionary or encyclopedia is, let alone how to use them. Yes, using Google is convenient, but we need to learn how to do things on our own again. The smarter technology becomes, the dumber we will be.

Evidence

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Driverless cars are not a solution. We can drive just fine as it is. There are so many causes we could be supporting with the money we are using to fund the driverless car project. We are perfectly capable of driving on our own. We should be using our money on things that are more important. It is selfish to spend all of this money and time on such unecessary ideas than on meaningful corporations. We could be funding medical research and feeding the poor. Our generation has gotten so caught up in technology that we tend to forget about what is really important. In my opinion driverless cars are not a practical idea. They aren't necessary or completely reliable. If you got in a wreck in one, it would be blamed on you anyway. It just seems a lot simpler to stick to the cars we already have.

Concluding Statement

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I think students should be required to perform community service.

Position

Adequate

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Community service helps everyone in the community.

Evidence

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Students need to learn how to help their community so it stays nice for everyone.

Claim

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Students need to know how to take care of the environment

Claim

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so they stay aware how much work it takes to make the community stay nice and not a bad place to be.

Evidence

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Students should be required to help the community because otherwise the community could turn into a bad looking place

Claim

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no one will want to live there because they don't want to live somewhere no one takes care of or cares about

Evidence

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Students should be required to help tutor kids so they don't get bad grades so they can get into good schools and have good futures.

Evidence

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Students should help out where help is needed the most like homeless shelters or cleaning up trash around town.

Claim

Effective

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f you pick up trash with a group of people it's fun because you become friends with those people.

Evidence

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Students should be part of an ecology club and work together to make the community healthier. Students could also shovel city side walks in the winter or mow lawns of houses people don't live in or of elderly people. Students can help out at nursing homes or daycares.

Evidence

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Students can help people in there neighborhood by shoveling driveways and helping carry groceries into peoples homes

Evidence

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Community service makes students feel like they accomplished something and feel proud of themselves.

Claim

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