tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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b3bc8ddfd68f	2714214F7D9E	Students should start helping others with things they would need help with. Students should start helping others whenever they think someone needs help	Evidence	Adequate
0cef01058ed4	2714214F7D9E	Students should help around their school by picking stuff up in the halls when they see it or taking things that people have found to the lost and found.	Evidence	Adequate
edd9d14adf7b	2714214F7D9E	Students should be required to do community service because some would not volunteer to help	Claim	Adequate
53145e940ea5	2714214F7D9E	because they would be embarrassed because they think they would be made fun of.	Evidence	Adequate
73e5579b1f61	2714214F7D9E	Students should have to have community service but be able to choose what to do so that they will want to do it again	Concluding Statement	Effective
f63915f546e6	2714214F7D9E	because if they don't like it they may never volunteer after that. There should be a lot of options for students to choose from so some people don't get stuck choosing something they think is boring. Students would be more willing if they knew all the options and could find one they liked.	Evidence	Adequate
91407e95935b	271636CCA33B	As you know every four years a president is elected. In order for that to happen the candidates go through the process of an Electoral College or the people vote. An Electoral College is when the congress gets to vote to pick who the president and vice president will be. And the other way is when the people of that state get to vote.	Lead	Adequate
38aa9d2e6a6a	271636CCA33B	some disavantages of doing an Electoral College is if the president is bad the congress will get blammed.	Claim	Adequate
799b589b8636	271636CCA33B	Vandalism, riots, breaking laws. Who knows how far people will go to get their way. And there are many more mistakes that happen. As said in the article	Evidence	Adequate
570eaf3b21d4	271636CCA33B	the voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate.	Counterclaim	Adequate
bc44ae4d559f	271636CCA33B	Now there are some disavantages for the people voting but not as many and not as bad.	Rebuttal	Adequate
ebee26b762b2	271636CCA33B	Yes people can still get angery and do bad things, but due to the privacy when we vote there is no one to speicficly blame. There are way more of us then the congress, so mistakes won't always affect things as bad.	Evidence	Adequate
5d40b759ae57	271636CCA33B	even though there are many many disavantages and mistakes about the Electoral College there are a few advantages. Like it takes less time for the congress to vote.	Counterclaim	Adequate
7c437c65b54a	271636CCA33B	But to be honest why rush to fail.	Rebuttal	Adequate
5dd8b2b86f1d	271636CCA33B	by letting the people vote it gives everybody a fair chance to say their oppinion and it has so much less conflict.	Evidence	Adequate
34f705d48f3c	271636CCA33B	I admit the congress does know alot	Counterclaim	Ineffective
79a0e180647a	271636CCA33B	but the decesion on the president is going to mostly affect us, the people.	Rebuttal	Ineffective
e3774b3bdd76	271636CCA33B	Everybody has the right to have their own oppinion.	Claim	Ineffective
8aaa37062380	271636CCA33B	In my oppinion I think the people should vote.	Position	Adequate
112d1f2d08d8	271636CCA33B	there are very few things we can do to change things. The congress has power over so much and it it feels like the most people can do is say what we think, even when we know it can't change anything. We the people don't have the power to change much but by letting the people vote it can make a big differnce.	Evidence	Adequate
7c21af04ddbf	271636CCA33B	the United States is a great place and no one wants to see it go down hill from one wrong mistake. And the solution is very simple, let the people vote. The people's oppinion are very important and need to be heard!	Concluding Statement	Adequate
b38ae86370c4	2723DB12AC00	Let me ask you this question What's better then waking up and, knowing that you are getting your education at home? with that in mind Some schools offer distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home	Lead	Adequate
0f24d9209a83	2723DB12AC00	I think students will highly benefit from atending classes from home	Position	Adequate
cb3170c8e8df	2723DB12AC00	Because not everyone learns the sameway.	Claim	Adequate
bf01b5dbe624	2723DB12AC00	some students struggle to stay in school all day and, most of them can't listen to teachers talking for 90 minutes straight.	Evidence	Adequate
7e2b3c8a59f3	2723DB12AC00	I feel like less students will drop out of high school. Some students are anti social and, don't like being in a place where everyone likes to judge you or, talk about you. Students don't have to stressed out about work that is not finished in class so, homework will be a thing in the passed. People like me will have more time to play sports and, be with family. Most people carrey a ten pound backpack but, with online classses all your work will be saved in a computere.	Evidence	Adequate
16e71790ab91	2723DB12AC00	The will hightly benefit people who are not the best with keeping papers in order. The future are our computers and, builting a strong skill with computers is a great treat to have.	Claim	Adequate
9b1442755186	2723DB12AC00	Online classes is the future and the future is here.	Evidence	Ineffective
dbac456efee7	2723DB12AC00	Students are benefiting from online classes but, some students comeback into public schools because they learn better face to face with a teacher, and not steering at a screen all day.	Counterclaim	Adequate
f123e94533d1	2723DB12AC00	Alot of colleges accept students who got their diploma online	Evidence	Adequate
5e4d2ccca5af	2723DB12AC00	but, studies showed that a lot of students who got their education online had a hardtime adopting into the colleges.	Rebuttal	Adequate
a3d09abab90e	2723DB12AC00	I still feel like online classes is the better chioce we been following the same school systeam for more then 100 years It's time for change!	Concluding Statement	Adequate
61f911d1dcf0	27347E260F1C	First and foremost I believe that we live in a community that is well kept and organized, and it should remain that way. The generations before us have given us a place filled with love and care , a place of neat parks and recreation centers, a place we can call home.	Lead	Effective
07f252866bc2	27347E260F1C	This way of life should be kept up and exercised by our generation and the ones seceding us.	Position	Effective
5eba94a684ba	27347E260F1C	Community service gives everyone a chance to give back and help out, whether young or old.	Claim	Effective
595ec88ca43a	27347E260F1C	I think that our community should be one of were children offer to help out;	Claim	Adequate
686c2674551b	27347E260F1C	where the food banks are over filled with volunteers; where people don't hate jury duty; where people are true patriots; where people don't have to get sentenced just to pick up trash.	Evidence	Effective
a63a23a96199	27347E260F1C	I wish that we could be a school with all of those traits. So yes, I believe in community service being a requirement.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
1021988e2b1d	2751851F289B	If I was a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens,	Lead	Adequate
2b7497afcb48	2751851F289B	in the story it's saids that '' Face on Mars'' has since became a pop icon	Evidence	Ineffective
e90b725deb6d	2751851F289B	If I was a scientist in NASA I would found out how did the peron face came to another planet.	Position	Ineffective
0d79b7ce497d	2751851F289B	They have to get out the earth to come to another planet to just put your face on it out of no were. But if a person did put there face inprint on a another planet, I think they will turn into a alien. I will tell you why I said that, because people say that aliens are real and they harm creatures. Also, if I'm the scientist this will tells that a FACE on a human body doing on a another planet they should be on earth.	Evidence	Ineffective
088ad588eb77	2751851F289B	In the article it saids: twenty five years ago something funny happening around Mars, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping photos of possible landing sites for it's sister ship Viking 2	Evidence	Ineffective
bc43d8ff92d8	2751851F289B	Also, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face, an enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. There must have been a degree of surprise among mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on the monitors. But now scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa common enough around Cydonia only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.	Evidence	Ineffective
eecfdfde2925	2751851F289B	But if I'm the scientist trying to figured out all this work,and see who's the human face or a alien face because humans on earth an aliens in Mars or more planets. But afterwards after that happening, it saids how some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile the defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars. Also, although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact photographing Cydonia became a prioprity for NASA when Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in September. 1997, eighteen long years ago after the Viking missions ended.	Evidence	Ineffective
455082fa3a71	27ECF3416910	The state senator should keep the electoral college and not change it to the election by popular vote for the president of the United States.	Position	Adequate
9d26dd4237f5	27ECF3416910	Therefore, I agree with what the passage is saying because it says ''The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electors votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitles allotment of electors equals the nu,ber of memebers in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators....	Evidence	Ineffective
584b3c830852	27ECF3416910	That to me explains it all because the college votes can vote for multiple things then the people who vote for the popular votes. So, to me they gave a good enough reasonings.	Claim	Ineffective
53217528d047	27ECF3416910	Also, Electoral College votes have a better outcome then the popular votes	Claim	Adequate
ac3b93e8ca97	27ECF3416910	because in the last election that they have for Obama he received 61.7 precent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 precent of the popular vote cast him anf Romeny. So, electoral college voted have more oppurtunies of more things.	Evidence	Adequate
20e4b57296e7	27ECF3416910	Although, popular votes can come in many ways of being helpful because popular votes can help people win by very littler or more.	Claim	Ineffective
6fb3d04074f3	27ECF3416910	On my opino i don't consiter them to change to poplaur voted becasue to me its nothing i agree to keeping the electoral college votes	Evidence	Ineffective
d80b4b90b966	27ECF3416910	Finally, but not last what ever you do keep the electoral college votes they know what there doing.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
69729840c39b	2834DAFAB489	The question at hand is, "Does the electoral college work?"	Lead	Adequate
8a8a6820de0e	2834DAFAB489	My answer to that is simple "yes	Position	Adequate
912d201a1d99	2834DAFAB489	,but the reasons why I say this gets a little more complicated. As you may know the founding fathers established it, the Electoral College in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens (Office of the federal register, paragraph 1). Also, A majority of 270 out of 538 electoral voters is required to elect the president. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equal the number of members in its congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representitives plus two for your Senators (Office of Federal Register, Paragraph 3).	Evidence	Adequate
3b60901aa19c	2834DAFAB489	Which only goes to show that everyone gets to vote.	Claim	Ineffective
818180852bfb	2834DAFAB489	Some may argue the Electoral; college is an anachronism	Counterclaim	Adequate
a2ead05dc6cd	2834DAFAB489	an old and out of date method, or a non-democratic way of selecting a presedint that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. and according to Richard A. Posner they maybe right in the arguing view that the Electoral Colleger method is not democratic in a modern sense. But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee, and that trust is rarely betrayed however, it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. (Richard A. Posner, 16)	Evidence	Adequate
cf0f4a43e166	2834DAFAB489	All the college is trying to do is set a number of people who can be elected not elect the president on their own.	Rebuttal	Ineffective
3c84beb07422	2834DAFAB489	Under the electoral college system voters vote not for the pesident but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. No one is saying leave it up to the "state", the distict of columbia to decide alone who our president should be but just to	Evidence	Adequate
75228bc54c41	2834DAFAB489	let them help in narrowing it down to those who fits the qualifications we need in a good president, The person who is going to run our country	Claim	Adequate
f82aff5a63f0	2834DAFAB489	Bradford Plumer said it himself voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong canidate so why put the humans that always make mistakes in charge of choosing who out of "billy joe bob from the swamp" and " steve boy from the country club" to run our country.	Evidence	Adequate
f0291df18053	2834DAFAB489	I say let the qualified pick the qualified.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
97b6bb0ddd3b	283F30E12B90	i strongly believe that we should have Electoral vote.	Position	Adequate
979c8eef6123	283F30E12B90	With the Electoral collage it allows for us to make there a set number on the amount of votes we can get. That being said the Electoral collaeg wpuld make it alot easier so the states adn national governmant to get the right amount of votes.	Evidence	Ineffective
9ef9ebd5dfa6	283F30E12B90	With the Electoral College, it all depnds on if you state agrees to have a certain person as president. As informed in "What is the Electoral College?" it states that " The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. This makes it a majority vote i order for you state to win for which ever candianate.	Evidence	Ineffective
a9ad66a66ea0	283F30E12B90	During the 2012 election with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Romney had to win Ohio and Florida's Electoral vote. But becasue Obama won Florida he remained in office as our president. With this Electoral vote its a amke or break. Its not always the best thing but its the right thing. With the Electoral College you vote for a slate of voters who then vote for president. As Richard A. Posner informed us, " Its entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular vote than Bush yet fewer electoral votes."	Evidence	Adequate
3a2f408c0a29	283F30E12B90	the Electoral Vote is more important.	Claim	Adequate
017ca2ee04fb	283F30E12B90	The Swing States are what determines the election. These states are different for every election becasue they will always find which one is better. The Big States is the states witha lot of electoral votes , including California who has 55 electoral votes. The higher the population the more Electoral votes you have. When a Run off election happens the Electoral College doesnt allow for Majority of teh votes cast.	Evidence	Ineffective
5821c5568e5e	283F30E12B90	Overall you should not take the Elctoral College away. Without The Electoral College there would not be a fair shot for the canidate to win. You should keep the Electoral vote!!!	Concluding Statement	Adequate
28f320f56907	2865585E0E34	I am writing a letter to my state senator in which i'm arguing if i'm in favor of keeping the Electoral College or Changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United states	Lead	Adequate
5bfc9e4e8414	2865585E0E34	I'm in favor of the election by popular vote for the president of the U.S.	Position	Adequate
c12485d60a06	2865585E0E34	The electoral college is unfair to voters. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president	Claim	Adequate
c92b6038c9b3	2865585E0E34	For instance if you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for John kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to kerry, they would go to Congress and kerry would get 34 electoral votes	Evidence	Ineffective
83e9a0adf712	2865585E0E34	Also its Unfair to the voters because of the winner-takes-all system. In each state candidates dont spend time in states they know have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states	Claim	Adequate
d777be18d0b4	2865585E0E34	In the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all.	Evidence	Adequate
bf806f24288c	2865585E0E34	In defense "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates, to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states."	Counterclaim	Adequate
38a5d3eae0cc	2865585E0E34	but the winner-take-all system is still focusing on the ststes knowing that there going to vote for you, and notthe other states that possibly will or will not vote for you.	Rebuttal	Adequate
d6ab1b670de2	2865585E0E34	Another reason is that the Electoral college is just a disaster factor simple as that	Claim	Adequate
37e3fa12d245	2865585E0E34	In the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not actually gone to Kennedy	Evidence	Adequate
a832bce467c2	2865585E0E34	Also what if a state sends two slates of electors to congress	Claim	Adequate
63bff07a17e5	2865585E0E34	It happened in Hawii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richard Nixon, who presided over the senate validated only his opponents electors making sure to do so ' without establishing a precedent.	Evidence	Effective
fe38a2faaaca	2865585E0E34	In conclusion the Electoral college is unfair, irrational, and just a hotmess. Like Bob Dole said "Abolish the Electoral College	Concluding Statement	Adequate
e89dcad55764	287CDB5117E0	There are pros and cons for both whywe should keep and get rid of the Electoral college	Position	Ineffective
ab603d01cd88	287CDB5117E0	You are voting for the electors, not the president.	Claim	Adequate
676fa23fa95d	287CDB5117E0	Voters don't get to choose the electors. Some electors might even defy the wishes of the people who voted for them. There are 538 electoral votes, which is an even number so their could be a tie.	Evidence	Adequate
5158ca308850	287CDB5117E0	It is rare that eletors will defy the wishes of the voters, but it has happened	Claim	Adequate
e8e1b51707e3	287CDB5117E0	In 2000 Gore had a high percentage of the popular vote than electoral votes. This is so rare that the only other time that it happened was in 1888. Most states give electoral votes on a winner-takes-all basis, some split the votes a little bit, because of this there is a clear winner. In the case of electoral votes, no one region of the United States can win alone, so the votes are spread out. If presidential elections were decided directly by the popular vote than region favorites would be elected abd the rest of the voters would feel that they did'nt vote for the president that was elected. Presidential candidates are most likely to campaign in "swing states" that they know they cn win the electoral votes from. Voters in these states are most likely to pay close attention to both candidates, so the most thoughtful voters will get the most representation. The most populated states or the "big states" get the most electoral votes, meaning the states with the most people the the most representation. With the Electoral College you increase your chances of having a majority (fifty percent or more). While there can be a tie, this is rare.	Evidence	Adequate
1c19010d484a	287CDB5117E0	Since there are good arguements on both sides, a decision has to be made after careful thought.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
c4626e7e0fb4	28A7B5B9219E	The school policy that you have decided upon is necessary that students must have a grade B average to play sports is not a good idea in my mind.	Position	Adequate
0ce053eb962c	28A7B5B9219E	Many students are at a grade C average and are playing meaning that they are already trying their best to be in the sports.	Claim	Effective
d916b3d4e9b3	28A7B5B9219E	When a student is pushed a little to do better they react accordingly but, when they are pushed to across their limit they tend to feel overwhelmed and agitated	Claim	Effective
0853319d4858	28A7B5B9219E	This overwhelming feeling can lead to procrastination and laziness, which will lower their grades which would then lead to a domino effect until they are failing. This could happen or the student would feel that they do not need to go to school anymore because they have nothing to look forward to there. Then the student may influence others and create a ring of truancy which is worse than low grades.	Evidence	Effective
5c9887a741cb	28A7B5B9219E	The students who enjoy these extracurricular activities usually are concentrating on doing their best in sports or their extracurricular activities, if we could move their priorities without side effects we could be able to reach higher levels of learning although a grade B average sounds like the best thing to do for this, it is not.	Claim	Effective
f0ccc916b3a5	28A7B5B9219E	Sometimes when students have a large load of homework or tests they feel the need to relax and forget about their stress, but if they need to get even higher grades the outcome would be either of these three extremes, extremely low grades, truancy, high grades (but not enough time for sports) without a lot of time students agitation would reach to a point where they might resort to drastic efforts to relieve stress, like suicide. This would then mold the school into an unfriendly jail cell, and other students will be effected.	Evidence	Effective
b067fc7b15a6	28A7B5B9219E	Instead of a grade B average as the policy, you should have a tutor at the extracurricular activities who can put in a little bit of teaching while the students are having fun.	Claim	Effective
ee9d90c123bb	28A7B5B9219E	The connection of fun and learning can lead grade C average students to achieve higher grades and do better in school.	Evidence	Adequate
a773b364f74b	28A7B5B9219E	Also if you can design rewards for students with higher grades the students with low grades will want to reap from the tree of knowledge to receive rewards, this in turn will yield higher grades, less procrastination, less anger, and all without any harmful side effects.	Claim	Effective
1de359c935e2	28C1E6A5576E	I argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states.	Position	Adequate

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Students should start helping others with things they would need help with. Students should start helping others whenever they think someone needs help

Evidence

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Students should help around their school by picking stuff up in the halls when they see it or taking things that people have found to the lost and found.

Evidence

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Students should be required to do community service because some would not volunteer to help

Claim

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because they would be embarrassed because they think they would be made fun of.

Evidence

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Students should have to have community service but be able to choose what to do so that they will want to do it again

Concluding Statement

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because if they don't like it they may never volunteer after that. There should be a lot of options for students to choose from so some people don't get stuck choosing something they think is boring. Students would be more willing if they knew all the options and could find one they liked.

Evidence

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As you know every four years a president is elected. In order for that to happen the candidates go through the process of an Electoral College or the people vote. An Electoral College is when the congress gets to vote to pick who the president and vice president will be. And the other way is when the people of that state get to vote.

Lead

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some disavantages of doing an Electoral College is if the president is bad the congress will get blammed.

Claim

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Vandalism, riots, breaking laws. Who knows how far people will go to get their way. And there are many more mistakes that happen. As said in the article

Evidence

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the voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate.

Counterclaim

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Now there are some disavantages for the people voting but not as many and not as bad.

Rebuttal

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Yes people can still get angery and do bad things, but due to the privacy when we vote there is no one to speicficly blame. There are way more of us then the congress, so mistakes won't always affect things as bad.

Evidence

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even though there are many many disavantages and mistakes about the Electoral College there are a few advantages. Like it takes less time for the congress to vote.

Counterclaim

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But to be honest why rush to fail.

Rebuttal

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by letting the people vote it gives everybody a fair chance to say their oppinion and it has so much less conflict.

Evidence

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I admit the congress does know alot

Counterclaim

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but the decesion on the president is going to mostly affect us, the people.

Rebuttal

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Everybody has the right to have their own oppinion.

Claim

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In my oppinion I think the people should vote.

Position

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there are very few things we can do to change things. The congress has power over so much and it it feels like the most people can do is say what we think, even when we know it can't change anything. We the people don't have the power to change much but by letting the people vote it can make a big differnce.

Evidence

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the United States is a great place and no one wants to see it go down hill from one wrong mistake. And the solution is very simple, let the people vote. The people's oppinion are very important and need to be heard!

Concluding Statement

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Let me ask you this question What's better then waking up and, knowing that you are getting your education at home? with that in mind Some schools offer distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home

Lead

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I think students will highly benefit from atending classes from home

Position

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Because not everyone learns the sameway.

Claim

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some students struggle to stay in school all day and, most of them can't listen to teachers talking for 90 minutes straight.

Evidence

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I feel like less students will drop out of high school. Some students are anti social and, don't like being in a place where everyone likes to judge you or, talk about you. Students don't have to stressed out about work that is not finished in class so, homework will be a thing in the passed. People like me will have more time to play sports and, be with family. Most people carrey a ten pound backpack but, with online classses all your work will be saved in a computere.

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The will hightly benefit people who are not the best with keeping papers in order. The future are our computers and, builting a strong skill with computers is a great treat to have.

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Online classes is the future and the future is here.

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Students are benefiting from online classes but, some students comeback into public schools because they learn better face to face with a teacher, and not steering at a screen all day.

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Alot of colleges accept students who got their diploma online

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but, studies showed that a lot of students who got their education online had a hardtime adopting into the colleges.

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I still feel like online classes is the better chioce we been following the same school systeam for more then 100 years It's time for change!

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First and foremost I believe that we live in a community that is well kept and organized, and it should remain that way. The generations before us have given us a place filled with love and care , a place of neat parks and recreation centers, a place we can call home.

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This way of life should be kept up and exercised by our generation and the ones seceding us.

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Community service gives everyone a chance to give back and help out, whether young or old.

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I think that our community should be one of were children offer to help out;

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where the food banks are over filled with volunteers; where people don't hate jury duty; where people are true patriots; where people don't have to get sentenced just to pick up trash.

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I wish that we could be a school with all of those traits. So yes, I believe in community service being a requirement.

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If I was a scientist at NASA discussing the Face with someone who thinks it was created by aliens,

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in the story it's saids that '' Face on Mars'' has since became a pop icon

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If I was a scientist in NASA I would found out how did the peron face came to another planet.

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They have to get out the earth to come to another planet to just put your face on it out of no were. But if a person did put there face inprint on a another planet, I think they will turn into a alien. I will tell you why I said that, because people say that aliens are real and they harm creatures. Also, if I'm the scientist this will tells that a FACE on a human body doing on a another planet they should be on earth.

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In the article it saids: twenty five years ago something funny happening around Mars, NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling the planet snapping photos of possible landing sites for it's sister ship Viking 2

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Also, when it spotted the shadowy likeness of a human face, an enormous head nearly two miles from end to end seemed to be staring back at the cameras from a region of the Red Planet called Cydonia. There must have been a degree of surprise among mission controllers back at the Jet Propulsion Lab when the face appeared on the monitors. But now scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa common enough around Cydonia only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh.

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But if I'm the scientist trying to figured out all this work,and see who's the human face or a alien face because humans on earth an aliens in Mars or more planets. But afterwards after that happening, it saids how some people think the Face is bona fide evidence of life on Mars evidence that NASA would rather hide, say conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile the defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an acient civilization on Mars. Also, although few scientists believed the Face was an alien artifact photographing Cydonia became a prioprity for NASA when Global Surveyor arrived at the Red Planet in September. 1997, eighteen long years ago after the Viking missions ended.

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The state senator should keep the electoral college and not change it to the election by popular vote for the president of the United States.

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Therefore, I agree with what the passage is saying because it says ''The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electors votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitles allotment of electors equals the nu,ber of memebers in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators....

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That to me explains it all because the college votes can vote for multiple things then the people who vote for the popular votes. So, to me they gave a good enough reasonings.

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Also, Electoral College votes have a better outcome then the popular votes

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because in the last election that they have for Obama he received 61.7 precent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 precent of the popular vote cast him anf Romeny. So, electoral college voted have more oppurtunies of more things.

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Although, popular votes can come in many ways of being helpful because popular votes can help people win by very littler or more.

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On my opino i don't consiter them to change to poplaur voted becasue to me its nothing i agree to keeping the electoral college votes

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Finally, but not last what ever you do keep the electoral college votes they know what there doing.

Concluding Statement

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The question at hand is, "Does the electoral college work?"

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My answer to that is simple "yes

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,but the reasons why I say this gets a little more complicated. As you may know the founding fathers established it, the Electoral College in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens (Office of the federal register, paragraph 1). Also, A majority of 270 out of 538 electoral voters is required to elect the president. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equal the number of members in its congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representitives plus two for your Senators (Office of Federal Register, Paragraph 3).

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Which only goes to show that everyone gets to vote.

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Some may argue the Electoral; college is an anachronism

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an old and out of date method, or a non-democratic way of selecting a presedint that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. and according to Richard A. Posner they maybe right in the arguing view that the Electoral Colleger method is not democratic in a modern sense. But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee, and that trust is rarely betrayed however, it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. (Richard A. Posner, 16)

Evidence

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All the college is trying to do is set a number of people who can be elected not elect the president on their own.

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Under the electoral college system voters vote not for the pesident but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. No one is saying leave it up to the "state", the distict of columbia to decide alone who our president should be but just to

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let them help in narrowing it down to those who fits the qualifications we need in a good president, The person who is going to run our country

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Bradford Plumer said it himself voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong canidate so why put the humans that always make mistakes in charge of choosing who out of "billy joe bob from the swamp" and " steve boy from the country club" to run our country.

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I say let the qualified pick the qualified.

Concluding Statement

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i strongly believe that we should have Electoral vote.

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With the Electoral collage it allows for us to make there a set number on the amount of votes we can get. That being said the Electoral collaeg wpuld make it alot easier so the states adn national governmant to get the right amount of votes.

Evidence

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With the Electoral College, it all depnds on if you state agrees to have a certain person as president. As informed in "What is the Electoral College?" it states that " The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. This makes it a majority vote i order for you state to win for which ever candianate.

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During the 2012 election with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Romney had to win Ohio and Florida's Electoral vote. But becasue Obama won Florida he remained in office as our president. With this Electoral vote its a amke or break. Its not always the best thing but its the right thing. With the Electoral College you vote for a slate of voters who then vote for president. As Richard A. Posner informed us, " Its entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more popular vote than Bush yet fewer electoral votes."

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the Electoral Vote is more important.

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The Swing States are what determines the election. These states are different for every election becasue they will always find which one is better. The Big States is the states witha lot of electoral votes , including California who has 55 electoral votes. The higher the population the more Electoral votes you have. When a Run off election happens the Electoral College doesnt allow for Majority of teh votes cast.

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Overall you should not take the Elctoral College away. Without The Electoral College there would not be a fair shot for the canidate to win. You should keep the Electoral vote!!!

Concluding Statement

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I am writing a letter to my state senator in which i'm arguing if i'm in favor of keeping the Electoral College or Changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United states

Lead

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I'm in favor of the election by popular vote for the president of the U.S.

Position

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The electoral college is unfair to voters. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president

Claim

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For instance if you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for John kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to kerry, they would go to Congress and kerry would get 34 electoral votes

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Also its Unfair to the voters because of the winner-takes-all system. In each state candidates dont spend time in states they know have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states

Claim

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In the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all.

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In defense "The winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates, to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states."

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but the winner-take-all system is still focusing on the ststes knowing that there going to vote for you, and notthe other states that possibly will or will not vote for you.

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Another reason is that the Electoral college is just a disaster factor simple as that

Claim

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In the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not actually gone to Kennedy

Evidence

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Also what if a state sends two slates of electors to congress

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It happened in Hawii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richard Nixon, who presided over the senate validated only his opponents electors making sure to do so ' without establishing a precedent.

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In conclusion the Electoral college is unfair, irrational, and just a hotmess. Like Bob Dole said "Abolish the Electoral College

Concluding Statement

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There are pros and cons for both whywe should keep and get rid of the Electoral college

Position

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You are voting for the electors, not the president.

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Voters don't get to choose the electors. Some electors might even defy the wishes of the people who voted for them. There are 538 electoral votes, which is an even number so their could be a tie.

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It is rare that eletors will defy the wishes of the voters, but it has happened

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In 2000 Gore had a high percentage of the popular vote than electoral votes. This is so rare that the only other time that it happened was in 1888. Most states give electoral votes on a winner-takes-all basis, some split the votes a little bit, because of this there is a clear winner. In the case of electoral votes, no one region of the United States can win alone, so the votes are spread out. If presidential elections were decided directly by the popular vote than region favorites would be elected abd the rest of the voters would feel that they did'nt vote for the president that was elected. Presidential candidates are most likely to campaign in "swing states" that they know they cn win the electoral votes from. Voters in these states are most likely to pay close attention to both candidates, so the most thoughtful voters will get the most representation. The most populated states or the "big states" get the most electoral votes, meaning the states with the most people the the most representation. With the Electoral College you increase your chances of having a majority (fifty percent or more). While there can be a tie, this is rare.

Evidence

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Since there are good arguements on both sides, a decision has to be made after careful thought.

Concluding Statement

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The school policy that you have decided upon is necessary that students must have a grade B average to play sports is not a good idea in my mind.

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Many students are at a grade C average and are playing meaning that they are already trying their best to be in the sports.

Claim

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When a student is pushed a little to do better they react accordingly but, when they are pushed to across their limit they tend to feel overwhelmed and agitated

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This overwhelming feeling can lead to procrastination and laziness, which will lower their grades which would then lead to a domino effect until they are failing. This could happen or the student would feel that they do not need to go to school anymore because they have nothing to look forward to there. Then the student may influence others and create a ring of truancy which is worse than low grades.

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The students who enjoy these extracurricular activities usually are concentrating on doing their best in sports or their extracurricular activities, if we could move their priorities without side effects we could be able to reach higher levels of learning although a grade B average sounds like the best thing to do for this, it is not.

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Sometimes when students have a large load of homework or tests they feel the need to relax and forget about their stress, but if they need to get even higher grades the outcome would be either of these three extremes, extremely low grades, truancy, high grades (but not enough time for sports) without a lot of time students agitation would reach to a point where they might resort to drastic efforts to relieve stress, like suicide. This would then mold the school into an unfriendly jail cell, and other students will be effected.

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Instead of a grade B average as the policy, you should have a tutor at the extracurricular activities who can put in a little bit of teaching while the students are having fun.

Claim

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The connection of fun and learning can lead grade C average students to achieve higher grades and do better in school.

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Also if you can design rewards for students with higher grades the students with low grades will want to reap from the tree of knowledge to receive rewards, this in turn will yield higher grades, less procrastination, less anger, and all without any harmful side effects.

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I argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states.

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