tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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f4157a497457	38C0F11C9F00	In the last passage it states that i could have been made bye aliens. Compared to all of the things on Earth. It could be a possiblity of aliens making the Face on Mars. For example, in the last passage it says that Garvins say, "That it slike the lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on a Mars."	Evidence	Ineffective
c886f7695149	38C0F11C9F00	In conclusion, the Face on Mars was not created by aliens, and there for the case of the Face on Mars was a natural monument after all. It compared to West America for all of the weird thing that they have.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
1535efd6cb1b	38D227AB68A0	I personally do not agree with the choice you are considering.	Position	Adequate
e2b9c5154591	38D227AB68A0	Sports and other activities are very important to some and most students	Evidence	Adequate
08e2da025e0f	38D227AB68A0	These activities allow them to have a chance to relieve the stress that school has caused them	Claim	Adequate
2d166bdb4001	38D227AB68A0	If students where told that they wouldn't be able to have the rights in participating, unless they have a B average or higher, this would cause them nothing but more stress than what they already have.	Evidence	Ineffective
186e4e28a36f	38D227AB68A0	Some students rely on sports to keep them motivated.	Claim	Adequate
9df837d5e11c	38D227AB68A0	With no sports or other activities students grades could lower past a C average. Also, you must put into consideration that if the majority of students have a grade of C average. Some may not be able to improve their grades. They may already be trying as hard as they can. If so, it would become unfair for those students to not be able to participate in sports.	Evidence	Adequate
cf8709abdb08	38D227AB68A0	Having these activities open to all students even if they have a C average or a B average, could also help improve their grades.	Claim	Adequate
3b4eb7d887ce	38D227AB68A0	Sports and other activities include teamwork, motivation, and consequences. These 3 things are not only needed to help students achieve in sports but to achieve in school too. In the classroom, students need to know how to use teamwork and motivation. This will allow them to use teamwork in groups to help improve ones grade. And motivation will cause one to achieve their work assignments. And having these available to them, they will know the consequences of not using them correctly. These will result in bringing students grades up. Making you happy with their grades and them happy being able to still participate in sports.	Evidence	Adequate
bcec9d6ef5d9	38EEEB5BC11C	You are deciding whether to make students perform community service or not.	Lead	Adequate
d2c26d692b72	38EEEB5BC11C	In my opinion i think that students should do community service for many reasons.	Position	Adequate
3b20dcc90109	38EEEB5BC11C	One reason is that the community is being littered too much and we need people to clean that up.	Claim	Adequate
4ad6ac120080	38EEEB5BC11C	I understand why people may not want to do community service, because they have there own life to take care not pick up after other humans.	Counterclaim	Adequate
635b61194ab7	38EEEB5BC11C	Well to fix that problem, the service should be done in the morning where students have nothing to do, and in the weekends when they have no school.	Rebuttal	Adequate
f890ea13fa15	38EEEB5BC11C	I also think that while the students are doing the service they should have water breaks and other things to keep them not tired.	Evidence	Ineffective
159069acb80a	38EEEB5BC11C	The students could the service one weekend and another group does the service another weekend, so the students wont get worn out.	Evidence	Adequate
7b93bf49e1ed	38EEEB5BC11C	Another good reason why the students should do community service is because some children don't get enough education at school, so some students can be chosen to tutor those children in need of help.	Claim	Adequate
75ada472d390	38EEEB5BC11C	The students schedule should not be that hard , it should be once a week for two months. The other days that are left in the week can be done by another student. Each student is basically helping out , students help a lot by just tutoring a child for at least half an hour.	Evidence	Adequate
5c40fc1579b0	38EEEB5BC11C	Our community can be much better if the students help out. Principle all i am saying is that community service is good for the community , but i am also saying that if the students do get community service, not to push them too hard.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
5901a0dbf1d9	38F0C2290179	I think we should change the election by popular vote	Position	Effective
9c2fdb8b1078	38F0C2290179	because with the electoral college not everyone is getting to vote like they should be doing.	Claim	Adequate
7de990be5681	38F0C2290179	The Electoral College selects the electors, so the canadates are gonna choose the electors that have things in common with them so they win the election. Voters vote for a slate of electors, they dont get to vote for President.	Evidence	Adequate
d258208bc946	38F0C2290179	The Electoral College is unfair	Claim	Effective
082ba41d49bf	38F0C2290179	because the winner-take-all system makes it so candidates don't spend time in the states they know their not gonna win. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors and you need at least 270 votes to elect the President.	Evidence	Adequate
048708a1e424	38F0C2290179	The Electoral College process is so much more complicated and long than popular vote, so why do we still use the Electoral College? We shouldn't.	Claim	Effective
37768a353e0c	38F0C2290179	Im not the only one that thinks this way	Claim	Ineffective
83b86affdc1e	38F0C2290179	Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and so many more people think that we should abolish the Electoral College.	Evidence	Adequate
8a0b9a757364	390900163076	If I was a scientist on Mars with somone who thought the face was formed by aliens, I think I would disagree. I would disagree because aliens are not real and why would they just made a radom face into the ground. I would say that the land in that area is just deformed	Lead	Adequate
af45cc292893	390900163076	I think that it is just Mother Nature, she put it like that, that spot is a natural landform.	Position	Adequate
ed158aea9432	390900163076	People might think that aiens are real but that saying is just a myth that some people that are nerds will belive	Claim	Ineffective
18e3335df38a	390900163076	I use to think they were real and then I figured out they weren't. If they was real then when people or NASA went to a planet or just into space, why didn't those people every see them? If they did exist why wouldn't people take pictures when they were in space of the aliens? Why don't aliens exist?	Evidence	Ineffective
1e3c41994248	390900163076	If aliens do exist do you think they would attack you if they saw you?	Claim	Ineffective
3660a5f6517c	390900163076	I would think that aliens would be on earth. What would aliens be like if they were on earth? would the Earth still be the same if they was on Earth. Who would controll them if the did exist.	Evidence	Ineffective
bafe6a64eac5	390900163076	Would aliens be in a zoo, becuse they are a weird like creture/human	Claim	Ineffective
e22418947116	390900163076	people should know that akiens aren't real becuase if they were they would be on earth and people would take pictures and other things. Some could kill you other could hurt you or do other horrible things to you	Evidence	Ineffective
21e0a3581d8c	390900163076	That face on the ground was a natural landform it was not formed by aliens.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
a00de3c2a19f	391455AC0C39	The Electoral College is a really good process that I think they should keep. This Electoral college was found by the founding fathers and it is used so that the citizens could vote and the congress. The citizens get to have the right to vote on who they want to be presidant. After everyone voted the votes are counted up in each state and it shows which states voted for different people. The congress have a meeting of the electors and get to all vote. All votes for the congress are counted out seperatly then citizens.	Lead	Adequate
3dbec58dc933	391455AC0C39	This is a the start of why I think Electoral College is fair and equal all around.	Position	Adequate
22844ee60d56	391455AC0C39	In order for the Electoral College to elect a presidant they need 270 votes out of 538 Electors. Each state or country has electors in them. The candidates running for presidant have their own electors. Every 4 years a presidential election is held at the same time on tuesday after the first monday of novemeber.	Evidence	Ineffective
9f610ee7fd2e	391455AC0C39	When voting for the candidates you are basically voting for the candidates electors	Claim	Adequate
bccd49090f53	391455AC0C39	After voting in the election the governor makes a "Certificate of Ascertainment," which is the list of the candidates who ran for presidant. Also, it shows who the winning candidate is in each state. Lastly the certificate is sent to the states congress to keep for records.	Evidence	Ineffective
ce1c99943670	391455AC0C39	There are mainly 5 reasons in why the Electoral College should stay	Claim	Adequate
679037b6faac	391455AC0C39	First is the Certainty of Outcome which shows that there cant be a dispute because it is based on popular vote. The next reason is Everyone is Presidant, this means that the presidential candidate has trans-regional appeal. Another reason is Swing Sates which is the winner take all method. They are usually whatching campaigns and really listen to the other candidates, thoses poeple are usually thoughtfull voters. The next great reason is Big States, this shows if you win a big state then you win more electoral votes and each big state has more electoral votes. The last reason is Avoid Run Off Elections, this avoids the problem of no candidates recieves a majority of the votes in the east	Evidence	Adequate
0fe9f4e8ab22	391455AC0C39	Their are alot of great reasonings about electoral college but there are some bad reasonings to	Counterclaim	Adequate
0060aead4e77	391455AC0C39	Voters dont vote for the presidant when they vote, they vote for the elcectors and the electors vote for the presidant. This can mean that even if you voted for the specific presidant your vote shows you voted for the 30 or so congress people voting for presidant.	Rebuttal	Adequate
144ead4c1b3b	391455AC0C39	What if there was a tie in the electoral vote then the election would be for the House of Representitves where they vote for presidant. The 55 representitive votes are equal to 35 million voters. This shows that the electoral college can be bad for the voters.	Rebuttal	Adequate
cac50c6426d3	391455AC0C39	After reading the article and going over it I believe that the Electoral College is a great idea. There are many great things about but then there are things that you dislike about it. Not everything can be perfect but the Electoral College is trying to get that way. The presidant is still getting voted every 4 years and hopefully it stays like that for a very long time. Those were all my reasons on why I thought the Electoral College is the right way to go.	Concluding Statement	Effective
48aa518fc72d	393BDF8C7897	Policy one is the right one to do	Position	Adequate
77eb873e4ca3	393BDF8C7897	because you might have miss the bus what are you going to do if you don't have a phone.	Evidence	Adequate
a2ff404186ce	393BDF8C7897	And if you don't get them out thatcher should not be able to take them from you and think that should be a rule.	Evidence	Ineffective
a99cc7c349f9	393BDF8C7897	If you forget your work at home what are you going to use to call you parent with? Or you are sick and you need to go home. plus it cant hurt some one or yourself so I think it is dumb that you can not bring a phone to school and that's why I think its dumb that you can not bring a phone to your school if you have them turn down and if do not have them out in class and if you do bring them to school they need to give them back to you at the end of class or at the end of the day .	Evidence	Adequate
25b9c05b2504	39568660BDA5	I dont think that the electoral college should decide the president of the united states, i think that the overall vote of the americans should determine the president of the unites states.	Position	Adequate
7983c1ed8b34	39568660BDA5	why would they even have a popular vote if there not gonna go by it?	Claim	Adequate
2288cf7a46f4	39568660BDA5	Also the popular vote has mostly everyone in the united states voting on it, the electoral vote has only a couple people, they are way outnumbered	Claim	Ineffective
607dc24d28ee	39568660BDA5	And lastly its not fair at all to the american people.	Claim	Adequate
b108222750e9	39568660BDA5	Firstly, why would you want the whole united states of america to vote on something if what they vote, and what they say isnt being heard. Whats the point of it?	Claim	Adequate
154a00dc7c10	39568660BDA5	in my opinion what the people say how the president should be determined. If they want it any other way why would they not have changed it by now? no one really likes having to take time out of there day to go vote, if there votes arnt even going to be seen, or heard by people? whats the point of making them do that?	Evidence	Ineffective
84b088ca5db1	39568660BDA5	Secondly, the united states has billions of people in it, and the electoral college only has a few people in it. You think thats very fair to anybody ???	Claim	Adequate
330e95f35577	39568660BDA5	everyone votes, results are in, you think you have a winner, then all of a sudden theres no winner, you know why? because of the electoral college!!! these extra people make the final decision and thats not right. If thats the case of it to me it seems like they have the answers, and no one can decide but them, so why even have a vote? its really pointless the author states that most states like the idea that the overall vote wins, theres only a couple that dont like this idea. So by rule they should just make it the popular vote wins the election, and thats who tthe president becomes. Why they havnt done it? I have no idea!	Evidence	Adequate
d351f2c3398f	39568660BDA5	And my final reason of why popular votes should just determine who wins is because they go out and vote and they feel like it doesnt matter.	Claim	Adequate
7941605493b5	39568660BDA5	Because the electoral college decides then the united states gets really mad when they vote and the popular vote doesnt win! Of course they get mad, who wouldnt? there votes mean nothing at all. And they need to change this electoral college policy, more people want it gone thaen the people that dont. And thats mostly why america is usually never satisfied with the president of the unites states. Because of the fact that the united states didnt put them and the votes first, they put the electoral college ahead and thats not how it needs to be!!! They should make a vote for the united states saying that who wants to keep the electoral college and who doesnt! i bet that they will say that they want it gone. Because its already been voted out before so why will they keep something that no one is satisfied, or pleased with? Hopefully they will see this soon enough!!!	Evidence	Adequate
7665adb1ac42	39568660BDA5	In conclusion, this electoral college stuff just needs to go, and the people need to be happy with there vote that they want, and they should be! they have been living in the state there whole life, if not most of it. And they want to make sure that someone they like, and know and trust will be there leader and wont let them down, and will change the problems that are in america. So go ahead and keep the electoral college even if barely any one likes it. Cause that doesnt make any sesnse!!!! the people need to vote on there counties leader not a few people for each state, and or place. its not right, and no one really likes it. So this should be a change in America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	Concluding Statement	Adequate
91d90a22d94b	3978B5847C18	While I normally don't have any complaints, and being the person I am not many things "bug me", but I recently found that I disagree with a certain argument. And while it is near voting times, I believed it's best for me to send you my side on this continuous debate to change your mind on the matter. The electoral college has had its share of arguments and I would like to make my side seen knowing I have quite a bit of logical arguments. Please read with an open mind.	Lead	Effective
bba2e9849f4d	3978B5847C18	The electoral college is unfair in many ways,	Position	Adequate
d7d68fa0127b	3978B5847C18	The electoral college gives an easier way to get tie, and although a tie hasn't been a main focus, it can prove to be a problem.	Claim	Effective
d1171e0a2c3e	3978B5847C18	I read an article stating that if a tie were to happen the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. This would anger a heap of people for many reasons, one stating it would almost rule out their vote.	Evidence	Effective
6255b47f150b	3978B5847C18	Secondly, the electoral college simply takes away from voting in general.	Claim	Effective
0ac41357f7e1	3978B5847C18	An example of this is lets say Obama won popular vote, he should win because thats what America wants right? No, because what if another president won electoral vote? that president would win and take away the point in voting. This is unfair because we the people would like to have a better say in who becomes our president.	Evidence	Effective
7457bac11d34	3978B5847C18	In the article I read, it stated "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. unfair, outdated, irrational" I agree completely	Claim	Effective
43bbc875c347	3978B5847C18	How is it irrational? Well simply because it is just an extra step added on. In all reality our country would be fine without it. Popular vote is exactly what we need, and that alone is enough. And while I do believe it's good to go an extra step, it shouldn't go when not needed. This to me is most important because I could argue all day long and in the end this would be my argument.	Evidence	Effective
6e2c652bdb64	3978B5847C18	I realize that it has its upsides but it is just unfair, outdated, and irrational	Concluding Statement	Adequate
ecadcb055f3b	3980C03BD90A	I would like it if you would just keep the Electoral college because it would be so much easier to pick a president then if we the people had to pick the president	Position	Adequate
65fe853c8e40	3980C03BD90A	If we screw up and pick the wrong president then its our fault, but if you all pick the president it'll be your fault if the president turns out to be good or not. Besides the founding fathers founded the Electoral college so we should keep it just for their sake. Anyway the Electoral College consists of the selection of the electors which then when there picked they decide who is the new or repeating President of the United States of America. The reasons I would like to see the Electoral college do good is because the first reason as to why you should just keep the Electoral college is because everyone will want to be president heres an example .The Electoral college requires a presidential canidate to have transregional appeal. If you have a solid regional favorite you go for them states first then you work around to different states to get more Electoral votes but then if you leave that state that was with you all the way then they atomatically switch to the other person that has been campaigning around all the other states and takes your states what are you supposed to do then? The only thing you can do is just go back and try to get your state back..	Evidence	Ineffective
ac76d34ff6c2	399C14D08042	I think we can keep it, But improve it.	Position	Adequate
17f050b62d2f	399C14D08042	Like some people do not want to just vote for a slate they want to vote for a president. How about making that happen that's a easy one.	Claim	Adequate
9797a4ae18af	399C14D08042	Lets look at some of the other side why are they against it. Remember what happen in the 2000 fiasco election, so much stuff went wrong with that one. How about what happened in 1960 in louisianna, when nearly succeed in replacing the democratic electors with new ones who oppose for John F. Kennedy a vote for Kennedy would never actually got that vote.	Evidence	Adequate
de82b55ed83c	399C14D08042	What if that happens again? Thats a hard one we can improve the stuff	Claim	Ineffective
85f425852726	399C14D08042	like vote on a piece of paper and put it in this huge box and mail that huge box to someone who can talley up the votes so he can get them or something like that. how can we improve the system in a way everybody can join like a website or a likely matter. The president votes only need 29 electoral votes to win. Why not everybody votes not electoral votes.	Evidence	Ineffective
bbe6120914b9	399C14D08042	It can be argued that the Electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for candidate who has no hope of carrying thier state	Claim	Adequate
08b9e0a25f18	399C14D08042	Democrats in texas, for example or Republicans in California.	Evidence	Adequate
624cef979095	399C14D08042	The aviods the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of votes and cast.	Counterclaim	Ineffective
8984ceaf1272	399C14D08042	What if we do it like we did it back then wouldn't that be easier then doing it the hard way. instead of having a no region have everybody vote.	Evidence	Ineffective
e72384c54075	399C14D08042	Would you include the others since they might feel disenfranchised I know I would, is there no regard for the other states	Claim	Ineffective
4cb677027344	399C14D08042	Is there appeal for a unlikely to be a successfui president. The winner-take-all program how is that working? It is form on a method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. For Example in 2012 election to focus thier campaign efforts on the toss-up states.	Evidence	Ineffective
05ce414680ba	39AD2FCCD35E	I think the principal should require community service.	Position	Adequate
70917850b08c	39AD2FCCD35E	This is because if teaches life lessons	Claim	Adequate
7e99dc6ca058	39AD2FCCD35E	and it is good for the community.	Claim	Adequate
7f8de3b47d29	39AD2FCCD35E	To begin with, I think the principal should require community service. This is because it teaches life lessons that will help you in the future.	Claim	Effective
088c6b9e71cd	39AD2FCCD35E	For example, I volunteer for community service at a place called PET. This stands for Personal Energy Transportation. It is an amazing thing to do. You build all-terrain wheel chairs for handicapped people all over the world, but mostly in third world countries. The wheel chairs have three wheels and are designed to go through deep sand, over sharp rocks, and up and down steep inclines. In this workshop, it teaches teamwork, and makes you more mechanically minded. It is also a very courageous, bold, selfless thing to do and it will really change someone's life. Another example is that people sometimes down want to do certain activities because their boring. With required community service that will have to do things that they normally wouldn't do. By doing these things they build character and self esteem. This will help them in the future with doing homework, getting into a good college, and even with wanting to do community service again. This is why our principal should require community service.	Evidence	Effective
11ca063ad670	39AD2FCCD35E	In addition, I think the principal should require community service because it is good for the community.	Claim	Effective
308adf6f5b1a	39AD2FCCD35E	t help the community in times of need. For example, when you are driving down a busy road or highway you see people throwing bags, cigarette buds, and even clothes out windows of their cars, not worrying about were they end up, in sewers, on the sides of roads, even inside animals. There are some types of community service that actually pick up all this trash around a city. This is important because it teaches character and it makes the city look better and more professional. Another example is that it community service could help other people in the community. There are elder homes where people drop off their elders that can't take care of themselves and people take care of them there. Some workers use this for community service or that is even their job. It can help you in the future to teach you how to take care of elderly people and it even help the community so the people that work out in the city don't get slowed down by having to take care of them. It could also make the elders feel wanted and feel comfortable in a new home. This is why our principal should require community service.	Evidence	Effective
85fe83f3c560	39AD2FCCD35E	In conclusion, our principal should require community service. This is because it teaches life lessons and it's good for the community. Life lessons help you later of in life when trying to apply for a college or helping out a friend. Community service also changes people's lives.	Concluding Statement	Effective
b5073f31cf38	39DCB6EF34D9	I don't care what google does for driverless cars, I think they may be good for a small town such as Berne, but there are a lot of cons to this whole issue. I think it would be fun to have cars we don't have to drive ourselfs but an issue with that is what if we do get into an accidnet in a bigger city. I'm nuetral on this topic because they aren't truly driverless ars if they still need a driver.	Position	Ineffective
d103be973c44	39DCB6EF34D9	I don't particularly care if we get driverless cars or not. Kids have been waiting to get their license for generations, if we get driverless cars does that mean the age of legal driving decreases? Would children be able to drive, if so that's not too fair	Evidence	Adequate
a3beaf778d8a	39DCB6EF34D9	. Those kids would miss out on learning these skills to drive that everyone else had to learn.	Claim	Adequate
cd42b28e5aac	39DCB6EF34D9	I don't know if driverless cars is a bad thing or a good thing, but I'd rather stick to my littly chevy car. I say this becasue, I have to stay awake for either car.	Claim	Adequate
4714ce603d35	39DCB6EF34D9	If i were to have a car that drove itself, I'd sleep in the back of my car until i had reached my desination. But if I'm needed to navigate through rough areas then I'd rather drive the whole way to my desination.	Evidence	Adequate
7fe4721f271f	39DCB6EF34D9	I understand that these cars would give you a form of entertainment to keep you occupied while in the vehicle,	Counterclaim	Adequate
9c702bd1b4e3	39DCB6EF34D9	but I'd fall asleep and wouldn't wake up when the car needed me.	Rebuttal	Adequate

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In the last passage it states that i could have been made bye aliens. Compared to all of the things on Earth. It could be a possiblity of aliens making the Face on Mars. For example, in the last passage it says that Garvins say, "That it slike the lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on a Mars."

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In conclusion, the Face on Mars was not created by aliens, and there for the case of the Face on Mars was a natural monument after all. It compared to West America for all of the weird thing that they have.

Concluding Statement

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I personally do not agree with the choice you are considering.

Position

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Sports and other activities are very important to some and most students

Evidence

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These activities allow them to have a chance to relieve the stress that school has caused them

Claim

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If students where told that they wouldn't be able to have the rights in participating, unless they have a B average or higher, this would cause them nothing but more stress than what they already have.

Evidence

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Some students rely on sports to keep them motivated.

Claim

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With no sports or other activities students grades could lower past a C average. Also, you must put into consideration that if the majority of students have a grade of C average. Some may not be able to improve their grades. They may already be trying as hard as they can. If so, it would become unfair for those students to not be able to participate in sports.

Evidence

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Having these activities open to all students even if they have a C average or a B average, could also help improve their grades.

Claim

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Sports and other activities include teamwork, motivation, and consequences. These 3 things are not only needed to help students achieve in sports but to achieve in school too. In the classroom, students need to know how to use teamwork and motivation. This will allow them to use teamwork in groups to help improve ones grade. And motivation will cause one to achieve their work assignments. And having these available to them, they will know the consequences of not using them correctly. These will result in bringing students grades up. Making you happy with their grades and them happy being able to still participate in sports.

Evidence

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You are deciding whether to make students perform community service or not.

Lead

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In my opinion i think that students should do community service for many reasons.

Position

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One reason is that the community is being littered too much and we need people to clean that up.

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I understand why people may not want to do community service, because they have there own life to take care not pick up after other humans.

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Well to fix that problem, the service should be done in the morning where students have nothing to do, and in the weekends when they have no school.

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I also think that while the students are doing the service they should have water breaks and other things to keep them not tired.

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The students could the service one weekend and another group does the service another weekend, so the students wont get worn out.

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Another good reason why the students should do community service is because some children don't get enough education at school, so some students can be chosen to tutor those children in need of help.

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The students schedule should not be that hard , it should be once a week for two months. The other days that are left in the week can be done by another student. Each student is basically helping out , students help a lot by just tutoring a child for at least half an hour.

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Our community can be much better if the students help out. Principle all i am saying is that community service is good for the community , but i am also saying that if the students do get community service, not to push them too hard.

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I think we should change the election by popular vote

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because with the electoral college not everyone is getting to vote like they should be doing.

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The Electoral College selects the electors, so the canadates are gonna choose the electors that have things in common with them so they win the election. Voters vote for a slate of electors, they dont get to vote for President.

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The Electoral College is unfair

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because the winner-take-all system makes it so candidates don't spend time in the states they know their not gonna win. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors and you need at least 270 votes to elect the President.

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The Electoral College process is so much more complicated and long than popular vote, so why do we still use the Electoral College? We shouldn't.

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Im not the only one that thinks this way

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Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, and so many more people think that we should abolish the Electoral College.

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If I was a scientist on Mars with somone who thought the face was formed by aliens, I think I would disagree. I would disagree because aliens are not real and why would they just made a radom face into the ground. I would say that the land in that area is just deformed

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I think that it is just Mother Nature, she put it like that, that spot is a natural landform.

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People might think that aiens are real but that saying is just a myth that some people that are nerds will belive

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I use to think they were real and then I figured out they weren't. If they was real then when people or NASA went to a planet or just into space, why didn't those people every see them? If they did exist why wouldn't people take pictures when they were in space of the aliens? Why don't aliens exist?

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If aliens do exist do you think they would attack you if they saw you?

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I would think that aliens would be on earth. What would aliens be like if they were on earth? would the Earth still be the same if they was on Earth. Who would controll them if the did exist.

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Would aliens be in a zoo, becuse they are a weird like creture/human

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people should know that akiens aren't real becuase if they were they would be on earth and people would take pictures and other things. Some could kill you other could hurt you or do other horrible things to you

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That face on the ground was a natural landform it was not formed by aliens.

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The Electoral College is a really good process that I think they should keep. This Electoral college was found by the founding fathers and it is used so that the citizens could vote and the congress. The citizens get to have the right to vote on who they want to be presidant. After everyone voted the votes are counted up in each state and it shows which states voted for different people. The congress have a meeting of the electors and get to all vote. All votes for the congress are counted out seperatly then citizens.

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This is a the start of why I think Electoral College is fair and equal all around.

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In order for the Electoral College to elect a presidant they need 270 votes out of 538 Electors. Each state or country has electors in them. The candidates running for presidant have their own electors. Every 4 years a presidential election is held at the same time on tuesday after the first monday of novemeber.

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When voting for the candidates you are basically voting for the candidates electors

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After voting in the election the governor makes a "Certificate of Ascertainment," which is the list of the candidates who ran for presidant. Also, it shows who the winning candidate is in each state. Lastly the certificate is sent to the states congress to keep for records.

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There are mainly 5 reasons in why the Electoral College should stay

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First is the Certainty of Outcome which shows that there cant be a dispute because it is based on popular vote. The next reason is Everyone is Presidant, this means that the presidential candidate has trans-regional appeal. Another reason is Swing Sates which is the winner take all method. They are usually whatching campaigns and really listen to the other candidates, thoses poeple are usually thoughtfull voters. The next great reason is Big States, this shows if you win a big state then you win more electoral votes and each big state has more electoral votes. The last reason is Avoid Run Off Elections, this avoids the problem of no candidates recieves a majority of the votes in the east

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Their are alot of great reasonings about electoral college but there are some bad reasonings to

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Voters dont vote for the presidant when they vote, they vote for the elcectors and the electors vote for the presidant. This can mean that even if you voted for the specific presidant your vote shows you voted for the 30 or so congress people voting for presidant.

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What if there was a tie in the electoral vote then the election would be for the House of Representitves where they vote for presidant. The 55 representitive votes are equal to 35 million voters. This shows that the electoral college can be bad for the voters.

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After reading the article and going over it I believe that the Electoral College is a great idea. There are many great things about but then there are things that you dislike about it. Not everything can be perfect but the Electoral College is trying to get that way. The presidant is still getting voted every 4 years and hopefully it stays like that for a very long time. Those were all my reasons on why I thought the Electoral College is the right way to go.

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Policy one is the right one to do

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because you might have miss the bus what are you going to do if you don't have a phone.

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And if you don't get them out thatcher should not be able to take them from you and think that should be a rule.

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If you forget your work at home what are you going to use to call you parent with? Or you are sick and you need to go home. plus it cant hurt some one or yourself so I think it is dumb that you can not bring a phone to school and that's why I think its dumb that you can not bring a phone to your school if you have them turn down and if do not have them out in class and if you do bring them to school they need to give them back to you at the end of class or at the end of the day .

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I dont think that the electoral college should decide the president of the united states, i think that the overall vote of the americans should determine the president of the unites states.

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why would they even have a popular vote if there not gonna go by it?

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Also the popular vote has mostly everyone in the united states voting on it, the electoral vote has only a couple people, they are way outnumbered

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And lastly its not fair at all to the american people.

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Firstly, why would you want the whole united states of america to vote on something if what they vote, and what they say isnt being heard. Whats the point of it?

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in my opinion what the people say how the president should be determined. If they want it any other way why would they not have changed it by now? no one really likes having to take time out of there day to go vote, if there votes arnt even going to be seen, or heard by people? whats the point of making them do that?

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Secondly, the united states has billions of people in it, and the electoral college only has a few people in it. You think thats very fair to anybody ???

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everyone votes, results are in, you think you have a winner, then all of a sudden theres no winner, you know why? because of the electoral college!!! these extra people make the final decision and thats not right. If thats the case of it to me it seems like they have the answers, and no one can decide but them, so why even have a vote? its really pointless the author states that most states like the idea that the overall vote wins, theres only a couple that dont like this idea. So by rule they should just make it the popular vote wins the election, and thats who tthe president becomes. Why they havnt done it? I have no idea!

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And my final reason of why popular votes should just determine who wins is because they go out and vote and they feel like it doesnt matter.

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Because the electoral college decides then the united states gets really mad when they vote and the popular vote doesnt win! Of course they get mad, who wouldnt? there votes mean nothing at all. And they need to change this electoral college policy, more people want it gone thaen the people that dont. And thats mostly why america is usually never satisfied with the president of the unites states. Because of the fact that the united states didnt put them and the votes first, they put the electoral college ahead and thats not how it needs to be!!! They should make a vote for the united states saying that who wants to keep the electoral college and who doesnt! i bet that they will say that they want it gone. Because its already been voted out before so why will they keep something that no one is satisfied, or pleased with? Hopefully they will see this soon enough!!!

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In conclusion, this electoral college stuff just needs to go, and the people need to be happy with there vote that they want, and they should be! they have been living in the state there whole life, if not most of it. And they want to make sure that someone they like, and know and trust will be there leader and wont let them down, and will change the problems that are in america. So go ahead and keep the electoral college even if barely any one likes it. Cause that doesnt make any sesnse!!!! the people need to vote on there counties leader not a few people for each state, and or place. its not right, and no one really likes it. So this should be a change in America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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While I normally don't have any complaints, and being the person I am not many things "bug me", but I recently found that I disagree with a certain argument. And while it is near voting times, I believed it's best for me to send you my side on this continuous debate to change your mind on the matter. The electoral college has had its share of arguments and I would like to make my side seen knowing I have quite a bit of logical arguments. Please read with an open mind.

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The electoral college is unfair in many ways,

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The electoral college gives an easier way to get tie, and although a tie hasn't been a main focus, it can prove to be a problem.

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I read an article stating that if a tie were to happen the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. This would anger a heap of people for many reasons, one stating it would almost rule out their vote.

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Secondly, the electoral college simply takes away from voting in general.

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An example of this is lets say Obama won popular vote, he should win because thats what America wants right? No, because what if another president won electoral vote? that president would win and take away the point in voting. This is unfair because we the people would like to have a better say in who becomes our president.

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In the article I read, it stated "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. unfair, outdated, irrational" I agree completely

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How is it irrational? Well simply because it is just an extra step added on. In all reality our country would be fine without it. Popular vote is exactly what we need, and that alone is enough. And while I do believe it's good to go an extra step, it shouldn't go when not needed. This to me is most important because I could argue all day long and in the end this would be my argument.

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I realize that it has its upsides but it is just unfair, outdated, and irrational

Concluding Statement

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I would like it if you would just keep the Electoral college because it would be so much easier to pick a president then if we the people had to pick the president

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If we screw up and pick the wrong president then its our fault, but if you all pick the president it'll be your fault if the president turns out to be good or not. Besides the founding fathers founded the Electoral college so we should keep it just for their sake. Anyway the Electoral College consists of the selection of the electors which then when there picked they decide who is the new or repeating President of the United States of America. The reasons I would like to see the Electoral college do good is because the first reason as to why you should just keep the Electoral college is because everyone will want to be president heres an example .The Electoral college requires a presidential canidate to have transregional appeal. If you have a solid regional favorite you go for them states first then you work around to different states to get more Electoral votes but then if you leave that state that was with you all the way then they atomatically switch to the other person that has been campaigning around all the other states and takes your states what are you supposed to do then? The only thing you can do is just go back and try to get your state back..

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I think we can keep it, But improve it.

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Like some people do not want to just vote for a slate they want to vote for a president. How about making that happen that's a easy one.

Claim

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Lets look at some of the other side why are they against it. Remember what happen in the 2000 fiasco election, so much stuff went wrong with that one. How about what happened in 1960 in louisianna, when nearly succeed in replacing the democratic electors with new ones who oppose for John F. Kennedy a vote for Kennedy would never actually got that vote.

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What if that happens again? Thats a hard one we can improve the stuff

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like vote on a piece of paper and put it in this huge box and mail that huge box to someone who can talley up the votes so he can get them or something like that. how can we improve the system in a way everybody can join like a website or a likely matter. The president votes only need 29 electoral votes to win. Why not everybody votes not electoral votes.

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It can be argued that the Electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for candidate who has no hope of carrying thier state

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Democrats in texas, for example or Republicans in California.

Evidence

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The aviods the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of votes and cast.

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What if we do it like we did it back then wouldn't that be easier then doing it the hard way. instead of having a no region have everybody vote.

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Would you include the others since they might feel disenfranchised I know I would, is there no regard for the other states

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Is there appeal for a unlikely to be a successfui president. The winner-take-all program how is that working? It is form on a method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. For Example in 2012 election to focus thier campaign efforts on the toss-up states.

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I think the principal should require community service.

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This is because if teaches life lessons

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and it is good for the community.

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To begin with, I think the principal should require community service. This is because it teaches life lessons that will help you in the future.

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For example, I volunteer for community service at a place called PET. This stands for Personal Energy Transportation. It is an amazing thing to do. You build all-terrain wheel chairs for handicapped people all over the world, but mostly in third world countries. The wheel chairs have three wheels and are designed to go through deep sand, over sharp rocks, and up and down steep inclines. In this workshop, it teaches teamwork, and makes you more mechanically minded. It is also a very courageous, bold, selfless thing to do and it will really change someone's life. Another example is that people sometimes down want to do certain activities because their boring. With required community service that will have to do things that they normally wouldn't do. By doing these things they build character and self esteem. This will help them in the future with doing homework, getting into a good college, and even with wanting to do community service again. This is why our principal should require community service.

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In addition, I think the principal should require community service because it is good for the community.

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t help the community in times of need. For example, when you are driving down a busy road or highway you see people throwing bags, cigarette buds, and even clothes out windows of their cars, not worrying about were they end up, in sewers, on the sides of roads, even inside animals. There are some types of community service that actually pick up all this trash around a city. This is important because it teaches character and it makes the city look better and more professional. Another example is that it community service could help other people in the community. There are elder homes where people drop off their elders that can't take care of themselves and people take care of them there. Some workers use this for community service or that is even their job. It can help you in the future to teach you how to take care of elderly people and it even help the community so the people that work out in the city don't get slowed down by having to take care of them. It could also make the elders feel wanted and feel comfortable in a new home. This is why our principal should require community service.

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In conclusion, our principal should require community service. This is because it teaches life lessons and it's good for the community. Life lessons help you later of in life when trying to apply for a college or helping out a friend. Community service also changes people's lives.

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I don't care what google does for driverless cars, I think they may be good for a small town such as Berne, but there are a lot of cons to this whole issue. I think it would be fun to have cars we don't have to drive ourselfs but an issue with that is what if we do get into an accidnet in a bigger city. I'm nuetral on this topic because they aren't truly driverless ars if they still need a driver.

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I don't particularly care if we get driverless cars or not. Kids have been waiting to get their license for generations, if we get driverless cars does that mean the age of legal driving decreases? Would children be able to drive, if so that's not too fair

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. Those kids would miss out on learning these skills to drive that everyone else had to learn.

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I don't know if driverless cars is a bad thing or a good thing, but I'd rather stick to my littly chevy car. I say this becasue, I have to stay awake for either car.

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If i were to have a car that drove itself, I'd sleep in the back of my car until i had reached my desination. But if I'm needed to navigate through rough areas then I'd rather drive the whole way to my desination.

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I understand that these cars would give you a form of entertainment to keep you occupied while in the vehicle,

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but I'd fall asleep and wouldn't wake up when the car needed me.

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