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This electoral collage has been going on sence the founding fathers establisted it a long time ago.
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Which is saying a lot now that we have'nt tried to change it just like we have changed everything else they had set in stone a long time ago.
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To me it is just unfair, the people who live and breath in this "great" country don't even get to say who will manage them and make this country better.
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The thing that doesn't make sence to me, probably because I can not vote yet, is the fact of we are going into the voting complexes (churches or schools) to vote on the president of the United States. But, insted they are actually just voting far a slate of electors who actualy get to vote on the president.
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It realy grinds my gears, so to speek it isnt giving us freadom in the most free country in the world it is taking away our civil rights as citizens to vote.
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The other thing that I don't like about the electoral collage is how their is an even number of electors.
Claim
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At least if they are going to keep the electoral collage they should have an odd number, just so their can't be a tie.
Evidence
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The electoral collage is unconstitutional and should be taken out of the system asap. It takes away our civil librities to make this country ours. As citizens of the united states we need to work to get it abolished and only then will we truely have a great union
Concluding Statement
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i believe that we should keep the electoral college
Position
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it not only benifits congress it aso benifits the president who is running to be our leader as well and also our electors
Claim
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The electoral college has been made from our founding fathers in the constitution it shows a meaning, a meaning not only to us but also to The United states and in the most part its total strangers who pick these people its a political party
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it may seem unfair that the votes we are putting in is for the electors to run but its a show of value it shows the the electors get help with votes
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and so does the president just like it may be in the other side of the green grass as well.
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"The Electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast
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(pg22). Obama gotten 61.7 percent of the electoral votes while Romney got 51.3 it seems of electors in the electorial college knew what the were doing now my gas prices isnt over 3 dollars a gallon near me  "almost all of the states award electoral votes on a winner-takes -basis"(pg18) not only a predident is just not chosen it is a meeting that takes place where they go throughly to pick the vice prsident or the president.
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In each state the cadinate that is running for that paticular has their own group of electors that in safe hands
Claim
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its a great thing to know that people that are being chosen are being reviewed by state laws as well to be exact
Evidence
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either way we help choose our state electors its not about the specific people its about all of us and how we contributre to the votes to our candinates in the electoral college we are not only helping the electors the electors are helping the presidnt as well and most of all we are helping United State Of America Founding Fathers.
Concluding Statement
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I think it is a great idea to help the community
Position
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because there are some people that don't even care about the earth as much some other people.
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also i think that when you are eating lunch you should clean up around yourself. also when you don't have anything to do you should help pick up things and you can throw it where it should be thrown in and that is the trash. After you do what you are supposed to do you can do that every day and that is how you will help our community
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Also when you have helped you should go to other places and if you see trash on the floor pick it up even if its not your's. Another thing is when people throw things on the floor tell them to pick it up and if they don t pick it up for them.
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and also you can help the community by telling your friends and maybe they would help you clean up litter and that way you wont be the only one helping you can be the first person to start
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and also you can feel really good that you aren't only helping yourself you are helping others
Claim
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and there will be a large amount of people helping the community. And you can start your own little group by you going on television and telling the people to start helping our community so that way we are not the only people helping it could travel out threw all of the earth and there will be a bigger difference.
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Due to the fact that we live in America, where we have the choice of choosing what we would like to do, (most of the time), I due believe that students should have the right to choose weather or not they want to participate in community service
Position
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I do, however, want to sate the fact that if we do choose to do community service that our world would be a much better place.
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I don't, however, believe in forcing people to do something they don't have to do.
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On the other hand. if we do community service, we would get jobs done much faster.
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For example, lets say we helped out at the pound and the it was overflowing with dogs.
Evidence
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If we helped out the people, it wouldn't only be a nice thing to do, but you could get some benefits as well.
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Maybe they'd offer you a job or you may just feel good about helping your fellow community members.
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Another example is cleaning up trash on the highway, or anywhere really
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That trash will add up and become a huge heap of trash. It's not healthy for you. the plants, or the animals. just imagine what could happen if a small animal ate something that was toxic to them. That wouldn't be good at all.
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So just keep in mind that community service is a great thing to do, but if some people don't want to, you shouldn't force them.
Concluding Statement
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I think that the principal should choose Policy 2.
Position
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I think this because, cell phones distract students at school
Claim
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without them, students would have all of their focus on their school work, and therefore, get better grades.
Evidence
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Also, cell phones are bad, because through them, students could get cyber-bullied
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people become less social, and communicate more through their phones, and via text message, than actual face to face, which is far more important.
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Having no cell phones would mean that people would be focused more on their school work and all that jazz, rather than on their texts, and things like gossip, rumors, etc.
Evidence
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However, allowing the students to use their cell phones, would boost their morale, and make them happier
Counterclaim
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but it is not as good a trade, cell phones, and better grades.
Rebuttal
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Policy 1 may only allow them at lunch, and other free times, but that won't stop some students from using them whenever they want, and abusing their liberty.
Claim
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Even with Policy 2, which is in use by my school, is disobeyed, and cell phones are still used, despite.
Evidence
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Therefore, it would be best to choose Policy 1, so as to not apply a distraction to the school day, and allow students to be more social face-to-face, rather than through technology.
Concluding Statement
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I think it would be a bad idea if the school district and your self would allow everyone to bring there cell phones to school , even if there turned off during class
Position
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I don't think its okay because its during lunch time and free periods, students should be socializing at that time
Claim
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I also don't think that it will teach students to be more responsible for there stuff.
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I do not agree because some students are mean and curl. They just don't care! They will take other people stuff, and sometimes if they don't like that person they will brake there things just to seem cool. When they are not! When all that happens the first thing they will do is run to the administration or to the principals. Then parents will get involved. It will just cause to much problems, when students should just be focused on learning and getting a good education cause that's what school is for its to be someone successful in life.
Evidence
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I don't think you should allow students to bring there phones to school. There would be to many problems, and our school doesn't need that. Students just need to get a good education. Come on isn't that what schools for? For all students to be successful in life ?
Concluding Statement
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A positive aspect of driverless cars is Google cars have driven a million miles without a crash.
Claim
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The passage states, "Google cars aren't truly driverless; they still alert the driver to take over when pulling in and out of driveways or dealing with complicated traffic issues."
Evidence
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According to the passage, a negative aspect for driverless cars is "Theses samrt-road systems worked suprisingly well, but they require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical,"
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they would be expensive to upgrade.
Claim
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My position on driverless cars is they would be more of a positive affect in the world.
Position
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In passage states, "He envisions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system." Brin believes that the future's public transportation systems will all be driverless. Brin also believes such cars would fundamentally change the world. The passages states, "Television and movies have long been fascinated with cars that could drive themselves."
Evidence
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To make the cars smarter, they need to have newer systems put into the car.
Claim
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The text states, "they needed a whole lot of senors." Google modified a Toyota Prius with position-estimating senors on the rear wheel. They also put a senor on the roof. Google had placed cameras and the rearview mirror. They placed four automotive radar sensors in the car along with a GPS reciever, and an inertial motion senor. The passage "Driverless Cars Are Coming" states, "Senors are nothing new, of course." Automakers have been using senors for cars since the 1980s. They put them on the wheels for the creation of antilock brakes. The text states, "Within 10 years, those senors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the dangerof out-of-control skids or rollovers." The information from the brakes caused the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine.
Evidence
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The negative aspect of driverless drivers is why would anyone want a driverless car when that car still needs a driver?
Claim
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Huber states, "We have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." So some of the manufacturers hope to do that by bringing in-car entertainment and information systems that use heads-up displays.
Evidence
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The radar is a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars.
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All-in-all to make a drverless car, it would be really expensive.
Claim
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and i think that policy 1 is a good idea
Position
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because at lunch kids are always up to something at lease this way kids are not in trouble for doing something stupid because they would be in there phone texting and things like that
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there would not be as many fights they would be in the phone. and wouldn't care who's around just what there phone is doing and it would get there minds off the nasty school food it would keep the students busy the teachers wouldn't have to listen to kids scream as much. the teachers get to play with there phones all day why cant we play with ours at lunch. the only bad thing is it would be hard to get them to put the phones up and if they don't then u take theme up then they would learn to put there phones up when told but that is what i think it is up to you to choose what we do
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My thoughts on the google driverless car is simple. Once they are truly able to be autonomus and safe then you can put them out on the streets.
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I think that they should not be on the streets. Stating my opinion and further explain I think that they will never get to a point full reliablity.
Position
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what happens when an coustomer that has a self driving car hits a person without a self driving car;
Claim
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the car company and every one involved in the accident will go to court and fight. The car company will come out on top though; the big name car company will fight so hard that they will get a bill passed that bans all humans from driving! This is also a reason that I am not for driverless cars. I dont want to be the person that is taken to the supreme court and goes against a big name car company, I dont wish that upon any one.
Evidence
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I feel as If 90% is not enough for a car to be in charge.
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The car can not go through enough simulations to know how to travel through white out conditions, or even dangerous off road terrains. When you truly think about the cost and the time to get these on the road its not worth it. I would compare this to texting and driving how many teenagers had to die before we realised it was a problem?
Evidence
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We are not ready for this technology yet.
Claim
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In this society hackers are becoming more and more dangerous. I know these autonomus cars will have to have google maps or be connceted to some kind of network. What happens when cars start getting hacked and maipulated what do we do about? What kind of insurance would be needed and how expensive would it be?
Evidence
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Even though I am against this, I still reconginze that there could be positives to this.
Counterclaim
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Every day driving tasks would be handled in a fluid and orgainzed manor. When you are in the car you could truly connect with the people inside. Long trips would turn into exiting family times. There would be no need for all seats of a car facing forward.
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Now refelecting on what I wrote I have realised that there is more that just safety in Inovative decisions. You have to consider what the majority of the people want. I know that many people will like this idea. My generation would be all over this, we are just a bunch of lazy tech heads. I think that self driving cars will connect with many people. Many people exept for me
Concluding Statement
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The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" was a interesting factual article to read. My opion on driverless cars is they're not a good idea. I am against driverless cars
Lead
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an increasing rate of accidents
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technology failing,
Claim
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the cost
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I am against the ideal of driverless cars.
Position
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the increasing rate of accidents.
Claim
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Not all drivers pay attention to the road while driving (especially teens) and riding in a driverless car, coming into a situation that requires a human being to take control of the wheel can lead to accidents if they're not paying attention. The rates of car accidents are already high till this day, just imagine how high the rate would be having driverless cars. It may not even be the drivers fault, a glitch can happen with the car causing it to get into a accident injuring somebody, as said in passage 9; who's fault would it be then? The person or the manufacturers fault? That is my first reasoning opposing driverless cars.
Evidence
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the technology failing
Claim
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We live in a society where technology advances EVERYDAY, but there is always a complications with technology. Updated technology isn't always perfect. For instence the computer system in the car could crash, shutting off the whole car, there might be a hay wire causing the car to spin out of control, causing an accident, and even a more dangerous situation the car could explode or catch on fire due to the technology. An example of today's most updated piece of technology that went bad is the "Hoover Board," many people could just be riding on it, and it could burst into flames. The same thing could happen with driverless cars.
Evidence
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my last reasoning was the cost put into the car
Claim
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Many companies say they plan to have driverless cars by the year 2020, the amount of the Driverless Car would be a ridiculous amount of money. If someone were interested into buying it the first thing, they should ask themselves "is it worth it?" Knowing the bad outcomes that could possibly happen. Not only would the car be super expensive, but also having to fulfill the tank with gas, and gas nowadays isn't the cheapest. But the most important question asking yourself before buying the expensive piece of technology, is it really worth how much it costs?
Evidence
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In conclusion, I am against driverless cars. The reasons are, increasing rate of accidnets, technology failing, and the cost. I myself would not buy this knowing the reprecautions. That is why I am against the ideal of Driverless Cars.
Concluding Statement
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In the United States, every student is required to receive a K-12 education. Since technology has become such a big aspect of people's lives, many schools have started to offer online classes. This means that students have the ability to attend their classes from home. With the ability to learn from home, people have started to discuss whether or not this opportunity is beneficial for students
Lead
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Students would not benefit from being able to attend classes from home
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schools create a good environment for face-to-face help
Claim
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there are less distractions in schools,
Claim
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schools promote projects to improve life skills.
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First, students would not benefit from being able to attend classes from home because schools create a good environment for face-to-face help
Claim
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Although technology has made many daily tasks easier, school is a place that shouldn't be taken lightly, and has endless advantages. One of the biggest advantages of taking classes at school is being able to receive help from peers and teachers whenever a student needs it. This may not seem like much, but having the opportunity to get face-to-face help whenever it's necessary can make a big difference on a student's academic success. Not to mention, there are minimal distractions in school that make learning easier than at home.
Evidence
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Next, students would not benefit from being able to attend classes from home because there are less distractions in schools.
Claim
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A student's home is a place for relaxation and minimal work. When a person thinks about relieving stress at the end of the day, they think about going home. At home, it's easy to get distracted by the little things. It may just be a pet or the TV, but all of these things result in taking important learning time away from a student's day. At school, a student doesn't have time to get distracted. Lessons are taught and good amounts of work are assigned so a student stays busy. For example, if a student that learns from home has to write an essay, they are more likely to get distracted by the things in their home then get it done. However, a student that learns at school would get their essay done, knowing that it's easier to stay on task then get behind because of distractions. Having less distractions isn't the only positive of learning at school though. A student also gets to work on projects that will help them in their future lives.
Evidence
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Lastly, students would not benefit from learning from home because learning at school pushes students to do projects, which improve life skills
Claim
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Projects have always been a way for students to collaborate with their peers. It may not seem like much, but projects teach teamwork, leadership, and knowledge skills. Projects also emphasize the importance of making friends and compromising with others to achieve success. Learning from home deprives students from working with their peers. The only way a student gets to be in contact with another person is if a student is video conferencing a teacher or staff member.
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