tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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f6ad11f72d90	4933B56F9E7B	You should keep the electoral college vote the same without the popular vote because the winning candiate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. Aswell as the electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives majority of the votes cast. So I'm going to leave you with this. What will you choose? The popular vote of the electoral vote? It's up to you not.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
633398c9f8d4	49586CD6A649	The Face isn't an alien artifact. It wasn't created by aliens, it's just a natural landform on Mars.	Position	Adequate
fc356c87f2df	49586CD6A649	If it was created by aliens NASA would've already found out.	Claim	Adequate
9e3b729bcd0f	49586CD6A649	There is no real evidence that aliens did it, only in Hollywood movies, and books.	Claim	Adequate
beec08f4e04b	49586CD6A649	Though some people think otherwise.	Counterclaim	Ineffective
fccf69a5e95d	49586CD6A649	Aliens arn't the reason the Face is on Mars.	Claim	Adequate
4e783a0c9a23	49586CD6A649	Nasa has went on three missions to Mars to take pictures. Each time they went there has been no trace of aliens. Also NASA upgraded their camaras each time they went to Mars. So the pictures were more clearer.	Evidence	Adequate
8f859b86011c	49586CD6A649	On the second mission NASA went on, the camaras proved it was a natural landform.	Claim	Adequate
7b14b57b1c8b	49586CD6A649	Though other scientist belived alien markings were being hidden by wispy clouds.	Counterclaim	Adequate
2bbe02096c03	49586CD6A649	This is because it was winter in Mars during the time NASA went.	Evidence	Adequate
9f654c911ecf	49586CD6A649	Still NASA went on a third trip to make its point. This time they used their most advanced camera yet and took crystal clear pictures of the Face.	Rebuttal	Adequate
b15fabdd5c5e	49586CD6A649	The pictures reaveled it was a Martian equivalent of a butte.	Claim	Adequate
b4de3056f063	49586CD6A649	This is a common landform around the American West. This couldn't be caused by aliens because Mars could've caused this landform to appear. Just like in the American West.	Evidence	Adequate
4c335719294e	49586CD6A649	Still people think that the alien markings are still there.	Counterclaim	Adequate
77b8ea4f8835	49586CD6A649	Overall aliens could'nt of caused this landform. There is no evidence of aliens being on Mars. There is only fiction stories about it, and on radio talk shows. NASA has went on three missions to prove it's a natural landform, and they were'nt able to find alien markings. If this isn't enough evidenve to convince someone they must be a big alien fan.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
12011b80568b	49BF71773C4D	We should be changing to the election by popular vote for the president of the United States.	Position	Adequate
3096ee0020ce	49BF71773C4D	Everyone should just vote for the vice president and the president. People are voting for the Electoral college while they should be voting to see who will be their new president. The electoral college is getting more votes than the president should be getting.	Evidence	Ineffective
43efb0c057d1	49BF71773C4D	With eletoral college its sometimes hard to chose the president because they are getting tied with the eletoral votes.	Claim	Adequate
3e71f95b914a	49BF71773C4D	One reason some people chose to have the electoral vote is because the president is winning everything. And the electoral college requires a presidental candidate.	Counterclaim	Ineffective
9785911d48b1	49BF71773C4D	To them the president isn't their president. The winner/ the president gets all the awards and receive the most infromation.	Evidence	Ineffective
a13d26b2c724	49BF71773C4D	Bigger states are getting more attention the all other states.	Claim	Adequate
e3d2f6de5206	49BF71773C4D	Some states are not getting any votes at all. Also candidates are getting the same amount of votes, but differnent amount of electoral vote. They want to see who gets the most votes to be the president the most electoral votes. People vote so they can have a perference.	Evidence	Ineffective
2bd55ef428d8	49BF71773C4D	In conclusion, we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The president should be easier to chose and should be chosen equally and fairly.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
186bffb00ff4	49EC678EC9BB	Most people hear the word "Electoral College" and think that it is a place.. But they're wrong, it is a process. The Electoral College is widely regarded as a thing that seems to belong to the past and not to fit in the present. The advocates whom are conflicting with others are saying that the Electoral College method isn't democratic in modern day society, which is correct. The Electoral College is a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens which was founded by the founding fathers.	Lead	Effective
6c05a2e72d3e	49EC678EC9BB	The Electoral College has 538 electors, but to elect the President, 270 electoral votes are needed. One for each member in the House of Representives plus two for your Senators is what your state's entitled allotment of electors must equal and the number of members in its Congressional delegation. In the Constitution under the 23rd Amendment, D.C is given 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. "State" can also be used instead of using the District of Columbia. Each canidate running for President in each state has his or her own group of electors. The political party is who the electors are generally chosen by but they elect them by giving them different responsibilities. Every four years is when the presidential election is held. I believe that the senator should stick with The Electoral College to vote for the President of the U.S. When the presidential election is all finished with, the governor prepares something called "Certificate of Ascertainment" which lists all of the canidates who ran for office in that particular state.	Evidence	Ineffective
777649a60a99	49EC678EC9BB	The electoral college system voters vote not only for the president but for what we call the slate electors who eventually elect the president. Not always can voters control whom thier electors vote for and sometimes voters can get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong canidate.	Evidence	Adequate
5877dc1f0d48	49EC678EC9BB	Some people may call the Electoral College outdated, irrational and maybe unfair	Counterclaim	Adequate
a967d4199842	49EC678EC9BB	but I think it's a way to keep everything organized and it won't cause to much chaos, unless you disagree with it.	Rebuttal	Adequate
5355558eba42	49EC678EC9BB	Slate of electors are trusted to vote for the President however, he or she is usually picked by the number of how many votes your electors put in for you.	Evidence	Ineffective
b3dc6dd33a82	49EC678EC9BB	Basically, everyone thinks that The Electoral College is just a big waste of time and outdated. But it's a process which elects slate of electors then those who are apart of that will vote for the president.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
7f477f1c514d	49EC678EC9BB	In my opinion, I think it's a better way to handle things than to just ask everybody to cast their votes for just one person.	Position	Adequate
07525661d708	49ED2C7B57AD	In this essay, I will be showing how the face on Mars is just a plain everyday landform.	Position	Adequate
318244b54271	49ED2C7B57AD	In 1976, a picture was taken by the satellite Viking 1. The picture on Mars was found to be what looked like the face of an Egyptian god. The pictures taken were blurry but showed to actually be a face indicating there was life on Mars sometime in the past or even here in the present. NASA kept studying this mask for years to come.	Evidence	Ineffective
ac5a5706d51d	49ED2C7B57AD	A few years later, another satellite took pictures about 10 times sharper and clearer. But in this picture, the so called mask just looked like a normal everyday landform. The media was not happy with this picture. But this picture did show proof that there was just a landform just like on Earth, that was nothing special. Even one of NASA's global surveyor said that there are landforms on Mars just like on Earth.	Evidence	Adequate
0afa8a393ad5	49ED2C7B57AD	In conclusion, the landform on Mars was just a simple regular crater that looked like a face in a poor quality, blurry picture.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
f2c9f4307617	4A12B5FDB00B	To help the community or to not help the community, it's a question asked by many teenagers of this generation.	Lead	Adequate
0b22d010efee	4A12B5FDB00B	Though most people would be disgusted by the idea of picking up trash at the beach or helping out at retirement home,	Counterclaim	Effective
e038399755bd	4A12B5FDB00B	I think that all kids should do community service to make their lives and the community a better place.	Position	Effective
638f55b0d385	4A12B5FDB00B	For example, most of the movies or television shows people see, it always revolves around doing the right thing and making the right decision, but when the teenagers really come face to face with community service, most of the would be either annoyed or disgusted.	Evidence	Effective
132023b3d0ef	4A12B5FDB00B	They would think that doing community service takes too much time away from what they think they "need" to do or what they want to do	Evidence	Effective
c984b73c8734	4A12B5FDB00B	But have they ever thought about what a better community they would live in if they did community service?	Rebuttal	Effective
5712407d382b	4A12B5FDB00B	For instance if you love the beach, don't you just hate it when you just want to lie on the beach and relax or go surfing but always have to be around great number of sea gulls picking at trashes next to you and being pelted bye plastic bags in the waves? If the children of our generation loves the beach so much, they should just pick up the trash they found-or even threw themselves-then everyone can enjoy a happy and clean ecosystem/community.	Evidence	Effective
fdca419fc682	4A12B5FDB00B	Doing community helps everyone, including oneself and the ones around them.	Claim	Effective
13ec5c32463a	4A12B5FDB00B	Especially since the children in this generation have been introduced to so many violent and/or inappropriate video games, television shows, and movies-whose only focus is to add excitement and get maximum audiences and money-they are bound to be corrupted, so in doing community service, it can right the wrong of the improper way of life that had been inflicted upon us by the media of today, the same media that would show and/ or sell anything in order to get the maximum audience and make the most money possible and have never thought about the consequences that would have in the future of the United States.	Evidence	Effective
1ddfc548f97a	4A12B5FDB00B	So step by step, we should start shaping the future of this generation and the future of the United States by doing community service!!!	Concluding Statement	Adequate
64b45f60134d	4A19AA269331	i think that we should cape the electoral college process	Position	Adequate
ba35e1802798	4A19AA269331	if it is not broken don't fix it	Claim	Adequate
a8610faf8ad9	4A19AA269331	Also this process is a part of our founding fathers history it was established to compromise between election of the president	Claim	Adequate
7af72454d653	4A19AA269331	The electoral college has 538 electors but the president needs to have 270 electoral votes to become the president. The 23 amendment of the contitution allows columbia 3 electors and treated like a state for purpose of the electoral college. When you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidates electors. Every candidate running for president in your state has his or her own goup of electors. Some states have a winner take all system, which gives all the electors a award to the winning presidential candidate. After the presidential election the governor prepares a "certificate of ascertainment" listing the candidates who ran for president. The certificate of ascertainment declares the winning presidential candidate in my state will represent your state at the meeting of electors	Evidence	Ineffective
d623f43a63c4	4A19AA269331	Abolishing the electoral college no said Bob Dole and Jimmy Carter they agreed. They are not alone according to a Gallup poll in 2000 taken after Al Gore thanks to the quirks of the electoral college won the popular vote but lost the presidency over 60% of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.	Counterclaim	Adequate
2c7e2cbbb9e9	4A19AA269331	The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast.	Claim	Adequate
5d7fead4579d	4A19AA269331	There is pressure for running off election when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast that pressure which would complicate the presidential election process is reduced by the electoral college which produces a clear winner.	Evidence	Adequate
4821d991b59f	4A5D0595AB31	Do you think that the FACE was created by aliens ? Well i think the face is just a land form but thats how i feel about it	Position	Ineffective
bb95c10534ac	4A5D0595AB31	I don't believe that aliens are real	Claim	Ineffective
db816d16c051	4A5D0595AB31	On the other hand you might think they are real and i don't blame you because when i was little i thought they was real to ... by all of the movies i was watching about aliens taking over ect	Counterclaim	Ineffective
a4eac44a3919	4A5D0595AB31	Although , few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact photographing .	Counterclaim	Ineffective
1b42e908b403	4A5D0595AB31	So they photographed the face as soon as they could get a good shot at it . On April 8, 2001 a cloudless summer day in cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look . When they had did they a pixel in the 2001 image spams 1.56 meters , they image was not a face anymore it was really Martain equivalent of a butte or masa . It reminds me of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "	Evidence	Adequate
b94cf15d7eb3	4A5D0595AB31	Finally, now you see that there were no aliens on mars and they aliens are not real . It was just the Martian equivalent of butte or mesa landforms . so now with all this information i just gave you, you should believe me now .	Concluding Statement	Adequate
fb2609b56ee3	4A8B8527DD14	You may think that the face on mars was created by aliens and we say it isn't it's a natural landform sorta like some natural landforms on Earth like the Grand Canyon it's a natural landform	Position	Adequate
b07f9dc09ffd	4A8B8527DD14	we can't actually prve the the face is a landform but we have a spacecraft named Viking 1 and 2 that has taken pictures of it so we can see if it was formed by aliens or if it is just a natural landform.	Claim	Adequate
505e8b029734	4A8B8527DD14	Here is how we think that it is a natural landform, as it says in the article "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, se if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"and it also says "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West it reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars.	Evidence	Adequate
be0066cf02b3	4A8B8527DD14	Even though we think it is natural landform you guys think that aliens have made it and your point is as it says in the article "The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face perhaps alien markings were hidden by haze."	Counterclaim	Adequate
89e557cc60e9	4A8B8527DD14	So as it says in the article "It's not easy to target Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips we just don't pass over the face ver often."	Evidence	Ineffective
9f6add4fad57	4A8B8527DD14	even though the alien thing has a good point the pictures that Viking 1 and 2 got show that there are no alien markings	Rebuttal	Adequate
83e5726bc4e7	4A8B8527DD14	it is probably just a natural landform like the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho or the Grand Canyon.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
a5d8391e3d4e	4A8FCC8C7D9B	Hello to begin off with im going to say a few opions of my own in which way to agrue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote	Lead	Adequate
ce4f36395f9d	4A8FCC8C7D9B	I would have to go with electral college because better who would want a rich person voting last	Position	Ineffective
fd02e6ee149f	4A8FCC8C7D9B	hat would not be fair	Claim	Adequate
1eaebef843c5	4A8FCC8C7D9B	To Start off with is why did i pick this, i pick this because the electoral college is a moving process full of educated students looking to make whats best out of what ever they have. ''the founding fathers established it in the constitution'' that students over 18 can vote	Claim	Ineffective
345e89e34c97	4A8FCC8C7D9B	the cons of this is their still young a their still growing up I get that	Evidence	Ineffective
5ed5da3ae579	4A8FCC8C7D9B	The electoral college process consists many of the selection of the electors like meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president also counting of the electoral votes by congress.	Evidence	Adequate
fadf78fe61ca	4A8FCC8C7D9B	Getting to a close to end now so let me keep giving you infor mation why i pick electoral college instead of popular vote, popular vote in my opionon is in my way letting the poor still be poor	Concluding Statement	Adequate
9830724ae1c7	4ABA61F516D1	The Electoral College is broken, and with another election on the way, here is why the voting should be changed to popular vote for the president of the United States.	Position	Adequate
1e7566c08c77	4ABA61F516D1	Voters cannot control whom their electors are, in the chance that those electors are replaced with new electors so the votes may be rigged	Claim	Effective
bf63c0cd74d9	4ABA61F516D1	"faithless" electors may refuse to vote for their party's candidate and could cast a deciding vote for whomever they please.	Claim	Effective
d14adc8b573a	4ABA61F516D1	Voters don't actually vote for the president, instead, they vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president	Claim	Effective
cb3ceca05f84	4ABA61F516D1	In the case that you vote John Kerry in Texas, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. In the case those electors won the statewide election, they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral vote. Who are the electors? They could be anyone, even if their not holding office. Who even picks these electors in the first place? Sometimes it state conventions, other times it's the state's central committee, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves. Can we, citziens of the United States, control whom their electors vote for? Not always, and that shouldn't be.	Evidence	Effective
18286964b13e	4ABA61F516D1	In the 1960 election, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature almost succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy and make it seem that a popular vote would have not gone to Kennedy. What would happen if their was a tie in the electoral vote? The case would be thrown in the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. Becasue each state counts for only one vote, a single representative from Wyoming would represent 500,000 voters, 55 representatives from California who getto represent 55 representatives would have as much say as the one from Wyoming.	Evidence	Effective
975a74407c43	4ABA61F516D1	This cannot represent the will of the people.	Claim	Adequate
46da0452be1f	4ABA61F516D1	Now when have you changed your mind about something? Electors can do the same. Electors can refuse to vote for their party's candidate and vote for whomever they please	Claim	Effective
c5e023c0a027	4ABA61F516D1	That can't be right, yet it has happened plently of times before. It's even unfair to the people, who sometimes don't even get to see their electors. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, they don't focus of states they know they cannot win, aiming towards "swing states." In the 2000 campaign, 17 states didn't see their candidates at all, as well as 25 of the largest media markets who didn't get to see not one campaign ad.	Evidence	Effective
2be9fd6da2b7	4ABA61F516D1	The Electoral College dosen't hear the voice of the people, hardly plays by the rules, is something that should be erased. Even people like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dale, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO agree, give the voice back to the people and abolish the Electoral College!	Concluding Statement	Adequate
612aa1a9d869	4AFC0853D08D	Reckless drivers are dangers, they have no care for the world or people who are in it.	Claim	Adequate
4760d9486dc5	4AFC0853D08D	One point of evidence is that in 2013, BMW announced the development of the '' Traffic Jam Assistant''. So this means that when you are driving up to 25 mph you have a smart car , but when you go over 25 mph you have just a normal car . See the point that I'm trying to make is that when people had a little bit to much to drink and they go over 25 mph they're like a missle that can blow up at any time.	Evidence	Adequate
fa7d02daf09f	4AFC0853D08D	Some sensors on the car may fail while you are driving	Claim	Adequate
e21024e041d0	4AFC0853D08D	lets say if your driving down the street in a BMW at 20 mph and a car passes you and your not looking and you happen to run into it, its the cars fault and the owner because the driver should've been looking and the car should've stop on the dime. Because BMW developed this new System and its mention in paragraph	Evidence	Adequate
11162bb720af	4AFC0853D08D	7 '' The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph , but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. Also mention by BMW ''They can steer, accelerate, and brake by themsevles	Evidence	Adequate
88b48abe790f	4AFC0853D08D	So if the driver in this situation was looking down at a phone lets say ,and runs into the back of someones car who's fault would it have been ?	Claim	Adequate
766a3719a9b3	4AFC0853D08D	I would have blame the manfacturer company because they said that the car is supose to brake themselves if danger is near or coming up . So if the owner was hurt then it would've been on manufacturer company all because they said that this car had sensors that could alert the drivers. Also which leads to another point lets say that the sensors fail without the driver knowing and she was driving a little bit reckless then that would been her fault and the cars	Evidence	Adequate
bc39411a1518	4AFC0853D08D	So I think that people should stop driving so reckless and start paying attention to the road	Position	Ineffective
c23aa3c81e07	4AFC0853D08D	Also I think that a new law should be passed saying that car companies should recall their cars every 5 to 6 years to upgrade the safety quality on their cars	Claim	Adequate
079994f54b9f	4AFC0853D08D	This will safe a numerous amout of people's lives and increase the amount of cars being sold by BMW.	Evidence	Adequate
2f74a4189fcd	4B0CFB5539BA	Policy 1 is a good considering policy	Position	Adequate
74a256641307	4B0CFB5539BA	I think we should do that at SCHOOL_NAME because we are not allowed to have cell phones so this is a good way to show the principal that we are responsible	Claim	Adequate
9b8614a4f57a	4B0CFB5539BA	If we use it in class we should get it taken but not from everybody but just for that person who didn't do what she/he was told. I would like this policy in the school.	Evidence	Adequate
80e4596a3e98	4B0CFB5539BA	If we get this policy we should be able to show our principal that we are young adults	Claim	Adequate
4f46499f7b6e	4B0CFB5539BA	If we have this policy i am going to be happy cause this a change to show our principal that we can do it without her telling us because we are older to know what's right from wrong.	Evidence	Ineffective
4a869165236f	4B0CFB5539BA	That's a good idea to do because what if something goes wrong and you need your mom	Claim	Adequate
b7b0ca9b3ae8	4B0CFB5539BA	you can always call her at lunch if you need her. If u need some advice and you don't want to go to your principal u should be able to call your mom at lunch	Evidence	Adequate
773c8cb69fbe	4B0CFB5539BA	That's all I have to say	Concluding Statement	Ineffective

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You should keep the electoral college vote the same without the popular vote because the winning candiate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. Aswell as the electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate receives majority of the votes cast. So I'm going to leave you with this. What will you choose? The popular vote of the electoral vote? It's up to you not.

Concluding Statement

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The Face isn't an alien artifact. It wasn't created by aliens, it's just a natural landform on Mars.

Position

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If it was created by aliens NASA would've already found out.

Claim

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There is no real evidence that aliens did it, only in Hollywood movies, and books.

Claim

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Though some people think otherwise.

Counterclaim

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Aliens arn't the reason the Face is on Mars.

Claim

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Nasa has went on three missions to Mars to take pictures. Each time they went there has been no trace of aliens. Also NASA upgraded their camaras each time they went to Mars. So the pictures were more clearer.

Evidence

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On the second mission NASA went on, the camaras proved it was a natural landform.

Claim

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Though other scientist belived alien markings were being hidden by wispy clouds.

Counterclaim

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This is because it was winter in Mars during the time NASA went.

Evidence

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Still NASA went on a third trip to make its point. This time they used their most advanced camera yet and took crystal clear pictures of the Face.

Rebuttal

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The pictures reaveled it was a Martian equivalent of a butte.

Claim

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This is a common landform around the American West. This couldn't be caused by aliens because Mars could've caused this landform to appear. Just like in the American West.

Evidence

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Still people think that the alien markings are still there.

Counterclaim

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Overall aliens could'nt of caused this landform. There is no evidence of aliens being on Mars. There is only fiction stories about it, and on radio talk shows. NASA has went on three missions to prove it's a natural landform, and they were'nt able to find alien markings. If this isn't enough evidenve to convince someone they must be a big alien fan.

Concluding Statement

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We should be changing to the election by popular vote for the president of the United States.

Position

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Everyone should just vote for the vice president and the president. People are voting for the Electoral college while they should be voting to see who will be their new president. The electoral college is getting more votes than the president should be getting.

Evidence

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With eletoral college its sometimes hard to chose the president because they are getting tied with the eletoral votes.

Claim

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One reason some people chose to have the electoral vote is because the president is winning everything. And the electoral college requires a presidental candidate.

Counterclaim

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To them the president isn't their president. The winner/ the president gets all the awards and receive the most infromation.

Evidence

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Bigger states are getting more attention the all other states.

Claim

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Some states are not getting any votes at all. Also candidates are getting the same amount of votes, but differnent amount of electoral vote. They want to see who gets the most votes to be the president the most electoral votes. People vote so they can have a perference.

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In conclusion, we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States. The president should be easier to chose and should be chosen equally and fairly.

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Most people hear the word "Electoral College" and think that it is a place.. But they're wrong, it is a process. The Electoral College is widely regarded as a thing that seems to belong to the past and not to fit in the present. The advocates whom are conflicting with others are saying that the Electoral College method isn't democratic in modern day society, which is correct. The Electoral College is a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens which was founded by the founding fathers.

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The Electoral College has 538 electors, but to elect the President, 270 electoral votes are needed. One for each member in the House of Representives plus two for your Senators is what your state's entitled allotment of electors must equal and the number of members in its Congressional delegation. In the Constitution under the 23rd Amendment, D.C is given 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. "State" can also be used instead of using the District of Columbia. Each canidate running for President in each state has his or her own group of electors. The political party is who the electors are generally chosen by but they elect them by giving them different responsibilities. Every four years is when the presidential election is held. I believe that the senator should stick with The Electoral College to vote for the President of the U.S. When the presidential election is all finished with, the governor prepares something called "Certificate of Ascertainment" which lists all of the canidates who ran for office in that particular state.

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The electoral college system voters vote not only for the president but for what we call the slate electors who eventually elect the president. Not always can voters control whom thier electors vote for and sometimes voters can get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong canidate.

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Some people may call the Electoral College outdated, irrational and maybe unfair

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but I think it's a way to keep everything organized and it won't cause to much chaos, unless you disagree with it.

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Slate of electors are trusted to vote for the President however, he or she is usually picked by the number of how many votes your electors put in for you.

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Basically, everyone thinks that The Electoral College is just a big waste of time and outdated. But it's a process which elects slate of electors then those who are apart of that will vote for the president.

Concluding Statement

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In my opinion, I think it's a better way to handle things than to just ask everybody to cast their votes for just one person.

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In this essay, I will be showing how the face on Mars is just a plain everyday landform.

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In 1976, a picture was taken by the satellite Viking 1. The picture on Mars was found to be what looked like the face of an Egyptian god. The pictures taken were blurry but showed to actually be a face indicating there was life on Mars sometime in the past or even here in the present. NASA kept studying this mask for years to come.

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A few years later, another satellite took pictures about 10 times sharper and clearer. But in this picture, the so called mask just looked like a normal everyday landform. The media was not happy with this picture. But this picture did show proof that there was just a landform just like on Earth, that was nothing special. Even one of NASA's global surveyor said that there are landforms on Mars just like on Earth.

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In conclusion, the landform on Mars was just a simple regular crater that looked like a face in a poor quality, blurry picture.

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To help the community or to not help the community, it's a question asked by many teenagers of this generation.

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Though most people would be disgusted by the idea of picking up trash at the beach or helping out at retirement home,

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I think that all kids should do community service to make their lives and the community a better place.

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For example, most of the movies or television shows people see, it always revolves around doing the right thing and making the right decision, but when the teenagers really come face to face with community service, most of the would be either annoyed or disgusted.

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They would think that doing community service takes too much time away from what they think they "need" to do or what they want to do

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But have they ever thought about what a better community they would live in if they did community service?

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For instance if you love the beach, don't you just hate it when you just want to lie on the beach and relax or go surfing but always have to be around great number of sea gulls picking at trashes next to you and being pelted bye plastic bags in the waves? If the children of our generation loves the beach so much, they should just pick up the trash they found-or even threw themselves-then everyone can enjoy a happy and clean ecosystem/community.

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Doing community helps everyone, including oneself and the ones around them.

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Especially since the children in this generation have been introduced to so many violent and/or inappropriate video games, television shows, and movies-whose only focus is to add excitement and get maximum audiences and money-they are bound to be corrupted, so in doing community service, it can right the wrong of the improper way of life that had been inflicted upon us by the media of today, the same media that would show and/ or sell anything in order to get the maximum audience and make the most money possible and have never thought about the consequences that would have in the future of the United States.

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So step by step, we should start shaping the future of this generation and the future of the United States by doing community service!!!

Concluding Statement

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i think that we should cape the electoral college process

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if it is not broken don't fix it

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Also this process is a part of our founding fathers history it was established to compromise between election of the president

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The electoral college has 538 electors but the president needs to have 270 electoral votes to become the president. The 23 amendment of the contitution allows columbia 3 electors and treated like a state for purpose of the electoral college. When you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidates electors. Every candidate running for president in your state has his or her own goup of electors. Some states have a winner take all system, which gives all the electors a award to the winning presidential candidate. After the presidential election the governor prepares a "certificate of ascertainment" listing the candidates who ran for president. The certificate of ascertainment declares the winning presidential candidate in my state will represent your state at the meeting of electors

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Abolishing the electoral college no said Bob Dole and Jimmy Carter they agreed. They are not alone according to a Gallup poll in 2000 taken after Al Gore thanks to the quirks of the electoral college won the popular vote but lost the presidency over 60% of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.

Counterclaim

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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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There is pressure for running off election when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast that pressure which would complicate the presidential election process is reduced by the electoral college which produces a clear winner.

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Do you think that the FACE was created by aliens ? Well i think the face is just a land form but thats how i feel about it

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I don't believe that aliens are real

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On the other hand you might think they are real and i don't blame you because when i was little i thought they was real to ... by all of the movies i was watching about aliens taking over ect

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Although , few scientists believed the face was an alien artifact photographing .

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So they photographed the face as soon as they could get a good shot at it . On April 8, 2001 a cloudless summer day in cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look . When they had did they a pixel in the 2001 image spams 1.56 meters , they image was not a face anymore it was really Martain equivalent of a butte or masa . It reminds me of the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho," says Garvin. "

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Finally, now you see that there were no aliens on mars and they aliens are not real . It was just the Martian equivalent of butte or mesa landforms . so now with all this information i just gave you, you should believe me now .

Concluding Statement

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You may think that the face on mars was created by aliens and we say it isn't it's a natural landform sorta like some natural landforms on Earth like the Grand Canyon it's a natural landform

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we can't actually prve the the face is a landform but we have a spacecraft named Viking 1 and 2 that has taken pictures of it so we can see if it was formed by aliens or if it is just a natural landform.

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Here is how we think that it is a natural landform, as it says in the article "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size, se if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!"and it also says "What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa-landforms common around the American West it reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho that's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the face on Mars.

Evidence

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Even though we think it is natural landform you guys think that aliens have made it and your point is as it says in the article "The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face perhaps alien markings were hidden by haze."

Counterclaim

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So as it says in the article "It's not easy to target Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5 km-wide strips we just don't pass over the face ver often."

Evidence

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even though the alien thing has a good point the pictures that Viking 1 and 2 got show that there are no alien markings

Rebuttal

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it is probably just a natural landform like the Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho or the Grand Canyon.

Concluding Statement

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Hello to begin off with im going to say a few opions of my own in which way to agrue in favor of keeping the Electoral College or changing to election by popular vote

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I would have to go with electral college because better who would want a rich person voting last

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hat would not be fair

Claim

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To Start off with is why did i pick this, i pick this because the electoral college is a moving process full of educated students looking to make whats best out of what ever they have. ''the founding fathers established it in the constitution'' that students over 18 can vote

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the cons of this is their still young a their still growing up I get that

Evidence

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The electoral college process consists many of the selection of the electors like meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president also counting of the electoral votes by congress.

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Getting to a close to end now so let me keep giving you infor mation why i pick electoral college instead of popular vote, popular vote in my opionon is in my way letting the poor still be poor

Concluding Statement

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The Electoral College is broken, and with another election on the way, here is why the voting should be changed to popular vote for the president of the United States.

Position

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Voters cannot control whom their electors are, in the chance that those electors are replaced with new electors so the votes may be rigged

Claim

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"faithless" electors may refuse to vote for their party's candidate and could cast a deciding vote for whomever they please.

Claim

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Voters don't actually vote for the president, instead, they vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president

Claim

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In the case that you vote John Kerry in Texas, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. In the case those electors won the statewide election, they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 electoral vote. Who are the electors? They could be anyone, even if their not holding office. Who even picks these electors in the first place? Sometimes it state conventions, other times it's the state's central committee, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves. Can we, citziens of the United States, control whom their electors vote for? Not always, and that shouldn't be.

Evidence

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In the 1960 election, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature almost succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy and make it seem that a popular vote would have not gone to Kennedy. What would happen if their was a tie in the electoral vote? The case would be thrown in the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president. Becasue each state counts for only one vote, a single representative from Wyoming would represent 500,000 voters, 55 representatives from California who getto represent 55 representatives would have as much say as the one from Wyoming.

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This cannot represent the will of the people.

Claim

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Now when have you changed your mind about something? Electors can do the same. Electors can refuse to vote for their party's candidate and vote for whomever they please

Claim

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That can't be right, yet it has happened plently of times before. It's even unfair to the people, who sometimes don't even get to see their electors. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, they don't focus of states they know they cannot win, aiming towards "swing states." In the 2000 campaign, 17 states didn't see their candidates at all, as well as 25 of the largest media markets who didn't get to see not one campaign ad.

Evidence

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The Electoral College dosen't hear the voice of the people, hardly plays by the rules, is something that should be erased. Even people like Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dale, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO agree, give the voice back to the people and abolish the Electoral College!

Concluding Statement

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Reckless drivers are dangers, they have no care for the world or people who are in it.

Claim

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One point of evidence is that in 2013, BMW announced the development of the '' Traffic Jam Assistant''. So this means that when you are driving up to 25 mph you have a smart car , but when you go over 25 mph you have just a normal car . See the point that I'm trying to make is that when people had a little bit to much to drink and they go over 25 mph they're like a missle that can blow up at any time.

Evidence

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Some sensors on the car may fail while you are driving

Claim

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lets say if your driving down the street in a BMW at 20 mph and a car passes you and your not looking and you happen to run into it, its the cars fault and the owner because the driver should've been looking and the car should've stop on the dime. Because BMW developed this new System and its mention in paragraph

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7 '' The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph , but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. Also mention by BMW ''They can steer, accelerate, and brake by themsevles

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So if the driver in this situation was looking down at a phone lets say ,and runs into the back of someones car who's fault would it have been ?

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I would have blame the manfacturer company because they said that the car is supose to brake themselves if danger is near or coming up . So if the owner was hurt then it would've been on manufacturer company all because they said that this car had sensors that could alert the drivers. Also which leads to another point lets say that the sensors fail without the driver knowing and she was driving a little bit reckless then that would been her fault and the cars

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So I think that people should stop driving so reckless and start paying attention to the road

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Also I think that a new law should be passed saying that car companies should recall their cars every 5 to 6 years to upgrade the safety quality on their cars

Claim

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This will safe a numerous amout of people's lives and increase the amount of cars being sold by BMW.

Evidence

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Policy 1 is a good considering policy

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I think we should do that at SCHOOL_NAME because we are not allowed to have cell phones so this is a good way to show the principal that we are responsible

Claim

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If we use it in class we should get it taken but not from everybody but just for that person who didn't do what she/he was told. I would like this policy in the school.

Evidence

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If we get this policy we should be able to show our principal that we are young adults

Claim

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If we have this policy i am going to be happy cause this a change to show our principal that we can do it without her telling us because we are older to know what's right from wrong.

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That's a good idea to do because what if something goes wrong and you need your mom

Claim

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you can always call her at lunch if you need her. If u need some advice and you don't want to go to your principal u should be able to call your mom at lunch

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That's all I have to say

Concluding Statement

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