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e23c909c00da	4C543C424527	There was something on the news before about people hijacking cars and other things, think about how easy it could be to get control of a computer driven vehicle, it would probably be more easy. If they are gonna bring them I think they should add security or something, maybe do a whole bunch of tests with devices to make sure that it's safe. This vehicle doesn't just put the driver in danger, but it also can put other peoples life in danger. If a person crashed into another person they could die. I know for sure that when I get older and start driving, I probably wont get a driverless car if they come out because in my opinion I think that these sound pretty dangerous and I don't wanna get hurt or something to happen.	Evidence	Adequate
e33251496df4	4C543C424527	This actually probably could help people who are hurt/injured who can't drive get to places possibly	Counterclaim	Adequate
2f69d0356611	4C543C424527	So I think maybe they could add them aslong as they make sure its as safe as possible.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
edb769165a70	4CA37D113612	Have you ever wondered what the electoral college is? If you answered no I would say me to, but in this essay im going to explain why i am for it. I havent heard of the electoral college till now. So sit back and read this.	Lead	Adequate
e57a5bacdcf7	4CA37D113612	I think that we should do the electoral college,	Position	Adequate
1d019f489831	4CA37D113612	so everyone has a say on who they want to be the state senate	Claim	Ineffective
e8df94d2bc27	4CA37D113612	Under the college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.	Evidence	Adequate
0df77aa54d16	4CA37D113612	While others might say no we need to get rid of the electoral college, because the senate might be bribing the voters, so he knows that he/she has their vote for sure. This is where it gets tricky. Alot of people might disagree with you because you have a different point of view than them, but it is ok if you disagree with them, because its your vote that counts. This might be what they say "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational". The biggest arguments are, because people say that one of the runners in the campaign did something they wasn't suppose to do. At the most basic level, The elctoral college is unfair to voters. That is probaly something you would say if you was against the electoral college.	Counterclaim	Adequate
521a2604ea6b	4CA37D113612	It's ok to go for what you believe in. You might get judged but who cares it's your opinion don't listen to them.	Rebuttal	Ineffective
7dc8f304d56d	4CA37D113612	I personally think that we should keep it. The Electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner.	Evidence	Ineffective
00b2ef4b8ce1	4CA37D113612	It's the electors that elect the president not the people. When your voting for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee	Evidence	Ineffective
8a124f646664	4CA37D113612	it's nearly impossible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote.	Claim	Adequate
a6074a776458	4CA37D113612	Believe it or not its has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that's the first time since 1988.	Evidence	Adequate
8cda3d48a50c	4CA37D113612	It may have ripped some people off,	Counterclaim	Ineffective
cabf41b82d39	4CA37D113612	but at least we got people as good presidents. You may not like them, but they have helped us over the years that we were in debt and need. Like right now the president's wife is helping the obese kids at school by putting in whole grains and healthier foods. Those are good reasons, but not as good as these.	Rebuttal	Adequate
3cd549561cea	4CA37D113612	Certainty of out come.	Claim	Adequate
a18bccec37fc	4CA37D113612	The reason is that winning candidate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds more than enough. Because almost all the states award electoral votes on a winner take all basis, even a vey slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible. But the stakes are highly unlikely to happen.	Evidence	Adequate
11ac34d86391	4CA37D113612	Everyone's President	Claim	Adequate
c6f813aa1366	4CA37D113612	The electoral college requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. There is region that has enough electoral votes to elect a president. some people has no incentive to campaign heavily in the states that they are regionally favorited, becuse they will not gain any electoral votes by increasing their plurality.	Evidence	Adequate
a5256e9c675c	4CA37D113612	Swing States	Claim	Adequate
015998fc6d0f	4CA37D113612	The winner take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. Voters in the toss up states are more likely to pay more attention to the campaign. So they know that they are going to know that they are deciding the election. They are also likely to be the most thoughtful voters.	Evidence	Adequate
35bf70c4a673	4CA37D113612	Big States	Claim	Ineffective
6b919085424b	4CA37D113612	The elctoral college restores somke of the weight in the political balance that large sates lose by virtue of the mal-appointment of the senate decreed in the constitution. The most popular vote in 2012 was by the state of Florida. Obama won that election with only 29 electoral votes. Bigger states get more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a smaller state does.	Evidence	Adequate
ddc58b0a4f06	4CA37D113612	Avoid Run Off Elections	Claim	Adequate
2a9dd922d592	4CA37D113612	The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which the candidate recieves a majority of the votes by the cast. When neither of the candidates recieve majority vote it becomes more intense, because they start trying their hardest so they can win the election.	Evidence	Adequate
f6cb352e3f01	4CA37D113612	It can be argued but only one will be victorious. Will we keep the electoral vote? Or will we get rid of it? So if i persuaded you to keep it pick, then keep if i didnt, then pick get rid of it. Which one will you choose.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
a3a14fbb611f	4CA50E2333F2	I understand your reasoning for the new change you would like to undertake, but I am against his issue. Many students in our school love to play sports, and other fun activities, but also many students are getting C averages or below as their grades	Position	Effective
2908666b4eaf	4CA50E2333F2	Kids that are doing so for example should not be restricted from school activities like so just because of their grades, the should be helped.	Claim	Effective
b3ce573bf475	4CA50E2333F2	A possible solution is requiring the child stay after school for extra help with teachers, or if that is not possible, encourage small help sessions in class. A child may not be the brightest in school, but may be the best on the basketball team. It is not fair to them to take away something that is amusing for them, or lets them have fun. Their struggling with school isn't going to change if you just take away more privileges. The child needs help. And what i believe may happen is sometimes the child will even start doing worse, or stop focusing as much because he/she is angry and sad they have no privileges other than to focus on their school work more and try harder	Evidence	Effective
ebfade997f98	4CA50E2333F2	Most of these reasons are to occur if you take these activities away from children with averages of a C or less. On the other hand, if you start having after school sessions, then the child will start to succeed, and will be having fun participating in their activities.	Concluding Statement	Effective
39f21de16d5b	4D160DA89EB9	I argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College	Position	Adequate
c5bc4294d0b9	4D160DA89EB9	the Electoral College is process consists of the selection of the electors ,which the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President , and the counting of the electoral votes by congress.	Evidence	Ineffective
600b25f2e30d	4D160DA89EB9	They get to vote who is going to be but, the Electoral College is consists of the selection of five hundred thirty eight electors. The majority of two hundred seventhy electoral votes is requied to elect the president	Claim	Ineffective
28f06c41abc8	4D160DA89EB9	I think that is not going to be alot of votes of people who is voting for the person who they want. Is just voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Not always the voters can control whom their electors vote for!	Evidence	Ineffective
1b79f424e014	4D160DA89EB9	The argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor.	Counterclaim	Adequate
cf0438498b5d	4D160DA89EB9	The American people should consider themselves lucky, because the two thousand fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. They was lucky that happen , consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Perhaps the most worrying thin is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president.	Evidence	Adequate
129e07c78b7d	4D160DA89EB9	The electoral college is unfair,outdated, and irrational. The arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality, and the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best. There's five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president and those five reasons is certainty of outcome, everyone's president, swing states, big states, and avoid run-off elections.	Evidence	Adequate
99a72104ff0c	4D160DA89EB9	These five reasons have something to deal with Electoral College. Is just some arguments that they have of electoral college, in of defense of the electoral college.	Counterclaim	Ineffective
278be11aa330	4D160DA89EB9	Is just asking if the electoral college works? I think that it doesn't because they have arguments about it ,about they dont get that much votes. And that something is wrong with the electoral college. People should decide on what they want and that voters can control whom their electors vote! It can be a argued that the electoral college method of selecting the presisdent may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying thier state. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
75ebd0f93c5a	4D4A979B1FB3	Driverless cars have a positive and negative aspect to them.	Position	Ineffective
7c02d444d10f	4D4A979B1FB3	Driverless cars have the ability to help a driver when coming too close to a car which is called a sensor.	Claim	Adequate
c43120fb4f46	4D4A979B1FB3	Sensor help drivers know when their to close to a car or any object that may put your life in danger.	Evidence	Adequate
18d89870ec1b	4D4A979B1FB3	Another positive thing about driverless cars is that keep improving for example in paragraph 7 the 2013 BMW announced a system called "Traffic Jam Assistants."	Claim	Adequate
868139285b5a	4D4A979B1FB3	Traffic Jam Assistants allows the car to handle driving functions like accelerate,steer,and brake by themselves. It allows the driver to know what they need to do to be in a safe postion.	Evidence	Adequate
ccb4857d8066	4D4A979B1FB3	Driverless cars can make you think about the "What Ifs,"	Claim	Adequate
0c57d8766c22	4D4A979B1FB3	like what if something goes wrong with the technology and it puts your life in danger or others. Who fault is its yours or the cars? Driverless cars have negative aspects to them too because their not truly driverless as said in paragraph 2.	Evidence	Adequate
d8090e9348ba	4D4A979B1FB3	Driverless cars may seem like their great but they have disadvantges that you should consider for not only your safety but for others to.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
174fe6ba4c12	4D51DD14B0E4	Phones are a huge part of our children's lives. In your first policy you state that you could, "Allow students to bring phones to school and use them during lunch periods and other free times, as long as the phones are turned off during class time." In your second policy you state that you, " Do not allow students to have phones at school at all."	Lead	Adequate
f23eef6f2cc7	4D51DD14B0E4	In my opinion policy number one is the best decision that you could make regarding the students.	Position	Adequate
2694381693b3	4D51DD14B0E4	The reason i say this is because by letting them have there phones, even at a potion of time, you would not have them sneaking them around as often.	Claim	Adequate
b14a1401d1f3	4D51DD14B0E4	Your letting them have some freedom when it comes to communication, but at the same time you have control over them.	Evidence	Adequate
8049c728bf87	4D51DD14B0E4	If you chose the second policy you would have a lot of angry parents at your door.	Claim	Adequate
d163c3f93028	4D51DD14B0E4	Parents and children need to communicate, and they do this, most often than not, on there phones. If you took away the only way parents could communicate and talk to their children, all these parents would be upset, and of course worried. For you see, they would not know if there children were home or gone off to friends house, and they couldn't just call them up and ask because there phones would be with them, but at home.	Evidence	Adequate
d868ec11b1b9	4D51DD14B0E4	So, please take into consideration what I've said to you.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
b41e4b9a2281	4D55C9731228	The Electoral College is not what it used to be, its not the most effecent way anymore. The people should decide this time, I am not saying get rid of it. But we should change it.	Position	Adequate
2985ed83db91	4D55C9731228	There are many people who agree with me	Claim	Effective
c0b00dbf6a15	4D55C9731228	Over sixty percent of the vters would like a more direct system of voteing (according to a Gallup poll in 2000). And so did Ritchard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and AFL-CIO.	Evidence	Effective
d3b2cba210ab	4D55C9731228	The main reason why people want a change is for all the qurks in the Electoral College system.	Claim	Effective
a5b23ddf7477	4D55C9731228	For example, if you lived in Texas. And you wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electoers. Witch in most cases would be O.K., but they could betray the party and vote for whom they please. It doesn't always happen but the possibility is real. And people, like the segregationists back in 1960, could have gone agenst their party and pick electors to go agenst Kennedy.	Evidence	Effective
1376724a6576	4D55C9731228	All we want is a change, it deosn't have to rewrite the Constitision. But the Electoral College must go.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
81004cf0bd31	4D772EDF3C34	Dear Senator I am not in favor of keeping the Electoral College. We should not keep the Electoral College for many reasons.	Position	Effective
18d9e09515b8	4D772EDF3C34	Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on one thing, and it was abolishing the Electoral College.	Claim	Effective
5cb0b5a767e2	4D772EDF3C34	Another reason being, under the Electoral College System, voters vote for a slate of electors, not the president and in return they select the president	Claim	Effective
a2d544205a78	4D772EDF3C34	Last but not least, the Electoral College is unfair to voters.	Claim	Adequate
576ca8ccdb23	4D772EDF3C34	Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on one thing, and it was aboloshing the Electoral College.	Claim	Effective
2bdcea0676a9	4D772EDF3C34	This was also agreed upon by many other citizens. According to a Gallup Poll in 2000, which was taken shortly after Al Gore won the popular vote, but lost the popular vote. According to the poll "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election not the kind we have now." It is said that "this year voters are to expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again loose the presidency."	Evidence	Effective
0a9127f2726c	4D772EDF3C34	Under the Electoral College System, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in return elect the president	Claim	Adequate
eb2741e0e1c4	4D772EDF3C34	Because of this there are so many questions asked that are answered very broadly due to the fact you do not really know the correct answer. For instace, who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding the public office. Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, Sometimes the State Party's central comittee, and sometimes the presidential canidates themselves.	Evidence	Adequate
071b5ca9b53b	4D772EDF3C34	Man oh man is the Electoral College unfair to voters! This may be an opinion, but it is on of many citizens who are all in agreement of it.	Claim	Adequate
15592aaf74bc	4D772EDF3C34	All of the "winner-takes-all" systems in each state, canidates do not spend time in each states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states." In fact in the 2000 campaing there were seventeen states the did not see the canidates at all and it was said that voters in 25 of the largest media markets did not even get to see a single campaign ad. " if anyone has a good arguement for putting he fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in ohio, they have yet to make it...."	Evidence	Effective
2080c4939e6b	4D772EDF3C34	As you can see I am in favor of changing the elctoral college to election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on one thing, and it was aboloshing the Electoral College. Under the Electoral College System they vote not for the president but for a state of electors who in return elect the president. Last but not least, the Electoral College is just unfair in so many differnt ways. These are reasons why I am not in favor of the Electoral College but in the favor to elect by popular vote for the president of the United States of America.	Concluding Statement	Effective
e7c30293c66a	4E0C8B6B069B	you should stick with the electoral college	Position	Adequate
d61d70a245ca	4E0C8B6B069B	because i don't really care about any of this. But you wanted my opinion so i gave it to you. Also I say to stick with the electoral college is because i don't care enough to give a reason to change your voting to popular vote. I don't really knoe anything about the ellectoral college or populare vot, because you passage is to boring i couldn't get through half of it.	Lead	Ineffective
9210a36c079e	4E0C8B6B069B	Ooh and if whoever is reading this or if your grading this be remind ed if this was getermining if I were to get out of entsive reading or not for next year i really wouyld try harder. Because we both know this isn't. And im cencerly sorry i havent prepared a better passage for you to read. But im pretty sure you don't read all of it.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
fff3200e271d	4E1F37A9728A	The face on Mars is just a landform	Position	Adequate
ae337e5503ba	4E1F37A9728A	There is no such thing as aliens. Alson there is no life of any type that can live on Mars. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform."	Evidence	Adequate
e80d1ca283c8	4E1F37A9728A	The picture shows us a part of Mars where the face is just form in that weird way	Claim	Ineffective
83f03972a025	4E1F37A9728A	Makin people think there was aliens on Mars. Mars is not a liveable place. There is no air to breathe, and it is to hot. You wouldn't make it alive in Mars, because you would lose your breath and burn up.	Evidence	Ineffective
fccc740278c6	4E1F37A9728A	All the picture is show us is that a natural landform has formed on Mars	Claim	Adequate
2c70e71a40c1	4E1F37A9728A	It is a great picture off landform you might never see again, but it has nothing to do with aliens on Mars. If aliens were real, one of NASA'S scientists would have found them in outer space by now	Evidence	Ineffective
c6b93985c3ac	4E1F37A9728A	The face is just a great form of natural landform.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
513c6c5fc04a	4E48D58E859A	I do not think you should make it mandatory for everyone to do community service for a few reasons.	Position	Adequate
c9e267a68fb1	4E48D58E859A	The first is because you shouldn't make someone do something they really don't want to do even if you think it is good for them because you are not there parent.	Claim	Adequate
35c1f80c18dc	4E48D58E859A	Another reason is because if you make people do community service they will do the bare minimum of work that they are suppose to do or teach a child how to do math wrong, or read words a different way then everyone else.	Claim	Adequate
db81645eaf33	4E48D58E859A	If they are cleaning up trash i doubt they would do all the work they're suppose to. I bet they might only pick up a couple pieces of trash, and complain about it the whole time	Evidence	Adequate
b1bdf46a9286	4E48D58E859A	. I understand it might help the community a little	Counterclaim	Adequate
8a5c7472c2eb	4E48D58E859A	ut if they do no work or teach a child who's learning to read the wrong way it will take so much more work to help fix what that person has done.	Rebuttal	Adequate
819cf375d73e	4E48D58E859A	I get that your trying to help, but all i think it will do is make things much worse for the school and the community	Evidence	Adequate
a94293b57228	4E48D58E859A	I also think that you should make as much school time as you have to do actual school work.	Claim	Adequate
898796e26da7	4E48D58E859A	You could open up another band class or give us study hall sense we don't have it or maybe make home base even longer.	Evidence	Ineffective
6a0f202c96ba	4E48D58E859A	Find another way to help students and the community. There are a lot of things you can do to help. Just don't force people to do community work. Its just going to make things so much worse,	Concluding Statement	Adequate
40d4224b5f2c	4E4FAB530872	I agree with policy 1 because student should get to bring their cell phones to school.	Position	Adequate
3007ea56dbf2	4E4FAB530872	students might need to have them for family emergencies, students might need them for contacting there parents to transport them home from after school activities, students can use the calculator on there phones for math, students can take pictures with there friends, students might need to use the internet, and students can text other students to see what's up.	Evidence	Adequate
c60dee269e42	4E4FAB530872	All of these reasons can help students have a better and much easier life personally and educationally. If students weren't allowed to bring them at all there lives would be so much harder.	Claim	Adequate
07a723e16af4	4E4FAB530872	Students could also listen to music with there cell phones.	Claim	Adequate
809f8f62061a	4E4FAB530872	Music helps relieve stress and calm peoples nerves. It also helps people relax.	Evidence	Adequate
9344e1a1079f	4E4FAB530872	The only thing bad is students could bring them to class and secretly text or some other thing and it could possibly bring there grades down	Counterclaim	Adequate
9bdd13bf22a8	4E4FAB530872	But teachers get to bring there cell phones to school and use them anytime they want so why shouldn't students?	Rebuttal	Adequate
782fc1b12ba3	4E4FAB530872	Students should have the same rights as teachers or any adults. The constitution says that all people are created equal. That should give students the right to bring cell phones to school	Evidence	Ineffective
00089291ece1	4E4FAB530872	Well that's all I got to say so thank you for your time on reading this letter. Please put these thoughts into consideration.	Concluding Statement	Adequate

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There was something on the news before about people hijacking cars and other things, think about how easy it could be to get control of a computer driven vehicle, it would probably be more easy. If they are gonna bring them I think they should add security or something, maybe do a whole bunch of tests with devices to make sure that it's safe. This vehicle doesn't just put the driver in danger, but it also can put other peoples life in danger. If a person crashed into another person they could die. I know for sure that when I get older and start driving, I probably wont get a driverless car if they come out because in my opinion I think that these sound pretty dangerous and I don't wanna get hurt or something to happen.

Evidence

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This actually probably could help people who are hurt/injured who can't drive get to places possibly

Counterclaim

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So I think maybe they could add them aslong as they make sure its as safe as possible.

Concluding Statement

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Have you ever wondered what the electoral college is? If you answered no I would say me to, but in this essay im going to explain why i am for it. I havent heard of the electoral college till now. So sit back and read this.

Lead

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I think that we should do the electoral college,

Position

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so everyone has a say on who they want to be the state senate

Claim

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

Evidence

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While others might say no we need to get rid of the electoral college, because the senate might be bribing the voters, so he knows that he/she has their vote for sure. This is where it gets tricky. Alot of people might disagree with you because you have a different point of view than them, but it is ok if you disagree with them, because its your vote that counts. This might be what they say "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational". The biggest arguments are, because people say that one of the runners in the campaign did something they wasn't suppose to do. At the most basic level, The elctoral college is unfair to voters. That is probaly something you would say if you was against the electoral college.

Counterclaim

Adequate

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It's ok to go for what you believe in. You might get judged but who cares it's your opinion don't listen to them.

Rebuttal

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I personally think that we should keep it. The Electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who recieves the most popular votes the winner.

Evidence

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It's the electors that elect the president not the people. When your voting for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee

Evidence

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it's nearly impossible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote.

Claim

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Believe it or not its has happened very rarely. It happened in 2000, when Gore had more votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that's the first time since 1988.

Evidence

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It may have ripped some people off,

Counterclaim

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but at least we got people as good presidents. You may not like them, but they have helped us over the years that we were in debt and need. Like right now the president's wife is helping the obese kids at school by putting in whole grains and healthier foods. Those are good reasons, but not as good as these.

Rebuttal

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Certainty of out come.

Claim

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The reason is that winning candidate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds more than enough. Because almost all the states award electoral votes on a winner take all basis, even a vey slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible. But the stakes are highly unlikely to happen.

Evidence

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Everyone's President

Claim

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The electoral college requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. There is region that has enough electoral votes to elect a president. some people has no incentive to campaign heavily in the states that they are regionally favorited, becuse they will not gain any electoral votes by increasing their plurality.

Evidence

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Swing States

Claim

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The winner take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates. Voters in the toss up states are more likely to pay more attention to the campaign. So they know that they are going to know that they are deciding the election. They are also likely to be the most thoughtful voters.

Evidence

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Big States

Claim

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The elctoral college restores somke of the weight in the political balance that large sates lose by virtue of the mal-appointment of the senate decreed in the constitution. The most popular vote in 2012 was by the state of Florida. Obama won that election with only 29 electoral votes. Bigger states get more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a smaller state does.

Evidence

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Avoid Run Off Elections

Claim

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The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which the candidate recieves a majority of the votes by the cast. When neither of the candidates recieve majority vote it becomes more intense, because they start trying their hardest so they can win the election.

Evidence

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It can be argued but only one will be victorious. Will we keep the electoral vote? Or will we get rid of it? So if i persuaded you to keep it pick, then keep if i didnt, then pick get rid of it. Which one will you choose.

Concluding Statement

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I understand your reasoning for the new change you would like to undertake, but I am against his issue. Many students in our school love to play sports, and other fun activities, but also many students are getting C averages or below as their grades

Position

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Kids that are doing so for example should not be restricted from school activities like so just because of their grades, the should be helped.

Claim

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A possible solution is requiring the child stay after school for extra help with teachers, or if that is not possible, encourage small help sessions in class. A child may not be the brightest in school, but may be the best on the basketball team. It is not fair to them to take away something that is amusing for them, or lets them have fun. Their struggling with school isn't going to change if you just take away more privileges. The child needs help. And what i believe may happen is sometimes the child will even start doing worse, or stop focusing as much because he/she is angry and sad they have no privileges other than to focus on their school work more and try harder

Evidence

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Most of these reasons are to occur if you take these activities away from children with averages of a C or less. On the other hand, if you start having after school sessions, then the child will start to succeed, and will be having fun participating in their activities.

Concluding Statement

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I argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College

Position

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the Electoral College is process consists of the selection of the electors ,which the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President , and the counting of the electoral votes by congress.

Evidence

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They get to vote who is going to be but, the Electoral College is consists of the selection of five hundred thirty eight electors. The majority of two hundred seventhy electoral votes is requied to elect the president

Claim

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I think that is not going to be alot of votes of people who is voting for the person who they want. Is just voters vote not for the president , but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. Not always the voters can control whom their electors vote for!

Evidence

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The argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor.

Counterclaim

Adequate

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The American people should consider themselves lucky, because the two thousand fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. They was lucky that happen , consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Perhaps the most worrying thin is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the president.

Evidence

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The electoral college is unfair,outdated, and irrational. The arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality, and the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best. There's five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president and those five reasons is certainty of outcome, everyone's president, swing states, big states, and avoid run-off elections.

Evidence

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These five reasons have something to deal with Electoral College. Is just some arguments that they have of electoral college, in of defense of the electoral college.

Counterclaim

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Is just asking if the electoral college works? I think that it doesn't because they have arguments about it ,about they dont get that much votes. And that something is wrong with the electoral college. People should decide on what they want and that voters can control whom their electors vote! It can be a argued that the electoral college method of selecting the presisdent may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying thier state. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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Driverless cars have a positive and negative aspect to them.

Position

Ineffective

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Driverless cars have the ability to help a driver when coming too close to a car which is called a sensor.

Claim

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Sensor help drivers know when their to close to a car or any object that may put your life in danger.

Evidence

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Another positive thing about driverless cars is that keep improving for example in paragraph 7 the 2013 BMW announced a system called "Traffic Jam Assistants."

Claim

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Traffic Jam Assistants allows the car to handle driving functions like accelerate,steer,and brake by themselves. It allows the driver to know what they need to do to be in a safe postion.

Evidence

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Driverless cars can make you think about the "What Ifs,"

Claim

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like what if something goes wrong with the technology and it puts your life in danger or others. Who fault is its yours or the cars? Driverless cars have negative aspects to them too because their not truly driverless as said in paragraph 2.

Evidence

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Driverless cars may seem like their great but they have disadvantges that you should consider for not only your safety but for others to.

Concluding Statement

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Phones are a huge part of our children's lives. In your first policy you state that you could, "Allow students to bring phones to school and use them during lunch periods and other free times, as long as the phones are turned off during class time." In your second policy you state that you, " Do not allow students to have phones at school at all."

Lead

Adequate

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In my opinion policy number one is the best decision that you could make regarding the students.

Position

Adequate

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The reason i say this is because by letting them have there phones, even at a potion of time, you would not have them sneaking them around as often.

Claim

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Your letting them have some freedom when it comes to communication, but at the same time you have control over them.

Evidence

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If you chose the second policy you would have a lot of angry parents at your door.

Claim

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Parents and children need to communicate, and they do this, most often than not, on there phones. If you took away the only way parents could communicate and talk to their children, all these parents would be upset, and of course worried. For you see, they would not know if there children were home or gone off to friends house, and they couldn't just call them up and ask because there phones would be with them, but at home.

Evidence

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So, please take into consideration what I've said to you.

Concluding Statement

Ineffective

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The Electoral College is not what it used to be, its not the most effecent way anymore. The people should decide this time, I am not saying get rid of it. But we should change it.

Position

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There are many people who agree with me

Claim

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Over sixty percent of the vters would like a more direct system of voteing (according to a Gallup poll in 2000). And so did Ritchard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and AFL-CIO.

Evidence

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The main reason why people want a change is for all the qurks in the Electoral College system.

Claim

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For example, if you lived in Texas. And you wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electoers. Witch in most cases would be O.K., but they could betray the party and vote for whom they please. It doesn't always happen but the possibility is real. And people, like the segregationists back in 1960, could have gone agenst their party and pick electors to go agenst Kennedy.

Evidence

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All we want is a change, it deosn't have to rewrite the Constitision. But the Electoral College must go.

Concluding Statement

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Dear Senator I am not in favor of keeping the Electoral College. We should not keep the Electoral College for many reasons.

Position

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Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on one thing, and it was abolishing the Electoral College.

Claim

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Another reason being, under the Electoral College System, voters vote for a slate of electors, not the president and in return they select the president

Claim

Effective

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Last but not least, the Electoral College is unfair to voters.

Claim

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Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on one thing, and it was aboloshing the Electoral College.

Claim

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This was also agreed upon by many other citizens. According to a Gallup Poll in 2000, which was taken shortly after Al Gore won the popular vote, but lost the popular vote. According to the poll "over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election not the kind we have now." It is said that "this year voters are to expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again loose the presidency."

Evidence

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Under the Electoral College System, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in return elect the president

Claim

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Because of this there are so many questions asked that are answered very broadly due to the fact you do not really know the correct answer. For instace, who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding the public office. Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, Sometimes the State Party's central comittee, and sometimes the presidential canidates themselves.

Evidence

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Man oh man is the Electoral College unfair to voters! This may be an opinion, but it is on of many citizens who are all in agreement of it.

Claim

Adequate

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All of the "winner-takes-all" systems in each state, canidates do not spend time in each states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states." In fact in the 2000 campaing there were seventeen states the did not see the canidates at all and it was said that voters in 25 of the largest media markets did not even get to see a single campaign ad. " if anyone has a good arguement for putting he fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in ohio, they have yet to make it...."

Evidence

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As you can see I am in favor of changing the elctoral college to election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agreed on one thing, and it was aboloshing the Electoral College. Under the Electoral College System they vote not for the president but for a state of electors who in return elect the president. Last but not least, the Electoral College is just unfair in so many differnt ways. These are reasons why I am not in favor of the Electoral College but in the favor to elect by popular vote for the president of the United States of America.

Concluding Statement

Effective

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you should stick with the electoral college

Position

Adequate

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because i don't really care about any of this. But you wanted my opinion so i gave it to you. Also I say to stick with the electoral college is because i don't care enough to give a reason to change your voting to popular vote. I don't really knoe anything about the ellectoral college or populare vot, because you passage is to boring i couldn't get through half of it.

Lead

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Ooh and if whoever is reading this or if your grading this be remind ed if this was getermining if I were to get out of entsive reading or not for next year i really wouyld try harder. Because we both know this isn't. And im cencerly sorry i havent prepared a better passage for you to read. But im pretty sure you don't read all of it.

Concluding Statement

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The face on Mars is just a landform

Position

Adequate

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There is no such thing as aliens. Alson there is no life of any type that can live on Mars. "Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing . . . a natural landform."

Evidence

Adequate

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The picture shows us a part of Mars where the face is just form in that weird way

Claim

Ineffective

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Makin people think there was aliens on Mars. Mars is not a liveable place. There is no air to breathe, and it is to hot. You wouldn't make it alive in Mars, because you would lose your breath and burn up.

Evidence

Ineffective

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All the picture is show us is that a natural landform has formed on Mars

Claim

Adequate

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It is a great picture off landform you might never see again, but it has nothing to do with aliens on Mars. If aliens were real, one of NASA'S scientists would have found them in outer space by now

Evidence

Ineffective

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The face is just a great form of natural landform.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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I do not think you should make it mandatory for everyone to do community service for a few reasons.

Position

Adequate

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The first is because you shouldn't make someone do something they really don't want to do even if you think it is good for them because you are not there parent.

Claim

Adequate

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Another reason is because if you make people do community service they will do the bare minimum of work that they are suppose to do or teach a child how to do math wrong, or read words a different way then everyone else.

Claim

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If they are cleaning up trash i doubt they would do all the work they're suppose to. I bet they might only pick up a couple pieces of trash, and complain about it the whole time

Evidence

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. I understand it might help the community a little

Counterclaim

Adequate

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ut if they do no work or teach a child who's learning to read the wrong way it will take so much more work to help fix what that person has done.

Rebuttal

Adequate

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I get that your trying to help, but all i think it will do is make things much worse for the school and the community

Evidence

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I also think that you should make as much school time as you have to do actual school work.

Claim

Adequate

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You could open up another band class or give us study hall sense we don't have it or maybe make home base even longer.

Evidence

Ineffective

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Find another way to help students and the community. There are a lot of things you can do to help. Just don't force people to do community work. Its just going to make things so much worse,

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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I agree with policy 1 because student should get to bring their cell phones to school.

Position

Adequate

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students might need to have them for family emergencies, students might need them for contacting there parents to transport them home from after school activities, students can use the calculator on there phones for math, students can take pictures with there friends, students might need to use the internet, and students can text other students to see what's up.

Evidence

Adequate

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All of these reasons can help students have a better and much easier life personally and educationally. If students weren't allowed to bring them at all there lives would be so much harder.

Claim

Adequate

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Students could also listen to music with there cell phones.

Claim

Adequate

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Music helps relieve stress and calm peoples nerves. It also helps people relax.

Evidence

Adequate

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The only thing bad is students could bring them to class and secretly text or some other thing and it could possibly bring there grades down

Counterclaim

Adequate

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But teachers get to bring there cell phones to school and use them anytime they want so why shouldn't students?

Rebuttal

Adequate

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Students should have the same rights as teachers or any adults. The constitution says that all people are created equal. That should give students the right to bring cell phones to school

Evidence

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Well that's all I got to say so thank you for your time on reading this letter. Please put these thoughts into consideration.

Concluding Statement

Adequate