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813197ce0829	515CEA13AEE5	this is why i think we should not have the electoral college becuase it causes to much cauase throught all the steps you have to go through it takes so much time up and there is so many other thing we can be focusing on i think the electral college needs to be gone and over with and we need to find other ways to vote for the presidant and the vice presidant	Concluding Statement	Adequate
a918baa46aaa	515E8B741A54	I think that you should help change the way we vote. In my opinion, its complete nonsense that this "Electoral College" process is used	Position	Adequate
8c54952ac6ec	515E8B741A54	If there are citizens who want a good president, and the Congress wants different, it's pretty obvious that the citizens are going to be beyond disappointed that someone different was chosen.	Evidence	Adequate
c21a0f81b497	515E8B741A54	First off, I suggest that some states stop using the "winner-takes-all" system.	Claim	Ineffective
ea7252d6a722	515E8B741A54	I think that process is outrageous. Do you really think this process is choosing the right person to run our country? Just because the Congress likes this system, doesn't mean we, the people of the United States, preferably enjoy it.	Evidence	Ineffective
ff42a5dac058	515E8B741A54	Next, I believe that we should be able to choose our electors, because some people in the government make mistakes.	Claim	Adequate
56dc2e55397b	515E8B741A54	Sometimes people are wrong about other people. Each state only casts one vote, so we better make the best out of it, right?	Evidence	Ineffective
e1cbcab9d785	515E8B741A54	Also, there is a few reasons why this process is good. One reason why is because if there wasn't this secure system, it would probably be total chaos.	Counterclaim	Adequate
8698e6ba5051	515E8B741A54	Another reason is that this system helps choose which president will do the better for the United States.	Counterclaim	Ineffective
7dcae03b4764	515E8B741A54	Overall I think that this a bad process, and I think they should change this.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
6507810ecc7d	5163679C254B	personally, i don't think community service should be required	Position	Adequate
852750ad79e8	5163679C254B	if its not your thing your not going to want to do it and your not going to have fun doing it	Claim	Adequate
3cda45c711c8	5163679C254B	I don't think it is much fun to do but i do it with my church anyways. This year a am going to go down to LOCATION_NAME and i am going to help with community service things we well be doing is helping hand out food and helping plant and things people cant do by themselves. I have a lot of friends that do cool stuff like that too. But if you require it makes it sound more like homework, and then kids wont be so excited about it.	Evidence	Adequate
4a36905938f2	5163679C254B	I think community service is about volunteering, if you want to volunteer and help out the community you should.	Claim	Adequate
0984a05ea28e	5163679C254B	Another trip i' m doing this year or next is going to my sister church in Mexico and helping them out with a group from my church.	Evidence	Adequate
e2555b784041	5163679C254B	Some kids don't have enough time there either to busy with sports or x box or something	Counterclaim	Adequate
914865708072	5163679C254B	but they should still make some time to volunteer, even if its not huge, they could collect food for a food bank or something small	Rebuttal	Adequate
4e57ba79410d	5163679C254B	that's what i think about requiring community service.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
caa2b8e66306	516557988F8B	I believe that the policy of having at least a B average to participate in school sports or activities is the correct thing to do	Position	Adequate
4bd963175867	516557988F8B	students who don't have at least a B average, or better, won't be able to handle having a good grades in school.	Claim	Adequate
918c158e4a59	516557988F8B	They'll either be to busy to not do homework or to lazing to do school work. Or the student will be too sleepy in class. Also the student might not be focusing in school as much as they used to.	Evidence	Adequate
e31e343c97df	516557988F8B	f the below B average student goes to his or hers sport practices or meetings they would probably neglect their homework and school work.	Claim	Adequate
d77d020f019e	516557988F8B	Which would cause the student to get an even lower grade average! Unlike with an A or B student who would always at least try to complete their school work and homework.	Evidence	Ineffective
2023abf028c2	516557988F8B	the student wouldn't have enough sleeping time	Claim	Adequate
9936251d9108	516557988F8B	which again would make them struggle in school even more. If the below B average student was actually worried about their below average gradethey would	Evidence	Ineffective
1d0afcb34475	518B562DBD6B	I would want you to keep The Electoral College the same for its been up to Congress and popular votes from the citizens to elect the President and Vice President all this time. If we change The Electoral College , we might end up having to change a few more things.	Position	Adequate
1399af086a30	518B562DBD6B	So far The Electoral College has kept this country great with its voting way for President and Vice President. Changing The Electoral College will break its original way of the Constitutional compromise between the election of President and Congress. The original way is what made this country the way it is today.	Evidence	Adequate
2228c1ff2a14	518B562DBD6B	Sure people argued over The Electoral College in 2000 , but that was 15 years ago	Evidence	Adequate
23d68b217ce4	518B562DBD6B	If we change The Electoral College , we could be changing the coountry.	Counterclaim	Adequate
93f2fa35dba6	518B562DBD6B	It's better for the country that we don't change The Electoral College	Rebuttal	Adequate
6388bd959a07	518B562DBD6B	plus it would save Cogress , senators , the President , and Vice President time and paper work	Evidence	Ineffective
425ed63f2a2b	51CD300AB688	the Electoral College are not making votes fair for other people	Position	Adequate
5bd241831b64	51CD300AB688	To begin with, I personally think the Electoral College should change because over the years after people voted it seemed they wanted to change it,	Claim	Ineffective
4a689de7d669	51CD300AB688	so they decide to cause a riot around there city, maybe the U.S. Some people do not like how the Electoral Law is set for our U.S. My opinion is that some of the people running for presidents usually get helped, not only by us, but by other members of the Electoral Collage. As you see the evidence is how you turn on the T.V at night and see what is going on with the vote and election. For example Afganiscan, they are destroying there country becuase of how much they dislike our president, because of a unfair vote.	Evidence	Ineffective
91435c958d00	51CD300AB688	Think about it would any of this happen if the Electoral College made things fair with making people at least vote twice?	Claim	Ineffective
74009d8df227	51CD300AB688	As you see how other people are getting deeply hurt of what you are doing. Now am not asking you to abuse this opinion just to make people happy, but the main topic of what i am writing you is to think and observe around you. According to everyone else opinion, i am not only speaking for me now, but people are thinking to redo the election. People all country would like to vote for the same president of the U.S i know there are some states that have a president but like im saying, they want to change that.	Evidence	Ineffective
98a8cc75b4ac	51CD300AB688	People can see that its up to us to choose who is president, but its not the members of the Electoral College job to add more credit to the person losing or winning	Claim	Ineffective
3497482489be	51CD300AB688	People are dieciding to make plans because they do not get things there way. Just like the riot in paris with the terriots, there had to be a reseason for it. Think about it why would terriots want to kill people? Not only for fun but because of the presidential voting. Every bad thing on the U.S is mainly about voting. Just like people holding up signs on the street to change there election.	Evidence	Ineffective
057ab2f31ab4	51CD300AB688	As you can see the Electoral College is really selfish.	Claim	Ineffective
d71908a99e58	51CD300AB688	They tend to pay more attensiion to themselves but not others. They do it for the money and the fact to usually get other people upset. The presidents that the Electoral Collage want to win they win. Its a fact that most presidents win to easy. They win with a plethora of help, not only with the U.S but with the members of the Electoral Collage.	Evidence	Ineffective
c56669a636cd	51CD300AB688	In Conlusion, the electoral colage has to think about other people. They ned to focus more on the atmoshpere then sitting in one small room thinking about themselves.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
cb3028b1073b	520545C18283	Should there really be an Electoral College?	Lead	Adequate
416867719f79	520545C18283	Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO have all agreed on abolishing the electoral college, and so do I!	Position	Effective
6cfae9b5f30c	520545C18283	Not very many people really understand what the electoral college really is	Claim	Adequate
67e6d816fa76	520545C18283	The electoral college was established into the Constitution by our founding fathers as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of citizens. The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Wherever you live your states allotment of electors is equal to the number of members in its Congressional delegation.	Evidence	Ineffective
c4339f04269e	520545C18283	Each canidate running for president has his/her own group of electors. The electors are usually chosen by the canidates political party. But each state has different laws. It depends on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The Presidental election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Whenever you vote for whom ever you want to be President, you are also helping choose your states electors. Whenever you vote for your canidate you are actually voting for your canidates electors.	Evidence	Ineffective
516b7c399813	520545C18283	Your governor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertianment" after the presidential election listing all of the canidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors. Also, the certificate declares the winning of the presidential canidate in your state and it shows the electors that will represent your state at the meeting of electors in December of the election year. Your certificate is then sent to the Congress and the National Archoves as part of the official records of the presidential election.	Evidence	Ineffective
92c0faa02a26	520545C18283	Now, im sure there are many many people that agree with me that we should get rid of the electoral college. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the one we have now	Claim	Adequate
68df06e02124	520545C18283	Under the electoral college system, voters vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. The electoral college doesn't try to fix the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority vote, they just ignore it.	Evidence	Adequate
16c269b7e0e0	520545C18283	I think that it is the popularity vote that should decide who gets the most amount of votes and decides who become the next President of the United States. I think that the Electoral college is unfair to the citzens around the U.S. I always thought that it is us, the people that got to decide who we believe should become the next president, not the canidates electors. I believe that our votes should decide who become the next President, not the electoral votes.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
37e231c22f36	52233E7A7574	Helping the community is a good thing, but people don't have to do it if they don't want to.	Lead	Adequate
5f519b1d3f5e	52233E7A7574	But students should help out the community.	Position	Adequate
3c3aa0089638	52233E7A7574	i think since that we live in a good/bad community i think it would be good to help out the environment, or help younger individuals get a better education. Other community services require like babysitting, donating food, or donate money, not all community services are long and time wasting.	Evidence	Effective
0a92dcfa080c	52233E7A7574	If all the students did community service, then the community would be way better for the young and the old.	Claim	Adequate
e711175b722f	52233E7A7574	examples of a bad community for the young and the old would be like pollution in the air and on the ground, if everyone was smoking it would increase the chances of the elderly and young to get a lung disease like asthma. Or if we left litter on the floor babies could eat the litter and could go to the hospital or even die.	Evidence	Adequate
f0d17af3a898	52233E7A7574	i recommend that everyone does community service even if the students don't want to, its good for the environment,	Claim	Effective
d8627251209e	52233E7A7574	the people, and the learning. If we did community service we would be a roll model for younger individuals and they would want to do community service as well and the cycle would keep repeating.	Evidence	Ineffective
7e93a0b29e97	52233E7A7574	Though some of the community services we may do could be very dangerous.	Counterclaim	Adequate
c4b3d135162b	52233E7A7574	like picking up litter in the highway, some kid could walk out in the street to get a piece of trash then get hit by a car. I'm just saying that we don't use our heads sometimes.	Evidence	Adequate
63646ef7b0fc	52233E7A7574	But what i' m getting to is that community service would be a great idea for everyone to do.	Rebuttal	Adequate
213bf3ea7155	52233E7A7574	If we did do community service more people would come to this town and that means more students and more money for the school!	Claim	Effective
88f2bcbc1fcf	52233E7A7574	which means we could improve some of the things this school lacks, like more space in the rooms, and a larger cafeteria. The schools budget would be sky rocketing. So were pretty much doing each other a favor like a i scratch your back, you scratch mine.	Evidence	Effective
896f2246b8fd	52233E7A7574	If people got word that were doing this good cause then the news would become an epidemic! more and more schools would start doing this making the world a better place to live in and there would be no more murder, robbery, or bullying.	Evidence	Adequate
9cbe4bfe4a71	52233E7A7574	helping the community would be a great achievement for everyone.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
dbc233bd40da	522A99CEF90C	Many would seem to object to the thought of having to maintain a B average to participate in sports, but I for one, agree.	Position	Effective
69e12a31d18a	522A99CEF90C	Students may take it as unfair, but they do not realize that without education, they have nothing.	Claim	Effective
db7e4e7a185b	522A99CEF90C	To get into better universities, they will not accept grades that are not exceptional, let alone standard. I believe these students are trying to "just get by" in their class work, leading them to become irresponsible, lazy, and completely oblivious to the fact that the better jobs out there require more than a "standard" degree. Most school athletes believe that right out of high school, they will be drafted into a professional sports career, and for some, it is true. However, the statistics of ever making it into a professional league is slim, and for those who don't make it, and sadly don't care about their education, and end up getting a job that pays little to none and wishing that they did what they were supposed to do in school.	Evidence	Effective
7a3e7345fa69	522A99CEF90C	A lot of the time, my fellow students think that average is good enough, and it's sad to say that I know that some of them won't do well out of school.	Claim	Effective
9bef9f6d6186	522A99CEF90C	I know students who are going to drop out of school or not go to college, and it breaks my heart to see them make those mistakes.	Evidence	Adequate
168040363112	522A99CEF90C	I do understand that there are students who just don't understand the work,	Counterclaim	Effective
2e868b802015	522A99CEF90C	but a lot of the time, they don't get help with it, making harder on them self.	Rebuttal	Effective
b92a7c3b2c5b	522A99CEF90C	Honestly, if you expect to do sports and get a good education, a C is not good enough.	Claim	Effective
c0e9c1f42695	522A99CEF90C	I also think it is a great idea to not allow students to partake in school activities, such as dances and field trips, if their grades are not up to par.	Claim	Adequate
ac76260343b3	522A99CEF90C	If students want to have fun they should want to get their grades up. We teens and pre-teens anticipate so much from the everyone and everything, but we don't understand when our parents or teachers want us to succeed.	Evidence	Effective
971036464510	522A99CEF90C	To make a long story short, why should students be able to do what they want, if they are not doing what they need to do. Grades are just as influential as having fun so that's why I agree with you that they should maintain a B average to participate in sports and activities.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
59faa3c793f5	52432D25C86B	Some people in the America are worried about the voting for the president. Some people are in favor of keeping the Electoral College, and other are in favor of channging the voting system to popular vote.	Lead	Adequate
132374b2b92c	52432D25C86B	Going in favor of Electoral College has only one good favor like in Source 1 it says that "The Cerificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors will represent oyur state at the meeting of the electors in Decemeber of the election year."	Counterclaim	Ineffective
ef6bbeddc743	52432D25C86B	In the Electoral College there is somthing a bit unfair,	Claim	Adequate
bd7b00c6c896	52432D25C86B	if on of the presidential cadidate went after the bigger city's like Florida,Texas,or California (as showed in the picture in Source 3) the would have a big lead in the race for one of the cadidates. If one of the presidential cadidates got all three of them then it would be like a win-win for them. After they got those three it would be that hard to go after which ever state he want to get to vote for him.	Evidence	Adequate
86d760fcb0c3	52432D25C86B	Even though Electoral College is a good way popular vote would give a clear vote on who would win the presidential election. If we went with popular vote it would just matter on the people's vote on who they woluld want in the White House.	Claim	Adequate
4767723f1f18	52432D25C86B	If there is a tie, then the should find one person off the streets and ask them who would they want to win the presidential election. All they would have to do is give him a piece of paper with both names and he would pick one. If the state went to popular votes then Obama and Romney would most likely had a closer race then what it was. In Source 2 it says "According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore- thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct electin to the kind we have know."	Evidence	Ineffective
8c029df1379c	52432D25C86B	But know that you know some people in America don't like the Electoral College and saw what they had to say mabye just mabye you will consider changing how we the people ofAmerica vote to choose who we want in the White House.	Position	Adequate
b94d7ff7058b	525E2FD50DBF	There are many reason why Electrol College should not be kept, but it is the right thing if we change it to election by popular vote	Position	Adequate
12dec1fc4d3f	525E2FD50DBF	This Reason why I pick this is because us people want the right leader to leads us on a good path thats why we are citizens our job is to vote to them.	Claim	Adequate
f20a7dfe5cf9	525E2FD50DBF	The electrol college is not the best option because the electrol college doesn't give everyone an oppurtunity to select who they want as there leader	Claim	Adequate
1dffebb75c5d	525E2FD50DBF	In article three where it says "Everyone's President" the author states that "No region (South,Northeast, etc.) has enough electrol votes to elect a president." This mean that most of the states in the south do not get the chance to vote for a presiden and this increases Romney chances of wining, and what if the candidate that wins with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president? The citizens of the United States will feel as if they aren't apart of this country, not giving the rights or freedom this country promised them. The citizens will feel like their votes do not count, when they have there opinion on something the new president will have no interest towards it, this means to us that he isn't really a president. In article last paragragh the author states "people who think that a single vote may decide an elcetion."In the past plenty of ties had happened before they handled this by the election would be thrown to the House of Representative.	Evidence	Adequate
cba0ffbfb261	525E2FD50DBF	Election by popular vote is fair in both ways they give the people a chances to pick who they want and who will make a difference to our country.	Claim	Effective
be43df976a16	525E2FD50DBF	Its not fair if we vote and if we don't have enough electrol college our votes don't count in our region, that takes away what we been living in this country for. In the past they agreed on abloshing the electrol college also the article states that "over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now." As citizens it's important to listen to what we have to say cause we are the people who make up this country.	Evidence	Adequate
579f6cefe6b8	525E2FD50DBF	They don't want election by popular vote cause they are afraid that a tie will happen because an election usually stops around 538	Counterclaim	Ineffective
c3378f1a84a2	525E2FD50DBF	but it is highly unlikey to happen	Rebuttal	Adequate
9ac1a414daa6	525E2FD50DBF	it only happened twice in history for election by popular vote in 1968 by Richard Nixon and 1992 by Bill Clinton.	Evidence	Adequate
2a507f1dff54	525E2FD50DBF	There are many reason why Electrol College should not be kept, but it is the right thing if we change it to election by popular vote. This Reason why I pick this is because us people want the right leader to leads us on a good path thats why we are citizens our job is to vote for them.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
ac1e634dd8f1	527B7AAC2310	What is so important about home schooling?	Lead	Adequate
873732704b4b	527B7AAC2310	I think that students would not benefit from being able to attend classes from home	Position	Adequate
79229e2a798a	527B7AAC2310	because students would not have the amount of social activity as others	Claim	Adequate
d02ac6b3699f	527B7AAC2310	they also would not learn the amount of information as they would in school.	Claim	Ineffective
c3ba14e42e34	527B7AAC2310	Students would'nt benefit from being able to attend classes from home because students would'nt have the amount of social activity as others.	Claim	Adequate
ef59d3a09a79	527B7AAC2310	studies show that five out of ten students are more distant just by taking classes from home. Being in a school can improve your communication skills that can be used in interviews, presentations, performances, or even if your just speaking to family or friends. It's one of the most important thing you'll need in life. Taking online classes at home is a totally different environment then being at school. At home you only have a few people you can talk to for help which could be your parents, family, or your teacher. School is different you have students everywhere, teachers, and friends that can help you with anything such as personal problems, injuries, and school work. Being at school can help you learn more life lessons then being at home.	Evidence	Effective
6cfcd005ad21	527B7AAC2310	Students would'nt benefit from being able to attend classes from home because students wouldnt learn the amount of information as they would in school	Claim	Ineffective
66e4350fa186	527B7AAC2310	School shows you everything you need in life like Science, History, Math, a language, English, how to read, write, even how to cook. Learning from school can show you anything you want to know from the basics to an even deeper perspective. Learning more than the necessary can improve you more as a student and as person. Will show you thinks you'd need in the future even things you need now.	Evidence	Adequate

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515CEA13AEE5

this is why i think we should not have the electoral college becuase it causes to much cauase throught all the steps you have to go through it takes so much time up and there is so many other thing we can be focusing on i think the electral college needs to be gone and over with and we need to find other ways to vote for the presidant and the vice presidant

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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515E8B741A54

I think that you should help change the way we vote. In my opinion, its complete nonsense that this "Electoral College" process is used

Position

Adequate

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515E8B741A54

If there are citizens who want a good president, and the Congress wants different, it's pretty obvious that the citizens are going to be beyond disappointed that someone different was chosen.

Evidence

Adequate

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515E8B741A54

First off, I suggest that some states stop using the "winner-takes-all" system.

Claim

Ineffective

ea7252d6a722

515E8B741A54

I think that process is outrageous. Do you really think this process is choosing the right person to run our country? Just because the Congress likes this system, doesn't mean we, the people of the United States, preferably enjoy it.

Evidence

Ineffective

ff42a5dac058

515E8B741A54

Next, I believe that we should be able to choose our electors, because some people in the government make mistakes.

Claim

Adequate

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515E8B741A54

Sometimes people are wrong about other people. Each state only casts one vote, so we better make the best out of it, right?

Evidence

Ineffective

e1cbcab9d785

515E8B741A54

Also, there is a few reasons why this process is good. One reason why is because if there wasn't this secure system, it would probably be total chaos.

Counterclaim

Adequate

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515E8B741A54

Another reason is that this system helps choose which president will do the better for the United States.

Counterclaim

Ineffective

7dcae03b4764

515E8B741A54

Overall I think that this a bad process, and I think they should change this.

Concluding Statement

Ineffective

6507810ecc7d

5163679C254B

personally, i don't think community service should be required

Position

Adequate

852750ad79e8

5163679C254B

if its not your thing your not going to want to do it and your not going to have fun doing it

Claim

Adequate

3cda45c711c8

5163679C254B

I don't think it is much fun to do but i do it with my church anyways. This year a am going to go down to LOCATION_NAME and i am going to help with community service things we well be doing is helping hand out food and helping plant and things people cant do by themselves. I have a lot of friends that do cool stuff like that too. But if you require it makes it sound more like homework, and then kids wont be so excited about it.

Evidence

Adequate

4a36905938f2

5163679C254B

I think community service is about volunteering, if you want to volunteer and help out the community you should.

Claim

Adequate

0984a05ea28e

5163679C254B

Another trip i' m doing this year or next is going to my sister church in Mexico and helping them out with a group from my church.

Evidence

Adequate

e2555b784041

5163679C254B

Some kids don't have enough time there either to busy with sports or x box or something

Counterclaim

Adequate

914865708072

5163679C254B

but they should still make some time to volunteer, even if its not huge, they could collect food for a food bank or something small

Rebuttal

Adequate

4e57ba79410d

5163679C254B

that's what i think about requiring community service.

Concluding Statement

Ineffective

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516557988F8B

I believe that the policy of having at least a B average to participate in school sports or activities is the correct thing to do

Position

Adequate

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516557988F8B

students who don't have at least a B average, or better, won't be able to handle having a good grades in school.

Claim

Adequate

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516557988F8B

They'll either be to busy to not do homework or to lazing to do school work. Or the student will be too sleepy in class. Also the student might not be focusing in school as much as they used to.

Evidence

Adequate

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f the below B average student goes to his or hers sport practices or meetings they would probably neglect their homework and school work.

Claim

Adequate

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Which would cause the student to get an even lower grade average! Unlike with an A or B student who would always at least try to complete their school work and homework.

Evidence

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the student wouldn't have enough sleeping time

Claim

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which again would make them struggle in school even more. If the below B average student was actually worried about their below average gradethey would

Evidence

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I would want you to keep The Electoral College the same for its been up to Congress and popular votes from the citizens to elect the President and Vice President all this time. If we change The Electoral College , we might end up having to change a few more things.

Position

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So far The Electoral College has kept this country great with its voting way for President and Vice President. Changing The Electoral College will break its original way of the Constitutional compromise between the election of President and Congress. The original way is what made this country the way it is today.

Evidence

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Sure people argued over The Electoral College in 2000 , but that was 15 years ago

Evidence

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If we change The Electoral College , we could be changing the coountry.

Counterclaim

Adequate

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It's better for the country that we don't change The Electoral College

Rebuttal

Adequate

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plus it would save Cogress , senators , the President , and Vice President time and paper work

Evidence

Ineffective

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the Electoral College are not making votes fair for other people

Position

Adequate

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To begin with, I personally think the Electoral College should change because over the years after people voted it seemed they wanted to change it,

Claim

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so they decide to cause a riot around there city, maybe the U.S. Some people do not like how the Electoral Law is set for our U.S. My opinion is that some of the people running for presidents usually get helped, not only by us, but by other members of the Electoral Collage. As you see the evidence is how you turn on the T.V at night and see what is going on with the vote and election. For example Afganiscan, they are destroying there country becuase of how much they dislike our president, because of a unfair vote.

Evidence

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Think about it would any of this happen if the Electoral College made things fair with making people at least vote twice?

Claim

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As you see how other people are getting deeply hurt of what you are doing. Now am not asking you to abuse this opinion just to make people happy, but the main topic of what i am writing you is to think and observe around you. According to everyone else opinion, i am not only speaking for me now, but people are thinking to redo the election. People all country would like to vote for the same president of the U.S i know there are some states that have a president but like im saying, they want to change that.

Evidence

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People can see that its up to us to choose who is president, but its not the members of the Electoral College job to add more credit to the person losing or winning

Claim

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People are dieciding to make plans because they do not get things there way. Just like the riot in paris with the terriots, there had to be a reseason for it. Think about it why would terriots want to kill people? Not only for fun but because of the presidential voting. Every bad thing on the U.S is mainly about voting. Just like people holding up signs on the street to change there election.

Evidence

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As you can see the Electoral College is really selfish.

Claim

Ineffective

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They tend to pay more attensiion to themselves but not others. They do it for the money and the fact to usually get other people upset. The presidents that the Electoral Collage want to win they win. Its a fact that most presidents win to easy. They win with a plethora of help, not only with the U.S but with the members of the Electoral Collage.

Evidence

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In Conlusion, the electoral colage has to think about other people. They ned to focus more on the atmoshpere then sitting in one small room thinking about themselves.

Concluding Statement

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Should there really be an Electoral College?

Lead

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Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO have all agreed on abolishing the electoral college, and so do I!

Position

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Not very many people really understand what the electoral college really is

Claim

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The electoral college was established into the Constitution by our founding fathers as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of citizens. The electoral college consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Wherever you live your states allotment of electors is equal to the number of members in its Congressional delegation.

Evidence

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Each canidate running for president has his/her own group of electors. The electors are usually chosen by the canidates political party. But each state has different laws. It depends on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. The Presidental election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Whenever you vote for whom ever you want to be President, you are also helping choose your states electors. Whenever you vote for your canidate you are actually voting for your canidates electors.

Evidence

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Your governor prepares a "Certificate of Ascertianment" after the presidential election listing all of the canidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors. Also, the certificate declares the winning of the presidential canidate in your state and it shows the electors that will represent your state at the meeting of electors in December of the election year. Your certificate is then sent to the Congress and the National Archoves as part of the official records of the presidential election.

Evidence

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Now, im sure there are many many people that agree with me that we should get rid of the electoral college. Over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the one we have now

Claim

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Under the electoral college system, voters vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. The electoral college doesn't try to fix the problem of elections in which no canidate receives a majority vote, they just ignore it.

Evidence

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I think that it is the popularity vote that should decide who gets the most amount of votes and decides who become the next President of the United States. I think that the Electoral college is unfair to the citzens around the U.S. I always thought that it is us, the people that got to decide who we believe should become the next president, not the canidates electors. I believe that our votes should decide who become the next President, not the electoral votes.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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Helping the community is a good thing, but people don't have to do it if they don't want to.

Lead

Adequate

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But students should help out the community.

Position

Adequate

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i think since that we live in a good/bad community i think it would be good to help out the environment, or help younger individuals get a better education. Other community services require like babysitting, donating food, or donate money, not all community services are long and time wasting.

Evidence

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If all the students did community service, then the community would be way better for the young and the old.

Claim

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examples of a bad community for the young and the old would be like pollution in the air and on the ground, if everyone was smoking it would increase the chances of the elderly and young to get a lung disease like asthma. Or if we left litter on the floor babies could eat the litter and could go to the hospital or even die.

Evidence

Adequate

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i recommend that everyone does community service even if the students don't want to, its good for the environment,

Claim

Effective

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the people, and the learning. If we did community service we would be a roll model for younger individuals and they would want to do community service as well and the cycle would keep repeating.

Evidence

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Though some of the community services we may do could be very dangerous.

Counterclaim

Adequate

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like picking up litter in the highway, some kid could walk out in the street to get a piece of trash then get hit by a car. I'm just saying that we don't use our heads sometimes.

Evidence

Adequate

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But what i' m getting to is that community service would be a great idea for everyone to do.

Rebuttal

Adequate

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If we did do community service more people would come to this town and that means more students and more money for the school!

Claim

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which means we could improve some of the things this school lacks, like more space in the rooms, and a larger cafeteria. The schools budget would be sky rocketing. So were pretty much doing each other a favor like a i scratch your back, you scratch mine.

Evidence

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If people got word that were doing this good cause then the news would become an epidemic! more and more schools would start doing this making the world a better place to live in and there would be no more murder, robbery, or bullying.

Evidence

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helping the community would be a great achievement for everyone.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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Many would seem to object to the thought of having to maintain a B average to participate in sports, but I for one, agree.

Position

Effective

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Students may take it as unfair, but they do not realize that without education, they have nothing.

Claim

Effective

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To get into better universities, they will not accept grades that are not exceptional, let alone standard. I believe these students are trying to "just get by" in their class work, leading them to become irresponsible, lazy, and completely oblivious to the fact that the better jobs out there require more than a "standard" degree. Most school athletes believe that right out of high school, they will be drafted into a professional sports career, and for some, it is true. However, the statistics of ever making it into a professional league is slim, and for those who don't make it, and sadly don't care about their education, and end up getting a job that pays little to none and wishing that they did what they were supposed to do in school.

Evidence

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A lot of the time, my fellow students think that average is good enough, and it's sad to say that I know that some of them won't do well out of school.

Claim

Effective

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I know students who are going to drop out of school or not go to college, and it breaks my heart to see them make those mistakes.

Evidence

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I do understand that there are students who just don't understand the work,

Counterclaim

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but a lot of the time, they don't get help with it, making harder on them self.

Rebuttal

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Honestly, if you expect to do sports and get a good education, a C is not good enough.

Claim

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I also think it is a great idea to not allow students to partake in school activities, such as dances and field trips, if their grades are not up to par.

Claim

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If students want to have fun they should want to get their grades up. We teens and pre-teens anticipate so much from the everyone and everything, but we don't understand when our parents or teachers want us to succeed.

Evidence

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To make a long story short, why should students be able to do what they want, if they are not doing what they need to do. Grades are just as influential as having fun so that's why I agree with you that they should maintain a B average to participate in sports and activities.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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Some people in the America are worried about the voting for the president. Some people are in favor of keeping the Electoral College, and other are in favor of channging the voting system to popular vote.

Lead

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Going in favor of Electoral College has only one good favor like in Source 1 it says that "The Cerificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state and shows which electors will represent oyur state at the meeting of the electors in Decemeber of the election year."

Counterclaim

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In the Electoral College there is somthing a bit unfair,

Claim

Adequate

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if on of the presidential cadidate went after the bigger city's like Florida,Texas,or California (as showed in the picture in Source 3) the would have a big lead in the race for one of the cadidates. If one of the presidential cadidates got all three of them then it would be like a win-win for them. After they got those three it would be that hard to go after which ever state he want to get to vote for him.

Evidence

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Even though Electoral College is a good way popular vote would give a clear vote on who would win the presidential election. If we went with popular vote it would just matter on the people's vote on who they woluld want in the White House.

Claim

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If there is a tie, then the should find one person off the streets and ask them who would they want to win the presidential election. All they would have to do is give him a piece of paper with both names and he would pick one. If the state went to popular votes then Obama and Romney would most likely had a closer race then what it was. In Source 2 it says "According to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore- thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct electin to the kind we have know."

Evidence

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But know that you know some people in America don't like the Electoral College and saw what they had to say mabye just mabye you will consider changing how we the people ofAmerica vote to choose who we want in the White House.

Position

Adequate

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There are many reason why Electrol College should not be kept, but it is the right thing if we change it to election by popular vote

Position

Adequate

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This Reason why I pick this is because us people want the right leader to leads us on a good path thats why we are citizens our job is to vote to them.

Claim

Adequate

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The electrol college is not the best option because the electrol college doesn't give everyone an oppurtunity to select who they want as there leader

Claim

Adequate

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In article three where it says "Everyone's President" the author states that "No region (South,Northeast, etc.) has enough electrol votes to elect a president." This mean that most of the states in the south do not get the chance to vote for a presiden and this increases Romney chances of wining, and what if the candidate that wins with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president? The citizens of the United States will feel as if they aren't apart of this country, not giving the rights or freedom this country promised them. The citizens will feel like their votes do not count, when they have there opinion on something the new president will have no interest towards it, this means to us that he isn't really a president. In article last paragragh the author states "people who think that a single vote may decide an elcetion."In the past plenty of ties had happened before they handled this by the election would be thrown to the House of Representative.

Evidence

Adequate

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Election by popular vote is fair in both ways they give the people a chances to pick who they want and who will make a difference to our country.

Claim

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Its not fair if we vote and if we don't have enough electrol college our votes don't count in our region, that takes away what we been living in this country for. In the past they agreed on abloshing the electrol college also the article states that "over 60 percent of voters would perfer a direct election to the kind we have now." As citizens it's important to listen to what we have to say cause we are the people who make up this country.

Evidence

Adequate

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They don't want election by popular vote cause they are afraid that a tie will happen because an election usually stops around 538

Counterclaim

Ineffective

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but it is highly unlikey to happen

Rebuttal

Adequate

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it only happened twice in history for election by popular vote in 1968 by Richard Nixon and 1992 by Bill Clinton.

Evidence

Adequate

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There are many reason why Electrol College should not be kept, but it is the right thing if we change it to election by popular vote. This Reason why I pick this is because us people want the right leader to leads us on a good path thats why we are citizens our job is to vote for them.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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What is so important about home schooling?

Lead

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I think that students would not benefit from being able to attend classes from home

Position

Adequate

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because students would not have the amount of social activity as others

Claim

Adequate

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they also would not learn the amount of information as they would in school.

Claim

Ineffective

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Students would'nt benefit from being able to attend classes from home because students would'nt have the amount of social activity as others.

Claim

Adequate

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studies show that five out of ten students are more distant just by taking classes from home. Being in a school can improve your communication skills that can be used in interviews, presentations, performances, or even if your just speaking to family or friends. It's one of the most important thing you'll need in life. Taking online classes at home is a totally different environment then being at school. At home you only have a few people you can talk to for help which could be your parents, family, or your teacher. School is different you have students everywhere, teachers, and friends that can help you with anything such as personal problems, injuries, and school work. Being at school can help you learn more life lessons then being at home.

Evidence

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Students would'nt benefit from being able to attend classes from home because students wouldnt learn the amount of information as they would in school

Claim

Ineffective

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School shows you everything you need in life like Science, History, Math, a language, English, how to read, write, even how to cook. Learning from school can show you anything you want to know from the basics to an even deeper perspective. Learning more than the necessary can improve you more as a student and as person. Will show you thinks you'd need in the future even things you need now.

Evidence

Adequate