tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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116cfcc64180	5CE0E9A7214D	like imagine if we all do it we would be mad at the people who is making us do it no its not you its the bad kids and no wants to mess there day because of them right or wrong well this is what i want to say to you and i hope we don't have to do community service but like if the kids are bad you don't have to put them in community service you cant take stuff away from them . Are they can stay after school and do there homework .	Evidence	Adequate
42dd6dd01072	5CE0E9A7214D	well yah i hope you make the best chose .All of the students should have a other chance. If they want to do community service they an help little kids on there homework or clean up at the school or something .	Concluding Statement	Adequate
a14fae1e18ac	5D1A08FC3563	The meaning of a democracy is that the people vote for their leader or president.	Lead	Adequate
9a74a2761321	5D1A08FC3563	The electoral college denys that right and that is why the state senator should change that.	Position	Effective
997e099f0f93	5D1A08FC3563	Not only do the popular votes barley make a difference but, with the electoral college in play the representatives vote for our president, not us.	Claim	Effective
62d0eee45067	5D1A08FC3563	If popular vote was the way the president was elected the elections would be fair.	Claim	Effective
da75c2e0c2c5	5D1A08FC3563	To start with, how can we live in a democracy were the people do not pick their own president but, some representatives we suposadly chose can. If we were alowed to choose our own president then we could at least feel right in what we chose and not what the representatives did.	Claim	Effective
c48cca9e02ad	5D1A08FC3563	according to Bradford Plumer the electoral college is unfair due to the winner take all method which basically states that if you are a big state and have many representatives then you will have a majority of a say when it comes to voting. I it were only up to the people to vote then every single vote would count more towards the winning president and not towards the representatives. If the electoral college would keep on then even if the popular vote went for one of the representatives the electoral vote would decide the actual winner.	Evidence	Adequate
b209e54f433c	5D1A08FC3563	Also, acorrding to the Office of the Federal Register a total of 270 or more electoral votes are needed to elect a president. The total amount of votes consists of 538 electors, meaning there could be a tie in elections. This implys that the system is not fool proof and can have errors. However, if the popular votes were counted more than the electoral votes there would not be any chance of a tie and a president will always be elected.	Evidence	Effective
9f6866d7ebea	5D1A08FC3563	Most Americans do not know that they are voting for representatives who in turn vote for the president making this unfair. Thats just another reason why the electoral college is outdated and not needed.	Claim	Effective
acfed07c4d5f	5D1A08FC3563	Although the popular vote system is a little bias and favors the president the citizens like the most,	Counterclaim	Effective
89e27cea1898	5D1A08FC3563	it can also prove more effected for the fact that there will always be a winner no matter what. The popular votes system cant be represented by most states like the electoral college does but, it does have the vote of the entire country as opposed to a few states with more representatives.	Rebuttal	Effective
c6056bf69714	5D1A08FC3563	In conclusion, the senator should change the voting system for many reasons. First, the popular vote is more reliable and there will always be a winner. Second, the electoral college has an even number of votes meaning there could be a tie therefore ruining the election. Finally, most people would like to personaly vote for theyre president rather than someone else to do it for you. These simple reason suggest why the senate should change the system.	Concluding Statement	Effective
f5247ab49441	5D20393B5BB9	I have recently heard that you are reconsidering the schools cell phone policy. While I do respect whatever choice you make in the end, I'd hope that you would consider my thoughts on the issue.	Lead	Adequate
8e4fa67a8eca	5D20393B5BB9	I believe that children should be allowed to bring their phones to school, therefore I support policy one.	Position	Adequate
427487e6d337	5D20393B5BB9	First of all, many kids our age make decisions during the school day of what they would like to do after school. Wither it be going to a friend's house of staying after for extra help.	Claim	Adequate
89688524a7fc	5D20393B5BB9	Kids need these phones to communicate with their parents while still on school grounds so they don't miss the bus or can't get home. Also, if children have free time it should be their choice what they do with it. During free block phones should be allowed because kids might not have any work to do, answer should be able to choose what they do during their "free" time. Projects that are done as a group would be easier to complete if cell phone use is permitted. If the kid wants to use their phone to communicate with a person in a different classroom they should be allowed to as long as it is not disruptive to other students. One way to avoid this is to require all phones to be set on vibrate so that the rings are not disruptive.	Evidence	Adequate
0a7fa6581475	5D20393B5BB9	Thank you for your consideration,	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
fed3ebd0d4ec	5D24FD22556E	I THINK THAT PEOPLE IN THIS SHOULD HELP THE COUNTRY ON DOING THE RIGHT THINGS LIKE DOING RECYCLING. PICKING UP TRASH.	Position	Ineffective
c49a365a746b	5D24FD22556E	CAUSE I THINK THAT STUDENTS SHOULD GET TOGETHER IN HELP OUR SCHOOL BY DOING WORK.	Claim	Ineffective
4c997514576b	5D24FD22556E	BEING THE PERSON WHO CLEAN THE COUNTRY BY PICKING THERE TRASH UP IN TAKING THERE TRASH OUT.	Evidence	Ineffective
13c130c295a4	5D24FD22556E	AND THINK THAT SHOULD NOT DO COMMUNITY SERVICE	Claim	Ineffective
fdfb100299d4	5D24FD22556E	CAUSE THATS TAKING AWAY THE EDUCATIONAL THINGS THEY HAVE TO DO	Evidence	Ineffective
fd01ccec147c	5D24FD22556E	IN LIKE BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE WILL LOVE TO CLEAN THE COMMUNITY.	Claim	Adequate
24b8cbf558e0	5D24FD22556E	LIKE ME I WOULD LIKE TO	Evidence	Ineffective
30bb01687d62	5D24FD22556E	BUT PEOPLE NEED TO GET TOGETHER.IN THE PRINCIPAL IS RIGHT BECAUSE THEY MAKE OUR SCHOOI AND COMMUNITY LOOK BAD	Claim	Adequate
580a69ecf1bd	5D24FD22556E	IN I KNOW I WOULD TRY TO HELP THE SCHOOL TO GET THINGS TOGETHER AND I KNOW I CLEAN MY ROOM AND DO THINGS FOR MY MOTHER. AND A MOST EVERY DAY I CLEAN THE FRONT YARD AND THE BACK YARD IF IT DIRTY OR LITTLE BIT MESSES.	Evidence	Ineffective
2a556fe5c236	5D5F108C0FC9	I myself do not think that students should be forced to do community service because community service is something that people should want to do.	Position	Effective
e049b176781b	5D5F108C0FC9	Maybe you could have motivational speakers come to your school and talk about helping you community	Claim	Adequate
12d49f23ab34	5D5F108C0FC9	It should be a choice either you can watch your community get trashed even more or stand up and do something about it.	Claim	Adequate
4a8c2ffdf85e	5D5F108C0FC9	Maybe start a group so people can work together and get rewarded for helping out the community kids love rewards like food activities and medals (trophies).	Claim	Adequate
759a3293406e	5D5F108C0FC9	That way kids would feel like their making a change and getting rewarded that's a great feeling. Some kids think community service is dumb and gross because you have to pickup trash. But if kids get rewarded they will strive to help in their community and stop trash build up on the freeways and out in front of their own houses little thing will start to build up and make kids want to do big things like go to other countries in need of help and help out with them like in Haiti were there is still a lot of rubbish all around. Kids and adults can help out every where there is need of help from the state of Ohio to all across America and then the whole world!	Evidence	Effective
95a7a01cc503	5D5F108C0FC9	But then there or those kids who don't want do anything because their lazy or cause they have disability's	Counterclaim	Ineffective
efd99e2db413	5D5F108C0FC9	If kids see adults doing stuff for the community like teachers famous actors or just normal every day people that kids look up to they will want to help out as well so if kids don't want to help its their choice	Claim	Adequate
f012d2ff55fe	5D5F108C0FC9	If you force kids to work their not going to their job right they will goof of get in to fights and make more trouble.	Claim	Adequate
500aadd403bd	5DB8391BB037	I think our school should keep performing community an service, because it's a fun and good task, and most kids at different schools don't get the opportunity to experience community and service day.	Position	Effective
07b214068e0d	5DB8391BB037	It's also a good source on ourselves, so that could mean a good thing on our images when we get older, or even when we go to college	Claim	Adequate
1fd8b9b9908c	5DB8391BB037	I also think that for the students who don't want to continue community and service can have consequences here back at school or they either keep going with the other students.	Evidence	Ineffective
4da0600ba84f	5DB8391BB037	Helping with the community is a great learning experiences for us middle school students,	Claim	Adequate
81c86f651c5b	5DB8391BB037	since we never got to do it in elementary besides help wash the dishes in the cafeteria in elementary school, so it's fun here.	Evidence	Ineffective
cd3ecc3a0f0c	5DB8391BB037	for those who think community and service takes too much time away from what they need or want to do	Counterclaim	Adequate
1b6f6d73eacb	5DB8391BB037	should stop woring about it becasue it may be boring sometimes or fun, but they should just know that we are doing this for a good cause by helping the community with feeding and clothing the homeless, helping out sick and needy kids that are at the Children's Hospital, helping with the MRDD children at their school, at the dog shelter, etc.	Rebuttal	Adequate
6c0dbedd9634	5DB8391BB037	those may be boring, nasty etc, but just always know you're doing something by helping your community.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
38322a9fc992	5DD063D65899	Source 1; What is the electoral collage? The electoral collage is a process, not a place. The electoral collage process consists of the selection of the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president and the counting of the electoral of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral collage consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. The Congressional delegation one for each member in the house of representives plus two for senators. The 23rd Amendment of the constiton the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral collage. Each candiddate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party but state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are chosen by political party. The state law vary on how the electors are selected and their responsibilities. The presindential election are held every four years. After the president election the governor prepares a Certifiate of Ascertainment. Source 2; The indefensible electoral college; why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong. Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president. If you live in Texas and vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electores pledged to kerry would get 34 electoral votes. On the off-chance that those electora won the statewide election they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 votes. The single best argument against the electoral collage is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people are lucky that 2000 fiasco was the biggest eleection crsis in a century. Back in 1960 segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with the new electors who would oppose John F Kenney. He was a great learder. Source 3; in dedense of the electoral college; five reasons the keep out despised method of choosing the president. The number collage is widely regared as an anachronism a non- democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the electoral college method is not democrtic in a modern sense. When you vote for a president candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. There are five reasons for reatining the Elctoral college despite its lack of democratic pedigree all are practical reason not liberal or conservative reason. In 2012 election for example Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes. The electoral college requires a president candidate to have trans- regional appeal. The winner takes all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates as we saw in 2012 election to focus their campagign efforts on the toss up states.	Evidence	Ineffective
28704117370f	5DD063D65899	After many years of no one has changed anything else about the election camagign or anything. I think its time to do that. Lets put a girl in the office she can do just as good as a men.	Position	Ineffective
e25d211e7840	5E178A82D743	yes there should because our school is not clean and a lot of students leave there trash and they blame other people. For some other people trash . That's not right that they do that so defenetly .	Lead	Adequate
4110d791c5ae	5E178A82D743	We shold have community service for those student that don't clean up there own mess.	Position	Adequate
8e033c357fe1	5E178A82D743	I think that is a great idea cause when u put that rule they would start to listen to the school rules.	Claim	Adequate
e8e0562fceaa	5E178A82D743	Then they would all see how we need to listen to the school that when they say to clean up is time to clean every body should listen to every thing the principal wants every body to listen to him to what he says to students and also listen to your teachers because that is not fare you don't do the right things.	Evidence	Adequate
1c7edc9b6520	5E178A82D743	I think the students would listen to him he is a nice principal.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
2131f0b83b42	5E1DEB2AAE39	Dear senator of Florida. I am here today to tell you what I think about the Electoral College.	Lead	Adequate
9ae827b76809	5E1DEB2AAE39	I think the the Electoral College is a very irrational way to elect our presidents of the untied states of America. It might have been effective when it was first created, but now it dosent seem like it can work out anymore.	Position	Effective
3a817859b54a	5E1DEB2AAE39	Well for starters, under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president, but vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. This was stated by Bradford plumer in his article : The indefensible Electoral college: why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong	Evidence	Adequate
1a165261cafd	5E1DEB2AAE39	This is not fair to the citizens. They should be alowed to vote for whatever president they want, instead of letting a bunch of electors "pledged" to the candidates vote for them	Claim	Adequate
0cd266421909	5E1DEB2AAE39	Plumer also writes : "Can voters control whom their elctors vote for? Not always." What does this mean? It means that the times when they can"t control them, they could be using the citizens vote to vote for other Candidates other than the ones they are supposed to be pledged to	Evidence	Adequate
bf3a26a96afe	5E1DEB2AAE39	. It's not fair that sometimes citizens can't control who their elctors vote for.	Claim	Adequate
5bf2024a9345	5E1DEB2AAE39	This shows that this great "system" is starting to fall Apart.	Evidence	Ineffective
6ab9f6818efa	5E1DEB2AAE39	"Do voters sometimes get cofused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes." This is why the Electoral College needs to be abolished.	Claim	Effective
dd32031af615	5E1DEB2AAE39	The electors put on a facade and allow the voters to become confused. This allows them to easily fall into the trap. Its like trying to show a blind man a picture. You must give details about it in order to create a picture for him to follow. This is what is going on with the voters. The electors sometimes gove them false information to follow, allowing them to vote for the wrong candidate.	Evidence	Adequate
674af7c092ee	5E1DEB2AAE39	In an article written by Richard A. Posner called: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing our President, He states That the advocates are correct in aurguinng that the Electoral College is not democratic in a modern sense. Even an article that is supposed to support keeping the Electoral College says that it is not democratic.	Evidence	Adequate
60e39a312440	5E1DEB2AAE39	the Electoral Collge is not democratic at all.	Claim	Adequate
1d83e3846546	5E1DEB2AAE39	In Plumers article, he talks about the time a state sent two slates of electors to congress. It happened in Hawaii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was presiding over the Senate, validated only his opponent's electors, but he made sure to do so "without establlishing a precendent.". He finishes that section by asking: what if it happened again? This was not just a small little mistake that happened. That was a big problem that could have changed everything	Evidence	Adequate
28b561705f0f	5E1DEB2AAE39	The Electoral College Has to many flaws to keep running and this was one of them.	Claim	Adequate
4e76352346f6	5E1DEB2AAE39	America was meant to become a democracy, and if we keep the colleg, it will always keep us from becoming it. I agree that the Electoral College was one of the best Sytems created. Unfourtunatley, not everything was meant to work out in the long run. Jobs, careers, school, buisnesses, relationships, and the Electoral College. It has made vital mistakes that has caused us not to be able to have much faith in it anymore. It was good in the begining, but now its time for it to come to an end.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
fd46f9b29f06	5E461378597B	Imagen this say a presidents term is up and your congress wouldnt you want a say in who you might work with or would you just have to keep up with two candites that you dontknow.	Lead	Adequate
cb491a13728a	5E461378597B	we as a nation should keep the electoral college vote	Position	Adequate
0dc423317f20	5E461378597B	our founding fathers put that in the constitution	Claim	Adequate
aab69d25c0e9	5E461378597B	this makes congress think harder about this decison.	Claim	Adequate
c623cabfc6bb	5E461378597B	the founding fathers made that decision the hard way acording to the article the founding fathers put that in as a compramise what this means is they had to do a lot of work to set the system up the way it is its not right to just change the system like that and ruin their work,	Claim	Adequate
e69917b05bca	5E461378597B	it has been that way for many years and it has worked alright look at jhon f kennedy we had the electoral colege system in place look how it turned out. Another example george washington look at him first president and his term turned out great so we had a bunch of sucsess with this system its not worth changing with the results it got.	Evidence	Adequate
9d285cd727d1	5E461378597B	this system makes congress think about its nominations for president	Claim	Ineffective
bbea2e7ee32c	5E461378597B	for example the article said the electoral college consists of the selection for the electors this means congress hs some time to meet and think in wich to vote. the passage said the electoral college consists of 538 electors so this means they got to reach a consensus and with a concensus everything is put to tghought so the bad things of each candatite is put to tgought.	Evidence	Ineffective
2734bb7246b6	5E461378597B	the passage did say the electoral college is unfair and outdadated	Counterclaim	Adequate
b86a465107ef	5E461378597B	but with the results we got from this system however the results have been great this means we had failures but we had some succsess	Rebuttal	Adequate
36b1e9694e7f	5E461378597B	so this system does work and when it does the results have been great. the article did say this winner take all system is unfair to voters but this system has shown great results with various presidints.	Evidence	Adequate
8692d2e71927	5E461378597B	the system makes congress think and it has been put in place a long time ago by the founding fathers but it works so congress go look at some future candatites and vote for the best one, citizesens dont let the failures of this system persuade you to not vote go out there and trust the goverment we have gone this lets continue to move fowrward with our countrys economy and vote for the president.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
43e6b7d660f7	5E5A892CC4F5	The electoral college is not a place to be harmeed its a process. Therer a amendment of the the electrol college and it is amendment 23rd.	Lead	Ineffective
eedd545ed6c4	5E5A892CC4F5	we should keep awere electrol college	Position	Adequate
46762db925b1	5E5A892CC4F5	it is a good place to learn about the presudents.	Claim	Ineffective
06e7528ea2ef	5E5A892CC4F5	We deserv this dont let walk away from us.	Claim	Ineffective
5159a64ab228	5E5A892CC4F5	most people runing for presudent has there own group of electors. it is chosen by the candidate's.	Evidence	Ineffective
b1270ef3afcb	5E5A892CC4F5	you do not have the right to take ower electoral college. most of use wont this out of all of use 1 person did not vote.	Claim	Ineffective
6e2c2893469f	5E5A892CC4F5	The presidentaial election is held every four years on tuesday after the first monday in november. when you vote for presudent you help to choose your state electors. most state have winner take all that gets a prise for the winning presudent. which is why we need to keep ower electoral college.	Evidence	Ineffective
3c26b350ee0b	5E5A892CC4F5	We have a right to vote we can help choose state electoral.	Claim	Ineffective
26f3d335f738	5E5A892CC4F5	The electoral college consists of 538 electoral. The amendment 23rd gives us ower rights.	Evidence	Ineffective
301a267a9530	5E5A892CC4F5	we can vote you cant take away awere electoral college let us be. We can do nwhat we wont we can vote just like others have before.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
cf33e2c0a4cd	5E85F1FB4E22	Driverless cars may be modern and use half of what todays taxis use . Yet they are not truly driverless, they still alert the driver to take over in certain conditions , for example pulling in and out of drive ways or driving through road work or accidents. Which brought them to the idea of embedding streets with an electrical cable that sends radio signals to a reciever on the front and end of the car , which is stated in the passage. These smart road systems worked well but require massive upgrades to existiing roads , which is simply too expensive. So with out the smart roads a whole lot of sensors are needed on the car , one specific sensor is the special touch sensor which makes sure that the driver keeps their hands on the wheel at all times . Besides that there is also seats that viberate to alert the driver and flashing lights on the window shields , which would add on to the price of a car. Also stated in the passage that so far none of the cars are completely driverless. They can steer , accelerate and brake themselves but they still notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills . This means the human driver must be alert and ready to take over at all time. Which might not always happen , a driver may not always be attentive of the road ahead even with alerts included in the car. Which brings up the case of a drivers, passengers , and pedestrians saftey , and lawmakers know that saftey is best achieved with alert drivers , which is stated in the passage. Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Infering to why in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars. Yet even if traffic laws change , new laws willl be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If an accident were to occur due to the technology failing , who is to blame the driver or the manufacturer.	Evidence	Ineffective
62939aa5e77c	5E9964522D41	In the course of human existance, humanity has always been striving for progress, you might say going the extra mile, in order to better our society. One such great invention was the automobile which allowed us to travel great distances in a short period of time. Consequently, the natural instinct, to grow and improve, has been transfered to the idea of the automobile through the self driving car	Lead	Effective
977e0254abf8	5E9964522D41	Self driving cars are the future of transportation as the offer a host of positive benefits	Position	Effective
b765b21cc4f1	5E9964522D41	precise driving capabilities,	Claim	Effective
5004309b2866	5E9964522D41	increasing affordability,	Claim	Effective
1b330a099b21	5E9964522D41	new safety technology.	Claim	Effective
c81e6ffa574c	5E9964522D41	The self driving car has begun implementing technology that can revolutionize a car's self awarness. For example the article states, "spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3D model of the car's surroundings." Unlike the human eye, the LIDAR radar sees anything and everything; not only does it never miss a single detail, but it also has a 360 degree view that current drivers simply do not possess. These sensors are expecially useful when backing up and driving backwards, as many drivers struggle with getting a full view of what goes on behind them. However, with the LIDAR radar, this problem is eliminated, making backwards driving easier. Putting radar into the drivers seat is not so much about losing the human touch of driving, but getting a more accurate perspective on the road.	Evidence	Effective
f500103ad1dd	5E9964522D41	Secondly, the technology is finally in a place where self driving cars are becoming a feasible economic option.	Claim	Effective
0d35e9f680b3	5E9964522D41	Sebastian Thrun, founder of the self driving Google car, said, "There was no way, before 2000, to make something interesting. The sensors weren't there...Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." In fact, alot of the technologies, including radar, used in self driving cars have been around for a long time. However, in recent years, they have become alot cheaper and precise, so that the dream of creating a self driving car is a reality. The goal of the self driving car was never to create a billion dollar high tech vehicle accessible only to the rich, but one that could be mass produced and avaliable to all. With cheaper, mass produced technology, it seems like this is not too far up the road.	Evidence	Effective
94e2809eabfb	5E9964522D41	Finally we see that the self driving car may actually be safer that regular drivers.	Claim	Adequate
cb649d4ef8d4	5E9964522D41	With so many deaths accounted to texting and driving, the idea is that people would be able to safely text when the car drives itself certainly has its appeal. However, when the car needs a human touch, "displays [texting] can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not avalible to drivers trying to text with a cell phone." Shutting off the display would force drivers to pay attention to the road during tricky situations and reduce the number of car crashes. Secondly, the use of sensors helps detect and prevent crashes. The article says, "sensors have become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out of control skids or rollovers. This information from the sensor can cause the car to apply breaks on individual wheels," which could stop potential dangers in their tracks that the driver may not be aware of. In the end, a self autonomus car is always vigilant and is never distracted, making it safer than having a human driver.	Evidence	Effective
40803cff614b	5E9964522D41	Self autonomous cars are more accuate, becoming cheaper, and are safer than today's cars, making them the car of the future. It is only a matter of time before someone develops a self driving car that can be mass produced, and when that day comes, we should embrace it with pride. Together, let's drive towards creating the car of tommorow, today.	Concluding Statement	Effective
52fb6613140f	5EB7A0B134B4	some school offer distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home by way of online or video conferencing.	Lead	Adequate
b7c7f57c6661	5EB7A0B134B4	I think students would not benefit being able to attend classes from home	Position	Adequate

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like imagine if we all do it we would be mad at the people who is making us do it no its not you its the bad kids and no wants to mess there day because of them right or wrong well this is what i want to say to you and i hope we don't have to do community service but like if the kids are bad you don't have to put them in community service you cant take stuff away from them . Are they can stay after school and do there homework .

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well yah i hope you make the best chose .All of the students should have a other chance. If they want to do community service they an help little kids on there homework or clean up at the school or something .

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The meaning of a democracy is that the people vote for their leader or president.

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The electoral college denys that right and that is why the state senator should change that.

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Not only do the popular votes barley make a difference but, with the electoral college in play the representatives vote for our president, not us.

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If popular vote was the way the president was elected the elections would be fair.

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To start with, how can we live in a democracy were the people do not pick their own president but, some representatives we suposadly chose can. If we were alowed to choose our own president then we could at least feel right in what we chose and not what the representatives did.

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according to Bradford Plumer the electoral college is unfair due to the winner take all method which basically states that if you are a big state and have many representatives then you will have a majority of a say when it comes to voting. I it were only up to the people to vote then every single vote would count more towards the winning president and not towards the representatives. If the electoral college would keep on then even if the popular vote went for one of the representatives the electoral vote would decide the actual winner.

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Also, acorrding to the Office of the Federal Register a total of 270 or more electoral votes are needed to elect a president. The total amount of votes consists of 538 electors, meaning there could be a tie in elections. This implys that the system is not fool proof and can have errors. However, if the popular votes were counted more than the electoral votes there would not be any chance of a tie and a president will always be elected.

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Most Americans do not know that they are voting for representatives who in turn vote for the president making this unfair. Thats just another reason why the electoral college is outdated and not needed.

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Although the popular vote system is a little bias and favors the president the citizens like the most,

Counterclaim

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it can also prove more effected for the fact that there will always be a winner no matter what. The popular votes system cant be represented by most states like the electoral college does but, it does have the vote of the entire country as opposed to a few states with more representatives.

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In conclusion, the senator should change the voting system for many reasons. First, the popular vote is more reliable and there will always be a winner. Second, the electoral college has an even number of votes meaning there could be a tie therefore ruining the election. Finally, most people would like to personaly vote for theyre president rather than someone else to do it for you. These simple reason suggest why the senate should change the system.

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I have recently heard that you are reconsidering the schools cell phone policy. While I do respect whatever choice you make in the end, I'd hope that you would consider my thoughts on the issue.

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I believe that children should be allowed to bring their phones to school, therefore I support policy one.

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First of all, many kids our age make decisions during the school day of what they would like to do after school. Wither it be going to a friend's house of staying after for extra help.

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Kids need these phones to communicate with their parents while still on school grounds so they don't miss the bus or can't get home. Also, if children have free time it should be their choice what they do with it. During free block phones should be allowed because kids might not have any work to do, answer should be able to choose what they do during their "free" time. Projects that are done as a group would be easier to complete if cell phone use is permitted. If the kid wants to use their phone to communicate with a person in a different classroom they should be allowed to as long as it is not disruptive to other students. One way to avoid this is to require all phones to be set on vibrate so that the rings are not disruptive.

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Thank you for your consideration,

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I THINK THAT PEOPLE IN THIS SHOULD HELP THE COUNTRY ON DOING THE RIGHT THINGS LIKE DOING RECYCLING. PICKING UP TRASH.

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CAUSE I THINK THAT STUDENTS SHOULD GET TOGETHER IN HELP OUR SCHOOL BY DOING WORK.

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BEING THE PERSON WHO CLEAN THE COUNTRY BY PICKING THERE TRASH UP IN TAKING THERE TRASH OUT.

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AND THINK THAT SHOULD NOT DO COMMUNITY SERVICE

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CAUSE THATS TAKING AWAY THE EDUCATIONAL THINGS THEY HAVE TO DO

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IN LIKE BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE WILL LOVE TO CLEAN THE COMMUNITY.

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LIKE ME I WOULD LIKE TO

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BUT PEOPLE NEED TO GET TOGETHER.IN THE PRINCIPAL IS RIGHT BECAUSE THEY MAKE OUR SCHOOI AND COMMUNITY LOOK BAD

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IN I KNOW I WOULD TRY TO HELP THE SCHOOL TO GET THINGS TOGETHER AND I KNOW I CLEAN MY ROOM AND DO THINGS FOR MY MOTHER. AND A MOST EVERY DAY I CLEAN THE FRONT YARD AND THE BACK YARD IF IT DIRTY OR LITTLE BIT MESSES.

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I myself do not think that students should be forced to do community service because community service is something that people should want to do.

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Maybe you could have motivational speakers come to your school and talk about helping you community

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It should be a choice either you can watch your community get trashed even more or stand up and do something about it.

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Maybe start a group so people can work together and get rewarded for helping out the community kids love rewards like food activities and medals (trophies).

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That way kids would feel like their making a change and getting rewarded that's a great feeling. Some kids think community service is dumb and gross because you have to pickup trash. But if kids get rewarded they will strive to help in their community and stop trash build up on the freeways and out in front of their own houses little thing will start to build up and make kids want to do big things like go to other countries in need of help and help out with them like in Haiti were there is still a lot of rubbish all around. Kids and adults can help out every where there is need of help from the state of Ohio to all across America and then the whole world!

Evidence

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But then there or those kids who don't want do anything because their lazy or cause they have disability's

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If kids see adults doing stuff for the community like teachers famous actors or just normal every day people that kids look up to they will want to help out as well so if kids don't want to help its their choice

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If you force kids to work their not going to their job right they will goof of get in to fights and make more trouble.

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I think our school should keep performing community an service, because it's a fun and good task, and most kids at different schools don't get the opportunity to experience community and service day.

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It's also a good source on ourselves, so that could mean a good thing on our images when we get older, or even when we go to college

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I also think that for the students who don't want to continue community and service can have consequences here back at school or they either keep going with the other students.

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Helping with the community is a great learning experiences for us middle school students,

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since we never got to do it in elementary besides help wash the dishes in the cafeteria in elementary school, so it's fun here.

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for those who think community and service takes too much time away from what they need or want to do

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should stop woring about it becasue it may be boring sometimes or fun, but they should just know that we are doing this for a good cause by helping the community with feeding and clothing the homeless, helping out sick and needy kids that are at the Children's Hospital, helping with the MRDD children at their school, at the dog shelter, etc.

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those may be boring, nasty etc, but just always know you're doing something by helping your community.

Concluding Statement

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Source 1; What is the electoral collage? The electoral collage is a process, not a place. The electoral collage process consists of the selection of the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president and the counting of the electoral of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral collage consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. The Congressional delegation one for each member in the house of representives plus two for senators. The 23rd Amendment of the constiton the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral collage. Each candiddate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party but state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are chosen by political party. The state law vary on how the electors are selected and their responsibilities. The presindential election are held every four years. After the president election the governor prepares a Certifiate of Ascertainment. Source 2; The indefensible electoral college; why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong. Under the electoral collage system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the president. If you live in Texas and vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electores pledged to kerry would get 34 electoral votes. On the off-chance that those electora won the statewide election they would go to Congress and Kerry would get 34 votes. The single best argument against the electoral collage is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people are lucky that 2000 fiasco was the biggest eleection crsis in a century. Back in 1960 segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with the new electors who would oppose John F Kenney. He was a great learder. Source 3; in dedense of the electoral college; five reasons the keep out despised method of choosing the president. The number collage is widely regared as an anachronism a non- democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the electoral college method is not democrtic in a modern sense. When you vote for a president candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. There are five reasons for reatining the Elctoral college despite its lack of democratic pedigree all are practical reason not liberal or conservative reason. In 2012 election for example Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes. The electoral college requires a president candidate to have trans- regional appeal. The winner takes all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates as we saw in 2012 election to focus their campagign efforts on the toss up states.

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After many years of no one has changed anything else about the election camagign or anything. I think its time to do that. Lets put a girl in the office she can do just as good as a men.

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yes there should because our school is not clean and a lot of students leave there trash and they blame other people. For some other people trash . That's not right that they do that so defenetly .

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We shold have community service for those student that don't clean up there own mess.

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I think that is a great idea cause when u put that rule they would start to listen to the school rules.

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Then they would all see how we need to listen to the school that when they say to clean up is time to clean every body should listen to every thing the principal wants every body to listen to him to what he says to students and also listen to your teachers because that is not fare you don't do the right things.

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I think the students would listen to him he is a nice principal.

Concluding Statement

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Dear senator of Florida. I am here today to tell you what I think about the Electoral College.

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I think the the Electoral College is a very irrational way to elect our presidents of the untied states of America. It might have been effective when it was first created, but now it dosent seem like it can work out anymore.

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Well for starters, under the Electoral College system, voters vote not for the president, but vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. This was stated by Bradford plumer in his article : The indefensible Electoral college: why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong

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This is not fair to the citizens. They should be alowed to vote for whatever president they want, instead of letting a bunch of electors "pledged" to the candidates vote for them

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Plumer also writes : "Can voters control whom their elctors vote for? Not always." What does this mean? It means that the times when they can"t control them, they could be using the citizens vote to vote for other Candidates other than the ones they are supposed to be pledged to

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. It's not fair that sometimes citizens can't control who their elctors vote for.

Claim

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This shows that this great "system" is starting to fall Apart.

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"Do voters sometimes get cofused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes." This is why the Electoral College needs to be abolished.

Claim

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The electors put on a facade and allow the voters to become confused. This allows them to easily fall into the trap. Its like trying to show a blind man a picture. You must give details about it in order to create a picture for him to follow. This is what is going on with the voters. The electors sometimes gove them false information to follow, allowing them to vote for the wrong candidate.

Evidence

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In an article written by Richard A. Posner called: In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing our President, He states That the advocates are correct in aurguinng that the Electoral College is not democratic in a modern sense. Even an article that is supposed to support keeping the Electoral College says that it is not democratic.

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the Electoral Collge is not democratic at all.

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In Plumers article, he talks about the time a state sent two slates of electors to congress. It happened in Hawaii in 1960. Luckily, Vice President Richard Nixon, who was presiding over the Senate, validated only his opponent's electors, but he made sure to do so "without establlishing a precendent.". He finishes that section by asking: what if it happened again? This was not just a small little mistake that happened. That was a big problem that could have changed everything

Evidence

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The Electoral College Has to many flaws to keep running and this was one of them.

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America was meant to become a democracy, and if we keep the colleg, it will always keep us from becoming it. I agree that the Electoral College was one of the best Sytems created. Unfourtunatley, not everything was meant to work out in the long run. Jobs, careers, school, buisnesses, relationships, and the Electoral College. It has made vital mistakes that has caused us not to be able to have much faith in it anymore. It was good in the begining, but now its time for it to come to an end.

Concluding Statement

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Imagen this say a presidents term is up and your congress wouldnt you want a say in who you might work with or would you just have to keep up with two candites that you dontknow.

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we as a nation should keep the electoral college vote

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our founding fathers put that in the constitution

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this makes congress think harder about this decison.

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the founding fathers made that decision the hard way acording to the article the founding fathers put that in as a compramise what this means is they had to do a lot of work to set the system up the way it is its not right to just change the system like that and ruin their work,

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it has been that way for many years and it has worked alright look at jhon f kennedy we had the electoral colege system in place look how it turned out. Another example george washington look at him first president and his term turned out great so we had a bunch of sucsess with this system its not worth changing with the results it got.

Evidence

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this system makes congress think about its nominations for president

Claim

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for example the article said the electoral college consists of the selection for the electors this means congress hs some time to meet and think in wich to vote. the passage said the electoral college consists of 538 electors so this means they got to reach a consensus and with a concensus everything is put to tghought so the bad things of each candatite is put to tgought.

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the passage did say the electoral college is unfair and outdadated

Counterclaim

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but with the results we got from this system however the results have been great this means we had failures but we had some succsess

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so this system does work and when it does the results have been great. the article did say this winner take all system is unfair to voters but this system has shown great results with various presidints.

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the system makes congress think and it has been put in place a long time ago by the founding fathers but it works so congress go look at some future candatites and vote for the best one, citizesens dont let the failures of this system persuade you to not vote go out there and trust the goverment we have gone this lets continue to move fowrward with our countrys economy and vote for the president.

Concluding Statement

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The electoral college is not a place to be harmeed its a process. Therer a amendment of the the electrol college and it is amendment 23rd.

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we should keep awere electrol college

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it is a good place to learn about the presudents.

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We deserv this dont let walk away from us.

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most people runing for presudent has there own group of electors. it is chosen by the candidate's.

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you do not have the right to take ower electoral college. most of use wont this out of all of use 1 person did not vote.

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The presidentaial election is held every four years on tuesday after the first monday in november. when you vote for presudent you help to choose your state electors. most state have winner take all that gets a prise for the winning presudent. which is why we need to keep ower electoral college.

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We have a right to vote we can help choose state electoral.

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The electoral college consists of 538 electoral. The amendment 23rd gives us ower rights.

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we can vote you cant take away awere electoral college let us be. We can do nwhat we wont we can vote just like others have before.

Concluding Statement

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Driverless cars may be modern and use half of what todays taxis use . Yet they are not truly driverless, they still alert the driver to take over in certain conditions , for example pulling in and out of drive ways or driving through road work or accidents. Which brought them to the idea of embedding streets with an electrical cable that sends radio signals to a reciever on the front and end of the car , which is stated in the passage. These smart road systems worked well but require massive upgrades to existiing roads , which is simply too expensive. So with out the smart roads a whole lot of sensors are needed on the car , one specific sensor is the special touch sensor which makes sure that the driver keeps their hands on the wheel at all times . Besides that there is also seats that viberate to alert the driver and flashing lights on the window shields , which would add on to the price of a car. Also stated in the passage that so far none of the cars are completely driverless. They can steer , accelerate and brake themselves but they still notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills . This means the human driver must be alert and ready to take over at all time. Which might not always happen , a driver may not always be attentive of the road ahead even with alerts included in the car. Which brings up the case of a drivers, passengers , and pedestrians saftey , and lawmakers know that saftey is best achieved with alert drivers , which is stated in the passage. Traffic laws are written with the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times. Infering to why in most states it is illegal even to test computer driven cars. Yet even if traffic laws change , new laws willl be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If an accident were to occur due to the technology failing , who is to blame the driver or the manufacturer.

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In the course of human existance, humanity has always been striving for progress, you might say going the extra mile, in order to better our society. One such great invention was the automobile which allowed us to travel great distances in a short period of time. Consequently, the natural instinct, to grow and improve, has been transfered to the idea of the automobile through the self driving car

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Self driving cars are the future of transportation as the offer a host of positive benefits

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precise driving capabilities,

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increasing affordability,

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new safety technology.

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The self driving car has begun implementing technology that can revolutionize a car's self awarness. For example the article states, "spinning sensor on the roof. Dubbed LIDAR, it uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3D model of the car's surroundings." Unlike the human eye, the LIDAR radar sees anything and everything; not only does it never miss a single detail, but it also has a 360 degree view that current drivers simply do not possess. These sensors are expecially useful when backing up and driving backwards, as many drivers struggle with getting a full view of what goes on behind them. However, with the LIDAR radar, this problem is eliminated, making backwards driving easier. Putting radar into the drivers seat is not so much about losing the human touch of driving, but getting a more accurate perspective on the road.

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Secondly, the technology is finally in a place where self driving cars are becoming a feasible economic option.

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Sebastian Thrun, founder of the self driving Google car, said, "There was no way, before 2000, to make something interesting. The sensors weren't there...Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars." In fact, alot of the technologies, including radar, used in self driving cars have been around for a long time. However, in recent years, they have become alot cheaper and precise, so that the dream of creating a self driving car is a reality. The goal of the self driving car was never to create a billion dollar high tech vehicle accessible only to the rich, but one that could be mass produced and avaliable to all. With cheaper, mass produced technology, it seems like this is not too far up the road.

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Finally we see that the self driving car may actually be safer that regular drivers.

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With so many deaths accounted to texting and driving, the idea is that people would be able to safely text when the car drives itself certainly has its appeal. However, when the car needs a human touch, "displays [texting] can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over-something not avalible to drivers trying to text with a cell phone." Shutting off the display would force drivers to pay attention to the road during tricky situations and reduce the number of car crashes. Secondly, the use of sensors helps detect and prevent crashes. The article says, "sensors have become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out of control skids or rollovers. This information from the sensor can cause the car to apply breaks on individual wheels," which could stop potential dangers in their tracks that the driver may not be aware of. In the end, a self autonomus car is always vigilant and is never distracted, making it safer than having a human driver.

Evidence

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Self autonomous cars are more accuate, becoming cheaper, and are safer than today's cars, making them the car of the future. It is only a matter of time before someone develops a self driving car that can be mass produced, and when that day comes, we should embrace it with pride. Together, let's drive towards creating the car of tommorow, today.

Concluding Statement

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some school offer distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home by way of online or video conferencing.

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

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