tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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4205924ceb92	7863164BA896	Distance learning allows these absent students to still work on school subjects and stay on top of their work, while also reducing the risk of other students receiving the same illness due to the student continuing to attend school. Students attending school while still sick is a prominent issue in public schooling, caused by the lack of support for students unable to attend school. This issue would be eliminated due to the reduced need for sick students to continue attending school due to distance learning allowing students to stay at home while continuing to work on school subjects.	Evidence	Effective
b7b78b0ece69	7863164BA896	Another benefit for students from distance learning is the ability for mentally ill students unable to attend school due to disorders such as social anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and depression to continue learning outside of an environment detrimental to their mental health.	Claim	Adequate
5fc918bc488d	7863164BA896	Speaking from personal experience with family members and friends with mental disorders, public schools can often be a breeding ground for self doubt, anxiety, and general depression to occur for mentally unstable people, regardless of counseling opportunities available. Working on school subjects would allow for mentally unstable students to pursue their education, while also allowing them to maintain a healthy mindset in the comfort of their own home away from mentally unhealthy stimuli.	Evidence	Effective
c01c68aa51ba	7863164BA896	A final example of the benefits of distance schooling for public school students would be the opportunity for students working job/s outside of school to simultaneously pursue an education and support themselves or their dependents.	Claim	Effective
b423f816d043	7863164BA896	Many lower class students or students with parents unable to work feel the need to obtain jobs outside of school, ranging from part-time summer jobs to full-time year-round jobs that inhibit the ability to pursue an education. Distance learning allows these students to do both at the same time if they have the desire to do so, instead of having to go to a program such as night school in order to catch up on work they usually do not have time to do. Distance learning essentially unlocks the ability for students working outside of school to continue to pursue academics while also maintaining financial balance for themselves or others.	Evidence	Effective
7729e4ff42c2	7863164BA896	To sum up, the opportunities for students with work hours interfering with school, mental health disorders or various illnesses are all benefits for the usage of distance learning within the American school system. Although some find distance learning to only further complicate the process of education for students due to some not having reliable access to WiFi or internet, different accommodations are usually available locally for students to use distance learning as a tool to further their education. Distance learning serves as a universal golden opportunity for students unable to attend school to continue to receive and education regardless of outside circumstances.	Concluding Statement	Effective
30cc58288a0c	786C86C9ACFE	I have recently been informed about wanting to make certain changes to the election process. I am not of an age to vote, yet I am informed about how the election process works and the role the electorial college plays withing it.	Lead	Adequate
9889fad99d28	786C86C9ACFE	The electoral college is a proces, not a place, which consists of 538 electors. During this process the public casts their vote for their favorite candidate. The votes are added up in each state and whichever candidate has got the most votes is for whom the state's representatives will vote towards. Each state's number of representatives is determined acoording to polpulation with California having the most electorial votes at 55. Electors can change their votes for whomever they'd like, yet it is highly unlikeley. In order for a candidate to win an election he or she must obtain 270 votes out of 538.	Evidence	Ineffective
fd3702abbe3b	786C86C9ACFE	Some may argue that the people's votes don't necessarily influence the outcome of the election since electors can still change for whom they vote for, so they request that the popular vote determine who becomes president.	Counterclaim	Effective
01ee236a9d78	786C86C9ACFE	This idea implies that all eligible citizens in the U.S. to vote in the election when truth being over half of the nationwide population does not cast a vote, with the leading cause being apathy. Also it is implied that all citizens are informed about who they vote for.	Rebuttal	Effective
eb2de6e06833	786C86C9ACFE	During a presidential campaign, a political party will put most of their efforts in "swing states", these are the states with the most electors. This means that people from smaller states will recieve little or no information about the candidates causing the citizens to cast a blind vote.	Evidence	Adequate
bb589528a4f0	786C86C9ACFE	The main reason of why the electorial campaign should determine who wins instead of the popular vote is the public can be too easily influenced	Claim	Adequate
e8fd381fb52f	786C86C9ACFE	If a particular candidate is preferred in certain areas, the population in or around that area might be influenced to vote for that individual. Also people can be peer-pressured into voting for someone they might not agree with.	Evidence	Adequate
aedb2a1fa520	786C86C9ACFE	In my opinion the U.S. population is not ready for that kind of responsability	Concluding Statement	Adequate
02adb859ab10	786C86C9ACFE	The electoral college was established to help the election proces run smoothly and it has worked for decades without any major flukes or flaws. So why change now?	Position	Effective
2d12598a4076	7879F32BC3FF	I want to change the election by popular votes instead of the Electoral College	Position	Adequate
350567b46357	7879F32BC3FF	because even if the president gets popular votes, it wouldn't matter anyway. They will have to vote the president by using the Electoral College. It wouldn't be fair because "Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." That means if the president gets the most popular votes, it won't matter.	Evidence	Ineffective
b0f69e9d1dfe	7879F32BC3FF	Back then, presidents wouldn't accept the Electoral College. "What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college!"	Claim	Effective
260be973f276	7879F32BC3FF	They all thought that it wouldn't be fair if the popular votes wouldn't count and the Electoral College has its defenders.	Evidence	Ineffective
01eaad448c27	7879F32BC3FF	The thing that's wrong with the Electoral College is because "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president."	Claim	Adequate
ccfd4fc467ee	7879F32BC3FF	So if someone were to vote for a president, they would be voting for a slate of the 34 Democratic electors. After that, they pledged it on the president that they voted for.	Evidence	Ineffective
bc9dc72e4e0a	7879F32BC3FF	"At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters." It's because of the winner-take-all system that happens also on each state.	Claim	Effective
32a39b5b9d80	7879F32BC3FF	So candidates think they know they aren't going to win and never spend time on other states as well. People also think that the Electoral College is unfair because they never get to see the candidates and they won't know who they're going to vote. People only relied on Bob Dole. His goal was to "Abolish the electoral college!"	Evidence	Adequate
7a0233573110	7879F32BC3FF	When people also vote for a presdential canidate they actually vote for the slate of electors. Which was why Gore had more popular votes than Bush, yet he had fewer electoral votes. But there is one way to settle a dispute of the outcome of an Electoral College vote. "it happened in 2000-but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." The Electoral College also has a presidential candidate to have a trans-regional appeal but has enough electoral votes to vote for president.	Evidence	Ineffective
2a4d83f21522	7879F32BC3FF	So now we all know how the Electoral College is unfair. Because of the constant votes that don't matter at all yet they always make sure to vote that president and all of the popular votes wouldn't matter. That's why I want to change to popular votes than the Electoral College does. All we need to do is work together to over come the Electoral College so the votes can be fair and we would want to vote for the president that we want.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
e7b2a71544ee	78D5951B96C5	Some students believe that we should have community service some disagree. I am about show why some disagree and some agree.	Position	Ineffective
a44d79320211	78D5951B96C5	Many think that it is good to help the community butt also we should be worrying about our grades and less then our community.	Claim	Adequate
c3b5157e08c2	78D5951B96C5	I don't think u want to be leading a school of failing students. These students can do this on their own time	Evidence	Adequate
058fe2672881	78D5951B96C5	I disagree on having to be forced to do community service.	Claim	Adequate
4702af400f29	78D5951B96C5	I believe that this job should be given to litter bugs. That have been doing the littering. Yea every once in a while if u see a piece of trash pick it up, butt to be forced is not the correct thing to do to students. We the students did not do any thing to be punished .	Evidence	Adequate
8af83d8fcf49	78D5951B96C5	I mean im sure I proved myself correct about having to be forced to do community service.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
fc0e5fb518ba	7903205CD088	I think that having cell phones at lunch periods and at other free times such as locker break would be better in ways	Position	Adequate
a7a58743356a	7903205CD088	students could communicate with other class mates with work needed to be done and needs help reviewing,	Claim	Adequate
29ff4b65ce44	7903205CD088	having cell phones at school could tempt other students to text or call their parents to pick them up for early dismissal or a feign sickness.	Counterclaim	Adequate
c2ff1a989b33	7903205CD088	Having cell phones at school would be crucial to school functioning	Claim	Ineffective
f309a1c5563a	7903205CD088	students would abuse the rule and do unneeded things at school such as "sexting" sending hurtful messages through other people to start a rumor.	Evidence	Adequate
81c106ad2e0a	7903205CD088	Some people might get in fights and grades would probably decrease	Claim	Adequate
9408e1f17397	7903205CD088	because people would be obsessed with texting.	Evidence	Adequate
3971ab565f0f	7903205CD088	In a worst case scenario the school could get sued by a student getting a white slip, detention, ISS, suspended, or expelled and disagree about doing the wrong thing they did or if they where given it through "hard feelings" between a teacher and a student.	Claim	Ineffective
76878c9fcf23	7903205CD088	I think students should be aloud to have cell phones at school but not be able to use them during school hours and have them off or have the home room teacher take them up each day and hold them until the end of school or dismissal.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
8e3692c2bc90	7927FA99C0AD	If I were to choose between keeping the electoral college or abolishing it, I would chose for abolishing it.	Position	Adequate
8cc4c7aacf61	7927FA99C0AD	The electoral college has a system that can be considered confusing to most americans	Claim	Adequate
fb60769ce0f0	7927FA99C0AD	This system indirectly transfers citizen's votes to congress	Claim	Adequate
0741f8d6d269	7927FA99C0AD	This allows for loopholes and sabaotage to be commited during the process of electing a president.	Claim	Adequate
3c25bdfec86b	7927FA99C0AD	I propose abolishing the electoral college and replacing it with a simpler system that appeals to all united states citizens instead of just certain citizens.	Claim	Adequate
a1675ce7acef	7927FA99C0AD	Based on phrases in the passage, there is evidence that the electoral college system is corrupt. An example would be: Back in 1960. segregationalists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in relpacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.) -source 2, second paragraph. This is stating that in 1960 people who opposed Kennedy nearly became his electors. So if they succeeded in becoming his electors his votes would have gone to another opposing candidate. This could not happen with a system of voting that directly conected everyones votes with congress. This was a clear case of sabotage in the election of 1960.	Evidence	Adequate
9cc681b4950f	7927FA99C0AD	Votes in larger states and smaller states are balanced out so the number of votes would not be based on the number of people in the states. This can be seen as a way to make sure that state votes did not compare to the population of said states	Evidence	Ineffective
e87ec3b14103	7927FA99C0AD	In reality it is limiting the votes of citizens.	Claim	Adequate
f4e0d46598cf	7927FA99C0AD	If people ignored how larger states had more people than smaller states and just thought of everyone as individuals everyone would have a say. The system I am proposing does not view states as the voters, but every american citizen as one. After everyone passed their votes, they would all be tallied and which ever candidate had the most votes would win.	Evidence	Adequate
b9f48f0f389f	7927FA99C0AD	You may think that the votes could be sabotaged, and that politicians could put in fake votes and get rid of real ones.	Claim	Adequate
003bf859481a	7927FA99C0AD	This problem could be dealt with by maximized security. There would be videocameras wherever the votes could be swaped.	Evidence	Ineffective
799e41f4b229	7927FA99C0AD	I propose this system to ensure that every citizen has a vote, and that corruption while transitioning the votes would be eliminated. This would be a less confusing system that could make voting more efficient.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
f2a599e3eec3	793379D7FAE6	I would like to discuss a policy about cell phones that I heard you were considering.	Lead	Adequate
b3c94de43b37	793379D7FAE6	I personally think that policy 1, the one when kids are allowed to bring cell phones to school and use them during lunch and free periods but must be turned off during class, is the right one.	Position	Adequate
68bc9f2247a5	793379D7FAE6	One reason why I think that this policy is the right one is because kids should have cell phones. It's a great way to communicate with your friends and family.	Claim	Adequate
86d704aac457	793379D7FAE6	But if you are going to install this rule, there must be some limits.	Counterclaim	Adequate
762eeaba3fa5	793379D7FAE6	Kids should turn their cell phones off during class because it could distract the teacher, the class, and the person him/herself. If a teacher sees a kid playing with a cell phone or if it goes off in class, the teacher should take it away.	Evidence	Adequate
f845ce23bd94	793379D7FAE6	But another good reason to have cell phones is if the school has a fire or another emergency.	Claim	Adequate
0e23a562841e	793379D7FAE6	Kids could easily get in touch with their parents to let the know that they are all right.	Evidence	Adequate
05e1ef22d52c	793379D7FAE6	Also, another thing not a lot of people think about that could be good or bad is homework.	Claim	Adequate
54a2c2d0e452	793379D7FAE6	Kids could text each other to find out what the homework is if they don't have it, but they could also send texts or pictures of the answers.	Evidence	Adequate
6190ad50113a	793379D7FAE6	A reason that I would question about: what about teachers? Would teachers be allowed to have their phones out whenever they wanted? Or can they only have them out if they have some free time? This is all something that could impact the education of the kids, but I'll let you decide that one.	Evidence	Ineffective
a4f2b84615ed	793379D7FAE6	One more reason kids would love to have their cell phones in school is that they can take pictures of their friends in school	Claim	Adequate
6e5d04cc13cf	793379D7FAE6	if there was an unforgettable moment or something like a cool memory to capture.	Evidence	Adequate
1f4fef1b5f09	793379D7FAE6	There are numerous reasons good or bad to install the rule about cell phones, but I hope that you will consider this letter in your deciding.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
96e047154244	7942E0DE4B51	I think that the Electoral College is important becase it is a process.	Position	Ineffective
78f8df1715a7	7942E0DE4B51	The founding fathers established the Eletoral College to the Constitution as a comromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualificatied citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors. The meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President. The counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The electoral College consists of 538 electors. The mjority of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the President. Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word ''state'' also refers to the District of Columbia. The presidential elction is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. One thing that I didn't know is that most states have a "winner-take-all."A "winner-take-all" is a system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate.	Evidence	Ineffective
c7900649e129	795558799D7A	with all do respect I want to tell you why you shouldn't require all students to perform community service.	Position	Effective
4012f480fa5e	795558799D7A	First of all I think its not necessary because some people are doing it already ,and the ones that are not they have a reason not to be doing it!	Claim	Effective
67ac3e5112d5	795558799D7A	I know it is something important for everybody to do ,but it is also important for you to understand that some people just don't have the time or just don't want to do it.	Evidence	Effective
7d3bf260a159	795558799D7A	I have some friends that are too busy to be doing community service because they have jobs or are taking care of siblings. Please do not require us to do it there are many people that don't want to .	Evidence	Effective
062873ba517a	795558799D7A	Secondly I don't think many people do it, especially all the trouble makers .	Claim	Adequate
c901361d45e9	795558799D7A	They are the kids who really don't want to do it ,and that means more meetings with you .Now I know you really don't want to deal with that ,so why bother do the requirement .	Evidence	Effective
97b4c4753b90	79766A7A3911	In the first photo it looks like it is a human face but when it goes to the second photo it look sbasically like nothing. Maybe just like a cloud but nothing really then when it goes to the last photo it looks like it is a hard object but it has cracks in it. In the story it says " Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars." it says that something funny happened. It did not happen on purpose so we do not know if it was an alien or another creature.	Lead	Adequate
a6fae94a832d	79766A7A3911	They thought that it was a Martin mesa but it was common for that to happen around Cydonia.	Claim	Adequate
bd612e5c4791	79766A7A3911	The "Face" had an unusal shadow on it like it was made to look like an Egyptian Pharoh. It only loooked like that in the first photo not the second or third. When NASA took photos of the face and put them on the internet everyone basically freaked out because they thought it was a sign for alien life. It could be but there can be many other reasons why it looks like a face. They say that it could be just a natural landform but many people like to think that "oh it is not it is a sign of alien life".	Evidence	Adequate
c716c77ab1af	79766A7A3911	The caption on the photo when they posted it on the internet was "Huge rock formation...Which resembles a human head... formed by sadow giving illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."	Claim	Adequate
4a92f5f54fcd	79766A7A3911	That was a go getter for attention it looks like they just want to get attention so they can scare people like a lot of people do. It was a good way to engage the public but it was also a bad way of getting their attention. It was bad because a lot of people can get scared because of something they hear and this story did not seem really believeable. A lot of people will believe anything they see on the internet it bacisally does not matter on what it is about they will just believe it.	Evidence	Adequate
dba5c8951906	79766A7A3911	"The Face on Mars" had became a pop icon it was on Hollywood films, in books, magazines, and radio talk shows	Claim	Adequate
046c5c0895b2	79766A7A3911	Also in the story it says "It once haunted a grocery store check out line for 25 years.". That is just crazy that peope will believe things like that ! Sometimes people just want to scare other people and tell them lies about anything. Some people think that the face is "bona fide" evidence of life on Mars. People say that NASA wants to hide every reason from them so they do not find out anything.	Evidence	Adequate
342498832fee	79766A7A3911	They just want to say conspiracy theorists and not tell the truth	Counterclaim	Adequate
056c71f23e6d	79766A7A3911	That could be true but in this case I do not think so	Rebuttal	Adequate
3c611daa088a	79766A7A3911	The people on NASA's side the denfenders of NASA thinks that NASA's budget wish that there was ancient civilaztion on Mars. If NASA tells people everything about "The Face" then people will just spend all their time getting worried about it and want more reasons on why that it is there.	Evidence	Adequate
f48e12afd761	79766A7A3911	Sometimes things like "The Face" can pop up and people just would not know how it happened and why it did happen	Claim	Adequate
db4dc2ed0d5f	79766A7A3911	They thought that the photo just was not sharp enough to see it cleary. It showed that it just was a natural landform and there was no sign of an alien monument. It was just a cloudly time of the year and the camera caught the wind blowing and the haze got in front of the photo. They went back on a cloudless summer day to see if they can get a better photo then before to see what it was. It showed that it was a Martain equivelent of a butte or mesa. Landforms are common around the American West. It showed that it was a lava dome that takes a form of an isloted mesa about the same height as the face on Mars.	Evidence	Adequate
b59c6ed6adc4	79766A7A3911	It was never a sign that aliens were on Mars	Position	Adequate
204f62490740	79766A7A3911	aliens could be on Mars and we would of never knew but they took a photo on the wrong night so they had to go back and see it again	Evidence	Ineffective
97db0ab6b912	79766A7A3911	The whole alien story was very unbelieveable to me but people will believe in anything.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
77878b7d4644	798A81F6D572	I think that students should perform a community service because it would make our community stronger and bring us closer together in the things we do	Position	Adequate
24612ea90539	798A81F6D572	Some things we could do are cleaning up liter and making our Earth healthier.	Claim	Effective
31d107b8fa96	798A81F6D572	Also we can throw our garbage away instead of throwing it in the streets or on the sidewalk and if we see a person do it, we could tell them to pick it up and throw it out or we can throw it out for them if they don't throw it away.	Evidence	Adequate
3b795ac6f76c	798A81F6D572	Another thing is our community can make a garden and plant vegetables, trees, flowers and other things	Claim	Effective
86ef72a0893f	798A81F6D572	We can do that for helping families in need and we can actually help them too	Evidence	Adequate
39c1d2e6ab1a	798A81F6D572	we could recycle our paper, cans, and cell phones or ink cartages.	Claim	Adequate
a11a94f49dea	798A81F6D572	If everyone recycles, our Earth would be a lot cleaner and we wouldn't have to worry about having a dirty Earth.	Evidence	Adequate
68935be145ef	798A81F6D572	Our community can also donate to homeless families and families that live in shelters and that would need things for their family or themselves.	Claim	Effective
7769ba4df148	798A81F6D572	We can give them things like, clothes, toys, food, make up, blankets/sheets and other things a person would need. Everyone needs someone to take care of them and look out for them and they always will need someone there.	Evidence	Effective
1a48d49e5fa5	798A81F6D572	The community we live in could be a lot stronger and healthier if we all just try together.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
451c1ab9857a	79B23EC7E834	Some say community service is a waste of time. Some disagree.	Lead	Adequate
6385e1cab08e	79B23EC7E834	i Believe that students shouldn't be required to do community service.	Position	Adequate

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Distance learning allows these absent students to still work on school subjects and stay on top of their work, while also reducing the risk of other students receiving the same illness due to the student continuing to attend school. Students attending school while still sick is a prominent issue in public schooling, caused by the lack of support for students unable to attend school. This issue would be eliminated due to the reduced need for sick students to continue attending school due to distance learning allowing students to stay at home while continuing to work on school subjects.

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Another benefit for students from distance learning is the ability for mentally ill students unable to attend school due to disorders such as social anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and depression to continue learning outside of an environment detrimental to their mental health.

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Speaking from personal experience with family members and friends with mental disorders, public schools can often be a breeding ground for self doubt, anxiety, and general depression to occur for mentally unstable people, regardless of counseling opportunities available. Working on school subjects would allow for mentally unstable students to pursue their education, while also allowing them to maintain a healthy mindset in the comfort of their own home away from mentally unhealthy stimuli.

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A final example of the benefits of distance schooling for public school students would be the opportunity for students working job/s outside of school to simultaneously pursue an education and support themselves or their dependents.

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Many lower class students or students with parents unable to work feel the need to obtain jobs outside of school, ranging from part-time summer jobs to full-time year-round jobs that inhibit the ability to pursue an education. Distance learning allows these students to do both at the same time if they have the desire to do so, instead of having to go to a program such as night school in order to catch up on work they usually do not have time to do. Distance learning essentially unlocks the ability for students working outside of school to continue to pursue academics while also maintaining financial balance for themselves or others.

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To sum up, the opportunities for students with work hours interfering with school, mental health disorders or various illnesses are all benefits for the usage of distance learning within the American school system. Although some find distance learning to only further complicate the process of education for students due to some not having reliable access to WiFi or internet, different accommodations are usually available locally for students to use distance learning as a tool to further their education. Distance learning serves as a universal golden opportunity for students unable to attend school to continue to receive and education regardless of outside circumstances.

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I have recently been informed about wanting to make certain changes to the election process. I am not of an age to vote, yet I am informed about how the election process works and the role the electorial college plays withing it.

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The electoral college is a proces, not a place, which consists of 538 electors. During this process the public casts their vote for their favorite candidate. The votes are added up in each state and whichever candidate has got the most votes is for whom the state's representatives will vote towards. Each state's number of representatives is determined acoording to polpulation with California having the most electorial votes at 55. Electors can change their votes for whomever they'd like, yet it is highly unlikeley. In order for a candidate to win an election he or she must obtain 270 votes out of 538.

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Some may argue that the people's votes don't necessarily influence the outcome of the election since electors can still change for whom they vote for, so they request that the popular vote determine who becomes president.

Counterclaim

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This idea implies that all eligible citizens in the U.S. to vote in the election when truth being over half of the nationwide population does not cast a vote, with the leading cause being apathy. Also it is implied that all citizens are informed about who they vote for.

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During a presidential campaign, a political party will put most of their efforts in "swing states", these are the states with the most electors. This means that people from smaller states will recieve little or no information about the candidates causing the citizens to cast a blind vote.

Evidence

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The main reason of why the electorial campaign should determine who wins instead of the popular vote is the public can be too easily influenced

Claim

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If a particular candidate is preferred in certain areas, the population in or around that area might be influenced to vote for that individual. Also people can be peer-pressured into voting for someone they might not agree with.

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In my opinion the U.S. population is not ready for that kind of responsability

Concluding Statement

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The electoral college was established to help the election proces run smoothly and it has worked for decades without any major flukes or flaws. So why change now?

Position

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I want to change the election by popular votes instead of the Electoral College

Position

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because even if the president gets popular votes, it wouldn't matter anyway. They will have to vote the president by using the Electoral College. It wouldn't be fair because "Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." That means if the president gets the most popular votes, it won't matter.

Evidence

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Back then, presidents wouldn't accept the Electoral College. "What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college!"

Claim

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They all thought that it wouldn't be fair if the popular votes wouldn't count and the Electoral College has its defenders.

Evidence

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The thing that's wrong with the Electoral College is because "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president."

Claim

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So if someone were to vote for a president, they would be voting for a slate of the 34 Democratic electors. After that, they pledged it on the president that they voted for.

Evidence

Ineffective

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"At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters." It's because of the winner-take-all system that happens also on each state.

Claim

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So candidates think they know they aren't going to win and never spend time on other states as well. People also think that the Electoral College is unfair because they never get to see the candidates and they won't know who they're going to vote. People only relied on Bob Dole. His goal was to "Abolish the electoral college!"

Evidence

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When people also vote for a presdential canidate they actually vote for the slate of electors. Which was why Gore had more popular votes than Bush, yet he had fewer electoral votes. But there is one way to settle a dispute of the outcome of an Electoral College vote. "it happened in 2000-but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." The Electoral College also has a presidential candidate to have a trans-regional appeal but has enough electoral votes to vote for president.

Evidence

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So now we all know how the Electoral College is unfair. Because of the constant votes that don't matter at all yet they always make sure to vote that president and all of the popular votes wouldn't matter. That's why I want to change to popular votes than the Electoral College does. All we need to do is work together to over come the Electoral College so the votes can be fair and we would want to vote for the president that we want.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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Some students believe that we should have community service some disagree. I am about show why some disagree and some agree.

Position

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Many think that it is good to help the community butt also we should be worrying about our grades and less then our community.

Claim

Adequate

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I don't think u want to be leading a school of failing students. These students can do this on their own time

Evidence

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I disagree on having to be forced to do community service.

Claim

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I believe that this job should be given to litter bugs. That have been doing the littering. Yea every once in a while if u see a piece of trash pick it up, butt to be forced is not the correct thing to do to students. We the students did not do any thing to be punished .

Evidence

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I mean im sure I proved myself correct about having to be forced to do community service.

Concluding Statement

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I think that having cell phones at lunch periods and at other free times such as locker break would be better in ways

Position

Adequate

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students could communicate with other class mates with work needed to be done and needs help reviewing,

Claim

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having cell phones at school could tempt other students to text or call their parents to pick them up for early dismissal or a feign sickness.

Counterclaim

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Having cell phones at school would be crucial to school functioning

Claim

Ineffective

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students would abuse the rule and do unneeded things at school such as "sexting" sending hurtful messages through other people to start a rumor.

Evidence

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Some people might get in fights and grades would probably decrease

Claim

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because people would be obsessed with texting.

Evidence

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In a worst case scenario the school could get sued by a student getting a white slip, detention, ISS, suspended, or expelled and disagree about doing the wrong thing they did or if they where given it through "hard feelings" between a teacher and a student.

Claim

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I think students should be aloud to have cell phones at school but not be able to use them during school hours and have them off or have the home room teacher take them up each day and hold them until the end of school or dismissal.

Concluding Statement

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If I were to choose between keeping the electoral college or abolishing it, I would chose for abolishing it.

Position

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The electoral college has a system that can be considered confusing to most americans

Claim

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This system indirectly transfers citizen's votes to congress

Claim

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This allows for loopholes and sabaotage to be commited during the process of electing a president.

Claim

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I propose abolishing the electoral college and replacing it with a simpler system that appeals to all united states citizens instead of just certain citizens.

Claim

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Based on phrases in the passage, there is evidence that the electoral college system is corrupt. An example would be: Back in 1960. segregationalists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in relpacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.) -source 2, second paragraph. This is stating that in 1960 people who opposed Kennedy nearly became his electors. So if they succeeded in becoming his electors his votes would have gone to another opposing candidate. This could not happen with a system of voting that directly conected everyones votes with congress. This was a clear case of sabotage in the election of 1960.

Evidence

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Votes in larger states and smaller states are balanced out so the number of votes would not be based on the number of people in the states. This can be seen as a way to make sure that state votes did not compare to the population of said states

Evidence

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In reality it is limiting the votes of citizens.

Claim

Adequate

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If people ignored how larger states had more people than smaller states and just thought of everyone as individuals everyone would have a say. The system I am proposing does not view states as the voters, but every american citizen as one. After everyone passed their votes, they would all be tallied and which ever candidate had the most votes would win.

Evidence

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You may think that the votes could be sabotaged, and that politicians could put in fake votes and get rid of real ones.

Claim

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This problem could be dealt with by maximized security. There would be videocameras wherever the votes could be swaped.

Evidence

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I propose this system to ensure that every citizen has a vote, and that corruption while transitioning the votes would be eliminated. This would be a less confusing system that could make voting more efficient.

Concluding Statement

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I would like to discuss a policy about cell phones that I heard you were considering.

Lead

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I personally think that policy 1, the one when kids are allowed to bring cell phones to school and use them during lunch and free periods but must be turned off during class, is the right one.

Position

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One reason why I think that this policy is the right one is because kids should have cell phones. It's a great way to communicate with your friends and family.

Claim

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But if you are going to install this rule, there must be some limits.

Counterclaim

Adequate

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Kids should turn their cell phones off during class because it could distract the teacher, the class, and the person him/herself. If a teacher sees a kid playing with a cell phone or if it goes off in class, the teacher should take it away.

Evidence

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But another good reason to have cell phones is if the school has a fire or another emergency.

Claim

Adequate

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Kids could easily get in touch with their parents to let the know that they are all right.

Evidence

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Also, another thing not a lot of people think about that could be good or bad is homework.

Claim

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Kids could text each other to find out what the homework is if they don't have it, but they could also send texts or pictures of the answers.

Evidence

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A reason that I would question about: what about teachers? Would teachers be allowed to have their phones out whenever they wanted? Or can they only have them out if they have some free time? This is all something that could impact the education of the kids, but I'll let you decide that one.

Evidence

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One more reason kids would love to have their cell phones in school is that they can take pictures of their friends in school

Claim

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if there was an unforgettable moment or something like a cool memory to capture.

Evidence

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There are numerous reasons good or bad to install the rule about cell phones, but I hope that you will consider this letter in your deciding.

Concluding Statement

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I think that the Electoral College is important becase it is a process.

Position

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The founding fathers established the Eletoral College to the Constitution as a comromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualificatied citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors. The meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President. The counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The electoral College consists of 538 electors. The mjority of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the President. Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the Electoral College. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word ''state'' also refers to the District of Columbia. The presidential elction is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. One thing that I didn't know is that most states have a "winner-take-all."A "winner-take-all" is a system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate.

Evidence

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with all do respect I want to tell you why you shouldn't require all students to perform community service.

Position

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First of all I think its not necessary because some people are doing it already ,and the ones that are not they have a reason not to be doing it!

Claim

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I know it is something important for everybody to do ,but it is also important for you to understand that some people just don't have the time or just don't want to do it.

Evidence

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I have some friends that are too busy to be doing community service because they have jobs or are taking care of siblings. Please do not require us to do it there are many people that don't want to .

Evidence

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Secondly I don't think many people do it, especially all the trouble makers .

Claim

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They are the kids who really don't want to do it ,and that means more meetings with you .Now I know you really don't want to deal with that ,so why bother do the requirement .

Evidence

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In the first photo it looks like it is a human face but when it goes to the second photo it look sbasically like nothing. Maybe just like a cloud but nothing really then when it goes to the last photo it looks like it is a hard object but it has cracks in it. In the story it says " Twenty five years ago something funny happened around Mars." it says that something funny happened. It did not happen on purpose so we do not know if it was an alien or another creature.

Lead

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They thought that it was a Martin mesa but it was common for that to happen around Cydonia.

Claim

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The "Face" had an unusal shadow on it like it was made to look like an Egyptian Pharoh. It only loooked like that in the first photo not the second or third. When NASA took photos of the face and put them on the internet everyone basically freaked out because they thought it was a sign for alien life. It could be but there can be many other reasons why it looks like a face. They say that it could be just a natural landform but many people like to think that "oh it is not it is a sign of alien life".

Evidence

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The caption on the photo when they posted it on the internet was "Huge rock formation...Which resembles a human head... formed by sadow giving illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth."

Claim

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That was a go getter for attention it looks like they just want to get attention so they can scare people like a lot of people do. It was a good way to engage the public but it was also a bad way of getting their attention. It was bad because a lot of people can get scared because of something they hear and this story did not seem really believeable. A lot of people will believe anything they see on the internet it bacisally does not matter on what it is about they will just believe it.

Evidence

Adequate

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"The Face on Mars" had became a pop icon it was on Hollywood films, in books, magazines, and radio talk shows

Claim

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Also in the story it says "It once haunted a grocery store check out line for 25 years.". That is just crazy that peope will believe things like that ! Sometimes people just want to scare other people and tell them lies about anything. Some people think that the face is "bona fide" evidence of life on Mars. People say that NASA wants to hide every reason from them so they do not find out anything.

Evidence

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They just want to say conspiracy theorists and not tell the truth

Counterclaim

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That could be true but in this case I do not think so

Rebuttal

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The people on NASA's side the denfenders of NASA thinks that NASA's budget wish that there was ancient civilaztion on Mars. If NASA tells people everything about "The Face" then people will just spend all their time getting worried about it and want more reasons on why that it is there.

Evidence

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Sometimes things like "The Face" can pop up and people just would not know how it happened and why it did happen

Claim

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They thought that the photo just was not sharp enough to see it cleary. It showed that it just was a natural landform and there was no sign of an alien monument. It was just a cloudly time of the year and the camera caught the wind blowing and the haze got in front of the photo. They went back on a cloudless summer day to see if they can get a better photo then before to see what it was. It showed that it was a Martain equivelent of a butte or mesa. Landforms are common around the American West. It showed that it was a lava dome that takes a form of an isloted mesa about the same height as the face on Mars.

Evidence

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It was never a sign that aliens were on Mars

Position

Adequate

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aliens could be on Mars and we would of never knew but they took a photo on the wrong night so they had to go back and see it again

Evidence

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The whole alien story was very unbelieveable to me but people will believe in anything.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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I think that students should perform a community service because it would make our community stronger and bring us closer together in the things we do

Position

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Some things we could do are cleaning up liter and making our Earth healthier.

Claim

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Also we can throw our garbage away instead of throwing it in the streets or on the sidewalk and if we see a person do it, we could tell them to pick it up and throw it out or we can throw it out for them if they don't throw it away.

Evidence

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Another thing is our community can make a garden and plant vegetables, trees, flowers and other things

Claim

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We can do that for helping families in need and we can actually help them too

Evidence

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we could recycle our paper, cans, and cell phones or ink cartages.

Claim

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If everyone recycles, our Earth would be a lot cleaner and we wouldn't have to worry about having a dirty Earth.

Evidence

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Our community can also donate to homeless families and families that live in shelters and that would need things for their family or themselves.

Claim

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We can give them things like, clothes, toys, food, make up, blankets/sheets and other things a person would need. Everyone needs someone to take care of them and look out for them and they always will need someone there.

Evidence

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The community we live in could be a lot stronger and healthier if we all just try together.

Concluding Statement

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Some say community service is a waste of time. Some disagree.

Lead

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i Believe that students shouldn't be required to do community service.

Position

Adequate