tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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cde8dc9cd2b7	79B23EC7E834	I feel most should do community service and that it is better for the earth	Claim	Effective
6e4229dbd910	79B23EC7E834	but it should be their choice not someone else's.	Claim	Adequate
0571852800dc	79B23EC7E834	It helps stop waste and pollution. It is safer for the world and its people. Without pollution the world and humans can go on living healthy lives and lifestyles. Not taking care of the world is not taking care of ourselves. The world could end as we know it because of pollution. It isn't safe.	Evidence	Effective
01d8228993c7	79B23EC7E834	Also, community service teaches valuable skills and lessons that one may need later on in life.	Claim	Effective
8b914f8fa19f	79B23EC7E834	It teaches how to clean up after yourself and after others, how NOT to litter, and respect towards others. If we do not learn this earlier in life we won't have the knowledge and care to do it later in life. Teaching this lesson about community service to children could cause a chain reaction. They could teach their friends the lesson, and they could even teach their children in the future.	Evidence	Effective
9a91c2674c9e	79B23EC7E834	Another reason community service is important is because it gets children out of the house and doing something active.	Claim	Effective
8c50ca334c66	79B23EC7E834	Most students spend their time playing video games, or on the computer, or even watching television, and soon enough, it will become daily activities possibly for the rest of their lives. Kids can break away from the electronics and be outside getting fresh air in their systems. They could even meet new friends.	Evidence	Effective
18ecc65baac7	79B23EC7E834	Just like a recipe. You can choose whether to put certain ingredients in the food you are making.	Evidence	Adequate
932bc4142fe6	79B23EC7E834	I think community service is a great idea, but not all may agree. Although it may stop pollution, teach life lessons, and break them away from brainwashing electronics, they should be able to make their own choices. Therefore, i feel doing community service should be optional.	Concluding Statement	Effective
65c94a93ce30	79C245E3C9C2	To begin with, the electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president abd vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Each candidate running for presisent in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen bt the candidate's political party	Lead	Ineffective
a8e8d4de2898	79C245E3C9C2	In addition, the presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in november. You can help choose tour state's electors when you vote for predident. Most states have a ''winner-take-all'' system however, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of ''proportional representation.'' Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for president, but for a slate of electors, who in tuen elect the president	Evidence	Ineffective
b662c9954c78	79C245E3C9C2	The single best argument aganist the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor	Claim	Adequate
f06c9726bda5	79C245E3C9C2	It's like a hurricane for a presidental election	Evidence	Ineffective
6798fa208b68	79C245E3C9C2	Prehaps the most worring is the prospect of a tie in thre electoral vot.	Claim	Adequate
d4c221ed3680	79C245E3C9C2	In that case, the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president	Evidence	Adequate
6e83cd71f650	79C245E3C9C2	To futher inform, at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters.	Claim	Adequate
ffc490d79a92	79C245E3C9C2	Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spen time in states because they no they have no chance of winning. it's like convincing pigs to vote for you. It's offical the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality.	Evidence	Adequate
706dbb466e85	79C245E3C9C2	It's hard to say this but Bob Doloe was right abolish the electoeal college	Position	Adequate
0f76a6e7b616	79C245E3C9C2	The electoral college restores some of the weight in the politiccal balance that lage states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the consition.	Counterclaim	Adequate
9b0e235a5066	79C245E3C9C2	The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast.	Counterclaim	Adequate
7564b2d60c5e	79C245E3C9C2	It can be argued that he electoral college method of slecting for the presisent may turn off potential voters for a candidate.	Claim	Adequate
6fd3594284ee	79C245E3C9C2	But athat single vote may decide that election!	Evidence	Ineffective
0fdfc2e31932	7A2D0B189298	The Electoral College needs to be disbanded. There are many reasons why the Electoral college needs to be stopped,	Position	Adequate
afafec4062f6	7A2D0B189298	How is it fair to Americans, if you say we have a vote that counts when we are just voting for a slate of people that might vote for someone we do not want. The voting process needs to be handled by the people, and who we want to run this country that we live in.	Evidence	Adequate
b67d70d08673	7A2D0B189298	The voting process is just not fair to Americans.	Claim	Adequate
80c1295c90fc	7A2D0B189298	It's in the constitution that we have a right to vote and that we have the right to choose our president, but you people in the electoral college take away that right when we only get to vote for a slate of people. If elections were done by popular vote things might have been different in many ways. First off, in the 2000 election if it was done by popular vote, Bush would not have won and we would have had, Al Gore as president.	Evidence	Adequate
fbe3173f7cb8	7A2D0B189298	The electoral college is just uncompletely fair to voters. Because, in some states they have a winner-take-all system, so the presidental candidates to spend time in those states to get their vote.	Claim	Adequate
165feb9e25c6	7A2D0B189298	Seventeen States did not see the presidental candidates at all in 2000 campaign, so what is the point in having voting in those states if we dont know who we are voting for and why we are voting for them? There is not a reason to vote when the electoral college votes fore us.	Evidence	Adequate
9dd069a53b0d	7A2D0B189298	Yes, sometimes people do not know what they are voting for and why, but that is because we have no say, it is not up to the people who is going to the president of the country of we live, because the electoral college will not let us choose who we want.	Claim	Adequate
49f643e34df2	7A2D0B189298	Many people, very important people, such as Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, and the U.S Chamber of commerece have agreed that we should abolish the Electoral College and give the people the vote and see who wins president then. If the people had a vote on who is president it would be very simplier, than the Electoral College when they have a tie, we would not have to bounce the decision, we could radomly choose one state and let them vote to see who the president is for 4 years. Yes, some may agrue that randomly choosing one state would somehow turn out to but a massive mistake, but there is a way to make sure that no state gets selected 2 times before the first time of any other state.	Evidence	Adequate
af75f669e28c	7A2D0B189298	Many my agrue that, the Electoral college is there for our benefit.	Counterclaim	Ineffective
27127e3b9c9e	7A2D0B189298	Tell me one benefit there is to having no vote as regular citizen. I get it that there are more people in some states than others, but that does not mean we all get the same number of electoral votes as the huge states such as, California, Florida, and Texas.	Rebuttal	Adequate
7eff9f3cf36d	7A2D0B189298	So if we are not going to have the same votes number of votes no matter what why does it matter if we give the people the option and have them vote for who they want, it is because the Electoral College does not care who we want they choose the president on who they want. Also, if it is up to the Electoral College then why does it matter if the citizens vote, I mean of course we want to give our input of who we want, but it does not matter, because our state senators will go behind our back and vote for someone we do not want.	Evidence	Adequate
5e5f6c9fa012	7A2D0B189298	America, of course, has many more freedoms than other countries and we are not taking advantage of that, because we can not allow the people to vote for the President of the United States. The citizens do not want to vote for a slate of people, they want to vote for our president. So let me ask you as my Senator, what are you going to do about it?	Concluding Statement	Adequate
50edbd6c5b7c	7A40839A44E2	I'm not for driverles cars	Position	Adequate
1282db19cbf8	7A40839A44E2	they can still cause an accident	Claim	Adequate
f963211f319d	7A40839A44E2	there not really driving the car itself	Claim	Adequate
69e9b7bad725	7A40839A44E2	is helping out the driver by stop when they are not looking or if there is a green light then, the car will alert the driver to press the gas if they are distacted. But, it will not drive a person home if they are drunk	Evidence	Adequate
fabb93279bd3	7A40839A44E2	There are better ideas then making a driving car.	Claim	Adequate
b1fd2fe01edb	7A40839A44E2	instead of buidling drivierless cars we can save the enviroment. They can make the world a better places but make fuel efficeny cars instead of driverless cars. Make trucks not run on diesel we can be doing so much more than making a driverless car.	Evidence	Adequate
3c522e1f6a7e	7A40839A44E2	What if the car computer programming chip is damage then that means that the car can't be able to work correctly and that the car is in a higher risk of getting more people in danger because of the driverlesss car.	Claim	Adequate
ce6aab8e8d75	7A40839A44E2	Building a driverles car is going to be very expensive.	Claim	Adequate
38935efefb8a	7A40839A44E2	we are not in a lot of debt so we should use are money wisely.	Claim	Ineffective
96104599e1f8	7AC66E0CFAAA	I argue in the favor of keeping the electoral college.	Position	Adequate
e7315b55b0bf	7AC66E0CFAAA	I think that it really doesn't matter what a single person vote can do. One vote will not make a difference. The state uses the americans vote, to see what we would pefer.	Claim	Adequate
5ab9c1f07ac4	7AC66E0CFAAA	Every vote an important ' person makes, it counts that. I personally think its a waist of time to vote,that us americans really have no say so in. I bet that if we all didn't vote this next go around, we would still have a president. All because, of what the important ' people want. All 538 electors know who is better for the United States of America. So, why we vote?	Evidence	Adequate
3b118ea10316	7AC66E0CFAAA	The only thing against the electoral college, is what we might call the Disaster Factor.	Counterclaim	Adequate
049a71a68214	7AC66E0CFAAA	Back, in 1960, segregationist, in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with the new electors who would oppese John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.) The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism. a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be {overruled} by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing the the electoral college method id not democratic in a modern sense. It is the electors who elect the president. NOT the people. When you cote for a presidential candidate you're actaully voting for a slate of electos.	Evidence	Adequate
533186802a85	7AC66E0CFAAA	So, you might as well just let the electoral collge do the job. I mean if you want to go and vote mor power to you. But, like I said its a waist of time to do so!!!	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
71a916ad44f2	7AD34830967B	" 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! Well i think otherwise.	Position	Adequate
1b45b65c4cac	7AD34830967B	the election of the President is by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.	Claim	Adequate
8a6c4cae0974	7AD34830967B	The start of the Electoral College is well handingly choosing the electors, which consists of 538 electors each of course must be qualified.	Claim	Adequate
b4f96eb8155e	7AD34830967B	Most of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president. The number of members in its Congressional delegation is equal to the entitled allotment of electors in your state, one is for each member in the house of Representatives plus two for the Senators. For the purposes of Electoral College, Columbia District is allowed 3 electors and is treat like a state. and when i say "state" for this topic i mean the District of Columbia.	Evidence	Ineffective
9b0ed1b66a40	7AD34830967B	A outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, just look back at the year 2000 it was less likely then a come over the popular vote the Reason for that is the winning candidate's share of the Electioral College expanded his share of the popular vote. For example, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney.	Evidence	Ineffective
c96ed835ae86	7AD34830967B	each and every step of the Electoral college method comes out to be a well handed system.	Claim	Adequate
95430773891a	7AD34830967B	Its more then enough fairness included when choosing the Presisent and Vice President.	Evidence	Adequate
9c1f4fcb7f81	7AD34830967B	Popular vote is more based on "winner-take-all" System thats awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate, unlike the Electoral College which is a process that consists of choosing the electors,	Evidence	Ineffective
eab7ff74ead9	7B1981581BC7	Presidential elections provides the United States of America with an opprotunity of unification. The process of choosing the next leader of the United States always brings the people of the country together knowing that all of them play a role in the election. This is present in the popular vote, a vote consisting of the general population. However, the popular vote is not always accurate, as anyone of any background can vote as long as they hold proper citzenship. The electoral college on the other hand, is a process that serves as a compromise between Congress and the rest of America.	Lead	Effective
d1c042f6b15a	7B1981581BC7	The fact of the matter is, the electoral college is beneficial to the presidential election	Position	Adequate
299e9625798c	7B1981581BC7	because it unifies Congress and the people of America	Claim	Effective
8c762ee265db	7B1981581BC7	is part of the country's roots.	Claim	Effective
0097872a7768	7B1981581BC7	To begin with, the electoral college, more than anything, unifies the people. The electors were once, as everyone in the nation is, an average citizen.	Claim	Effective
8e8ba8271490	7B1981581BC7	According to Bradford Plumer the electors chosen, "...depend on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves." On top of that Bradford indentifies the electors as, "...anyone not holding a public office.". Bradford Plumer illustrates better than anyone that the electors chosen are average citizens who think the same as the rest of the general population while still keeping in mind that Congress must also be represented. Knowing this, the working-class people of America, and Congress can rest easy knowing that the electoral college process will make the decision that is best for the nation as a whole. This decision making, whether directly or indirectly, unifies the country. In 2012 more than three-fourths of the nation tuned in to watch the presidential election; in the end being one of the most watched televised elections in the country's history. This number includes Congressmen. This shows that the decision making process of the electoral college brings all the people of the nation together to decide on the choosing of the coutries next leader.	Evidence	Adequate
dfef21c5ca2f	7B1981581BC7	The general population, though average citizens, are somtimes not as qualified as Congress to make unbiased, beneficial decisions on behalf of the rest of the country. However, knowing that the next President could be a part of Congress, sometimes sways the decision in favor of a particular candidate. In this paradox of the qualification of Congress and the average citizen, the electoral college is used to fill the void. The electoral college has been used since the founding of the country. The founding fathers of America (George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, etc.)must have developed the electoral college process for some reason. According to the Office of the Federal Register, "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." More than anything the electoral college is a mutual and nuetral process that represents something inbetween the biased politics of Congress and the average citizen. The average working class person is the greatest example of American integrity. This person shows that in this great nation, if you set a goal and are willing to work to acheive that goal, it can be acheived.	Evidence	Effective
3f227fe15cd4	7B1981581BC7	Why strip this moral that has represented the United States of America since its first years?	Claim	Adequate
3d1537bd9c0d	7B1981581BC7	While there have been a few flaws in the electoral college throughout history, this decision making process still unifies the people of America and is still, most importantly, part of its roots. More than anything, the electoral college process represents the two sides of the country: Congress and the average working class citizen. So, rest easy knowing that the next election, there is a process between Congress and average working citizens that works to make the decision that is best for the people of this great nation, the United States of America.	Concluding Statement	Effective
7ff2c6b55f46	7B5D27D241EA	In my opinion i think that all students shouldn't have to participate in community service	Position	Effective
fc91ba261764	7B5D27D241EA	because some kids have important things that they have to do, not want to do, have to do	Claim	Effective
0858bdca4ce6	7B5D27D241EA	For example what if a student had siblings that were younger than they were and couldn't take care of themselves, so their older siblings would have to take care of them. Then the student couldn't take care of their community service hours. Another is what if a student participated in sports and had an important game to go to. That means that they couldn't finish their hours as well. Another example is what if students had a big test to study for and it was worth half of their grade, then they would have to study instead of community service. That also means that another student could not fulfil their community service hours.	Evidence	Effective
d8c7e7228d29	7B5D27D241EA	It's not just three or six students that could not fulfil their hours. The whole class would have to study for the test and more that six students have younger siblings that they have to take care of and finally, more that six students participate in sports or other extra curricular activities which means that all of those students could not perform their given community service hours. Since they could not perform their given hours then they would have to face the consequences even though it wasn't the students faults. They had more important things they had to do, not want to do, had to do.	Evidence	Effective
6c166094175c	7B5D27D241EA	If they did something bad to get in school suspension or out of school suspension then they should have to perform community service	Claim	Adequate
225f74b025c6	7B5D27D241EA	but not without and independent reason	Evidence	Ineffective
6483cc198c13	7B5D27D241EA	That is my position on whether or not the students of the school district should have to perform community service or not.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
5f926dc20943	7B64BC831CD9	you should not change the letter grade from a c to a b	Position	Adequate
d951589eebf2	7B64BC831CD9	then only the few people will play sports	Claim	Adequate
578374d26ded	7B64BC831CD9	not be able to do our best in school.	Claim	Adequate
7c6b1c5c2048	7B64BC831CD9	Because we would be focused upon joining sports losing focus in the class room and causing a decline in academic learning	Claim	Adequate
95295cf66bbc	7B64BC831CD9	if most of the school has a c average them most of the school will not be able to join sports and many students would complain and there would be more problems with the children in the school. such as sharp increase in suspensions, more kids on or in trouble, etc.... this is a way kids rebel inaddition the grade point average that is the most common or that most have is the one used for sports. also since most people trying to get good grades causes them not to pay attention so the would be students who join sports and then if there grade drops then they would quit having to get a b is hard nearly perfect work on projects.	Evidence	Adequate
83687e531e6b	7B64BC831CD9	the kids that usually join sports are not the super smart kid but usually average students and usually don't upsead a c on projects	Claim	Adequate
c811c2b71de4	7B64BC831CD9	that means the teams are going to be very very small 1-9 kid on most of the teams meaning most of those kids will be picked on from frustration of other kids not joining the sport since the c average is the ideal grade for joining sports the grade is not perfect but its the average grade for the entire school then that grade should be used not causing a big slur.	Evidence	Ineffective
ddf2cb80f90e	7B64BC831CD9	those are only a few of the reason's that we should leave the grade to join sports at a c not at a b sincerely STUDENT_NAME	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
41df1c053713	7B9A897C5297	In today's world, technology is everywhere. Technology helps assist in everyday tasks and brings about new levels of creativity. In this new age of innovation, smart cars fit right in with all other aspects of our digitalized lives. Not only could driverless cars help in many other ways regular cars can't, but they also allow for an increase in safety potential.	Lead	Effective
a05ef98b715b	7B9A897C5297	Overall, driverless cars will be beneficial for the modern world.	Position	Effective
99d26673a477	7B9A897C5297	The use of driverless cars can vary from ecofriendly transportation to customization for individual scheduals.	Claim	Effective
9cde641a10c7	7B9A897C5297	By using driverless cars as a taxi system, gas consumption would majorly decrease. The taxi system idea could also lead to new ways of public transportation. These cars could take their passengers anywhere they needed to go through a direct route. Passengers would no longer have to wait for long periods of time on buses for their stops. These driverless systems would allow for greater flexibility overall.	Evidence	Adequate
17686f205817	7B9A897C5297	Driverless cars would also help communities everywhere with safety.	Claim	Effective
5beec2357ed9	7B9A897C5297	Since these smart cars are loaded with sensor technology, they can help limit the amount of crashes that were regularly happening. The protypes of driverless cars have gone millions of miles without crashes and could help stunt the commonality of vehicular crashes and deaths. Driverless cars could also aide with the safety for learning and elderly drivers. Oftentimes, teenage drivers and drivers with slow reaction times are the causes of accidents that could have been avoided with easy assistance. Smart, semi-driverless cars could be the answer to these costly problems.	Evidence	Effective
cad20936036e	7B9A897C5297	Ultimately, driverless cars would have an extreme influence on today's society. The assistance from technology has changed the world we live in and will continue to do so. Driverless cars are the step in the right direction for driving innovations all across the world.	Concluding Statement	Effective
726e76ff3187	7BE2D386E765	The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. Some poeple think the Face is hard core evidence of life on mars. Meanwile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars.	Lead	Adequate
38b99361ab03	7BE2D386E765	The face on mars is a natural landform.	Position	Adequate
181aa5678f52	7BE2D386E765	Mars has powerfull winds just like we do on earth which if the dirt gets built up on rocks it can cause a face looking shape. The face is just a maountain with craters up at the top which makes it look somewhat like a human face. Mission controllers prepared to look again. "It's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin. "In fact, it's hard work." Mars gGlobal Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5km-wide strips. "We just don't pass over the Face very often." he noted	Evidence	Ineffective
ca185abf057b	7BE2D386E765	But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees norht martian latitude where it was winter in April '98- a cloudy time of year on the red planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.	Counterclaim	Adequate
cdd4af2216b1	7BE2D386E765	In conclution, the face could be real or it could be a fake. But from teh research that we have conducted at NASA concludes that it is just a natural landform caused by geological occurences.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
1e2cbccd360b	7BE3FAF66A0C	I think we should end the Electoral college because it is not fair to each american.	Position	Effective
8a63cbf60730	7BE3FAF66A0C	It's not fair because voters can't control who they pick, and the person they vote for end up losing the presidential election	Claim	Effective
ed0e699d1e9c	7BE3FAF66A0C	Even though our founding fathers established this act it doesn't mean it benefits our country.	Claim	Adequate
b385d928dd7f	7BE3FAF66A0C	The electors are chosen by the candidate's democratic or republican's party. Some states has a "winner-take-all" process. When that process is over and the candidate win the presidential vote in that state, it then shows which electors will represent your state.	Evidence	Adequate
84af52a8e5bd	7BE3FAF66A0C	Although this would seem like a good way to vote	Counterclaim	Adequate
f31dc197b780	7BE3FAF66A0C	I disagree.	Rebuttal	Adequate
313aafac6a7f	7BE3FAF66A0C	It would be a lot easier for every citizen to just make their own personal vote.	Claim	Adequate

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I feel most should do community service and that it is better for the earth

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but it should be their choice not someone else's.

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It helps stop waste and pollution. It is safer for the world and its people. Without pollution the world and humans can go on living healthy lives and lifestyles. Not taking care of the world is not taking care of ourselves. The world could end as we know it because of pollution. It isn't safe.

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Also, community service teaches valuable skills and lessons that one may need later on in life.

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It teaches how to clean up after yourself and after others, how NOT to litter, and respect towards others. If we do not learn this earlier in life we won't have the knowledge and care to do it later in life. Teaching this lesson about community service to children could cause a chain reaction. They could teach their friends the lesson, and they could even teach their children in the future.

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Another reason community service is important is because it gets children out of the house and doing something active.

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Most students spend their time playing video games, or on the computer, or even watching television, and soon enough, it will become daily activities possibly for the rest of their lives. Kids can break away from the electronics and be outside getting fresh air in their systems. They could even meet new friends.

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Just like a recipe. You can choose whether to put certain ingredients in the food you are making.

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I think community service is a great idea, but not all may agree. Although it may stop pollution, teach life lessons, and break them away from brainwashing electronics, they should be able to make their own choices. Therefore, i feel doing community service should be optional.

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To begin with, the electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president abd vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. Each candidate running for presisent in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen bt the candidate's political party

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In addition, the presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in november. You can help choose tour state's electors when you vote for predident. Most states have a ''winner-take-all'' system however, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of ''proportional representation.'' Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for president, but for a slate of electors, who in tuen elect the president

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The single best argument aganist the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor

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It's like a hurricane for a presidental election

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Prehaps the most worring is the prospect of a tie in thre electoral vot.

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In that case, the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president

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To futher inform, at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters.

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Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spen time in states because they no they have no chance of winning. it's like convincing pigs to vote for you. It's offical the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality.

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It's hard to say this but Bob Doloe was right abolish the electoeal college

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The electoral college restores some of the weight in the politiccal balance that lage states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the consition.

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The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast.

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It can be argued that he electoral college method of slecting for the presisent may turn off potential voters for a candidate.

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But athat single vote may decide that election!

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The Electoral College needs to be disbanded. There are many reasons why the Electoral college needs to be stopped,

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How is it fair to Americans, if you say we have a vote that counts when we are just voting for a slate of people that might vote for someone we do not want. The voting process needs to be handled by the people, and who we want to run this country that we live in.

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The voting process is just not fair to Americans.

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It's in the constitution that we have a right to vote and that we have the right to choose our president, but you people in the electoral college take away that right when we only get to vote for a slate of people. If elections were done by popular vote things might have been different in many ways. First off, in the 2000 election if it was done by popular vote, Bush would not have won and we would have had, Al Gore as president.

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The electoral college is just uncompletely fair to voters. Because, in some states they have a winner-take-all system, so the presidental candidates to spend time in those states to get their vote.

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Seventeen States did not see the presidental candidates at all in 2000 campaign, so what is the point in having voting in those states if we dont know who we are voting for and why we are voting for them? There is not a reason to vote when the electoral college votes fore us.

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Yes, sometimes people do not know what they are voting for and why, but that is because we have no say, it is not up to the people who is going to the president of the country of we live, because the electoral college will not let us choose who we want.

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Many people, very important people, such as Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, and the U.S Chamber of commerece have agreed that we should abolish the Electoral College and give the people the vote and see who wins president then. If the people had a vote on who is president it would be very simplier, than the Electoral College when they have a tie, we would not have to bounce the decision, we could radomly choose one state and let them vote to see who the president is for 4 years. Yes, some may agrue that randomly choosing one state would somehow turn out to but a massive mistake, but there is a way to make sure that no state gets selected 2 times before the first time of any other state.

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Many my agrue that, the Electoral college is there for our benefit.

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Tell me one benefit there is to having no vote as regular citizen. I get it that there are more people in some states than others, but that does not mean we all get the same number of electoral votes as the huge states such as, California, Florida, and Texas.

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So if we are not going to have the same votes number of votes no matter what why does it matter if we give the people the option and have them vote for who they want, it is because the Electoral College does not care who we want they choose the president on who they want. Also, if it is up to the Electoral College then why does it matter if the citizens vote, I mean of course we want to give our input of who we want, but it does not matter, because our state senators will go behind our back and vote for someone we do not want.

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America, of course, has many more freedoms than other countries and we are not taking advantage of that, because we can not allow the people to vote for the President of the United States. The citizens do not want to vote for a slate of people, they want to vote for our president. So let me ask you as my Senator, what are you going to do about it?

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I'm not for driverles cars

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they can still cause an accident

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there not really driving the car itself

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is helping out the driver by stop when they are not looking or if there is a green light then, the car will alert the driver to press the gas if they are distacted. But, it will not drive a person home if they are drunk

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There are better ideas then making a driving car.

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instead of buidling drivierless cars we can save the enviroment. They can make the world a better places but make fuel efficeny cars instead of driverless cars. Make trucks not run on diesel we can be doing so much more than making a driverless car.

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What if the car computer programming chip is damage then that means that the car can't be able to work correctly and that the car is in a higher risk of getting more people in danger because of the driverlesss car.

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Building a driverles car is going to be very expensive.

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we are not in a lot of debt so we should use are money wisely.

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I argue in the favor of keeping the electoral college.

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I think that it really doesn't matter what a single person vote can do. One vote will not make a difference. The state uses the americans vote, to see what we would pefer.

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Every vote an important ' person makes, it counts that. I personally think its a waist of time to vote,that us americans really have no say so in. I bet that if we all didn't vote this next go around, we would still have a president. All because, of what the important ' people want. All 538 electors know who is better for the United States of America. So, why we vote?

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The only thing against the electoral college, is what we might call the Disaster Factor.

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Back, in 1960, segregationist, in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with the new electors who would oppese John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.) The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism. a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be {overruled} by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. The advocates of this position are correct in arguing the the electoral college method id not democratic in a modern sense. It is the electors who elect the president. NOT the people. When you cote for a presidential candidate you're actaully voting for a slate of electos.

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So, you might as well just let the electoral collge do the job. I mean if you want to go and vote mor power to you. But, like I said its a waist of time to do so!!!

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" 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! Well i think otherwise.

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the election of the President is by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.

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The start of the Electoral College is well handingly choosing the electors, which consists of 538 electors each of course must be qualified.

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Most of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president. The number of members in its Congressional delegation is equal to the entitled allotment of electors in your state, one is for each member in the house of Representatives plus two for the Senators. For the purposes of Electoral College, Columbia District is allowed 3 electors and is treat like a state. and when i say "state" for this topic i mean the District of Columbia.

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A outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, just look back at the year 2000 it was less likely then a come over the popular vote the Reason for that is the winning candidate's share of the Electioral College expanded his share of the popular vote. For example, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney.

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each and every step of the Electoral college method comes out to be a well handed system.

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Its more then enough fairness included when choosing the Presisent and Vice President.

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Popular vote is more based on "winner-take-all" System thats awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate, unlike the Electoral College which is a process that consists of choosing the electors,

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Presidential elections provides the United States of America with an opprotunity of unification. The process of choosing the next leader of the United States always brings the people of the country together knowing that all of them play a role in the election. This is present in the popular vote, a vote consisting of the general population. However, the popular vote is not always accurate, as anyone of any background can vote as long as they hold proper citzenship. The electoral college on the other hand, is a process that serves as a compromise between Congress and the rest of America.

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The fact of the matter is, the electoral college is beneficial to the presidential election

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because it unifies Congress and the people of America

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is part of the country's roots.

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To begin with, the electoral college, more than anything, unifies the people. The electors were once, as everyone in the nation is, an average citizen.

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According to Bradford Plumer the electors chosen, "...depend on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves." On top of that Bradford indentifies the electors as, "...anyone not holding a public office.". Bradford Plumer illustrates better than anyone that the electors chosen are average citizens who think the same as the rest of the general population while still keeping in mind that Congress must also be represented. Knowing this, the working-class people of America, and Congress can rest easy knowing that the electoral college process will make the decision that is best for the nation as a whole. This decision making, whether directly or indirectly, unifies the country. In 2012 more than three-fourths of the nation tuned in to watch the presidential election; in the end being one of the most watched televised elections in the country's history. This number includes Congressmen. This shows that the decision making process of the electoral college brings all the people of the nation together to decide on the choosing of the coutries next leader.

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The general population, though average citizens, are somtimes not as qualified as Congress to make unbiased, beneficial decisions on behalf of the rest of the country. However, knowing that the next President could be a part of Congress, sometimes sways the decision in favor of a particular candidate. In this paradox of the qualification of Congress and the average citizen, the electoral college is used to fill the void. The electoral college has been used since the founding of the country. The founding fathers of America (George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, etc.)must have developed the electoral college process for some reason. According to the Office of the Federal Register, "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." More than anything the electoral college is a mutual and nuetral process that represents something inbetween the biased politics of Congress and the average citizen. The average working class person is the greatest example of American integrity. This person shows that in this great nation, if you set a goal and are willing to work to acheive that goal, it can be acheived.

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Why strip this moral that has represented the United States of America since its first years?

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While there have been a few flaws in the electoral college throughout history, this decision making process still unifies the people of America and is still, most importantly, part of its roots. More than anything, the electoral college process represents the two sides of the country: Congress and the average working class citizen. So, rest easy knowing that the next election, there is a process between Congress and average working citizens that works to make the decision that is best for the people of this great nation, the United States of America.

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In my opinion i think that all students shouldn't have to participate in community service

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because some kids have important things that they have to do, not want to do, have to do

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For example what if a student had siblings that were younger than they were and couldn't take care of themselves, so their older siblings would have to take care of them. Then the student couldn't take care of their community service hours. Another is what if a student participated in sports and had an important game to go to. That means that they couldn't finish their hours as well. Another example is what if students had a big test to study for and it was worth half of their grade, then they would have to study instead of community service. That also means that another student could not fulfil their community service hours.

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It's not just three or six students that could not fulfil their hours. The whole class would have to study for the test and more that six students have younger siblings that they have to take care of and finally, more that six students participate in sports or other extra curricular activities which means that all of those students could not perform their given community service hours. Since they could not perform their given hours then they would have to face the consequences even though it wasn't the students faults. They had more important things they had to do, not want to do, had to do.

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If they did something bad to get in school suspension or out of school suspension then they should have to perform community service

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but not without and independent reason

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That is my position on whether or not the students of the school district should have to perform community service or not.

Concluding Statement

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you should not change the letter grade from a c to a b

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then only the few people will play sports

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not be able to do our best in school.

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Because we would be focused upon joining sports losing focus in the class room and causing a decline in academic learning

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if most of the school has a c average them most of the school will not be able to join sports and many students would complain and there would be more problems with the children in the school. such as sharp increase in suspensions, more kids on or in trouble, etc.... this is a way kids rebel inaddition the grade point average that is the most common or that most have is the one used for sports. also since most people trying to get good grades causes them not to pay attention so the would be students who join sports and then if there grade drops then they would quit having to get a b is hard nearly perfect work on projects.

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the kids that usually join sports are not the super smart kid but usually average students and usually don't upsead a c on projects

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that means the teams are going to be very very small 1-9 kid on most of the teams meaning most of those kids will be picked on from frustration of other kids not joining the sport since the c average is the ideal grade for joining sports the grade is not perfect but its the average grade for the entire school then that grade should be used not causing a big slur.

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those are only a few of the reason's that we should leave the grade to join sports at a c not at a b sincerely STUDENT_NAME

Concluding Statement

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In today's world, technology is everywhere. Technology helps assist in everyday tasks and brings about new levels of creativity. In this new age of innovation, smart cars fit right in with all other aspects of our digitalized lives. Not only could driverless cars help in many other ways regular cars can't, but they also allow for an increase in safety potential.

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Overall, driverless cars will be beneficial for the modern world.

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The use of driverless cars can vary from ecofriendly transportation to customization for individual scheduals.

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By using driverless cars as a taxi system, gas consumption would majorly decrease. The taxi system idea could also lead to new ways of public transportation. These cars could take their passengers anywhere they needed to go through a direct route. Passengers would no longer have to wait for long periods of time on buses for their stops. These driverless systems would allow for greater flexibility overall.

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Driverless cars would also help communities everywhere with safety.

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Since these smart cars are loaded with sensor technology, they can help limit the amount of crashes that were regularly happening. The protypes of driverless cars have gone millions of miles without crashes and could help stunt the commonality of vehicular crashes and deaths. Driverless cars could also aide with the safety for learning and elderly drivers. Oftentimes, teenage drivers and drivers with slow reaction times are the causes of accidents that could have been avoided with easy assistance. Smart, semi-driverless cars could be the answer to these costly problems.

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Ultimately, driverless cars would have an extreme influence on today's society. The assistance from technology has changed the world we live in and will continue to do so. Driverless cars are the step in the right direction for driving innovations all across the world.

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The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. Some poeple think the Face is hard core evidence of life on mars. Meanwile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient civilization on Mars.

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The face on mars is a natural landform.

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Mars has powerfull winds just like we do on earth which if the dirt gets built up on rocks it can cause a face looking shape. The face is just a maountain with craters up at the top which makes it look somewhat like a human face. Mission controllers prepared to look again. "It's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin. "In fact, it's hard work." Mars gGlobal Surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down and scans the planet like a fax machine in narrow 2.5km-wide strips. "We just don't pass over the Face very often." he noted

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But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees norht martian latitude where it was winter in April '98- a cloudy time of year on the red planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.

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In conclution, the face could be real or it could be a fake. But from teh research that we have conducted at NASA concludes that it is just a natural landform caused by geological occurences.

Concluding Statement

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I think we should end the Electoral college because it is not fair to each american.

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It's not fair because voters can't control who they pick, and the person they vote for end up losing the presidential election

Claim

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Even though our founding fathers established this act it doesn't mean it benefits our country.

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The electors are chosen by the candidate's democratic or republican's party. Some states has a "winner-take-all" process. When that process is over and the candidate win the presidential vote in that state, it then shows which electors will represent your state.

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Although this would seem like a good way to vote

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I disagree.

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It would be a lot easier for every citizen to just make their own personal vote.

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