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8f0f47a6c753 | 8727FFFF8441 | Community service makes people feel better. | Claim | Ineffective |
e2bc061f1b2b | 8727FFFF8441 | It is a very moving experience when you give food to someone who is hungry. It teaches you to be appreciative of what you have after you see someone who has nothing. It also makes you feel good inside. Having community service might change the attitude of some kids at your school. | Evidence | Effective |
8f458a948513 | 8727FFFF8441 | Some people think that community service is useless or a waste of time. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
9bcda2e12a8e | 8727FFFF8441 | But in reality it only takes up a few days a year of an average persons life. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
e1ee90e79cb9 | 8727FFFF8441 | To only make the kids do two days of community service is no high price for anyone. It even doesn't take up the entire day, only a couple of hours. | Evidence | Adequate |
0849163c9fd3 | 8727FFFF8441 | Community service helps people, makes you feel better, and is not a humongous time consumer. Anyone who has some extra time should defiantly chose to do some. No one has a busy enough schedule do not be able to participate. As the principal of the school please require students to do community service. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1e5566899c02 | 8732FA1BF586 | How do you feel about the Electoral College? Do you think that we should still keep the Electoral College or should it be changed by election of popular vote for the president of the United States? | Lead | Adequate |
35ed4cadff90 | 8732FA1BF586 | From my side I think that we should keep the Electoral College. There are my reasons that conviced me to say this because we have use it for many years now. How is it that you can vote without the Electoral College? | Position | Adequate |
d6cae69c83d2 | 8732FA1BF586 | The first reason why I think we should keep the Electoral College is be cause it is not a place, it is a process. | Claim | Ineffective |
ecab3607e1bd | 8732FA1BF586 | So how can this hurt other people to not want this if you can't find it? | Evidence | Ineffective |
98a889818d57 | 8732FA1BF586 | This process is a very smart thing that the founding fathers established because it is fare to everyone. | Claim | Adequate |
607a677a7826 | 8732FA1BF586 | It is fare because it is a voting decision that the electors elected as President and Vice President. To me making an election is the best way to make a decision so that everyone wont be angry at each other.
The Electoral College is a voting system. Voting is the one of the best ways to pick out things that everyone has a different opinion. For example, evey four years there is an elective going on for who can become president of The United States Of America. This system will allow everyone in the United States to vote who should be the next president. The same thing goes for the governments of each state and county. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3980dc61304c | 8732FA1BF586 | When we use the Electoral College it helps us figure out the differents of each election. | Claim | Ineffective |
4edbec68ce93 | 8732FA1BF586 | For example, when a president or government is being elected we can figure out who is grtting more electives. We can see how many people are voting and how many electives did each person received. With that being said we can easily tell which person won the elective and who didn't. We can also see the percentage of votes and how many states voted for each person. | Evidence | Adequate |
be917c71e838 | 8732FA1BF586 | These are my reasons why I said that the Electoral College should stay with us. It is a good way to vote, it helps us see how many people voted, and it is vary fare with everyone in The United States. Its has helped us vote for governments and presidents for many years and hopfuly it will still keep on running. This is why voting is the best way to make things equal with everyone because it is done by electing. Why would we want to take something away like the Electoral College when it was established by our own Founding Fathers? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8310061fd581 | 8745FC479838 | I think policy 1 should be the best option for letting students have cell phones, | Position | Adequate |
aec56b3e0026 | 8745FC479838 | the reason being is because what happens if we are in an emergency and the teacher's phones don't work | Claim | Adequate |
450e7b206f50 | 8745FC479838 | we will need phones wich reach a good signal. | Evidence | Adequate |
0781f13fde7d | 8745FC479838 | what would happen without phones in the world, | Claim | Ineffective |
b72acc478af2 | 8745FC479838 | we need to appreciate what the humankind has given us and use it. | Evidence | Ineffective |
df643424001b | 8745FC479838 | True teenagers at times are irresponsible and they don't care about they're body and true they are lazy and don't right correct spelling and not only that but get distracted with they're phones and focus less on they're studies , | Counterclaim | Adequate |
2615371735d9 | 8745FC479838 | but us as a nation we can do something about it or even change the education. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
1b6d233e5a44 | 8745FC479838 | what i am trying to say is that we need to appreciate technology and true at times people are bad educated but we as a nation can collaborate together so that we could end this, please make the right decision by choosing policy 1. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
e28789baed0d | 876A650B692E | Many students in the world are placed with the issue of whether or not it would be beneficial to actually attend school in a brick and mortar setting. Some find it beneficial, allowing the students to have a taste of freedom an independence in their work environment, while others think of it as an excuse to stay home and slack off. Pushing that agenda forward, many schools offer students the opportunity to take some of their classes off campus at a different location such as a community college campus or even in the comforts of their own homes. With that being said, more students are choosing to take their classes at different locations instead of the traditional setting. | Lead | Effective |
cc479cbb21cb | 876A650B692E | Students can benefit from taking classes away from the traditional settings of a school | Position | Effective |
72a0ac5c212b | 876A650B692E | by letting them get a taste of their own educational freedo | Claim | Effective |
af3f1905d1db | 876A650B692E | by lowering their stress levels while letting them become more comfortable in their own work environment. | Claim | Effective |
1a703ca788dd | 876A650B692E | Students can benefit from taking classes away from the traditional setting by giving them a taste of what their own educational freedom is like | Claim | Effective |
c269ec676ca3 | 876A650B692E | Many college students around the world use online schooling in comparison to physical schooling on a campus. In the United States alone, many college students choose to use online schooling for a number of reasons. Online schooling may be used by them to help balance their lives, choosing to be able to do their work at their own time, compared to being in a building or university, where the deadlines are strict and there is possibly a hard time balancing their lives and school if they have a family. Having that type of educational freedom is very important in that sense, as to help students, no matter how old they are, achieve their educational goals in less of a strict environment.
| Evidence | Effective |
26851d4115e0 | 876A650B692E | Students can benefit from taking classes away from the traditional setting by helping lower their stress levels and being more comfortable in their own work environment. | Claim | Effective |
2f28b80d0864 | 876A650B692E | Many students face the intense pressures of being in a brick and mortar school environment and often can't handle it, becoming very uncomfortable where they are and losing sight of themselves in the stress. By pulling those students out of the environment that hinders their ability to learn and retain information properly due to their stress and lack of comfort, and placing them into an environment where they can prosper, retain and possibly learn faster can truly help students become better and more confident in themselves and the work they put out to the world. When students are constantly stressed out in their school setting, it makes it harder for them to excel in their studies, even when it isn't a subject that is particularly hard for them, so allowing them the extra educational freedom of choosing how they want to take their classes, whether it be completely at home on the computer, completely physical in a brick and mortar buliding, or some mixture of the two, students can combat their educational stress. | Evidence | Effective |
65e175d77c66 | 876A650B692E | Not all students face the problem of being stressed in the school setting, some quite like how the curriculum can be set and like the challenges of strict due dates and lectures. More often than not, though, students do find it hard to juggle their schoolwork and their lives. Giving them the option to be able to replace the way they learn and their schooling in general can pave the way for them to become comfortable in their work setting, more dedicated to their work, and overall much happier students than they were before. By grabbing their attention with the benefits of schooling in ways that are seen as less stressful and easier, they can put more effort into their studies and get higher grades, all while getting a taste of all the different ways of schooling in college are like in the world. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
caf34874e210 | 877D0253BD80 | Have you ever voted? do you thing you need to vote to be a good american citizen? if yes why do you think that? | Lead | Adequate |
6ea34f63ae41 | 877D0253BD80 | In my opinion i think there is a very good reason we should have an Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
293aa6924eec | 877D0253BD80 | My reason for that is that the Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. This is why i believe the Electoral College should continue just this little piece of information is all about organization, and organization alows us to get things done faster. | Evidence | Adequate |
cd6a6393e602 | 877D0253BD80 | In paragraph 10 in the article "Does the Electoral College Work?" the author says "IF you lived in texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pleged to Kerry." | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
75a9c48b90be | 877D0253BD80 | The author absolutely makes no point because you still are basicly puting in a vote for the president but just not directly. The Electoral College is the way America organizes the voting system. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
d8be63f9b008 | 877D0253BD80 | Alot of people are like theres no reason for the Electoral College to exist that theres no use when theres a mojority rule. Ask yourself this what if theres a tie we cant have two presidents at one time it would be an abomination. | Evidence | Adequate |
cd3b97dbe4f2 | 877D0253BD80 | The Electoral College will basicaly be the tie breaker. They would be vote to break the tie them selves. | Claim | Adequate |
c5e8d32a9c95 | 879F248F7934 | i think you should stay with Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
04b72e462a0c | 879F248F7934 | because the Electoral college is a process not a place | Claim | Ineffective |
e8adae0db010 | 879F248F7934 | Stated in paragraph 1 it says " The founding fathers establsihed it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a popular vote of qualifed citzens" | Evidence | Adequate |
6df95f32d9ea | 879F248F7934 | So in my owns i think what was stated means it should be a tradition and it should stay as a tradition in the American culture | Claim | Adequate |
67110d954d0a | 879F248F7934 | The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. With that being said that is just like saying you are choosing a president by the most popular votes. | Evidence | Ineffective |
52ec4b83174a | 879F248F7934 | In paragraph ten it says under the electoral college system , voters vote not for the president but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president | Evidence | Adequate |
75cd934ba669 | 879F248F7934 | To me in the passage the bset argument for you to keep the Electoral College is the electoral college is less work than having everyone vote and round it off for a president to be elected. | Claim | Adequate |
7b4327e92e7e | 879F248F7934 | But i'm not going to waste any of your time anymore just know Electoral College would be the best choice for you to choose | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1c2789d25b99 | 87A974F87B12 | Of the new policy of cell phone, students should be allowed to bring cell phones to school, and to be also used only on free time periods like lunch. | Position | Adequate |
67c7b680c449 | 87A974F87B12 | The reason why students should bring their cell phones is because students can use them for emergencies and other uses like calling their parents to pick them up after school. | Claim | Adequate |
3f48e5ea00b7 | 87A974F87B12 | If phones are used in class, they may get a warning or be taken away by the teacher. When taken by the teacher, they may receive their phone after the class period. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9294e2e3c4d3 | 87A974F87B12 | When an emergency happens, Students can call their parents or call for help when they are instructed to do so.
Calling their parents can let them know that they are all safe from a natural disaster. Either it is a flood, earthquake, tornado, etc. Students letting their parents know that they are fine shows the responsibility they carry.
Calling parents after school can let them know what time their child gets out of school. When not having a cell phone, certain students have to use the phones in class and/or the ones in the office. If so, they may or may not be able to get out of school on time. Parents always have to make sure they leave on time to know what happens at school and after school.
Having parents to know that their child is doing good in school means that their parents are happy that their child had a grea
| Evidence | Adequate |
48b049e78e5f | 87A974F87B12 | The last reason why phones should be brought to school is because that students should enjoy a nice school year. | Claim | Adequate |
5ca4ae9899ef | 87A974F87B12 | Having a great school year for students means that they can memorize all the times they had for the year. Letting them know they had fun is that it leaves them with a happy day. It can make kids happy for themselves and the people around them. Also it makes friends closer with one another when they talk about their day. | Evidence | Adequate |
a3dcdfb29837 | 87A974F87B12 | This is why the policy of having phones ay school for emergencies, parent pick-ups, and the excitement for students. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a53710d80c7d | 87AF2FEABA83 | Some schools thinks that students should attend classes at home. Others might think that attending classes at school will give benefits to the students. | Lead | Adequate |
cc6bfe07dfdb | 87AF2FEABA83 | Attending classes at school will get the students to learn more subjects than online classes. | Claim | Adequate |
9e21ebe8ca59 | 87AF2FEABA83 | If students does not attend classes at school there would not be teachers and staffs at the school.
| Claim | Adequate |
990a612c586c | 87AF2FEABA83 | Attending classes at school will get the students to learn more of other subjects. | Claim | Adequate |
a223cf764ecb | 87AF2FEABA83 | If a student takes classes at home they would not be focusing on their assignment. They going to be on their phone, TV, or other type of devices. There will be no one supervising the students at home. They need teachers to teach them, educate them, and motivate them to learn. Attending classes at school as you can see will benefit the student.. | Evidence | Adequate |
922a04cee27d | 87AF2FEABA83 | In addition, If the students does not attend classes at school there would not be no teachers and staffs at the school | Claim | Adequate |
6e8e250226c0 | 87AF2FEABA83 | Many jobs will be lost due to students taking classes online. Plus, the students needs to build a relationship with the teacher and staffs. Online classes would not teach a student face to face, It would be better If a teacher teaches the student face to face. As a result, there should be teachers and staff at the school, If the student takes classes at the school. Plus, the students will get a better education. | Evidence | Adequate |
0077a47912b2 | 87AF2FEABA83 | Many people may argue that students should take classes online instead of going to school. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
81a8390bdecf | 87AF2FEABA83 | People think that online classes will give the student benefits. They also think that the benefit of taking online classes, is to give the students more opportunity to learn. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3a2c3b8d35e2 | 87AF2FEABA83 | In the other hand, they are people who also believe that taking classes in school is better. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
f0b838c174e4 | 87AF2FEABA83 | Schools are meant for students to learn on other subjects. If a student takes classes in school they will have the opportunity to learn much better. | Evidence | Ineffective |
173658c44c8e | 87AF2FEABA83 | students should take classes in school | Position | Adequate |
c085ad0681df | 87AF2FEABA83 | Schools are meant to be for students to learn from all subjects. Taking classes in school would benefit the students. If the students take classes in school, there will be more teachers and staff at the school. Truly, learning from a teacher helps you a lot, because they are teaching you face to face. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c432e83352c2 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | In my opinion, I think driverless cars could simply change the world, i don't see many negative aspects of the idea of trying to make a car that a human doesn't need to drive. | Position | Ineffective |
57136806188f | 87EF1E52C4E6 | I also think that making a driverless car that needs human assitance aswell is pointless | Claim | Adequate |
9875cec337b2 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | because, the driver would sit there waiting for his turn to drive and that could get really boring for the driver sitting there cautiously waiting when its his turm.
It should be driverless completely or not at all. | Evidence | Adequate |
174112862e9d | 87EF1E52C4E6 | According to the text, they would use the driverless cars as a taxi service, that would help in many ways when people need rides or want to get somewhere quick in a major city and not wait for a bus or train.
| Evidence | Adequate |
b6f4490c0db7 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | The biggest concern for the driverless car is the safety hazards and the laws that are set in place. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
92809163af87 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | The text states that states like, California, Nevada, Florida, and the District of Columbia have limited use of semi-autonomous cars due to safety issues. A big concern is if you get into a car accident with a driverless car, who is there to blame?
In order for driverless cars to be used they would have to set in liability law changes and who would be be blamed for the accident, as it states in the text.
| Evidence | Adequate |
8e2d21f73bd4 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | driving the handicap | Claim | Adequate |
ca7046964bc5 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | the taxi service that drives you where you need to go, | Claim | Adequate |
d2a069eaf8b4 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | take a nap | Claim | Adequate |
d6fc9917f3eb | 87EF1E52C4E6 | driver safety for the passengers, | Claim | Adequate |
dcc25acf2efe | 87EF1E52C4E6 | will it be safe enough to driver on the street with other driverless cars, | Claim | Adequate |
eeaf297e30a0 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | will it be able to drive with this type of technolgy efficiently. | Claim | Adequate |
8ebbdf8bb277 | 87EF1E52C4E6 | Based on the information I supplied, I think the driverless car can be a major step in the world, but it can be a very dangerous one if not handled correctly.
According to the text, Tesla announced they would have a car that could drive itself 90 percent of the time by 2016, also Mercedes-Benz and Nissan planned to have cars that can drive themsleves completely by 2020.
The road to the truly autonomous car streches ahead of us it could lead to a bright future that revolutionizes the world, or it could lead to a very dangerous one, but we grow closer to the destination everyday. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
844faa35d168 | 87F529DB9D27 | Yes, the Electoral College Works because in source one it tells the reader the steps you have to take in order to be able to work. | Position | Adequate |
115cf5c98bfb | 87F529DB9D27 | For example in paragraph five it states how each candidate running for president has his or her own group of electors. It also states that the electors generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but some state laws vary on how electors are selected and for what there responsibilities are.
| Evidence | Adequate |
6d30b75415cb | 87F529DB9D27 | It is a hard process to go through in order to be a candidate and get voted to be president because people have the right to choose who they want and why they want the person to be president. Some reasons why people want the person to be president are because of the things there going to do like make the country better or improve the government while they are in charge for four years. Reasons why they might not want to choose the person as a president could be because of many reasons. Source two states how some voters do not vote for the president but vote for the slate of the electors who in turn have to elect the president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1629eea3d592 | 87F529DB9D27 | Source three mainly talks about the five reasons to keep our methods of choosing the president. A good example is how in the catogory certainty of outcome | Claim | Adequate |
974eeb7810d9 | 87F529DB9D27 | it states that president Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the elctoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes casted for him and Mitt Romney. | Evidence | Adequate |
6f1cc940aec1 | 87F529DB9D27 | Most voters that end up in swing states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign as it states in paragraph twenty. | Claim | Ineffective |
858da7ae5467 | 87F529DB9D27 | But, big states lose virtue by population. For example Obama who won the vote only got twenty nine electoral votes out of the state of Florida. In Wyoming he only got three electoral votes so this means that larger states get payed more attention than the smaller states do. | Evidence | Ineffective |
64c9a62f8228 | 87F529DB9D27 | In conclusion the Electoral College does work but, it all depends the how many people vote in each state and how many the electors decide to vote. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5914f96f1e1a | 880F6C543080 | I believe all students should perform community service | Position | Effective |
90f87ec0f87b | 880F6C543080 | Community service is a nice way to helps out . Helping out the community can get you far in life | Claim | Ineffective |
cb71d4339b58 | 880F6C543080 | People that don't help out don't get far in life . Life isn't just about what you want or need . Some people don't get anything they want because they are busy helping others . If people help out the community it would be much cleaner and safe for other children . If there was a park that was dirty and we had some older kids from school help clean it up , it would be a lot safer for those younger children | Evidence | Effective |
a8aadb13afbf | 880F6C543080 | You want every child to have a good future and if they learn earlier its much better . Say your child is in the 5th grade and there school is helping clean a beach . Well , later on in life they will be thankful they helped out because everyone wants our beaches nice and clean . | Evidence | Effective |
56f95ef900c4 | 880F6C543080 | Some people are to lazy to help out . If we teach children to help out now they won't be lazy in the future | Claim | Effective |
7c8c4a9bd8a6 | 880F6C543080 | Some people don't care about their community . That's why people say it takes up to much time because they are being lazy . Helping out the community should be something fun and it doesn't matter how much time it takes up . If its boring to you get a friend to come along with you and help out . The more help the better . | Evidence | Effective |
4ff614155a11 | 880F6C543080 | In the future we don't want our community to be filled with trash and things laying everywhere . We want a nice place to live and grow old . We want a even better future for our children, but if no one helps out then it won't be nice . It will be dirty and unsafe . The more we clean up and help now the better our future will be . That's why I think community service should be required . | Concluding Statement | Effective |
a4382e236e38 | 881F756EF94A | I think we should change the elction to popular vote | Lead | Adequate |
a8e0ebcfacc4 | 881F756EF94A | we should get what the people want not what the government or the system want | Position | Adequate |
82089294c464 | 881F756EF94A | under the electoral college system, voters vote not for president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. a dispute over the outcome of an elecoral college vote is possible, it happend in 200 but, its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. The electoral college requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. | Evidence | Effective |
7f11af783897 | 881F756EF94A | No region has electoral cotes to elect president | Claim | Adequate |
f2ffc07fa4aa | 881F756EF94A | So a solid regional favorite, such as romney was in the south has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his plurality in states that he knows he will win. This is a desirable result because a candidate with only regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful presidat. the residents of the other regions are likely to feel disenfrabchished that the new president will have no regard for their intrests, that he really isn't their president. | Evidence | Adequate |
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