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9e33d5d59adc | 89CE2C3E8E32 | They keep with the speed limit adamatically, stop at aproprited time and also slow down when is needed. Adomatic cars will reduce the amount of accidents we have on the road by a lot. Accident are moslty caused by a driver, with adomatic cars, they will stop quicker than a person has time to react. But this plan will only work if everyone gets a smart car. Say if three out of four people get a smart car there will still be some normal cars left on the road, which with those cars an aciddent can be made. Self driving cars can avoid all the natural accident such as an animal running in the road or bad weather conditons. In addition to that many driver become sleepy or distracted when it come to driving, when self driving car are machines that will not do that. | Evidence | Adequate |
c708ff7db243 | 89CE2C3E8E32 | With self drving cars there will be no need to get a license. | Claim | Adequate |
49a5499454c1 | 89CE2C3E8E32 | Many teens struggle with passing the lenglthy test to get your license. | Evidence | Ineffective |
32c5ed5604ef | 89CE2C3E8E32 | As people age one of the most common things to get bad is eye sight | Claim | Adequate |
fc11d563053c | 89CE2C3E8E32 | This self driving cars elders can still do the things they need to do such as go to the store or visit family with have to relie on other people for tranportation. | Evidence | Adequate |
65d166b5c213 | 89CE2C3E8E32 | Self driving cars are going to be the safest option on the roads today | Position | Adequate |
b53c3bbf0972 | 89CE2C3E8E32 | They aviod accidents, reduce the cost of normal veichals and are more efficent than normals cars. This is why these self driving google car should be developed. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1010b0367d16 | 89FCD2B81990 | The whole purpose of democracy is to create a government that reflects the desires, opinions, and attitudes of the people being governed, but how can this be achieved if the people aren't fairly represented during election time, presidential or otherwise? This is the problem with the Electoral College system; it puts all of decision-making power in the hands of our electors, not the citizens themselves. | Lead | Effective |
60d8181ba01c | 89FCD2B81990 | To begin with, the electors selected by citizens are capable of defying the will of the people they were chosen to represent. | Claim | Effective |
6a0083d4f51a | 89FCD2B81990 | Next, in the case of a tie, the opinions of millions of people would be overlooked. | Claim | Effective |
d02142f863b3 | 89FCD2B81990 | Finally, because the Electoral College encourages candidates to focus on obtaining votes instead informing all voters about their intentions, only the influential "swing" states receive enough attention from candidates to make a well-informed decision when voting. | Claim | Adequate |
6516d09954d1 | 89FCD2B81990 | When it comes to something as serious as the fate of our country, citizens cannot put their faith in the such a corrupt system as the Electoral College. | Position | Effective |
48e3f312e106 | 89FCD2B81990 | First of all, the Electoral College system creates a window of opportunity for "faithless" electors to take advantage of the power given to them by society during the voting process. | Claim | Effective |
ae44917281a3 | 89FCD2B81990 | Under the Electoral College, voters do not vote directly for who they want as president, but instead for a slate of electors, who in turn select the president. Although these electors may pledge themselves to a particular candidate, there is no way to determine whether or not they end up casting their vote according to the will of the people who put them in charge. Such an unpredictable turn of events could be avoided if only the outcomes of presidential elections were determined by popular vote, not through an Electoral College. | Evidence | Effective |
f513c264a97f | 89FCD2B81990 | Secondly, if a tie were to occur, the opinions of countless citizens would be ignored. | Claim | Effective |
b9deb404a84f | 89FCD2B81990 | In this case, the election would be thrown to the House of representatives, were delegates from each state would vote on the president. Since each state has only one vote to cast, a vote from a state containing 500,000 people would carry the same weight as a vote representing the opinions of 35 million. Given that many voters vote one party for president and another for Congress, the selection made by the House of Represenatives can hardly be expected to respesent the will of the people. | Evidence | Effective |
bc2ca17c4d49 | 8A3F92425ECC | lets talk about Electoral college. do you know what it is? electoral college is a process not a place. electoral college is the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. the process consists of a selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president and the electoral votes by congress. | Lead | Adequate |
6c61b7f8b895 | 8A3F92425ECC | i think that the congress is making a good dicision on keeping it this way to elect the presedent. so if you think the same good. because thats one way our socity is a step closer on becoming the perfect socity. do you think so? | Position | Ineffective |
214ce822e2d2 | 8A60E09A7062 | Driverless cars, are they all they are made out to be? I think not. | Position | Adequate |
49913dfd919f | 8A60E09A7062 | The reason being is because it still needs a driver. | Claim | Effective |
80e472ceb1a4 | 8A60E09A7062 | It watches the driver instead of the road. | Claim | Effective |
0a74e2201e7a | 8A60E09A7062 | And you have to be alert at all times. | Claim | Effective |
62d440b2148b | 8A60E09A7062 | This "driverless car" should not be called a driverless car. This car still needs a driver. | Claim | Effective |
8ec6f0783c3e | 8A60E09A7062 | Say your close to a wreck, the "driverless car" will alert you saying it needs you to drive around the wreck. do you really want a non driverless driverless car? I know iI do not. | Evidence | Ineffective |
16bfc92c8139 | 8A60E09A7062 | This car also watches the driver. | Claim | Effective |
f4ca938974a4 | 8A60E09A7062 | If it is watching the driver how is it watching the road? It cant do both at once. This is absurd. This car is just not as good as they made it out to be, in my opinion. | Evidence | Ineffective |
cdb4a61f5eeb | 8A60E09A7062 | According to paragraph eight you have to be alert at all times. | Claim | Adequate |
b04e6e8393ac | 8A60E09A7062 | Since this car still needs a driver this car can alert you that you need to take the wheel at any given time. Therefore, if you buy this car be very alert. | Evidence | Adequate |
939927e47e3f | 8A60E09A7062 | In conclusion, I would not buy this driverless car for myself because A. it still needs a driver. B. it watches the driver instead of the road. And C. you have to be alert at all times. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
78052036d57b | 8A63149E402C | Going to school back and forth can be exhausting and inconvenient so wouldnt distance learning be a decent alternative? | Lead | Adequate |
4d345249f977 | 8A63149E402C | No, distance learning would not benefit the student | Position | Effective |
433eccc01c6d | 8A63149E402C | it would make it harder to make meaningful relationships, | Claim | Effective |
55bb6a7d8b4f | 8A63149E402C | the courses would change | Claim | Effective |
b3bfdd55625b | 8A63149E402C | it would be easier to become distracted during schoolwork.
| Claim | Effective |
7d205fcbbebb | 8A63149E402C | My first reason for why students would not benefit from distance learning is that it would make it harder to make meaningful relationships. | Claim | Effective |
39fa13418d91 | 8A63149E402C | For example in my own life I have made some of my best friends through the public school system. In third grade I met a kid named Generic_Name and over the years because we went to the same school we became close friends and he even hooked me up with a job last summer. In seventh grade I had a less than desirable English teacher whose monotone voice made him sound like he came straight out of a charlie brown cartoon. Because of him I met a guy named Generic_Name who I quickly befriended because our shared hate toward our English teacher, and now I get a free movie sometimes when Generic_Name is on staff at the Regal movie theater, who I never would have meet if we didnt go to the same school. | Evidence | Effective |
ef1a8160231e | 8A63149E402C | On the other hand there are people that believe it is possible to be connected and make new relationships online, and even though it is possible to do so | Counterclaim | Effective |
9cd50c67828c | 8A63149E402C | their reasoning is flawed due to the fact that it is always easier to make new relationships through face to face physical contact. | Rebuttal | Effective |
1eb157896cae | 8A63149E402C | Someone who exemplifies this fact perfectly is my friend Generic_Name who I met in middle school. In middle school Generic_Name was my best friend, but this changed when she moved and her parents decided to have her take an online schooling program. While she does well in the course she has told me that she misses going to a physical school where she can actually see people because it is harder to make friends due to the nature of the online course and because of the online course whenever I do get to see her she is way more socially awkward than she used to be. All in all distance schooling not only makes it more difficult to make meaningful relationships but because of the lack of those meaningful relationships it makes it even more difficult to learn the intricacies of social interaction.
| Evidence | Effective |
f571cc30f3e1 | 8A63149E402C | Another reason for why students would not benefit from distance learning is that the nature of the courses that we take would change for the worse. | Claim | Effective |
0f2cfe3921dc | 8A63149E402C | For example In my ninth grade biology class we had to dissect a frog and organize it's organs. During the assignment I learned more about that frog than I could anywhere else because of the hands on nature of the assignment. This just goes to show that if we started using distance learning courses they would miss out on the hands on portion of learning. | Evidence | Effective |
90e23d9372c9 | 8A63149E402C | On the other side of the argument there are those that believe the hands on portion of learning is not very important, and that might apply for some people | Counterclaim | Effective |
fb7a5aaa2c6d | 8A63149E402C | however buy in large the hands on part is extremely important due to the fact that everyone learns differently whether it be auditory, visual, or hands on. | Rebuttal | Effective |
195f3b147d53 | 8A63149E402C | Someone who demonstrates this fact excellently is my friend Generic_Name. I met Generic_Name sophomore of high school in my chemistry class, and during this class we were given a lot of lab assignments with a paper packet to go with it. During these assignments I would understand most of the work given to us while Generic_Name was a little more lost, and while I tried to help him through the packet he could never fully contemplate the complex design of the stapled pieces of paper, but this all changed once we got to the hands on section. As soon as we got to the hands on portion of whatever lab we were doing it was almost as if he was a completely different person, I would stand back and watch in awe as he took perfect measurements, solving complicated math equations, and just dominating the lab overall. So in the end distance learning would not only take away amazing hands on activities but by doing so would prevent us from learning how we learn whether it be Auditory, Visual, or hands on. | Evidence | Effective |
7832c43ee044 | 8A63149E402C | My last reason for why students would not benefit from distance learning is that it would make it even easier to be distracted from working. | Claim | Effective |
b905aa87f6ab | 8A63149E402C | For example whenever I am at home doing my math homework and I am getting particularly bored with it it is very easy to "take a quick break". This could mean anything from a two minute glass of water or a five hour nap depending on how I am feeling. So if I took a online course I would have to face this same dilemma with every assignment I am given. | Evidence | Effective |
ae91116481f8 | 8A63149E402C | On the other side of the fence there are some people that believe that they are very studious and would never have a problem like this. | Counterclaim | Effective |
a449c4a82c77 | 8A63149E402C | While I get where they are coming from, their reasoning is still wrong | Rebuttal | Adequate |
bdf0d0b18c90 | 8A63149E402C | because even if they are the most studious person in the world that temptation to become distracted will still always be there. Someone who demonstrates this perfectly is my friend Generic_Name. Generic_Name is probably one of the most hard working people I have ever known, not only does he take high level courses for his age but he also does track all while being home schooled. Not only will he deny every offer of a hangout but he will also stay up way later than he should just to finish his latest assignment, but even though he does all of these things I will occasionally catch him logging into Minecraft when I know he shouldnt be, and because of this he usually has awful time management skills. This just goes to show how distance learning not only makes it easier to become distracted because of how convenient it is but also how it enforces bad study habits because of the lack of a classroom.
| Evidence | Effective |
8ef6a4f901d2 | 8A63149E402C |
Distance learning in theory is a great idea because of how convenient it is, but the main reason why distance learning would not benefit students is because of how convenient it is. So to sum up schools should stay the way they are and not offer any distance courses because of how it would change what we are able to learn. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e79dd310ed3f | 8A745CBCD81E | students can benefit from being able to attend classes from home. | Position | Adequate |
eb57958d1757 | 8A745CBCD81E | students could learn better in the comfort of their own homes, | Claim | Adequate |
69827ecf0531 | 8A745CBCD81E | benefit from no distractions, | Claim | Adequate |
2ca7b4db62f8 | 8A745CBCD81E | attending online classes can help students with social differences. | Claim | Adequate |
5e51d04f581b | 8A745CBCD81E | Therefore being comfortable can help your work ethic. | Claim | Adequate |
423d01f0b9f2 | 8A745CBCD81E | When in the comfort of your own home it's better to study, read, and stay focused. For example around students or an area your uncomfortable with can stop you from doing your best. But if you are in a environment that your more comfortable with you can work better. When your comfortable you learn better. | Evidence | Adequate |
636c233670a9 | 8A745CBCD81E | Secondly the ability to benefit from home with no distraction is more cable then being in a school setting with distraction. | Claim | Ineffective |
9c702d7e3b21 | 8A745CBCD81E | For example you can choose where and when to learn in your home with no distraction at all. But in school the options are scares. When a student is surrounded by a lot of other students and staff the drive to stay focus can be limited. There also could be students who stop classes from learning by being very distracting tends to being at home with no distraction at all. | Evidence | Adequate |
18f142b271c2 | 8A745CBCD81E | In addition attending online classes could help students with social differences. | Claim | Adequate |
44283a69e23e | 8A745CBCD81E | Sometimes students may have a problems speaking up or asking a question when confused because the pace of the class is way to fast. For example students with social differences can have trouble communicating in uncomfortable places. They can even have a panic attack when put on the spot to answer a question or present in front of the class. Instead taking online classes would really benefit. You wouldn't even have to worry about these things. | Evidence | Adequate |
898c3094bcf2 | 8A745CBCD81E | In conclusion I do think attending classes from home can benefit a student. For the same reason as students learning better in the comfort of their homes, having no distractions, and the fact that it can help a student with social differences. I believe attending classes from home can help in many different ways such as the ones that I included in my statement today. Thanks for reading and hearing my position on this issue.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8078a74df96f | 8A8F6BCA1D23 | In reference to our state we would prefer keeping the electoral college instead of abolishing it. | Position | Adequate |
527c5ef73e95 | 8A8F6BCA1D23 | Under the 23 Amendment of the constitution, the district of columbia is allocated three electors and treated like a state for pupose of the Electoral college | Evidence | Ineffective |
55b229ca4ef0 | 8A8F6BCA1D23 | If you take this away, there will be anarchy all around us, and I assure you that you dont want this to happen.
The electoral college is a right for us, and it lets us know that we have a right, and a say in this country. It would be wrong to take that away from us. | Claim | Adequate |
f6871ddc24f4 | 8A8F6BCA1D23 | What have Richard nixon, Jimmy carter, Bob dole, and the AFL-CIO all, in their own time, agreed on? They all agreed on abolishing the electoral college | Counterclaim | Effective |
509e0a559502 | 8A8F6BCA1D23 | And they are not the only one's who have said it. According to the gallup poll in 2000, shortly after Al Gore, thanks to the quirks of the electoral collge, won the popular vote but lost because of the 60% of his voters prefered a direct election to the kind we have now. This year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency | Evidence | Adequate |
749bc5f55669 | 8A8F6BCA1D23 | And yet, the electoral college still has its defenders. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
e6deb5e7049b | 8A8F6BCA1D23 | I urge you to please consider your peoples feelings on this matter and consider not abolishing the electoral college. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
3a7eb78d1774 | 8AC3B251DDDF | I believe that the Electoral College should stay. | Position | Effective |
783479109df2 | 8AC3B251DDDF | I believe this because even though many people think of it as a horrible way to have presidential elections, it's probably more effective this way. | Claim | Effective |
c4e37fdbdc2d | 8AC3B251DDDF | When people first hear about the Electoral College, they automatically assume that they don't matter to the election, that everything is taken care of by the Electoral College, that if they didn't vote, nothing would change. Now if 1 or 2 people actually had this mentality, then it wouldn't matter, but it's not just 1 or 2 people, it's a pretty big amount of the American population. | Claim | Adequate |
7b24b758ded8 | 8AC3B251DDDF | The Electoral College seems as though our government wouldn't stand for this. | Claim | Effective |
79b7090b2ba2 | 8AC3B251DDDF | As I stated before, the people feel as though their vote doesn't matter. This is not true. The Electoral College only work if people vote. They need the people's votes so that they know which groups are voting for which candidate. | Evidence | Adequate |
c91403fc2d5a | 8AC3B251DDDF | Now of course, this system is flawed. There will always be flaws in every system that humans do. We haven't yet to have made anything flawless, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
528ec2683bc2 | 8AC3B251DDDF | the Electoral College has far less flaws than the vote by the general population. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
702970533a64 | 8AC3B251DDDF | I assume that the entire voting system, no matter how much we change it for better, will always be flawed and have the most flaws because we are choosing the leader of our nation. | Claim | Effective |
9b028029c98a | 8AC3B251DDDF | Someone somewhere will always do something wrong or figure out how to cheat the system in some way. The Electoral College is going to be the best way to handle this situation for a while. The people need to realize that their vote does matter | Evidence | Effective |
287ac8fdee16 | 8AC3B251DDDF | except in the case of Democrats in Texas, Republicans in California, etc.) | Counterclaim | Adequate |
d1570407df8b | 8AC3B251DDDF | People need to understand that the Electoral College is the best way to go. | Evidence | Adequate |
1b2d71e789e5 | 8AC3B251DDDF | This whole situation about believing whether or not the Electoral College should remain should be non-existent. People just don't understand that this is the best way to go so that the vote is as fair as possible and that the votes won't come in by the thousands. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bd29f357a582 | 8AEFE911A7ED | We have to do our best to make it correctly. We have to follow the rules. We have to know how to make something, before we help them. If we all helping other community, they all going to help us too | Lead | Adequate |
bd3b85190986 | 8AEFE911A7ED | If we helping a community, it's very important, | Position | Adequate |
c899d8b86e93 | 8AEFE911A7ED | if we don't help them they don't know who help them. They don't what going on to us. they don't what happened to us. If we help them, next time they going to us back. If we don't help any community, then how other know we help them then. | Evidence | Adequate |
40451d791ed8 | 8AEFE911A7ED | We can help them, we have to talk to them, we have to teach them how to help other people | Claim | Ineffective |
dfaf58b07f70 | 8AEFE911A7ED | We have to tell them, you have to help other community next time. In my country, when other person help you, next time you have to help them back too. We love to help another community | Evidence | Ineffective |
812c4eaf8916 | 8AEFE911A7ED | We need to help other community, we don't care if they going to help us or not. | Claim | Ineffective |
8d4858a84067 | 8AEFE911A7ED | If we help them first then they know who help them. Next time they going help us back too. We have to help them first. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3892009a1b90 | 8AEFE911A7ED | In United states, they don't need for help. they know how to do something, they know to make something nice and strong before they can help other community. They just help other community. who is the poor family, They give food, they give rice, and they give all of stuff they have. They love to help other community | Evidence | Ineffective |
8e20d9edeb92 | 8B095EB24288 | Students would be benefit from being able to attend to classes from home | Position | Adequate |
c0e2eec689df | 8B095EB24288 | because some students have to work, | Claim | Adequate |
c7cfdc33b4bf | 8B095EB24288 | they have family | Claim | Adequate |
3bbfe1198375 | 8B095EB24288 | others live far away. | Claim | Adequate |
91706654acc2 | 8B095EB24288 | First of all students would be benefit from being able to attend to classes from home because some have to work | Claim | Adequate |
f52d6dc78ce3 | 8B095EB24288 | and they dont have time to attend to school because of their schedule.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
6e1285be4b4c | 8B095EB24288 | Second reason is that students would be benefit from being able to attend to classes from home because they have family, | Claim | Adequate |
1bc0fdc58e21 | 8B095EB24288 | that could be a problem for them since they could have kids and have to take care of them and being able to study from their houses it's a great a option for them. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8a800aef51c0 | 8B095EB24288 | And last reason, because others live far away. | Claim | Adequate |
9f53082044e6 | 8B095EB24288 | sometimes students dont have transportation because of their location or maybe they don't even have school in the area, and online classes it's an good advantage for them and good opportunity to study. | Evidence | Ineffective |
e1dfea2de012 | 8B095EB24288 | In conclusion online courses have many great opportunities and good advantage for students, and some of the reasons are: because some students have to work, they have family, and others live to far away | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
3fb3f23d53d3 | 8B24D2970F52 | I am aware that you may take the action of making community service a requirement to all students. This action is inevitably going to cause controversy among students | Lead | Effective |
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