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bd71ad825ff0 | 8F899DE6880E | Overall, the Electoral College is a symbol of our freedom of speech. I do hope you take my thoughts under consideration. The Electoral College may be called "outdated." But as the saying goes, "If it 'aint broke, don't fix it." | Concluding Statement | Effective |
34aac0beca06 | 8FA202BD4570 | We humans have been trying to discover aliens for more than a million years. Why have we not found them yet? We have been up in space multiple times and we have had yet another more multipe times sent space robots that went into orbital. So ask your self this question why have we not found aliens yet? | Lead | Adequate |
a1d1e9a26dd3 | 8FA202BD4570 | I think due to evidence that it is a natural landform | Position | Adequate |
2742d37625c5 | 8FA202BD4570 | I think it is a natural landform because in paragraph one it states that "...when it spotted the shadowly likeness of a human face." | Claim | Adequate |
3ac496c077d2 | 8FA202BD4570 | When I read this I then concluded that it only really looked like a human because of the shadows that make up the "eyes, nose and mouth" in which makes this rock figure looking as if it has a face. | Evidence | Adequate |
2a9efb669005 | 8FA202BD4570 | I do think that is a natural rock landform because God created the earth so that only people would live on earth. | Claim | Adequate |
9e934404391a | 8FA202BD4570 | Also God never created aliens as it states in the begining of Genisis in the bible. | Evidence | Ineffective |
53e6a9f6a7b1 | 8FA202BD4570 | Another example of why that the "face" on Mars is a natural landform is because it states in the text on paragraph seven that "There was no alien monument after all." | Claim | Adequate |
0aa3195cdb57 | 8FA202BD4570 | This is poroving that even scienctists have conculuded that there was no landform on mars. | Evidence | Adequate |
de988abb342d | 8FA202BD4570 | Then on April 8, 2001 the space station found to "face landform". Though due to the pixalation i think that it did not look like a face anymore. The scientists should have put each photo in the same pixilation because it would have been an accurate demonstration over the years and how this rock landform has formed.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
64932f9dde6c | 8FA202BD4570 | Based on the evidence from the article and my past knowleadge I have conculded that this rock landform is in fact a natural landform that aliens have not created/ made this face looking landform. So what do you think? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4f0a7d8394fa | 8FE2640ACE99 | I think that they should change the election way of how they are doing it. I think that the president should be chosen by the most popular vote. | Position | Adequate |
e22984319935 | 8FE2640ACE99 | that they shouldnt do the voting thing if they are gunna end up chooseing it them selfes. in the passage it said that, the electoral college is made up of 538 electors and only the majority vote is 270. | Evidence | Ineffective |
26c8e50c8dc6 | 8FE2640ACE99 | i dont understand why they thousand of people to vote if their vote doesnt really mater its what senators choose overall. | Claim | Adequate |
b88d466a432d | 8FE2640ACE99 | i think it would be fair if what the peple choose the most shall win. What if one of them gets more votes and the senator picks the other because they had more votes in there group, thats not fair. i just think that the overall vote of the people should count, and not make them wast there time. | Evidence | Adequate |
a1fb9cac3b14 | 8FE2640ACE99 | when you vote for you candidate you actuall voting for the candidates elector, so they are trying to trick them into thinking that there votw would count. | Claim | Adequate |
467536b84f58 | 8FE2640ACE99 | what if the persident that the senator choose didnt know how to work stuff and had bad disitions, the election is every four years on a tuesday on a november. thats a pretty long time if you ask me. I think that half of the people votes dont cont cause of the sentors that choose | Evidence | Ineffective |
c3c00bbcc44f | 8FE2640ACE99 | i know it would be long to count everones vote | Counterclaim | Adequate |
43a71952b226 | 8FE2640ACE99 | but i dont think it matters because in the end it would be chosen by the people that wanted that president not what the senators wanted. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
2d664e20ff52 | 9000217714BE | My opinion about this change is a good idea | Lead | Ineffective |
491f101bf1d4 | 9000217714BE | But also many students have a grade of a (C)
or lower it would not be a good idea changing the policy sport grade for those students | Counterclaim | Adequate |
9b231d4e0494 | 9000217714BE | For others this policy my be a good idea because that way students that love sport's can start doing much better in school and have better grades | Claim | Adequate |
1de07b1c78d8 | 9000217714BE | A, (B) or higher is a good grade so that way they can play a sport they like. | Evidence | Adequate |
682ebc183f55 | 9000217714BE | Teachers would probably accept this policy so that way their students will pay more attention. | Evidence | Adequate |
e2715e6261ce | 9000217714BE | This change would not effect much but for students who don't study this idea might not be good, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
b134141c49d0 | 9000217714BE | might fill bad because they love sport's but can't play them for having to not pay attention or do your work at home. | Evidence | Adequate |
6ca99d1348d5 | 9000217714BE | we should vote to see if we like this policy or not so we wont have to pass thru all this stuff of the policy changing | Claim | Adequate |
4883e37af467 | 9000217714BE | A fact about students here in SCHOOL_NAME would choose not to accept this new school policy because the old policy is u can't have more than three (F) and i would say the old policy is better than the new one our principal want to change it to | Evidence | Adequate |
3e4327e630de | 9000217714BE | So if i pick my own decision it would be no changing policy and its good as it is | Position | Adequate |
558429aece17 | 9000217714BE | the policy they should really change is having to no wear uniform to school because its such a distraction to me an much others. | Evidence | Ineffective |
edf369c7d3d1 | 900A879708F0 | Many school systems now offer an option of attending online classes either in conjunction with a students school year classes or during summer break. Though this opportunity may presumably appear to provide many advantages, there are many typically unacknowledged resulting consequences that lead me to argue that this type of schooling does not compare to hands on learning in the classroom. | Lead | Effective |
1e39f23b583e | 900A879708F0 | Students would not benefit nearly as much from online classes than in the classroom | Position | Effective |
cfb8e35f2b80 | 900A879708F0 | it allows easy potential for students to struggle to comprehend material but lack teacher assistance | Claim | Effective |
2eb3451555cd | 900A879708F0 | education at home provides far more accessibility to distractions and cheating than in a supervised classroom | Claim | Effective |
87474a9efd58 | 900A879708F0 | requiring students to spend long hours comprehending difficult material can become increasingly straining and taxing on both the mind and body. | Claim | Effective |
c2b8feb76a78 | 900A879708F0 | Online courses are not beneficial to students learning as without an educational professional present to guide them, students can easily struggle to comprehend difficult concepts. | Claim | Effective |
750206856959 | 900A879708F0 | Generally one may assume the ability for students taking online courses to work at their own pace makes it more valuable than structured and scheduled lessons in the classroom, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
5a3def23ed3c | 900A879708F0 | but this is usually not the case. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
0f847014b37b | 900A879708F0 | I myself enrolled in an online geometry course during one summer and although there were occasional scheduled conference calls, a majority of the course was done independently and free of assistance. Working at your own pace isn't so appealing once a student has been presented an overwhelming amount of difficult material to learn with no other guidance, requiring many more hours dedicated to struggling to comprehend material than if they had a qualified teacher present. Additionally, these courses usually require a specific amount of learning to be completed each day, so the idea a student can leisurely complete assignments is a huge misconception. | Evidence | Effective |
e7e514020a36 | 900A879708F0 | Although I recognize other students experiences taking online courses may have been different than mine | Counterclaim | Adequate |
29d9eadef95a | 900A879708F0 | the structure of my class is a good representation of what most of the other online courses in my county would have been like. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
6f9bcfcb276b | 900A879708F0 | Another reason online classes are not as beneficial as they may appear is that students face constant distraction and opportunity to cheat at home than if they were in the classroom. | Claim | Effective |
d59ac81bf0ff | 900A879708F0 | It's easy to think there would actually be less distraction in the quiet of your own home than classrooms that can sometimes be full of loud and troublesome students, subsequently making it hard to focus at times. | Counterclaim | Effective |
93a1004a003a | 900A879708F0 | However, schools often implement strict regulations on phones, food, and talking as they know how much these things can be a distraction to a learning environment. | Rebuttal | Effective |
197e1622e6c9 | 900A879708F0 | At home with no teacher supervision, students may find themselves easily distracted by electronics and the accessibility to get up and do other things in the comfort of their own house. This results it it taking even longer to get through material and presents the risk of students missing out on important information. Moreover, without teacher supervision it may become tempting for the student to cheat on assignments as it is far more easy to get away with and there would be no one present to enact consequences. I've heard many student discussing taking online courses for the sole purpose that they know they can find answer keys and other materials to cheat online. In my particular situation, only my midterm and final exam were monitored in a public setting, leaving opportunity for other students to cheat on any test, quiz, or other classwork assignment. | Evidence | Effective |
2370082e63ea | 900A879708F0 | I agree cheating is inevitable in any educational circumstances | Counterclaim | Adequate |
ce7e8608b3f1 | 900A879708F0 | but it is far more prevalent in unsupervised situations. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
6e382db4ab1a | 900A879708F0 | Lastly, online courses typically require a large amount of material to be learned each day requiring long hours at the computer and subsequent negative health effects considering the strain on the students mind and body. | Claim | Effective |
9df1e1c27892 | 900A879708F0 | Although this isn't accurate for online classes done in conjunction with the school year, the summer geometry class I took often resulted in me working on the computer for upwards of eight hours everyday. Excluding the obvious result that it was a great sacrifice of my time, this amount of length on any electronic results in long term damage to health | Evidence | Adequate |
ded2387b27b9 | 900A879708F0 | One can argue students are on their phones for many hours anyway | Counterclaim | Adequate |
c89524ac025c | 900A879708F0 | but in combination with having to read a screen for hours, the student must also be actively trying to learn difficult material, which becomes extremely straining on the eyes and taxing on the mind. | Rebuttal | Effective |
9a8490a25f9b | 900A879708F0 | Additionally, even taking into consideration that many school systems now implement technology in the classroom, this is still far less than a consistent full day on the computer required by online courses. By taking an online course, you agree to sacrifice your time and health.
| Evidence | Adequate |
26c51fd85f90 | 900A879708F0 | School educators were trained to provide the best possible education for a student, and by eliminating that invaluable resource by taking an online course, you have know placed an unqualified student in charge of their own self directed education. Any presumable benefit provided by an online course, has a subsequent consequence that is usually not considered. To this day I regret enrolling in that geometry course, as it moved at too fast of a pace to where I consequently find myself struggling to grasp those concepts today. Online courses simply cannot effectively supplement for a students present education in the classroom. Taking online courses does far more harm than any good to students by allowing easy potential for students to struggle to comprehend difficult material without teacher guidance, education at home provides easy accessibility to distractions and cheating without supervision, and long hours of comprehending massive amounts of material can leave the mind and body drained and exhausted. Teachers will always provide the best possible learning experience, and students should always take advantage of that resource. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
75521ce661b1 | 9071D5352B7E | It would be unfair to disregard this opportunity from civilians as the right to vote and not give them the chance to prove themselves on whats right for them. This actually improves presidential votes,meaning that electors are recommended to do the responsibilities that the state laws vary | Lead | Adequate |
b80d93efba23 | 9071D5352B7E | It improves the presidential election and taking it away will cause chaos among electors and presidential candidates. | Claim | Adequate |
97016e3e43a8 | 9071D5352B7E | As stated in source three, paragraph one ,"The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral college method is not democratic in a modern sense ... it is the electors who elect the president, not the people." The meaning in this is that people vote for the people who vote people. | Evidence | Adequate |
b4aa977873aa | 9071D5352B7E | I see no reason to take away this oppportunity though people are still voting in favor of getting the presidential candidate oneself voted for. | Position | Adequate |
99a3513aae9d | 9071D5352B7E | In my point of view i see no reason why you would cancel something without a reason in mind. The states depend on the electors to help out the president during president elections | Claim | Adequate |
0f607fe895ea | 9071D5352B7E | Civilians demand to take charge on whats right for them or what will be in charge of them throughout the next four years. "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election....", said richard A. posner in source three. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3a1f3d3aca66 | 9071D5352B7E | Though the senator may be right about one thing, some electors become opponents to the presidential candidates and oppose or defy the will of people | Counterclaim | Adequate |
9c60a01e5a90 | 9071D5352B7E | The electors will refuse to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote or whomever they please, as stated in source two paragraph 11. | Evidence | Adequate |
322362e4ffbc | 9071D5352B7E | I on the other hand depend on electoral college to proceed and do as they please because they have the right to vote for whomever they please. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
320ab93a66f8 | 907316B4566B | Changing the election to a vote of popularity is a great idea in my opinion. | Position | Adequate |
d4d16a79f36c | 907316B4566B | Citizens of the United States should be the people making the decision on who the President and Vice President should be. Congress would still have there need there vote of atleast two hundred and seventy member's, and the atleast %51 of the citizen's vote to pass it. | Evidence | Adequate |
a0055a45a2de | 907316B4566B |
The electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for the slate of of electors, who in turn elect the president. | Claim | Adequate |
2d564e8ef9a8 | 907316B4566B | After the presidential election, your governor prepares a "certificate of Ascertainment" listing all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along wit the names of their respective electors. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1dca8f20d934 | 907316B4566B | The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. | Claim | Adequate |
26517110545f | 907316B4566B | The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. Consider the state legislature are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could aleays defy the will of the people. | Evidence | Adequate |
689c8ffdcd97 | 907316B4566B | There are five reasons for retaining the electoral college despite its lack of democratic pedigree:
1. Certainy of outcome 2. Evryone's president 3. Swing states 4. Big states 5. Avoid run-off elections
| Claim | Ineffective |
643647ccec58 | 907316B4566B | At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Becasue of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. | Claim | Adequate |
60109cb1a34d | 907316B4566B | During the 2000 campaign, serventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and south Carolina, and oters in twenty five of the largest media markets. | Evidence | Adequate |
8847f2bc1c19 | 907316B4566B | The electoral college is unfair and not right. I will have to agree with Bob Dole; "Abolish the electoral college!" | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
98595d70d0a5 | 90981BB41313 | I am in favor of keeping the electoral college | Position | Adequate |
630aa0530f4d | 90981BB41313 | I think that it is better and more stable for our economy | Claim | Adequate |
0da620fcdc64 | 90981BB41313 | because not all the time do the people of the state deserve to pick and choose who they think they like.
| Claim | Adequate |
8f49310c1ff3 | 90981BB41313 | The first reason why I am in favor of keeping the electoral college is because I think it is more stable for our economy. | Claim | Adequate |
875f7a4ed720 | 90981BB41313 | The electoal college process consists of the selection of the electors,meeting of the electors where they vote for president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress, Stated by Source 1 #2. Picking the right electors is very important because they are basically picking our president. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how he electors are selected and what their responsibilities are. As stated in Source 3,The electoral college is widley regarded as an anchorism wich is a non democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who recives the most popular votes the winner, but the electoral college is not democratic in a modern sense. The electoral college in my opinion is organizing and put together, it is way more stable and puts our country in the right place. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c89d51c2eea0 | 90981BB41313 | The second reason why I am in favor o keeping the electoral college is because I do not think the "people" deserve to pick and choose who they think they like. | Claim | Adequate |
0276b9e68fd4 | 90981BB41313 | In most presidential elections the presidents are elected by the percentage of popular votes wich I dont think is right. For example as stated in source 3 # 1, Obama recived 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and romney...Because almost all states award electoral voted on a winne takes all basis, even a very slight plurality in a stste creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is an even number, but its highly unlikley. Most times the 2 candidates running for president try to persuade the people and some people are fooled by ones promises and when that candidate gets elected the people do not like the outcome wich messes up alot. The people should go by the important things that the cadidate say they try to fix, not by the promises that they are making to get it done for sure. Stated in Source 3, It can be argued that the electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate whp has no hope of carrying their state democrats in texas, for example, or republicans in california. Knowing thier vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay atteneion to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular voters vote swings a national election, and in spite of that, about one half the eligible American population did vate in 2012's election. | Evidence | Adequate |
b46ddc287bdf | 90981BB41313 | In conclusion I am in favor of keeping the electoral college because I think that it is better and morw stable for our economy and that the people do not deserve to pick and choose who they think they like. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
cfa149d9e2b3 | 90A95275B80D | presidents are elected every four years. Some presidents make changes some presidents don't, society strongly believes any president elected should make good changes. Any citizen from any state want's the president elected to make a difference, thats clearly one of the presidens duites. Presidents sometimes do not compensate for the mistakes they make that they're not supposed to make | Lead | Adequate |
00d928498357 | 90A95275B80D | Citizens votes should be the votes counted for electing presidents and not couted for electing electors | Position | Adequate |
96aa8219408a | 90A95275B80D | To begin with, most presidnets elected most of the time make no difference and citizens are not content. Presidents have many duties to complete and of them is to make changes and make the world a better place for all citizens. in the article "In defense of the electoral college: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the president" by Richard A. Posner he states "when you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors" what the author clearly states is that society is not voting for a presidential candidate but for a slate of electors. This is why most of the time society is not content with the president chosen and bad changes are made. | Evidence | Adequate |
6b48a939af87 | 90A95275B80D | Citizens are the ones who live in this country so they should be the one's who's votes are counted for electing presidents so that they do not suffer the next four years | Claim | Adequate |
c8561a5709ec | 90A95275B80D | To continue, some presidential candidates intentions to society are harmful and do not help them in anyway possible. Presidents intentions while on their four years of being presidents are supposed to help society and make their life easier and not worse. In the article "The Indefensible Electoral Collage: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer he states "can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always. Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Somtimes." this quote shows that | Evidence | Adequate |
7cf84cc7dc7b | 90A95275B80D | not only is society not voting for the presidential candidate they are in favor of but they cant even control who their electors vote for sometimes | Claim | Adequate |
4327411d5388 | 90A95275B80D | Citizens in anyway possible can not vote for the presidential candidate they are in favor of so that means society will not be content for four years and changes will be made that will make their lifes harder and some priveliges will be taken away if the presidents intentions are not helpful. Society will be living in hell in other words. | Evidence | Ineffective |
31dcb07c5463 | 90B7EBED2F5E | The "Face" that was found on Mars is not an aliens | Position | Adequate |
bc1c97500cd0 | 90B7EBED2F5E | The "Face" is simply just a huge rock formation which resembles a human head | Claim | Adequate |
bd8225c237d0 | 90B7EBED2F5E | If it was an alien the head would have anteanas on it and the head would be shaped differently than it is. Even though it was eighteen long years after the Viking Mission ended that we took a photo of the head doesn't mean that is is and alien. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0c4512a4bb35 | 90B7EBED2F5E | On April 5,1998, when Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) flew over Cydionia for the first time,Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera(MOC) team took a picture. This picture was ten time sharper than the original Viking photos. | Evidence | Adequate |
859f1081f7ba | 90B7EBED2F5E | When the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landforn and not and alien.
| Claim | Adequate |
982e92441597 | 90B7EBED2F5E | Well not everyone was happy about it not being an alien | Counterclaim | Adequate |
f5f231ec9aef | 90B7EBED2F5E | It's not easy to find the Cydonia. We just don't pass over the "Face" very often. But on April 8,2001 a cloudless summer day in Cydonia MGS went for another look. This time we rolled the space craft 25 degrees to center the face in the field. Malin's team captured an extradinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution. | Evidence | Ineffective |
085237aaaf54 | 90B7EBED2F5E | In conclusion, what the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West. The picture was never an alien head. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
118add0bdd45 | 90CA5D1644D4 | There is no prof that and alien could have done that. If they think that they need to have prof that they are right. I might not have evidence that an alien could or couldn't have done that | Lead | Adequate |
379df033d5b7 | 90CA5D1644D4 | But I know that if an alien did that there would have been life on Mars and we could or would have known by now | Position | Adequate |
dc98166b8064 | 90CA5D1644D4 | Here is my evidence to what I think about this situation. | Claim | Ineffective |
41dcac3b6332 | 90CA5D1644D4 | Like i said if an alien did this we would have know by now | Claim | Adequate |
039c7794fe9c | 90CA5D1644D4 | In various researches they have said and wrote that this is a natural cause. I actually do have prof and evidence about my opinion. On April 5,1998 they took a picture, it was ten times sharper than other pictures they took in the past. Although I get it that lots of people want it to be true that an alien did that, but with what prof? | Evidence | Adequate |
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