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88982ed1c66c | 970171A0AC8E | In conclusion, home schooling has more negative effects then positive and I encourage you to not use this form of easier education. Therefore, homeschooling can cause a lot of distractions , laziness and irresponsibility. All students should get the proper education that they need. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5de7313b4f8a | 970A1848B187 | Twenty five years ago NASA Viking 1 spacecraft was looking for somwhere to land on Mars for Viking 2 when it sppoted a showdow that looked like a face. The enoemous head was nearly two miles from end to end. | Lead | Adequate |
dc90e173a4ff | 970A1848B187 | The facewas just a natural landform. | Position | Adequate |
afeace49efe8 | 970A1848B187 | Only few scientists believe the Face was an alien artifact. But the article states that when NASA unvieled the image for all to see, the caption that went with it noted a " huge rock formation... which resembled a human head... formed by shadows giving an illution of eyes, nose, and mouth." Also in the article it says the author even reasoned "it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention on mars". | Evidence | Adequate |
297df7e6cdff | 970A1848B187 | The fact that when the face appeared on the Jet Propultion Lab monitors was short lived also proves that it wasn't a alien | Claim | Ineffective |
f4cde1cab832 | 970A1848B187 | because if it was they would have probably started doing test and research on it right away or if not right away then soon. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9af78fd30a25 | 970A1848B187 | On April5, 1998, when Mars GlobalSurveyor flew over it for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team took | Evidence | Adequate |
5ee5b283b0d4 | 970A1848B187 | a picture ten times sharpper than the orginal photo revealed it was just a natural landform. There was no alien monument.
| Claim | Adequate |
b24f792dab8a | 970A1848B187 | Of course not everyone was happy. It's much cooler to have it be a alien artifact than a natural landform. People weren't giving up. The face is located 41 degrees north martian latitude where it was winter of April 98' when the camera on bored of MGS had to peer through clouds to see the face. Skeptics said the alein markings were hidden by haze. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6797df3bdee7 | 970A1848B187 | Mission controlers prepared to look again. The article states that "we just don't pass over the face very often".
On April 8, 2001, it was acloundless summer day; the Mars Global Surveyer drew close enough for a second look. In the image things were three times bigger than the Vikings one so you could easily see if there were shacks or small airplanes. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
6ddc012e51dc | 970A1848B187 | What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. These are landforms common around the American West. | Evidence | Adequate |
b9e0dc73e84e | 970A1848B187 | This all proves that the so called "Face on mars" was just a landform and not from alien artifacts. The shadows from the landforms made it appear to look like a face but it was just a cauincedince. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1f36de87f301 | 9715D8D6F842 | I think that the idea of driverless cars are a good idea, but I don't think they are necessary at all. They are pointless and cars should be driven manually. | Position | Adequate |
a8bde6e91ccf | 9715D8D6F842 | The idea of a safer car is too ensure the safety of passengers, drivers , and even pedestrians. Accidents are always going to happen, but it is up to drivers themselves to make this happen. | Claim | Adequate |
3656a0e4af17 | 9715D8D6F842 | A good opposition to the idea of driverless cars is the psychological aspect. | Claim | Adequate |
9734438233e9 | 9715D8D6F842 | In the passage, it says, "psychological aspects are really a challenge," and they should be. There is no point in having a driverless car that still needs the assistance of a human driver. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b7b3715589f9 | 9715D8D6F842 | Also, we aren't really saving gas amounts. | Claim | Adequate |
b8e290489ce1 | 9715D8D6F842 | The driverless cars are still going to require gasoline as fuel. | Evidence | Adequate |
de780b182ce0 | 9715D8D6F842 | In conclusion, driverless cars are not worth the investment. They will still need human assistance and drivers will be bored waiting for their turn to drive. The amount of gas needed will still be the same to power all the cars. This is why driverless cars are pointless. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
32f2616702b1 | 971D0C1C75F0 | I completely disagree with your proposed policy change that if passed would not allow students to participate in sports or other activities unless they have a B minimum average. This policy would be unfair to students. | Position | Effective |
373cef2880f2 | 971D0C1C75F0 | It is unacceptable because sports or other activities besides academics are valuable to students. | Claim | Effective |
a0768ee7f1db | 971D0C1C75F0 | Activities that are not academic related, such as arts and crafts, music, sports, etc. are mandatory in school because school is not just a learning environment for academics and non-academic activities may help students' performance in academic subjects. | Evidence | Adequate |
1a6f613c09db | 971D0C1C75F0 | Non-academic activities are important in school because children need to be stimulated in all areas, not just academics. | Claim | Effective |
d496e838a837 | 971D0C1C75F0 | If school didn't have music, sports, etc., then students would not be able to exercise their other talents, unless they had opportunities to do so outside of school. School is a place where students grow, and if students are only growing in an academic area, then they are not fully maturing.
| Evidence | Adequate |
5975972623a0 | 971D0C1C75F0 | Non-academic activities are also required because those activities can help improve students' performance in academics. | Claim | Effective |
c9479cccbd48 | 971D0C1C75F0 | For example, if a child had a sports elective before his final math exam, he could use the sport to distract himself from being nervous. Once he got to his next class, he was not nervous, and he did well on his test. Performing non-scholastic activities can help performance in scholastic activities. | Evidence | Adequate |
9668cae6e9e7 | 971D0C1C75F0 | Overall, Principal, you cannot put this policy in place. It would contradict the purpose of school, and it may degrade the academic performance of students. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
4e7717e262a4 | 9780A12FCE0D | I was informed that you are deciding whether to require all student to perform community service. I wanted to take the opportunity to talk to you about what i think about this situation. | Lead | Adequate |
f42aff4ba42a | 9780A12FCE0D | i think that everyone should be required to do community service at least once a week. | Position | Effective |
b924f8429a16 | 9780A12FCE0D | i believe that with at least one day that each student does it, it will help the school and our community. | Claim | Effective |
f499580c7d73 | 9780A12FCE0D | If you approve of this our school will become cleaner and our library will become more organized and the kids from the elementary school would really appreciate if we could lend them a hand. If we all could participate in this program our student will think twice about throwing a piece of wrapper on the floor. | Evidence | Effective |
27e979ccff37 | 9780A12FCE0D | Most student disagree with me because they say that it isn't their responsibility to pick up after someone else. | Counterclaim | Effective |
bdaf776f14c3 | 9780A12FCE0D | They also say that they don't get anything out of performing community service | Evidence | Effective |
fc26b5e0329a | 9780A12FCE0D | but i think that if each student does community service that maybe we could raffle a prize out every month or so, so that they could get motivated to do the service. | Rebuttal | Effective |
b3720fb1b4a1 | 9780A12FCE0D | Or maybe for every two hour they do of community service they could get a hour of detention taken off.
I think that with my proposition our student will want to participate in our weekly community service program. | Evidence | Adequate |
e8b453ea484d | 9780A12FCE0D | I hope that you make the correct decision, that is best for the school, the district and our community. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
511f05b41c6b | 97A158DCC4BF | One day in the lab two people were arguing over the face of the natural landform. Tthe one said spacecraft normally looks straight down. Alien markings were hidden by a haze. A surveyor is a mapping spacecraft that normally looks straight down. mars golobal surveyor drew close enough for a second look. The face on mars is located at 41 degrees north martian latitude were it was winter in april 98 a cloudy time of year on the red planet. The camera on board had to peer through wispy clouds to see the face. malin team captured an extraordinary photo using the cameras absolute maximum resolution. As a rule of thumb you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size he added. There were objects in this picture like airplans on the ground or egyptian style pyramids or even small shacks you could see what they were. each one finly decided on the ones dicesion. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d296f64d1402 | 97A5F803C874 | Are driverless cars really coming? I don't think so. Driverless cars stiil need a driver, they might not even start, or work properly, and the driverless cars will surely bring the number of deaths due to a car accident up | Lead | Adequate |
7b61ea22a460 | 97A5F803C874 | Who wants one now? I don't want to be around one nor do I want anyone to drive these "driverless" cars. | Position | Adequate |
89ad32d4e8a7 | 97A5F803C874 | The driverless cars, aren't even close to driving themselves, they still need to have the driver's attention | Claim | Effective |
a7d445c54efe | 97A5F803C874 | Driverless cars, should be as the title states, cars that are driverless. These cars, will give you warnings when it is going to need you to take control again. The author states, "In fact, none of the cars developed so far are completely driverless. They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when theroad ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents." If these cars were really driverless, they wouldn't need a driver to help them navigate. Are these cars really driverless? No. | Evidence | Effective |
7cbc12178e43 | 97A5F803C874 | Are these cars going to run on gas or electricity? Either way, these cars not start. A car stalls all the time, but those cars we handle, but what about cars that are driverless? | Claim | Ineffective |
f169523afe5a | 97A5F803C874 | Would we know how to fix it or would we have to spend hundreds to get it fixed? These cars will cost hundreds to get fixed over and over again. Who wants to do that? I wouldn't mind having to charge it but then my electricity bill will be over the top expensive. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ca652c643545 | 97A5F803C874 | Would our kids be safe to be in the cars? What happens if our kids are playing and the car starts and the kid gets hurt or even dies? | Claim | Adequate |
71022511cc3e | 97A5F803C874 | Would it be your fault or the car producers? It woul be everyone's. Ours, for not protecting our kids well enough and the car producers because they didn't think of the children. The number of deaths per year of children due to car accidents are already high, add in a car that might start by itself and run by itself, will increase the number greatly. I wouldn't want my kids near it. Neither should you. | Evidence | Adequate |
7531b2cecc4d | 97A5F803C874 |
Knowing these facts, do you still want one? Do you want a car that was supposed to be driverless, but you would still need to drive it, or a car that might not even work, or even a car that could possibly kill your kid? I don't. These cars are dangerous, no matter how safe they say it should be. My position on the driverless cars will always be no. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
37241d607d7d | 97B417D0B9D9 | Dear,Florida I think that we should keep the Electoral College becuase it keeps the number of votes and it produces a clear winner. | Position | Adequate |
3f08c733d9fd | 97B417D0B9D9 | The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the senate decreed in the constitution. | Claim | Adequate |
faf25201d4c0 | 97B417D0B9D9 | The Electoral College is a process that consists of 538 electors. Each state equals the number of members in the house of representives. The Electoral also select what their responsibilities are. | Evidence | Ineffective |
327d7b6ea91d | 97B417D0B9D9 | The Electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism a non-democratic method. | Claim | Ineffective |
8c9a25558c13 | 97B417D0B9D9 | The Electoral College is also a mordern sense. Also no region (south,northeast,etc.) has enough electoral votes to elect a president. Residents also feel that their votes dont get counted that the new president will have no regard for thier interest, that he really isnt their president. | Evidence | Adequate |
952ac7a9acf8 | 97B417D0B9D9 | Electoral College alson avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the vote cast. | Claim | Adequate |
d4e94b458c67 | 97DD2D770B03 | I have decided to express my opinon to you about the Electoral College process for electing the President of the United States. | Lead | Adequate |
81eef3c3dd62 | 97DD2D770B03 | This process should be abolished as soon as possible for it is corrosive to the American peoples opinon. We should instead switch to a popular vote by eligble American citizens to decide presidency.
| Position | Effective |
f822f031e7c4 | 97DD2D770B03 | Now some fellows might argue that the Electoral College is favored by the people. | Counterclaim | Effective |
211f1cdabb5c | 97DD2D770B03 | When in fact, as Bradford Plumer points out in paragraph 9, "60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now". | Rebuttal | Effective |
fa3f8382719e | 97DD2D770B03 | Some people may also say that the Electoral college ecourages the president to visit all states, | Counterclaim | Effective |
1800f4f05586 | 97DD2D770B03 | when in fact smaller states still are not treated the same as states with more electoral votes. | Rebuttal | Effective |
81f58e2aae69 | 97DD2D770B03 | A president would rather spend their time investing and giving information to a state such as Californa who have 55 electoral votes, who feel more inclined to think about their decision due to their involvement, rather than a state with 3 electoral votes who dont invest as much thought into their votes. | Evidence | Effective |
8c3cd6588b5f | 97DD2D770B03 | In grade school we are taught that popualer votes most accurately represent what a specific population wants, why dont we use it in the real world? | Claim | Adequate |
a609ff3a02c1 | 97DD2D770B03 | If your princible wanted to figure out what color the students wanted their yearbooks, she would not elect people to decide for each class! In the Bush and Gore election, Bush recived less votes by the American people but won presidency because he accuired more Electoral votes than Gore. That means that more American people wanted Gore, but the fate was chosen by 271 people, who selected Bush as the winner! | Evidence | Effective |
4f5a753b0ff6 | 97DD2D770B03 | The Electoral College also increases the risk of a tie | Claim | Effective |
9c16e20747f5 | 97DD2D770B03 | if one occured, the election would be disrupted by the unorderly process of which we would have to take to decide the president. In 1968, a change of votes from just 41,971 people would have tied the electoral votes due to the even number of 538 Electors. | Evidence | Effective |
cbb7d7c56fb2 | 97DD2D770B03 | The overall idea im trying to express is that the Electoral College is a poor way to show peoples opinon, and much rather focuses on that of 270 individuals who in the end, decide the President of the United States. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bc81bdc4832d | 980850873AB7 | I think that you should give us community service | Position | Adequate |
8e31e4500560 | 980850873AB7 | because we don't want to live in a dirty community. We also don't want viruses. If we keep this community clean then maybe a lot of people won't be sick and live longer. | Claim | Effective |
6e805ed0e32d | 980850873AB7 | We should also have more tutors because we want the kids to have a better life and not be poor in the streets. | Claim | Effective |
5257d9b39a7f | 980850873AB7 | ome people don't have they right mind to learn and they need a little help and we could do that. We could also help tutor special ed kids it might be frustrating but i bet we could still do it. | Claim | Adequate |
2af221cd417a | 980850873AB7 | The environment helps us by giving us air to breathe i think it's time to give back to the earth. Yes, it might take too much time away but we are doing it for a good reason and it is to live in a healthier, better community. They could do all they want during the weekends but it is better to help now while we can than to later on when we can't do anything about it. Also people that have asthma would help clean up the community because they don't want to get another asthma attack because people are polluting the air. If some people don't want to do community service that's fine because sooner or later they will regret it. We want people that have some kind of sickness to go outside and enjoy themselves. Most people that are sick or have heart conditions have to stay inside their home because it's too dangerous for them to go outside because we don't help keep the community clean and they might get an infection. When we go to school we should clean up after ourselves. Since people don't do that i think that they should do community service. I know everybody could do something even though if it's little it can still help out the community. | Evidence | Effective |
2f4b0d9933ef | 980850873AB7 | Just incase more people choose to not do community service I think that the people who do want to do community service should still have a chance to help out. | Claim | Effective |
9db6c59558d5 | 980850873AB7 | Someday someone might thank them for helping out. I think people who are sick would really appreciate what we are trying to do for them. Also pets could catch diseases that are in the air. When we leave food behind it creates maggots and maggots find a way to get into your house and when you at least expect it somehow they will end up in your body and start eating your flesh that's why we have to pick up after ourselves. Also when we go to school some people leave the food on the tables and it creates flies and mouse's and we don't want to a cafeteria that has animals that are infected with rabies or some other diseases. And I think that's why we should have community service. | Evidence | Effective |
d4f3493022ad | 985A02A10642 | I truly believe that not all students should be apart of community service | Position | Adequate |
a952fc7bf94b | 985A02A10642 | My first reason is that some kids do want to help their community and make it a better place, but some kids have a lot to of stuff to do and can't really fit that in | Claim | Adequate |
abe3378f5ae7 | 985A02A10642 | My second reason is that most kids are just plain lazy | Claim | Adequate |
e600c18abc51 | 985A02A10642 | Don't want to do anything with there lives or do something for their community. So it really would be a waste of time trying to make students go and do community service because all they is going to do is just sit there and complain or just don't come | Evidence | Adequate |
87bd0e1cb09b | 985A02A10642 | I think that you should have kids decide on going to do community service. and decide what time is good for them to go and do it! | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
cd0b7b1bd2f5 | 9888F16554D5 | Driverless cars are coming, no matter how much you may like it. They have their many pros and cons, | Position | Adequate |
a7a3f4895969 | 9888F16554D5 | they still need to be driven by a human to get in and out of a driveway, or to navigate a crash or roadblock, and how it went over 500,000 miles without crashing (paragraph two). This still fairly remarkably, even whilst it is still in it's prototype stage. | Evidence | Adequate |
eeafa947c042 | 9888F16554D5 | Although still proving to be an expensive alternative to normal cars, | Claim | Adequate |
3b75d78b7a82 | 9888F16554D5 | driverless cars can have the potential to be an incredibly safe method of transportation, as compared to human driven cars. | Claim | Adequate |
734d3989a694 | 9888F16554D5 | They can be proven even safer to both pedestrians and policeman alike, by being utilized by people under the influence of alcohol, to drive home safley, and not harm any people utilizing the sidewalk or other drivers. | Evidence | Adequate |
f11574315956 | 9888F16554D5 | Although having to be driven by humans to do things like drive into driveways or navigate traffic, which would ultimatley void my previous statement on how it could protect passersby. | Claim | Ineffective |
f3fb549dea70 | 9888F16554D5 | Remember that these cars are still in the prototype stage of their lives, and developers are still working hard on making these cars as skilled as a driver as any human. | Evidence | Adequate |
460a059facee | 9888F16554D5 | These cars are coming closer and closer to becoming a reality that could be in every house by 2020. Much like everything else, they have their pros, and cons, but ultimatley prove that ve are one step closer to a better, safer tomorrow. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0038144f43b3 | 9893E88CAE61 | Dear principal I think policy number 1 is better than policy number 2 | Position | Adequate |
02783da56f0e | 9893E88CAE61 | My reason are that maybe the person forgot to bring something he or she needed to bring to school or to class. The other thing that could happen is that the person does not feel good and wants to go home. The other thing that could happen is that the person got dirty or fell in the mud and he or she does not have extra cloth to put on. The other thing that could happen is that the person has to stay after school because he or she did something bad or did not do the homework. The other reason is that they play in a sport or stay after school but the coach or the person that stay after school had a to do something and left early . My other reason could be that the person forgot to bring a book for a class and they need it. The other reason is that the person does not have money and they need money to buy something they need , or they need money to get in train . My other reason is that the parent needs to sign a field trip slip so he or she could go to the field trip. | Evidence | Ineffective |
477878cbd4ea | 9893E88CAE61 |
Those were my reason why is policy 1 is better than policy number 2. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
fd224bf13f48 | 98A2AD61198B | Everyday students wake up and go to school only for them to feel dragged down and stressed out about everything school entails. Online school counteracts this stereotypical version of school by allowing kids to do more | Lead | Adequate |
c60db5fd58bf | 98A2AD61198B | Students will benefit from being able to attend school online | Position | Adequate |
f7d80a97a56c | 98A2AD61198B | they will be able to create a more personalized education, | Claim | Effective |
0818a07b1285 | 98A2AD61198B | allow for more free time to explore things outside of the academic world | Claim | Effective |
53f1a9c49602 | 98A2AD61198B | the change in environment will lead to a better mental health for these students. | Claim | Effective |
6297a27b50d9 | 98A2AD61198B | One of the biggest benefits of online school is that it lets students work at their own pace rather than having them stay on pace with everyone else | Claim | Effective |
a79408c341d9 | 98A2AD61198B | This allows for the kids to get a personalized education that fits best with how they learn. If one kid needs more practice, they are able to practice while another kid may be ready to move onto the next. This way the one that is moving on isn't being held back by the kid who might want a little more time on a unit or topic. Students create their own education plan which is also good for the teacher because sometimes it may not be easy, in a classroom setting, to spot when a kid needs a little more attention and work on a topic because they have to move as a group to finish all the units before a final or AP exam. Personalized education through online classes would allow for kids to finish everything before these exams but still learn the way they see best fit. | Evidence | Effective |
ea8218af16d0 | 98A2AD61198B | Because students are able to work at their own pace, they also are given more free time than in school education accounts for. | Claim | Effective |
521e666222a8 | 98A2AD61198B | This free time is also beneficial to students as it is an opportunity for them to explore career choices and other things that interest them. Free time gives these students a chance to be involved in the community more through different things such as volunteering, having a job, working for an internship, and so much more. For example, one online student I know likes to volunteer at the animal shelter when she can because she wants to become a veterinarian. Her free time allows for her to learn more information and develop the skills for what she wants in the future. It sets kids up for success rather than failure by allowing them to find interests in high school rather than switching subjects every year in college. This free time lets them create a more lasting impact on their community while also finding out more about the real world and what it hold for students when they graduate. | Evidence | Effective |
a653e25714a6 | 98A2AD61198B |
Finally, one of the most important parts of online learning, students are able to build better mental health with the change in environment | Claim | Adequate |
12ea19b2d5df | 98A2AD61198B | Mental health is one of the biggest issues for teenagers in today's society. Many students feel trapped in school where they have nowhere to go and malice is inevitable. Students feel stressed, anxious, and depressed from traditional school which leads to their mental health deteriorating. But through online school, students will have a more open environment where they choose who is in and out of their life, so they are no longer forced to be around the people that hurt their mental health. It will decrease in mental health issues but it also allows for more time to be spent with the people they love and care about, which in turn builds their mental health up. Schools force kids to be with one another even if the none of them want to be there. Online school solves this by letting kids have more freedom with the social aspect of their life and do what they feel is best for their mental health. | Evidence | Effective |
85ddd5658db7 | 98A2AD61198B | In conclusion, students will greatly benefit from online school because it will let them make more out of their life than sitting in a building for 7 hours a day. Students can create an education plan that fits them better, explore what they world has to offer, and build better mental health while they do online school. Now the question is, will society progress for all students to attend online school or will they be stuck in their ways of conventional schooling? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
7837a9284503 | 98FD2BF096A9 | Do you want a messed up system to control who is voted for president, or would you want to vote for who becomes president? In my favor, I would choose the most popular vote for president. In my defense people should vote for president and not have higher ranked people vote for president. To be clear with you, | Lead | Effective |
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