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bfa116e040de | 98FD2BF096A9 | The Electoral College should not be used.
| Position | Adequate |
092b2414378f | 98FD2BF096A9 | Would you want to vote for who becomes president?
I would love to vote for who would become president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
5f2c1cc832e0 | 98FD2BF096A9 | Why would you let people that do not live the life you live vote for you, you need to vote for who you think will be a great president for you. | Claim | Adequate |
e32135f311c8 | 98FD2BF096A9 | For EX.
I'm living in a retirement home and I cant pay for my dentures I would need to vote for a president that allows charity for retirement homes. different people need different presidents we all can't have a different president so we all need one that we all agree on. people living in the white house do not know what we want so why would you want them to vote. | Evidence | Adequate |
1c6f7b1db3af | 98FD2BF096A9 | voting for president is more reasonable. to me thats what i say. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
f4f14c0a361b | 99037D0468C8 | I understand how you feel about community service, and I too agree it is very important. But some students have things to do like baby-sit for their parents or extra- curricular activities and sports. | Lead | Effective |
a9467a0dfc94 | 99037D0468C8 | I do not think community service should be required but it can be an extra-curricular activity | Position | Effective |
dba275273117 | 99037D0468C8 | I think you should consider the idea, and take in the fact that students have other important things to do | Claim | Adequate |
19cbb02404b8 | 99037D0468C8 | Jobs of some sort, or helping their parents out. | Evidence | Adequate |
812b643e6a3d | 99037D0468C8 | I also think it could be a punishment for students who misbehave | Claim | Effective |
b0dbf84436e4 | 99037D0468C8 | I mean, who wants to pick up someone else's trash, its gross I think. | Evidence | Adequate |
fcede470f2dd | 99037D0468C8 | And students who choose not to pick up trash on their free time shouldn't have to be forced to did it | Claim | Effective |
38cd87edaebb | 99037D0468C8 | If they want to pick up trash, it should be because they want to and not because they have to | Evidence | Effective |
85fd7825c15f | 992AD0F505B0 | I would like to argue that we should change to doing the election by popular votes not by the Electoral College. It is unfair to but the pressure of picking the right candidate on the Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
5309566f0743 | 992AD0F505B0 | We should just let it be by popular votes because it wold not be that hard to find out which states had the most popular candidate | Claim | Adequate |
a50cf42c1ff2 | 992AD0F505B0 | It would be harder to let the Electoral College pick the candidates. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7888400c7c84 | 992AD0F505B0 | For starters some people might want to know what to Electoral College is and they might want to send you a letter about it and what would you say? Something along the lines like they are the ones who pick the votes for the candidates? | Claim | Adequate |
5e5531dff0fd | 992AD0F505B0 | This is what I got out of
Source 1: What Is the Electoral College?
" The Electoral College is a process, not a place." Some people might not understand that. It also states that it consists of selections of all the electors, it is also a meeting place for the electors to vote for the President and the Vice President, and it also used for counting of the electoral votes made by the Congress. At the Electoral College also consists of 538 electors and the majority of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the President. Every candidate that is running for President in your state has their own group of electors. They are usally generally chosen the candidaate's party. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0970ae666d5f | 992AD0F505B0 | In
Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best- laid defenses of the system are wrong.
They want to abolish the College becaus eit is unfair to the people that want to vote for their own candidate's and not have some college do it for them. In that source it states this "They're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore- thanks to the quirks of the Electoral College..." | Evidence | Adequate |
8c02f362c993 | 992AD0F505B0 | This is what is wrong with the College "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." | Claim | Adequate |
ce9c1646b3c5 | 992AD0F505B0 | Yes, I know that there are people that think that it is ok for the Electoral College to do all the voting. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
3d8d11053b8a | 992AD0F505B0 | To me I like it if you all would let it be the popular vote not by some college. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
384e8d781f4c | 992AD0F505B0 | Yes, I know that sometime it might do easier to use the college and that is ok, but I would like it if it was all about the popular votes. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ff8cc8dd232c | 992AD0F505B0 | Also I like to argue that you should abolish the Electoral College. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9c388984244a | 9976385A501C | The electoral college,they decide what we vote on based on what they think our state would choose for president. | Lead | Ineffective |
8397f0a308e3 | 9976385A501C | To me the country has it all wrong, I think we as US citizens should let our votes decide on who should be president. Even though things may get done quicker I think everyones voice should be heard. | Position | Effective |
66586d3a44b7 | 9976385A501C | People like Bob Dole Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon have tried to get rid of the electoral college. Plus the electoral college cost Al Gore his presidency would've also liked to have their voices heard in the 2000 election. and im pretty sure people would agree with me the 60% of the population of voters would like their voice to be heard. | Evidence | Adequate |
10ba924599ef | 9976385A501C | The electoral college has a weird way of how they run and choose. | Claim | Adequate |
81145f72e746 | 9976385A501C | Like the example in "whats wrong with the electoral college" it saiys that "if someone lived in Texas and they wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to John Kerry and then John Kerry would have 34 electoral votes." If it were based on popular vote the points would be split to the person based on the number of votes they got. | Evidence | Effective |
5d3e0af68f8d | 9976385A501C | Even though other situations like in 2012 when obama won the election he recived a 61% of the electoral college's votes while the popular votes he recived was 51% a 10% difference, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
9038132be4fc | 9976385A501C | even though he still would've won it would've been more fair to let the popular votes decide | Rebuttal | Adequate |
6e4e9409039e | 9976385A501C | Some say its best to have a bias voter choose because they wont choose someone based on what everyone else's opinion is, like how the south favored romney over obama | Counterclaim | Adequate |
8a47a88092e6 | 9976385A501C | but to me that could be bad beacause what if who we choose actually has good ideas the college wouldve just go for the other guy. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
a319cbfd6272 | 9976385A501C | The "winner-take-all" method happens in swing states like Florida,us and other states have a big part on who we choose to run our country we usually pay attention to all the debates and campaings because we think our leader should know what he's doing swing states and big states are places a presidential campaign would take place the like to ensure they get their votes where it counts to guarentee a lead. | Evidence | Effective |
294c8ab47ecf | 9976385A501C | the electoral college doesnt go to good for people who dont agree to their sides view | Claim | Adequate |
c2ae31164b7e | 9976385A501C | like "republicans in California or democrats in Texas" their voices arent heard the popular votes might've gotten some points to save their canidate. | Evidence | Adequate |
034cf822804f | 9976385A501C | in conclusion the electoral college is blocking the right to vote for who we want and have their voices heard even if that person were a republican in California. the popular vote should have some say on who will run the country. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9171c12d9189 | 997D5145CB33 | The natural landform was not made by any kind of alien in Mars. It is just a landform that appended to look like a human face. | Position | Adequate |
ef4b8c1a3df6 | 997D5145CB33 | And if im saying if it was made by aliens there is nothing that proves it to be made by aliens. | Claim | Adequate |
485ae68a3c91 | 997D5145CB33 | there isnt any at proves or gives an idea that aliens actually exist. But there is a lot of evidence that proves that the face was made naturally and is just a landform that happened to look like one. A few of them are we sent "Mars Global Suveyor" and it showed no sign of alien monument, there was a good picture taken of the area of the landform, and lastly if there was any signs of aliens or their artifacts we would want to know and explore it like you would | Evidence | Adequate |
51dc39e85c5c | 997D5145CB33 | First, when we sent the
" Mars Global Surveyor" it arrived in eghteen years in September 1997. | Claim | Adequate |
8888e05f19fc | 997D5145CB33 | When the Surveyor was flyiing over Mars it found the face and as soon at it was clear we took pictures of it. On April 1998 the Surveyor flew over and took a nice shot at the face. This shot was ten times better the the first shot taken. | Evidence | Adequate |
38f87cff3ede | 997D5145CB33 | secont, Thanks to the picture taken by the surveyor we could now look for small details by the face. | Claim | Adequate |
3136a3b0373b | 997D5145CB33 | For each pixel in the 2001 the image spans "1.56 meters that compared to 43 meters per pixel." in the picture you can look three times closer thanks to pixels. That means that if take a picture like that you should be ablie to see big objects for example airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small homes or shacks.
| Evidence | Adequate |
b75019a87d6e | 997D5145CB33 | You might say that we NASA are trying to keep things secret from all of you in the publice and that we just want to keep the discovery of aliens to our selfs | Counterclaim | Adequate |
eddc43f6aea8 | 997D5145CB33 | But the truth is we don't we want you to know everything we know and we want to find any sign of alien life like artifacts and shacks and technology | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
e91f8c2f0e8c | 997D5145CB33 | but the fact is that the face in Mars has no prove theres nothing by the face that proves that any type of life built it. there was no left over material or any tools left the simple fact is that the face was made naturally and it is a landform like the ones we have on earth. Just this landform happened to look like us like a human. | Evidence | Adequate |
70189bb5a2a6 | 997D5145CB33 | In conlusion the face on
Mars will and should be considered a landfom. If it was made by aliens we would have found out thanks to all these studys but all of the studys we have made have proven there to be no life on the planet Mars. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
25e278ba5629 | 998B12C291DD | I agree that you should change the school policy so that students should have a B average in order to participate in school activities | Position | Adequate |
02dae3e66c58 | 998B12C291DD | I think that it would be a nice change to help students get better grades. | Claim | Effective |
8c6b6ebc2f01 | 998B12C291DD | It would also help our school to be a better, smarter school | Claim | Effective |
7d0fc2a405ae | 998B12C291DD | Students would also push themselves so they won't have to face being kicked off their team.
| Claim | Effective |
4d563996d1bb | 998B12C291DD | If students do not already have a B average then how can they keep up their grades when they are participating in activities? Students need to learn to organize their time between activities and schoolwork. So not only will they learn to organize their time better but they would also be getting better grades. | Evidence | Adequate |
7370ddc91c00 | 998B12C291DD | If you change the policy then many students will be willing to push themselves for better grades so they can participate in school activities. | Claim | Effective |
f2061bd85322 | 998B12C291DD | The students who are very dedicated to the sport or activity that they love would definitely push themselves for better grades. I believe that some of the students who participate in the activities at our school do not have a B average. Most likely because they are so dedicated to their sport that they forget about the schoolwork. If one of these students found out that you are changing the rule then they would change their attitude towards school so that they will not get kicked off their team.
| Evidence | Effective |
dfa2af48a4cd | 998B12C291DD | Our school would be a smarted school if all the students participating in school activities all had B averages | Claim | Effective |
849702007d7a | 998B12C291DD | There are a lot of students in our school's activities so if all of them had at least a B average that would be very impressive. We would not only be smart but look smart to other schools. Parent would want to send their children to out school. That would be pretty awesome. | Evidence | Effective |
a93318073560 | 998B12C291DD | I think it would be best if you changed the school policy to where all students need a B average in order to participate in sports. It could really help out our school and out students. Most kids will be doing better in school and would be better at organization. We could also change out schools image to other parents, kids, and schools. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c8a85034df2a | 99C687C4B554 | Society is no longer in the era of the stereotypical paper and pencil. New advancements in technology offer a wide variety of options for a student's education. With internet, there are limitless opportunities as far as how and where a student needs to be in order to get a proper education. Home-schooling is a new trend that is gaining more popularity throughout the world each and every day. Other than the people that would be in a school, this system provides the students with all of the necessities that a student would have access to as if they were in a school. | Lead | Effective |
bc654e2e681c | 99C687C4B554 | Although some may believe home-schooling is a superior alternative, the motivation and socialization that would be present in a classroom would be nonexistent at home. | Position | Effective |
0e7dc079eeeb | 99C687C4B554 | Motivation is a trait that many young adults need more of, whether it is waking up on time for class, or not procrastinating on a school project. Waking up early is something nearly everyone will have to do in their lifetime, so it is better to get used to it while you're still young. | Claim | Effective |
25a108dba859 | 99C687C4B554 | If a student has been home-schooled their whole adolescent life, waking up early will be something that they struggle with as an adult. Procrastination is something that many students have a hard time avoiding during the school year. The root of procrastination is a lack of motivation. Part of a teacher's job is to keep the students on task and make sure that they are completing everything in a timely manner. Home-schooled students do not have the availability of a teacher to motivate them and make sure that they are doing their work. It is all up to them if they want to stay on task or fall behind. If no one is there telling the students what to do, they will struggle to find the motivation within themselves. As well as teachers, peers also help to encourage their fellow classmates to stay focused. This leads into the next topic of socialization. | Evidence | Effective |
9655125ca4bc | 99C687C4B554 | High school is a period in one's life where they should enjoy their youthfulness while still working hard in school. It is important to balance the two out as they are equally as important. | Claim | Effective |
f2fc2392b9e9 | 99C687C4B554 | A school is the central point of socialization, whether it is working together to complete an assignment, or just conversing during your lunch break. Many long lasting relationships are established within a school environment. Home-schooled students cannot relate to in-school students in this sense. Not only is it important to form friendships, but it is also important to get comfortable around large crowds of people. Talking to people is an inevitable fate in everyone's life, this might be giving a presentation at work or publicly speaking in college. While it is a burden to most, starting earlier in life will provide more confidence for when you need it later in life. | Evidence | Effective |
accd26fa36dd | 99C687C4B554 |
There are many valid reasons that support the practice of home-schooling. For example, students with social anxiety will be better off in the comforts of home. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
af0054000bcc | 99C687C4B554 | Students might get anxious around a large crowd for many reasons. For one, self conscious people might get anxious because they think that people are judging them for their appearance. Others might have a hard time building up enough confidence to voice their opinion in front of numerous people. | Evidence | Effective |
5a5003876706 | 99C687C4B554 | While home-schooling would eliminate the fear of social anxiety, I believe that it is better to face it and get used to it, rather than hide from it. | Rebuttal | Effective |
cb7976d4acba | 99C687C4B554 | Another reason to argue for home-schooling is because of reduced stress. Some may say that the levels of stress will be greatly reduced in the comfort of home without the constant distraction of other students and the demands placed on students by teachers. While this partially might be true, more stress is caused when a student does not know how to manage their time wisely. Home-schooled students are at a greater risk for this because their are also many distractions at home such as cell phones and social media. | Evidence | Effective |
13635f025638 | 99C687C4B554 | Many things are taught in school other than just math, science, history, and language arts. School teaches many important life values that teens will need for when they are an independent adult. Some of these values are impossible for home-schooled students to learn, simply because it is a different environment. Although the idea of home-schooling sounds like the most beneficial option, many people do not realize that home-schooled students have to face their own type of challenges that they will have to overcome. For these reasons I cannot stand for home-schooling. In this case, I will admit that old school beats new school. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
9db7e2148432 | 99C8EAF5A468 | Our beloved principal has been considering making it mandatory for students to perform community service.
Some students already participate in community service and others do not even wish to.
It is a hard decision to make, but like every choice a person has to make, it is important. | Lead | Adequate |
9b68f49b91f7 | 99C8EAF5A468 | So many students do not wish to, or may not have time to, participate in community service. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
a787dc3399c1 | 99C8EAF5A468 | Those of them who do not wish to do such things, but have the time to, will be upset and angry, although they will do it anyway.
The others who do not have the time at all because of family matters, sports, jobs, and things like that will probably not even show up. | Evidence | Adequate |
8e06a5500ae8 | 99C8EAF5A468 | Parents of these children would be upset that they are being taken away to do community service when they are needed at home. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
5a6ee830ebd8 | 99C8EAF5A468 | These parents will be asking why and we will have to answer them the best we can. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f5ec65f74d03 | 99C8EAF5A468 | Students who already do community service will have no problem at all with it.
| Claim | Adequate |
6b98858dc64c | 99C8EAF5A468 | They will most likely encourage it and do their best to help in any way possible. | Evidence | Adequate |
f4bdba33dd28 | 99C8EAF5A468 | Some students would like to participate in community service, but do not know how. | Claim | Adequate |
430afe027314 | 99C8EAF5A468 | They would be grateful for the help that we would give them.
| Evidence | Adequate |
03ed4143574e | 99C8EAF5A468 | Extra community service has the possibility of being a new way of punishment for students who misbehave. | Claim | Effective |
3e3770843dff | 99C8EAF5A468 | Not only all of this, but it would help keep our community clean.
| Claim | Adequate |
2e77670ace0d | 99C8EAF5A468 | Just think about how wonderful it would be to live in a world where one person helps another person who helps the community. | Evidence | Adequate |
75da3efede18 | 99C8EAF5A468 | So many ways to improve our lives and the lives of others: | Claim | Adequate |
e3be6f4fcffe | 99C8EAF5A468 | tutoring, helping clean, aiding older people. | Evidence | Adequate |
dbf1bb06e841 | 99C8EAF5A468 | So many things that we could do to make our living environment cleaner: | Claim | Adequate |
73995cdb8eaf | 99C8EAF5A468 | picking up trash, cleaning statues and public places, un-polluting our rivers and lakes, helping out in so many ways. | Evidence | Adequate |
db0f1d3f8ced | 99C8EAF5A468 | Mandatory community service would be a great way to aid other people.
| Position | Effective |
f70215dec5b5 | 99C8EAF5A468 | You probably already know all of this, but I told you anyway because you should know that I believe community service would be a helpful thing to everybody, even if they don't know it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
73de22b41e3a | 99DD22237B48 | I personally think that the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | Position | Effective |
4d393507d955 | 99DD22237B48 | The people around count of having a better life in the country but not giving they what they want will bring big problems the nation. Its overruled to decleared the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner you have to be fair. It doesn't matter if you have more popular votes than others you have to win by having regular votes. The Electoral Colleges metod is not being democratic at all in modern sence. And it seems like is the electors who elect the president, not the people. | Evidence | Adequate |
f5799f7ba370 | 99DD22237B48 | The trust of the peole had been betrayed. It is the entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the natonal popular vote. | Claim | Adequate |
fa2b6d9c67a8 | 99DD22237B48 | There's five reason for retaining the Electoral College despite its democratic pedigree; all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons: 1) Certainty of Outcome 2)Everyone's President 3)Swing State 4)Big State and last but not less 5)Avoid Run-Off Elections. | Claim | Adequate |
309a643282f5 | 99DD22237B48 | So why not do one of them. Why not? Because your scared that your democracy will fail or not win. But whats more important you or your nation? | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
0ee7c31c4bba | 99E3E923B36F | Did you know that in that in 2016 a projection was made by Tesla for the release of a car that can drive by itself with no human assistence 90 percent of the time driving? Many car companies are considering this new technology for their own car brand, but is it really in the best interest of the drivers? | Lead | Adequate |
9eff6bb601de | 99E3E923B36F | Driverless cars are a dangerous creation | Position | Adequate |
b55673c59ba4 | 99E3E923B36F | driverless cars are not soley driven by humans | Claim | Adequate |
68ed109aa140 | 99E3E923B36F | the technology of the car is not guarunteed to be cooperative at all times | Claim | Adequate |
bd7d2c368433 | 99E3E923B36F | there is the danger of law suits going against the people who manufacture these automobiles. | Claim | Adequate |
417d0bc57a5a | 99E3E923B36F | Automated driving is projected to be driven by the technology that it is equipped with most of the time. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0305fbeda20c | 99E3E923B36F | This is an unsafe idea because technology has proven to be faulty with many other inventions. | Claim | Adequate |
f5d3152b9757 | 99E3E923B36F | The technology of the car is the same as any other technology. New drivers may learn only how to drive an automated car | Evidence | Ineffective |
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