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fd196da82443 | 99E3E923B36F | This can lead to carelessness and irresponsibility | Claim | Adequate |
c35312a4abc3 | 99E3E923B36F | the dangers of this car are high. | Claim | Adequate |
39ea11a6a51b | 99E3E923B36F | Not only are they high because of the safety gear price , but it may also come with a price for the manufactureer. There is the chance of large lawsuits and sueing against the companies creating these cars. If a human was to gets injured in an accident created by the car, or if the car was bought with faulty technology, these companies could be facing extremely large law suits with multidigit numbers in cash. | Evidence | Adequate |
d6a5f9d2350d | 99E3E923B36F | Overall, driverless cars are an unsafe idea. This car could leave a lot of damage to many. Driverless cars a bad idea because they are not soley controlled by humans, the technology of the car is not guarunteed to be cooperative at all times, and there is a danger of lawsuits going against the people who manufacture these automobiles. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f309ad6ba89c | 99FD4F79B07D | I agree that students should take their cell phones to school and be able to use them during lunch periods and other free times. The cell phones will have to be off during class but in our free times we could use them. | Position | Adequate |
1d6ecd53fd7e | 99FD4F79B07D | i think its a great way to refresh your mind a little and then go back to work. | Claim | Adequate |
5c898b5574a6 | 99FD4F79B07D | I would say also that bringing a cell phone to school is okay because we wont be using them during class only on free times. | Claim | Adequate |
b70651376cfb | 99FD4F79B07D | It would be better if they would let us bring cell phones to school because when a student is bored they can always refresh their mind by using their cell phones on their lunch period or their free times. That way if we bring cell phones and they don't let us students might be using their cell phones during class and their not going to be paying attention to the teacher. And if we knew that we could bring cell phones we wouldn't be using our cell phones behind the desk so that the teacher doesn't catch us. If we do that because we know we cant bring any cell phones to school we are going to be on our cell phone and we are not going to be paying attention to the teacher about what she's teaching us. If we knew that we could bring cell phones we would just wait for our lunch period to use them or on our free times. That way we could be paying attention to the teacher and not using our cell phones because we know that we could use them on our lunch period or free times. | Evidence | Adequate |
cf711c414c88 | 99FD4F79B07D | Another reason i think we should be able to bring cell phones to school is that if we bring cell phones to school and we cant bring them we are going to get in trouble for using our cell phones and not paying attention to the teacher. | Claim | Adequate |
dad485b8436e | 99FD4F79B07D | Also if we don't pay attention to the teacher we wont be able to understand the work or the homework she gives us and we wont do it because we don't understand it. If we don't do our work or our homework we are going to get bad grades and our grades are going to go down. That's my other reason why i think we should be able to bring cell phones instead of bringing them when we cant and be using them in school. Most of the students that have cell phones would like to bring them to school and some do so they can be using them when the teacher is not looking at them. | Evidence | Adequate |
b3a724720189 | 99FD4F79B07D | Another reason that they should let us bring cell phones to school is so that we wont have to be scared that the teacher might catch us and get in trouble for it. | Claim | Adequate |
5cfc864a8d01 | 99FD4F79B07D | When we know we could bring cell phones to school we could just bring them off and during our lunch period or free time we can turn them on and use them without fearing that the teacher is going to catch you using it when your not supposed to. | Evidence | Adequate |
b6195e3b23b2 | 99FD4F79B07D | if you have your cell phone on during class and you forgot to put it on silent if it rings or something the teacher can catch you right away and might take your cell phone | Claim | Adequate |
0509fa3a6fd2 | 99FD4F79B07D | then she would tell your parents you have it and they need to go get it. | Evidence | Adequate |
460edc5c75bf | 99FD4F79B07D | These are my reasons to say that they should let us bring cell phones to | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
7d1db8567e41 | 9A0972A02B2A | Imagine, not being able to play in the biggest basketball game of your life because your grades were not as good as the principal would expect them to be | Lead | Effective |
068ea59a6250 | 9A0972A02B2A | I find it very unfair that students are not allowed to participate in school sports or other activities with a C average. | Position | Effective |
02c2e85d4ce0 | 9A0972A02B2A | Interpreting this law may cause many conflicts such as making a sport team not do as well | Claim | Adequate |
d8935c78f43e | 9A0972A02B2A | and affect the students future | Claim | Adequate |
aa912eb07dfe | 9A0972A02B2A | not allowing the students to play in the game may cause the team to lose an important game | Claim | Effective |
b2bb34efda9c | 9A0972A02B2A | In Red Silver, New Jersey, RELATIVE_NAME, who was very good at basketball was unable to play in the championship game because his grades weren't that well. As the game was close come to the fourth quarter,
RELATIVE_NAMEs team couldn't hold onto the game. RELATIVE_NAME was averaging 22.9 points a game, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists, and those statistics in the championship could've made his team possibly win as they lost by 20 points. RELATIVE_NAME missed being eligible for the game by one point in his average.
His average was an 82, which is a C, and
B average is an 83. RELATIVE_NAME missing the championship game affected his team for the worst, as the Red
Silver could've won its first basketball championship ever.
| Evidence | Effective |
13df3fff408c | 9A0972A02B2A | Also, having a C average can affect your future greatly. | Claim | Adequate |
9a62f4119d80 | 9A0972A02B2A | RELATIVE_NAME, tall and corpulent, was very good at football, yet not a great student. RELATIVE_NAME was being scouted by Division1 scouts from colleges such as Florida. Being a C+ student was his only fear from making the "big colleges" in the nation. In Maui, RELATIVE_NAME dominated the football season. Unfortunately, he was forced to sit out of the biggest game in his career because he was not academically eligible. RELATIVE_NAME was affected so greatly on this incident, all of his Division1 scholarships were gone because the scouts didn't want a student like RELATIVE_NAME in the school. RELATIVE_NAME was not very intelligent, but if he was to have someone tutor him, he would've went to any college he wanted to go to.
| Evidence | Effective |
cf40045423dc | 9A0972A02B2A | i think that maintaining a C average to play on the school sports team or other activities the school offers. RELATIVE_NAME and RELATIVE_NAME
both were affected off of this negatively as they could have had potential in going far in life. So in my opinion, i think that the principal should let students participate in school sports, as long as they get help in the subjects they are struggling in. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
e0058e438843 | 9A0B8CB86C16 | Today, 1976, we found a face on the land of mars. When we all saw the picture we get surprised.
Sence the day of that picture all of us working in NASA tried to find out what was that. It did have a great impact to NASA because if someone else saw the picture, it will make panic to the audience and the world.
So all those years we studied mars and it's land's forms to see if there were others that look a like. We didn't find other that look a like so people start to make their own ideas of the face. | Lead | Adequate |
fd28c810fddc | 9A0B8CB86C16 | Most people though that was made for aliens, but it wasn't. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
0117b9a8e3e2 | 9A0B8CB86C16 | We discovered that there was nothing on there just rocks and natural land. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
04bcfb125df9 | 9A0B8CB86C16 | And one of are partners came with the idea of a natural structure or a mesa. He think in that because if people or aliens live in there it's most be something in there that help us see if they live in there.
NASA send people to see if they could find something in there that may help us, but not.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
fd86cf7ccd97 | 9A0B8CB86C16 | So we decided to show it to the world because it was just a mesa. | Position | Adequate |
691ecb307e11 | 9A0B8CB86C16 | People got scared in the start but when they see that there were no aliens they relax and some studious used that for movies, books, etc. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c1f1cf4b5161 | 9A0B8CB86C16 | And sense that day everyone it's okay with stuff that they don't understand, because they know that is just something new. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
3800fc1c0910 | 9A12F67BA18B | Why do people hate the electoral College Proccess? It's just trying to choose a more helpful priesident. | Lead | Adequate |
dcf55a476963 | 9A12F67BA18B | Although the Electoral College should be abolished for there dispicable disision making,there just choosing a way to get a better prisident. | Position | Adequate |
91de1d0f9d79 | 9A12F67BA18B | Although there just doing the proccess to help peoples everyday lives, but also the proccess is to help other people choose the right prisident and not just because they can talk proffessionaly on a TV screen but to choose the one with a pure heart about helping the people and not just themselves. | Evidence | Adequate |
4b1c7972d541 | 9A12F67BA18B | The Electoral College process is showing how to choose the right way for a good prisident. | Claim | Ineffective |
bee02def6a69 | 9A12F67BA18B | Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsiblities are...."(office of the federal register, source 1). | Evidence | Ineffective |
07a041cbc014 | 9A12F67BA18B | this process will help choose a president not by how professional or handsome he look but by the his chocies and background he or she has made in the past. | Claim | Adequate |
9788255ec860 | 9A12F67BA18B | The winner-takes-all method of awarding electoral votes induces the canidates- as we saw in[2012's] election- to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states...."(Posner, source 3,3. swing states,passage 20). But why do people hate this process? Just because it is antiquated doesn't mean it is a terible process, but people and there studorn ways will not drop this stupid stituation and go on with a "normal" life. | Evidence | Adequate |
298d35981f89 | 9A12F67BA18B | Even thought this process is antiquated done not mean it need to be abolished and destroy but the true reason why everybody today hate the process is because we want somebody professional but the process chooses the the president right for the cause and not if he professional. We get caught up in this world, but we forget what the true meaning of being a president. Being a president is a honor but it come with difficult task and you need to learn to be a leader and not be the person behind the mask. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
138be28b179f | 9A529A48D35F | The electoral college is not a good idea. | Position | Adequate |
bbfc3027257e | 9A529A48D35F | Voters really dont get to vote for the President . A slate of electoral is the person to elect the President | Claim | Adequate |
120b2589bf0e | 9A529A48D35F | This system is called a disaster factor , the U.S. should be lucky the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century. | Claim | Adequate |
1a538a846232 | 9A529A48D35F | There are also people that want to stay with keeping electoral college . The electoral college restores most of the weight on the political balance that by population in large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the constitution.
| Counterclaim | Adequate |
84092ac0563f | 9A529A48D35F | The electoral college is unfair to voters. | Claim | Adequate |
238ebbf75cab | 9A529A48D35F | The canidates dont spend time in the states they know theres nochance of winning. Its a winner takes all kinda thing. In the 2000 campaign about 17 states didn't get to see there canadidates at all . States like Rhode Island and South Carolina and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didnt get to see a campaign ad. | Evidence | Adequate |
53b87c807980 | 9A529A48D35F | Here is some information on the electroral college ,Every 4 years the presidential election is held on the Tuesday after the first monday inNovember. You can help choose your state's electors when you vote for President . When you vote your actually voting for your candidate's electors. The electoral college has 538 electors. 270 electoral votes are required to elect the President. After the election your governor prepares a certificate of ascertinment listing all of the candidates who ran for president in your state along with the names of their respective electors. The certificate also declares the winning canidate in your state. | Evidence | Ineffective |
18744bbca83d | 9A529A48D35F | State legislatures are responsible for picking electors. | Claim | Adequate |
dc59946d7748 | 9A529A48D35F | In the 1960's segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the democratice electors with new who would oppose John F. Kennedy. in 1960 also Hawaii sent in 2 slates of electors to congress . Luckily , Vice President Richard Nixon was presiding over the senate validated his only opponet's electors. | Evidence | Adequate |
c7a7bdc34f6a | 9A529A48D35F | The electoral congress should not be used it's unfair . It should be changed to be the popular vote for the president in the U.s. . It's unfair to the people there not really voting. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5bf8051ff316 | 9A7E9F3D7FA9 | Policy 1 I believe is better because as long as the students turn the cell phones off during class time it would be fine. | Position | Adequate |
ddd53a361fe8 | 9A7E9F3D7FA9 | The students should be able to use their cell phones at lunch or in their free time so that they can call parents if they need to ask them something like whether to ride the bus or take a car. | Claim | Adequate |
9e81654da3c2 | 9A7E9F3D7FA9 | Also policy 1 would be better because the student would be more likely to pay attention in class if they were able to use the cell phones at lunch.
| Claim | Adequate |
fc284a46bfba | 9A7E9F3D7FA9 | I think the kids would be very thankful for Policy 1 instead of Policy 2 | Claim | Adequate |
6563de3433d2 | 9A7E9F3D7FA9 | because they love cell phones, and problem dislike school which would make them enjoy school as much as cell phones. You could even give the kids websites to go to and do work in class. | Evidence | Adequate |
038261761c2c | 9A7E9F3D7FA9 | Parents would even like it better because they could get a hold of their children if they needed to instead of having to wait till after school | Claim | Adequate |
feef20b86590 | 9A7E9F3D7FA9 | It would also be better because the kid can talk their friends on the other side of the building. | Evidence | Ineffective |
5f1d28fbf492 | 9A7F7ACCC1D9 | I am writing this letter to inform you that requiring all students to perform community service is a great idea | Position | Effective |
fecb25d5e472 | 9A7F7ACCC1D9 | Even though other students may not like it I'm behind it 100 percent. | Evidence | Adequate |
db9c676d0c6d | 9A7F7ACCC1D9 | The students who don't like it say "it takes too much time away from what they need or want to do" | Counterclaim | Effective |
9defb76e09ff | 9A7F7ACCC1D9 | but in truth these are the lazy failing students that don't want to do anything in life. | Rebuttal | Effective |
afe8aead28aa | 9A7F7ACCC1D9 | Even so there are students who would love the idea and would go for it. | Claim | Effective |
54e40728cb32 | 9A7F7ACCC1D9 | I can assure you that the kids who find community service "boring" or "a waste of time"
will soon see that performing community service will not only help the community, but inspire the world to do the same. | Evidence | Adequate |
876c9070d575 | 9A7F7ACCC1D9 | Community service can maybe even lead to a greener tomorrow | Claim | Adequate |
6c0874dfa213 | 9A7F7ACCC1D9 | Principal don't think twice about not having all students perform community service. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
13a273fd3600 | 9A9C3C57D474 | Driverless cars are a great investment and idea for our country to encourage. | Position | Adequate |
9934d742db39 | 9A9C3C57D474 | Not only do the cut down on fuel usage, | Claim | Effective |
ff34587151cf | 9A9C3C57D474 | also reduce the number of accidents. | Claim | Effective |
cd3caa880199 | 9A9C3C57D474 | The futuristic automobiles could revolutionize the country. Drivereless cars are a fantastic idea, and could create several benifits for the country.
| Position | Effective |
36c96b21731c | 9A9C3C57D474 | Driverless cars have the potentiol to drastically reduce fuel usage. | Claim | Effective |
8bdf6e1b02ee | 9A9C3C57D474 | n the opening paragraph of the article, the author states, "the cars he forsees would use half the fuel of today's taxis." Less fuel used for automobiles would empower the United States to spend less money on oil and natural gas imports. Additionally, less fuel polution released by cars would help make the enviroment a safer place for current and future generations. | Evidence | Adequate |
44fa227c3464 | 9A9C3C57D474 | In the article, the author talks about the use of GPS and sensors used in the cars. Relying on computers to transport us is a much safer alternative compared to the current option. | Evidence | Adequate |
4a73be72c71c | 9A9C3C57D474 | The driverless cars, that are largely computer powered, leave very little room for human error, which would drastically reduce the number of automobile accidents.
| Claim | Effective |
99039fce5070 | 9A9C3C57D474 | Oppontens of driverless cars may argue that these cars are not safe in the event of unforseen circumstances, such as accidents or road problems. | Counterclaim | Effective |
40d1ecde0540 | 9A9C3C57D474 | However, driverless cars, as stated in the article, "are designed to to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skill." Thus, in an emergancy situation, the driver can take over the car can advance past the situation and continue to move along without any issue.
| Rebuttal | Effective |
9dd2a7966f2d | 9A9C3C57D474 | driverless cars could be the best thing to happen to automobiles since automobiles were invented. They could reduce the amount of pollution, and save the United States millions on oil imports. Furthermore, self driving cars can make the roads a safer place to be. Although it may seem scary to some, and there may be a few bumps along the road, driverless cars could make the world a better place to be. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0935732f5d7e | 9AEBAA2BE62D |
I believe the way the American Goverment is run is injust and outdated. I believe this because the way we as America elect a new president is unfair to many people. | Position | Adequate |
7f6bd09a2102 | 9AEBAA2BE62D | The reason I say that is the electoral college is unjust is 538 people should'nt be voting for more than a billion people | Claim | Adequate |
b91ca8a22949 | 9AEBAA2BE62D | The way I believe our new President should be selected is by a majority rule, which ever Canidate has the most votes should win not based off people who vote for our state we live in. Even though the majority of the time the representative from his or her state votes depending on the popular vote from there state, but the reason im saying this is that he or she has the power to pick whatever he or she wants | Evidence | Adequate |
5728a04b8313 | 9AEBAA2BE62D | Also another reason would be that the people only vote for a slate whether it be democratic or republic people in the slate can just change there mind and pick a differnt side. I would understand this system before our time | Counterclaim | Adequate |
3dd74d8b1e93 | 9AEBAA2BE62D | but now we have so much technology people can vote from anywhere they dont have to go put a paper in a box anymore. The system is outdated and unfair to many people. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
9df12d744c29 | 9AEBAA2BE62D | Some people would argue against the point that the representative votes depending on his or her states popular vote, but there has been and will be more of the representative picking against his state if it stays like this. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3e954b8af1cd | 9AEBAA2BE62D | Like I said before the Electoral College system is outdated and unfair. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4d75f2f815aa | 9B0344F83C66 | Now the fact is that the electoral college works well for our country, but when the population that is voting for president is actually voting for a candidate to vote for their state, that is lying to the voters and is morally wrong. We cannot lie to the population and be a strong country at the same time. We want to vote for our country's leaders not have someone else vote for us. | Lead | Effective |
4c8a0a39c498 | 9B0344F83C66 | We have gone on long enough with the electoral college, it is outdated and inefficient. | Position | Effective |
0e35bb9a7959 | 9B0344F83C66 | It dooes work to keep complications from arising in our voting procedures none the less. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
de47ff52abb8 | 9B0344F83C66 | And I will admit regional preferance is also a huge problem. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
06a9cac1643d | 9B0344F83C66 | What if the Presiident ignores a certain region of the country in crisis? It is a risk we must take. | Evidence | Adequate |
1792f0b97e2d | 9B0344F83C66 | We are a country that has been falsely relying on the people and lying to their faces about it | Claim | Ineffective |
21091d5e5145 | 9B0344F83C66 | I personally find it offensive, angering, and morally wrong. I do not want to see this atrocity being allowed to fester. In 2012 about one-half of the legal american voters took part in it, according to Richard A. Posner. That is millions, if not billions of people! All voting when their votes didn't matter.
"In 1968 a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election" according to Bradford Plumer. | Evidence | Adequate |
d9c81c1fab74 | 9B0344F83C66 | The electoral college is unfair, it has been proven. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
2e394796df16 | 9BD577FF5D3C | I strongly believe that students should get to have a C average to work in sports or other activities. | Position | Adequate |
9deb2d56e4a8 | 9BD577FF5D3C | Without this opportunity, many children will lack in physical | Claim | Adequate |
fda75bbed072 | 9BD577FF5D3C | With a B average, many students may not keep up to that level, which overtime, makes them grow weaker. | Claim | Adequate |
8b6e01e72042 | 9BD577FF5D3C | Not having activities and sports will hurt people physically, but also mentally. It can cause more stress to student's minds. | Claim | Adequate |
3fc33196f8f9 | 9BD577FF5D3C | Students should get as much physical activity as they want, but if they have to have a B average, then this will make them get worse at what they may do best | Claim | Adequate |
07faadbaa28a | 9BD577FF5D3C | These people should be getting enough freedom to do an activity for at least a C average. They will lack in physical skills and it may even mess up peoples dreams. If you know most of your students maintain at a C average, then leave them like that | Evidence | Ineffective |
c84c09076278 | 9BD577FF5D3C | Of course, changing the policy might make them work harder | Counterclaim | Adequate |
0b5ace80b232 | 9BD577FF5D3C | its just not fair.
| Rebuttal | Ineffective |
2fb195b74bfc | 9BD577FF5D3C | Students may see a positive change in there grade average | Counterclaim | Adequate |
b8ed4e789e8d | 9BD577FF5D3C | if someone likes to play a sport, then there shouldn't be a change in policy. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
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