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8f339dc8864a | 9BD577FF5D3C | There will be a positive side, but also a negative side to it. Students will get weaker without working in sports, or may even be much more lonely | Claim | Adequate |
83ed7ae1729a | 9BD577FF5D3C | In a young persons life, they don't want to be lonely. They want to be more social and talk with friends, participate in an activity. All these things help students grow up more healthier in life. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f977c36e9719 | 9BD577FF5D3C | Some students may think its easy, but for most, it is hard. Since most of your students have a C average, then there is some bad effects on changing it to a B average | Evidence | Adequate |
82daf724ad52 | 9BD577FF5D3C | One important thing is stress | Claim | Adequate |
ef277022e0f3 | 9BD577FF5D3C | Every student wants to go to school stress free and going to special activities is a huge help in that. If people have to maintain a B average, it can add stress, because they are so caught up into trying so hard to maintain a B average. Stress at a young age may cause students to have a more lonely life. They may not have a social life and be sad most of the time. | Evidence | Adequate |
ba266b2553d6 | 9BD577FF5D3C | As you see, principle, it is a much better idea to keep the policy the same. Students will lack physical education, it will have a bad negative affect, and it causes more stress to students, if sports and activities are only open to B average students. People will not like this new idea because they used to have so much of a good time, but with this, it could possibly change their life a lot. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
fba88fa486b8 | 9BDB556267D8 | The Electoral college is unnecesary | Position | Adequate |
50ec0a0e9537 | 9BDB556267D8 | because the people of the United States do not always get to control what their state electors vote for. The state legislatures are the ones responsible for choosing the electors, not the people. | Claim | Adequate |
c354a548deb3 | 9BDB556267D8 | Others may say that the electoral college works and that it should be here to stay. Many opinions are to be heard. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
439872e3aa6e | 9BDB556267D8 | A reason that people may want the electoral college is stay in place would be that the electors would do all the dirty work for them and they won't have to cast two votes the year that the new president will be chosen. The electors also get benefits for representing the states vote. They may also want to take advantage that the electoral college is still running. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
88a0d3ebb65a | 9BDB556267D8 | The main reason that the electoral college is unnecesary is because the voters do not get to choose who the candidates are for the electoral college, therefore not knowing who the electors are and also not knowing who the electors want to vote for. | Claim | Adequate |
82af195fea18 | 9BDB556267D8 | The reason that some electors choose the wrong president are because the people don't really get a say in who the electors will vote for. They may protest and make signs to show their state electors who they people want as their president and the electors might listen to them, but overall the decision is the electors. | Evidence | Ineffective |
54935354026c | 9BDB556267D8 | The state legislators are the ones responsibe for choosing the electors, not the people of the state. So the elector may be a democrat and the majority of the people in that particular state are republicans. Would that be fair that that state was to vote for the opposite person running for presidency when the people obviously want the other candidate? | Evidence | Ineffective |
76347fa68c33 | 9BDB556267D8 | Many people have a lot to say about this particular topic. some may say that the electoral college works. Some people may say that the electoral college is not worth the bother. Many opinions are out there about the electoral college. but i say that the electoral college is unfair,irrational, and outdated. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
6504ae2cd8a4 | 9C1132980450 | Driverless cars are coming! Google have these driverless cars. Companies are making these, "driverless" cars. These driverless cars are not actually...well, driverless. | Lead | Adequate |
501c4dd1a78c | 9C1132980450 | Electrical cars are coming, and you won't want to miss it. | Position | Ineffective |
41fef6a096b3 | 9C1132980450 | Television and movies have developed a theory of these cars. The theory is how the car may look and also, drive. Google has had cars that could drive independently under certain circumstances since 2009. Google cars have driven over half a million miles without a crash. google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and a inertial motion sensor.
Companies are already, and have already, been making these computer driven cars. As an example, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a special test track. The track was embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car. Google made the modified Toyota Prius, and BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020.
These, "driverless" cars are not really driverless. Antilock brakes and driver assistance still seem a long way from the dream of calling a driverless carb to take us wherever we desire, but Sebastian Thrun, founder of the Google Car project, believes that the technology has finally begun to catch up to the dream. The Google Cars must have an alert driver when driving. The Google Car cannot pull in and out of driveways. When dealing with road contrustion or navigating through an accident, the driver must take over then as well. The BMW, "Traffic Jam Assistant," can reach speeds up to 25 miles per hour, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. 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 the road ahead requires human skills.
| Evidence | Adequate |
621dcbff8868 | 9C1132980450 | Driverless cars are in the making. Google has already made a few cars that are some what driverless. Companies are on the uprising of completeing their first driverless car. The cars they're making out to seem driverless are not actually driverless, but they're in the making. The technology is close enough. Electrical cars are coming, and you won't want to miss it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9f543370549e | 9C2E6F09CC73 | At one point, I believed the electoral college was a bad idea. Although, after reading this, my view on the matter as changed dramatically. | Lead | Effective |
432fafce4ae5 | 9C2E6F09CC73 | The electoral college keeps a balance in a country, a balance very much needed. I agree with it one hundred percent. | Position | Effective |
95e48a19a630 | 9C2E6F09CC73 | The electoral college was established as a compromise between election of the President by congress, and election of the President by popular citizen vote. The founding fathers felt it would given congress too much power if it elected the President all by itself. They also felt if citizens chose the seat by themsleves there wouod be chaos. They decided on a nice in between; they both choose, well sort of. What many citizens do not know is that when they cast their vote, they are not voting for the president, but for a slate of electors who in turn elect the President. | Evidence | Effective |
bfcd13aeae43 | 9C2E6F09CC73 | The problem with citizens voting diectly for the president can be broken into two categories: uncertinty | Claim | Effective |
106424bdb0ad | 9C2E6F09CC73 | underqualification. | Claim | Adequate |
852d9b33760f | 9C2E6F09CC73 | If the vote were solely based on citizen votes, the statisitcal outcome of the event would be crazy. With the majority of the electoral college applying the winner take all approach, it cuts those numbers down incredibly. It is allot easier to confirm a winner out of 538 votes then it is to confirm one out of hundreds of millions of votes now isn,t it?
| Evidence | Effective |
4a29f3fb9bc5 | 9C2E6F09CC73 | Another thing that makes it hard for citizens to directlly vote for their president is being underqualified. | Claim | Adequate |
9c8d17016859 | 9C2E6F09CC73 | Many people think for themselves and only themselves. They are not qualified to make choices for the sake of the whole country, that is where the electors come in. These are people chosen by state conventions, state party committees, and sometimes candidates themselves. They hear the ideas of the people and manage them so that they are able to help everyone. They are pro politicians whose job in life is to preserve our country
| Evidence | Effective |
ce8f8d9bd09f | 9C2E6F09CC73 | The electoral college is not of a democracy, but of a dictatorship. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
d0ce9f7f382f | 9C2E6F09CC73 | The U.S government lets people choose these electors so they feel important in the choices our country makes. We take time to study our favorite candidates, and if the electoral college does not agree with them, they are pushed to the side. What happens to the people who did not vote for the, "right" candidate? They are forever unheard. Sentenced to live in a community where they are silcenced. I do not agree with the electoral college because agree with our fore father Abraham Lincoln. He said this was supposed to be a country of the people, by the people, and for the people.
| Evidence | Effective |
e4ed8c3655ed | 9C2E6F09CC73 | You are wrong in so many levels sir. the electoral college does not exclude democracy, it promotes it! | Rebuttal | Effective |
de8c97d1163a | 9C2E6F09CC73 | Every citizen of legal age uses their god given right to express their political preference in the hopes of improving our country. The electoral college prevents regional rulership over areas that prefer one political side. It re-elects every four years to let everyone know, though your thoughts may not have been used in these past times, know that they have surely been heard. | Evidence | Effective |
e04c46cf797f | 9C2E6F09CC73 | Things like the electoral college make me proud to live in the United States of America, the greatest country in the world. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5810072223f1 | 9C4444C557FB | The policy i believe is better is policy one | Position | Adequate |
1ca9961d6087 | 9C4444C557FB | I believe this policy is better because if we keep our phones off during class for free time or lunch we should be able to use them. | Claim | Adequate |
10166e55f3db | 9C4444C557FB | I think we should use them because since its free time its not gone to hurt any body to. | Evidence | Adequate |
dd61d8600355 | 9C4444C557FB | Another good reason to use them is because instead of kids talking during class, they would much rather texting or calling there friends that's not nearby. | Claim | Ineffective |
355df7e5396f | 9C4444C557FB | Another opportunity for kids being on their cell phones during free hour is that if they have a love one or somebody that needs to be called then they can call them right then and there, | Claim | Adequate |
9130a482d9b2 | 9C4444C557FB | like if they need to check on there sibling if there home by them self. Another way cell phones can be useful is if they need to call there parents to see what they need to do when they get home from school, instead of walking all the way to the office to call somebody important. | Evidence | Adequate |
1feb21f14ba1 | 9C9F8BC72552 | I believe that cell phones should not be allowed at school whatsoever. | Position | Adequate |
50f5a7d91f4d | 9C9F8BC72552 | Some students at school will get distracted with their phones during class while texting their friends or classmates. | Claim | Adequate |
4a34eae27094 | 9C9F8BC72552 | These students sometimes get caught, loose their phone, and a parent might have to come into school to get it. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8376f7368302 | 9C9F8BC72552 | The phones can be used for multiple reasons during school, distractions, and getting answers to test, quizzes, and possibly MCAS testing. | Claim | Adequate |
95df0abbb236 | 9C9F8BC72552 | Students can just go to the main office and use the school's phones if they have to call someone. | Claim | Adequate |
1b94a7346ade | 9C9F8BC72552 | These phones are a distraction to the students and to teachers if they catch people with cell phones | Claim | Adequate |
7054404661f8 | 9C9F8BC72552 | Cell phones should only be used after school hours, dismissal, if they need to get a ride home. Other than that it is not necessary to have phones in school and be using them to talk to each other. Kids would not be following the rules made if they could have their phones with them, they would carry them and never turn them off during a class. Teachers would have build-ups of students phones because the students basically would care about when they could use it, they would do as they please and get their phones taken away. This rule would probably effect most high-school and middle-school students, not elementary students. The older students would not be following rules and would act as though they do not care about the rule, all they'd care about is the fact that they could have phones. During classes like gym and health and foreign language people would use their phones because people would not care about those classes, they may see it as a free period like a directed study/study hall. | Evidence | Adequate |
3bc3b4beef43 | 9C9F8BC72552 | Cell phone use during school hours is not a good idea because students will text each other in class, even though they are not supposed to, and will be distracted from their class and would not learn anything that could be important to the class | Claim | Adequate |
3126d91dbaf9 | 9C9F8BC72552 | Teachers would not be able to teach a class without confiscating a cell phone, and the office could get phone calls complaining about how their kid's phone was taken away by a teacher. After a while students would just use their phones whenever they can and will not care if it gets taken away | Evidence | Adequate |
a58338e370e8 | 9C9F8BC72552 | No student can learn if they are using a cell phone during a class, there are some important things that could show up and can't complain about it. Then come time for MCAS, tests, quizzes, some students will not be prepared and will do very, very badly in those subjects | Evidence | Adequate |
2abbe0dcb708 | 9C9F8BC72552 | If students were allowed to use phones, they would not follow the guidelines, would text, call people, and try to get answers from people for a test or quiz. | Claim | Adequate |
05f8daa643a8 | 9C9F8BC72552 | School would become a completely hectic place to be with phones everywhere and people distracting themselves and others form school and learning. | Evidence | Adequate |
f51adeb72465 | 9C9F8BC72552 | Due to phones, students do not learn as much and get easily distracted from class if they are texting somebody else during school. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
818a60bc638c | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | I think community service should be something everyone does to help others, or to help the Earth. | Position | Effective |
0c2c3711f3f9 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | Some people think community service is a waste of time | Counterclaim | Adequate |
b48567bec169 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | when the air is polluted, and more people get sick per week or day from it, it is time to start cleaning up are community | Rebuttal | Effective |
5345a91c93f7 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | I think the help of the elementary kids would be great for them, so they can get work done, and not just have to ask the teacher for help, but they can ask their tutor also. | Claim | Effective |
7df038719fcb | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | they can go home after school, and have no work with a tutors help. The tutor would feel good at the end since the student they helped enjoyed the help of the work, and also enjoy meeting someone new to them. | Evidence | Effective |
387bbe0f7da5 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | The community need to be cleaned up so our air pollution can get better than what it is right now. | Claim | Effective |
cf28c57038de | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | We should have a couple kids clean up places during study hall hours, and after school. Also, the lakes, rivers, and oceans are getting polluted from all the junk in the water. So all the fish, turtles, and other sea creatures are dying from the pollution thrown onto the ground, which can get blown into the water, or thrown into the water. I think we should have kids recycle paper and other recyclable items to reuse them, instead of cutting down trees for the paper, and make the new items. | Evidence | Effective |
97c6c060376a | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | The schools should have a Recycling competition where the Study hall class that brings in the most items to be recycled, | Claim | Effective |
cfe7370c61d0 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | get a free day party for the study hall the whole week. The competition goes on each month. After each month, they have an assembly to get all the items collected, then they put them together to see how much they recycled that month. It would encourage kids to recycle more often, and give a little bit of a competition for the school. | Evidence | Effective |
ec3f6ea1a59e | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | Community service is a good thing to help clean environment, and also help other who need it. | Claim | Adequate |
5a60b5ec6979 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | If we didn't have community service, our community and planet would be a wreck. We need more people to help for community service so it can go by faster each day, and makes others feel good about where they live. If we didn't have community service, you would mostly be walking on trash every step you take, since some people throw their trash on the floor instead of a trash or dumpster. | Evidence | Effective |
3e3fb3090717 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | Some people dislike community service since they like to be inside the whole day either in front of a television, on a computer, or playing a video game. So they think community service is boring and not worth their time, | Counterclaim | Effective |
6db645d7a0e1 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | but they need to learn that they can save the environment by just picking up a wrapper on the ground, and spending time away from the electronics, and go outside with friends, or pick up trash in their neighborhood. | Rebuttal | Effective |
4f9ce8a469d0 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | The people that do community service, should be proud of what they do to help others, and keep up the work they do. | Claim | Effective |
b568d3b4cea2 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | So I think all students should perform community service so we have an excellent environment, and more people can look at teens, and not think of them as a bad reputation like adults do right now. They think of some teens as trouble, bratty, and they don't do anything. But other teens are getting looked up to by doing different amounts of work to help out, and also adults think they are a good reputation since they help out more. | Evidence | Effective |
8261d05db137 | 9CB26CEEE2D7 | Community service is a good deed, and not only kids should do it, adults should also be doing some community service since it is something that is excellent for the community. They put responsibility on kids to clean up, even though adults throw things on the floor too. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
6d0b9d49ac8b | 9CC05FDD1C8F | Your first policy sounds great | Position | Adequate |
c4324c4a73d0 | 9CC05FDD1C8F | because many students now are sneaking in their stuff inside the school and teachers are not really great at looking for stuff. | Claim | Adequate |
6cc92c7c9bef | 9CC05FDD1C8F | might be great because they may change ideas and their parents might be waiting for their son to pick them up.
| Claim | Adequate |
9dae8da33be8 | 9CC05FDD1C8F | It might lower how much they cheat off of another person. | Claim | Adequate |
442e4e0cff29 | 9CC05FDD1C8F | Of course if those two persons are at free time at the same time. | Evidence | Adequate |
559e64c31f91 | 9CC05FDD1C8F | My opinion is that the teachers pick up their cell phones before class this might be bad if they steal them. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
38df2380b014 | 9CC05FDD1C8F | Cell phones in school might also increase the probability of catching the cheaters by looking in the cell phone memory. | Claim | Adequate |
4168182a948f | 9CC05FDD1C8F | The thing they should do is that all students have free time at the same time so that they do not try to cheat in class.
| Evidence | Adequate |
70298d533fe8 | 9CC05FDD1C8F | You should try this for one year and if your satisfied with the results you may do it again.
You may tell the students at the beginning of the school year that the cell phone privilege will be taken away if they don't follow directions and apply policy #2 those are my opinions.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
f1917383a71e | 9CC05FDD1C8F | Maybe some students don't have cell phones and don't want other students to have them. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
c63de6f7c4a9 | 9CC05FDD1C8F | I think just about every student would like to have their cell phone in school | Rebuttal | Adequate |
cd87c2701421 | 9CC05FDD1C8F | and you might eve add more privileges if they do it right for so many years they may bring MP3 games and other electronics so that they feel almost like at home.
If any students breaks the rules they may not bring the cell phones and the other privileges you might have gave them you can tell the teachers which students are not allowed to bring electronics and if they see them with a electronic they can take it away.
If it was a borrowed electronic the student the borrowed from gets taken away the privilege as well.
If so many students are breaking the rules than put policy #2 for the rest of the year.
The next year you may start fresh if you feel like it .
| Evidence | Ineffective |
e2e87110667f | 9CC05FDD1C8F | You might want to think the cell phone policy a little bit deeper if you have any doubts.
That is what I have to say respect the cell phone policy.
Many students are waiting for this policy to come true.
Please think about it.
Some teachers might not like it.
Because they have to do mare things about it and some might get ideas about them. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d707e157b51e | 9CD92F1E2599 | Dear state senator, as time moves on things needs to change. The way we vote for our president is unfair, outdatede, and irrational. | Lead | Adequate |
7d17b75c09eb | 9CD92F1E2599 | It is time we change things and move to a election by popular vote. | Position | Adequate |
bc6ded1eecb8 | 9CD92F1E2599 | The electoral college was founded many years ago by The Founding Fathers. It was a compromise between the election of our President. It selected electors thats would put the vote in after we voted. It was a great idea back then | Evidence | Adequate |
d98256ce89b5 | 9CD92F1E2599 | it is time we change this and let the people vote | Claim | Adequate |
133944a190b5 | 9CD92F1E2599 | We cann't use the same ways as time moves on | Claim | Adequate |
01605fbb2923 | 9CD92F1E2599 | This should be an election for the people. | Claim | Adequate |
ad7c3a83220a | 9CD92F1E2599 | In the electoral voters don't even vote for the president. They vote for than elector. This could very well be anyone holding public office | Evidence | Ineffective |
739a5cbbc68b | 9CD92F1E2599 | People sometimes get confused and vote for the wrong candiddate. Back in 1960 louisiana nearly succeeded in replacing all demoratic electors with ones that oppose John F. Kennedy. Somestimes faithless electors have refused to vote for their party. This is outrageous! What is this happens again | Evidence | Ineffective |
b194a3233369 | 9CD92F1E2599 | We are the that have to live with this president | Evidence | Ineffective |
73c3b4464de9 | 9CD92F1E2599 | Another reason is because its unfair to voters | Claim | Adequate |
d29ded9c0864 | 9CD92F1E2599 | the winner-takes-all system shows that caue candidates don't spend time in states they know wont will. And if the electoral college gets a tie it would be horrifying. Leaving it up to the House of Representatives. | Evidence | Ineffective |
09a184ebd889 | 9CD92F1E2599 | All of this is to show that electoral college should be Abolished. This is outdated, unfair, and irrational use. Putting our faith in people we don't know has caused problems. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
be3b54ecd763 | 9CE836599EEE | "I say we change!" Changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States can be a way better idea to do than keeping the Electoral college. | Position | Adequate |
2df5372c1971 | 9CE836599EEE | In the Electoral College system the voters dont vote for the president, they vote for a slate of electors & those slate of electors who in turn elect the president. | Claim | Adequate |
9a5148110fca | 9CE836599EEE | over 60 percent of votes would prefer a direct election of the kind we have now. | Claim | Adequate |
575d373d7d31 | 9CE836599EEE | In source 1, they talk about what is the Electoral College & how it works. The Electoral College is a process, not a place. It's process consists of the selection of the electors, a meeting of the electors where they vote for President & Vice President, & the counting of the votes by Congress. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 votes is required to elect the President. In the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution, the District of Colubia is allocated 3 electors & treated like a state for purposesof the Electoral College. The word "state" also refers to the District of Columbia. Every candidate running for President in your state has his or her own group of electors. Presidential election is held every 4 years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. When you vote for President you help choose your state's electors because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. Most states have a 'winner take-all' system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate. | Evidence | Ineffective |
17c7af1a4cb3 | 9CE836599EEE | Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency | Evidence | Adequate |
5c8131414fc0 | 9CE836599EEE | For instance, if you lived in Texas, & wanted to vote for John Kerry, you would be voting for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry. The electors can be anyone not holding public office. It depends on the state to pick the electors in first place. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d32ae3a75349 | 9CE836599EEE | Sometimes voters get confused about the electors & vote for the wrong candidate. | Claim | Adequate |
d1f4df44dba9 | 9CE836599EEE | Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legilature nearly suceeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. | Evidence | Adequate |
0b2160e18583 | 9CEF76DD7310 | I think that raising the required grade for sports from a C to a B will inspire students to work harder for their grades and since they won't be distracted by sports it will be much more achievable. | Position | Effective |
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