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48f2db0eeae8 | 9EADCECA2FB8 | so i say lets not have cell phones at school that would be okay to me. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
4546affe7e25 | 9EB66AB2C95F | I think students should be able to use there phones at school just not in class . Like in Policy 1 | Position | Adequate |
48373da4a9a2 | 9EB66AB2C95F | Students should use there phones because if something happen at school they can call someone and get help | Claim | Adequate |
133297c06889 | 9EB66AB2C95F | If students didn't get to use there phones in school and, something happened it would take to long for the student to go to the office. | Evidence | Adequate |
a642c0d78439 | 9EB66AB2C95F | Also it would be nice to use your phone in school you can call your parents and tell them that your staying after school. | Claim | Adequate |
875981bc722f | 9EB66AB2C95F | One other reason they should let us use are phones is because the office get too crowed because people need to call home and parents and, sometimes people in the office tell you to get out because the office is to crowed sometimes you don't even get to call. | Evidence | Adequate |
d148476f5fba | 9EB66AB2C95F | Also they should let students use there phones is that they would be happy to use there phones at school and like coming to school | Claim | Adequate |
dec3c5e7da4a | 9EB66AB2C95F | Also teachers would be able to use is too so its good for the whole school and everybody will be happy. So i think the principal should change the rules and let us use are phones. Also so students don't use them in class teachers should collect the students phones before class starts and give it back when class is over so students will not use them in class or just turn them off and show the teacher. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8997f17b8339 | 9EB66AB2C95F | Other reasons students should use there phones is because they can call somebody is an emergency happens. | Claim | Adequate |
c7fa9378907c | 9EB66AB2C95F | Also they can call 911 is something really bad happens | Evidence | Adequate |
94e9aaac71b8 | 9EB66AB2C95F | Another thing is they will enjoy coming to school and have a smile | Claim | Adequate |
a07df427f23e | 9EB66AB2C95F | I think people will enjoy the new rule if it changed and be happy to use there phones in school. So i hope the principal will change the rule and let us use are phones during school but not in the classrooms. I think other students will be happy to be able to use there phones during school. | Evidence | Adequate |
254de1fac752 | 9EB66AB2C95F | other might think wow they changed the rule and be happy to use there phones during school. | Evidence | Adequate |
de92608af631 | 9EB66AB2C95F | If the rule does change i think almost every students will be happy to use there phones. Also its good for parents because they can call there kids and tell them if they have to walk home or they are getting picked up today | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a8cc1d273303 | 9EBE86E9B255 | Driverless cars have always seemed like a likely thing for my generations lifetime. In fact, we thought we would be using flying cars by the time we were older. However, it is difficult to decide if driverless cars are a good thing or not. As far as the tests they have run go, the driverless cars seem safer than cars with drivers, and if the cars are fully automated they can reduse factors such as emotions, fatigue, and stress. However, technology can fail, which could lead to the cars being dangerous. | Lead | Adequate |
c15758481f7c | 9EBE86E9B255 | driverless cars are a good idea | Position | Adequate |
a084e97711c4 | 9EBE86E9B255 | they can eliminate factors that can lead to humans crashing | Claim | Effective |
a16eea466a59 | 9EBE86E9B255 | they will make transportation easier for the standard person.
| Claim | Effective |
5c831795784e | 9EBE86E9B255 | The computers that run the automated cars will not get fatigued, while many people fall asleep at the wheel and can kill others or themselves. Also, these cars will not be affected by emotions such as anger at other drivers, which can lead to aggressive driving and mistakes on the road. Plus, the cars will be able to see almost as much as their human counterparts as long as their radars, such as the LIDAR, are powerful and accurate enough to send an accurate reading back to the computerized vehicle. This will hopefully mean that the driverless cars will crash less because of factors such as emotions and fatigue.
| Evidence | Effective |
05723d5e18db | 9EBE86E9B255 | The driverless cars would be more practical for some people because, if they can completely drive themselves, the passengers would not need a liscence or insurance like they would if they were driving the car themselves. However, the car would perform the same duties as a car they might own, unlike other forms of public-transportation. For example, busses cannot pick you up or drop you off at your home, so if the bus stop is not near to your house, it is not reasonable to ride the bus to work or other places. However, the taxi service would be able to pick you up no matter where you were. This would also be helpful if you were stranded somewhere and you needed help. | Evidence | Effective |
5a06981052a6 | 9EBE86E9B255 | they are much safer than the standard car with a human driver. | Claim | Adequate |
53a0e6fdf1e9 | 9EBE86E9B255 | Google's driverless cars "have driven more than half a million miles without a crash." This is an incredibly high mileage for never having a crash, and it shows that these cars are going to be incredibly safe when they are released to the public. Even thought the cars are still just being tested, they have never had a crash. Granted, the cars are not completely driverless, but the safety of the public is still the most important thing in the minds of many car manufacturing companies. These cars will prevent many people from being killed or injured in car accidents. | Evidence | Effective |
b2c48a8421dd | 9EBE86E9B255 | All in all, driverless cars are going to be something that will be incredibly helpful in the future. They help to reduce the factors that affect drivers, they will be more a very practical form of transportation, and they seem to be, in general, safer than other vehicles. The advances that have been made in the automobile industry in the last 100 years are truly worthy of our praise. We have come from incredibly basic cars to cars that can drive themselves, for at least some of the time. However, when you look at all the progress that we have made, it forces you to think about what we will come up with next. Maybe, flying cars are not that far away from being a reality. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
6b6c87eeb151 | 9F7080A8AC9E | Most people would think of an electoral collage as a place rather than a system. The Electoral collage was a process that was create to help make voting easier when in fact it complicated things. I agree with with source 2 paragraph 14. paragraph 14 clear states "It's official: The electoral collage is unfair, outdated, and irrational." | Lead | Adequate |
6b2e9f9d7f5d | 9F7080A8AC9E | i am completely convinced that the electoral collage is no longer necessary. | Position | Adequate |
0a7bbc19e9e3 | 9F7080A8AC9E | There is a lot wrong with it, | Claim | Adequate |
9f055de7198e | 9F7080A8AC9E | having to trust people to be honest and vote the right way, | Claim | Adequate |
780f34743463 | 9F7080A8AC9E | discrediting a state because of it population. | Claim | Adequate |
4258146b21aa | 9F7080A8AC9E | With the electoral collage, you are to have state representatives. Your state is to take a majority vote and relay that information to the state representatives. Then the state representatives will then vote according to how the majority persuaded them to vote. | Evidence | Adequate |
d2a3e9f6db82 | 9F7080A8AC9E | However many things can go wrong with this | Claim | Adequate |
872b53f45839 | 9F7080A8AC9E | they can simply vote their way or like paragraph 10 states, they can get confused and vote for the wrong candidate. | Evidence | Adequate |
4bd6f674ff36 | 9F7080A8AC9E | Due to the fact states have electoral votes based on size and population that one vote could cost the election. | Evidence | Adequate |
a9bab3036d48 | 9F7080A8AC9E | the electoral vote are very unfair. | Claim | Adequate |
bcc28e64187a | 9F7080A8AC9E | everybody should have their own individual say so in elections. | Claim | Adequate |
41e64dbbab99 | 9F7080A8AC9E | Some of you may believe that this saves time | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
8d9b16dfae97 | 9F7080A8AC9E | but in reality everybody has to vote anyway | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
fbc0c304a18d | 9F7080A8AC9E | in fact it takes more time by deciding state representatives and so on and so forth. i really couldn't think of any other reasons you would want such a corrupt system like thus one. this system is obscured. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a28a0b143434 | 9F7080A8AC9E | i personally believe this system is outdated. i doubt this system even worked well in the old days. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
51d890d09fcb | 9F71393177F9 | I think that bring your phone to school and using them at lunch, break and other free times is a good idea. | Position | Ineffective |
20c3200fe163 | 9F71393177F9 | Because as long as they turn it off at the end of the time giving then there should be no problem. | Evidence | Ineffective |
bf452f75173f | 9F71393177F9 | I know you probably think that people would go behind your back and leave there phones on | Counterclaim | Adequate |
dac090c20651 | 9F71393177F9 | but if they do and they get caught they should get in trouble for it. I really don't see a problem with taken your phone to school and using it at free time. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
b25c271c6ad3 | 9F71393177F9 | Also, if they don't obey the rules then they can pay the consequences. | Evidence | Adequate |
1320767fe7bf | 9F71393177F9 | Using phones at school is not no big deal if you think about it. | Claim | Adequate |
7b3ee4dcb13b | 9F71393177F9 | Because we have eight hour in school and I think it is right if you let us use it when free time is giving to us, but not during class time. I know school means a lot but i still think we should get a free time and let us check our phones. School is not a joke, it is important i know that, but i bet you over half of the school checks there phones when they can. | Evidence | Adequate |
71dd61755589 | 9F71393177F9 | In all, i think students should be allowed to use there phones when they have free time. Education is very important, but remember we have eight hours in school and I don't see any problem checking them at lunch, break or free time. i don't think its right sneaking behind your back and people trying to check there phone so instead of them going behind your back the free time giving to them they can check it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
951ba6a039a7 | 9FA7B30CC4D1 | Community Service is a really good way to help from polluting the earth. | Position | Adequate |
2bceb1f2b17d | 9FA7B30CC4D1 | some people may think Community Service takes to much time up for then | Counterclaim | Adequate |
f992cdc511e9 | 9FA7B30CC4D1 | but it is the right thing to do to help. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
79a38849003a | 9FA7B30CC4D1 | Community Service can help animals from going extinct | Claim | Adequate |
3d4ec70712bf | 9FA7B30CC4D1 | now since the oil spill has happened it has been killing most of our animals. Most of the animals in the sea water we need for food. If i had to do Community Service , i would do Community Service to help from polluting the earth and from killing animals. | Evidence | Adequate |
a0c7b05386d2 | 9FA7B30CC4D1 | Some friends and family may not care for community service | Counterclaim | Adequate |
994c703e0dc0 | 9FA7B30CC4D1 | but its the way to help the earth. Earth is where we live at , with out it what would we be? Human people wouldn't exist with out earth | Rebuttal | Adequate |
835ea6647172 | 9FA7B30CC4D1 | we need to have Community Service! | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
761777b1b132 | 9FC7CB71EF7B | Autonomous cars is a big deal for people in this time of tecnoligy.
Also there is people that do not think briveles cars are not safe do be in the road | Lead | Ineffective |
65192ef04311 | 9FC7CB71EF7B | Me personaly think that cars should not be produce by conpanyes | Position | Adequate |
ef550591adff | 9FC7CB71EF7B | the car has a lot of bad functions. | Claim | Adequate |
56e1f5ca9f11 | 9FC7CB71EF7B | The reaoson that the car has a lot of problems becouse it is program to follow all the laws, which could couse many asidents. One of the reasons is that not every peorson is goin to have a driverlees car.
That couses a problem between the people becouse people do not follow the rules all the time and aoutonomous cars will go exacli at the speed limit or top if some one is crosing the road. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9286f4ee2ce2 | 9FC7CB71EF7B | the person that is in the driveless car can fall a sleep, and there could be something that the car can not do, and the owner wont react on time to take control and it could couse a big acident or evn the deth of many peple | Claim | Adequate |
461335b89540 | 9FC7CB71EF7B | Theose are some of the reasons why i do not think driverless cars should be produce becouse the car is not safe enought to be driving in the road and for the safti of other cevilians. What do you think? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
dc438f5dfd3f | 9FCA0338E29B | Do you have a cell phone? It is nice to have, isn't it? You can do so many things with your cell phone like getting on the internet, getting in touch with friends, or keeping track of stuff. Well all these things could help during school | Lead | Adequate |
93f800a627d6 | 9FCA0338E29B | I'm not saying you should let us have it out during class, but in between class periods or during lunch. It would be a big help to us and you. By that I mean our education.
| Position | Adequate |
1eb17ebfb2ba | 9FCA0338E29B | If you allowed us to take our phones out in between classes, we cold swiftly study for a quiz or exam we had in an upcoming period. | Claim | Adequate |
1f9d32ff4b38 | 9FCA0338E29B | This would help you in our school test score rating overall. | Evidence | Adequate |
6be3cb0a50cf | 9FCA0338E29B | When we are in school for so long, we students tend to get bored and so we start talking then the teacher gets mad because we are to loud or we are talking while he/she is talking. | Evidence | Adequate |
51f1cc71e21b | 9FCA0338E29B | A way to prevent that is to let us have our phones out during lunch so we can talk to our friends. | Claim | Adequate |
6f1adfd4b4e9 | 9FCA0338E29B | You might say we get to talk to our friends all the time. I'm talking about the people we don't sit with at lunch cause ya'll don't let us sit any where we want. So we could text or talk to the people across the lunch room.
| Evidence | Adequate |
bd310f518ac9 | 9FCA0338E29B | In our phones we have note pads, calendars, calculators, and other stuff we could use for school. | Evidence | Adequate |
56564e73d4c3 | 9FCA0338E29B | we could keep up with notes taken in class or set an alarm for a day we have test. | Claim | Adequate |
214da3ec4d77 | 9FCA0338E29B | I cant say we would not take advantage of this priviledge cause some people will. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
64739d4512e8 | 9FDB425F1FE9 | When the Constitution of the United States was written our founding fathers decided on an Electoral College as the way to ellect the president instead of a direct vote. The Electoral College is a process that makes a compromise between the popular vote of the citizens and the Congressional vote. When citizens vote for president they are actually voting for a member of the Electoral College that is going to select their president, rather than the citizens voting for the president themselves. The Electoral College is made of 538 electors, the number of electors from each state varies depending on the states Congressional delegation. Washington D.C. is counted as a state for this process and alloted only three electors. | Lead | Effective |
332e6084e97b | 9FDB425F1FE9 | The electoral college should be kept in use | Position | Effective |
f56d558682df | 9FDB425F1FE9 | t simplifies the outcome | Claim | Effective |
4b9e9e1648a7 | 9FDB425F1FE9 | allocates more power to the larger states.
| Claim | Effective |
f425ef2f4a33 | 9FDB425F1FE9 | When voting with a popular vote system a debate over the outcome of the vote is very likely and will probably cause some constroversy. When the votes form the electoral college are counted the margin of victory is much higher which simplifies the result of the poll. During the election of 2012 Obama only recieved 51.3 percent of the vote, however he won the vote of the electoral college with an astounding 61.7 percent, a increase in the margin of victory by 10.4 percent. With this wide of a margin of victory a dispute over the victor of the presidential election is unlikely and almost impossible to argue against. | Evidence | Effective |
375b918ce812 | 9FDB425F1FE9 | Some might argue that the Electoral College is flawed because electors can choose not to vote for their canidate. It is true that this has happened in the past, | Counterclaim | Effective |
db5da708ce5e | 9FDB425F1FE9 | "in 1960, segregationist in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded on replacing the Democratc electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy." P.11. If this happened the popular vote for Kennedy would have gone to his adversaries instead. | Evidence | Effective |
15fcc582250f | 9FDB425F1FE9 | It is true that electors can choose not to vote for the canidate they pledged to and that this has happened in the past however the electors rarely betray their party's nominee and a tie in the electoral vote is extreamly unelikely. | Rebuttal | Effective |
b941a36ab55a | 9FDB425F1FE9 | Additionally, the Electoral College sould be kept in today's democracy because is allocates power to the larger states | Claim | Effective |
807ec3be0425 | 9FDB425F1FE9 | It only makes sense that the larger states with a larger population should get more of a say in their government, and recieve more electoral votes than a small state with fewer people. With this system political infulence is restored to the larger states making the canidates focuss on the more populous areas. More power to the more populous states also means that run-off elections are avoided. In 1992 and in 1968 run-off elections were avoided due to the use of the Electoral College; "Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority of the Electoral College" P.22. A run-off election extreamly complicates the election process however the chance of this happening is greatly reduced when using the Electoral College which almost always produces a clear winner. | Evidence | Effective |
29e2edc9e4fb | 9FDB425F1FE9 | The electoral college should be kept in use because it simplifies the outcome and allocates more power to the larger states. The Electoral College avoids the outcome of a run-off election. It also greatly reduces the chance of a dispute between the victor. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
7c20a3448098 | 9FDB425F1FE9 | Most people do not like the Electoral College because they are not directly voting for their canidate | Counterclaim | Effective |
6844c8070156 | 9FDB425F1FE9 | however many people fail to realize hat it is rare for an elector to betray his nominee. Electors rarely betray their canidate because they are chosen by the canidates party or the canidate themself. | Rebuttal | Effective |
5d337ede266b | 9FE339BCFE2C | There has been much controversy over whether or not we should keep the Electoral College or have it removed and vote on the president based on popular vote. | Lead | Adequate |
86d24b2b4c38 | 9FE339BCFE2C | I believe the best decision is to change to an election by popular vote for the President of the United States. | Position | Effective |
49631e975a37 | 9FE339BCFE2C | If the system would change, people would feel like their votes actually matter more then they do now. | Claim | Effective |
c01f2472f0b4 | 9FE339BCFE2C | They wouldn't have to worry about the electors flipping sides. | Claim | Effective |
e7d64d9c9be2 | 9FE339BCFE2C | Some people though, do say that the way the election is now is completely fair in the case of votes are based on population. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
f7429e9414e9 | 9FE339BCFE2C | To begin with, if the Electoral College was to be taken out of use, more people would feel like their vote matters. | Claim | Effective |
8add2f8a3ea0 | 9FE339BCFE2C | Although you may think you are voting for your choice of president, you are not. As of now, when you cast your vote, you are actually just voting for your candidate's electors, as said in "What Is the Electoral College". In the 2000 campaign, voters in seventeen states didn't have a chance to see the candidates at all. Those candidates went mainly to the "swing" states, or states that were not certain on who they would be voting for. The states unvisited, such as Rhode Island and South Carolina, were passed over because the candidates knew they would or wouldn't have their vote no matter what. The ones who questioned their vote did not have the chance to see either candidate in their state. In, "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", the Romney and Obama election is mentioned. It brings up the fact that Romney knew that throughout the South, he was going to get their vote. He realized that there was no need to go there because he didn't need anymore popularity in the South because he had already gained their electoral votes. Those who opposed Romney in the southern states felt that their votes would not matter because majority already knew they were voting for Romney. If the system were to change, which I believe it should, more people would feel their votes mattered no matter what state they were in. | Evidence | Effective |
fa2c02f29a40 | 9FE339BCFE2C | In addition to feeling like your vote matters, people never know if the electors would flip their desicions. | Claim | Effective |
6ee77ff2b5d1 | 9FE339BCFE2C | The slate of electors is not picked by the people. It is said in, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid jdefenses of the system are wrong", that sometimes the state conventions, the party's central committee, or the presidential candidates themselves choose who will be their electors. That being said, you don't know whether or not the electors will follow your choice of president or not. For example, in 1960, some electors refused to vote for their party's candidate and they chose whomever they wanted. If we were to switch the way things are now, that would not happen. A poll taken in 2000 called the Gallup poll, showed that over 60% of voters prefered a direct election rather then the kind we have now. This took place when Al Gore recieved the popular vote, but lost the electoral votes. You can see that the current system has its flaws.
| Evidence | Effective |
669527f604b3 | 9FE339BCFE2C | Many people say that it is fair for all states because of their amount of electoral votes. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
863cf7a75331 | 9FE339BCFE2C | For example, in "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President", Florida, which has a much larger population than Wyoming, recieved 29 electoral votes for Obama while Wyoming only had 3 electoral votes. | Evidence | Adequate |
22fdcd95287f | 9FE339BCFE2C | This, at the same time though, makes candidates want to only go to the larger states to try to get their votes. The smaller states once again feel left out and unappreciated. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
578e24e38a2b | 9FE339BCFE2C | In conclusion, I strongly feel that we need to change to an election by popular vote. Above all, it is more fair to the people. Citizens would feel that their votes matter more than they do now. People wouldn't have to be worried about if the electors would flip on what they had voted for. Although some say its is absolutely fair throughout all the states, there are still the set backs that come along with keeping an Electoral College. I agree with former presidents, Nixon and Carter, that we need to abolish the Electoral College. All of these reasons show you the problems there are with the current system of electing our President and I know you will agree | Concluding Statement | Effective |
1e6939e8eda8 | A0181C244D0D | On the matter of "driverless cars", I would advocate for their developement. | Position | Adequate |
715e7cd2eabd | A0181C244D0D | These cars are the technology of the future. | Claim | Effective |
7d4523d12886 | A0181C244D0D | They are bringing this civilization closer and closer to a new level of technological advancement. This advancement would not only create a mammoth break through in modern day technology, but would also change the way we live our day to day lives as a worldwide culture | Evidence | Adequate |
c3f389660672 | A0181C244D0D | Despite this product being a bit more of a want than a necessity for the time being | Counterclaim | Effective |
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