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b379dbda45e6 | A0181C244D0D | I believe that they should continue to be improved and developed. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
d47a972a1cba | A0181C244D0D | Driverless cars have been the seemingly unattainable, next level of fantastic futuristic technology for many people for decades now. | Claim | Adequate |
18c82f647b94 | A0181C244D0D | In the 1950s, General Motors created the first car that could drive without a human at the wheel. AT that time, it would have been difficult to believe that such technology of a car that could drive itself with no type of polarized track below it would have been possible. Three decades later in the 1980s, the first speed sensors had been placed in wheels in order to provide drivers with an heightened break accuracy. Not even ten years later, those same sensors had become so advanced as to now provide drivers with the added safety of a car who could respond to the danger of out-of-control skidding. Furthermore, by the 2000s, radars that at one point had costed millions, could be found in your regular old run-of-the-mill car for your local dealer ship, ready for the purchase of any regular civillian. | Evidence | Effective |
0c0a2dacb33d | A0181C244D0D | WIth all of this improvement in a car's safety and reliability, not only can countless lives be saved on the road with this technology, but the more it is improved upon, the less room there is for the common human error in driving, which unfortunately leads to thousands of lives being lost yearly to traffic accidents. | Claim | Effective |
9660eb30e070 | A0181C244D0D | While the current "driverless" cars still require some human skills when travelling through complex road conditions, with continuing developement, eventually the accuracy of the computers' driving skills will rival that of human intelligence. This can be predicted by looking at the accuracy and speed of reaction when looking at an automated calculator in comparison to a human arithmatic. As time has progress, so has technology up to the point where it surpasses human intelligence and reaction speed, and in the case of these new cars, would make it generally safer for the extremely accurate computers to do the driving, rather than humans, who would make a great many more faults when it comes to driving safely and accurately | Evidence | Effective |
157eff372fb1 | A0181C244D0D | The only major issue that could arise is the problematic moment in which a "driverless" car's system would break. This would leave not only the passenger in the car in danger depending on the severity of the car failure, but it would also leave the other communters on the road in danger as well. | Counterclaim | Effective |
988305612350 | A0181C244D0D |
In conclusion, if these "driverless" cars are allowed to continue to be tested and improved upon, countless lives will be saved and human efficiency will increase. As this fantastic technology is improved upon, the negative aspects of trial and error, restrictive laws, and cost will only decrease. As for the future, human culture as we know it will change to alot this new technological enhancement into our everday lives, and in the process, potentially save thousands of individuals with ever purchase of a new "smart" car. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
4eb3e3f0e130 | A0215B1294B9 |
I am fully aware you probably think it is better for the school to not have cell phones during school hours.
| Lead | Adequate |
a311f965aa34 | A0215B1294B9 | But I have reason to say that students should be able to have use in there phone during lunch periods and other free times but yet to have it off during class. | Position | Adequate |
bde5c51b7589 | A0215B1294B9 | The reason for this is because I tend to get bored during lunch time | Evidence | Adequate |
5893b3353fd3 | A0215B1294B9 | if I have absolutely nothing to do maybe I could just listen to music on my phone or to text a friend that is away. | Claim | Adequate |
f30d6e9e39f5 | A0215B1294B9 | As well as if I needed to talk to my mom I could call her for something important to me, | Claim | Adequate |
1705109ff8c6 | A0215B1294B9 | I say important to me because If I asked the people in the office if I could use the phone to ask my mom or a parent something, and did not tell them why because it was a personal question, they would normally say "no". | Evidence | Adequate |
94cf0f224491 | A0215B1294B9 | I really don't see what is wrong with having a phone out during the time we have free. | Claim | Adequate |
e637ebc7c82d | A0215B1294B9 | Kids do it either way, whether the teachers say yes or no, But kids sometimes get there phone look-in away. There for, I say we should be able to have use of a cell phone. | Evidence | Adequate |
5ea5ab3d8fa8 | A0215B1294B9 | Hopefully it would change your mind about this policy. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
341681821866 | A10226201F3A | Do you think students would benefit from being able to attend classes from home? Schools are offering distance learning as an option for students. I think they should offer it to students. Specially High School students. I have some reasons on why they should be able to.
| Lead | Adequate |
a3e8ebc1c5cf | A10226201F3A | Students would be able to focus more if their home. | Claim | Adequate |
3c3952b2db77 | A10226201F3A | They would have a less chance of getting distracted by anyone. It would be easier for them to learn more and better their self at knowing more information than they would at school learning from a teachers pace. Being able to learn at your own pace would be great for students. They would learn the information better. | Evidence | Adequate |
21652457845e | A10226201F3A | It would better their chances of graduating. More students would actually do their work. | Claim | Adequate |
4b78b737a3eb | A10226201F3A | They would actually do way better doing it at home, because they wouldn't get detracted by anyone that's in the hallway or anyone that in their classroom. The classroom can be a huge distracted to students with everything going on it would be hard for them to get any work done for to even be able to learn everything their suppose to learn. | Evidence | Adequate |
df396fa159d8 | A10226201F3A | Giving students that option would benefit them a lot. | Position | Adequate |
5e344c9a21a3 | A10226201F3A | You have to think about it. If students don't do their work at school it's because their either messing around playing or their not able to focus with others around them. So letting them get the option to learn at home would be great for them. | Evidence | Adequate |
5b56c93646e0 | A10226201F3A | Some would say that they disagree with letting students be able to learn from home is a bad idea | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6ca40f914002 | A10226201F3A | You have to think about what's best for students. What would help them succeed in life. What would make them want to better their future. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
8007c14a30ac | A10226201F3A | They ask if we think students would benefit from being able to attend classes from home. I think they should give the students the opportunity to want to better their future by letting from learn from home. There is a lot of students that want to learn it's just sometimes hard for them. So they should allow them to do so and see how many would succeed and improve a lot more. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
125ff771e168 | A103E161D9C7 | Students should not be required to perform community service in order to pass a class or grade. Community service should not be a requirement, | Position | Effective |
d4260d30219c | A103E161D9C7 | because community service is only useful if the person does it with enthusiasm. Otherwise, it becomes a chore instead of a personal choice to do the right thing. | Claim | Effective |
1957fa832b5c | A103E161D9C7 | Also if somebody does, for example, cleaning up the beach as a community service project, they will likely miss trash and litter. This would be due to a lack of enthusiasm, and the person did not really contribute to society. So it is a lose-lose situation to be in, the kids complain that it eats up their time and the job does not get done. | Evidence | Effective |
4413e62a9298 | A103E161D9C7 | However, a student that CHOSE to perform community service, IS usually getting the job done, and done right. If the same student was REQUIRED to do community service, he would make mistakes and would get the job done, but NOT right. | Evidence | Adequate |
73118c4e4983 | A103E161D9C7 | There is many solutions to getting students involved with community service. One, for example, is to give extra credit to those that CHOOSE to do community service. Another possible way is to promote using flyers in hope someone will look at it and say something like "Hey, this beach really is messy, and I can help". So | Evidence | Effective |
752ad4997c1c | A103E161D9C7 | there are other options than to REQUIRE community service hours. | Claim | Adequate |
9430af95d73a | A103E161D9C7 | Okay, to recap, no community service requirements, because to some kids it will be a "chore" and won't get done right. Community service is good, but if it is not required the job will get done right. There are other options than to require community service, such as promoting and extra credit. So you should listen so this letter so doing community service is a win-win situation. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
c22d801bc9b5 | A11991A7C4CE | the Electoral College is very helpful and is needed more than people think. | Position | Adequate |
00e20162fc05 | A11991A7C4CE | The Electoral College is helpful in three ways: | Claim | Adequate |
8f8f9ca48406 | A11991A7C4CE | there is a certainty of outcome in the votes, | Claim | Adequate |
4d1730e8d833 | A11991A7C4CE | two types of states to persuade, | Claim | Adequate |
f7cc8fc390ea | A11991A7C4CE | helpful to avoid run-off elctions. | Claim | Adequate |
3d2623304c6f | A11991A7C4CE | The Electoral College helps keep the certainty of outcome in the votes. | Claim | Adequate |
84e662cfc98f | A11991A7C4CE | "The Electoral College is widly regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the canadidate who receives the most popular votes the winner."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner | Evidence | Ineffective |
7e34e4838694 | A11991A7C4CE | The Elctoral College also gives the candidates a second chance at winning the election. | Claim | Adequate |
aa25e61259fb | A11991A7C4CE | Although someone won the popular vote portion of the election, they [the canidate] could still lose the election at the electoral portion. The electoral portion of the election is where the elected representatives go and vote for the president again and have a final deciding vote. Even with this prestegous process sometimes there are instenses were the "underdog" wins the electoral votes and
NOT
the popular votes. Although these instenses are little to non-exsitent.
"But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that is rarely betrayed)... [;however,] it is entirely possible that the winer of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Yet that as happened very rarley. It happened in2000, when Gore had more popukar votes than Bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner | Evidence | Adequate |
a50f3c31717b | A11991A7C4CE | With two types of states, swing states and big states, the candidate can get wrapped up in trying to get the most votes in one particular type of state,-typically big states- they dont notice how the oppisite type of state could benefit them in the long run. | Claim | Effective |
d68df65d8aca | A11991A7C4CE | "The winner take-all-method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates - as we saw in [2012's] election - to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states..."
"They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average (and for the further reason that they will recieve the most information and attention from the candidates0, and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner
On the other side of this arguement would be the big states (Texas, Califrnia, Florida, etc.) who usally vote the same party every election.
"The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balnce that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mak-apportionmentof the Senate decreed in the Consitution..."
"So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential campiagns than a small state does..."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner | Evidence | Adequate |
21771302c291 | A11991A7C4CE | Th Electoral College helps aviod run-off elections. | Claim | Adequate |
31768249e82e | A11991A7C4CE | "The Electoral College aviods the problem of elections in which no candidate recieves a mojority of the votes cast."
"There is a pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a mojority of the votes cast' that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner."
source three:
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President by Richard A. Posner | Evidence | Adequate |
118d3de811b5 | A11991A7C4CE | In conclusion, we need the Electoral College to help us with three things: one; provide a certainty of outcome in the votes, two; two types of states, and three; helpful to aviod run-off elctions. Prsonally, this is the only logical solution to our nation's voting system. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
27eae0c453e9 | A1274B901F55 | I think students should have to do community service | Position | Adequate |
0694aad3ab03 | A1274B901F55 | because if they want the points to go to the next grade or school they need to do community service. | Evidence | Adequate |
0aaf47956b04 | A1274B901F55 | For me community service is a good way to show kids how to work. | Claim | Adequate |
ac57b02ee7a3 | A1274B901F55 | I think the required time for community service is twenty-four hours. I think that community service can be done anywhere even in fast food restaurants such as Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's, or KFC, and all the other fat food restaurants, but the point is not about fast food restaurants, the point is that i think that community service could be done anywhere if they let you. | Evidence | Ineffective |
5e6e458921f1 | A1274B901F55 | If you want kids to have to do community service then they should do it and if they don't want to then that's their problem because they have to earn the hours and the points, and if you don't want to make us take community service then we have to make up for it in high school. | Claim | Ineffective |
098f9530b0ce | A1274B901F55 | I have not yet done my community service because i haven't had time to do it but i am planning to do it in these next few months, but my problem is that i don't know what i should do to gain the points. I was thinking i should do my community service, and get the required points at .... well like i said i don't really know where i am going to do it, but ill think about it really hard, but my goal is when i do find out what i am going to do i am going to get the points and hours in a week and a half or less. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6e9e57729152 | A135E9280900 | There has been a lot of controversy on weather to require all children of SCHOOL_NAME to perform community service | Lead | Adequate |
32c254c4e921 | A135E9280900 | and although this would be good in some ways this would be worse for many reasons | Position | Adequate |
fefa0cdf8f1b | A135E9280900 | because it lessens the time for extra curricular activities, | Claim | Effective |
ae62a51000e6 | A135E9280900 | makes community service seem as it is work rather than something you chose to do | Claim | Effective |
07dedea31fb8 | A135E9280900 | and because it takes time away from homework and other school work we are required to perform at home. | Claim | Effective |
58ffb88fe896 | A135E9280900 | My first reason is that forcing children to work on community service is that it takes time away from extra curricular activities. | Claim | Adequate |
a09ee1af3d75 | A135E9280900 | It's a common known fact that America has problems with obesity. Making kids do community service would definitely take time off of children's clock that they could be doing active activities like working out or playing a sport. This would increase obesity rates in America even more, causing the life span of children in this Country to shrink. | Evidence | Effective |
c81ae9a8d8d8 | A135E9280900 | My second point is that forcing children to do community service makes it seem more like work, rather than if you didn't it would seem like something you do for fun, like a hobby. | Claim | Effective |
709bdd0f7d40 | A135E9280900 | Community service is something that should be done because kids want to help other kids, the environment or those who need help. This wouldn't only make the amount of work done plummet, but also the quality of the work. If a kid is performing community service and is really enjoying himself, he is much more likely going to get a lot done and it is going to be very good quality work.
| Evidence | Effective |
99f0ab6e4263 | A135E9280900 | My third, and final point is that forcing children to perform community service is taking time away from children's school work or studying at home. | Claim | Effective |
31fde76182fa | A135E9280900 | There is no doubt that children in this very room that I'm writing this paper in are struggling to pass the 8th grade. Forcing them to do community service would only increase the number of failing students at SCHOOL_NAME. This would not only be problematic for the children that are failing, but would also hurt this schools' reputation of having good academic program. | Evidence | Effective |
d90381a1b4de | A135E9280900 | In conclusion forcing children to perform community service would be problematic for three reasons, because it lessens the time for extra curricular activities, makes community service seem as it is work rather than something you chose to do and because it takes time away from homework and other school work we are required to perform at home.
| Concluding Statement | Effective |
e79421642d76 | A138DF27F153 | I consider that policy 1 is above par because of numerous reasons. | Position | Adequate |
84dbef8becd8 | A138DF27F153 | Most students need their cell phone so their family and friends can contact them when needed. | Claim | Adequate |
215d7defda5a | A138DF27F153 | Some kids need their phone for the internet, like if their doing some kind of project that involves research then they'll need it. Most kids need to call their parents after school to let them know where their going to be after school, you never know what could happen. | Evidence | Adequate |
76664dc4e814 | A138DF27F153 | Policy 2 is not the best choice because a lot of children are stubborn and not allowing phones to be on campus is just going to make them want to bring them even more | Claim | Ineffective |
c161a404f6e4 | A138DF27F153 | Some students are followers so if they see their friend bringing a cell phone to school then their eventually going to bring one too | Evidence | Adequate |
bf13462423a0 | A138DF27F153 | I suggest you go with policy number 2 unless you want to hear complaints from angry parents, choose believe. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
178abde55b8a | A148C659E98B | I have been really good this quarter and other students would like to do sports or some type of activity this year but they have a C average. | Lead | Adequate |
7abb0ad7850d | A148C659E98B | I think we should be able to do sports or activity's even though we have a C average instead of a B average. | Position | Adequate |
23265ce61741 | A148C659E98B | But I think it is a good reason why it has to be a B average it's because if u have a B or below than a B u can get kicked off the team or your activity. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
1ede0a833866 | A148C659E98B | I think we should all be able to do activity's even though are grade is bad and is below a B average. | Claim | Adequate |
9334437d2b1c | A148C659E98B | Is because we can stay on the team and still bring are grades up instead of them like kicking us off the team just because are grades are below a B average. | Evidence | Adequate |
093b9070f6e0 | A148C659E98B | we should not be able to do sports in less we have at least a B average or an A average. | Claim | Ineffective |
baf60073ed64 | A148C659E98B | We should be able to do activity's no matter what the principal says it is the coaches place to say if we can or can not be on the team because of our grade's being low. | Evidence | Adequate |
0a1d43c5ef13 | A148C659E98B | they should pick the straight A or straight B students because they know that they will keep there grade up the whole school year. | Claim | Ineffective |
682d1e337c4e | A148C659E98B | But they might get at least a
B- or an A-. Like for example lets say they got an F and the next day they brung up that F to a B. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
95830e1bddf8 | A148C659E98B | You can also quit if you know you have a bad grade and then when you bring that grade back up you can go do that sport or activity again. | Claim | Adequate |
91b62ddf4637 | A15649448050 | In the article "Unmasking the Face on Mars" in NASA they are arguing and discussing what or who made the face. Some NASA people are thinking that the face was made naturaly. Others are saying that aliens used rocks and other things to create it. | Lead | Adequate |
224b23171d91 | A15649448050 | The face on Mars is probaly naturally made | Position | Adequate |
08a241bd6855 | A15649448050 | if you look at the images in the beginnig of the article, it has three different dates. | Claim | Ineffective |
2658a1e03124 | A15649448050 | f you look at the first one, 1976, you can see the face clearly. In 1998, the face is starting to get a little blery. Now at 2001, you barely see the face, in fact there is not a face anyone.
If this face was man-made or made by aliens, the shouldn't the face be more clearly in 1976. If man did make this face, how would they get there in the first place. | Evidence | Adequate |
8b7d83528c49 | A15649448050 | The face on Mars would be naturally made, cause no human or alien could make this. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bd723e09ce9e | A157D4491C7E | I want to take the time to speak my mind and said whats wrong with the clectoral college. | Position | Adequate |
6eb9dc7bd015 | A157D4491C7E | The electoral college is a process, not a place that what i've read. The founding fathers established it in the constitution between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizen. The electoral college consists of 538 elctors. a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors | Evidence | Ineffective |
40ce63009089 | A157D4491C7E | Under the electoral collage system, votets vote not for the prisident, but for slate of elector who there elect the presient | Evidence | Ineffective |
c9ea9dc01a6b | A157D4491C7E | he single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. | Evidence | Adequate |
35dd5ad85945 | A157D4491C7E | the amercan people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest electoin crisis in a century. consider that state legislatures are technically resonsible for picking electors and those electors could always defy the will of the people. | Evidence | Adequate |
fed419eda507 | A157D4491C7E | each state casts only one vote, the single representative from wyoming, representing 500,000 voters,would have as much say 55 representatives from california, who represent 35 millon votes. that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d6df56e2752f | A157D4491C7E | the electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president taht ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. | Evidence | Adequate |
2ced4f36bcd9 | A15A51E83757 | I am writing to you to argue in favor of changing the Electoral vote to election by popular vote for the president of the United States | Position | Adequate |
37a53c3447ad | A15A51E83757 | Supporting the opposite side of this argument,
Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President , by Richard A. Posner. Just as it is said, he simply states and explains five major reasons why he and many other believe that this method should remain being used. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
9ed7fc7ad57c | A15A51E83757 | Although I strongly believe that the Electoral College should be discontinued, I do resspect the other side's opinions and mean no disrepect. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
1776d00a62f1 | A15A51E83757 | To begin this argument, the Electoral College is a process established by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. It compromises the election of the President by a vote in Congress ang election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Ther are 538 electors in the Electoral College, and only a majority of 270 votes are needed to win the election. Every candidate that is running for the President has there own group of electors, which are chosen by that candidate's political party. | Evidence | Ineffective |
01bfd965a2eb | A15A51E83757 | This method even lost the presidency vote according to a Gallup poll in 2000. | Claim | Ineffective |
0608c6e7f6dd | A15A51E83757 | The main reason many others and I are against this method is this; citizen voters vote not for the actual president of the United States, but for a slate of electors, which actual do the real voting and electing of the president. | Evidence | Adequate |
0987e391698a | A15A51E83757 | there are numerous different groups that even pick the electors in the first place | Claim | Adequate |
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