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11d73769dd27	A15A51E83757	Overall, there are plenty of other reasons that this method is unjust and unreasonable, but it simply could not all fit in one letter. I do hope that you take this concern very seriously and do your best to make the change you desire.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
64abb6284aac	A20D6E252177	You seriously need to change this whole "Electoral College" voting system. It's not right and not accurate. Wouldn't it be fair if the people had a say in this? We..The People?	Position	Adequate
46985b5b1399	A20D6E252177	Popular vote definetly makes more sense in this case. It's proven that an electoral vote would sometimes end in a tie	Claim	Adequate
71496600a187	A20D6E252177	resulting in a "You're President, You're Vice President" scenario. No one wants to go through a tie cause the election would go to the House of Representatives and then they would decide who is who. That's pretty stupid...if I do say so myself. Now if the people, us, had a say in this...Then we'd defiently have a winner. No ties, No mistakes, No nothing. Just a plain, clean winner.	Evidence	Adequate
1aada543b9c3	A20D6E252177	The electoral college is unfair to voters to be honest. The electoral college is irrational, unfair, outdated and annoying.	Claim	Ineffective
2aa70e8b3616	A20D6E252177	No one uses it anymore. Due to it being completely unfair to citizens and states alike.	Evidence	Ineffective
8fc82612f353	A20D6E252177	The Electoral College rule says "It requires a presidential canidate to trans-regianl appeal."	Counterclaim	Adequate
53675c4255f0	A20D6E252177	Don't you think we know that? Then there's the fact that only "Big States" have a say, what about the smaller ones? There are people there too you know.	Rebuttal	Adequate
9805a584de22	A20D6E252177	The Electoral College does avoid the problem of "Run-Off Elections"	Counterclaim	Adequate
7fb03a95447d	A20D6E252177	but that doesn't help the fact that we should all have a say.	Rebuttal	Adequate
aa2d2a4a6026	A20D6E252177	Well, Nevertheless, you can understand why im so fed up with this "Electoral College" nonsense. It's stupid, outdated, and unfair.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
782026724ee9	A2237589F0FE	I personally don't think it is a very good idea to make it where kids with C average grades cant play sports and do other activities they like after school.	Position	Adequate
bc0c440c975e	A2237589F0FE	A C is still a passing grade, and even a D is a passing grade.	Claim	Adequate
a4b608b69637	A2237589F0FE	There are many people in college that I know who have C' s and they are doing great.	Evidence	Ineffective
4ea773efa122	A2237589F0FE	If you made it to where kids with C grades couldn't play sports it would may make some of them try a little bit harder	Counterclaim	Adequate
17953b21758e	A2237589F0FE	it may also make some just give up and not even try to do sports and after school activities.	Rebuttal	Adequate
5aa68fc73a03	A2237589F0FE	If the school did set this rule up then there would probably only be nine or ten kids that would actually be involved in the activities themselves. I said earlier that a D is still a passing grade, and it is. I mean it definitely isn't best passing grade, but it is better than an F. F stands for fail. This rule they could put up is basically saying "if your not a straight A student, then you cant do anything fun". Now this is all just my opinion on it all, there are a lot of facts involved to of what it would do to the school and its community though. Like it is said, many students have a grade C average. When I say many I mean a lot! I am also one of those students who has a grade C average so that's puts me on the side of not liking this idea	Evidence	Adequate
47e863eba369	A2237589F0FE	many straight A students wouldn't like this idea either.	Claim	Adequate
101303f86614	A2237589F0FE	The reason I say that many straight A students wouldn't like this idea is because they would probably seem to be labeled as nerd's even more than they already, dumbly enough, are.	Evidence	Ineffective
16b3c00839fd	A2237589F0FE	With kids having to have a B average and over all these years you would just have to have a C average, it would just mess everything up	Claim	Ineffective
e50f823067e0	A2237589F0FE	After school sports and activities shouldn't have to be "hard" to get into, and this idea would make it really hard.	Claim	Adequate
ec4ec8865802	A2237589F0FE	That's just it, it would be a bad idea to make C average graded kids not able to play sports. There are many kids who have a C average and that is a perfectly good passing grade. What would be the actual point to doing this anyway? School is hard enough for it is the twenty first century, and making it even harder and more stressful would be bad. To sum it all up, making kids with C average grades not able to play sports is a terrible idea. Thank you for your time!	Concluding Statement	Adequate
c2b31e4822af	A23FF67A91B5	he election is coming up soon and so is voting. The Electoral College and the popular vote get to select the president of the United States every year. I want this year to be a little different	Lead	Adequate
d31f772e39df	A23FF67A91B5	This year I would like to see only the Electoral College vote for the president	Position	Ineffective
ebb6ec811c32	A23FF67A91B5	The Electoral College knows all about thinking if the president is good enough for the country, and if he can be a good role model, or also a commander in chief. That is the reason why I would like to keep the Electoral College	Claim	Adequate
959b7774a769	A23FF67A91B5	For example there are two candidates fighting to be president and it's time to vote and the Electoral College might look over to see if the president looks like he can keep his promise to keep the coutnry safe, to make this a better country or not . That's what they look for in a president. That's the reason wwhy we should keep the Electoral College	Evidence	Adequate
9c896a3e5020	A23FF67A91B5	When the citizens want to vote for the president as well, they think of the same thing, if he's good enough for our country, and if he is going to keep us safe. The Electoral College knows a lot about picking the right president and they've been doing it for a long time	Evidence	Adequate
c2615124ed37	A23FF67A91B5	"The Electoral College consits of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. That's enough electors to vote wether or not the president should be this person or that person	Concluding Statement	Adequate
fdc7b870ad0a	A272AD6BD9AF	my name is STUDENT_NAME and I have notice you have two policies for all of us students here at the school	Lead	Adequate
d84edc148eb8	A272AD6BD9AF	So I have came to give you my opinion on what we should do, and that is, policy 1. To me policy 1 is better	Position	Adequate
4cd498ee41d5	A272AD6BD9AF	because if the office can't get in contact with any parent/gaurdian about one us students having an emergency about something or either to get a ride, it wouldn't make sense to take the phone away right?	Claim	Adequate
931428b846cb	A272AD6BD9AF	If you can't get in contact with the hospital, because a student can't breath wouldn't it make sense to just use our phone during free time if that happened to let them know, because you are usually not out during free time and if that happens it could be too late to rush the student to the hospital if we have to walk or run a long way to just get to your office or the front office to let someone know that, " hey there's a student across the other end of the school that is not breathing, then you would have to ruin all the way down to make sure so it would be to late for them to come right? Instead of just letting a student call then the ambulance would be here already and it wouldn't take forever	Evidence	Adequate
b4dc2a03c96b	A272AD6BD9AF	If we have to contact our parents to let them know that we are going to be gone and miss the bus, because of school activity then we have to let them know.	Evidence	Adequate
923eda75cf1a	A272AD6BD9AF	So think about it.	Concluding Statement	Ineffective
508e4c847336	A279E174CA64	Many students argue that community service is nothing that requires them, but many adults and some students feel it is an important part of our world, and it's an activity that everyone can participate in.	Lead	Effective
2724e90c5862	A279E174CA64	Everyone needs to help change the world, and I agree that community service is a big deed that students should be taking a part of,	Position	Effective
3c358b467d54	A279E174CA64	a lot of students claim they don't have enough time.	Counterclaim	Effective
d33ce63c3f94	A279E174CA64	Doing little things like walking your neighbors dog, or help babysit your cousins is enough for students who have extracurricular activities, and boat loads of homework. Many students do participate in community service, and many also do extracurricular activities.	Rebuttal	Effective
cd11ad1dee31	A279E174CA64	The main reason students say that they cannot participate in community services is because they play sports, or are on the dance team, or in English festival. They participate in something extracurricular, therefore they don't have the time between games and practices to balance out there schedule and their grades.	Evidence	Effective
15ec50371a34	A279E174CA64	The students grades are another important reason to either decide if or if you cannot participate in community services, let alone extracurricular activities.	Claim	Effective
c87013800d28	A279E174CA64	. I think the school should have a sign up sheet which requires every student to sign up for a community service.	Claim	Adequate
1001f8d09044	A279E174CA64	Now, not all community services are giving away food to the homeless, it's a simple thing such as tutoring a younger student, or cleaning up the lunchroom so all the volunteers who prepared the lunch don't have another burden on their shoulders.	Evidence	Effective
38ccf080f4f5	A279E174CA64	I think all students should do something for the community not just at home, but maybe the school can volunteer and help with the community service.	Claim	Adequate
4bb2335a6d43	A279E174CA64	Every student should do at least 2 community services. Maybe one at home and one at school	Evidence	Adequate
837fbd10b0b4	A279E174CA64	Just because some kids are complaining that they have to much homework or to many practices	Counterclaim	Adequate
9cba98fb3b62	A279E174CA64	doesn't mean that they can't throw in a little extra time for the community. Go to study hall or try to get some of your work done in school, instead of talking.	Rebuttal	Effective
6add113cc84e	A279E174CA64	If you are struggling with school work, then try to focus on that and then go towards the community services once your ready and caught up with school work.	Evidence	Adequate
3592b80d9b23	A279E174CA64	Now my opinion is that all students should participate in some sort of community services and still be able to balance out there grades and conflicting schedules. Everyone needs to be flexible, and try to help out the community for a change. It should be required, and every student should be able to handle a little community services. Thank you for taking the time to read this.	Concluding Statement	Effective
6aa5dbca0417	A27F852ECCC3	Students should be able to use their cell phones in school during any free time they have as long as they are not using them in class; during which time the phones should be turned off.	Position	Adequate
3eb22fe1989e	A27F852ECCC3	Some students need their cell phones, because some students have certain health problems	Claim	Adequate
a0e7b5a056a4	A27F852ECCC3	that sometimes could prevent them from making it to the nearest phone nearest way to contact someone for help. If this were to happen and the student had his/her cell phone on them than they would be able to text or call 911	Evidence	Adequate
296a8a2ed9c8	A27F852ECCC3	even home like say if they need anything brought to the office or brought to class for them.	Claim	Adequate
1e65a65449e5	A27F852ECCC3	This would also in turn free up phone lines in the schools main office	Claim	Adequate
bab21c0e56a1	A27F852ECCC3	so that the office workers job would be much quicker because no lines would be used up by any students needing to call home or wherever they must call, they could just use their cell phones.	Evidence	Adequate
930b9c993528	A27F852ECCC3	So take this matter into consideration, and maybe even call a school wide vote on it, and you don't even have to let students use them during free time such as between classes, or at lunch, or break. You can have a scheduled 15 minutes or so during the day and call it a cell phone break.	Evidence	Ineffective
9dcc538e2f47	A27F852ECCC3	So please, please allow students at least that much time to use their cell phones. Please go with policy 2. Besides, maybe if you allow students at least a little time to use their cell phones maybe, just maybe, they won't break the rules by using them in class anyway, so all I'm asking is just please take this letter into consideration.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
9f303c8ea977	A28E9B475935	My mother always said, "You will never learn if you stay at home, go to school to learn more things." Math, English, history, and science are some classes that students need to learn. If students take classes from home, then student will not learn so they will not benefit from it.	Lead	Adequate
c87151b7fad9	A28E9B475935	Students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home	Position	Adequate
671690fcd02e	A28E9B475935	because student will gain less exercise	Claim	Adequate
865b72efa928	A28E9B475935	students will get less social communication	Claim	Adequate
dad7eb06899f	A28E9B475935	and student will be less focus.	Claim	Adequate
5ae7f464c26f	A28E9B475935	Many claim, students will benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because they will feel more comparable	Claim	Adequate
cd16e9158426	A28E9B475935	However,students will not learn anything even if they feel more comparable at home. Clearly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home.	Evidence	Ineffective
1cc2194aaa85	A28E9B475935	To begin, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because students will gain less exercise	Claim	Adequate
5b75fbdd86a8	A28E9B475935	For example, Generic_Name, who attend classes at home before, said that he will get less exercise, now that he goes to school he gets more exercise than before. To further detail, two friends, Generic_Name and Generic_Name, both attend classes at home before, they would both say that they would gain very little exercise before going to school. Clearly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because students will gain less exercise.	Evidence	Adequate
c2f310a4a90a	A28E9B475935	Additionally,students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because students will get less social communication.	Claim	Adequate
b3a1d5739aed	A28E9B475935	For example, Generic_Name, a girl who use to attend classes at home, would not communicate much with other students at first, after some time she is able to communicate with other students. To further detail, Generic_Name, would talk very little to other students because he use to take classes at home, after a while he would talk to other students. Clearly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because students will get less social communication.	Evidence	Adequate
9a40918bf36a	A28E9B475935	Lastly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because student will be less focus.	Claim	Adequate
fc5d9c1e56db	A28E9B475935	For example, Generic_Name ,a student who attend classes at home, had to difficult time focusing on the lesson at home, some later she began to understand the lessons. To further detail, Generic_Name had a terrible time focusing on the lessons when he toke classes home, he said that his surrounding was very distracting. Clearly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes from at because student will be less focus.	Evidence	Adequate
ba5e00482c56	A28E9B475935	To concluded, student will gain less exercise, have less communication experience, and will be less focus on lessons are reasons why students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home. These three argument state why students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes from home	Concluding Statement	Adequate
8ede2f65fde8	A2A80E683990	The article "Driverless cars are coming" is a very encouraging on the behalf of driverless cars. these cars would be very helpful to those who text and drive. Sergey Brin, cofounder to Google believes that soon noone should even need cars.	Lead	Adequate
13d513b6c321	A2A80E683990	In 2009,Google had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions. their cars have drieven more than half a million miles without crashing, but these cars aren't exactly completely driverless. For example, if you were to buy a driverless car you'd stil have to stay alert, like any other non-driverless car, but you'd be able to take your eyes off the road for about 30 seconds. If you'll have to pay attention to the car as its driving, you'd have better luck just driving it yourself. if theres an accident, traffic issues,or roadwork, you'll end up being the one who has to drive for who knows how long	Evidence	Adequate
01479e9d77d9	A2A80E683990	i think that i'd have better luck just driving on my own.	Claim	Adequate
80359b71530c	A2A80E683990	People have been fascinated with driverless cars since the late 1950's. For example, in the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a soecial track. this track had been embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car. Engineer at Berkeley tried the same thing but this time they used magnetics with alternating polarity. The car would read positive and negative polarity messages in Binary code. The "smart-road" systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to the existing roads, but they were way to expensive. In the 1980's automakers would use speed sensors at the wheel in the creation of antilock breaks. Within 10 years, these sensors had become more advanced to detect and resopnd to danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. the information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine. this alowed better response and control than any human could manage alone. Sebastian Thrun, founder of the google car project, believes that the technology has finally began to catch up to the dreams. Before the 2000's, they didn't have all the sensors, the computers, or the mapping. the Radar was a device that cost two hundred thousand milion dollars.	Evidence	Ineffective
3d149e41d940	A2A80E683990	In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." This car could handle driving speeds up to 25 mph. This car had special touch sensors to make sure thatthe driver keeps their hands on the wheel. The cars could steer,accelerate, and brake themselves, but if there were any traffic incidents, the car would require human skills. This means that the driver would have to stay alert as if they were driving. To keep the driver alert, GM has developed seats that vibrate the driver's seat when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The google the car announces when the driver should be prepared to take over the wheel. Also, other options for the cars driver to stay alert is flashing on the windshield and on the heads up displays. Manufacturing is also considering cameras to watch the driver or make sure that they are remaining focused on the road	Evidence	Adequate
129c1f862bb8	A2A80E683990	I don't believe that a want a car watching me when i know its somebody else video taping me and my family. Think of how akward that would feel having a computer watch your every move in your car.	Claim	Adequate
9d5cd1083104	A2A80E683990	They think that the driver would get tired of waiting on their turn to drive	Claim	Adequate
91ebc5f6a0de	A2A80E683990	If you are a 15, 16, or 17 year old teenager who is figuring out how to drive,you'll get tired of waiting to drive, you'll be ready to put your hands on the wheel and show everyone that you've grown up. Dr. Werner, a BMW project manager driver says that "we have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." Some Manufactures hope to do that by bringin in car entertainment. THe purpose of the driverless car is to help texting and driving, this helps by keeping more teens out of accidents.	Evidence	Adequate
8da4d11cfeab	A2A80E683990	i think that driverless cars would be a waste of time because you'll still have to be alert, they'll puit camera's in your car and people shouldn't be texting and driving anyway,	Position	Adequate
3308dc36a0ed	A2EA2EC609DB	Some people say the face on mars was an alien artifac, but others think its just a natural landform. With supporting details from the article,	Lead	Adequate
0be27459ae7a	A2EA2EC609DB	I will assure you that it was just a natural landform.	Position	Adequate
29065523600b	A2EA2EC609DB	In paragraph seven, it states that the first picture to come out on a website (JPL) was a natural landform picture.	Claim	Adequate
c9029f272b7b	A2EA2EC609DB	It also says that there was no alien monument after all. If you actually read the article it says that the face is made of shadows. If you put it at a different angle then I bet there wouldn't be a face, there would just be bumps on the planet mars like any other planet.	Evidence	Adequate
78972f71d69c	A2EA2EC609DB	In paragraph twelve, the writer tells us that the picture shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa.	Claim	Adequate
fbc297bfd51b	A2EA2EC609DB	Those landforms are common around the American West.	Evidence	Adequate
9685bac730d3	A2EA2EC609DB	Lastly, aliens aren't real so how could something unreal make a face on mars?	Evidence	Ineffective
3dadecc23be9	A2EA2EC609DB	I know some people might want to belive that it was aliens, but it wasn't. Sometimes the earth/nature makes its own natural landforms, and we have to love it for what it created, not give all the credit to some unreal creature.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
0a10963d3667	A2FA635C9590	Electing a new president of the United States of America has been, and always will be, a big deal. One could be a state senator, a member of the legislative branch, or even an average citizen with zero involvement in governmental jobs/issues. The one thing that ties all of these people together - is that they're all citizens. As citizens, these people will care about who is running their country, what plans they have for it, and how those plans are carried out. Therefore, on behalf of the U.S., it is important to elect the correct person to rule a nation and keep it safe.	Lead	Effective
844542160c78	A2FA635C9590	The Electoral College is a flawed system used to elect presidents, and the American voting system should be based on popular vote	Position	Effective
66493ea9ad6b	A2FA635C9590	the votes of the Electoral College outweigh the votes of an everyday citizen,	Claim	Adequate
9c4563f7845e	A2FA635C9590	the Electoral College basically has the final say in who becomes the president of the United States of America.	Claim	Adequate
6cc0c4dbcffc	A2FA635C9590	One of the things that is wired throughout all three sources, is that electoral votes basicallly overpower the votes of the average citizen.	Claim	Effective
11f6b284b579	A2FA635C9590	When the average citizen does vote, however, their vote does not go toward the president. Their vote goes to the Electoral College, who then vote for the president. "[...] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote" (Posner 16).	Evidence	Effective
9f9936a44c11	A2FA635C9590	the winner of an election can win without owning the popular votes of an entire nation.	Claim	Effective
7995205541d7	A2FA635C9590	Basically, all that a candidate even needs is the majority votes of the Electoral College in order to win an election. "[...] according to a Gallup pole in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore - thanks to the quirks of the electoral college - won the popular vote but lost the presidency[...]" (Plumer 9). Collecting the votes of the Electoral College is the only concern of a candidate - therefore the only reason that candidates speak to the people is to influence them to cast votes for the Electoral College, which then cast votes for that candidate. "[...] Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes [...]" (Posner 18). It's as if the people are just physical steps that electoral voters use to get to the person that the Electoral college wants to be the president of the U.S. "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always" (Plumer 10). As mentioned in the article by Richard A. Posner, members of the Electoral College are chosen and expected to vote for their party's nominee. However, people don't always deliver what we expect from them. It is completly possible for an elector to change their mind, and cast their finalizing vote toward the opposite candidate. These members cast their votes directly to the candidate, and they can easily change their vote.	Evidence	Effective
6a8f1300ab32	A30020B4E5DB	Electoral Colleges are very important and should be in every "state"	Position	Adequate
f5233d50dbcf	A30020B4E5DB	Electoral colleges are where electors go to meet up and vote for president and vice president	Evidence	Ineffective
4b4bd88984cf	A30020B4E5DB	This is a great help because they are more educated in politics than the average citizen is.	Claim	Adequate
30e80ff3b7ea	A30020B4E5DB	With the knowledge in politics they can be trusted to make a good decisionon who to vote for.	Evidence	Adequate
7811395a1a41	A30020B4E5DB	The Electoral College has five hundred thirty eight electors. Each state has an elector for each of the members in the House of Representatives. Not only does each candiddate running for president have their own group of electors, but you will get two of your own.	Evidence	Ineffective

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Overall, there are plenty of other reasons that this method is unjust and unreasonable, but it simply could not all fit in one letter. I do hope that you take this concern very seriously and do your best to make the change you desire.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

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A20D6E252177

You seriously need to change this whole "Electoral College" voting system. It's not right and not accurate. Wouldn't it be fair if the people had a say in this? We..The People?

Position

Adequate

46985b5b1399

A20D6E252177

Popular vote definetly makes more sense in this case. It's proven that an electoral vote would sometimes end in a tie

Claim

Adequate

71496600a187

A20D6E252177

resulting in a "You're President, You're Vice President" scenario. No one wants to go through a tie cause the election would go to the House of Representatives and then they would decide who is who. That's pretty stupid...if I do say so myself. Now if the people, us, had a say in this...Then we'd defiently have a winner. No ties, No mistakes, No nothing. Just a plain, clean winner.

Evidence

Adequate

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The electoral college is unfair to voters to be honest. The electoral college is irrational, unfair, outdated and annoying.

Claim

Ineffective

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A20D6E252177

No one uses it anymore. Due to it being completely unfair to citizens and states alike.

Evidence

Ineffective

8fc82612f353

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The Electoral College rule says "It requires a presidential canidate to trans-regianl appeal."

Counterclaim

Adequate

53675c4255f0

A20D6E252177

Don't you think we know that? Then there's the fact that only "Big States" have a say, what about the smaller ones? There are people there too you know.

Rebuttal

Adequate

9805a584de22

A20D6E252177

The Electoral College does avoid the problem of "Run-Off Elections"

Counterclaim

Adequate

7fb03a95447d

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but that doesn't help the fact that we should all have a say.

Rebuttal

Adequate

aa2d2a4a6026

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Well, Nevertheless, you can understand why im so fed up with this "Electoral College" nonsense. It's stupid, outdated, and unfair.

Concluding Statement

Adequate

782026724ee9

A2237589F0FE

I personally don't think it is a very good idea to make it where kids with C average grades cant play sports and do other activities they like after school.

Position

Adequate

bc0c440c975e

A2237589F0FE

A C is still a passing grade, and even a D is a passing grade.

Claim

Adequate

a4b608b69637

A2237589F0FE

There are many people in college that I know who have C' s and they are doing great.

Evidence

Ineffective

4ea773efa122

A2237589F0FE

If you made it to where kids with C grades couldn't play sports it would may make some of them try a little bit harder

Counterclaim

Adequate

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A2237589F0FE

it may also make some just give up and not even try to do sports and after school activities.

Rebuttal

Adequate

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If the school did set this rule up then there would probably only be nine or ten kids that would actually be involved in the activities themselves. I said earlier that a D is still a passing grade, and it is. I mean it definitely isn't best passing grade, but it is better than an F. F stands for fail. This rule they could put up is basically saying "if your not a straight A student, then you cant do anything fun". Now this is all just my opinion on it all, there are a lot of facts involved to of what it would do to the school and its community though. Like it is said, many students have a grade C average. When I say many I mean a lot! I am also one of those students who has a grade C average so that's puts me on the side of not liking this idea

Evidence

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many straight A students wouldn't like this idea either.

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The reason I say that many straight A students wouldn't like this idea is because they would probably seem to be labeled as nerd's even more than they already, dumbly enough, are.

Evidence

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With kids having to have a B average and over all these years you would just have to have a C average, it would just mess everything up

Claim

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After school sports and activities shouldn't have to be "hard" to get into, and this idea would make it really hard.

Claim

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That's just it, it would be a bad idea to make C average graded kids not able to play sports. There are many kids who have a C average and that is a perfectly good passing grade. What would be the actual point to doing this anyway? School is hard enough for it is the twenty first century, and making it even harder and more stressful would be bad. To sum it all up, making kids with C average grades not able to play sports is a terrible idea. Thank you for your time!

Concluding Statement

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he election is coming up soon and so is voting. The Electoral College and the popular vote get to select the president of the United States every year. I want this year to be a little different

Lead

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This year I would like to see only the Electoral College vote for the president

Position

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The Electoral College knows all about thinking if the president is good enough for the country, and if he can be a good role model, or also a commander in chief. That is the reason why I would like to keep the Electoral College

Claim

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For example there are two candidates fighting to be president and it's time to vote and the Electoral College might look over to see if the president looks like he can keep his promise to keep the coutnry safe, to make this a better country or not . That's what they look for in a president. That's the reason wwhy we should keep the Electoral College

Evidence

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When the citizens want to vote for the president as well, they think of the same thing, if he's good enough for our country, and if he is going to keep us safe. The Electoral College knows a lot about picking the right president and they've been doing it for a long time

Evidence

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"The Electoral College consits of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. That's enough electors to vote wether or not the president should be this person or that person

Concluding Statement

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my name is STUDENT_NAME and I have notice you have two policies for all of us students here at the school

Lead

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So I have came to give you my opinion on what we should do, and that is, policy 1. To me policy 1 is better

Position

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because if the office can't get in contact with any parent/gaurdian about one us students having an emergency about something or either to get a ride, it wouldn't make sense to take the phone away right?

Claim

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If you can't get in contact with the hospital, because a student can't breath wouldn't it make sense to just use our phone during free time if that happened to let them know, because you are usually not out during free time and if that happens it could be too late to rush the student to the hospital if we have to walk or run a long way to just get to your office or the front office to let someone know that, " hey there's a student across the other end of the school that is not breathing, then you would have to ruin all the way down to make sure so it would be to late for them to come right? Instead of just letting a student call then the ambulance would be here already and it wouldn't take forever

Evidence

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If we have to contact our parents to let them know that we are going to be gone and miss the bus, because of school activity then we have to let them know.

Evidence

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So think about it.

Concluding Statement

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Many students argue that community service is nothing that requires them, but many adults and some students feel it is an important part of our world, and it's an activity that everyone can participate in.

Lead

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Everyone needs to help change the world, and I agree that community service is a big deed that students should be taking a part of,

Position

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a lot of students claim they don't have enough time.

Counterclaim

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Doing little things like walking your neighbors dog, or help babysit your cousins is enough for students who have extracurricular activities, and boat loads of homework. Many students do participate in community service, and many also do extracurricular activities.

Rebuttal

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The main reason students say that they cannot participate in community services is because they play sports, or are on the dance team, or in English festival. They participate in something extracurricular, therefore they don't have the time between games and practices to balance out there schedule and their grades.

Evidence

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The students grades are another important reason to either decide if or if you cannot participate in community services, let alone extracurricular activities.

Claim

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. I think the school should have a sign up sheet which requires every student to sign up for a community service.

Claim

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Now, not all community services are giving away food to the homeless, it's a simple thing such as tutoring a younger student, or cleaning up the lunchroom so all the volunteers who prepared the lunch don't have another burden on their shoulders.

Evidence

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I think all students should do something for the community not just at home, but maybe the school can volunteer and help with the community service.

Claim

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Every student should do at least 2 community services. Maybe one at home and one at school

Evidence

Adequate

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Just because some kids are complaining that they have to much homework or to many practices

Counterclaim

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doesn't mean that they can't throw in a little extra time for the community. Go to study hall or try to get some of your work done in school, instead of talking.

Rebuttal

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If you are struggling with school work, then try to focus on that and then go towards the community services once your ready and caught up with school work.

Evidence

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Now my opinion is that all students should participate in some sort of community services and still be able to balance out there grades and conflicting schedules. Everyone needs to be flexible, and try to help out the community for a change. It should be required, and every student should be able to handle a little community services. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Concluding Statement

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Students should be able to use their cell phones in school during any free time they have as long as they are not using them in class; during which time the phones should be turned off.

Position

Adequate

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Some students need their cell phones, because some students have certain health problems

Claim

Adequate

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that sometimes could prevent them from making it to the nearest phone nearest way to contact someone for help. If this were to happen and the student had his/her cell phone on them than they would be able to text or call 911

Evidence

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even home like say if they need anything brought to the office or brought to class for them.

Claim

Adequate

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This would also in turn free up phone lines in the schools main office

Claim

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so that the office workers job would be much quicker because no lines would be used up by any students needing to call home or wherever they must call, they could just use their cell phones.

Evidence

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So take this matter into consideration, and maybe even call a school wide vote on it, and you don't even have to let students use them during free time such as between classes, or at lunch, or break. You can have a scheduled 15 minutes or so during the day and call it a cell phone break.

Evidence

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So please, please allow students at least that much time to use their cell phones. Please go with policy 2. Besides, maybe if you allow students at least a little time to use their cell phones maybe, just maybe, they won't break the rules by using them in class anyway, so all I'm asking is just please take this letter into consideration.

Concluding Statement

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My mother always said, "You will never learn if you stay at home, go to school to learn more things." Math, English, history, and science are some classes that students need to learn. If students take classes from home, then student will not learn so they will not benefit from it.

Lead

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Students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home

Position

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because student will gain less exercise

Claim

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students will get less social communication

Claim

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and student will be less focus.

Claim

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Many claim, students will benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because they will feel more comparable

Claim

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However,students will not learn anything even if they feel more comparable at home. Clearly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home.

Evidence

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To begin, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because students will gain less exercise

Claim

Adequate

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For example, Generic_Name, who attend classes at home before, said that he will get less exercise, now that he goes to school he gets more exercise than before. To further detail, two friends, Generic_Name and Generic_Name, both attend classes at home before, they would both say that they would gain very little exercise before going to school. Clearly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because students will gain less exercise.

Evidence

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Additionally,students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because students will get less social communication.

Claim

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For example, Generic_Name, a girl who use to attend classes at home, would not communicate much with other students at first, after some time she is able to communicate with other students. To further detail, Generic_Name, would talk very little to other students because he use to take classes at home, after a while he would talk to other students. Clearly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because students will get less social communication.

Evidence

Adequate

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Lastly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home because student will be less focus.

Claim

Adequate

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For example, Generic_Name ,a student who attend classes at home, had to difficult time focusing on the lesson at home, some later she began to understand the lessons. To further detail, Generic_Name had a terrible time focusing on the lessons when he toke classes home, he said that his surrounding was very distracting. Clearly, students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes from at because student will be less focus.

Evidence

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To concluded, student will gain less exercise, have less communication experience, and will be less focus on lessons are reasons why students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes at home. These three argument state why students will not benefit if they are able to attend classes from home

Concluding Statement

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The article "Driverless cars are coming" is a very encouraging on the behalf of driverless cars. these cars would be very helpful to those who text and drive. Sergey Brin, cofounder to Google believes that soon noone should even need cars.

Lead

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In 2009,Google had cars that could drive independently under specific conditions. their cars have drieven more than half a million miles without crashing, but these cars aren't exactly completely driverless. For example, if you were to buy a driverless car you'd stil have to stay alert, like any other non-driverless car, but you'd be able to take your eyes off the road for about 30 seconds. If you'll have to pay attention to the car as its driving, you'd have better luck just driving it yourself. if theres an accident, traffic issues,or roadwork, you'll end up being the one who has to drive for who knows how long

Evidence

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i think that i'd have better luck just driving on my own.

Claim

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People have been fascinated with driverless cars since the late 1950's. For example, in the late 1950's, General Motors created a concept car that could run on a soecial track. this track had been embedded with an electrical cable that sent radio signals to a receiver on the front end of the car. Engineer at Berkeley tried the same thing but this time they used magnetics with alternating polarity. The car would read positive and negative polarity messages in Binary code. The "smart-road" systems worked surprisingly well, but they required massive upgrades to the existing roads, but they were way to expensive. In the 1980's automakers would use speed sensors at the wheel in the creation of antilock breaks. Within 10 years, these sensors had become more advanced to detect and resopnd to danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. the information from the sensors can cause the car to apply brakes on individual wheels and reduce power from the engine. this alowed better response and control than any human could manage alone. Sebastian Thrun, founder of the google car project, believes that the technology has finally began to catch up to the dreams. Before the 2000's, they didn't have all the sensors, the computers, or the mapping. the Radar was a device that cost two hundred thousand milion dollars.

Evidence

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In 2013, BMW announced the development of "Traffic Jam Assistant." This car could handle driving speeds up to 25 mph. This car had special touch sensors to make sure thatthe driver keeps their hands on the wheel. The cars could steer,accelerate, and brake themselves, but if there were any traffic incidents, the car would require human skills. This means that the driver would have to stay alert as if they were driving. To keep the driver alert, GM has developed seats that vibrate the driver's seat when the vehicle is in danger of backing into an object. The google the car announces when the driver should be prepared to take over the wheel. Also, other options for the cars driver to stay alert is flashing on the windshield and on the heads up displays. Manufacturing is also considering cameras to watch the driver or make sure that they are remaining focused on the road

Evidence

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I don't believe that a want a car watching me when i know its somebody else video taping me and my family. Think of how akward that would feel having a computer watch your every move in your car.

Claim

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They think that the driver would get tired of waiting on their turn to drive

Claim

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If you are a 15, 16, or 17 year old teenager who is figuring out how to drive,you'll get tired of waiting to drive, you'll be ready to put your hands on the wheel and show everyone that you've grown up. Dr. Werner, a BMW project manager driver says that "we have to interpret the driving fun in a new way." Some Manufactures hope to do that by bringin in car entertainment. THe purpose of the driverless car is to help texting and driving, this helps by keeping more teens out of accidents.

Evidence

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i think that driverless cars would be a waste of time because you'll still have to be alert, they'll puit camera's in your car and people shouldn't be texting and driving anyway,

Position

Adequate

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Some people say the face on mars was an alien artifac, but others think its just a natural landform. With supporting details from the article,

Lead

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I will assure you that it was just a natural landform.

Position

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In paragraph seven, it states that the first picture to come out on a website (JPL) was a natural landform picture.

Claim

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It also says that there was no alien monument after all. If you actually read the article it says that the face is made of shadows. If you put it at a different angle then I bet there wouldn't be a face, there would just be bumps on the planet mars like any other planet.

Evidence

Adequate

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In paragraph twelve, the writer tells us that the picture shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or messa.

Claim

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Those landforms are common around the American West.

Evidence

Adequate

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Lastly, aliens aren't real so how could something unreal make a face on mars?

Evidence

Ineffective

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I know some people might want to belive that it was aliens, but it wasn't. Sometimes the earth/nature makes its own natural landforms, and we have to love it for what it created, not give all the credit to some unreal creature.

Concluding Statement

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Electing a new president of the United States of America has been, and always will be, a big deal. One could be a state senator, a member of the legislative branch, or even an average citizen with zero involvement in governmental jobs/issues. The one thing that ties all of these people together - is that they're all citizens. As citizens, these people will care about who is running their country, what plans they have for it, and how those plans are carried out. Therefore, on behalf of the U.S., it is important to elect the correct person to rule a nation and keep it safe.

Lead

Effective

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The Electoral College is a flawed system used to elect presidents, and the American voting system should be based on popular vote

Position

Effective

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the votes of the Electoral College outweigh the votes of an everyday citizen,

Claim

Adequate

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the Electoral College basically has the final say in who becomes the president of the United States of America.

Claim

Adequate

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One of the things that is wired throughout all three sources, is that electoral votes basicallly overpower the votes of the average citizen.

Claim

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When the average citizen does vote, however, their vote does not go toward the president. Their vote goes to the Electoral College, who then vote for the president. "[...] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote" (Posner 16).

Evidence

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the winner of an election can win without owning the popular votes of an entire nation.

Claim

Effective

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Basically, all that a candidate even needs is the majority votes of the Electoral College in order to win an election. "[...] according to a Gallup pole in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore - thanks to the quirks of the electoral college - won the popular vote but lost the presidency[...]" (Plumer 9). Collecting the votes of the Electoral College is the only concern of a candidate - therefore the only reason that candidates speak to the people is to influence them to cast votes for the Electoral College, which then cast votes for that candidate. "[...] Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes [...]" (Posner 18). It's as if the people are just physical steps that electoral voters use to get to the person that the Electoral college wants to be the president of the U.S. "Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always" (Plumer 10). As mentioned in the article by Richard A. Posner, members of the Electoral College are chosen and expected to vote for their party's nominee. However, people don't always deliver what we expect from them. It is completly possible for an elector to change their mind, and cast their finalizing vote toward the opposite candidate. These members cast their votes directly to the candidate, and they can easily change their vote.

Evidence

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Electoral Colleges are very important and should be in every "state"

Position

Adequate

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Electoral colleges are where electors go to meet up and vote for president and vice president

Evidence

Ineffective

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This is a great help because they are more educated in politics than the average citizen is.

Claim

Adequate

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With the knowledge in politics they can be trusted to make a good decisionon who to vote for.

Evidence

Adequate

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The Electoral College has five hundred thirty eight electors. Each state has an elector for each of the members in the House of Representatives. Not only does each candiddate running for president have their own group of electors, but you will get two of your own.

Evidence

Ineffective