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c62c983dca2a | A3EF457B5F61 | Ill like to talk to you about us students being required to perform community service. | Lead | Adequate |
93c9f4facb8e | A3EF457B5F61 | My position on this subject is the students should have the choice to do community service or not, they shouldn't be required to do. | Position | Adequate |
dfbc9cf40fae | A3EF457B5F61 | It should be our choice to do community service or not because first of all we as children or preteens shouldn't be required or forced to do those kind of things | Claim | Adequate |
a950ffc8cfc6 | A3EF457B5F61 | we our children not adults, and there is nothing in this country stating we have to do community service. | Evidence | Ineffective |
206f34d7b8ef | A3EF457B5F61 | Also sometimes from school, sports, and other activities we do we are very busy as is | Claim | Adequate |
f30a11645cfe | A3EF457B5F61 | adding community service on to that we just make us more stressed as we sometimes are with all those things going on | Evidence | Adequate |
1de447945e27 | A3EF457B5F61 | Another reason why we shouldn't is that we want to hang out with friends and do a lot of fun things with them | Claim | Adequate |
c15fda604536 | A3EF457B5F61 | such as going to the mall, seeing a movie, and playing outside on a nice day, but if we have community service we cant do all those things. | Evidence | Adequate |
695b3070b22f | A3EF457B5F61 | with a lot of people saying children have to start getting outside and getting more active, what are we going to do if we have community service to do | Evidence | Adequate |
dda9ba26c839 | A3EF457B5F61 | we wont be able to get more active, are we | Claim | Adequate |
54c2aa20ece3 | A3EF457B5F61 | sometimes we receive a lot of homework at school or have a big project to do, | Claim | Adequate |
4cc8ca7185e7 | A3EF457B5F61 | hen if we have to do community service we might not be able to finish it before school the next day, which can get us behind on what we were doing in that class and ruining our grades. | Evidence | Adequate |
f32108f2fc13 | A3EF457B5F61 | This is why i think students shouldn't have to be required to do community service coming from a student stand point. Thank you for reading and i hope you consider my concern | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9fcd20743fc3 | A40F9F8D7CFC | Why should the people of the united states vote if the electoral votes are the onlt ones that count? | Lead | Adequate |
7071b7d223c3 | A40F9F8D7CFC | I feel it should be up to the people of the united states not all up to the electors. | Position | Adequate |
9c744b22b12e | A40F9F8D7CFC | i feel we as the people of the united states that are votes should count | Claim | Ineffective |
54e79a7571cb | A40F9F8D7CFC | we shouldnt have to depend on someone else. | Claim | Adequate |
422547c5aebf | A40F9F8D7CFC | Even though if the electors tie and then the peoples votes count it would be fair but we be able to fight for are country at the age eighteen and be able to vote but still not count is unfair because that would then be the boss of are country and are troops. Also they can leave us to fight over seas and defend are country but we have electors who stay in th u. s all there life and get to chose who run the untied states.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
cadb4e49d607 | A40F9F8D7CFC | It should not be are votes through another person we dont know. For an example that would be like giving a stranger three-thousand dollors and telling it to mail it to one of your family members its a fifty-fifty chance its going to actully get to them. | Evidence | Adequate |
c8ccbd0329c8 | A40F9F8D7CFC | I just feel that are votes should matter more then electoral votes we get harmed by what ever the president does not any of the electorals. Most of the people now days dont even get into the elections for that reason that they dont even matter. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
6f9ac761efd6 | A40F9F8D7CFC | Plus that was the old way of doing the presidency but now were in 2014 it should change cause it only will effect the people of the united states. | Evidence | Adequate |
30390e4e1ad0 | A4104F998C73 | It has come to the attention of the student body that you are considering two possible plans of action to deal with the evident cell phone problem. | Lead | Effective |
e4afc224d452 | A4104F998C73 | I will go ahead and start by telling you that taking away cell phones all together will only cause misery and sorrow for all. It is my suggestion and that of the school that you would allow us to have our phones available for use in our free time and lunch periods. | Position | Effective |
adb7acb0f3c4 | A4104F998C73 | Of course they would be turned off in class as they should. There are so many reasons that we use phones as much as we do and taking them away will cause a tension like no other. The good outweighs the bad in this situation for many reasons and I am prepared to prove that. | Claim | Effective |
d5a7461dc133 | A4104F998C73 | The bottom line and one of the main reasons we should have our phones available for use is the connection. | Claim | Effective |
5aac6ded2498 | A4104F998C73 | Kids need to be connected and be able to interact with each other. It is simply part of being a growing person. We need that constant interaction to settle our nerves and keep us up on our friends lives. Obviously the class room is not the appropriate place or time for that. However, kids texting and talking in their own free time is completely acceptable. Connection is important to kids. Take it away and all is lost for us all. | Evidence | Effective |
1f3fccfa02b3 | A4104F998C73 | There is a big question that goes through a teens mind every time they are told to put there phone away. That question is what is 'What's the point of having a phone if I can't use it?' While it may seem immature and childish it is a legitimate question | Evidence | Adequate |
9021017c0965 | A4104F998C73 | Is there really a point of having a phone if you are constantly told to put it up and keep it off. | Claim | Adequate |
0a1316a04049 | A4104F998C73 | Do you think that a kid or teen texting in the hall is going to bring the world to a stop. Ask yourself for you may have a cell phone to 'what's the point?' | Evidence | Adequate |
ccce84e8395b | A4104F998C73 | As the day goes by and the homework piles up stress is immense to say the least. One of the great things about cell phones is that they are great at relieving stress | Claim | Effective |
f6dafe07c33d | A4104F998C73 | At some points of the day it seems like your world is going to explode. A funny text from a friend is a sure fire way to cheer up your day. Stress cushions and massages can claim to calm you down but the best way to cool your nerves and get a grip is by sitting down and talking to a friend over the phone. Take some of the | Evidence | Adequate |
b4d9557fe4b0 | A4104F998C73 | It may be one of the worst mistakes made by adults, thinking that taking away cell phones will solve all of their problems. It will only make kids made ,who will in turn make adults and teachers alike, miserable. If you haven't found out already, cell phones are actually for the benefit of all, even in a school environment. It will make life for teachers a breeze and likewise for kids. For all of these reasons and so many more I would ask you with the sincerity of my heart that you will please consider letting us use our cell phones in school.
| Concluding Statement | Effective |
c576189b503f | A42A600EEB0D | Technology make the lives easier of millions of people.
It makes communication easier and more convenient.
People all over the world want to integrate technology into as many aspects of their lives as possible.
Schools are jump on this bandwagon by integrating online distance learning and video conferencing into their curriculum.
Some educators find this would enhance the education of students, because they can learn during most any circumstances, but some believe this would be much more challenging and inconvenient because of internet issues and the situation of students when are are absent from school. | Lead | Effective |
5651c6c1726d | A42A600EEB0D | Students would not benefit from being able to attend classes from home through video conferencing and other forms of distance learning. | Position | Effective |
73a4bea0fa39 | A42A600EEB0D |
When students are absent, they are absent for a reason, whether good or bad.
They are not able or willing to attend school, and they are not going to attend online classes from home.
| Claim | Effective |
5d4afcd1a0de | A42A600EEB0D | A student who is too sick to attend school, needs to rest, and concentrate on getting better so they can attend school, not worry about the assignments they have to do or lessons they need to learn.
If school is canceled for inclement weather, many students might lose power or internet service and not be able to get work done.
Students who have to travel often due to highly competitive sports do not have time to work on assignments while at tournaments, games, and competitions, but coaches for clubs and travel programs have rules about the grades their athletes have to keep to be able to play and travel; this will keep athletes from getting far behind and from being unprepared on graded assignments on new subjects. It would not be beneficial for students to have virtual learning because, when students are not going to come to school they are not going to do school work.
| Evidence | Effective |
d1a54fcf982c | A42A600EEB0D |
Technology often has problems and cannot be guaranteed to work and not every student does not has access to internet connection. | Claim | Effective |
4432eb1cccde | A42A600EEB0D | Technology, in some areas, does not work every day and sometimes cannot be used at all.
At Generic_School, there are countless days when the the internet is completely down and no electronic devices can be used.
Teachers who have planned to use technology for their lesson have to come up with something different to do, with no preparation time, which leads to misusing class time at the fault of the technology errors.
If a teacher assigns work over a weekend, while the school can provide a laptop, they cannot provide wifi and internet connection in the homes of their students.
Many students do not have the funds to pay for wifi and are not able to drive to a library to connect to the internet.
Even if a student has technology, there is always a large chance their technology might not work.
This is not the fault of the student and they should not be penalized for it.
Technology caused student to be more stressed and worried bout whether or not their assignment will upload on time, or if a lesson will load and play, and it is not necessary.
Technology is not practical or easily accessible for many students.
| Evidence | Effective |
c579c0a99009 | A42A600EEB0D | Some would argue that their are students who want to continue learning when they are not at school, and they will be the ones to do the work assigned and benefit from it.
| Counterclaim | Adequate |
7d313abcd7dd | A42A600EEB0D | Teachers and educators would say those are the students the assignments are made for in the first place, but it is not fair to the students who do the work if the majority does not. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
a4eb6a1bffe5 | A42A600EEB0D | A student who comes inside on her snow day to work on homework, watch lessons, and turn everything in on time, but gets back to school and listen to the same lesson again because her peers did not learn the information, is wasting her time.
The students who do not do the assignment are also wasting the time of the teacher who made the lessons and assignments.
For the students who might attempt to do the work, there is nothing stopping them from sitting on their phone during online lectures and nothing stopping them from searching for answers online, making distance learning completely ineffective
Many students do not do the homework assigned while in class when the directions are given to them in person, so they will not put in the extra effort from home.
| Evidence | Effective |
5bd6f64e1cfe | A42A600EEB0D | While distance learning may seem great, it is not practical or time effective.
Distance learning and virtual lectures may seem like a great way to adapt the classroom to more modern standards, but is not time effective, realistic or easily accessible to all.
Students will not benefit from being able to attend classes from home it would only waste the time of teachers and students who do the assignments.
Technology issues are too great a problem for virtual classrooms to be practical and when a student does not come to school they are not going to attend an online lecture of do extra school work at home.
Students are not able to get the same quality information and education from an online video as they get from a lesson given by a teacher in person that can be adapted for each class.
Online distance learning is not beneficial to students, and should not be implemented in schools. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
5c9ae54c5729 | A42D860C93B0 | Dear Senator of the state of Florida,
I belive there is something wrong with our voting system. Evidence has shown that our electoral system has shown some minor errors. In the election 2000 George W. Bush won because he had more electoral votes than his oppenenet Al Gore. But, Al Gore had more popular votes than Bush. | Lead | Effective |
586012615591 | A42D860C93B0 | If this great country of ours is a democracy, shouldnt be the president decided by the people for the people. | Position | Adequate |
21c12a600c44 | A42D860C93B0 | The electoral college has been around for 100-200 years now. When are founding fathers came to this country, they never said to have a voting system like this. | Claim | Adequate |
a23e3667975a | A42D860C93B0 | The people voted and those were counted and that was how the president was decied. IN the 1960's John F. Kennedy was running for president. In Lousiana race and segragation was still happening. The legislature of the state tried to change the electoral vote so all the pouplar votes would count against Kennedy. so the votes of the voter will have never counted. | Evidence | Adequate |
10dff645b175 | A42D860C93B0 | But the system of working is also a good thin. the votes can be avergae easier | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
212cd36e409c | A478B81F277D | state senator i am writing this letter to argue in favor of keeping the electoral college and changing to election by polulor vote for the president of the united states. | Position | Adequate |
00cd73783dc1 | A478B81F277D | peolpe and citizens have the right to vote for who they think would be a good leader for ower counrty. | Claim | Adequate |
b596906054dc | A478B81F277D | I think that we should keep it like this because if we dont have enugh peolple to vote there may be a 100% that there will be a tie | Claim | Adequate |
6439cb1abd9f | A478B81F277D | Like in 1976 there was a tie if a mere 5,559 voters in ohio and 3,687 voters in hawaii had voted the other way there wouldnt have been a tie. I do know that under the electoral college system, voters vote for the president ,but for a slate of electors ,who in turn elect the president. I also know that the peolpe who pick the electors in the firs place depend on the state. | Evidence | Ineffective |
db451b2a2cce | A478B81F277D | In conclution , i would like to make this argue because i think that we should be the ones that get the chance to vote for some one that i think we enough trust in please i hope that you understand the reason to why i am arguing in favor of keeping the electoral college and changing to election by populor vote for the president of the united states | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0358ebd2f2f2 | A47BE7BB6F08 | The Electoral college is a proccess that was established in the constitution by the founding fathers as a compromise between the votes in congress and popular vote of certified citizens that leads to how they select the president.
The Electoral college has electors who actually vote for the president and these votes are counted by congress. The Electoral college holds 538 electors , but it is required the at least 270 electors must vote in order to elect a president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
560d67f8c029 | A47BE7BB6F08 | where the people do have a chance to vote and their vote is seen as a popular vote , but it seems like the electors votes count more than the peoples. | Evidence | Adequate |
6629bd918158 | A47BE7BB6F08 | The electoral college has been a way of electing our president for years , but there is one question . Do the peoples votes really matter? | Claim | Effective |
25111cd20670 | A47BE7BB6F08 | In the electoral college there has been cases where the people voted for a president but yet the electors chose otherwise , so are they really representing our votes or are they just getting Americans to believe that their votes actually count? | Evidence | Adequate |
444c9c73c3d0 | A47BE7BB6F08 | Under the Electoral college system voters don't really vote for the president. | Claim | Adequate |
46db2702fba0 | A47BE7BB6F08 | Voters are actually voting for the slate electors who in turn elect the president.
For example if you lived in Texas and wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for the slate of the amount of democratic electors that are pledged to Kerry.
If they won the statewide election ,then they would go to congress and kerry would get the electoral votes from the amount of slate that Texas has. | Evidence | Adequate |
3fd18b208272 | A47BE7BB6F08 | The electoral college is not fair to the voters. | Claim | Effective |
cf64b3267391 | A47BE7BB6F08 | This reason is because of their winner takes all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in the states they feel they have no chance of winning. They only focus on the
"swing" states , the states they feel they have a chance in or feel they have to win over. During the 2000 campaign , seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all and the largest media didn't get to see a single campaign ad. Candidates only visit states they feel are important to them which is considered unfair to the voters who actually vote for them. | Evidence | Effective |
0cb1a1da36c8 | A47BE7BB6F08 | The electoral college method may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. The fact that they feel their vote has no effect, they pay less attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote. | Evidence | Effective |
539f9869fdb4 | A47BE7BB6F08 | The people's votes should matter because it is our country these choies affect. The electoral college method is discouraging some of the voters to vote. | Claim | Effective |
6e5a2dcb9e2d | A47BE7BB6F08 | Lets get rid of the electoral college and let the people's vote actuaully matter. | Position | Effective |
f657cc37eea7 | A49E1A5FA91B | I am writing you a letter in regards of the electoral college. | Lead | Adequate |
1847562b7c1f | A49E1A5FA91B | I believe we should abolish it completely. I believe that we should change our voting system to election by popular vote for the president of the United Sates. | Position | Effective |
d70e5c9fc180 | A49E1A5FA91B | While it is a good system, it is not reliable and does not let the people truly decide who their representative will be. | Claim | Effective |
1d21abfe2102 | A49E1A5FA91B | It does bring some certainty of outcome but not as much as it should. | Claim | Effective |
5100df8528bb | A49E1A5FA91B | The electoral college must be abolished because it does not let the people truly decide who their president will be. | Claim | Effective |
44afa222f6cf | A49E1A5FA91B | While it does allow them to vote for a slate of electors who then elect the president usually based off of the popular vote, | Counterclaim | Effective |
4a342c0d1ada | A49E1A5FA91B | they do not always vote for who they are supposed to. The slate of electors that the people vote for are supposed to be trusted to vote for what the popular vote says, they do not always do so. | Rebuttal | Effective |
fc34f15c22e4 | A49E1A5FA91B | A good example of that is in 2000, when Al Gore ran against George W Bush. Al Gore won the popular vote nationwide over Bush, he still didnt win the presidency because the electoral college did not stay true to their word and voted for Bush. That is because, as shown in Source 3, paragraph 15, " When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. | Evidence | Effective |
48b713199c27 | A49E1A5FA91B | So while you might think your individual vote makes a difference | Counterclaim | Effective |
8714250fb9f1 | A49E1A5FA91B | it doesnt at all, for you are not choosing which presidential candidate to vote for, you are voting for someone else to vote for the president who might not always stay true to their word and vote for a different candidate. | Rebuttal | Effective |
e9e065c780d5 | A49E1A5FA91B | Although the electoral college does bring better certainty of outcome than a popular vote, it does not have the certainty it claims to have. | Claim | Effective |
6d23a29798d3 | A49E1A5FA91B | In Source 2, paragraph 12 it states, "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." This is a big worry because the electoral college holds a total of 538 votes which is definetely possible to cause a tie. If this were to happen, then the vote would be thrown to the House of Representatives where state delegations would vote on the president. Then the concept of the presidential campaigns would become pointless because the point of campaining is to try to win over large, swing states to ensure more votes. Because the bigger the states population, the more votes they hold in the electoral college. But that would only work if it was in the Senates hands because the amount of representatives in the Senate for each state is based off of population, whereas the amount of representatives in the House of Representatives is always two for each state. So if the vote was thrown into the House of Representatives hands, then whichever candidate who holds claim over the most states, regardless of size, would almost automatically win the election because each state holds equal say in their vote. | Evidence | Effective |
a5e15199d4c5 | A49E1A5FA91B | So because the electoral college is obviously unfair, it should be abolished. Because the voters are told they decide who reopresents them, yet they do not. There is a possibility, while slim that a president could win the popular votes, yet lose the election because of the way the electoral college is set up. So because it unfair to the presidential candidates, it should be abolished and we should have elections controlled by popular votes. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5be5505997cc | A4C33694BE0C | Did you know in 1976 a picture was taken of a "face" on Mars?
Most people believe that it is a sign that there is life on Mars or a sign of aliens. | Lead | Adequate |
a2522d9b20ee | A4C33694BE0C | But, people who agree with NASA know it is actually just a mesa. | Position | Adequate |
b9f04a848dca | A4C33694BE0C | There is two sides to this picture of a "face" either you think it is a sing of life or it is a mesa. So, the figure similar to a face isn't a face because it is similar to landforms on Earth, the figure is to big to be a real face, and it is actually a mesa. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b0f59d8f84fb | A4C33694BE0C | Matter of fact, the figure/landform on Mars similar to a "face" is a lot like landforms on planet Earth. | Claim | Adequate |
97383b227cd5 | A4C33694BE0C | For example,"'It reminds me most of Middle Buttle in the Snake River Plain of Idaho,' says Garvin."(12) This quote provides evidence that the figure/landform on Mars is similar to landforms on Earth. So, this is evidence that the figure on Mars is just a landform like what we have on Earth. | Evidence | Adequate |
32bb231a075e | A4C33694BE0C | Next, the figure similar to a "face" is to big to be a real face. | Claim | Ineffective |
ce3a6d70d83a | A4C33694BE0C | For example,"An enormous head nearly two miles from end to end."(1) This quote shows that the head is to big to be a real face. Like, what face is two miles long from end to end? | Evidence | Ineffective |
79a9e63b4e6c | A4C33694BE0C | Last but not least, the figure/landform similar to a "face" is actually a mesa! | Claim | Adequate |
9c4773cae28c | A4C33694BE0C | For example,"What the picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa - landforms common around the American West."(12) This quote proves that the figure/landform is just a mesa. There is no life on Mars or aliens making signs. It is simply just a common landform. | Evidence | Adequate |
c019782680a6 | A4C33694BE0C | Finally, the figure/landform similar to a face isn't a face. It isn't a face because it is a common landform on Earth. It is way to big to be a real face. Also, the figure/landform is simply just a mesa. These are all reasons and proof that the landform on Mars isn't a sign of life or aliens it is just a common landform. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
aad9851d51bc | A4C9096A123B | I think the electoral college should be changed and people old enough to vote should be able to chhose who they want to be president | Position | Adequate |
7551a7b008f5 | A4C9096A123B | I think people should be able to choose who they want to be prsident because. And he start destroying the economy and he starts taking away things that some people need to survive or maintain. | Evidence | Ineffective |
817aa0905dc5 | A4C9096A123B | One reason I think citizens should be able to choose who they want to be prsident because what if someone gets elected as president and for example he or she decides to begin a marshal law in the whole united states. | Claim | Adequate |
c975d8bbbfd3 | A4C9096A123B | Then he starts putting a chip in evevyones body and we get told when to eat and when not to eat. Then he or she starts to put us in concentration camps and we get paid 2 cents a hour and killed if we dont cooperate. | Evidence | Ineffective |
2a2d3cd5aec0 | A4C9096A123B | Another reason I think citizens should be able to choose who they want to be president is because. Its not fair to people cause that would be like a citizens vote doesnt even count and the government doesnt really care about what citizens think and they dont care about how we feel. | Claim | Ineffective |
b13be273b818 | A4C9096A123B | Then if the wrong person gets elected and he or does something no one likes everybody gone be mad cause they didnt for that to happen.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
0925cfbb04f9 | A4C9096A123B | Finally I think citizens should be able to vote for who they want to be president is because I honestly dont think the government doent care how anybody feel. | Claim | Ineffective |
a05ae41526b6 | A4C9096A123B | And The Electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no canidate recieves a majority of the votes cast. The electoral college method for selecting presidents may turn off potential voters for a canidate who has no carrying their state. | Evidence | Ineffective |
507ca40551a9 | A4C9096A123B | Now you see why I think people should be able to choose who they want to be president. I hope you enjoy reading my letter and i hope you see where im coming from and what im talking about. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b2e3e355c68a | A500CCF711B0 | I think that every student should do community service. | Position | Adequate |
5edb2fe71620 | A500CCF711B0 | This is because it helps out the school, the community, and it helps make them a better person. | Claim | Adequate |
3df8d53ede4f | A500CCF711B0 | It doesn't even take that long to do some sort of service.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
848e1e52df8c | A500CCF711B0 | But if everyone got into the attitude that if we help someone then something good might happen to them one day. | Evidence | Adequate |
ea08264bd715 | A500CCF711B0 | If no one volunteered to do anything than the school would look bad, the community to, and no one would be a better person.
Hard work will pay off one day.
See if we do community service it could help the school, the community, or maybe even make that person a better person. | Evidence | Ineffective |
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