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39c7ead03f31 | A500CCF711B0 | If everyone did community service than the school would look nice and the teachers would be more organized. | Claim | Adequate |
47b5593011cb | A500CCF711B0 | The community it would look clean and far from litter. | Evidence | Adequate |
c4bc0423f8e7 | A500CCF711B0 | The person once they are done with helping they will feel better about themselves. | Evidence | Adequate |
56fc43208b7b | A500CCF711B0 | But where would the world be without some sort of community service to make a difference.
By starting a community service project the world would be a better place. | Evidence | Adequate |
40a411027c40 | A500CCF711B0 | The thing of it is that community service doesn't even take that long. | Claim | Adequate |
399b46a469d6 | A500CCF711B0 | You could do it for an hour or you could do five.
Just a little bit counts.
When you help someone for that little bit of time you are making them happy not just yourself.
So go do that little bit and make yourself feel better, other people feel better, and even make the world a better place. | Evidence | Adequate |
eb945d5ec605 | A500CCF711B0 | You know when you help others something good will happen to you one day.
| Claim | Ineffective |
6b61f1aacad3 | A500CCF711B0 | But if you have this attitude that nothing good will ever come out of helping someone you would be wrong. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
d82133880d9e | A500CCF711B0 | It won't happen right away but give it time.
If you are happy and have a good attitude about what will happen to you and someone else is happy because of you then you have done a good job.
| Rebuttal | Ineffective |
6451ef64fa5b | A500CCF711B0 | But without a program to do anything like this then no one will know what it is like.
If no one volunteered to help out with anything that had to do with work then where would the world be.
The schools would look really bad because if no one helped them how would it be anything.
The community you have people who help clean it up they do it because they want to not because they have to.
The people wanted to make the community look nice so that way they don't have to live in a disgusting place.
But if kids don't learn now that helping is good in anyway then they will be no one because they didn't try to make a difference. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
230d0db68d09 | A55300746CE7 | Hoping for a mere 538 people to vote for our nations president seems like an unfair way of voting | Position | Adequate |
fbf7c922e9da | A55300746CE7 | The Electoral College is a process of voting in which 538 electors vote for the new president for our nation, where 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Which ever elective has the most votes from states is the winner. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ff4b1d9218f8 | A55300746CE7 | I believe that if the Electoral College was abolished, then we can have a more fair way of voting. | Claim | Adequate |
9f1414979174 | A55300746CE7 | Sure, The electoral college has some perks like a certainty of outcome | Counterclaim | Adequate |
1051eb988018 | A55300746CE7 | but there is more negatives on keeping it. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
8de3b6cefc69 | A55300746CE7 | If we got rid of the Electoral College for good and replaced it for a classic "most-votes wins" election then the nation can have a clear view to who their votes go to. This way, votes aren't decided by popular electoral votes. | Evidence | Adequate |
7d1196710355 | A55300746CE7 | The president should win over the most of our country with good qualitys that people want to see. | Claim | Adequate |
8949c4061a89 | A55300746CE7 | People need to open their eyes and see "When you vote for a candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors." (Posner, In Defense of the Electoral College) If you vote for your favorite candidate you are voting for the state to win by popular vote. We should keep it simple. Add up everyones vote for whom they voted, and who ever has more votes wins. | Evidence | Adequate |
e7ea35ea3cc6 | A55300746CE7 | "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational."(Plumer, The Indefensible Electoral College) It says it all, when the Founding Fathers made the Electoral college, the country was a lot smaller than it is today. The Electoral College was needed because there was a chance that the election could be tied. Today, the country is huge. The chance of a tie 1 in a trillion chance. I feel that we should give it a try, and abolish the College. This nation stands by freedom, and voting should be a choice. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
dc2a17ed3c76 | A57F5B6E1247 | There is one particular issue that has been boggling my brain recently. It is none other than the electoral college system. | Lead | Adequate |
818bb634a116 | A57F5B6E1247 | Irrational, | Claim | Adequate |
b282008110ef | A57F5B6E1247 | unfair , | Claim | Adequate |
592019e7c126 | A57F5B6E1247 | outdated is exactly what the electoral college system is. | Claim | Adequate |
38c3e9567536 | A57F5B6E1247 | Isn't the virtues of American's built on foundations such as rationality, equality/fairness, and mobility? | Evidence | Adequate |
f0e662ad219f | A57F5B6E1247 | The head of the United States government isn't even elected to the standards that we, the American people, hold ourselves to. | Claim | Adequate |
56e1a2533068 | A57F5B6E1247 | With our current system, hundreds of thousands of Americans votes don't matter. This mass of people is citizens of eligibility to vote. Where are there rights? What does this say about our system? The "winner takes all theory" ignores voters. If a state leans 51% democrat, then the entire state is accounted for the democratic party. What about those 49% of republicans. Where does their vote go? - down the toliet along with the credibility and accuracy of the electoral college. | Evidence | Effective |
fdd85414d1ee | A57F5B6E1247 | Now, if this predicament occurs in near half of our 50 states, a candidate who did not recieve the popular vote will reign triumphant over a candidate who a majority of the American people elected to be their new president. | Claim | Effective |
c60ffc7732d0 | A57F5B6E1247 | According to, "The Indefensible College", by Bradford Plummer, Americans lose out on more than just an acountable vote. Candidates don't even spend time in the states they are certain of having no chance in winning. Logically, candidates only spend their time in the "swing states" where they could possibly steal al of that states eleectoral college votes (lines 13-20). Shockingly 17 states didn't see a single candidate during the 2000 election (lines 20-21). We sure did suceed and ignoring hundreds of thousands Americans there. | Evidence | Effective |
66883b321f60 | A57F5B6E1247 | This neglect isn't the fault of the candidates though. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
82346e47683e | A57F5B6E1247 | There is no childish, frivilolus blame to be placed. Simply stated, the fault lies in our electoral college system. The candidates are just playing the game of the electoral college. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
af08c373434c | A57F5B6E1247 | The counterclaim for my argument may suggest that the certainty of outcome and the expulsion of run-off elections is enough to substantiate the electoral college. | Counterclaim | Effective |
78eefee8481e | A57F5B6E1247 | Are you saying that America doesn't have the time to recount votes to ensure the prosperity of the American people. Is that the messege you want to project? | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
22d2646417b7 | A57F5B6E1247 | The certainty of outcome is ludicrous as well. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
9babcc11ba4d | A57F5B6E1247 | Source 3, "In Defense to the Electoral College", even admits that the electoral college is a non-democratic method of selecting a president (lines 15-17). Liars, we are liars then. Americans project an image of America to the world that we are a peacful democracy. However, if the way that we select our leaders isn't even democratic, why are we portraying this false mirage. The electoral college is an anachronism (lines 15- 16). We are a stage four country on the demographic treansitions model. Therefore, our aspirations should be looking forward and not rooted in the past. | Evidence | Effective |
b08143b12654 | A57F5B6E1247 | The electoral college system is a mock of the American people and an outdated idea that does not fit in with our current state as a whole. | Position | Effective |
48bac3161f3e | A57F5B6E1247 | A win by the popular vote is much more commendable by a landslide victory on false pretences. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
706e195b3f2e | A59032F47FAE | The technology and cars has made the developers to invest on cars. The cars have all change time by having something in common . The cars that have been used for this technology is made by google. Google its a company that has internet wireless and its a huge company that only makes technology better. The car that has been desing has many manifactures going on . When they build a the workers they all have their positions and if i would be able to work in this car my position would be the antolock brakes. The antilock brakes prevents the driver to fall out of there is an actsident. Also in the article says that having unshape cars its bad or even if there is something weird of something new they think is bad | Evidence | Ineffective |
aa5076277f54 | A59032F47FAE | My conclusion is that if you think that havind an unshaped car is bad or even if it looks weird dont think that its a bad car because technology its changing our daily lifes and how we see the un expected about it. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
960cfcdbb40b | A59C88B945A3 | I don't think its Aliens, it has to be the way the land formed its self. | Position | Adequate |
b746eb988cb4 | A59C88B945A3 | My space partner totally disagrees with me, saying that it is aliens | Claim | Adequate |
407d22523370 | A59C88B945A3 | Some people believe in Aliens unlike me. We have not discovered any site of Aliens for a very long time, intill we discovered this face. How could Aliens even do this? Did the Alien just die and sit there for 10,000 years? | Evidence | Ineffective |
eddd4b1ba527 | A59C88B945A3 | It is very possible for landform to make a odd looking face | Claim | Adequate |
a4b761f5daa3 | A59C88B945A3 | My space patner thinks that Aliens made the face by dieing and sittig there for s long time. He thinks that they are so smart they made that face to drag humans into Mars. Some Alien maybe had to make a sacrifice? I think that landform and the sun had something to do with it. The sun probably melted some land, or maybe it moved just right to make this face. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3227b90811dc | A59C88B945A3 | The fact that "The Face of Mars" got popular and got out there suprised me | Claim | Ineffective |
139e72819d80 | A59C88B945A3 | I would be kinda shocked though, if I was someone at home and someone comes and tells me "They descovered a Face on Mars". I would defentely be a little curious. | Evidence | Ineffective |
73e74b4b1b30 | A59C88B945A3 | Me and my partner have came to a conclusion that it was landform. That there is still no site of Aliens. That dosen't mean we woun't stop looking. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b7a46e1153f6 | A5A55FE930C4 | Today, technology is rapidly advancing virtually everywhere. The iPhone, electric cars, large appliances, and many more useful new technological inventions have improved and helped assist everyone with their everyday tasks in a quick and resourceful manner. The new technology of the modern world is in workplaces, homes, and best of all, schools. Technology in school has rapidly increased especially as every student at Generic_School now has their own laptop for their own educational use. Now every student can get their work done through a computer at school, but not every student or teacher prefers it. Therefore, today, some schools offer distance learning for students to attend classes from home by way of online testing and course learning on their own. Many students and especially parents are skeptical of these online distance courses because they think that the old fashioned way of staying in school and using paper and pencil is the optimal way of learning. On the other hand, many people think otherwise, so this has become a great debate in the system of education for many counties and individual schools. | Lead | Effective |
9f539909e4a2 | A5A55FE930C4 | Students would benefit from being able to attend or complete a class from home | Position | Adequate |
7c2fc61dde63 | A5A55FE930C4 | because they can still complete their course or courses task's at home even if they're sick | Claim | Effective |
fd789ad8567a | A5A55FE930C4 | some students don't enjoy public school so taking courses at home is more comfortable for those, | Claim | Effective |
20ba883d5e46 | A5A55FE930C4 | many teachers prefer that their course be taken online at home anyway due to the course's content and structure because it can help the student perform better. | Claim | Effective |
36a8e0147893 | A5A55FE930C4 | First, a big reason that a student falls behind and under performs in a class is because they missed school due to being sick and they weren't able to learn it when they got back. | Claim | Effective |
c5b1ba7600db | A5A55FE930C4 | Attending a class online at home is a great way to stay on pace and not fall behind because all of the information is at the student's fingertips and they can complete their tests and assignments when they are ready and able. They can still also do everything at home while they are sick if they would really like, since all of their materials is already with them on their computer. This way, the student will not fall behind in class, there is less stress, and they won't under perform on their exams because they are still able to learn the information they need on their laptop as usual. On the other hand, if a student is sick and cannot go to school that day, they miss all of their class papers and notes from that day and cannot usually make up what they missed. For this reason, online courses are a much safer and reliable way of learning that do not have the stress of missing a full day of information at school. Online courses may also have to be used for every course anyway before long due to the rapid spread and worry over the lethal Corona Virus, which can close schools and put people in quarantine for weeks. | Evidence | Effective |
23ab71e24646 | A5A55FE930C4 | Next, many students today are uncomfortable at a public school setting, so they are unable to perform as well in their classes and they don't do well with other people. | Claim | Effective |
132ba98d998f | A5A55FE930C4 | Some are just naturally shy and others just simply do not like working with others. For this reason, attending online classes at home is a great alternative for these students who are not socially comfortable. This way, students can complete projects on their own at home and they can stay focused on their tasks without the awkward feeling of having to worry about others at public school. Another strong quality of attending and completing an online course is that many online courses have fun and interactive lessons that keep a student engaged in the lesson, rather than sitting in a classroom and doing nothing because they are bored of the teaching or they are once again, just uncomfortable socially in a public setting. One on one online video conferencing is also easier for students to talk to their teachers if they need help because they may feel uneasy when speaking to a teacher or others in person. As a result, they also can learn things in an online course that they may not have ever learned if they were taking that certain course in a public school setting. | Evidence | Effective |
d8b52e5042ce | A5A55FE930C4 | Lastly, many teachers prefer and advise that a course be taken online and at home due to the structure and content of the course because they believe the students will perform stronger by taking the course online. | Claim | Effective |
ffb83c5bfd9f | A5A55FE930C4 | For example, many students take Econ and Personal Finance online at home during the summer because it doesn't necessarily need a full school year to complete and it can all be self taught through interactive lessons and simulations. These simulations could include learning to complete a tax form or something of the sort that can be completed individually. Also, many English courses can be taken online and some teachers encourage it because many English classes are writing oriented, in which much of the class involves writing essays and research papers on a computer anyway. Therefore, just attending a course such as these at school can be extra work and a potential waste of a students time since it can all be self taught and completed at home online. Teachers specifically may prefer online courses a lot of the time because they do not want to repeat the same exact information to every single one of their class periods and that is usually self explanatory anyway. When courses are taken online at home, the teachers are able to structure the course into interactive courses that can be self taught and completed individually, so that the students can be more successful on their own, rather than taking up a lot of extra time that is unnecessary at a classroom in school. | Evidence | Effective |
cffd881660de | A5A55FE930C4 |
In conclusion, attending and completing online courses at home would be beneficial to students because the course may be learned individually without the social stress of public school, the students won't fall behind if they are sick, and many teachers advise attending courses online due to their students abilities to perform stronger in the course and its better online structure. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
71d34dbbaae0 | A5DD0CEFE045 | Students should not be required to perform community service. | Position | Effective |
bd1d2449fb1d | A5DD0CEFE045 | Students should not have to do community service because it is the students time and it should be up to them on how they should use it. | Claim | Effective |
ec9ec813b22e | A5DD0CEFE045 | The students would be unhappy with this decision and maybe some parents would too. This would cause the school to have unpleasant school days, knowing they will have to do community service when they get home. | Evidence | Adequate |
811c15f15c1b | A5DD0CEFE045 | some families may even move out of the school district because of this. | Claim | Adequate |
2a7a3f0daf1a | A5DD0CEFE045 | Requiring students to do community service also goes against human rights, nobody is able to make them do community service. | Claim | Adequate |
f8023ea897d9 | A5DD0CEFE045 | It is not justified to make them do community service because you think they should and you are the principle. People will be unhappy with your decision if you go through with this. | Evidence | Ineffective |
389ab01ec6f2 | A5DD0CEFE045 | Students should not be required to do community service because it will be a conflict with their extracurricular and sports activities. | Claim | Effective |
2f7953888ab9 | A5DD0CEFE045 | Athletes will have to cut practices short because they have to do community service, thus for not allowing them to become better at their sport. | Evidence | Effective |
29c93879b2f0 | A5DD0CEFE045 | if you make the students do community service I am sure many people will be unhappy. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e29e4af2dd45 | A5DDC612408C | I think your idea of allowing students to bring phones to school and use them during lunch periods and other free times, as long as the phone are turned off during class time, might be the best or possible policy | Position | Adequate |
7d60d2c1466c | A5DDC612408C | i don't think that its fare to not allow phones in school at all. I know that were' re in school and we are there to learn, but shouldn't we be able to have some kind of reward for doing school | Claim | Adequate |
553be362e796 | A5DDC612408C | sometimes there are student that doesn't do any work and just sit at text all day | Counterclaim | Adequate |
affe8b1bb312 | A5DDC612408C | but what about the others. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
99e7b7b2fc49 | A5DDC612408C | I would say that if you do happened to see ANY student texting in class or on their phone period then you would probably have to take it. | Evidence | Ineffective |
00936d5bd860 | A5DDC612408C | it's bad enough we have to wear uniforms, now we cant have phone either. | Claim | Adequate |
5eb07338a74d | A5DDC612408C | If the principle did decide to not let phones into schools at all, then i really wouldn't understand why | Claim | Adequate |
8cab67134942 | A5DDC612408C | because i know that us students are tired of hearing the same thing over and over again about cell phones killing or taking over our brain sells | Evidence | Adequate |
cb7bdbe287ff | A5DDC612408C | I think the best way for the principle to pick which policy would be to let the students vote on it and if policy one gets picked then the principle would just have to do something about the students that are using their phones in school. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0e700e87537b | A5DDC612408C | I can see a lot of students being sneaky and conniving by using their phones in school. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
711c336ace86 | A5DDC612408C | So to tell the truth it really doesn't matter to me if the principle picks policy 1 or 2. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
7b440a4051df | A5DDC612408C | I think that students are concentrated in their phone then they on their school work. And it would be there fault when the do bad on a test or even when they loose their phone or get there phone taken. And that's all i would have to say because it wouldn't be on the principle it would be on the student. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
476d39fd26c5 | A5F662EBF690 | we should keep the Electoral college. | Position | Adequate |
2f9882583e4c | A5F662EBF690 | The college is a process,not a place. The process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice. The counting of electoral voters by congress. State's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its congressional delegation. | Evidence | Ineffective |
cf95ecc8165e | A5F662EBF690 | The college is widely regarded as an anachronism. The Electoral college despite its lack of Democratic Pedigree. | Claim | Ineffective |
6abc210d5174 | A5F662EBF690 | We shouldnt have to change to election by popular vote for President. The Electoral college looks like a big help to President. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president. The collge has many electors.270 electoral voters is required to elect the president.
Under 23rd amendemnt of constitution district of columbia is allocated 3 electors | Evidence | Ineffective |
c851db335ff3 | A5F662EBF690 | It could be arugues the Electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters. There may be a few things i dont agree with about the Electoral college. I dont like how voters dont vote for the presidnt but for slate of electors. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
c1c1afc0b17d | A5F662EBF690 | The Electoral college is one by far the best things, It dont need to be taken from us. Many good things the college does. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
beb233566a9d | A5F662EBF690 | State Senator, We should keep the Electoral college. The process is great. There are many great things about the Electoral college. Its a big help with alot. Theres no dobut about the College. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
4472ebe82e7d | A602D45D22B2 | Scientist Rafael, There's no way it was created by aliens, I think it was just a natural landform | Position | Adequate |
30328d0b7f42 | A602D45D22B2 | on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos, Anyway thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing a natural landform. | Evidence | Adequate |
5bb19f49252d | A602D45D22B2 | There was no alien monument after all, So Scientist Rafael that's proof, that it can't be created by aliens and it's a natural landform, well that's one of the evidence.
| Claim | Adequate |
0a14054f161a | A602D45D22B2 | Also, in Nevertheless, on April 8, 2001 a cloudless summer day in Cydonia Mars Global Surveyor drew close enough for a second look. "We had to roll the spacecraft 25 degrees to center the Face in the field of view," said Garvin. "Malin's team captured an extraordinary photo using the camera's absolute maximum resolution." Each pixel in the 2001 image spans 1.56 meters, compared to 43 meters per pixel in the best 1976 Viking photo, | Evidence | Adequate |
595c1e356a52 | A602D45D22B2 | So I think it'similar, the picture actually shows the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa landforms common around the American West. | Claim | Adequate |
7f9c3500259d | A602D45D22B2 | "That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about the same height as the Face on Mars." | Evidence | Adequate |
56d1467ac4f4 | A602D45D22B2 | From 1976 to 2001, the images changed into a human face formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth. | Claim | Adequate |
f7a4cf2d92c8 | A602D45D22B2 | That doesn't mean it was created by aliens and besides, we didn't find no ancient civilization on Mars | Evidence | Ineffective |
4b0712c01ade | A602D45D22B2 | I think it was a natural landform and that's all the evidence that i have for you, "Scientist Rafael." | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
2f7c70f6b297 | A61D07193089 | This policy is unreasonable | Position | Adequate |
051422e02ba5 | A61D07193089 | it is because some kids that love sports only have a c average and are trying their hardest | Claim | Adequate |
ee261206914d | A61D07193089 | Also when you take away sports and other activities from students, you are taking away their exercise. | Claim | Adequate |
6e83bdeb269b | A61D07193089 | When you take away a students exercise you could make them have a risk of death. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7f75db209996 | A61D07193089 | Also some kids might have a disorder that will keep them away from doing their work, and can only get a c average. | Claim | Adequate |
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