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76c87231566c | A924B3431D21 | Another reason we should keep the electoral college is because it has 538 electors. | Claim | Adequate |
9402a93b08c6 | A924B3431D21 | It also helps the U.S by giving us a president. | Claim | Ineffective |
52c83528afc0 | A924B3431D21 | The reason I say this is because we the people need a president and the electoral college helps us get one. The electoral college helps us get a vice president as well because if the president dies or some sort the vice president can take in. The electoral college also helps count the electoral votes by the congress. Those are some ways the electoral college helps us. | Evidence | Ineffective |
864bf620612e | A924B3431D21 | The reason I say this is because every elector do there job by picking the president that will run for the U.S.It also helps pick out the vice president as well like I said in my first paragraph. That is why we should keep the electoral college. The electors help pick out the president that we need for everyone. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f1ed9859735c | A924B3431D21 | A president can do so much for us like Barack Obama. He did great things to keep this nation secure for the people. Other great president did the same thing back then. Because of the electors from the electoral college. Those electors helped pick a president so we can have one and that is why we need the electoral college. | Evidence | Adequate |
361aac34d6b2 | A924B3431D21 | In Conclusion,so today I talked about why we the people need an electoral college and there are many reasons for it. To sum it all up the reasons we need an electoral college is becasue the electors helps us by picking a president,vice president,and the electoral votes that we need. Another is because we have 538 electors that help pick a president. Last is that they give the U.S a president. So this are some of the reasons why we the people need an electoral college. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0410e8a9c35c | A93FA7E8FB81 | I believe that the electoral college should be changed and be ended oncce and for all.
| Position | Adequate |
662a5aec982f | A93FA7E8FB81 | I think that the electoral college is a certain way of cheating in a presidency that you dont want to win. When people in the states vote for a new president they're giving all of they're votes to the electors | Evidence | Ineffective |
01e30741c2c2 | A93FA7E8FB81 | This is one of the biggest reasons I think its not fair. | Claim | Adequate |
b4b9d2b9aa81 | A93FA7E8FB81 | They're trusting the elecotrs with all of they're votes when they dont even know who the electors will vote for. | Evidence | Adequate |
314b03d55675 | A93FA7E8FB81 | Almost nobody in the states even know's who the electors are. | Claim | Adequate |
80c07cdbe4f3 | A93FA7E8FB81 | Why should everyone be putting they're trust with votes into people they dont know? Even when I read the passage I saw that the electors could possibly get confused and vote the wrong way and if many of them end up doing that you can ultimately end up with the wrong president.
| Evidence | Adequate |
a91a9317bcac | A93FA7E8FB81 | Another big flaw that the electoral college consists of is what if it does end up getting a tie | Claim | Adequate |
17d58cff1cd3 | A93FA7E8FB81 | then we would have to pass it all onto the House of Represenatives. If the house of rep, end up picking the wrong president, it could be even worse. | Evidence | Adequate |
871c531151a8 | A93FA7E8FB81 | I'm personally not into politics but I can already tell that if I was I would hate the electoral college, I dont even understand how you couldn't. | Evidence | Ineffective |
dc069c329655 | A93FA7E8FB81 | The electoral college I feel is something that first started out helping the elections for when it was first created but has changed massively over time, and it hasn't changed in a good way at all. It's almost as if our own american citizens can pick they're president. We have to leave that all up to our electors, which I dont this is FAIR at all to all our voters. | Evidence | Adequate |
2a5bc362efe2 | A93FA7E8FB81 | If it wasn't for our electoral college, we would've never had George W. Bush as are president. He didn't even get the most votes! but since our electoral college can vote for whoever he ended up winning anyways. I think this topic is obviously a one sided question cause there's obviously a right answer here. Abolish the electoral college! | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
2dd36570b267 | A95B8B50E0C1 | I think policy one is much better | Position | Adequate |
adbbbab75875 | A95B8B50E0C1 | because sometimes there are days where you forget something or don't remember to bring something. | Claim | Adequate |
2f647025bfc1 | A95B8B50E0C1 | If you had a cell phone then you could call or text your parents/guardians and ask them to bring it. | Evidence | Adequate |
6d1ced338179 | A95B8B50E0C1 | Also if you have your cell phone on you instead of taking notes in class some cell phones have a camera and the ones with cameras could take a picture of their notes. If you need to find out what a word means you can just look it up on your phone. If you turn them off when they are supposed to be turned off then there are no problems. Also some people forget to bring lets say there gym clothes they could just call or text there parents and they could bring them. | Evidence | Adequate |
379b6cf4c218 | A95B8B50E0C1 | I see why people wouldn't want cell phones at school like they could be distractions | Counterclaim | Adequate |
bfa32ea8aa46 | A95B8B50E0C1 | but, if they are allowed at schools then students should have no reason to do it in class when they know they can do it at a free time in the day. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
27556854d5cf | A95B8B50E0C1 | there are plenty of reasons why kids should be able to use cell phones in school. | Claim | Ineffective |
deb76dbc9b3f | A95B8B50E0C1 | One big reason we should have cell phones in school is they could be used for all kinds of things like say i am in social studies class and the teacher asks a question and nobody knows the answer then kids could get on there phones and look up the answer. Another reason would be that students rarely study, much less every night but, if they are allowed to use there cell phones then that makes studying easier and more fun. | Evidence | Adequate |
5290dd9a108d | A9694C187893 | Dear state senator, I am against the decison to keep the
Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
4e0d83aa2a37 | A9694C187893 | one reason because the candidate running for President isnt being voted for their electors are.
| Claim | Adequate |
ea3f24318c5a | A9694C187893 | then in the passage I learned the electors then elect the President , as I was reading i saw a few name s mentioned in favor of , as it was stated Abolishing the electoral college | Evidence | Adequate |
a96bc38474d5 | A9694C187893 | As I read i saw why some might say keep the Electoral College , | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
51d41975800d | A9694C187893 | Al Gore ran for President and won by popular vote thanks to the electoral college , maybe becasue its a by luck situation because it was two parts you had to win as President , they may dont see it as a fault on Electoral College part because it did say he won by popular vote thanks to the electoral college. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9c64500f2372 | A9694C187893 | Bob Dole agree with the choice of abollishing the Electoral College , some says its unfair outdated , and irrational . The decison to keep the Electoral College should is a win or lose situation because as i read i didnt see a lot of proof of people being for the decison on keeping the Electoral College to make the right decison they sh | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9968e045f4f9 | A98E8EFFC8A9 | Driverless cars have always been a big idea for the future. However, there are some really important pros and cons for driverless cars. Driverless cars can be very dangerous to not only the individual driving, but also to everyone around. | Lead | Adequate |
956fc47887e1 | A98E8EFFC8A9 | Perhaps driverless cars isn't such a good idea. | Position | Adequate |
f6b2d34d9c01 | A98E8EFFC8A9 | the technology failing | Claim | Adequate |
1cd01f733166 | A98E8EFFC8A9 | the safety of everyone around it. | Claim | Adequate |
b6fe8d69cb9b | A98E8EFFC8A9 | Safety is the MAIN key to a driverless car. | Claim | Adequate |
b9bae87c2aad | A98E8EFFC8A9 | Since a driverless car would be driverless, not only the driver would need to be alert but everyone around it would need to be, which is common sense for any type of vehicle or transportation. Considering the fact that the human being is always in charge of an accident with a regular car. That woudn't be the case for a "driverless car". Now even though the driverless car have sensors and other types of monitoring to prevent accidents and disfunctions, who's to say the driver isn't paying attention when they need to be and something goes wrong. In paragraph 9 it talks about how traffic laws are wriiten to assume that the human is in control at all times. That's completely understandable, if the human doesn't do what he needs to do to make sure his manufacturer is working correctly, it would be his fault for not taking care of it. | Evidence | Adequate |
d5478a9e80a6 | A98E8EFFC8A9 | For everyone else around a driverless car, would always be in great danger. | Claim | Adequate |
23e2366195fc | A98E8EFFC8A9 | No matter how well the car itself is functioning, you dont know if everyone else is paying attention to their own vehicle. Pedestrians around the driverless cars have no control over what it does. If something happens to a pedestrian, who's responsibility is that? If a sensor on the car isn't working properly, which it should be, there would be more deaths and injuries to people around the vehicle and to the person inside of the vehicle. The minor issues of a driverless vehicle could cause a huge problem. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7a2a916f7846 | A98E8EFFC8A9 | the manufacturing could disfunction in the middle of driving. | Claim | Adequate |
f97eeac75865 | A98E8EFFC8A9 | Now someone that would condone a driverless car would say, "You would need to make sure everything is properly working before taking it out on the road." | Counterclaim | Adequate |
a137fcbe2e9f | A98E8EFFC8A9 | That's actually not all you would need to do. Not only do you need to make sure everything is working properly, you would need to make sure what ever is functioning the car is functioning correctly at all times. One of the biggest concerns could be a driver might not know what could be wrong with a car and if something is wrong with the system, he wouldnt know and the car would just break down or stop working. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
82c98c5d8707 | A98E8EFFC8A9 | Driverless cars could seem like a good idea sometimes when your lazy becuase you don't have to worry about actually driving the vehicle yourslef. Of course people are going to find a driverless car fascinating, but the most important thing you would want to worry about is safety and having the best functioning technology. Technology can always fail, so no matter how well it may seem to be working, anything could happen at anytime. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f1684f21433a | AA0FF7AA95C3 | I have a very strongly worded, persuavive letter written for you today of why our united nation, must abolish the electoral college. I am aware that the electoral college is one of the main ways president's become elected, but it's serving an unjustice to our nations people. You must do something of the crisis that our country is facing with the Electoral College. | Lead | Effective |
6dbb6c046b34 | AA0FF7AA95C3 | I have two compelling reasons of why the electoral college should be abolished. | Position | Effective |
6cb0a585f881 | AA0FF7AA95C3 | My first reason of why we should abolish the electoral college is because of the method it is done in. What I mean by this is, according to Source 1:What is the Electoral College?, it says, "Most states have a
"winner- take all" system that awards electors to the winning presidential canididate." The winner- take all system is not a fair way to elect a president becuase of its biases. | Claim | Effective |
5930602fd276 | AA0FF7AA95C3 | The candidates running for the presidency only visit the largly populated states in order to get their electoral points, for instance, most candidates go to Californa or Texas becuase those are the states that have for electoral points. But, by doing this all the smaller states that have less electoral points are never visited by the candidates, the voters then may have never seen an ad or campiagn for a certain candidates . According to Source 2: "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong", by Bradford Plummer, it states, "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and votes in 25 of the media markets didn't get to see a single campiagn ad". On the contrary, it is stated by Source 3: In defense of the Electoral College, it states," No reigon has enough electoral votes to elect a president." This is true, but candiadtes focus on larger states that will supply them with more electoral votes, and don't even visit or pay any attention the smaller states. I strongly negate the Electoral College. | Evidence | Effective |
4ea26ec4c482 | AA0FF7AA95C3 | My second reason of why our country must abolish the Electoral College is becuase it is a "disaster factor", as stated by Source 2 | Claim | Adequate |
33a60f31e4b2 | AA0FF7AA95C3 | I agree with this for two reasons. First, becuase it does allow the people to vote for the president or canididate they prefer. Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but slate of electors, who turn elect the president, as stated by "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best- laid defenses of the system are wrong". I strongly agree with that except from the article I have stated. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ca1ec31492a5 | AA0FF7AA95C3 | Another reason, why the Electoral college is a disaster factor is becuase most of the United States citizens prefer a direct election to the kind we have now, Electoral College. More presiciely 60 percent of voters to dont want the electoral college, that's majority of our population! If majority of our nation is against the electoral college why haven't we abolished it? | Evidence | Effective |
19c85aa40fae | AA0FF7AA95C3 | In conculsion, "It's offical: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly aserations without much basis in reality", according to Source 2. I would like you to consider all the problems our nation is facing due to the Electoral College. I have stated two contentions of why you should abolish the Electoral College; First,the method of how its done is very bias and unfair and secondly, because the Electoral College is a "Disaster Factor" or causes many disruptions in our country. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
479437ceb528 | AA3205AA362D | We should abolish the electoral college. It nakes voting unfair and is dangerous to the American society. It corrupts the soul of all Americans and makes people unhappy. | Lead | Effective |
683b6a8bbf6a | AA3205AA362D | If we want our society to live, we should end the electoral college.
| Position | Effective |
36721b2d7fd3 | AA3205AA362D | The electoral college is extremely biased on the canditates and the voters have only a miniscule chance to elect the right voter. The chance is so miniscule that even an atom couldn't fit through it. | Claim | Adequate |
4fbbfc8612f3 | AA3205AA362D | On the counterclaim that it could be a tie, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
c893b4703dae | AA3205AA362D | which has a higher percentage rate to tie, all of America, or 0.00000001% of the population of America? | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
8e127d7ae4bf | AA3205AA362D | The canditates dont even focus on the states that aren't swing states, such as Wyoming or Alaska. If a president is from California, he/she already has 20% of the vote in his/her pocket. To make things worse, half of the states are not even into the campaign, voting canditates "they" think is best, not voting the canditates their state thinks is best. | Evidence | Adequate |
5aa9c9188e71 | AA3205AA362D | To top it off, people are just so wooed by the canditate's ad, or their wealth, or their eyes, that they don't stop to think what the canditate could do for them. | Claim | Ineffective |
727d70e53b81 | AA3205AA362D | Just two years ago, I found myself talking to a women who needed Obamacare for her ill son, yet she was going to vote for Romney. People are just too dazzled by how things may seem, when it's just a huge marketing scam.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
762640417372 | AA3205AA362D | A large state gets more attention than a smaller state does... Is that what we really want in our country | Claim | Effective |
1cb9b64bc93f | AA3205AA362D | After all these years of black equality and women's rights, we have decided to just completely ruin our entire form of government by being prejuice to other states. Yes, they may have a lesser population, but that doesn't mean anything. It just means that we are not giving people the right of suffrage. | Evidence | Adequate |
894a5e35a40a | AA3205AA362D | Apparently, the electoral college elects a "clear winner", when the popular vote coiuld do that just fine on its own | Claim | Adequate |
21c56a081fd4 | AA3205AA362D | Why do you think we have voting day for? I'm sure its so that the president that they didn't vote for was chosen by the elctoral college. Here's some logic, lets choose a selected number of people to vote for president instead of all of America. Isn't that a great idea.
| Evidence | Adequate |
51ca18f2ae9c | AA3205AA362D | "Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election...." | Counterclaim | Adequate |
a7f1e6e86aed | AA3205AA362D | Really, is that why people vote? So you are saying that people vote just because they prefer, or like, the person other another candidate. So going back to my earlier point, people are just so amazed at their "something", that they just decide to take the effort to vote for them. No, people, that's not why, it's because they think they can make a change in the everyday world. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
3a120c8cd3a0 | AA3205AA362D | Ladies and gentlemen, it's all a game of cruel manipulation, Republicans manipulating the government so they get less taxes, Democrats manipulating the government to achieve free healthcare. It's a dangerous game, but the puppeteer who pulls the strings better than the last is the one who always wins. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
894684b88e33 | AA3A35044E77 | I don't think that you should require every student to do community service. | Position | Adequate |
4c683d2663bc | AA3A35044E77 | I think this because everybody should be able to do what they want.
| Claim | Ineffective |
3b51b69674b3 | AA3A35044E77 | It would be a good idea to start a little club or something of that sort to do community service.
Or you could put up a list in the office or right outside of the office for people to participate in doing community service. | Evidence | Adequate |
9978d8b910a9 | AA3A35044E77 | I don't think everybody should have to do it cause when they are not in school some have things to do like sports and other sorts of clubs. | Claim | Adequate |
47822d92974e | AA3A35044E77 | You could also get a class that people could be in to do community service as a class so people could put on job applications and college applications too. | Claim | Adequate |
7eca0270e8be | AA3A35044E77 | A class would also be good for tutoring the elementary, so they wouldn't have to stay after school. | Evidence | Ineffective |
4bded60476b1 | AA3F8EC40764 | Driverless Cars Are Coming is a short article that depicts the use of computerized cars that are being made. The cars are supposed to be safe and trustworthy. One part of the article describes a public-transport taxi system that would take people from place to place, navigating through other driverless cars. The idea of this self controlling, moving car can be very advantageous to people, using less fuel, prevent or stop car accident, and take people to their destination at ease. However, there are issues with the automated automobile. How will driverless cars adapt with cars with actual drivers? How will everyone acquire the self-driving car when they could cost fortunes? Also who is blamed if and when prevented accidents aren't prevented? Lastly what about car computer hacking? | Lead | Effective |
1321e62b8586 | AA3F8EC40764 | The idea of the self driving car is courageous, but it will not work for our society. | Position | Effective |
2dde1d910e46 | AA3F8EC40764 | First, driverless cars can drive at ease when other driverless cars are in uniform with the other cars, but when one car has someone drivng the car then the driverless cars aren't able to predict the outcome the real driver will make. | Claim | Effective |
b4a09c4df341 | AA3F8EC40764 | Assuming the driverless cars would communicate with one another, they could all drive together in uniform, predicting eachother's movements thorugh the streets. Then one car, in a situation in which is being driven by someone, cannot be in communication with the driverless cars and the driverless car tries to predict one's movement. The driver actually goes the opposite way predicted, crashing into the other car. This is not something that can easily be avoided without other people owning the driverless car. | Evidence | Adequate |
00da37c71b96 | AA3F8EC40764 | Driverless cars are very mechanical, probably costing much more than one's average car price. | Claim | Effective |
109b91bed56e | AA3F8EC40764 | Then everyone is told to adapt to the change and buy this self-propelling car, but they are much too costly. Without the car, people could get into accidents with the driverless car. No complete safety would be acquired until every single car within the set area is a driverless car. | Evidence | Adequate |
5d9514820a44 | AA3F8EC40764 | If an area with all driverless cars is made, what happens when the self driving cars do finally mess up and crash into another driverless car? Who should be blamed? | Claim | Effective |
85a771633639 | AA3F8EC40764 | The creators of the car? The person inside the vehicle that should have taken over and tried to drive for themselves, assuming they even know how to drive with little to no practice? One could also easily hack into the cars computer also. Computer hacking is already a very regular thing in the United States, so what stops people from hacking into cars and purposefully causing accidents? These types of issues that are very hard to deal with could not be easily dealt with.
Blame for driverless cars could be impossible in some cases. | Evidence | Adequate |
c1519343538a | AA3F8EC40764 | the idea of driverless cars cannot be comepletely viable for safety of passengers and safety of citizens on the side of the street. There is no way driverless cars could be able to completely predict a real drivers movements. The cars could be hard for everyone to buy and adapt to. Last, you cannot find true blame for a driverless cars action when there is not anyone to blame. The driverless cars will not work in a society that is not ready for it. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
e934fb867a8d | AA42E3966A3C | I think students should that policy 1 because they can bring there phone to school and just use doing there free or when they let them use it . | Position | Adequate |
610227834f9d | AA42E3966A3C | And its very inportan to have a phone at school just in case something happiness to you or when your on the bus | Claim | Adequate |
e833cdc7b659 | AA42E3966A3C | you never know what could happen . | Evidence | Adequate |
ce1110060d5c | AA42E3966A3C | And when students have phones out they should give them a warning to put it away not just take it way and make them pay $10 and bring there parents that's just rude to do to someone give them a chances . when they give them a warning they should just write there name down and the next time they do cheek if there name has been writhen down and if yes then they may take it way but if not don't take it away . And just in case it fails just let then pick it up and tell then to stick it back in the locker and if they dont wont then hold it for them until the end of the day and give it back to them . okay well if your in class teaching and the phone ring then you may take it way cause it should be off it only if its free time or if let you . | Evidence | Ineffective |
8634b2683f92 | AA4620DAA6CF | I PROPER_NAME think that the electoral college should be Abolished . | Position | Adequate |
4b34f62c6327 | AA4620DAA6CF | How would you feel if you were running for President and only 1 party got to pick the winner ? That just seems unfair and Unorganized to me | Claim | Effective |
f6a1da58200d | AA4620DAA6CF | For someone to have to go through an entie process just to pick President , is way more far then what it could be | Evidence | Adequate |
a5dbc43e2662 | AA4620DAA6CF | I dont thnk its okay for State Legislatures to have a say-so in who should be President should be because for them to try to pick it for themself with out the help of "The People" which is who really matters. | Claim | Adequate |
f3a02b6c8f30 | AA4620DAA6CF | The People" should have just as much an say-so in who the President and Vise president should be .Well they do but i dont think the State Partie should have anything to do with the votes. | Claim | Effective |
2144f5386090 | AA4620DAA6CF | For 1 the collage or process its' self is Unnessary jst for someone to cast a vote , when they could really check who they want to vote for on a peice of paper or something | Evidence | Adequate |
aa36dc289d42 | AA4620DAA6CF | Sure that would take alot of time just to count | Counterclaim | Adequate |
de28af63f371 | AA4620DAA6CF | i think thats far more organized than for everyone to go through a process on a computer or something | Rebuttal | Adequate |
ca7538c805aa | AA4620DAA6CF | According to the text the Electral College process consists of the selection of the electors .... | Evidence | Adequate |
27decb9c3649 | AA4620DAA6CF | Thats too much voting going on for no reason | Claim | Adequate |
6d0a08f161c1 | AA4620DAA6CF | Everyone is entilted to their own opinion and it should be heard , because every little vote counts. | Claim | Adequate |
d296ab47d0c0 | AA4620DAA6CF | I remember when i was in Elementary school nd when election time came around they took the students in the library to vote ; even though we were not old enough to vote i can garentee the votes that we casted made a difference even if it was just by 1 vote . | Evidence | Adequate |
50be1d88a927 | AA4620DAA6CF | But as i think abut it , the president is not just for the benifit of the Congress and the State Legslatures , He/She is for the benifit of EVERYONE . | Claim | Adequate |
d0861dab4fbf | AA4620DAA6CF | i think that the State Parties wants to have a say-so in the votes just so they can feel important . | Claim | Ineffective |
f32776de07d4 | AA6AAA8F8407 | the electoral collage is a process that helps use vote for the preaident and vice president. and they count the electores votes and it is desited by congress. | Position | Ineffective |
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