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eb0bfc2f0e4f | AB8BE95ADDD7 | I believe that popular vote has and will contine benifiting our community by equaling out our rights. Helping people get to know the presidents better, and helps the better president represent us. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0978d6d6f605 | ABC648A86887 | The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | Position | Adequate |
038c57a0a6a0 | ABC648A86887 | Under the electoral college, voters vote not for the president, but for a state for electors, who in turn elect the president. The main problem with this is that most of the time voters are oblivious to who their electors vote for. In some cases, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party candidate and cast a deciding vote for whome ever they please... The states pick the electors that vote for us citizens.
Sometimes the president doesn't even get the most popular vote, but they recieve enough electoral college votes, is this system a scam? | Evidence | Adequate |
2feda1b6324f | ABC648A86887 | Many accross the world believe this is true, | Claim | Adequate |
45b3eca5f90d | ABC648A86887 | During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad. How whould these voters know who to vote for if they didn't have any idea who was running? They didn't! | Evidence | Adequate |
d1f9fb396b23 | ABC648A86887 | People are getting worried and starting to get upset, many asking questions to the public, only to be hushed by the government. | Claim | Ineffective |
6be29e098fca | ABC648A86887 | The main question everyone wants to know the answer to and are asking is:
When is this whole syatem going to fall apart at the seam?
Some even believe the election is only a few swing voters away from catastrophe.
Is the electoral college system ever going to change? | Evidence | Ineffective |
3f23edb35f70 | ABC648A86887 | There are a couple reasons for retaining the electoral college despite it's lack of democraic pedigree;all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
288cbde8af95 | ABC648A86887 | Despite the reasons the electoral college is still the unfair, outdated, and irrational system it could be. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
14150ff34d8f | ABC648A86887 | In the facts I have presented, I believe that we need a change in many of our systems, Today the most needed change is the electoral college system. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a9ee2a10f187 | ABC648A86887 | 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. . . . | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a842d3145bc5 | ABC9EBAB6670 | Have you ever wondered how the government adds up the votes and determinds who the president is after the election? the Electoral College is a process made in the Constitution, a compromise between the election by Congress and the election by citizens | Lead | Adequate |
61efa655eae1 | ABC9EBAB6670 | Most would say that the Electoral College is reguarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic way of selecting a president. Like every other thing in the world, people form their own opinions. There are pros and cons to everything, even the Electoral College. | Position | Ineffective |
088c46ff94fc | ABC9EBAB6670 | To begin with, the Electoral College is exactly what it sounds like | Claim | Adequate |
8abca481c606 | ABC9EBAB6670 | It is a group of highly educated people that come together every year during the presidental election and choose wisely who the want to become president and vice president. Once everyone is complete choosing who they select, they add them up and seperate them by each state. Keep in mind, each state only gets a certain number of electors, depending on how big the state is. For example, Florida, the state that I live in, gets 29 electoral votes, as to Hawii, which only gets four votes. | Evidence | Adequate |
ef7ecfb11a72 | ABC9EBAB6670 | Next, the Electoral College has its pros and cons. One con of the College is they have more of an impact on the choosing of the president than the actual citizens have | Claim | Adequate |
3be8fffdea93 | ABC9EBAB6670 | You would think that the people, including both sides of the political parties, would have more of a say on whome becomes the president for the next four to eight years. For instance, multiple people and groups such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commence, And the AFL-CIO have said and agreed on, "Abolishing the electoral college!". | Evidence | Adequate |
3c8ffbf72a30 | ABC9EBAB6670 | Lastly, we have many reasons why we keep the Electoral College | Claim | Adequate |
1e760d5ebba2 | ABC9EBAB6670 | One reason is certainty of outcome, a president can have more citizen votes than the other, but the losing candidate can still win because of the electoral votes. Another reason this happens is because most states have a winner-take-all basis, meaning that the state chooses and the winning person with the most votes gets a state vote, even if you personally didn't vote for that person. Another reason why is because the U.S. has many larger states and the Electoral College balances it out for them. | Evidence | Adequate |
d11909b7df20 | ABC9EBAB6670 | So as you see, the Electoral College is debatable on whether or not it is a good or bad thing. They have pros and cons like everything else in the world. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
77ae3a6cde14 | ABFE420BA213 | I believe that this could be a good decision but may also be a bad one as well. | Position | Ineffective |
6732f76e76e5 | ABFE420BA213 | Many of the students that care only for there sports or other activities and that don't do very well in school will keep up with there work only because they want to do that one sport or other activity. | Claim | Adequate |
f1a28deab6cf | ABFE420BA213 | This might separate the people who are really determined with there academic achievements and the people who only want to play there sport or activities. The people that only want to play there sport may drop out because being able to do that thing will be just another step harder ,while the people that want to do good in school will continue to do good. | Evidence | Adequate |
3c43a288dce4 | ABFE420BA213 | The people who ,not only want to play sports or other activities but are willing to do good in school will do better in school because of the worry that they might not be able to do this anymore. | Evidence | Adequate |
d45b022c7d4e | ABFE420BA213 | So this decision may benefit the school in a way. | Claim | Adequate |
f8ef81ea98bc | ABFE420BA213 | make sure that you look at the schools benefit as a whole. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
27d2a1a1aafb | AC2463899B0F | I believe that the Electoral College vote should be abolished | Position | Adequate |
de205fc95c68 | AC2463899B0F | because they are not giving citizens their rights to vote | Claim | Adequate |
f2081a010485 | AC2463899B0F | there is certainty of outcome | Claim | Ineffective |
3306aa64553a | AC2463899B0F | the winner takes all method that they are doing, | Claim | Ineffective |
60ce9059845e | AC2463899B0F | and the voting electors are not voting percisely. | Claim | Adequate |
8d63c8be171e | AC2463899B0F | To me I believe that the Electoral College is cruel and unusual punishment, because they are not giving citizens their voting rights | Claim | Adequate |
c034ebc4bf3f | AC2463899B0F | They make it seem like the citizens are going to be the ones voting for the president but in reality the citizens are actually voting for electors whom are going to be voting for the president. The Electoral College is regarded as an anachronism that should be overuled. Its declaring the canidate with the most vote to be the winner, which is not really giving the citizens the chance to vote for they want to be their president. Advocates are arguing about the Electoral College not being a modern sense, and how it is the electors voting for the president and not the people/citizens. When citizens vote for the president they dont actually know that theya re voting for a slate for the elelctors. | Evidence | Adequate |
f1cb157c0e1d | AC2463899B0F | They Electoral College has a massive rate in certainty of outcome | Claim | Ineffective |
bc1f1a2b2a10 | AC2463899B0F | Just like the dispute over outcome of votes that happened in 2000 can happen again, because the electors are not being fair with the votes. This is becasue the winning canidate shares his popular vote with the electorals. Just like Barack Obama was elected for president, he only recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral votes compared to the popular votes of 51.3 percent | Evidence | Ineffective |
d7babdf01ae6 | AC2463899B0F | Almost all the states award electoral votes with the winner-takes- all mehtod that they created | Claim | Ineffective |
732eb979053a | AC2463899B0F | A tie can be possible in electorals votes but, the total number of votes is 538 which is an even number but, is not very likely that it would happen.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
75f035c2ef54 | AC2463899B0F | The electors are not voting fair or percisely | Claim | Adequate |
53ed669461b1 | AC2463899B0F | It can and has been argued that the Electoral College ways of selecting the president may turn voters for a cannidate who has no hope for running a state. Democrats in either Texas or Republicans in California dont pay not type of attention to the voting or even to the president that was picked by the popular votes. The Electoral College has no intention in trying to change thier pursiut for electing a president so that citizens will have a chance to cast a vote on picking who they believe should be president. | Evidence | Adequate |
adf78565bd1a | AC2463899B0F | I believe that the Electoral College should be abolished, because they are not giving citizens their rights to vote, certianty of outcome , the winner-takes-all method, and electors are not voting fair and perisely. I also believe that if they use something more mordern that it would make it esaier for voting and electing so theat they wont have to worry about the problems with electing a new president. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ff99cd0f4029 | AC470B5D0675 | The Face, a well known landmark on the planet of Mars, is a landmark that has caused NASA a lot of debate. The debate is "Was The Face created by aliens, or was it created by natural landform?". This has caused NASA and many scientists to have problems, because there are a few scientists that believe that The Face was created by aliens.
| Lead | Adequate |
d87e52c0f94a | AC470B5D0675 | The Face was originally discover in 1976, by the photographers aboard NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft. In the picture taken in 1976, you can clearly see a face in the landform. But in the picture taken in 1998, the atmosphere was extremely cloudy, so if there was any indention in Mars's base, you couldn't see it because of the clouds. Because of this, scientists went out on another attempt to capture a good image of The Fcae on Mars, and they succeeded. | Evidence | Ineffective |
cfb7c7c57b0b | AC470B5D0675 | The picture that was taken in 2001 clearly showed that The Face was no longer there, | Position | Adequate |
d2b50d64e08e | AC470B5D0675 | which lead scientists to believe that it was a combination of natural landform and the shadows casted from the sun's rays that made that particular spot look like | Claim | Adequate |
28105a1c599b | AC588B53A805 | When you see this face like formation what do you think? Aliens, rocks, sand? Well if you thought any of those it would be rocks and sand. Some people actually beleived this was made by extra terrestrials on Mars but no it's not | Lead | Adequate |
c86fbfecc465 | AC588B53A805 | This is just a rock formation found by NASA who thought at first it might have been an extra terrestrail creation.
| Position | Adequate |
5cbf5c2fd259 | AC588B53A805 | This is not an alien creation if it were there would be arms, legs, or maybe a body poking out of the sand and rocks. But if it is something we probably wont know for another century or a few decades. But if there is extra terrestrial life on Mars we won't know for a very long time. If aliens did create this then where are they, did they just leave Mars or get wiped out. | Evidence | Adequate |
7fdd00e6485c | AC588B53A805 | If this was created by aliens they should still be on Mars or at least signs of them should still be there. | Claim | Adequate |
cb79c2c46e1d | AC588B53A805 | The face still kind of looks like a face in 2001 even though it show sand and maybe thats a little mountain. but it still oddly resembles a face. There might be other stuff like this on Mars in uninvestigated areas and maybe one or two have been made by aliens or other life. We found water on Mars so something had to have inhabitted Mars atr least once. | Evidence | Ineffective |
308c530c7d65 | AC588B53A805 | Maybe mars was like Earth at one point in time and there was extra terrestrial life on Mars but something made them leave and made Mars just a floating sandy rock in space. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
0b776a03b1bd | AC588B53A805 | But the face that they found on Mars was just a mesa, but who knows this could be some crazy alien statue buried underground we won't know for a while though. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
0c41d1d9421f | AC5AEE18D31E | Electoral college has helped in many ways. Many people have suggested keeping the electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of United States. | Lead | Effective |
0d0e037d8829 | AC5AEE18D31E | I believe that changing to election by popular vote for the president would be best bescause | Position | Effective |
5985d7c0ae98 | AC5AEE18D31E | first the more people who vote its easier to determine who would become president | Claim | Effective |
a237fdf10f66 | AC5AEE18D31E | because it will aviod any problems having to choose for president. | Claim | Effective |
7a0e038183dc | AC5AEE18D31E | Now a days alot of things have helped the electoral college but in other cases it has not . Changing to election by popular vote can help by choosing the winner and still having its defenders. | Claim | Adequate |
6e22593caed0 | AC5AEE18D31E | Also it may help by when they need to find out the winner they know exactly who it is . They can get their election faster and quicker by changing the election vote to the most popular vote for the united states. | Evidence | Adequate |
353ff6d44da9 | AC5AEE18D31E | People still suggest that keeping the electoral college would be better | Counterclaim | Adequate |
296552b57e57 | AC5AEE18D31E | but chnging it to popular vote would be the best option | Rebuttal | Adequate |
f9a72ca91cbb | AC5AEE18D31E | Presidents and electors have had trouble with the eletoral college when having to elect for president of the united states . If changing it to popular vote for president it will sviod any troubles and problems when electing the president . | Claim | Adequate |
593d2a8f0dff | AC5AEE18D31E | They will still have senators and still have enough votes to choose and elect the president and have no problem at all. | Evidence | Adequate |
2217016540e2 | AC5AEE18D31E | Like people may think yes , electoral college should stay and should not be changed to popular vote in electing the president | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
698fa37080b1 | AC5AEE18D31E | but i think that is best . Everyne has their own opinion in matters like this but in this case i think whats best to change the electoral college . | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
57553f1c47ae | AC5AEE18D31E | In conclusion to this everything is always done for the better and i think that changing the elcetors to popular vote for the president would be easier and less problems for alot of people. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f4770d338ef3 | AC78193CD7B9 | I do not think that it is a good idea to require students to perform community service. | Position | Effective |
77e11d4f9c9f | AC78193CD7B9 | I, for one, enjoy doing community service, but if it is required, many other students may be upset and object. | Claim | Effective |
b775d1052e3f | AC78193CD7B9 | The students might be upset because maybe some don't like the community, or doing any extra work. | Evidence | Effective |
ea01625c2f3e | AC78193CD7B9 | Other students may be unhappy with the idea because they may have to give up some of the extracurricular activities in order to find time to do community service work. | Evidence | Effective |
7f1db9d7d76d | AC78193CD7B9 | First of all, many kids at my school do not have enough time to do any amount of community service. | Claim | Effective |
5a89818bde88 | AC78193CD7B9 | Some teens have sports, commitments, and maybe even part-time jobs.
Others may have to watch their younger siblings at home because their parents come home late at night and are unable to care for the little children.
Therefore, teens in these types of situations would not be able to do any community work, or they would have to give something up, like a sport that they love ,or a job that they need to support their family. | Evidence | Effective |
128f1d46bcd9 | AC78193CD7B9 | Second, some families do not like this community and do not agree with how it works.
| Claim | Effective |
a809a7477d6e | AC78193CD7B9 | The kids from those families would probably get in trouble because their beliefs, and would have to do service even though they don't want to.
This may cause disagreements with the school and the family.
I think it would be a bit unfair. | Evidence | Effective |
45b483cc1d72 | AC78193CD7B9 | Lastly, other people think that this doing community service is not important because they do not feel like part of it, or maybe they just don't like it that much. | Claim | Adequate |
80da43e06c4b | AC78193CD7B9 | I know a couple of people that would never do community service, and if they had to , they would do it half-heartedly and with disdain.
| Evidence | Effective |
41d42ddcf613 | AC78193CD7B9 | Although doing community service is a great thing, should people really be doing it if they don't want to? | Claim | Adequate |
5e81759134e8 | AC78193CD7B9 | I believe that no one should do community service if they aren't going to put their whole heart and effort into it.
If kids who don't want to do community service are required to do so, their work would probably be ineffective because of lack of their work motive. | Evidence | Adequate |
c626394fa100 | AC78193CD7B9 | These are just some reasons why I think requiring students to do community service work is a bad idea.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
03c3a0ab6de7 | AC871BBF14B5 | The faces that appear on mars is probably made by aliens or made by natural land changes that is happening all around on mars and is creating the human like faces on mars. | Position | Ineffective |
fca4467ee852 | AC871BBF14B5 | The natural landforms that mars is making peope think that its made by aliens | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
e0d98d6b1b26 | AC871BBF14B5 | but in reality its just an illusion that it happeing with the stars and everything within space. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
c535bf9a1c7a | AC871BBF14B5 | The mountains that are being formed my natural landforms are making faces in mars | Claim | Ineffective |
92696b3b1077 | AC871BBF14B5 | people are saying that its aliens are probably telling us to go away and that we are being watched by alleins, But in reality its just formed by natural landform and its just an illusion happening. When they launched the pictures to go up on their JPL website probabaly thounsands and thounsands of consiracy theroists thought that it was made by aleins and not by natural landform changes when they told the whole world that it was natural landform changes. | Evidence | Adequate |
2ec6453358c7 | ACA08DBF39EE | In my opinion, the students tanking to attend classes from home, by way of oline or video conferencing. I think the students not have benefit from being able to attent classes from home. | Position | Adequate |
40c949736107 | ACA08DBF39EE | First, the students has more distraction in home; | Claim | Adequate |
93d8b633e857 | ACA08DBF39EE | with vedeo play, and othe oction, more students work a time with taking a class, more with have a classes in distance, the schools need a tanking a other options. With lern in school the students are more specific learn, with a have a teacher opposite the student to learnig more specific, when she tanking the classes to has a more effective for a students. | Evidence | Adequate |
1bbdb135f70e | ACA08DBF39EE | Second, I hink this option for learning offer the class in distance wich a attend classes from home | Claim | Ineffective |
7ae3fc433acd | ACA08DBF39EE | not is a good option for example: in my house a have three brothers, and one sister, I think is distraction wich learning in home. | Evidence | Adequate |
7f497547c24a | ACA08DBF39EE | In finally; with reason with not is good idea the learning a distance the school, I think is more elementary, basic to taking the video conferencing online, | Claim | Adequate |
b359f9b3479f | ACA08DBF39EE | because; learning more in the watch the vedeo conference, with online; is more effective memorize with the morning in not in evening, the students have forceful in the morning, but no think this is a good option for a students, not have a good benefit from being able to attend classes from home. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0f197d2a3f58 | ACA08DBF39EE | Conclucion; the students not taking the classes from the house or distance learning, but students learning more when she go to the schools. The parents thinks exactly whit me, because is most effective taking the classes in the schools, in not a distance the schols. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
dc60789ac2a5 | ACAB1FCA0A30 | I would like to change the election for the president of the United States. I would like to vote for president myself and not for a slate of electors because then I can't really control who the electors vote for. | Position | Adequate |
0f28c96d8eab | ACAB1FCA0A30 | Electors in the past have refused to vote for their party's candidate and I would be very mad if that happened to me. Voters feel like their votes don't coun | Evidence | Adequate |
315fee8d0d55 | ACAB1FCA0A30 | The Electoral College, to voters, is unfair. | Claim | Adequate |
18b2107c3517 | ACAB1FCA0A30 | I don't like that representatives from each state, represent a number of voters that make a huge difference such as numbers from the hundred-thousands to the millions | Claim | Ineffective |
370024a4e4ad | ACAB1FCA0A30 | Thats the only good reason about the Electoral College, when voter numbers from each state have a huge difference apart and the electors cast their own vote, | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
722f30b7d1dc | ACAB1FCA0A30 | but when voter numbers don't have a huge difference apart, I don't like what the elector | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
d4e091c4c7ae | ACAB1FCA0A30 | The number of electoral votes given to each state is bad because there can be a lot of the same numbers and an example is, Texas has 38 votes and North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana all of 3 votes. Each party has to have trusted electors because too me, if each party has trusted electors, then maybe a lot of the votes won't be the same. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c3e58863a118 | ACAB1FCA0A30 | If the votes between the two candidates, are a tie, the voters still can't vote for them, themselves. Voters in toss-up should mainly be able to decide the election because they usually really listen to the competing candidates so they are usually the most thoughtful. Votes in big states aren't fair to smaller states because presidential candidates give alot of attention to big states than to small states. | Evidence | Adequate |
d52b5f592578 | ACAB1FCA0A30 | The Electoral College, can sometimes give voters no hope to the candidate they want to win because electors could vote for the other candidate. An example is, Republicans in a state might eventually know that their vote will have no effect so they end up paying less attention the the competing presidential candidates. I think that thats a reason how plurality happens and voters think its unfair. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
609189e198bb | ACE3E472041C | Does taking classes from home benefit students.
People might said that,taking classes from home is a bad idea, that is not useful that kids don't learn and they do nothing. In case other people will said that it benefit kids , that keep them safe and I will agree by saying that taking classes from home benefits kids.
Well I think that parents, who decided that their kids need to take classes online is for one of many reasons. for example , I will provided you three reasons why | Lead | Adequate |
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