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af2f608c5a63 | B02A4DDA8FC7 | Helping the elderly can help them. Maybe their too weak to carry their own bags and they need help. A lot of elderly people now a days are dying because their trying to do chores they can't really do but they have to do because no one is their to help them do them. | Evidence | Effective |
7b604d3ead59 | B02A4DDA8FC7 | Cleaning up trash is also a good thing to do because your helping make our world a cleaner place. | Claim | Adequate |
123e11cfe52c | B02A4DDA8FC7 | Think about all the sea life that's died because they got tangles up in a trash bag and suffocated because people are too lazy to put their trash bags into their trash bags. If you clean up trash your saving and animals life and that's a good thing to do. | Evidence | Effective |
838ecfef561d | B02A4DDA8FC7 | Another reason why I think community service should be required is because it looks good on college applications. | Claim | Effective |
6d22f7e86de8 | B02A4DDA8FC7 | When you apply for a college their going to first consider a person who has had community service hour then someone who has no community service hours. They would consider a person with community service hour over someone who has no community service hour because that shows that they actually care about what's going on with the world.
| Evidence | Effective |
33ffa11a215b | B02A4DDA8FC7 | Doing community service can also help you make some friends outside of your school. Also doing community service can help you as a person. | Claim | Effective |
179e47be7f5c | B02A4DDA8FC7 | It can help you learn about how its a good thing to do and also spend some of your day outside in the fresh air. If one day your stuck at home and need something to do you should go outside and do some community service it makes your day less boring and you get to get out of your house for a little while and do something good. | Evidence | Effective |
f59a5feb1b7b | B02AD8EE0DF0 | I would keep it the same | Position | Adequate |
076c9dc4c022 | B02AD8EE0DF0 | because it would put more work on the poll workers because they would have to count all the votes for each president. If they miss a few votes the wrong person could be elected as president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9e4fa7157ec6 | B02AD8EE0DF0 | I would rather them keep it the same because its simple | Claim | Ineffective |
57c6149b0a8f | B02AD8EE0DF0 | faster to calculate | Claim | Ineffective |
e33c7746a553 | B02AD8EE0DF0 | and easy to read.
| Claim | Ineffective |
726a8ce95cdf | B02AD8EE0DF0 | I say its simple because you just have to count the votes and make an elctoral vote and then if u have the most electoral votes for that state it mean that you won the vote in that state. | Claim | Ineffective |
635aabceda25 | B02AD8EE0DF0 | At the end it matters who has majority of the electoral votewhich is 270. It'sbasically the same as how much states you've won to see who will be elected as president. | Evidence | Adequate |
5a476175eae6 | B02AD8EE0DF0 | I also think its faster to calculate because when you do electoral votes | Claim | Ineffective |
81897598187b | B02AD8EE0DF0 | you would see how many electoral votes yu have out of 538. The majority of electoral votes is 270 so, If you have majority of the 538 votes you will be elected. | Evidence | Ineffective |
31f82cd7fb06 | B02AD8EE0DF0 | It's easier to read electoral votes | Claim | Ineffective |
61cd69f460a8 | B02AD8EE0DF0 | because you are adding and subtracting only 538 people, but if you are counting from popular votes you would have to add up millions and billions of votes that would be miscounted. If it's miscounted the wrong person could be elected for president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
2a70383c3a19 | B0846915EE1A | I think they should go by popular vote | Position | Adequate |
404b999d7e1e | B0846915EE1A | beacuse it gives people a chance to vote for the right thing or what they think is right . | Claim | Adequate |
bd7ebe1907ea | B0846915EE1A | So thats a popular vote for kennedy would not have actually gone to kennedy .
It happend in 2000, when gore had more popular votes than bush yet fewer electoral votes, but that was the first time since 1888.
obama recevied 61.7 percent of the popular votes cast for him and romney .... Because almost all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis, even a very slight plurality in a state creates a landslide electoral-vote victory in that state. A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538-is an even number, but it is highly unlikely ....
nixon in 1986 and clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the elections .
there is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the vote cast;that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the electroral college, which invariably produces a clear winner....
knowing their vote will have no effect ,they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote ...! | Evidence | Ineffective |
0d2008b1e023 | B0D5228E9FBD | I think you should keep the Electoral College because its a process that consist of the selection of the electors. | Position | Adequate |
a1552f11c7dc | B0D5228E9FBD | It has 538 electors so it gives many people a chance to run. I really like the idea of that i want you to keep using this process. Each candidate thats running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. You help choose your state's electors when you vote for president. Most states have a "winner-take-all". Maine and Nebraska have a variation of "proportional representation" | Evidence | Adequate |
1b107d605276 | B0D5228E9FBD | The popular vote doesnt work because when they did it they had one the popular vote but lost the presidency. | Claim | Adequate |
a0019be2e111 | B0D5228E9FBD | The popular vote winner could again lose the presidency but the electoral college still has is defenders. The popular vote can let peopel pick who they want but the electoral college chooses people for you to select from that they know and have a feeling would do a good job and be a good president. People can vote all over the world not knowing what that person is thinking about doing to this world. For all we know he or she could be thinking about destroying us and making a whole knew other part of a different world . | Evidence | Ineffective |
b9fe9b16f27c | B0D5228E9FBD | The Electoral College is widely regareded as an anachronism. but each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vte for he party's nominee. certainty of outcome is like percentage . the winner takes all basically. | Evidence | Ineffective |
40e8b0be3328 | B0ED18C04F15 | I read all these articles about some states having to vote for the president's electors. They say basically when your voting for a president, your voting for his/hers electors. | Lead | Adequate |
d68af29f91db | B0ED18C04F15 | My opinion is there should be no need for electors. It should be easy and not too complicated. A presdient, a vice president, and a secatary. No electors or nothing. | Position | Adequate |
8376412fb72d | B0ED18C04F15 | I think a president can do alot of his own work and think of ideas alone. If he need help than instead of us wasting our time with voting for people to give the presdient ideas and help him out. | Claim | Ineffective |
c30c26da88b8 | B0ED18C04F15 | Well the President always say's God Bless America. Shouldn't the President be listening to the voices of his country. America | Evidence | Ineffective |
4880cb5ba7a0 | B0ED18C04F15 | Yes, I think the candidate with the most votes should win | Claim | Adequate |
34ee02d3810e | B0ED18C04F15 | But, If they say that their going to do something for our country than they need to keep their word. Make it a better place not for himslef but for everyone. For instance, Barack Obama. What's the need for this unessarcy work that he has done. America is loosing their mind and doesnt know what's going on. Why is he doing this? | Evidence | Ineffective |
8376457a44f6 | B0ED18C04F15 | The president is to make smart decent relevant choices. And if he listen to the voices of Americans than he would have lots of ideas lots! | Claim | Adequate |
e97d8b6b0f61 | B0ED18C04F15 | Instead he listens to who? His electors. People complain saying to themselfs, Where does he come up with these ideas? Well if you payed close attention to the presidents background and know what he really wants to do than you would know why. Honestly to me I dont think the Electoral College should keep going its just a bunch of mess that just doesnt make sence | Evidence | Adequate |
f20859b974ed | B0ED18C04F15 | Elelctors dont matter to most American's. Take the electors and the Electoral College away we dont want something we dont need. All we need is a President, a Vice Presdient, and a Secatary.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4ad0ce5b95db | B111395C3C6E | I think it would be bad to have community service | Position | Adequate |
4a031732e5fb | B111395C3C6E | I choose this reason because some kids never have time to do anything and making them do community service would just waist their time to have fun. | Claim | Adequate |
1739d2a7255d | B111395C3C6E | Plus what if some kids have after school activities and must go to them then they would get in trouble. | Claim | Ineffective |
e8f5d53397f0 | B111395C3C6E | That would cause a lot of trouble in the school. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6f146845ee06 | B111395C3C6E | If kids just went to community service everyday they would be tired when they got done causing kids to be lazy in the future and end up being overweight. | Claim | Adequate |
a049dca105c2 | B111395C3C6E | Then they would end up not going to work and jobs wouldn't be getting done. If jobs didn't get done then we wouldn't have any new technology and we would slowly die out of the human race. No one wants that to happen do they? | Evidence | Adequate |
0c89810bf247 | B111395C3C6E | If kids went to community service then their parents wouldn't really get to spend time | Claim | Adequate |
9077451e217d | B111395C3C6E | the kids would be working after school and they would be too tired when they got done working that they would go straight to sleep when they got home. they wouldn't be able to spend time at them on the weekend because the kids would want to have the time they could to play without having to go to work. Then the parents would be sad because they never have any time with their kids and the family would slowly fall apart. That's another reason why community service is bad.
| Evidence | Adequate |
39d2c812531b | B111395C3C6E | What I'm trying to say is that you should not tell students to do community service. You don't know what they have going on in their lives. They could be a professional basketball player. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
ce6a70442b71 | B119CD1A5145 | I think that students should all have to do some community service. | Position | Effective |
f2c3930ea131 | B119CD1A5145 | For example, if everyone did community service a lot of people will be helped. | Claim | Effective |
5b9c5680cfbe | B119CD1A5145 | They could go to shelters and help serve food or help pick up trash for the community. They could also go tutor elementary school children like they mentioned that some of the kids do that. It would make the people your helping very happy or proud of the community. | Evidence | Effective |
008b0b124533 | B119CD1A5145 | Students should be required to do a certain amount of hours for community service before they graduate. | Claim | Effective |
4d868590bc5d | B119CD1A5145 | that way they get more real life examples as well. | Evidence | Adequate |
c7c51600ffdd | B119CD1A5145 | Plus if you think you are too busy of a person to do community service pick a day when you don't have anything to do. | Claim | Effective |
e2ff164d692a | B119CD1A5145 | Do community service for at least a couple hours it will make you and the people you helped happy and you will also feel better about yourself as well.
| Evidence | Effective |
a58b365004cc | B119CD1A5145 | In conclusion, community service is one of the best things you can go do to get involved. More students and even people should start and do community service whenever they can. I think that everyone should help out at least a little because everyone can make a difference. community service is very important and everyone should have a part in it to make the world a better place to live on.
| Concluding Statement | Effective |
1aa412945a8f | B133FCABD0AF | The Face on Mars is just a landmark. | Position | Adequate |
389238b801ca | B133FCABD0AF | you can't believe anybody that has no evidence | Claim | Adequate |
d96269ce281b | B133FCABD0AF | NASA won't even leak anything | Claim | Ineffective |
be68bfe16180 | B133FCABD0AF | if NASA will not tell anybody anything then everyone is just assuming. | Claim | Adequate |
9389c2d55b5c | B133FCABD0AF | You can't believe anybody that has no real evidence. | Claim | Adequate |
b67d06a54fdf | B133FCABD0AF | In paragraph five it says that "evidence that NASA would rather have." That shows that NASA doesn't want to say to anybody that is assuming that this is created by aliens because they really want this to be confidential. People thing the face is evidence of life on Mars and the Face is bona fide so they are saying there has to be life on Mars. In reality they don't know what they are saying so they are assuming that this was created by aliens just to start talk and give people something to talk about. This is evidence of why you can't believe anything without true evidence.
| Evidence | Adequate |
de6548400e78 | B133FCABD0AF | NASA won't even leak anything. Some people think that Face is bona fide and that shows there are aliens on Mars. Nobody knows is that is true because if you read the paragraph it says some people think and everyone is believing what people think. | Claim | Ineffective |
bb06db4fc71a | B133FCABD0AF | THe story has been around for about the Face on Mars and it's bween everywhere for about 25 years and after a while of the story people started to say things that are not real mixed in with real things and people have just been going around like that. This is evidence of why NASA won't leak anything so people do not know the truth.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
d8cb7a3645a1 | B133FCABD0AF | If NASA won't leak anything then everyone is just assumimg. "The Face on Mars has starred in a hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows, and even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years." It has been in movies okay and they change it up a little bit to make it interesting and people think that is the true story. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b080c7e1ea37 | B133FCABD0AF | NASA wishes there was ancient civilization background on Mars so they know the full details. NASA doesn't even know the full story of the The Face, so how can people be for sure about anything. These are examples of why people are just assuming. | Claim | Adequate |
9a10d809b56e | B133FCABD0AF | People think it is a face that aliens put on there. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
1a69e411d664 | B133FCABD0AF | So you are saying if I go out to the middle of the desert and see a face it camre from aliens. It is a natural landmark that came with the planet of Mars. NASA is not even telling people so no one even knows for sure anyways. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
01acd1104720 | B133FCABD0AF | You can't believe anybody that has no evidence, NASA won't even leak anything, and if NASA will not tell anybody anything then everyone is just assuming. This is why this is just a landmark. There is a lot of landmarks on earth and this is one of them on Mars. There is no evidence of any of this so don't believe what everybody says. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
43f0d2be883b | B1473F247979 | NASA`s had send a spacecraft called Viking 1. Many of the people that were working on this were think it was something else | Lead | Adequate |
6f925eab4913 | B1473F247979 | When it came out 1976 many peolpe think it was made by aliens. But on one know that it was | Claim | Adequate |
571d8cf47bbe | B1473F247979 | So it be came an icon for the plant mars. Many people think it was aliens that made the face or hills that from the face on mars. 22 years later Mars Global surveyor had a spacecaft that was going aronud mars to the face but when they did they take the image. Many were happy to see other image. But it did not came a clear as they what it to be | Evidence | Adequate |
47c4be40ad2d | B1473F247979 | i think it could be is that a rock may crash into mars and made the face | Position | Adequate |
38eacb48fb95 | B1473F247979 | But over time sand bulid over it gave what it look like in 1976. In the photograph you can see that it maybe face but you can see that it can be a hill. What are the black spot in the photograph that we see here. It could be that is that can be made on mars by wnich it from by. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f736ea2f10c1 | B15AE8E4985E | For centuries, we have followed a certian system estabolished by our founding fathers. This system is called the electoral college. This system is based off voting for the president through electoral votes rather than based off more popular. The state has an overall say through its electors | Lead | Effective |
ba893ef09c38 | B15AE8E4985E | I believe that this system is unfair and should be abolished. | Position | Adequate |
6f5fc1ecc5e7 | B15AE8E4985E | The electoral college should be abolished because you are not voiting directly for the president. You are voting for an elector who would in turn elect the president | Claim | Adequate |
31d24893255f | B15AE8E4985E | While you may end up pleased, others may feel the complete opposite | Counterclaim | Adequate |
a5e10f8e5f3b | B15AE8E4985E | I believe that it is unfair to not directly vote for the president bacuse it should be completly up to this nation to elect a president. The system they have set up right now is injustice | Evidence | Ineffective |
59c60010a20c | B15AE8E4985E | The second reason the electoral college should be taken away is that the system has much room for failure. Electors could easily betray the will of the people | Claim | Effective |
d7ec5b65c3dc | B15AE8E4985E | They have much more power than the standard voter. The electors would completly oppose the most "popular" vote and put in their vote for whoever they feel deserves it. This is wrong and totally goes against the idea of giving the people power. This would qualify as just giving a few people power. There could also be room for a tie. This could result in the elcetion ending in the hands of the House of Representatives where the state delegates could chose the president. Not only is this destorying the power of the general public but this could also result in people not getting what they wanted. The delegates cuold go completly against what the people say because they technially have the right to since they have the power of the situation. | Evidence | Effective |
5389eadf88f1 | B15AE8E4985E | The final reason the electoral college system should be left behind is the fact that not every state gets to see the canidates | Claim | Adequate |
cd773c80d19d | B15AE8E4985E | Some of the smaller states that don't count for much of the vote or tend to lean towards a different party don't even get a visit from the canidates. Not only is that unfair but it's also completly demaning towards the state. It makes the citizens of the state feel unworthy or not important enough for not even making an effort for their vote. This is also a stupid move on the canidates part because they might have been able to persuade the state's vote. | Evidence | Adequate |
9f4096d26886 | B15AE8E4985E | In conclusion, the electoral college is not a functional system for its characteristic of being completly indirect, for taking away the power of the people, and for its room for error. Although it may seem like a trustworthy system at first, don't be fooled. So whats more important, the power and opinions of the people or the power and opinion of the delegates? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4d531185d19c | B15AF429027A | Student would like to benefit being able to attend classes at home. | Position | Adequate |
43bd0fde9052 | B15AF429027A | Some teenager in high school are having a baby or had their baby. | Claim | Adequate |
79d23d79dad1 | B15AF429027A | Some teenager are better to work by their self to get it all done | Claim | Adequate |
71d653c6b3f2 | B15AF429027A | The dont need away getting nowhere if its online classes. | Claim | Ineffective |
2f59c5332c26 | B15AF429027A |
Some teenager in high school are having a baby or had their baby, | Claim | Adequate |
e9cdcccd4a31 | B15AF429027A | They dont have day care for their child. If you are a teenager with a newborn baby you dont want to leave your baby at home with your mom. You want to do a online class for you can take care your own kid, you can still do your school work and keep up with everyone in your class. Some teens dont have people by there side to call on and need help, so they try to help there self the best way they can to. Some day care cost to much and they dont have lot of money to pay for it. | Evidence | Adequate |
3bdc9de9abb3 | B15AF429027A | Some teenager are better to work by their self to get it all done. | Claim | Adequate |
a653bc558964 | B15AF429027A | Some student dont have to think anyone is coping there work for the other kids are getting the correct answer. They might not get along with there classmate so,They hate doing group work. He or She dont like doing group work because, They might be doing all the work by their self. Some kids like doing work in there own way because that how they're use to it. | Evidence | Adequate |
7c67304f639f | B15AF429027A | The dont need away getting nowhere if there are online classes | Claim | Ineffective |
9647062551ee | B15AF429027A | Some teens dont like riding the bus or walking to school so, They will ask the mom or dad or who live in the house with them to take them to school. Sometimes kids get kick off the bus because of whatever they done so they have to ride with mom or dad. Teens dont have to think about if they have money to get some lunch when its food in there house. They dont have to think if a kid will take their food form the | Evidence | Adequate |
b97e85aad6cb | B165E46F2D0C | When our great leaders died they're visions didn't die. They wanted the people to be in charge of who runs there country and what happens in them. Why is this not happening the way our founders wanted it. Having the Electoral College is not a bad idea but, its not a great one. | Lead | Effective |
6bf8a1a70ed3 | B165E46F2D0C | Demolishing the Electoral College is the only fair way. | Position | Adequate |
876d27373df6 | B165E46F2D0C | the Electoral College method of selectin the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carry their state....Knowing their vote will have no effect" | Claim | Adequate |
93355615c458 | B165E46F2D0C | Popular vote don't seem to matter, The Peoples vote don't seem to matter. | Evidence | Ineffective |
67ee81c761cf | B165E46F2D0C | Others may argue that the Electoral college helps break a tie | Counterclaim | Adequate |
3e724f7438d1 | B165E46F2D0C | but, that only happened one time. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
93c141b65beb | B165E46F2D0C | If we ever had a issue like that again we could just enforce the Electoral College but, the people the say of who leads us after all we are one nation under god. In the article" The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" Bradford plumer states" Voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." Furthermore he goes on to say " state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." Can't we just enforce the Electoral College when we need a tie breaker. The Electoral College consist of five-hundred thirty-eight electors which happens to be an even number. Even if its a slight chance couldn't an Electoral College voting happen to be a tie. The population doesn't have even or odds in this case because every year new people are getting to the age that they can vote. | Evidence | Adequate |
6453d25ea37a | B165E46F2D0C | In the article "what is the Electoral college?" The Office of the Federal Register states that" the founding fathers establish it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the presidentby a vote in congress and the election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens." | Claim | Adequate |
5f405d2116ec | B165E46F2D0C | As you see it says a comprimise not total dictatorship. Everybody has rights voters rights are being tampered with. freedom to vote doesn't seem neccessary because we may have freedom to vote but our votes isn't making a difference. As Plumer said if there is a chance of a tie " the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president....Because each state cast only one vote ,the single reprsentative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representative from California, who represent 35 million voters." | Evidence | Adequate |
5c19a54c90c9 | B168CD238CA1 | The Electoral College should be removed from our way of voting; we should change it to election by popular vote for the president of the United States | Position | Adequate |
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