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7d8fdb4f561d | B29198FD0748 | In the article,"Does the Electoral College Work", it states that becasue of the diffrent sizes of our states some people feel they do not get a fair say in who makes decisions for our country. They feel that because they dont live in a big state like Texas they do not have equal say in the decisions our country makes. In the article Plumer wrote, " In the same vein, faithless electors have pccasionally refused to vote for their party's canidate and cast a deciding vote for whoever they please...". The Electoral College is changing peoples mind set on how to vote because they feel why should we care if the government does not, can you blame them? If we just took out the simple problem of the Electoral College more voters will vote honestly rather then go with everyone elses vote. | Evidence | Effective |
0e0004b5963e | B29198FD0748 | Another reason i feel we should favor the popular vothing system is because this would show that the soon to be presidents should vist all of there voters rather then the ones they know they will probably win. | Claim | Effective |
b8f09e68370c | B29198FD0748 | "Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state, canidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight race in the "swing" states." What the author is saying here is the canidates dont give equal chances to the states to here what they,the canidates, have to say. For example if a democrate is going to states he would most likley avoid the ones full of republicans because he feels he has no chance and does not spend the money. But, if we get majority votes this will allow every indvividual to vote rather a group of republicans. Not only does this allow a better chance of winning for that democrate it allows the voters to feel like they can change there minds because they have a say. This will contribute to the conidates because they can now get there point across to more, rather then to select little groups. | Evidence | Effective |
9a80acacc43d | B29198FD0748 | The final reason we should get rid of this system is because at this point in time we are not even vothing for our presidents we are voting for people who vote for us. | Claim | Adequate |
bd2f398ef41b | B29198FD0748 | What i mean is "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but the slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." Americans have always wanted to be in power and have a say in what we do but in the case of voting we do not. By doing this we are allowing the government to make all of the decisions for us, as if we were children. When you turn to the legal age for vothing your vote should count. With this majority does not rule, for instance say our votes of 46 percent and 54 percent were to come in. The man of the 46 percent still has a chance of winning when the people had already voted. The problem with that is at that point the peoples word goes out the window, and the government once again jumps in demanding that they choose. | Evidence | Effective |
9cc7c076e5e5 | B29198FD0748 | As we learn more about this topic we realize how rediculious this situation is. Obviously, going with popular vote is the best solution because we will finally be what everyone has been trying to do for decades, be equal. Sir, i hope you understand my årgument and really take into concideration what i have said. Our presidents make decisions for us everyday, dont you think its time me get to make one for ourselves? | Concluding Statement | Effective |
fa987a1e7aa8 | B2C131C2B3AB | The electoral congress, made by the founding fathers for the people to vote for the President and Vice President. Also there is a process that consist in the counting of the electoral votes by congress. "the office of the federal Register". There are also issues with the idea of having the electoral congres becuase the voters get confuse and vote for the wrong candidate, but today those erros do not happen. The candidate is the person who is going to be the next President and Vice President. | Lead | Ineffective |
c501d8b7b53f | B2C131C2B3AB | To begin with, Having the electoral congress is a great idea, | Position | Adequate |
f4ef0bfcca23 | B2C131C2B3AB | it is an easy method of choosing the candidate that the people want to have for four years guiding taking care of the Precidency | Claim | Adequate |
d02fc28962f7 | B2C131C2B3AB | and there are reasons of having the electoral congress, if you are part of the united states you can give your opinion and vote for the person that you think is going to the right one. | Evidence | Ineffective |
4c611a2afc35 | B2C131C2B3AB | Secondly, The electoral congress keeps the organization of counting the votes and declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes (The winner) | Claim | Adequate |
e982beb05545 | B2C131C2B3AB | when you are voting for the cadidate you are voting for a slate of electors that were choosen by the congress, and the people will decide who they wanted to be their president and this is all about the people, and their opinion because they are the ones who vote for the candidate and they want him or her to be the president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
efb6fdac1d92 | B2C131C2B3AB | the congress has some erros | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
f0392824ba84 | B2C131C2B3AB | but as time is pasing, it keeps getting better and having less issues because they have a modern techonology, thats now is taking care of the votes and keeping it orgainze. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
6d076821a23a | B2C131C2B3AB | In conclusion, many people today prefer and thank to the founding fathers of creating the electoral congress becuase is way more better. every one who is part of the united states can vote for the candidate that they want. the electoral congress was a great idea and everyone enjoys it becuase they are the ones who give their opinion to the congress and choose the candidate that they want to have for four years, giving benefits to the united states and there is a perfect example of our current precident who is doing a great job taking care of the united states. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e66b26ddf348 | B2E85A9A8F9C | Was the Face on Mars created by aliens? | Lead | Adequate |
5151f5dc8678 | B2E85A9A8F9C | No,The Face on Mars is just a natural lanform | Position | Adequate |
39a88d2d7b7e | B2E85A9A8F9C | because scientist figured it out that it was just another Martian mesa, | Claim | Adequate |
9fbbd2522058 | B2E85A9A8F9C | the rule of thumb | Claim | Adequate |
0508aff3dd2e | B2E85A9A8F9C | Micheal Malin and his team snapped a picture of the Face revealing a natural landform. | Claim | Adequate |
5ff4a3c29aa9 | B2E85A9A8F9C | First in paragraph one and three, The region where the face was found is called Cydonia and | Evidence | Ineffective |
a5a910dc1b35 | B2E85A9A8F9C | scientists had also found that it just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia.
| Claim | Adequate |
ad46a63d8b1c | B2E85A9A8F9C | Next in paragraph eleven, Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, explained that "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times than the pixel size, | Claim | Adequate |
69e03d61e802 | B2E85A9A8F9C | so if there were objects in the this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptain-style pyramids or even small shacks, you can see what they were!' | Evidence | Adequate |
60b3c80f7b46 | B2E85A9A8F9C | Finally in paragraph seven, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photo. | Claim | Adequate |
f3ef5c60c396 | B2E85A9A8F9C | Thousands of web surfers waiting when the image first appeared on a JLP web site,revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument. | Evidence | Adequate |
b4136e0c599f | B2E85A9A8F9C | In conclusion, the Face was not created by ailens ,but just a natural landform because scientists have figured out that a mesa is a common lanform, the rule of thumb, and MOC team snapped a picture of the Face revealing a natural landform. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f3515a75ef76 | B2EE7ADD5BFA | I have done research | Lead | Ineffective |
a1b9f0997a07 | B2EE7ADD5BFA | I would like to change the Electoral College to the popular vote for the President of the United States | Position | Adequate |
3d08f43fadf8 | B2EE7ADD5BFA | Source 1: "What is electoral College?" explains that "each canadate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors." Many people do not know what that really means. It means that the people of the United States do not actually vote for who their president will be. They are voting for someone who gets to choose who the president will be. Having the Electoral College is very confusing | Evidence | Adequate |
e2cba12f5c5b | B2EE7ADD5BFA | I think it is more fair to have the people of the United States vote directly for their president instead of voting for a slate of electios that then choose the president. | Claim | Effective |
902405c62a88 | B2EE7ADD5BFA | By getting rid of the Electoral College, the vote for the United States president will be more fair. We, the people of the United States, would not be voting for a slate of electors. We would actually be voting for who we want to become our president. | Evidence | Adequate |
58897b0eac70 | B2EE7ADD5BFA | These votes would be more direct and accurate.
| Claim | Adequate |
166cab3b58d8 | B2EE7ADD5BFA | Source 2: "Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" states that voters may get confused and vote for someone that they didnt want to vote for. The people should be the ones voting for their president. It is unfair that only the electors get to vote in the end. Voters of the electors cannot even control who the electors vote for. The people have to put their trust in the electors to vote for the president. | Evidence | Adequate |
fb4fb3d8d44c | B2EE7ADD5BFA | It make smore sense for the people to have a say and for them to have the ability to vote directly. | Claim | Adequate |
c70040159506 | B2EE7ADD5BFA | When I turn eighteen and I am allowed to vote, I hope that my vote actually matters. I hope that my vote does not just go towards an elector. I hope that my vote will count towards whom I think will represent our country well. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1d4af1685266 | B2F69B97BC2A | I think that every person who wants to go for president should go to electoral school, just so when ever the person runs for president they don't win because they are well known and popular vs the other person who is not well known. | Position | Ineffective |
3dc7013700f6 | B2F69B97BC2A | Also if they do go to election school they could learn how to run for pesident and learn how to write speeches, and also teach them that some of the 50 states in the united states have to have his/her vote.
The out come of a person running for president that went to electoral school their electoral vote will be above average for one year and if they do good as president then the outcome for next year will maybe bet higher or lower. When ever a US citizen votes they are also voting for the electors canidates. and when you do vote that person who is running for president that helps his/her's group get elected. Every president has to have a Vice president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3f279bb1a43e | B30F7524C444 | I think we shouldn't have our phones during school hours. I think we should be aloud to use it after school or before school, but once you enter the school there should be a policy for NO CELL PHONES | Position | Adequate |
3299bb7796fc | B30F7524C444 | For example, what if your taking a district test or some kind of important test to get you to the next level and people are secretly texting the answers through there phone and sending it to their friends. | Claim | Adequate |
29288d89d548 | B30F7524C444 | If a teacher saw that, it would be an automatic zero and a call home from their parents. But if the teacher didn't see that, then a kid taking the test might have gotten a higher score then failing the test. | Evidence | Adequate |
f702d4308fc9 | B30F7524C444 | For more reasons, lets say your a teacher and one of your students get a phone call during class | Claim | Adequate |
6b3fbe9a2a59 | B30F7524C444 | would you like it while he/she doesn't even bother listening to you teach, while the other kids want to learn? I THINK NOT! These are more reasons why other schools abandon having cell phone privileges. I'm not saying take away the cell phone if the student is not using it and just has it in their pocket for just incase. I'm saying if you see a student using it during school hours. | Evidence | Adequate |
ff4d2af3e23e | B30F7524C444 | Therefore my vote is to not have any cell phone privileges on campus. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
94755ba16a9d | B321A3B98AB5 | They should change it to election by popular vote | Position | Adequate |
e11f70b99278 | B321A3B98AB5 | the electoral college is not divided evenly through out the states. | Claim | Adequate |
e3575c43f5ee | B321A3B98AB5 | So the president can win for having more states vote for him or her. The number of people in the state shouldn't count as how many votes they get. | Evidence | Adequate |
42ce99ad8075 | B321A3B98AB5 | Like it says in the artcle "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" paragraph 21 number 4 that "a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does. . . .". So its unfair to the smaller states just because of the size all the states should have equal numder of votes. People might say like in the artcle "The indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" in paragraph 13 that the "candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning." | Evidence | Adequate |
ae39c5d714e6 | B321A3B98AB5 | Thats why all the states should have the same number of votes so the candidates would go there to try to win them over | Claim | Ineffective |
5e174bca401c | B321A3B98AB5 | Having popular vote help voters want to vote again | Claim | Adequate |
f593ecd8f3f4 | B321A3B98AB5 | Like in the artcle "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President." "The electoral college method of selecting the president College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state." | Evidence | Adequate |
307a0daacbff | B321A3B98AB5 | So thats why it should be changed to popular vote. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c434ecf07c27 | B3249050C067 | The Electoral College was a compromise made by our founding fathers. It was made as a compromise between the election of a president through a vote from Congress and election through popular vote. The downside to this way of election is that the voters are not voting for one of the candidates but for their state electors, who then vote for the president. The votes from each of the states electors then count as votes for the candidate | Lead | Effective |
d44d49ffceb2 | B3249050C067 | This way of election for a president is unfair and confusing and should be changed. | Position | Adequate |
b3abf32934fe | B3249050C067 | First off, the Electoral College is unfair in the way that a vote from an individual does not really count because the only votes that really count are the ones from the Electoral College. | Claim | Adequate |
950cb05a138b | B3249050C067 | It is also unfair that the voters cannot always choose who they want thier electors to be. There are also voters who have no hope just because of the state they live in, such as Democrars in Texas or Republicans in California. Since they know that thier vote doesnt matter in a state whose majority of the population goes fot the opposing party. Thsi is one reason why individual votes are more reasonable and fair. | Evidence | Adequate |
b181c9de2fb1 | B3249050C067 | Secondly, the Electoral College is very confusing for a voter who doesnt know how it works. | Claim | Ineffective |
f087ad44e5e7 | B3526897360F | I think students at this school should have to be able to put on a community service task. It would be helping the school and the community a lot. The world has been very dirty from people littering and not caring about the environment around them | Position | Adequate |
7d45ad39ba33 | B3526897360F | if we got everyone in our school to help by cleaning up parks, recycle and also get other people they know like friends and family to help out in the cause, it would help this planet so much. | Claim | Adequate |
84d4aeedee8d | B3526897360F | You could have them do it during school hours so they wouldn't think that they are using up their free time after school. A lot more kids would help if it was a project in school and making it credit or no credit | Evidence | Adequate |
5b89b1ff5fb1 | B3526897360F | Doing service hours is very good because it helps other but also helps you by being a better person. | Claim | Adequate |
0eb10ccdd89d | B3526897360F | If everyone just did one community service this world would be a step closer to being a lot better. Each year goes by and the world gets worse for the animals in nature and for us | Evidence | Adequate |
0e7a7ef98b1b | B3526897360F | You could also congratulate the students by giving them a pizza party, jeans day, or even homework passes if they participate in a service. This would teach students how to be a good citizen of the America and also how to help this planet. | Evidence | Adequate |
a215ba94e398 | B3526897360F | f nature is killed by our littering that means we are losing ways to find cures for diseases | Evidence | Ineffective |
66233dfbd83b | B3526897360F | I think this could help this school a lot and make kids feel a lot better about themselves. the teachers cold get the kids to go down to lower grades and have them help the younger kids in school and talk to them about how its like in the next couple of years | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
48c629a6685e | B365484CCA8F | beleve or not belive e- some people tend to base things on opinions instead of real facts like how people might say ' well how can you be so sure that aliens didn't make the face ' my rebundal would be 'the image first apperared on jpl website revealing | Lead | Adequate |
c848dd7847ba | B365484CCA8F | a natural landform there was no landform . there was no alien monument after all.
| Position | Adequate |
5860a0f14197 | B365484CCA8F | i can connect this by simply looking at the picture and back couple years and to now how scientist reported no life for is on mars you will be boiled to death because it's also no oxygen so how can an alien create a face when no life form have been found yet. | Evidence | Ineffective |
4a185a1cae1f | B365484CCA8F | in concluision i want to to say dont always go with assuptions they never always go the way you planned and also dont belive a tall tell ask the person if they have real science based facts if they check out then believe or not belive. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
763e99b0a63a | B36C72D38CBC | Now you may have heard of something on Mars that looked like a huge rock formation. You may have thought it was created by aliens | Lead | Adequate |
b68704a4994e | B36C72D38CBC | I am here to tell you that it's just a mesa.
| Position | Adequate |
d3a8c1f9b759 | B36C72D38CBC | in 1976 we discovered something on Mars that looked like a face! At first we thought it was something like what you think now, we thought it was aliens | Claim | Adequate |
a743449a6a88 | B36C72D38CBC | The excitement was short lived for us because we ended up saying that "Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa" so that made it disappointing for us. You may say that the landform is created by aliens and we're just hiding it from you, but you're sorely mistaken because this discovery would help NASA as a whole if we did reveal it. That's just one of many reasons that we aren't lying about it being a landform. | Evidence | Adequate |
542084e0ca6a | B36C72D38CBC | Another reason that we are completely sure it's a landform is because we can't spot any sign of life on the face | Claim | Adequate |
2f884ef83a20 | B36C72D38CBC | As we said "As a rule of thumb, you can discern things in a digital image 3 times bigger than the pixel size," "So, if there were objects in this picture like airplanes on the ground or Egyptian-style pyramids or even small shacks, you could see what they were!" | Evidence | Adequate |
f814962335fe | B36C72D38CBC | So even if you thought we were lying saying "Oh this image is a lie they have secret ones that actually show that there's life on Mars in their building, | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
33bb35764962 | B36C72D38CBC | you would have no clue that there's no reason for us to hide life being on Mars | Rebuttal | Adequate |
ac2877be140e | B36C72D38CBC | We wouldn't have anything bad happen to us because we discovered life on Mars we would get rewarded for discovering life on Mars so why would we hide it? | Evidence | Adequate |
4346ddbf7469 | B36C72D38CBC | And the last reason is that we have factual evidence and credibility to back up that there's no life on Mars | Claim | Adequate |
14038bcf24e0 | B36C72D38CBC | Like we said during this speech we said that "And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos. Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the image first appeared on a JPL web site, revealing... a natural landform." Later on we did it again in the speech "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 Garving. "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." Now you may say that we never did that, but we have photographic evidence of that clear photo that lets you see everything on the face. So we have the evidence we need to prove that this photo is real. | Evidence | Effective |
49081f209e37 | B36C72D38CBC | All together we have the proof that this special land formation on Mars that may look like aliens have built it, but it's just a simple mesa here on Earth something so common. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
eba30750af83 | B37483011EC6 | I think as a citizen that we should keep the Electoral College going. | Position | Adequate |
d3125aa4b4bd | B37483011EC6 | is keeping us in the right track | Claim | Adequate |
89142b3245b9 | B37483011EC6 | There are many reasons is to why we should keep the Electoral College up and running. My personal opinion is that if we don't keep the way it is going, things will become wrong. I have many concerns that i'm going to be sharing with you. Hopefully you will understand.
First, Electoral College has 538 people in the congress working to count the votes that people make. The most votes a President can get up too for winning is 270 Electoral votes. | Evidence | Adequate |
5cadd89899d2 | B37483011EC6 | Us citixen's help choose the state's elector when we vote for the President because. When we vote for the candidate were are voting for the candidate's elector. | Evidence | Effective |
df1d7dd95d4d | B37483011EC6 | this is fair because if we just had people by popular vote it would be a crazy mess. | Claim | Adequate |
6e2acf55611e | B37483011EC6 | We wouldn't really look at the qualities each President has or whom ever we may be voting for. Voting is a very serious thing and letting it be done by popular would be making the wrong choice. The Electoral College is voting for President of the United States and, the candidate of who will be Vice President with him. | Evidence | Adequate |
2e700cfb7493 | B37483011EC6 | Second, December is when we find out which electoral will be running our state. Goes for each and individual state. The "Certificate of Ascertainmet" list all of our candidates running. Then they will announce it on the year of election in December. | Evidence | Ineffective |
543e2c792ecc | B37483011EC6 | This makes things go on a simple flow. | Claim | Adequate |
1a72daccefcb | B37483011EC6 | Like i said if we just have a popular voting going around it doesn't make it fair for the Candidates running. We vote for the Slate of electors who then go an vote for President. I think this is right because some people don't understand political things and make the wrong choice of President. If we have people who are in the government and know how to be a good congress we should trust them to make the United States a well place to be. No one is ever going to have which ever Elector they want. Some people may just vote for one of the candidates because their bestfriend voted for him or her. | Evidence | Adequate |
394f06f755d5 | B37483011EC6 | If we have people that have more knowlodge then us then, we can have a good President. | Claim | Adequate |
97400ac79f80 | B37483011EC6 | If we just based it off what we might know and not know. We could be putting are self as American Citizen's in a bad place. If there was to be a tie then we still have someone with more knowlodge then us to back us up. The House of Representatives where they will vote for President. This is usually on rare occasions, but if it were to happen we would have no worries. Some people vote to just vote and don't really know what there voting for or what that person might do for us. Some people may vote because of what race, what they look like, anything really. I think if we keep the Electoral College it will keep us good. | Evidence | Adequate |
b1085c0e6cd5 | B37483011EC6 | What i'm really trying to explain is that. The President should be choosen correctly and wisely. Some people aren't very educated in politics and, we don't want just votes beacause we can vote. We want the votes to mean i know this person, i know he or she can do the job. I know this person is capable of being our President. In the end i honestly feel the Electoral College will work for now any to many years that will past. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
453cd8840f97 | B374D93D2A76 | Have you ever thought about keeping the Elector College or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United State? As living here in Florida most people advise to go with the Electoral College because the Electoral College always finds a way to make at least all the votes to be equal. | Lead | Adequate |
6f22f0697c4b | B374D93D2A76 | electing by the Elector College is way better than voting by the popular vote inthe United States | Position | Adequate |
db0a9dd093ac | B374D93D2A76 | the Electoral College actually tries to even itout with everyine's votes. | Claim | Adequate |
756cb574b7bb | B374D93D2A76 | For example, in the passage
What Is An Electoral College?
by the Office of the Federal Register it states that " The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are.." This means that most states have a "winner-take-all" for the winning candidate's. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7d1ba663b6ee | B374D93D2A76 | if we vote by the most popular vote on president, then that means the one who gets the most popular vote might have a group of his electors and cheat off by that | Claim | Ineffective |
0c8a0b72b303 | B374D93D2A76 | In conclusion, the Elector College is why better then picking by the most popular vote for president. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
35e060188e48 | B3948CC26153 | I believe that we should keep Electoral Colleges but massive changes to the system. | Position | Adequate |
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