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40b74279249f | B3948CC26153 | These changes would help prevent ties | Claim | Adequate |
0088df2dee0c | B3948CC26153 | avoid a large number of "swing" state | Claim | Ineffective |
74f16c2bdf4f | B3948CC26153 | make elections easier. | Claim | Adequate |
592e7bc38e92 | B3948CC26153 | For one to prevent ties, that is a hard thing to prevent cosidering we have no control over who someone votes for but it can be solved. | Claim | Adequate |
9497f205fc3f | B3948CC26153 | If, in case of a tie, we due a tie braker as you will. There will be a revotation process with 499 voters, these voters are picked at random in the city data base. "...for example, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him." | Evidence | Ineffective |
a99e967647e8 | B3948CC26153 | Number 2 is to solve swing states, again this is something it is hard to prevent but can be solved. | Claim | Ineffective |
4f49847735b7 | B3948CC26153 | There needs to be an equal number over information distributed among the states and so forth. | Evidence | Ineffective |
924dd48f9d59 | B3948CC26153 | For the conclusion of making elections easier, we need to make the more convenient. | Claim | Adequate |
b2351360e0e3 | B3948CC26153 | It takes a long time to vote for you and could be faster. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6c1e916b40c1 | B3948CC26153 | Although the electoral system is slightly flawed we still need to keep the "peoples" president, and there are not manyn other ways to do this than to due the system we have now. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b3f3889846f3 | B3948CC26153 | The only major problem is the the system is out of date. | Claim | Adequate |
ef7475a001be | B3963F9DB39C | "Just be fair" quotes many people everyday. In the article "Does the Electoral College Work?" Source 1: "What Is the Electoral College" by the Office of the Federal Rgister, Source 2: "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer, and Source 3: "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President. | Lead | Ineffective |
9a51115b4cfd | B3963F9DB39C | I think that the Electoral College should be abolished and to elect a president by popular vote. | Position | Adequate |
9394fff05f90 | B3963F9DB39C | The first thing to remember, is that the Electoral College is unfair and needs to be changed to the popular vote because the people should be able to vote who they want to be president. | Claim | Ineffective |
3c086b7ac293 | B3963F9DB39C | The author mentions in Source: 3 paragraph 18 that "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible-it happened in 2000-but it is less likely than a dispute over the popular vote." This proves that with the Electoral College in place that there may be a big contreversy about who should be the next president. Arguments would also break out between the political parties that are trying to elect their canidate president. With popualar vote you could avoid all these conflicts and disputes by letting the people elect the president outright with no questions | Evidence | Adequate |
bb287242956d | B3963F9DB39C | With this in mind, there should be no Electoral College because the author suggests in Source 3: paragraph 19 that "The Electoral College requires a presidential canidate to have trans-regional appeal. | Claim | Effective |
a13e6a21fc49 | B3963F9DB39C | No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. So a solid regional favorite, such as Romney was in the South, has no incentive to campaign heavily in those states, for he gains no electoral votes by increasing his pularity in states that he knows he will win." A presidential canidate should be able to gain votes from his region because that is the states the canidate are more familiar with so, he will be able to campaign better in those states and if he becomes president he will be equal to all the other regions. You could avoid this with the fair method of popular vote. | Evidence | Effective |
958e01fd1f93 | B3963F9DB39C | Another key point, is that the number of votes coming from each state should be equal in the amount of votes. | Claim | Adequate |
d9e644096c83 | B3963F9DB39C | The author claims in Source 2: paragraph 10 that "If you lived in Texas for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you would vote for a slate of 34 electors pledged to Kerry. With popular vote you would not have to worry about all of the votes that each state gives from the Electoral College. Popular vote lets the people deside no the Electoral College deside. If two canidates were running for president and one was from Florida and the other one was from Alaska, their state could be the deciding factor which the one from Florida will win because it has more votes than Alaska which is not fair. | Evidence | Adequate |
68be6303b556 | B3963F9DB39C | Truly, the Electoral College should be replaced by popular vote because there is a winner-take-all system. | Claim | Effective |
e4ce5fc4c662 | B3963F9DB39C | The author shadows in Source 1: paragraph 7 that "Most states have a "winner-take-all' system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. However, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of "proportional representation." The thing is that with a popular vote system you would not have to worry about a winner-take-all and states that have a different system than the other states. Just let the people decide and everything will be easy and fair. | Evidence | Effective |
77109f79f09c | B3963F9DB39C | On the flip side, the Electoral College should not be replaced because it avoids any type of run-off election that may occur. | Counterclaim | Effective |
133055d70fca | B3963F9DB39C | The author argues in Source 3: paragraph 22 that "The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in wich no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast." This shows that with the Electoral College it would relieve all of the stress that is put on a canidate when they are running and the stress could also complicate the process of electing the president. With the Electoral College their will be a winner no matter what happens which will clearly the most fair way to complete the process of electing the president. | Evidence | Adequate |
377f0ae40450 | B3963F9DB39C | To conclude, after analyzing the article "Does the Electoral College Work?" Source 1: "What Is the Electoral College" by the Office of the Federal Register, Source 2: "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer, and Source 3: "In Defense of the Electoral Collge: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President" by Richard A. Posner I think that the Electoral College should be replaced by a popular vote system. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
29c147116f5e | B39FCEF07F51 | The things that go on in florida about keeping in electorial college is working for us there are good reasons and bad reason where to keep it or change it to popular vote. | Position | Ineffective |
bdb1dc3eea19 | B39FCEF07F51 | I think keeping the electorial college is better for everybody | Claim | Adequate |
f03f6bda3fc2 | B39FCEF07F51 | we vote on the represenitive by there good ideas not there popularity. in the electoral college it consist of 538 votes and the majority of 270 votes is usally the winner and he is voted for because of his good ideas not if he is populer with the people or represenitives. in and electorial college where the electors vote in the president and the vice president which helps out the decison for the better man or woman in the white house, so the people should keep the elector college and not change to the populer vote. | Evidence | Ineffective |
60365068afb5 | B39FCEF07F51 | the united states should keep they electoral collge because the people vote and it is won by majority rule and should not be changed. | Claim | Ineffective |
dc6e46585779 | B39FCEF07F51 | the people vote for who they think is right for the job not just random people vote its unanimus decison to who wins. There is no reason to change the way things are going it has always been the same way the whole time ever since the united states was made in the first place. the people elect that is the advantage of a democracy which we have and in a democracy we vote by majority and thats how it most likley will stay in the united states no matter who the goverment is trying to vote in who they want but the united states is the power to vote in who goes into the office not the goverment so there is no chane of rigging all the votes so the unites states should not change to a popularity vote. power to the people is an old metaphor that indicates that we have the power to vote unlike in other countries where one man rules and the people have no power to vote for the best man to take over so in an electoral college we have all mighty power to make our own decisons to our future. | Evidence | Ineffective |
114a663bc8de | B39FCEF07F51 | so the united states will stay in electoral college forever but anything could happen to stop it. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
ab026edf249f | B3A666840EE1 | Being assingned president of the united states is a very big deal, especially to the millions of people that live in this god blessed country.
herThe united states of america has had different presidents ever since the beginning of this country. These presidents are not in it for the money, but they are holding the title
"
president"
because these people want what is right for this country. But, how do we pick who gets to be president? It all comes down to the electoral college. Citizens of the united states are allowed to vote at the age of 18, these votes are said to mean so much, but that isnt always the case. It really all comes down to the number of electoral votes. Why make all these citizens vote, when the outcome might not even follow along with these votes. | Lead | Adequate |
cf5b1e7f6494 | B3A666840EE1 | There are two types of votes. The electoral college votes, and the popular votes which is the number of citizens who voted for one certain canidate. How ever there has been times where the popular vote did not win the election. In 2000, canidate Gore had more of the popular votes then Bush did, but Bush had the most electoral votes. | Evidence | Adequate |
179f6b7cf4e1 | B3A666840EE1 | Shouldn't the citizens of this country be the ones who get to determine who the President is? | Claim | Ineffective |
1d3d78c37b2e | B3A666840EE1 | I mean the President has a big duty and the citizens rely on His/Hers duty as president to keep things going right. The President can make huge decisions that affect these citizens which can make things horribly wrong or amazingly right. | Evidence | Ineffective |
53c0fa6a5ffe | B3A666840EE1 | Yes, I know the people in the electoral college are super smart geniuses that know what they are doing, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
cf220e7cf90b | B3A666840EE1 | but? This is the country i live in, this is the country i was raised in, this is the country i love and am so blessed to be | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
7f91d5731789 | B3A666840EE1 | I deserve to be able to pick the president i want, or at least have my vote be the reason the president i was rooting for wins. | Position | Ineffective |
7ccfab0d6944 | B3A666840EE1 | Us fellow citizens of the united states only want whats best for us. We may not be as smart as the people in the electoral college, but that sure wont stop us from knowing who we like and who we think is better for our country. We deserve as much right to have our own president as much as anyone in the elecotral college does.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
d4df61028f47 | B3A666840EE1 | This God blessed country is home to millions, it might not be perfect, but it is the greatest country in the world. The people who get the amazing benefit of living here deserve to be able to elect the President they want. These people want what they believe is best. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
6ac7747fbf12 | B3A830730FB7 | Community services is what helps keep Detroit safe in the time most | Lead | Adequate |
812970dae237 | B3A830730FB7 | I would like to do community service | Position | Ineffective |
5badef691b3b | B3A830730FB7 | to keep my hometown from going straight into the ground. | Claim | Adequate |
5c4cf6ed2cff | B3A830730FB7 | This reading selection takes me back to my fifth grade, and everyday my friends and I would help some kindergartner's read and sound out word. Books like Green Eggs & Ham, the Cat in The Hat, even Nursery rhymes. Later, on that school when i graduated from the fifth grade me and my friends were rewarded for our help. Right now i have a cousin that just graduated from high school last year, and tutor from grades 1st-5th. He's been doing this for 6 years. Most of the kids he tutored are now in middle school and still talks about him every time I see them. | Evidence | Adequate |
108b1c1d20f1 | B3A830730FB7 | Then, littering isn't my thing i have never just threw some trash on the ground. See I feel like i' m to intelligent or well mannered to just dirty up Detroit anything our should be trying to clean up our lovely city. | Evidence | Adequate |
f5307b81834b | B3A830730FB7 | I do lots of things to do in my life, like play the bass guitar, play in my schools jazz band, play in my schools orchestra club, and with all of these talents i have i can teach them to some one out on the street | Evidence | Adequate |
f0b7bcec6843 | B3A830730FB7 | and help the community by getting all of these hoodlums off the dangerous Detroit street and bring them to talents that they never knew that had. | Claim | Adequate |
bc5ba56a183a | B3AB4E6C5678 | I think that we should have policy number one | Position | Adequate |
72c1b54acf2d | B3AB4E6C5678 | All student should be ably to use there phones in their free time & in lunch. Its better to have them off in class time | Claim | Adequate |
b7fed26f266b | B3AB4E6C5678 | Because if we don't then the student wouldn't learn. They should be turn off or it should be low. Some student would really like this idea about using phones in there free time. There some student who don't like to go to lunch or like to eat and by using there phone they have something to do. | Evidence | Adequate |
08dcf1e0b070 | B3AB4E6C5678 | The teacher get mad when there standing up by having there phone i don't think they will be. | Claim | Ineffective |
389990a1001f | B3AB4E6C5678 | Most kids use there phone in school when the teacher don't look so its better to have the rule about only in free time. | Evidence | Adequate |
a20997823d81 | B3AB4E6C5678 | By having this rule i think it will make kids be better because if there not then they will not be ably to use there phones. | Claim | Adequate |
deb227829cdb | B3AB4E6C5678 | That what most kids like and want to be ably to use there phone in school. Not all kids have phones so to make it far for everyone the rule should be phones and ipods only in there free time .Think this would work good as a rule but we need to try it first. In high school you can use it so why not middle school. Kids should start see how it work with the phones in high school. So they can have in idea about it. But not everyone is going to think how i do but i think we should try it for a week or two to see if it works. But think that policy number one is a good one and a good idea. | Evidence | Adequate |
8ea7bfa81e5c | B3AB4E6C5678 | We never now if we don't try. We should try if it work we keep it if it doesn't then we just say it didn't. But we can say at least we tried. For some student it will work good but for some it wont. Some will have hard time with it but other wont. Most student do there homework when there testing and do good in there class. Maybe is not a bad idea doing this new rule about the cell phones. we should all look at this there some good things about having this rule and yes there some bad ones too. But i think this would work as a good rule for the school. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e0e9059c43bb | B3CB635C4341 | The face that loos like an alien could be a alien. We don't know as a team because nobody had not unburried it yet | Position | Ineffective |
36cef11d87e5 | B3CB635C4341 | They discover these faces on a red planet that is know as "Mars". There could be more aliens on that planet but we don't know. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b3514cb0ff9f | B3CB635C4341 | Its not a landform | Claim | Adequate |
513e28326b3f | B3CB635C4341 | A landform is a man made. A face is not naturally made into a plant nor ground. We as a team don't know what it is. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1e6dd61663ce | B3CB635C4341 | Others say its land form, and others say it looks like an alien's face. | Claim | Adequate |
af8c32dc37c6 | B3CB635C4341 | Either one is wrong nor right. If I were to see it myself then I would say it looks like an alien's face. If there was some type of other evdience then thats when we know what it is. One clue isnt gonna help as much, unless we were to have more edvidence/ clues | Evidence | Ineffective |
40a001405e62 | B3CB635C4341 | I support my answer and said what I thought was a right/ good enough answer for all the team and people to understand. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
b4b5ca2018fc | B3DCC9D9797B | Have you ever heard about big faces on Mars, | Lead | Adequate |
0bb2cb7fb178 | B3DCC9D9797B | NASA has gone on many space trips but this time they found sothing creepy. They had found big faces made in the dust, NASA said they have never heard about anything like this before So that makes me a little scared on how they got there. | Position | Adequate |
ca831a587c71 | B3DCC9D9797B | I think that it is scary having planets have faces on them. | Claim | Ineffective |
1d229549dbef | B3DCC9D9797B | these Faces were found in 1976 and it was hard to see and in 1998 and in 2001 the face got covered by sand and dust and you couldnt see it anymore. in 1976 there was a group called the Viking 1 sent by NASA. They had found a 2nd face made and it had shadows in its eyes, and mouth. | Evidence | Ineffective |
86f3efb3cff0 | B3DCC9D9797B | There was a big time when everyone kept talking about these faces in magazines, in social media, and in abandoned stores. | Claim | Adequate |
89b820d05b7d | B3DCC9D9797B | The Face on Mars has since become a pop icon. It has starred in holltwood films, appered in books, magazines, radio talk shows, even haunted grocery stores."(5) | Evidence | Adequate |
4a1a084c83fa | B3DCC9D9797B | Some people say that these faces are awesome and that NASA should go on the planet Mars and explore the faces on Mars | Claim | Adequate |
13879dcb9fe6 | B3DCC9D9797B | This finding was very important to tax payers. NASA had taken many pictures of these faces they even sent another space ship to go with a better camera to take better pictures." we felt this was important to taxpayers", explained Jim Garvin, chief scientist for NAS's Mars exploration program." we photographed the Face as soon as we could get a good shot at it." (6) | Evidence | Adequate |
0d3a779fc768 | B3DCC9D9797B | NASA had sent a 3rd space mission in April 5, 1998 when the space ship had passed over Cydonia the took a picture of the face | Evidence | Adequate |
185a68993974 | B3DCC9D9797B | It is very hard to find this face because it was under a cloud on Mars. When the space ship took a picture there wasnt anything at all because they were in the wrong are of the planet. When the space ship got to the right place it was hidden but it was in the same place | Claim | Adequate |
d413bc160829 | B3DCC9D9797B | People think that aliens had put a Haze over the face so the peoploe couldnt see it anymore. "The camera on board MGs had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. perhaps, said skeptics, Alien markings were hidden by haze.(8) | Counterclaim | Adequate |
f2b64eb78574 | B3DCC9D9797B | No one has ever seen these Faces again so maybe they were hidden by some or somthing. Hopefully soon NASA will send another space trip to try to find these Faces again. It proves that a lot of people were scared at first but then they werent because the space mission couldnt find them then they did and everyone was excited. Personally i would be scared knowing that somthing had made those then hid them with Haze and clouds. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
22c3219133ff | B3E4B633261B | l believe that all students should perform community service | Position | Adequate |
da768d895492 | B3E4B633261B | I believe this because we are handed opportunities to make our world a better place, an i think community service is one way to do it. | Claim | Adequate |
03a28ea4708a | B3E4B633261B | We should take this opportunity by storm. We can be helping a lot of people an communities. I also think if kid do community service it will make them a better person in the future. They will see all the people they helped all the places they fixed an all the plant an animals habitats they saved. | Evidence | Adequate |
4c9894f8b735 | B3E4B633261B | I think community service is a great thing for communities, people, plants an animals an the kids their self. | Claim | Adequate |
5f046777ce92 | B3E4B633261B | We can make this world a better place for the generations to come. | Evidence | Ineffective |
2ea0862d0dbd | B3E4B633261B | Kids mite think your being unfair now | Counterclaim | Adequate |
559ac9f0f12a | B3E4B633261B | but they will thank you for it latter. This is a great opportunity. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
634779f6269d | B3E4B633261B | i encourages you to require all students to perform community service. I think they can learn a lot from it.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1ea8ad48b66d | B402430B0616 | Do you want to stay at home? There's a lot of countries around the world where schools offer distance learning. Distance learning is where students can stay at home and be home schooled. It can either be online courses or video conferencing. Some people may say that students won't benefit from being able to attend classes from home because they won't be able to meet new people and experience the real world. However, they are incorrect because some students get frustrated around others or even gets bullied which can cause them to not focus and do well | Lead | Effective |
693e4bc3822f | B402430B0616 | Clearly, students will benefit from being able to attend classes from home | Position | Effective |
62dbb7577ce4 | B402430B0616 | because some of them prefer working independently, | Claim | Adequate |
55931957f9c5 | B402430B0616 | some of them live far away | Claim | Adequate |
757d1968f773 | B402430B0616 | and some of them doesn't want to have problems.
| Claim | Adequate |
f23d60ebdc2c | B402430B0616 | It will be very beneficial for some students to attend classes from home because some of them prefer working independently. | Claim | Effective |
ed033584da3e | B402430B0616 | There's a lot of students that like working together and being in groups and discussing things, but some of them are very shy. They're scared to talk around others, so they prefer working by themselves. In school, sometimes you're forced to work in groups or participate in a discussion which will frustrate that student and they won't be able to do it. Consequently, it will effect their grade. This proves my claim by saying that students will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because they won't have to worry about working with others or talk except for the teacher if it's online conferencing. | Evidence | Effective |
b1f49ddc88b5 | B402430B0616 | It's also very beneficial for some students to attend classes from home because some of them have problems at school or gets bullied. | Claim | Effective |
1955735370f5 | B402430B0616 | Millions of students get bullied in and outside of schools. A lot of the time the problem never gets solved because students are scared to tell someone. If they don't tell anyone about because they're scared from that other person, they're going to continue to get bullied. They won't be able to focus anymore, so their grades will drop. The only thing that will be in their mind is the fear from that other person bothering them again and bullying them which includes; abusing them, insulting them or taking something from them like their food. This proves my claim by saying students will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because they won't have to worry about being bullied or having any problems and they will be able to focus very well.
| Evidence | Effective |
a882076547a9 | B402430B0616 | Lastly, it can be very beneficial for some students to attend classes from home because some of them live far away. | Claim | Effective |
f9a232ffd34f | B402430B0616 | There's a lot of students that want to take a certain course like a language or anything but they can't because they live far away. So, by online classes they will be able to take that class without having to go all the way to that certain school. They can either learn it by a website or by a video conference where they will still be taught by a teacher and won't have to go all the away to school. This proves my claim by saying that students will benefit from being able to attend class from home because they won't have to worry about going all the way to that school for those specific classes. | Evidence | Effective |
cceba9dc5512 | B402430B0616 | Some people may say that students won't benefit from being able to attend classes from home because they won't get to meet new people and make friends and they won't really experience the real world. | Counterclaim | Effective |
5d89abac58ce | B402430B0616 | However, they are incorrect because some students live far away and some of them don't want to feel frustrated or have problems at schools with others. In conclusion, it's very beneficial to be home schooled or take classes online because it solves a lot of problems and the student will be able to focus and do well. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
2ca7a121132e | B402430B0616 | However, students will benefit from being able to attend classes from home because they will be able to take a certain course if they live far away, they will be able to work independently if that's what they prefer and they won't have to worry about having problems at school with others like bullying. Being homeshooled and taking online classes is very beneficial and a good idea for others. They won't have to worry about living far away, they won't have to worry about working in groups and being forced to talk and they won't have to worry about having any problems with others. They'll work indecently and will be able to focus and do well. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
3fb15c507a10 | B40F33AD93D5 | There has been many contraversies over the electoral colledge. The contraversies have been wether America should keep the this form of electing presidents or abolish it from our humanity. The electoral colledge,for many years,has been a effective and conveinient way of an election. As was stated in source three,"the electoral colledge is widely regarded as an anarchronism". this means that this way of electing a president has been around for many years and was meant for this country. | Lead | Adequate |
5134dc18f097 | B40F33AD93D5 | There are three reasons why it is important to keep the method of an electoral colledge. | Position | Adequate |
f807fb64fd54 | B40F33AD93D5 | For one,professional slate of electors can be trusted to vote for the party's nominee. | Claim | Adequate |
9bd7ecbca6c0 | B40F33AD93D5 | Two,this method is more convienient | Claim | Adequate |
18cede73515b | B40F33AD93D5 | lastly posses more acuracy. | Claim | Adequate |
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