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4fe5cae13c2b | B5CBE846C3F7 | In this day and age, everything is always changing. New technologies and innovations bring about more efficient ways of completing tasks that were once tedious. One thing that hasn't changed in a long time, however, is the education system. Students commute to school, sit in class for eight hours, and then go home and do homework. | Lead | Effective |
f2f0dac54763 | B5CBE846C3F7 | Schools should offer fully online learning to students | Position | Adequate |
f3e3b92e94de | B5CBE846C3F7 | learning at home would save time, | Claim | Adequate |
f55c2747a92c | B5CBE846C3F7 | would allow students to learn at their own pace. | Claim | Adequate |
60fb1da79090 | B5CBE846C3F7 | Most students take a bus to school, and for some, this trip is very time consuming. I, for example, live thirty minutes away from my school. This means that I spend five hours or more each week just traveling to and from school. Online learning would eliminate this issue, and would eliminate most of a school's transportation costs. | Evidence | Adequate |
d34f9bf1c21d | B5CBE846C3F7 | Online learning would save students time because it can be done in the comfort of one's home. | Claim | Effective |
45bab0ce7adb | B5CBE846C3F7 | Online classes are typically completed whenever the student wants to, so online learning would work for learners of all speeds. | Claim | Effective |
7b1ee1b4369f | B5CBE846C3F7 | For some students, sitting in class for eight hours straight with little time between classes is grueling, and yet others have no trouble focusing for the whole day. Online learning could let learn at their own pace, wether it be taking breaks throughout the day, or completing all of their work in one sitting. Online learning would also prevent the spread of certain diseases, because students are no longer crouded in the same building together. | Evidence | Effective |
4cd2f3820597 | B5CBE846C3F7 | While some may argue that online learning takes away the one-on-one time between students and teachers that is necessary for learning, | Counterclaim | Effective |
a946b0ae7425 | B5CBE846C3F7 | there is an easy solution to this. If online learning is proposed in schools, students should be able to request video conferences with their teachers if they require additional instruction. If classes are held live online with all of the students instead of done at the students pace, the students could "raise their hand" by clicking something on their screen that makes something pop up on the teacher's screen, and the teacher would then call on them. | Rebuttal | Effective |
fd3e2bf470b6 | B5CBE846C3F7 | Overall, online learning would be very beneficial for students and teachers because it gets rid of commuting time and, in some cases, lets students learn at their own pace. New technologies are made to improve efficiency, and we need to use them to their fullest. The ability to communicate with people from long distanced through calls has existed for decades, and it is about time we use this technology in our school system. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
f0acb1ce86cc | B64898B85B89 | i think for students the academic level for sports should be a B or higher | Position | Adequate |
2502f9579c2e | B64898B85B89 | think about i kid who like to play sports would only have to do the minimal amount of work to do what they love if u put it up to a B kids who play sports would have to try harder to do what they love that would improve test scores for the school and help a lot of things.
and look at how many kid play sport u could make more sports so more kids would want to join the sports and then more kids would have to try to get better grades to do the sport they love it would also help no child left behind law by improving test scores so u can get better funding for your school and the funds could go to the sports so more people would want to play them so more people would have to get there grades up witch would improve more test scores so u could aford good things for the sch | Evidence | Ineffective |
79cf3e16e4ce | B654298A5760 | Popular vote is the way that the presidential voting should be because, of the fact that peoples votes arent actually making a difference in who is to become president of the untited staes of america. | Position | Adequate |
01b6fe2c9cdd | B654298A5760 | Electoral College is the way that the gov't wants it to happend. Voters dont vote for the president no ore that for for the people that vote for the president. The american voise is not being heard. | Claim | Adequate |
5ebb0c6c6ade | B654298A5760 | "The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."(1)
"The Electoral College process consists of selectioms of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress."(2) The pluthora of just votes of the people dont really endure in the face that its not counted in for the vote of the President.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
e9c853522db3 | B654298A5760 | "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. | Claim | Adequate |
d8b0c12115c8 | B654298A5760 | Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusingonly on the tightraces in the 'swing' states."(13) when the candidate know they arent going to win they just step back and try other states if not they know they are going to lose the elections. | Evidence | Effective |
35965c213a31 | B654298A5760 | "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favo of itare mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections ae spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dle was right: Abolish the electoral college!" | Evidence | Adequate |
b167b296db65 | B654298A5760 | The depate between the electoral college and the popular vote is a hard war because, while also the people voice is what matters but while also the electoral college helps out america in the fact that some of the people aren't aware of the votes and who the vote for what so also they might pick a wrng person. While also the people of the unted states of america can be segregationist and some one completely wrong just because of the the candidates race. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c6d4e5401569 | B654298A5760 | In conclusion, the Electoral College isn't the best way to have prsidents elected into office. But it's in the heart of the American people that stand strong hat should vote for the Commander in Chief. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
142c9c016706 | B65873355FA8 | I think that we should change to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. | Position | Adequate |
3b15f1ac4ff9 | B65873355FA8 | If we keep the Electoral College, then even if you do earn the most individual votes, you might not be elected president. If you have earned the most individual votes then you should be elected president because you have the majority's vote. | Claim | Effective |
b06eb644dd2d | B65873355FA8 | If we keep the electoral College then if you are elected president but do not recieve the majority of the individual votes, the president elected by the Electoral College will not be a popular president to the people who voted against them. | Claim | Effective |
7e9aa3feb06b | B65873355FA8 | Source 2 says, "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." | Evidence | Effective |
9db6b125a00b | B65873355FA8 | So with the Electoral College, the electors that are chosen might not elect those who they said they would. But with election by popular vote, the person elected will always be who the majority of the country wants as president. | Claim | Effective |
8bbc92136cab | B65873355FA8 | Source 1 states, "Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: one for each member in the House of Representatives plus two for your Senators." | Evidence | Effective |
76ddacc320c9 | B65873355FA8 | some states have more votes than others. If someone who is running get more states to vote for them, it does not mean that they will be elected because they have to get more votes overall from the electors. | Claim | Effective |
277ace14edac | B65873355FA8 | Source 3 says, "The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people." | Evidence | Effective |
72082865de1c | B65873355FA8 | with the Electoral College, even though the people vote, they are not the ones who are electing the president. | Claim | Effective |
f79dbac24be3 | B65873355FA8 | When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors." So whoever you are voting for, you dont know if the slate of electors will vote in that direction. | Evidence | Effective |
559a9c3d9e52 | B6754C50B4F0 | I think there should be changes because people like to stay in fit and some people that can't join sports do other things that are bad for them | Claim | Adequate |
c88a3cd73c44 | B6754C50B4F0 | Students think that we should stop wearing uniforms because they are not cool like other clothes. I think its a bad idea because if we stop wearing uniforms then people are to wear inappropriate clothes. | Evidence | Ineffective |
316bf7ef9c46 | B6754C50B4F0 | Students like me prefer more stuff like sports better food and other stuff but if we don't do good in school we don't deserve nothing like that. | Position | Adequate |
56931ce79474 | B6754C50B4F0 | That's what I think but other people don't.
| Evidence | Adequate |
91df37eb0352 | B6754C50B4F0 | I think we should have more exciting sports and more stuff that girls can do | Claim | Ineffective |
57d88f98d8e0 | B6754C50B4F0 | like cheer leading a lot of girls like doing that to support our school when the kids in basketball when they have a game. I think cheer leading is awesome because we can do exciting moves and we can meet more people. | Evidence | Adequate |
63c45ab75679 | B6754C50B4F0 | There is some other pretty cool sports like tennis, or kick ball, or baseball is cool to. | Evidence | Adequate |
26452a1b5b36 | B6754C50B4F0 | When we have sports like that people stay out of trouble more. | Claim | Adequate |
3232db4b671c | B6754C50B4F0 | The sports that I like more is tennis because I like hitting stuff and i like to play with other people. People join basketball soccer more then the other sports. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c2979d30fa60 | B6754C50B4F0 | This is the reasons why I think we should have more sports and more activities for us to play more and so we can help our school be better | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
18a912d87df8 | B6754C50B4F0 | . I think there should be a cleaning group because if we do that then our school will be cleaner and it will help out the janitors more.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
c98a03fcf8e4 | B6813C0A2302 | You should keep the Electoral College because the founding fathers of the United States Of America established it when they made the constitiution. | Position | Effective |
10c462685161 | B6813C0A2302 | You should also keep the electoral college because alot of people help with the Electoral College. | Claim | Ineffective |
cdf96d06d45e | B6813C0A2302 | If you the Senitor Of Florida take the Electoral College away 538 electors will lose there job and more. The president needs a majority of 270 electoral votes these votes come from the Electoral College. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8414d9e06053 | B6813C0A2302 | The 23rd admendment of the Constitution the District Of Columbia is allowed to have 3 electors. These electors are treated liike a state for purposes of the electoral college. Each canadate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors. | Evidence | Ineffective |
835bb1f384ef | B6813C0A2302 | If the Electoral College these people wouldent have their jobs. | Claim | Ineffective |
feeccd2cca90 | B6813C0A2302 | The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. We the people of the UUnited states Of America help choose our states electors. After the presidential election our govener prepares a Certificate Of Ascertainment. This cerificate lists all of the canadates who ran for president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1c7de311ef0e | B6813C0A2302 | At ther most basic level the Electoral College is unfair to voters because of the Winner take All syaytem in each state, because of this durning the 2000 campain seventeen states did not see there canadates at all. The Electoral College is outdated and unfair. It is also irrational. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0066a2524b34 | B6B384CA5F18 | It is ridiculous that you think that this natural landform is created by aliens. It aliens would have created this why would they not leave a sign that it was them.
| Lead | Adequate |
15284154aafa | B6B384CA5F18 | I believe this is a natural landform for many reasons | Position | Adequate |
115b563217e5 | B6B384CA5F18 | One is that the region of mars called Cydonia is filled with natural landforms like this one but this one just looks like an Egyption Pharaoh. | Claim | Adequate |
b199af1656d1 | B6B384CA5F18 | Why would aliens go to Cydonia and make an alien artifact when Cydonia is filled with natural landform just like that one? | Evidence | Ineffective |
0092bcf6aa57 | B6B384CA5F18 | On April 8, 2001 another spacecraft snapped an image of the face looking natural landform and found no trace of any sign of alien activity near the landmark. | Claim | Adequate |
a8b59e21bc0e | B6B384CA5F18 | There were no people, airplanes, Egyptian-style pyramids, or even any small shacks anywhere near the landform | Evidence | Adequate |
a91037170d82 | B6B384CA5F18 | Why would aliens take the time to make this landmark if they were just going to leave and never come back. | Evidence | Ineffective |
96510666d5f6 | B6B384CA5F18 | It makes no sense why you would believe that aliens would have make this landform. You should believe me I am the scientist at NASA. In conclusion just trust me, the scientist at NASA, and just believe that this landform is natural not made by aliens. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
fcf703aeda30 | B6C009160238 | I understand that there have been some issues regarding whether or not to keep the Electoral college or to change the system to a more simple- election by popular vote. From my understanding, the Electoral College has worked for many years with no issues or roadblocks so to speak that have interfered or had a bias on these decisions. | Lead | Effective |
719291bb1829 | B6C009160238 | it might not be as well thought out and fair as we thought. | Position | Adequate |
4c45069931fe | B6C009160238 | I was just informed that i'm not really voting for the president, i am voting for the official voter that will then, in turn vote for the president(Using their own biases). | Claim | Adequate |
b83fad2012c9 | B6C009160238 | Since i was not aware of this, i am quite shocked. I'm assuming that this is just something that gets passed by or not looked at very deeply, but i willbe that person that digs down and gets all up in the business of somone other than myself. | Evidence | Ineffective |
bf23d3221597 | B6C009160238 | This is offical: The electoral colllege is unfair, oudated and irrational. | Claim | Ineffective |
b1236e6214df | B6C009160238 | The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without a basis in reality. | Evidence | Ineffective |
29818a13f806 | B6C009160238 | Yes, The electoral college does avoid the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast | Counterclaim | Adequate |
d6bf574b0619 | B6C009160238 | but, either way the method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state anyways. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
a5e4dccec47a | B6D6666FEF89 | When someone hears the words "driverless cars", they get excited at the thought of something so futuristic at one time that it seems like something out of a science fiction novel. However, now that dream is becoming a reality. Large companies such as Google or BMW are advancing in this highly experimental field, and Google has been since as early as 2009 | Lead | Effective |
32fa1406f624 | B6D6666FEF89 | But is letting the machine take over most of the time really the best option? Could it lead to even more problems than it hopes to fix? These questions have yet to be answered and need to be.
| Position | Adequate |
935c2830223c | B6D6666FEF89 | In 2013, BMW began developing a project they dubbed the "Traffic Jam Assistant", allowing a car to handle all possible functions up to the speed of 25 mph. But even though the car drove itself, the driver still had to remain alert and keep both hands on the wheel where sensors were located. And in such situations as work zones or accidents, the driver had to take over. | Evidence | Adequate |
c4a5647294a8 | B6D6666FEF89 | Moments like these should always be handled by the driver, because the only thing a vehicle needs is one single driver | Claim | Effective |
86c062c49000 | B6D6666FEF89 | If a pedestrian ever makes the mistake of crossing too late on a crosswalk in the middle of the street, the car is not going to be ablle to know if it is coming or not or whether the car can steer clear of causing an accident because of human error. | Evidence | Adequate |
19f9796d08cd | B6D6666FEF89 | There is also the consideration of laws. In our current era, whoever hits someone initially in a traffic collision, is the one to blame, and the one who helps pay off the other driver's bill. Human error is a natural thing, and we all make mistakes, but if there is ever an accident in which an autonomous car is made and is involved in an accident, who is responsible in the end? Is it the driver, or is it the car which is supposed to be incapable of making mistakes? | Evidence | Effective |
684cfc55f719 | B6D6666FEF89 | Allowing a car to be responsible for one person's life is not the best decision, and should be thought out more accordingly, than just seeing it as a fun toy because our laziness is growing so much, that we can't even drive for ourselves. | Claim | Effective |
c3efc936483a | B6D6666FEF89 | Then there is the cost, both on our wealth and our experience. If we allow cars to drive us around and take us anywhere we like, what will happen when it's our turn to drive. We will be less alert, paying attention to our surroundings instead of focusing on the road. | Claim | Effective |
f63a738e6bc8 | B6D6666FEF89 | Some may argue that cars come with warning signals that the driver must take control soon | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6fece23b723c | B6D6666FEF89 | but will they have enough time to completely survey the area and assess the situation? Or will the car be able to warn them in time? The answer is most likely to be answered, but is still a dangerous situation for a new driver. | Rebuttal | Effective |
4f0c2b57dbcb | B6D6666FEF89 | In 20 years these cars may be a new one of society's norms, and everyone might own a car that drives on its own. But before we can reach that day, we have to decide if we're willing to pay large amounts of dollars for a car that takes away all feeling of something belonging to us and seeming to be in our control. The "Cars of the Future" will cost extraneous amounts of dollars, just for the ability for us to drive only some of the time, and not all of it.
| Evidence | Effective |
4338cd17bcff | B6D6666FEF89 | Some people may argue that there are beneficial sides to an autonomous car, and of course there are. These cars would cut down our costs on gas, they could even be safer than some humans driving cars, and they could all be traced around on a track designed just for the cars. | Counterclaim | Effective |
71c09cd84c88 | B6D6666FEF89 | But it all comes back down to cost. The thought of replacing all roads with "Smart Roads" is not only seemingly impossible, but timewise it would take a lifetime. If every single road was taken apart and rebuilt all over America, the world even, it would take at least 10 years, and the cost would be enormous. And these cars are safe, but if that situation ever hits, no one is going to want their death or disability caused by a car driving on its own because of human error, yet again. | Rebuttal | Effective |
25662c929607 | B6D6666FEF89 | The concept is definitely real, and they have continued to being developed. The only thing to see now is if they can pay the price, develop more solutions than problems, and see if laws can be passed in their favor. It will take years, or maybe even a decade before we see who will be driving behind the wheel in the end, the human, or the car itself. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9c96e5d59db9 | B6D776FC5087 | I believe that yes we should keep the electoral college. To take it away would be wrong to me i have many reasons why and pay attention to find out why i believe we should keep the electoral college. | Position | Adequate |
d93638f25ac7 | B6D776FC5087 | To start off why wouldn't you want to keep the electoral college to me that's a sign of are freedom. | Claim | Adequate |
bacc2e5d004c | B6D776FC5087 | The ones who don't know what an electoral college is we will get there soon just stick around. I am arguing that yes we should keep it because its important. The electoral college is the right to selecting/voting for president and vice president and people like that. Now to began on with the reasons i think it is important is that's a sign of are freedom to me that gives us a right to vote for who we want running this economy. Not being able to vote for this kind of thing could be bad because when we vote for the people we want running this economy we are choosing wisely because we don't want this town or anything to come crashing to the ground because of some man or woman who really doesn't care about the people they just want their name to be heard. | Evidence | Adequate |
d44244afe521 | B6D776FC5087 | Some may disagree with what I've had to say but they clearly didn't think about it to much. Also some people really don't care about who gets elected they just don't care nor do they wanna vote at all and most don't. | Claim | Ineffective |
324bf4e89839 | B6D776FC5087 | When someone votes to me that's a good thing because we have went through all this freedom stuff and then were able to vote and no many people want to vote that's pretty ridiculous if u ask me that's a sign of freedom like I've said before and when we go through a lot just to get u this grant of freedom and people just throw it away that's a sign of disrespect. I know that me being young and not able to vote yet and probably not making any since at all is probably making who ever is reading this mad but i wasn't put here to be taken right back out at a young age i was put here to live a life that was chosen for me and when people who are to dumb to realize it don't vote or at least don't try makes me mad because their not seeing what there doing just going in there and putting what ever name down on a ballot is wrong but going in there knowing a little information and choosing the person you think would make a good leader is fine. | Evidence | Ineffective |
503832b73921 | B6D776FC5087 | People wonder why are world is so messed up and they don't realize it but its messed up because we made it messed up we had the choice to make it better but we chose to make it worse see taking away the electoral college is taking away are rights to make are community a better place | Claim | Ineffective |
4c7cf8257b55 | B6D776FC5087 | and no one sees it but the ones who actually care and who are with me on this. People could show me a million articles on why we should do away with it but i will still agree with keeping because we didn't come this far as a community to just throw it all away and let people who don't care take away are freedom and rights to helping the community out and choosing wisely about are world and trying to keep are community as clean as possible and as safe as possible.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
761d36651f2c | B6D776FC5087 | Well you have just heard my argument on why i think we should keep the electoral college and not do away with it because some people just don't care. I know that who ever is reading this could think differently about what i had to say and they may be saying this fourteen year old has no idea what shes talking about and they may be right but i know that when my time comes to be able to vote i will be there and i will be choosing who i think will be the best and i will care. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8c4ede36b083 | B717EF32EE00 | Driverless Cars can help people life more easier. Even if it can make the environment much better than before. Because now we have many cars drive on the street and they will have some bad thing to make the environment be bad.
A lot of people, they are smart. They think that in one day, we maybe making computer-diven cars. In fact, this is a smart way to make people llife easier. But this make more and more people to make smarter than this way to make people life easier.
Then they find a new way to developed driver's seats and they have lights. It can help them drive on the road at night and make people to be safety. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ff28a06f061e | B717EF32EE00 | my opnion is I believed that is the smart way to make people life more easier, But it will make people to be lazy to drive. | Position | Adequate |
42e392583fb8 | B717EF32EE00 | I am not agree to make this type of cars. Because if people life to be easy, they will be lazy in their life. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
2a393e898ddc | B727B720430B | For me, Policy 1 is better, base from my own opinion. Because Policy 1 would be better from Policy 2 | Position | Adequate |
2714ccda756f | B727B720430B | For students to avoid breaking the rules of their own school, Policy 1 would be the better choice | Claim | Adequate |
710365fea44b | B727B720430B | Because they can use their phones during their break, lunch periods and whenever they have a free time. In some cases, most students and parents prefer to have the Policy 1 so that whenever they have an emergency or an important thing to do so, they can easily contact each other, except for contacting each other inside their classes. | Evidence | Adequate |
e0db2e0505fd | B727B720430B | As long as their phones are in silence or they won't be using it during their class time, Policy 1 is a good choice | Claim | Adequate |
3dd89db05c48 | B727B720430B | And for me, Policy 1 is the best choice among all of the choices that the principle would have. For students, having Policy 1 could be nice. I think they would really appreciate it if they would be having that policy. | Evidence | Ineffective |
eb403ea497f6 | B727B720430B | Because if in some reason, Policy 2 would be the one that the Principle will be choosing, there's a possibility that a lot of students will make a way to break the rule just to bring their gadgets, even though they might get into trouble | Claim | Adequate |
63d2b53a6553 | B727B720430B | But, students must know their limitations whenever they use their phones or gadgets inside the campus. | Evidence | Ineffective |
56bb51dbaa51 | B727B720430B | Students shouldn't be using it whenever the teacher is discussing or whenever they're inside their classrooms. | Claim | Adequate |
605add1488f9 | B727B720430B | Because, instead of learning a lot of things from the school, they would just waste their time using those gadgets | Evidence | Adequate |
c186f463b6c7 | B727B720430B | I hope that you understand me why I chose Policy 1 rather than the other Policy which is the second choice. Because I know how it feels like when you don't have your phone by your side and didn't noticed that something emergency from your family is happening. I wish you would be considering or approving my opinion. I choosing the right opinion so that won't have any alibis for breaking the rule of your school. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
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