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7a67b545ac7a | B94E4F75BA1D | We shouldnt keep the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
9b0e5ba3cd4b | B94E4F75BA1D | its not fair that their votes matter more than the communitys | Claim | Adequate |
e3757a8d4b23 | B94E4F75BA1D | Everyone in the world is able to vote for who they want for president. Then finally when a president is elected most people are angry because the Electoral College picked who they wanted and didnt pay much attention to the communitys vote. Instead of the Electoral College voteing and choosing the president it should be up to the community. After everyone has voted, we should just add up who got the most votes and whoever did should be elected as president. It shouldnt be up to the Electoral College. Just because they are higher then everyone else, they shouldnt just be able to choose who they want for president. | Evidence | Adequate |
48e9d9218b65 | B94E4F75BA1D | Also not everyone is able to vote, and thats not fair. | Claim | Adequate |
614ed91d9a77 | B94E4F75BA1D | The Electoral College adds there votes to everyone elses and then elects the president they want. But what about the people who didnt vote? Everyone should have a chance to vote. It wouldnt be fair that the Electoral College elected a president when theres people out there who didnt even have the chance to vote | Evidence | Adequate |
f733234da7f7 | B94E4F75BA1D | its offical: the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational | Claim | Adequate |
62f5ba9a9c5f | B94E4F75BA1D | That is true, they arent fair because they make it so that their votes are more important than everyone elses. Most people dont even vote for president, they vote for electors in the Electoral College so they can vote for president. I bet that everytime the Electoral College voted for a president people from different states yelled and screamed at them. | Evidence | Ineffective |
113b398d60db | B94E4F75BA1D | So the best thing is to pay attention to who everyone in the United States is voting for instead of the Electoral College. If we keep voting like this sooner or later everyone is going to get fed up with it and do something about it themselves. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
795fa20692b7 | B9871E7972A3 | Educating the youth and next generation may take a drastic change. Distance learning, learning from home, should be a new way of education for students. In online learning, students would learn from home by taking courses online and using videos to educated themselves. Students would no longer be going to classrooms to learn which would actually be a good thing | Lead | Effective |
e8fd6921a2b9 | B9871E7972A3 | Using online learning for a teaching method would be very useful | Position | Adequate |
b8d1c2512ee7 | B9871E7972A3 | it would stop social issues at school | Claim | Effective |
016f7f3aebcc | B9871E7972A3 | allow students to go at their own pace | Claim | Effective |
43977a73adb5 | B9871E7972A3 | allow students to learn more information and use other sources.
| Claim | Effective |
c793f1263505 | B9871E7972A3 | Online learning would out right stop most social issues at school. | Claim | Effective |
b9523497437e | B9871E7972A3 | Bullying would be reduced for students since they're not forced to sit next to or even see a rude kid every day. Kids could only hang out and surround themselves with who they want to be around and don't have random seats or random partners and table mates. Having students not go into a classroom and all come together would also stop the spread of diseases and colds. Several schools have began online learning since the corona outbreak started to try and reduce the spread of that highly infectious disease. Another big social benefit, would be that kids can't be disruptive during classes and talk when the teacher is talking or talking to other kids and disrupt their learning envierment. Online learning would fix many have the social problems we have at school today. | Evidence | Effective |
3971404f979f | B9871E7972A3 | Having students do online learning would allow for students to go at their own pace | Claim | Effective |
e8587b83633d | B9871E7972A3 | In classrooms, the teacher chooses the pace at which they go at, and students have to follow it even if it's to fast for them and they get left behind. With online learning tho, it allows students to pause and rewind videos or even go back and understand something they didn't fully understand. Students could play videos again and again and review the videos as many times as they need to so they can understand, something that can't be done in a classroom. In classrooms, the teacher will just say things once, review it a little and explain, then move on. Online learning would allow all students to be able to fully understand and grasp a concept. | Evidence | Effective |
ec6e80d82589 | B9871E7972A3 | Online learning would allow students to learn more information and uses other sources to learn | Claim | Effective |
1d5b4287f629 | B9871E7972A3 | Some kids who enjoy a concept, or just want to learn as much information about something as possible, are limited to how much the teach talks about it. With online learning students can explore the internet and other sources to find all sorts of information on a topic. In classrooms, teachers have a teaching method they use and just have to hope it works for everybody. In online learning, there is several ways of learning like watching a video, reading notes, and using a review game. Online learning would allow students to use each method and whatever they think helps them best they can use.
| Evidence | Effective |
dcfcd19f651a | B9871E7972A3 | In conclusion, online learning should be an available option for students since would stop social issues at schools, allow students to go at their own pace and understand, and options to learn more information and use other sources | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f451092c414b | B9871E7972A3 | Some people fear that having online learning would result in kids not learning and just sitting at home playing games instead of school work at home | Counterclaim | Adequate |
d8a3919b386f | B9871E7972A3 | This would not be a big effect of online learning however, kids who are in school typically skip classes and walk around or don't pay attention. No matter what they will be kids who won't learn and try but online learning would not add to this factor | Rebuttal | Adequate |
276c3478af3e | B9871E7972A3 | Online learning would prove very beneficial to the youth in education and making the next generations smarter. This is a new age, and we must use our new technical advances to our advantage, and then technology will keep getting better. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c19e598fb309 | B989ECD8F137 | I would argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states and not keeping the ellectoral college. | Position | Adequate |
b5e30737a67e | B989ECD8F137 | some people might still want electoral college because of the certainity of outcome | Counterclaim | Adequate |
819f20c68378 | B989ECD8F137 | everyones president, swing states, big states, | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
a699f708e494 | B989ECD8F137 | and last but not least to avoid run-off elections. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
7e7320652506 | B989ECD8F137 | in my opinion i think we should change the election by popular votes instead of ellectoral college, because we the people .. vote for who we think should be head or our state and who we think is going to be in charge and do they thiing and make our a state a better and safier place to live. | Claim | Ineffective |
a5d006650b56 | B989ECD8F137 | We dont vote for electors ... so many people can vote on one paticular person to be head of our state and president and the other person can only get 3 votes but in ellectoral collage he/she can have more electoral votes and they win the election .. even tho the other canidate has more popular votes. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ccc84a73ec13 | B989ECD8F137 | The other reason why i might want to change rhe election by popular votes instead of ellectoral college is becauise of the "disaster factor". | Claim | Adequate |
43c29ad2772c | B989ECD8F137 | Which the state legislature are responsible for picking electors..... and the electors would/could always defy the will of the poeple. | Evidence | Adequate |
97201e6f2253 | B989ECD8F137 | Those are the two main reasons why i would argue in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of united states and not keeping the ellectoral college. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
aed30fc5bac7 | B9CA103F2BF9 | I believe that the cell phone policy should be allowed in school but for school use only | Position | Adequate |
c3a6dad76b4b | B9CA103F2BF9 | because, school is just a place to learn, everybody who goes to school learns at least something in school | Claim | Ineffective |
e7355ec351d8 | B9CA103F2BF9 | I think that teachers are to mean these days, | Claim | Adequate |
572ecf4b7baf | B9CA103F2BF9 | when teachers are mean to kids, the kids don't feel like they should do what the teacher has said | Evidence | Adequate |
f34b54e4682d | B9CA103F2BF9 | If teachers give students more freedom i think students will learn more better. | Claim | Adequate |
22e63d7c1bb3 | B9CA103F2BF9 | Teachers should make a time period were we are allowed to use our cell phones. If there was a ten to twenty class of free time and we were allowed to use our cell phones, i think students wound think better and feel better that they don't have to keep there phones hidden all the time. | Evidence | Adequate |
576feb451a5b | B9CA103F2BF9 | When people get cough with there cell phones they get scared and most of the time dislike the teacher that took it. | Claim | Adequate |
3e6aeaa5f07b | B9CA103F2BF9 | When the teacher takes it, students get scared that they will go through everything on there phone and tell there parents. | Evidence | Adequate |
0edb93d7ba9a | B9CA103F2BF9 | When people take phones to school most of them are positive that they will get away with it | Claim | Adequate |
7056c4c69de3 | B9CA103F2BF9 | If we are allowed to bring them most people would be less worried and would think better. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a7108bb86de8 | B9E9DC1D176F | What is electoral college? 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. But it is also a bad thing because you help choose your states electors when you vote for president because when you vote for president because when you vote for your canadate you are actually voting for your canadates electors. | Lead | Effective |
5f9de5d36d6c | B9E9DC1D176F | I think electoral collage is is a stupid process and is definitly outdated. | Position | Adequate |
efa923ba3c49 | B9E9DC1D176F | In the same light, I think the electoral collage is a stupid idea beacause and that they should of got rid of it a long time ago it is like were not even voteing annymore | Claim | Adequate |
91964cae0525 | B9E9DC1D176F | its like someone messed up the votes and said that romney got 538 votes and obama only got 438 votes. Like bob dole said,"abolish the electoral college". | Evidence | Adequate |
6cb3678a93c5 | B9E9DC1D176F | but you have to remember, the electoral college is a good thing to most presendental elections. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
7425ae7db1c6 | B9E9DC1D176F | the only one election that it didnt help on was in 2000 al gore recived more indivisial votes than george bush nationwide, but bush won the election, reciveing 271 electoral votes to gore 266. | Evidence | Ineffective |
31c97d548d46 | B9E9DC1D176F | in concclusion, electoral collage is good because it helps presedental elections but its bad because it is like the U.S. riging the votes | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
597799f53022 | BA117C57D525 | I believe should change the vote of the Electoral College into a popular-based vote. | Position | Adequate |
7ef36d9d748f | BA117C57D525 | In order to understand each side, we must first comprehend the process behind the Electoral College. Posner stated, "...it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors" | Claim | Adequate |
0fc2a4aad77f | BA117C57D525 | This is the one of the most important concepts to understand in the process of the Electoral College, for we must know that each vote you compose, you vote for a slate of electors, who will basically vote for their candidate. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b803c2c4e860 | BA117C57D525 | "The Electoral College is a process, not a place" ( | Evidence | Ineffective |
40cfe8a985a0 | BA117C57D525 | "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote" | Claim | Adequate |
c31109e41340 | BA117C57D525 | This indicates how the tie could carry the vote to the House of Representatives, where the federal judgement takes place of voting for the president. Not only this, but Plumer also stated,"Because each state casts only one vote, the single representative from Wyoming, representing 500,000 voters, would have as much say as the 55 representatives from California, who represent 35 million voters" (2). This statement from Plumer strongly imposes the knowledge that this tie carried to the House of Representatives would hardly reflect the will of the people due to census of the population. | Evidence | Adequate |
20cb03ba4f48 | BA117C57D525 | the vote in 2000 where the system actually seemed to flaw when Gore recieved a higher popular vote than Bush, however, Bush received a higher electoral vote. In this situation, is this truly fair? | Claim | Adequate |
705fdaecb2e2 | BA117C57D525 | This example dipicts how the vote is truly determined on a group of people from the population rather than a vote depending upon the entire nation itself. | Evidence | Adequate |
8785a5e0efad | BA117C57D525 | "...the electoral college is unfair to voters...swing states..." | Claim | Adequate |
d38db2d7b123 | BA117C57D525 | This brings us the idea of the swing states and how the candidates in the winner-take-all system do not bother to go to states they know that they have no chance of winning, which harshly reveals that some votes may be biased from the electors ignoring other states. "It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer,2). This concludes how biased the Electoral College can be when it comes to ties, representatives, the disaster factor, and a great multitude of concepts and situations where the Electoral College has flawed.
| Evidence | Adequate |
76eb73793dfa | BA117C57D525 | why the Electoral College should not be changed in any way, due to the "...Certainty of Outcome...Everyone's President...Swing States...Big States... Avoid Run-Off Elections..." | Counterclaim | Adequate |
aab0c2c0794a | BA117C57D525 | These subtitles are points that Posner focused on that he believes can persuade why the Electoral College is somewhat efficient. | Evidence | Adequate |
033c1a87cba6 | BA117C57D525 | I can counter that the certainty of the vote is false due to the fiasco of Gore and Bush in 2000, as well as the concept of the House of Representatives that I mentioned earlier as well. In the factor that Posner mentioned in his point of everyone's president, I do not find this very accurate due to the reason that our vote relies on a slate of electors, not us entirely, as it would in a popular vote. In swing states, it mentions in the article of Plumer that a winner-takes-all method is unfair to voters because electors ignore states that they do not have confidence in winning the vote. A major point that I disagree with would be the point that Posner pointed out with Big States, where he mentioned that,"The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution..." (3). In this, I would argue that this is unfair, because of the inequality of representatives due to population, which is not the voter's decision. In the statement of Avoid Run-off Elections, Posner states that, "The Electoral College avoids that problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast" (3). I find this false due to the reason that the Electoral College is based on a different amount of voters and electors in each state, which in turn is viewed unfair because there is a factor of the swing states once again, explains that some electors choose states over another which lets us show how unfair the Electoral College is, generally speaking. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
6d8c7c7686fc | BA117C57D525 | In conclusion, we have established our opinion on why the vote should be changed into a popular vote instead of the Electoral College due to a myriad of concepts, such as the disaster factor in 2000, why swing-states are unfair, the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote, just to reveal the tip of the iceberg in our arguments of understanding why the Electoral College is biased, irrational, and unfair. We have also covered the counterclaims and reasoned them with logic, reality, and true rationality of why the Electoral College shoud be abolished in the vote of the President of the United States of America. So, ask yourself as a state senator, who is truly in the hands of the final say for the President? | Concluding Statement | Effective |
b1fdd6bbd316 | BA1F4C988D94 | I feel like it would be a great idea to have Driverless Cars | Position | Adequate |
18c0266ddb84 | BA1F4C988D94 | It'll prevent people from crashing into others and risking their lives | Claim | Effective |
be24d4bf96bb | BA1F4C988D94 | it'll decrease chances of trafic on express ways | Claim | Effective |
3c53e79bc4e6 | BA1F4C988D94 | And marketing would sky rocket. | Claim | Ineffective |
6f041926505d | BA1F4C988D94 | Many people would love to travel places but they'll get lazy to drive, but if they have a car that can drive itself then it would make it better on the humans life aswell.
| Claim | Adequate |
d089345a2b01 | BA1F4C988D94 | Many people also agree on how bad it is. Honestly it does have some flaws and miss happs. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
e0fea5fc468f | BA1F4C988D94 | One of them are getting sent to a different location. Just like G.P.S., you type in your address and sometimes it sends you somewhere you didn't want to go. A Driverless Car is like a driving G.P.S., it could also have a malfunctioning problem it could put your life at risk and others. | Evidence | Effective |
ff3a91c17627 | BA1F4C988D94 | At the end of the day technology will have a lot of malfunctioning problems and a Driverless Car will be one of them. So be smart and purchase one at your own risk. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
e4139bc35e7b | BA2C7291BBFA | The reason for this paper is that i would like to, participate in anything that is required to do. | Position | Adequate |
77274fe64c64 | BA2C7291BBFA | I want to help in the communities work. I want to help others and do something important. I want to have a good for my own good and others | Evidence | Adequate |
1bf2e6e88224 | BA2C7291BBFA | I think that is important to help because we never know if we will need help later on | Claim | Effective |
d5a40370140c | BA2C7291BBFA | And also i think that is important to do good things for the community sense we live and are the community | Claim | Effective |
bc9860766161 | BA2C7291BBFA | My idea is to help reading to little kids or even clean the school. i would like to help on something productive and on something that benefits all | Evidence | Effective |
21d879c7e6d2 | BA2C7291BBFA | the other thing that i personally think that is a good idea is to give food and water to people that do not have it. we can all donate food and gallons of water and then cook it and go to places where they really need the food and give it to them. | Evidence | Effective |
03e7657e239a | BA2C7291BBFA | I think that when we give we get the double of that. | Evidence | Adequate |
1d184ad3026f | BA2C7291BBFA | we can even go and buy cloth and give it to poor children that need it. i know that there is maybe more than 10 kids this really need cloth and food, i know because two years ago i went on vacation to Mexico and I was being really selfish. My dad took me to an orphanage and i got to see how the poor kids lived in that horrible place and I imagine how it wold be if i lived there. | Evidence | Effective |
bbd07598a7ab | BA2C7291BBFA | from that i experienced that you should not care only about your self but care and about others too. that is the reason that i am willing to help because i know how people need help and in many ways that is why i want to help. i know it may be a hard job but it is worth all the work. I know that it feels good | Concluding Statement | Effective |
cebd94c37574 | BA47D0FEA751 | The development of a human contolled car is not the reason for the cars not being far more advanced, but the safety of the drivers and passengers. | Lead | Ineffective |
d3081aa2a3af | BA47D0FEA751 | The cars would make everyday life more simple and less stressful, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
fbc651178a56 | BA47D0FEA751 | the cars would have to be more and more carfully programed and very well tested, to ensure they don't cause harm to the driver and its self. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
28382178ce61 | BA47D0FEA751 | If everybody drove in an driverless car there would be less recks and seafer conditions; but it would be very expensive. | Claim | Adequate |
f797374c5112 | BA47D0FEA751 | The materials and costs would sky rocket, gas companies and bio-fuel makers would be very unhappy becasue they would lose there jobs. The roads would also be very risky to work with. traffic jams and heavy pedestrian activity would have to be very important; The sensors would have to be top of the line and have a very sensitive trigger for response. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f1df9e46d27e | BA47D0FEA751 | In recent years the cars have been more and more technologically advanced. Radar and mapping have become much more adapt and are being updated much more frequently. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7b1070c038b5 | BA47D0FEA751 | There are many conserns people may have, but the cars have come a very long way and are becoming even more capable each day. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
6421fac9b771 | BA47D0FEA751 | They may not be the best idea right now but in the next decade or so will be obsolute . | Position | Adequate |
973a0bbbf2d9 | BA8756AB310B | Community service is a great thing to do for the environment. | Position | Adequate |
c1b233640c65 | BA8756AB310B | This assignment for others to do community service will help out our community alot thanks to your gratitude. | Evidence | Adequate |
a5bb84ad23a3 | BA8756AB310B | I know for a fact that once every student does community service that our community will be showing a great example for other students at other schools. | Claim | Adequate |
bb5e10c327ef | BA8756AB310B | This will help others relize how important the environment is these days and how bad it is now. | Claim | Adequate |
ecc6056b851f | BA8756AB310B | Students will begin to relize that life isn't all about games and electronic devices. | Claim | Adequate |
64795e9a41ae | BA8756AB310B | Its about the hard work in life that gets your through the bad and good. And that you need to show respect for the environment and others around you. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0dbee20ff626 | BA8756AB310B | Wouldn't you want to people to clean up after themselves. Instead of you doing it for them. People have been littering for years and it is now time for people to take responsibility for there actions. We need to show them that doing a little work for the community can make a big difference in our world that we live in today. It is time for people to fix there mistakes and admit what they have done wrong. | Evidence | Adequate |
ba791fe5bcdd | BA8756AB310B | I hope that you consider my letter as a letter of hope and a chance for something new. So do what is right and allow people to relize that when you do something for the community it will do something back for you. Which would be a nice, free, cleansed world that is safe for others to live in and you no longer have to worry about the safety of the environment. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
6fea13dc8806 | BAAE75D65C1D | Most people would argues that allowing students to have their cell phones would be a distraction well no not really | Lead | Adequate |
a1606e6446ba | BAAE75D65C1D | it would be a good thing not to really use a cell phone but to be able to have it just in case let me tell you why. | Position | Adequate |
73cd437e8b44 | BAAE75D65C1D | like me many students do after school activities such as sports or academic UIL activities and these require many hours of long hard work well after practice for theses events is over you need a ride over and since the majority of the student body doesn't have cars we need a way to contact our parents | Evidence | Adequate |
266140a1138c | BAAE75D65C1D | if we weren't allowed to bring our cell phones to school we would have to use a school telephone and that could take a long time. | Claim | Adequate |
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