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1920a8b19e49 | BAAE75D65C1D | For example in our coaches office their is one phone that allow us to us so imagine if 45 kids trying using that one phone it would really be a hassle. | Evidence | Adequate |
92cc1cfdca41 | BAAE75D65C1D | Plus most kids that have cell phone don't even get them out during the day so what it hurt allowing us to have our cell phones. | Evidence | Adequate |
a9036c829ec4 | BAAE75D65C1D | What if their was a intruder on campus | Claim | Adequate |
12caeafe3c72 | BAAE75D65C1D | wouldn't you want he police to get their as fast as they could well if their kids had their cell phones the police would about a hundred responses in about a minute same thing with a fire or any other emergency | Evidence | Adequate |
a7bc3107f4d1 | BAAE75D65C1D | So over all yes Kids should be allowed to have their cell phones at crowd. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
684a80333089 | BACC53ECC1FB | Would you like to vote, or do you feel obligated to vote? I personally want my vote to make a difference | Lead | Adequate |
98154af4855d | BACC53ECC1FB | I would want to keep the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
994b7d5f5297 | BACC53ECC1FB | because it expess others to vote and to have freedom of speech of knowing which candidate would be better to control our world of which we live in. | Claim | Adequate |
bafe01eff89b | BACC53ECC1FB | If you are willing to vote, choose carefully and be percise with your answer. Don't let others get in your way, it's your choice and time, so express a political preference rather than deciding an election. | Evidence | Ineffective |
2d7fb083c06b | BACC53ECC1FB | First of all, voting is all about the candidates, try to understand and know the candidates before voting | Claim | Ineffective |
f4ea44a81845 | BACC53ECC1FB | Voters sometimes get confused about the elctors and vote for the wrong candidate." If you didn't know the candidates and voted the wrong candidate, then your vote may make a difference and you would have to wait patiently for four years intill your able to vote again for a different candidate. | Evidence | Adequate |
8db543fc47ea | BACC53ECC1FB | Secondly, If you don't want to waste your time and thinking that your vote would not make a difference, then I'm sure others feel the same way. | Claim | Ineffective |
ce557d8fbd8c | BACC53ECC1FB | "A large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does." Every state should get the equal amount of attention then any other state, and it should all be about the electors by sharing their own opinions. | Evidence | Ineffective |
abc46da2fd46 | BACC53ECC1FB | Thirdly, Candidates should think about their electors and keeping this world safe and sercure for us rather than just wanting to be in the white house. | Claim | Ineffective |
a97a98980f35 | BACC53ECC1FB | "Candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the swing states." It's great that the candidates are appreciative by the electors and wanting our vote to count. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8065ab97f606 | BACC53ECC1FB | In conclusion, we cannot control electors who wants to vote for a candidate that others may dissagree on, but we can control our own vote.
It's your decision whether to vote or not and who do you approve for. Your vote can make a difference and every bit counts. So there is a reason to have the Electoral College. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ad86141c0cd4 | BB27E087BE9E | I feel as if we got rid of the electoral college it would just cause us more trouble that we are dealing with at the moment. the electoral college helps us so dramaticly, and some people just don't understand how much it really helps. Everyone might think they know so much about the electoral college, like if we got rif of it everything would just be fine. No one really knows what really goes on all the time. | Lead | Adequate |
7cfc4c60a484 | BB27E087BE9E | I could not imagine if we were to ever et rid of the electoral college that has been there since our founding fathers. | Position | Adequate |
cd3bcf43b7d7 | BB27E087BE9E | If we we going to change the election to by a popular vote thngs would get out of hand and horrble things could happen. | Claim | Adequate |
309126e35d8f | BB27E087BE9E | Large states as Texas, California, and Minnesota would have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. People not in those states would get angry and things would get bad. It takes 270 out of 538 to be elected president and if changing to popular vote for the election would be thelargest state elector would be the president.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
03a368c16885 | BB27E087BE9E | Yes there are things that are wrong in the electoral coleege | Counterclaim | Adequate |
4a8a53a152cf | BB27E087BE9E | but nothing is perefect as we all know. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
53c2ea6a9bd7 | BB27E087BE9E | In Texas if you wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry, and thats just one thing that is wrong. | Evidence | Ineffective |
5da1c6a5b0e6 | BB27E087BE9E | Another thing wrong about the electoral college is a tie in the electoral vote. If happened the election wouldbe thrown to the House of Representatives, where state dlegations vote on the president. Then the senate would then choose the vice-president. Because each state casts only ne vote, the single representive from Wyoming, representing 500,00 voters, would have as much as the 55 represenyives. | Evidence | Adequate |
82a8aacfe58f | BB27E087BE9E | The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast. | Claim | Adequate |
46cb87da8ca0 | BB27E087BE9E | Nixon and Clinton both had only a 43 percent chanceplurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the electoral college. There is pressure for run-off elections when no canidate wins a majority of the votes cast; that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presidential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invariably prodeuces a clear winner. | Evidence | Adequate |
8cdcbc5d687e | BB27E087BE9E | If the election changed to a popular vote things as we know it would change drasticly. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8fd359d1daca | BB3A6C2D0B65 | I think we should keep the Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
9d48e8924590 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | Even though it is despised method of choosing our nation leader, it is the best form of desiding who will run and the winner. | Claim | Adequate |
5990a1d22385 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding father established it in the Constitution as a compromise between elections ot the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting for the electors wherer they vote for the President and the Vice President, and counting of the electoral votes by Congress. | Evidence | Ineffective |
875f84cb96d4 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | I think that we should keep the Electoral College for five reasons. Number one,
Certainty of Outcome
| Claim | Adequate |
45900bea6ea1 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | . Which is a dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible but it's less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. | Evidence | Ineffective |
28804f825206 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | Everyone's president | Claim | Adequate |
11edd009f874 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | Which is the Electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal. | Evidence | Adequate |
355486ba3202 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | Swing States | Claim | Adequate |
fc0720d3ea4c | BB3A6C2D0B65 | The Swing States is a winner-takes-all method of awarding electoral votes incluces the canidates. | Evidence | Adequate |
9e12ec699196 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | Big States | Claim | Adequate |
84e2e21f4c73 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | The Big States is the Electoral College restores some of the weight in the politcal balance that the large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. | Evidence | Adequate |
bd56f427f580 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | Avoid Run-Off Elections | Claim | Adequate |
9022365fbe36 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | . Avoiding Run-Off Elections is when the Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast | Evidence | Adequate |
d4d843995c1b | BB3A6C2D0B65 | The Elecoral College is not all that fair though because it is an anachronism, a non-democtratic method of selecting a president the ought to be overruled by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
704447fdff10 | BB3A6C2D0B65 | I think we should keep the Electoral College. Even though it is despised method of choosing our nation leader, it is the best form of desiding who will run and the winner. But it is the way our founding fathers made this nation and wanted it to stay that way because they created it that way. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ff0611ecc6b9 | BB3EBEF87BBB | Hi, my name is Decaon. And I work for NASA. I am here to discuss the face on mars. Many people think that it was created by aliens | Lead | Adequate |
924ff93f5eec | BB3EBEF87BBB | But I am here to explain why it wasn't created by aliens.
| Position | Adequate |
102fec9f62a4 | BB3EBEF87BBB | The first photo was taken in 1976 by the Viking 1 Spacecraft. The craft was circleing Mars trying to find a spot for its sister ship to land. The Viking 2 Spacecraft. | Evidence | Adequate |
24f9f0f10b0b | BB3EBEF87BBB | The first reason to why people think it is alien. Is the quality of the pictures that were taken. | Claim | Adequate |
2700eac7949d | BB3EBEF87BBB | The first picture was taken in 1976 so the resolution of the picture wasnt very good. Which caused it to look like there was a nose, eyes and a mouth. But pictures that were taken years after show that it could have been the quality. | Evidence | Adequate |
6f0f4d0dedc3 | BB3EBEF87BBB | During july 1976 it would have been winter on mars at the time. So that means the storms on mars could have casted a shadow. | Claim | Effective |
3f33c26d6ce0 | BB3EBEF87BBB | But many still believe that it is alien. Even though this some of the best evidence to peove the face on mars isnt alien but a mistake. | Evidence | Ineffective |
31aa7762be9d | BB3EBEF87BBB | It is simialr to some of the rock formations that we have on Earth. | Claim | Effective |
ff22ff547a92 | BB3EBEF87BBB | Scientist have found that in the western United States there are rock formations that are very similar. They are simailasr to the snake river palin in Idaho.
| Evidence | Adequate |
272ebbbb8590 | BB3EBEF87BBB | The face on Mars was not created by aliens. but created by an optical illusion. That are found on Earth as well as On Mars. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
46cfcf57f8d5 | BBE0D2A103B3 | i feel like you should keep the electoral college | Position | Adequate |
6660ac02ab21 | BBE0D2A103B3 | because it helps kids in college figure out how the election goes and for them to vote. | Claim | Ineffective |
e957fcfa71e6 | BC0D8223C604 | Mr. and Mrs. Smith get prepared for the elections, which is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. They're both really assured on who they are electing, Mr. Keen, the remarkable Republican canidate. Mr. Keen would most definitely operate in Mr. and Mrs. Smiths' favor, due to the fact that Keen offers a convinient medical insurance for they're family, opposes of abortion and is projecting sites for the unemployed individuals. Clearly, candidate Mr. Keen is a go for the Smiths' family, but what if they're doomed of their vote not getting qualified due to the systems', such as the Electoral College? | Lead | Effective |
05720b5cf6c9 | BC0D8223C604 | The Electoral College is a ominous process, | Position | Adequate |
79a2a13cc907 | BC0D8223C604 | due to the fact that voters vote not for the president, but for a state of electors | Claim | Adequate |
109b4460e667 | BC0D8223C604 | disvalues ones' citizenship rights | Claim | Adequate |
cc82559e09a4 | BC0D8223C604 | it's going to influence the country of not voting.
| Claim | Adequate |
8612373b7aea | BC0D8223C604 | Firstly, the Electoral College is a cynical process where not everyones' vote is taking account of. | Claim | Adequate |
6bebabc89b15 | BC0D8223C604 | Imagine, voting in the upcoming election in vain knowing that organizations that only select the votes of one entire state, unconsious of the other millions individuals in the other surplus of the nation exist. The possibility of the one in fifty states choosing majorly one particular candidate, is highly risky for the goverment, and no one should permit putting in risk the goverment with this stubborn prefrence of electoral votes. Incontestably, the Electoral College System, is not a method of voting that should be unresposibly utilized to advantage the four years of presidency | Evidence | Ineffective |
a6359ae7d19a | BC0D8223C604 | Secondly, voting is a stupendous privilege that allows' one to vote in the adulthood stage. Perhaps, because in the adulthood stage one is aware of all the current economic situations and one is noticable of the advantages a former president can serve them. | Evidence | Adequate |
51e086bee736 | BC0D8223C604 | The former citizens' privileges are unfortunately disvalued lately, with the Electoral College system. | Claim | Adequate |
a930882aa4a5 | BC0D8223C604 | It's dreadful that the anticipation a legal individual once awaited on, can no longer be celebrated or reinacted, with this fashion of electing states, that manage the majority votes of the respective candidate. Can voters control whom their electors vote for? That results in a false and negative answer. Thence, it is more than clear that the old-fashion and benevolent method of regrouping all the cadenced voices of all the recievable votes is appropate and suitable for the public and president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a211189c246b | BC0D8223C604 | Thirdly, the Electoral college influences countries to not participate in the privilege of voting. | Claim | Adequate |
453afebe02ff | BC0D8223C604 | Once the citizens, have the knowledge of these unprudent organizations, voting is going to be outlooked as an petition, that isn't necessary of taking toll of. Due to the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance in winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing'' states. The pending thought, that ones' state might be chosen out of the many, is certainly doubtful. The Electoral College, can upbring wins in the popular votes but lost in the presidency, these democracies need to be abolished because it should be a doubt that the President and the opposed public, should be uncondemed of. Clearly, the definition of this service is dooming and should be reinforced from the Constitution, to prevent the countrys' votes from going unknown. | Evidence | Adequate |
606d042217c5 | BC0D8223C604 | It is at time, at last, to conclude all the disadvantages of the Electoral College in one, it's ominous due to the fact that the public votes not for the president, but for a state of electors, disvalues ones' citizenship rights and influences' the country of not voting. The opression against the Electoral College, has it's witty motives. As we all know, the most popular partys are the Republic and Democrat. If the Electoral College, only selects one state out of the entire nation, that allows one states, that carries one culture of people to form the regimen of the rules of that successful party. No goverment, should suit this fashion, because it isn't right in any shape or form. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
7fca5470b5a0 | BC2333002957 | There has been an ongoing conflict on the matter of the proper method to use when deciding on a president: use of the electoral college, or popular vote. I believe that this should be looked upon in greater concern than it currently is. Not only do many people question this arguement, but they feel uncomfortable by it too. | Lead | Effective |
5721b454bd72 | BC2333002957 | I believe the electoral college should be taken away from the process. | Position | Effective |
3f7a3a98c2e2 | BC2333002957 | This is a more secure way of voting because the people of this nation feel as if whom ever they vote for may not actually be voted for by the electors. And this is, in no way, a good thing for the nation. | Claim | Effective |
9c930cf31f69 | BC2333002957 | In the first place, the electoral college has its flaws, as anything would. But it's these flaws that the popular vote dosen't have that makes it a less valid way to decide something as important as presidency. | Claim | Effective |
4b52494f069b | BC2333002957 | The electoral college has a seemingly fair way of deciding such a thing. | Counterclaim | Effective |
8523d7641d4a | BC2333002957 | Each state is given a certain number of electors to represent its population (Ex. A small state such as Maryland would have less electors than California). | Evidence | Effective |
87e2d789b50f | BC2333002957 | It seems alright, until you realize how unfair it really is | Rebuttal | Adequate |
3f253ce5e703 | BC2333002957 | In one way, though rare, the electors may switch outlooks, and end up voting for the opposite candidate than whom they were voted, in turn, to vote for. Some even choose at random who they will vote for, regardless of who they were supposed to choose. Which then leads to the unfair decision for however many people he or she represented | Evidence | Effective |
a7b6b03b66a4 | BC2333002957 | Not only does it have the unfair use of electors, but it also is much more inprecise than popular voting methods. | Claim | Effective |
d7bad756eddf | BC2333002957 | While the electoral college, in total, has only a couple hundred votes, it is less rational than the millions upon millions of people across the nation wanting to vote for whoever they wish with the use of the popular vote method. In '
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong', the author explains, in paragraphs 4 and 5, how in the case of a tie in the electoral vote, that "the Houses selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people." Meaning that no matter what the people think, the president shall be chosen for them. And this is not the right way to elect the person designated to run the country | Evidence | Effective |
dd2c2192e941 | BC2333002957 | In my final point, as not to bore you with countless others, the use of popular vote has already surpassed the electoral college votes, | Claim | Effective |
3cc4e22dade3 | BC2333002957 | as such in the case of Nixon vs Kennedy, but has not proven enough to win the election. How is that fair, on any level? It shows how most people voted for one candidate, but then have that candidate lose because of the electoral college. Is that not reason enough, to show that people wanted a certain person as president, but because of the electoral college, didnt get as they wanted nor deserved? Not only is it shown in basic reasoning, but it is also shown in the numbers. The electoral college is an unjust way to elect presidents | Evidence | Effective |
cb271fc606cf | BC2333002957 | I hope this is enough to change your view on the electoral college. It is not the fair way to let the people of this nation have the leader they want and and rightfully deserve. The use of popular vote is. It not only is a direct line of voting from the people, but all in all has a much fairer way to total the votes. A vote itself cannot possibly change from the point it is written to the point when it is accounted for, but an elector can. Don't allow this to happen the next term | Concluding Statement | Effective |
c5f8f081ec6f | BC2CAB7DB6F0 | I think that you should let kids play sports even if there grade is lower than a B average. There are people that need help and it is not fair to them if they are having trouble. There are three reasons why you should let students play sports without a B average. | Position | Effective |
ee174f32e22e | BC2CAB7DB6F0 | There are students who may have joined a team and is not good at most subjects. He is not able to get them all done because he may have sports practice during the evening. | Claim | Effective |
76e1b74ca795 | BC2CAB7DB6F0 | This can cause someone to come home late and not have time for homework. This will cause the student to have a bad grade on his progress report or report card. There can also be times when three different classes all have a major grade assignment due and they were all due at the same date. A player might not be home enough to do the project. They might also have a game that day. If they don't do there homework they wont be able to play, but if they don't come to a game they might get kicked off the team. So having a B average is like trying to win a losing battle for someone on a sports team. | Evidence | Effective |
0191cf11c37f | BC2CAB7DB6F0 | The next reason is that all students have a unique specialty to a certain class. | Claim | Effective |
57d32a629cc3 | BC2CAB7DB6F0 | They may be good at math but very bad at ELA. So if they get below a B average in that class they might get kicked off the team. Every person has his own abilities to do a certain thing or class. This is not fair to the people who are not good at everything. If they are not good at it that does not mean that they have to be kicked of the team.
| Evidence | Effective |
95fe5e9aca05 | BC2CAB7DB6F0 | some kids might need special help | Claim | Adequate |
c15ec73defc3 | BC2CAB7DB6F0 | If a person is having troubles in all of his classes a teacher cant only pay attention to him she has to look after the rest of the class. if they are at the back the teacher might not get to him because of all the people at the front. This way the student learns the minimum amount of knowledge he needs to pass the test or the quiz.
| Evidence | Effective |
360862d08af8 | BC2CAB7DB6F0 | This is why you should let students play sports even if they don't have a B average in every class. You shouldn't say people cant play what they want to play based on the criteria of there grades. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b5a7ee3bc763 | BC73CEB66875 | No it does not work because it is very un fare to the millions of voters in the U.S. | Claim | Adequate |
3395f791befe | BC73CEB66875 | Mainly because alot of the states donot even see an ad for the presidential campaign. Also because it is not winner takes all like it is for most states. So it is not fair mainly just because of bad publicity. Also because the presidential campaign could come down to one persons vote and depending if he is bias or not it would be very unfair. | Evidence | Adequate |
005c6eafcc76 | BC73CEB66875 | The electoral college does alsonot work because it was created by our founding fathers. | Claim | Ineffective |
dc2d0bfce9dd | BC73CEB66875 | Which was all the way back when this country was first starting out. So the ways that they do it is so old and does not work anymore. | Evidence | Adequate |
246b53e33dad | BC73CEB66875 | These are the reasons why i think that the electoral college does not work. Anymore in todays modern times where it is all out dated. | Position | Adequate |
a54e41bb91e3 | BCF95C5F4A60 | Hello my name is STUDENT_NAME, and i would like to tell you about how i feel on your new policy for sports and curriculum . | Lead | Ineffective |
440bba33772e | BCF95C5F4A60 | Well many people including me have a C average as our grade. But that doesn't mean you should punish us. We very well could be failing but were trying our very hardest to not be. Many things in the curriculum are very difficult for us to grasp, and understand, but that doesn't mean we aren't trying our very hardest to get our grades up. now this is not the case for every student, but in my case it is. I am having a great deal of difficulty in math right now, and that's because we are covering an area of material that I don't fully understand. I keep trying harder and harder everyday but the formulas and numbers just don't add to me. But I have had a great grade in this class all year until we got onto this subject | Evidence | Effective |
dc4a79815ac2 | BCF95C5F4A60 | Many kids struggle with a subject that is difficult for them to learn. But we shouldn't punish them for it, just because they don't understand. | Claim | Effective |
09303e7b7ab7 | BCF95C5F4A60 | Now I can understand why you would change the policy for people who don't care about they're grade's and don't care to keep them up. | Counterclaim | Effective |
1f5e490c87f4 | BCF95C5F4A60 | But for the kids that do care they're just not getting the material that we are learning, why should they be punished to. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
5f0b33125a0d | BCF95C5F4A60 | Maybe being in a sport will help them learn that, if they want to stay on the sport then they have to keep they're grade's up. Also if you change the policy many students will have to leave the sport they love, and you will have not very big teams and the school would lose a lot of money. | Evidence | Adequate |
b4176acf10c0 | BCF95C5F4A60 | I'm not asking you to lower the policy of the grade average but all I'm saying is, us students try our hardest everyday to do our best, But sometimes our best isn't good enough. | Claim | Adequate |
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