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aee4b3b45f28 | BCF95C5F4A60 | why should we get punished just because we had a rough or an off week. maybe sports will help the students mature and learn that they have to keep they're grade up if they want to stay with the sport they love. | Evidence | Adequate |
5f81739efcc0 | BCF95C5F4A60 | please reconsider changing your policy of our grade average. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
035f6921bb71 | BCF95C5F4A60 | I think that if the policy stays the same then the students, you, the school, and the district will benefit from our curriculum and sport life. | Position | Effective |
9012a5d97083 | BCF95C5F4A60 | I hope you think about reconsidering, I promise you and others will benefit from leaving the policy the way it is. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
92f2f9c73d3f | BDFEDD161F03 | I think they should keep the Electoral college | Position | Adequate |
8207e72b144c | BDFEDD161F03 | because what's the need of changing it if it was the same way back in the day. I could be wrong but | Evidence | Adequate |
680204cdb459 | BDFEDD161F03 | i also think many things shouldn't change like trying something different | Claim | Adequate |
e9130ee66d26 | BDFEDD161F03 | whether it's new or not. many things shouldn't change just because it feels right or it may help with your problems because 9 times out of 10 it may go all wrong when you try it but all worked out in your head perfectly. | Evidence | Ineffective |
78cea19f100e | BDFEDD161F03 | The electoral college consists of the electors where they vote for president and vice president and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. the electoral college consists of 538 electors but a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. And in my own personal opinion | Evidence | Adequate |
c7fa5795e5f6 | BDFEDD161F03 | i think there's absoulutely nothing wrong with the electoral college i think it gives good advice and helps motivates you | Claim | Ineffective |
90e76f4370f4 | BDFEDD161F03 | the winner take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates to focus their campaign efforts on the toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign. | Evidence | Ineffective |
baa617082512 | BDFEDD161F03 | I sometimes think many people are aganist electoral college because the way it seperates the votes and only half will be required to go to the election and be seen | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
56da24f1a113 | BDFEDD161F03 | And others may have their opinions on this but it's ok to have your own opinion also different opinions don't hurt nobody it's just that different people believe in different things. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
16c407d65591 | BE0B11659D82 | I disagree with the fact of having a Electoral College. I don't think it would help with the elections. I think it should go the most popular votes. | Position | Adequate |
5f31b048c757 | BE0B11659D82 | The Electoral College is not giving Florida's cizitens, like myself, a oppurnity to vote for who would be right for our state. As you may know some people call the Electoral College, a "disaster factor" because of the way they handle and deal with the voting. More people would want to for is right and who would do good for the state. Someone who would listen to what is needed. Not someone who just wants to make everything worst. | Evidence | Adequate |
09bad6cee3d4 | BE0B11659D82 | But, in a way it is more helpful to organize it. Make the state better, also it let's each party select a slate a electors, who are trusted to vote for the party's nomine. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
38a2cc0b51d0 | BE0B11659D82 | Think about it... do you really think the electors would vote for who they are suppose to vote for? No ! They are independent, they can do whatever they want. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
7436ca96c4a7 | BE0B11659D82 | But, the trust is rarely betrayed. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
c7735fb1dd5a | BE0B11659D82 | The Electoral College lacks of democratic pedigree. Why is that? Because of cerainty of outcome, everyone's president, swing states, big states, and avoid run off elections. They all are practical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. | Evidence | Ineffective |
fd25578735fa | BE0B11659D82 | My point is, is that I truly disagree with the fact of having a Electoral College. You do have some good reasons for it. But, will it help the cizitens as a whole? You have to think out us out here in the real world, not yourselves. Help make the state better by, cutting off the Electoral College and going by the most popular votes that a canidate gets. It will Florida be a sun shine again. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c481731a5d6e | BE5B1803777E | Do you believe in aliens? Do you think that aliens made The Face on Mars? | Lead | Adequate |
7a3edbe58a5f | BE5B1803777E | Well let me tell you, they didn't. It resembles traits of natural landforms that we on the Earth have too. | Position | Adequate |
c757c545c14b | BE5B1803777E | Yes, I understand it's' a planet we haven't been on yet | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
d8bc684f8219 | BE5B1803777E | don't you get that, they could have perfectly normal things just like the Earth that happen every day. Do you understand now? | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
327ed53fa7f4 | BE5B1803777E | on April 5, 1998, when Mars GLobal Surveryor flew over Cydonia for the first time and the MOC team snapped a picture ten times sharer than the origina Viking photos. | Claim | Adequate |
332fdb07c48b | BE5B1803777E | It is a real landform that was caused by natural things that happen, it was no alien monument. | Evidence | Adequate |
ba6ad3777bc2 | BE5B1803777E | It is very hard to get to the face in space because our teams have to go different places, we have to look at different things. | Evidence | Ineffective |
373e6746b8e5 | BE5B1803777E | I see your point of view though, I get that MOC could have gotten the picture wrong | Counterclaim | Adequate |
cbc958276576 | BE5B1803777E | but you see it was ten times as sharper than it had been years before. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
83633dcf1f82 | BE5B1803777E | Yes, it was cloudy to and that could have caused some major differnces comapred to when it is sunny. The "alien markings could have been hidden by haze" | Counterclaim | Adequate |
e016abb1db9c | BE5B1803777E | you never know though, but we don't make it over the face very often, it's hard to get a better view from it. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
477b482c68f2 | BE5B1803777E | The picture could have been photoshopped to make it look different, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
e3e8889945cf | BE5B1803777E | I know its in the late ninety's but it wen tto a Jet Propulsion Lab where the face started to apppear into a face. Scientists figured it was just another Martian mesa, common arounf Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptain Pharoh. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
a36bfc039efa | BE5B1803777E | It was a good way to engage the public attraction to Mars. It became an icon in mocies, books, talk shows, it was every where for 25 years. Many scientists believed it was important to NASA and very few believed it was an alien artifact, after eighteen long years the Vikining mission was over. | Evidence | Ineffective |
5e2a57800f2d | BE5B1803777E | Do you believe me now when I say that aliens didn't create this face on Mars? It is very posible that they did but, not very likely that they did. You have to look at the facts that it might actually be a natural landform, this argument could go either way but again look at the facts and how we got a ten times sharper look at it and how Mars works, it could work the same as Earth and we don't consider Earth to have aliens on it, we don't blame aliens on our land features. Every planet is different and Mars could turn out to have storms and earthquakes and tornados just like we do on Earth, just remember that next time you think that aliens are real, look at all the facts, ALL the facts and then make your decision. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
99171837c90c | BE604A32144C | I think that yes if there was driverless cars that not just a couple people should have them everyone should | Position | Adequate |
b703481aca5b | BE604A32144C | If there was someone that did not have one of these cars they would be at a higher risk of someone wrecking. | Claim | Adequate |
838cb112e4b5 | BE604A32144C | The laws on speed limits would definetly change. There would be a bunch more laws besides thatone that would change as well. | Claim | Adequate |
d3fcee6f626c | BE604A32144C | People would act different one the road knowing who is responsible.
| Claim | Adequate |
a4fe1cbc8eb9 | BE604A32144C | I mean if your driving one of these smart cars and someone else dosn't have one and they wrecked into you it would not be good. | Claim | Adequate |
c88493bc791c | BE604A32144C | There would be a big debate about this and who would be to blam. The companies would have too much money so you could not sue them. Your attention would imidietly turn on the driver of the other car the company would have your back then. Those people should not have to deal with it if that is the case the company should. | Evidence | Adequate |
5f2bd1cb51bb | BE604A32144C | It would be nice for everyone to have one of these because drunk driving issues would go down. | Claim | Adequate |
d8ac55e93dac | BE604A32144C | wrecks would be less common if the mechanics work on the cars they provide. Companies think to much of money so that would be the only problem. I mean sure they wold not make as much money as they would like to but people would be a lot more safe then they are. The money they make should go to the coverage of peoples cars.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
0f7cf9e69763 | BE604A32144C | Another problem I would have with this is would you be able to get to your job on time? | Claim | Adequate |
bd6226e062c8 | BE604A32144C | If you have a certain speed limit and or if yor car stops working what are y going to do. I think that if you get this car everything should have to be covered by the compaies you buy it from. Some states are already trying to ok all of this through way higher powers than they should. They should have a system on the car that explains why your late. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1181d0604a0a | BE604A32144C | One of my last concerns is if the future generations would still know how to drive. | Claim | Adequate |
20823ab2acb3 | BE604A32144C | I mean if they don't know how the car works than what is the point of it. I think that anyone who gets one of these cars should have to take driving courses one a year for a week. They can take them any day they choose as long as it adds up to a week out of the year. The car is not the only problem think about the roads next. | Evidence | Ineffective |
4b906892342b | BE694C1289EF | Some of my friends think that community service is a great idea, but some of them think it takes up way to much time for them | Lead | Adequate |
ac9c701a8600 | BE694C1289EF | I think that community service is a great way to keep our planet clean. | Position | Ineffective |
d7edf01faac5 | BE694C1289EF | I think I will join the rest of the elementary schools and tell them the three r rules, which are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. I can't believe people don't just use this rule. Some people throw there trash on the streets then we have to pick it up. I think its not fair for the rest of us that we have to pick up other peoples trash. Sometimes i think some people are disgusting at the way we treat this world. We should treat it like its our nice house. I also think that people could use the three R' s. | Evidence | Adequate |
34f457bc921c | BE694C1289EF | If we don't keep up on the community service our family which is the world will fall apart because of the litter. | Claim | Adequate |
8c28daff11a9 | BE694C1289EF | I care for this planet and I hope there's other people out there that care to about this giant family (world). I also hope that you do the same thing that we are doing as well. For the other people that don't care at least try and help this world. I am begging you to try... Please don't let this world fall apart. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d961a631df2e | BE88F40828C4 | So to start here is a letter to my state senator, in which I argue in favor of keeping the electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states | Lead | Ineffective |
0c8f2820b65b | BE88F40828C4 | The electoral college is a process, not a place. The electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors. The electoral college consists of 538 electors. In the 23 Amendment of the constitution, the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. For this reason, in the following discussion, the word "state" also refers to the district of columbia. Next, each canidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors.
The electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party,but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their responsibilities are.
The president election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Also, 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 "proportion representation".
Abolishing the electoral college! But don't worry they're not alone; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore.
Thanks to the quirks of the electoral college, which won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voterswould prefer a direct election to the kind we have now.
Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president.
You might not know this so if you dont here is something very interesting for you to know. Who are the electors? Well they can be snoyone not holding public office. Here's something eles you might know, Who picks the electors in the first place? well here's the answer it depends on the state. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor.
The American people should consider themselces lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for must more. consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and thats those electors could always defy the will of the people. Black in 1960.
Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the hose of representatives, where state deegations vote on the president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c1281aa122ba | BE88F40828C4 | Okay to end my letter, my con conclustion is that this is my letter to my state seator | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
a83b7f7461de | BE8F32C4B3BA | In my opinoin I think we should absolutely keep the Electoral College system. | Position | Effective |
52c7fa78c234 | BE8F32C4B3BA | I think we should keep the way we elect our presidents because it's a non-democrac way. | Claim | Adequate |
b5de3cf88148 | BE8F32C4B3BA | It's also easy and fast by killing two birds with one stone. | Claim | Effective |
062aab44c302 | BE8F32C4B3BA | Our founding fathers compromised the Electoral system and since we can't get rid of our admendments and change the Constitution I don't tink we should get rid of the Electoral College system. | Evidence | Adequate |
01acffd8f05c | BE8F32C4B3BA | It may be old, | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
d7a18fef7f01 | BE8F32C4B3BA | new things aren't always the best things. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
112531554688 | BE8F32C4B3BA | I think if the Goverment wanted to change it they should try it on a state first before they roll it to the rest of the nation, and we all know the goverment isn't that smart and won't do it because we are their test animals. | Claim | Ineffective |
e43f3901a128 | BE8F32C4B3BA | The Electoral College System allows certainity of outcome. No run-off election because mostly likely there will be no tie. No arguing about the president being from a certain place or region so that state favors the president. Winner-takes-all system allows the people to pay close attention to the election. Swing states allow a little excitement during the election because some states like Florida you don't know which way they are going to go. Big states also like Florida gets the president on the edge because the can loose every small state and still win with the big ones. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a59f27bfa48d | BE8F32C4B3BA | 270 votes are not a lot of votes to win an elction with, but every vote counts. Some people may not vote because there are only two parties that most of the nation only cares about the Republicans and the Democrats. | Claim | Ineffective |
ab93671bc6d1 | BE8F32C4B3BA | Some people dont like tovote in fear of their party not winning due to its unpopularity. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
c7a77f97980f | BE8F32C4B3BA | But everyone should vote to express there politcal power. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
e4915e8e659c | BE8F32C4B3BA | That's why we should keep it because if we change it we're changing our minds in the way vote. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
73825b8e3733 | BE94CF981273 | My oppinon on driverless cars is that i dont like it. | Position | Adequate |
cdf8f77d773b | BE94CF981273 | It just makes it more easier for people to not do anything. | Claim | Ineffective |
045b0d5e26ec | BE94CF981273 | Even drunk drivers wont get pulled over anymore because they would have that to drive them. Cops cant do their job of pulling people over anymore after they do this so cops might loose jobs cause they would have driverless cars. No one would be buyong cars anymore because of it fuel would be used half as much for it. | Evidence | Adequate |
a315919749eb | BE94CF981273 | Televison and movies have been fasinated by cars that could drive their selves. | Claim | Ineffective |
2bbba98a790c | BE94CF981273 | Under specific occasions google has had cars driving since 2009. Their cars have been driven more half a million miles without a crash. They arnt truely driverless yet they alert the driver when they need to take over the wheel when traffic is really badd or going through road work. Futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday isnt just the smart cars its smarter roads. How much smarter did the cars ned to be? in the 1980s automakers used speed sensors at the wheels in the creation of antilock brakes. within a decade those sensors had become more advanced to detect and respond to the danger of out of control skids or rollovers. The information from the sensors could make the car apply brakes. In 2013 BMW anounced the development of traffic Jam Assitant the car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph,But speacial touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. They can steer in traffic and other road construction. This necisates the car being ready to quickly get the drivers attention whenever a problem has occured. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8979940aa0c9 | BE94CF981273 | Displays can be turned off instantly when the driver needs to take over something not to the drivers trying to text with a cell phone. In this way the In car system is actually a safety feature, and saftey is a big concern. Most driving laws focus on getting the passengers,drivers,and pedestrians safe and let know the law makers that in these cars are safety. Tesla has projected a 2016 release for a car capable of driving on autopilot 90 percent of the time. Mercedes benz,audi,and nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020. The road to the truly autonomous car streches on ahead of us, but we grow closer to the destination. | Evidence | Ineffective |
474ed5fd67e8 | BECA14914CFB | In my opinion, driverless cars are a good idea. | Position | Adequate |
fd311e4fb3a4 | BECA14914CFB | Having driverless cars can help us in many ways, including preventing crashes, | Claim | Effective |
e0982cc77802 | BECA14914CFB | increased safety | Claim | Effective |
52aae6880363 | BECA14914CFB | However, driverless cars can also hinder us because technology can always fail, which could have catastrophic consequences. | Counterclaim | Effective |
c44332b04f9a | BECA14914CFB | Firstly, numerous crashes can be prevented. | Claim | Effective |
b61fc17df9bd | BECA14914CFB | General Motors once created a concept car that ran on a track, therefore creating smarter roads instead of smarter drivers. | Evidence | Adequate |
337377a66db7 | BECA14914CFB | The only forseeable problem with this is that it would be extremely expensive to redo all of the roads in the country. | Counterclaim | Effective |
1079999e034c | BECA14914CFB | Another way that crashes can be provented is by improved sensors. Google modified a Toyota Prius with many new sensors, the most important being a spinning 3-D sensor on the roof that scans the surrounding area to see the road conditions. This scanner can inform you if a car is coming at you way to fast and inform you if you need to sspeed up or slow down, or it can have the car do it for you. Both of these are adequate reasons to standardize driverless cars. | Evidence | Adequate |
1b9463b22438 | BECA14914CFB | Another reason that driverless cars are a good idea is that they improve people's safety. | Claim | Effective |
ee7f980eede4 | BECA14914CFB | As previously mentioed, the improved sensors will increase safety. There are all kinds of sensors that sense all different things such as the 3-D sensor, position estimating sensors, GPS reciever, and many more. all of these sensors can tell you if you're to close to the edge of the road, if you have a caar in your blindspot, if you're driving to fast, or to slow, the road conditions, and many other things. All of these sensors are so helpful in informing your car upon what to do to keep you and your family safe. Also, driverless cars take away distracted driving. Recently, a friend of mine recieved a text, picked up his phone to reply, and ran over a trash can. Imagine if that trash can had been a child, or a car containing you and your children. If he had a driverless car, then he would not have hit that trash can, in fact he would never run over anything again. Having driverless cars would infrease the safety factor for everyone. | Evidence | Effective |
6d4fc2ffd317 | BECA14914CFB | On the other hand, having driverless cars could be a bad thing. | Counterclaim | Effective |
74ce178cdf15 | BECA14914CFB | Technology could fail, leaving a catastrophic mess in its wake. The GPS system could misjudge a distance, causing the car to turn to soon, and run headlong into a building, killing people inside. Another thing is that the self-driving system could fail all together, leaving someone who doesn't know how to drive eiter stranded, or having to drive themselves. Therefore, driverless cars could be a bad thing. | Evidence | Effective |
54ab4c40343b | BECA14914CFB |
In essence, driverless cars can be both good and bad for mankind. They can reduce the liklihood of crashing, and increase safety, but the technology can fail, and harm many people. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
dc8361dc028d | BECFCA5BFABD | Students should do community service, but community service should be done due to the goodness of someone's heart, not due to the force of someone's hand. | Position | Effective |
72dd0bf737a0 | BECFCA5BFABD | What do you expect to accomplish by forcing students into work? We have child labor laws for a reason. | Claim | Adequate |
3f6e28ab272b | BECFCA5BFABD | And if you try using community service as a punishment people wont listen. They wont listen, and they wont care. | Claim | Effective |
76e8ca65db7a | BECFCA5BFABD | Now yes i understand that maybe some dictators through out history may have needed to take a step back and really see how their environment was hurting and try to change it. But why did most tyrants in history become tyrannic? As children they felt like everyone was against them, they felt closed off from everyone else, and maybe that wouldn't have happened if the home that they grew up in, and the town that they were raised in was cleaner and safer.
For example look at Josef Stalin, who killed more people than Adolf Hitler. Josef had a tough childhood, he had to fight just to stay alive. He earned everything he gained. But after he became the man who had everything he started turning into the man who lost everything. Now I am not a fan of the practice of communism, but the idea of it is great. No one should be turned down due to economic problems. Everyone deserves a good opportunity.
Some people just cant help if they start out with a disadvantage. But sooner or later everyone has a chance to make something of themselves.
Whether their chance be a job, an education, a family, or a military service to their country. Everyone has a chance to mean something to someone. I mean isn't that what we all want, to matter? Some people have stronger drives for glory than others. Look at Achilles for instance, he wanted his name to live through the ages, and he knew that the Trojan War would help him with that. But with glory always comes retribution. Fame and demise have gone hand in hand through out history. | Evidence | Ineffective |
e01c85ac2ada | BECFCA5BFABD | So basically what I'm trying to say is that community service is only used so that people with disadvantages should be able to acquire those advantages, but no matter where someone comes from, what race or creed they belong to, everyone is a product of their environment.
| Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
c115289d3dd2 | BEF460B090E0 | The electoral college may seem like its a good idea to keep thngs going,but I think America should get rid of it. | Position | Effective |
a64293f945d9 | BEF460B090E0 | Alote of people say its unfair. Mostly because of the winner-take-all system. | Claim | Adequate |
ebe652908975 | BEF460B090E0 | If you were to vote for a presedent, you are in favor, everyone would like thier vote to be counted,right? and it is,but is it really counted towards the presedent we want to get voted for elections? | Claim | Adequate |
22a5b048112a | BEF460B090E0 | According to this article, you dont really vote for the presedent you want, what you are really voting on is a state of elector, and if he gets elected he is the one who really gets to vote for the precedent | Evidence | Effective |
ce18fcfe72be | BEF460B090E0 | And that is unfair, I think we should change it to popular vote. | Claim | Adequate |
5cdac3c88c2b | BEF460B090E0 | We should change it to polular vote because the elecoral college is really unfair to Americas citizens. | Evidence | Ineffective |
50dac8f4a2cc | BEF460B090E0 | Also it is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | Evidence | Adequate |
dd384e0c9f3e | BEF460B090E0 | Like I said it is unfair, outdated, and irrational,with all these things I dont think many people would like that .So I think we should change it to popular vote, | Evidence | Ineffective |
c90ac77b31c0 | BEF460B090E0 | i think it would be easyier and it would be more fair,and that is what our citizens want. And that is what we should give them. After all its thier vote that counts, so lets let them decide if we should keep it the same with the electoral college or change it to some way better like by popular vote. | Claim | Adequate |
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