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42e9ff297ae4 | C20C1032FA1C | All of the students in this school will enjoy the time you will enable them to use their phones, and the school will be a happier place. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4e86a7422d6e | C23BD7FF7DD7 | The electoral collage is a founding fathers established in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote. There are consis of 588 electory and majority of 270 electory votes is required elect the president. So there for electors generally choose by candidates political partys. Presidential election is held every four years but it on a Tuesday after the first monday.
whoever you have choosen the states elector you would be really be voting for your next president .
How that works is when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate elector.
And who ever has the most votes the winner "takes it all" type of sytem to the winning presidential candidates.
After the elcetion has ended your governor takes it time for the "centificate of Ascertaniment" for all the candidact ran for the preisdent . Also for the Centificate of Ascertaniment makes it in your state and shows which electors will represent your state. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3fe1ecbfbff2 | C23BD7FF7DD7 | Richard N, jimmy C , and Bob D the u. s chamber of comerce were clearing the eletoral collage why they were thinking about doing this is beacuase many people argreed with them and told them they should beacause it wasnt right | Claim | Adequate |
de0b668ec66a | C23BD7FF7DD7 | So those are the some things that the elector candidates say about the whole procces | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
071141b13a89 | C25E3A9AA408 | a more options for estudent that cant go to school on morning they can go on the asfer nuon or they can home classes or vidio confedensil. | Position | Ineffective |
8bda451cbf48 | C25E3A9AA408 | disten lornin is a good idia because no all the time wi can go aut sayd or have the mauch time but tha is a good idia | Claim | Ineffective |
ba8bd8c6522d | C25E3A9AA408 | that is i good idia that we can have to vidio chat for a classes. yes student will benefis for that promgran because not all student can go hay have to work to help der parents. but some wish that they can go to scholl but on the same time he now that thay can not go | Evidence | Adequate |
92598f110261 | C25E3A9AA408 | i wist we can help all the world for the little children can go to school they will me so happy ther dreem cambe real what day wish to du or gohave dome for demen that is all forme thank you. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
1d114e4bf178 | C270B9B6107C | Dear senator The Electoral College process should be changed | Position | Adequate |
00c47ef65cab | C270B9B6107C | this is the rule of it process consists of the selection of the selection of the electors the meetion of the elecctors where they vote for president and vice president and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. I personally thinck that that is not that smart of a rule,because the president would propally say that he would do all of this stuff saying that we do not have to pay taxes and stuff trying to convince us to vote for him by lying to us.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
289e033227df | C270B9B6107C | As well as other presidents could be telling the truth and saying all of this stuff saying that one day they will make people stop paying taxes and poeople right away will thinck ohhh yess no taxes lets vote for this guy wile really they can do that but they will rise the prices on everything and then people will get mad agian. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b8b3d3bc97cb | C270B9B6107C | I thinck that the president should not talk to everyone one by one because then that would be just way to long and tireing. | Claim | Ineffective |
159207fbccf8 | C270B9B6107C | As well as the person could just decide to bribe everyone. thoes are all just one reason that i thinck we should change the rule. There are also some good parts about it everyone will be able to hear the president talk instead of having to hear him through tv and people making adiou changes or people hearing their tv wrong or people haveing their tv volume to low | Evidence | Ineffective |
874f3180668a | C270B9B6107C | ''And that is all i have to say about that". | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
9d6c4e3d769c | C28B8FFF66DE | electoral college is a process that consists of selecting electors,meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. | Lead | Adequate |
f352e59fcb2c | C28B8FFF66DE | electoral college should not be changed to election. | Position | Adequate |
f929b673c6eb | C28B8FFF66DE | electoral college should be kept because it will help save the tress by saving paper, | Claim | Ineffective |
edfbc8617c75 | C28B8FFF66DE | one wouldnt have to go anywhere because the electoral college is not a place | Claim | Ineffective |
a97694ac4303 | C28B8FFF66DE | because there are 5 different methods of choosing the president. | Claim | Adequate |
cbe0dea8d6da | C28B8FFF66DE | saving paper is extremely important. | Claim | Ineffective |
1beaa64ce251 | C28B8FFF66DE | paper comes from trees and many animals and wild life have homes in trees. with electoral college one wouldnt need paper to vote, which is a paper saver. the electoral college helps a lot when it comes to selecting electors,metting of the electors and where they wil vote for the president, and vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. by saving gas one is saving money which can be used for any nessessitites. | Evidence | Ineffective |
65aaa6f39a77 | C28B8FFF66DE | gas now a days is extremely expensive,but with the electoral college one would be saving money because the electoral college is a process, not a place, | Claim | Ineffective |
dcc7636873d1 | C28B8FFF66DE | it doesnt require one to travel anywhere,whch saves gas and money. with the oney saved one can buy the nessessities that are needed. the electoral college offers a lot by just being a process. it helps save paper and money,whch is good for wild life and humans.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
1e346af87f43 | C28B8FFF66DE | the first method is that certainty of outcome.. it states that a dispute over the outcome of an elecotral college vote is possible and it happened in 2000,but its less likely than a dispute over the popular vote. a winning candidats share of the electoral college invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote. for example, in the elections that happened in 2012, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney, b ecause almsot all states award electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis,ev en a very slight. method number 2 is everyone's president. the electoral college requires a presidental candidate to have trans-regional appeal. no region(south,northeast,etc)has eneough electoral votes to elect a president. method 3 is swing states. the winner-take all method of awarding electoral votes induces the candidates-as we saw in 2012's election-to focus their campain efforts on the toss-up states. voters in toss-up states are more likely to poay more attention to the campain-to really listen to the competing candidates, knowing that they are gouing to decide the election. method 4 is big states. the electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population0 losy by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the consitutuion. mthod 5 is avoid run-off elections. the electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast. | Evidence | Adequate |
48c405a24e2c | C28B8FFF66DE | Mr. senate you should keep electoral ollege because it saves paper,saves gas and because it shows us the 5 methods that should be used for choosing the president. the electoral college offers a lot to wild life and also to humans by savikng trees and gas, which saves us humans money that one can spend on nessessities. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
acb467f9801d | C2A49B846D05 | Every four years, citizens of the United States ages eighteen and up, gather at local voting locations to elect the President, our government leader. From Washington to Obama we have always elected our leaders as such. The Constitution has given us our way to vote- the Electoral College. This process, of course, consists of our 538 electors, the place where they meet to vote, and the counting of said votes. But how effective is this process? | Lead | Effective |
21bcee357791 | C2A49B846D05 | I believe the Electoral College should be diminished. | Position | Adequate |
e799d93ede0f | C2A49B846D05 | Statistics show that direct voting is preferred by the majority of the citizens in the U.S. | Claim | Adequate |
535034d1201f | C2A49B846D05 | According to a poll taken in 2000, 60% of voters would rather direct voting over the current system. With the current "
winner-take-all
" concept in most all states except Maine and Nebraska, many people find that even if 45% of all the votes in the state are for one party, all of the votes go to the opposition. Citizens may as well not even vote under this standard if they wont even be represented. | Evidence | Effective |
4fd175e18f89 | C2A49B846D05 | Although not one vote will decide an election if we had direct voting, many single votes can. | Claim | Effective |
73152d0623f5 | C2A49B846D05 | Take the 1.4 out of 3 million people in California who voted one way and got all their votes thrown the other because of the other 1.6 million people. With that 1.4 million, mixed with tons of thousands of voters, one party may actually win the election rather then the canidate who would have won with the Electoral College process. For example, in 2000, George W. Bush won the election and most of the Electoral College votes. However ,
Al Gore got the most individual votes. How can that be fair at all? | Evidence | Effective |
f99ff3962f40 | C2A49B846D05 | When "we the people" vote for the president, we are not actually doing what we have come to believe. In reality, we are actually voting for representatives called
Electors to vote for the canidate. | Claim | Effective |
fe74e1e32503 | C2A49B846D05 | These electors cast their vote depending on the votes that we (you and I), cast. These electors that we choose are generally very trustworthy and reliable, being the reasons we choose these government officials to elect our government leaders. Sadly, however, not everybody is who they say they are, as we all have flaws and sins; occasionally one of these electors will be unfaithful and vote for the canidate they deem fit, instead of who we have chosen ourselves. Although this is rare, the possibilities would be negated completely if we simply had direct, individual voting. | Evidence | Effective |
2e48597a8be1 | C2A49B846D05 | To wrap up, I vote that we abolish the Electoral College and allow the citizens of the United States to vote for ourselves. It would make the majorty of the U.S. happier, it will make us better represented, and we will be directly electing our own government officials. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
325884a242e7 | C2BAF4ADA2CA | I am in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the election of the president of the United States. Over sixty percent of voters prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. I believe this change would make electing a president much more simple | Position | Adequate |
6fa171a95540 | C2BAF4ADA2CA | At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. | Claim | Adequate |
f86f98905ade | C2BAF4ADA2CA | This is because of the winner-take-all system in each state | Evidence | Adequate |
30ce5e38f5db | C2BAF4ADA2CA | The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | Claim | Adequate |
b084881b0c18 | C2BAF4ADA2CA | Most counterclaims to my explanation is swing states | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
aac5532f358f | C2BAF4ADA2CA | This is because voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign, knowing that they are going to decide the outcome of the election. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election | Evidence | Adequate |
d713b758e435 | C2BAF4ADA2CA | Keeping electoral colleges would help in this case, so the candidates have to make both want to vote for them (Electoral College and toss-up states) | Claim | Adequate |
aac4beb0e9c8 | C2BAF4ADA2CA | Keeping Electoral Colleges also restores some of the weight in the politicaal balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitution. | Claim | Adequate |
fde3d3f3da52 | C2BAF4ADA2CA | In conclusion, I think the electoral college should be abolished. By doing this, we could avoid electoral ties, and the "disaster factor''. We can also be more fair and rational to voters. These are the reasons I would like abolish the Electoral college. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
23485ffd9e76 | C2DB3C695BCF | My argument for the development of the driverless cars is that we should have them. | Position | Adequate |
54edee14869f | C2DB3C695BCF | they can become really helpful to people | Claim | Adequate |
69974af4cb8d | C2DB3C695BCF | They can also provide really good safety features. | Claim | Adequate |
ff4671abc935 | C2DB3C695BCF | The diverless car will help the environment, it will spend less of our natrual resources that we use | Claim | Adequate |
3528455ca459 | C2DB3C695BCF | These cars will change the way our future will look like. | Evidence | Adequate |
3da6639207f3 | C2DB3C695BCF | the diverless cars will help tons of people around the world. | Claim | Ineffective |
17c37d269e8f | C2DB3C695BCF | Think of all the handicap people on this earth who can't drive. These cars will change their lives. They can travel by their selfs, instead of people picking them up to go places. There might be people who become drunk or injured and they need to go to their house or hopistal. With these cars they can get there.
| Evidence | Adequate |
c5a2e178fcb6 | C2DB3C695BCF | the driverless car can provide really good safety features. | Claim | Adequate |
790d60046d18 | C2DB3C695BCF | The cars will have a lot of sensors. When Google modifed their Toyota Prius, they use position-estimating senosors, rotating sensors, video cameras, four automotive radar sensors, etc. They put all theses thing on a car to make it safe and to drive on its own. The driverless car can have all these features to be a very safe car to drive. | Evidence | Adequate |
18d9f24ebd95 | C2DB3C695BCF | the driverless cars will help the environment and will spend less of our natrual resources. | Claim | Adequate |
651ec24bc818 | C2DB3C695BCF | A Google cofounder Sergey Brin says, that the cars he foresees would use half the fuel of taday's taxis and offer far more flexiblity than a bus. These driverless cars provide less car accidents. With less accidents people won't get killed or injured.
The driverless car will aslo provide less money of fuel. | Evidence | Adequate |
ad75783a49d9 | C2DB3C695BCF | the driverless cars will change our future. It will help people get around easily. The cars will provide greay safety features. Its will also help the environment. I hope i would be able to see these driverless car around someday. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ceeec6ebf016 | C2E0FC6F097D | I do not think that students should be required to perform community service. I do think that it should be highly recommended though. | Position | Effective |
aaacb0c63a72 | C2E0FC6F097D | I think it should be recommended and not forced because some students actually do not have the time to perform community service. | Claim | Effective |
a640b0a3a7f4 | C2E0FC6F097D | Say your friend was on the school basketball team and he was part of the Spanish honor society, school would end at three he would have to go to a Spanish honor society meeting from three until four thirty then he would need a to do his homework for two hours then he would have a basketball game at six, then he would need to eat dinner when he got home and eight thirty and by then he would be too exhausted to even move let alone perform community service and he would have to repeat this every day until the weekend which he will need to sleep and do homework and also relax from a tough week | Evidence | Effective |
8bc5a1655ab9 | C2E0FC6F097D | on the other hand there are the people who go home blow off their homework and either hang out with friends or play video games, | Counterclaim | Effective |
747c54982bdd | C2E0FC6F097D | that is why I would highly recommend community service instead of forcing it. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
fd2631af9c40 | C2E0FC6F097D | it would be unfair if the people who are working constantly their whole week have to then perform community service after their long and hard week behind and a new one imminently coming. while it is completely fair for the slacking and un working people to take time out of their day to help their community | Evidence | Effective |
48a17f5dd55b | C2F4EDC43D71 |
As a student's perspective I think that the school board shouldn't have any cell phones allowed at all. | Position | Adequate |
3f3dcfaae054 | C2F4EDC43D71 | The young generations all ready uses technology about 17 hours a day when they come to school, their intelligence and thoughts should be focused on school | Claim | Adequate |
a6b3b930fbde | C2F4EDC43D71 | there are some students that will follow the rules and only use their cell phones during lunch and other free times. However as a teenager perspective, students will try to use their cell phones during class it's been proven many times before. | Evidence | Adequate |
54da0ff76d68 | C2F4EDC43D71 | Many of the smart phones of these modern times are fascinatingly convenient and impressive. One of the more popular phone called the iphone, has: a g. p. s. system, go on the internet, text call and I.M. all at the same time and has much as 16 gigga bites with way more features than that. Most phones can do that as well even more, some people depend on their or PDA because their plans, schedules connections with people all over the world is on their device. Although students come to school to gain an education, the can't focus and do that correctly with cell phone distracting them | Evidence | Effective |
a28d73d3f196 | C2F4EDC43D71 | If the students are detracted form what they need to do, that eventually leads to bad grades, not a good job and worse lack of education, and with these present days, it is mandatory to have a good education. | Claim | Effective |
b72886023a23 | C2F4EDC43D71 | Also, if the students lose their phone they have trouble to deal with | Claim | Adequate |
4f3f7d172762 | C2F4EDC43D71 | Now, I do realize that if a person does lose their hone they can tell the company buy a new and have all the information transferred to that new cellular phone. Yet, if you do that you are still burning through money in to something very wasteful | Evidence | Adequate |
5326505478c4 | C2F4EDC43D71 | And sometimes you don't even lose, some students would actually have the nerve to steal other peoples cell phones which dies happen at a so increase | Claim | Adequate |
35eed177516b | C2F4EDC43D71 | Many students call and text their family and friends, not a lot are doing business calls and making plans for certain events | Evidence | Ineffective |
e36b6b66acd2 | C2F4EDC43D71 | Some would say if there was ever an emergency at the school they should be able to have their phone and call their parent | Counterclaim | Adequate |
1cd954f2f1da | C2F4EDC43D71 | But part of the faculties job is to protect from the outside danger. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
0c4f4564b00a | C2F4EDC43D71 | Finallty in my opinion I this having cell phone ith school is a horrible idea | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
73a792f83d4b | C3194A4504F5 | Students would not benefit from taking online classes from home | Position | Adequate |
0a94f60c274e | C3194A4504F5 | in school students are more likely to pay more attention. | Claim | Adequate |
86ae66e9599c | C3194A4504F5 | Students in school are more active because students walk to different classes they communicate to other students and teachers at home students are more likely to fall asleep or be sleepy when they are doing there work which makes it harder for the home school students to have full attention to there work. Attention wise students at home would seem to be less focus on the task at hand, access to there phones all day would make it even harder to get work done. | Evidence | Adequate |
8a52a5e1d36b | C3194A4504F5 | Public school students also have grades that they want to keep up to par, home school students don't | Claim | Ineffective |
af4d2cba4589 | C3194A4504F5 | Socialization is a big part to a teens life, home school students dont really have the social life students in school have | Claim | Adequate |
6fe56882a5e4 | C3194A4504F5 | not having a social life can be hard and sometimes depressing. | Evidence | Adequate |
1c6d2b1c2ae4 | C3194A4504F5 | Some home school students parents dont keep them on track while at home whether its because they are living with a single parent or both there parents are working or having issues, | Claim | Adequate |
f1cd3e9162e7 | C3194A4504F5 | in school they have teachers and counselors to keep them on the right track sometimes school staff can act like a parent to the students keeping them comfort | Evidence | Adequate |
3d7c7c9952e1 | C3194A4504F5 | Home school students parents also might not have the money to really supply them with food | Claim | Adequate |
6cebb384d55c | C3194A4504F5 | but while in school they are served with a free lunch and breakfast every single day. | Evidence | Adequate |
09db791d75fb | C3194A4504F5 | Home school students dont have the opportunity to be apart of a club or sport at school, they dont have a chance to experience or be apart of school spirit. | Claim | Adequate |
41efb976022c | C3194A4504F5 | Being to relaxed can contribute to lack of attention in people and at home is the place you are most comfortable at so learning at home would just be a waste of time in my opinion. | Evidence | Adequate |
f9ce36428514 | C3194A4504F5 | Home schoolers are doing everything over a computer or a device which can strain your eyes and can cause long lasting eye damage. | Claim | Adequate |
3b07b73ff599 | C3194A4504F5 | At home theres only one workplace | Claim | Adequate |
56c8f439de6d | C3194A4504F5 | while in school we mix up the workplaces to library, computer lab, and classroom even outside | Evidence | Adequate |
0fffd32b97a5 | C3194A4504F5 | People at home dont get a chance to get that extra help that teachers offer in school | Claim | Adequate |
42e8a9b0887e | C3194A4504F5 | they dont get to stay after school to meet up with there teachers and talk about school work, this is very helpful for students at public schools it gives them a chance to talk to teachers about any work they have or havent done there absences and any worked they missed. | Evidence | Adequate |
f4029437deb7 | C3194A4504F5 | Students that get home schooled dont get the most out of there teaching its more distractions and plenty other stuff that throw them off track. I dont think schools should offer distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
3239aa6edf9c | C319BB7948FB | Introducing driverless cars to today's society would be a very big step in technology. | Lead | Ineffective |
0c3e3494e902 | C319BB7948FB | Though it would be a big step, it would not be a step in the right direction. | Position | Adequate |
023a17246ce4 | C319BB7948FB | They have yet to create a car that can fully operate on its own. there are too many sensors needed in order to safely use a driverless car, such as video cameras mounted near the rearview mirror, automotive radar sensors, and a dubbed LIDAR | Evidence | Adequate |
58a483d5ce27 | C319BB7948FB | With all of the sensors needed, one could stop working while the car is in motion putting the passenger in danger. | Claim | Adequate |
724722fd91c8 | C319BB7948FB | Conflicts between the users of the driverless cars and the manufaturers would be in presence often. | Claim | Adequate |
42d792eb0316 | C319BB7948FB | The user of the car may often find problems that he or she cannot fix themselves and would have to spend a lot more money to take it in to get fixed. The users might also come to a stituation where the car is in condition to where it cannot get fixed and then have to buy a new car, causing thaty person to spend more money.
| Evidence | Adequate |
40a27fbe6ad6 | C319BB7948FB | Putting Driverless cars on the road will put people in more danger. Users and manufacturers will not have a trustworthy relationship and people would spend more money than they do on regular cars. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
783070fab0e3 | C380E7F27492 | Well when we 1st hear about the Electoral College we think it's some college where students go who drive BMW's, Audi's, Nissian GTR's, Nissan Skylines,Honda Civic SI's,Toyota Supras,Chevy HHR SS,Ford Focus RS,Subaru STI's,etc. But is it really a college like that? No unfortunately not as a matter a fact it's not even a college to physical go to | Lead | Adequate |
cd3c0fdbdb42 | C380E7F27492 | According to paragraph 1 it says " 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." So when you hear that it's not a place and its a process yay! we're learning | Evidence | Ineffective |
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