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2768034b789c | C8BF047C67E6 | but, why be watching t. v when you could go help clean up litter to make a better environment for us. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
d1492213d8eb | C8BF047C67E6 | In today's society people don't understand what all this pollution is doing to our world and animals.
I feel that maybe if we got all the kids in school to participate in this then would could actually make a huge difference, | Evidence | Adequate |
96f73d3f359b | C8BF047C67E6 | and maybe kids would spend more time helping and less time getting introuble. | Claim | Adequate |
85af5046a840 | C8BF047C67E6 | If these kids would realize what our planet will look like in ten years i think they would actually want to help. soon gas will go up a lot when we get about twenty, and things will change a lot if people keep being careless and littering.
I would personally rather be helping save our community then be watching cartoons in the morning. I think most kids these days are spoiled so they see community service as ell why should i have to do it, | Evidence | Adequate |
0638278232c6 | C8BF047C67E6 | well there are plenty of good reasons. One to save the earth from being turned into a waste land, and knowing that you could help by doing something for your community feels great | Claim | Adequate |
1f380c284746 | C8BF047C67E6 | The quote i live by when it comes to littering is, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Those three words aren't hard to do. I think you should enforce this rule and make everyone help because, what is so bad about recycling aluminum cans and paper. Today people waste way to much paper, and use way more water then what is needed. | Evidence | Adequate |
ef9af8a01010 | C8BF047C67E6 | So turn off the sink when you brush your teeth, and instead of an hour long shower you really only need five. If kids helped a little bit more with this kind of stuff, maybe they would learn a word i like to use which is, Respect. Respect for the environment and anything else they might have. We could even start a recycling club at our school so kids could join in. I think all kids need to help out and we should require kids to help out.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
db17a5fa7e56 | C8F314FFCCE9 | the electoral college most be important that makes the people to chose what do they want | Position | Ineffective |
ac41eac1dde2 | C8F314FFCCE9 | it consists to make the people take their own desiton about who do they want to help them and make their lives better in al the ways, the electors have to be near the people of the town or city cause in that way the people feels more closer to them and they can trust the work of the electors. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0679e782dd09 | C8F314FFCCE9 | the certificate of ascertainment declares that the winnig presidential elector in the state ans whows which elector will be represent the state at the meeting of the electors in december of the election year | Evidence | Adequate |
4ca2378b2b2a | C8F314FFCCE9 | that means that you help choose your state's electors when you vote for a president | Claim | Adequate |
c49b7b8fd0ab | C8F314FFCCE9 | because when you voete for you candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors.
after a presidential election , the governor prepares a "certificates" of ascertainment"
your state are sent to the congress and the national archives as part of the official records of the presidental election.
| Evidence | Adequate |
0bd926c25d3b | C8F314FFCCE9 |
1 the author is trying to explain how does this works,to help the people of the town and especially that if you vote that means that you are helping to the elctors and that probaly wil not help if you dont choose the correct person. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
aa71b221b28c | C90418EBE934 | I think its unfair to mandate community service. | Position | Effective |
51b95800b9a0 | C90418EBE934 | Some people think its a great i idea to do community service, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
ab44a6d4b456 | C90418EBE934 | but for some people it just takes to much time! | Rebuttal | Effective |
ba5a9b91edc2 | C90418EBE934 | If we had more time on our hand then i would be all for community service, but don't have a lot of time to do anything after school. | Claim | Effective |
3fe8751b93ab | C90418EBE934 | Our teachers give us too much home work and not enough time to do it all and now if it becomes mandatory to do community service no one will have any time to do anything but homework and community service. That is unfair and unjust taking a way our personal time. Before the only time i had to myself was sleeping, and now i will have to spend that picking up trash. Or reading to the blind. Or tutor elementary school students. Or spending my time with old people that have Alzheimer's disease, who can even remember the last time they went to the bath room. That is a court sentence, not what you do for school. | Evidence | Effective |
c894a27d1b5d | C90418EBE934 | I understand that what your considering doing is for a good cause. But leave community service to people who want to do it and can do it. Not to people that are being forced to.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
df90a9b31f9e | C9083A6A4955 | I am a student at our school and I have some thoughts on the polices that you and the school administrations will be imposing over the next weeks. | Lead | Adequate |
1c87f27df1c4 | C9083A6A4955 | It is my belief that it would be in the best interest of all the students and teachers if no cell phones where allowed during school hours under normal circumstances. | Position | Adequate |
d3b64f60bbc1 | C9083A6A4955 | I think this is the correct option because, while at school a student's mind should be on the work he or she has been assigned and the job of keeping his/her grades up. | Claim | Effective |
e4b96bbe3a3e | C9083A6A4955 | Cellular devices are a distraction from school work and assignments they keep a student occupied with social activities and interaction rather then the grades and assignments that the student has been assigned. Also a cell phone is not only a distraction for students but a hazard. Imagine if you will how hard it is carrying all your books and other school related items without distraction then amagin your cell phone going off in your pocket, of course you answer it but while pulling the phone from your pocket you trip and fall. it is much easer to fall and drop books or food while talking on a cell phone. | Evidence | Effective |
286424638970 | C9083A6A4955 | There is however one exception to the general rule of no cell phones. that is in the case of an emergency, such as a fire or a hostage situation. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
98b9285160b1 | C9083A6A4955 | Since these are risks that must be taken into account. I propose a compromise between the two extremes. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
f3b83eef8fb9 | C9083A6A4955 | Student should be allowed to keep there phones on their person as long as they are turned off at all times during a regular school day. this then creates the problem of students texting during school hours and class so I propose that students who are caught texting or using the cell phone during school our not in the case of an emergency should have there phones took away for a set amount of time. much like if a student does something wrong he/she is punished with a certain amount of time. | Evidence | Effective |
f9cb563931f5 | C9083A6A4955 | I thank you for taking the time to listen to my thoughts, | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
70d6c0c45d4e | C9313379E449 | I Think Policy 1 Is Better Than Policy 2 Because phones Are Useful for Everyone.
| Position | Adequate |
4b28b2a0a868 | C9313379E449 | Like Sometimes When You Get Out Of School And You Have To Tell Your Mom To Pick You Up Or To Tell Her Something Important You Need To Use A Phone But There Is No One To Let You Use It And That Is Why sometimes You Need To Bring A Phone to School. | Evidence | Ineffective |
e5c60b85a440 | C9313379E449 | So Principal I Believe You Should Allow Us To Bring Phones To School And Use Them During Lunch Periods And Other Free Times, And During Class The Phones Are Going To Be turned Off. | Claim | Ineffective |
2c15e9a71f22 | C9313379E449 | And If Somebody Uses It During Class, You Can Take Away Their Right To Bring Their Phones To School But Only To The Person That Used It During Class. I Think That's A Fair Idea. | Evidence | Ineffective |
44416d6696da | C9313379E449 |
So That's My Idea I Hope You Consider It Useful And I Hope You Choose Policy 1 Because If You Do A lot Of Students Are Going To Be So Happy. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5691ade3a1b6 | C93DCEE52172 | I think,that the electoral college should I will tell you right now. The electoral college helps us to avoid problems. So If there is no electoral college we will have problems and I dont want that in our country. | Position | Adequate |
91c7893cc0b3 | C93DCEE52172 | You may be thinking what do i mean by i dont want that in our country what I mean by that is that if there is problems I dont want that in our country cause are country is already free so I dont want it to have problems. And then if the United States fight it would not be free so think about that. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9eb28243b3b4 | C93DCEE52172 | Knowing their vote will not effect they will have less time to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote. | Claim | Ineffective |
07e898b9a3e7 | C93DCEE52172 | By the way plurality means that when a candidate receive more votes than other candidates while not receiving a clear majority of votes. I think without plurality we would not have a president. Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election. You have to be 18 to vote in a election to choose your president. | Evidence | Ineffective |
160ad4be4bd8 | C93DCEE52172 | The electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that larges states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitution. | Claim | Adequate |
0a31292db932 | C93DCEE52172 | The popular vote was very close in florida. Nevertheless obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. So, other thing equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does. So in other words a big state gets more votes than a small state does | Evidence | Ineffective |
3b62ad1d7807 | C93DCEE52172 | From all these i typed i think i want the electoral college to stay were it is as in today. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1840f7aea280 | C955208BEEC3 | To have kids take community service is good for the world and it should be required to do community service | Position | Adequate |
29a4ca711ccc | C955208BEEC3 | to clean up the school would help then people would do it but if it involves cleaning then some people will say yes and some no. | Claim | Ineffective |
88c738a6c0c4 | C955208BEEC3 | but people like me would be happy to help and keep this city clean. And my friends wanted to join them in community service and i got in with them and now that the principal wants us to clean the school and to clean the litter was easy but the rest of the school was still unfinished. So then when we were almost done we cleaned the halls, class rooms, and helped the janitors mope certain areas and now our and community service is best to do | Evidence | Adequate |
eaa3bd040e26 | C955208BEEC3 | it also takes time away from your education. | Claim | Adequate |
8e0ba032c059 | C955208BEEC3 | So the best thing to do is to have community service on some days and get people who want to do it so the choice is yes the principal should but get people that enjoy community service. And for example like if i were to be doing the service and i enjoyed it then id want to keep on doing it but is i didn't enjoy it then i would be home doing homework. But also have it after school and get people who can stay to perform the service. | Evidence | Adequate |
3c8b3a0a30a9 | C9962F63C98A | we know that is was now created by aliens | Position | Adequate |
22799f0b5838 | C9962F63C98A | that there was no sign of them when we went to Mars. | Claim | Adequate |
1fa7489fb0d9 | C9962F63C98A | Plus we know that it is to hot for there to be living creatures. | Claim | Adequate |
2bfac37214d6 | C9962F63C98A | Most all of us have has known that mars broke away from the sun that is why it is so hot there. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1b4b06fbb385 | C9962F63C98A | Mars is a big hit in movies, books, magazines, and talk raidio shows.
Some of the people that has went to Mars have taken pictured of what looks like faces in the outer layer of the planet.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
e26dbc52cdcb | C9962F63C98A | How we knew Mars is off of the sun is that it is close to it and it looks identical in almost all the ways possible.
Mars is called the red planet cause of its enormous amount of red on it.
which leads to say it is from the sun.
Plus it is close to 100+ degrees on the planet plus the heat of the sun doesn't help that at all.
| Evidence | Adequate |
cadda44e4d33 | C9962F63C98A | Researcher still wanna way to find out how to make it where people can live on any of the planets. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
b9469720a3c5 | C9962F63C98A | But there is one problem there is no oxygen up in space so those up there would die in a matter of seconds. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
cc45ed98619a | C9962F63C98A | I think Mars could be a bad planet to keep going on cause there are more things thhat can go wrong up there | Claim | Adequate |
fbfdb88c3f88 | C9962F63C98A | They risk lives every time they r up in space.
If one thing is done incorrect the hole thing fails and then some lives amy be lost. | Evidence | Adequate |
50eda9d24d11 | C9962F63C98A | That is all i have to say about this topic of Mars. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
15d83bb60f34 | C9CAB778C94E | The Electoral College is best described as outdated and obsolete. It was designed so that, when there were too many states and poor technology, the vote could be fairly and reallistically counted, by voting between a few people from each state. | Lead | Adequate |
9e514421268d | C9CAB778C94E | This was good and efficient for that time, but, with the technology available to us today, it is impractical and easy to corrupt. | Position | Adequate |
a91159963389 | C9CAB778C94E | if you live in a mostly Democratic state as a Republican, your vote is regarded as nothing, and you would have no reason to vote in the electoral college, instead of throwing your vote into the entire mass of the united states, where it has a chance to even slightly influence the vote. | Claim | Effective |
986f432c138f | C9CAB778C94E | Also, since larger states are given more attention, due to the all-or-nothing attitude of most states, other states are given less information and are forced to make more wild guesses than votes, a result of having less information. | Claim | Effective |
e540379bab84 | C9CAB778C94E | When the idea of the Electoral College was introduced, the telegraph was still pretty hot technology. All votes would be counted by hand by an impartial court, counting off the vote of every single person individually, out of perhaps more than a million voters. Instead of this, each state would record their own numbers and dispatch a group of electors, who could not be influenced away from their vote, while sending a horseman or a few across the hundreds of miles of U.S. territory with a few little scraps of paper with votes on it would be impractical and dangerous. bags could be lost, a rider could have an accident, entire counties would be unaccouted for. The Electoral College was a nessecity as well as a stroke of genius, and I applaud the man who thought of it. However, this was when the telegraph was a stroke of genius, too. Now we have a cell phone the size of a notecard that can store thousands or millions of votes alone. We have processors that can count the number of people that like apples versus oranges and come out with a percentage, verdict, reciept, and the best bussines option as soon as the numbers are input, as soon as we push that little blue "Enter" button. We can send the votes through the air in the billions, without as much as wires to conduct them. there is little or no possibility of tampering or miscommunication, and there are records to back up and correct every single little error. it is much smarter, safer, and more accurate to initiate a simple counting program on the computer, with each individual terminal sending all of it's results and information to a higher terminal until all of the information is scored, backed up, double checked, counted, percentaged, and a final verdict is reached. This can even be done in a way to run the information separately to different computers, to minimize tampering. | Evidence | Effective |
69da5bed9d5b | C9CAB778C94E | The electoral college is obsolete, a small parasite of politicians who just dont want this to end. we dont still use the telegraph, do we? | Claim | Effective |
ea8402be6ad8 | C9CAB778C94E | The electoral college is not only obsolete, unnesessary and parasitic, but also unfair to many voters. The main ways this unfairness can be identified are extreme, and each really deserve a paragraph of their own. Let us imagine a scenario: a democrat lives in a mostly republican state | Claim | Effective |
40a2bdbab651 | C9CAB778C94E | He goes to vote. His vote is passed along, checked off, and placed aside for a time. When all of the votes are in, the republican votes outweigh the democrats. Now, our democrat's vote, his wife's vote, the democratic guy who works at 7-11 down the street's vote, Joe's vote, Bob's vote, Billy's vote, "That girl Suzie's" vote and ALL THE DEMOCRATIC VOTES IN THE STATE are all, essentially, thrown into the furnace, and will do so next election, the election after, and essentially every mostly republican election after that. In a popular vote without the barrier of the Electoral College, all those votes would flow into the pile for whichever canidate they voted for. Then the pile would be counted, divided into the total votes, and percentaged. then, at lest the votes could count for SOMETHING, other than a waste of time. | Evidence | Effective |
b67cd6bd3caa | C9CAB778C94E | But wait! there's more. Most states have an all-or-nothing ideal, meaning if politician A got 51% of the votes in California, while politician B still got 49%, Politician A gets 55 votes in the Electoral College, while politician B gets squat. This does not represent the best interests of many of the people in that state. this is unfair | Claim | Effective |
589368e771bf | C9CAB778C94E | It also means that larger states have the advantage, because they get more votes, like California (55), Texas (38), and Florida (29), while smaller states get less, such as Alaska (3), Rhode Island (3), and Hawaii (4). Just to add insult to injury, this means that larger states are more fought over by politicians, leaving smaller states practically ignored. This is unfair to people in the Dakotas or Montana have no information to base their votes on, instead just picking a canidate by mainly party affiliation. the biggest political battles are in fact fought over the biggest states, in the forms of advertisements and propaganda. Although the propaganda is truely just that: propaganda, there is some truth in them, and the voters in bigger states are more well versed in the political and practical advantages of one canidate over the other. Article 3, while defending the Electoral College, in fact condems itself, by saying that voters in so called "swing states," where there is no true dominant party, are likely to be given the most information on the canidates as they battle over who will get that state's votes in the college. The same thing can be said for the bigger states, because neither politician can really afford to let the other gain the upper hand in that state. Therefore smaller states, or states that are basicly marooned on one party are ignored or disregarded as worthless and unattainable in any case, so they widthold information from them, forcing them to vote blindly in favor of whichever party they choose, which votes may be discarded anyway. With an uncensored popular vote, the political canidates will be forced to advertise for all of the united states, instead of just the bigger or indevisive states. this will also remove all of the unfair advantages from the larger states, including more information as well as an unfairly weighted voting system. | Evidence | Effective |
f1f97ad524c7 | C9CAB778C94E | In conclusion, the electoral college was the most efficient and sucessful way to vote, back in the 1700-1800. However, with current communication and transportation technologies, the College has become obsolete, to the point where it should be buried at a crossroads with a stake through it's heart. It is unfair, biased, impractical, and just overall worthless. We should put our newfound technology and knowledge to use and do away with the electoral College, once and for all. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
2845cf5f6741 | C9CB05ABAE95 | I believe that you should select your first policy | Position | Adequate |
e591956bba41 | C9CB05ABAE95 | If students can have there phones out during free time and lunch periods than they will be less likely to use try and use the in class. | Claim | Adequate |
aac28e9f448d | C9CB05ABAE95 | During school kids complain that they are not able to use there cell phones at all in school, but if they could use them during free times than they could talk with friends then and not have a need to during class. Think of what would happen if you go with the second policy, students will try and talk to friends during your teachers classes. When the students use there cell phones in classes they worry more about number one, getting caught and number two being able to talk to there friends | Evidence | Adequate |
c8bbbe314325 | C9CB05ABAE95 | Most schools worry that students that have internet capability will post mean things about other students on social networking sites. | Claim | Adequate |
b6f44faf23ba | C9CB05ABAE95 | You cant stop students from posting it at there homes, so they will do it there instead so you cant prevent that from happening. | Evidence | Adequate |
5a2f5cb25a21 | C9CB05ABAE95 | If you select the alternative policy, and not the first policy than students would not be allowed to have them of use at school at all | Counterclaim | Adequate |
051d99817c43 | C9CB05ABAE95 | If they were not to be of use than students would make it a game or a competition to see who can text the longest without getting caught by the teacher. | Evidence | Adequate |
c7dca13f2928 | C9CB05ABAE95 | It would be better to have them at use in school because than students that want to learn can and the students that don't want to learn repeat the same classes until they pay attention enough to pass there class. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
635ecd160d11 | C9CB05ABAE95 | Not being able to have a cell phone out at any time of the school day would be a bad idea. Having cell phones out during free time in the day would be a much better selection. Having cell phones out during class is a bad idea, but during their free time is there free time to do anything they want that is school appropriate | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b165c5d6cb30 | C9D717A3D912 | The Electorial Collage should continue on as a way of electing for various resons with this in play | Position | Adequate |
e1855d4f8e67 | C9D717A3D912 | "it avoids the problem of elctions in wich no candidate recieves a majority of the voters cast"(source 3), | Claim | Adequate |
3894118bf89e | C9D717A3D912 | which would reduce the complication process to produces a clear winner". | Evidence | Adequate |
aa07f0980f46 | C9D717A3D912 | Next,this has gone on for centry's its in our constitution thank's to our founding fathers (source 1) | Claim | Adequate |
cd7a9222eee8 | C9D717A3D912 | also there is less of a dispute of the outcome versus a popular vote.(source 3) | Claim | Adequate |
848f15f24ba5 | C9D717A3D912 | a process that simplifies the entire states personal elections is definantly a pro | Claim | Adequate |
9b2c711e26ca | C9D717A3D912 | yes this system is we the people actually voting for our state elctors | Counterclaim | Adequate |
45f3478889c2 | C9D717A3D912 | but we have chosen them and they are more informed on this compromise so they should be entitled as two votes. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
855fee0e7ac4 | C9D717A3D912 | Plus for example in wich no candidate recieves a majority of the votes cast and should be kept this is Given that the votes outway the elctorial vote with the process of the college electorial vote enshuring a fair election | Evidence | Ineffective |
949a7bd369f7 | C9DFA1392E8C | Our system of driving has been implemented for a long time now.
Driverless cars would be a huge leap in technology.
There are so many cars on the road right now that require drivers and almost next to no selfdriving cars. | Lead | Ineffective |
c014fe0160eb | C9DFA1392E8C | Sel driving cars in theory sound like a good idea, but in all reality they aren't. | Position | Adequate |
ddfd3779e65f | C9DFA1392E8C | The first and biggest issue is cost, | Claim | Adequate |
e436bd8e2748 | C9DFA1392E8C | the self driving car will have nearly everything our current cars have, in addition to all the high tech sensors and a very exspensive Dubbed LIDAR that uses laser beams to form a constantly updating 3-D model of the car's surroundings.
Also they're talking about putting in camera's on the rearview mirrors and a camera that watched the driver.
The cost of repairs will be a a necessity because your car will have to be in working order or else it will not drive itself and you will not travel, and in this day and age you have to be able to travel. | Evidence | Adequate |
0c021066de50 | C9DFA1392E8C | implementation. | Claim | Adequate |
475c51c17b40 | C9DFA1392E8C | How will driverless cars implement their product into the general populus?
Will there be a mix of driverless cars and driver operated cars?
If so, that sounds dangerous.
Theere is no need for drivers to be on the road with experimentall technology that is new and has never been used.
The chances of a problem or accident are enormous | Evidence | Adequate |
ae3986f79860 | C9DFA1392E8C | change, drivers who use this new car will most likely feel a sense that something is missing as in they aren't doing anything like steering or breaking.
| Claim | Adequate |
31c1770c0c80 | C9DFA1392E8C | They will not be used to this and feel the need to do something that will distrract them from being alert.
Selfdriving cars will be so new and so different that many Americans will shy away because the change is too significant.
| Evidence | Adequate |
848cb0963fe8 | C9DFA1392E8C | there is already a working system in place and to try and change that system on that big of a scale will create numerous problems that may not be solved.
The three big issues are cost, implementation, and change.
The scale at which this change would happen is just too great.
In addition it is too risky to make a slow implementation because the mix of car types would create many problems as well. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
15b3a56c75c2 | CA12A5A210FF | I am aware that you want your students to do well in school. Everyone, even if they don't admit it, wants to do good in school. I agree with your policy, and I also disagree with your policy. | Lead | Adequate |
fc62a94d2079 | CA12A5A210FF | I agree with it because I think if the students really wanted to participate in activities, they must raise their grades. | Claim | Adequate |
3e0cce83b326 | CA12A5A210FF | But if they really wanted to participate, they can all work hard to get their grades up. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6a94b85d3336 | CA12A5A210FF | Well, I also disagree with your policy. I think if some kids really do struggle in school, they wont be able to participate in any other activities. I don't really think that is fully fair. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
162c02b3782e | CA12A5A210FF | Us students want to participate in fun activities and some really struggle. We all need time to get away from school to have fun and your not letting some students have that time. I am an average B student, and I do not participate in other activities like sports.
I really have no right to say anything, but I am supporting my friends who love sports. | Evidence | Adequate |
aa790d973466 | CA12A5A210FF | I do mostly agree with you. If you really want something, you should try your hardest to aim for it. | Position | Adequate |
cc6567d15978 | CA12A5A210FF | Say, you wanted to play basketball and you had a C average. If you have a C average, you cannot play | Evidence | Adequate |
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