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129e9026495b | D0432DB2D3A3 | Therefore those are my reasons for wanting to change the system of electoral voting to be changed to popular voteing. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
58b97d109c56 | D06FFBFCBCE5 | I think we should change the voting method we have now to popular vote because everyone would have a say in getting the right person to become our most important man. | Position | Effective |
cbc95010fd21 | D06FFBFCBCE5 | Many people would be very happy to vote who they want then hoping other people vote the same person as they do to get a electoral vote. | Claim | Adequate |
cad793a18963 | D06FFBFCBCE5 | Many people in political carrers question why not many people vote in the United States Of America. | Evidence | Adequate |
ae4d09797e12 | D06FFBFCBCE5 | Maybe some people dont vote because of this topic maybe they hate they way the votes get counted | Claim | Adequate |
0560c761eb65 | D06FFBFCBCE5 | i agree people shouldnt have to count on other people to there vote to the president they want. I think its a great idea for states having everyone vote and the marjority goes to that president. | Evidence | Adequate |
5ee7e047cd1f | D06FFBFCBCE5 | An electoral college is consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the president. The electoral college requires a presidential canidate to have trans-regional appeal. No region has enough electoral votes to elect a president.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
c5bbcce0707a | D06FFBFCBCE5 | Presidents count on mostly big states to vote for them. People in the big states like califorina should be able to choose based on marjority of the votes. | Evidence | Ineffective |
48e3da5b8df9 | D06FFBFCBCE5 | Elections are held on Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The way voting is held is when you vote your acutally "help" chose your states electors other then choosing then person that you want. Also voting for canidates electors to choose them. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a32f7cf93eba | D06FFBFCBCE5 | The electoral college is unfair very outdated and irrational. Many people today preferr that the congress changes they way voting is held other then hoping people vote for the same people you want to be president (Quote) Abloish the electoral college! ~ Bob Dole. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e2c91b254d9f | D0B2235710B6 | I do not have a drives license nor do I have a learners permit. If I did have any of the two I would be against the fact about a self driving car. | Evidence | Ineffective |
e8769e8b106a | D0B2235710B6 | it prohibits new learners from driving the correct way. | Claim | Adequate |
ad1b3881c7c5 | D0B2235710B6 | It may be very expensive to purchase this kind of technology. | Claim | Adequate |
6f097463cc46 | D0B2235710B6 | I am also uncomfortable with the car having cameras everywhere including inside of it | Claim | Adequate |
ff61be2b5736 | D0B2235710B6 | It might make the driver feel strange knowing that they are being watched and the car is invading their privacy. Another reason why I do not like it is hackers could hack the system and cause someone to crash into something and cause the passengers to get seriously injured. Also their could be a time where the car malfuntions and crashes. | Evidence | Adequate |
23eae8bff23f | D0B2235710B6 | I think that if this driverless car idea does not work out he way that Google planned it to be then they would lose lots of money. | Claim | Adequate |
bf8f2b7163ab | D0B2235710B6 | People all over the world may or may not like considering the fact that it is new to the world and it is not normal to have someting drive for them. | Evidence | Adequate |
d743e5a6bdc4 | D0B2235710B6 | I think that this self-driving car is a bad idea becuas it myay be dangerous to people all over the world. | Position | Adequate |
4958535e0958 | D0B46299D094 | This goes out to the senator of florida. I think we need to chang to voteing way. | Lead | Adequate |
f582e9a12032 | D0B46299D094 | We need to change it from the Electoral college to the most popular vote for the president of th Unitd States of America. | Position | Adequate |
0d30cb17e367 | D0B46299D094 | Because whats the point of all of our parents and alot of other adults of voting if we can't even get what we want but no it's all up to the electors and congress, ect. like for real what is the point in voting if it isn't a fair shot. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c93e84653661 | D0B46299D094 | Now that I've read it we don't even vote for the prsident we vote for the slate of electorswho in turn elect the president. Whom are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office. Who picks the electors in the first place? It depnds on the state sometimes state conventions sometimes the stateparty's centeral committee sometimes the presidential candidates themselves. | Evidence | Adequate |
8ce2ca623d67 | D0B46299D094 | Can voters control whom their electors vote for ? Not always. | Claim | Adequate |
25cab4810fb4 | D0B46299D094 | Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong canidate? Sometimes. | Claim | Adequate |
0eeb4efdd253 | D0B46299D094 | At the most basic level the electoral college is unfair to voters. And dont likethat because the what the heck is happening if were not acktually voting for the president and just the electors. Like for real then whats the point of voting if were not getting what we want. When the goverment is all about giveing the people what they want. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
00697b9422e6 | D0DF7AB8B493 | Dear senator Im arguing in favor of keeping the Electoral collage. It has come to my attencion that people want to change it to election by popular vote for the president of U.S. I think that we should keep the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
487faaae2ef2 | D0DF7AB8B493 | because it makes more sense and is easier for you guys to count the votes | Claim | Adequate |
fa2d10268375 | D0DF7AB8B493 | It is more orginized by level of the voting people lie president, vice president ect | Claim | Adequate |
802345003763 | D0DF7AB8B493 | The Electoral vote consists of 538 electors. The most votes that are needed for being elected for president are 270 votes. Each candidate running for president has his own group of electors. The are generally chisen by the candidate political party so is fare. So Im sure that you are going to consider this and read it because some people dont thhink about it. Some dont know how it works and vote for a new one because it sound better but is not.
I just want to make sure people are inform with. That they read this and tthink about it. This is only held every 4 years on the tuesday after the first monday of november. So you might not want to make a big mistake making this decision. People might think that this is not that big of a deal but it is. This very important for the president and the government. This only happens Every 4 year so you got to wait a long time.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
b5730f9d5d1b | D0DF7AB8B493 | I am very imform about this and making a change will only make thinks worse. People are not going to get use to doing another way or they are gonna get confuse with the old one. It going to be a caus if you change it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
291638bd6e8c | D110D1D93270 | Driverless cars are a relatively new concept in the automobile industry, and the benefits they offer could potentially decrease the risk in driving, especially given the inconsistencecy of drivers in today's world. | Lead | Adequate |
a2762f5365c9 | D110D1D93270 | While this is a tempting and seemingly perfect solution to reducing the number of car accidents, I do not support the idea of driverless cars. | Position | Effective |
b32914169c5f | D110D1D93270 | The author states in section four that, "The combination of all of this input is necessary for the driverless car to mimic the skill of a human at the wheel". While humans are not in any way perfect drivers, the natural instincts and reactions of a human behind the wheel are impossible to capture in the form of sensors, robots, or mechanincs of any kind. In situations where unorthodox solutions are needed to remain in control of the car and keep from crashing, veteran drivers have the knowledge and experience to do so. Robots may have programs to react in certain situations, or to move out of the way if an object is coming towards the car at a rapid speed, but not all situations can be programmed. | Evidence | Effective |
244c29da4dca | D110D1D93270 | Robots simply cannot react the same ways humans do, | Claim | Effective |
0d49a9bccc62 | D110D1D93270 | Section eight of the passage focuses on the psychological aspects of driverless cars, and introduces thd idea of laziness and boredom in human nature. Later on, the author states that some manufacturers hope to address this problem by including entertainment in the cars to remedy this boredom. Bringing in car entertainment wuld only further distract the now obsolete human drivers from the road, which in the case of an emergency, could prove fatal to not only the driver, but the passengers in the car as well. The Google car mentioned in section 7 "Announces when the driver should be prepared to take over". If the human did not hear the car announce this, and the car was reverted to the drivers control, the driver might end up in a crash. | Evidence | Effective |
141d6cbc9ffc | D110D1D93270 | If the driverless cars provide more distractions than are at hand in the world today, no matter if a human is driving or not, the human driving the car could end up dead along with the passengers of the car. | Claim | Effective |
0f910b73dfae | D110D1D93270 | If driverless cars do become a reality, human drivers may one day become obsolete.
| Claim | Effective |
608d2ccb0768 | D110D1D93270 | Today's world is focused heavily on transportation and getting from one point to the next. Driverless cars would fufil this requirement, but without the help of human drivers. The more that driverless cars would develop and improve, the less and less amount of humans would know how to drive. While this does not seem like a major problem if driverless cars were a reality, but the malfunctioning of systems would prove to be chaotic. If there was a systemwide problem with driverless cars, all of the vehicles in use, malfuctioning or not, would have to be recalled and fixed, causing mass hysteria. Because of the loss of driving skills, nobody would know how to drive. Humans would be unable to travel places, go to work, or do recreational activities. | Evidence | Effective |
b4a7edc9de07 | D110D1D93270 | Driverless cars may promote many benefits to humans seeking leisure and comfort while driving, but driverless cars could prove to create some very serious safety issues, especially on the busy roads of today's society. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
3d18632c2f3d | D1183F23D2A6 | The Electoral College is stupid and we should not use it. I have many reasons to believe that this is an unfair system that is adulterating our country's wonderful ways.
| Position | Effective |
4ced11473756 | D1183F23D2A6 | The first reason for why I despise this system is because we have had people with more than half of the country voting for them not be elected President. | Claim | Effective |
0ae54667d4fe | D1183F23D2A6 | This is due to winning by just enough in certain states that you get their elector votes. If you win by 51% in a state with 4 electoral votes, but someone else wins by 99% in a state with 3 electoral votes, you will have more electoral votes, but less popular votes. In the system that we are set up with, electoral votes is how you will get elected for President. This happened during the Presidental Election in 2000, when Gore won the popular vote, but Busch won the electoral votes and was elected President. It also happened several times before, most recently in 1888.
| Evidence | Effective |
ed0ba04bce01 | D1183F23D2A6 | With the Electoral College it is more likely that a tie will happen. | Claim | Effective |
522633a52174 | D1183F23D2A6 | This is beacuse there are only 538 electoral votes, which is a lot less than 300 million popular votes, for every U.S. citizen. If there is a tie, then the Senate and House of Representatives has to do all this stupid stuff to figure out who wins.
| Evidence | Adequate |
079954ddf275 | D1183F23D2A6 | In the process of the Electoral College, the voters in the smaller states are given more power than those in the larger states. | Claim | Effective |
bc50ff193a9c | D1183F23D2A6 | Every state gets a minimum of 3 electoral votes, and then more are added depeding on the size of the state's population. WIth 3 votes for a population of 500,000, Wyoming has more votes per citizen than the larger states do. Large states with ten of millions of people may have only a few more votes than Wyoming does, giving it's individual citizens more power in choosing the President.
| Evidence | Effective |
1341e47466ee | D1183F23D2A6 | Because of the Electoral College, Presidential Canidates spend a large portion of their time in "Swing States," like Ohio or Florida, and little or no time to states with predictable outcomes. | Claim | Effective |
57330ee119f8 | D1183F23D2A6 | A swing state is a state that could go either way in the election, so the canidates spend a lot of time convincing it's populants to vote for them, because of the winner-takes-all method. This is unfair to the states with predicted outcomes. | Evidence | Adequate |
a9f142eb63f5 | D1183F23D2A6 | In conclusion, the Electoral College is old, useless, irrational, and hurtful to our country. This is why we should abolish it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bccd608d39f2 | D1200B924E51 | As a student learning more and more about the world we live in I understand that there has been problems deciding weather or not congress should continue to use the electoral college the elect our nationals new or future presidents. I believe that the race for presidency in just a huge game and the electoral college is just a great tool that is used in this game to find a faster way to win. But some people probably don't even know how to use it which is why the problem was arroused. | Lead | Adequate |
4f300db4661c | D1200B924E51 | Taking aways the electoral college is like playing a game that have no obsticles nor opponents to challege you | Claim | Ineffective |
9549ca3fed4c | D1200B924E51 | Nothing in life is fare or cheep and by only using popular votes is to cheat the candidates of the true experience of running for what they want. If you or me were to run for president I'm sure we would want to have the oppertunity to use the electoral college to our advantage. | Evidence | Ineffective |
e7609d38bf8a | D1200B924E51 | I believe the electoral chollege should continue to be used and nothing hsould change about how our stong nation selects our leaders because with change comes new obsticals and with those leeps and jumps comes errors. | Position | Adequate |
ec9d3a170ebc | D1200B924E51 | To change the way something has been done for such a long time would be like asking to distroy something and rebiuld it all the way back from the begining. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ec149d03ce5d | D1200B924E51 | I think that as a nation these problems are nothing to us, Why creat a big problem out of a simpler problem when we can just let it be and work our way arround the problems we face together. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
51a92c2494ad | D145F56FADED | It's come to my attention that more and more people everyday seem to believe that the Face is created by aliens. Unfortunatley,as cool as it would be, it was not. | Lead | Adequate |
cf6391628b9e | D145F56FADED | The face is simply just a natural landform with shadows casting down on it making it look as if it has a face. | Position | Adequate |
97bdf5f64688 | D145F56FADED | Everyone has just been seeing this information in magazines and on T.V. and believeing it is true,but they never seem to believe the truth that it is not a Face created by aliens. This is common for this planet to create natural landforms as well. | Claim | Adequate |
6bf15af5fee1 | D145F56FADED | Most people just believe it is created by aliens because they hear information from thier friends or they see it on T.V. or see it in magazines. | Claim | Adequate |
b7fa91f22abc | D145F56FADED | The truth is most of these things do not even have enough evidence to prove what they are saying. They just believe it is true because it is intresting. They do not even have the proof that aliens exist,and as cool as it may seem, it is just not true. I know some people will come to their senses and realize what they are saying when they say that they believe aliens exist and people just look at them like they are stupid. | Evidence | Ineffective |
77588c96ef24 | D145F56FADED | We have no other evidence as well that aliens exist,which means we pretty much have to believe that it is a natural landfrom,which it is. | Claim | Adequate |
a755cd18dc66 | D145F56FADED | I know most people will stick to thier belief that aliens are real and that they created the Face | Counterclaim | Adequate |
0ac843c7529a | D145F56FADED | ,but they are not real and they didn't. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
36b28e6069ae | D145F56FADED | I know I may make some people upset by stating the facts | Counterclaim | Adequate |
48b4b78d6c2c | D145F56FADED | but Im just telling the truth. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
72003284edd3 | D145F56FADED | Having no other evidence leads us to believe it is just a normal natural landform with shadows. | Evidence | Adequate |
bc6a2febf712 | D145F56FADED | I do not blame those of you that believe it was created by aliens,it sounds cool right? | Counterclaim | Adequate |
7e7ba2261bed | D145F56FADED | But Im sorry to be the bear of bad news, but it is also the truth. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
e82996dbf933 | D145F56FADED | These landforms are common on this planet as well.
| Claim | Adequate |
c3d8178c7517 | D145F56FADED | It is not unusual for these landforms to occur. It is just the certain shape that sees to have cought everyone's attention. | Claim | Adequate |
db10844dfa34 | D145F56FADED | The shape itself is not what created the Face but in fact it was just the shadows that made it look as if it had,had the shape and form of a face as we humans have. This natural landform is known as a mesa,which you may have heard of before. The point is,these types of things happening on this planet is very common. | Evidence | Adequate |
04e78a71bcec | D145F56FADED | I believe myself that it is just a natural landform beacuse I know that we do not have enough evidence to prove that it was anything else. I also believe it is just a natural landform/mesa because I know these things are common on this planet. So don't just going around telling people aliens exist before you get the actual facts. If there were further eveidence leading to make us believe there were aliens it would be fine. We just don't have that extra information or evidence. I hope I finally lead some of you to believe the truth that the Face is just a natural landform. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0c89dfda90f4 | D14F3F93CF54 | We should be aloud to participate in sporting events with a c average | Position | Adequate |
ec6758741cce | D14F3F93CF54 | being in sports helps kids express their feeling and their sprit of accomplishment. | Claim | Adequate |
fa5a0ac6cddc | D14F3F93CF54 | If you would take away sports kids will protest and will never be aloud in sports because they can only get a c average. We wont have a big team in anything because nobody can get a b average except a few kids and that will draw to an end in the school sports programs and then well never be able to play sports. We kids need time to express our selves in sports learn to get better at it and keep on trying to achieve our goals in life. | Evidence | Adequate |
ea910c3081ca | D14F3F93CF54 | By not letting kids play sports they will change school to a school that lets them play sports with a c average. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b23b3a2ca8c1 | D14F3F93CF54 | Parents will argue cause their kid can't play the sport that he or she want to play cause they have a c average | Claim | Adequate |
e95766adff39 | D14F3F93CF54 | I think that kids with a c average or higher could be able to play sports but kids with d or f averages should have to get their grades up and get help if they need help. | Claim | Adequate |
bdf0f015317f | D14F3F93CF54 | When you change the rules kids wont go to this school or their parents will argue with you about the rule change. This is why you shouldn't change the rules at our school to a student need to have a b average or higher to play sports. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0748f50ebbc5 | D1618D180128 | Imagine winning every game basketball game.
But then your star point guard starts flunking tests and his average goes down.
He gets kicked off the team and your team then starts to lose every game.
Well this could be the case if you don't allow students who have a C average to play.
But yet on the other hand, you are also teaching the students a lesson. | Lead | Effective |
78d63024f787 | D1618D180128 | Now in my opinion, i think that teaching the students lessons are more important than being the best team out. | Claim | Effective |
68f9f6f1bf5c | D1618D180128 | Think about this, in college, they give you scholarships for academics and athletics.
But if you play for a team and your grades aren't so well, are they going to keep you on the team?
Probably not.
This is the same as how you should run our school.
We need to prepare for college and by running our school similar to colleges, it will help us to learn how college is ran. | Evidence | Effective |
cdf4e23f0c14 | D1618D180128 | That is the same with activities, you have privileges if you do good.
If you have bad grades, then your privileges, such as participating in activities, will be taken away | Claim | Effective |
19dcdea71cd5 | D1618D180128 | These lessons we learn, will hopefully pay off, such as getting reprimanded for doing something bad.
Do you think someone who is extremely bad, for example someone who is always getting in trouble in school for misbehaving, should be allowed to be rewarded?
Well that is not right because he thinks that he can be bad and do anything he wants and still be rewarded in the end.
He is not being taught anything and it isn't fair.
How would you feel if you were a student who did good in school, got good grades, and tried your hardest while some other student did bad and took the easy way out and was rewarded in the same way? | Evidence | Effective |
d5a46886656c | D1618D180128 | "Education is the key to success!" | Claim | Adequate |
3324f125f3b6 | D1618D180128 | Now do you know who said that?
Our president, Barrack Obama.
What this quote means is that education is what's going to lead us to excel.
So by not allowing students with a C average or lower to participate in sports and activities, there is a lesson being taught. I play sports but yet Part of that lesson is summed up by Obama's quote.
Now based on all this, what's more important- being number one or being educated?
| Evidence | Effective |
a5b2749936ca | D1618D180128 | All in all, I feel that you should put your new policy into action. | Position | Adequate |
86f04c61e991 | D1618D180128 | We need to learn from everything we do.
This is a good way to show us and teach us about the endings that occur from doing good and bad, wrong or right.
I support your policy all the way and i hope to see it take place. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
18580a1c02c7 | D176ABB06812 | "Can you imagine a time in the future when no one buys cars because no one needs them anymore?" This seems to me like a bad idea. | Lead | Ineffective |
a1a27cb186c9 | D176ABB06812 | The driverless car, while having some good qualities, is overwhelmed with bad qualities. | Position | Adequate |
3f8abbe8fc31 | D176ABB06812 | The risk and danger of driving would greatly increase due to the cars being more in control. | Claim | Adequate |
8bcf2bfe1e69 | D176ABB06812 | Not only is this dangerous, but the cost of the vehicle will increase because the product is new and "advanced". | Claim | Adequate |
80f55f746444 | D176ABB06812 | When adding up the time being taken to drive a car rather than take a taxi, the taxi takes a greater amount of time to deal with | Claim | Adequate |
e0f01c2f4e43 | D176ABB06812 | Some of the negative aspects of the driverless car are much greater in numbers than the positive.
| Evidence | Adequate |
0b3637bd4678 | D176ABB06812 | The risk of the driverless car is much greater than the risk of simply driving oneself everywhere. Like taxis, putting your life in someone elses hands is always a greater risk. The driverless taxis just double the chances out wrecks considering that the car still has more kinks than anyone cares to recognize. In the reading, it was stated that the car can brake on it's own. While that could be seen as a convienience, it can also be seen as a danger. The car may brake when it's is not supposed to which could cause a wreck. The driverless cars are still not totally able to navigate through traffic with ease | Evidence | Adequate |
883cc6c6e12d | D176ABB06812 | Having a regular car seems to be the safer option, because the driver is in complete control. | Claim | Adequate |
820cda261fbc | D176ABB06812 | The driverless car is much more costly to manage than a car controlled by the driver. | Claim | Adequate |
fb628323fe5b | D176ABB06812 | The product is new, so the initial cost will be much higher. Also, the technology is supposed to be more convienient and user friendly. These positive aspects always seem to cost more than a regular car. The driverless car will have such a large initial cost, the owner of the car will be owing the company in which he bought it money for a long time. | Evidence | Adequate |
b1c8c6450b3f | D176ABB06812 | It always seems more convienient to take a taxi rather than drive yourself in a big city. | Claim | Adequate |
70b5a6d0a3e3 | D176ABB06812 | In larger cities, taxi services are found everywhere, but in smaller towns the number of taxi's are much smaller. It is unneccisary to take a taxi in smaller town because the traffic is more manageable. The taxi services are only needed for large cities to handle all of the traffic. The new driverless cars are still not managable on their own in high areas of traffic. | Evidence | Adequate |
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