tasksource/argument-feedback · Datasets at Hugging Face

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b0e5c3b140ae	D176ABB06812	The number of cons seems to outweigh the pros. Safety is always a big issue to everyone because it is important that everyone is safe at all times. As the world progresses money seems to be more of an issue. Driverless cars are seemingly too expensive to buy in the first place, let alone the price of gas being a taxi service. The convienience of a taxi is always so pleasant until they are unneccisary, like in smaller areas. Personally, the driverless cars just seem to have too many negative qualities to be worth production.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
fe002a4ccb9b	D1ACADAC5ED4	School is not exactly something everyone looks forward to nowadays. Teenagers are depressed, anxious, and some incredibly sick. It is so difficult to avoid some of the negative things in life when a student is constantly surrounded by peer pressure and bullying. If given the choice, many students would most likely choose to skip school and stay at home.	Lead	Effective
9b9632bd61ab	D1ACADAC5ED4	if a student was given the option to attend classes from home, it would be beneficial.	Position	Adequate
c579c27c02b2	D1ACADAC5ED4	it allows those who get sick to stay caught up	Claim	Adequate
8d4e486fbebb	D1ACADAC5ED4	protects those who get bullied and assaulted in school.	Claim	Adequate
8261d54fe30c	D1ACADAC5ED4	First, online classes by way of video conference are very helpful to those who are sick because they are still able to be taught by a teacher.	Claim	Effective
06ddaf83d3db	D1ACADAC5ED4	Many students come into school even if they are sick. This causes an illness to spread around the entire student body just because one student couldn't miss class. On the other hand, if a student stays home because they are sick, they miss a lot of classwork and aren't able to pay attend the important lessons being taught. One time, I had to stay home because of a stomach bug. I got behind in my classes and was never really able to understand the concepts as well as I could have if I was taught by my teacher like everyone else. I got a very bad grade on the test on these concepts because I was not able to catch up. If I was able to call in to my missed classes, I would have benefited greatly because I could ask questions if I had any, hear the teacher's explanation, and see how the teacher would solve the problem instead of having to figure it all out on my own. On a more serious level, there are some kids who are, unfortunately, terminally ill. They are either physically unable to go to school because of their type of illness or aren't allowed to go out very often because of the risks and dangers they could face. They are more prone to your typical cold and flu, and it is deadlier for them. If they were able to sit in on their classes through a video conference, then they could still feel like they are going to high school like a "normal" teenager. Overall, even if attending classes online was only available to those who are sick, it would still help so many kids.	Evidence	Effective
fa6f2a6d4aec	D1ACADAC5ED4	Video conferences and attending classes online are also beneficial to a different demographic, those who are bullied and assaulted.	Claim	Effective
b104ff0d9c9a	D1ACADAC5ED4	To protect those who fear going to school because they are constantly putting themselves in danger, the school could give them this option of learning from home. There are so many stories of kids getting beat up at school and the school not trying to fix things or not being able to fix things, and this is a way that the schools can help be a part of the solution. There are also numerous stories of students getting sexually assaulted and raped. These students go through every day, trying to avoid those horrible people who did this horrible thing to them, wondering why they have to put in so much work just so this doesn't happen to them again. The book Speak brings a lot of light on this issue. The main character goes through this avoiding process and, in the end, is unable to completely avoid her rapist. She finds it extremely difficult to see him in school, acting as if he hasn't done anything wrong. If she was given the option to do online schooling, I bet she would have done it in a heartbeat. She dreaded going to school every day and this extra option would have been a godsend for her. Sometimes, you have to take things into your own hands, and if that means making the decision to do schooling from home, then you do what you gotta do.	Evidence	Effective
3415c95cd440	D1ACADAC5ED4	Some may say that students and teenagers need a chance to socially interact with others, and school helps provide that.	Counterclaim	Effective
c7ca925c8998	D1ACADAC5ED4	But, everyone has people they interact with outside of school.	Rebuttal	Effective
c7d52bfc5622	D1ACADAC5ED4	Whether it be in the neighborhood or at church, there are many other ways to get your social fix in. Take home-schooled kids, for example. They might be home alone all day trying to get their schoolwork done, but home-schooled students have these groups called co-ops. These co-ops are groups of other students that are home-schooled that come to learn altogether. This helps those who are home-schooled get themselves some time with other students.	Evidence	Effective
d0595d8fc95a	D1ACADAC5ED4	There are many benefits to having another option for students who are sick and kids who get assaulted and bullied. Many of today's societal issues, whether it be new illnesses spreading or more and more students getting hurt and going to school in fear, affect a teenager's school life. The less focused we are on the issues going on outside of school, the more we are able to focus on what could impact our future. School is vital to our future in today's world, and the administration needs to realize that there are things taking away our focus from school. Teenagers are the future of this world, and the past generations need to realize that things are different that they were in their time. Would you want your children to go to school living in fear? Well, they already are.	Concluding Statement	Effective
6ce40c0aae57	D1B97A55865A	I think students should have the opportunity to do community service, but they shouldn't have to do it.	Position	Effective
c09afcbdc929	D1B97A55865A	One reason I think community service shouldn't be required is because some students may play sports or be in a club or group and not have any time between school and their extracurricular activity to work in the community.	Claim	Effective
bf506986830a	D1B97A55865A	if you make community service required many students may spend so much time on their community service they may lose the passion for the sport they enjoy so much.	Claim	Effective
5b540057c7e8	D1B97A55865A	the students that already do community service may do it for fun or they enjoy helping others, but they may not enjoy it if they are forced to do it.	Claim	Effective
0177d4eb626d	D1B97A55865A	Personally i don't enjoy community service but I still do it by helping the elderly by fixing up their porches or building a ramp for them if they are confined to a wheelchair.	Evidence	Adequate
8cf4e08909e0	D1B97A55865A	I also think many people that do community service enjoy being with people and being social or environmentally friendly.	Evidence	Adequate
a0ccff3a95ee	D1B97A55865A	I know I am more of a social person so I like working for people that I can talk to about things they like to do and stuff I do.	Evidence	Adequate
282add290a3a	D1B97A55865A	also if you make people perform community service many students grades may go down because they are focusing on their community service time than their grades.	Claim	Effective
7ec0c2dc6e1a	D1DBC69FA526	Does we are really voting for the elector or someobody else?, sometimes elections can be unfair but	Lead	Adequate
29f66b8d599c	D1DBC69FA526	one of the best methos and the one more easily to understand and fair is by electing the president by popular vote.	Position	Adequate
63989a63ff0d	D1DBC69FA526	To beging with,every state should be treatly the same, have the respect campaings and no one state should have advantage or disadvante at the time of voting	Claim	Adequate
5eac1a3a1437	D1DBC69FA526	because sometimes representatives can give a advantage or a disadvantage and sometimes can give a catasrophic decision, but also more power for bigger sates that represents 35 million voters like california."given that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people".	Evidence	Adequate
e5ebc35086cb	D1DBC69FA526	other example of this can be seen in te elections of 2000,"seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including rhole island and south california,and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad. And this just show how when we have electoral collegue can be a disadvantage for candidates, if they know they are not going to win they don't focus on those states,and some people who want to have more options or listen to other persons they cant because they dont see a campaign to convice them.	Evidence	Adequate
b744e27fca33	D1DBC69FA526	its better to the winner to take all	Claim	Ineffective
c3e23c5790f7	D1DBC69FA526	cause almost half of the population agrred with the candidate thinking and maturity to select whats best to others,but also whe you are voting fot the state elector you cant control their final vote and sometimes you don't choose who you is your state elector and you don't now if he has the best wisenes to decide,if two presidents in popupal vote get close that mean that a lot of people agreed with the same person,but that doesnt happen when we have electoral because its just a minimum number and we dont now if everybody in the state really agreed with the representator.	Evidence	Ineffective
a2f8478e02d7	D1DBC69FA526	To summarize,if we want a fair election and be part of it, listen to others options, have part of the the decision of our president , and be trheated the same and the our vote really counts we should elect by popular vote.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
01680cc67d34	D1FBC3B9A8A4	I think that community service is not a waste of time, because people care about where they live.	Claim	Adequate
e4ac5a221da5	D1FBC3B9A8A4	They want to keep it clean so that when family and relatives come over and visit they might want to stay a little bit longer because parts of the city is so clean. Also, it gives a good reputation to the city. Then big time celebrities would want to stay in the city for a little bit if they have a concert or something like that.	Evidence	Adequate
70cd6a90499d	D1FBC3B9A8A4	Community service is a good idea because it makes you feel better about yourself when you go somewhere and you see that the city is all clean.	Claim	Adequate
4ce1c997133a	D1FBC3B9A8A4	Also if kids do community service then they will also have a good reputation,	Claim	Effective
41077ef41119	D1FBC3B9A8A4	because you will be one of the kids that helped make the city look good.	Evidence	Adequate
41cee67418e0	D1FBC3B9A8A4	Other kids don't want to do community service because they think it is a waste of time.	Counterclaim	Effective
5a0b6e8fe843	D1FBC3B9A8A4	They would rather sit on the couch every day eating potato chips and watching T.V instead of going outside and working and helping your community.	Evidence	Adequate
1b7eaae80922	D1FBC3B9A8A4	Community service can build friendships and help bond with your family and spend time with them more.	Claim	Adequate
3219bfe91893	D1FBC3B9A8A4	But instead of making all the students do community service, you should make it were you give kids do community service for extra credit for some of their classes that their struggling with.	Position	Effective
de38efdaf30b	D1FBC3B9A8A4	That will help them a lot.	Evidence	Ineffective
d38eb4b30983	D1FBC3B9A8A4	But some kids think that it is just a waste of time and they say that they have more important things to do.	Counterclaim	Effective
ee9160027c29	D1FBC3B9A8A4	Also I think that we need to start a community garden.	Claim	Adequate
9acb9cdba4b8	D1FBC3B9A8A4	I think it is a good idea, because everybody can just help out and talk to each other and make new friends. We can grow plants together. And when vegetables and fruit are ready to be picked we can take them home and someone can make a pie	Evidence	Adequate
2dd55d4b42e7	D23F65F4652B	The Face is just a natural landform.	Position	Adequate
acc9affa8956	D23F65F4652B	It happened 25 years ago. You can say its from aliens but it is not an alien! Iv'e seen pictures of Face. From reshearch only robots walked on Mars. Aliens are not even real. There are camras om thoes robots so they would know if they seen anything. Have you ever got a warning that an alien invation was about to occur?	Evidence	Adequate
a8e499711722	D23F65F4652B	I think that some dust and rocks made this shape occur.	Claim	Adequate
2458880773b1	D23F65F4652B	Scientist have thier studies. My question is how did this alien form this pop up form. If u say it was a alien does it live under the dust. I don't think so,because it adventually is going to die. This is nonsense to belive that aliens walked on Mars and formed a type of shape. It is just a natural form.	Evidence	Adequate
f46bead3d9a9	D23F65F4652B	Why do you think this is an alien. One reason they would is because of it's shape. Do you have any evidence to prove to that this is an aliens shape. They probably would say no,because I do not see any antenas. That is a big hint to tell if that was an alien or not. Were's the body all you can see is a face so why assum it's an alien. Perfect good sense would tell you aliens aren't real. It's just a from that was created by natual resources on the planet. Use your research and don't go believing anything crazy. Such,as aliens living on Mars with just a head. I mean use common sense. What do you physically see on an alien. A big head,antena's,body,and wierd looking feet.	Evidence	Ineffective
1b32feba2c1d	D23F65F4652B	This is not an alien people it is just a from that was created by natural resources. So don't go believing nothing foolish that we have aliens roaming different planets. Tust in NASA the greatest of all. Don't believe anyone who isn't and professional lke use. Nor trust a person with fause information,because they will have your mind,and you worried.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
56c880e6b400	D242BBCBEAFB	Some student can take classes at home because they could find a subject of course that like. Learning websites can help them get better at what they do	Lead	Adequate
b7e393809ac7	D242BBCBEAFB	It could benefit	Position	Adequate
c93909f91914	D242BBCBEAFB	they it would seem easier to go on different classes or to take a video to study a subject	Claim	Adequate
cd02d64e8f23	D242BBCBEAFB	For example, taking classes online would give you a head start. Many other schools have students at home take taking these course and have them apply for it. It is like a benefit for them to take some opportunity to get taught about something they have learn or to have a different way of learning it.	Evidence	Adequate
4f82de67a676	D242BBCBEAFB	I will think they would able to do this if they are interested. For example, Home-schooling could that much money.	Claim	Adequate
d1c3fdeda513	D242BBCBEAFB	1. They want to try out some different learning strategies. 2. They can apply online. 3. They can try taking some subjects that they like.	Evidence	Ineffective
be97eaf80b4a	D242BBCBEAFB	In conclusion, it could be able to work for the home-schoolers to also have an education because they did not go to public but have it at home.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
c18daa8b7396	D251CC495A0E	I feel that the way we, the people, vote today is very unfair	Lead	Adequate
792bcae77d11	D251CC495A0E	We should change the voting to popular vote for the president of the United States	Position	Adequate
3472b021a1a3	D251CC495A0E	The majority of people don't care about voting for the next United States prsident because they don't get to chose who will win	Claim	Adequate
ef0a0ca3b35a	D251CC495A0E	The people that get to vote for one's state might not think about what what the remaining others would want	Claim	Ineffective
23c5beb3aa6b	D251CC495A0E	In source one, this section tells the reader what an electoral college is and how it works. Paragraph two sums up what this system is, "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting if the electoral votes by Congress.	Evidence	Adequate
3234fcbcefbf	D251CC495A0E	the people dont get to directly say who they want as president. The people of a state get to vote for who they want, but it is ultimately up to the state electors on who will get the vote from that particular state	Claim	Adequate
9e22de957e73	D251CC495A0E	There could be a ton of people voting for one president, and then there might be less votes for a president who may be even better. Ultimately what this system comes down to is the people don't vote for their next president. They are selecting a name that might not do anything to their country	Evidence	Adequate
35b91cad8073	D251CC495A0E	Source two talks about the electoral college and how the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong	Claim	Adequate
b56e86893888	D251CC495A0E	In paragraph nine, the text says, "... according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore- thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." The electoral college is responsible for picking electors, who can go behind the peoples back and chose the president nobody wanted. This system or process is a total disaster. Paragraph thirteen states, "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing' states.	Evidence	Effective
0d582a9152aa	D251CC495A0E	Paragrapgh twenty-three, "It can be argued that the electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state- Democrates in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California.	Claim	Adequate
da7519cbe77b	D251CC495A0E	If these people were to vote by the system we have now, their vote would have no effect. This leads to the people living in these states to not vote. They don't even pay attention to the campaign anymore. They know that they won't do anything to the votes or who will become president. They couldn't care less	Evidence	Adequate
abd5cbbe4112	D251CC495A0E	We should get rid of the electoral college all together. This system is not working for a lot of people and this is why many people dont care enough to vote anymore. There are people that vote for our state. Why should the people care? If we switched to popular vote, our country might participate in picking who the next president of the United States will be. When people have a voice, they will use it as much as they possibly can.	Concluding Statement	Effective
13b65f87da46	D279FF9C83D7	Are driverless cars the right choice for our future?	Lead	Ineffective
361185351092	D279FF9C83D7	No i believe that they are not the right thing for our future	Position	Adequate
d7ee247f1746	D279FF9C83D7	they seem unsafe	Claim	Adequate
5ac78ac89d1c	D279FF9C83D7	our country is already lazy enough.	Claim	Adequate
30534a5d64eb	D279FF9C83D7	In paragraph nine it states that "our traffis laws for our states are under the assumpiton that the only safe way for a car is to have a human under control", and thats beause our traffic laws are based on human error. So basically if a said law is broken then the human gets the bad end of the deal, but if its a driverless car who will get the blame for a traffic law being broken the company that made it or the owner of the driverless car? Also in paprgraph 7 it basically said the car can drive its self unless if it needs human help and that the driver must always has his or her hands on the wheel. Basically saying we are able to regain control if needed, but what if we couldn't because the car is acting up and then we get injured or get others hurt.	Evidence	Adequate
45976dedd35c	D279FF9C83D7	So what I am trying to say is you never know if its safe.	Claim	Adequate
7da4550131dc	D279FF9C83D7	So think about it. Do you think that driverless cars are right for our future or no?	Concluding Statement	Adequate
378e01372dce	D2D4AD42B2E1	I believe for a student to have a B average should be able to participate in school sports or in other school activities is a reasonable policy.	Position	Effective
0381a3dbbbe7	D2D4AD42B2E1	It is privilege to be able to participate in school sports and activities cause you learn more things that are useful in the future and help you gain physical strength on some levels	Claim	Effective
743c9fd6d3e4	D2D4AD42B2E1	You also should keep this as a school policy because you shouldn't be able to participate if you are either failing a class or struggling to pass that class you need you won't be able to have any ability to do so in school sports and all. The student is just taking the class for nothing if he/she is failing just to be in a sport and that they don't care about their grade. He/she needs to keep a B average to be able to participate for that gain of socializing and gaining special abilities.	Evidence	Effective
34605414e452	D2D4AD42B2E1	As I student myself think that I keep a pretty good grade average and with my other students who are C averages students should also have help keeping a B average. I would love to start a tutoring club to help them, but some students may just be to stubborn to admit they need help then that will lead to the kicking off the team or club.	Evidence	Adequate
6a8baad253c1	D2D4AD42B2E1	So, I think we should urge students to come if they need help or at least want to stay on the team or club.	Claim	Effective
91e5895e425a	D30490AE8641	I'm writing you this letter to inform you on what i think you should do. I know you are trying whether or not if all students should be required to do any community service.	Lead	Adequate
59b7d146970a	D30490AE8641	Community service is good but not all the students would wan' t you to make it a requirement	Position	Adequate
d21a0ee754eb	D30490AE8641	I think that you need to think about the community service.	Claim	Ineffective
98914cd69a69	D30490AE8641	Some of the kids are already doing some community service and they would probably like the help, but what do you think the other kids who don't wan' t to do community service will react to you saying all students now have to do community service. The kids who have to do might try to get their parents to let them drop out of school, because i wouldn't want to do community service.	Evidence	Adequate
f08029a4b6cb	D30490AE8641	If you make the kids do community service the community might get into better shape than it already is	Evidence	Adequate
a4c4af233c86	D30490AE8641	You also have to think that kids wouldn't have enough time to get some of their homework finished or be able to go to their after school activities.	Claim	Adequate
a9b2a74391e1	D30490AE8641	I think that if you make the kids do it they wouldn't, you would have to punish them for not doing the community service so that would just make the students made at you.	Evidence	Adequate
fb9f90aea39a	D30490AE8641	The parents are a very hard subject	Claim	Ineffective
51940b0ec861	D30490AE8641	Some of the parents might like their kids going out and doing some community service instead of being home all of the time, but there are other parents that probably wouldn't like their kids being away from home any longer than being at school.	Evidence	Adequate
6cbaf5135a3d	D30490AE8641	The teachers at school are also a very big subject	Claim	Ineffective
588eab63f1d3	D30490AE8641	They wouldn't be able to give out as much homework so they would intern have to do more work at school. Doing more work at school would also mean the students would be less happy than they already were knowing that they have to come home just for more community service they had to do. There are some teachers that pretty much just give out homework and that would ruin there whole school year curriculum.	Evidence	Ineffective
2bd3cd66856c	D30490AE8641	Truthfully who wants to do more work than they already have to do. In my opinion school work is very hard without knowing you will have to go home knowing that after working all day at school the students just have to go home and work more.	Concluding Statement	Adequate
f0f79af10d8f	D32804D6C269	Twenty-five years ago NASA had found something on thr planet Mars. Many people for twenty-five years have wondered if the "Unmasking the Face on Mars' was really made by aliens and if could be a accient artifact left behind by aliens.	Lead	Adequate
b4ce9666c81d	D32804D6C269	"The Unmasking the Face on Mars" had probably lead lots of people to thinking that their could be a really big chance of aliens being real.	Claim	Adequate
9d3c45e1fbf5	D32804D6C269	Ever since the face on Mars was discoverd lots of people thought that their really could be alien life it could be just a natural piece of landform on the planet Mars.	Evidence	Ineffective
b1bcc8739a3a	D32804D6C269	If you look closley at the 1976 picture its a low quality picture since its from 1976 than twenty-three years later in 1998 it was taken again lots of people who had seen it were not sastisfed it was a winter april in 1998 it was also a cloudy time of year on Mars. Even though the cameras took the picture ten times sharper it had been really cloudy so you could barley see the picture to have real proof if it was created by aliens. Later in 2001 they had gave it a other shot making it the most recent. The 2001 picture had still been some what the same as the 1976 picture	Evidence	Ineffective
9cecd167ccad	D32804D6C269	To me its just a normal natural landform that was created itself by the planet. lots of things on earth look like other things it is just the way the landfrom is created into.	Position	Adequate
8917cef530b5	D34054ADD2FB	The Electoral College is a system which was established to elect the president of the United States of America. In this system, each state receives a group of electors. The number of electors each state is awarded is based on the representation a state has in Congress. The total number of electors per state equals the number of people a state has in the House of Representative plus the two senators a state has. In a state, the electors pledge to vote for the candidate who wins the popular vote	Lead	Adequate
bbe0bd2b2cf4	D34054ADD2FB	This system is simply unneeded in modern times and is unneccesarily complicated. The Electoral College must be abolished.	Position	Effective
8a113f68b887	D34054ADD2FB	the Electoral College should be eradicated because it is simply unreliable	Claim	Effective
e76abf977e6b	D34054ADD2FB	The result of a direct election would be more transparent and would make the citizens of this country certain the election was democratic and just. The issue lies in the fact that voters are technically only voting for electors to cast a vote for a candidate, and not for a candidate themselves. These electors pledge to vote in favor of the candidate who rightly wins the popular vote in a state, but some attempt to be defiant. For instance, according to Bradford Plumer's article, "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Lousiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy" (11). If the Lousiana legislature was successful in their attempt to be defiant, electoral votes would not go to Kennedy despite him winning the popular vote in that state. Another way in which the Electoral College is unreliable is that it allows for a tied vote. There are 538 electoral votes in the system currently in use, meaning it is possible for two candidates to receive 269 votes each. This may seem unlikely, but it is more likely to occur than some might think. For instance, as according to Plumer's aforementioned article, an electoral tie would have occured in 1968 if only 41,971 more votes were for the losing candidate. Additionally, in the 1976 election, if 5,559 voters in the swing state of Ohio, and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had simply voted in favor of the candidate with the minority of the votes, a tie would have occured. In order to resolve a tie, the House of Representatives casts votes to decide the winner of the election. At this point, the impact of each representative is skewed so representatives of states with lower population can more easily decide the state's vote. This happens because each state only votes once, so the few representatives of a small state such as Nebraska can decide who to vote for rather easily, while in California, 55 representatives with different views must colloborate to cast a single vote.	Evidence	Effective

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The number of cons seems to outweigh the pros. Safety is always a big issue to everyone because it is important that everyone is safe at all times. As the world progresses money seems to be more of an issue. Driverless cars are seemingly too expensive to buy in the first place, let alone the price of gas being a taxi service. The convienience of a taxi is always so pleasant until they are unneccisary, like in smaller areas. Personally, the driverless cars just seem to have too many negative qualities to be worth production.

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School is not exactly something everyone looks forward to nowadays. Teenagers are depressed, anxious, and some incredibly sick. It is so difficult to avoid some of the negative things in life when a student is constantly surrounded by peer pressure and bullying. If given the choice, many students would most likely choose to skip school and stay at home.

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if a student was given the option to attend classes from home, it would be beneficial.

Position

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it allows those who get sick to stay caught up

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protects those who get bullied and assaulted in school.

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First, online classes by way of video conference are very helpful to those who are sick because they are still able to be taught by a teacher.

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Many students come into school even if they are sick. This causes an illness to spread around the entire student body just because one student couldn't miss class. On the other hand, if a student stays home because they are sick, they miss a lot of classwork and aren't able to pay attend the important lessons being taught. One time, I had to stay home because of a stomach bug. I got behind in my classes and was never really able to understand the concepts as well as I could have if I was taught by my teacher like everyone else. I got a very bad grade on the test on these concepts because I was not able to catch up. If I was able to call in to my missed classes, I would have benefited greatly because I could ask questions if I had any, hear the teacher's explanation, and see how the teacher would solve the problem instead of having to figure it all out on my own. On a more serious level, there are some kids who are, unfortunately, terminally ill. They are either physically unable to go to school because of their type of illness or aren't allowed to go out very often because of the risks and dangers they could face. They are more prone to your typical cold and flu, and it is deadlier for them. If they were able to sit in on their classes through a video conference, then they could still feel like they are going to high school like a "normal" teenager. Overall, even if attending classes online was only available to those who are sick, it would still help so many kids.

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Video conferences and attending classes online are also beneficial to a different demographic, those who are bullied and assaulted.

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To protect those who fear going to school because they are constantly putting themselves in danger, the school could give them this option of learning from home. There are so many stories of kids getting beat up at school and the school not trying to fix things or not being able to fix things, and this is a way that the schools can help be a part of the solution. There are also numerous stories of students getting sexually assaulted and raped. These students go through every day, trying to avoid those horrible people who did this horrible thing to them, wondering why they have to put in so much work just so this doesn't happen to them again. The book Speak brings a lot of light on this issue. The main character goes through this avoiding process and, in the end, is unable to completely avoid her rapist. She finds it extremely difficult to see him in school, acting as if he hasn't done anything wrong. If she was given the option to do online schooling, I bet she would have done it in a heartbeat. She dreaded going to school every day and this extra option would have been a godsend for her. Sometimes, you have to take things into your own hands, and if that means making the decision to do schooling from home, then you do what you gotta do.

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Some may say that students and teenagers need a chance to socially interact with others, and school helps provide that.

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But, everyone has people they interact with outside of school.

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Whether it be in the neighborhood or at church, there are many other ways to get your social fix in. Take home-schooled kids, for example. They might be home alone all day trying to get their schoolwork done, but home-schooled students have these groups called co-ops. These co-ops are groups of other students that are home-schooled that come to learn altogether. This helps those who are home-schooled get themselves some time with other students.

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There are many benefits to having another option for students who are sick and kids who get assaulted and bullied. Many of today's societal issues, whether it be new illnesses spreading or more and more students getting hurt and going to school in fear, affect a teenager's school life. The less focused we are on the issues going on outside of school, the more we are able to focus on what could impact our future. School is vital to our future in today's world, and the administration needs to realize that there are things taking away our focus from school. Teenagers are the future of this world, and the past generations need to realize that things are different that they were in their time. Would you want your children to go to school living in fear? Well, they already are.

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I think students should have the opportunity to do community service, but they shouldn't have to do it.

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One reason I think community service shouldn't be required is because some students may play sports or be in a club or group and not have any time between school and their extracurricular activity to work in the community.

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if you make community service required many students may spend so much time on their community service they may lose the passion for the sport they enjoy so much.

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the students that already do community service may do it for fun or they enjoy helping others, but they may not enjoy it if they are forced to do it.

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Personally i don't enjoy community service but I still do it by helping the elderly by fixing up their porches or building a ramp for them if they are confined to a wheelchair.

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I also think many people that do community service enjoy being with people and being social or environmentally friendly.

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I know I am more of a social person so I like working for people that I can talk to about things they like to do and stuff I do.

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also if you make people perform community service many students grades may go down because they are focusing on their community service time than their grades.

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Does we are really voting for the elector or someobody else?, sometimes elections can be unfair but

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one of the best methos and the one more easily to understand and fair is by electing the president by popular vote.

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To beging with,every state should be treatly the same, have the respect campaings and no one state should have advantage or disadvante at the time of voting

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because sometimes representatives can give a advantage or a disadvantage and sometimes can give a catasrophic decision, but also more power for bigger sates that represents 35 million voters like california."given that many voters vote one party for president and another for congress, the House's selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people".

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other example of this can be seen in te elections of 2000,"seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including rhole island and south california,and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad. And this just show how when we have electoral collegue can be a disadvantage for candidates, if they know they are not going to win they don't focus on those states,and some people who want to have more options or listen to other persons they cant because they dont see a campaign to convice them.

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its better to the winner to take all

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cause almost half of the population agrred with the candidate thinking and maturity to select whats best to others,but also whe you are voting fot the state elector you cant control their final vote and sometimes you don't choose who you is your state elector and you don't now if he has the best wisenes to decide,if two presidents in popupal vote get close that mean that a lot of people agreed with the same person,but that doesnt happen when we have electoral because its just a minimum number and we dont now if everybody in the state really agreed with the representator.

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To summarize,if we want a fair election and be part of it, listen to others options, have part of the the decision of our president , and be trheated the same and the our vote really counts we should elect by popular vote.

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I think that community service is not a waste of time, because people care about where they live.

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They want to keep it clean so that when family and relatives come over and visit they might want to stay a little bit longer because parts of the city is so clean. Also, it gives a good reputation to the city. Then big time celebrities would want to stay in the city for a little bit if they have a concert or something like that.

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Community service is a good idea because it makes you feel better about yourself when you go somewhere and you see that the city is all clean.

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Also if kids do community service then they will also have a good reputation,

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because you will be one of the kids that helped make the city look good.

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Other kids don't want to do community service because they think it is a waste of time.

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They would rather sit on the couch every day eating potato chips and watching T.V instead of going outside and working and helping your community.

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Community service can build friendships and help bond with your family and spend time with them more.

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But instead of making all the students do community service, you should make it were you give kids do community service for extra credit for some of their classes that their struggling with.

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That will help them a lot.

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But some kids think that it is just a waste of time and they say that they have more important things to do.

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Also I think that we need to start a community garden.

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I think it is a good idea, because everybody can just help out and talk to each other and make new friends. We can grow plants together. And when vegetables and fruit are ready to be picked we can take them home and someone can make a pie

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The Face is just a natural landform.

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It happened 25 years ago. You can say its from aliens but it is not an alien! Iv'e seen pictures of Face. From reshearch only robots walked on Mars. Aliens are not even real. There are camras om thoes robots so they would know if they seen anything. Have you ever got a warning that an alien invation was about to occur?

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I think that some dust and rocks made this shape occur.

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Scientist have thier studies. My question is how did this alien form this pop up form. If u say it was a alien does it live under the dust. I don't think so,because it adventually is going to die. This is nonsense to belive that aliens walked on Mars and formed a type of shape. It is just a natural form.

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Why do you think this is an alien. One reason they would is because of it's shape. Do you have any evidence to prove to that this is an aliens shape. They probably would say no,because I do not see any antenas. That is a big hint to tell if that was an alien or not. Were's the body all you can see is a face so why assum it's an alien. Perfect good sense would tell you aliens aren't real. It's just a from that was created by natual resources on the planet. Use your research and don't go believing anything crazy. Such,as aliens living on Mars with just a head. I mean use common sense. What do you physically see on an alien. A big head,antena's,body,and wierd looking feet.

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This is not an alien people it is just a from that was created by natural resources. So don't go believing nothing foolish that we have aliens roaming different planets. Tust in NASA the greatest of all. Don't believe anyone who isn't and professional lke use. Nor trust a person with fause information,because they will have your mind,and you worried.

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Some student can take classes at home because they could find a subject of course that like. Learning websites can help them get better at what they do

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It could benefit

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they it would seem easier to go on different classes or to take a video to study a subject

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For example, taking classes online would give you a head start. Many other schools have students at home take taking these course and have them apply for it. It is like a benefit for them to take some opportunity to get taught about something they have learn or to have a different way of learning it.

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I will think they would able to do this if they are interested. For example, Home-schooling could that much money.

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1. They want to try out some different learning strategies. 2. They can apply online. 3. They can try taking some subjects that they like.

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In conclusion, it could be able to work for the home-schoolers to also have an education because they did not go to public but have it at home.

Concluding Statement

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I feel that the way we, the people, vote today is very unfair

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We should change the voting to popular vote for the president of the United States

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The majority of people don't care about voting for the next United States prsident because they don't get to chose who will win

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The people that get to vote for one's state might not think about what what the remaining others would want

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In source one, this section tells the reader what an electoral college is and how it works. Paragraph two sums up what this system is, "The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president and vice president, and the counting if the electoral votes by Congress.

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the people dont get to directly say who they want as president. The people of a state get to vote for who they want, but it is ultimately up to the state electors on who will get the vote from that particular state

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There could be a ton of people voting for one president, and then there might be less votes for a president who may be even better. Ultimately what this system comes down to is the people don't vote for their next president. They are selecting a name that might not do anything to their country

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Source two talks about the electoral college and how the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong

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In paragraph nine, the text says, "... according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore- thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- won the popular vote but lost presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." The electoral college is responsible for picking electors, who can go behind the peoples back and chose the president nobody wanted. This system or process is a total disaster. Paragraph thirteen states, "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the 'swing' states.

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Paragrapgh twenty-three, "It can be argued that the electoral college method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state- Democrates in Texas, for example, or Republicans in California.

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If these people were to vote by the system we have now, their vote would have no effect. This leads to the people living in these states to not vote. They don't even pay attention to the campaign anymore. They know that they won't do anything to the votes or who will become president. They couldn't care less

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We should get rid of the electoral college all together. This system is not working for a lot of people and this is why many people dont care enough to vote anymore. There are people that vote for our state. Why should the people care? If we switched to popular vote, our country might participate in picking who the next president of the United States will be. When people have a voice, they will use it as much as they possibly can.

Concluding Statement

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Are driverless cars the right choice for our future?

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No i believe that they are not the right thing for our future

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they seem unsafe

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our country is already lazy enough.

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In paragraph nine it states that "our traffis laws for our states are under the assumpiton that the only safe way for a car is to have a human under control", and thats beause our traffic laws are based on human error. So basically if a said law is broken then the human gets the bad end of the deal, but if its a driverless car who will get the blame for a traffic law being broken the company that made it or the owner of the driverless car? Also in paprgraph 7 it basically said the car can drive its self unless if it needs human help and that the driver must always has his or her hands on the wheel. Basically saying we are able to regain control if needed, but what if we couldn't because the car is acting up and then we get injured or get others hurt.

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So what I am trying to say is you never know if its safe.

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So think about it. Do you think that driverless cars are right for our future or no?

Concluding Statement

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I believe for a student to have a B average should be able to participate in school sports or in other school activities is a reasonable policy.

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It is privilege to be able to participate in school sports and activities cause you learn more things that are useful in the future and help you gain physical strength on some levels

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You also should keep this as a school policy because you shouldn't be able to participate if you are either failing a class or struggling to pass that class you need you won't be able to have any ability to do so in school sports and all. The student is just taking the class for nothing if he/she is failing just to be in a sport and that they don't care about their grade. He/she needs to keep a B average to be able to participate for that gain of socializing and gaining special abilities.

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As I student myself think that I keep a pretty good grade average and with my other students who are C averages students should also have help keeping a B average. I would love to start a tutoring club to help them, but some students may just be to stubborn to admit they need help then that will lead to the kicking off the team or club.

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So, I think we should urge students to come if they need help or at least want to stay on the team or club.

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I'm writing you this letter to inform you on what i think you should do. I know you are trying whether or not if all students should be required to do any community service.

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Community service is good but not all the students would wan' t you to make it a requirement

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I think that you need to think about the community service.

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Some of the kids are already doing some community service and they would probably like the help, but what do you think the other kids who don't wan' t to do community service will react to you saying all students now have to do community service. The kids who have to do might try to get their parents to let them drop out of school, because i wouldn't want to do community service.

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If you make the kids do community service the community might get into better shape than it already is

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You also have to think that kids wouldn't have enough time to get some of their homework finished or be able to go to their after school activities.

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I think that if you make the kids do it they wouldn't, you would have to punish them for not doing the community service so that would just make the students made at you.

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The parents are a very hard subject

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Some of the parents might like their kids going out and doing some community service instead of being home all of the time, but there are other parents that probably wouldn't like their kids being away from home any longer than being at school.

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The teachers at school are also a very big subject

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They wouldn't be able to give out as much homework so they would intern have to do more work at school. Doing more work at school would also mean the students would be less happy than they already were knowing that they have to come home just for more community service they had to do. There are some teachers that pretty much just give out homework and that would ruin there whole school year curriculum.

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Truthfully who wants to do more work than they already have to do. In my opinion school work is very hard without knowing you will have to go home knowing that after working all day at school the students just have to go home and work more.

Concluding Statement

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Twenty-five years ago NASA had found something on thr planet Mars. Many people for twenty-five years have wondered if the "Unmasking the Face on Mars' was really made by aliens and if could be a accient artifact left behind by aliens.

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"The Unmasking the Face on Mars" had probably lead lots of people to thinking that their could be a really big chance of aliens being real.

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Ever since the face on Mars was discoverd lots of people thought that their really could be alien life it could be just a natural piece of landform on the planet Mars.

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If you look closley at the 1976 picture its a low quality picture since its from 1976 than twenty-three years later in 1998 it was taken again lots of people who had seen it were not sastisfed it was a winter april in 1998 it was also a cloudy time of year on Mars. Even though the cameras took the picture ten times sharper it had been really cloudy so you could barley see the picture to have real proof if it was created by aliens. Later in 2001 they had gave it a other shot making it the most recent. The 2001 picture had still been some what the same as the 1976 picture

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To me its just a normal natural landform that was created itself by the planet. lots of things on earth look like other things it is just the way the landfrom is created into.

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The Electoral College is a system which was established to elect the president of the United States of America. In this system, each state receives a group of electors. The number of electors each state is awarded is based on the representation a state has in Congress. The total number of electors per state equals the number of people a state has in the House of Representative plus the two senators a state has. In a state, the electors pledge to vote for the candidate who wins the popular vote

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This system is simply unneeded in modern times and is unneccesarily complicated. The Electoral College must be abolished.

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the Electoral College should be eradicated because it is simply unreliable

Claim

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The result of a direct election would be more transparent and would make the citizens of this country certain the election was democratic and just. The issue lies in the fact that voters are technically only voting for electors to cast a vote for a candidate, and not for a candidate themselves. These electors pledge to vote in favor of the candidate who rightly wins the popular vote in a state, but some attempt to be defiant. For instance, according to Bradford Plumer's article, "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Lousiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy" (11). If the Lousiana legislature was successful in their attempt to be defiant, electoral votes would not go to Kennedy despite him winning the popular vote in that state. Another way in which the Electoral College is unreliable is that it allows for a tied vote. There are 538 electoral votes in the system currently in use, meaning it is possible for two candidates to receive 269 votes each. This may seem unlikely, but it is more likely to occur than some might think. For instance, as according to Plumer's aforementioned article, an electoral tie would have occured in 1968 if only 41,971 more votes were for the losing candidate. Additionally, in the 1976 election, if 5,559 voters in the swing state of Ohio, and 3,687 voters in Hawaii had simply voted in favor of the candidate with the minority of the votes, a tie would have occured. In order to resolve a tie, the House of Representatives casts votes to decide the winner of the election. At this point, the impact of each representative is skewed so representatives of states with lower population can more easily decide the state's vote. This happens because each state only votes once, so the few representatives of a small state such as Nebraska can decide who to vote for rather easily, while in California, 55 representatives with different views must colloborate to cast a single vote.

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