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caad75a0c771 | D8F3209E84CF | driverless cars are not looking too good for the future.
| Position | Adequate |
db9d9ddf9910 | D8F3209E84CF | The article mentioned "many futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday wasn't so much smarter cars as smarter roads." | Evidence | Adequate |
7a9890b7893b | D8F3209E84CF | What that piece is stating is in order to have smart cars or driverless cars the U.S will require "massive upgrades," hence the mention of smart roads. | Claim | Effective |
0601ee04be52 | D8F3209E84CF | The roads will need to have built in radio signals to send messages, in binary code, to the car, to alert the car of road conditions or any problems. In response to knowing this the author states that this was "simply too expensive to be pratical." So now that smart roads are out of the question, it is up to technology to teach the car human skills.
| Evidence | Effective |
bfdd3d83dd32 | D8F3209E84CF | Technology is being used to help the cars "mimic the skill of a human at the wheel," as the article states. It has the proper sensors, but sensors alone could not possibly be enough. According to the article the cars are designed to notify the driver when the road requires human skills. Everything about driving a car on the road is a human skill, not to mention technology is known to have loop holes and gaps hidden throughout it. Statistics most likely shows that there are many ways to hack into the technology and change how a company programs their product to work. | Evidence | Adequate |
b2cb6d5082cd | D8F3209E84CF | If it is not being hacked into, technology and the internet is also known to malfunction often, which could lead to innumerable amounts of incidents.
| Claim | Effective |
5680b7d29e2a | D8F3209E84CF | Another concern with driverless cars is invasion of privacy | Claim | Effective |
36797dd45c4b | D8F3209E84CF | . The article mentions that while the driver watches the road, the car will be watching the driver. An issue with that would be that if the footage gets out and private information is shown in the footage will the company be held responsible. This could cause issues as identity theft and more to rise. Wanting to be sure that drivers are focusing on the road is one thing, but if it causes a stir with privacy that could potentionally be bad for the car companies and the people in charge. | Evidence | Adequate |
d1c47aa5c15d | D8F3209E84CF | My position of driverless cars is no technology could drive a car better than humans. | Claim | Effective |
be6022cb772f | D8F3209E84CF | Driving is a human activity, it started with humans and should end the same way. | Evidence | Adequate |
aa0d959213a1 | D8F3209E84CF | I do agree the world would use less gas, | Counterclaim | Effective |
0738ef141be7 | D8F3209E84CF | but I don't believe it is quite as safe as it seems. | Rebuttal | Effective |
80520116d06c | D8F3209E84CF | There are countries and people who are already in debt, we should be trying to help them out before we try to spend billions on smart roads. We also can not just rely on technology to keep us safe, there are already an aboundant amount of technology malfunctions going on, adding this to the equation would not help. Lastly, one that will probably have more of a concern with everyone would be privacy, I do not believe most people would feel safe knowing they are being watched as they are driving, and knowing that fact could even possibly make them unfocused. Driverless cars was a good idea, but I personally do not believe that anyone is ready for them. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
305543b2b10d | D8F89BE1861C | Helping in community service is way to encourage students to help out a lot more and keep students out of trouble. | Position | Adequate |
86f285374f55 | D8F89BE1861C | Doing community service shows that kids actually do care about their town and the environment they live in. | Claim | Effective |
ee07739a7456 | D8F89BE1861C | For example if you live by a beach, and there is a lot of garbage, and no one helps pick it up, it can kill the poor harmless animals that might think its food. But if you have all the students help by doing community service it will all get cleaned and we can make sure there are no pieces left behind. | Evidence | Effective |
e98f7866e986 | D8F89BE1861C | If you have all the kids help, maybe we can have an ice-cream day to repay us for all the hard work, so that everyone gets something good out of volunteering to community service. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9b013a31b9f9 | D8F89BE1861C | I myself do not like to clean anything, but i think community service would be a really good thing for some kids | Claim | Adequate |
035ba85b279e | D8F89BE1861C | And it's not only cleaning trash off the ground but also helping at the elderly home or tutoring kids at an elementary school, like reading books, or help planting trees around their school grounds | Evidence | Effective |
0eb44bc1eeea | D8F89BE1861C | There is a wide variety of things to do. | Claim | Adequate |
a0bf05e01c4d | D8F89BE1861C | If you don't want to make all the kids in the school do community service, then i think you should put up a sign up sheet for students who want to so they can sign up, and have a day or two every week were they leave school for a couple hours to go do some community service with some teachers that volunteers also.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
cc562721fcd4 | D8F89BE1861C | i think kids that get into fights or start trouble with teachers or their peers, should have to go without a doubt so they can learn a few things about being a bully. | Evidence | Adequate |
c39803c278b7 | D8F89BE1861C | Volunteering in community service is a great way to keep students out of trouble. | Claim | Effective |
4aaf1ab8a5fa | D8F89BE1861C | Volunteering in community service looks really good on a record, and usually when you apply for a job there is a section that ask for volunteer work, so it could also help some kids get better jobs. | Claim | Effective |
43b2eb2f88a0 | D91B2369C76D | I would like to say that doing community service is a good thing, but i do not think you should require the whole school to do it. | Position | Adequate |
eac3b9106647 | D91B2369C76D | Reason are that because some student may not have time to do it student may plan out of town trips with family, | Claim | Adequate |
73ba9e5caeeb | D91B2369C76D | I believe that you should let students have a choice in what they do. Some students may not have rides to go to the community service areas. If you really want us you to do community services you should make a club in the school and those student who joins are really going to be the ones that commits to helping the community. | Evidence | Adequate |
da36607b0056 | D91B2369C76D | Reasons why i think you shouldn't require community service because some of us really just want to sleep in the mornings and hang out with friends in the evening we really don't get that in school | Claim | Ineffective |
81875523b40c | D91B2369C76D | We should not be punished because we don't have the time to help the community. Most student would like too help the community you should look out for those types and ask them and not require the whole school that would be a little too much for some students. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c37bfb459acd | D91B2369C76D | In conclusion i believe that you as the principle should hold a school wide meeting discussing about helping the community and making a community service club and those that want to join are the one that will do the community service | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
040a80af34f2 | D93BADC352CF | Many kids all over the country talk on cell phones. We use them to communicate with one another. We also use cell phones for emergencies. For example if are out with your friends and you need to talk with one of your parents what do u do? You call them or text them. | Lead | Adequate |
1b95b7ebafa0 | D93BADC352CF | All though you can use them for urgent cares | Counterclaim | Adequate |
ea3b686eefae | D93BADC352CF | students at school and adults at work can get distracted bye a cell phone. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
a656e690729b | D93BADC352CF | Policy one states, students are allowed to bring cell phones to school and only use them during lunch and passing period but phones have to be turned off during class time. Policy two states, students are not allowed to have cell phones at all | Evidence | Ineffective |
26bfaaf61e31 | D93BADC352CF | Policy two is a better choice | Position | Adequate |
7f467f29dfb0 | D93BADC352CF | because have a cell phone can be extremely distracting to students and maybe even teachers. | Claim | Adequate |
2451dbfbeb12 | D93BADC352CF | School is a department of education to learn new things and life long skills. | Evidence | Adequate |
9a6887cd9fb2 | D93BADC352CF | Students also might get hurt texting on a phone | Claim | Adequate |
924395285699 | D93BADC352CF | they will be to busy to pay attention to a flight of stairs two steps away. | Evidence | Adequate |
a57becfb527b | D93BADC352CF | If you decide policy one you might have complaints about cell phones ringing during the middle of class | Claim | Adequate |
d0d59e8efca0 | D93BADC352CF | which does not just alarm the owner but also the rest of the class. | Evidence | Adequate |
d09970e13bdd | D93BADC352CF | By picking policy two you have eliminated the disruption for students and have made it easer for students to learn as much as possible. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e4b8b8134c22 | D9436DDEB3C4 | I believe that we should change the system to "election by popular vote". If we were to change the way we elect our president im sure citizens would be more pleased with the over all outcome. People vote on who they think is best fit to represent them and give them the best over all outcome. | Lead | Adequate |
3f9c40622f69 | D9436DDEB3C4 | When using the "electoral college" you are not voting for the president but you are voting for a state of electors. | Claim | Effective |
1a8402aec4e3 | D9436DDEB3C4 | It would be easier to simply allow presidents to get the popular vote in order to make the election more fair all around. The "electoral college" is unfair to voters because of the winner-take-all system. | Claim | Effective |
01664bab968a | D9436DDEB3C4 | It is time to change our voting methods because the "electoral college" system is outdated, irrational, and unfair to citizens | Position | Effective |
54d119d72c75 | D9436DDEB3C4 | When people place their vote they belive they are putting in a vote for the president they choose, not for a slate of electors. | Claim | Effective |
c951d34b0833 | D9436DDEB3C4 | The "electoral college" is a very non-democratic way of selecting your president. In a way the government is deceiving their citizens by the way our voting method is set up. When people vote they feel a sense of independence because they are allowed to choose who they would like to represent them in congress. But instead once they place their vote it goes to electors rather than a simple vote towards the one they selected. If you were to change the way people's votes were counted it would be easier and faster to elect a president and get him into office to fix world-wide problems. | Evidence | Adequate |
5eecf2744d26 | D9436DDEB3C4 |
In all three articles at least one section has made it clear on their opinion to abolish the electoral college. Figures such as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have agreed on abolishing the electoral college | Evidence | Adequate |
bc8b91b4720f | D9436DDEB3C4 | When voting for president you are voting for a slate of electors, but do we even know who these supposed electors are! Are votes are being manipulated and we are not even aware of who is doing it. | Claim | Effective |
cbc398575466 | D9436DDEB3C4 | If we can not vote for are president without going through electors we should be able to vote for the electors who are voting for are president. It is only fair that we have some say in everything that is going on. When votes are being placed we should be informed of all that is going on. | Evidence | Adequate |
5497d0958dc1 | D9436DDEB3C4 | If you were to vote for your favorite tv show but your vote had to go through twenty different people all with different opinions you would be frustrated. Now imagine that scenario but with something extremely more significant than a televison show, the president. You are trusting possibly the next four years of your life with strangers in which you have never heard of before. It would only be fair if we could simply change the system to popular vote rather than electoral college. | Evidence | Adequate |
efa4aac6ef9d | D9436DDEB3C4 | If you switch to popular vote more people would be more likely to vote because they could have more confidence about their vote. | Claim | Adequate |
5cd763a9313b | D9436DDEB3C4 | They would feel free to make their own decision and trust it would not be tampered with by a stranger. People deserve a fair vote and with the popular vote that is what you are giving them. Because every living being deserves equality. Changing the system would not only be helpful for citizens but helpful for the congress. | Evidence | Adequate |
3bdb045ef37a | D9436DDEB3C4 | Instead of having random members of congress choose the president they can work on serious issues around the world. | Claim | Adequate |
4e9bf69c6f16 | D9436DDEB3C4 | They can stop worrying about foolishness and do their jobs. | Evidence | Ineffective |
969bf5ba5586 | D9436DDEB3C4 | In conclusion changing the way people vote is easier for everybody. It saves time for electors and it gives people a chance to see who they are really voting for. Presidents would have to go to each state and appeal to them in order to get a vote. I belive that is what we need. They would be required to actually work for a position in office rather than speaking on whjat they are going to do and paying someone else to elect them. We should have faith in our president and know who we are voting for before we cast our vote. This system seems more fair and more modern to the twenty first century. This is a system most Americans would agree with. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
172f97b897f7 | D962FD67FF4C | Some people think aliens are not real and some people think aliens are real. The Face on Mars changed after different amount of years. We don't know how it changed and we probably will never know. | Position | Ineffective |
0ce575a65beb | D962FD67FF4C | When the camera took the picture, the shadow of either the camera, or something else, made the Face look like a face. The shadow make the rock look like it has eyes, nose, and a mouth.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
3103af419d09 | D962FD67FF4C | No one knows how the face changes, maybe it's aliens, maybe it's natrual to change, maybe it's getting older. | Claim | Ineffective |
a3a5d3f71809 | D962FD67FF4C | But every famous attractions change. So the rock could be a natural landform. We don't know why it changes. It's a mystery. | Evidence | Adequate |
68f374ec212b | D962FD67FF4C | If aliens were real, then people would think aliens made everything in space and will come to earth to attack and kill us. Aliens are just a myth. People just belive evrything, and/or watch too much TV shows about aliens. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a5095ca48b54 | D962FD67FF4C | Aliens are not real ans the Face is just a natural landform. The Face just changes overtime. Maybe the Face looks like a face now. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bfe589a4116b | D972C6918584 | Tick tock what is that noise, that is the sound of the clocks going off to switch classes and the time for all cell phones to start going off. | Lead | Adequate |
201c99efa892 | D972C6918584 | I believe that all cell phones should be aloud at school for many reasons, | Position | Adequate |
ce48efb97f1d | D972C6918584 | what if someone had an emergency out of the classroom or in the bathroom | Claim | Adequate |
ee1ab861ec7b | D972C6918584 | you would obviously need a phone or something for them to call for help | Evidence | Adequate |
4c0752d54b84 | D972C6918584 | some students might go home with friends or go home by themselves, | Evidence | Adequate |
103e163a2fc3 | D972C6918584 | all parents need to get in touch with their children to make sure they made it home safe! | Claim | Adequate |
81c68ae0b97b | D972C6918584 | Students get there phones taking up so much during school because they either get a phone call or a text message during class because they forget to turn their phones off or they just leave them on vibrate and that is not allowed. | Evidence | Adequate |
3bf25f7eda4b | D972C6918584 | I think if they made a phone policy to use them only for emergency's or specific purposes then we would probably not have as big of problems as we have been having. | Claim | Adequate |
a14fdd9583a5 | D972C6918584 | I agree with policy 1 that they should allow students to bring phones to school and use them during lunch periods and other free times, as long as their turned off during class time | Claim | Adequate |
a73f5c7ac061 | D972C6918584 | I think if every student in middle school wrote a paper to a principal saying they would only use their cell phone's for emergency's only then I believe that they might would allow them to stay on and stay with them at school. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d63c7d945a13 | D972C6918584 | I hope that each principal at each middle school will get this letter and look back and think that if each student listens to this and follows these proper directions and don't use there phones during class then they might make this a rule to have cell phone's back! | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
22f6419d5d55 | D97A2C636D38 | When you think of the USA the first word that you think of is freedom or a word along those terms. I would have to agree with you we are a very free and fair country for...most things like voting | Lead | Adequate |
87229e9db31e | D97A2C636D38 | I would have to say that the Electoral Collage is the one unfair thing we have and their are many reasons why we should replace the Electoral Collage with popular vote.
| Position | Adequate |
b7e4786bd4fd | D97A2C636D38 | The Electoral Collage is when voting for the president, instead of dierectly voting you have electors represnt your state during elections. The Electoral Collage is made up of 538 electors, you have one elector for every member of the Congressional deleagtion and House of Representives plus two for the Sentors this is per state then they all come together to represnt during the election of the president. This is how the Electoral Collage is set up | Evidence | Adequate |
2d4a0ba8affb | D97A2C636D38 | it all seems fair but you, yourself arent having a fair chance to vote for who you want as the president, its like haveing someone make your dessions for you its just unfair. | Claim | Adequate |
447691c0168c | D97A2C636D38 | The Electoral Collage is set up so the electors vote for who they want to win surely one of your electors will vote for who you want but its not enough you basically have no voice during elections. Bradford Plumers The Indefsible Electoral Collage he says "At the most basic level, the electoral collage is unfair to voters, because of the winner take all system in each state" he then says " The candidates only spend time in the swing states where they know they have a chance of winning"; he is pointing out that those who are running for president spend a mojortity of their time in the states where they can get the most amount of votes for example they might campain to Florida or Washington DC but not even go to a state like Wyoming or Idoh.
| Evidence | Adequate |
3a6b995c68b2 | D97A2C636D38 | I think we should have the popular vote because it goves everyone a chance to vote for the president, they can voice their opions out loud and have a chance at seeing who they want in office. | Claim | Adequate |
5d40ddfb7b16 | D97A2C636D38 | Another reason the Electoral Collage is unfair is because the electors might all be Republican or all Democrat but we as voters dont get a chance to pick what party we stand for, with popular vote you have a chance to say who you want and what party you represent weather its Republican, Democrat or Induvial you at least get the chance and even though its only a 25 percent chance who you vote for is going to win at least its still a chance. | Evidence | Adequate |
c88c26ddae17 | D97A2C636D38 | Popular vote has its many advantges but one of the best is you can "get to know" who your voting for the canidates can come to your state and make speechs, have posters something to tell you what they are planning on doing if they get elected, this gives every state a fair chance to see who they are voting for. And yes they might spend a longer time in New york then Ohio but at least their spending time and educating the people on what they want to do and why the people should vote for them. | Evidence | Adequate |
ed8f83304437 | D97A2C636D38 | In Richard A Posners In Defense of the Electoral Collage he states that the Electoral Collage is good because of the " swing states" wich he then says " The voters in toss-up states are more likely to be the most thoughtful voters because they know they are going to decide the election" in saying this he means that people who live in swing states will be more careful and more thought out on who they want to vote for. | Counterclaim | Effective |
ec4971df6ba5 | D97A2C636D38 | Yes this might be true but what about all the non swing states like for example Texas they could have been careful while voting but Florida was not, then you have Ohio and New Mexico who could have been careful to but compared to Florida their votes get lost even though they were more careful and thoughtout. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
b639694768df | D97A2C636D38 | So as you can see popular vote is more fair and also a smarter method of things it gives the peoplle a fair chance to vote for who they want while also allowing them to voice thier thoughts. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d8f29bc4f9cd | D9900BD19D55 | I bet your wondering what a Electoral college is in your head ,
well an Electoral college is not somewhere you go to like a regular college but its a process ,
they established it in constitution as a compromise.
Its where they vote for presidents and vice president including the electoral votes by congress ,
Electoral college consists 538 electors and the majority of 270 electoral votes to elect the president
| Lead | Ineffective |
44cd45810feb | D9900BD19D55 | To begin with, every candidate is running for President for your state ,and each of them has their own electors .
After every four years presidential election is held on tuesday after the first monday ,
the fun part is that most states gets a "winner-take-all" system that awards all the electors to the winning presidential candidate ,
also your governer prepares a "Certificate of Ascertainment"
listing all the wonderful candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors .
This year most voters are expecting another close election in the population vote which winners could again lose the presidency.
Under electoral college system some voters don't vote for presidents but vote for a state of electors , if you lived in texas for an example and wanted to vote for someone named John kerry you would vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry .
For the winner-take-all method of the award electoral votes induces the candidates just like in 2012 election .Obama won the vote and got 29 electoral votes ,a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in the campaign
Nixton in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had a 43 pecent plurality of popular votes | Evidence | Ineffective |
56aa61eccf15 | D9900BD19D55 | But hopefully you learned about the Electoral College and what it really is ,and what the electors have to go through to be president. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
20b0921b5e79 | D9B5F55E6705 | To keep the Electoral College, or to switch to election by popular vote for the President of the United States, | Lead | Adequate |
7c5a73919199 | D9B5F55E6705 | anyone can see the right answer is to keep the Electoral College, despite it not being the most democratic choice around. | Position | Adequate |
b5d832d73f16 | D9B5F55E6705 | Many see it as being a waste of time, seeing as how they truly can't vote for the President they want. Yet most still can't see that the Electoral College is not the most easiest thing to get rid of. It has been with them ever since their Founding Fathers established it along with the Constitution. | Evidence | Adequate |
623958f10f02 | D9B5F55E6705 | Keeping the Electoral Colllege is best for the US, even if it isn't that fair to the people. | Claim | Adequate |
a644452105d6 | D9B5F55E6705 | But first, what is the Electoral College anyways? Well, the Electoral College is not an actual college, its actually a process. The Founding Fathers made it as "a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress, and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens", as stated in paragraph one of the article, lines 3-6. A somewhat tedious task to get voted for a whole entire country, but it gets the job done. | Evidence | Adequate |
7f94e8f614fd | D9B5F55E6705 | The Electoral College system has been reported as "unfair, outdated, and irrational." | Claim | Adequate |
1c09e920ecc9 | D9B5F55E6705 | Most of what that statement does say is true, it is pretty unfair to the people who want to vote for their president, it's extremely outdated and needs an update fast, and its pretty irrational at times. | Evidence | Adequate |
681f9a3b20d2 | D9B5F55E6705 | Yet does that mean it can be bad? No, not really. As stated in paragraph 16, lines 1-3; "Each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)". | Counterclaim | Adequate |
43c75623da58 | D9B5F55E6705 | The statment means that basically each slate chooses some electors that go with the popular vote, and they are shipped off to go and submit the votes and the electoral votes, where the task they are given is rarely betrayed, or not done. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
174e56ab3669 | D9B5F55E6705 | Yet, the word 'rarely' still sticks, and not many can just simply deny that it is not there. The rest of the statment in paragraph 16 continues onto lines 4-6, "[;however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote." So in simple terms, you can get the electoral vote which can put you ahead, but you won't win with just that under your belt. The people still matter, and their vote can still count against you. | Counterclaim | Effective |
33805601e93f | D9B5F55E6705 | "Why should we keep the Electoral College." There are easily 5 reasons for retaining it. The 5 reason why we should keep it, are as follows:
1)Certainty of Outcome; certainty of outcome basically states that anything can happen, but anything bad won't neccesarily always happen. | Claim | Adequate |
ca8aaede3e2a | D9B5F55E6705 | Let's take paragraph 18 for example, which talks about this reason. It states in lines 16-19, "A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes-538- is an even number, but is highly unlikely..." Anything can happen, even a tie. | Evidence | Adequate |
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