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ecefbbed176f | E0CD80A39381 | The Electoral College is also not fair because if there is a tie, then the vote goes to the House of Representatives. | Claim | Adequate |
3beb79ab6b4f | E0CD80A39381 | The House of Representatives' "selection can hardly be expected to reflect the will of the people" (Plumer). The majority of the House of Representatives is Republicans, so the president elected will be reflected by that, and it will not give the Democrats equal representation. All in all, popular vote should be used to determine the President because it is a more fair and an equal way to do so. | Evidence | Adequate |
d9a3997e1f0f | E0CD80A39381 |
Equally important, popular vote should be used to elect the President because then candidates and voters will pay attention to the campaign. With the Electoral College candidates only spend time trying to win the votes of the "swing states." | Claim | Effective |
c58eb2967b3c | E0CD80A39381 | They will not pay attention to the states that they already know have their vote. In fact, in the 2000 campaign, there were seventeen states that the candidates never visited. Two of those are Rhode Island and South Carolina (Plumer). Every state should be able to see the candidates so the voters get to really know who they are voting for, so they will make a better decision. | Evidence | Effective |
080a3143a78e | E0CD80A39381 | Also, with the Electoral College people in states that know their vote will not matter will not pay attention to the campaign. | Claim | Adequate |
9ab925a3b163 | E0CD80A39381 | A person such as, a "Republican in California... have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote" (Posner). Everyones opinion should matter and should be taken into account when electing the President. | Evidence | Adequate |
f909df790d54 | E0CD80A39381 | To summarize, popular vote is the only way to ensure that the voters get all the knowledge they need to elect the President, and so that everyone's vote matters. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
b944334fb234 | E0ED571AED2A | I am aware that you are aware that some kids from our school are debating wether to do community service or not. I would highly encourage you to help these boys see the benefit in doing this. I know for a fact that I am doing this to better our community and our school. | Lead | Adequate |
4fd761f4aea2 | E0ED571AED2A | I don't recommend that you should require kids to do this I'm just saying that you should get kids who want to help, come and help. | Position | Adequate |
2c65875536f2 | E0ED571AED2A | I believe that kids in 7th to 12th grade should learn how to do service | Evidence | Ineffective |
9f7da74ef5f5 | E0ED571AED2A | When people hear the words Community Service I believe that they think of being in trouble (some times it is getting in trouble). | Evidence | Adequate |
6c0794234328 | E0ED571AED2A | l think that by doing a good service to the community will be good to our school, especially friends, and families that help serve in the community. | Claim | Adequate |
953a3d15c6f9 | E0ED571AED2A | I believe that the people who work in the police department and as the fire squad should have a day off once every two months so that kids that are my age can help out too. I would advise you to help kids get in the act in helping, there's kids out there that know how to help but they just refuse to help. | Evidence | Adequate |
5f85dd3c1df4 | E0ED571AED2A | lf you know what I'm saying then you should help me get friends to do this with me and hopefully some of the people in my ward. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5d8bf831ba1a | E0FAD617D3BF | The electoral college must go down | Lead | Adequate |
8db5d88389e7 | E0FAD617D3BF | The electoral college is unfair to voters across the United States and the amounts of electoral votes doesn't compare to the actual population | Claim | Effective |
6c4ed8727e22 | E0FAD617D3BF | The electoral college have messed up the voting system causing horrific crisis in the United States. | Claim | Effective |
0c20b181a450 | E0FAD617D3BF | This system of electoral colleges voting for the president and not actually counting the votes that the people in the United States vote for, which makes it a very outdated system | Claim | Effective |
1fdabc787f09 | E0FAD617D3BF | Using popular vote is more precise and accurate than the electoral college. Popular vote is voted by citizens in which many people not including me should change the electoral system for the popular vote system. | Evidence | Adequate |
c65c058cee98 | E0FAD617D3BF | the electoral college must go down and replaced by a system called the popular vote to determine the president of this great country. | Position | Effective |
111bbce0781e | E0FAD617D3BF | Having electoral voters instead of having the popular vote system is unfair to all. Basically the electoral college process consists of only a selection of the senators. The founding father have established this messed up system in which it compromise between the election of the president by a vote in congress. It is highly unfair because of the winner-take-all system in each state. | Claim | Effective |
ca0ba5d246b8 | E0FAD617D3BF | This means canidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. For example, they only focus on the "swing states" like California. Using the winner-take-all system, smaller states don't get the same oppurtunity as bigger states as in the year of the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see any canidates at all including, Rhode Island and South Carolina which holds the largest media markets. Yet these states didn't get to see a single campaign ad in the designated area. | Evidence | Effective |
c1024a3af3af | E0FAD617D3BF | Not only that using this system is unfair to all, but this system of electoral votes don't compare to the population | Claim | Effective |
57a4bea06e6e | E0FAD617D3BF | Meaning the 500,000 voters in a state of Wyoming who wants the other president to win, only have one representative to cast that vote in that whole state of that immense population. While California in the other hand have 55 representatives to cast the votes, in which the represent 35 million voters in that state. Using popular vote, is much more of a precise method or sytem to use. Instead of having one representative from one small state of 500,000 people, the popular votes turned in by qualified citizens will count than just 55 representatives. Imagine having each and everyone's vote count instead of having someone to do it for you. Now that is when people should start voting | Evidence | Effective |
02523d6d3c19 | E0FAD617D3BF | Using the popular vote will indeed avoid many crisis that happened using the electoral system | Claim | Effective |
b394b09a5a3f | E0FAD617D3BF | For example, the election that almost turned into complete disaster in the year of 1960 when Vice President Richard Nixon, who was presiding over the senate, validated only his opponent electors, but he made sure to do so "without establishing a precedent". This couldv'e been easily fixed if the government at this time would take off the electoral system college and instead use a precise system that many people want, named the popular vote. Popular vote is basically when the people have "the voice" and speak for themselves and not to another person | Evidence | Effective |
a71fbd738742 | E0FAD617D3BF | Another example would be in the year 2000 when U.S. presidential race, Al Gorereceived more individual votes that George W. Bush nation wide, but Bush wonthe election, receiving 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266. With popular vote, Al Gore wouldv'e won the presidency and the citezens of the United States would've gotten what they wanted instead of having people vote for them. This is why population vote should be in effect as soon as possible. | Evidence | Effective |
19dffd5bb497 | E0FAD617D3BF | Using popular vote would be a great and ideal way to decide who is the president during the nationwide election | Claim | Adequate |
40399887a9e7 | E0FAD617D3BF | It should be important to many people as we the people of the United States decide who will take over the countries' responsibility and economy | Evidence | Adequate |
43615c243a76 | E0FAD617D3BF | but having electoral colleges will avoid run-off elections. Run-off elections are when no canidate receives a majority of the votes cast. | Counterclaim | Effective |
328b2e657b2b | E0FAD617D3BF | However, they can fix this problem by eliminating the electoral votes process | Rebuttal | Adequate |
ef579f8ff753 | E0FAD617D3BF | Having popular votes system will be arguably the best system to use for the election and towards the voting process. Using electoral votes will be unfair to voters when they are voting because of the simply winner-take-all basis of each and every one of the fifty states. Not only that it's unfair, it also causes many crisis in the United States dealing with this system alone and then eventually lead to dramatic chaos across the nation. Also, having the amount of electoral votes doesn't compare to the population of the actual state. Remember it is still one representative for the 500,000 people in Wyoming. Popular votes should be used in every political system no matter what situation it is. As the passage says, the argument against direct elections are spuriors at the best. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
9210c20f06c7 | E12450BAE343 | Would it be surprising to know that kids learning at home helps them not stress out as much? Stress is mainly caused by student getting to much school work that cannot all be handied in on night. Every day kids complain about having too much homework and when working at home there is not any homework. Allowing children to work on their own schedule helps them become more motivated to work. Students being educated at school gaing more freedom to create their own schedule and their own rules | Lead | Adequate |
a703695c248d | E12450BAE343 | Learning at home and not at schools helps kids succeeed and have better grades. | Position | Adequate |
4a37bc15d483 | E12450BAE343 | One of the best thing about homeschooling is that it can be done at anytime, and anywhere | Claim | Effective |
944e9b40d9d1 | E12450BAE343 | Children have a flexible time schedule which means that the parents can help. The students can work around the parents schedule instead of the parents working around the student's schedule. Some students have a trouble working at a school because they cannot understand the material at the pase set by teachers. Homeschooling allows students to work at their own pace and on their own schedule. Another thing about homerschooling is that there are no misguided rules about technology or how to dress. This is good because instead of worrying about the rules. The students can focus on their studies. | Evidence | Adequate |
99b149204f88 | E12450BAE343 | When you are taking a test or taking notes at a public school there are many distractions that can make students lose focus on what they are doing. This is another reason that learning from home would benefit students | Evidence | Adequate |
cbeaf9050cb6 | E12450BAE343 | Learning from home won't have the distractions that a classroom has | Claim | Adequate |
66a339724f4d | E12450BAE343 | As a result of this, students won't lose focus on the work they are doing and get better grades. One of the reasons students get distracted in the first place is because they are in an environment their are not familiar with, which makes the feel uncomfortable. If a students learns from home they will feel more relaxed and confortable and won't stress about work. In a school, you are struck at desk for 6 hours and have a limited time to eat and limited bathroom breaks. This is not help a student's learning at all | Evidence | Adequate |
1d737d322b5d | E12450BAE343 | On the other hand. If you are at home you can eat and do whatever you want when you want. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
e4ec5695d136 | E12450BAE343 | There are still a few reasons not to do distanced learning. There are many more opportunities with public schools | Counterclaim | Adequate |
555e1da9e260 | E12450BAE343 | People from different colleges don't go to students'homes and try to advertise their career options. Making friends from home would be difficult without social interaction. Public school are great places to socialize during free time. If everyone goes home to attend school funding for public schooling willl fall and teachers will lose their jobs because of buged cuts. In public schools, depending an the teachers, cheating is hard to do. | Evidence | Adequate |
ef8e73db2478 | E12450BAE343 | My conclusion is students should be offered classes online or at home because the environment is less distracting, which could be less stressful. At home there are less distractions, rather than at school where there are many different thing to students, can greatly affect the quality of a student's work. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
137b277333ba | E129081F8EB2 | This letter is about the cell phone policy | Lead | Adequate |
5fa879db6c62 | E129081F8EB2 | the policy I would consider to use would be the policy number one.
| Position | Adequate |
d084282a6808 | E129081F8EB2 | I believe the policy is good making phone calls checking on others, talking to friends or family and texting to friends is good | Claim | Adequate |
b4ccbcdf3a07 | E129081F8EB2 | but I would make a few changes to it the first thing I would change about it would be during class teachers or staff should check the phones to see if they are turned off. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d9139d70fb19 | E129081F8EB2 | The other thing I would change about is, teachers and staff should keep watch on their students if they are using their cell-phone in class because sometimes they cannot be trusted. | Evidence | Ineffective |
68a19797a904 | E129081F8EB2 | I would still consider the policy of number one just make these few changes to it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
3bc6c59810b1 | E14206F97D20 | he elecoral collage should stay the same because it worked this long right and it will keep working as long as everythis is fair. | Position | Adequate |
6ae0e6a261fa | E14206F97D20 | The country is based on our votes and that is how it should be because we are part of this country and we make it a free country. | Claim | Ineffective |
0229aeb68001 | E14206F97D20 | This is how our founding fathers stated this country and thats how it need to be our country has the best presedent that we could have in this type of situation because he is a colored man and there is nothing wrong with that. If we did not have an electoral collage it would be harded to keep things in line such as how the voting works and how it should be decided that we have the best presedent we can get at that time for our country. As an example we have been fighting on Iran and alfaganastan for a long time and presedent oboma did the best he could with the best that he had to make sure that we were still a free country and the we were safe from terrorism. The electoral collage was a good iead and still is so thst way we do always have a good presedent or for anything that this country need to vote on it always keeps thing in order and fair to this country so there for it is what this country need in order to make the best we can with the best we got. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7927d8a4ac9e | E1464913F4ED | I feel that students should have to do community service. | Position | Adequate |
562e34825f7c | E1464913F4ED | Not only does community service help others but, | Claim | Effective |
112945da2d5f | E1464913F4ED | it also teaches good skills that students may use later in life. | Claim | Effective |
de7edcc6f099 | E1464913F4ED | Community service also teaches students to look at the greater picture. That the world doesn't always revolve around them. | Claim | Effective |
8e243b0d39c4 | E1464913F4ED | Instead of sitting at home all weekend and playing Wii, students should go out and help their community in various ways. | Position | Effective |
b1e9964a92c8 | E1464913F4ED | For example, picking up trash in a local park will help reduce the amount of pollution. Or collecting canned goods would help feed the homeless. | Evidence | Effective |
9db6ae017bc8 | E1464913F4ED | Think about if every school required students do community service. That would be a lot of schools helping our country and our Earth. The community service does not have to be hard, it can be age appropriate | Evidence | Adequate |
a46b5189dcd5 | E1464913F4ED | If our generation starts cleaning up this world and making it a better place, I'm sure that we can teach generations after us to follow in our footsteps. | Evidence | Effective |
deed3b71dc23 | E1464913F4ED | In conclusion I feel that students should have to do community service.
What they "need" or want to do probably isn't as important as giving back to the community. The community service does not have to conflict with the students life outside of school; it can be as short as one or two hours. Which is why students have no reason why they shouldn't help. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
b56aada1ea80 | E1BAC2DFC0BA | Every vote makes a difference. Every single vote plays a role in electing a president, whether it be directly, or indirectly. The Electoral College has caused a lot of controversy with that thought. "The Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational." (Plumer 14) Where are the facts behind the argument against it? We all hear people complaining and saying these things, but they have no facts as to why abolishing the Electoral College would be beneficial. | Lead | Adequate |
73a45a4dc5d5 | E1BAC2DFC0BA | The Electoral College is working in the peoples' favor and i believe we should keep it.
| Position | Adequate |
813b7894715e | E1BAC2DFC0BA | There are so many uneducated voters. People that vote for the presidential candidate at the top of the list because they have no clue who any of the people are anyway. If the president was selected by just popular votes who knows what the nation would be like. Every vote counts | Evidence | Adequate |
91322d2d95be | E1BAC2DFC0BA | Yes, this is true even with Electoral College it just a process to make sure that the votes being sent in are educated and well thought out; not chosen out of laziness | Claim | Adequate |
cf44091e6cd3 | E1BAC2DFC0BA | Do we want the people who vote just to say they voted to have a huge say in who runs our country? I sure don't. I'd rather have a trusted group of people who are very well educated take our votes into huge consideration and seal the deal. "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nomonee (and that trust is rarely betrayed)..." (Posner 16). Richard A. Posner goes on to tell us how many times the trust has been betrayed... the most recent being in the election year 2000 and then the only other time the electoral vote did not reflect the popular vote was 1888. There's no reason to change a system that isn't broken. | Evidence | Adequate |
715c327dc7fb | E1BAC2DFC0BA | Obviously the system has its flaws | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
8f1f45922387 | E1BAC2DFC0BA | but nothing is perfect. Sure the Electoral College messed up twice, but that isn't some mass amount that was detrimental to our nation. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
8f882c0a8bea | E1BAC2DFC0BA | "The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." (Office of the Federal Register 1) It's a compromise that has worked for so long; there's not enough valid reasons to change it. | Evidence | Adequate |
3295fc76c8f0 | E1BAC2DFC0BA | The Electoral College gives the right amount of representation to different sized states. | Claim | Adequate |
97f53018207f | E1BAC2DFC0BA | "The Popular vote was very close in Florida; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes." (Posner 21) The majority of the state was in favor of Obams's ideas so 29 Electoral votes would work in their states favor, instead of having an almost tie vote which would make a smaller difference in the outcome. The Electoral College votes are like each states individual votes for the candidate that would make the majority of that one state happy, or that would benefit that one state. So yes, the popular vote may not always win, but the outcome of the presidential election is based on which person was the favorite of the majority of each individual state.
| Evidence | Adequate |
882f0f5ef4c3 | E1BAC2DFC0BA | All in all, the Electoral College works for this nation. It worked for our founding fathers and it's still working for us, no matter what people want to argue. If "60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." (Plumer 9) then the majority of our country should be able to come up with a valid argument against it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
3fa5ce88e606 | E1C5F6D592F4 | If diverless cars are in our future would it impact the way people focuse on the road? | Lead | Ineffective |
0e207d2b5c2e | E1C5F6D592F4 | I belive that driverless cars will afect peoples saftey. | Position | Adequate |
38561aa2b3b4 | E1C5F6D592F4 | A way that driverless cars can be a negative thing is because people are not in full control of the car. | Claim | Adequate |
11ef614cd4d1 | E1C5F6D592F4 | What would happen if the car all of a sudden starts doing something wrong and the driver can not do anything about it? In paragragh number 7 is says that the car can do a lot of things on its own. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navagating through work zones and around accidence." | Evidence | Adequate |
3cadcc38cf5f | E1C5F6D592F4 | Also if people were interested in buying the diverless car would an average person be able to affort it? | Claim | Adequate |
beba0fd01db2 | E1C5F6D592F4 | In paragragh number 4 it clearly says that the car needs many tools and special equitment to be able to be a driverless car. "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheel, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirror, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an intertial motion sensor." | Evidence | Adequate |
5198c8985d2b | E1C5F6D592F4 | Not only would the car itself cost alot, it would also take millions to be able to fix all the roads in order for the car to be able to drive on the roads | Claim | Adequate |
799d53f74581 | E1C5F6D592F4 | In paragragh number 3 it states that the car requies magnets in the road to be able to read the messages in binary code, but would be too expensive. "These smart-road systems worked surprisingly well, but they require massive upgrades to existing roads, something that was simply too expensive to be practical." | Evidence | Adequate |
00918a260d73 | E1C5F6D592F4 | one of my biggest concerns is that if the driverless car does not need the driver at all times would it make it easier for younger kids to get in the car, start it, and take off? | Claim | Adequate |
4ab84b8e044c | E1C5F6D592F4 | In paragragh number 7 it says that all it takes is the drivers hands to be on the wheel for the car to go. "The car can handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph, but special touch sensors make sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel." Since the driverless car can do alot on its own the car could make it easy for a young child to get in it and leave while not being watched properly. | Evidence | Adequate |
0ca7c3383841 | E1C5F6D592F4 | belive that people should keep driverless cars off the road for many reasons. For example, people are not having full control of the car. The car may not be afordable to the average person. It would take millions for the road to be fixed and be able to have driverless cars to work on the roads. Finally it would be seriously dangerouse for a young child to get in the car and the car start driving on its own. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
3d29bb350fb0 | E20123532A69 | Mr. Senator I think the presidents should be elected by populer vote.
| Position | Adequate |
0ccc4542fb7d | E20123532A69 | Thats how it was back when our founding fathers first came to have there frist president and thats how it should be now. | Claim | Adequate |
8a7dcad0e48c | E20123532A69 | I mean if we're going to be judged be our peers shouldnt we be elected by them to. When it comes down to it who exactle is voting for us and can we control who we'er voting for and from the evedence shown in "What's wrong with the electoral college" no we can't. And no matter who are what we vote for all were doing is expressing a political preference it dosent matter at all to them what we want all they care about is what they want and what they think is best. When it my be best for them but not for the rest of us. | Evidence | Ineffective |
325a46d9f889 | E20123532A69 | If we'er all going to have to live with who wins for the next four years shouldnt we all get a vote. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
876eb5cc1c0d | E21AE194E6C7 | How do feel about driverless cars? | Lead | Ineffective |
e145ff2dfbb8 | E21AE194E6C7 | I don't really like the idea, but it's for the future and anything is possible. For me driverless cars has it's pros and cons. | Position | Adequate |
e47bf6762497 | E21AE194E6C7 | Driverless cars can be useful, but they can be deadly to other people who doesn't have the car or even be deadly to the driver. | Claim | Adequate |
4ba151c9f270 | E21AE194E6C7 | If the driverless cars will have sensors and the driver will have to have fast reaction times to help the car if needed. | Claim | Adequate |
37badb04bcfe | E21AE194E6C7 | To me safety is more important then anything. | Claim | Adequate |
cdb29bd4d42c | E21AE194E6C7 | Driverless cars are for the future, but anything is possible for the future. | Claim | Ineffective |
dd53c62beb9b | E21AE194E6C7 | There are many possible things that could happen. The car could be a succesful invention. Then again it could be a failure. Nobody wants to be in harms way right? In the passage it says " Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Nissan plan to have cars that can drive themselves by 2020" to me I think it will take more than four years to invent these cars and mass produce them. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a4fa454bdcba | E21AE194E6C7 | New laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident" | Claim | Adequate |
318222b8134d | E21AE194E6C7 | the passage goes on and says " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault-the driver or the manufacturer?" What if one of the sensors become defaulted? Wouldn't that be a manufacturing problem? | Evidence | Ineffective |
8d016bd4d41c | E21AE194E6C7 | Driverless cars can be useful, but could be harmful to the surroundings if the technology malfunctions. | Claim | Adequate |
1ec48651a64b | E21AE194E6C7 | What would you do if you was driving a driverless car and it maulfunctions and crashes into the car next to you and you find out the people in the other car are dead? Would you feel quilty or would you not? Driverless cars can be the future, but I think the inventioina and concept of the car shoukd be taken more serious. To me the maufacturers are just looking to make money.
To me as a person i take safety very serious. I think the safety concept of the vehicles should be one of the more serious things the manufacturers should look at if produced. They should only give a certain amount of driverless cars out incase the technology fails. There won't be much chaos if the technology malfunctions. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6b2bf4f7de77 | E21AE194E6C7 | Driverless cars are the future for the world. I don't really like the concept, but it's the future and anything is possible. Driverless cars have many pros and cons. The cars can be useful, but then they could be harmful to it's surrounding safety wise. If the driverless cars will have sensors then what's the use for the person to have to be cautious at all times for? Like i've said before I take safety very serious and I hope the maunufacturers take it more serious for the future of the "autonomous car." | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
37c0a433d34d | E22833B1E06E | Scientists have figured out that the life like face found on Mars was just another Martian Mesa | Position | Adequate |
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