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a48f80c08138 | E3A519D05CE5 | In conclusion, I think cell phones should be allowed in school during free times.
If someone is using it when they shouldn't then they can be punished but let's not leave anyone in the dark if they are having a problem.
If we help each other out then the world will definitely be a better place. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
914894cfe976 | E3A689BDA786 | being apart of the voting process is extremely important.It's important,because you are helping by popular vote for the president of the United States.Electoral College helps you get a better understanding of the voting process and the effect that everyone's vote has | Lead | Adequate |
083904ecad9d | E3A689BDA786 | However,the Electoral colleges are not a really big help when it comes down to the country.Here is provided information about why they should change election by popular vote. | Position | Adequate |
9e8c474a3529 | E3A689BDA786 | First to start the discussion,Electoral Colleges were estblished by the founding fathers in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by vote in congress and election of the president by popular vote.The Electoral College is not just a place it's an important process.This college is made of electors.They have meetings where they vote for the president and vice president.The college is consisted of 538 electors.At least 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president.Each candidate that is interested in becoming president in your state has to have his or her own flock of electores.The electors are chosen by the political party ran by the candidate | Evidence | Adequate |
68234383143c | E3A689BDA786 | This college basically provides you with a idea of why it is important to vote. The country's fate rests in the hands of many. | Claim | Ineffective |
10fe82d03fb9 | E3A689BDA786 | Next,The Electoral college system only allows voters to vote for the slate electors. | Claim | Adequate |
7fbf1350e61a | E3A689BDA786 | president of the United States votes is more important then the slate electors.The president of the United States is the one responsible for the Country.Most people refer to the most common argument between the electoral college as the disater factor.Like for instance if someone wanted to vote for a specific person you would have to vote for a different amount of slate electors also depending where you lived as well.
| Evidence | Adequate |
d18a97b54587 | E3A689BDA786 | Continuing,the Electoral college is really regarded as an anachronism aslo known as a non-democratic method of selecting a president. | Claim | Effective |
defd4b621326 | E3A689BDA786 | Many people believe that,that should be overruled by declaring the candidate who recieves more popular votes is the winner.Each party selects a slates of electors that is trusted to vote for the nominee that was picked slate electors.Even though the Electoral has a lack of conservative reasons, there are five reasons that people think that should be retained. The first reason is the certainy of outcome,second Everyone's President,third Swing states,fourth Big States,and lastly Avoiding run-off Elections.These 5 things are reasons why people feel that these colleges should stay. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1544397094ad | E3A689BDA786 | The conclusion, the president of the United states is chosen by our votes.We have the power to make this country strong,but we also have the power to make this country a train wreck.Voting is really important this can determine the fate of the country. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
2b17aa493442 | E3E96A297604 | ,I think you should change the system up | Position | Adequate |
1e3529d6dfb4 | E3E96A297604 | I think the electoral college is a bad idea because it is not good at determining the winner | Claim | Adequate |
31982ac867f8 | E3E96A297604 | The electoral college is good but its alot of work to find out who wins the President and Vice President seat. | Evidence | Ineffective |
d575b6ddaaae | E3E96A297604 | The electoral college is also a big complicated system that can techanical mess up someones chances of winning | Claim | Adequate |
4a2491923526 | E3E96A297604 | The electoral college is basically us voting for electors,not the president. The electoral college is not a good system to use beccause just like the article "The Indefensible Electoral College" says "Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate?". What do we do then, we can't take back our vote. This is how some presidents win without even knowing we messed up on voting. | Evidence | Adequate |
84b6ad932d73 | E3E96A297604 | In Addition to my idea about removing the Electoral College, I think its a bad idea because the electoral college is not a good determing the winner. | Claim | Adequate |
77ebb31ac65d | E3E96A297604 | A prime example of why the electoral college is a bad idea is when Al Gore lost the election in 2000 against Bush. It is stated that Al Gore had won the popular vote but lost when it came to electoral college he lost. It is said that over 60 of thoses voters wanted or prefered a direct election instead of the electoral college system. | Evidence | Adequate |
de27172eff1f | E3E96A297604 | The Article"In Defense of the electoral college" states things that good about the Electoral College like "The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candiate receives a majority of the votes cast."This is a example of that statement is Nixion in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 plurality of the popular votes,while winning a majority in Electoral College. The Electoral College is still a democratic in many peoples eyes and mines.
The Electoral College will always give a advantage on the outcome of the winner. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
cdec6d22d2ac | E3E96A297604 | The state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors and thaat those electors could always the will of the people | Rebuttal | Adequate |
207a27cb5964 | E3E96A297604 | The electoral college is is unfair,outdated, and irrational in the united states. Most say the electoral college is good because its keeps favortizm away but it really just adds it to the election. The direct election is way more simple and easy to find out who wins. I send you this letter to see if you would think about taking it out, but i know you probably won't see this. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
067290e75a51 | E3EC600A1754 | I strongly agree of keeping the Electoral College for the use of the congress' approval for the newly President of 2016 | Position | Adequate |
5ef3b8af6bd5 | E3EC600A1754 | The Electoral College has a lengthy process, but can come in good use of determining the new President. Citizens vote for the electors and the electors decide who's best for the country | Evidence | Adequate |
9f0cf393ff9f | E3EC600A1754 | Even though, there are claims about the Electoral College not being fair for the people, I still defend it because it has it's good factors, like Run-off Elections | Claim | Adequate |
459eea2cb2ec | E3EC600A1754 | the requirement that a presidential candidate to have trans-regional appeal for the people, | Claim | Adequate |
c41245318517 | E3EC600A1754 | and the resoring weight of the eletoral number by population. | Claim | Ineffective |
577c1c2a875d | E3EC600A1754 | As so you know, the Electoral College is a process of the selction of the electors, then the gathering of electors to vote for the president and vice president. Finally, the electoral votes by the Congress. | Claim | Adequate |
55dac061b0ea | E3EC600A1754 | When the electors pick the president, they look at their background, such as, what school they attend, what they studied, where they were born, etc. They pick someone they trust to do the job. When there is a Run-off Election, the House Of Representatives picks the president. I personally think this is a good thing because they picked the person who would do best in the job by gathering everyone's vote to decide it. Because no country could have two presidents with two vice presidents. | Evidence | Adequate |
35d069eb6bcf | E3EC600A1754 | Some may say it's unjustice or not fair because the House Of Representatives decides the whole election. There is also the fact that when determining the winner, they both look at the popular votes and the electoral votes, and they see who got the most electoral votes and they win the election.
| Counterclaim | Adequate |
3cd730c157ba | E3EC600A1754 | The Electoral College puts it simple, because they choose someone with a region where they most likely get the most electoral votes. | Claim | Adequate |
1bfbf17f38af | E3EC600A1754 | For example, Romney was in the South region, and he knows he wouldn't have to do much there because of that was where he was currently from. Now lets compare that to someone that was in the area around North Dakota. He would most likely not win that many votes since it's only three electoral numbers. So the Electoral College gives a chance for the president they chose to win because of where they used to be located in order to get the most popular and electoral votes.
| Evidence | Adequate |
a10d65f727a3 | E3EC600A1754 | The Electoral College restores and reduces some of the weight of the electoral by its population. | Claim | Ineffective |
35ea0fe2f5a4 | E3EC600A1754 | Smalls states aren't widely noticed by the president because they feel like they should concentrated in the big states because of there electoral votes. Still, small states tend to make it easier for them because they look at if the state was either Republican or Democrac during the past years and they take note of that. They know they'll win in those states, even though they are small numbers, every inch of it counts to help them win the title of President. | Evidence | Adequate |
aa5a333be033 | E3EC600A1754 | Therefore, Mister Sentor, I agree in keeping the Electoral Vote because of it's reasonable factors that can help the president win. Popular vote doesn't tell anything because the people would know nothing about the president or what he accomplished. It should be kept because it has been used for many years now and has been useful for every president to win | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
93e1cefba807 | E450F87DBD79 | NASA thinks that it was made by the planet being made because aliens do not exist. You can not just guess at how it was made. | Lead | Adequate |
458a921fff21 | E450F87DBD79 | This is why NASA thinks you are wrong. Aliens could not have made this | Position | Adequate |
9378a53a1f3d | E450F87DBD79 | because they do not exist | Claim | Adequate |
73fba61b3078 | E450F87DBD79 | it would take a long time to make anything that scale, | Claim | Adequate |
0a9a173767bd | E450F87DBD79 | and it would take them years to make. | Claim | Adequate |
9b932480060e | E450F87DBD79 | Aliens could not have made the face becasue they do not exist. | Claim | Adequate |
db2c994a1dd2 | E450F87DBD79 | This is why NASA thinks this. Aliens would have to have good construction and excavtion equipment. As you would say, they don't need that stuff they just built it. However, there is no physicaly possible way that they could have made it without the equipment. In order to build they would need this equipment. All together aliens could not have made this because they are not capable and do not exist. | Evidence | Adequate |
16dda2daae16 | E450F87DBD79 | Aliens could not have made the face because it would take a long time to make anything that scale | Claim | Adequate |
8a97275cbb3a | E450F87DBD79 | Here is why they could not have done it. They don't have the capablities to make anything like the face on Mars. The people that think otherwise would say that it isn't a natural land form. However, NASA scientist where comparing it to other natural landforms. That is why NASA thinks that it is impossible for the aliens to make anything to that scale. | Evidence | Adequate |
d557aed2140d | E450F87DBD79 | Aliens could not have made the face becasue it would take to long. | Claim | Ineffective |
4965a03ddb15 | E450F87DBD79 | Here is why NASA is proving facts. This is not possible in any shape, way, or form because it would take over 300 years to do so. You would say that the aliens just bulit it as we bulid buliding today. But, they would have to have constrcution workers working every single day for this to happen and that is why NASA says it is impossible. Together that is why I do not think is is possible.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
c8b48e8dc4cd | E450F87DBD79 | In conclusion, aliens do not exist, do not have cababilatlies to make anything to that scale, and it would take to long that is why aliens could not have made this face. People get their hopes up about things to easily that is why NASA does not think any of this is even near possible. It would be better if NASA told evryone the full truth. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
98650cc0ca2b | E481765F7DDF |
Good day, I am writing this letter to let you know it's time for things to change. I have been reading and researching the Electoral College and i have a strong opinion on it. As you know, the Electoral College is a process when all five hundred and thirty eight electors vote on electors and defenders. | Lead | Adequate |
cd6c807258cc | E481765F7DDF | This way of voting for electors lets the people have no say in whose running our goverment! Our goverment should not allow or be based on "the winner takes all" method. When we choose for OUR president we should be able to choose OUR electors too! | Position | Effective |
06d976267105 | E481765F7DDF | Under the 23rd amendment of the constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for purposes of the electoral college. The electors shouldnt be chosen by the canidate's political party, we should choose. | Evidence | Adequate |
32a538fb1b17 | E481765F7DDF | By voting for a president every four years a new party of electors have already been selected to run with him and we dont get any say. | Claim | Adequate |
35c638815329 | E481765F7DDF | After the presidential election, your governer creates a list of all the canidates that ran for president in your state with a list of their representative electors. This is later sent to Congress and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election | Evidence | Adequate |
f2735f7a08e3 | E481765F7DDF |
Richard Nixon, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all agree that we need to remove and forget about the electoral college. This year our voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could lose the presidency. | Claim | Adequate |
61678e78133b | E481765F7DDF | Still the electoral college still has defenders fror themselves | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
f76c6cdd2c14 | E481765F7DDF | voters arent actually voting for the president, but for a group of electors who in turn elect the president, | Claim | Adequate |
5b6b2cd829af | E481765F7DDF | How are we supposed to trust these electors if we dont even know who they are and their background until after the election? Who even are these electors i wondered. I figured out that all the electors are actually anyone with a brain and not holding a public office, fantastic. So how do i know they are reliable and going to do whats best for my state and our country? Voters dont even control whom their electors vote for most of the time which is kind of scary. Some electors are even faithless in their party's canidate so they dont even vote for them at all! How can we rely on a group of people who dont rely on their party? | Evidence | Effective |
f1978838407c | E481765F7DDF | As much as I hate to say it, there most definitley is an upside to the Electoral College. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
e48233ff8299 | E481765F7DDF | The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that needs to be overruled by declaring the canidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. I personally think that is the best way to decide who gets in. | Rebuttal | Effective |
b1b9791d37db | E481765F7DDF | Each party selects a slate of electors that are trusted to vote for the party's nominee. Sometimes the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. Another reason The Electoral College is a positive way of voting is how certain the outcome is. There is never failure in the counting of the votes and there us rarely a tie between two people. My favorite reason is because "everybody is president". This means everybody can make their own decisions and have a great amount of freedom.
| Evidence | Effective |
761dd1663def | E481765F7DDF | Even though im all for removing the Electoral College there is positives too | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
21cb93fac9fe | E48B9182B257 |
The robust political system of the American government is greatly hindered by the Electoral College. The Electoral College isn't completely representative of what citizens really want. History will prove such logic with just a simple recollection of past events. | Lead | Effective |
e1e24f41c264 | E48B9182B257 | "Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new elector who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.) In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and case a deciding vote for whomever they please."
(Paragraph 11) | Evidence | Effective |
500465303401 | E48B9182B257 | Americans are not getting the representation we deserve. In fact, in a democracy, we should be representing our own beliefs, ourselves. The Electoral College must be totally abolished and the popular vote should become the new standard for political voting.
| Position | Effective |
64d694b64f16 | E48B9182B257 | Time and time again, we have been shown that the Electoral College is nothing but a gimmick and "a compromise between election of President by a vote in congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens."
(Paragraph 1)
by the founding fathers. | Claim | Effective |
f9ae9cfd6909 | E48B9182B257 | Maybe that had worked in the past, when the population was statistically low compared to today, and citizens were less informed because of the lack of media avaliable, like the internet and television. | Counterclaim | Effective |
2e2a408f2f66 | E48B9182B257 | But, it is not working today. The 2000 election serves as an example of a faulty system. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
b640d3dacc08 | E48B9182B257 | "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 the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now."
(Paragraph 9)
Therefore, this is an obvious majority of citizens who agree with me. The Electoral College is almost universally despised, and not considered the most effective way to elect a President. | Evidence | Adequate |
c8deeb863774 | E48B9182B257 | "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the swing states. | Claim | Effective |
beceddfa63e7 | E48B9182B257 | During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get to see a single campaign ad."
(Paragraph 13)
This is ridiculous and not at all fair to voters. In this sense, it is absolutely true that every vote doesn't count. Unless you're in a swing state, your vote may mean very little in the grand scheme of things. Every legal American deserves the right to a balanced and fair election with a true, meaningful vote. | Evidence | Effective |
0432acb803d7 | E48B9182B257 | Claims by supporters of the Electoral College are not effective. In fact, one writer finds Swing States to be a good thing! | Counterclaim | Effective |
105d4a480604 | E48B9182B257 | Yes, "Voters in toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign--to really listen to the competing candidates--knowing they are going to decide the election. They are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average...and the most thoughtful voters should be the ones to decide the election."
| Evidence | Effective |
cefad356100a | E48B9182B257 | Seriously, that is absurd. Every voter should have the right to know they are going to decide the election | Rebuttal | Effective |
fee94770bbee | E48B9182B257 | This writer is implying that the small state votes are useless, and that the voters in them don't even pay attention to campaigns or research before they vote! As a former resident of a politically smaller-impact state, I know very well that citizens there research thoroughly before they do any voting. Putting thought into a vote isn't just a thing people do in large states. | Evidence | Effective |
8b361192f4c8 | E48B9182B257 | Maybe it will be that way in the future, because due to the Electoral College, votes there don't even matter anymore. Citizens are losing faith in their expressions of freedom and ability to vote and uphold justice. The Electoral College needs to go, because it makes for an unfair political system that only benefits politicians running, not the average joe."It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality."
| Concluding Statement | Effective |
d2dfd3ffca78 | E4DA68D2918E | I think that policy one is a better policy | Position | Adequate |
6f0afe9fba99 | E4DA68D2918E | if as long as we don't have our cell phones out in class then we should be able to have them out during free time and lunch time | Claim | Adequate |
ebeaa2c221ee | E4DA68D2918E | But with cell phones not being aloud to be on in school or used makes the students want to have them out in class. | Claim | Adequate |
de0187787189 | E4DA68D2918E | So if you were to allow them only in free time or lunch, then i think that students wouldn't have to bring them out in class. They could just have them in free time. But the more the students cant have them out at all then the more there just going to use them in class, when they are supposed to be learning they will be texting on their phones or on the internet instead. That could make them fail whatever grade their in and have to retake it the next year. | Evidence | Adequate |
db3246588c9a | E4DA68D2918E | If you would allow cell phones, maybe the students will appreciate their learning more and actually want to do assignments and tests instead of having their cell phones out. | Claim | Adequate |
fd023e5315ee | E4DA68D2918E | So if you think about it, it might just be better to allow them then to obey them. I sure would hope that you will rethink this over because i am pretty sure you don't want to have to deal with these students again next year. But its all up to you. | Evidence | Adequate |
f3e1fdbc89b7 | E4DA68D2918E | I do really think that it would be way better to allow them because sometimes in class , my friends and i have our cell phones out i mean what student wouldn't? | Claim | Ineffective |
cc112c699cfc | E4DA68D2918E | But some students only do it like once or twice like me but other they will just have it out all the time in every class and not pay attention. So that just makes them fail and have to redo everything all over. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a837cef6f5f4 | E4DA68D2918E | Allowing cell phones only in free time and lunch's would possibly change some of the students grades and attitudes. | Claim | Adequate |
c44db159c0f0 | E4DA68D2918E | They could use them when their not in class and at lunch. Instead of in class and everywhere else. I am pretty sure that most of the teachers have their phones out so that just gives the ok to students to take out their's.
| Evidence | Adequate |
9a2752cf9349 | E4DA68D2918E | What i am really trying to say is that you should allow them not obey them. So if you would take a second and reconsider this then it would make all the students plus me HAPPY ! | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
37dea6b879d1 | E4DC7BF5147E | Students should be required to clean the community | Position | Effective |
feb0c1e0718d | E4DC7BF5147E | that reason is because half of the garbage is there's they need to be helping and cleaning up there mess not so others can do it for them | Claim | Adequate |
e636e64f6323 | E4DC7BF5147E | plus it is good exercise | Claim | Adequate |
20258befa03e | E4DC7BF5147E | So yes i do think that students should be helping out by picking u garbage so ti can help the community and help the planet and make are school a little more better than what it is. By helping the community i think that we can make the environment around the school better such as other places at home. | Evidence | Adequate |
7eb90c55e906 | E4DC7BF5147E | Cleaning up are litter will help with the problems at home u get to hang with your friends and you get to help the environment, it doesn't take time from anything cause you still get to hang with your friends play games and still have fun with the whole school. | Evidence | Adequate |
f17ab3fdf05b | E4DC7BF5147E | The tools we have today will make it better especial now that we have tons of students here and maybe those who help can have extra credit or meet new friends or maybe have new friends that we didn't even know we had in the school that existed because we hang out with the same people we made friends with. | Claim | Adequate |
e7f283abc72a | E4DC7BF5147E | So cleaning up the school will not only help the school , but the wildlife, kids who are over weight and do not get out as much as your suppose to , help kids get along and share what they have in common | Evidence | Ineffective |
fed10d2972db | E4DC7BF5147E | It will also give are school a better name than what it is and raise more money for schools equipment and uniforms. | Claim | Adequate |
0f799ed6cb0a | E4DC7BF5147E | You might even have you parents come out and watch, just be helping out a little can make a big difference. | Evidence | Ineffective |
6dfbc45d25fb | E4DC7BF5147E | The school needs to be cleaned and it needs to be done , You have free time so why don't we just help out a little and make a change in the community just a little will help everyone in need. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a4869bfe72fe | E4DEDB16A59E | Dear senator I have a problem with the current voteing procesess. | Lead | Adequate |
bf76ead4c586 | E4DEDB16A59E | You see senator with Electoral Collage the votes can be swayed very easily | Claim | Adequate |
5c61d04dad82 | E4DEDB16A59E | all one would have to do is threaten or bribe the voter into voteing for that particular person. This in-turn could effect the outcome of the voteing procesess greatly be it by leagal or ileagal means | Evidence | Adequate |
7de695ed2e58 | E4DEDB16A59E | i think the voteing procesess should be based off of the popular vote so that it would be difficult for one to do what was stated above | Position | Adequate |
b77e8dd40b7c | E4DEDB16A59E | There is another group that thinks that the voteing procesess should stay the same | Counterclaim | Adequate |
57d858e7735f | E4DEDB16A59E | i think that this group thinks this because they know how to get around the system or play it. Doing so makes it easy'er for them to have someone that they trust or control on the top of the game | Evidence | Ineffective |
ac6e82d4b353 | E4DEDB16A59E | But then if this ocuurs are we really choseing our president, i dont think so. Even still that is only my opinion. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
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