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This is what I think the outher group wants to achive. You have read what i thought on this subject and i hope to bring you over to my side on this argument. There is curuption every were and we need to stick together, if we dont then who can we trust
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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E4FC29A88EDD
The idea of a driverless car has always been the goal set for future technology. This is seen in the constant stream of futuristic movies or shows. However, those only convey the positive and idealistic aspects of such vehicles. The ignorance of the negative information associated with them causes a personal disbelief in the cars.
Lead
Effective
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Driverless cars should not be developed due to the overwhelming evidence including that development/testing is against the law in the majority of the world due to the idea of possible malfunctions or irresponsible road behavior from the passengers.
Position
Effective
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E4FC29A88EDD
A vast majority of people agree that testing should not occur due to possible danger.
Claim
Adequate
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E4FC29A88EDD
The article "Driverless Cars Are Coming" speaks about how traffic laws are currently written to include human control of the vehicle in Paragraph 9. Furthermore, it talks about how limited the allowance of testing is. With a large scale rejection of such ideas it is wise to consider the fact that there is not just assumptions made by everyone. The article blatantly puts down the states who did not follow suit in allowing the tests. There was not any consideration of the majority possibly deciding this based on solid fact and the issues not yet addressed by the companies manufacturing the vehicles. So, the legality of the driverless cars is merely one point amongst a plethora of other issues.
Evidence
Effective
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E4FC29A88EDD
One contribution to the rejection of testing is the possible malfunctions that could happen.
Claim
Adequate
1d773d9d8b86
E4FC29A88EDD
All throughout the article the accidents in the future were expected. which is why the companies wish for the human assistance to be alert to "take over". However, when observing that statement closely the accident would be caused by the car itself due to the fact that it drove in such way. The weather could be an out of control factor involved and if the car does not drive in a way that considers that, then the fault is on the car. The same can be said for a car collision. If all of the vehicles in the world are driven by themselves, then it would be the cars that caused the collision. Paragraph 7 touches on the liability issues of situations similar to those mentioned. The issues surrounding the driverless cars are preventable by not producing them at all. That way there is no room for error when it comes to the safety of those on the road.
Evidence
Effective
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E4FC29A88EDD
The manufacturers of the vehicle contradict themselves when it comes to the passengers involved.
Claim
Adequate
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E4FC29A88EDD
Paragraph 8 discusses making the driving fun by entertaining them. Whereas Paragraph 7 is about the driver taking over and the different functions to make them aware. The key to having the person aware of the dangerous situation is to not have them distracted in the first place. Plus that prevents any accidents if flaws in the warning system should occur. The reason there is a long lasting trust in human judgement on the road is that the people have a chance to take action quick enough. If they were not previously paying attention due to the driverless car then that chance is wasted by them attempting to figure out what the situation is in the first place. Eliminate the possibilty of that irresponsible lack of attention by having the person drive to begin with.
Evidence
Effective
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Driverless cars would allow too many flaws in the system and legality issues that prevent them for obtaining the title of a safter option. The manufacturers are attempting to make a car that is easier and requires less effort, but in doing so there is a plethora of issues that accompany it. The question of who is legally to blame for issues would waste time and money. During the process of development, the producers are accepting accidents as a given fact instead of trying to produce a flawless car. They are also focusing on the idea of a "entertaining car" instead of one that keeps the passengers alert for possible accidents. Therefore, there are too many arguments for safety against the vehicles to even consider mass producing them. The driverless cars are much safer on the big screen than in reality.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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E504081AA343
In many countries most children do not have a choose of whether or they want to up out the community. But, if u look at those children from other countries they are all responsible, and know how to act in public. Not saying all Americans are bad but, that we take things for granted.
Lead
Adequate
f39e1da0a08c
E504081AA343
I believe that children should do community service
Position
Adequate
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E504081AA343
it can help them understand that not everything is easy but, that everything it is not just handed to you.
Claim
Adequate
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E504081AA343
I go to school everyday and watch children act a fool and be disrespectful to their teachers.
Claim
Adequate
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E504081AA343
So i think that it's because at home these children do not have anyone telling right from wrong but, not only that they have no responsibly at home. They all get away with to much and mostly come home play video games, get on Facebook, and thing like that. So maybe if the school help them understand that life isn't easy just maybe these children will be a bit better.
Evidence
Adequate
f6d92da81294
E504081AA343
With that said you can probably see how trilled I am to see schools try and make a difference in these kids life show them that the bad habits you have now you will mostly have later in life and not everyone going to put up with it.
Claim
Adequate
6ef77d83dfb9
E504081AA343
Even thought I am with the idea i still have to put myself in their shoes because, some of these kids have seen stuff that I never plan on seeing.
Evidence
Ineffective
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E504081AA343
Also is this community service during school hours and if so don't you think it would be taking away from our learning time I mean responsible is great to have.
Claim
Adequate
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E504081AA343
It might not such a great thing if u do not know how to read, write or do simple math.
Evidence
Adequate
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E504081AA343
So I believe that children just need a little bit more responsible in their life to learn to make better choices.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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E51103E36330
Driverless cars are new, advanced forms of technology. Manufacturers seem to be getting closer and closer to an improved and completely driverless car. They have different advantages and are very convenient. This may be the new innovation that everyone raves about.
Lead
Adequate
8200b12f26b3
E51103E36330
I think having driverless cars is a great idea and a huge milestone.
Position
Effective
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E51103E36330
Driverless cars have come a long way, and sensors have become more advanced with time.
Claim
Effective
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E51103E36330
The sensors can now detect and respond to the danger of out-of-control skids or rollovers. This is very beneficial to the driver because he or she may not know how to respond or react to these kinds of dangerous situations. The sensors enable the car to apply brakes on the seperate wheels and decrease the power from the engine, which allows a better responce and more control than the human driver could manage. More improvements on this technology will bring safer and more durable cars, which will increase the number of driving taskes on their own.
Evidence
Adequate
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E51103E36330
Even though most cars aren't completely driverless, many improvements and innovations allow the driverless cars to evolve and become more intriguing.
Claim
Effective
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E51103E36330
For example, BMW developed the "Traffic Jam Assistant." This car could handle driving functions at speeds up to 25 mph. This car also had special touch sensors to ensure the driver holds onto the wheel. Having cars that aren't fully driverless allows the driver to remain alert, so they can take over when there is a situation. This is a great thing about these cars. There are driver seats that vibrate when the car is in danger of backing into something. The Google car announces when the driver should take over. Other cars might have flashing lights or other signals that warn the driver to take control of the vehicle.
Evidence
Effective
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E51103E36330
Driverless cars have come a long way and are still in the process of being perfected. New, developed features have different advantages such as the advanced sensors that repsond to dangerous situations and the signals that allow the reader to remain alert. Overall, I think that driverless cars are a major innovation and can be very effectful and beneficial for drivers.
Concluding Statement
Effective
424fea75f9fb
E51722919697
I was informed of your latest decision on a new school policy, being a student at the school that it would effect, I believe it is my duty and right to pose my opinion. You suggested that all students that wish to participate in sports or other school related activities must obtain at least a B average.
Lead
Adequate
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E51722919697
Well i believe this would be a great policy, if we, the students, didn't have to partake in all the practices or meetings.
Position
Adequate
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E51722919697
Going to the practices and attending all the meetings is a requirement to obtain your membership to the group or team in most cases. Being obligated to be present at these events ruptures the time we have to study. In order to hold good grades, you have to be able to prepare for the assessments that will be given to us, which counts a lot towards our final average. If you strongly believe this is a good policy to enforce, you must allow a bend in the academics then. When you give more students the chance to be a part of something, you gain a better ratio of the school succeeding. When the School succeeds in certain sports and clubs the school will gain recognition, good recognition. Along with the recognition, we could win money, money is always good for schools because there is always something that can be bettered with the appropriate amount of funding. Also, giving students that may be struggling the chance to be a part of a sport or club could spark a greater interest in them. It could inspire them to set higher goals for themselves and to encourage them to do better. Joining a school sport or other activity may give them a desire to pursue what they are doing in that sport or club. Say someone becomes a part of the robotics club, they grow to love what they are getting the chance to do. because they love it they may grow up to me an engineer.
Evidence
Adequate
641684b4363d
E51722919697
If we are not given the opportunities, we may never know. Not knowing what we can excel at may cause a life of insecurities. Do want to be the one held responsible for something like that?
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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E56E7793EBF4
I highly recomind keping the Electoral college.
Position
Adequate
75a9c8f26581
E56E7793EBF4
in sourse one it states that the "Electoral college was established 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
Claim
Effective
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The Electoral College is "widely regarded as an anachronism" a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be over ruled by declaring the canidate who receives the most popular votes the winner. This way it is fair.
Counterclaim
Ineffective
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E56E7793EBF4
Did you know that when you vote for a presidential canidate you are really voting for a slate of electors?
Evidence
Adequate
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E56E7793EBF4
In the Electoral College they avoid the problems of the elections which no canidate recevies a majority of the votes cast
Claim
Adequate
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E56E7793EBF4
Also the Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states by the population lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitition
Claim
Adequate
5e5a6fbca73f
E56E7793EBF4
As a citizen of the the United States of America i feel that if we use the Electoral College, it would make things so much easier on us.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
506c70349423
E57528C2CF2E
I personally believe that, the landform in the moon is actually a landform not a "face". I say that because due to some of the information from the argument in this passage
Position
Adequate
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E57528C2CF2E
The landform in the moon is not a face because, scientist have proven actual facts on this topic.
Claim
Adequate
5d14f9f0d673
E57528C2CF2E
"Thousands of anxious web surfers were waiting when the first image appeared on a JPL website, revealing a natural landform. There was no alien monument after all."
Evidence
Adequate
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E57528C2CF2E
In addition, i also believe that there is no way face could just randomly appear inside of the moon monument because, I think there are no sure thing as aliens.
Claim
Ineffective
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E57528C2CF2E
And i think that no humans were even exsistent by the time that monument happened.
Claim
Ineffective
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E57528C2CF2E
"And so on April 5, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor flew over Cydonia for the first time, Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team snapped a puicture ten times sharper than the original Viking photos."
Evidence
Effective
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E57528C2CF2E
Also, scientist figured it was just another Martian mesa, common enough around Cydonia, only this one had unusual shadows that made it look like an Egyptian Pharaoh
Evidence
Effective
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In conclusion, i still strongley feel as if the moon dosent have a face i just feel like it was all a mistake or an imagination
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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E589B660EDA4
I think you should require all students to perform community service because many students laze around with nothing to do, when they could be helping the community.
Position
Effective
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E589B660EDA4
Many kids who are bored tend to get caught up in bad things , such as gangs, drugs, and violence.
Evidence
Effective
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E589B660EDA4
In requiring kids to perform community service, you are preventing them from doing bad things,
Claim
Effective
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E589B660EDA4
you are giving them something to do after school
Claim
Effective
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and you are helping them help the community.
Claim
Effective
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E589B660EDA4
I walk around my community to see kids fighting, doing drugs, stealing, and other bad things
Evidence
Effective
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Many kids are bored after school , with nothing to do , no friends to play with, so they sit around and get fat and lazy.
Evidence
Effective
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They could make the community a better place, by cleaning up trash , and helping the community stay a nice, safe, and clean place.
Evidence
Adequate
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E589B660EDA4
So , I think you should require kids to perform community service, because it would be good for them AND the community.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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E5B1751B2798
I think that we should keep the Electoral College because changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States can be bad. It can be bad because if majority of the people pick a president and he's not a good president and they are just picking him to pick him then he might not be a good president , he might just be popular aka well known.
Lead
Adequate
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E5B1751B2798
We should keep the Electoral College because it is fair and it is going by all of the votes , not just the popular votes.
Position
Ineffective
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E5B1751B2798
"The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes, is required to elect the President."
Evidence
Ineffective
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E5B1751B2798
it is a non-democratic method
Claim
Adequate
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E5B1751B2798
When you vote for a presidential candidate you're actually voting for a slate of electors. The Electoral College has a better chance of having an outcome than the popular votes. "
Evidence
Ineffective
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E5B1751B2798
In 2012's election, for example, Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney."
Evidence
Ineffective
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E5B1751B2798
the Electoral College is a much more trustworthy system than the popular vote
Claim
Adequate
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E5B1751B2798
Electoral College has something called "Swing States'' Swing states are states that often pay close attention to the campaign and they really listen to the competing campaign.
Claim
Adequate
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E5B1751B2798
They are the most thoughtful voters and the most thoughtful ones should be the ones to decide on everything.
Evidence
Adequate
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E5B1751B2798
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"
Counterclaim
Adequate
e9d4b6c04230
E5B1751B2798
That is incorrect because the electoral college pays close attention to every state to see which ones would be good to pick
Rebuttal
Ineffective
cc307f170906
E5B1751B2798
The Popular States says that the electoral College system is out of date and lame ,
Counterclaim
Ineffective
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E5B1751B2798
The Electoral College avoids run off elections unlike the popular vote system.
Rebuttal
Ineffective
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E5B1751B2798
I am ending my claim by saying we should keep the electoral college because it is a more organized system.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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E5C0A11D06E2
The citizens of your state are crying injustice, but nothing is being done to serve them. The Electoral College goes against the Bill of Rights opening words of "We the People". The current system of electing the President is more complex and less beneficial than choosing our leader through popular vote.
Lead
Adequate
a32b5648126f
E5C0A11D06E2
The popular vote actually listens to the people of the United States' opinion and how they want this country run. The Electoral College has many faults
Position
Effective
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E5C0A11D06E2
such as in the case of electoral overuling popular vote
Claim
Adequate
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E5C0A11D06E2
possible corruption of state senators (no accusation presented), and could lead to the rare event of a tie
Claim
Adequate
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E5C0A11D06E2
Such as in the election of 2000, Al Gore should have won the race. The people poke through the popular vote to choose him, but the Electoral College thought otherwise.
Evidence
Adequate
a78fd8883ba5
E5C0A11D06E2
As stated in the article, that usually state senators choose the representatives of the state in the Electoral College, if bribery and corruption affect our nations such as those in the Miuddle East, the presidential race can and will be rigged in one party's favor. Due to Mane and Nebraska policy of "proportional representation" could lead to a tie.
Evidence
Adequate
979e9aedd257
E5C0A11D06E2
As you can see, the Electoral College has many faults and is outdated due to the rapid population increase of our nation and reasons stated above.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
558b2f2c74ae
E5C0A11D06E2
Some may argue there will be inaccuracies with popular vote
Counterclaim
Adequate
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E5C0A11D06E2
whereas we already use the popular vote today as a way of forecasting the oucome and seeing the people's real choice.
Rebuttal
Ineffective
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E5EA551C69CF
If it is not broken why should we fix it? The electoral college system has been with us for as long as we have had presidents and one flaw if going to make us scrap eveything? There are many ways to fix the electoral college and throwing the system in the trash should be the last resort.
Lead
Effective
407f7acd939e
E5EA551C69CF
Although the election of 2000 is an example of a problem that shoud be fixed it is not a reason to do away with the system.
Position
Effective
d43ca6af826f
E5EA551C69CF
To commence with, the electoral college is a fine system that has easily fixed flaws such as the election of George W. Bush versus Al Gore in which Gore won the popular vote while still losing the whole election.
Claim
Effective
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E5EA551C69CF
An obvious solution to this problem could be what Nebraska and Maine are doing and introducing proportional representation as opposed to the "winner-take-all" system. Also if we were to switch from the electoral college it would take citizens time to get used to the new stystem.
Evidence
Effective
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E5EA551C69CF
Although the electoral college seems unreliable
Counterclaim
Adequate
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E5EA551C69CF
there is a certainty of outcome to it
Rebuttal
Adequate
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E5EA551C69CF
while some people dispute over the outcome of the vote
Counterclaim
Adequate
8c0041b4a37a
E5EA551C69CF
it is likely an arguement about the popular vote.
Rebuttal
Ineffective
e388d7588f67
E5EA551C69CF
Although we have had the system for so long and it has been reliable and there are ways to fix it some people would still like to move away from it and create a new system.
Claim
Adequate
0035468f1d4c
E5EA551C69CF
If we were to shift from the electoral college to another way to vote what would we have, a voting system fully based on popular votes? no, because a popular vote system would rely too much on citizens being able to make informed decisions which would result in unreliable outcomes.
Evidence
Adequate
286abe9f3168
E5EA551C69CF
Henceforth, the electoral college is a reliable system with easily fixed flaws, therefore we should not fix or replace the system. If the electoral college was to be replaced there would be pandemonium as to what system shall replace it, how we will adapt to the new system, and if the system is an improvement or a step back in innovation and our future leaders.
Concluding Statement
Effective
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E5F47974A6EF
NASA received a photo from Viking 1, in 1976, and it appeared to be a face. In 1998, a higher resolution picture came in and in 2001 an even higher resolution picture came in. NASA scientist thought aliens created this. But they didn't it was just a Martian mesa. A few days after they figured out it was a Martian mesa, NASA unveiled the image for all to see. The caption on it noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving the illusion of eyes,nose,and mouth." Authors reasoned it would be a good way to engage the public and attract attention to Mars. And it certainly did! The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It starred in a Hollywood film, appears in books, magazines, radio talkshows- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years! The picture actually shows is the Martian equivalent of a butte or mesa
Evidence
Ineffective
3a60f5ac590d
E5F47974A6EF
The "Face on Mars" wasn't an actually face. It was only a Martian mesa
Position
Adequate
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E5F47974A6EF
If scientist actually proved aliens are real I'm sure they won't tell the public.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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E60257F8B334
Is something wrong with cell phones being allowed in school? There is no such accunization.
Lead
Ineffective
bdf6ec8a74e4
E60257F8B334
Cell phones are used for important purposes and should be allowed in school and usable except in class. That's why i chose to go along with policy one.
Position
Adequate
af6e3ca0fa5a
E60257F8B334
Policy one states that cell phones will be allowed in school and that students could use them during lunch and other free periods
Claim
Adequate
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E60257F8B334
However in class, they are to be silenced and put away! There are many reasons for this policy. It also helps the kids not get in trouble as much. Students mostly get in trouble for texting in class.
Evidence
Adequate
97bb5211de91
E60257F8B334
This policy is trying to prevent students from sharing test answers in class.
Claim
Adequate
bee97c67ef3d
E60257F8B334
If they text in class they could be texting their friends telling them the answers and that is called cheating. Cheating is really a wrong thing to do, it shows what you know not your friend. Major consequences are handed out to cheaters that can cause them to fail or suffer in their career choices. Therefore cheating is prohibited.
Evidence
Adequate
6e7e8eca05f5
E60257F8B334
Another thing that is being prevented is the lack of knowledge
Claim
Adequate
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E60257F8B334
Students think they can text and listen simultaneously. But truth is all the information is going in one ear and out the other. It is important because it can help you in life. Grades reach higher levels than texting in my opinion.
Evidence
Adequate