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0e7e6defb7a3 | E60257F8B334 | The students shouldn't have a problem because, it gives them the opportunity to use it during the daytime. It's not like a prison where they have no cell phone. Students should be very grateful and lucky. They have many breaks to use them just not when it is time to be focused. Hopefully, this will help kids in the future. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
84f37c36d800 | E604DD820759 | First off, I disagree with the Electoral College. I have a strong hope that we need to change to election by popular vote for president. | Position | Adequate |
eebe40aca493 | E604DD820759 | The Electoral College is a process of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress (office of the federal Register 2). | Evidence | Ineffective |
4ff51451cae3 | E604DD820759 | In source two it announces that the electoral college is an unfair way to votes | Evidence | Adequate |
dad7590d992f | E604DD820759 | In my opinion I agree strongly with that statement because not everyone would get a fair oppurtunity | Claim | Adequate |
81af68294409 | E604DD820759 | Secondly, everyone has the right to voice their opinion on who they want to elect as president. | Claim | Adequate |
ba82ebe05e93 | E604DD820759 | With the Electoral College we wouldn't be able to voice our opinion as because as Source 2 explains that if you have Electoral College system the voters would vote for a slate of electors, but not for president. The state of electors would be the ones to elect the president. Therefore the people wouldnt get a voice to vote only the 29 people in Florida-shown on the map in source 3-not the whole state which makes it not an equal oppurtinuty to everyone who lives in that state. | Evidence | Adequate |
51d080e2f9e6 | E604DD820759 | Next, when having Electoral College instead of population vote the picked voters could pick someone wrong. | Claim | Adequate |
b2a688795de8 | E604DD820759 | In source two it mentions that sometimes the senator could vote for the wrong person sometimes and not always can they control their vote. To add on to that the electoral college is the "disaster factor". The reason that it is the diaster factor is because the state legislatures are responsible for picking the electors and they could pick everyone thats agasinst a certain president and that the "better" president isn't picked and has a chance of our state being ruined. | Evidence | Adequate |
1241a9a90cf8 | E604DD820759 | In the United States we need to have a fair way of allowing everyone to vote therefore please help me in choosing to change the electon to popular vote | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9b94a71ffe9c | E63689D747FA | Arguing about keeping the electoral college would have to be the best oppition | Position | Ineffective |
bafc3a8a1f9a | E63689D747FA | The process of the electoral college is a meeting of electors that vote forpresident and vice president. I think that the people should help out with this voting like all we do is give them advice. When this is done the people that voted are picking the right person to protect our country. And when we vote for your new president you are actually voting for the candidate's electors | Evidence | Ineffective |
166d774ebbbc | E63689D747FA | In maine and nebraska they are differnet form every other state they dont do the winner takes all they have a differnet system. When the president is elected he gets a certifacation of all the people he beat. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a31fcd7c1512 | E63689D747FA | I think thats wrong I think that everyone that fought in this election should get a little thing. | Claim | Ineffective |
da2c8ec697ff | E63689D747FA | Jimmy carter, bob dole, and others all agreed that electoral college should be abolished. In this election 60 percant of people voted not to have a electoral college. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8d5a2ad95ca9 | E63689D747FA | When voters are voting on the new president they are actally voting for the state of electors. If your voting in texas for someone that is running you wouldn't be voting for them you would be voting for the democratic electors | Evidence | Adequate |
5f9056bed867 | E63689D747FA | The best argument against the electoral college would have to be the disaster factor. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
12762b15d319 | E63689D747FA | In 2000 there was a election crisis that broke out it was the biggest one. The states leislatures are technically responsible for picking the electors and picking this people they can defy eneyone.
Back in 1960 a louisiana legislature succeeded in replacing the democratic elector with a new one. Electors had refused to vote for their party's candidate and it happened in hawaii 1960. The vice president at the time had made sure that everything was back to normal | Evidence | Ineffective |
c89562f00ead | E67A118F9AFA | This all started 21 years ago. Here is how the face on Mars was discovered. NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft was circling Mars, taking pictures for possible landing sites for it's sister Viking 2 and it spotted a shadown of a likely human face. It was a great big head shaped face 2 miles apart from end to end. That is how this all started. | Lead | Adequate |
0d91c6ad3964 | E67A118F9AFA | How could aliens make such a thing? There is no way. | Claim | Ineffective |
6fd0ebd1d62f | E67A118F9AFA | Some scientist believe that the face was an alien artifact, the photographing from Cydonia became a priorty for NASA when MGS showed up at the Red Planet in Sepmber. The face was not created by some things we like to call aliens that we don't even know if they exist or not, kind of like mermiads or unicorns.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
0170f6a5828e | E67A118F9AFA | There is to much evidence of how this face could of formed on it's own | Claim | Adequate |
2cfc9fd96dd8 | E67A118F9AFA | It was so bi it would take aliens so long to even make this thing we say that looks like a face. Some people belive that the face is "bona fide", which means that that face is evidence that there was life on Mars at one point. Nobody has that big of a face for it to be an actual human face. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b0966dc55b1d | E67A118F9AFA | I believe it is just a natual landform that just happened to look a lot like a human face | Position | Adequate |
b3844449f9ff | E67A118F9AFA | The face is exactly located 41 degrees North martian latitude where it was winter in April '98, a very cloudy time on the Red Planet. This investigation the scientist haas said has been very hard work to figure out exaclty what it is. | Evidence | Ineffective |
fb48b217fdd6 | E67A118F9AFA | I still belive with all the evidence we have it has to just be God's creation and it just apeared to look like a face, no aliens or anything like that because if you want to tell me that aliens did it you better be showing me that aliens even exist first. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
391d9a0e05a0 | E6FDA0489273 | I believe that we should continue to use the electoral college to elect our presidents. | Position | Adequate |
263f0be3da03 | E6FDA0489273 | using the electoral college is better and more benificial beacauese there is a certanty of outcome | Claim | Adequate |
88cdb475f0e7 | E6FDA0489273 | everyones preident | Claim | Ineffective |
fd7f3f2fa76e | E6FDA0489273 | swing states, | Claim | Ineffective |
6a53b002c7ae | E6FDA0489273 | big states | Claim | Ineffective |
a3f3ca9ef32d | E6FDA0489273 | and it aviods run off elections. | Claim | Adequate |
9e89d0804d1f | E6FDA0489273 | For example when president Obama ran his electoral votes equaled 61.7 percent, but his popular vote only equaled 51.3 percent. If your a fan of Obama then you should love the fact that we use electoral votes. | Evidence | Adequate |
61639ec6a282 | E6FDA0489273 | A trans-regional vote means that if a president was popular in, lets say the south, but not in the west and only the south voted for him then he/she could not be elected. A candidate must have a widely spread out amount of votes across the regions in order to be elected president. | Evidence | Adequate |
ec5f3bc01a45 | E6FDA0489273 | There are such things as swing states. Swing states mean that the state is made up of people who are democratic and republican so the state has a mixed variety of voters. Candidates spend a lot of time campagning in these swing states to try and persuade the voters in the state into their favor. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7c6c114dbfa4 | E6FDA0489273 | in electoral voting the size and population of a state matters. | Claim | Adequate |
124c762b6115 | E6FDA0489273 | The more people you have in a state the more senators and people you get in the house of representatives which means that the state gets more votes towards who gets elected. A state like Florida will have more votes then a place like Maine.
| Evidence | Adequate |
33b90bda3d1c | E6FDA0489273 | Electoral college is the way to go when it comes to voting for our presendent. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
eb07bc1bd695 | E721598E54AB | "It's offcial: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Source 2). Many do not like the electoral college for these reasons and many others such as it can be a distaster or because it is just plain dumb. Also there are a few reasons why the electoral college should be kept such as avoiding run-off elections or big states, but those not in favor of it out weigh those in favor of it. | Lead | Effective |
a54884b59835 | E721598E54AB | The people who despise the electoral college are in favor of popular vote since it is the better choice. | Position | Effective |
5a4b59532e87 | E721598E54AB | For various reasons the electoral college is unfair such as not everyones decisions count just those few people in the electoral collge. | Claim | Effective |
7d504779de69 | E721598E54AB | In a popular vote election everyones vote counts not just those who are considered better than us because they hold authority over people. Those people can also be sneaky and can change votes to be in favor of their choice of president. They will even take bribes sometimes just becuase they can even though us other people do count. | Evidence | Effective |
0b6fbfa70e43 | E721598E54AB | The system should not even be here today because it is outdated way past our time. | Claim | Effective |
cf8fec3d29c2 | E721598E54AB | "It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolsi the electoral college!" (Plumer, Source 2) and many others do agree with this statement because it rather true that we do so instead of let a bunch of monkeys run our states and country, but I am pretty sure that sometimes they could even do a better job than those in office right now. ".....over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now" (Plumer, Source 2) every day as we continue that percentage continues to grow and that data was recorded in 2000. | Evidence | Effective |
75abd79a5b20 | E721598E54AB | Lastly, the electoral college is irrational | Claim | Adequate |
5998b846aa6b | E721598E54AB | "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president........Who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office. Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, soemtimes the presidential candidate themselves. Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always. DO voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candiate? Sometimes" (Plumer, Source 2) I know this statement says it all becuase how could one simply not want popular vote after reading this.
| Evidence | Effective |
39516c2a81f0 | E721598E54AB | I know that electoral college vote can help and not cause problems, but there are more problems while there is one easy fix which is popular vote. "It's offcial: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Source 2). | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8c71ec26a4db | E726C5DDAD9F | I believe everyone should be required to do at least 24 hours of community service each year.
That's adds up to only one day of your 365 day year. | Position | Effective |
e34eacee44cd | E726C5DDAD9F | It is not asking for a lot from the us to sacrifice one day. | Claim | Effective |
0ac88bc12368 | E726C5DDAD9F | I think if you want to do more than 24 hours of service, go right ahead that would be even better.
If 1,000 students each help out for a day, that would be 24,000 hours of community service!
That could make a huge impact in our community.
| Evidence | Effective |
84e3c26fb8ee | E726C5DDAD9F | I know some people would still disagree and not do this, but as a second option you can make them do a large project that would take them a lot longer than a day.
| Claim | Adequate |
b3e0e3996f97 | E726C5DDAD9F | I don't know too many people that would much rather do a huge project rather than sacrifice a total of two, maybe three whole days to help out their community.
It wouldn't take long at all.
It could be as easy as picking up some trash in the local park or, if you want to you can be able to tutor kids or help out kids with a disability.
Either way, you are going to help out the community in a positive way. | Evidence | Effective |
822290421055 | E726C5DDAD9F | Just imagine, what we could be able to do if our whole school were to chip in 24 hours of community service. | Claim | Effective |
a82838144f32 | E726C5DDAD9F | We could do so much if we were to put this rule into our school program.
I do community service every year just to help out the community without being required to do it.
I have cleaned up the park, helped make sandwiches for the homeless, helped kids with disabilities.
I can only imagine how much this could change our community if everybody in our school were required to do this.
People that we would be helping would be so grateful.
We as a school could become the school that everyone talks so greatly about.
We could start promoting this idea around school by hanging posters up, handing out flyers, reminding people on the morning and afternoon announcements.
| Evidence | Effective |
a54849403a8d | E726C5DDAD9F | If you get behind my idea, I know students and teachers will follow us and make a huge difference in our community.
We could even send out e-mails to each student's parents telling them of this idea.
If the parents find out about this, I believe they will certainly force their kids to take part in a small amount of community service.
All I am asking from you, is to just enforce this one little rule into our school.
It could change lives.
I am not asking for everybody to do a whole lot, just 24 hours of your life to help out the community.
There are so many opportunities for our students to help out our community.
Who knows, maybe you could save somebody's life while doing the community service.
| Concluding Statement | Effective |
a305f3f3fd51 | E73329DA93D6 | Dear mr. senator i think that we should keep the electoral college eclections. I believe the electoral college is a better system than any other. | Position | Adequate |
3ff5c4e756ce | E73329DA93D6 | Some of my reasoning is it is the easiest way to elect someone. | Claim | Ineffective |
2233610f8f31 | E73329DA93D6 | Second reason is it is very fast quick to elect. | Claim | Ineffective |
7d075253a288 | E73329DA93D6 | Final reason is it work fine. My mom always tells me you dont fix whats not broke. | Claim | Ineffective |
08913cb93154 | E73329DA93D6 | This method has worked for a very long time. | Claim | Adequate |
86c9f7e1fea1 | E73329DA93D6 | If a method like this has worked thid long i think we should keep it until it doesnt work. | Claim | Adequate |
83d8c42d259a | E73329DA93D6 | Then when it stops working we could start a new type of election. Many people have used this type of election the whole life and we still use it today so i think we should keep this way of our elections. | Evidence | Ineffective |
fd7b9e8e626d | E73329DA93D6 | The first reason is it one of the easiest ways to elcet. | Claim | Ineffective |
df550d3da8bb | E73329DA93D6 | In the story it says the "electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors is where they vote for the president and vice president , and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. | Evidence | Ineffective |
5cf7f3eca4dc | E73329DA93D6 | My second reason is it is very fast. | Claim | Ineffective |
0849db2afed5 | E73329DA93D6 | They get the electoral votes in and start counting. Within a couple of hours they have tha answer. they can find out who wins in just a couple of weeks. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c617c7730cd3 | E73329DA93D6 | My final reason is it works good. | Claim | Adequate |
15c70674ed47 | E73329DA93D6 | If it didn't work good it still wouldn't be around today. in the story it says that the electoral college was established by our founding fathers. | Evidence | Adequate |
721633ed86e1 | E73329DA93D6 | So i think this is the process we should use to elect our people even if it is still an old way of doing things. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9d6f98e09105 | E740029E13D1 | The United States has ways of being civilaized, and thats by electing leaders. Those leaders that take role of the responsiblitiy are President. Presidents need candidates to vote for them. The only way the President will get elected is by the Electoral College or by popular vote. Although both ways are effective, only one way is the best. | Lead | Effective |
3fa054b78495 | E740029E13D1 | The U.S should stick with the Electoral College | Position | Effective |
89f1006f5839 | E740029E13D1 | because its a game changer | Claim | Adequate |
39a1337560c0 | E740029E13D1 | trust worthy. | Claim | Adequate |
1dcf96db597b | E740029E13D1 | To start off the Electoral College is a game changer for Election Day | Claim | Adequate |
4904c5a5d2a9 | E740029E13D1 | In the article " In Defenese of the Electoral College" the author states a good claim. Richard states " the reason is that the winning candidate's share of the Electoral College invariably exceeds his share of the popular vote". From this quote Richard points out the even when a candidate has a good amount of popular vote it all comes down to the Electoral College. The reason is the Electoral College is part of the candidate's team, whether its Democrat or Republican. In the article from Richard he gave an example, " Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney". In this peice of information Richard clearly states on how the Electoral College is stronger then the popular votes. | Evidence | Effective |
9d8d0c17b8c3 | E740029E13D1 | Now in the article "the indfensible Electoral College" which was written by Bradford has a different claim. Bradford states " because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning". From this Bradford wants to express that the Electoral College is not fair to voters, and that it has cheesy methods. | Counterclaim | Effective |
3fed2b394bc4 | E740029E13D1 | But even thought Bradfort disagrees with the method, Bradfort still stated the obvious. In the article Plumer states " taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college-won the popular vote but lost the presidency". Although Plumer disagree with the electoral college, Bradford still notices on how the electoral college makes a huge difference. | Rebuttal | Effective |
fc67fa5daf47 | E740029E13D1 | Also it was like the first method to be used. In the first source "What is the Electoral College", the author gives some great information. The office states " the electors are generally chosen by the candidate's political party, but state laws vary on how the electors are selected and what their resposibilities are". In this statement the Office is stating on how whichever party a person might be in, the electoral college will come through. The reason is because each state has an Electoral college and those states are in differnet parties. If the state that a person might live in is Democrat then the electoral college will go for that party, and same thing for the Republican party. | Evidence | Effective |
ece55cfbf6c6 | E740029E13D1 | From the other side of Bradford again wants a comeback. In his article Bradford states "in the same vein, faithless electors have occasionally refuesd to vote for their party's candidate". | Counterclaim | Effective |
c4707bd40eed | E740029E13D1 | Now no one would know if this is true but the electors might have their reasons. But Richard A. Posner comes back and states "no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president. In this quote its supports the fact that the electors do choose who they please. Plus this makes it fair because candidates wont be getting votes all over the places. Also the electoral college will be trust wirthy because the college follows the majority of the people's vote, and then makes a vaild decision. | Rebuttal | Effective |
20d5892cba57 | E740029E13D1 | All in all the Electoral College is just the better method of voting. The Electoral College will give what the people want. Also the electoral college represents the states votes. The reason is because electoral colleges are game changers and a trust worthy method. Certainly it wll be easier to choose a president and break ties. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
d87242d83649 | E74E4865B395 | Many schools throughout the world offer distance learning as an option for students to attend online classes | Lead | Adequate |
16c443f87106 | E74E4865B395 | Although online classes may be helpful for some students but I think its a bad idea. | Position | Adequate |
3aa15cc835f0 | E74E4865B395 | Many schools started online classes due to emergencies or some students arent able to attend school everyday | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6fd82abcb5d5 | E74E4865B395 | Some schools offer computers and laptops to students that attend their schools. Many students might not do their work at home due to internet problems or some students can't afford internet,or computers at their households | Claim | Adequate |
3b72b6158936 | E74E4865B395 | Many think distance learning is a bad option because students can easily get distracted at home while attenting online classes.
| Claim | Adequate |
498674b4e049 | E74E4865B395 | Also students won't able to get their work done at home due to distractions like watching TV while doing their homework or assignments | Claim | Adequate |
93567ebb2abd | E74E4865B395 | Although some may say online classes are helpful because students can do school work on their own time,they wont have to wait until a teacher gives them instructions for assignments | Counterclaim | Adequate |
d015622c7c64 | E74E4865B395 | But offering distance learning can cause students to do bad on their test,quizes,and homework because they'll need help throughout the assignments,multiple students may not have anyone to help them at home. Teachers may have a hard time video conferencing multiple students at the same time. Students might take advantages of online learning and start cheating at home while the teachers won't know. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
0c37e109011e | E74E4865B395 | Students also can invite their friends over their houses and work togather on assignments but they can also copy eachother on tests,quizes or even homework. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
aba9f8d4dc9c | E74E4865B395 | Students and teachers may also argue about this topic,some students and teacher might agree to offering distance learning because traveling would be easier due to online assignments. Distance learning can be done anywhere and anytime around the world. | Evidence | Adequate |
e96b18bb06a6 | E74E4865B395 | Handful of students might not take advantage of attending classes from home,students wouldn't use their time whisely due to many distraction | Claim | Adequate |
c9cb8dccbe19 | E74E4865B395 | Offering distance learning classes from home can cause many students being able to stay at home everyday and not attend school. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f090c6b555d3 | E74E4865B395 | Many students and teachers are interested in attending classes from home or by online video conferencing. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
3eeccd7cc6d8 | E74E4865B395 | Students might prefer staying home and doing assignements instead of waking up for school early,they'll have a chance to sleep in and do school work in the afternoon or at night. Teachers can benefit from online classes because some teachers have young children that need caring and help,teachers will be able to easily take care of them while attending school from home. Teachers will able to teach a whole class while sitting on their couch and even while eating at home or at a restuarent. Being able to attend classes online for students is a great way because traveling far distances or for long period time can be easier,Students won't have excuses on why their assignements weren't done. Students can easily work on their missing assignements because of the option of distance learning from home and being able to video conference teachers. | Evidence | Effective |
3ed9d1aeb0fb | E74E4865B395 | Some Students and teachers might not prefer online video conferencing and might not feel comfortable speaking or showing their faces online. Distance learning can be a hard for students that travel to different areas around the world,internet can be a problem because some countries don't have internet connection or they have bad connection. | Claim | Effective |
91edbceb40e9 | E74E4865B395 | Which might cause them not being able to video conference,or work on assignements and big projects that need high quality of internet connection. Many students learn better in person instead of using the computer or video conference. Throughout teaching assignements,teachers might have a hard time explaining or giving details about a specific topic through online classes because they might be used to speaking in front of a class in person. | Evidence | Effective |
1ce6687f32b5 | E74E4865B395 | This is why many might prefer attending school instead of attending classes from home by way of online or video conferencing. Many students might or might not benefit from being able to attend classes from home. But many students don't have a choice because many schools now offer distance learning for students around the world. Students from New York schools now have to attend online classes because of the Corona Virus,this caused a big impact on students who learn better in front of a teachers not through a computer or online conferencing. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9d3b8a6cef19 | E7DFEA5C3B73 | I'm against driveless development | Position | Adequate |
5adb129c67d9 | E7DFEA5C3B73 | when it's snowing outside and you have to walk to school with no buses. mom and dad has to work,live a mile away. Or when your a senior in high school what's the point of doing drivers ed to drive. What if you get a job you far from there how are you going to get to work everyday on time so you want lose your job. If your grandma have to go to the doctor to old to ride the bus hows going to take her for life support. Some one in your family is having a baby and you call 911 they don't get there in time and you don't know how to deliver a baby the what.
Anyone have a stroke in your family 911 doesn't t come in time chance the person dies cause you didn't have a car to save him or her. | Evidence | Ineffective |
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