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f301fe5e1b9b | ED62619C520F | I don't like that. I know it's not my call of how you do things. All of that was just my opinion. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
42ccfb92d0ca | ED6B6A38F98D | The electoral college system should be kept because it was established in the Constitution. It plays a big role in voting. But also should not be kept because voters vote not for president but for slate of electors. | Position | Ineffective |
d732cfc493a9 | ED6B6A38F98D | And also can confuse voters about the candidate and end up voting wrong. | Claim | Adequate |
a49a9f46f631 | ED6B6A38F98D | The electoral college system sholud be kept if it help the people | Claim | Ineffective |
c55c6e9e4688 | ED6B6A38F98D | the votes of the electors so they can total up the scores of the votes. And it consists of 538 electors but only majority of electoral of 270 is requried to elect the president.
An election is told to be held every four year after the first monday in November.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
b1b1b7f2d743 | ED6B6A38F98D | Electoral college system sholud not be kept because its really not a vote. | Claim | Adequate |
be346c8f8653 | ED6B6A38F98D | When u go to vote your really not voting for that person you votin for that person slate of electors. So if your not voting for them y vote at all it would make no sense to. These is one reason why it should not be kept. | Evidence | Adequate |
7f90794f411f | ED6B6A38F98D | say (Bradford Plumer) and sometimes people wonder what would might cause the disaster factor We sholud consider our selves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest electon crisis in a century sya (Bradford Plumer). | Evidence | Adequate |
586536b65ba5 | ED6B6A38F98D | The electoral college should be kept because it cause less stress on big states than it will on small states. And it helps advoid run off electoral | Claim | Adequate |
635adeb17bf7 | ED6B6A38F98D | to where not just one candidate get all votes like nixon and clinton because both only had 43% of plurality majority in the Electoral College. | Evidence | Adequate |
912fcc18c961 | ED6B6A38F98D | These are some reasons why electoral college should and shouldn't be kept and should be changed. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
5f157eecf0ae | ED8EE1F02203 | A electors college is a process , not a place. The electoral college was established it is the constitution as a conpromise betweet election of the presendent by a vote in congress and electection of the presendent by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The election college it like what person you want to br the presendent , maybe you dont vote for that person maybe someone will vote for them. youcan votefor anyboby only if you think that person is good for the comminuty. | Lead | Ineffective |
425f05a3e640 | ED8EE1F02203 | You help choose your state electors when you vote for presendent because when you vote for your condidute you are actully voting for your condidate's electors. | Claim | Ineffective |
187236f2c219 | ED8EE1F02203 | In the story they ask you what is wrong with the electors college. I think the problem is that one the off-change that those electors be anyone not holding public office. | Position | Ineffective |
0363366b5340 | ED8EE1F02203 | The single best argument agaisnst the electorsal college is what they might call the disaster factor. they the people in american should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. is the most worrying the prospect of s tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrwn to the house of representatives, where state delegation vote on the presendent. And the thing is that the senate would choose the vice-presendent. because each state cast only one vote, the single representative from wyoming, representing 5000,000 votes would have sa much say as the 55 representative from carofornia, who represent 35 million votes. | Evidence | Ineffective |
eef3312cdf97 | EDC00F1B2823 | The thought of driverless cars is amazing. Are there more dangers than what we think? | Lead | Adequate |
523f03e376d3 | EDC00F1B2823 | If the car is supposed to alert the drive what happens if it fails to do so in enough time to stop the crash? | Claim | Adequate |
167152ba1d62 | EDC00F1B2823 | If it is driverless your kids could start the car and leave they wouldnt need to even touch the wheel. | Claim | Adequate |
e5085e0fc513 | EDC00F1B2823 | Driverless cars are a great idea but the dangers and other factors have not been depated yet.
| Position | Adequate |
6e7992260fd5 | EDC00F1B2823 | Just think it drives itself, your daughter wants to go somewhere and you wont take her. She could turn the car on and set a destination anywhere and the car would take her there. You lost your car to an eight year old who couldnt reach the pedals. Now if the car had to be driven by a person she wouldnt have been able to leave. | Evidence | Adequate |
a50a44e7cb87 | EDC00F1B2823 | if your sick and dizzy and you need to go to the hospital your car could take you there. | Claim | Adequate |
13ed04e8c7d4 | EDC00F1B2823 | If someone is injured and you have to help them while the car is moving thats another advantage. | Claim | Adequate |
ffc11feb39ea | EDC00F1B2823 | Your on a trip to california from indiana and your afraid to fly so you drive with the new driverless car. You get bored because you dont have to do anything,and your getting tired. So you fall asleep in the car; up ahead there is a broken bridge and your car couldnt wake you up and you missed the detour because your car was incapable of doing its job. Fortunatly your car has a sensor to that aplies the brakes when the driver does not wake up and take the wheel. | Evidence | Effective |
4423bbd5808e | EDC00F1B2823 |
A teenager who DOES NOT know how to drive is supposed to steal a car for a gang as an initiation. He knows what the new driverless car looks like. Its the new car you just bout for 30 Thousand dollors. He brakes into the car and turns it on and sets the destination for the gangs warehouse. It drives itself there. | Evidence | Adequate |
ac7c6dd6853f | EDC00F1B2823 | He wouldnt have gotten the car there if it didnt drive itself. | Claim | Adequate |
e371173b38a7 | EDC00F1B2823 | What if the car doesnt stop at the lights and it causes an accident? | Claim | Adequate |
019cb0a780b9 | EDC00F1B2823 | Three people are injured two end up dieing. It could have been prevented if the driver of the driverless car was paying attention to the road. With the driverless car how many people do you really think will still pay attention to the road. | Evidence | Adequate |
87d593c7e913 | EDC00F1B2823 | This is a waste of taxe and government money. If we are going to use our money on something it should be to make gas cheaper, help veterans who are homeless, the wounded warriors who give us the freedom to spend money. | Claim | Ineffective |
640f4892a43c | EDC00F1B2823 | Driverless cars yes will change the world but i doubt it is for the better. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
5ffe09846fe2 | EDC00F1B2823 | Kids wont need to have drivers lisence if the car drives itself. | Claim | Adequate |
cf7dacd3f631 | EDE56797770A | I think that people shouldn't have to do community service unless they get into legal trouble such as a fight, and they are charged with assault. Or if someone steals something and they are charged with stealing. | Position | Effective |
6df0e0821f9c | EDE56797770A | I think that as long as someone does what he is supposed to do then it is okay that they don't have to do community service. | Claim | Adequate |
af88d58b9191 | EDE56797770A | how would you feel if someone just put a task in front of you without your permission, when you could be studying, or exercising to prevent not being fat like this country is now, and not being dumb like most of the country is. | Evidence | Adequate |
47263b8be8b4 | EDE56797770A | we should really be doing things that can help ourselves and do community service whenever we want. Because if you force someone to do something, we wont like it. | Claim | Effective |
b5c4689f3a61 | EDE56797770A | if you make people do community service nobody will do it. We will just say we did it even though we didn't. | Evidence | Adequate |
9cae3c57cd0f | EDE56797770A | tree huggers, AKA environmentalists
Anyway they are obsessed with the earth but what they don't get is that big companies are starting to fund research to find greener ways to help the environment so that we can run on electricity. We shouldn't do it because we are kids and we don't have to go and pick up trash in the middle of the road where cars are coming and trucks can hit us. And the government is already slowly demolishing our freedoms to save the little fishies that swim in gutters. They live on algae and stuff so why ban phosphates in dishwasher detergent, or get rid of mercury in light bulbs and have the green light bulbs which shine too bright or too dull. So the government really shouldn't take our rights away. So i say if they are doing something about it we shouldn't have to worry about it. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0f36f0d80004 | EDE56797770A | Elementary kids can learn by their teachers. Why in the heck do kids that learn how to spell need tutoring? Their teacher should teach them, or their guardians or whoever the heck they live with tutor them, why don't they help the kids and not us, when sometimes we mess up on the stuff too | Evidence | Adequate |
d4b43c5dcda7 | EDE56797770A | Why cant we go do something with our lives because we make our lives. We don't need anyone else to control them. | Claim | Adequate |
c312dcf18b19 | EDE56797770A | So don't force us to do something we don't want to do, or buy something we don't want to buy, or force us to not buy something so we eat with dirty dishes.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
312883867b03 | EDE56797770A | if you make us do community service we will not do good in school because we are too tired to do anything. If you put in a sleep time that would be nice though. | Claim | Adequate |
572ca0c25ab5 | EDE56797770A | I remember in pre-k no-one wanted to sleep, and now i want to sleep every period and I'm in 8th grade. So seriously, please switch that around. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9f429d0730c5 | EDEB83CB57BB | I think that driverless cars are a good idea in theory, but in practice they seem impracticle, costly, and unsafe. | Position | Adequate |
4026a5317acc | EDEB83CB57BB | Smart cars require quite alot of preperation for something that is so underwelming. | Claim | Effective |
fd5769026673 | EDEB83CB57BB | Same thing goes for investing money into cars that are incredibly slow and dumb when compared to us. | Claim | Effective |
e9b8a5b25db0 | EDEB83CB57BB | Lastly, smart cars aren't guranteed to not crash or accidently run off a bridge because it couldn't see that the bridge had been demolished later that day. | Claim | Effective |
f954cc0d360d | EDEB83CB57BB | Smart cars may be smart, but that doesn't make them better. Smart cars have to guess and assume what will happen based on what they were told by their programming. | Claim | Effective |
96fec3eac7f4 | EDEB83CB57BB | Smart cars rely a whole lot on electronics, so they could be in theory hacked or misinformed sending it into the wall of the house to it's left because it was told that everything was considered road and not impassable terrain. "Google's modified Toyota Prius uses position-estimating sensors on the left rear wheal, a rotating sensor on the roof, a video camera mounted near the rearview mirrow, four automotive radar sensors, a GPS receiver, and an inertial motion sensor." | Evidence | Adequate |
c9b4c73bed73 | EDEB83CB57BB | Even though driverless cars are possible doesn't make it cheap. | Claim | Effective |
cd6d708382cb | EDEB83CB57BB | It's possible to build a skyscraper out of gold, but it would probably require more then all the money on earth to afford it. Even if you could build this golden skysraper, what would happen after that? Gold is a rather soft material so it would most likely weather away as time wore on and would eventually collapse, even if it wasn't destroyed what would you do with a golden skyscraper that you couldn't do with a normal one? "Radar was a device on a hilltop that cost two hundred million dollars. It wasn't something you could buy at a Radio Shack" | Evidence | Ineffective |
c3428450407a | EDEB83CB57BB | Finally we get to the main issue with self driven cars, are they safe | Claim | Effective |
ed158ddf9150 | EDEB83CB57BB | Nothing is less safe then a machine that can act on its own, it doesn't require any input from the driver to accelerate or make a turn. Even with all the safety restraints in the world, these cars would still manage to injure or kill people. Artificial Intelligence isn't the same thing as a machine that can act on its own, AI actually thinks about what will happen if they do this or that, machines just do what their told. "Presently, traffic laws are written wih the assumption that the only safe car has a human driver in control at all times." | Evidence | Adequate |
51711d8bb49f | EE2FC4219F49 | I am writing this lettter to talk about how the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational. | Position | Effective |
a406e69c1549 | EE2FC4219F49 | First, the Electoral College is unfair to voters | Claim | Effective |
b318a4e3b80e | EE2FC4219F49 | Second, there could be a tie in the electoral vote. | Claim | Effective |
b5e255cce78a | EE2FC4219F49 | Last, the voters are merely voting for the slate of electors rather than the president. | Claim | Effective |
aa62e962f3d6 | EE2FC4219F49 | To start this off the Electoral College is unfair to the voters. | Claim | Adequate |
0d9d29cc7777 | EE2FC4219F49 | Because of the "winner-take-all system in each state", the candidates don't take time to go to other states that they know they will lose, they only really focus on the "swing" states. For example, during the 2000 campaign, seventeen statesdidn't see the candidates in their state at all, also 25 of the largest media markets had not seen a single campaign ad from a candidate. Also it's unfair because voters don't really know who to vote for because they see no campaign ads and candidates don't show up to their state and tell them what he/she is running for. That's why the Electoral College is unfair to voters of the presidential election. | Evidence | Effective |
43848fd5dfb3 | EE2FC4219F49 | Second, there could be a tie in the electoral vote. | Claim | Adequate |
85d8a4d67eef | EE2FC4219F49 | In the case of the tie it would go straight to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote for the president. By this the House's decision is no where close to that of the people in their state. The election is omly a few swing voters away from catastrophe. That's why it is bad if the vote ends in a tie. | Evidence | Adequate |
e3465394c992 | EE2FC4219F49 | Lastly, the voters are merely voting for the slate of electors rather than the president. | Claim | Adequate |
ebe1a07de43f | EE2FC4219F49 | For instance, if you "lived in Texas and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democratic electors pledged to Kerry." The worst part is that the electors could be anyone you don't even have to hold a political position to be an elector, they could be very biased and narrowminded. That's why the Electoral College is unfair. | Evidence | Effective |
d1c4705ba1dd | EE2FC4219F49 | In conclusion Mr. Senator the Electoral College is unfair, outdated, and irrational because it is unfair to voters, there could be a tie in the electoral vote and the voters are merely voting for a slate of electors and not there president. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
119aca478c56 | EE6DDAF8FD20 | I would go with policy 1, because there are many reasons why students would have their cell phones with them. | Position | Adequate |
68577f38ee9b | EE6DDAF8FD20 | There could have been something bad in your family and one of your parents might call to notify you what has happened, there's some kind of murderer in the school and the phones are out and cell phones are the only device to contact someone when you really need help, or you are on school grounds in a severe condition and there is no one else there to help you, you could either call for help or use your cell phone. I kind of support the use of cell phones even though I don't own one, I might ask for someone to use their's when I need to make a call. | Evidence | Adequate |
17308f35e6f9 | EE6DDAF8FD20 | Even though these events are rare, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
35374230e77a | EE6DDAF8FD20 | you might not know what will happen. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
2e04ebd95841 | EE6DDAF8FD20 | In my opinion, I would tell the principle to use policy 1. | Evidence | Adequate |
347418b9227f | EE6DDAF8FD20 | If I asked all the students who have cell phones with them if they want policy 1, there would be a chance that most of them would say yes. If I asked teachers with cell phones, probably most of them would want policy 2. I have already wrote a letter to the principle before this for an assignment if students should be allowed to have cell phones, either for educational use, emergency, or at certain time periods. | Evidence | Adequate |
5a190567676b | EE6DDAF8FD20 | Students want their cell phones with them just to be equal to their teacher, even though we are already equal by having an education and what events the school hosts for us to join. | Claim | Adequate |
23bd073a7297 | EEC4B41664DF | Driverless cars are the future of driving. It is an inevitable fact, people are already spending countless hours trying to figure out how to make cars safe and driverless, and have made some cars that are nearly driverless. | Lead | Adequate |
9a57e9a17314 | EEC4B41664DF | I think that driverless cars are a bad idea. | Position | Adequate |
0fd96dddc89a | EEC4B41664DF | These cars will just help fuel americas lazy lifestyle. | Claim | Effective |
2539556065b8 | EEC4B41664DF | Having cars the drive themselves will take all of the fun out of driving. | Claim | Effective |
f367cd3360ca | EEC4B41664DF | I think that driving is a lot of fun and if we take away peoples ability to drive then we will miss out on a lot of fun and skills that can help in everyday life. | Evidence | Adequate |
50318146acb5 | EEC4B41664DF | Automatic cars are not safe, | Claim | Effective |
22a1657e727e | EEC4B41664DF | if there is an accident on the road or constuction or anything blocking the road then the automatic cars will need the assistance of human drivers. The cars that are being produced now are not even fully automatic. | Evidence | Adequate |
8e8a6be99d90 | EEC4B41664DF | There are some car manufactoring companies that have already made cars that are almost driverless and have been working on making driverless cars for years and years. Some of these companies include General Motors, google (using a Toyota Prius), BMW, Tesla, Mercedes Benz, Audi, and Nissan have all either come out with a car that is almost driverless or has released plans to release them, Tesla in 2016 and the others in 2020. These manufacturing companies have already started making automatic cars and have been working on them for a very long time. | Evidence | Adequate |
128b37b2fa9a | EEC4B41664DF | I think that if the companies keep working and progressing on the safety issues with the automatic vehicles then maybe these automatic cars can be a good thing. | Counterclaim | Effective |
c63bb4e925eb | EEC4B41664DF | The American lifestyle, some might say that it is hardworking and free, others howeveer might say that we are lazy. I have to agree with both, we have many citizens that are very hardworking and strive to do their best and improve themselves and others. Sadly that is not all of out citizens, we have a gigantic amount of people in our contry that are lazy, they do not want to work for anything, and expect everything in life to be given to them without them putting forth any more effors than applying for some things online. If the automobile manufactorers release a car that drives itself, that will just be one more thing that the lazy americans do not have to do. It would be another thing just handed to them that they would not have to work for. These cars are made by the hardworking to make life for the lazy easier. I do not think that this is something that needs to happen or something that should even be considered. | Evidence | Effective |
a820d6d9d1a8 | EEC4B41664DF | When I get in my car and just drive, it is always fun. The feeling of being free and being able to go wherever you want and just to be able to drive is amazing. I think that many people love to drive and if we made automatic cars the manual cars would start to dissappear. Making many people upset and many others miss out of the wonders of driving. Diving a car can help build and develop many skills that can be helpful in every day life and even at work. Driving can help you develop your reflexes and your ability to spot details and be somewhat predictive of what others might do. That can help with plenty of jobs including sports. Learning to drive a car is one of the memories that you will remeber forever. If we have automatic cars then we will miss out on those memories. | Evidence | Effective |
d398cdbbdfee | EEC4B41664DF | These automatic cars can not handle anything besides normal road conditions or even pulling in and out of driveways. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through work zones and around accidents" (Driverless cars are coming, author unknown). These cars have been built to alert the driver when they need to take over the vehicle, but are still not capable of functioning without a human driver, which could be a safety hazards. If the vehicle is not able to handle the road conditions ahead it will attemp to notify the driver inside, but considering it is an automatic vehicle the driver may have fallen asleep due to the lack of entertainment of activities to keep them alert and then the car nor the driver is able to manuver the obsticles ahead and the could cause an accident resluting in the death of anyone involved. | Evidence | Effective |
a5a6179248f5 | EEC4B41664DF | Driverless cars are coming, and they are going to be dangerous. Driverless cars are coming and they stilll have a lot of issues to work through that could be dangerous. Driverless cars are going to reward the lazy for being lazy, and make them have to do even less work. Taking away the need for human drivers in vehicles will take away great memories, fun adventures, and many valuable skills that peple can gain while driving a car. These cars also can cause many safety issues including accidents from the lack od the cars ability to handle certain situations and could also cause issues if the drivers of these cars fall alseep when there is a sitiuation where there is a need for a human driver. RIght now these cars do not have enough safety features and they do not have enough driving capability to be safe for public use. If the manufactoring companies continue to work on these cars and make improvements, then these cars might not be completely bad, but as of right now they are not safe enough or skillled enought to be sent out to the pubic. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
5b44a5058a12 | EED4EEF4523A | there is a huge concern over who's vote is the real vote, Americas, or the Electoral College "Your vote counts" is what the citizens of America always hear when it is finally time to vote. But does it really count the way that it should? The tuesday after the first monday in November, everyone is going crazy lining up outside of the voting polls and waiting to make their vote count for who they want their new president to be. But are they really voting for a President or a state of electors? | Lead | Effective |
6ecf6bb9c141 | EED4EEF4523A | Whats the point of even putting in our vote if the Electoral College is gonna take over and vote for who they want. It makes no sense at all. | Position | Adequate |
9996337d5d02 | EED4EEF4523A | It is completely understood that they use the peoples votes for who they pledged on but that really has no purpose. Instead of having the people of America vote then why don't we just have the Electoral College be the only people to vote? | Claim | Adequate |
991ca9435354 | EED4EEF4523A | So basically when the people of America go and vote they are not voting for any president at all. Instead they are voting for Democratic and Republican electors. That completely overrides the whole purpose for the Presidential election. | Evidence | Adequate |
328c0630dbe6 | EED4EEF4523A | In 2002, Al Gore lost the election due to the Electoral College. He had more individual votes but George Bush had more electoral votes. | Evidence | Adequate |
72764ea5b75a | EED4EEF4523A | That proves that many peoples vote doesnt count. If more people voted for Gore thats what the people of America wanted and there was proof. So it was very unfair how Bush won because of electoral votes. | Claim | Effective |
499dfcfea6bc | EED4EEF4523A | The only real reason that the people are to vote is to be played. America is being fooled by thinking that their vote does something when really it does nothing at all. | Claim | Adequate |
07d945e72f76 | EED4EEF4523A | If Bush won because of the Electoral College and not individual votes why did the people even vote? If noone were to vote then we would still have a president because, the Electoral College would just vote for who they wanted instead right? So why must America vote? | Evidence | Ineffective |
e38149268d35 | EED4EEF4523A | If our votes count then why would we need an Electoral College to assist in the presidential election? America should be able to get who they want not who the Electoral College wants. So the question usually asked should not be, "Did you vote" but instead, "Did the Electoral College vote"? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
cffd566bcd58 | EF0D75BF48DA | I favor in to changing election by popular vote | Position | Adequate |
e4de39b1219f | EF0D75BF48DA | because it would be more fair to the people who are running | Claim | Adequate |
9bbaf880b267 | EF0D75BF48DA | and it would be quicker to decide who is president. | Claim | Adequate |
ec16364839c0 | EF0D75BF48DA | I think its better to be elected by popular votes because people actually like the person for a reason and actually listening to what that person is saying and actually agrees what he saying and they see something in that person instead of just having congress vote count mostly instead of the citizens. | Claim | Ineffective |
4e76fc3696b9 | EF0D75BF48DA | And its not really fair that a person wins just because of his or hers own group of electors gets him to win it should just be based on popularity | Claim | Adequate |
385bec763e8d | EF0D75BF48DA | because its fair as i said before for example what if their was some person running for president and he was not really good to run the United States and yeah some people voted for him but he wasnt as popular but he won the election because of his group itb wouldnt really be fair because the people perferd the other guy better in office. Why because ethier people liked what he had for the states n what he would offer to the people and actually help us live good and thats what is important for the state its all about the people wants because thats how we will live right. | Evidence | Ineffective |
289b20a47e4a | EF0D75BF48DA | Also the person running for office might not have any electorial votes because theie campaigning wasnt heavy in a certain part of the state so they would oviously vote for the other person because they really havent seen what that person has to offer to them and he will have less succes in winning the election. | Evidence | Adequate |
3bda10637b4a | EF0D75BF48DA | It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a canidate | Claim | Adequate |
c01977716bfe | EF0D75BF48DA | witch means that they can relie on their state as much so they really wouldnt pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by a popular vote but of course no voters vote swings a national election. | Evidence | Adequate |
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