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62c301762e6d | F3D1C6C6C574 | I believe that it would be better if students participated in online classes rather than being in school. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
301376819ecb | F44018D39BEF | have you ever wondered how nice community service is? | Lead | Ineffective |
43fb8cfe1f65 | F44018D39BEF | have all of your students do at least 15 minutes of community service a week. | Position | Adequate |
d283be1bfbe6 | F44018D39BEF | first of all, it is nice to do for others. | Claim | Adequate |
8adb3241a595 | F44018D39BEF | ommunity service is probably one of the nicest thing you can do for someone. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c819a72a596d | F44018D39BEF | if you help clean up the town, then you could get much more stronger then you were before. if you are stronger then you can do more things that require strength. | Evidence | Adequate |
7e68976d8a06 | F44018D39BEF | also, it will build up you self confidence to do more | Claim | Adequate |
937f0f4f3834 | F44018D39BEF | if you pick up trash around the town then you could get the confidence to do so much more. | Evidence | Ineffective |
be3392c32597 | F44018D39BEF | lastly, it could help you to have a cleaner town. | Claim | Adequate |
86ea0439ba62 | F44018D39BEF | TEACHER_NAME said "a clan town us a happy town." also, 90% of towns that are cleaned become some of the most successful towns ever. | Evidence | Adequate |
904b06b6bfaa | F44018D39BEF | community service help you it also helps the town. | Claim | Adequate |
4e7f985d9311 | F44018D39BEF | little Johnny can relate with the problem of having a dirty town. Little Johnny was walking home from school one day when he noticed a gum rapper on the gray sidewalk, he picked it up and threw it in the garbage can. he continued walking home when he saw another gum rapper on the sidewalk. he picked it up and put it in the garbage. a few minutes later he saw another gum rapper on the sidewalk. but this time he was mad so he ignored it. that afternoon he told his mom and dad about what happened after school, and they said it didn't matter, and that it is not there problem. the next day he was walking home from school when he found another gum rapper on the sidewalk, so he pick it up and brought it home to his mom and dad and the all wrote a letter to the major of his town saying that they should pick up all of the trash on the ground. and they did. | Evidence | Effective |
a34bec448e92 | F44018D39BEF | first of all, you could do exactly what John did and write a letter to the major stating that every body should pick stuff up. also, you could do what i have been trying tell you wah to do for a long time, tell all of your students to do at least 15 minute of community service.
over all, i think that students should do at least 15 minutes of community service a day, so that the town is clean. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
71574ded4992 | F452B9456B45 | What is the electoral college? The electoral college is a process , not a place . | Lead | Adequate |
c98e20c4205a | F452B9456B45 | If i would have to argue in favor of keeping the Electoral college or changing to election by popular vote for the president of the united states , I would have to agree with keeping the Electoral college. | Position | Adequate |
1c629d135cf4 | F452B9456B45 | I would agree because the Electoral college consists of 538 electors , a majority of 270 is required to elect presidents , and i think that it is a fair amount of people who are required to vote. | Claim | Adequate |
9acd8358be63 | F452B9456B45 | This Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors , the meeting where they vote for President and Vice president , and the counting of the electoral votes by congress . | Evidence | Ineffective |
e2dad4b5c208 | F452B9456B45 | These votes are very important because with those votes you are making a very important choice by voting for the president and vice president , it should not stop because you could make a difference with just one vote you never know and you would not want just anybody as your president , right ? These electotral votes should not stop . | Claim | Ineffective |
31966b926faf | F452B9456B45 | This election is held every four years on the tuesday after the first Monday in November | Evidence | Ineffective |
4aa519b48c6f | F452B9456B45 | . If we make a vote for our candidate we are actually voting for our canditate electors , very important. | Claim | Ineffective |
9f1cfb053b8b | F452B9456B45 | After the presidential election your governor prepares what they call " Certificate of Ascertainment " , what is that ? it is listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors it is so important because it shows which electors will represent your state at the meeting of the electors in December year . The Certificates of Ascertainments are sent to the congres and the National Archives as part of the official records of the presidential election . | Evidence | Ineffective |
6f6560d38fdb | F452B9456B45 | Bradford wrote " The indefensible Electoral college : Why even the best laid defenses of the system are wrong " . It talks about how some people prefer a direct election to the kind we have now .and how this year voters can expect another close election in which the popular vote winner could again lose the presidency , | Counterclaim | Adequate |
794edd5b765d | F452B9456B45 | yet the the electoral college still has defenders . This shows electoral colllege is good because it still has its defenders. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
de7b7c5f2480 | F452B9456B45 | It says at the most basic level , the electoral college is unfair to voters because of the winner-take-all sysrem in each state . Some voters do feel like electoral college is unfair but others do not , they should do electoral college because of all the reasons i just gave wether some people like it or not . They should not abolish electoral college. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
02a4af5035e5 | F45F03EBB2CA | I think we should perform community service | Position | Adequate |
e8581b6240f4 | F45F03EBB2CA | to support our community | Claim | Adequate |
4ba1a91e1f18 | F45F03EBB2CA | to help out clean our streets, and parks | Claim | Adequate |
dd3b0355f376 | F45F03EBB2CA | help the people who are starving for food | Claim | Adequate |
d5313d87f27b | F45F03EBB2CA | All students should require to help out with the animals and the people from starvation. | Claim | Adequate |
241e510459f5 | F45F03EBB2CA | It doesn't take time off of you want to do It would help out to make our place a whole lot better than a mess. | Evidence | Adequate |
5af7422bb1c2 | F45F03EBB2CA | Its important to help out our community to live in a better place to live. The people who need food you can donate to the people who are starving out there right now. Also You can donate to you're charity to help out the homeless that are starving to eat and donate for the winter of the cold because they might be cold and with no food they can start dying. | Evidence | Adequate |
d9b47d3b9417 | F45F03EBB2CA | You can clean up with the littering its not right for the animals to eat our plastic it can kill them and start to clean you're streets. | Evidence | Ineffective |
46d22e89d26a | F47252812301 | I am writing you today because I find we should not be using the electoral college. It doesn't make much sense to make things so much more complicated than they have to be. | Position | Adequate |
ba2f49ad2af7 | F47252812301 | Why would we vote for a group of people to vote for us? it doesnt make sense, why not just vote on our own, that way we know we voted for whom we really wanted
? | Claim | Adequate |
3920c0fceb34 | F47252812301 | voting for an electoral group is like going to vote and saying "Hey, im going to vote today for a group that will hopefully vote for the presisdent i want." I personally would not put my faith in someone who could just so easily change their mind and not vote for my choice. | Evidence | Adequate |
2fd35e5e5de0 | F47252812301 | I do see the reasoning in having an electoral college so that way we are less likely to end up with a tie or any other mishaps | Counterclaim | Adequate |
11f174e4c14a | F47252812301 | however why would we not instead just have an extra group of say, 50 people to vote if we end up with a tie? | Rebuttal | Adequate |
69f0fea89109 | F47252812301 | I find that would be much easier. people would be able to just vote for whom they wanted and be done with the whole situation. | Evidence | Ineffective |
1fb8d81ff73e | F47252812301 | Remeber the disaster factor? | Claim | Adequate |
618072144365 | F47252812301 | we are lucky that 2000 situation was the biggest election crisis in the century; the system allows far worse. our legislatures are responsible technically for picking electors, and the chosen electors can always go against the will of the people. | Evidence | Adequate |
c75b9a23d4ce | F47252812301 | what if a tie does occur in the electoral vote? | Claim | Adequate |
4e421f556389 | F47252812301 | it nearly happened in 1968, a shift of just 41,971 votes would have deadlocked the election; in 1976, a tie would have occured if a mere 5,559 voters in Ohio and 3,687 voter in hawaii had voted the other way. the election is only a few swing voters away from a disaster. | Evidence | Adequate |
3ac060c97a7f | F47252812301 | The electoral college is unfair to voters. | Claim | Adequate |
460d77c17485 | F47252812301 | Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, canidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winmning, focusing on the tight races in the "swing" states. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the canidates at all. If anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio, they have yet to make it. | Evidence | Adequate |
dbd8ba18f5b2 | F47252812301 | The electoral college is just not a fair nor good way to handle the voting system and i believe we need to change it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
6ca0972ca8ba | F49FF10DA5C2 | I am writing an argument in favor of changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States. | Position | Adequate |
8213fc80c10c | F49FF10DA5C2 | I feel that you should make it more clear to the people that vote. The people should know who and what they are voting for | Claim | Adequate |
b8a408936c89 | F49FF10DA5C2 | which some people get confused. "...sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes..." If people keep voting for the wrong candidate soon they will realize and the senator of Florida will be recieving more than one letter. | Evidence | Adequate |
196019b55ef2 | F49FF10DA5C2 | With the electora doing a "winner-take-all" system then, its not really fair to the people. | Claim | Adequate |
50bd8f34826c | F49FF10DA5C2 | Every state in the United States should absolutely get a chance to see a single campaign ad. "...seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all,including Rhode Island and South Carolina..." | Evidence | Adequate |
6aadaef6f234 | F49FF10DA5C2 | I dont think you should abolish the electoral college, after all its not so bad. You should just do better and get all around the United States not just a couple of states, ALL!! | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
58fc486eb132 | F503C7DC334F | Voting has been a legal write of all people since our country was established, but is the way we vote recieving some resistance? The electoral college is the way we vote now and the way weve been doing it for years. So why change it? For the sake of fairness and accuracy. | Lead | Effective |
2236e0af044a | F503C7DC334F | People from all around the country don't think that the electoral college is a intelligent way of voting. So they are fighting changing the electoral process to popular vote rather than voting for a state of electors | Position | Effective |
2578f553657a | F503C7DC334F | Our best arument we have to go against the electoral college is the disaster factor | Claim | Adequate |
63d52e8da443 | F503C7DC334F | What Is the Electoral College?
" states, "Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people." This is basically saying we can't trust our electors to really vote for what they are assigned. That is like not being able to rely on the school bus to take you to school in the morning, its not a great sense of doubt | Evidence | Effective |
187d73cf2d14 | F503C7DC334F | Another reason not to use this outlandish method of voting is that the total number of electoral votes (538) is an even number. | Claim | Effective |
94391fdbb524 | F503C7DC334F | The electoral college should be abolished. It has caused nothing but problems for us in the past years. From ties, to innacuracy of votes, to causing re-counts. The electoral college is not putting America in the right direction. Most people don't like change, I am one of those people. Although, this change is for the better. And it should be strongly considered in the comig years | Concluding Statement | Effective |
f71953e6e881 | F562A7ADF5CD | I am a former citizen of the state writing to you about my regards of changing the electoral college system. | Lead | Adequate |
42bc3b6a5d37 | F562A7ADF5CD | The electoral college should have it's own individual vote to the president. It is unfair that the vote of the people goes towards electors who then decides whom to elect the president | Position | Adequate |
0e6dde33f851 | F562A7ADF5CD | what happened the power of the people? The citizens of the state who vote for an elector does not have the control of who they elect which president that is elected. | Evidence | Adequate |
d58dd8f71f28 | F562A7ADF5CD | I suggest that the votes of the people are sent to the electoral college, then the electors vote upon the two presidents. After that, the votes between the two presidents are seperate, while the one vote goes for the president of their chosen and the other vote goes towards the other president of their chosen. This process would make everything fair and the majority of the vote doesn't just counts as state. | Evidence | Ineffective |
cec0b62056c6 | F574FF3D3C6A | How would a person feel if they could drive places without actually driving? Seems insane, but as in the passage "Driverless Cars are Coming," it possibly could happen soon. | Lead | Adequate |
0731a386e721 | F574FF3D3C6A | People need to have driverless cars. | Position | Adequate |
090d7c0bd80d | F574FF3D3C6A | people need to have driverless cars because it is proven to be safe | Claim | Adequate |
7bdb08a1b2e8 | F574FF3D3C6A | As said in the passage, "Their cars have driven more than half a million times without a crash.." Over the past few years there has been over a billion car wrecks causing injuries or worse, death. Driverless cars can decrease the stiutation, and there will be safer roads.
| Evidence | Adequate |
eb04f98887b0 | F574FF3D3C6A | people need to have driverless because it is the next big thing! | Claim | Ineffective |
b62e0c421a5f | F574FF3D3C6A | In the passage, they talk about how a google cofounder, Sergey Brin, evinsions a future with a public transportation system where fleets of driverless cars form a public-transport taxi system. How relieving would it be to go places, especially at night, without worrying about the next car to get wrecked? Some people say that such cars will fundamentally change the world, as said in paragraph 1. | Evidence | Adequate |
71f6d123b00b | F574FF3D3C6A | Some people may think that driverless cars would not be safe at all, and may cause more wrecks. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
e6960c7b6fde | F574FF3D3C6A | Little do they know, driverless cars have a lot of sensors, such as a soecial touch sensor that makes sure the driver keeps hold of the wheel. Driverless cars are not completely driverless, it will require human skills when needed, as said in paragraph 7. Driverless cars do not put people in danger. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
d255b6a4d60e | F574FF3D3C6A | people need to have driverless cars. It is safe, fun. and the next big thing. Although the driver may still have to drive, he/she do not have to drive the whole time, and will not have to worry so much. Are driverless cars the future? Or illegal? If a person is for driverless cars, they should speak up and be heard. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
78d748f3b7a3 | F57B42D73FEA | There could be many explanations for this mystircal face, although, the face could have just been created by the planet when formed, or it could have been made by something unexplainable. | Lead | Adequate |
af55b3d11927 | F57B42D73FEA | The face is more than likely just another natural land form, just like here on earth, | Claim | Adequate |
4e5e7db268ce | F57B42D73FEA | we have natural land forms that look like living animals or plants. The likely hood of the face being unatural is very slim. Being that the face had not changed for 25 years, it could mean that this is just a land form that has existed since the planets beginning.
| Evidence | Adequate |
857c8628f703 | F57B42D73FEA | The face is similar to a natural land form here on Earth, in the Snake River Plane of Idaho | Claim | Adequate |
c5a049f4d2e6 | F57B42D73FEA | The face shows that it is possible for it to be anything, it could be alien made, but it is highly unlikely. There has not really been any true evidence that aliens exist. | Evidence | Ineffective |
5ac959a0fb35 | F57B42D73FEA | Skeptics may believe that the face could be more proof that aliens exist in outer space | Counterclaim | Adequate |
59547c81c4f2 | F57B42D73FEA | but there is still no strong evidence that it is true, we could be the only living planet in space.
| Rebuttal | Adequate |
1ad580eb6dac | F57B42D73FEA | Concluding the face is extremely likely to be just a natural formation that the planet had when it was developing. | Position | Adequate |
903491358417 | F57B42D73FEA | There is also no completely proof that it is alien proof, and making a face on a planet would not be the best way to comunicate with humans. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
87999a5d061d | F57F48291B12 | I honestly think that the idea of having All students perform community service may be a good idea, but it can also not be a bad idea. | Position | Ineffective |
dad824e38266 | F57F48291B12 | There are some students who think the same and want to do the same as others, but there are other students who don't express themselves in that kind of way. | Evidence | Ineffective |
2174dcc5456d | F57F48291B12 | Students should have a right in deciding what they want to do. | Position | Adequate |
9deeb0cc25de | F57F48291B12 | One reason that this is a good idea is because, if we all work together at this just as a school our world would be a better place just with the help that the kids are supporting our country. | Claim | Adequate |
17066244d525 | F57F48291B12 | Another reason this is a good idea because it can show kids that instead of being on the computer, or watching t. v , or even sleeping at home we can make a big change, and some students don't realize that. | Claim | Adequate |
13557de298f5 | F57F48291B12 | But, one reason this is a bad idea is because students like to express themselves in anyways possible, | Claim | Adequate |
9216b4c77f6c | F57F48291B12 | maybe they don't like to tutor elementary school students, or clean up liter that is not there's. Like me for example I have so many ways of expressing my self. For example I love writing i can write all day, i also like being on the web and home and texting. But by this stuff that i am doing i can also make a change without doing community service. For example because i like writing so much i can write a letter to a animal shelter and help them out. Or who knows, maybe i can even write one to the president of the United States and tell him that we need help down here. | Evidence | Adequate |
6a6948f874c8 | F57F48291B12 | My point here is any student can express themselves and help others in many ways not just community service. | Claim | Adequate |
d469157bcbf8 | F57F48291B12 | All kids have hobbies even if they might not know it yet, kids may like to draw, write, play sports, collect money, or even just liking to help others. Just with those things anyone can make a difference. | Evidence | Adequate |
d849dee9cd11 | F57F48291B12 | i honestly think you shouldn't make all of the students do community service | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d860a2ca3866 | F57F48291B12 | An idea that you can do is take a vote on how many kids would like to do community service and let them do it. | Claim | Adequate |
09f5f7f67274 | F57F48291B12 | But you should also take a vote on how many kids want to help even by going online and looking at all the horrible stuff that we've been through or stuff we will go through in the future and i grantee you that more kids would want to help in any way possible
| Evidence | Adequate |
6ad5967c3eba | F5EE08CB44B9 | I think the government shouldn't keep the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
bb87998e5161 | F5EE08CB44B9 | Because it's a process, without the process of picking out who will be the next president of the United States we would be able too choose a right president, we will choose the light for the people of the United States Of America | Claim | Ineffective |
7f878e923753 | F5FA868674D9 | Community service is important in the world because it helps support ideas like cleaning up our neighborhood to helping the needy. If we didn't have community service, the world may not be a place like it is today. But, everyone has to consider that it is a persons preference to choose to do community service and that they are not forced to do it. Our principal may be doing a good deed in saying that everyone should have to do a certain number of hours of community service, but some people may not be able to and they shouldn't be forced to do any work that they don't have to. | Lead | Effective |
7e95b2599646 | F5FA868674D9 | So i believe that the principal of my school shouldn't make this rule about community service. | Position | Effective |
bf021344ded9 | F5FA868674D9 | One of the reasons that i think that his rule shouldn't be passed is because community service is important but it's only volunteer work that you should volunteer for and not have to be forced to do it. | Claim | Effective |
f7fe7ac15e1b | F5FA868674D9 | This is because i know from experience how hard it is to keep up with school work and how stressful sports, school, and family can be for a kid my age. Adding community service to this is not a good idea because i think that it may cause unneeded stress on stressed out kids that may not have the time to do this community service. so i believe that community service should not be forced upon kids of all ages. | Evidence | Effective |
e09246a71be9 | F5FA868674D9 | Another reason that i think forced community service is a bad idea is because it may cause a drawback in education for kids. | Claim | Adequate |
ffbb20eca668 | F5FA868674D9 | This is because kids study after school and do homework and are over their heads in homework sometimes and community service may lead to more missing homework and lower grades on tests and quizzes, especially during the end o the marking period when the quarterly assessments are the most important and also the biggest test out of all of them. Community service would not be a good choice for the students at SCHOOL_NAME because of these reasons. | Evidence | Effective |
e3799e5e33cd | F5FA868674D9 | The final reason that i think forced community service is not a good idea is because kids need sleep. | Claim | Effective |
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