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f8f80f2c6f6c | 05BE83E193CF | However the popular vote election may also be a good idea because if the voters cast a vote for you in the popular election that should essentially like your intentions that would benefit the countries needs and demands that are recquired for us in the long run | Counterclaim | Adequate |
51cd4892ec58 | 05BE83E193CF | Therefore the electoral college should stay in charge of all decsions having to do with the elections for new presidencey when the time time comes because if it was changed to popular vote people would vote for the candidate that they like the best instead of the candidate with the best intentions for the nation, it is... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
902eb33bf979 | 05D9F32E2DC7 | As Americans, we are told that we are given rights in our country. We have the freedom of speech, expression, religion, and petition as stated in our first admendment. We are also told the we have the freedom to vote once you reach certain requirements, like age and citizenship. However, are we really getting the freed... | Lead | Effective |
707272110447 | 05D9F32E2DC7 | The Electoral College has been in our Constitution since the Constitution was approved, but we have modified simple things as in gender discrimination and race discrimination, why are we not going to change this unjust system?
| Position | Effective |
4e78912aa5cb | 05D9F32E2DC7 | the electoral college is fooling our citizens to think we have a say in our country's government. | Claim | Effective |
4eb4666f372f | 05D9F32E2DC7 | He elaborates further to say that "Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the presidet, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. This proves my point further, because once again we do not vote for our president, we vote for the people who get the "priveledge" to vote for the most p... | Evidence | Effective |
d56acea30f79 | 05D9F32E2DC7 | The next problem with our Electoral College is that each state is given an uneven amount of representatives form each state. | Claim | Effective |
689662efdc34 | 05D9F32E2DC7 | If Florida voted canidate A, but North Dakota voted for canidate B, canidate A is bound to win because Florida has twenty-nine representatives and North Dakota only has three. As you can see Mr. President, this becomes a preblem because four states with only three representatives could vote for one canidate, but if Flo... | Evidence | Effective |
3a191c31a86c | 05D9F32E2DC7 | Now most people are afraid of change, which is understandable. They are afraid chaos will occur if any change with our society's ethics | Counterclaim | Adequate |
3a01be1748ad | 05D9F32E2DC7 | However, the Electoral College has already caused chaos between the two opposing sides. If we tried a new system, we could see if the people will become more civilized because they now have a say in the government. If it doesn't work, then we can always change it back and no harm will be done. As you can see, there are... | Rebuttal | Adequate |
5f66c842cecc | 05D9F32E2DC7 | Mr. President, I have explained to you what the people want, which is to stop being lied to. However, every four years comes around, and yet I do not see a change in anything. I do not think it is only the people who are afraid of change, it is also you. But, would you want to live in a world where everyone hates the w... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
16b1c2ada594 | 05F5B97B159A | Many people believe that the image taken by NASA's Viking 1 spacecraft, when it was circuling aroung the plantet, snapping photos from Viking 2 landing. The photo shown and proveded to us is from the year 1998, it has now been modeled diffrentlly from our latest technology. | Lead | Adequate |
b356de7b709e | 05F5B97B159A | This is a mesa it couldn't have been made from aliens becuase the way it was observed in the Jet Propulsion Lab, could not identify it as it being fake or made by aliens as some people believe it is. | Position | Adequate |
12dbf14d8c4f | 05F5B97B159A | Some scientists have studided this image since was revealed. This happened about twenty five years ago when this was released. | Evidence | Adequate |
ede7d43543d2 | 05F5B97B159A | This image we see has beeing used and talked about in many places such as Hollywood films, books, magazines, radio stations, talk shows, and grocery stores. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a881e8f9f0f7 | 05F5B97B159A | When it first came to NASA and the public it was shown as if there was a human face becuase like it says in paragraph three, secound sentence, "The caption noted a "huge rock formation... which resembles a human head... formed by shadows giving it the illusion of eyes, nose, and mouth." That to me tells me that there c... | Evidence | Adequate |
cc49666492a9 | 05F5B97B159A | Those two sentence clarify to me that there are no aliens making things on Mars. | Claim | Adequate |
f4caf15ef10e | 05F5B97B159A |
The claim of a face was scientificly proven by Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera that it was just a landform and that there is no aliens making things that look like human shape heads and faces. | Claim | Adequate |
833dc31b7ea1 | 05F5B97B159A | Also there is an exact location of where you can find this on Mars which is, "41 degrees north martian latitude." Even though people were not happy about what they saw but at least we know its just a landform with a great creation of the mesa. No aliens can create something like a landform that looks like" it remeinds ... | Evidence | Adequate |
6fcb3c925110 | 0628DB049A56 | I would have to urge you to keep the Electoral College. | Position | Effective |
51a8efcffad9 | 0628DB049A56 | Without a voting system as organized as this, it would be anarchy. | Claim | Adequate |
004a634b816d | 0628DB049A56 | Some people believe that election by popular vote is better, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6abc1240ec46 | 0628DB049A56 | but it is not. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
7f35e2dbbecf | 0628DB049A56 | They believe that the Electoral College is non-democratic and outdated. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
b8bda794bef6 | 0628DB049A56 | But there are many reasons why it's not. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
40eef4a5c8de | 0628DB049A56 | The Electoral College process is in use currently, and though many people disagree with it, it would ultimately be better than popular vote. | Claim | Effective |
608ab9b55c8b | 0628DB049A56 | We have to put faith in the electors we vote for, this makes it less likely any of them are crooks. When people vote for an elector, they're voting for who they hope the president will be. While that may not always be the case, it's very likely the elector will vote for that candidate. With this, we'd have to trust th... | Evidence | Adequate |
8ffdcf549a98 | 0628DB049A56 | If we were to use the popular vote system, people could vote for candidates who run for fun, or joke. Or if a candidate decides to pursuade an overwhelming amount of people with a certain point, people will surely vote on that candidate, even if the point is invalid. | Claim | Ineffective |
7ca0cf3e1d02 | 0628DB049A56 | This can bring the expectations for the president lower, | Evidence | Ineffective |
d65e3bf66895 | 0640FE8DF9D6 | Imagine your alarm clock goes off and you get out of bed, and after doing your morning routine instead of grabbing your book bag to heading out and catching the bus for school instead you open your laptop and open up a video chat with your teacher to get your lesson of the day instead. This idea isn't and is referred t... | Lead | Effective |
3bb6692bcd81 | 0640FE8DF9D6 | I strongly believe that distance learning can make a big difference in the learning environment. | Position | Adequate |
65ad24abaf24 | 0640FE8DF9D6 | Every year students end up missing days due to sickness or other matters. These sickly students almost always come back to loads of work to do that they can could not get done while they where out recovering. Distance learning can help with this near inevitable factor | Claim | Effective |
2b9d8b33a40e | 0640FE8DF9D6 | Instead of students worrying about what work they're missing on their sick days they can open up their device and do the work from home. This same practice could also be used in scenarios such as snow days,tornadoes,floods or other bad weather that causes schools to shut down. This could also be the new way to combat s... | Evidence | Adequate |
1533c4f5a200 | 0640FE8DF9D6 | Focusing on other issues, what if you don't even have schools in your area? There are several kids out in the world that live in rural locations are so far from schools that it'd even be too much to send a bus out to bring them to school. | Claim | Effective |
f759a82f2f8b | 0640FE8DF9D6 | This leaves rural students most of the time only two options:move to another house or be home schooled instead by a parent which doesn't give as good as a education as public schools. Home schooling can put a strain on the parent because most of the time it interferes with their jobs. It's unfair knowing that people fa... | Evidence | Effective |
8eb1ebdbcdfd | 0640FE8DF9D6 | As great as distance learning sounds it, as with all decisions, does not come without drawbacks. Tackling possibly it's biggest problem, distance learning has a high technological dependency to function efficiently and having tech means spending lots of money.
| Counterclaim | Effective |
785046b6a7e7 | 0640FE8DF9D6 |
Some schools just dont have the funds to afford technology to give to students which distance learning heavily relies on. | Evidence | Adequate |
7535fefef5c2 | 0640FE8DF9D6 | We should be well aware of the financial problem of this idea and maybe in time someone can find a way to make this method more accessible to the masses
| Rebuttal | Effective |
bdc3c1f20fbd | 0640FE8DF9D6 | Distance learning is a relatively new method on how people get their education. No matter the outside conditions, distance learning can still give students their assignments for the day. This idea in other countries has proven to go beyond and into remote places and provide education to places without schools. Even wit... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
d1a41f054ff4 | 065FB99EB165 | The electoral college is a process that supposedly helps keep this nation's voting under control, | Lead | Adequate |
b83860ed069b | 065FB99EB165 | while infact the process of the electoral college is unfair | Position | Adequate |
46723cf5dcf1 | 065FB99EB165 | to the states with a lower population because they have less of an input into the voting of the president with a lower number of electors available to vote for them. | Claim | Adequate |
f96dbbe64faf | 065FB99EB165 | Also it is unfair to the people who want to be presidents because they mostly have a tie on the electoral votes and are elected on who wins the popular vote. | Claim | Ineffective |
475c0febc95c | 065FB99EB165 | First off, having an electoral college in unfair to those states of lower population, take Minnesota for example, because they are only allowed 3-6 electors while bigger states, like California, are allowed up to 55 electors, | Claim | Adequate |
72c63ceb8030 | 065FB99EB165 | Since most of the big states already have their votes planned out on who is going to win them over, president-to-be's don't try to persuade them because they know they have those votes. Mostly they try to change the swing states, or the smaller states because they could change from Democratic to Republican during anyti... | Evidence | Effective |
7999531b31f2 | 065FB99EB165 | Second of all, electoral colleges should change because for the last two elections, popular vote has been the deciding vote because the electoral vote has been a tie, | Claim | Adequate |
62fc12b1b2b9 | 065FB99EB165 | .If we no longer polled electoral votes, citizens wouldn't have to take two votes, one on presidency and one on who they liked better. Presidents should be chosen on their stamina to change the nation for the people. Although some people still won't get what they want, the majority of the nation would be proud to suppo... | Evidence | Adequate |
f254e1c4733a | 065FB99EB165 | In the world that is known, electoral colleges do make voting for the president a lot more controlled. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
7c2da3c2b662 | 065FB99EB165 | But in the event that the elector is chosen and does not vote for whom he or she was elected by the people to vote for. What happens then? The wrong president is chosen because there was a fault in the system. | Rebuttal | Effective |
7bf4553463f7 | 065FB99EB165 | This is called the disaster factor and it happened in the election in the year 1960 when Louisiana elected Democrats to vote against John F. Kennedy, who voted as Republicans against their state and voted forPresident Kennedy, | Evidence | Adequate |
f801eba72521 | 065FB99EB165 | After all, electoral colleges should be changed because it is better for the people so there is more of an input from smaller populated states, they will want to vote and there would be less of an ability to tie the election. Having a popular vote lets the citizens in big states that are metaphorically already "chosen"... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
f62b35c372bb | 06A2C91F38FE | After researching the Electoral College process I find that the process should no longer be used. The process is not effecient for choosing the next US president and therefor the voting process should be changed to popular vote. | Position | Effective |
a9684f12e818 | 06A2C91F38FE | Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president." | Claim | Adequate |
0c40bcc557fd | 06A2C91F38FE | This makes the Electoral College not a democratic method for electing the president. This nation was founded on the belief of democracy, so when the government ignores the call for a democratic method for elections it is disrespectful towards out Founding Fathers, and especially to the citizens of the United States of ... | Evidence | Effective |
fe17305f4de4 | 06A2C91F38FE | Although defying the people does not happen often | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6b1c0652fd3e | 06A2C91F38FE | there is still the risk of repeating history to a greater extent.
| Rebuttal | Adequate |
bece1b4ceba1 | 06A2C91F38FE | Continuing, the ''winner takes all system'' causes states with smaller populations to be ignored. | Claim | Adequate |
403b52c94169 | 06A2C91F38FE | According to source 3, "Knowing their vote will have no effect, they have less incentive to pay attention to the campaign than they would have if the president were picked by popular vote." Larger states are paid the most attention to by canidates because they will receive more votes than compared to the number of vote... | Evidence | Effective |
0b1f891f400f | 06A2C91F38FE | In contrast, it can be argued that no single region can shift a campaign greatly, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
67a830862978 | 06A2C91F38FE | nonetheless a single voter`s vote. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
274c431c371f | 06A2C91F38FE | The Electoral College should be rid of. The process is not democratic and misrepresents voting citizens in more ways than one. If voters were able to directly vote for canidates then more states would actively engage in the campaign and all people would be represented equally. It would lower the chance for downfall, an... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
f4f7104e1cf0 | 071FB27E532B | I think that the school should participate in sports | Position | Ineffective |
f598fe6e7c2a | 071FB27E532B | its not because of our grades that makes you so upset its because of our attitudes and how we act around teachers and staff specially officer baker i mean the man has been though to much already | Claim | Ineffective |
7137df81d0fe | 071FB27E532B | the way i see it we need to have something to do with our lives and how we spend it on campus even off campus we have to behave when we are around teachers. plus i think those 4 letter words every day is driving the students crazy, I'm sorry but I'm telling the truth. But if you don't want to hear it then that's ok wit... | Evidence | Ineffective |
87ace8245453 | 07397A3E9D8D | Education is a big factor in ones life. Without it, where would our society be? I am a student myself and know the difficulties and benefits of attending a physical school. Video catting just ins't the best idea for helping students develop their education. Bringing more technology into a society already involved with ... | Lead | Effective |
b3357bb91f7f | 07397A3E9D8D | Students wouldn't benefit from taking classes at home | Position | Adequate |
bc9db40a1242 | 07397A3E9D8D | because they would start to slack in their work, | Claim | Adequate |
eaabf9b0c194 | 07397A3E9D8D | going to school keeps them on a schedule that teaches them organization/ planning for their future, | Claim | Adequate |
e99971eb3d3e | 07397A3E9D8D | and it doesn't give them the opportunity to build relationships with former students and their teachers. | Claim | Effective |
0d9927fb61c9 | 07397A3E9D8D | Firstly, getting assignments done in class are hard enough as it is. If students are expected to get all of these assignments done at home, most of these would be completed late and/ or sloppy. | Claim | Effective |
074ff664dc24 | 07397A3E9D8D | Even from my own experience, when I'm given an assignment to do in class I finish it more quickly due to the resources I have in the classroom. When assignments are given at home, it takes me longer to complete this assignment because I tend to have lots of questions that can't be answered by my parents or the internet... | Evidence | Effective |
70a221b59475 | 07397A3E9D8D | Secondly, school helps develop a schedule for a student to get used to. | Claim | Adequate |
d8b0c8438ec8 | 07397A3E9D8D | If a student were to work from home, they would choose when they want to work and if they even feel like doing assignments that day. Having this schedule teaches them time management which helps them develop the technique for the future when planning out different things. My friend, Generic_Name, has a very hard time p... | Evidence | Effective |
abb41a87dab5 | 07397A3E9D8D | My cousin is home schooled. Her only friends are her neighbors and her teammates on her fencing team. She is a very shy girl and hates talking to people. If she were put into a school with kids her own age she might be different in the way she talks to people. This is going to effect her future in a way that might be d... | Evidence | Effective |
4d305479c978 | 07397A3E9D8D | School is a childs job, they can't just avoid the difficulties it brings because "they feel like it." Students already try to find reasons to not complete assignments and giving them the opportunity to attend class from their home just gives them more of an opportunity to slack off, lose those relationships they could'... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
3e39b6a57166 | 0741F0C1D776 | COVID-19 is spreading across the world. Now this disease has killed more people than influenza has this year. Epidemiologists for the CDC are recommending that colleges across the country shut down their campuses and revert to online school so that they disperse the student population to lower the chances of the studen... | Lead | Effective |
7d524f9ffd02 | 0741F0C1D776 | Students would benefit from online school | Position | Adequate |
190aed2a63df | 0741F0C1D776 | through more direct, one on one learning with teachers | Claim | Adequate |
784df3df0830 | 0741F0C1D776 | building each students aptitude with technology for their future participation in the workforce | Claim | Effective |
90a33f337133 | 0741F0C1D776 | and allowing students with a variety of ailments to continue their education at home. | Claim | Adequate |
94d6743b4a99 | 0741F0C1D776 |
First of all, with online classes students would be able to interact with their teachers on a more personal level. | Claim | Adequate |
1c71b4e725d2 | 0741F0C1D776 | Currently, if a student needs help with homework or a concept that they are struggling with, most often, they will have to come and see their teacher before or after school. Some students simply do not have that availability to see their teacher or are too embarrassed to ask their teacher during the class session. With... | Evidence | Effective |
db78d39855b3 | 0741F0C1D776 | Second of all, Students would be able to become build their technological skills parallel to learning new material. | Claim | Effective |
e0a8d9eb295b | 0741F0C1D776 | Many employers in this hyper-technological world are looking for employees that will be able to keep up with new technologies as well as help their business grow. While students are at school, they have access to technology, but this access is limited and most often very basic for most people. If schools' education was... | Evidence | Effective |
881221b9493d | 0741F0C1D776 | Third of all, any student that has to stay at home or be hospitalized due to a sickness would be able to continue their education. | Claim | Effective |
7644a3686107 | 0741F0C1D776 | Throughout the year every school has a variety of issues, but one issue can truly devastate an education. If a student that is a tenth grader comes to school with what they think is a minor cold and goes about their entire day, many students would interact with this sophomore and soon all of these students would be hom... | Evidence | Effective |
b3f6ca537e86 | 0741F0C1D776 | In order to address those opposed, it is understandable for anyone to do so, but not forgivable. Many would say that the students would lose their friends, that they might become awkward, and that students might even cheat on assessments. | Counterclaim | Effective |
48643cca9d84 | 0741F0C1D776 | All of these are understandable, but they are not without solution. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
c524d2021b35 | 0741F0C1D776 | Schools would be getting rid of their on campus schooling but would still host extracurricular activities and sporting events, along with gym classes, as well as dances and pep rallies. This would help retain student friendships at school. Students cheating on assessments has been a problematic in all school systems fo... | Evidence | Effective |
eedd5f4a40f5 | 0741F0C1D776 | While online learning may be a good fix for a lot of these issues it could open up new problems as well. Students could use their phones to search for answers to a variety of tests or share their answers with friends via text message. Their is no end to the creativity of someone who wants to cheat on an assignment, | Counterclaim | Effective |
fcd0479d7882 | 0741F0C1D776 | that is why a student's parent could supervise the student on each test and let the teacher know that the student was honest. This would be an easy way of reassurance for all instructors. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
bfc2fc40385a | 0741F0C1D776 | In conclusion, online school for students could be greatly beneficial. Through one on one interaction with teachers, spurring more inquiries from pupils, becoming more proficient with technology at school and in the workplace, and allowing students who are afflicted with disease, and sometimes an injury, to attend scho... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
529eac6692fa | 076DBAE9AA98 | This is one of your students at your school. | Lead | Adequate |
a4d85ceec994 | 076DBAE9AA98 | I have written this letter to inform you that you do not have to cancel all school sports. I think that you don't need to cancel it for all student. I think that you should have the audacity to tell everyone that the sports will not be able to be played by students that have anything below an A-C average. | Position | Adequate |
2ded75461b21 | 076DBAE9AA98 | All student with an A, B, or a C average can play any sport they wanted to but every marking period they should have to show the coach's their progress report. | Claim | Effective |
41ad325ac9b3 | 076DBAE9AA98 | All students should be able to show their progress reports to you, a teacher, or the coach. | Evidence | Adequate |
ea7e632dc648 | 076DBAE9AA98 | An other reason not to cancel the sports are so that all the students can stay in shape and not have any troubles with their weight. | Claim | Effective |
b4afa6225f04 | 076DBAE9AA98 | All the students should be able to participate in any after school program sport. All the students are able to play with each other.
| Claim | Adequate |
85a3317729e0 | 076DBAE9AA98 | EX: boys play with girls or girls play with boys. | Evidence | Ineffective |
71e15e3833b3 | 076DBAE9AA98 | All students should have a sport to keep them active for a while and not get distracted by any thing like walking around the class. | Claim | Adequate |
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