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fddbadb4cbdc | 0EFDADD0CCD9 | Every student has his or her talents. | Claim | Effective |
72a04b882348 | 0EFDADD0CCD9 | Some excel at schoolwork, but others are outstanding in other fields, such as basketball, volleyball, or singing. Forcing students to keep their grades at such a high standard would cause late nights for many participants, who struggle to finish their homework daily. It means extra hours of studying and homework. It ca... | Evidence | Effective |
056576f51219 | 0EFDADD0CCD9 | A C average, while maybe not something to post on your fridge at home, still requires plenty of effort. Maintaining a C average is a reasonable standard, but keeping a B average is unattainable for some students and should not be required. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
35b3cb786615 | 0F6250B6D784 | The Electoral College that was established by the founding fathers in the Contitution is important to all of us. Every candidate that is running for President in each state has its own group of electors that the political party of the candidate chose | Lead | Adequate |
efb5098b2907 | 0F6250B6D784 | I am however, not in favor of keeping the Electoral College but to change it to be an election by popular vote for the president of the United States | Position | Adequate |
5ace7ac4bb16 | 0F6250B6D784 | the reason being that it is unfair to the voters | Claim | Adequate |
289d8278cb05 | 0F6250B6D784 | and outdated. | Claim | Adequate |
286e318e0ed2 | 0F6250B6D784 | The Electoral College is unfair to it's voters | Claim | Adequate |
f2a4467a4c58 | 0F6250B6D784 | If the candidate has more electoral votes than popular votes then they have a higher chance of winning. "Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prewfer a direct election to the kind we have now" (Plumer, Paragraph 9). The president is the leader of the United States and if... | Evidence | Adequate |
a878ef718069 | 0F6250B6D784 | "Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning" (Plumer, Paragraph 13). Every vote counts, and the candidate that gets the most popular votes deserves the win. | Evidence | Adequate |
fa4eb9807314 | 0F6250B6D784 | Since our founding fathers established the Electoral College it shows that it is outdated. | Claim | Adequate |
1cfa2d2c8186 | 0F6250B6D784 | "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational" (Plumer, Paragraph 14). This is the twenty-first century, and we need to make our elections more modernized to where every voter is happy. A voter should not vote for an elector and hope that the candidate wins but be able to vote for the candidate itself. Eve... | Evidence | Adequate |
3b181c416cec | 0F6250B6D784 | As there are people who believe that whatever our founding fathers established we need to keep our tradition going and not change a single thing, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
4193f46f2a9e | 0F6250B6D784 | but maybe it's time for a change. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
8a8d1326e1f9 | 0F6250B6D784 | Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political preference rather than poeple who thing that single vote may decide an election" (Posner, Paragraph 23). | Evidence | Ineffective |
9d08c29ecc65 | 0F6250B6D784 | "It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: Abolish the electoral college" (Plumer, Paragraph 14)! The voters think the Electoral College is unfair and outdated. People vote for a candidate but the outcome is not what they were expecting. The candidates that get the most popular votes deserve to win! | Concluding Statement | Effective |
bf3aa20938b4 | 0F7934223515 | Community service can be a big way to help others. You usually need to do community service when you are either getting your confirmation done, or if you are in an honor society. Some people like to do community service for the joy of it though.
| Lead | Effective |
009526a6071d | 0F7934223515 | In my opinion, all students should perform community service. | Position | Effective |
74a39aec56bb | 0F7934223515 | Helping the community can make you feel good about yourself | Claim | Effective |
96f4f24f34c8 | 0F7934223515 | and it is also very helpful to the environment around you. | Claim | Effective |
3973812c437f | 0F7934223515 | It does take time away from you, | Counterclaim | Effective |
fd6c10af945e | 0F7934223515 | but that time is used to help others | Rebuttal | Effective |
9e9276ec8caa | 0F7934223515 | If you just stay home all day on the computer or watching television, community service would be something to take your mind off of doing that. Or also, if you are constantly bored, community service cold even be a way of entertainment for yourself. Community service is a way to get out of your laziness and do somethin... | Evidence | Effective |
cafe064a3d9d | 0F7934223515 | There are a lot of people out there who need help with your community service. | Claim | Effective |
aba4ea8a36e7 | 0F7934223515 | Some children for example need tutoring in certain subjects that you may be able to help with. Another example is cleaning up litter in your local park or just on the streets outside your house. Elderly people can get lonely sometimes and a great way of community service would be to write them letters for the holidays ... | Evidence | Effective |
a8fa83cd9fda | 0F7934223515 | For the kids that do not participate in community service, well why don't they? It is a fantastic way to help others and there is no reason why not to do it. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
105eee9d33ee | 0FADC137B8B7 | I feel a need to adress that changing election by popular vote for the president of the United States over keeping electoral votes is, in my opinion, better for the people because it brings the U.S's people together in many ways. | Position | Adequate |
c851e8fc2adc | 0FADC137B8B7 | The people of the U.S deserve to make great decisions like these, on account of the fact that us, the people, make most of what we have in America today, and though we work hard and may have fights sometimes, we still make choices together,voting being one of them, and this unifies us even more. | Evidence | Ineffective |
35253ce40edc | 0FADC137B8B7 | Allowing this will bring a sense of unification
| Claim | Ineffective |
c97fec44374b | 0FADC137B8B7 | . We already consider doing selfless acts just to make peace. Example: Our taxes pay doctors', polices', etc. salaries. We at least deserve to decide who enforces laws. | Evidence | Ineffective |
0510964e89c0 | 0FADC137B8B7 | Another thing, to begin this reasoning let this question be asked: What is the government doing right now, this very moment? Who really knows, for sure? Not us. The people of the U.S really haven't an honest clue what's really going on behind the government, so it wouldn't be too wise for us to entrust the government i... | Evidence | Adequate |
3d2ae4904405 | 0FADC137B8B7 | So it not only gives us, the people, a sense of unification, it also gives a sense of direction so that we feel that we are not being blindly controlled by the government. | Claim | Adequate |
bb43706ad876 | 0FADC137B8B7 | To commence the third reasoning let another question be asked: First, say for example that you work a double-shift, full-time, day and night just to keep food on your childrens' and wifes' plate, clothes on their backs, and a roof over their heads. When the bills roll in, your paycheck isn't won't arrive for weeks and ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
8749590c1170 | 0FADC137B8B7 | All of these things bring us together more than we might even think, whether its families, friends, or just us as a nation. | Claim | Ineffective |
f6174ce77b61 | 0FADC137B8B7 | To conclude all of the reasonings of arguing to change election to popular vote for the president of the U.S which are the sensation of unification, direction, and freedom, I'd be obliged to state that this is just one thing that finally unifies and brings the U.S's people together. Those three senses that this gives u... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f6bee86560dc | 0FBD2FFA1DDF | Ever wonder what is a " Electoral College? Like what is that suppose to mean?, A internet campus, Tech class, or etc. Well its not actually A Electoral college is made for up coming presidents. That differrnt selections of people go and meet the president and vice presdent. The congress. The College consits up to 238 v... | Lead | Adequate |
e21b0ec2b9c8 | 0FBD2FFA1DDF | Two guys named Rich, Jummy carter, Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO and they are not alone according to Gallup poll in 2000, after Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now. Under the electoral college system voters vote not for... | Evidence | Ineffective |
44dfd5206d7b | 0FC4B7E09462 | The state senetor should keep the electoral college because of the voting previlages. | Position | Adequate |
c20c5a3eeaa3 | 0FC4B7E09462 | voting is held every tuesday of November. The elector college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 elector vots is required to elect from the president. Your states entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its congressianl delegaton oe for each member in the house of Respresentives plus two ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
777ed7e81b0d | 0FC4B7E09462 | Futhermore, most states have a winner take it all system that awards all electort to the wiining the election. your states certification ascertainment also delclares the winning presidincial in your states adn shows which electors will respensint your state at the metting of the election in december. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8e1f284a9286 | 0FC4B7E09462 | To wrap everything up, the single best arguement agains tht eelectoral college is what we might call a disaster factor. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
988fb0ed2c1e | 0FC4B7E09462 | The american people should conside themselves lucky that the 200 fiasco was the biggest election cris in the sententuries . Back in 1960, segregations in the Lousiana Legistature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8bf67e3835cb | 0FC4B7E09462 | Finally, its offical the elecoral college is unfair outdated adnd irrtional the agurements are against judgement. they need to keep electorial college. There are five ereaosn for retainign the electoral college desoite the lack of democratic pedigree, certanty of outcome, everyones presindent ], swing states, big stat... | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
9b8e0d4b1905 | 0FC97658A027 | To begin with, I think this world is here to be on and do anything we want too.
But I think that our community is important to us because its a place to have fun with friends and family.
But its full of different kinds of both good and bad stuffs. | Lead | Ineffective |
41b2c1743527 | 0FC97658A027 | I think every student in schools should Perform in community service.
| Position | Adequate |
91e320a96e36 | 0FC97658A027 | Not only student parents can also volunteer if they want too.
We can find a way for students to participate to perform community service, like do a party or have fun after participating | Evidence | Adequate |
cfc569c0e2af | 0FC97658A027 | But some might say it takes up their planning time | Counterclaim | Adequate |
7ea6901d029d | 0FC97658A027 | but I think if everyone participates it wouldn't be so hard. We could also find a way for them like do it twice a day or schedule a time so they can do they can do what they need to do. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
edab81ae542d | 0FC97658A027 | I think if we take care of the community other place might do it too.
This could change the community and the whole wide world.
I hope everyone perform community service. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8e9700d4d6c3 | 0FF049B01070 | some students have a c grade average and are on many of the sports hear at school some work very hard for that c because school is guest to hard for them. i bet if it was there choice they would have a A or a B. But not everyone has the same brain so school will be difficult for some student than others. | Evidence | Effective |
023ca3f9e6df | 0FF049B01070 | But me personally if i was the principal i would let any chilod play with a C or higher average because god made us all different and were not all as smart as our classmates. | Position | Effective |
77c49045b6e8 | 0FF049B01070 | some parts of school are harder than other | Claim | Adequate |
adec6ee7910b | 0FF049B01070 | for example algebra is a heck of alought harder than hope or technology. So in my perspective of this hole thing is you are takeing it way to far if you only let kids play on teams hear at SCHOOL_NAME it would be like totally deleting the basketball team because most of them have barley the grade they need to pass | Evidence | Adequate |
9f847a7af9f5 | 0FF049B01070 | Cutting back on sports and raising the grade point average is causeing obesity in teens all across America | Claim | Adequate |
e0244b38e4e0 | 0FF049B01070 | would you really want to be hated by over half the schools population. HINT HINT i sure wouldn't want to be hated by over half the schools population !!! | Evidence | Ineffective |
2571a6113b9d | 0FF049B01070 | if that's your choice and you rely wanna be the worst principle ever than that's fine by me because like i said its not my decision to be the most hated principle in the hole universe and it doesn't affect me what so ever because my lowest grade is a B
and im happy at that besides the kids on the team can guest go pla... | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
b9bfcf91e260 | 10266FD6FA36 | I agree we should clean up the entry school in end up clean like a whistle | Position | Ineffective |
e5590c6d4a42 | 10266FD6FA36 | The principal should lets take some breaks once for a while. When school is over we should stay at school until 5:00 p. m. therefore cleaning up the liter and stuff off the ground and throw it away in the trash can. We should have a break at 3: 50 to 4:15 p. m. that gives us plenty of time for a break.
But, let some p... | Evidence | Adequate |
d2857be02476 | 109DCAEA47FD | The Electoral College is a great process that was created by the founding fathers in the Constitution."The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compronise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens." The electoral col... | Lead | Ineffective |
4fc866efd944 | 109DCAEA47FD | The electoral college should be keeping the electoral college | Position | Adequate |
d19617ea8213 | 109DCAEA47FD | its a very important process of how we choose the president. If we just put our say in the votes some people might feellike htey amde the wrong choose in the voting | Evidence | Ineffective |
13ffc24937c8 | 109DCAEA47FD | And if we just let congress picl our president because thats not fair becuse this is our conutry too adn we should have a say about what the presdent gonna do or what are some of he/she plans to do for our conunty." | Evidence | Adequate |
52869ac52624 | 109DCAEA47FD | the electoral college is widely regarded as and anachronism a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ougth to be [overruled]by decaring tht candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner." | Evidence | Adequate |
89fcf3a54a0d | 109DCAEA47FD | There a five reasons to keep the electoral college certainty of outcome,everyone's president,swing states,big states and lastly avoid run-off elections | Evidence | Adequate |
e1dad4245652 | 109DCAEA47FD | It is possible for a dispute over the outcome of an electoral college vote. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
e2a1a9524bd3 | 109DCAEA47FD | The reason is that the winning candidate's share of the popular vote." A presidential candidate to have transregional appeal."This is a desirable result appeal is unlikelu to be a suffessful president". The electoral college restores some of the weight in the balance the large states lose by virtue. | Evidence | Adequate |
6202cf53471f | 109DCAEA47FD | In Conclusion the elecoral college should stay becase it makes everthing fair for the electoral candaiets and so citizen of the united states have a chance to ahve a say in what they want as a president. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8648bca256ab | 10BD74EB207B | I believe that when the people of the United States vote for the president it be should be deicided by the popular vote adn not the Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
825ae4c791bf | 10BD74EB207B | First, I think the president should be chosen by the popular vote because then all the poeple in that state will have a say not just someone else chosing for them | Claim | Adequate |
9688c3a78174 | 10BD74EB207B | Most people usually chose for themselves because they have the right. Everybody should have a say not just
"the qualified citizens"
writen in source one. | Evidence | Ineffective |
22d6fd5d1a95 | 10BD74EB207B | Secondly, yes people make bad and somtimes terribles mistakes but thats what we do. | Claim | Ineffective |
3113c90646d0 | 10BD74EB207B | The Electoral College has flaws just like anyone or anything else. Like in source two
"the single best argument agaisnt the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor."
even they make mistakes sometimes. | Evidence | Adequate |
7593e3074002 | 10BD74EB207B | So yes the electoral college might be useful but it can also be very jugdemental. don't you think you have the choice to choose who leads this country? Maybe you don't but some do. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
059d0d6ff99e | 10C8E486AE3C | When people hear the title "Unmasking the face on Mars" they think look their is a face or structure on mars that the aliens built | Lead | Adequate |
bc47a4d7d57d | 10C8E486AE3C | But what it's really soposed to be is or equivalent to is a butte or mesa. | Position | Adequate |
6edabab2e272 | 10C8E486AE3C | To start of this discusion of the so called "face" on mars I would like to tell you is that it is not at all a face. | Claim | Adequate |
3701be7ae64e | 10C8E486AE3C | What it is just a landform that has formed to look so simular to a face or moument of the martians. But mars is like earth it forms things just like it so what it really is is just a couple of rocks and thier shadows to form a face like thing. | Evidence | Adequate |
e83fc0c3f800 | 10C8E486AE3C | On the other hand is how do we know this. | Claim | Adequate |
abda3742252f | 10C8E486AE3C | Well ever since the discovery scientist have been researching and taking more pictures and looking at it a whole lot closer. What we came up with is that like I said before a landform on mars but some say where wrong.
| Evidence | Adequate |
9181096bdd71 | 10C8E486AE3C | Another reason that bothers me is how people think its a conspiracy theory. many, many, many people think "oh its just nothing but the martians" | Counterclaim | Adequate |
663935f8e7f4 | 10C8E486AE3C | but no this is just a mesa but since people say that stuff we had to prove them wrong. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
0e240eae100c | 10C8E486AE3C | So what NASA did was they built a big camera to take pictures of it to prove it was a big rock which it was a huge budget problem for them but they still did it. | Evidence | Adequate |
4da3f870ca76 | 10C8E486AE3C | People may argue by saying so if it is something simular to earth then that means martians were here to and then they got bord of the place they so they left and went somewhere else. then they built this big face of maybe a king or emporer or something and they are hiding from us | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
c5a03a6c68c9 | 10C8E486AE3C | But there not its just a rock. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
f14b3c3ebcd9 | 10C8E486AE3C | what I am trying to say is that the "face" is just a mesa and nothing else but a mesa so if someone says its a face just say its a mesa. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
2dd3939cdec3 | 10E171D3654E | Driveless cars are coming. Whether you will buy or support this new idea or not is your choice. | Lead | Ineffective |
c6664c86d540 | 10E171D3654E | I think driveless cars are going to be the new thing everyone will enjoy. | Position | Adequate |
19382a3896e7 | 10E171D3654E | Getting around will be easier, and everyday life will seem a little less chaotic. | Claim | Adequate |
aa4662e80693 | 10E171D3654E | Even though you may get bored and want to drive | Counterclaim | Adequate |
1f8d5cd59461 | 10E171D3654E | you may now text without your life being at stake as it says in the last sentence of paragraph eight. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
48d8736eef95 | 10E171D3654E | The question that may pop up in a lot of consumers mind is what if something goes wrong wit the system of the driveless car? | Counterclaim | Adequate |
52c259db7d3c | 10E171D3654E | Manufacters not only want the people to be safe but want their product to sell as well as the story quotes in paragraph 8, last line. Why sell something messed up to the people to have them get seriously injuried and then no one buy it because of its bad reviews? Therefore, I believe manufacters would test and secure i... | Rebuttal | Adequate |
93b4bb2f8c72 | 10E171D3654E | When running late for work or school, you can easy just have your car start and drive as you are preparing for a meeting, answering missed calls or texts, or simply applying today's makeup for school. This also gives you a chance to sleep in later and be more rested. There are so many teens and adults who lose lives be... | Evidence | Adequate |
7a8f83a70b69 | 10E171D3654E | As it states in paragraph nine, "most driving laws focus on keepng drivers, passengers, and pedestrians safe, and lawakers know that safety is achieved with alert drivers." The driveless car law would not pass if this was going to fail or become reckless. We grow closer to driveless cars each waking day. In paragraph t... | Evidence | Adequate |
be705eff015c | 10E171D3654E | Imagine a world where there would be less accidents because of texting or new drivers scared on the road. | Claim | Adequate |
aee343330aa1 | 10E171D3654E | Please take this new idea into consideration, and think. Our technolgy is already so sophisicated now, what would it be like after driveless cars making our world more organized and better? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
48acef288054 | 10E7A0414D14 | Many student's do not have opportunity to be part of one school. The school, or the study, are the most important thing for the future, because everyone depend of money, everybody need study to get a good job and make money. Each one know what want be in the future, so that is exactly whatever some need to study. Each ... | Lead | Adequate |
9e67428223a5 | 10E7A0414D14 | , class online is one benefit for every student and who want study. | Position | Adequate |
e887a5cab44e | 10E7A0414D14 | Is a benefit having online class, since not everybody have the opportunity deform part of school. At this day's should be take in consideration the online class. Exist a lot of method to learn and can be which someone want to be | Evidence | Adequate |
1a830075720a | 10E7A0414D14 | One of the cases for everyone should not going to the school are for the sickness | Claim | Adequate |
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