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258bc4202e9d | 1C088E6CD17E | Lastly, online schooling does not account for individuals with learning disabilities | Claim | Adequate |
ac3b7d3caa9a | 1C088E6CD17E | Most schools consist of people from various races, ethnicities, backgrounds, sexes, and learning capabilities. Not every student thinks the same way, so they should be encouraged to express their creativity to establish a diverse school setting. Additionally, some students may possess specific learning disabilities suc... | Evidence | Effective |
7004d71c22d5 | 1C088E6CD17E | By implementing online classes, schools should reassess the validity of its efficiency and the impact it will have on students. Virtual learning can have benefits, but is effective to a certain extent. Ultimately, the negative imbalance between the consequences and benefits of virtual learning suggests that online clas... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
94b8c5723488 | 1C3A41A2CE86 | Well I think that the electoral college should stay because, its much easier then just picking a person to run the united states. | Position | Adequate |
bb448a4a42c7 | 1C3A41A2CE86 | The first reason is because, all you need to get is 270 votes just to win the whole thing. | Claim | Adequate |
8472f2ab9c83 | 1C3A41A2CE86 | Also the winner take all deal is when the person with the most vote would take the others votes beacsue that person dont have all of the votes, so the person with the most votes would take all of the votes. This is from passage Dose the electoral college work? | Evidence | Adequate |
eeeb2ddbf814 | 1C3A41A2CE86 | And the electoral college was founed by the founding fathers, so we know that this thing is really good to use. | Claim | Adequate |
dcce976a8e08 | 1C3A41A2CE86 | The things that are wrong with use the electoral college is that is the person gets their votes for thir state the might just win because, the more the people that live there more of the votes that they might get. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
6e194b5ddb74 | 1C3A41A2CE86 | Pluse that shoulldnt be right beacsue that person knows everyone that lives in the town and they might not know that the other person is way much better then the person that they knew for many years. Also most people thing the electoral college is un fair beacsue it doesnt really give you the right things and the pepl... | Evidence | Adequate |
2c0c389d02d1 | 1C54A8400984 | I think it should be the most votes each president because it should be majority rule | Position | Adequate |
0c91fc2717cc | 1C54A8400984 | if many people pick one president and the other only gets a couple the one with the most should win because the peoples voice should choose who is over them. | Claim | Adequate |
f64e7cd2a1d0 | 1C54A8400984 | Also because if everyone vote for this one president there electoral college can still vote for the opposite of them and go against the ones that want to vote for that particular president | Claim | Adequate |
9efecddc7e17 | 1C54A8400984 | The electoral college vote is unfair to some people because they only have like a 50 percent chance to get the president they want in the white house. | Claim | Adequate |
6754ebc89276 | 1C54A8400984 | If the congress or whoever was to abolish the electoral congress vote I think we would see numerous of changes in our past history and our future, | Claim | Ineffective |
0b0be8664297 | 1C54A8400984 | so in the end it is basically like all of our votes are going to be voting vor the electoral votes then it goes to the president voting. After so long many people are going to stop voting, but not all because some people like it this way. the reason to that is because so many people are going to pay attention to their ... | Evidence | Adequate |
a980c0dc7903 | 1C638282627C | I disagree on this article | Position | Ineffective |
37f152b9e539 | 1C638282627C | well im in between to story i believe it is going to be like that in the future but also it might not because there going to upgrade the cars or whatever so imma have to say i disagree.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
1ce12c3f7cde | 1C638282627C | the reason i disagree is that there going to be better cars than what they is now they just going to keep coming out with new stuff and everything. | Claim | Ineffective |
95c085551068 | 1C638282627C | In the future future like 2032 type stuff like that i really dont know cause i dont even know if im still ognig to be living at that time. Yeah they coming out with new cars yes people are still ging to be driving even if the car is old or new you still going to do something.
I mean none is going to walk i know im not... | Evidence | Ineffective |
5ad227412eee | 1C6B45AF8116 | yes I think students should be required to community service | Position | Adequate |
067b7a2ac614 | 1C6B45AF8116 | because if they do they would be helping the community a lot | Claim | Adequate |
9ccae6940484 | 1C6B45AF8116 | and it could teach people how to start caring more about there community | Claim | Adequate |
0ae9b0259ebe | 1C6B45AF8116 | and probably do some community service there self. | Claim | Adequate |
f126013866a8 | 1C6B45AF8116 | students can make a difference in there community they just need somebody to show them how to do it | Evidence | Adequate |
0dca01ae6f28 | 1C6B45AF8116 | another reason why i think students should be required to do community service is for bad behavior or vandalize school property and so they can learn that things like that won't help get the community better it will just make it worse. | Evidence | Adequate |
503591e8dede | 1C6B45AF8116 | another reason is that it would help the men and women who have to clean and pick up trash every day.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
4d4a9ab2b0cc | 1C6B45AF8116 | if we don't recycle and pick up trash it will make the community worse to and if you have a bad community then you have a bad city a bad county and a bad state and a bad environment so it would help if students would take some time out and volunteer to do community service to help the planet. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4084636a4aa4 | 1C7FDCD3337C | What do you think about descarding electorial voting?,do you feel that it would be best to keep it this way,or do you think there should be a change? What you think i dont know. | Lead | Adequate |
a46ee72d4dd6 | 1C7FDCD3337C | i recomend that the electorial voting should not be changed. | Position | Adequate |
9663fd8759c6 | 1C7FDCD3337C | One of my main reasons for this is electorial voting has mostlikely been going on for decades,and why would you deside to change this now | Claim | Adequate |
7ceb871ab82d | 1C7FDCD3337C | This act could possibly throw some important things off track. For example if you were to go fourth with this act you could possibly risk people selecting the wrong president and his electors,which then could risk people to lose there jobs,homes,end up homeless,etc this could be avoided if you keep things how they are ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
0090738a2ef1 | 1C7FDCD3337C | Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter,and Bob Dole feel differently with my reason,they all feel that you should abolishe the electoral voting,they thaat sence Al Gore lost the presedency but won the popular vote they think that people are being cheated out of there vote and its not fair. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
2004911e229c | 1C7FDCD3337C | I disagree with them because the senators have a say in who is going to win the election and be president all at the end,so why worry. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
d90a2069a123 | 1C7FDCD3337C | In conclusion people should not worry about what happens with the House Of Represintative,or the election,i'd tell folks to leave that up to the senator to decide because there people like us, | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1583bf7f83ad | 1CCDBD707F65 | I understand that every 4 years on the first Tuesday of November, the United States undergoes a change in Presidency. This change should be decided in a properly manner by the people and citizens of the country. | Lead | Adequate |
5d25155f57b5 | 1CCDBD707F65 | This explains the purpose of this letter, to abolish the Electoral College. I have this opinion | Position | Adequate |
d98210f12cb5 | 1CCDBD707F65 | it is unfair to the people | Claim | Adequate |
77e2dd6756a2 | 1CCDBD707F65 | the electors tend to provoke the system | Claim | Ineffective |
aed5f77d09ce | 1CCDBD707F65 | if there is a way to keep it, we can use it if there is a tie between the Presidency voting.
| Claim | Ineffective |
6d75c3248e74 | 1CCDBD707F65 | The best argument that I have towards this action is plain and simple: it's unfair! | Claim | Adequate |
2ffd17198fc8 | 1CCDBD707F65 | Voting is all about going to the poll and having the excitment of knowing that your vote can change the next 4 years of your life, including America's life. This should not include the other electors in the house or the people in office. This is a democracy country, therefore, we the people should decide who the Presid... | Evidence | Adequate |
3ac1c334f8b2 | 1CCDBD707F65 | Another important reason why the Electoral College needs to be voted out is because the electors in Congress tend to provoke the voting | Claim | Ineffective |
54ebe394aca5 | 1CCDBD707F65 | you are actually choosing your candidate's electors, not the actual president. Now your trust is in the candidates hands. At this point in time, you probably think its safe right? That those people know what there doing, but chances are that they dont. There goes many other things to stress about! At one point, the ca... | Evidence | Adequate |
8c5140f2564f | 1CCDBD707F65 | Besides all the negativity that you've been hearing throughout this letter, there is a possibility that we can compromise. | Claim | Adequate |
c7446d4a51e6 | 1CCDBD707F65 | First, all the people that want to vote will vote, but the Electoral College will only be needed if there is a tie between the people to Presidency vote. If not, then the people decide. Without the Electroal College present, the smaller states have the same equality and strength as the larger states as
Source 3: In De... | Evidence | Adequate |
a6516861b4fb | 1CCDBD707F65 | To sum it all up, the Electoral college is just an unnecassary back up plan when there is not one needed. It is unfair to the citizens and the candidate's electors are unreliable. If there was a way to keep the Electoral College, it would only be for ties. It wouldnt be needed if the vote was a clean win. When the Pres... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
b95141dbc631 | 1CD84A125450 | The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as compromise between election of President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of a qualified citizens. Each candidate running for President has his or her own group of electors. T... | Lead | Ineffective |
115c3fe65266 | 1CD84A125450 | I think we should keep Electoral Colleges | Position | Adequate |
34cfa454e453 | 1CD84A125450 | It gives people a chance | Claim | Ineffective |
6bc3a9fc2fcf | 1CD84A125450 | help with responsibility, | Claim | Ineffective |
5abeb875e7d9 | 1CD84A125450 | and it is competitive | Claim | Adequate |
0a234e677b86 | 1CD84A125450 | Initially, it gives everyone in the political group a chance | Claim | Ineffective |
7a78f5f99095 | 1CD84A125450 | The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your state's entitled allotment of electors equals the number of members in its Congressional delegation: on for each member in the House of Representitaves plus two for your Senators. The District of C... | Evidence | Ineffective |
86fafd47867c | 1CD84A125450 | In addition, Electoral College also hekps with responsibility | Claim | Ineffective |
c311658d89b1 | 1CD84A125450 | Laws are vary on how the electors are selected and what thier responsibilities are. It can either take away responsibilities or give more resonsibilities. This can help people out alot, people won't get task that they can't handle and other people won't get task that would bore them or would be to easy from. It also gi... | Evidence | Ineffective |
0479b0a86ba5 | 1CD84A125450 | Finially, it is competative | Claim | Adequate |
a3a430e68a75 | 1CD84A125450 | Most states have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. This would make would people work harder and strive for higher expectations. The competitiveness level would be even higher becuase everyone is going for the same goal, this would make thing even more exciting to ... | Evidence | Adequate |
9d8cdf63aea2 | 1CD84A125450 | In conclusion, Electoral College is very good. It gives people chance to strive for greatness, it helps people with responsibility, and it is very competitave. I think we should keep Electoral College it is a great achievement to our country and is a advantage to our election. It lets everyone be heard, it teaches peop... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4de0d62b1811 | 1D0EC331D8F6 | School is a place where students are supposed to be able to learn information and grow as human beings. The main problem with school being a place where students must commute to, is that for some of the students, the environment just isn't the right place for them to learn | Lead | Adequate |
93ccb1da3b5b | 1D0EC331D8F6 | Personally, I believe that for some students, learning from home may be a much more beneficial method of schooling | Position | Effective |
84b86294c33a | 1D0EC331D8F6 | some students feel uncomfortable with the school environment | Claim | Adequate |
f62002d12df3 | 1D0EC331D8F6 | online school could allow for more freedom in class pacing. | Claim | Effective |
1a43e293d528 | 1D0EC331D8F6 | A school in it's own can sometimes feel much too clinical for students, too professional, and way too pressuring of an environment. This is why for some students, it may actually be better if they learn from home. For me at least, I find school to be a suffocating environment, where you are surrounded by the pressure o... | Evidence | Effective |
59ca9c9b3467 | 1D0EC331D8F6 | If school was taught from home or online, students would feel more comfortable and thus would do better. | Claim | Effective |
bf9fb0dadaf7 | 1D0EC331D8F6 | If school was taught online, student would be able to control their class pacing much better than if it was taught in person | Claim | Effective |
bd71dc39f055 | 1D0EC331D8F6 | In a normal classroom, your teacher has a strict course schedule that he/she must keep to, and thus forcing students to keep to a strict routine of coursework. I can say this from my personal experience, since I too have dealt with the pressure of having multiple assignments due back to back, and having to turn them in... | Evidence | Effective |
0a9c59544ace | 1D0EC331D8F6 | School should be taught from home or taught online, because I believe that most, if not all, students would benefit from it. Students would not have to deal with the harsh environment of a school and they would get ability to decide their class pacing better then in school teaching. I believe that all teachers want is ... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
943adcd9d908 | 1D10B524E194 | I think that they should be aloud for only lunch periods and free time. | Position | Adequate |
6c25b5f05857 | 1D10B524E194 | I know the teachers think we will abuse the opportunity to use our cell phones. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6db51566d0e3 | 1D10B524E194 | I think if you have it on silent and you don't mess with it in class unless it is and absolute emergency then it is fine. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
0b30341a313a | 1D10B524E194 | If you want to use it in advisory or during lunch then i don't see the big deal. | Claim | Adequate |
0a95e0623664 | 1D10B524E194 | My personal opinion is the cell phone issue is blown way out of per portion | Evidence | Adequate |
fa5b1564a7fd | 1D10B524E194 | If the kid wants to check their phone really quick then let them do it. | Claim | Adequate |
f3f0104185ee | 1D10B524E194 | Its not like they have their ring tone blaring or anything. Teachers all know that we remember to put them on silent. | Evidence | Adequate |
5e451f239baf | 1D10B524E194 | Maybe if a student had the permission to use their phone in school from their parent. The teachers don't allow it but their guardian does. I think the issue should be resolved by parents and not by a student. | Evidence | Ineffective |
7111a6b7ebfe | 1D10B524E194 | For one no one listens to us. They think were just a teenager looking for an excuse to use out phones. Well its not because maybe | Evidence | Adequate |
87b0d9eabd65 | 1D10B524E194 | some kids like to feel safe with their phone. | Claim | Adequate |
38a7281456a4 | 1D10B524E194 | Its like their security to let them know their safe. Maybe their being bullied and want to talk to someone about it. And they don't want to bring the principal into it all.
They can text their mom or dad and resolve the issue. I think it is important to talk to them. Some kids have anger issues and can only be calmed ... | Evidence | Adequate |
f3025ef455f5 | 1D10B524E194 | Well i have expressed my opinion on the Cell Phone Policy and now it is up the school. And i hope you go back and read the story clear because their are reasonable explanations for the reasons for cell phone use.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
eadc8399a3cd | 1D374A0B26EA | The Electoral College is a process in which each person running for President has his/her own group of electors who are chosen by their political party. | Lead | Adequate |
e7a55d0b3d7c | 1D374A0B26EA | In my opinion I believe that the Electoral College should not | Position | Adequate |
c62b944219f3 | 1D374A0B26EA | it's not fair that the citizens only get to choose who is their president and who his party choose as Congress, they should be able to choose who helps the president run the country. | Claim | Ineffective |
aa14e4925930 | 1D374A0B26EA | The President basically just signs the papers that can pass a law but the Congress helps say if the law should pass or not.
People should be able also to choose who they want in Congress beacuse, people want a Congress that they know and trust to help our country turn into a better place. Sometimes the Congress only d... | Evidence | Ineffective |
849b5b20039c | 1D374A0B26EA | In conclusion people should be able to vote because then we'd be able to choose,so they could feel better about knowing who is passing laws and fixing their country. I may be under age but, I know if I were allowed to vote I'd want to vote for who runs my country and who helps run it. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
3d0ccb49c7f7 | 1D55D4FF63BE | I argue in favor of keeping the Electoral college | Position | Adequate |
240f489f4f9b | 1D55D4FF63BE | it requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal,its actually a good thing. | Claim | Adequate |
4d4a359442cb | 1D55D4FF63BE | Basically all voters are involved because if it wasnt for that one voter the president wouldnt had been elected as president. A candidate with only one regional appeal is unlikely to be a successful president. if we didnt have voters we might would have the worst president of them all, he could do bad things for the co... | Evidence | Adequate |
1921009e6e19 | 1D55D4FF63BE | the electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states by population lose by virtue of the mal- apportionment of the senate decreed in the constitutuion | Claim | Effective |
8e0a79862f74 | 1D55D4FF63BE | Large states such as florida , wyoming, gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small states does. It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote . yet that has happened very rarely. But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee and that ... | Evidence | Adequate |
e03a2c476ed2 | 1D55D4FF63BE | We can have argue that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off the potential voters for a candidate who has no hope for their state . | Counterclaim | Adequate |
8bdd9e56dd95 | 1D55D4FF63BE | They have to be more careful about who they want to vote because, it can cause alot of damge to the president or even the world that we live in. They should let people who already know about the political party's and the democrats and the republicans. | Evidence | Adequate |
cbaec7acbba6 | 1D55D4FF63BE | We should have our background checked on if we should vote or not because , people have faked thier identity and voted , or even forced someone else to vote for them even if they didnt want to. | Evidence | Ineffective |
f2bf99eaf02b | 1D55D4FF63BE | the electoral college is a very important process that goes on in this world just to make our place a better one . If our electoral college do better we can have more oppertunities in life, like when the good president becomes president just like obama , He can do good things with the taxes or even make it easier for k... | Evidence | Ineffective |
1e625bddcf9a | 1D55D4FF63BE | And that is why I argue in favor of keeping the Electoral College | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
2bb941616078 | 1D8D04DBA122 | I think that you should have a B average and not an A average to play sports | Position | Ineffective |
ece7ea7bebab | 1D8D04DBA122 | its not fair to the kids who are working hard and trying their best to keep there grades up while playing a sport at the same time. | Claim | Adequate |
da847dbc734c | 1D8D04DBA122 | Now if you have a C then you can be kicked out of the team because school comes before sports and that's why i understand that you can have a C . If i was the best person on lets see the volleyball team and i was working hard and doing my best studying hard, doing everything i could to get that B to an A and i just cou... | Evidence | Adequate |
101769acfad8 | 1D8D04DBA122 | Also because if you have an A and your doing things to keep that A and you accidentally didn't turn in your homework for a class you could be kicked off the team for not having an A. Some people are smart and some people have trouble with their school work well if your not very smart then you can help it if you cant ge... | Evidence | Adequate |
e7bea7554d56 | 1D8D04DBA122 | some people are working hard and they just cant pick their grades up so they get kicked off the team. | Claim | Adequate |
ece6af65a861 | 1D8D04DBA122 | Most people work hard because they don't want to be kicked off because they love that sport and don't want to get off the team just because they couldn't pass a class in school because they weren't studying or doing their class work. If it was me having that B and working my butt off to get that A for report card and i... | Evidence | Adequate |
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