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8ee9d13ef5b0 | 2FC6AA5BBAE9 | Many students move to different places throughout their learning career, making it difficult for them to adapt to their new situations. It is tiresome for many to adjust to new circumstances that could vary drastically depending on where the move takes place. For instance, students that have parents in the military may... | Evidence | Effective |
f27754540af5 | 2FC6AA5BBAE9 | With online schooling and video conferencing, students will be able to be educated despite the hundreds of miles between them and their original school. This option may even help students take baby steps to slowly adjust to their new environment. | Claim | Effective |
2e5c8d150488 | 2FC6AA5BBAE9 | Science and technology are a constant effort that help us with our daily tasks, but, for some odd reason, we do not seem to utilize the extent of our genius when it comes to education | Evidence | Effective |
c0eeb64a070d | 2FC6AA5BBAE9 | Online schooling is an affordable alternative to the concept of formal education. Some could argue that online schooling is only the beginning of a future with extremely accessible class education | Claim | Effective |
047d69d36000 | 2FC6AA5BBAE9 | We could see the implementation of virtual reality, or other new technology, in schooling systems in the near future. The more we encourage the use of this technology, the more we will see students prosper with a fulfilling education.
| Evidence | Effective |
ee74a6cb2f9e | 2FC6AA5BBAE9 | With our recent innovations, we will be able to see the next generations of students achieve a better education that gets increasingly accessible with the passage of time. It is becoming clear that the problem of missing education based off of things that students cannot control must be taken more seriously. Countless ... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8e1959f0ea97 | 2FDB1B6086C9 | I believe that policy 1 is a great idea | Position | Adequate |
9c99201a8f00 | 2FDB1B6086C9 | most students sometimes get done with their work before others and sometimes they just have to sit there. By this I mean maybe it would be a good idea if we were allowed to have our phones with us. If this is possible we should keep them off during classes and other educational things we attend while we are at school. | Evidence | Adequate |
2531b0e1dc2d | 2FDB1B6086C9 | I think it would be a good idea if we could at least have our phones during free time or when we are done with all of our work as long as we don't bother others. | Claim | Adequate |
bdda33f731f3 | 2FDB1B6086C9 | It is also a good idea to have our phones with us in case there is some type of emergency while we are at school | Claim | Adequate |
7e3b01205b04 | 2FDB1B6086C9 | maybe the power gets shut off or something. The reason i like this policy is because when we are all done with our work, going on field trips, or even just having free time we should be able to have them at least to text the people at our school or maybe if possible people at other schools as long as they are not texti... | Evidence | Adequate |
2627edf49253 | 2FDB1B6086C9 | I also think we should have them at our lunch period too. | Claim | Ineffective |
0465339bd34d | 2FDB1B6086C9 | I think this because maybe when we are old enough to drive or maybe our siblings or parents could pick us up to go out to lunch every once in a while as well. I really think we should not have our phones on at all or out when we are having a test because someone could text someone the answer to a question or maybe if t... | Evidence | Adequate |
fd3c534ac158 | 2FDB1B6086C9 | Mainly i think we should only have them out in our free time, when we are going on trips, when you have showed the teacher that you're done with your work, and at lunch. If you will can you please try to take this into consideration and just think about it and get back with me. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
367f0a91222a | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | Hello, I am writing to you about the Electoral College and why that I think it should be removed | Position | Adequate |
4095a6e51279 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | Why I think we should remove the Electoral College is when voter selects the president they want they are really just picking for a elector who elects the president for them | Claim | Adequate |
d457a9a942a7 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | Also this makes a single rep from Wyoming of 500,00 people has as much say as 55 reps for California who represents 35 million people | Claim | Adequate |
d6ae194e4f52 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | The last reason behind this is also being unfair to voters, the winner take all system where in the state the winner of the votes gets them all. | Claim | Adequate |
8335af7f9c00 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | So in effect a candidate would spend no time in that per say a swing state. which the may have a chance of winning.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
88aa389a214d | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | When you vote for the president you really are not voting for him, you're voting for a elector who really elect the president. | Claim | Adequate |
c0f46672f3a9 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | Also the question is brought up, who picks the electors? This also depends on the state could be the state party's central committee or the presidential candidate's people do. Also another question is what controls the elector from electing the wrong candidate, nothing. | Evidence | Adequate |
5420c73d213d | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | Also why does a single reps in Wyoming with 500,00 people have as much say as 55 reps in California with 35 million people? That is just unfair to the voters, | Claim | Adequate |
7154df52c1df | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | how could that in anyway represent what the majority of the people want. | Evidence | Adequate |
cce2f8fcd95f | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | The other way the electoral collage is unfair is the winner take all system I mentioned earlie | Claim | Adequate |
2c16c0ffb228 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | with majority votes in a state is the state vote, such as if 46 percent of people in a state voted one candidate and 54 for the other insted of just giving the candidates their votes the majority decided one would have them. | Evidence | Adequate |
d36aa5e35dcc | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | The Electoral College is also not a democratic system of voting | Claim | Adequate |
d49e69a538b5 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | people are really not deciding, and when it is said you are allowing each party to pick a trusted slate of nominees it is not true because the state's central committee not the presidential candidate's reps who are the people really needed to vote for such. In 2000 Gore had more popular votes than bush but less elector... | Evidence | Adequate |
e8092ce6e109 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | Also a president does not need to be trans-regional, they only need to appeal to swing states and not ruin relations with their states. | Evidence | Adequate |
8a9a1e2fc012 | 2FE74FFEB8A3 | So that was and is my reasoning of why I think that the Electoral College should be removed from our political system. Between the being unfair to voters through voting for electors not even the president, reps not even being scaled right also the winner take all system making the system unbalanced, and the presidentia... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
54c4cbdf93ee | 30045307DB37 | I am writing to you about the debate on the abolishment of the Electoral College | Lead | Adequate |
314fd310b102 | 30045307DB37 | I see absolutely no point in the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
6059d874609d | 30045307DB37 | all it is is elected people from a state voting on the president based on what the popular vote for the president was in their assigned area. | Claim | Adequate |
5b2ce6317d5c | 30045307DB37 | The Electoral College has 538 electors. The majority of them are from the states of California, Texas, New York, and Florida. Election Day is held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. I don't see why we need other people to vote for us. The Bill of Rights said that we have a "freedom of speech", but our "... | Evidence | Adequate |
cbde29ec247d | 30045307DB37 | We need to abolish the Electoral Congress so we can just vote for who we want! | Claim | Adequate |
09dbf1a2b514 | 30045307DB37 | The popular vote means that the president who recieved more votes claims that the state voted more for him/her. The popular vote goes to our "electors" and they decide to vote for the President. | Claim | Ineffective |
93d3f2bf72a4 | 30045307DB37 | We should just vote straight up because the election in 2008 was a huge mistake. Obama decides to do whatever he wants. Insurance prices have gone up due to "ObamaCare", and now there is a huge, long, and exhausting process to get te see a specialist especially if you need to see one. It is out of control and he needs ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
32cb4dd4fee9 | 30045307DB37 | We should abolish the Electoral College because its just a waste. | Claim | Ineffective |
5aa54c3a45dd | 30045307DB37 | All they do is tally up the popular vote, and say "OK, im going to vote for Romney since that's what my people want." Why can't we just vote for who we want instead of wasting our time! The popular vote should be the only way to vote. There shouldn't be a long and hard process to voting. If I go and vote, I don't want... | Evidence | Ineffective |
4050e6ee689c | 30045307DB37 | I hope this letter made up your mind on to vote
YES
for abolishing the Electoral College. When I get older and can start voting, I hope that I can vote for whom ever I want without being told that " You just voted for nothing because the popular vote when to '(other Presidential Candidate)'and they won so they get th... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f389611c75ec | 300B76F37D8E | I don't think it is fair to the students that play sports to have just an B average, i think it should be at least an C average because some students are better in some subjects than other students and by taking that away you are taking away all some kids know | Position | Effective |
8e344fc34acf | 300B76F37D8E | some kids need sports | Claim | Adequate |
aa895d1e8404 | 300B76F37D8E | some kids try in school but can never get there work done because some don't understand the subjects they are failing. | Claim | Adequate |
2c0771c591f0 | 300B76F37D8E | Some kids can't help if all they can make is an C average because some students need more help in some subjects than others, | Claim | Adequate |
c036c0e874b7 | 300B76F37D8E | they may make straight A' s in one class but when they get to another subject they make an C. Some kids get some subjects and others do not. | Evidence | Ineffective |
eafae9e7c65b | 300B76F37D8E | some kids enjoy playing there sports | Claim | Adequate |
54e9ad615873 | 300B76F37D8E | i know a kid whose mom made him quit playing basketball because he got one C on his report it tore him because he was really sad going to the games and him not being on the court but he was in the stands watching his team. That's all he live for was basketball. What I'm saying is make the kids take a survey just a litt... | Evidence | Adequate |
1b08137e1d7f | 300B76F37D8E | In the end just give the kids another chance to explain why there are making the bad grades and to ask if they need help in anyway, but don't take away there right to play sports.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a023b886930b | 301D48946CB9 | Can you really trust a car to take you from point A to point B safely? There are many possible things that can go wrong while a person is not controlling their car. I think that there is not a safe way for a car to drive a person all by itself. If you don't know the next action that your car is going to take, how can y... | Lead | Effective |
d7f21404d6b2 | 301D48946CB9 | There are too many "what ifs" with a driverless car for me to feel safe to ride in one, or to even have one driving on the street around me. | Position | Effective |
b847b1771251 | 301D48946CB9 | To me, there are a variety of things that can go wrong when you are allowing the car drive all by itself. There are too many questions that need to be answerd about these new cars. | Claim | Effective |
73c4eb7bda91 | 301D48946CB9 | For example, how will the car react to a sudden change in the environment? If another car gets to close will it swerve out of the way potentionally causing an accident? Even if the car notifies the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, what will happen if the driver isn't notified in time? Also, if one of t... | Evidence | Adequate |
29dccef07e30 | 301D48946CB9 |
I think that driverless cars are a terrible idea. There are too many problems that can occur during the driving process, and I don't want my life in the hands of a car that can't see or think the way that a human does | Claim | Effective |
e908b5a44e36 | 301D48946CB9 | If during some parts of the drive it requires a human to take the wheel, why have it automatically drive you? Wouldn't it get tiring waiting for your turn to drive, especially when you aren't sure when the car is going to have you take over? You must stay focused on the road and have both hands on the wheel, so you cou... | Evidence | Effective |
e6981124214a | 30293E16144E | I believe we should keep the Electoral College for the president of the United States. | Position | Adequate |
2e5e90aa7b93 | 30293E16144E | Because it's easier to read when voting | Claim | Ineffective |
531db59f298e | 30293E16144E | everything is label right, | Claim | Ineffective |
bc5a8003f7a9 | 30293E16144E | the President has alot of trust in people.
| Claim | Adequate |
50ccb3230a44 | 30293E16144E | First of all, I believe we should keep the Electoral College for the president of the
United States because it's easier to read when voting | Claim | Ineffective |
ffd226450ab7 | 30293E16144E | In source one, by the Office of the Federal Register, it states that "The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President". This shows that when all the votes are tallyed up theirs no need to go through so much problem, when their's basically a rubric to ... | Evidence | Adequate |
75662e91a848 | 30293E16144E | Furthermore, I believe we should keep the Electoral College for the president of the
United States because everything is label right. | Claim | Ineffective |
3fc1aadf9858 | 30293E16144E | In source one, by the Office of the Federal Register, it states that "Under the 23rd Amendement of the Constitution, the District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors. . . .". This shows that whatever the 23rd Amendment is under, that's what the District of Columbia is allocated. This is just like an case at court or wh... | Evidence | Ineffective |
9528faa6e08e | 30293E16144E | Lastly, I believe we should keep the Electoral College for the president of the
United States because the president has alot of people to trust in | Claim | Ineffective |
37a23d81e0d3 | 30293E16144E | In source one, by the Office of the Federal Register it states that "Each candidate running for president in your state has his or her own group of electors." This shows that whoever the president of the United State is choosing for his or her own group of electors has put alot of trust on each and one of that individu... | Evidence | Ineffective |
d1be8c484c6c | 30293E16144E | In conclusion, I strongly believe we should keep the Electoral College for the president of the United States because; One, it's easier to read when voting. If the Electoral College didn't existed their would be alot of miscounting. Second, everything is label right. Their's no need to get things from the top of your h... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c8670e2adf7c | 3030A5BB7889 | I would go with policy number one because something might come up that day at school and the student might need to tell a parent what happened. | Position | Adequate |
5bb72a71f912 | 3030A5BB7889 | I wouldn't let the students have the phones all day because that would effect their learning skills | Claim | Adequate |
9a15bbe102c1 | 3030A5BB7889 | They would become hooked to their phone and not listen to their teacher as much. But I would go ahead and have them use their phones through out the day when they are not in classes. Like say it started snowing really bad at school that day and your coach tells you at school that there will be no practice after school.... | Evidence | Adequate |
a1e0427aac46 | 3030A5BB7889 | But sometimes it isn't good to have phones at all in school | Counterclaim | Adequate |
80582a8bb740 | 3030A5BB7889 | Like say someone at your school got shot or maybe something very bad happened to someone and your texting and calling your parents, grandparents, friends, and other people about what had happened. Well you and your whole school plus the people your texting and calling all the time. They block the phone station so you c... | Evidence | Ineffective |
44ce03e3c561 | 3030A5BB7889 | That would be bad so the there are PROS and CONS about having phones at schools. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
ca59e9502407 | 3052DB170D3E | I believe that having time to use our cell phones is prior to our learning. | Position | Adequate |
b3973e732d5e | 3052DB170D3E | What if someone's family member is pregnant and goes into labor during class? Would you deprive them of getting updates via text? | Evidence | Adequate |
ec7e68a6e72f | 3052DB170D3E | I think if its the right circumstance you should be able to use your phones | Claim | Adequate |
e3f1412236fc | 3052DB170D3E | Like if your math teacher runs out of calculators and you don't get one, you should be able to use the calculator on your phone. Maybe music calms you down and you have some on your phone and you are too stressed about some personal problem and they cant focus on they're work, this has actually happened to me. One time... | Evidence | Adequate |
6313cf7eab29 | 3052DB170D3E | I think if were allowed some leeway than we will be happy with our teachers so we can actually work on our work | Claim | Adequate |
3c6a122e7706 | 3052DB170D3E | Some kids are so shy that they don't even talk to their teachers and those kids might think that the class is too hard or the teachers are mean or something if we were allowed phones out in class he might feel comfortable | Evidence | Adequate |
6ff32cd3e474 | 3052DB170D3E | I could see where there would be some trouble with kids who simply don't care | Counterclaim | Adequate |
1262d20186c3 | 3052DB170D3E | so there should be some sort of points system where you have to have a certain amount of points to get the privilege of phones | Rebuttal | Adequate |
57a768e9196b | 3052DB170D3E | What's the point of being at school if you're not comfortable. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
7250e94ee557 | 305B4157DD19 | Do you think that we should keep the Electoral College? | Lead | Adequate |
b8df885b2fdf | 305B4157DD19 | We should keep the electoral college | Position | Adequate |
942dbd4f8570 | 305B4157DD19 | because the founding fathers established it in the constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they v... | Evidence | Ineffective |
23f907b1dc5f | 305B4157DD19 | You help choose your state's electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also declares the winning presidential candidate in your state ad shows which electors will represent your state at the meeti... | Evidence | Ineffective |
44be18be0f3e | 305B4157DD19 | The single best arguement against the Electoral College is what we might call the disaster factor. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those electors could always defy the will of the people. In the same vein, "faithless" electors have occasionally refused to vote... | Evidence | Ineffective |
5e532563acbf | 305B4157DD19 | At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. 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, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. It's official: The Electoral College is unfair,outdated, and ir... | Evidence | Ineffective |
821629dd36ff | 305B4157DD19 |
It can be argued that the Electoral College method of selecting the president may turn off potential voters for a candidate who has no hope of carrying their state. But of course no voter's vote swings a national election, and in spite of that, about one-half the eligible American population did vote in election. Vote... | Evidence | Ineffective |
57a10a03b2e6 | 305B4157DD19 | That is why we should keep the Electoral College. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
378e85e76fb0 | 306BCA39D2E9 | In all honestly, getting rid of the Electoral College is for the best. | Position | Adequate |
e5906c265d51 | 306BCA39D2E9 | It's unfair to the voters. Changing it to election by popular vote for the president of the United States would be easier for the people. | Claim | Adequate |
31caf5a7d005 | 306BCA39D2E9 | because the candidates don't go to states they don't have a chance of winning, because of the winnner-take-all system. The candidates only focus on the tight races in the swing states. Sorce 2 also claims that in the 2000 election, 17 states didn't see the candidates at all! That's pretty rediculous. And voters in 25 o... | Evidence | Adequate |
62a87843b705 | 306BCA39D2E9 | In the Electoral College system, voters dont only vote for the president, but for electors, who also vote for the president. Then again, in source 2, the article says the the electors that were voted for can vote for anyone they choose. That's some tricky business.
| Evidence | Adequate |
ed594ec1d673 | 306BCA39D2E9 | Voters can't control who the electors vote for. | Claim | Adequate |
23898407776b | 306BCA39D2E9 | Electors aren't even voted for by the people. They sometimes come from state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes even the presidential candidates themselves. The second article says that the legislature is responsible for picking the electors. And these electors coukd always go against... | Evidence | Adequate |
38d4baff805c | 306BCA39D2E9 | Article 1 says that to Electoral college is meant to be a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral College consists of the meeting of electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting... | Evidence | Ineffective |
05e8f0201f73 | 306BCA39D2E9 | Doing away with the Electoral Cololege is the best thing to do for the people. IT's unfair and tricky. The people deserve to be respected and not cheated out of their vote by electors. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9e35dc0d8960 | 308E3A168F23 | Dear senator i think that you shuled change to people vote then a Electoral college. | Position | Adequate |
dd4d54a5fbd4 | 308E3A168F23 | Here are the reason why you change it is unfair, stuipd. | Claim | Adequate |
e1598aaf085a | 308E3A168F23 | these are the reason why we should go to people vote for the president of the USA. | Evidence | Ineffective |
566e55d0240e | 308E3A168F23 | why does a state person can pick are next president. when the people cant choose and the state vote are more powerful then the people. the people can choose the president.
| Claim | Adequate |
0770da24f7c4 | 308E3A168F23 | for example Nixon in 1968 and clinton in 1992 both had only a 43 percsnt purality of the popular votes,while winning a majority in the Electoral college (301 out 370). These is a reason why people right need to count more the the state. | Evidence | Adequate |
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