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de8bc617fc02 | 39DCB6EF34D9 | It is handy though, a car like this | Counterclaim | Adequate |
4aa8cbc4e802 | 39DCB6EF34D9 | but one would have to wonder the cost of a car like that. Probably something none of us could afford to buy | Rebuttal | Adequate |
05cd413ed97b | 39DCB6EF34D9 | But it would be nice to not have to worry about other cars,
| Counterclaim | Adequate |
eb6db2fb8ade | 39DCB6EF34D9 | although when you come to a stop, although it has sensros on the car, does it sense the other driverless car? What if that car in the other line isnt't driverless and the driver decided to wave you along and let you go first, what would the car do? Does it truly function probably at an intersection? | Rebuttal | Adequate |
1c16138455c5 | 39DCB6EF34D9 | I dont particularly care about this kind of car, I learned how to drive and I'd rather just do that. Although thus driverless car sounds safer, I'm sure it would make less mistakes than I do, I don't quite trust it. Reason being is the issue with other drivers at an intersection, or the age of legal driving, then the n... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
25e6b1604901 | 39DD51C9D811 | They should keep the Electoral college, | Position | Adequate |
eecd8434d619 | 39DD51C9D811 | Because its where people vote to choose who's going to be the president and the vice president. | Claim | Adequate |
09336ceb0a06 | 39DD51C9D811 | If they have 538 electors they have to count them all not 270/538 because its not fair. I am Agree with the "Certificate of Ascertainment" they can have a certificate even if they did not won. | Evidence | Ineffective |
61f8659e728b | 39DD51C9D811 | Voters get confused | Claim | Adequate |
b7654870dbde | 39DD51C9D811 | because the state convention, presidential candidates and the state central committee don't make up their minds....Why American people should considere themselves lucky if that was Back in 1960's, what makes them so sure that American people are going to be lucky again? well they might get lucky this time but not alway... | Evidence | Adequate |
4b42dc32921f | 39DD51C9D811 | The electoral college have to change for good if they dont they wont see any votes when its time to vote | Claim | Ineffective |
ed81ab3b83af | 39E4DC4B4915 | I would love it if the electoral college was gone | Position | Adequate |
7b9b99003a0e | 39E4DC4B4915 | it really is crazy if people are thinking their voting for someone when they really aren't like the presidents. | Claim | Adequate |
1935e19a8250 | 39E4DC4B4915 | We actually help pick our state senators because when we vote for presidents we are actually voting for the canidates electors. | Evidence | Adequate |
64fd848f52fd | 39E4DC4B4915 | Some states have a winner takes all system, and what that system does is awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. But Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of proportional representation. after the prsidential election, our governor prepares a certificate of asertainment, l isting all of the canidat... | Evidence | Ineffective |
ffe4457a461c | 39E4DC4B4915 | Under the electoral college system, we do not vote for presidents, but for the slate of electors who then elect the president. We should consider ourselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century, the system allows for much worst. Consider that state legislaturwes are responsible for pic... | Evidence | Adequate |
53f448a0bcbf | 39F8DB13BB4F | How safe would you feel if you there was a car driveing itself beside you? | Lead | Adequate |
614ed03df710 | 39F8DB13BB4F | I am against the use of driverless cars. | Position | Adequate |
a66a80f5c747 | 39F8DB13BB4F | people will abuse this technolgy, | Claim | Adequate |
47a17d2d100e | 39F8DB13BB4F | it might not be the most reliable way to get around | Claim | Adequate |
416bc465e657 | 39F8DB13BB4F | people would be more likely to fall asleep at the wheel.
| Claim | Adequate |
97bdf0e8e5a9 | 39F8DB13BB4F | If you look at people now who text and drive and do other things that they arent soppoust to they will be more likely to do it in a driverless car thinking that the car will do everything for them. As it says in paragraph two in this article that the car would show a message when the person needed to take over the whee... | Evidence | Adequate |
84db80716f36 | 39F8DB13BB4F | witch is true because some people fall asleep while actually in controll of the car so taking away the abilty to controll the car would make it much easier of them to fall asleep. | Evidence | Ineffective |
cb5beb199348 | 39F8DB13BB4F | because what if the computer and sensors randomly short out or they mess up and send the car into a telephone pole, tree, ect. | Evidence | Adequate |
34231c29f74a | 39F8DB13BB4F | I think that driverless cars are a bad idea because people will become more tired at the wheel, its not reliable, and people are going to do stuff that they shouldent and its gonna eighter cause them or someone else to get killed. This tecnolgy seems like a good idea to a lot of peopel im sure but its not a good idea b... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d1a212b64bd2 | 39FFFE0E3490 | I would like to address a concern that seems to have the American people questioning their voting decisions. As a responible citizen of the United States of America, upholding your right to vote is an important duty. However, | Lead | Adequate |
1848006dfd92 | 39FFFE0E3490 | in the case of nationally voting to decide our vital political figures, such as the President and Vice-President, the ballot of the Electoral College is not giving the voters of America a fair result when it comes to the final moments of a presidental election. | Position | Effective |
36450de6a117 | 39FFFE0E3490 | the electors for the state of which a citizen is voting in can be easily overturned to a vote for the canidate of which is opposite to what that citizen has elected to vote for. | Claim | Effective |
eb663e8bc177 | 39FFFE0E3490 | The year of the 2000 campaign, Bush vs. Gore, for the presidency is an excellent example of how this Electoral College is unfair for voters. As Bradford Plumer has addressed in an excerpt of his writing: "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" from
Mother Jones , h... | Evidence | Ineffective |
0a94f5190313 | 39FFFE0E3490 | Another example of how the Electoral College is unfair goes back to the 1960 campaign. Again stated by Bradford Plumer, "The segregationists in the Louisiana legislature had nearly come to success in replacing Democratic electors with new electors that would oppose John F. Kennedy." The state of Louisiana had attempted... | Evidence | Adequate |
bd90d52ca6cc | 39FFFE0E3490 | As an American citizen looking forward to uphold my duty as a responible voter, I ask that we abloish the Electoral College and make the change to deciding among a popular vote. I believe that this change will engage Americans who respectfully choose not to vote to make the choice to vote. It will also give the citizen... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
315a7643a4a9 | 39FFFE0E3490 | Last but not least, the small percentage of voters who are visiting the ballots for the first time would have a better understanding of how the voting system works | Claim | Adequate |
9951b577a5ab | 3A00AE848492 | The Face of Mars isn't a face at all! It's just the shadows that gives the eyes, nose and mouth a look. It could be possible for the aliens to create the Face of Mars but it'll take ages for the aliens to perform a task like that. | Lead | Adequate |
34960658f3b1 | 3A00AE848492 | The Face of Mars is only a Natural Landform that has been around Mars since it was created. | Position | Adequate |
82252aa43295 | 3A00AE848492 | The Face of Mars is located in Cydonia in Mars. Since Mars is mostlikely cloudy, the photos were taken when Mars was cloudless and was in open in Cydonia. MGS had took enough pictures during those times when it cloudless. Pictures were taking for many reasons. One of the reasons was for taxpayers. Jim Garvin, a chief s... | Evidence | Ineffective |
7af5df259242 | 3A00AE848492 | It really wasn't build by aliens nor any other creature out in space. | Claim | Adequate |
acc09a7c6d43 | 3A00AE848492 | The Face of Mars was made 25yrs ago. No one knows how it was made but it was located in Cydonia on Mars. | Evidence | Adequate |
2f2bab67e04b | 3A00AE848492 | The Face, however, is an illusion using the shadows as the eyes, mouth, and the nose. | Claim | Effective |
6f4bb1fcddd9 | 3A00AE848492 | One day in Sept. 1997, MGS, or Mars Global Surveyor, had landed onto the Red Planet had confirmed it as a natural landform. Not everyone was satisfied since they wanted more proof for this. It was April '98, cloudy time of year on Mars, where people couldn't use their telescopes to see the Face for themselves. So, on A... | Evidence | Adequate |
de81a6c82180 | 3A00AE848492 | Aliens never made the Face of Mars and the Face of Mars isn't real at all! It's just a natural landform by having the shadows covering up most of the landform making it appear as a face. For the conclusion, Cydonia has a natural landform on it that appears itself as a face using the shadows to make the illusion. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
07f4d23f67b8 | 3A22A2432F99 | The Electoral College is not perfect and it may be called broken by some people, but in all truth it isn't. | Position | Adequate |
8b36f48685ee | 3A22A2432F99 | The Electoral College is a good way to make sure that a election won't end in a tie | Claim | Effective |
3c256b4b133f | 3A22A2432F99 | It also makes sure that certain regions, or states, don't control the vote with their population. | Claim | Effective |
5b80df63a616 | 3A22A2432F99 | The Electoral College can be edited if it needs to though.
| Claim | Adequate |
c9da0e35f622 | 3A22A2432F99 | The Electoral College is very good at insuring one winner. | Claim | Effective |
751b6db737f3 | 3A22A2432F99 | It has this ability, because to be a tie both canidates have to have 269 votes which is highly unlikly. To have a President chossen majority has to vote one way (270). Now with a "winner-takes-all" system that his country, USA, has, there are only so many combinations of states' votes for one party that there would be ... | Evidence | Effective |
6879d7b7cbf7 | 3A22A2432F99 | The Electoral College also makes sure one part of the country does not get favored and make the others feel like their votes did not count. | Claim | Effective |
37f5190930ff | 3A22A2432F99 | If one canidate is favored in a area and if it has a lot of people then that candidate would win with a direct vote. The bigger cities with more people would get every political ad and the canidates would be more focused there instead of getting everyone's opinion. The other places would feel left out and would be less... | Evidence | Effective |
9c3f7820ce6a | 3A22A2432F99 | Nothing is the world is ever made perfect forever. The Electoral College was clearly a great idea when it was made or it would never be put into action. The Electoral College does have slight problems that rarely happen. The best thing about it though is that people could vote and change details about it if it was that... | Claim | Adequate |
fb20b8bbf14f | 3A22A2432F99 | As "Under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution," people wanted/ thought it would be fair to count the District of Columbia as a "state." So people took a vote to make the change, thats why it is the the 23rd Amendment. When the USA gets more population, for a short time, there will be a odd amount of electoral votes,... | Evidence | Adequate |
93e6b4a5723f | 3A22A2432F99 |
There is pleanty of things wrong in this world, but one thing that is pretty good right now is the Electoral College. More times than not it has one winner and one loser, and rarely a tie. It makes sure that nobody is a favorite or feels like it. Also it shows things can change if something is a problem or needs fixin... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
60fbe6ea34bc | 3A317901A1B7 | I believe that doing community service is a good thing to do for others, but I also believe that people should be able to do what they want or need to do. | Lead | Effective |
42120b022f75 | 3A317901A1B7 | so I think we should at least vote to it. | Position | Effective |
d0bf5fc2a663 | 3A317901A1B7 | That way it will be a fair decision by the people for the people. | Claim | Effective |
d7a097db1781 | 3A317901A1B7 | It would be good to clean up trash or help others, but people also like spending their time on their own terms, therefore a vote in favor or not in favor would be best. | Evidence | Effective |
b3af7170f75c | 3A317901A1B7 | Another good idea would be to have a meeting with parents and teachers and see what they think of this | Claim | Effective |
8faac10cbd7c | 3A317901A1B7 | kids love to play video games, watch T.V. and sit around now, because it's more fun to them then cleaning up trash, or helping someone out, I am Against doing community service, but if you chose any of the ideas in this letter, it's up to the students, the teachers, and the parents now. | Evidence | Effective |
41778e1a0127 | 3A33CD269EA2 | The Electoral College is a process not a place. When the founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and also a popular vote of approved citizens. | Lead | Effective |
8db6dcde73cc | 3A33CD269EA2 | That should stay remain the same they should not be any change to the Electoral College system. | Position | Adequate |
be018ecf8faf | 3A33CD269EA2 | The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electorals. When the electors have a meeting thats when they are able to for the President, Vice President that is running for office. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, majority of 270 electoral vote, is to elect the President. Each state is e... | Evidence | Ineffective |
b5d236d0b93f | 3A3AD368D10E | The Electoral College is a method of voting for President and Vice President that was produced by our founding fathers in the articles of the Constitution. The Electoral College has been in use for centuries, but it is time that we disregard it. | Lead | Effective |
207364daae38 | 3A3AD368D10E | The Electoral College was a smart idea in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, but as our country continues to change, it is necessary to change the way that we elect our leaders. The Electoral College has remained untouched and exactly the same for hundreds of years and this has caused it to be extremely outdated. | Position | Effective |
946643f89752 | 3A3AD368D10E | Not only is it far too outdated and complicated to help our voting process, | Claim | Adequate |
b8f7cc623ee3 | 3A3AD368D10E | but the Electoral College does not give the voters voice; instead, it takes it away from them. | Claim | Adequate |
50bca7105755 | 3A3AD368D10E | The Electoral College also can lead to concerning situations that the country and its people do not want to be put in. | Claim | Adequate |
0382f8eb63ee | 3A3AD368D10E | The question of whether or not to abolish or keep the Electoral College in tact is a heavily debated one, but it is clear that getting rid of the Electoral College will be highly beneficial to the voters of America. The Electoral College was established hundreds of years ago when our Constitution came about and it crea... | Claim | Effective |
c044e4f74e1a | 3A3AD368D10E | Our country is changing day by day, and we certainly have made monumental changes since the Electoral College came to be. According to Bradford Plumer, author of, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong," a poll was taken by Gallup in the year 2000 that showed that l... | Evidence | Effective |
c98aa44822d5 | 3A3AD368D10E | In his article, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong," Bradford Plumer specifically states that the people themselves do not vote for their desired candidate, but instead, they vote for electors who then vote for the more popular presidential candidate. The people... | Evidence | Effective |
78096e2a545d | 3A3AD368D10E | Not only is it not hard to accomplish, but it has happened before. According to Bradford Plumer in his article, "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong," in the early 1960s, people who favored races being seperated in society were almost able to replace Democratic el... | Evidence | Effective |
862f2ef111c3 | 3A3AD368D10E | In summation, the Electoral College has been around for hundreds of years, but it is time that the United States makes the change that would improve the way of electing its future Presidents. The Electoral College is outdated and complicated, does not allow the voice of the people to be heard, and leads to uneccessary ... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
3155a1e35652 | 3A40B235E0C4 | I agree in favor yo keep the
Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
666ea6dc25c0 | 3A40B235E0C4 | Beacause the founding fathers etablished it in the
Constitution as a compromise between election of the
President by a vote in
Congress and elction of the
President by a poular of qualified citizens. We would not want to change the
Constitution that are great founding fathers had once made before | Claim | Adequate |
78f70071cf8d | 3A40B235E0C4 | The single best arguement againt the electoral college is what we might call the disaster facter. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6e27a4ca290b | 3A40B235E0C4 | The american people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election in the century the system allows for much worse. | Evidence | Adequate |
3def9f4941af | 3A40B235E0C4 | Prehaps most worrying is the prospect of the election vote would be tied in the elctorlal vote. In that case the election would thown to the house of represenitives where state delegation vote on the president | Evidence | Ineffective |
f230aa25a95a | 3A40B235E0C4 | In conclsion this is why we should keep the Electoral college. Because they have plans for back up and everything is orginised for america. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
c36a91102a3b | 3AD47B68A985 | Being a person of politics yourself, you of all people should know that many compromises have been made over the course of the establishment of the United States. However, some of the compromises, like the electoral college, were made because of factors in the past and are now not needed in today's modern democracy. Wh... | Lead | Effective |
ba974fba4e8f | 3AD47B68A985 | A popular vote should instead be utilized to fairly choose the people of power in this country and would better represent voters' opinions.
| Position | Effective |
92929708b18e | 3AD47B68A985 | In implementing the electoral college, most states' votes either go to one candidate or the other, leading to candidates to only campaign in swing states (Bradford Plumer 13). | Claim | Effective |
5243d584328c | 3AD47B68A985 | This may not seem like much of a problem | Counterclaim | Effective |
36116b8fdb06 | 3AD47B68A985 | but consider this: a swing state such as Florida with over 20 electoral votes could go to a candidate who could have won by a 51 to 49 percent margin. This means that all the voters who voted for the other candidate no longer count, making the electoral college ineffective at voicing the opinions of the populous. | Rebuttal | Effective |
0335e69ad184 | 3AD47B68A985 | Also, many states may not even see the future president at all, like in the 2000 election where the candidates did not even go once and talk in seventeen states. This leads to a poor democracy because voters in these states will surmise that if the president will not bother to visit their state, they shouldn't bother o... | Evidence | Effective |
b0472d16e30d | 3AD47B68A985 | With the Electoral College, there is also the risk that electors may not necessarily vote for the candidate the people want as president. | Claim | Effective |
4489c22feef4 | 3AD47B68A985 | In the Electoral College, "voters vote not for the president, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president" (Bradford 10). These electors may not necessarily vote for what candidate voters want most as president, and could do what they might feel is the best decision; however, this is not always what th... | Evidence | Effective |
b78b2afe1ee3 | 3AD47B68A985 | In addition, a tie is likely in an electoral vote because of swing states, which has the potential to lead to a disaster. | Claim | Effective |
0a6e711e8da8 | 3AD47B68A985 | If two candidates receive the same number of electoral votes and tie in an election, the House of Representatives then chooses the president, while the Senate choose the vice president, but their votes may not show who voters want as president, seeing that voters often vote one party for president while the other for t... | Evidence | Effective |
b1529320fae0 | 3AD47B68A985 | Those in favor of the electoral college argue that because candidates will focus on swing states in order to win voters in those states will pay closer attention to the election and make a more educated decision (Richard A. Posner 20). | Counterclaim | Effective |
a5685f2e48d7 | 3AD47B68A985 | However, this is not necessarily the case, and there are plenty of other well-educated voters in other states who have opinions that will never be counted because of the electoral college. | Rebuttal | Effective |
f76bc69025e7 | 3AD47B68A985 | If the popular vote becomes the new method in choosing the president, voters all across the nation will pay more attention to elections because they feel that their vote can make a difference, and it will. This will in turn increase the number of voters actively paying attention to their country's decisions. | Claim | Effective |
f182327855c2 | 3AD47B68A985 | Because of the Electoral College, "about one-half the eligible American population did vote in [2012's] election" (Posner 23). Although this number is mentioned as a success in Posner's arguement, this means that there is one-half of American voices left unheard. Democracy only works if all citizens vote, but they will... | Evidence | Effective |
2a5a6e263ba2 | 3AD47B68A985 | Change needs to happen and it has to soon. If not, a poor president could be elected and then who knows what bad things could happen? With the popular vote, more people will be heard, and they will better take part in their country's government, leading to a better nation. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
757adf501306 | 3ADF2D3323BE | Allowing students to use cell phones at school is alright as long as you don't use them in class | Position | Adequate |
46bb748b9bd1 | 3ADF2D3323BE | The reason why I say this is because when you are in class the teacher is teaching and if you start using it, it's disrespectful. | Claim | Adequate |
5d77340116c4 | 3ADF2D3323BE | Also, you'll get caught and your phone will be taken away. When you start having free time or lunch period, then its alright for you to use your phone because nobody is teaching you. My opinion is that its better off if we can use our phones while having lunch or break time, so nobody can tell you to put your phone awa... | Evidence | Ineffective |
07a0c6088f38 | 3ADF2D3323BE | Using phones in class is really disrespectful and you'll never learn anything in class. | Claim | Adequate |
b0fe47a553c3 | 3ADF2D3323BE | If you are in a middle of a class, your teacher is teaching and suddenly you have a phone call or text. you shouldn't pick it up. Ignore the phone and stay with what the teacher is teaching you about. Also, you shouldn't leave your phone on in class because then its easier to concentrate what teacher is telling you. If... | Evidence | Adequate |
0f9867c5b29f | 3ADF2D3323BE | The bell ring's and its time for lunch or break time. Now, finally you can use your phone. | Claim | Adequate |
d6c47eb470d6 | 3ADF2D3323BE | Nobody is going to bother you and no teacher will be teaching you. So, now you can do whatever you want. Look at the text your friend gave you or call him. Also, no teacher or principle will come up to you and take your phone away because it's your time to do whatever you want. | Evidence | Adequate |
d929da21f7c9 | 3ADF2D3323BE | If the school's were like this, then nobody was going to pick up there phone's in class and they were going to wait until free time. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
7c1fce448199 | 3B3A47EA684D | I believe that changing school policy so that students may not participate in sports or other activities unless they have at least a grade B average is a bad decision. | Position | Adequate |
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