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813f333dabc3 | 6481E8B9CD64 | To feel as if the president is not on your side, i dont imagine that being any fun, that to me would be like rewarding one child and not the other for the same action. | Claim | Ineffective |
c26cdc43ad08 | 6481E8B9CD64 | We all are equal, wether by race, color, or age. We are all human, and we demand to be treated equal, if we dont get equal, keep trying until you do. Its always too early to give up. Always push yourself to high extents just like these canidates and maybe one day it will be you standing up for the majority vote, only h... | Evidence | Ineffective |
23d80bab49d5 | 649B2A197C4A | If you were to question U.S. citizens about what an electoral college is, what would they say? Most of them don't even know its a process established in the Constitution in which electors "vote for president and vice president," and then are counted by the Congress (Source 1, paragraph 1). They don't realize that their... | Lead | Effective |
439a4b93794d | 649B2A197C4A | And those, if the very few, who do get it, are opposed. They would prefer another system, a more modernized system, and are disgruntle about how unfair the system is, not only about how the electors are chosen but how the larger states have an advantage in votes and in information | Position | Effective |
809d06ec7d1e | 649B2A197C4A | Most voters are opposed to such systems, according to Source Two, "... over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now," (paragraph 9). Yet we still have the Electoral Colleges going. | Claim | Effective |
d0ab697d1085 | 649B2A197C4A | As active voters in todays society, we call for a fair system. We want, no, we need, to be treated fairly and not over-riden.
| Evidence | Adequate |
48f2a4085183 | 649B2A197C4A | We need a system us as people can control ourselves | Claim | Effective |
774db4d570e2 | 649B2A197C4A | As in Source Two, I will ask you the question, "Who picks the electors in the first place?" Certainly not the citizens as a whole, most of the time its picked by the state governement in some shape or form, but sometimes, even the presidental candidates themselves can pick them (paaragraph 10)! As well as in Source Thr... | Evidence | Effective |
07e3b86fdb8a | 649B2A197C4A | As you probably already know, each state's "...entitled allotment of electors equals the number of memebers in its Congressional delegation..." (Source One, paragraph 3). Most represntatives spend most of their time campaining in places like New York and California that the small states such as Rhode Island arent even ... | Evidence | Effective |
8d96068367f1 | 649B2A197C4A | This leaves the smaller states less informed and more likely to vote to the exact opposite of what they want, and yet they still have as much say in the vote | Claim | Effective |
29f2d3597eda | 649B2A197C4A | In Selection Three, it is said that the swing states (or larger ones) "... are likely to be the most thoughtful voters, on average (and for the further reason that they will have received the most information and attention from the candidates)," (paragraph 20).
Selection Two points out something very important that sh... | Evidence | Effective |
2d63a04df82f | 649B2A197C4A | Altough many downfalls, "The Electorial College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states... lose" and "avoids the problem of elections in which no one recieves a majority of the votes cast,"(Source Three, paragragh 21 and 22). | Counterclaim | Effective |
ec0d00482e9c | 649B2A197C4A | Yet still there can be holes poked in that, and all though unlikely, theres an even amount of votes so the vote could be split 50/50. Just imagine the chaos we could be thrown into. | Evidence | Adequate |
6e79b9dc1255 | 649B2A197C4A | we demand a better system, for a simplerly system, for an equal system, for a system we can control ourselves | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a94e94fadab9 | 650A40BBAB6D | Twenty five years ago we discoved something different on the surface of Mars.
This natrural land form looks just like a human face.
Some people believe that it was created by aliens.
However, that is not true.
| Lead | Adequate |
d60a627f7668 | 650A40BBAB6D | There many explanations on how this land form got there, but there is no evidence that claims it was created by aliens. | Position | Adequate |
0bdaf81c303e | 650A40BBAB6D | I am a scientist at NASA and I was one of the people who discovered this land form. | Evidence | Adequate |
f6e91a4e7d19 | 650A40BBAB6D | Although some people have very convensing stories as to how that land form got there | Counterclaim | Adequate |
3f59f19c2d8c | 650A40BBAB6D | it was not made by aliens. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
839fdbdce390 | 650A40BBAB6D | Many people think it is a natrural land form, while others think it was created by aliens.
The team of scienctist that discoved this land have talked about how we think it got there, but one of only logical explanation is that it was hit by a meteror.
Mars has lots of crators on the surface and it is just that.
A cr... | Evidence | Adequate |
220c6b444448 | 650A40BBAB6D | Another reason why they could have never made this is how would the aliens know what a human face looks like. | Claim | Adequate |
3d0c6b4a85ee | 650A40BBAB6D | This land form is just like they face on the moon, no one made it.
It just showed up after years and years of being hit by meterors and the push and pull of gravity.
Personaly I do not beleive that aliens exist.
There is no evidence that they live on mars, let alone any other planet. | Evidence | Adequate |
539f4747657a | 650A40BBAB6D | If they do exist I would have no problem with that | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
be469e80f30d | 650A40BBAB6D | but as of right not there is no evidence that they do. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
d0c00e2c9fff | 650A40BBAB6D | Even though some stories are very convensing, there is no way aliens could have made this land form.
If there was more convensing evidence then I might reconsider my opinion, but as of right now there is no more evidence.
So I will not be reconsidering.
The land form is over two miles long which would be nearly impo... | Evidence | Adequate |
dc295f0c2470 | 650A40BBAB6D | Therefore there is no possible way the aliens made that face, it's just a land form. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
4e4743e97f3d | 6515C1CC0F57 | the faces are just nautural land forms and not something supernatural | Position | Adequate |
66edcfae2619 | 6515C1CC0F57 | Even Knowing that nasa wishes there was ancient people living on mars doesnt mean there actually is. | Claim | Adequate |
26058b6180c0 | 6515C1CC0F57 | They may be very smart people but they have no proof that this was done by a type of living being. They clearly state that everything they get is only facts and off research and strictly that nothing else. These people who are doubting nasa abviously have no idea what there talking about if they think nasa is purposley... | Evidence | Ineffective |
1b2945f8a6d3 | 6515C1CC0F57 | They have shown many other faces or land forms like this in the past | Claim | Adequate |
c7e91a95d5e0 | 6515C1CC0F57 | I would understand if this was the first one and maybe that would give them a litlle reason to doubt them like they did. nasa says they have seen similair things like this on our earth. That should tell you that what is going on now isnt anything different or special to us. I understand why you would think its somethin... | Evidence | Adequate |
66a9a3344a8a | 6515C1CC0F57 | Nasa also stated that the types of cameras they used would have easily made it clear to the people that this is normal. | Claim | Adequate |
5eb143fa299a | 6515C1CC0F57 | These cameras can zoom in so close that they would have been able to see if anything moved they could see it. the only thing that was oving that day was the clouds in the sky which is normal for mars. They said they look for small stacks and things moved and even pyramids but yet nothing was abnormal about this situati... | Evidence | Adequate |
50402ad8fa73 | 6515C1CC0F57 | It makes sence why some poeple think different. I mean everybody has they own point of view on thuings. They wil stick to it to, they will consider them selves right still after you prove them wrong. People will always have there own perspective on things no matter what. so that means that mostly everybody will have so... | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
b7e1b640b61d | 653F5908B3BD | It is highly unlikely that you will read this, but hey it is worth a shot. There are many reasons as to why the Electoral College process should be used to elect the president of the United States and many reasons as to why the popular vote process should be used. For this same purpose, there is a controversy as to whi... | Lead | Adequate |
eb60a0b180d1 | 653F5908B3BD | If I had a say into which should be used and which should not be used, I would rule in the favor of the popular vote process and not in the favor of the Electoral College process. | Position | Effective |
c2af56665858 | 653F5908B3BD | The first reason as to why I would be in favor of the popular vote process is that in the Electoral College process, big states are being more effective than small states. | Claim | Effective |
508cd276cfe0 | 653F5908B3BD | This might lead the small states to not vote because they feeel that they would not make a difference. Source #3 claim the following, " So, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does...." When bigger states have more electoral votes, th... | Evidence | Effective |
ca511d717760 | 653F5908B3BD | The second reason as to why I am not in the favor of the Electoral College process is because as said in source #3, " Voter is toss-up states are more likely to pay close attention to the campaign- to really listen to the competing candidates- knowing that they are going to decide the election" | Claim | Effective |
b2f3e0d9d274 | 653F5908B3BD | Candidates mostly pay attention to states that have more electoral votes, this causes them to pay more attention to the bigger states and leave out the smaller ones, as already argued, some states get more electoral votes than others. Another reason why this is bad is because most states will not pay attention in the e... | Evidence | Effective |
b954b0f79803 | 653F5908B3BD | The popular vote process is more effective and fair for the United States in choosing the President. Most people can argue in that favor as well. If you qwant the elections to be fair, I supposwe that you will pay attention to the voice of thousands of citizens and you will be fair. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
0c076f0b0bd7 | 656C7C849144 | When electing the president of the United States, you must vote in favor of the president you want. However, instead of coming down to popular vote, the system uses the Electrolar College to decide. The Electroral Vote works in that the people of a certain states votes for their candidate and the majority of people who... | Lead | Effective |
d26ea60a1e0e | 656C7C849144 | Many people dislike this system including myself. | Position | Effective |
71a36e346855 | 656C7C849144 | I disaprove of this system because it limits representation | Claim | Effective |
a533d0dd9ed8 | 656C7C849144 | permits the disintrest of voters | Claim | Effective |
38ad2025648e | 656C7C849144 | reduces a candidates intrest in a state. | Claim | Effective |
4a1887ffd3ea | 656C7C849144 | One major problem with the Electoral College voting system is that it limits representation of the people. | Claim | Effective |
46aa25933049 | 656C7C849144 | The Electoral COllege votes work so that the population of a state directly effects the amount of votes that states recieves. For example, Wyoming only has about 500,000 voters so it only recieves one electoral college vote. Because there is only one vote for wyoming, the 500,000 voters do not have acurate representati... | Evidence | Effective |
91f855256105 | 656C7C849144 | There have also been times in which a president has won the piopular vote but lost the Electoral College vote. This was seen in the 2000 vote of Bush versus Gore when Gore won the popular vote and Bush won the electoral vote. | Evidence | Effective |
abddbcc622ba | 656C7C849144 | One might claim that because the amount of electoral votes for a state is based of the population, it is fair. | Counterclaim | Effective |
500e06e54ed9 | 656C7C849144 | However, I believe that the popular vote is more fair because it expresses the opinion of the majority. | Rebuttal | Effective |
f38cebb8cc72 | 656C7C849144 | In some states, there is a large majority of people running for a single party. This can be observed primarily in Texas where an overwhelming majority of voters are Republican. Therefore, the Republican president wins Texas almost every election period. This can be frustrating for Democrats who live in Texas because th... | Evidence | Effective |
54e238f9794c | 656C7C849144 | their vote does not matter causing them to lose interest in voting in the first place. This is not fair for those people nor is it particularly good to express as an American trait. | Claim | Effective |
83605133a650 | 656C7C849144 | As stated before, the larger the population of a states, the more Electoral College votes that state gets. This leads to a small group of "big states" that have such a large amount of votes, they are the target for candidates to try to persuade to vote for them. On the opposite side of the spectrum, most of the other 5... | Evidence | Effective |
af118abd9b4d | 656C7C849144 | In many states throughout an election preiod (the period in which candidates move to diferent states giving speeches) the candidates never make an appearance in their state at all. | Claim | Effective |
2334f477a9c4 | 656C7C849144 | This is observed in the 2000 election in which seventeen states did not have the candidate make an appearance at all. This also can lower interest in voting for the president. | Evidence | Effective |
800b1f58288c | 656C7C849144 | The Electoral college voting system is not fair in the way the present system works. The system does not show proper representation of the people, does not promote interest in voting, and causes a candidate to ignore the states in which do not have a large amount of electoral votes. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
709301ccbcb0 | 6578E97B8E0E | I recently heard you wanted to change the school policy on sports and other activities, so that only students with a grade average of a B or higher can participate. | Lead | Adequate |
b89f1208cb65 | 6578E97B8E0E | i think this is wrong, | Position | Adequate |
4670635e2584 | 6578E97B8E0E | students won't have as many after school activities. | Claim | Adequate |
7b7d8758ac20 | 6578E97B8E0E | After school activities help occupy students time which makes it less likely for them to get in trouble.
Another reason is that students might also drop out or move schools so they can continue playing sports.
If students don't have sports they are also less likely to get enough exercise which could cause more obesit... | Evidence | Adequate |
e16d11b1da42 | 6578E97B8E0E | When people play sports it also makes them more motivated to do other things and gain more friendships. | Claim | Adequate |
a5cd42fb046a | 6578E97B8E0E | Other activities in which students may not be able to participate in such as electives or school clubs may drop the self esteem of students due to lack of friends with similar interests.
this rule might also cause bullying because if someone can't play sports then others will know they have less than a B average.
Get... | Evidence | Adequate |
c9378f91f598 | 6578E97B8E0E | This policy might also be good because it would give students with poor grades a reason to bring their grades up to atleast a B average. | Claim | Adequate |
e294f2f09f0f | 6578E97B8E0E | It also could allow there to be more academic centered clubs.
The students who aren't eligible to play sports could also have tutors in the time they aren't spending on sports. | Evidence | Ineffective |
9f30efefb494 | 65922C6DA1B8 | Times are changing. Driverless car technology is being created, with slow and steady progress. The technology for these type of cars has only been developed over the last few years because of a lack of technology. There are several companies trying to develop these cars, but they're pretty much at the same step. Knowin... | Lead | Effective |
3acb9227716a | 65922C6DA1B8 | Driverless technology has to be understood by the consumer. If the consumer does not know how this technology works, it could cause some serious damage.
| Claim | Effective |
7508fab46ee0 | 65922C6DA1B8 | The consumer has to realize that driverless cars aren't completely driverless, the consumer has to know that they have to remain attentive while being in the driver's seat. "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as nav... | Evidence | Adequate |
77b905aa1e97 | 65922C6DA1B8 | Liability for the accidents caused by driverless cars has to be settled. | Claim | Effective |
ab311d3bb400 | 65922C6DA1B8 | The companies that make the driverless cars, or the driver, it is yet to be determined who would be at fault. The company for making flawed technology, or the driver for being in the car. "Still, even if traffic laws change, new laws will be needed in order to cover liability in the case of an accident. If the technolo... | Evidence | Effective |
ec098e24bce8 | 65922C6DA1B8 | The effect of drivers in the future if cars become driverless. Their is a great possibility of issues coming with driverless cars, some subtle, and some severe. | Claim | Adequate |
759eeec2b245 | 65922C6DA1B8 | Also, who would want a driverless car if you still had to driver it? That does defeat the purpose of the name of the car. "Wouldn't drivers get bored waiting for their turn to drive?" (Driverless Cars Are Coming paragraph 8). Being occupied while sitting there is imperative. People will become bored if they have to jus... | Evidence | Effective |
288a6ad48075 | 65922C6DA1B8 | The risks involved with driverless cars are way to high for the potential payoff | Position | Adequate |
e48d95fa8543 | 65922C6DA1B8 | The technology that is being developed might have a future, but in the near future, there is no way it'll work. Right now, they aren't even driverless cars, the cars still require a driver. Surely there will be progress on that aspec of the cars. Just simple knowing how the cars work is the first obsticle. Also, being ... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
f2142ce3a5a8 | 659461FD20E3 | Dear senator i was wondering what the electoral college was. | Lead | Ineffective |
45bfc772e823 | 659461FD20E3 | And iv noticed that its unfair | Position | Adequate |
69e7cabbf0f0 | 659461FD20E3 | Because of the winner-take-all system | Claim | Adequate |
1b94ebce499c | 659461FD20E3 | the posablet of a tie. | Claim | Adequate |
1c78443912cd | 659461FD20E3 | Which is when candates dont spend time in state they know there not going to win. For example in the 2000 campaign seventeen states didnt get to see who they where even voting for. And some of the largest media markets didnt see a campaign ad. Ever one should at least get to see who mit be running the U.S.A. If the pre... | Evidence | Adequate |
db9e2a3a0979 | 659461FD20E3 | Many people are worried about this because the responablaite of chocing the president would be the house of represantives. Which is unfair because each state has only one vote. For example let say florida represenates 400,000 people, they would have as much to say to texas who represenates 1 millon people. But if the p... | Evidence | Adequate |
7fbb4d82283d | 659461FD20E3 | All and all the electrol college should be changed. Because of the winner takes all system and the posablet of tie. The college has worked for a long time now but i think the american people are ready for a change. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
048e663acdfe | 65991D1DA389 | I think that, policy number one is genius. You should let the students bring there phones during free periods and lunch periods. | Position | Adequate |
ea75b33c79ed | 65991D1DA389 | When your phone is turned on someone can call you or text you. you don't have to be using your phone for you to get a call or a message. It should not be on during class time. Class time is learning time. | Evidence | Adequate |
a2f8bb740859 | 65991D1DA389 | All teens can think about is staying on the phone all the time. Technology has taken over the young minds of teens over the past few years. Not many people take to others face to face anymore. There some people that say they can not live without the uses of technology. | Evidence | Ineffective |
4b5742c6eebb | 65991D1DA389 | During the lunch periods, everyone talks to each other while eating, so why not have the usage of a cell phone. | Evidence | Adequate |
dbca6e0bfeeb | 65991D1DA389 | For such a small device it can distract many people. | Claim | Adequate |
362b4a61189c | 65991D1DA389 | If they are not turned off during the class time it will beep or make a noise that will stop the learning process of class time. There is a time for fun and there is time for learning. Class time is for learning. | Evidence | Adequate |
9868677983b3 | 65991D1DA389 | The policy should also apply for teachers too. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3087ff905cda | 65AB218C2765 | The face on mars is just a natural landform | Position | Adequate |
c15e3a92d80e | 65AB218C2765 | Mars has plenty of landforms and its normal for landforms to creat a shape or face. | Claim | Ineffective |
a982b13743b8 | 65AB218C2765 | Just because it makes a face on a planet doesn't mean aliens had anything to do with it. Under paragraph 5 you see a photograph of the face and many landforns surrounding it, so as you can see many landforms stand out on Mars. | Evidence | Ineffective |
8da758daa8f0 | 65AB218C2765 | In paragraph 3 it says (shadoes gave the landform eyes,a mouth,and nose) | Claim | Adequate |
8e4c35a10e47 | 65AB218C2765 | so its a landform with a face but the shadows make up the face. NASA has been studying this for a long time,but for what ?, as you bcan see its just a landform not a face.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
8cb1213b6dfb | 65AB218C2765 | In paragraph 7 it clearly says(thousands of web surfers were waiting when the image on the JPL website but when it appeared it revealed just a natural landform.). There was no momument after all. | Evidence | Adequate |
8cf217e8e421 | 65AB218C2765 | So in conclusion with this evidence, you can clearly see that its just a landform and not a alien monument. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
e2b9ae58208d | 65C8F881F296 | This idea of not letting students participate in sports or other activities unless they have a grade B average is just bologna. | Position | Adequate |
4fc209809edf | 65C8F881F296 | Every students deserves the right to have a fun time with friends, get excersize, and be healthy by participating in a sport or other activity at school. | Evidence | Adequate |
18f51a67b31d | 65C8F881F296 | Athletic ability should not be based on smarts, because a person who is a fantastic athlete could be getting all C' s in their classes. | Claim | Adequate |
2cb1891b6559 | 65C8F881F296 | Many kids only enjoy playing sports or being in school activities like school dances, fundraises, field trips, etc. Taking away these rights to the children with grade C averages and above is just plain cruel. | Evidence | Ineffective |
c2dd91e294b2 | 65C8F881F296 | In my opinion every student deserves the right to be involved in school activities as long as they keep an above grade D average. | Claim | Adequate |
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