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9f612a790e25 | 669C59404DC1 | Many poeple believe that we are voting for the president when we vote for our electors, but in reality, we are voting for them to vote | Evidence | Adequate |
988ea3a96cf4 | 669C59404DC1 | We, as the people of the United States of America, have always had the right to freedom (freedom of speech, religion, ect.)- so why don't we have the freedom to directly choose our president? | Claim | Effective |
2f4fd1f3495d | 669C59404DC1 | Most think that if we have electors we won't have as much trouble getting a person in office. | Claim | Ineffective |
3e9b927b7542 | 669C59404DC1 | In the eleventh paragraph, in 'Source 2: The Indefensible Electoral Coolege: Why even the best-laid defences of the system are wrong', under 'What's wrong with the electoral college', its speaks of a "disaster factor". The "disaster factor" is when we vote for electors and they defy the will of the people; as this had ... | Evidence | Adequate |
1df3516e7d84 | 669C59404DC1 | People in a state all have the same electors, made by a popular vote, practically taking away the people's voice. If things were to change to popular vote we would all have a say in each election. | Claim | Adequate |
154d20bf3201 | 669C59404DC1 | In the Electoral College way of voting, it is "...unfair to voters. Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state." Along with the fact that in the Electoral College way, the amount of electors is based on population, making the people of a small state insignifigant. "During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states d... | Evidence | Adequate |
170fd2c582fd | 669C59404DC1 | In conclusion, we, as the people of the United States of America, need to inderstand that the road we are headed down with the Electoral College, is not a good road. We need to stand up and allow everyone to be able to have a say in elections. With the popular vote every citizen will have they're own say in what gets m... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
681e9dbba676 | 66BB82BD76B2 | Am I against or for the driverless cars?
| Lead | Adequate |
5f35f36e327f | 66BB82BD76B2 | I in my opinion am against having driverless cars | Position | Adequate |
94da6720eeb4 | 66BB82BD76B2 | I love to drive | Claim | Adequate |
ad10f6b61935 | 66BB82BD76B2 | I injoy driving and going in and out of plces. | Claim | Adequate |
f4ced1737ebe | 66BB82BD76B2 | havind driverless cars could be a big terrible deal. | Claim | Adequate |
51bf2d27d9f5 | 66BB82BD76B2 | For example , the car has a mind of its own but what if some day it has a glich and you are inside the car, the glich will seel the doors and windows. When you know the whay to go, turning right at a stop but the glich or mistake it makes the auto go to the left. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b09cf855d9ef | 66BB82BD76B2 | I would not like to be lazy and not learn the street names or where my destination. The driverless cars learn everything for you, how are you going to invite a friend from outside who does not have a drierless car. You cannot help your friend get to the destination if you do not know the streets or dirrection to go to.... | Evidence | Adequate |
e4c6cee31b61 | 66BB82BD76B2 | I for sure am against the driverless cars.
Are you against having the drverless cars or do you agree for them? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1d37dd7c3ab9 | 66D810E0A3D1 | I think the second policy is better | Position | Adequate |
a399f8890811 | 66D810E0A3D1 | if you have your phone available your really tempted to use it not just during lunch. | Claim | Adequate |
a299ef4e3c02 | 66D810E0A3D1 | But the first reason is also good cause there are some kids who would be able to restrain them self as well. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
40fe4b2191fc | 66D810E0A3D1 | Kids would always try to text during class and on test if they were allowed to use there phone during lunchan | Claim | Adequate |
55efd94e1e0f | 66D810E0A3D1 | Kids would also start thinking about doing it a lot more sense they no they can bring it to school. | Evidence | Adequate |
0ab5b8c6f0c6 | 66D810E0A3D1 | But saying phones aren't allowed would not be fair because of the good kids who use when allowed. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
5dc9dca99a4a | 66D810E0A3D1 | The ones who use it after school for rides home or talk to their friends. It just depends on the school and the students.
| Evidence | Adequate |
70dd4ab3d3f0 | 66D810E0A3D1 | The principle should ask the teachers to see how many phones they see out or taken away | Evidence | Adequate |
8a1039517fef | 66D810E0A3D1 | If the numbers are high than go with the second policy But if the numbers are low then go with the first policy. | Claim | Adequate |
2dd8b454afe2 | 66D810E0A3D1 | Like i said depends on the school and the students, | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
3a9fa1f026ed | 66E83D44F4A3 | Juding by this artical "Does the Electoral College Work?", readers would agree that electoral colleges should be changed. | Position | Adequate |
d72f5cb7ec92 | 66E83D44F4A3 | This artical explains what electoral colleges are, how they help voting, and how they are bad. These three things give the reader the opion about this artical. | Evidence | Ineffective |
b4ba476d2ca9 | 66E83D44F4A3 | Source one "What is the Electoral College Work? " by the Office of the Federal Register explains what an electoral college is " The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president by vote in Congress and election of t... | Evidence | Adequate |
2ea9e6b8864a | 66E83D44F4A3 | The founding fathers intended to help with elections but later people want it to go away so their votes matter. | Claim | Adequate |
114d9e1950e6 | 66E83D44F4A3 | Since electoral colleges have been formed they have been disliked because they are thought of as "an anachronism, and a non-democratic method of selecting a president". Another is "The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational". In most of the passage it talks about how the readers demise the electoral coll... | Evidence | Adequate |
86ff09474d24 | 66E83D44F4A3 | To sum up this passage the readers would agree electoral colleges are unwanted, and not need. This is supported by many quotes in all of the sources. The best quote to prove this point is " Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense ... it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. ... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
cadcc67d1b77 | 66EEDB0C0494 | Many students would benefit from attending classes at home. | Position | Adequate |
0dbf459f7e61 | 66EEDB0C0494 | School is a very chaotic place and students suffer from many things on a day to day basis from bullying, interruptions from staff, teachers, and even other students | Claim | Adequate |
22a14b842189 | 66EEDB0C0494 | The students would love the idea since they can learn at their own pace | Claim | Adequate |
af678d922cf1 | 66EEDB0C0494 | be able to focus and get their work done | Claim | Adequate |
19cfedeb00e2 | 66EEDB0C0494 | A lot of things can happen to the student if they were to stay in school.
Majority of students that attend any type of school suffer from anxiety, pressure, and many other things. Having them in a quiet area would help them out a lot so they can refrain from any distractions or anything else that can interrupt their s... | Evidence | Adequate |
9d58e755347d | 66EEDB0C0494 | With the student staying home they will have a better surrounding and environment at home rather than being at school with all of the chaotic things that happen there. | Claim | Adequate |
ebf0f890ec86 | 66EEDB0C0494 | One on one time would also benefit the student with a massive impact. | Claim | Adequate |
b9c58d0d2512 | 66EEDB0C0494 | Students often get irritated with the fact that teachers would have a line of students asking for questions but their question is far more important. With the student being at home they could get that question answered right then and there without them having to wait minutes for their question be answered. Even questio... | Evidence | Adequate |
f6dff3879d47 | 66EEDB0C0494 | Parents believe that a student would rather benefit from going to school and doing the work rather than staying at home and doing their classes there. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
0f509ea77204 | 66EEDB0C0494 | However, there are many possibilities and dangers outside of home that can ruin the students experience going to school and doing their classes there | Rebuttal | Adequate |
cba177f53c5a | 66EEDB0C0494 | Students staying at home would not only benefit the student but also the parents since the outside world especially school can be a scary place. | Evidence | Ineffective |
ab2c8621e02e | 66EEDB0C0494 | Having classes at home is a very big step for the schools but it can be done and it would make a huge impact to the students and the parents.
If a student did not feel comfortable with the school environment having them be at home in their space, and area it could show a lot of postive results to other parents and stu... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
8df714e2d7ce | 66FE148BE39B | The Electoral College is a compromise between the election of the President by electoral votes. This has been around for as long as I can remember. It plays a very big part in our government. Some people want to get rid of it. Others don't. Do you think we should keep the it? | Lead | Adequate |
b413e6aa352c | 66FE148BE39B | The Electoral College balances out the amount of popular votes. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
b9148acd26ed | 66FE148BE39B | If both candidates are tied, we turn to the state electors. The candidate that has the biggest amount of electoral votes wins. One candidate can have more popular votes and very few electoral votes. The popular votes are just for the state electors to decide which they are going to pick. In the end it all goes down to ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
95215b9b8292 | 66FE148BE39B | On the other hand, some people don't like this idea. The electors are sometimes depend on the state. | Claim | Adequate |
d041da30f15d | 66FE148BE39B | Other times the state conventions, the presidential candidates, and sometimes the sate party's central committee. Voters think it's unfair. They spend a bunch of time voting for who THEY want, but in the end it comes down to the electors. So in reality it doesn't even matter who the voters choose. They really just choo... | Evidence | Adequate |
a33abb1fa2af | 66FE148BE39B | I think we should get rid of The Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
4c2c452a80a3 | 66FE148BE39B | It's not fair to the people | Claim | Adequate |
755c76a9fbaa | 66FE148BE39B | We waste all our time to vote on a president we want, to only end up voting for the electors. I understand that it does have its good affects, but it just feels like we don't even matter. Where's the freedom? | Evidence | Adequate |
df7271be5a35 | 66FE148BE39B | Some people think we should keep the Electoral College. Others don't. It has it's good things. It has it's bad. I personally feel like we should just get rid of it. What do you think we should do? | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
0ef1f03a9ca5 | 670F2243BADC | Over the years many people have complained that voting for a president of the united states is unfair. That they fell that someting should be done to change the voting system. In the articals given to me i have read some resons to keep it and to abolish it. In source one the electoral college is a process, not a place.... | Lead | Adequate |
a588954ace46 | 670F2243BADC | The electoral college consists of 538 electors but if a majority is 270 electoral votes. Under the 23rd amendment of the constitution the district of columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a state for pourposes of the electoral college. You are choosing an electors when you vote for president because when yo... | Evidence | Ineffective |
4219a46493ac | 670F2243BADC | There are some little things that need to be done to fix it a little like fir example the part thats stats that smaller states have barly no power and that most presedents dont even wory about then becuse they don't make muche of a difrance. | Claim | Adequate |
42a4a488e49e | 670F2243BADC | Each party selects a state of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee (and that trust is rarly betrayed). | Evidence | Adequate |
0b7957400a7a | 670F2243BADC | The other problen that is with this system is that the winer takes all | Claim | Adequate |
8cbc273fb7f5 | 670F2243BADC | when the are may poeple that vote for ether for the republican or democratic if the oponunt has more votes they won all the electors and the oponunt does not get any votes from that state so its like you didin't even vote. | Evidence | Adequate |
d563be4bb3b9 | 670F2243BADC | If it was up to me to keep the electoral callege system i would say yes but they just have to make some few changes.
| Position | Adequate |
0e79d278bbc8 | 671AEA2900EF | In the first source its explain what a Electoral College is which is not a place it's a process the finding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a Congress vote and by a popular vote of qualified citizens. Electoral College process consists of the selection of ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
6c33407d21b2 | 671AEA2900EF | The second source talks about the Indefensible Electoral College:Why even the best best-laid defenses of the system are wrong like in the first sentence "What have Richard Nixion, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFl-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? The answer is Abolishing the electoral ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
84c150e56386 | 671AEA2900EF | The last source for the story talks about the defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President. Electoral College is widely regared as an anachronism and a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declasring the candidate who rece... | Evidence | Ineffective |
fcb66e0f5d23 | 671D0569C835 | Every 4 years, many people vote for a president they think will lead the United States to greatness; some, however, don't know that they are voting for the Electoral College to vote on their choise. This act of using the Electoral College is, by definition, not democratic. Didn't our founding fathers create this countr... | Lead | Effective |
66dcd517c368 | 671D0569C835 | we need to change how our country votes on its leader; we need to use popular vote for the president of the United States | Position | Effective |
4dbbbcea8e4e | 671D0569C835 | his method is more democratic | Claim | Effective |
8d1c04b1e34a | 671D0569C835 | the people representing the Electoral College are flawed humans | Claim | Effective |
1e43eeb4cfe3 | 671D0569C835 | the nature of this type of election forces some states to be ignored | Claim | Effective |
490931a7254e | 671D0569C835 | Because of the function of the Electoral College, the people aren't truly represented for. | Claim | Adequate |
84d0d45ec4a0 | 671D0569C835 | According to Source 2, the voters--the ones supposedly voting for our new president--vote for a group of electors instead. Due to the power of the Electoral Colleg, electors can vote for any candidate. This process we have every 4 years is truly un-democratic. For example, during the 2000 election, Al Gore was the cand... | Evidence | Effective |
1fe372151900 | 671D0569C835 | The people may allow continued usage of the imperfect Electoral College, but there is still one major problem: the Electoral College is made up of flawed, easily manipulated humans. | Claim | Effective |
1fc78b62fddb | 671D0569C835 | According to Source 1, the electors are made up of people chosen by the candidate's political party. Immediately, these electors can easily decide on the candidate to vote on; it's just the matter of the amount of electors each candidate has. | Evidence | Effective |
baf0946ab850 | 671D0569C835 | Also, the electors are human beings, and everyone knows that humans are flawed creatures. According to Source 2, electors have been replaced to be against the opposing candidate or wait until the last minute to vote. Although, according to Source 3, the electors are chosen and are given trust, others can still influenc... | Evidence | Effective |
46695da59879 | 671D0569C835 | During the 2000 election, 17 states weren't even able to see a candidate they are voting for the title of president. | Evidence | Effective |
e9767c5b4f13 | 671D0569C835 | Although it is understandable that candidates go to the "swing" and populous states, there is no excuse for ignoring thousands of people from the small states. | Counterclaim | Effective |
67aeeab63de5 | 671D0569C835 | The president of the United States is the president for an entire country, not just a region of it. Voters from the non-swing states will still want to see the candidate to decide on who to vote for, even though they aren't voting for the actual candidate. | Rebuttal | Effective |
796b102a1021 | 671D0569C835 | In conclusion, the Electoral College and its electors must be disbanded so that popular vote will be used in determining the new president of the United States. According to both Source 2 and 3, the process of voting a group of people to vote for you is un-democratic. Electors, the people making up th Electoral College... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
ab24d392e270 | 67325C66D1E0 | I honestly think we should chnge the elction by popular vote fot the president of the United States | Position | Adequate |
24607a418daa | 67325C66D1E0 | The Electoral College system, the votes dont exactly vote fot the president. They vote for the slate of electors, then they vote for the president. From my point of veiw it says we all have an right to vote, but we aren't really electing them. The slate of electors are | Evidence | Adequate |
bf0460d75064 | 67325C66D1E0 | So whats the point of voting if we aren't really voting? | Claim | Adequate |
72b0166c02d3 | 67325C66D1E0 | The Electoral College could also be called as the disater factor | Claim | Adequate |
75ba6cd2902d | 67325C66D1E0 | The American people thought they were lucky that 2000 fiaso was the biggest crisis in a century. The state legislatures are responsible for the picking electors. So maybe it was there fault, all I'll tell you this, they were not very lucky | Evidence | Ineffective |
c0ab6e270b27 | 67569429BA4F | Currently, the Electoral College makes the final decision of who should be elected president. Some people may think otherwise | Lead | Adequate |
6ee592e03494 | 67569429BA4F | I believe that we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America | Position | Adequate |
aa401abf145f | 67569429BA4F | In the Electoral College they don't vote for the president | Claim | Adequate |
e1b2eeb97b63 | 67569429BA4F | It's also unfair to voters | Claim | Adequate |
fa5bad347762 | 67569429BA4F | it's the disaster factor. | Claim | Adequate |
394ffca6f173 | 67569429BA4F | To begin with, I think that we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America because the Electoral College doesn't even vote for the president | Claim | Ineffective |
0265a8e507c5 | 67569429BA4F | As the article "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defense of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer states.. Instead, they vote for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the president. If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for John Kerry, you'd vote for a slate of 34 Democr... | Evidence | Adequate |
925463bacb12 | 67569429BA4F | Moving on, I think that we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America because the Electoral College is unfair to voters. | Claim | Adequate |
7ac09a4242e0 | 67569429BA4F | 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. During the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't see the candidates at all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters ... | Evidence | Adequate |
f42433332bc2 | 67569429BA4F | Last but not least, I think that we should change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States of America because the Electoral College is a disaster factor. | Claim | Adequate |
bfd88efc165f | 67569429BA4F | The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows for much worse. Consider that state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and that those el | Evidence | Adequate |
f9f0e309a0bb | 675BF8AB227B | Just like the Google cofounder Sergey Brin, I too also visualize a future where cars just aren't much of a use to the world much anymore. | Position | Adequate |
961b645fd3c8 | 675BF8AB227B | I envision cats being used with less gas and being much more functional than other public transportation systems. Driverless cars were an option that was invented because the option of ideal roads were objectified, leaving only the option for smart cars. | Evidence | Adequate |
600b692c760c | 675BF8AB227B | Smart cars perphaps are definitely seen as "Smart Cars" because they have apparent anneminities such as sensors that further promote the name of a "Smart Car." | Claim | Adequate |
f177ac29c463 | 675BF8AB227B | The spinning sensor on the roof of some smart cars is an ideal invention that is an important part of what makes a smart car smart. The combination of sensors allow the smart car to mimic the skill of a driverless car. Sensors have become more advanced allowing for a significant signal of apparent danger which in some ... | Evidence | Adequate |
b647029d2e46 | 675BF8AB227B | Smart Cars also have the capability of obtaining the antilock brakes. | Claim | Adequate |
0a14e65886f6 | 675BF8AB227B | Sebastian Thurn believes that the technology of this generation compared to generations before us have come a long way, and that before Smart Cars, the was interesting qualities of cars we used before Smart Cars such as the absence of sensors, computers, and navigation.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
0ad3a277ba0f | 675BF8AB227B | The "Traffic Jam Assistant" was invented in 2013 which allowed the car to handle navigating at speeds higher than 25mph | Claim | Adequate |
bf83aa0f2754 | 675BF8AB227B | This invention was a breakthrough, but also allowing for the driver to maintain control at all times. The "Traffic Jam Assistant" allows for the car to be capable of practically driving itself but also allows for the driver to take control in areas where humans are necessary for driving.
| Evidence | Adequate |
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