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338eb4496ee8 | 675BF8AB227B | Cameras, drivers seats that vibrate when a vehicle is in danger, and flashing lights on windshields see all components that are possible to add to the already sustainable Smart Cars to make them more interesting, effective, and productive. | Claim | Effective |
1d22fa2e66ca | 675BF8AB227B | I feel that driverless cars would be a great addition to our society benefitting drivers in numerous ways. Smart Cars have sensors, antilock brakes, a built in Traffic Jam Assistant", and other anneminities such as cameras, vibrating drivers seats, and windshields with lights. These are all great contributions that wou... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
fd4e781cba40 | 6770F94889E2 | Ever thought of a car that drives itself? Seems pretty crazy right? Its been shown in movies and televison and it seems pretty impossible. In reality, people are actually trying to make it happen, there has been proto types of cars that are mostly driveless and testing of many kinds. Whether it happens or not, theres a... | Lead | Effective |
4ed42a370cb7 | 6770F94889E2 | It is a bad idea, they should not make cars driveless | Position | Adequate |
95111bf693a9 | 6770F94889E2 | it cost a lot, | Claim | Effective |
8c79a18989bb | 6770F94889E2 | may not even ever work, | Claim | Effective |
cd990be88a91 | 6770F94889E2 | its dangerous.
| Claim | Effective |
605277f7cdb4 | 6770F94889E2 | Money is a huge factor to this type of technology, can you imagine the cost of developing thousands and millions of cars that have such an advanced technology to be able to drive, brake, get to a destination all by itself? | Claim | Effective |
f6a3cb6c5e61 | 6770F94889E2 | Its pretty expensive to even to make a proto type or test run these so called "Diverless Cars". If a car like such is created how would the world be changed? Not only would the car itself be expensive to create but theres more factors to just creating the cars, its how the cars themslef work. In the article, "Driverles... | Evidence | Effective |
71a896df50a7 | 6770F94889E2 | The car that drives themself may never actually be a thing, there is so much to it. | Claim | Effective |
bbbaf7aa2116 | 6770F94889E2 | The cars may never truly be driveless, technology cannot do everything humans do. There is always going to be times an actual driver may need to come in. Things such as, traffic or crashes or roadwork and there is no way of telling if driverless cars may be able to adapt to that. Not only is adapting a problem but is o... | Evidence | Effective |
435c6cdf28a7 | 6770F94889E2 | Safety. This is quite the biggest concern with a product such as a driverless car. How can you insure that these cars are 100% safe? | Claim | Effective |
0f7fb757cfa7 | 6770F94889E2 | The cars technology may run into a problem later on that it, itself is not advanced enough to know exactly what to do so it may cause a person danger. The whole car is made of technology and we can not rely on it, things happens, technology may not always work. There has to be certain signals or things such as a batter... | Evidence | Effective |
81a93c6ae2f4 | 6770F94889E2 | Driverless cars seem like a huge thing, people are trying to create this dream. People are taking steps to make cars that are so advanced they can drive themselves, but that shouldn't be a thing because of the cost, we are not that advanced in our lifetime, and its a patenually dangerous idea. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
bb675b699f42 | 678A6C5DE012 | Dear State Senator, I propose that we change the election by popular vote for the president of the United States rather than having the Electoral College. | Position | Adequate |
6cea4f0fe8f0 | 678A6C5DE012 | I say this because the Electoral College is unfair to voters in many ways more than one. | Claim | Adequate |
e2ffcca6a5e6 | 678A6C5DE012 | I'll start off by saying that Electoral College is unfair to voters. | Claim | Adequate |
ee0ba99e0a00 | 678A6C5DE012 | I strongly agree about this because under the electoral college system, voters do not vote for the president, they vote for a slate of electors, who then elect the president. This system is unfair because you don't always know who your electors are and you can't always control who the electors vote for. If you can't or... | Evidence | Adequate |
f59439f43784 | 678A6C5DE012 | To continue my agruement, the Electoral College is also unfair in this way. | Claim | Ineffective |
06a68440b322 | 678A6C5DE012 | Say if there was to be a tie in electoral votes, the election would be given to the House of Representatives. Then the state delegations would vote for the president and the Senate would chose the vice president. When this would happen you would then not know who they were going to vote for and what your government's f... | Evidence | Adequate |
8aa5f1baa6d7 | 678A6C5DE012 | Lastly, the Electoral College is unfair to voters by the winner-take-all system. | Claim | Adequate |
0309bea21f41 | 678A6C5DE012 | Since there is a winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. An example of this is back during the 2000 campaign, seventeen states didn't get to see the candidates at all. Some of the largest media markets didn't even see a single campaign ad. Th... | Evidence | Adequate |
6f0f2db7fd7d | 678A6C5DE012 | In the end, I think that the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and ridiculous. With all the valid points and arguments I have made, they make a pretty good reason to abolish the electoral college. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a753abf69dcc | 6794A463D2C5 | People have different opinions on the Electoral College. Some feel that it should be changed, and the president should be elected by popular vote. To explain what the Electoral College is, the Office of the Federal Register writes
What is the Electoral College?.
Bradford Plumer writes
The Indefensible Electoral Coll... | Lead | Adequate |
0c427b3b098a | 6794A463D2C5 | It has been made clear that we should not change the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
6d9fbd22c5ef | 6794A463D2C5 | It is true that the Electoral College may be confusing (Plumer), but it has worked for all these years, thus we should just leave it the way it is.
| Claim | Adequate |
9e4e1bd791f0 | 6794A463D2C5 | To start, The Electoral College was established by the founding fathers as a compromise between election of the president by vote in congress, and it also considers the popular vote of qualified citizens (Office of the Federal Register). The founding fathers wanted us to use this system. They knew it would succeed.
| Evidence | Adequate |
e360fab137f3 | 6794A463D2C5 | Next, Plumer writes, "It's official: The electoral college is unfair... | Counterclaim | Adequate |
a5c31de8bb2d | 6794A463D2C5 | This is not true because the number of electorals each state gets is always decided by the number of members that state has in the House of Representatives, plus two for the senators (Office of the Federal Register) | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
d2b10b481631 | 6794A463D2C5 | Additionally, Richard A. Posner says that "There are five reasons for retaining the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree; all are pratical reasons, not liberal or conservative reasons. He then goes on and says, "A dispute over the outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible...but it's less lik... | Claim | Effective |
35d663f5bac0 | 6794A463D2C5 | Plumer goes against that and writes, "Perhaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote." This cannot happen. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
48107942b434 | 6794A463D2C5 | Posner also writes that "The electoral College requires a presidential candidate to have transregional appeal. | Claim | Adequate |
2d41328eb76e | 6794A463D2C5 | The north, for example, does not have enough electoral votes to elect a president (Posner). The president is everyone's president | Evidence | Adequate |
e956b33ba790 | 6794A463D2C5 | Also, The Electoral College considers swing states and big states | Rebuttal | Adequate |
b3ffef7cfb90 | 6794A463D2C5 | Plumer writes "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters" | Counterclaim | Adequate |
d5e86d27559a | 6794A463D2C5 | This is not true because of the idea of swing states and big states. Swing States, also known as toss-up states, are the states that pretty much decide the election. They could go either way (Posner). | Rebuttal | Adequate |
a3b43c906b98 | 6794A463D2C5 | "The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senete decreed in the Constitution. | Claim | Adequate |
c8d28db8493c | 6794A463D2C5 | This means that the larger the state (in population, not size), the more their overall vote weighs | Evidence | Ineffective |
5874ebec30cb | 6794A463D2C5 | Lastly, by using the Electoral College, we are avoiding Run-Off Elections | Claim | Adequate |
91f959cfd004 | 6794A463D2C5 | A run off election is when no candidate recieves a majority (Posner). | Evidence | Adequate |
87f2effbae81 | 6794A463D2C5 | In conclusion, you and I both know the Electoral College has some flaws, but overall, it makes sense to keep it the way it is.
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c55721d61a6b | 6796C7366713 | I think you should allow students to bring their phones to school and use them during study halls and lunch periods | Position | Adequate |
655e0a988135 | 6796C7366713 | Students really might need their phones, and if they couldn't bring their phones to school and use them at all, then they all would need to use the school phone | Claim | Adequate |
f3b8ce23b6c4 | 6796C7366713 | If everyone wanted to use the school phone, then they would have to take turns in using it for only a certain amount of minutes | Evidence | Adequate |
a91d66fe9c63 | 6796C7366713 | If a kid does get caught using a cell phone in class, then teachers can take their phones away.. just theirs' | Evidence | Adequate |
e37cbd83ad54 | 6796C7366713 | If we don't have our phones at school, then just think about all of the downs, and complaining their would be! | Claim | Adequate |
fd78db33cc59 | 6796C7366713 | I don't think you want that though | Evidence | Ineffective |
1a5dbf351051 | 6796C7366713 | Let us be able to take our phones and use them! We won't want to get our freedom from them, so we won't text in class. If some people get caught, then they should get their's. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d0e0c7d09398 | 67B143000AE2 | Mars has been a planet that we have been exploring for many years. We have discovered many abnormal objects on the planet. In 1976, we took a picture of the region Cydonia, and we found something that seemed to look like a human face. Our eyes are adapted to recognizing faces and that is why we recognized the face on M... | Lead | Effective |
eb5418cc239b | 67B143000AE2 | It is a natural landform just like it would be on our home planet of Earth. Although some conspiracy theorists say differently, and think that is some sort of ancient civilization building these objects.
| Position | Effective |
06eaf4ca16eb | 67B143000AE2 | First off, the cameras that we have today are more advanced than the ones we had. | Claim | Effective |
ccd45bb22b53 | 67B143000AE2 | The first picture that was taken of the face on Mars was taken in 1976 and the quality back then was not as good as it is now. The picture that was taken in 2001 was a higher quality picture and scientists figured out that is was just a mesa and not a sign of any ancient civilization on Mars. For example the camera use... | Evidence | Effective |
2299332357e3 | 67B143000AE2 | Another thing is that, Jim Garvin, a cheif scientist from NASA's Mars Exploration Program, compared the Martian mesa to natural landforms that occur here on Earth. | Claim | Effective |
230b88822d30 | 67B143000AE2 | In paragraph 12, Garvin said, " It reminds me most of Middle Butte in the Snake River Plain of Idaho. That's a lava dome that takes the form of an isolated mesa about thye sane height as the Face on Mars." Jim Garvin is saying that these formations on Mars are very similar to the ones that we have here on Earth. He is ... | Evidence | Effective |
facd913e3d33 | 67B143000AE2 | In contrast, conspiracy theorists say that there is a face on Mars and that there is ancient civilization on Mars. | Counterclaim | Effective |
86cf861979af | 67B143000AE2 | In paragraph 8, it says that, " The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings we hidden by haze." Conspiracy theorists also state that NASA would rather hide the evidence that there is an ancient civilization on Mars, as it says in paragraph 5. | Evidence | Adequate |
df2c48d0f634 | 67B143000AE2 | Also stated in paragraph 5, is that the defenders of NASA wish that there was an ancient civilization on Mars. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
d4d671cb933e | 67B143000AE2 | The face has been a pop icon ever since the discovery of the formation. the face will always be a piece of history and will always been known to man. If there was an actual face on Mars then that would be a sign of life. The face ended up eing a mesa and nothing else besides that. Although it would have been an excitin... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
75418461b6fc | 67BD359D8BD2 | The United States has always had people complaining about the Electoral College, and that's exactly what I'm about to do. I think that the Electoral College was probably a good idea at first, but it's not very helpful for the elections. The Electoral College, as you know, has people from every state, some states havi... | Lead | Adequate |
f71ae79c4c58 | 67BD359D8BD2 | It's not right to have a few people have just as big of a say as hundreds of thousands of people. | Position | Adequate |
f5307c991c75 | 67BD359D8BD2 | I read from "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" and learned that in 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote from the people, but then lost the election because the Electoral College voted against him. | Evidence | Adequate |
02b5b8841427 | 67BD359D8BD2 | That means that the president was not picked based on who the people of this country wanted, but who only a small amount of people wanted. How does that make any sense at all? There's no way to defend that. | Claim | Adequate |
c960fab3451c | 67BD359D8BD2 | If it's OUR country, WE should be the ones voting for who we want to lead us, not a couple of people who think they're more important than the rest of the population that votes | Evidence | Adequate |
8186e21f5c1f | 67BD359D8BD2 | What happens if there's a tie in the Electoral College? We're going to take it to the House of Representatives? That means ONE person will be representing their whole entire state's vote. How safe is that? I'm sure if it comes down to it and we have to do that, there's going to be a lot of people who aren't happy. | Evidence | Adequate |
ad7f6400fa05 | 67BD359D8BD2 | It doesn't even make sense to have one person have as much say as their whole state put together. | Claim | Adequate |
0dc8e7b9e742 | 67BD359D8BD2 | There are some good things about the Electoral College, though. I admit the Electoral College would be good when the people's votes are close or maybe even tie, | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6c5fe5adecce | 67BD359D8BD2 | but how often is that going to happen? | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
ea4af5aa5ed4 | 67BD359D8BD2 | I think it's also smart that when you vote for who you want to be president, you also vote for their electors. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
0375f2c4dd9f | 67BD359D8BD2 | That's much better than having to vote for a president and the electors separately. | Evidence | Adequate |
f6ee9e90450a | 67BD359D8BD2 | It'd be much easier though if we got rid of electors all together | Rebuttal | Adequate |
664ff98512dc | 67BD359D8BD2 | It's kind of like when you're at a crossroads. You and someone else get there at the same time. They're to your right, so they have the right of way and can go first. It doesn't matter that you got there at the same exact time, or even if you're going somewhere more important than where they're going. It's like tha... | Evidence | Ineffective |
cc12d2ed7b3a | 67BD359D8BD2 | The Electoral College was made a long time ago by people that some will argue were a lot smarter than us, but as times change, so should rules. I don't think it was a dumb idea, it seems smart as a whole, but I just don't think when you actually put it in use it's fair. | Evidence | Adequate |
b228faa1a334 | 67BD359D8BD2 | When you cast your vote, you want it to mean something, but if someone else exactly like you happens to be one of the electors for the College and votes for someone else, their vote is a lot more important. | Claim | Adequate |
1a8619c57553 | 67BD359D8BD2 | There's a lot to be said about the Electoral College... Both good and bad, but in the end there isn't much anyone who is normal and whose vote barely counts for anything can do. We can say how bad it is however much we want. We can throw at you facts upon facts about how unnecessary or unfair the Electoral College is... | Evidence | Ineffective |
85f240697217 | 67BD359D8BD2 | To sum it all up, the Electoral College isn't a smart way to help decide who should be president. This is the United States of America, it's for the people and made by the people, so why on Earth should they not be able to be the only ones to pick who will run them as a country?
| Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a7973300e0fe | 67C12A362ABA | The Electoral College is only taking your personal vote for a leader for our economy and putting into into another persons perspective. That's unfair. When you make a vote about the leader of your country, you want to be independent. You want to feel like you are doing something great to help your country. Everyone doe... | Lead | Adequate |
f0863e6d957a | 67C12A362ABA | The electoral college needs to be abolished for the sake of our citizens. We would all benefit from changing the voting system to Popular Vote, on voting for the president of the United States | Position | Effective |
2ab697dc96e3 | 67C12A362ABA | Think about it, what good is the Electoral College system doing for our society. Its surely letting the state electors get their opinion. | Claim | Adequate |
5ba145de652e | 67C12A362ABA | In source #2,
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, by Bradford Plumer , says, " Prehaps most worrying is the prospect of a tie in the electoral vote. In that case, the election would be thrown to the House of Representatives, where state delegations vote on the p... | Evidence | Effective |
83d1b8d95ea7 | 67C12A362ABA | I can see why people would want to keep it. In source #3,
In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President , by Ricard A. Posner, says "The Electoral College is a widely regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be ... | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
418c198103b5 | 67C12A362ABA | Some people have a hard time realizing what the Electoral College is even doing for our society. Me included. | Claim | Adequate |
64b2d59b0b65 | 67C12A362ABA | In Source #2,
The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong, by Bradford Plumer, says
"It's official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments agains... | Evidence | Adequate |
30bbe54a22b8 | 67C12A362ABA | In souce #1,
Does the Electoral College Work?
, by the Office of the Federal Register, says " The Electoral College process consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the president and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress." | Evidence | Adequate |
10fc9817f234 | 67C12A362ABA | Don't let the electoral votes get in the way of your own. Vote for independence, Vote for your voice, your vote being heard, vote to abolish the Electoral College | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
fe4021a0e6f0 | 67D14DACC392 | Students attend school everyday with hundreds of other students around them. The amount of small interactions one student could have with another are countless. Large public gatherings are a recipe for the spread of diseases. There has recently been a rise of concern about the infamous Coronavirus. A solution to preven... | Lead | Effective |
e780467169d6 | 67D14DACC392 | Students would benefit from being able to attend classes from home for many reasons | Position | Adequate |
7ae1de4942e7 | 67D14DACC392 | Firstly, they won't fall behind in classes when they are too ill to be in a public space. | Claim | Effective |
445144555d8b | 67D14DACC392 | Secondly, they can still receive their education when they don't have proper transportation | Claim | Effective |
9a0930554ea1 | 67D14DACC392 | Lastly, they can still interact with classmates and teachers in an unconventional setting. | Claim | Effective |
6cce6cbae090 | 67D14DACC392 | Cold and flu season comes every year, leaving those who are unfortunate enough to have caught it, unable to attend school for at least a week, or however long a doctor recommends they should stay home. When these students come back to school, they are bombarded with make-up work that needs to be completed as soon as po... | Evidence | Effective |
29e5016e8903 | 67D14DACC392 | Making online school a plausible option would also promote better attendance because students wouldn't have to physically be at school to be marked present. | Claim | Effective |
4a083c00cac1 | 67D14DACC392 | While having the best intentions, public transit is often unreliable and falls short when needed. School buses can be later than they claim to be, resulting in students waiting outside in harsh weather, buses can come earlier than planned, leaving students deserted, there are times where substitute bus drivers, that ar... | Evidence | Effective |
bc0901d93da6 | 67D14DACC392 | All of these inconveniences could be easily avoided if students could complete their work from home. Colleges offer online classes for students that are unable to be on campus or students that need flexible schedules. Schools could resemble the same structure college classes have to better adjust to the students. | Claim | Effective |
b38f703ebf8d | 67D14DACC392 | There are some people who believe that attending school in a conventional setting is essential to students so that they can interact with others and understand topics with face to face lessons | Counterclaim | Effective |
268525c87d8a | 67D14DACC392 | but these things can still be achieved in an online setting. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
41be4533e2fe | 67D14DACC392 | As technology continues to advance, students need to be aware of how to work these tools to be prepared for the work force | Evidence | Adequate |
03ad8d42b6e5 | 67D14DACC392 | Giving students the ability to complete their school work from home is a perfect teaching opportunity and a useful skill to familiarize students with. | Claim | Effective |
cd1aa89b3ea7 | 67D14DACC392 | With the rise of concern and media coverage for diseases and viruses such as the Coronavirus, schools around the world are considering online schooling for students. This would be a precaution to prevent diseases and viruses from spreading in a large crowd. Students would in fact benefit from being able to attend onlin... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
c3748369706c | 681279579E8A | Well we can't be forced to do community service if we don't have to, volunteering is just fine. | Position | Adequate |
51a7dc27fa0f | 681279579E8A | Because however we do want to do some things either than cleaning, just because it's recommended, doesn't mean we have to. If other people choose to do it by their own will, that's their choice, obviously. But other people do think differently and will go against it, which is what I'm trying to write to you of course. | Evidence | Adequate |
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