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cde8dc9cd2b7 | 79B23EC7E834 | I feel most should do community service and that it is better for the earth | Claim | Effective |
6e4229dbd910 | 79B23EC7E834 | but it should be their choice not someone else's. | Claim | Adequate |
0571852800dc | 79B23EC7E834 | It helps stop waste and pollution. It is safer for the world and its people. Without pollution the world and humans can go on living healthy lives and lifestyles. Not taking care of the world is not taking care of ourselves. The world could end as we know it because of pollution. It isn't safe. | Evidence | Effective |
01d8228993c7 | 79B23EC7E834 | Also, community service teaches valuable skills and lessons that one may need later on in life. | Claim | Effective |
8b914f8fa19f | 79B23EC7E834 | It teaches how to clean up after yourself and after others, how NOT to litter, and respect towards others. If we do not learn this earlier in life we won't have the knowledge and care to do it later in life. Teaching this lesson about community service to children could cause a chain reaction. They could teach their fr... | Evidence | Effective |
9a91c2674c9e | 79B23EC7E834 | Another reason community service is important is because it gets children out of the house and doing something active. | Claim | Effective |
8c50ca334c66 | 79B23EC7E834 | Most students spend their time playing video games, or on the computer, or even watching television, and soon enough, it will become daily activities possibly for the rest of their lives. Kids can break away from the electronics and be outside getting fresh air in their systems. They could even meet new friends. | Evidence | Effective |
18ecc65baac7 | 79B23EC7E834 | Just like a recipe. You can choose whether to put certain ingredients in the food you are making. | Evidence | Adequate |
932bc4142fe6 | 79B23EC7E834 | I think community service is a great idea, but not all may agree. Although it may stop pollution, teach life lessons, and break them away from brainwashing electronics, they should be able to make their own choices. Therefore, i feel doing community service should be optional. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
65c94a93ce30 | 79C245E3C9C2 | To begin with, the electoral college process consists of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for president abd vice president, and the counting of the electoral votes by congress. The electoral college consist of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect... | Lead | Ineffective |
a8e8d4de2898 | 79C245E3C9C2 | In addition, the presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in november. You can help choose tour state's electors when you vote for predident. Most states have a ''winner-take-all'' system however, Maine and Nebraska each have a variation of ''proportional representation.'' U... | Evidence | Ineffective |
b662c9954c78 | 79C245E3C9C2 | The single best argument aganist the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor | Claim | Adequate |
f06c9726bda5 | 79C245E3C9C2 | It's like a hurricane for a presidental election | Evidence | Ineffective |
6798fa208b68 | 79C245E3C9C2 | Prehaps the most worring is the prospect of a tie in thre electoral vot. | Claim | Adequate |
d4c221ed3680 | 79C245E3C9C2 | In that case, the election would be thrown to the house of representatives, where state delegations vote on the president | Evidence | Adequate |
6e83cd71f650 | 79C245E3C9C2 | To futher inform, at the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. | Claim | Adequate |
ffc490d79a92 | 79C245E3C9C2 | Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates dont spen time in states because they no they have no chance of winning. it's like convincing pigs to vote for you. It's offical the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best arguments in favor of it are mostly assertions without much... | Evidence | Adequate |
706dbb466e85 | 79C245E3C9C2 | It's hard to say this but Bob Doloe was right abolish the electoeal college | Position | Adequate |
0f76a6e7b616 | 79C245E3C9C2 | The electoral college restores some of the weight in the politiccal balance that lage states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the senate decreed in the consition. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
9b0e235a5066 | 79C245E3C9C2 | The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recives a majority of the votes cast. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
7564b2d60c5e | 79C245E3C9C2 | It can be argued that he electoral college method of slecting for the presisent may turn off potential voters for a candidate. | Claim | Adequate |
6fd3594284ee | 79C245E3C9C2 | But athat single vote may decide that election! | Evidence | Ineffective |
0fdfc2e31932 | 7A2D0B189298 | The Electoral College needs to be disbanded. There are many reasons why the Electoral college needs to be stopped, | Position | Adequate |
afafec4062f6 | 7A2D0B189298 | How is it fair to Americans, if you say we have a vote that counts when we are just voting for a slate of people that might vote for someone we do not want. The voting process needs to be handled by the people, and who we want to run this country that we live in. | Evidence | Adequate |
b67d70d08673 | 7A2D0B189298 | The voting process is just not fair to Americans. | Claim | Adequate |
80c1295c90fc | 7A2D0B189298 | It's in the constitution that we have a right to vote and that we have the right to choose our president, but you people in the electoral college take away that right when we only get to vote for a slate of people. If elections were done by popular vote things might have been different in many ways. First off, in the 2... | Evidence | Adequate |
fbe3173f7cb8 | 7A2D0B189298 | The electoral college is just uncompletely fair to voters. Because, in some states they have a winner-take-all system, so the presidental candidates to spend time in those states to get their vote. | Claim | Adequate |
165feb9e25c6 | 7A2D0B189298 | Seventeen States did not see the presidental candidates at all in 2000 campaign, so what is the point in having voting in those states if we dont know who we are voting for and why we are voting for them? There is not a reason to vote when the electoral college votes fore us. | Evidence | Adequate |
9dd069a53b0d | 7A2D0B189298 | Yes, sometimes people do not know what they are voting for and why, but that is because we have no say, it is not up to the people who is going to the president of the country of we live, because the electoral college will not let us choose who we want. | Claim | Adequate |
49f643e34df2 | 7A2D0B189298 | Many people, very important people, such as Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, and the U.S Chamber of commerece have agreed that we should abolish the Electoral College and give the people the vote and see who wins president then. If the people had a vote on who is president it would be very simplier, than the Electoral Col... | Evidence | Adequate |
af75f669e28c | 7A2D0B189298 | Many my agrue that, the Electoral college is there for our benefit. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
27127e3b9c9e | 7A2D0B189298 | Tell me one benefit there is to having no vote as regular citizen. I get it that there are more people in some states than others, but that does not mean we all get the same number of electoral votes as the huge states such as, California, Florida, and Texas. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
7eff9f3cf36d | 7A2D0B189298 | So if we are not going to have the same votes number of votes no matter what why does it matter if we give the people the option and have them vote for who they want, it is because the Electoral College does not care who we want they choose the president on who they want. Also, if it is up to the Electoral College then... | Evidence | Adequate |
5e5f6c9fa012 | 7A2D0B189298 | America, of course, has many more freedoms than other countries and we are not taking advantage of that, because we can not allow the people to vote for the President of the United States. The citizens do not want to vote for a slate of people, they want to vote for our president. So let me ask you as my Senator, what ... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
50edbd6c5b7c | 7A40839A44E2 | I'm not for driverles cars | Position | Adequate |
1282db19cbf8 | 7A40839A44E2 | they can still cause an accident | Claim | Adequate |
f963211f319d | 7A40839A44E2 | there not really driving the car itself | Claim | Adequate |
69e9b7bad725 | 7A40839A44E2 | is helping out the driver by stop when they are not looking or if there is a green light then, the car will alert the driver to press the gas if they are distacted. But, it will not drive a person home if they are drunk | Evidence | Adequate |
fabb93279bd3 | 7A40839A44E2 | There are better ideas then making a driving car. | Claim | Adequate |
b1fd2fe01edb | 7A40839A44E2 | instead of buidling drivierless cars we can save the enviroment. They can make the world a better places but make fuel efficeny cars instead of driverless cars. Make trucks not run on diesel we can be doing so much more than making a driverless car. | Evidence | Adequate |
3c522e1f6a7e | 7A40839A44E2 | What if the car computer programming chip is damage then that means that the car can't be able to work correctly and that the car is in a higher risk of getting more people in danger because of the driverlesss car. | Claim | Adequate |
ce6aab8e8d75 | 7A40839A44E2 | Building a driverles car is going to be very expensive. | Claim | Adequate |
38935efefb8a | 7A40839A44E2 | we are not in a lot of debt so we should use are money wisely. | Claim | Ineffective |
96104599e1f8 | 7AC66E0CFAAA | I argue in the favor of keeping the electoral college. | Position | Adequate |
e7315b55b0bf | 7AC66E0CFAAA | I think that it really doesn't matter what a single person vote can do. One vote will not make a difference. The state uses the americans vote, to see what we would pefer. | Claim | Adequate |
5ab9c1f07ac4 | 7AC66E0CFAAA | Every vote an
important
' person makes, it counts that.
I personally think its a waist of time to vote,that us americans really have no say so in. I bet that if we all didn't vote this next go around, we would still have a president. All because, of what the
important
' people want. All 538 electors know who... | Evidence | Adequate |
3b118ea10316 | 7AC66E0CFAAA | The only thing against the electoral college, is what we might call the
Disaster Factor. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
049a71a68214 | 7AC66E0CFAAA | Back, in 1960, segregationist, in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with the new electors who would oppese John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy would not have actually gone to Kennedy.)
The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism. a non-democ... | Evidence | Adequate |
533186802a85 | 7AC66E0CFAAA | So, you might as well just let the electoral collge do the job. I mean if you want to go and vote mor power to you. But, like I said its a waist of time to do so!!! | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
71a916ad44f2 | 7AD34830967B | " What have Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all, in their time, agreed on? Answer: Abolishing the electoral college! Well i think otherwise. | Position | Adequate |
1b45b65c4cac | 7AD34830967B | the election of the President is by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens. | Claim | Adequate |
8a6c4cae0974 | 7AD34830967B | The start of the Electoral College is well handingly choosing the electors, which consists of 538 electors each of course must be qualified. | Claim | Adequate |
b4f96eb8155e | 7AD34830967B | Most of 270 electoral votes are required to elect the president. The number of members in its Congressional delegation is equal to the entitled allotment of electors in your state, one is for each member in the house of Representatives plus two for the Senators. For the purposes of Electoral College, Columbia District ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
9b0ed1b66a40 | 7AD34830967B | A outcome of an Electoral College vote is possible, just look back at the year 2000 it was less likely then a come over the popular vote the Reason for that is the winning candidate's share of the Electioral College expanded his share of the popular vote. For example, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote c... | Evidence | Ineffective |
c96ed835ae86 | 7AD34830967B | each and every step of the Electoral college method comes out to be a well handed system. | Claim | Adequate |
95430773891a | 7AD34830967B | Its more then enough fairness included when choosing the Presisent and Vice President. | Evidence | Adequate |
9c1f4fcb7f81 | 7AD34830967B | Popular vote is more based on "winner-take-all" System thats awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate, unlike the Electoral College which is a process that consists of choosing the electors, | Evidence | Ineffective |
eab7ff74ead9 | 7B1981581BC7 | Presidential elections provides the United States of America with an opprotunity of unification. The process of choosing the next leader of the United States always brings the people of the country together knowing that all of them play a role in the election. This is present in the popular vote, a vote consisting of t... | Lead | Effective |
d1c042f6b15a | 7B1981581BC7 | The fact of the matter is, the electoral college is beneficial to the presidential election | Position | Adequate |
299e9625798c | 7B1981581BC7 | because it unifies Congress and the people of America | Claim | Effective |
8c762ee265db | 7B1981581BC7 | is part of the country's roots.
| Claim | Effective |
0097872a7768 | 7B1981581BC7 | To begin with, the electoral college, more than anything, unifies the people. The electors were once, as everyone in the nation is, an average citizen. | Claim | Effective |
8e8ba8271490 | 7B1981581BC7 | According to Bradford Plumer the electors chosen, "...depend on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves." On top of that Bradford indentifies the electors as, "...anyone not holding a public office.". Bradford Plumer illustr... | Evidence | Adequate |
dfef21c5ca2f | 7B1981581BC7 | The general population, though average citizens, are somtimes not as qualified as Congress to make unbiased, beneficial decisions on behalf of the rest of the country. However, knowing that the next President could be a part of Congress, sometimes sways the decision in favor of a particular candidate. In this paradox o... | Evidence | Effective |
3f227fe15cd4 | 7B1981581BC7 | Why strip this moral that has represented the United States of America since its first years? | Claim | Adequate |
3d1537bd9c0d | 7B1981581BC7 | While there have been a few flaws in the electoral college throughout history, this decision making process still unifies the people of America and is still, most importantly, part of its roots. More than anything, the electoral college process represents the two sides of the country: Congress and the average working c... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
7ff2c6b55f46 | 7B5D27D241EA | In my opinion i think that all students shouldn't have to participate in community service | Position | Effective |
fc91ba261764 | 7B5D27D241EA | because some kids have important things that they have to do, not want to do, have to do | Claim | Effective |
0858bdca4ce6 | 7B5D27D241EA | For example what if a student had siblings that were younger than they were and couldn't take care of themselves, so their older siblings would have to take care of them. Then the student couldn't take care of their community service hours. Another is what if a student participated in sports and had an important game t... | Evidence | Effective |
d8c7e7228d29 | 7B5D27D241EA | It's not just three or six students that could not fulfil their hours. The whole class would have to study for the test and more that six students have younger siblings that they have to take care of and finally, more that six students participate in sports or other extra curricular activities which means that all of t... | Evidence | Effective |
6c166094175c | 7B5D27D241EA | If they did something bad to get in school suspension or out of school suspension then they should have to perform community service | Claim | Adequate |
225f74b025c6 | 7B5D27D241EA | but not without and independent reason | Evidence | Ineffective |
6483cc198c13 | 7B5D27D241EA | That is my position on whether or not the students of the school district should have to perform community service or not. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
5f926dc20943 | 7B64BC831CD9 | you should not change the letter grade from a c to a b | Position | Adequate |
d951589eebf2 | 7B64BC831CD9 | then only the few people will play sports | Claim | Adequate |
578374d26ded | 7B64BC831CD9 | not be able to do our best in school. | Claim | Adequate |
7c6b1c5c2048 | 7B64BC831CD9 | Because we would be focused upon joining sports losing focus in the class room and causing a decline in academic learning | Claim | Adequate |
95295cf66bbc | 7B64BC831CD9 | if most of the school has a c average them most of the school will not be able to join sports and many students would complain and there would be more problems with the children in the school. such as sharp increase in suspensions, more kids on or in trouble, etc.... this is a way kids rebel inaddition the grade point ... | Evidence | Adequate |
83687e531e6b | 7B64BC831CD9 | the kids that usually join sports are not the super smart kid but usually average students and usually don't upsead a c on projects | Claim | Adequate |
c811c2b71de4 | 7B64BC831CD9 | that means the teams are going to be very very small 1-9 kid on most of the teams meaning most of those kids will be picked on from frustration of other kids not joining the sport since the c average is the ideal grade for joining sports the grade is not perfect but its the average grade for the entire school then that... | Evidence | Ineffective |
ddf2cb80f90e | 7B64BC831CD9 | those are only a few of the reason's that we should leave the grade to join sports at a c not at a b sincerely STUDENT_NAME | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
41df1c053713 | 7B9A897C5297 | In today's world, technology is everywhere. Technology helps assist in everyday tasks and brings about new levels of creativity. In this new age of innovation, smart cars fit right in with all other aspects of our digitalized lives. Not only could driverless cars help in many other ways regular cars can't, but they als... | Lead | Effective |
a05ef98b715b | 7B9A897C5297 | Overall, driverless cars will be beneficial for the modern world. | Position | Effective |
99d26673a477 | 7B9A897C5297 | The use of driverless cars can vary from ecofriendly transportation to customization for individual scheduals. | Claim | Effective |
9cde641a10c7 | 7B9A897C5297 | By using driverless cars as a taxi system, gas consumption would majorly decrease. The taxi system idea could also lead to new ways of public transportation. These cars could take their passengers anywhere they needed to go through a direct route. Passengers would no longer have to wait for long periods of time on buse... | Evidence | Adequate |
17686f205817 | 7B9A897C5297 | Driverless cars would also help communities everywhere with safety. | Claim | Effective |
5beec2357ed9 | 7B9A897C5297 | Since these smart cars are loaded with sensor technology, they can help limit the amount of crashes that were regularly happening. The protypes of driverless cars have gone millions of miles without crashes and could help stunt the commonality of vehicular crashes and deaths. Driverless cars could also aide with the sa... | Evidence | Effective |
cad20936036e | 7B9A897C5297 | Ultimately, driverless cars would have an extreme influence on today's society. The assistance from technology has changed the world we live in and will continue to do so. Driverless cars are the step in the right direction for driving innovations all across the world. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
726e76ff3187 | 7BE2D386E765 | The "Face on Mars" has since become a pop icon. It has starred in a Hollywood film, appeared in books, magazines, radio talk shows- even haunted grocery store checkout lines for 25 years. Some poeple think the Face is hard core evidence of life on mars. Meanwile, defenders of the NASA budget wish there was an ancient c... | Lead | Adequate |
38b99361ab03 | 7BE2D386E765 | The face on mars is a natural landform. | Position | Adequate |
181aa5678f52 | 7BE2D386E765 | Mars has powerfull winds just like we do on earth which if the dirt gets built up on rocks it can cause a face looking shape. The face is just a maountain with craters up at the top which makes it look somewhat like a human face. Mission controllers prepared to look again. "It's not easy to target Cydonia," says Garvin... | Evidence | Ineffective |
ca185abf057b | 7BE2D386E765 | But not everyone was satisfied. The Face on Mars is located at 41 degrees norht martian latitude where it was winter in April '98- a cloudy time of year on the red planet. The camera on board MGS had to peer through wispy clouds to see the Face. Perhaps, said skeptics, alien markings were hidden by haze.
| Counterclaim | Adequate |
cdd4af2216b1 | 7BE2D386E765 | In conclution, the face could be real or it could be a fake. But from teh research that we have conducted at NASA concludes that it is just a natural landform caused by geological occurences. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
1e2cbccd360b | 7BE3FAF66A0C | I think we should end the Electoral college because it is not fair to each american. | Position | Effective |
8a63cbf60730 | 7BE3FAF66A0C | It's not fair because voters can't control who they pick, and the person they vote for end up losing the presidential election | Claim | Effective |
ed0e699d1e9c | 7BE3FAF66A0C | Even though our founding fathers established this act it doesn't mean it benefits our country. | Claim | Adequate |
b385d928dd7f | 7BE3FAF66A0C | The electors are chosen by the candidate's democratic or republican's party. Some states has a "winner-take-all" process. When that process is over and the candidate win the presidential vote in that state, it then shows which electors will represent your state. | Evidence | Adequate |
84af52a8e5bd | 7BE3FAF66A0C | Although this would seem like a good way to vote | Counterclaim | Adequate |
f31dc197b780 | 7BE3FAF66A0C | I disagree. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
313aafac6a7f | 7BE3FAF66A0C | It would be a lot easier for every citizen to just make their own personal vote. | Claim | Adequate |
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