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4f7b84ab736a | 82F7210163B5 | reason why is that some students would not be able to focus especially when a student is causing lots of noise making it hard for you to focus on your assignment | Claim | Adequate |
ea085467780b | 82F7210163B5 | Another reason is that some students could live far from the school making it hard to get to school everyday | Claim | Adequate |
599776836762 | 82F7210163B5 | Finally students could have more time to work and study making it easy for students to revise in a quite place at home. | Claim | Adequate |
8169430119ea | 82F7210163B5 | one way is that they can put on headphones to relax and work hard and listen to some music. Some teachers hate when students have their phone out or when they are listening to music so begin at home may cause the student to focus more by listening to music because every student has a different way of studying and one student might be more focus if he or she loves listening to music when working or studying. This also makes the student more relived that he or she can listen to music. Students who are always trying to bust a joke or make a noise causes problems for a student who is trying to work to get her grade up this makes it very hard for a student to focus on what their are supposed to do. Students can benefit from listening to music because for me when I listen to music while I am working I feel great and energetic making it easy for me to knockout my work at a fast rate. | Evidence | Effective |
cdad6d315831 | 82F7210163B5 | Some students can't catch the bus because the bus is too far away from their house this makes going to school very difficult because without a reliable ride to school everyday you may be coming to school very late making it hard for you to study or work on assignments because you are worried about how you will get home because you do not have a reliable ride to school to home. This makes a student stress a lot thats why working at home you would not be worried about who would be taking to and back from school. It also makes the student more productive because they would not have to find a ride all the time they could study and get their work done faster than other people. Also coming to school late makes it very hard to understand what was taught in the classroom making a student very stressed over it because a student grade might go down because he or she failed the test cause they came late to school so that student might not have understood what was taught. | Evidence | Effective |
c157d64ed777 | 82F7210163B5 | Finally students could have more time to study and work on their assignments | Claim | Adequate |
a7dfed25a91f | 82F7210163B5 | sometimes teachers may go through the assignment very quickly making it hard for a student to understand the what he or she or supposed to do. Also teachers may not give as much time for students to finish assignment working at home makes it easier because you have as much time as needed for you to complete your assignment and also for a student to revise over their work before turning it in to the teacher students may not be able to turn in assignments on time depending on the assignment this makes a student very stressful because they do not want to turn in the assignment late and get a late grade for it. Sometimes students worry about things like this especially when a student grade is flunking and they need to get it up to graduate or move on to the next grade level.
| Evidence | Effective |
b65170024788 | 82F7210163B5 | Although going to school could very exciting for a student or very happy to see friends | Counterclaim | Adequate |
25adde3ddff1 | 82F7210163B5 | your happiest place is home | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
a23d148af192 | 82F7210163B5 | if you could a student could work from home that would change the way a student studies and complete assignment because they have time on their hands and also the are relaxed they would not have to sit in a class for over 55 minutes. Working at home could be very beneficial because It could be very difficult for another student to learn at school because they might be that one student who is making it hard for a student trying to focus or a student might be stressed because they might not have a ride to and back from school and worried that they might not enough time to finish their assignment and get it turned in on time. Working at home may not stress a student because they would have enough time to complete an assignment. This is why working on assignments at home would benefit a student. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
7a8792cc06e9 | 82FD6318B4A5 | The Electoral College has many flaws. One of the main ones is that it is unfair. | Lead | Adequate |
dddc6c08d66f | 82FD6318B4A5 | They should get rid of it because of the unfairness and go to popular voting. | Position | Adequate |
84ec85a477d2 | 82FD6318B4A5 | The reason this is unfair is becasue of the "winner-take-all system" | Claim | Adequate |
cf8459d04253 | 82FD6318B4A5 | and how people arent really voting for president but for the slate of electors. | Claim | Adequate |
173d123a2950 | 82FD6318B4A5 | The first reason this is unfair is becasue of the "winner-take-all system". | Claim | Adequate |
1397c06764c5 | 82FD6318B4A5 | The system is where the electors that chose the winning president gets rewarded when really it was from popular vote. Then it picks who your state's representing candidate will be based on the preident that won.(
Source 1: What is the electoral college?)
Wouldnt you think that the reason we vote for president is to get a reward and satisfaction of your candidate winning? But no thats not how it works instead it's the electoral collge that gets an award instead. | Evidence | Ineffective |
3e11342abe5a | 82FD6318B4A5 | The second reason why it is unfair is beacause when we go every four years to vote for our new pesident we aren't really voting for them we are voting for the slate of electors. | Claim | Adequate |
5ed7b5770887 | 82FD6318B4A5 | In
Source two it mentions Bob Dole saying to abolish the electoral collge and most people will agree with that. It's unfair and not right to people that truly care. It also mentions how some states had most of their people voting for someone else that didnt win because the electoral college took over and voted the other way then popular vote." It's the elctors who elect the president not the people." | Evidence | Adequate |
7f4f2f67b1a7 | 82FD6318B4A5 | To conclude this mess of being unfair these are the main reasons why people would love to get rid of the electoral collge and go to poular vote because it is unfair dealing with the "winner-take-all system" and we aren't really voting for the president but instead the slate of electors. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
ea1c41e1d107 | 836389DC45F4 | I think students shouldn't have cells phones at school | Position | Adequate |
e7d633bcc0cc | 836389DC45F4 | its an distraction to all of the students | Claim | Adequate |
0735bb012414 | 836389DC45F4 | But it will be different if the students were just a little quiet with the cell phones | Counterclaim | Adequate |
43d571185c56 | 836389DC45F4 | instead they decide to bring DRAMA to the schools. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
c07151fed5be | 836389DC45F4 | Cell phones are the number one reason why fights are getting started at schools around the country. If they didn't have cell phones the percentage of fighting and arguing will be decreased. | Evidence | Adequate |
2fe2aa51271e | 836389DC45F4 | Also ,there's another reason I think they should ban the cell phones because if we were to use our cell phones in class the only thing that would happen is that no one will learn anything but how to TALK on the cell phone, and how to TEXT on the cell phones and that's mainly the problem that we are still having to today. | Claim | Adequate |
0746ad029af1 | 836389DC45F4 |
Next, is the drama it causes sometimes it can ruin an friend ship or even a marriage it can be that serious. | Claim | Ineffective |
ea5cdf7094fa | 836389DC45F4 | But to lose an husband or an wife a family mmbe an best friend over some stuff like that is really childish and it needs to STOP before it gets out of hand. | Evidence | Ineffective |
a0f1dd2a2f25 | 836389DC45F4 | So that's it for WHY I THINK WE SHOULDN'T HAVE CELL PHONES AT SCHOOL ! | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
b8912e14d95e | 836A3BBFA12D | I believe community service should not be mandatory. | Position | Ineffective |
548ea5cf6b85 | 836A3BBFA12D | Many students do sports or are in clubs and if you made it mandatory students would not have time for these activities. | Claim | Adequate |
135395eaed2c | 836A3BBFA12D | Students would probably blow off the community service anyway and do whatever they want | Claim | Adequate |
565630c34e4e | 836A3BBFA12D | A third and final reason is that some community service takes long hours after school. | Claim | Adequate |
aab72f5dad3c | 836A3BBFA12D | Some clubs or sports have a positive influence on students, such as meting new people. I was on the cross country team for three years in a row. I met some good friends there. If community service was mandatory then this would not exist and students would miss very valuable opportunities. Another example is that sometimes, clubs help the school. At my school we have the helping hands club. You can tell by the name that this club helps the school. This club would have no time after school and our school would not be the place it is today. | Evidence | Effective |
d42b54259c62 | 836A3BBFA12D | This would mainly be the ones who did not do community service in the first place. In this scenario, there would be no point in making community service mandatory at all. I can pretty much guarantee that the ones who didn't do community service in the first place would not do it anyway. Besides, some students already help the community without calling it "community service". Some students do nice things for people but don't consider that community service. | Evidence | Adequate |
afd414064342 | 836A3BBFA12D | When the average student gets home, all they usually think about is getting away from the stress at school. They don't want to get more work to worry about. Community service also might intrude on their sleep time too. If a student does community service right after school, they would then have to do their homework, sometimes students barely make it to bed with homework alone. If you threw in community service on top of that, image how little sleep students would get. | Evidence | Adequate |
073e12e22372 | 836A3BBFA12D | Community service should be a choice, not mandatory. Sometimes students serve the community with the little things they do every day, like RELATIVE_NAME's challenge says. Clubs and organisations are important to a student too and with community service around there would be no time. Some students might not even do the service at all. And it takes too long which may result in sleep loss. I hope you take my views into consideration. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
5174f9bc2012 | 8387BDBA7F9B | Yes, students would benefit from being able to attend classes from home by online source or video conferencing | Position | Adequate |
a15018a8f150 | 8387BDBA7F9B | because it will help them to be responsible by a way that they don't want to loose a day of class, thinking about a person if helping them and it can help them, | Lead | Adequate |
2eabf13dac13 | 8387BDBA7F9B | when they have to take care of their childs, family or even work. | Claim | Adequate |
54d567e42f9c | 8387BDBA7F9B | One reason, if they have appointments or need to work for economic reasons like: help your family, pay rent or pay your car. | Claim | Adequate |
eeb3982a5c24 | 8387BDBA7F9B | It will help a student to have time to prepare himself and to work hard to gain his benefits from being someone in life. Also, they are going to be more likely to find new job opportunities, depending on your school level or what dregree do yo get in college. This online classes will help student to have more time to enjoy family time, to have a good source way of life and to make his strength more capable of hisself. It can also help the student believe that he can do it and he is good in everything he want to do with his education, if he wants to keep going straight without going back.
| Evidence | Adequate |
2449dcd31493 | 8387BDBA7F9B | Second reason, is that every student can make an effort to keep going to school at home. | Claim | Ineffective |
817d30e6ad55 | 8387BDBA7F9B | They also can be positive in the things they do and they never should give up. Even if someone try to foolish them with lies, they don't have to listen and they will be successful in life. Many things will come in the future and they should keep following their dreams. They should keep their dreams intact from others and knowing that there are many bad persons who will try to sabotage your dreams without caring you. They have to be good enough to demonstrate other that you can do it and not to feel bad about someone else stuffs. | Evidence | Ineffective |
fe0ffb49324c | 8387BDBA7F9B |
Many people thinks that nowdays we don't care about school, we don't even know what school is for but we can show them that not everyone is like that. If someone is not going to school is because for economic problems and also discrimination. | Evidence | Ineffective |
232dbe789342 | 8387BDBA7F9B | On this times people are been racist with people who are poor and having a different color skin, but if they get to know everyone, they are going to take a good example of life from the others , that try go get from all the problems they have and making them thinks that they keep following their dreams without taking care of those problems. | Claim | Ineffective |
451b76cc4b59 | 8387BDBA7F9B | After all, many students will greduate and keep going with their life without having any problem about jobs and they will be good economically. They also will give their childs a reason why they should go to school and follow their dreams without letting people to punish their dreams. It also will help their family to support them without caring about what other people says, but everyone should conserve good things about everything. Also this students will have an illustrate part of his life, where they are going from success to success keeping everything on the side but his dreams on the front. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
6a8a02938ce6 | 83C1CC6938F4 | I am writing this letter to you today to let you know I stroungly believe that we should demolish the process of electoral college. Why you may ask? | Position | Adequate |
8e33544d5880 | 83C1CC6938F4 | First, it is unfair, we are the votes they not. | Claim | Adequate |
dd82eff2d0c3 | 83C1CC6938F4 | Second, it is outdated (
"The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer | Claim | Adequate |
2f65ee604dbd | 83C1CC6938F4 | First, it is not fair. | Claim | Adequate |
34fc2dd56493 | 83C1CC6938F4 | We the people are surposed to chose the president not some privite party that we never meet. According to "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford Plumer ;according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore-thanks to the quirks of the electoral college- wor the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to kind we have now." So we vote yes but he doesn't become president; do we even matter? It doesn't seem like it. | Evidence | Adequate |
348b0adfdcd8 | 83C1CC6938F4 | Second of all, it is very outdated. | Claim | Adequate |
b4c360ae1e61 | 83C1CC6938F4 | According to "What Is the Electoral College?" by The Office of the Federal Register this process was founded in the days of the four founding fathers. That's old! Now in days we have found better and fair ways to do pretty much every thing.
| Evidence | Adequate |
f53d8c7b89e5 | 83C1CC6938F4 | I hope this letter helps you decide on weather or not we should keep the process of electoral college. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
a571f26bd3a7 | 845DB3AC386E | Electoral College is a process that help the United States over many many years. So my question now is, why are you trying to get rid of it? They made so it a vote from Congress would go towards the President and a popular vote from cictizens. Without the Electroal College barely anyone's vote would be heard and Congess would be making our choice for us | Lead | Effective |
c63fa0c5d2ba | 845DB3AC386E | I believe that we should keep the Electroal, because it makes citizens feel that they are in the system and without it people aren't really voting for who they want | Position | Adequate |
f19f1eb50034 | 845DB3AC386E | To begin, keeping the Electoral College makes citizens feel that they are in the system. Even though they may not feel like they are in the system, this will let people's voices be heard and give them their rights to vote for who they want as President | Claim | Adequate |
a69f5a88a1dd | 845DB3AC386E | You help choose your state's electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you wre actually voting for your candidate's electors." This quote from source 1 states that baicsally people are voting for their candidate's electors who vote for the President. Therefore, keeping the Electoral College makes people feel that their vote counts | Evidence | Adequate |
9f1ea94e355a | 845DB3AC386E | Also, without the Electoral College citizens aren't really voting for who they want. Even though other people are voting for you, at least they r voting for what u want and what you think | Claim | Adequate |
1ca504a30c45 | 845DB3AC386E | The residents of the other regions are likely to feel disenfranchised- to feel that votes do not count, that the new president will have no regard for their interests, that he really isn't their president."this quote from source 3 explains that without the Electoral College their vote won't count and that the new president won't have any of their interests. To end this, if we didn't have the Electoral College no one's vote would count | Evidence | Ineffective |
909df30e1eb9 | 845DB3AC386E | To sum this up, the Electroal College would give citizens the right to choose who the want and feel like they are apart of the system. This would give everyone a chance to let their voice heard. So why would they try to get rid of it, if it helps lots of people? Therefore I believe that we should keep it | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
9a12597fe741 | 84AD2A5BF53E | 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 a popular vote of qualified citizens. The Electoral college process consits of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for the President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes byCongress. The Electoral College consits of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President.
Under the electoral college system, voters vote not for thePresident, but for a slate of electors, who in turn elect the President. The single best argument against the electoral college is what we might call the disaster factor. The American people should consider themselves lucky that the 2000 fiasco was the biggest election crisis in a century; the system allows much worse. Considering thst the state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, end that those electors could always defy the will of the people. Back in 1960, segregationists in the Louisiana legislature nearly succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors who would oppose John F. Kennedy. (So that a popular vote for Kennedy wouldn't have actually gone to Kennedy.)
At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. 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. It's offical: 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 argument against direct elections are spurious at best. It's hard to say this, but Bob Dole was right: "Abolish the electoral college!" | Evidence | Ineffective |
6c9ddff46d88 | 84AD2A5BF53E | Abolishing the Electoral college should be the right thing to do. | Position | Adequate |
a9ec8a563cf2 | 84D821F541E7 | Some school offer distance learning as an option for students to attend classes from home by way of online video conferencing. It could be better for kids who have problems learning and sitting still. | Lead | Adequate |
87f61c17b6c4 | 84D821F541E7 | Some school should offer that because it could help people with anixty. | Counterclaim | Adequate |
6391c351a7b0 | 84D821F541E7 | People who have anixty cant deal with alot of people. They so freak out about small places and freak out of the littles things. People with depression struggle with there self they aren't confroble with body. They also stop eating or stop caring about thingd. People with depression cut there self to help with the pain. They do realize that people care about them. It could help with people sleeping. Some people dont sleep at night. They would rather sleep doing the day. It could help with people getting sick all the time. | Evidence | Adequate |
01f5190b4a1c | 84D821F541E7 | School shouldnt offer this because people wont make any friends. | Claim | Adequate |
30a2b0bbf2b8 | 84D821F541E7 | Kids can play sports in school. They can play soccer,baseball,softball,football bakestball,cheer,golf and wrestle. | Evidence | Adequate |
b0463311ac55 | 84D821F541E7 | Some familys cant afford to buy food for there famliy. | Claim | Adequate |
da5c5d13cb1d | 84D821F541E7 | Some kids only get one meal a day. My school gets bags every friday and sends it home with kids so they can eat. | Evidence | Adequate |
afb9997f83fb | 84D821F541E7 | Kids who play sports are working out and always on the go. | Claim | Adequate |
493cc7b30735 | 84D821F541E7 | They loose weight when they are working out. Its really good for your body. | Evidence | Adequate |
b322a4b7bed9 | 84D821F541E7 | Kids wont do their homework if they arent here. | Claim | Adequate |
17b343ad3f95 | 84D821F541E7 | Some kids learn better one on one but others dont. Some kids are hands on and others are verbial learns. When kids get kick out they do work online. Some kids do collage classes. some kids get to leave school early for work but they are taking that a way. | Evidence | Ineffective |
33b50e2d26d5 | 84D821F541E7 | Some school offer distance learing as an option for students to attend classes from home by way of online or video conferencing. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
479137a2609a | 84D821F541E7 | I dont think it is a good idea at all. | Position | Adequate |
a733b5f45f11 | 850401568E9C | I have an opinion that I know others will agree with extremely. | Lead | Adequate |
7e250e67cba9 | 850401568E9C | By popular vote, we should change the election process to The People voting directly. | Position | Effective |
d43645736499 | 850401568E9C | According to my knowledge, the Electoral College isn't fair to voters. I know that many people such as, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFC-CIO agree with me on this. For instance, in the second passage on the first paragraph, it says that and much more. "They're not alone [Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter...]; according to a Gallup poll in 2000, taken shortly after Al Gore - thanks to the quirks of the Electoral College - won the popular vote but lost the presidency, over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." Suggesting by what this satement says, a lot of people disagree with our system of election | Evidence | Effective |
bde3a24a940f | 850401568E9C | We should be able to vote directly ourselves and not have electors do it for us. How do we know we can trust them? Yes, they're a part of our government, but that doesn't mean a thing. | Claim | Effective |
d8472490bd63 | 850401568E9C | The Electoral College was originally founded to be exactly what it is today; a vote that is held in Congress that is made by popular vote by citizens. But it has changed more than you think. In article one in the 6th paragraph, it tells exactly how the Electoral College is run. "The presidential election is held every four years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in Novemeber. You help choose your state's electors when you vote for President because when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors." This paragraph is saying that the person you vote for is basically supposed to be voted for by his electors. In the second article, what the author is saying is that even though this certain person will get popular vote, they won't agree with it and they'll go against the votors decisions. This isn't the right thing, obviously. I'm sure that no one knows for a fact that's true though. Even though, this is still a messed up way to vote. | Evidence | Effective |
a881c4ec4785 | 850401568E9C | This country is about freedom and the right to do what we'd like, as long as it's rational. This is not rational. We need to be able to vote independentley. | Claim | Effective |
de68b9daf1bd | 850401568E9C | There are many things wrong with this aspect of our government. Even though people don't think much of it, we're being treated unfairly. | Claim | Effective |
1c70778703ab | 850401568E9C | In the second article, in paragraph 2, Plumer (the author) makes a very good point. "Who are the electors? They can be anyone not holding public office. Who picks the electors in the first place? It depends on the state. Sometimes state conventions, sometimes the state party's central committee, sometimes the presidential candidates themselves. Can voters control whom their electors vote for? Not always. Do voters sometimes get confused about the electors and vote for the wrong candidate? Sometimes." This makes us realize that we don't know who, for a fact, the electors are. It also shows that we don't know who the electors will vote for. Usually, they would probably vote for the person that were made to vote for.
| Evidence | Effective |
2c6e8c549cf4 | 850401568E9C | None of us know what goes on in the Electoral College. We don't know if they vote for who we tell them to vote for. We don't know if they practically cheat us from getting the president we want. | Claim | Effective |
1a6911f1ca1f | 850401568E9C | In article one, paragraph 8, there is something that the governor does that maybe is supposed to reassure us. "After the presidential election, your governor prepares a "Cerificate of Ascertainment" listing all of the candidates who ran for President in your state along with the names of their respective electors." This is just them saying who was all voted for and who all ran. It also says who the electors were. They give us this probably just to notify us but maybe it's also an idea to make us think that Electoral College is proud to help us get who we want. | Evidence | Effective |
1f8d7a98cc73 | 850401568E9C | As I have said through this whole letter, we deserve to directly vote for our President. This isn't fair to us or the person we want elected. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a0d2bc30e100 | 8521B650F8A9 | I think that you should require students to perform community service. | Position | Adequate |
e6163c6556a7 | 8521B650F8A9 | It will help all elementary school students to do better on their school work. | Claim | Adequate |
dd5894c2bb85 | 8521B650F8A9 | you can let students that are interested in this program to participate in it. | Claim | Adequate |
99f2f22c2604 | 8521B650F8A9 | Students that do not want to participate, must let them do what they want. | Evidence | Adequate |
bf7cdefcf531 | 8521B650F8A9 | Principal I will be part of this program and i will help those elementary school students. | Claim | Ineffective |
17465fcc9e98 | 8521B650F8A9 | you still have to ask the students that are interested if this program will affect their grades in school.
I will help you organize this program.
I will also bring as many tutors as possible.
I will try to make this program successful.
Many other students and parents are going to help us organize this program.
This program is going to help educate many elementary school students and make a good future for them.
I will do my best to make those students successful. | Evidence | Ineffective |
032a6b69290b | 8521B650F8A9 | You should announce this program to the whole school so many people can participate. | Claim | Adequate |
f30ee1fdea4c | 8521B650F8A9 | We need as much students as possible.
Helping people is one of my hobbies.
We can also provide different interesting stuff that students can do during tutoring time.
We can provide sports and other things that they want.
We can make it as an after school program.
We should also provide buses to people that are going to stay.
| Evidence | Adequate |
556e50810c68 | 85417E9C78E7 | i'm writing you today to ask for changing electoral college votes to popular vote. | Position | Adequate |
5c72643b9a67 | 85417E9C78E7 | elcltoral votes we not really voting for the person we want | Claim | Adequate |
ce8bb6a92fc2 | 85417E9C78E7 | winner-take-all system doesn't work.
| Claim | Adequate |
02b9428c00ac | 85417E9C78E7 | on electon day you may not be voting for the candidate you think your voting for. I think thats not right, not knowing who we are really voting for. | Claim | Adequate |
db57421668b2 | 85417E9C78E7 | Like it says in the article Does the elctoral college work?, states that "when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for candidates electors". like seriously who are these "
electors | Evidence | Adequate |
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