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bf66a971a0f7 | 9CEF76DD7310 | The most important thing in school is to learn so you can one day hopefully go to college. | Claim | Adequate |
6b84877e1aea | 9CEF76DD7310 | I don't think sports would help but they allow you to get involved in your school itself. I'm not bashing on sports but as far as priorities go your making the right decision in raising the bar. | Evidence | Adequate |
b2f5b0a891b5 | 9CEF76DD7310 | I think this may be difficult for some students so you should offer some sort of help to get them on track. | Claim | Effective |
26733a0d14ea | 9CEF76DD7310 | You could offer an after school study hall or even have other students tutor them. Anything that could help get them going would be great. I'm in sports myself and i love them and can tell you if I was prohibited from them because of my grades I would immediately try to find help or work as hard as i could to bring the... | Evidence | Effective |
b61182e65724 | 9CEF76DD7310 | Again, I think that if they can't try in school they should' t be allowed to try in sports. If they aren't getting bad grades from lack of trying though that where the help should be offered. I just think that sports are important too and if they bring their grade up they can enjoy sports and grades all the more. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
a4b50e9d2617 | 9D254F20E5D8 | I think that we should change over to election by popular vote | Position | Adequate |
56176539e73e | 9D254F20E5D8 | I thinks that because in the Electoral College the voters dont vote on the president, but instead they vote on the electors who then vote for the president. | Claim | Adequate |
c3cd0bad27a7 | 9D254F20E5D8 | "It's official: the electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. "The advocates of this position are correct in arguing that the Electoral College method is not democratic in a modern sense....it is the electors who elect the president, not the people. There are five reasons for getting rid of the Electoral C... | Evidence | Ineffective |
5e8be27d1952 | 9D254F20E5D8 | Some people disagree though they think that we should stick with the electoral college. They think its a good way to do the voting because they get to choose the electors who will choose our president. | Counterclaim | Ineffective |
34fe0af57119 | 9D254F20E5D8 | Inconclusion, I think that we should do election by popular vote because then the voters get to choose the president. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
f3ff0c1570ee | 9D967AA72C96 | i just wont to write to the principal at school about the the school policy about the phone | Lead | Ineffective |
b22d0dcf28ae | 9D967AA72C96 | i think the kids at school should have there phones just when they need them like if something goes wrong maybe they will need to call for help so that's what i thing we need to change at to keep kids safe. | Position | Adequate |
a5a2b54d5e60 | 9D967AA72C96 | the kids at school just don't bring them to school to play they need them for good use to let someone or something know what is going on at school if they maybe did something wrong or just to tell someone something. that's why the phone can be a good policy on and at school for every school if the kids need one for the... | Evidence | Adequate |
bc49f2613e6b | 9DB4A7109AAE | we should do Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
b57555f12d52 | 9DB4A7109AAE | because it will be easier to vote | Claim | Adequate |
f1eed4c7ca45 | 9DB4A7109AAE | and will only use votes of qualified citizens. | Claim | Adequate |
8382c8a278cd | 9DB4A7109AAE | The Electoral College has a consist selection of the electors, the meeting of electors where they can vote for President and Vice President, and counting electoral votes by congress.
The Electoral College has 538 electors, and majority of 270 electoral votes that is required to elect the presedent. Also, under the 23r... | Evidence | Ineffective |
f2c567c0020e | 9DB4A7109AAE | The outcome of this meathod is that the Electoral College vote is possible but its less likely to dispute over the popular vote. That is why we should do Electoral College. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d4b716a19a85 | 9DF8A166D993 | I think as a citizen of Flordia that the Electoral College should not be apart of our states voting rights because the people voteing do not have a direct vote to the president. | Position | Adequate |
ad895da3ef5a | 9DF8A166D993 | Our state just like many others have a "Winner-takes-all system that awards all electors to the winning presidential candidate." | Evidence | Adequate |
2a5bd5f5cb07 | 9DF8A166D993 | Every election is a unfair election because the people dont get to directly vote for the presiden | Claim | Adequate |
cbb539c800df | 9DF8A166D993 | "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!" | Evidence | Adequate |
48eae7707264 | 9DF8A166D993 | not only basic people of the USA think the electoral college should not exit but people who have been important to this country and other commities. | Claim | Adequate |
492a7d132dc3 | 9DF8A166D993 | When voting through the electoral college voters dont vote for the president they vote for a slate of eloctors who then elect the president. Which is not right to the people who do vote an the people running for president | Evidence | Ineffective |
8bbd4d46e8b6 | 9DF8A166D993 | its wrong to the country because everyone has the right as a US citizen to elect a president but there not actually voting for the president. | Claim | Adequate |
8306788b9652 | 9DF8A166D993 | "At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-takes-all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states." | Evidence | Effective |
1fcc9d5ecf42 | 9DF8A166D993 | the elecooral college is unfair to all the U.S voters. | Claim | Adequate |
a31faea09ea6 | 9DF8A166D993 | "Its official: The electoral college is unfair, outdated, and irrational. The best argument in favor of it are mostly assertions without much basis in reality. And the arguments against direct elections are spurious at best. | Evidence | Adequate |
60db9138330e | 9DF8A166D993 | The electoral college is something that should be taken out of the electing process because it dosent give us as U.S citizens our exact rights to vote for president because its the electors who elect the president not the people. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
d59b866db369 | 9E24FDD5A196 | Many people believe that giving students the opportunity to take their classes online would not be beneficial and by doing so, schools would be decreasing the likelihood of productivity in their students. | Lead | Effective |
3b8691723101 | 9E24FDD5A196 | taking classes online could be tremendously beneficial in the daily life of a student, | Position | Effective |
50062ac35a74 | 9E24FDD5A196 | by helping them feel more comfortable | Claim | Effective |
68b2a9f27240 | 9E24FDD5A196 | helping them have the ability to attend while sick | Claim | Effective |
4f22263fe965 | 9E24FDD5A196 | even by helping them have better access to projects and other assignments that could have easily been forgotten in their home if they did not attend online classes. | Claim | Effective |
627325baf93f | 9E24FDD5A196 | For example, everyone knows that feeling of coming home after a long day of work or school. That imaginary switch that immediately turns on in ones brain once they finally step into their home, telling them they can now relax, take off their shoes and do what they want at their own desired pace. Now, imagine if people ... | Evidence | Effective |
af46fc557a5f | 9E24FDD5A196 | By taking online courses in the comfort of their own home, students can benefit by feeling more eager to ask all the questions they need to and not feel embarrassed nor, worry about others giving them strange looks. | Claim | Effective |
74fba10926f0 | 9E24FDD5A196 | Students would also have the ability to sit or adjust space for themselves once their lesson starts. From my own experience in school, I have heard many students complain about how uncomfortable the chairs are and how people keep kicking their seats and so forth. This can be a very big distraction for many students. Th... | Evidence | Effective |
0f8174780afe | 9E24FDD5A196 | Moreover, having the ability to attend class online can help students not have to miss out on important quizzes, projects, or exams even, while they are sick. | Claim | Adequate |
ab81128c6d17 | 9E24FDD5A196 | Waking up early for school is already a hassle for many students and being sick, while having to wake up early could make the student have a much harder time. All a student wants to do is lay in bed and get better soon, but a lot of students often worry about all the work that will be piled up on them once they return ... | Evidence | Effective |
ac90890fc8f6 | 9E24FDD5A196 | Furthermore, the use of online lessons can be beneficial when it comes to a students forgetfulness. | Claim | Adequate |
19851b76e85d | 9E24FDD5A196 | There are a few unfortunate moments in a students day to day life where they stay up late working hard on an assignment that they end up forgetting on their desk, bed, dinner table or anywhere else that is not their backpack. Forgetting to turn in work can hugely affect a students grade, but with the help of online cou... | Evidence | Effective |
f94a6b4ddae0 | 9E24FDD5A196 | In spite of, many individuals believe that there would be far more distractions for students at home than there are at school with the use of online classes | Counterclaim | Adequate |
d6d6fd3eaf75 | 9E24FDD5A196 | but one should take in consideration that students do have the ability to prioritize things that are important to them. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
b9ddfa039cba | 9E24FDD5A196 | Take many college students for example, some of them take online versions of their classes from home and they are still able to excel to their full potential. By watching lessons online, the students will most likely receive a much better understanding and visual representation of their teachers examples, since their a... | Evidence | Effective |
f21895ce0f65 | 9E24FDD5A196 | To sum up, giving students the chance to have distance learning as an option for them is extremely beneficial in many ways. Not only can a student attend classes more often than usual, but they can also get the chance to learn more and keep up with assignments that could have piled up as their absences increased. Onlin... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
45bf89f618bf | 9E298AE3C1C9 | The passage "Drivless Cars are Coming" have negative and positives. | Lead | Ineffective |
dc740243fc6f | 9E298AE3C1C9 | I would say I am against dirivless cars. Why not use cars that we can drive ourselves? Are Drivless cars actually the safest? | Position | Adequate |
09ec9272a0e3 | 9E298AE3C1C9 | we need to stay with the cars tan we can drive | Claim | Adequate |
f774ecc3de70 | 9E298AE3C1C9 | I would also say driveless cars are not the safest.
| Claim | Adequate |
d4706a006a9c | 9E298AE3C1C9 | If we continue to use the cars we use today we don't put our safety in a computer hands. | Evidence | Adequate |
f54020d3d7a7 | 9E298AE3C1C9 | I think we should stay accountable for our own safety and make our own decisions while driving | Claim | Adequate |
aeaedaf3c6e8 | 9E298AE3C1C9 | What if a police car or the ambulance is coming and the car doesn't pull over to the side of the road to let them have a clear passage to get where they need to go? Now you can possibly go to jail, but wait is that on you or the manufacturing company | Evidence | Adequate |
dc49eda78df6 | 9E298AE3C1C9 | There will be a lot of sewing of company's and a lot of fights between the people of the driveless cars and company's. | Claim | Adequate |
802c64a6e5c6 | 9E298AE3C1C9 | The thing is we the people have a chance to avoid all of this now if we just decide not to make or buy a driveless car. The question you have to ask yourself is will you put your safety in the hands of a driveless car or will you be accountable for your own saftey? It's your choice just make sure you make the right dec... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
c38b6b412687 | 9E2E1FDE4D15 | students are require to take community service | Position | Adequate |
7053d689da81 | 9E2E1FDE4D15 | helps them get organized | Claim | Adequate |
64e5df1a94ea | 9E2E1FDE4D15 | helps out the community to be more cleaner. | Claim | Adequate |
c1bff3a36bc6 | 9E2E1FDE4D15 | doing community service helps kids stay out of trouble such as gangs, violence, and drugs. | Evidence | Adequate |
ee9904c45f89 | 9E2E1FDE4D15 | it helps kids to be more disciplined, more respectful, more caring for our planet, more careful, more safe, and more mature | Evidence | Ineffective |
f46f58c8f4be | 9E2E1FDE4D15 | Community service is helpful to kids that get bored at home.
| Claim | Adequate |
7a2748947a8b | 9E2E1FDE4D15 | Sometimes people think that doing community service is just a waste of time because they don't want to do it or they think that it is just boring. But community service can show you new things. Such as taking care for the elderly, taking care of the planet, respecting others, and helping others. | Evidence | Adequate |
9d92e4da4f89 | 9E2E1FDE4D15 | Those are my reasons on why our school should do community service. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
61c97b91bd74 | 9E502030CA7E | Sure, driverless cars sound interesting, but are they worth the risk? With the recent dovelopment of driverless cars, the technology for them is only advancing. | Lead | Adequate |
331a6aba084f | 9E502030CA7E | It might be fun, it might be cool, but is it's not safe. Not only would driverless cars be dangerous themselves | Position | Adequate |
216404fda3eb | 9E502030CA7E | economy dropping, | Claim | Effective |
45eb6473199e | 9E502030CA7E | the inability to drive those cars specifically, | Claim | Effective |
adb3bb75e97f | 9E502030CA7E | several legal issues to think about. | Claim | Effective |
8284170d300c | 9E502030CA7E | The future is now, where cars are assential to everyday life, for some, cars are their life.
| Claim | Adequate |
3f1b00d0fd6a | 9E502030CA7E | Many people make their living off selling cars, advertising cars, building cars, designing cars, and even workers for car companies like Subaru, Toyota, Ford, Chevy, and more. On the radio, drivers hear tons of car sales and ads. If all the companies, all the advertisements, all the sales, all the new disigns, and ever... | Evidence | Effective |
a13469006c32 | 9E502030CA7E | The job market for cars would collapse and so would the economy leaving thousands unemployed. | Claim | Effective |
1633a6226f30 | 9E502030CA7E | Also, gas and oil would no longer have anywhere near as much value as it does now. Without oil and gas prices, even more poeple would be without jobs. Not to mention taxes would be brought up on everything else to try and keep the economy stable, but in reality, the rise in taxes would make everyone but the government ... | Evidence | Effective |
bf55d6229b35 | 9E502030CA7E | The inability to operate the cars would be even more an issue for people wiht disabilities | Claim | Effective |
c9ad4365a24b | 9E502030CA7E | Blind and deaf people can now at least get cars that can be modified to adjust to their ability, but as these driveless cars are just being made, it would take them even longer to modify them for the disabled to use. Even without a disability, the cars would be like taxis, so what about people with social anxiety? The ... | Evidence | Adequate |
3792ba38d77d | 9E502030CA7E | Along with the dovelopment of new cars, there would be NEED to be new laws to go with them. | Claim | Effective |
496ce1cbedf9 | 9E502030CA7E | If people think it's okay to drink and drive now, there will be even more of an issue if that person's not the one driving. If they're drunk, they could even fall asleep amd end up all the way across the country because they never told the car when to stop driving. Even when the operator of the car isn't drunk that cou... | Evidence | Adequate |
6fc5eb4f50bc | 9E502030CA7E | Economy build up, people out of jobs, kids taking cars, disability mobility, legal documents, could all be avioded if the risk wasnt taken to make these driveless cars. They might be ffacinating and new now, but will it be worth it when the economy falls apart, when you lose your child, or get badly injured? Keep drive... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
5e6f4dd1f401 | 9E6D1C0F5762 | I think we should have a club in doing community service. Some of the students think it is a wonderful idea and some think it's a waste of there time. | Lead | Adequate |
f7f9aed67bdc | 9E6D1C0F5762 | I think we should have a club in doing so for many reasons. | Position | Adequate |
e7cf8f0194c1 | 9E6D1C0F5762 | The first reason is because if we don't take care of our community then it will be a mess and no one would want to live here. | Claim | Adequate |
9bbb67402cc2 | 9E6D1C0F5762 | The second reason is that if we have a clean community, children would want to play in a cleaner area instead of a messy one. | Claim | Adequate |
12f0677e19ee | 9E6D1C0F5762 | The third reason is that if there is litter on the ground then it will attract mice and disgusting animals and no one I know likes mice running around every where they go. | Claim | Ineffective |
d4e671cd8f0e | 9E6D1C0F5762 | The forth reason we should have a club is that if you want children to learn and if they don't know how to do something then students could tutor them and they will learn and be better at it. | Claim | Adequate |
67fe92a12ca0 | 9E6D1C0F5762 | the fifth reason is that when people don't have help and they think no one wants to help them then our community would be filthy and abandoned. | Claim | Ineffective |
cb4978b4183d | 9E6D1C0F5762 | These are all of the reasons why I think its a great idea to have a club to help the community and the people in it so it will be clean and the people would feel like they are cared and people would want to be their friend. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
a1d4cfb1797c | 9E924CD7FC66 | I'm writing you this note to express my opinian wether or not to keep the Electoral College or to get rid of the Electoral College. | Lead | Ineffective |
6ae48d75f315 | 9E924CD7FC66 | no i'm not in favor of keeping the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
2fffb7c8522d | 9E924CD7FC66 | it's unfair to a candidate that wins the popular vote but loss the election | Claim | Adequate |
d4b9bdf8facd | 9E924CD7FC66 | because the other candidate gained control of a state like texas with 34 electoral votes. Most people clear want this candidate better than the other but the candidate with the popular vote wouldn't win because the other candidnate would get states with more electoral votes | Evidence | Adequate |
004cf1ded753 | 9E924CD7FC66 | sometimes the electors get confused on who to vote | Claim | Adequate |
79c70691d011 | 9E924CD7FC66 | for i know if i had all that pressure on my i think i would get confused also from the pressure. | Evidence | Ineffective |
498fcd485a2b | 9E924CD7FC66 | The Electoral College can also turn off potential voters | Claim | Adequate |
2c7328fb18fd | 9E924CD7FC66 | due to the fact that they hvae no hope of carrying their state. In other words people think they don't have a voice in the election because their vote really doesn't matter the vote that really matters is the Eletroral vote. Due to this reason less and less people vote these days. About i half of eligible voters voted ... | Evidence | Adequate |
b84c7e8e53d9 | 9E924CD7FC66 | im not the only one that wanted to gte rid of the Electoral College. | Claim | Adequate |
4dcd2a65e835 | 9E924CD7FC66 | Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Bob Dole, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the AFL-CIO all wanted to get rid of the Electoral College.
| Evidence | Adequate |
c192b8a77907 | 9EADCECA2FB8 | i think that students should have cell phones at passing time and lunch time | Position | Adequate |
769beeb3f25d | 9EADCECA2FB8 | so these students can relax and they don't have to get their phones taken away and they don't have a problem | Claim | Adequate |
948c855ac7d0 | 9EADCECA2FB8 | and they need to put their cell phones on vibrate or turned off but students don't want to put their phones in their lockers cause they get stolen which they get mad and they need to buy another one.
| Evidence | Ineffective |
bad66c63baed | 9EADCECA2FB8 | students needs their phones so they can contact their family if some thing happens | Claim | Adequate |
118cb4148b70 | 9EADCECA2FB8 | or their family get robbed then how are you going to communicate. cell phones are okay | Evidence | Adequate |
341a40b81e20 | 9EADCECA2FB8 | but students are always texting during class when teachers are teaching. the cell phones company are starting to make new cell phones and people are starting to buy fancy phones like droid so are the students. cell phones are very cool to have and its kind of a lot of money to pay for those fancy phones. all students a... | Evidence | Ineffective |
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