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054e0973eba6 | C0AC797246EE | Candidates don't spend time in states of them knowing there is no chance of winning.We need to put fate of the presidency in the hands of swing voters.There isn't alot of basis in reality. | Evidence | Adequate |
b2c44637fd7d | C0AC797246EE | It's against direct elections that are spurious | Evidence | Ineffective |
adfdb4e42a87 | C0AC797246EE | We need to go with Bob Doyle accusation of that we need to abolish the Electoral College | Position | Adequate |
418419697fd5 | C0AC797246EE | Everybody is arguing about the Electoral College.Everybody thinks its unfair,outdated,and irrational | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
e180136f67b9 | C0AC797246EE | Let's change the Electoral College by making it better for us and Congress. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
717750cd9a7b | C0BA22AD7F2A | Why should people who be qualified be only able to vote? Voting should be for everyone, not such as anyone like as in Gang related people or people who are in prison but you get the point. This '' Electoral College '' experiment that they already have been going on is just something that they can use to get more time t... | Lead | Ineffective |
56c90902345a | C0BA22AD7F2A | Electoral College doesn't really prove anything because some people won votes and lost the presidency,thanks to electoral college. | Position | Adequate |
e4383c7edbc2 | C0BA22AD7F2A | Due to the elctoral college system, voters vote not for the president but just for the slate of electors, who then turn elect the president. | Claim | Adequate |
5619e1dd708f | C0BA2FA545DC | Community work never hurts, Its something that would be good for our school. | Position | Effective |
51f7548ef715 | C0BA2FA545DC | It s something that others will appreciate and when your done not just make you feel good because you helped someone but also make the ones you helped feel good. | Claim | Effective |
e7ba2c7fe2ac | C0BA2FA545DC | Some may say that's its a waste of time and they could be out having fun with there friends or going to parties and what not. | Counterclaim | Effective |
0d25f3e479db | C0BA2FA545DC | But if they never know the feeling of accomplishment when it comes to that. | Rebuttal | Ineffective |
39df6fdbcf57 | C0BA2FA545DC | Have you ever went to the store and seem teens walking around in there PJs? And its 12 noon and you wonder '' well they sould be doing something better than that.'' I have and being a teen i have done it, and im not saying that all teens do it or its a bad thing im just saying they could be doing something better with ... | Evidence | Adequate |
f5c3cd328ffb | C0BA2FA545DC | It would kids off the streets hanging out and putting them to do something useful. | Claim | Adequate |
813377506ed6 | C0BA2FA545DC | Have you ever wondered why most of the parks are dirty of why you don't really see students helping out there community? Well that's because you give them a choice to ether do community service or not to. If there lazy of course there going to pick not to due to the fact they don't want to go. | Evidence | Adequate |
780ac61bb854 | C0BA2FA545DC | But if they had to go more things would get done around the town because they would be helping. | Claim | Effective |
49bfa7f6300b | C0BA2FA545DC | They would go clean parks, help the elder, little kids at schools, soup kitchens for the poor and many more. Its could really make a change to our community. | Evidence | Adequate |
3b7f6fadb2f7 | C0BA2FA545DC | When you get older in life and you need a job or you want this collage to want you, then having community service will look good on your application for the collage/job | Claim | Effective |
6aa63645e22f | C0BA2FA545DC | and they will think ''Well they seem to care about there town to help out this much '' and by them knowing that you did this to help you will look good to them. Which in the long shot you will look better, then some of the others. Not just helping you out with collage or a job but skills in life. You might have learned... | Evidence | Effective |
2258ba34edb6 | C0BA2FA545DC | I did community service a couple of times and i certainly learned new skills. I helped out elder and cleaned beaches it was fun to me and I believe that it would be good for our school to require community service not just for the town and people but for themselves to feel personal pride in that they did for there comm... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
e1593224e3aa | C0E55316F183 | Electoral College is defined as a process. The Electoral college was founded by the founding fathers with the Constitution as an agreement between election of the president and by the popular vote of qulaified citizens. imsure you already know all of this | Lead | Adequate |
c22b10cba1df | C0E55316F183 | therefore i am here to inform you why Electoral College shouldnt be kept and popular vote should win | Position | Adequate |
6d00e6033234 | C0E55316F183 | This is the citizens country so why should we have a leader that we dont even like? | Claim | Adequate |
a5f30c86f6fb | C0E55316F183 | We all have the right of speech and of speeking for what we believe in | Claim | Adequate |
e220520fde07 | C0E55316F183 | Last but not least why would the Electoral College get to choose our choice for us? | Claim | Adequate |
1fa60c4b7d32 | C0E55316F183 | The United Sates is an independant country , therefore we should have the majority of the say in who we want to lead our country | Claim | Adequate |
4d5df08b83d8 | C0E55316F183 | say you're at a restraunt and they ask what you want on your hamburger your not just going to tell them to put what ever they want on it because then you wont like it, same situation just not with food. why would you want to live in a world with a leader you dont like, making choices you dont like eighter, everyone obv... | Evidence | Ineffective |
fe367d2efa45 | C0E55316F183 | We also all have the right of speech in the United States. | Claim | Ineffective |
4a878984192e | C0E55316F183 | What i mean by this is, we were all given a mouth by God for a reason. "A closed mouth wont get fed" so how would a closed mouth country get the correct leader they wanted? exactly they couldnt thats my point. if we speek were going to get a chance of getting more thought of when the decision is made, so if we were to ... | Evidence | Ineffective |
2eadf17b7c8b | C0E55316F183 | We all have a choice for diffrent things, | Claim | Ineffective |
8e60bdb16b52 | C0E55316F183 | some people like peanut butter, some people dont like peanut butter, some people are alergic to peanut butter. so say you hate peanut butter and you told the waitress your order and she said no youre getting a peanut butter sandwhich, you, hatin peanut butter, obviosuly wouldnt like that at all. Same sitauation here. W... | Evidence | Ineffective |
8ef1d541cbca | C0E55316F183 | Therefore i am a firm believer that it should be popular vote not by electoral college, and if you dont beliee that well you are making the wrong choice and letting other people make the choice up and speek for you. Use your voice. You dont have it for just no reason at all. | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
42f760aa4746 | C105434DA2CA | ''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 vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.' | Lead | Ineffective |
dea610d159b2 | C105434DA2CA | The Electoral College is one of the most fair systems our society has set up | Position | Adequate |
d1e63e576e70 | C105434DA2CA | This process is fair and essential because it is is not the only determination | Claim | Adequate |
6b60d5acd5c0 | C105434DA2CA | each state gets the correct amount of power | Claim | Adequate |
ad24f7f3e9c9 | C105434DA2CA | it shows a clear winner | Claim | Adequate |
8df19c77b113 | C105434DA2CA | The Electoral College does is not fully responsible for the outcome of the decision for our President. | Claim | Adequate |
a167d4b58f8f | C105434DA2CA | In the year 2000, this was proved, Gore had received more popular votes than Bush, yet fewer electoral votes. ''It is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote.'' The section of the nation that believes the Electoral College is unfair believes this because they assum... | Counterclaim | Effective |
4a2675b800e5 | C105434DA2CA | Yet they are mistaken because clearly our popular vote can override this system if necessary. Though it is very rare most will argue, the fact that it is possible to not allow the Electoral College to take control of our government proves that the power is really all in the hands of the citizens. Clearly, the ''unfair'... | Rebuttal | Effective |
6d330bfbf337 | C105434DA2CA | The sizes of states in our country widely varies. From Rhode Island to Texas, we have power in Congress. It would simply not be fair if our small states had the same amout of power as our larger states. California has more of a population, therefore should have more say in Congress, than New Jersey. ''Your states entit... | Evidence | Adequate |
f3d3f120ff05 | C105434DA2CA | Basically, power is fairly given to each state under the Electoral College. | Claim | Adequate |
73788f2ec8f6 | C105434DA2CA | ''The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast.'' Though this situation is rare, in 1968 when Nixon ran against Clinton, both had a total of 43 percent of the popular votes. Yet, because of the Electoral College, a clear winner was shown. If ever in c... | Evidence | Adequate |
98ce59186df3 | C105434DA2CA | the Electoral College shows a clear winner and takes out any confusion or problems that could arise.
| Claim | Adequate |
62229025e760 | C105434DA2CA | To conclude, our country is based off of fair rules and systems, one of them being the Electoral College. It is fair because it does not have full power, the right amount of power is applied to each state, and it produces a clear winner. ''Voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political pref... | Concluding Statement | Effective |
0bf187e21abe | C10C521A47C3 | In the article "Driverless Cars Are Coming," the author presents both the positive and the negative aspects of driverless cars. Therefore, the author never takes a side on the matter. | Lead | Ineffective |
9db6d2d8b862 | C10C521A47C3 | This response will side with the argument of being against driverless cars | Position | Adequate |
8c0d9625c526 | C10C521A47C3 | driverless cars promote less disciplined actions with not only adults but with teen drivers. | Claim | Adequate |
a7d93fc7cda6 | C10C521A47C3 | automated cars would not benefit the economy, it would damage it even further | Claim | Adequate |
a19dc397133a | C10C521A47C3 | automated cars put safety features at risk compared to having an abled-human to do the driving functions manually. | Claim | Adequate |
8d083e26ae23 | C10C521A47C3 | Driverless cars can promote less disciplined actions among teen and adult drivers | Claim | Adequate |
ba9d3f7bc7ac | C10C521A47C3 | This assumption is made because, driving under the influence, as well as underage drinking are huge topics of discussion in today's society. Driverless cars would give these two groups of people an exscuse to commit these actions. They would no longer have to worry about the reproccutions of such crimes. Such as puttin... | Evidence | Adequate |
95c58c051ae7 | C10C521A47C3 | Automated cars would not benefit the economy in any way. | Claim | Adequate |
7f5ebe926cdd | C10C521A47C3 | In fact, the cars could worsen the already bad financial situation America faces now. This is because of the following quote from the article. "Originally, many futurists believed the key to developing self-driving cars someday wasn't so much smarter cars as smarter roads." "These smart-road systems worked suprisingly ... | Evidence | Adequate |
87013b646a0a | C10C521A47C3 | driverless cars put saftey features at risk compared to having an able-bodied human to do the functions instead | Claim | Adequate |
18ec80393ec8 | C10C521A47C3 | "Most driving laws focus on kepping drivers, passnegers, and pedestrians safe, and lawmakers know that safety is best achieved with alert drivers." This quote speaks entirely for itself. | Evidence | Adequate |
e9a06c794e29 | C10C521A47C3 | the best option for society is to not have driverless cars because, they promote less disciplined actions with teen and adult drivers, they would not benefit the economy, and finally these driverless cars put safety features at risk compared to having an able-bodied human to do the manual functions when presented them.... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
206364b3c1a4 | C133EB596A40 | The face on Mars was actually landform on mars and not a face | Position | Adequate |
3c51a5994e5e | C133EB596A40 | if you still don't believe me I'll tell you some facts | Claim | Adequate |
1c568f16b65a | C133EB596A40 | In 1976 viking 1 was snapping pictures so that viking 2 could land while doing that it snapped a picture of a landform that looked like a face. Many people thought that it was a face but it wasn't. In 1998 they took another pivture but this time it didn't look like a face it looked more like a landform on the ground. M... | Evidence | Adequate |
12f821a9a353 | C133EB596A40 | People still thought thet they were made by aliens many other people disagreed on it | Counterclaim | Adequate |
cc7e65519076 | C133EB596A40 | until 2001 when they took the final picture and they saw that it was actually a landform Garvin said that it reminded he of snake river of Idaho. | Rebuttal | Adequate |
dc28edb6be43 | C133EB596A40 | So after that happened mny people saw the truth about the face on mars and completely forgot about it. Some people still believe and talk about it but maybe those people are just the scientists trying to find out if there is more land forms that look just like the onein 1976. Many people say that they might find anothe... | Evidence | Adequate |
12c9ae107837 | C133EB596A40 | Many people might still think that mars landform was a sign form aliens and saying that they exist personally I don't think there is aliens in mars or any other planet in our solar system. That was just my idea about it I don't think my statement could be true. Maybe smart kid like a nerd would say " scientists who are... | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
386dd4f0d0c0 | C13F7CD75B84 | I am certain that the Face on Mars is just a natural landform. | Position | Adequate |
3292ee6f83fd | C13F7CD75B84 | It has many features, and it has many people concerned about it. | Claim | Adequate |
ce3c6cd615f2 | C13F7CD75B84 | The Face on Mars is a natural landform because it was spotted with shadowy likeness of a human, it resembles the human head, and it actually shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa.
| Claim | Ineffective |
086eabf92b5c | C13F7CD75B84 | This face has many features, including its shadowy likeness of a human. | Claim | Adequate |
1729bf08b34d | C13F7CD75B84 | Just twenty-five years ago, something happened that was so hilarious. NASA's Viking one spacecraft were traveling around Mars, then it was spotted looking such as a human. It seemed to them that the face was just starring, just as if it was real. This suprised many of the analyzers.
After many experiments on the Face,... | Evidence | Adequate |
a91a8ab5ac4a | C13F7CD75B84 | According to some authors it would be a great way to engage the public and bring some attention to Mars. | Claim | Adequate |
c1a5a6b34354 | C13F7CD75B84 | They finally realized that is has brung some attention! After that hilarious day it was featured in many magazines, books, and etc. This is a enormous way of saying that this face is very engaging and concerning. | Evidence | Adequate |
f5d1852a7c00 | C13F7CD75B84 | According to Mars Global Surveyor, they flew over Cydonia and snapped a picture of the original Viking photos. The pictures showed that it was an actual natural landform. | Claim | Adequate |
417cc195411e | C13F7CD75B84 | It wasn't appeared to be an alien monument after all this researching. Even after this stage, people still weren't satisfied with the evidence that they had came up with.
The Face shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. After taking time and time again to review the face, it seems to just show a Martian that i... | Evidence | Adequate |
21150ddba843 | C13F7CD75B84 | As a result, the Face is a natural landform. It has a shadowy likeness of a human, it resembles the human head, and it shows a Martian equivalent of a butte or messa. Research has shown that this isn't just an alien monument after all. There can be more thinking to this, can it? Its just a natural landform, which shows... | Concluding Statement | Adequate |
58418d8e494f | C1CC3C045CCB | I have heard of your potential decision to require community service from all students. (I am assuming that the students we are referring to are older than elementary school age.)
The details of the requirement have not yet been released to us yet, | Lead | Adequate |
4f72dbcdd4e8 | C1CC3C045CCB | if the time you require is more than six hours a week, I oppose the decision to make it an obligation. I do not think that students should be made to do this. | Position | Adequate |
64517e41f35d | C1CC3C045CCB | The choice to perform a service for the community is definitely one that should be encouraged, but should remain a choice. | Claim | Adequate |
2e6b02caf5f9 | C1CC3C045CCB | The reason I think this is because many students have other responsibilities they must use the time to do. If you require them to do community service, their other responsibilities will have to be put on hold until they can get back to them. Some of their activities that they need the time to do may be personal, for ex... | Evidence | Adequate |
2de3fc6cfe76 | C1CC3C045CCB | Either way, this decision will affect how your students will have to manage their schedules after school hours. | Concluding Statement | Ineffective |
ed6592e4ce9a | C1D354F07E03 | It's the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, can you guess what it is? It's election day! Every four years, nearly every person in America will vote to choose a new President, or do we? Yes, we live in a democracy where we can vote for who runs out country, but do we really make the descision? The Electoral Col... | Lead | Effective |
580d8a9ba308 | C1D354F07E03 | Is this who we really vote for, and is it fair? This should be eradicated. | Position | Effective |
ea0586cacc25 | C1D354F07E03 | By using the Electoral College, we don't directly vote for our own President. We vote for his/her's electors. It's them who really choose who leads us, not us | Claim | Effective |
8d8081c0dc55 | C1D354F07E03 | In "What Is the Electoral College?" it states that "...when you vote for your candidate you are actually voting for your candidate's electors," meaning we aren't actually voting for a President, just his/her's electors. It could literally be anybody, not holding public office. This is not a direct way for us to vote fo... | Evidence | Effective |
92a67da2b428 | C1D354F07E03 | The electoral votes are just unequal | Claim | Adequate |
0af6bdd2eef7 | C1D354F07E03 | The states that are bigger would obviously get more electoral votes than, let's say Maryland. California would have more votes than Maryland because it i smuch bigger. The House of Represenatives has its own unique way of handling that, and they're going just fine, we don't need another. It just isn't reliable, the num... | Evidence | Adequate |
8f7c29fb4e78 | C1D354F07E03 | The Electoral College is much too confusing | Claim | Adequate |
63ee943eb6ea | C1D354F07E03 | Sometimes voters could be discombabulated about who it is they are voting for. Sometimes voters can't control who the electors vote for. This is both confusing and frustrating for anyone who thinks they voted for someone great, but the electors change that. In "Electoral College: Why even the best-laid defenses of the ... | Evidence | Effective |
c17c86998aec | C1D354F07E03 | Some could say "its anarchy", or that "its not democratic", which could be true | Counterclaim | Effective |
898e6c38a07c | C1D354F07E03 | In "In defense of the Electoral College...," it states that "But each party selects a slate of electors trusted to vote for the party's nominee...however it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote." This means that even though you vote for a person, it's probabl... | Evidence | Effective |
3471f9c78bb1 | C1D354F07E03 | It does also help release the stress of worrying about a run-off election, and avoids the problem where no candidate receives a majority of votes that has been cast.
| Counterclaim | Effective |
a930ec51d4f6 | C1D354F07E03 | The Electoral College is not the best way to vote in our beautiful country. It can be decieving and confusing. Though it may have one or two advantages, the list of things that can go wrong with it are of plenty. It is unfair, and could turn nasty. It should be abolished. Make America more equal. | Concluding Statement | Effective |
8fe3ee9cd5b7 | C20C1032FA1C | I am thinking about the policies for using cell phones at school. Since many students are using phones, they will of course want to use it at school. I surely know that all of the students would want Policy One, since it enables them to use their cell phones at break time. | Lead | Effective |
22073db4efa0 | C20C1032FA1C | That will mean there will be a less amount of phones being taken away during class, because they spent the time using their phones at break. Of course, the students cannot use their phones during class. | Claim | Adequate |
2e2fafa9ff2e | C20C1032FA1C | I would agree with Policy One. | Position | Adequate |
0d409ddb441a | C20C1032FA1C | Using cell phones at break would decrease the amount of students using cell phones in class, since they used their break time to use it | Claim | Adequate |
ac9847af0442 | C20C1032FA1C | That will lead to a decreasing number phones being taken away, and also a decreasing number of referrals and detention. | Evidence | Adequate |
1db5114c5a9c | C20C1032FA1C | Letting the students using their cell phone during break and lunch time will lower the chance of fights. | Claim | Adequate |
c71fa1147aa7 | C20C1032FA1C | It also could make the voice level go down, which will be a relief to the yard duties and other teachers. | Evidence | Adequate |
09dd44643b4e | C20C1032FA1C | I know Policy One will work for the students and staff, because if you don't let the students use their phone, they will try any single way, and use any spare time during classes. | Claim | Adequate |
538ac97d53ce | C20C1032FA1C | That would end up in disaster | Evidence | Ineffective |
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