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they probably think if they liked it change or they don't liked it changed to have least have a B average to participate in sports or other activities. I think some of the students would liked the change and some of the others students probably like about the change of the policy that might be possible to change. I hav...
Evidence
Ineffective
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I think some people would like the change so that way they can get better grades so they can also go to the next grade that way they can go to college and live their dr
Claim
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In today's society, things are growing and changing at a rapid rate. There are new technological advances and new ideas and innovations that come into this world everyday. One particular subject that comes in mind is the idea of online courses. These courses are mainly for people who do not have easier access or any ty...
Lead
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Through these observations, students would not be able to benefit from online courses
Position
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because students are more likely to cheat,
Claim
Adequate
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they can gain an in-person experience with teachers
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students can build positive relationships at school.
Claim
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Although taking classes from home can be easier to access, students should have more of a in-person experience with teachers to show that they care and help students better understand the questions they have.
Claim
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For instance, I have gone to school from a laptop and in person and having the teachers there in person is a very different experience to have than from learning off of a laptop. Because not only does it show that the teachers care, but it makes the students feel like they are really engaged in the activity and makes i...
Evidence
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Even though students can learn from home and not go out anywhere, students need to build positive relationships with others.
Claim
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Friends are an ideal part of everyone's lives and online course do not provide that, but schools do. My friend, who i just recently met and has been home schooled his whole life until his senior year, found it hard to have friends because he did not know anybody. He is a shy person and does not like interacting with an...
Evidence
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A major problem about online courses is that students are more likely to cheat on them and use different web browsers to get the answers they need.
Claim
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Unlike online courses, teachers can observe students during their classwork and exam to see if they are cheating or not. For example, a teacher can watch you in person and closely, but the teacher through the screen can only see what you show and not your full body as in person. This shows that cheating could be a majo...
Evidence
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In conclusion, online course do not benefit students because gaining an in-person experience with teachers can help a student learn better from their mistakes on certain types of questions. They also do not benefit students by having more of a likely chance to cheat during exams online. Because of this, this does not p...
Concluding Statement
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Driverless cars are they really a good idea or just an accident waiting to happen? Some people may believe in the driverless car, but others like me see the true danger it brings to the table. These people who are so ready for the future to be here have forgot to look at the possiblities that come along with it.
Lead
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The idea of such a car is not a bad idea it just needs to be more thought out and processed. There are many reasons i believe we should wait to produce such a car,
Position
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one of the most concerning is legal reasons.
Claim
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The text states a question that needs to be answered before an accident happens. The question I am refuring to is, " If the technology fails and someone is injured, who is at fault - the driver or the manufacturer?" This question alone will cause so many problems if it is not solved before the release of the car.
Evidence
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Another concer I have for the car is its safety features.
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An example of one of my concerns is weather or not the car will be able to tell when school hours are active or when work zones are near by. The text states, "They can steer, accelerate, and brake themselves, but all are designed to notify the driver when the road ahead requires human skills, such as navigating through...
Evidence
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If our cars dive and control themselves what will keep the man behind the wheel alert or even awake.
Claim
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This could cause health risks to anyone who happens to be driving near a unmaned car. I agree with the states that do not allow the testing of the cars in their respected areas. While states such as California, Nevada, and Florida all allow the cars to be tested. These states are putting their people at risk just so th...
Evidence
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All of these risks that I have listed are all for what reward. A car that can drive itself does not have the human capablitiy to keep is passengers safe. All of what I have said is to prevent the lose of a life or even just a law suit. I feel that all my concers raise some major red flags that should be covered before ...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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I think you should let students do community
Position
Adequate
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they want to I know you care for the and our well being the students in the that are doing community is doing the right thing buy doing
Evidence
Ineffective
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but the students that don't want to do it that's up to the not you may be the principle but you can't make people do things they don't want to do you don't have that power.
Claim
Adequate
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You should let the students do it on free well that well make things much east for you are principle you have a lot of things you do. So don't put to much stuff on yourself
Evidence
Adequate
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Because if all the students do community service they wont have a lot of time to stay for test that are coming up
Claim
Adequate
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and some times the students have to skip class to water the plants for the community plant sale they have going in the city its a big thing now.
Evidence
Adequate
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Students wont have the time they have now as students any more if you let them do it and they have do community service when its the weekend when have a day without no one after you about some thing than you get a phone call its for community were you have see kids work when its your day off.
Claim
Adequate
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You don't wont that to happen do you so you should let the students have to community thing go cause not a lot of people are going to anyway no students is going to give up there weekend for community service
Evidence
Adequate
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I love the community with all my heart and I to get but asking students is not the way
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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Freedom to vote for authority figures in America had been an ideal image of government all across the world. However, is our priviledge to vote really honest and are the results of elections really in our hands like we think they are?
Lead
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The Electoral College System undoubtedly should be abolished
Position
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because Americans have the right to have full control over who is elected President
Claim
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although some may believe that Electoral Colleges avoid the occurance of a run-off election, run-off elections may be avoided with much more reasonable methods.
Claim
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Clearly, election should be determined by popular vote, and not the Electoral College because Americans earned their right to have full control over the representatives in their government
Claim
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According to Source 2, "state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors, and... those electors could always defy the will of the people." The defenders could be completely indifferent about the voters choices, or situations where swing states are borderline one party or another, and the Electoral Co...
Evidence
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In Source 3, Posner states that when there is an unclear plurality in the results of an election, the Electoral College makes it much simpler and more efficient by reducing the number of voters, eliminating the inconvenience factor.
Counterclaim
Effective
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This statement appears as a faulty reasoning to have an Electoral College because it is obsurd to remove Americans' right to vote
Rebuttal
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Maybe, rather than restricting our rights, the result of a run-off election could be resolved by an Electoral College, but the initial vote should be made only by the citizens, fairly. Depending on the defenders to make the final decision of the leaders of our great country is an overly-cautious effort to avoid a tie, ...
Evidence
Adequate
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You cannot deny, changing to election by popular vote for the president of the United States would be extremely beneficial for our country. Citizens would regain their Constitutional-right to vote for the leaders who make major decisions for the entire country. The Electoral College is useful to produce a clear winner ...
Concluding Statement
Effective
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I believe that students should have at least a grade C average to be able to participate in sports and other activities.
Position
Adequate
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Having a C average isn't failing it just means they need more work to help them out in the subject.
Evidence
Adequate
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if they are not doing work they are goofing around in the classroom then yes they shouldn't be aloud, but if they are not goofing around and they are doing their work they just need some more help then they should be able to participate is these extra choricial activities.
Claim
Effective
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those with D and F average of course they shouldn't be aloud to participate. Now how you can find out if the students are doing their work is ask the teachers how they are behaving and acting in the classroom.
Evidence
Adequate
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I hope you put my opinion in perspective and will give it some thought.
Concluding Statement
Ineffective
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The ones who need more help maybe the teacher could send a packet or explain more to them so they can get better at it .
Claim
Adequate
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In life, we are expected to learn. We learn how the world works, how to do things, and learn from the mistakes we make along the way. Now, it is only fair to say that everyone has a different and unique way of learning, whether it be through hands on activities, trial and error, or just being told what to do. The deman...
Lead
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As technology advances, this programming should be required for school systems to partake in and offer to their students who would like to take their education by the horns and steer it in the right direction.
Position
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Throughout the school day, everyone has that one class they absolutely hate. They walk into the room and it's like a minute turns from 60 to 1,000 seconds and they are stuck there forever. In this time, nothing gets done and the same amount gets learned. This class consists of about half who actually care about what th...
Evidence
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Time with a teacher face to face on your own creates comfort and trust built into the instructor-student relationship, promoting better learning.
Claim
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One of the morals that childhood has taught us is that "slow and steady always wins the race". This moral is not only unethical, but it shows how unaware we really are. Everyone works at their own pace; some faster and some slower. It's not that the slower paced students are unintelligent or not as bright as the others...
Evidence
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Through distance learning, students don't have to feel pressured to work as fast as other peers and can learn on their own time.
Claim
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It also gives students a sense of responsibility and makes them come to terms with reality in a way. This way, they don't have someone constantly spoon-feeding them deadlines and due dates, but they have to remember them on their own. Learning how to budget time is a very important skill that is taught this way, and it...
Evidence
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Some people have a rougher time in college than others and are scared to commit due to outside sources. Say you are a 20 year old woman in her sophomore year of college, working a tiring job on the night shift, and struggling to pay rent due to classes. You manage to slide by in your courses, trying to get the best out...
Evidence
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They respect your employment, and encourage your scheduling as long as you turn in work on time, meet deadlines, and come in to a class period whenever you can.
Claim
Effective
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This system of distanced learning provides people a head start on life and their career all at once.
Evidence
Adequate
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It is true to say that most of us would prefer a quiet and independent environment over a loud and busy one any day.
Claim
Adequate
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Loud noise and stimulation do not mix, in fact, it only causes more distraction.
Evidence
Adequate
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some kids do prefer social learning environments rather than the quiet.
Counterclaim
Adequate
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These learning environments surround students by other peers and encourage debates, understandings, and protests. The benefits may seem negative, but in these events students start to bounce ideas off of each other and grow in thought processing. Students will attract those who agree with their views and form bonds, cr...
Evidence
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The goal of distance learning is solely to bring out the best learning capability of students. It is provided so that students of different learning paces can have different method options as to which best fits their area of learning. There is something for everyone, whether it be independent teachings, one-on-one time...
Concluding Statement
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Have you ever thought of a time when you were not sure if you should help the community or not. To me, that has happened multiple of times.
Lead
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I think that the students should be required to perform in the community because it would help them in many ways.
Position
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Helping the community learn how to be unselfish,
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be better people in their lives ahead,
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and it would benefit everybody in that community.
Claim
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While the students do this task of helping in the community, they will see how helping and thinking about others would do them much good. Not only that but that would also help them to learn to put other peoples needs in front of their wants. They can want a fancy sports car while another person may NEED food to put on...
Evidence
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By helping people now and planting trees so on so forth, they will learn that by helping other people would make them feel good inside. That would make them feel that helping others is a fantastic thing that they should carrying on through out their whole life.
Evidence
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Something as simple as helping a senior citizen cross the street would make a HUGE difference. Planting a tree would give more oxygen to the air and fertilize the soil with its nutrients. doing any little good deed would help the environment and the community around it.
Evidence
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In retrospect, this is what a good deed would look like if the students were to perform in the environment. It would be a good idea because it would teach the students not to be selfish, be better people, and it would benefit the whole community at that. I personally think it's a great idea to have the students be requ...
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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I think we should keep the way we elect our President
Position
Adequate
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because we have for been doing this for so long this why would we change it if it's already perfect
Claim
Adequate
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And mostly because if we were to change it then the most of the former US Presidents would'nt even be President because of there rivals
Claim
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actually had most votes, for instance in the 2000 U.S. President race , Al Gore received more individual votes then George W. Bush nationwide, but Bush won the election, receiving 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266, so you see? Bush was'nt the best but he was the closest thing to it, imagine how the U.S.  would be if so...
Evidence
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And isnt the Electoral College a lot eaiser then an election by the popluar vote
Claim
Adequate
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So why change it now? We have been doing it this way for over 50 years and we never had a mistake, well not a big one at the very least.  
Evidence
Adequate
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"Unmasking the Face on Mars" is a hard subject for some people. Not everybody thinks its a natural landform but many scientist do!
Lead
Adequate
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The "face" on Mars could be many things but scientist have evidence that it is a natural landform
Position
Adequate
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In the story it says that the natural artifact is like some landforms in the Snake River Plain of Idaho
Claim
Adequate
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It also says that few scientist believe the Face was an alien artifact so if it's not that and that have other evidence it has to be a natual artifact.
Claim
Adequate
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The Face is very similar to natural artifacts here on Earth.
Claim
Adequate
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In the story it talks about a place in idaho that is very similar to the Face. It also says it looks very much like a lava dome. Scientist say a place in Idaho that is called Middle Butte looks very similar to the Face. The pictures the very nice camera took of the Face is proof that they do look alike and that it is j...
Evidence
Adequate
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Not very many scientist believe that the Face is an alien artifact and they back that up with the fact that it doesn't have the features of it
Claim
Adequate
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It might look very much like a humans face but they do not believe that. There scientist and they have evidence that it is not human like its just a natural artifact.
Evidence
Ineffective
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Some people might believe that it is a human face
Counterclaim
Ineffective
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the face does look like it but no it is a natural artifact
Rebuttal
Adequate
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It is a natural artifact because scientist believe that and they have facts to back up there reasoning, for example in the story it talks about how the "Face on Mars" was a huge hit to scare people and things like that and then scientist come out and say they have conspiracy theories that the face is not evidence that ...
Evidence
Adequate
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All in all, scientist have many theories and evidence that the Face is a natural artifact. The Face might actually look like a person but there isn't facts yet that show there is life on Mars.
Concluding Statement
Adequate
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The idea of enforcing community service on all students is a good idea.
Position
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I believe that it is a good idea because everyone should be taking a part in making the world a better place.
Claim
Effective
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If you have all student do some sort of community service it will make slowly but surely make this town a better place.
Evidence
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The decision weather to enforce all student to do community service is a fabulous idea.
Claim
Adequate
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Many of the student at our school already do community service, but by enforcing this is will push us kids to get involved. Not only will this benefit the student's it will benefit the people in town.
Evidence
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It is not like your asking to go out and do community service for ever.
Claim
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You are just asking student to get out and help out, which might be as simple as picking up garbage on the side of the highway, or volunteering at a nursing home.
Evidence
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All of these are great ways to get involved. i think the idea of enforcing community service is a great idea.
Concluding Statement
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Every 4 years, the first Tuesday in November. When its time for it, president elections is one of the most hectic times of the year. But what should the winner depend on?
Lead
Adequate
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Electoral College should be removed by the government and just have popular vote be responisble.
Position
Adequate