Miss Abalos's 6th Period by Jordan Abalos

should the WNBA players get paid more? (faith)

faigri135 — 2019-11-15 20:19:06 UTC

Yes the WNBA players should get paid more than they do now. NBA players get paid millions while WNBA players only get thousands. In the text it states, "Women make 49 percent of what men make", along with "Gender wage gap of 18%".

Colin H

2019-11-15 20:20:58 UTC

Claim:

LeBron James should shave all of his hair off since he's balding.

Evidence:

"During Saturday night’s game against the Utah Jazz, James’ hairline could be seen actively receding. In fact, a video of the game showed that teammate Anthony Davis was telling LeBron that his hair was actively falling out during the course of the contest."
"LeBron keeps implanting fake hair on his head."
"Judging by pictures taken over the weekend at the Cleveland Cavaliers' first practice, whatever remedy James used to make his hair appear fuller this September has run its course."

The evidence does support the claim.

Counterclaim: He's keeping hair his hair because he doesn't want to go bald even though it would save him a lot more money.

Ashley W.

2019-11-15 20:24:35 UTC

Claim:

The claim that the author is explaining here is that disable people are being stop to have the rights to be able to do everything in their life just like a normal human being would.

The evidence to this claim are:

"disability rights are human rights. Everyone deserves to be included and live a full life in their community — accessing the same public spaces, housing opportunities, education, and work as anyone else."
"Another milestone in the inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of life was the 1999 landmark Olmstead v. L.C. Supreme Court decision."
"However, despite the tremendous advances, limitations of laws and regulations, poor enforcement of the laws, limited funding of programs, disregard for binding legal precedent, and societal prejudices keep many people with disabilities from being fully included in our society."

Support:

These evidence supports the claim because it bumps up the fact that nobody is accepting the fact that a person or even multiple people who are disabled have the right to be mostly involved in their own life and be able to speak out.

Counterclaim?:

The author of this passage does bring out the counterclaim, saying the line of "This civil rights law seeks to eliminate discrimination against people based on their disabilities in employment, state and local government services, privately operated public accommodations (hotels, restaurants, stores, museums, etc.), transportation, and telecommunications."

Joseph O.

2019-11-15 20:25:15 UTC

Claim: Golden State Warriors would've won in the finals against Toronto Raptors if the Warriors weren't injured.

Evidence: Both Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson were injured. Kevin Durant tore is ACL which caused him to miss the first 3 games of the Finals. Then when he returned on game 5, he then tore his ACL completely which caused him to be out the rest of the Finals. Then in game 6, Warriors lost another one of there all-stars which was Klay Thompson. He suffered from a knee injury which caused him to rule out for the duration of the game.

The finals went up to 6 games. Golden state won 2 of the 6 games without arguably their best player Kevin Durant. And in game six, Golden state was up the entire game until Klay Thompson was out. And only losing by 4 points in game 6, this shows that Golden State was putting up a good fight even without their best player. So if Kevin Durant was healthy and able to play all the finals games, Golden State would've won another championship.

Jenae Beneschan

jenben894 — 2019-11-15 20:26:24 UTC

Claim: At what age should phones be allowed at school?

Phones should be allowed at school between the ages 12 and up.

Evidence: At first elementary students were not allowed to use their phones at all during school. But the real question is what age should they bring phones to school? Why I think students should be 12 to bring their phones or use there phones in school because they will probably be less distracted and have more reasons to bring their phones. Like emergencies, homework and sports.

Jazmin U Garcia

jazmin472 — 2019-11-15 20:27:03 UTC

Claim:
Climate change is progressively getting worse and it will end terribly if it isn't taken care of.

Evidence:

"The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century."

"Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016, while Antarctica lost about 127 billion tons of ice per year during the same time period."

"This ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming."

Source: <https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/>

Does the evidence support the claim?

The evidence does support the claim because the evidence resides with the statement; the Earth is warming up and it is affecting us, we can see it with our own eyes, it's been a problem for years as of now, it's getting increasingly worse because of overpopulation, carbon dioxide (which plays a big role in the greenhouse effect), excessive use of electricity, cutting trees down, building houses and such.

Was there a counterclaim?

For climate change, there isn't a counterclaim because it's a known fact that it is an exceptionally large problem going on in our planet currently.

Madison Jones

2019-11-15 20:30:01 UTC

Debate question:
Should school be limited by choice?

Claim:
School should have more choices since students should have a freedom on their parent's behalf to pick what school they want to go to not based on where they live.

Evidence:
The article "Why We Need School Choice" states "Where school district lines are drawn can divide communities in half, and where your home is located can determine the quality of education your child receives". Another excerpt shows "Education may be the single most effective contributor to mobility from these neighborhoods that suffer high crime rates, unemployment and community health issues".

Does the evidence support the claim?

The evidence supports the claim because it has data and information/facts that directly correlates with their claim and relevancy.

Did the article have a counterclaim?

Bella B.

459493 — 2019-11-15 20:32:36 UTC

Cheerleading is a sport
The fact that cheerleading's primary purpose is to give support to the college or high school athletes it gives competition the second position
A cheerleader is someone who cheers for a sports game, or someone who excites the crowd at a game
A cheerleader is someone who cheers for a sports game, or someone who excites the crowd at a game
Yes the evidence supports the claim
Yes, they said "cheerleading is not a sport"

Hayden H.

hayhug628 — 2019-11-15 20:32:41 UTC

Claim:
I think that we should have different school schedule.
due to the kind of sleep that the kids are experiencing probably directed to the older kids becasue they like wking up later

Evidence:
Because the students get stressed when they are constantly working so they should have a day off school after 3 days because it’s a shorter time to go to school

Counterclaim:
It’s a good idea though with students going through the week because it trains there brain to be on a schedule of work in the week and rest the other two

Gabriel M

2019-11-15 20:33:07 UTC

Smoking in public should be banned.

This should be banned in public places because smoking is bad your health and for the people around you. 12 evidence show that smoking public leads to the hospital and in 2009 there shown that smoking leads to cancer.

Erick Perchez

463621 — 2019-11-15 20:33:10 UTC

Claim:

Fortnite is bad for kids.

Evidence:

It can be addictive.
Fortnite is violent.
The game is free but it pushes people to buy extras like the dance moves and the characters.

Does the evidence support the claim?

Yes it does, because its giving facts of why fortnite is bad.

Did they mention a counter claim?

Can play with your friends even if not in the same place.
It helps build strategy skills.
The game and the characters aren't life-like.

Justin Beckman Claim: Teenagers should get more sleep. Evidence: "More than 90 percent of high schools and more than 80 percent of middle schools start before 8:30 a.m." "The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute recommends that teenagers get between nine and 10 hours of sleep." The evidence proves the claim because there is proof from a organization and how the schools start too early. Counterclaim: "Further, it’s important to understand that these benefits may actually be underestimates."

2019-11-15 20:35:40 UTC

Milani Gaston

2019-11-15 20:35:58 UTC

Claim: Schools are Body shaming, Sexualizing and discriminating girls and their body's as well as loosing class time they are also not allowing students to be their true selves.

Evidence 1. "Common for those violations include missing class time or facing suspension as a result of hair, makeup and clothing that were deemed inappropriate."

Evidence 2. "Dress code can prevent self among students, additionally girls of color who are more likely to wear styles such as braids, hair extensions and afros are more likely to be disciplined"

Evidence 3. "Disciplining girls as school violators. Telling girls they aren't allowed to show their body's. and saying they are "distracting" male classmates

The evidence supports the claim because the school not allowing girls to wear certain stuff or style their hair certain ways doesn’t allow them to express themselves. Getting suspended and missing class time is dumb over something they wear and their education is more important than missing school for their appearance.

They did not mention the counter claim but the counterclaim is that, Schools are protecting girls body's and from boys sexualizing them they only enforce the rules so they know that you aren't suppose to wear certain things and go to the high extents of suspending students to know that they are serious.

Milani

landen

lancon406 — 2019-11-15 20:36:36 UTC

They should not sell any alcohol beverages after 11 pm. For example A new review of 27 studies show that alcohol does not improve sleep according to webmaster. Another example is ''For drivers, alcohol can : make u have blurred and double vision according to drinkware.com. Final example is it makes you lose your peripheral vision. These all show why it is bad to have alcohol late and can have more accidents. Also alcohol can make you relax and fall asleep.

Chris Molina

2019-11-15 20:37:08 UTC

Claim: Homework should be banned

Evidence: In the text it says

It leads to children being frustrated and exhausted
Lack of time for other activities and family time
It leads to loss of interest in learning
A committee the school established a year ago to investigate the problem concluded there is "no link between elementary school homework and success in school."
"One public school in Barrie even noticed that grades went up after homework was banned."

From <https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/the-growing-argument-against-homework/article23358570/>

The evidence shows that there are some negatives about homework, which can lead kids to hating school and causing grades to drop. It says in the article that homework should be banned for this.

The Counterclaim

It is good for Discipline

Damian Reveles

475501 — 2019-11-15 20:37:16 UTC

Argument: testing on animals shouldn’t be allowed

Claim: testing on animals is dangerous due to the side effects that it causes to them.

Evidence-

"further examples of repeated failures based on animal models include drug development in cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), traumatic brain injury (TBI)."
'More than twenty 🤬 have failed in clinical trails."
"The FDA estimated that 92 percent of 🤬 that pass preclinical tests, including 'pivotal' animal tests, fail to proceed to the market".

The evidence does support the claim

Counter claim: we should be do test because it could end up helping.

itzael rios

itzvel469 — 2019-11-15 20:37:25 UTC

| Androids vs Iphones

Claim: which type of phone is best for you and which phone has better specs an iphone or a androids

Evidence: he said that Iphones are easier to use but then he said that androids are easy to use too.

Does the evidence support the claim: the evidence doesn’t really support the claim

I think that iphones are better than androids

Did they mention a counterclaim: the counterclaim is that both of the phones are equal to each other

Angel Pineda

2019-11-15 20:39:34 UTC

The Claim: Video games don't cause violence

The Evidence

If video games did indeed cause some mass shootings, one might expect such events to be common in Japan or South Korea. Both countries spend more per capita on video games than the United States, according to Newzoo, and have huge video game communities. Japan is home to video game makers like Nintendo, Sega and Sony, while South Korea has a highly developed competitive video gaming industry.

But Japan and South Korea — both of which have very strict laws limiting gun ownership — have among the lowest rates of violent crime in the world, and mass casualty events are quite rare.

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There is no universally accepted definition for what constitutes a mass shooting. For a long time, the F.B.I. considered it to be a single shooting in which four or more people were killed. By that definition, a handful occur in the United States each year. Using a definition with fewer victims, or including those injured but not killed, a few hundred occur each year.
“We should think about when we are more comfortable looking for something else to blame,” he said, adding, “I haven’t heard any senators talk about video games when an immigrant commits a crime.”

This evidence does indeed support the claim

The counterclaim

The Video game "Doom" popularized the genre of violent first-person shooting games. Since then, video games have been blamed for shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, and many others in between.

Susan Borbon

2019-11-15 20:41:18 UTC

The claim is that bullying should have its end. The evidence used to support the claim is "Many kids take their lives every year basically because the kids around them either make fun of who they are or how they want to live their lives", "Teasing and picking on someone to an extent to where that person kills themself is cruel and unhumane.", "Kind of sounds like second degree murder to me doesn’t it?". The evidence supports the claim because the writer is saying that because of bullying, many people are killing themselves so bullying should come to an end. The author did mention a counterclaim. The counterclaim is that bullying should continue.

46979 — 2019-11-15 20:41:44 UTC

Brett d

Should people be more strict on drunk driving? Some of my evidence show's are'' 31.5 of al car accidents happen when the driver is intoxicated. If the rule agienst drunk driving I feel like people would have more of a desire to not drive drunk. If 30 percent of car crashes happened on drunk driving.