Does the following passage contain an argument? If the President thinks that merely because he has declared a national emergency and that the wall is going to be built, then he doesn’t realize just how determined his political opponents are.

Standardize the argument contained in the following passage according to Govier’s strategies for standardizing arguments, adding, if necessary, implicit premises and conclusion. To the best of your ability, evaluate the argument using the ARG conditions, justifying your answers fully and following Govier’s guidelines for determining whether the argument is cogent. Even though millions of people are using dating apps, that’s a very poor way to measure their effect on romance. Consider, for instance, Facebook. Do you know that Americans get their news from Facebook like no other place? Ladies and gentlemen, would any single person in this room argue that Facebook is good for news, for journalism, or truth? Teenagers all over the world are using their smartphones to text each other incessantly. Are smartphones good for conversation? What are the most popular restaurants in the United States today? McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell. Are they good for nutrition? The idea that because people are using dating apps — which have crowded out so many other ways of getting together — my gosh, you go to the bar and you can’t interact if you don’t have a phone — it just doesn’t sell.

Does the following passage contain an argument? Imagine yourself naked, without weapons, and running after a deer. If you were to catch this deer how would you eat it? Humans are not equipped with the canine teeth in order to eat meat without tools. A carnivore’s teeth are long and sharp, and its jaws move up and down. Humans, by contrast, use their molars to crush and grind their food. Have you ever noticed that so many Americans are overweight and unhealthy? That’s because they eat meat.

What is the ideal breathing pattern for PEP therapy?

Does the following passage contain an argument? According to Nature, today’s thoroughbred racehorses do not run any faster than their grandparents did. But human Olympic runners are at least 20 percent faster than their counterparts of fifty years ago. Most likely, racehorses have reached their physical limits but humans have not.

Does the following passage contain an argument?  You should keep a few things in mind before buying a used car. Test drive the car at varying speeds and conditions, examine the oil in the crankcase, ask to see service records, and, if possible, have the engine and power train checked by a mechanic

Does the following passage contain an argument? “No one has a right to use a relatively unreliable procedure in order to decide whether to punish another. Using such a system, he is in no position to know that the other deserves punishment: hence he has no right to punish him.” (Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia)

When interpreting purified protein derivative (PPD) skin tests in patients at a long-term care facility, the nurse practitioner identifies positive results in individuals with:

Given the following information for this individual performing a handstand, use 2D inverse dynamics to solve for the joint reaction force and joint moment at the wrist acting on the hand. What is the X COMPONENT of the joint reaction force acting at the wrist joint on the hand segment in N?

Consider the schematic shown below to answer the questions that follow. This image shows a sagittal perspective of the elbow joint and the triceps brachii muscle acting across the joint to cause an extensor torque.