For each item below (1-10), determine if it is an argument or not. If it is an argument, what features make it so? If it is not an argument, what is it? Do your best to explain your answers in 2-3 sentences. 1. A good way to stop your dog from getting fleas is to spray them with cider vinegar.

2. There was a vase of flowers on the table earlier today. That’s why the table is a little wet.

3. It is my opinion that spicy food always tastes better than mild food.

4. The lights are on therefore someone forgot to turn them off.

5. You should be careful when around water and electricity.

6. Lizzo is a better singer than Arianna Grande

7. It is impossible that something pop into being from nothing. But the universe was not created. Therefore, the universe must be eternal.

8. Lynn studies every day for her philosophy class and turns in all of her assignments. We can conclude that Lynn will likely do well in her class.

9. Frederick Douglas wrote My Bondage and My Freedom, and My Bondage and My Freedom was written by an abolitionist. Frederick Douglas must have then been an abolitionist.

10. For a long time, astronomers suspected that Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, might harbor a watery ocean beneath its ice-covered surface. They were right. Now the technique used earlier this year to demonstrate the existence of the Europan ocean has been employed to detect an ocean on another Jovian satellite, Ganymede, according to work announced at the recent American Geo-physical Union meeting in San Francisco.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

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