Over the past four years, Ecuador has received on average mo…

Over the past four years, Ecuador has received on average more than twenty million dollars of assistance from USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development. However, USAID has the discretion to decrease aid to Ecuador if the human trafficking conditions there remain the same or worsen. The U.S. Department of State monitors conditions of human trafficking in countries around the world by compiling the Trafficking in Persons Report each year. Unfortunately, the conditions of human trafficking in Ecuador have worsened in recent years. As a result ___ Which one of the following most logically completes the argument?

“What is Pre-Birth Communication? It’s something that many p…

“What is Pre-Birth Communication? It’s something that many people experience, yet very few talk about—the sense that somehow we are in contact with a being who is not yet born! It may be a vivid dream, the touch of an invisible presence, a telepathic message announcing pregnancy, or many other types of encounter. It is a mystery, one that challenges our ideas about ourselves and our children.” This claim is . . . 

What is the conclusion of the following argument? Several cr…

What is the conclusion of the following argument? Several critics have claimed that any contemporary poet who writes formal poetry—poetry that is rhymed and metered—is performing a politically conservative act. This is plainly false. Consider Molly Peacock and Marilyn Hacker, two contemporary poets whose poetry is almost exclusively formal and yet who are themselves politically progressive feminists.

The following passage can be accurately represented employin…

The following passage can be accurately represented employing one of the logical forms listed below.  What logical form best captures the wording being used in this deductive argument?If ethical statements were simply statements about a the speaker’s feelings, it would be impossible to argue about questions of value.  To take a typical example: if a man said that thrift was a virtue, an another replied that it was a vice, they would not, on this theory, be disputing with one another.  One would be saying that he approved of thrift, and the other that he didn’t.  There is no reason they both couldn’t be right since they are only talking about their own feelings.  However it is obvious that we do dispute about questions of value, and accordingly we can conclude that this form of subjectivism–that ethical statements are merely statements about a speaker’s feelings–is false.