Which excerpts are examples of persuasive or argumentative text?

excerpt 1
early that morning, a young, blue-eyed detective in a beige coat stood in the open doorway of the motel room, closing an umbrella. a policeman friend had secretly allowed the detective to enter the room with the understanding that nothing would be touched. though this restriction made the job more difficult, the confident detective knew that well-trained eyes could find a lot of clues on their own. suddenly, the detective was nearly knocked off balance by a muddy dog chasing a black cat into the room.
excerpt 2
the minimum age for obtaining a driver's license should be lowered from sixteen to fifteen. if fifteen-year-olds can drive with a special driver's permit, why not just lower the legal age for a license to fifteen? since most fifteen-year-olds are getting ready to get a job anyway, they need a license earlier so they can start looking for employment. most importantly, if fifteen year olds were allowed to drive earlier, there would be less of a need to have school buses. students could start driving themselves to school a year earlier.excerpt 3
like me, you probably could make the move. the move, that is, to eat better meals and to do something active every day. it’s nice just to feel better. it’s even better to improve my grades as a result. in fact, i’ve done well on my last three geometry tests. it just may be that peanut butter and banana french toast! my dad and i both are proud.
when are you going to make the move? excerpt 4
the shabby, old piano had belonged to lani's grandmother and, from the look of it, had belonged to others before her. the piano stood neglected in the living room until lani was two years old and had grown tall enough to reach the keys. lani couldn't see them, but she knew the piano keys were magical. even then, she felt reverence for the piano as she touched it gently, never banging on the keys.

Plagiarism quiz read both the paragraph below and the information following it that identifies the source using the american psychological association format. then read each of the numbered statements and determine if each is plagiarized or not. circle “yes” if the statement is plagiarized, “no” if it is not, and then fix the “yes” answers). original source the presence of the taiwanese on everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit. but the taiwanese were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified. camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the southwest face, one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking. krakauer, j. (1998). into thin air: a personal account of the mount everest disaster. new york: anchor books, 122 - 3. student samples yes 1. there was a very real fear that the taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid(krakauer, 1998). no) 2. many climbers overestimate their abilities, as krakauer (1998) explains when he writes of peter neby, whose himalayan experience in the past “required little more than vigorous walking” (122 - 3). no 3. jon krakauer (1998) discusses other concerns besides those of unpredictable weather and his own climbing group’s capabilities. for example the existence of a taiwanese group on everest was a matter of serious unease to most everyone else on the mountain. yes/no 4. krakauer (1998) states that the taiwanese group was not the only inexpert climbers to attempt mt. everest: camped beside us at base camp was a twenty-five-year-old norwegian climber named peter neby. . [whose] himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring island peak, a 20,274-foot bump that required little more than vigorous walking (122 – 3). yes/no 5. the author asserts that the taiwanese “were by no means the only group that seemed egregiously unqualified.” yes/no 6. in his book into thin air, jon krakauer (1998) discusses many of the dangers he noted prior to his disastrous attempt to climb mt. everest in 1996. among them were encounters with other groups and individual climbers who were ill-trained and ill-equipped to handle the demands of such a climb.