Read the excerpt from team moon. the heavier the spacecraft, the harder it is to launch. and fuel is heavy. so it was critical to pinpoint the fuel needed, add a cushion, then take no more than necessary. but now, because the landing was taking far longer than planned, the fuel was almost gone. mission control wanted neil to take as much time as he needed and fly the lm as near empty as possible only because they wanted him to make the landing. but if he ran out of fuel above the surface, in all likelihood the lm would crash onto the moon. so they were trying to time it to the last possible second before calling an abort—calling off the landing. why does the author use a problem-solution text structure in the paragraph? to the reader understand how the fuel system on a spacecraft works to the reader understand the difficult decisions faced by mission control to the reader understand the differences between the two astronauts to the reader understand how the country’s space program got started

To my mind, the correct answer is “to help the reader understand how the fuel system on a spacecraft works to help the reader understand the difficult decisions faced by Mission Control”. The aim of including a problem-solution text structure is to organize the author´s ideas in a way that helps the audience to gain understanding of the text. In addition, this device is very useful  to call the attention of the audience and to make the text more appealing to them.

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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