5. What is the central idea of the article titanic officer swears wreck due to company’s neglect? Use specific evidence from the text to support your answer.

Frantic efforts were made by the officers to save as many people as possible during the Titanic wreck.

Explanation:

The central idea of this article was the fact that officers on board the Titanic made efforts to rescue passengers even though some officers believed that the danger would have been averted if marine glasses were provided. The testimonies by the officers show that they did their best to rescue the situation.

An evidence to support this is the testimony below by Officer Pittman;

"Women were crawling over the hatch and I rushed out to help load the lifeboats. I helped to lower boat No. 5, which was assigned to me".

as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

explanation:

the apollo program, also known as project apollo, was the third united states human spaceflight program carried out by the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the moon from 1969 to 1972.