Read this excerpt from The Man Who Went to the Far Side
of the Moon
What is the author's viewpoint in this excerpt?
Before Neil and Buzz can take off from the moon and
return to the capsule, Michael has to make 850 computer
commands. Surrounding him on the walls of the capsule
are more than 700 switches, levers, alarm buttons gauges.
warning lights, and computer keys. There are sensors that
should never, ever, point to red. There are yellow-and-
black-striped buttons with functions so important that they
are covered with plastic lids to prevent a tired, lonely
astronaut from pushing them by mistake.
Michael Collins should not have had to do his job all by
himself.
Michael Collins's job was more difficult than Neil's and
Buzz's jobs
Michael Collins had an important role in Neil and Buzz
walking on the moon.
Michael Collins was tired and very prone to making
serious errors.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion