Question

I had to read the following article : http://www.scholastic.com/scopemagazine/PDFs/SCOPE-121012-PairedTexts.pdf

As you can see, there are two texts in the same article.
For the first text (by Sarah McCarry) I had to collect the following info :

Title of text: Will the World end in 2012?
Type of Text: Article Essay Editorial Other {Article?}
The authors purpose is to: inform readers of failed end-of-the world predictions
Evidence (1): "The threat of a cataclysmic event
has haunted humans since, well, always. History is full of examples of people who predicted certain doom only to watch those days come and
go uneventfully."
Evidence (2) : “There have been over 269 doomsday predictions in the last 500 years alone, and none of them came true,” says Michael Shermer, a psychologist and science historian."
Author mainly organizes the information by: Listing a few predictions about the Eqrth ending made over the last 500 years to prove that they are all fake.
Evidence (1): Shermer offers another explanation for our obsession with the end of the world. “People have a desire to start
over with a clean slate,” he says.
Evidence (2): from natural disasters to epidemics, have occurred
throughout history