| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: trouble by stringing him up as a warning to the
negroes? Or do we invite trouble by turning him
loose? Which? All it needs is a vote."
And he set down agin. You could see he had
made a hit with the boys. They was a kind of a
growl rolled around the room. The feelings in
that place was getting stronger and stronger. I
was scared, but trying not to show it. My fingers
kept feeling around in my pocket fur something
that wasn't there. But my brain couldn't remember
what my fingers was feeling fur. Then it come on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: respectable citizens than they had ever been before. Public
feeling against the Yankees and all their allies was at fever heat
at the very time when the town learned of the engagement, for the
last citadel of Georgia's resistance to Yankee rule had just
fallen. The long campaign which had begun when Sherman moved
southward from above Dalton, four years before, had finally reached
its climax, and the state's humiliation was complete.
Three years of Reconstruction had passed and they had been three
years of terrorism. Everyone had thought that conditions were
already as bad as they could ever be. But now Georgia was
discovering that Reconstruction at its worst had just begun.
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: What a bold gravity, and yet inviting,
Has this browne manly face! O Love, this only
From this howre is Complexion: Lye there, Arcite,
Thou art a changling to him, a meere Gipsey,
And this the noble Bodie. I am sotted,
Vtterly lost: My Virgins faith has fled me;
For if my brother but even now had ask'd me
Whether I lov'd, I had run mad for Arcite;
Now, if my Sister, More for Palamon.
Stand both together: Now, come aske me, Brother.--
Alas, I know not! Aske me now, sweet Sister;--
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