| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: with Democracy in America.
De Tocqueville was scarcely thirty years old when he began
his studies of Democracy in America. It was a bold effort for
one who had no special training in government, or in the study of
political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in
establishing the military foundation of these liberties, and of
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton, all of whom were
young men, in building upon the Independence of the United States
that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever
devised for a free people.
He found that the American people, through their chosen
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: of its own plumes. "Alas!" it cried, as it died,
"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
The Milkmaid and Her Pail
Patty the Milkmaid was going to market carrying her milk in a
Pail on her head. As she went along she began calculating what
she would do with the money she would get for the milk. "I'll buy
some fowls from Farmer Brown," said she, "and they will lay eggs
each morning, which I will sell to the parson's wife. With the
money that I get from the sale of these eggs I'll buy myself a new
dimity frock and a chip hat; and when I go to market, won't all
the young men come up and speak to me! Polly Shaw will be that
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: had shown no intention of attacking either boats or people.
At this moment Mr. Ward returned and I interrupted my reading to say,
"There seems as yet no reason to complain of this sea-serpent. It
flees before big ships. It does not pursue little ones. Feeling and
intelligence are not very strong in fishes."
"Yet their emotions exist, Strock, and if strongly aroused--"
"But, Mr. Ward, the beast seems not at all dangerous. One of two
things will happen. Either it will presently quit these coasts, or
finally it will be captured and we shall be able to study it at our
leisure here in the museum of Washington."
"And if it is not a marine animal?" asked Mr. Ward.
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