| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac: usefulness seems, however, incontestable when we glance at the flower-
bedecked cap she wears, at the false front frizzling around her
forehead, at the gowns of her choice; for how could shopkeepers
dispose of those products if there were no Madame Latournelle? All
these absurdities of the worthy woman, who is truly pious and
charitable, might have passed unnoticed, if nature, amusing herself as
she often does by turning out these ludicrous creations, had not
endowed her with the height of a drum-major, and thus held up to view
the comicalities of her provincial nature. She has never been out of
Havre; she believes in the infallibility of Havre; she proclaims
herself Norman to the very tips of her fingers; she venerates her
Modeste Mignon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: arts, are also concerned with discourse; in what way then does rhetoric
differ from them? Gorgias draws a distinction between the arts which deal
with words, and the arts which have to do with external actions. Socrates
extends this distinction further, and divides all productive arts into two
classes: (1) arts which may be carried on in silence; and (2) arts which
have to do with words, or in which words are coextensive with action, such
as arithmetic, geometry, rhetoric. But still Gorgias could hardly have
meant to say that arithmetic was the same as rhetoric. Even in the arts
which are concerned with words there are differences. What then
distinguishes rhetoric from the other arts which have to do with words?
'The words which rhetoric uses relate to the best and greatest of human
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: Lady in the show case carriage................ 122
Less hate and greed........................... 58
Let others sing their songs of war............ 82
Life is a challenge to the bold............... 145
Life is a gift to be used every day........... 63
Little Master Mischievous, that's the name.... 38
Ma has a dandy little book.................... 100
Ma says no, it's too much care................ 116
Men are of two kind, and he................... 180
Most every night when they're in bed.......... 64
Most folks, as I've noticed, in pleasure an'
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