| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: he had in view.
It is not often that a President pleads a cause before Congress.
Mr. Lincoln did not find it beneath his dignity at one time to go
in person to the Capitol, and calling a number of the leading
senators and representatives around him, explain to them, with
the aid of a map, his reasons for believing that the final stand
of the Confederates would be made in that part of the South where
the seven States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia come together; and
strive in this way to interest them in the sad plight of the
loyal people of Tennessee who were being persecuted by the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: unique in the business world, Mrs. Buck, we expect much from your
cooperation with us in this cause."
Emma McChesney Buck had been gazing at Mrs. Orton-Wells with an
intentness as flattering as it was unfeigned. But at the close
of Mrs. Orton-Wells' speech she was strangely silent. She
glanced down at her shoes. Now, Emma McChesney Buck had a
weakness for smart shoes which her slim, well-arched foot
excused. Hers were what might be called intelligent-looking
feet. There was nothing thick, nothing clumsy, nothing awkward
about them. And Emma treated them with the consideration they
deserved. They were shod now, in a pair of slim, aristocratic,
Emma McChesney & Co. |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: everybody thinks you keep a public-house. You wouldnt like
people to say that of your mother, would you? Thats why we're so
reserved about it. By the way, youll keep it to yourself, wont
you? Since it's been a secret so long, it had better remain so.
VIVIE. And this is the business you invite me to join you in?
CROFTS. Oh no. My wife shant be troubled with business. Youll
not be in it more than youve always been.
VIVIE. _I_ always been! What do you mean?
CROFTS. Only that youve always lived on it. It paid for your
education and the dress you have on your back. Dont turn up your
nose at business, Miss Vivie: where would your Newnhams and
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