| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: and view the fireball through the filter glass. Despite these
well-publicized instructions, two participants did not take
precautions. They were temporarily blinded by the intense flash but
experienced no permanent vision impairment (1; 17).
People as far away as Santa Fe and El Paso saw the brilliant light of
the detonation. Windows rattled in the areas immediately surrounding
the test site, waking sleeping ranchers and townspeople. To dispel
any rumors that might compromise the security of Project TRINITY, the
Government announced that an Army munitions dump had exploded.
However, immediately after the destruction of Hiroshima, the
Government revealed to the public what had actually occurred in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: writer thereof, "the queen, the Duchess of Richmond, and the
Duchess of Buckingham had a frolick to disguise themselves like
country lasses, in red petticoates, waistcoates, etc., and so goe
see the faire. Sir Bernard Gascoign, on a cart jade, rode before
the queen; another stranger before the Duchess of Buckingham, and
Mr. Roper before Richmond. They had all so overdone it in their
disguise, and look'd so much more like antiques than country
volk, that as soon as they came to the faire, the people began to
goe after them; but the queen going to a booth to buy a pair of
yellow stockins for her sweethart, and Sir Bernard asking for a
pair of gloves, sticht with blew, for his sweethart, they were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: is full of rich merchants, and has a flourishing and increasing
trade. I say "increasing," because by the late setting up the
English packets between this port and Lisbon, there is a new
commerce between Portugal and this town carried on to a very great
value.
It is true, part of this trade was founded in a clandestine
commerce carried on by the said packets at Lisbon, where, being the
king's ships, and claiming the privilege of not being searched or
visited by the Custom House officers, they found means to carry off
great quantities of British manufactures, which they sold on board
to the Portuguese merchants, and they conveyed them on shore, as it
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