| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: homespun petticoats, with scissors and pin-cushions, and gay
calico pockets hanging on the outside. Buxom lasses, almost as
antiquated as their mothers, excepting where a straw hat, a fine
ribbon, or perhaps a white frock, gave symptoms of city
innovation. The sons, in short square-skirted coats, with rows of
stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the
fashion of the times, especially if they could procure an eelskin
for the purpose, it being esteemed throughout the country as a
potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
Brom Bones, however, was the hero of the scene, having come
to the gathering on his favorite steed Daredevil, a creature,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: cent. native whites. Illiteracy not only is the index of inequality
of opportunity. It speaks as well a lack of consideration for the
children. It means either that children have been forced out of
school to go to work, or that they are mentally and physically
defective.[1]
One is tempted to ask why a society, which has failed so lamentably to
protect the already existing child life upon which its very
perpetuation depends, takes upon itself the reckless encouragement of
indiscriminate procreation. The United States Government has recently
inaugurated a policy of restricting immigration from foreign
countries. Until it is able to protect childhood from criminal
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: the lady's free grace a sine qua non: and to think of being,
by any means whatever, the lord of Locksley and Arlingford,
and the husband of the bewitching Matilda, was to cut in the shades
of futurity a vista very tempting to a soldier of fortune.
He set out in high spirits with a chosen band of followers,
and beat up all the country far and wide around both the Ouse
and the Trent; but fortune did not seem disposed to second
his diligence, for no vestige whatever could he trace of the earl.
His followers, who were only paid with the wages of hope,
began to murmur and fall off; for, as those unenlightened
days were ignorant of the happy invention of paper machinery,
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