| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: And ever after dread their force no more
Than if they were but babes or Captive slaves.
AUDLEY.
O cruel Father! Farewell, Edward, then!
DARBY.
Farewell, sweet Prince, the hope of chivalry!
ARTOIS.
O, would my life might ransom him from death!
KING EDWARD.
But soft, me thinks I hear
[Retreat sounded.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries
to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the
most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas
to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of
their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has
endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers,
the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare,
United States Declaration of Independence |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: The year our little Miss Chao entered the palace was a memorable
one in the history of China. The Tai-ping rebellion, which had
begun in the south some three years earlier (1850), had
established its capital at Nanking, on the Yangtse River, and had
sent its "long-haired" rebels north on an expedition of conquest,
the ultimate aim of which was Peking. By the end of the year 1853
they had arrived within one hundred miles of the capital,
conquering everything before them, and leaving devastation and
destruction in their wake.
Their success had been extraordinary. Starting in the southwest
with an army of ten thousand men they had eighty thousand when
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