| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once
an example and fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws,
and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection
and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,
and destroyed the lives of our people.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: Soon after, the woman went to procure wives for them,
in a distant country, they knew not where; but she returned
with ten young women, which she gave to the ten young men,
beginning with the eldest. Mudjikewis stepped to and fro,
uneasy lest he should not get the one he liked.
But he was not disappointed, for she fell to his lot.
And they were well matched, for she was a female magician.
They then all moved into a very large lodge, and their sister
told them that the women must now take turns in going
to her brother's head every night, trying to untie it.
They all said they would do so with pleasure. The eldest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: exasperation difficult to describe; for they were reading the terrible
paper on the administration in which they were all discussed.
Bixiou [with his finger on a paragraph]. "Here YOU are, pere Saillard.
Listen" [reads]:--
"Saillard.--The office of cashier to be suppressed in all the
ministries; their accounts to be kept in future at the Treasury.
Saillard is rich and does not need a pension.
"Do you want to hear about your son-in-law?" [Turns over the leaves.]
"Here he is" [reads]:--
"Baudoyer.--Utterly incapable. To be thanked and dismissed. Rich; does
not need a pension.
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