| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: more into herself. When she was with Alexan-
dra she was not spontaneous and frank as she
used to be. She seemed to be brooding over
something, and holding something back. The
weather had a good deal to do with their seeing
less of each other than usual. There had not been
such snowstorms in twenty years, and the path
across the fields was drifted deep from Christ-
mas until March. When the two neighbors went
to see each other, they had to go round by the
wagon-road, which was twice as far. They tele-
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;
giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders
which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
United States Declaration of Independence |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: The newspaper brought them together, and the newspaper is
still necessary to keep them united. In order that an
association amongst a democratic people should have any power, it
must be a numerous body. The persons of whom it is composed are
therefore scattered over a wide extent, and each of them is
detained in the place of his domicile by the narrowness of his
income, or by the small unremitting exertions by which he earns
it. Means then must be found to converse every day without seeing
each other, and to take steps in common without having met. Thus
hardly any democratic association can do without newspapers.
There is consequently a necessary connection between public
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