| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: this fashion might be mistaken for men, if it were not for the
petticoat which dragged under the coat. At the commencement of
the reign, ladies of the court wore their hair after the French
fashion, cut short in front and frizzed upon the forehead. When
the queen arrived, her hair was arranged A LA NEGLIGENCE, a mode
declared mighty pretty; but presently a fashion came in vogue of
wearing "false locks set on wyres to make them stand at a
distance from the head; as fardingales made the clothes stand out
in Queen Elizabeth's reign." Painting the face, which had been
practised during the Commonwealth, became fashionable; as did
likewise the use of patches and vizards or masks; which from the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: family. . . . If they answer with a kick you know where,
they'll say they're giving you a handful of jewels. And
they're right; we did not rise up in arms to make some
Carranza or Villa President of our Republic. No--we
fought to defend the sacred rights of the people against
the tyranny of some vile cacique. And so, just as Villa
or Carranza aren't going to ask our consent to the pay-
ment they're getting for the services they're rendering
the country, we for our part don't have to ask anybody's
permission about anything either."
Demetrio half stood up, grasped a bottle that stood
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: belonged to the same European race, had the same habits, the same
civilization, the same laws, and their shades of difference were
extremely slight.
Time, however, continued to advance, and the
Anglo-Americans, spreading beyond the coasts of the Atlantic
Ocean, penetrated farther and farther into the solitudes of the
West; they met with a new soil and an unwonted climate; the
obstacles which opposed them were of the most various character;
their races intermingled, the inhabitants of the South went up
towards the North, those of the North descended to the South; but
in the midst of all these causes, the same result occurred at
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