| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: States - Disadvantage of the system peculiar to America - The
natural evil of democracy is that it subordinates all authority
to the slightest desires of the majority - The re-election of the
President encourages this evil.
It may be asked whether the legislators of the United States
did right or wrong in allowing the re-election of the President.
It seems at first sight contrary to all reason to prevent the
head of the executive power from being elected a second time.
The influence which the talents and the character of a single
individual may exercise upon the fate of a whole people, in
critical circumstances or arduous times, is well known: a law
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: yourselves, a young girl brought up by three old men, and by the best
of all mothers--adversity.
Goupil, who does service to everybody and is justly considered the
wittiest man in Nemours, has won the esteem of the little town, but he
is punished in his children, who are rickety and hydrocephalous.
Dionis, his predecessor, flourishes in the Chamber of Deputies, of
which he is one of the finest ornaments, to the great satisfaction of
the king of the French, who sees Madame Dionis at all his balls.
Madame Dionis relates to the whole town of Nemours the particulars of
her receptions at the Tuileries and the splendor of the court of the
king of the French. She lords it over Nemours by means of the throne,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: other inhabitants of the forest, in which he made himself quite a
name in the land. Tom always spoke reverently of the Quakers.
"Nice people," he would say; "wanted to convert me, but couldn't
come it, exactly. But, tell ye what, stranger, they do fix up a
sick fellow first rate,--no mistake. Make jist the tallest kind
o' broth and knicknacks."
As Tom had informed them that their party would be looked for
in Sandusky, it was thought prudent to divide them. Jim, with
his old mother, was forwarded separately; and a night or two after,
George and Eliza, with their child, were driven privately into
Sandusky, and lodged beneath a hospital roof, preparatory to taking
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
