| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now
the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment
of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: relief. Supper found her with appetite she had long since lost. Twilight
brought cold wind, the staccato bark of coyotes, the flicker of camp fires
through the cedars. She tried to embrace all her sensations, but they were
so rapid and many that she failed.
The cold, clear, silent night brought back the charm of the desert. How
flaming white the stars!. The great spire-pointed peaks lifted cold
pale-gray outlines up into the deep star-studded sky. Carley walked a
little to and fro, loath to go to her tent, though tired. She wanted calm.
But instead of achieving calmness she grew more and more towards a strange
state of exultation.
Westward, only a matter of twenty or thirty miles, lay the deep rent in the
The Call of the Canyon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: "The dative case?"
Here are a couple of her expositions which were delivered with
tranquil confidence:
"CHAPLAIN, diminutive of chap. LASS is masculine, LASSIE is
feminine."
She is not a genius, you see, but just a normal child; they all
make mistakes of that sort. There is a glad light in her eye which
is pretty to see when she finds herself able to answer a question
promptly and accurately, without any hesitation; as, for instance,
this morning:
"Cathy dear, what is a cube?"
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