| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: This neighborhood, at the time of which I am speaking, was one of
those highly favored places which abound with chronicle and great
men. The British and American line had run near it during the
war; it had, therefore], been the scene of marauding and infested
with refugees, cow-boys, and all kinds of border chivalry. Just
sufficient time had elapsed to enable each story-teller to dress
up his tale with a little becoming fiction, and, in the
indistinctness of his recollection, to make himself the hero of
every exploit.
There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded
Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: into the buggy and took the reins from her and threw her some
impertinent remark, she felt young and gay and attractive again,
for all her worries and her increasing bulk. She could talk to him
about almost everything, with no care for concealing her motives or
her real opinions and she never ran out of things to say as she did
with Frank--or even with Ashley, if she must be honest with
herself. But of course, in all her conversations with Ashley there
were so many things which could not be said, for honor's sake, that
the sheer force of them inhibited other remarks. It was comforting
to have a friend like Rhett, now that for some unaccountable reason
he had decided to be on good behavior with her. Very comforting,
Gone With the Wind |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: together into industrial unions, to prevent conflict
between individual sections of one industry. Thus
boilermakers and smiths do not have separate unions, but
are united in the metal-workers' union. This unification
has its effect on reforms and changes. An increase in
wages, for example, is simultaneous all over Russia. The
price of living varies very considerably in different parts of
the country, there being as great differences between the
climates of different parts as there are between the countries
of Europe. Consequently a uniform absolute increase
would be grossly unfair to some and grossly favourable to
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