The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: as well as her courage and dexterity in using her nails.
Maddened by her resistance, I expected to see Mr. Sevier level
her to the ground by a stunning blow; but no; like a savage bull-
dog--which he resembled both in temper and appearance--he
maintained his grip, and steadily dragged his victim toward the
tree, disregarding alike her blows, and the cries of the children
for their mother's release. He would, doubtless, have knocked
her down with his hickory stick, but that such act might have
cost him his place. It is often deemed advisable to knock a
_man_ slave down, in order to tie him, but it is considered
cowardly and inexcusable, in an overseer, thus to deal with a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: whatever to make Mr. Mudge jealous; there would be no amusement in
it, for the amusement she had lately known had spoiled her for
lower pleasures. There were even no materials for it. The odd
thing was how she never doubted that, properly handled, his passion
was poisonable; what had happened was that he had cannily selected
a partner with no poison to distil. She read then and there that
she should never interest herself in anybody as to whom some other
sentiment, some superior view, wouldn't be sure to interfere for
him with jealousy. "And what did you get out of that?" he asked
with a concern that was not in the least for his honour.
"Nothing but a good chance to promise him I wouldn't forsake him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: Soc. Well, then, we agreed that economy was the proper title of a
branch of knowledge, and this branch of knowledge appeared to be that
whereby men are enabled to enhance the value of their houses or
estates; and by this word "house or estate" we understood the whole of
a man's possessions; and "possessions" again we defined to include
those things which the possessor should find advantageous for the
purposes of his life; and things advantageous finally were discovered
to mean all that a man knows how to use and turn to good account.
Further, for a man to learn all branches of knowledge not only seemed
to us an impossibility, but we thought we might well follow the
example of civil communties in rejecting the base mechanic arts so
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