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How has sugar changed our lives today and back then? Sugar Changed the world is an article about Slavery and how it contributes to sugar. It explains how today’s life would not be the way it is without slavery or even without the growth of sugar.

The authors develop the central idea that sugar had a positive and negative impact on the world back in the olden days, and still to this present day. The book includes Informational pictures with descriptions, also the sugar changed the world book also shows how they respond to conflicting viewpoints by including pictures and descriptions with it showing the positive and negative facts and information about sugar. …show more content…

The authors’ develop the central idea using word choice, organization, and tone is to show the reader that this text in fact is an informational text which includes pictures , descriptions and other facts to persuade the reader. This evidence shows that the authors use certain events in the history of sugar at the end of paragraphs or sections to persuade the reader to keep reading. On page 61 of Sugar Changed the World, it says, “Sugar plantations were Hell because of the endless labor they demanded from slaves. They were Hell because of the many dangers and the injuries that they caused ” (61). This evidence shows The authors’ also use words to develop the central idea by explaining the greed and brutality in slavery on sugar plantations. In the book it Explains and shows how the authors want to show the reader how sugar contributes to slavery, and how the attitude and tone of the story contributes to the …show more content…

According to Sugar Changed the world, “So to get the fabrics that would buy the slaves that could be sold for sugar for the English to put into their tea, the Spanish shipped silver to the Philippines, and the French, English, and Dutch sailed east to India. What we call a triangle was really as round as the globe” (37 Aronson, Marc, Budhos, Marina:). This evidence shows that while showing and explaining the central idea, the authors also respond to conflicting ideas in the text in a direct messages by pictures and other directs quotes in the text. According to Sugar Changed the world, “Even though one book after another repeats this myth, the popularity of spices had nothing to do with disguising the taste of meat or fish that had gone bad” (37 Aronson, Marc, Budhos, Marina). This evidence shows that The authors directly disagreed this idea by saying that any person who could afford sugar at the time could have also afford fresh meat and must have been very rich. the authors acknowledge and respond to conflicting ideas in the text by the tone attitude and other facts in the

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