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Sugar has made many negative and positive impacts on the world.In Sugar Changed The World By Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos shows the history of sugar and how it became famous.And how Sugar influenced the world both positively and negatively.The Authors develop this idea by using vivid language to develop the central idea by painting a picture of greed and brutality in the practice of slavery on a sugar plantation and the Authors also respond to conflicting ideas in the text in a direct manner.And the author bring themselves into the the beginning and end of the text and make a statement about the history themselves part of Sugar’s history makes the work feel less like a textbook and more like the authors are sitting with the reader, telling a story. …show more content…

This shows how hard the slaves' life was and how it was hell for them. The Authors used hell to describe the slaves life and the horror with it.The Authors stated’’Afriacans were at the heart of this great change in the economy,indeed in the lives of people throughout the world.Africans were the true global citizen – adjusting to a new land, a new religion,even to other Africans they would never have met in their homelands.Their labor made the Age of Sugar – the Indus-trail Age – possible. (70/Sugar Changed The World).This shows how the Authors are foreshadowing the

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The book Sugar Changed the World gives the reader a very informational tone throughout the events occurring in the story. The author's perspective and purpose for writing Sugar Changed the World is to tell a story of how sugar impacted the world negatively and positively,and they respond to conflicting viewpoints by addressing the facts and proving the historians wrong. The writer informs the reader about the positive impact of sugar and how it changed the world because in the book it said "The end of slavery was a great step for human rights”. “On August 1, 1838 all slaves would be free” (pg 104).

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However, this informs the reader about the positive impact of sugar. “Sugar is a taste we all want a taste we all crave” pg 8. This shows the positive outcome of the making of sugar and how it doesn’t just have a bad impact on the world. The book “Sugar Changed the World” gives an information tone about how sugar changed the world drastically and how it became popular and the whole world made a profit from it. “Europeans saw growing sugar in the New World with slave

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In the book ‘’Sugar Changed The World’’ by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos their purpose for writing the book was to show how sugar changed the world positively and negatively. Here are some of the positive effects that sugar had on the world, on page 29 where it says,’’One sailor came ro knew these islands particularly well because he traded in ‘’White Gold”-sugar’’. This evidence shows that as sugar spread across the world it was better known as ‘’White Gold’’because if you could buy sugar you were considered rich. Sugar also changed the world positively because on page 6 it says,’’It is a story of the movement of millions of people, of fortunes moved and lost, of brutality and delight. ’’This was positive and negative because they were taken

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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).

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Dariana Hernandez 2/11/23 Culminating writing task Do you ever wonder how sugar impacted the world? Well In the book “Sugar Changed the World” By Marina Budhos and Marc Aronson, the authors show us and tell us by showing us illustrations, explaining everything and even the language that they used to describe how it was for the people working in the sugar cane fields and the purpose for writing the book “Sugar Changed the World” is to show how sugar impacted the world in a positive and negative way. Starting off with the illustrations that the authors give us, in those illustrations we can see how the slaves were treated and how hard they had to work in the fields and that helps the reader understand much more and be able to view what the authors are talking about not just read about it. In the book “Sugar Changed the World” on page 28, there is a picture, and that picture shows how the people worked hard in those fields; they even said that they worked under the “hot sun”. This evidence relates to the claim because whether the

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