Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. Sugar turned human beings into property, yet sugar led people to reject the idea that any person could be owned by another. Sugar murdered millions, and yet it gave the voiceless a way to speak. Sugar crushed people, and yet it was because of sugar that Gandhi began his experiment in truth—so that every individual could free him- or herself. Only sugar—the sweetness we all crave—could drive people to be so cruel, and to combat all forms of cruelty. The craving for sugar took us from that ancient time when people were defined by the work of their ancestors to our modern world—the one Gandhi led us to see, in which each individual is valued as human. Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican Republic, and cane sugar has been replaced by other sweeteners invented in the Age of Science, this one substance forever marked our history.
Every day, we live in the world sugar created—where the descendants of Africans live in the Caribbean, in Brazil, in the United States and Canada; where the grandchildren of indentured Indians share those Caribbean islands and American cities; where the children of China, Japan, the Philippines, and Korea make up the population of Hawaii; where Haitians still suffer from the silence that greeted their nation’s birth; where equality does not belong to the rich, the planter, the overseer, or even the freed people. It exists in each one of us. That is the sweet truth bought at the price of so much bitter pain.
Sugar changed the world.
–Sugar Changed the World,
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
What video and audio would best illustrate the ideas from the passage in a presentation? Check all that apply.
a film clip of Gandhi discussing the sugar trade
an audio interview of current workers on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic
a video of the numerous steps involved in the process of refining sugar
audio of the US president discussing trade practices of the United States
a video showing descendants of sugar workers in the Americas, Hawaii, and the Caribbean