Read the passage from sugar changed the world. the diamond and the house: two family treasures, two parts of the story of sugar. we realized that our two family stories—marina's great-grandparents, brought to guyana to replace slaves, and marc's aunt's grandfather, to refine an alternative to that same sugar—were just the beginning of a much larger story about a remarkable substance. it is a story of the movement of millions of people, of fortunes made and lost, of brutality and delight—all because of tiny crystals stirred into our coffee, twirled on top of a cake. sugar, we began to see, changed the world. what is the purpose of this passage? a) to explain who marina and marc are b) to link the authors’ families to sugar c) to explore the history of guyana d) to show what sugar is used for

The correct answer is B.

In this passage from "Sugar Changed the World", the author is show the connections between the authors' families and the history of sugar.

According to this excerpt, Marina's great-grandparents were brought to Guyana to replaces the slaves that worked at the sugarcane fields; and Marc' aunt's grandfather was taken to refine an alternative to the same sugar harvested by Marina's geat-grandparents.

This shows how the production of sugar influenced their families history and the participation they had on its development.

the correct answer is option B

the correct order is:

you're your own worst enemy:

they're going to say what they say, but

their opinions aren't holding you

back. it's your self-defeatist

attitude that's keeping your work

from getting its due.

the author wants to draw the reader deeper into the experiences.