The text structure of this passage is cause and effect. The passage discusses how the craving for sugar (the cause) led to significant consequences, including both positive and negative outcomes (the effects), such as the spread of ideas of liberty and the misery and destruction caused by the pursuit of sugar.
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
Sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. People throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. We even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. When the Lewis and Clark Expedition met up with the Shoshone, who had little previous contact with Old World products, Sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. He loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." Sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty.
The text structure of this passage is
chronological order.
problem and solution.
cause and effect.
compare and contrast.
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