Answer:
B.) It provides background on how a family from Russia got into the sugar business.
Explanation:
The book "Sugar Changed The World" by the couple Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos traces the history of sugar came to be one of the most important staple for everyone around the world. They gave a detailed history of how this sweet substance came to be a part of households around the world.
In the given excerpt from the text, the writers provide the history of how a family from Russia came to be a part of the sugar business. The speaker narrates how <em>"a Russian serf..... helped to change the course of the history of sugar"</em>, leading to the desperate attempts <em>"to find a new way to create sugar"</em>. Thus, this passage provides a background on how the Russian serf and his family began to get involved into the sugar business.
Summarizing. This is one of three techniques of legitimate using of someone else's ideas in an academic essay. A summary is even shorter than a paraphrase and includes only the main points while omitting all elements which are deemed irrelevant. The third and most direct technique is quoting, and it includes direct citing of an excerpt of someone's work. All three techniques have one thing in common: attribution to the original author and source is absolutely necessary.
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