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Bless Me, Ultima As an Educational Novel Literature Essay
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"Bless Me Ultima" is a didactic novel in a sense that it teaches the reader while narrating of the protagonist’s coming-of-age. The novel offers readers a useful response to their own time and place. As you read the novel you realize that Anaya’s vision was not only to tell about Antonio’s life but share his understanding of life with the reader.
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The Growth of Romanticism in Western Europe Literature Essay
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Romanticism is the movement of exemplifying classicism and the rejection of rationalism. The comparison of man with the brook: “We must run glittering like a brook. In the open sunshine, or we are unblest”. Transparency is revealed with the opening up to God and revealing that innocence can be attained through the union with nature and religion.
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Comparing the Novels 1984 and A Brave New World Literature Essay
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These governments attempted to control every aspect of peoples’ lives by taking away individuality and forcing the inhabitants to simply accept what was occurring. Brave New World is set in the future, in a world where the government has developed a way to control the minds of everyone in society, in order to make them content with everything that is happening in their lives.
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Internal and External Conflicts of the Characters in the Glass Menagerie Literature Assignment
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The Glass Menagerie: Character AnalysisThe Glass Menagerie: Character Analysis Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” features three primary characters, Amanda, Tom and Laura, and one secondary character, Jim.  The three primary characters are members of a small family that has struggled through hard times.
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Daniel Pinkwaters novel The Boy from Mars Literature Essay
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The paper describes both characters encounter what is a seemingly unreal experience which included learning the “Klugarsh Mind Control”, trying to achieve the mental state known as "State Twenty-Six", learning how to travel through different planes of existence through a Japanese-English dictionary and going into an alternate dimension.
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The Role of Revenge inThe Wild Duck Literature Essay
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The current essay contains an analysis of the play written by Henrik Ibsen under the title "Wild Duck". The play is realistic. It is full of routine details of household affairs and simple dialogues of simple people. The final tragedy seems almost inappropriate in this world of shrew reality.
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The House of Usher and A Rose for Emily Literature Essay
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The author states that similarities of both works have emerged due to the author’s similar purpose – to create an effect of horror. “The House of Ushers” and “A Rose for Emily” acquire their effect due to the claustrophobic atmosphere around the protagonists, the atmosphere characteristic with Gothic tales. 
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Importance of Vision and Blindness in The Great Gatsby Literature Book Report/Review
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It has become influential to other writers and has fascinated everyone with its discourse on such issues as the American society, materialism, the Jazz Age, among others. According to Fitzgerald, an era wherein staid conservatism and values of the previous decade were turned left behind as money, opulence, and exuberance became the order of the day.
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William Carlos Williams Embracing Nature in Spring and All Literature Essay
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This research will begin with the statement that William Carlos Williams was a man ahead of his time.  His artistic use of language, that nevertheless left his subject available for any reader who cared to browse through his books, marked him as a principle player among the Imagists and gained him recognition by the Beat writers of the 1950s and ‘60s. 
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Womens Roles in Gertrude and Ophelia Literature Essay
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The author states that Ophelia and Gertrude float through the castle providing little to no valuable service and seemingly without volition or true activity of their own other than perhaps to sew. They seem puppet figures, meekly undertaking those activities expected of the medieval woman when not directly engaged.
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Summary and Analysis of The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant Literature Book Report/Review
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It is said that Madame’s husband comes home and gives to her an invitation to a high-class party. Madame complains that she has nothing decent enough to wear, but her husband gives in and helps to pay for a gown. After also complaining about having no jewelry, Madame goes to her friend, Jeanne Forestier, borrows what she believes to be expensive. 
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John Cheevers The Enormous Radio Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that what distinguished the couple from their friends, classmates, and neighbors was that they had a serious interest in music. The radio they had was a significant possession for this reason. Once this old radio was damaged, Jim bought Irene a new radio, which was a bit too big and unaesthetic for their living room.
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Michael Ondaatje's Book Anils Ghost Literature Essay
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Assimilation and aggression, depending on the society given as an example, do not have to be in conflict. If the example is the Sri Lanka society in Anil’s Ghost, the answer would be yes and no. If assimilation meant abiding by the governmental rules, then Anil’s aggressive search for Sailor’s identity would be in conflict with the assimilation.
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Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Literature Essay
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This essay also discusses Frankenstein (1818) or the Modern Prometheus which is a novel written by a British author Mary Shelly. The novel has arguably spawned a complete genre of horror stories and scientific fiction. Early critics greeted the novel with praise and disdain. There are more differences between the movie and the book than there are similarities.
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London in the 1900s as Depicted in A Little Princess Literature Essay
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From this research it is clear that looking at novels such as Francis Hodgson Burnett’s story "A Little Princess" helps to illuminate several elements of life for the rich as opposed to life for the poor in Victorian London as well as to include commentary regarding the relationships that were held between Britain and India at this point in history.
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Close Reading of Sylvia Plath's Daddy Literature Essay
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At first glance, one can easily see Sylvia Plath's Daddy indeed a mean and brutal poem that talks about violence, hate, oppression, and death. The language used by the speaker in the poem is rather intense and crude, albeit infantile or childlike bordering into being neurotic. The speaker throws tantrums at "daddy" blaming him for all her misfortunes.
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Dark Characters of Edgar Allan Poe Literature Essay
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Poe’s narrators often make numerous attempts to convince the readers that they are not like their enemy or the victim which they seek to kill. In this case, the narrator functions as the eyes of the reader, and the narrator makes it clear that he and his opponent are in no way alike on the inside, even though they are in the superficial sense.
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Commitment Issues in Macbeth Literature Essay
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Although the encounter starts Macbeth’s descent into wickedness, it is his inability to balance and manage his various commitments that eventually drives him to his doom. Hearing the news, Macbeth’s wife is unwilling to allow time to lay the course and convinces Macbeth to murder the present king that very evening.
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Under the Ribs of Death by John Marlyn Literature Essay
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This essay mainly focuses on analyzing the character of it's protagonist Sandor. The researcher states that the main protagonist lost his identity throughout a story and it led him to tragic end. But if Sandor’s character is studied from various perspectives, sometimes he could get the sympathy from the readers.
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Thomas Paines Pamphlet Common Sense Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the events happening in Massachusetts and other American colonies have heavily influenced him and he began writing pamphlets and circulating them among fellow Americans, hoping to free the colonies from the grip of British royal tyranny. Paine’s major arguments based on royal heritage and aristocracy.
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The American Experience Portrayed In Staples Literature Works Literature Essay
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The contrast between the brothers’ lives emerges as not necessarily being the result of victimization of the black community but rather, the result of the choices they had made. This is also the case with other members of his family – when the choices are bad ones, the siblings are forced to bear the consequences of those choices.
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How Annie Dillard Uses Nature Literature Essay
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Sight allows her to appreciate color, light, and the glory of nature, when she sees nature around her after she has let go of the search for meaning, her personal shutter allows her to view the world in a new light. She sees the world around her as being magnificent and finds all shades of emotion and sensation in nature.
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What Fuentes Thinks About Language Literature Essay
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How I Started to Write is one of the many essays written by Carlos Fuentes and it is a good example of how he uses language to convey his ideas simply and beautifully to the reader. As he begins his tale in a Dickensian manner speaking about his birth and going on to describe the events of his early life.
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Contrast or a contradiction in the novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte Literature Essay
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This essay discusses that in the consideration of Edgar, Catherine demonstrates both the need to honor time-honored tradition as well as the need for personal material gain. In seeking a match of equal or greater significance than her own family name, Catherine’s marriage to Edgar could be seen as a means of bringing honor back to the family line.
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Supplementing Meaning Through Illustration Literature Essay
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Only by understanding the conditions of England when Hardy was writing this novel can one begin to understand how his first readers might have understood the images presented, but upon analysis, these images reveal that they convey much more about the story than one living in today’s modern world might at first imagine
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George Orwell's Concept of the Ideal Writer Literature Term Paper
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Although he is most known for his books Animal Farm and 1984, Orwell also wrote many articles as a political journalist and writer of short stories. During the course of his writing career, Orwell naturally made the connection between writing and political thinking, analyzing the various ways in which political leaders communicate. 
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Sympathy for the Monster Literature Essay
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This essay demonstrates that the monster deserves our sympathy for the earlier part of his existence as he has been abandoned as nothing more than a child, society refuses to accept him due to his physical features and despite his intelligence, he has no value to anyone who can see him physically (NLM, 2002).
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Art Informs Narrative in Eliots Middlemarch Literature Essay
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The author states that it is clear that Eliot makes a connection between the world of art and the ability of the artist to depict the sublime nature of man within the realm of reality. Eliot acknowledges the ability of an artistic view of the world to more fully engage the attention of the reader.
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Women in Virginia Woolfs Work Literature Essay
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In the novel Jacob’s Room, Woolf is able to satirically point out the censorship occurring in Victorian England by the manner in which she highlights the need for the discussion of sexuality. In the novel Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf has portrayed the female characters in such a way that they appear to feel inferior and inadequate.
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Comparison of Wrights The Man Who Was Almost A Man and Alexeis Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Literature Essay
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Wright’s Dave and Alexei’s narrator are both at a crossroads in their lives, standing between boyhood and manhood and while neither attains manhood, their respective characters undergo change and development. It must be emphasized, however, that the character developments are ultimately determined by their settings and limited by stereotypes.
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The Ladies Roles in Byrons The Corsair Literature Book Report/Review
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Her person, her mind, or her emotions were often not considered in the types of arranged marriages worked out between families (Thomas, 2007). It is this revelation Gulnare experiences in this scene. “Even though Gulnare is surrounded by splendor, she understands that she is only a slave and has no claims on the luxury by which she is surrounded.
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The Writing of Roald Dahl Literature Essay
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we have Charlie, his grandfather, and willie Wonka represent the good guys and they balance out the three-four awful children and their parents. (Amidon, Stephen 2006) He seems to have caught the exact right tone for kids. He knew how they thought, how things worked in their heads.
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Benjamins Lost Fingers Literature Essay
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I just described him as “the graying, bespectacled, gentlemanly boss”, because his presence was merely instrumental in establishing the ambiance of the department. Likewise, none of the colleagues or students that the narrator encounters in the college is given names, to maintain the focus only on Benjamin and his family.
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Escaping The Conclusion Literature Essay
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Darl’s reaction to his institutionalization is in hindsight not a manifestation of insanity, but rather one of sanity,.  On his journey to the mental hospital via train to Jackson, Darl laughs at everything that catches his fancy.  He merely says, "Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes."(Faulkner, 2000 p. 244) Darl obviously feels liberated.  His laughter does not in any way signal that he is surrendering to insanity. 
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To Search for Order in a World Where there is No Order Literature Essay
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The aim of the essay is to show the reader the notion of religion within a few pages of the story. Also, there is a Kurt Vonnegut’s "Slaughterhouse-Five" novel, that has very similar presentations of religion, but with a different historical perception. As with Hemingway’s novel, this story also offers a quick look directly at religion near the beginning of the book.
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Freedom and Equality in the Poems of the 1930s Literature Book Report/Review
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In "A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates" by Suman Gupta, Virginia Woolf is quoted to have said that the poets of the 1930s “feel compelled to preach, if not by their living, at least by their writing, the creation of a society in which everyone is equal and everyone is free. It explains the pedagogic, the didactic, the loud-speaker strain that dominates their poetry.”
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Marina Warner and Mythological Stories Literature Essay
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She stated that through observation plays a vital role in man’s performances, yet almost all the activities and conducts of the individuals are dependent on his imagination. Looking into the works of great authors and writers, it becomes evident that imagination serves as the central point to regulate man’s actions, reactions, and conducts.
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The Hobbit and Childrens Literature Literature Essay
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limited to subject matter and provides no information about the essential literary elements of ‘literature written especially for children.’ As a result, this definition is no longer adequate for today’s modern applications, but widespread debate continues regarding how
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Learning Human Nature From Novels Literature Essay
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From this research, it is clear that it cannot be answered by a simple phrase saying that novels make lives beautiful. There is no connection between gender and the level of sophistication in literature. Through the mentioned study, there is already a glimpse of the fact that people are not reading novels for anything.
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that golding himself believed that man is inherently evil, and the beast inside him cannot be permanently contained by any laws and governments. The novel serves the purpose of showing the innate evil of man. Golding explained that the breakdown of civilization in his novel resulted from nothing but the inborn evil of man.
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Ancient Greek Literature: Tragic Heroes Literature Essay
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The author states that Agamemnon was a hero because he led the Greek armies against Troy and was victorious. However, for him to achieve this, he committed the error of sacrificing his daughter Iphigenia to be able to sail to Troy. This was to be the reason for his horrific murder by his wife, Clytemnestra.
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Even titles of novels imply that symbolism and imagery is used in fiction Literature Essay
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From this paper, it is clear that works οf fiction do not consist οf a few objective data aspects. All this is in contrast to the former structuralist tradition, which had the purpose οf unmasking or reducing the text to its fundamental and definitive structure οf meaning. This reduces the chance to combine literary theory with indexing theories.
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The Geographical References Used In Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg Address Literature Essay
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Their deep insights about life are most valuable that without them, the study of American Literature would be incomplete. Their individual contributions to America spiritually, politically, and literally are indeed very important. They have helped shape what America is now, and they should be given such honor and recognition in literary appreciation and literary studies in general.
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Lord of the Flies: Civilization vs. Savagery Literature Essay
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According to to the author of the text, power is a major theme in many aspects of social life. Notably, power can be divided in many different ways that will determine the extent to which individuals have a say in how their lives are governed. Besides, who has the power often dictates the type of lifestyles that can be enjoyed by the rest of society.
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that he was a bit confused because he was not sure whether his passions and aptitudes were in the same direction. While he had a perfect academic record in Science and Maths, his performance in Humanities subjects was not rated excellent, according to the school grades.
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Manuscript in Medieval Art Literature Essay
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Some are extroverted but incapable οf expressing the true depth οf their souls. Artistic talents are gifts that allow one to express emotion. Art provides an avenue οf multiple expressions because it can be perceived differently than the artist intended, based on the background οf the spectator.
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The Mythical Transformation Literature Book Report/Review
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This pearl nearly destroys them before they finally get rid of it. The child has been killed by trackers trying to steal the pearl, and though they are even poorer than before, having lost their home and boat, they have learned that instant riches will not bring them happiness. They throw the pearl, which has brought them great pain, back into the ocean.
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Shakespeare Workgroup Literature Essay
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I now know differently, but it is too late.  All I can do is continue to ensure all who know of Othello’s end also know of Iago’s deceptions.  It does not alleviate my despair, but it helps to place it in its proper place. Judith: Thank you, gentlemen.  We are out of time for this session, but I do believe it has been enlightening for all.  
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Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Literature Essay
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This is something that has been lacking particularly in American politics in the past eight years, the period when many of the younger generation with whom the film series has appealed have begun to remember world
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The Cocaine Kids by Williams Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that both authors are investigators who became insiders entering specific social groups and deserving their trust to find out information which is known only to the members of the group. The investigations of both authors allow to see the problem from the inside, to see it more clearly and from another perspective.
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