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The Space Race in Wolfes Writings Literature Essay
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In my quest for the bigger picture, I came to remember that there was a subject of mine where the Cold War between the United States and the USSR was discussed. I remembered reading that the two nations were rivals not only in armaments and sphere of influence but also in reaching and dominating the space.
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1984 vs. Brave New World Literature Essay
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The governments use different tactics of manipulation, the Party from "1984" uses torture to subdue those who might oppose it, Utopia of "Brave New World" controls people by showering them with pleasure, which is ultimately more effective because pleasure-based control makes the victim want to feel good by submitting to it.
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When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the eldest of 11 children Esmeralda Santiago grew up in Puerto Rico. At age 13 her single mother moved the family to Brooklyn. Esmeralda was accepted in New York High School of Performing Arts after having only learned English for two years. She studied at Harvard University and graduated with honors.
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The Works of Roald Dahl Literature Essay
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Taking into account children’s literature only, it is possible to predict that children will be positively impressed by heroes’ adventures and their courage. As other children’s books, Dahl’s books include vivid pictures and illustrations in order to help small readers to grasp the idea at once and image their favorite heroes and heroines
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Oedipus the King: Victim of the Gods Literature Essay
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As such, my argument will be undertaken in the context of the thematic elements present in a work of this type. Oedipus is a character who represents many things to many people. His story, however, does not take place within a vacuum, nor is it historical.
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What Would a Clone Say by Gary Rosen Literature Term Paper
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The current textbooks virtually all make a basic distinction between convergent and so-called linked arguments. In a linked argument, both premises are linked so that each is required in order to support the conclusion. In a convergent argument, each line of evidence is separate from that of the other premises.
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The Turn of the Screw by Barry Literature Book Report/Review
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Language only describes the genuine article. It is only a symbolic representation of the perception -- not of the reality. It is similar to how a stick man only represents a human and is not actually a human. Furthermore, the perception of the stickman is not the stickman itself but only a mental representation of it.
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An Unusual Scrivener and an Unlikely Lawyer Literature Assignment
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The author states that the narrator has quite a lot to say about both himself and Bartleby, and his experience with the scrivener seems to have been really educative. It could be argued that the lawyer gets a scrivener after his heart to help him know himself better. The position of the subordinates in his office is also preeminently safe.
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19th century medievalist poetic comparison Literature Essay
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Knights performing acts of chivalry, damsels in distress, magical beings, and internal struggles between loyalty and passion are prominent identifying aspects of medieval literature.
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War and society in the American Revolution by J.Resch Literature Essay
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Due to its relevance to United States history, there is a wealth of literature on the subject which is typified by a chronological discussion of political and military upheavals, military strategies and tactics, personalities and capped off with a conclusion of the importance of this war to the way the United States is now today
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Native Son by Richard Wright Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that speaking of the author himself, his motives are highly questionable taking into serious consideration his own race and ethnicity and his personal leanings on political issues. Without emphasizing, he was a descendant of Negro slaves. The book was written at a time when the black people in America were regarded as inferior citizens.
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The Open Boat by Stephen Crane. Who is the Most Ethical Character Literature Essay
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The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane was written in 1897. This story depicts a real experience form Stephen Crane's life. It is possible to say that the most ethical person in the story is a correspondent, who is full of wisdom all the time and tries to be objective in all situations.
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Is Hamlet Primarily a Tragedy of Revenge Literature Book Report/Review
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One of the most celebrated tragedies in English literature, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is an important play by William Shakespeare which narrates the story of how Prince Hamlet takes revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered his father, King Hamlet, and married his mother Gertrude.
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Analysis of World Literature: Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke and Edmond Hamilton Literature Essay
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  The authors chosen by me as the manager of the Manuscript Search workgroup for Hard Cover Literature Publishing are four famous science fiction writers who are tightly connected with Hard Cover Literature Publishing. The authors are frequently influenced by the society in which they live or the times and events within their life spans.
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God Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent by Gustavo Gutierrez Literature Literature review
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The purpose of the author was to convince the reader that poverty, disease and pestilence exist not because God wanted to punish them or society in general. These conditions exist because God wanted us to learn how to help others and not become dependent and mere spectators. He wanted us to experience the creation ourselves.
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Witches historical & fictional Literature Essay
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Looking at the facts however, one can discern the fact from fiction, and shed some light on this eerie subject.By definition, a witch is a person who can cast spells, use magic powers, or is at one with the super natural (Witchcraft). Witches can be either male or female.
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Analysis of Articles about Kate Chopin's Works Literature Annotated Bibliography
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Arner contends that Chopin was a realist and her two stories, “Cadian Ball” and “The Storm” are a study in realism. Arner supports this view through a close textual analysis. As regards “The Storm” he maintains realism to be primarily expressed in the illicit incident of adultery and lovers’ expressions of feelings and emotions throughout. 
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Boarded and Caged: Ideas of Freedom in Warren Pryor Literature Essay
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To the parents’ credit, it is obvious that they want their son to have a better life than they did. They are hardscrabble farmers, and we know that they consider this life a kind of imprisonment based on the statement that they are “slaving to free him from the stony fields.”
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Fascination with the Fringes: Falstaff and Willmore in Shakespeare and Behn Literature Book Report/Review
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However, as Vladimir Zelevinsky notes in his review of The Rover, Behn takes such pains to make her marginal characters appear so lively and vibrant than the men by them turn into indistinguishable caricatures by comparison. Zelevinsky praises the metaphor of theater, with the complex plot strands that connect, at some points, as many as five couples who are romantically interested in one another.
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The Book of the Courtier Book One Literature Essay
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According to the report Castiglione had basically written a handbook to help others at court achieve success.   In the first book, the reader is presented with several concepts of what made a man the perfect Renaissance courtier.  While all of these arguments are quite sound, perhaps the most efficient arguments are based on education.
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The Geographical Poetics of Giovanni Verga Literature Book Report/Review
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The author analyzes the oeuvre of Giovanni Verga, a Sicilian writer of such works as Cavalleria Rusticana and I Malavoglia. He discusses his work along the lines of "Geographical Poetics." This references something regarding the interplay between narrative technique, dialogue, and linguistic idiosyncrasies in order to elucidate a topology of culture.
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Nature and Meditation in Romantic Poetry Literature Essay
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Poetry came much before prose in human history. The Ramayana in Sanskrit, by the great Indian sage poet Valmiki , the Iliad and the Odyssey, by the Greek poet Homer are some of the earliest pieces of poetry still read and enjoyed. It was easier for the ancient people to remember something in verse form , with rhythm and rhyme than to remember something prosaic .Man has expressed his deepest thoughts and longings through  poetry.
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Transcendentalism: Literary Origins in America and Influence Literature Essay
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Transcendentalist literature espoused a higher spiritual reality, a reality which could be used to live our lives in this young experimental country called America differently and more vibrantly.  One of the most articulate and creative Transcendentalist writers, inspired by Emerson, was Henry David Thoreau.
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Cornelius Eadys Poetry Literature Essay
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His work celebrates Harlem, offering brief glimpses of urban life, meditations to jazz and blues music, and a quiet, crystalline sort of anger. “Brutal Imagination” is Cornelius Eady’s most recent collection of poems which was published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 2001 and was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award in Poetry.
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Homer's Odyssey Literature Book Report/Review
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I dare not let myself think of it. Even though the gods themselves willed it no such good fortune could befall me". Telemachus is questioning is own importance to the gods, which will inspire him. Odysseus has been captured by the goddess Calypso on the island Ogygia.
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Analysis of A Sorrowful Woman of Gail Godwin Literature Book Report/Review
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The Sorrowful Woman of Gail Godwin is one with a very effective plot.It is said that all plots center on conflicts and this is of four kinds: between people, between a person and society, between a person and nature and lastly, between different aspects of the self (Dory Lynch).
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Detailed Notes on 'Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima Literature Book Report/Review
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Kiyoaki is the son of a rising samurai family originating in Kagoshima where his grandfather was a marquis. He lives with his family a life of luxury near Tokyo. Satoko belongs to an upper class family. The novel depicts how their relationship goes through rough patches and dies under the adverse circumstances instead of rising above them.
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Literary Austerity In Paul Austers Ghosts Literature Essay
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In Ghosts, Black and White turn out to be the same person. And that too a writer. In fact, all three protagonists in all three novels of the Trilogy is a writer and ostensibly all of them are Auster or part of Auster. But we neither know clearly the other Auster or the other half of the character who is partly like Auster.
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Definition of the concept of The Right Stuff Literature Essay
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The book carries an intellectual feel to it, which envelops the achievements of The Mercury Seven, astronauts selected for the NASA space program who had ‘the right stuff’ in them. The book tries to explain the concept of ‘the right stuff’ which the astronauts had that proved them to be the heroes of their times.
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Ethical evaluation of The Things They Carried On the Rainy River Literature Essay
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If he were a coward right from the start, he would not have written this; ‘All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit.
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Analysis of The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien Literature Essay
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The soldiers can listen to and hear nothing except fears and horrors of war. Thus, young soldiers, bearing illusions about war and perhaps holding on to a system of loosely formed values to guide their conduct in combat, may discover their values and assurances crumbling, along with their illusions.   
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Representation of Men in Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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In “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” Rick Deckard, an android bounty hunter has just finished neutralizing three “andys” ( Androids) and he has to make a final charge to finish three more. These are the advanced kind of androids that are more human in nature. It also has to be done the same day because these three androids have already been warned and could soon be on the run.
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Analysis of Scenes of Hamlet Play by William Shakespeare Literature Assignment
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Ophelia drowned at the place where a willow tree grows over a brook. Ophelia had made garlands of willow branches and wildflowers. She climbed the willow to hang the garlands. A branch broke and she fell into the water. She started singing as her clothes become waterlogged and pulled her It was strange that no one tried to save her.
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Twin Evils of the Nineteenth Century Society Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Little Dorrit, about prison life, is set in an English debtors' prison called Marshalsea Prison. It is widely believed that Dickens borrowed this aspect of the story from his own life and the harrowing experiences of his father who was put behind bars for not paying his debts. Social class dominated social life at all levels.
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Composition of Iliad and Odyssey Literature Essay
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Metaphor is a way of emphasizing of praise or degrading someone by directly referring to the subject as something else. With a little change it could easily become a simile if we refer to our subject as like something else. Epithet on the other hand is like a nickname or a label, or an informal appellation.
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Orwell's Novel 1984 Literature Book Report/Review
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The society depicted by Orwell is free from prejudices and hatred, violence and crimes, civil disobedience and protests typical for liberal societies. in this case, strict government control is undesirable because it limits freedom of choice but it is better for the mass of citizens because it establishes a positive and healthy atmosphere and happiness for all citizens.
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Utopia by Sir Thomas More Literature Essay
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The particular society of "Utopia" can be analyzed from different perspectives, and the way it was conceived by the author may suggest that in his work More provided the culmination of the humanistic rational thought, justified communal society, and even tried to advance values of Christianity.
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An Imperfect God by Henry Wiencek Literature Book Report/Review
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The author pours through records of slave sales and letters of Washington and his family in order to discover what Washington's true thoughts were and what he actually did when it concerned his slaves. The author examines how Washington went from a man steeped in the belief that slavery was acceptable to one who seemed to be deeply troubled by it.
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Hamlet By William Shakespeare Literature Book Report/Review
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Before Denmark sunk to its worst, Gertrude had been a role model for women; she was faithfully married to the king and was true and loyal to his every wish. However, just as Eve succumbed to evil in the Garden of Eden, Gertrude was swift to turn against her husband, thereby succumbing to the hypocrisy that was becoming common to Elsinore.  
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Iliad Does Pity Become a Hero by Devangini Mahapatra Chauhan Literature Book Report/Review
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Homer's poems date back to the 7th or 8th century and have an almost haunting quality in their elements of relentless strength and power. Homer has been credited with demonstrating the nuances of various warrior-like qualities through his heroes. While rumored to be blind, Homer was known as an Ionian poet with great foresight and amazing clarity in his work.
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Labor in the colonial Economy of Africa Literature Essay
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This Book Is not Required by Inge Bell Literature Assignment
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The author states that this is a book which has in fact been regarded as being an incredibly powerful tool which can be used in many different ways, in particular, to introduce students to the sociological analysis and personal reflection of college life, and through the concepts that are introduced in the book.
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Symbolism of Snakes in Metamorphoses Literature Essay
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According to the report the hero arrived in the form of Apollo, who killed the serpent Python. He then established the annual Pythian games to commemorate this anniversary. The God that bears the bow, and that had never before used such arms, but against the deer and the timorous goats, destroyed him.
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True Justice in 1916 Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that when that same childless, unkempt woman is on trial for the strangling death of her husband, no male judge and the all-male jury is going to have any sympathy for her difficult living situation or her troubled marriage. As far as they would be concerned she was not living up to her end of the marriage agreement anyway.
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The Three Musketeers and the Effect This had on Modern Art Literature Essay
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This paper analyzes "The Three Musketeers", the novel of Alexandre Dumas. Basically it tells the story of a young man named d’Artagan’s adventures once he leaves home to become a musketeer, and although he is not actually considered as being one of the main musketeers, as the actual musketeers are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
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The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Tolstoy vividly portrays that an individual lives under social pressure which dictates him certain norms and standards. The pressure of existence is that pulse of mundane, day-to-day life which throbs in the body of each human being but which is not noticed or remarked on until one's “pulse” is taken in an examination of some kind.
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Middle Passages by Charles Johnsons Literature Book Report/Review
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His book Middle Passages won him the National Award in which he basically focuses upon the era of the seventeenth century and describes several events of that time from the perspective of the African Americans (Pedersen, p225). The author has emphasizes a wide range of issues in the novel like racial discrimination, social inequality, adjustment problems of the colonized people.
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To Elsie by William Carlos Williams Literature Essay
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The author states that the mixture of simple language with more complex terms reflects the mixture of the ordinary and the extraordinary that appears in Williams’ vision of the country. In the first line, when Williams writes of “the pure products” he immediately thought of all the goods that American manufacturers and all the food that its farmers produce.
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Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Literature Book Report/Review
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In spite of the gawky situation, Cervantes felt compelled to respond with his authentic Part II, a veritable sequel to his earlier work. It is seen by many critics that structurally the two parts bear distinct differences —one, somewhat imperfect, and linear in form and the other, a more nearly perfect, circular form. One must note Cervantes’ desire to write a sequel, and the ironies inherent.
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Character Changes in Macbeth Literature Book Report/Review
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Macbeth becomes king of Scotland but cannot rest till he has seen the last of all who stand in the way of his kingship. He goes on a ruthless killing spree ably goaded by Lady Macbeth. He first kills the servants of Duncan to make everyone believe that they caused Duncan's death.
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