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Perceiving Racism as a Tradition Literature Essay
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As stories, even those considered as fiction, are based from observations of real life situations, they usually reflect truths that are presented creatively according to the authors’ style of writing. For this reason, one must have a little background of a story’s author, origin and other pertinent information in order to clearly understand the symbolisms used in the story.
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Tartuffe as One of Moliere's Most Famous Plays Literature Essay
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The play caused much controversy in the 17th century, mainly because religion was a very sensitive issue, but the aim of Moliere was to show that there are those that manipulate religion to achieve certain goals. The play has been so influential that Tartuffe is now a synonym for hypocrite in both English and French. 
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Animal Farm by George Orwell Literature Essay
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The author states that both the authors tried to demonstrate an idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state; they also touched upon the theme of propaganda in their writings. Leaders of such societies also have to create something to keep order and obedience, to make people live in a certain way.
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The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure Literature Coursework
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Despite the four men's efforts to stay alive, they encounter false hints of rescue and hope. The boat bears no truth for them, and the situation at sea seems to suggest that there is nothing to definitely know.  The four men suffering and toil are not rewarded. The Oiler, Billie, is the only one who does not succeed in the rush to the shore.
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Romanticism in Hamlet Literature Essay
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Claudius is the protagonist in the play and Hamlet plays the role of a tragic hero in the play. He gets many chances to kill Claudius but he delays avenging the death of his father, Hamlet gets possibly the finest opportunity when Claudius is seen to be praying in the play but Hamlet does not kill him there, this prolonging of revenge shapes up the play very well and it is easily the highlight of the play.
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The Poem My Last Duchess Literature Essay
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As the Duke takes the emissary through the palace, he halts to a stop and faces upfront the portrait of the deceased Duchess, inexorably a youthful and lovely lady. This picture of the late Duchess takes the Duke aback, who then starts to recall about the portrait meeting, subsequently about the Duchess herself.
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Country Good People Literature Coursework
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The short story illustrates the themes of moral and evil, how one encounters violence, and folly behind intellectual pretense. The story revolves around Joy who lost her leg in an accident. She undermines everyone in the region because she is highly educated. The author has reflected her life and history in the themes developed in the story.
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The Theme About Great Ambitions and a Blind Desire to Have Power Literature Literature review
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This topic can be met in the creations of many writers, but Shakespeare, like a real genius did his best to help people understand his main idea and reveal the drawbacks all humans have. In any case, this tragedy is interpreted by many directors in different films and a character of Lady Macbeth is shown in detail.
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The Problem of Conformity Literature Assignment
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To substantiate the essence of the theme, two poems are taken as samples: One by Langston Hughes titled “Mother to Son” and the other by Claude McKay titled “America” Conformity is associated with the generations that are frustrated with the American culture, tradition and even living style.
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Keats Ode to Nightingale and Shelleys Adonais Literature Essay
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Shelley is mourning his friend’s death and wishes to remember him forever. To express his love, he compares Keats to a Greek god, Adonis, who loved Venus but died at a young age. The god is mythically known as having several lovers. Shelley wants his readers to develop such a unique memory for Keats that they remember and love him forever.
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Events Of Hiroshima Terrorist Attack In Literature Literature Essay
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Berger presented his topic through a story about how he remembered to read the book Unforgettable Fire (Hiroshima 316) because of his influential friend who wrote to him about the possible third world war and yet his friend sounded somewhat innocent of the destructive reality the war could actually bring.
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I Ask My Mother To Sing Literature Essay
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This essay demonstrated that the poem ‘I Ask My Mother To Sing’ implements the poetic form to describe the feeling and ambiance surrounding the experience of his mother singing. Ultimately, the poem is a strong piece of literature not simply in its story or implementation of poetic form, but in the way that Lee captures and articulates a true and meaningful aspect of human experience.
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Black literature in the USA Literature Essay
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The conclusion states that Afro-American literature is the quintessence of expression of black identity and its struggle in a white society for its liberty. Starting from the themes of “freedom vs. slavery” it has culminated in the form of a sensibility of an existence showing that the subject in discussion is not a stereotypical entity rather it is a self that has an “inside”.
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The Use of Metaphors in the Chapter Nickel Literature Essay
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There are various metaphors starting from the title of the chapter itself which is a name of metal but represents the author's experience with certain kinds of people. This is not the only metaphor used in this chapter there are various others like the submarine. These metaphors make the author be effective in explaining his experience in a disguised manner.
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Movie Scene Analysis - Case of Moneyball Literature Essay
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As the paper outlines, there is loud music being played inside and the atmosphere is very relaxed and jovial. The music seems to be belonging to the dance genre and is fast-paced and energetic. Everyone seems to be relaxing and having fun as some of them are dancing while others are singing along with the song.
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Censorship of Slaughterhouse Five Literature Essay
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The novel is recognized as a preeminent work by critics of varied tastes, affiliations and dispositions. Yet, it is deemed as a cultist and morally repugnant work by certain sections of society – especially those from the extreme Right of the political spectrum.
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Making Love in Supermarkets Literature Essay
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The author of the paper argues that the contemporary hedonist shopping has become transformed in a manner that relationships can be identified through shopping. He claims that the traditional form of shopping has transformed to a more devotional sense where people almost conduct shopping as sacrifice.
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Definition of The Cold War Literature Essay
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The narrator meets them when he is on a family vacation. This encounter between a sensitive young boy and an unsatisfied older woman is flavored by the distinct descriptions of the people around them and the way they carry themselves. The narrator's father, a principled engineer, enthuses over the new age when economic scroungers will disappear.
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Reading Response- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literature Book Report/Review
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The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which tends to be a first-person narrative of a woman suffering from depression, whose husband has limited her existence to the upstairs bedroom of the mansion they had rented during the summers. This woman is not allowed to work so that she may get well soon.
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Understanding of Nature in To Build a Fire by Jack London Literature Essay
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“To build a fire” is a story by Jack London set in the open-air. In the story, Hillier avers that London employs the theme of nature and depicts it as a jagged, free place to demonstrate that, even though people may want to be free in the outdoors, it is important to always cultivate a sense of friendship or live within what has been tested.
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Lady Macbeths Soliloquies Literature Essay
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In this paper, the character of Lady Macbeth will be explored through the various soliloquies that appear in the play. We will try and see what these monologues reveal about her character and whether they add any new dimensions therein that the rest of the play does not. We will also see what effect these speeches have on the audience’s reception of the character.
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Importance of Shakespeare in the National Curriculum Literature Essay
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Writer Customer World Literature 28 November 2012 Importance of Shakespeare in the National Curriculum 1. Introduction Every play of Shakespeare is an intriguing and diverse exploration of human psyche, behavior and cliches. In very simple words he encapsulates essence of meaning which touches the hearts of all the readers and forces them to ponder upon his ideas and perceptions about life.
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Victims of Chauvinism in Dsires Baby by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Perkins Literature Essay
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John prejudiced against his wife while considering himself being a male superior to his wife. It is the irony that despite or more precisely because of his best efforts, the narrator lost her mind. The treatment came out dreadful for her. The real issues of the time were thus systematically expressed by dramatic ironies in the two short stories.  
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Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe Literature Essay
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It is evident from the study that Chinua Achebe in "Dead Men's Path" tries to illustrate to us is the theme of tolerance and understanding of other people's beliefs. Achebe presents to us Michael Obi, a young man who, drunk with success, feels like he was above and superior to people less educated than him.
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Importance of Gender in Millers Death of a Salesman Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Death of a Salesman definitely is a tragedy of the common man. This common man is also sexually specific. Blaming the play as masculine by a number of critics cannot be denied but all literary works are a mirror of the society. The social structure of the 1950s is truly represented through the play.
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The Novel Fahrenheit 451 Literature Essay
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Montag drifts downstream and bumps into a renegade intellectual group, the Book People under the leadership of Granger. They welcome him and assign him the role of memorizing the Book of Ecclesiastics. Fighter jets move in and destroy the whole city. The story comes to an end with Montag and the Book people moving on to new territory to rebuild civilization.
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A Synthesis of the Themes in Selected Poems about War Literature Essay
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War is the single most physically devastating event that has fascinated human intelligence since the beginning of time. The bravery of soldiers in combat, the glory and prestige of patriotic young men and the heart rendering image of the soldiers’ mothers, sisters and wives awaiting their return has been a common theme of war poems not only in Europe, but across the world.
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The Three Faces of Eve Literature Book Report/Review
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This review analyzes The Three Faces of Eve, best-selling book about a young woman, given the pseudonym Eve White, who suffers from multiple personality disorder (MPD) which is based on a series of true events that took place back in the mid-twentieth century, and is written by Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley, the two psychiatrists who had treated her
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Walt Whitman and Cady Stanton Literature Essay
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A close glance of United States tends to illustrate the differences and the commonalities identified by Whitman. For instance, the Whites and the Blacks have their own differences. Majorly, the blacks are viewed as the inferior race and do not deserve equal rights as the whites.
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Social and Personal Issues in Native Son and Their Eyes Were Watching God Literature Essay
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The book’s perceived lack of “stylistic elegance” has been associated with instigating racial violence (Tuitt, 202). However, I believe that the book addresses some key social issues from the lens of an African American male who creates a sense of commotion in an individual with its accounts of murder, rape, and other violence.
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Transition to Modernity: Chinese Literature Literature Research Paper
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China made significant leaps to modernity during the mid-twentieth century. Aileen Chang’s “Love in a fallen city” is one of the modern works of literature that effectively capture the socio-economic and political developments that came about following the spread of Communism and the entry of Western Capitalism in China.
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What Is Folklore and How Is It Used In Past and Today Literature Essay
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What Is Folklore and How Is It Used In Past and Today. Folklore has long been associated with tales passed from one generation to another. They are common among the African American and Native Indians community. In the past, folklore tales were used to take people back to the beginning of their ancestor’s lives.
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The Relationship between Roma and Sita Literature Admission/Application Essay
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The book, “Ramayana” is viewed as one of the utmost Indian epics. The book was written between 1500 and 4th century BC, though it has been adapted and restated numerous times with each narrator giving a diverse version in order to meet different preferences and demands.
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Aylmer's Hubris in The Birthmark Literature Essay
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In his tales, some of the characters are more wholly good, such as Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter, whereas others are more wholly evil, such as Roger Chillingworth in the same composition. This evil, present in all men, is sin in Hawthorne’s eyes.
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Comparison of The Lady with the Pet Dog by Anton Chekhov, and Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs Literature Essay
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Other aspects such as plot character, points of view, setting, tone, and themes in the two stories will be compared. The Lady with the Pet Dog is a fiction story that revolves around vacationing Dmitry Gurov who meets a lady called Anna Sergeyevna. Anna who is a married woman intrigues Dmitri, a Moscow banker.
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On Going Home by Joan Didion Literature Essay
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Joan Didion’s essay “On Going Home” talks about a struggle to connect an old life with the persona’s family and the family of her own.
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The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck Literature Research Paper
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The protagonist of the story, Elisa, has a life that is defined by its lack of intimacy. She is married, but she and her husband are stiffly associated, their communications built upon a formality that keeps a barrier between them. It is suggested that this is because her husband does not truly understand her.
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East Asian Studies in China Culture Literature Essay
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The Chinese Communist Party has a policy that sees the capitalism that it espouses along with the tight control that it maintains on the affairs of its people as merely a stage in its achievement of a communist society. This involves a rather complex understanding of the theories that Marx had propounded.
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Communication studies paper about communication dimension in Mexican Culture. (palanca and simpatica) Literature Essay
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The above fact is clear in the case of Mexico. The country’s history has been related to that of the United States, especially in the period that followed the war between Mexico and United States (from 1846-1848). Indeed, from 1848 onwards, the influence of American politics and ethics on Mexican culture has been extremely strong, especially in the areas of Mexico cited near the borders with USA (Nakayama & Halualani 2011).
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A comparative study of extreme Islamic terrorist groups Literature Essay
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A comparative study of extreme Islamic terrorist groups U.S. Homeland Insecurity. In the modern age the entire world is shaken by Terrorism. It is difficult to define terrorism but violent activities of the terrorist groups have threatened mankind. Through Terrorism, the criminals express their anger against activities they dislike.
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Yellow Woman Literature Research Paper
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Yellow Woman The mystery of love and the feelings related to it have always compelled humans to give it a thought if such things really exist? Is there something known as true love? Or it’s just a trick to procreate? Love has always been one of the favourite subjects of fiction writers like Leslie Marmon Silko, James Joyce and John Updike.
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Wordsworth in The Daffodils Literature Literature review
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The details of the event was captured in a tableau of words that brought the poem’s readers not just to the landscape but to the actual feelings that Wordsworth must have felt as he stopped to admire the beauty before him. If we were Wordsworth and we found ourselves before a cluster of daffodils.
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Passing by Nella Larsen Literature Essay
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Center of discussion in this paper is Nella Larson’s novel “Passing”. In it, racism is shown between two characters Irene and Clare on the context of skin color in the African community. Because Clare’s skin color is light, she can easily pass off as a white but Irene cant. The story projects different issues that arose between Irene and Clare due to this.
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Metropolitan Museum Art Research Literature Research Paper
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By examining the form, I hope to incorporate my understanding of the two artworks in terms of its artistic elements with its actual presentations. On the other hand, by examining the substance, I aim to elevate my appreciation of the two artworks by putting the primary messages in a wider socio-historical context.
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Lullaby by John Fuller Literature Essay
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The paper discusses the true essence of the lullaby observed. This is the reason that the author has mentioned the first two lines of the poem as also his last two lines; he is telling his child to go to sleep while his child’s eyes are shut and the fingers uncurled. This poem is a perfect example of what a parent of a newborn should sing to his or her child while making him sleep.
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Literature: Moral and Justice Literature Essay
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The novel has the central figure Effi, a woman of the aristocratic descent. Te first issue of justice that hits as one starts reading the novel is the fact that the young and childlike Effi, who is just seventeen, is forced to marry a noble whom she does not like.
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The Evil of Victoria in Zofloya Literature Essay
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The scandalous nature of the novel was such that it was difficult for it to be understood within the patriarchal society from which it came as having been written by a woman. The novel explores sex and sin, criminality and pure wickedness all while framing it from the experiences of a female character.
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Beowulf by Raffel Burton Literature Research Paper
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There are several important events in the story; they can be discussed with the help of the five passages from the text given below. 1) “the swirling/ Surf had covered his death, hidden/ Deep in murky darkness his miserable/ End, as hell opened to receive him” (pg.
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Tertullian's Depiction of Women Literature Essay
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Women ought to dress in mourning clothes for the kind of disgrace the sin the first of their kind brought and the much hatred that followed humanity. Despite the depth of sin the first woman committed women cannot be condemned for eternity to wear mourning dress throughout.
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Satire in Voltaire's Candide vs. Swift's Gulliver's Travel Literature Term Paper
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In the novels “Candide” and “Gulliver’s Travels” both Voltaire and Jonathan Swift have distorted the reality that the readers’ are very familiar with in a way to make it ridiculous (sometimes disgusting) and simultaneously “funny, comical, something no reasonable person would engage in” (Johnston 3).
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