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Comparison of Odysseus' Character in Different Sourses Literature Essay
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The movie ‘War Horse’ has its main character, Albert portraying the same characteristics as Odysseus,’ with almost every move acted the same way (Honea 100). Albert goes to war with his people and horses, including his genius horse ‘Joey.’ His troop won the battles at times but lost during other times.
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Analysis of Book III Chapter I of The Wealth of Nations Literature Term Paper
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The author also pointed out the importance of human labor inputted into the manufacturing industry. His view explored the concept that labor could be the most important factor for a nation to reach success and stability.
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Elements of Fantasy and Romanticism Literature Essay
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In neoclassicism, there was a belief that both fantasy and romance were the rejection of the real and the truth that was a part of the social and cultural class as well as the literary elements. This was combined with the use of these two elements as a technique in which fantasy and romance were created through plot lines for love interests, relationships or to develop plots that could not manifest into a specific reality.
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Romanticism in America Literature Essay
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The ideals and thoughts of Romanticism reached America and its writers in the nineteenth century. Romanticism in America was often the product of the transcendentalism that was also a feature of the American philosophical landscape during the nineteenth century. Writers were influenced by this school of thought and it reflected in their writings. 
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Barn Burning by William Faulkner Literature Essay
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The author states that the plot follows the life of the Snopes family, who are forced to relocate as a result of the father, Abner Snopes, the patriarch and the main antagonist of the story. Abner Snopes’ pyromaniacal and compulsive desire to exact revenge often leaves him in a tight spot with the law and his son, Sarty.
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All Quiet on the Western Front and The Things They Carried - What Is in Common Literature Essay
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In the short story The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien reveals and critically elaborates the fears, horrendous physical conditions a man may be willing to be exposed, to salvage his reputation. The story is about the infantry Platoon fighting in the jungles of Vietnam in 1968, and the related weight the soldiers had to carry. 
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Their Dogs Came with Them Literature Book Report/Review
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Thus, by comparing the construction of freeways by destroying Chicano communities to the colonization of Aztec culture by the Spanish, the scholar presents the various effects of such colonization on the people and the ways they adopt to overcome the effects.
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Gilgamesh and the Poems Literature Essay
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The issues that are focused on in the literary discourses are kin to thematic addresses. The works could be fictions or recounts of real events, but whichever the case, one fact that stands out is that the issues are from the observations that the authors make on the daily occurrences.
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Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy Literature Research Paper
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All These happenings inspired him to explore the themes of death, loss of love, and betrayal. He also faced a difficult life in most of the careers he ventured into including writing, and this subjected him to a life of continuous hard work. This reflects well in his works that are an indication of a writer who never took anything for granted, working hard for what he wanted.
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The Cask of Amontillado Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the character of Fortunato displays pride in the story and ultimately as seen in innumerable stories proves fatal for him and leads to his downfall. This paper will throw light upon the short story “The Cask of Amontillado”. The characteristics of the story will be comprehensively presented in this paper.
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Brecht Theory on Theatre versus Aristotelian Theory Literature Essay
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The actor is able to comment on his actions on stage and he should evoke understanding and emotions of the audience by his actions. The actor should enliven his character. If he acts in such a way that the audience believes him, then he's acting is worth seeing. The Brechtian actor is not pretending and he should be free and feel relaxed in his play.
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The Merchant and The Wife of Baths Tales Literature Essay
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Patterson’s problem with the merchant is not that he does not believe in the future; his problem is that the merchant seems to want to do both at the same time. He wants to believe and yet he is not ready to commit to any kind of belief. He is a man sitting on the fence unable to make a decision on whether he should believe in love or not.
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The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing Literature Essay
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Within months of meeting one another at an office party, Harriet moves in with David and they immediately begin to plan the rest of their lives together. These plans include purchasing an old, beautiful Victorian home and having as many children as their income can handle.
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Literature Essay
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Since the beginning of the play, the audience is introduced to a set of characters who are in love. In all these relationships, however, there are inequalities. The relationship between Hippolyta and Theseus, the duke of Athens is a result of the political situations of both parties.
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Role of Homers Andromache as Representative of Female Race Literature Research Paper
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The author states that some of the common characteristic traits of three main characters that provide an interesting comparison include courage and strength, role as a wife and importance of their role. Depiction of female characters as courageous and independent helps in establishing a woman’s status of an individual in the society.
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Candide by Voltaire Literature Essay
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The author states that the long journeys by Candide as presented by Voltaire are symbolic of a new wave of colonization that improves trade while creating immense wealth for the colonizers. Throughout the story, Voltaire expands the theme of brutality and torture, as the European interests expanded to new grounds symbolized by the vast journeys by Candide.
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Sublime in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Literature Essay
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The paintings displayed burning ships, fire, shipwrecks, sea storms, etc. immense similarities can be viewed between Burke’s theory and Turner's paintings on the sublime. Burkes points out that seas and oceans are more threatening and thrilling than landscapes. Turner depicts this theory and his paintings which present the sublime are mostly naval.
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Analysis of Human Relationships in Balzac's The Passion in the Desert Literature Essay
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The story itself set in a faraway desert has a sense of remote exoticism, and although talks about the everyday mundane events like eating, and sleeping is based on a strong theme that is deeper than and conveys more than the words used. The whole story is about human relationships, but I think what Balzac tries to bring to light is how close man and animal really are in their basic instincts.
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Images of God in Genesis Literature Essay
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God is a focal character in the lengthy narrative that is the book of Genesis; He is the most compelling character in the book. He is, in fact, the one figure whose presence ties it together from the beginning to end.
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Dancing skeletons: life and death in West Africa by Katherine Dettwyler Literature Essay
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The conclusion from this study states that the use of humor has made the book “Dancing Skeletons” amusing as one laughs at various instants. She has ensured that work in non-fictional and about real life and death. It brings out the experience of an observer in Mali. The entire book is extremely entertaining as it clearly presents information and facts.
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The Greek Tragedy Antigone by Sophocles Literature Book Report/Review
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As the play opens Antigone meets her sister Ismene and they lament these past occurrences. In addition to their father Oedipus’ tragedy, their brothers Polyneices and Eteocles killed themselves in a conflict. Since Polyneices fought against Thebes, Creon – the new king of Thebes – has ordered that his corpse remain unburied.
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Valley of the Wind and Other Manga Readings Literature Essay
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As has always been the case against all forms of gender disparity, the writer notes of how attempts were made to integrate girls into this whole saga of Manga and thus the opening of the closed world of Shoio Managa.
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George Orwell's 1984 Literature Book Report/Review
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The conclusion from this study states that Orwell’s 1984 functions as a compelling warning against giving into complete totalitarian control. Even while these satirical dimensions are perhaps the most relevant for modern-day political discourse, the novel also presents a meditation on our epistemological assumptions.
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Implications of Disconnection in Fight Club and American Beauty Literature Essay
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Dark, bleak, gray, and yet vital in the telling American Beauty illustrates the American Dream gone awry. Achieved and become stagnant the dream is tainted and the future is not what it first seemed (Bueka 2004). Only by escaping into the dreams and arms of others were the characters able to find any relief at all.
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Beowulf, Old English Epic Book Report Literature Book Report/Review
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1. b. According to the poem the construction of Heorot enabled the commoners to mingle with their lord as they enjoyed beer-like beverages while listening to the songs of the bards. From the poem it is clear that barbs songs were all about worshiping God for creating the earth, something that we are informed angered the Grendel, which is understandable primarily because he was demon who was descended from the murderous biblical Cain.
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Analysis of the Poem What its Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith Literature Essay
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The poem narrates the story of a desperate girl who is greatly affected by the injustices of the society due to her racial orientation and ethnicity. The story of the struggle portrays serious racism and segregation, which makes the girl fight hard to regain recognition in a society that alienates her for being black and different.
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Shakespeare Masterpiece in the 1990s Literature Term Paper
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Such a masterpiece has inspired numerous couples to fight for what they truly feel for is pure. Through times though, the world became rebellious from all the restrictions that have been put throughout the ages. Is there a place for classical masterpieces in modern art forms such as films?
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A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin Literature Essay
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The story demonstrates the process where a woman gets dissatisfied with her role of wife, as a mother and how she jumps out of the dissatisfactory duty she had to perform by isolating herself. The story also shows that how the woman could not handle too many choices that she gets in life and opts out to the most static role of doing nothing.
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The impact of the No Child Left Behind Law on Texas Schools Literature Research Paper
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Teachers and school staff have also been affected. This law has changed the previous manner in which money was delegated for educational purposes. Whether or not the impact of this law has been positive or negative is a controversial subject. The law was intended to improve academic performance.
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Creative Writing: Rebeca - the novel by Maurier Literature Coursework
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It is throbbing to witness the people you have loved for so long being loved by others. The space once filled by you gets filled by the new one. It is very painful… And for that matter I have to be there… never to leave Maxim alone… because with all my heart I loved him.
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The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer Literature Essay
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Mehring remains blind as he is unable to live like a human. He is unable to think about what is right and what is wrong. He is unable to keep all his relationships intact. Moreover, he cannot respond to emotions, be it of her mistress, her wife, son, or poor workers. He is unable to keep up with the little happiness of life or lovemaking.
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Poe Philoshophy of Composition. The Pit and the Pendulum, and A Predicament Literature Essay
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It is clear that Edgar Allen Poe intends that his short stories, “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “A Predicament” affect his reader directly and powerfully. The responses he wants from the reader, however, differ significantly and therefore the stories are expected to be differently structured, and to use very different tactics to manipulate the readers’ responses.
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Vagina Talks & Bullshit Walks - The Storm by Kate Chopin Literature Essay
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Queen Victoria had been a conservative in terms of giving women the right to vote, although she supported programs that improved the welfare of the poor, such as the Royal Commission on housing (The Royal Household). Beliefs in nature and the Church dictated gender rules (Guy 468).
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A Book That Was Lost by Agnon Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Agnon uses both humor and irony seamlessly and precisely that readers are entertained throughout the story. The story of “the kerchief” is funny and satirical. It is full of satirical examples that not only amuse the readers but also provide an insight into the Jewish culture.
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The Storm by Kate Chopin Literature Essay
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The themes of adultery and fidelity form a great part of her work. The ideals of the Victorian age inform much of her stories and the characterization in her work. The women characters of her stories seek to break out of the conventional roles that are set for them by the Victorian society.
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Shakespeares: As you like it Literature Essay
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As You Like it is one of Shakespeare’s earlier works that was first published between 1598 and 1599. It is a romantic comedy that is well known to Elizabethan audiences as an exemplar of “Christian” comedy. This play contains offstage spiritual conversations; however, the “Christian” designation in it does not refer to the religion itself.
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Representations of Muslims and Christians in Early Modern English Literature in the Renegado Literature Essay
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The Early English “renegade” Literature is interesting for the contemporaries. A modern process of globalization has deep roots in the historical processes of religious transformations and different aspects of turning. In accordance with the historical criticism, there was an option for Christians either to choose Islam instead of Christianity or to confront it.
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The Poem the Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Literature Essay
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White color symbolizes innocence. In this stanza, the author has used the word white chickens to indicate quite a good number of innocent people in the wheelbarrow. In this poem, the white chicken represents the children of farmers. The children are not the cause but innocent victims of the unfavorable lives of their parents.
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The Role of Women in Literature Literature Research Paper
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Women have always been at the center of almost all works of literature. Gender relationships reflected the realities of social and cultural life and enabled writers to express their attitudes to the norms and social conventions affecting women’s behaviors. As the role of women in society changed, so did the quality and content of classical writing.
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Devouring Time and Value of Sonnet Sequence in Shakespeare Verses Literature Essay
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The theme of time is a common thread in Elizabethan sonnet cycles. In an examination of William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) sonnets, the use of the theme of time can be reviewed for both thematic and functional purposes. Sonnet 1 creates a picture of how time can be personified for savage behavior towards nature, and Sonnet 12 creates animal imagery.
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A jury of her peers by Susan Glaspell Literature Essay
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This story has attracted the need understand how Susan Glaspell uses dialogue and visual symbols that largely surrounds the murder of a local farmer by his wife, to build up the idea that a chasm of misunderstanding exists between women and men. “A jury of her peers” greatly focuses on the various predicaments that are usually faced by women in a society that is dominated by men.
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Literary Article Analysis on Jane Eyre Literature Essay
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The writer builds her theory of Jane as a female hunger artist against the background of previous literature which touches upon “the images of starvation and hunger which pervade Jane Eyre” (1). Renk argues that Jane’s hunger artistry is a form of the “pregnant hag” (‘hag’ connoting ‘holy’), or “the grotesque body of the starving saint, and her struggle for justice, knowledge, and self-direction” (2).
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Similarities and Differences of Love Relationships Literature Essay
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s epic novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, narrates the family history of a native South American family, the Buendia's. This narrative is not merely a genealogical fiction, but also a historical allegory and an autobiography at the same time. Not only does this novel belong to multiple genres but it has several themes as well.
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A Comparative Analysis of The Scarlet Letter and Uncle Tom's Cabin Literature Essay
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A Comparative Analysis of The Scarlet Letter and Uncle Tom’s Cabin Novels have been read by people for enjoyment and reflection regarding the realities of life. Authors take advantage of that opportunity to share their thoughts, ideals and values to the readers.
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A Divine and Supernatural Light Literature Essay
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Introduction For a product to be excellent and acceptable, both the contents and the container have got to be perfect. This analogy holds good as for the presentation of sermon by Jonathan Edwards. His sermons are meaningful and provide the true interpretation of the truth contained in the gospel.
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The Handmaid's Tale Literature Essay
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She has been deterred from reaching her family. Her real name changed to Offred meaning Fred’s possession; her temporary man given to her by the state and being renamed the next man assigned to him. This was all about Gilead’s reaction to women’s rights and the problems that U.S.A had before revolution.
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The Pool Players Literature Assignment
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These kids are not interested to attend their school regularly. So, they decide to spend their time in a local pool club. They have no interest in their education and are happy with their carefree life style (Shaw, 1980). Analysis of the Poem: The poetess is captivated by her native city, Chicago.
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Discrimination Research Paper Literature Research Paper
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The main characters in the story, Desiree and Armand evoke instant reactions and the readers share their anguish. Their social status generates unsolvable intrigues. The relationship between Desiree and Armand is one related to their roots—the descent! Her social isolation creates a deep void in the mind of Desiree and she finds it rather impossible to cope up with her position and remains emotionally disturbed.
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Feminist Problems in Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that feminism itself and feminist stories are very relevant topics to consider. In the modern world, women gained many rights and freedoms, but unfortunately, we can’t say that they have already become free of prejudice and discrimination especially in developing countries.
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Literature Essay
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The variation of language gives a clear change in the narrator’s mood. The reader is able to establish the type of character used in the story. The change of the narrator's move indicates to the reader that the characters in the tale are not fictitious. Poe was also able to use language skills in stressing the theme of the tale, murder.
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