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Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift Literature Essay
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Generally, at the beginning of the story Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the main character Gulliver is seen as innocent, but he gradually changes in accordance with his experiences which are reflected in the ways he is treated, responds to, and behaves toward others he meets upon his encounters.
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Answer each question, Literature Essay
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The first definition offered is that every citizen must live up to his/her legal obligations and be honest. 2. The next definition is that an individual owes his/her friend help and his/her enemies harm. 3. Another definition is that justice is paying debts and speaking truth.
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Reflections: Oddysey, Rama's Exile, Oedipus and Medea Literature Essay
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From the epic, “Odyssey” the first scene is Circe’s attempt to seduce Odysseus after her magic fails to work on him. The second one is the scene that revolves around Odysseus and his son, Telemachus as they plan to slay Penelope’s suitors. “Ramayana” revolves around good and evil.
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Poetry Comparison: John Donnes The Fle and Death Be Not Proud Literature Essay
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With the possible exceptions of John Milton and Edmund Spenser, John Donne has been called the greatest Renaissance writer of all time as far as non-dramatic verse is concerned. Donne’s writing style has been described by one admirer as “very transcendent” and his brand of poetry characterized as metaphysical.
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Death and Impermanence from Two Poems Literature Research Paper
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These poems have remarkable similarities, and one of the main similarities is that they both emphasize how fleeting and short life is.  They both use metaphors to get their point across – Dickinson uses the fields of grazing grain to denotes maturity, which is before the decline, and Frost uses the metaphor of autumn for the same thing.
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The poem Those Winter Sundays Literature Essay
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The poem begins with the statement that even on Sunday the poet’s father got up early as usual and made the room warm for his family. Thereafter, the poet acknowledges that his father used to polish ‘my good shoes as well’. In the poem, one can identify an adult looking back into his childhood through the eyes of an adult and realizing his folly of not thanking his father.
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Breath Eyes Memory by Danticat Edwidge Literature Essay
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The author Donette A. Francis in her article, “Silences too horrific to disturb”: Writing Sexual Histories in Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, has well described the situation of women who were sexually assaulted on their own land, their struggle, their traumatized memories and their quest of running away from the memories of their horrific past that haunts them everywhere.
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Othello an Aristotelian Tragedy and a Tragic Hero Literature Essay
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Such a comparison between Othello and Aristotle’s theory provides the readers with an interesting experience of getting to know the characters of the play more closely. The various elements incorporated by Shakespeare include the role of a tragic hero. Aristotle’s definition of a Tragedy has acted as the foundation for the creation of Tragic plays.
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Comparison of Characters in Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice Literature Essay
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Lorenzo himself is a Christian while his girlfriend Jessica is a Jew. We get to learn that intermarriage between the two antagonistic religious groups is highly forbidden. This is a ’Love is blind’ kind of relationship that leads Jessica and Lorenzo into the world of unfamiliarity characterized by love blossoming beyond religious boundaries.
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The Role of Irony, Symbol, and Setting the Issue of Gender Differences in Susan Glaspell's Trifles Literature Essay
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However, as the play progresses, one gets a glimpse of how men and women in America in the early 20th century would define their roles according to their gender. Gender is the major determining force that governed men and women in the past and it may still be true at present.
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Eroticsim and Love-Moriz Von Craun Courtly Love Literature Essay
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This can be proved by King Nero’s deeds. He never gave up in all that came in his mind before he tried it. In fact, he did exactly whatever came in his mind (355). It is surprising for a man to hate women and prefer men to them. This man believed in serving the command of love; whether good or bad.
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Inner and Outer Life in E.M. Forsters Maurice Literature Essay
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The reader is given an insight into the inner thoughts of Maurice when he says, “I think I shall not marry” and considers that the lecture is all lies. In a sense, Maurice is already aware of the ethos and morality of his society – Edwardian, conservative, and religious England – and his unrealized sense that he is not part of that culture.
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Poetry Robert Frost Literature Essay
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I. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” can be interpreted as a poem about the tedium of life as an adult with responsibilities. A. The first stanza provides a clue to a Marxist interpretation of the poem 1. Woods owned. 2. Speaker conveys the importance of balancing life and work.
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The Victim of Love or Society into the Novel Entitled The Sorrows of Young Werther Literature Essay
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That novel, which was written by the German philosopher, poet, and author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a very young man in 1774, has become a classic work of European literature. The form of the novel is a great part of its charm since it is written as a series of letters from Werther to his male friend.
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century Literature Essay
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The concept of gender in the nineteenth century was consistent with suppression of those who were regarded as inferior. Women were often regarded as having a specific place in society to men that began to be questioned at this time. Margaret Fuller’s essay Woman in the Nineteenth Century creates a question of what gender meant during this time, specifically with who was entitled to carry out specific duties according to gender.
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Parents-Children Conflicts in the Stories Literature Essay
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In all these stories the parents are, either explicitly or implicitly, oppose one or a number of their children’s decisions, either from a conservative or a calculative point of view. In contradiction to their parents’ opinions, the children choose to follow their own ways.
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The Relationships of a Father or Mother and One Child Literature Essay
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The author states that the above-mentioned writers indicated the role of the home due to depicting the relations between a wife and a husband, a child and parents. This is easily seen by means of the following stories: Half and Half (by Amy Tan), Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (by Joyce Carol Quates).
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The Epic of Gilgamesh and Modern Age Leader Literature Essay
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The current era brought the fear of wars and innocent lives have been sacrificed to gain material means. The kings used to crush nations and subjects under them to prove their power. Nowadays democrats play the same role but in a decent manner. Attaining material gains, a logical solution for one nation to impose war against the other.
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Perrine's Literature (Structure, Sound, and Sense) Literature Essay
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According to the study conducted, in “The Cask Of Amontillado,” the author employs the first person narrator point of view to develop the plot of the story. The author uses a monotonous, persistent perverse narration throughout. The point of view is crucial since it has a great role in influencing the perception of the story by the readers.
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Disinfection Alternatives for Contact Surfaces and Toys at Child Care Centers Literature Essay
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I find the literature review clearly written because its contents were highly organized. The proponents were able to relate all major concepts which can be found from the title of the study. All major concepts were given an equal amount of focus in the literature review, which made the entire study clear and enough to be understood.
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Comparison of Desirees Baby and The Help Literature Essay
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Both stories revolve around the female protagonists, who are justified in being center of attention due to their distinctive traits. The family ties and bonding shown in the two stories represent the obligations a woman carries invisibly. The thin line between love and hate is the most evident aspect in those scenarios which delude the original feelings of love, of the stereotypes about slaves.
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Analysis of Ernest Hemingways Literary Works Literature Essay
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Hemingway's mother often bullied his father and this made Ernest have an unhappy childhood. He was fond of his dad who occasionally encouraged him to develop an interest in outdoor activities such as fishing, hunting and swimming (Cleanth pp.6). He, therefore, spent most of his early childhood in the woods among the Indians in the north of Michigan.
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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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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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Le Guins Opposition to Traditional View about Children Literature Literature Essay
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In an article, “The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists”, Le Guin says, “children’s books must be included in serious discussion of literature, and one reason we give is that many of the great works of imaginative fiction can be understood and appreciated by a child as well as by an adult and vice versa” (Guin 85).
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Psychological Criticism of the Book a Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin Literature Essay
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The book, A Wizard Of Earthsea is a complete fantasy package that was published in the year 2004.  The story revolves around a wizard who is young and vibrant and brings forth the adventures that are carried out by him.  The central and main character of the book is Ged who is a great wizard around the archipelago of Earthsea.
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William Shakespeare's King Lear Literature Essay
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William Shakespeare's King Lear.The greatness of a man is actually determined by how well he ends and for King Lear; he did not end well in any way. What more can be as tragic as two of one’s supposedly favorite daughters ganging against their own father?
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The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the use of items like dove and ring is intentional as the author attempts to pass on her messages through these inanimate objects. The development of the story from beginning to end is such that it keeps the readers interested in the story at all times. ‘The Grave’ communicates many themes.
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The significance of the fact that death of a salesman is subtitled Literature Essay
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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman has a subtitle of “private conversations in two acts and a requiem.” The reason for this is because Willy has private conversations throughout the play with himself, as he lives inside his head because reality was too tough to bear.
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Sports as an academic major at Northern Virginia Community College Literature Essay
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Additionally, nutritionists prescribe that people should take a combination of a healthy diet with exercise in order to control their weight. As stated by French (4), physical exercise is also essential as a means of realising stress especially to improve the mental health for people with mental problems.
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Choose one (1) of the topics below and develop Literature Essay
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Although it can be assumed that the pyramid was built by King Khufu in the Fourth dynasty, how the pyramid was made remains as a mystery. Therefore, there have been many theories regarding how the pyramids at Giza were constructed. Most whizzes approve that they were made as burial shrines for pharaohs, but “how” these ancient individuals constructed monuments of such prodigious size without modern equipment is a mystery that is still being pondered.
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Literary Canon of Maya Angelou Literature Essay
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The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair for instance, is a part of the English language literary canon because of its representation of horrible city life for low-income families around the turn of the last century, while Charles Dickens's work is important not only because of its literary merit but because of its representation of the problems in early Victorian society in which he lived.
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Post Colonial Literature in India Literature Dissertation
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It is a distinctive phenomenon- a byproduct 0of an eventful encounter between India and Britain: it seeks to express an Indian sensibility in a language that is not primarily Indian.  The development of English as the official language in India was the result of a historical process that commenced with England’s relation with India in the first decade of the seventeenth century.
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The Concept of Exile and Isolation of Identity in Literature Literature Essay
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The concept of exile and isolation of identity is often regarded in contemporary literature.  The exile which occurs takes place on a variety of levels and is defined as those who remain separate from the popular forms of culture.  Exile is not only defined by the individual being removed from society but also is defined as otherness and being on the outside.  
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Applying for MA in English Literature Literature Research Proposal
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In addition, it is also because literature is significant in influencing people's views and principles (Cruz 1). The learning of English literature has constantly been my passion, allowing me to challenge my personal hypothesis regarding texts, not by seeking instantly recognizable answers, but rather through searching of diverse thinking and understanding.
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Defining Freedom in Susan Hills A Bit of Singing and Dancing Literature Essay
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Generally speaking, Hill is able to create an understanding of the ideas of freedom and the absence of freedom with the use of different literary techniques.  The focus on different techniques becomes important in identifying the concept of freedom and how this relates to the main theme of the book.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Literature Essay
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The concept of Owen Meany and the incompletion that is in the novel is one which is based on the understanding of fragmented personalities. The objects and characters all show a sense of incompletion.
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The Book Grimm Fairy Tales Literature Essay
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Fairytales were integral parts of our lives as kids. We got introduced to them both through the vocal medium and also through the print medium. Till the time we could not read by ourselves, our elders (including parents, grandparents, elder siblings, uncles and aunts) narrated the stories to us through their memory or by reading a book.
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Pagan Effect on Anglo-Saxon Christianity Literature Essay
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Strength and honor are important values, bringing fame to the kinsmen of the hero. Beowulf fits the specification of a pagan hero through his great deeds: “Fame winning deeds/have come early to my hands” (Alexander, lines 408-409). The pagan dimension is most evident in all the artifacts and customs that surround the action.
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Early 20th Century Writers Literature Book Report/Review
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There are differences between the two pieces, however, in the degree to which the woman speaking feels she is able to fully express herself. Woolf clearly states her independence and encourages other young women to stand up on their own: "You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men.    
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Literature Essay
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Khaled Hosseini describes how society affects individuals and how individuals similarly struggle to shape their own identities despite social impositions, through narrating the remarkable friendships of two generations of Pashtuns and Hazaras, Baba and Ali, and their children, Amir and Hassan, respectively.
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Irony in A prayer of Owen Meany Literature Essay
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This research is being carried out to evaluate and present how John Irving using Irony engages and involves the readers by making them extract deeper levels of meanings through the suspense created. Though compelling to read, Irving evokes sadness, nervousness, irritation, enjoyment, and hilarity through the entire novel through his writing.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Literature Essay
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As it tells of the challenge brought to the court and Gawain's adventure to try to fulfill his resulting obligations, the story tells us many things that help us understand more about life in medieval times. For example, one of the things we can learn is what some of the important elements of being a knight were and what kind of underlying criticism might have existed of this kind of system.
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Oedipus the King by Socrates Literature Essay
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In his analysis of what makes a true tragedy, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle identified three major elements. These included a character with a fatal flaw, his realization of this flaw and a reversal of fortune because of this flaw. At one point, Aristotle even says, “the tragic hero falls into bad fortune because of some flaw in his character of the kind found in men of high reputation and good fortune such as Oedipus”.
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Analysis of Poetry Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day Literature Essay
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was undoubtedly one of the greatest playwrights and dramatists that ever lived. There is no facet of human character and emotion that he has left unexplored.
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A Rose for Emily: a Victim of the Society Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the isolation of Emily should be deeply analyzed in order to know her situation better. This paper will comprehensively analyze the short story also bringing out its most important elements. The story is all about gloom and terror, the tone of this short story is gloomy and it reflects the pain which Emily undergoes.
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Origins of Humanity Literature Essay
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It is fitting; therefore, that the first book be entitled “Genesis” since it is both the first book, and it established so many of the most famous stories within the Bible, particularly that of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel. This story carries several important themes which have been recreated again and again in modern literature.
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The Absurd in Albert Camus The Plague Literature Essay
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To fully express this idea, Camus relies on the absurd to prove his point by taking an extreme position of the human condition picturing humanity to be indifferent and living in a universe that has no meaning and no purpose with no God or any type of order, sense or reason.
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Return to Hayneville Literature Essay
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Instead they were grossly mistreated, more like hard core criminals. Yet again, while Orr hopes that the FBI are neutral in their stand on civil activism, he later comes to realize that this is not the case. The FBI, in fact, works together with the very guards that mistreated the civil activists.
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The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring Literature Research Paper
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This paper will seek to establish how Frodo is a hero archetype and how his experiences are universal to humankind. It will also elucidate how a model Frodo is that people can be familiar and handle the colossal and often baffling undertaking of being human.
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