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Critique of The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan Literature Essay
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Egan attributes the disaster to the collective cause of reckless man-made agricultural practices, even as he surveys the tragic individual stories of the people who suffered from it.  He argues that the combined effects of drought and a heatwave in the early 1930s, and man’s hubris and environmental ignorance and irresponsibility throughout the decade.
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King Lear: Analysis of Lears Character and Role in the Play Literature Research Paper
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King Lear a famous and renowned play of Shakespeare is read and staged all over the world for its tragic connotation. The story, as the name depicts; mainly revolves around the king and his miseries brought up by himself.
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Professional Life of Jonathan Edwards Literature Essay
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“The Great Awakening” was a fire and brimstone approach to the revival of Puritanism in Colonial America. Edwards felt that this society was on a path to hell and through his fiery preaching, he could scare people out of hell. Those preachers who preach in the same fashion are called evangelicals. They and some parts of the media exploit disasters.
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Ibsen's 'A Doll House' Literature Essay
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There is no way to deny that there are some potent elements of symbolism in Dr. Rank’s character. Probably the most significant is his disease, what Nora calls a “consumption of the spine” (Act 2).
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Nature v. Nurture in Wolf - Alice by Angela Carter Literature Essay
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The concept of nature versus nurture is one which is continuously displayed to create a different meaning to identity of characters. In Angela Carter’s story Wolf – Alice, there is an association with the concept of nature versus nurture through the main character of Alice.
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Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken and A Worn Path by Eudora Welty Literature Essay
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Welty and Frost both put forth their divergent perspectives by the use of different themes of the journey in their work. In the poem “The Road Not Taken,” Frost masterly makes a depiction of how choice at the present has a huge impact in future.
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert and Up from Slavery by Booker Washington Literature Term Paper
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The narrative of Sojourner of truth is a memoir written by Oliver Gilbert whereas the book up from slave is an autobiography written by Booker Washington himself.
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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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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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Euripides and Aristotle discussion about a tragedy hero Literature Essay
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In his famous play “Medea” the Euripides presented a completely new perspective on tragedy. This perspective is worth discussing, thus the given paper will define tragedy and demonstrate in what ways "Medea" can be considered as a tragedy.
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All Quiet on the Western Front Literature Term Paper
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All Quiet on the Western Front is an antiwar novel written by Erich Maria Remarque a German boy who was drafted into the Germany war in 1916 to fight the world war I. in this war, Remarque was badly wounded and 10 years after the war, he was motivated to write this book with the purpose of bringing into light what ordinary German soldiers go through during times of war.
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The Gilded Six-Bits, by Zora Neale Hurston Literature Research Paper
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The Gilded Six-Bits, by Zora Neale Hurston, illustrates several principles about money and how it is viewed by two people that are married, including paydays and having a savings account before any life-altering events, such as having children.
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Aristotelian Conventions of Tragedy in King Lear and Brave New World Literature Essay
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People and in particular readers of fiction will always want happy endings in real life as well as in fictional stories. However, when viewed from the perspective of creators or authors of fictional works, tragic endings and thereby tragic stories will only make a deeper imprint in the minds of the readers.
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Culture and Imperialism in Two Visions in Heart of Darkness Literature Essay
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The researcher states that the story “Heart of Darkness” is about: ‘Europeans performing acts of imperial mastery and will in (or about) Africa’. By this time business interests predominated over adventurous and exploratory interests in empire building.  The imperialist world that Conrad narrates is sealed within its own circularity; it does not allow for any alternative views.
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James Joyce The Dead Literature Essay
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Joyce represented many themes in his story; which reveal the potential behavior and life style; a person can acquire. The life of residents of Dublin not only revolved around class discrimination but it also showed different phases of life.
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The Stranger and The Great Gatsby Literature Essay
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The stranger according to Albert, revolve around an emotionally detached amoral young man who defies the societal norms thus deemed a threat to humanity (49). The two different characters from the two novels, Meursault and Gatsby, demonstrate a degree of contrasting oblivion to how they try to attain and sustain the lives they want in a totally contrasting manner.
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The Art of Court Love in Literature Literature Literature review
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Rules of conduct may hold true to the sustenance of the love between a man and his beloved on an emotional scale. However, they lack the means to explain how fortune and one’s psychological impetus may affect the outcome of a romanticized relationship. Other romantic works offer a complete outlook on what constitutes the fate of lovers’ relationship.
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Literature Coursework
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is a tale on the subject of change. It is a quite simple story based on an intervallic narrative composition in which all of the major chapters have a clear, fixed symbolic connotation. Dickens' much-loved short story A Christmas Carol was printed in 1843, along with the purpose of getting the attention of the reader to the dilemma of England's underprivileged people.
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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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A Critical Analysis of Social Expectation in The Story of an Hour and A Sorrowful Woman Literature Essay
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A Critical Analysis of Social Expectation in “The Story of an Hour” and “A Sorrowful Woman” Introduction On the surface level, both Kate Chopin’s “the Story of an Hour” and Gail Goldwin’s story, “A Sorrowful Woman” deal with the protagonists’ reactions to what the society expects from them.
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Oedipus the King. Oedipus character Literature Essay
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“Oedipus the King” is a play in which Oedipus is the focal character, and is represented as the most terrible hero. Oedipus is shaped as an attractive personality that has many characteristics, both good and bad.
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Indian epic Mahabharata and Homers The Odyssey Comparison Literature Essay
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Fate or destiny and karma are two varying concept that feature prominently both in the Indian epic “Mahabharata” and Homer’s “The Odyssey”. One of the overriding principles in the epic Mahabharata is karma, which literary means “acts,” basically referring to the principle of cause-effect governing all life.
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King Lear: Common ties between Cordelia and Edmund Literature Essay
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In the midst of family and political conflict, both Cordelia and Edmund suffer tragic deaths in the play, King Lear, dying young and at the hands of their siblings. Ultimately, the sisters Goneril and Regan bring about the death of Cordelia in a sister against sister murder.
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Exploring the Dichotomy of Traditional African American Values vs Christianity and American Customs Literature Essay
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After taking a close look into the archetype Wilson utilizes as the foundation for his commentary, the internal conflict of the Charles family and their attempt to maintain their African-American heritage and values in a world of Christianity and white man culture is demonstrated by their understanding of the value of the family piano.
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The Iliad Is an Ancient Story Literature Essay
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The Iliad is an ancient story that analyzes the actions and motivations of many relatable characters. These characters are driven by their strengths and weaknesses. In this story, I see how the human psyche has remained constant throughout time. Ego, greed, loyalty, and the greater good is a constant theme that the characters possess.
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Shakespeare's Tragedies. Macbeths Journey Literature Book Report/Review
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The story of this character is very rich coupled with numerous intertwining layers. This paper therefore traces the journey of Macbeth as presented in the entire play through a complexity of the themes within the play.
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Katherine Anne Porter's Maria Concepcion Related to Christian Values Literature Research Paper
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One of the themes in Maria Conception is the primitive laws of justice that the villagers use to protect Maria. When Maria goes ahead to attack Juan’s woman and even steal her baby, the villagers still protect her by gathering around her even when she committed murder.
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Literary Research Paper on A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor Literature Research Paper
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This paper will comprehensively analyze the story. There are several people who exist only for themselves, their selfish existence is of no use to other people and this is one story which explores the selfish existence of the grandmother and how she tries her best to deceive the misfit ultimately failing in her endeavor and getting shot three times in the chest.
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Post WWI and WWII Literary Pieces Literature Essay
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By looking into the history of the world at large, it becomes crystal clear that wars and conflicts always bring death, destruction, devastation, and despair. This is particularly the case with the two Great Wars, which deteriorated the social, cultural, and financial activities of the affected states.
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The Human Condition in Modern Society: The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden and Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson Literature Essay
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In the poems ‘The Unknown Citizen’ by Auden and ‘Richard Cory’ by Robinson, the reader is witness to two works which satirize the human condition in quite similar ways of style, poetic devices and use of irony.
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The Consequence of Vanity in The Picture of Dorian Gray and other Victorian Poems Literature Term Paper
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Vanity is a sin, an indulgence of the spirit in which importance is put on the exterior instead of through character and values. In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the theme of vanity is taken to its extreme, a supernatural connection allowing the protagonist to exist in unending youth and beauty without the consequences of his immorality reflected in his face or body.
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Othello: Shakespeares Radical Depiction of Race in the 17th Century Literature Research Paper
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In the modern setting, racism is still a very sensitive topic that everyone tries to avoid because of the complexities that it may convey. Consequently, creating unconventional characters such as a protagonist who is black, noble and respectable and carries a high rank in the army, and an antagonist who is white and evil, is something that is totally outrageous when Shakespeare first brought ‘Othello’ to his 17th century European audience.
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English Literature: Death and Poetry Literature Essay
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The theme of death remains one of the most popular and challenging in the world poetry. The complexity of the death phenomenon and the fact that no one actually knows what stands behind death drive the hearts and minds of outstanding poets. Death is a common object of romanticism and dreaming.
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The Iliad by Homer Literature Essay
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The army of Agamemnon king of men has commanders who themselves are kings (king Diomedes of Argos and princes (Nester). Even king Priam holds Agamemnon in awe. However, there is an emphasis on beauty whose benefits that seem to hide behind the action packed folds of this poem. Beauty or lack of it is a source of conflict in the Iliad.
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The darkness by Gitta Sereny Literature Book Report/Review
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Such is the impact of the holocaust that mankind can talk in support of it or express their disgust but can never ignore the incident in human history. The point is that the dark hand behind this holocaust was that of Hitler’s but he was not alone in his venture.
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The Catcher in the Rye: Character Growth and Symbols Literature Book Report/Review
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The first character under analysis is of Holden Caulfield who is the protagonist of the novel. The growth of Holden throughout the novel is quiet exemplary and needs avid analysis of the audiences.
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Candide by Voltaire, and Rasselas by Samuel Johnson Literature Essay
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One will find many similarities between Candide and Rasselas the most paramount of which is the fact that both of them are trying to find lasting happiness in their lives. Both of these characters are from very privileged backgrounds despite the fact that Candide is an illegitimate child.
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Norman Friedman. The Waters of Annihilation: Symbols and Double Vision in To the Lighthouse Literature Essay
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The opening sentence of the article concedes that in the fifty years since the novel’s publication, there have been many studies of To the Lighthouse . Nevertheless, little consensus has been reached on identifying some key ideas in the novel.
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Scapegoating Individuals in The Lottery and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Literature Essay
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In "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson explores the unfortunate reality of a greedy, selfish, and self-centered society. It was written in the 1940s when capitalism was gaining ground and the country seemed to embrace the dog-eat-dog mentality. Tessie Hutchinson was selected to be stoned to death as a symbol of "the one" that must die for the sake of others.
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The Nature of the New World Literature Essay
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In his letter from 1782, Benjamin Franklin articulated an important difference in attitudes between Americans and Europeans toward people of dissimilar births. One generation later, Washington Irving disputed this claim, chastising the American culture for first destroying and then systematically excluding Native Americans from the “Land of Labour"
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Race in Huckleberry Finn Literature Essay
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Various literary personals have discussed the vital issues raised in the Adventures of Huckleberry and several other books of Mark Twain. Some analysts praised views of the writer and some argued about very harshly. The goal of the writer represented that he identified unsung immoral values of the society and presented a realistic picture.
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Critical Interpretation of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Literature Essay
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Oscar Wilde’s play ‘The importance of being Earnest ‘is a typical Wildean firework giving a clue as to the light nature of comedy that is presented to the audience. Much of the complications of this splendid comedy arise out of the confusions and misunderstandings caused on account of the fictional identity created for his own convenience under the pseudonym ‘Ernest’ by the hero of the play.
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The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans Literature Essay
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The work centers on medical or health care situations. There is a lot of racial, class and socio-economic discrimination going on, more so against the minority groups. Rebecca Skloot combines several genres in her work is a professional manner. The genres used in her book include biography, memoir, history and scientific writing.
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Ancient Greeces Facts Related to Slavery. The story of the shepherd and the lion (Aesop, 2002) Literature Essay
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When the story of the shepherd and the lion (Aesop, 2002) is taken into consideration, the primary message conveyed does get changed, when the crucial points pertaining to slavery of ancient Greece are taken.
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Stopping by woods in a snowy evening Robert Frost Literature Essay
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Stopping by woods in a snowy evening – Robert Frost Whoever says that poetry is a manifestation of poet’s life and thinking process will have to reconsider the statement after he or she reads Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by woods in a snowy evening’.
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Hardboiled Literature. John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Ridley's Scott's Blade Runner (1982) Literature Essay
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Both the films have been based on film noirs and this has made the depiction of the respective novels very prominent and professional. The visual effects have been immensely used and the directors have been successful in creating a suspense film.
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Denmark and Hamlet Literature Research Paper
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England was politically stable during most of Shakespearean time. Queen Elizabeth had appointed wise and efficient advisors who ensured that all the political structures were run smoothly and addressed the needs of the populace.
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The chestnut tree in Jane Eyre and Mrs. Sparsits staircase in Hard Times Literature Essay
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The chestnut tree in Jane Eyre and Mrs. Sparsit’s staircase in Hard Times. Two of the most important novels in the history of English literature, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Hard Times by Charles Dickens were significant for the complexity of their themes and the innovation of the stylistic devices that they were able to introduce into their novels.
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Machiavelli The Prince Literature Essay
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Machiavelli wrote “The Prince” as an instructional manual for a Renaissance ruler. Some of the secular aspects of governance have changed much since the time of Machiavelli, and as the ruler, I will follow what is relevant and practical in the present political scenario in the world.
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Analysis of Where the Jackals Howl by Amos Oz Literature Essay
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There is something in the manner the author wrote the story that triggers the thought that Galila is frequently soliloquizing or she often makes a dialogue with herself. For instance, right at the start when Galila was taking a bath inside the shower, she says that if she would have a mirror inside the shower, she would gaze herself over. 
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