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The Poem Blackberries by Yusef Komunyakaa Literature Essay
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The very mention of the word ‘dollar’ takes the poetic theme away from the travesties of fate and nature to a socio-economic plane, where its gets easier for the reader to grasp the economic and political dimensions of the issue being considered, thereby starkly portraying the pain, hunger and misery inflicted by humans on other humans owing to racial prejudice.
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Symbolism of the Name Pi in Yann Martel's Novel Life of Pi Literature Essay
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One take on pi as a number representing infinity is Pi's take on life and what reality is, as something that is grounded not on the intellect, reason, and the mental faculties, but on something infinite, It is based on love, with fuzzy and undefined boundaries, not something that cannot be grasped fully, but only lived.
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The Storm by Kate Chopin Literature Essay
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Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm” is a short, but a transfixing tale that explores a superfluity of tumultuous sensations of the protagonists engrossed in the middle of the milieu of a sudden “storm”.
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Othello, a tragedy by William Shakespeare Literature Research Paper
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Othello, a tragedy by William Shakespeare focuses on theme of suspicion, love and treachery. Othello, a black general is detested by Iago for he has promoted Cassio, a man younger to him, to a position that was desired by Iago.
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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literature Essay
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The story happens mostly in the room with the yellow wallpaper. The yellow wallpaper eventually evolves into a character, wherein the main character, the narrator, sees a woman caged within the wallpaper.
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Her Place in these Designs by Espaillat and Dreaming in Cuban by Garcia Literature Book Report/Review
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One of Espaillat’s books which are being taken into account over here is “Her Place in these Designs”. She is thought to have been quite a feminist and her poems give one confirmation regarding it.
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Sex, Death, and the Drama of Aids by George Newtown Literature Essay
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The article written by George Newtown entitled “Sex, Death, and the Drama of Aids” and published in the Antioch Review, Inc. was a highly prolific and verbose discourse which presented controversial issues apparently emphasizing contemporary society’s underpinning for the emergence and increased propensities for contracting AIDS to homosexuals.
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Chinese Poet LI Bos Poetry Literature Essay
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A person who speaks out his thoughts freely, hiding nothing and unmindful of what other people would think of him, Li Bo’s poetry is one of the most contemporary of his time. Apparently, he seemed to be more inclined to write about nature, his appreciation as well as his communion with everything the universe could offer.
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Annotated Bibliography: The Chrysanthemum by John Steinbeck Literature Essay
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Kordich, Catherine J., and Harold Bloom.Bloom's how to write about John Steinbeck. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008. Print. The author delves into the application of symbolism and epiphany within John Steinbeck’s story “The Chrysanthemums.”
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Comparison of Kafkas Castle with Surrealism Literature Term Paper
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This essay intends to explicate the impression of the surrealism that can be traced through the style of Franz Kafka, inherent in his timeless novel “Castle”.
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Lesson from Pride and Prejudice Literature Essay
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Pride and Prejudice is one of the most loved novels of Jane Austen. Published during 1813, the novel tells an intensely personal story in which the money mindedness and pride of the then people influence the family life. This novel unravels the triumph of true love above all barriers of financial security and status offered to all on the basis of monetary benefits.
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The Alchemist Literature Research Paper
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Paulo Coelho's enthralling novel ‘The Alchemist’ has provided a philosophy for life and hope for many on the very simple ways of life and self belief. The novel has inspired extremely committed following across generations of people around the world. The story, incredible in its simplicity and inspiring wisdom, accounts for the life an Andalusian shepherd boy, Santiago. The author of the essay discusses the main proplems of the novel.
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The usage of Modernism in the The Great Gatsby Literature Research Paper
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The great Gatsby tells the story of the protagonist who is called Nick and his life as a bond sales man in New York. Nick settled in Long Island next to a rich and mysterious neighbor called Gatsby.
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Poetry Analysis: Because I Could not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson Literature Book Report/Review
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On the speaker’s journey to her final resting place, she and Death “passed the school, where children strove / at recess, in the ring / We passed the fields of gazing grain / We passed the setting sun (Dickinson, 2010, p. 459).” These images are pleasant, and depict, as previously mentioned, the life that the speaker is leaving behind.
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The sign in Robert Louis Stevensons Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Literature Essay
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The sign, as elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure in Course in General Linguistics opens up the field of linguistics to that of literary analysis as well. The main contribution of Saussure’s with this work lies in the fact that it made it possible for theorists o look at language as not merely something that existed but also something that shaped existence.
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe Literature Essay
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The author suggested that the Shepherd in the poem is not the type which gathers the flock of sheep but rather a feudal owner of flocks of sheep to afford such refinement as expressed in the poem. It would also seem inconsistent that the poem could be written by an uncouth shepherd considering the discipline used in the meters of the poem.
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Literature Essay
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Sin, guilt and redemption, the tripartite structure of Christian theology which suggests the ways of God to men held a very important role in the lives of the puritans of early America in particular.
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The Differences between Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus on the Meaning of Life Literature Essay
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In Being and Nothingness, Sartre tries to affirm human existence to have existed before it has ever obtained its meaning or fundamental nature. The ultimate goal of Sartre in writing the essay was to validate that indeed “free will” is real and is existent (Levy 111).
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Revenge in Edgar Allan Poes Cask of Amontillado Literature Assignment
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Revenge is part of man’s nature and is a typical reaction, especially when one is slighted or insulted by another. Revenge can even be taken as a form of justice to redeem one’s honor and to teach the offender that the insult will not go unpunished, as what Poe portrayed in his “Cask of Amontillado.”
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Gender issues in Literature: Poes The Oval Portrait and Ovids Pygmalion Literature Research Paper
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Gender roles and relations are reflected in The Oval Portrait that depicts how men use and exploit the physical beauty of women in the name of art and cultural values. The narrator finds a portrait that is “absolute life-likeliness” (Poe).
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Don Quixote versus Oedipus Literature Essay
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This paper makes a comparison of Don Quixote and Oedipus as a true hero from oral tradition, highlighting the main differences in their characters.
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An Analysis of Fire and Ice Literature Essay
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Figuratively, fire and ice could refer to emotions. The Free Dictionary defines fire as “the burning intensity of feeling, ardor or enthusiasm. From the phrase, “From what I’ve tasted of desire”, it could be well understood that the term fire as used in the poem refers to such feelings.
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Mythological Creatures from Dantes Inferno Literature Essay
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This paper focuses upon the Inferno (Hell), the first part of The Divine Comedy, followed by the Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Heaven). It is a classic Christian theological text that uses strong poetic imagination and allegorical allusion. It is underlined that Dante meets both mythological and real people during his long voyage.
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Families and Parent-Child Relationships Literature Essay
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In both Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” and Sherman Alexie’s “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, there is the theme of parents who are somehow absent from their children’s lives. Jing-Mei’s mother is presented as being more important than her father in the book. Moreover, there are serious misunderstandings between the two.
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A Streetcar Named Desire: The Modern Embodiment of Tragedy Literature Essay
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A common, yet not pervasive aspect of tragedy is that the main character/protagonist is oftentimes attempting to “fix” some aspect of the current world or return to the simplicity, joy, or other positive elements of a bygone era. For instance, one of the most famous tragedies ever penned, and of his, sees the story open with Oedipus attempting to find a way to read his native home town of plague.
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The Tempest vs Tempest Literature Research Paper
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In the play A Tempest by Aime Cesaire is based upon the character of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Caliban is a deformed slave, and this is shown through many different passages in the original play.
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H. G. Wells. War of the Worlds and Marxist Criticism Literature Essay
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H. G. Wells perceives – as ought to every man of even ordinary intellect on the one hand the turmoil of bourgeois social relations, and on the other hand that society’s dynamic forces, in the form of science and technical resources, contain tremendous potency which can only be actualized in diverse social relations.
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The Woman Warrior by Maxine Kingston Literature Essay
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This essay will begin with the statement that one of the most difficult aspects for any particular writer to engage in a level of integration and separation from the subject matter that they are presenting. The authors fall into the rut of becoming to detect and merely representing the information that they seek to portray in an unemotional and underinvested manner.
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Othello by William Shakespeare Literature Essay
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Verbal positive depiction of Othello is illustrated through the many speeches of different characters in the play. Through such speeches, we discover Othello’s bravery and his integrity.
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Andrew Jackson, a Defining President of United States Literature Essay
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Andrew Jackson, a Defining President of United States. “Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own; one cherishes it not only as precious but sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and it’s conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”1 This is a quote by Andrew Jackson which reflected his views as an American citizen, as a military leader and as a president.
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Analysis of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Calvino and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez Literature Essay
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The author uses a high level of metafictional structure that serves to question the belief of the reader in the notion and aspect of reality and how reality can be likened to the happenings in contemporary works. To achieve this end, the author writes in a way that he questions the originality and intertextuality of human existence.
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Lady with the lapdog by Anton Chekhov Literature Research Paper
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The lady with the lapdog is a short interesting story written by Anton Chekhov. It is a four chapter, fiction story written with great expertise and discloses an adulterous affair between the Russian Banker, Dmitri Dmitrich Gurov and the lady with the lapdog Anna Sergeyevna.
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The Cause of Mathilde Loisel Downfall in the story The Necklace Literature Essay
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Loisel’s perception of a class she does not belong to causes her to suffer mentally. Loisel fails to accept the fact she is married to a husband who lacks the material wealth that she has desperately yearned for. Her husband's lack of wealth makes her feel less important because of her low rank in society.
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Susan Glaspells Trifles Literature Essay
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Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, is a book written in 1916 that reflects Susan’s preoccupation and perceptions towards culture-bound notion of gender and sex roles. This is a patriarch society that views women as lesser beings with totally no role to play.
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The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe Literature Research Paper
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Edgar Allan Poe, leaving a remarkable literary legacy in the fields of science fiction and horror, is currently regarded the pioneer of the modern detective story. He is also greatly renowned as a poet. His psychologically gripping stories exploring the profundities of the human consciousness gained him remarkable prominence.
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The interface of primal instinct and lofty ideal in Zolas Germinal Literature Essay
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Zola’s portrayal of sexuality in Germinal serves as a grounding force for the story. The physicality of the characters, thus enunciated, is a counterpoint to the revolutionary socialist ideas that suffuse the political and philosophical vision of the novel, with the political and poetic facets of the writing fortifying each other.
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Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster Literature Term Paper
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British society in Where Angels Fear to Tread is portrayed as a society full of hypocrisy, which is juxtaposed with the more naturalistic and down-to-earth society which is represented by the Italian society in this novel (Kar-Man Ng, 1982, p. 16). The two societies are portrayed in opposition “between Apollonian and Dionysian, city and country, the British ‘insider’ and the foreign ‘outsider’” (Sampson, 2004, p.
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Franz Kafka's The Castle Literature Research Paper
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The main character initially assumes he has been summoned to perform duties related to his profession, but encounters numerous difficulties when he tries to communicate with his employer, Count Westwest, whom resides in the Castle and owns the entire village.
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne Literature Essay
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Worldwide, short stories are considered as the integral part of literature, especially fiction because the same is symbolic of literary creativity within a limited framework.
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Soto's Oranges. Expression of young love through the simplicity and fire of oranges Literature Essay
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“Oranges” effectively depicts the universal theme of young love and its role in the emotional development of adolescents, using succinct language, non-rhyming and narrative form, and meaningful, contrasting imagery.
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The Unique Nature of the Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth Literature Dissertation
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In examining the nature of the witches within the work, it becomes clear to the author that they are a literary device that is provided in order to suggest the evil intentions of ‘plotters’ as well as the concept that ideas are dangerous. The witches are defined by a complex set of ideas that are related to the threat against the patriarchal society.
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Analysing Othellos Character Literature Essay
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Literary issues surround the essence of tragedy as it is played out in Othello and the uniformity between the actions and aims of the characters. Moral issues focus on the depiction of righteousness and wickedness, and social issues emerge from the play’s presentation of justice, violence, and race.
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Field Notes From A Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert Literature Essay
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The book is written in a breezy, journalistic style, and starts off with a number of narratives describing journeys the author has made to remote corners of the earth in search of evidence relating to climate change. A dimension which was lacking from the book was that of global markets and the capitalist structure of the world economy. The problem looks like simple incompetence on the part of governments.  
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The Movement of Spoken Word Poetry vs. Written Traditional Poetry Literature Research Paper
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In this paper spoken word poetry versus traditional written poetry will be analyzed in the following three entities:  oral tradition and poetry in Black culture; poetry slams and the poetic play in the Black Arts movement; and African-American spoken poetry versus traditional written poetry which has been written by Anglos.
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The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant Literature Essay
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The research analyzes the short story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant in terms of describing the theme and identifying at least two of the literary elements in the short story that contribute to the theme by providing an example of each element. Finally, the discourse would explain how the selected literary elements affect the narrative theme.
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Three Anarchists in Latin American Anarchist Movement Literature Research Paper
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Through unsigned editorials and articles, certain periodicals like the El Obrero meaning the worker, and the La Voz de la Mujer meaning the women’s voice proclaimed themselves as tools of politics of the predecessor revolutionary movement. Just the same, another periodical named the Pluma Roja, meaning the red pen, proclaimed and acted the same.
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The Horse Dealers Daughter by D.H. Lawrence Literature Research Paper
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In “The Horse Dealers Daughter”, D.H. Lawrence depicts the struggles of a woman who tries to cope with the collapse of her family and her strained relationship between her and her brothers. She does not feel loved and thus begins to feel insecure of her worth and purpose in life.
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The Wife of Bath's prologue and The Wife of Bath's Tale, Literature Research Paper
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The Wife of Bath's Tale is one of the stories from the sequence of tales in the “Tales from Canterbury”. The story begins with a prologue that presents a gallery of portraits of the pilgrims.
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Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez Literature Essay
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The author states that the novel also has pointed commentary about the war in El Salvador, along with indicting the immigration policies of the refugees of this war. Through it all, however, the culture and communication gap cause problems in the relationship, and, ultimately, the relationship does not survive because of it.
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Relationship between the United States and Mexico. The Desert Blood by Alicia Gaspar de Alba Literature Essay
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The border between the United States and Mexico not only demarcates two countries, but also differentiates between two cultures, two societies, one overdeveloped, and the other typically developing. In Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s novel, The Desert Blood, the protagonist, Ivon Villa is of Mexican descent, but was born and raised in the United States, who becomes a University professor.
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