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Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit Literature Essay
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The main purpose of the research is to present that Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit has been a philosophical discourse that describes how human consciousness evolved through history (Hegel). What he has tried to explore is how to analyze something all the same keeping in mind, the act of analyzing itself can bring about changes to the reality that is being analyzed.
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The Swimmer by John Cheever Literature Essay
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John Cheever’s celebrated story “The Swimmer” (Cheever, 1976) tells the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by its main character Neddy Merrill through all the swimming pools in his local area. The goal of travelling across the county in this way is a startling one, adopted for no real reason except just as a crazy idea that dropped into Neddy’s mind one sunny midsummer afternoon.
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Analysis of Themes in The stories: The Story Of an Hour, The Garden Of Forking Path Literature Essay
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The story of an hour is linked to the Women Liberation Movement, which was a political movement in born in 1960. The feminist of the time took a stand to fight for women freedom in America. American wives in the late 19th century were legally bound to their husband’s power and status.
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The Books are Twains, McBrides, and Camus Literature Term Paper
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With every page turned, a book has dialogues, characters, and situations that help people to escape the confines of their reality temporarily and think in the manner that the author makes them. Books provide for an excellent getaway for an individual and also help him to attain spirituality and understand individuality to a great extent.
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The Dreaming Dead: A Psychological study of Keats' Poetry Literature Essay
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This research paper attempts to explain, rather than describe, this similarity in content, style and imagery between Shakespeare and Keats.
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Unwitting Propaganda in the Shield of Aeneas Literature Research Paper
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Unwitting Propaganda in the Shield of Aeneas The Shield of Aeneas is received and studied in a very special place of the remote Caere-vale, an area that is withdrawn from Arcadian Rome and present war preparations (Miller 45). B. What was Virgil’s purpose in writing the Aeneid?
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Reviewing the Themes of Edgar Allan Poe through his Utilization of Language and Gothic Archetypes Literature Essay
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Edgar Allan Poe has been credited for creating the modern Gothic genre, which is clearly illustrated in his works, the poem “The Raven,” and his short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” By his own essays, Poe defines his utilization of language, parallels, and themes in an attempt to craft great poetry through careful technique that will have the ability to reach his readership on a transcendent level.
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Anthology of literature of Self Discovery: Racial Attitudes Literature Term Paper
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Self-discovery is one of the most covered themes in many literature materials in American society. This anthology explores the major theme of self-discovery with concentration on the theme of racial attitudes.
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Samuel Beckett's Happy Days Literature Essay
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Although her situation is hopeless because she has no idea how she got there, Winnie trusts that her life is meaningful and truly believes that there is nothing she can do to change it.
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Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Literature Research Paper
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The main character of the book is Susie who is the narrator of the story or we can say the soul of Susie as Susie is shown dead at the very start of the novel. Another major character is George Harvey, who can be said the villain of the story as he is a serial murderer and is responsible for raping and murdering Susie.
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Toni Morrisons Recitatif Literature Research Paper
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Recitatif, a short story by Toni Morrison (19 pages long) was first published in 1983. It was in the “Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women.” The term is representative of a style of musical toning; between ordinary speech and song and is used during oratories and operas. It is used in both narrative interlude and dialogic.
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Symbolism In A Farewell To Arms Literature Research Paper
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The farewell to arms is heartwarming war novel grounded on literary symbolism. The research centers on the symbolism of Frederic Henry. The research includes focusing on the symbolism of Catherine Barkley. The novel’s symbolisms bring memories to the readers’ lives, as they read the novel masterpiece.
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Tolstoy's Concept of Power and Leadership. War and Peace Literature Research Paper
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War and Peace was not only novel, but also a poem and more still a historical chronicle. The novel is largely a philosophical discussion rather than a narrative. Tolstoy explained that Russian literature abides to standard norms. In his novel, Tolstoy organized a historical research which was extensive.
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Marxist Critique of Upton Sinclair's Literature Research Paper
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It made a jerk in the American society due to the horrifying explanations, which come close to the reality, that exposes the corruption that subsisted in the meatpacking industry. The consummation of meat products went down drastically after the publication of the novel, which paved the way to the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.
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The Vision of Hell in Dantes Inferno Literature Essay
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In Dante’s view, people who sinned but prayed for forgiveness before their death will not be found in Hell but in purgatory, where they labor to be free of their sins (Wikipedia). Instead of simple redemption, they have to endure torture to be cleaned of their sins. Those in Hell are people who tried to justify their sins and are unrepentant.
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20th century works of art Literature Essay
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This paper examines various works of art made in the 20th century. These include novels and films that shows how the people lived in other centuries. The various challenges that they faced and how these challenges could be dealt with in the current world.
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Character Development Of Ivan Illych In Death Of Ivan Illych (Leo Tolstoy) Literature Essay
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Ivan Illych was portrayed as an ordinary man who came to the realization of unavoidable facts of life, at the moments of his death. Death of Ivan Illych, as its name implies, is an event only to Ivan but for none.
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Phillis Wheatley, Lucy Terry Prince, George Moses Horton and Benjamin Banneker Literature Essay
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It is a cliché that, literature is one of the best modes of catharsis which helps human beings to cope with their grief, pain and sorrow in life. Consequently during the times of colonialism when the Africans were being shipped to America as slaves under British rule and were being treated as animals Literature acted as a sacred reprieve from reality for many of the African slaves.
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The Searcher in Skin of a Lion Literature Essay
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The field of literature is one that stretches through many perspectives and the amount of work put in by the professionals in this field is rather appealing. The Skin of a Lion is one acclaimed novel written in the 20th century that extends to show various norms in society.
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Introduction to Enlightenment Literature Essay
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Enlightenment refers to a freely structured intellectual progress that is worldly, rationalist, broadminded, and uncensored in point of view and values. It thrived in the central decades of the 18th century. The name was self-bestowed, and the vocabulary of obscurity and luminosity was equal in the chief European dialects.
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A Samba for Sherlock Literature Essay
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This paper analyzes the ways in which ‘O Xangô de Baker Street’, or its English adaptation titled ‘A Samba for Sherlock’, have transcended cultural and historical boundaries. It also describes the adaptation of western characters such as Sherlock Holmes in an emerging Latin American culture and the changes adopted by the author to reflect an intelligent and humoristic character of the protagonist.
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Differences In Nature And Purpose Of Dialogue In Fiction And That In Real And Everyday Life Literature Essay
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Dialogue has always served multiple functions in literature. In fictional writing, there is a great difference between dialogue and monologue. Monologue is whereby a character in the text is seen to talk to himself/herself.
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Critical Perspectives for Literature, Criticism and Culture Literature Essay
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The twentieth century displays radical organization in presentation of the narratives. The structuralized narratives however can be associated with the work of Aristotle in poetry. Aristotle poetry had a distinction between diegesis and mimesis (Kunstverlag 2009).
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Journey to the West Literature Research Paper
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The novel, journey to the west, is a fictionalized tale of the pilgrimage real life of the Buddhist monk called Xuan Zang and the journey he made to India. This is during the Tang dynasty to acquire Buddhist religious texts. From the introduction of this novel, Buddha surveys the land but what he only sees is sin, greed, hedonism and violence.
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The Relationship Between Lord Byron and the Romantic movement Literature Essay
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Having been the most fashionable poet of those decades, Lord Byron was likewise the most notorious and flamboyant major of Romantics. In his list of his creations, there is immense works of a popular Romantic hero that comprise of melancholy, defiant, and secret guilt that haunted him.
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Zhu Bajie: Buddhism (personal sacrifice) Literature Essay
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In English, he is simply referred to as a Pig/ pigsy. He was once an immortal in Heaven and a marshal of the Heavenly canopy commanding 800,000 naval soldiers of the Milky Way. He drank too much during a party of gods where he got to flirt with Cheng’e (Goddess of the Moon).
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Intentional Arrangements of Words and Phrases in a Number of Poems Literature Essay
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The story of Toussaint in the second stanza sounds almost like a chant that suggests double voices, i.e. oratory and plural voices. The same can be said of the following lines, although they tell the story in fragments before closing with the line, ‘to Freedom River,” which to me is quite un-rhythmic. 
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Religion in Donnes Death Be Not Proud Literature Essay
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The English Reformation commenced in England since the 14th century with John Wycliffe. However it was not until three centuries later that the Reformation cemented in England.
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A Rose For Emily by William Faulkener Literature Essay
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The story centers on the independence theme. The father refused to grant independence to Emily by refusing to let her marry. Emily refused to grant Homer his freedom not to marry her by poisoning Homer Barron. Historically, the theme of independence is very evident.
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Parenting Example in Literature: The Case of J. S. Foer's Literature Research Paper
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Since he already had heavy boots (Oskar’s euphemism for misfortune and broken-heartedness), Oskar made the trek into his father’s room so he could retrieve a camera. Clumsiness prevails and Oskar knocks over a vase, in so doing uncovers the key in an envelope labeled “Black.” It is this key and the search for its lock that the novel is focused on.
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Michael Sandel's critique of John Rawls' Theory of Justice Literature Essay
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It is evident from the study that in order to recover from criticism of his theory, John Rawls constantly develops recasts, revises and expands his theory of justice. His works despite being criticized cannot be discarded since there are no alternative theories provided by Sandel. Rawls will be commemorated for his impartial model of justice as fairness.
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Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Literature Research Paper
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While it is frequently believed that the problems faced by the individual farmers of the 1930s were caused primarily by natural causes such as the droughts and subsequent dust storms which stripped the land of nutrients, Steinbeck and others like him were attempting to prove that nature was only a small portion of a larger problem that had been growing for years.
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Sexuality and Violence in Chirstabel and Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Literature Research Paper
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Taylor Coleridge is known for his dark and rhythmic poetry with vision and extreme imagery involved. His poems are also known for bold themes discussed in unique, indirect yet impactful way for instance sexuality, homosexuality for that matter along with other themes involving violence.
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The Lady of Shalott Literature Research Paper
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The Lady of Shalott” is a much appraised poem because it is simple and mysterious in many different ways. The need for analyzing the poem rose from the artistic work of the poet, Tennyson himself who was criticized for not being able to leave a mark on the previous and latter poets who had a high stature.
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Chopins The Awakening Literature Essay
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The sea functions as a symbol of freedom, clearly, but it is also a symbol of intense isolation. The novel begins the development of this symbol from the very beginning of the novel, calling the “abysses of solitude” a place of “inward contemplation”
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Comparison and Contrast Events in Relation to Racialism Literature Research Paper
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Dr. Tatum's main point is the fact blacks are the most vulnerable people to suffer racism (16). She argues that black people face discrimination, racism, prejudice, and stereotyping. To her, the main culprits who propagate racism are the white people, and this is because of the concept of natural advantage.
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Anti Racism in Huckleberry Finn Literature Research Paper
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Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn is the most daring, noblest and adventurous work in English Literature. Through the story of Finn, a twelve year old boy, Twain rages against the racist society of the time. The author’s conscious effort to say that ‘all the people have the same heart’ is evident in the setting and action.
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Feminism and the Bronte Sisters Literature Research Paper
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The feminist philosophy of Bronte sisters is solicitous and it gave a new insight to the feminist movement. The paper tries to conduct a thorough study of Victorian era and its influence on literary and the private life of Bronte Sisters.
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Julian of Norwichs Views on the Body and Christ as mother Literature Research Paper
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Julian of Norwich, a mystic living in fourteenth century Britain, is renowned for her visionary writings, considered unique for her times. Very little is known about her life, apart from the fact that she had a series of visions in May 1373 and that she lived in seclusion as an anchoress during a period of terrible plagues (Watson, 637).
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Analysis of Walt Whitman and his poetry Literature Research Paper
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Walt Whitman was born on 1819 near Huntington in New York. Known lovingly as the 'America's World Poet' he lived for 76 years creating some of the most impressive pieces of English literature.
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Survival in an Apocalyptic World Literature Research Paper
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This essay demonstrates that the authors depict an environment filled with huge blast craters, formless landscape, radioactive elements and problems of electromagnetic pulses all of which are associated with the aftermath of a nuclear war (Charles, 6). Survival in a post-apocalyptic world will be characterized with untold misery caused by anarchy.
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Action and Greed in The Pot of Gold Literature Essay
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The conclusion states that in Plautus’s The Pot of Gold there is a society that enslaves its people in roles that are decided by patriarchy or by greed. The action in the play is completed by the male characters, whose actions revolve around that of the protagonist, Euclio, whose main motivating factor in the play is his greed.
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Man and Wife by Chasie Kate and Why Dont You Dance by Raymond Carver Literature Essay
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The author states that both the stories run on the same theme of love and relationship. While “Why don’t you dance” revolves mainly around the problems linked with married life, “Man and Wife” focuses on the relationship of a girl with her parents, friends, and husband. Both the stories are indeed masterpieces.
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Flannery OConnor Literature Essay
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The paper dwells upon the story that narrates how a family is devastated when an old lady resorts to fulfilling her own interests through deceitful means. The three character traits of the grandmother in the story are selfishness, thoughtlessness, and dishonesty.
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A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway Literature Research Paper
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The paper tells that Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms powerfully illustrates the negative effects war can have on the human psyche. It seems remarkable that Hemingway could have captured the essence of a syndrome that affects so many in today’s technologically advanced, ideologically charged world in a story about World War I.
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The Role of Identity in the Story of the Hour by Kate Chopin Literature Essay
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The paper tells about the sweet call of freedom that is embodied in various symbols of autonomy and hope. To respond to these delicious images of freedom, Mrs. Mallard forms a new identity in the span of an hour, an identity she can call her own. Unfortunately, this identity, as swiftly as it is made, is threatened by immediate figurative death, as Mrs. Mallard sees her husband is alive after all.
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Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates Literature Research Paper
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In the essay the researcher would focus on the story’s demonic characteristics that signify that Arnold Friend is the Devil. Nevertheless, it would be relevant to note that interpretation of the Devil should be broader than a counter figure to Jesus Christ. The Devil embodies a sin, a temptation, a girls’ subconscious intention to be seduced by an unknown lover.
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On Sale at Old Navy Literature Essay
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The author alleges that such business strategies deter originality and creativity by forcing mass conformity. Cave points out about the craze that these retail brands generate around themselves by promising to offer exclusive experiences. Cave focuses his entire argument on uncovering the hidden intentions of this business strategy.
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Charles Perraults 1697 French version of Sleeping Beauty Literature Essay
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This essay will analyse three different versions of “Sleeping Beauty”, so as to compare them and discover what messages are being relayed to children through the fairytale. The three different versions that will be examined are a translation of Perrault’s version, a translation of the Brother’s Grimm’s version and the more modern version by Walt Disney.
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Frank Norriss Zola as a Romantic Writer Literature Essay
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People internalize the meaning of Naturalism in a vague sense. Naturalism is a part of Realism and it represents matters in fiction as they are in reality. Norris in his essay ‘Zola as a Romantic writer’ says that the writings of Zola are a part of Romanticism, as Romanticism is just the opposite of Realism.
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