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The Rebellious Attitude of Jane Eyre Literature Book Report/Review
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Frederick L. Ashe has a different idea about Jane and states that although many critics say she is rebellious, he sees her as pessimistic in the beginning and then sees her chance to be optimistic in the future. He states that readers have to take into account that Jane spent the first ten years of her life being mistreated and then the next eight with people who humiliate her.
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Father-Daughter Conflict and Eternal Angst in Plaths Daddy Literature Book Report/Review
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The poem is part of the Confessional Movement, where Plath seems to be confessing her personal feelings and ideas about her German immigrant father in particular. The speaker of the poem is a daughter who speaks in the first person. She wants to understand and resolve her problems with her authoritarian father, who died when she was only eight years old.
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Love, Identity and Loss in The Funeral Party Literature Book Report/Review
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The major debate in the room is based on who Alik loved the most. They also question whether he should be christened before he dies, like in the case of his wife, Nina, who used to be an alcoholic, or whether he should be reconciled to his birth’s faith by a rabbi. They also wonder what the Yeltsin putsch will mean to them.
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Areopagitica by John Milton Literature Book Report/Review
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This book was meant to condemn the religious toleration and the stricter enforcement of the licensing rule in England. He believed in the leadership of wise men as he said England should be ruled by, “the best and wisest men.” The right and also the duty of every intelligent man, as a rational being, to know the ground and to take responsibility for his actions and beliefs. 
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Hibbert, Christopher. Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason Literature Book Report/Review
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It also talks about what he went through during his childhood, and how events in his life that shaped him to become a leader. It also elaborates more on how the people who were in his life shaped him to become a leader in England. The book talks about how he started the civil war, which was the main reason for his execution.
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History of Harlem Renaissance Literature Essay
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It is a period during which there was an upsurge of literary creativity that was unprecedented. The Harlem Renaissance represents a period between the 1920s and the 1930s, during which African American writers used their literary skills as a tool for exalting the African culture, while also using their works of literature to express themselves.
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Anthropomorphism in the Work of Beatrix Potter Literature Essay
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In her book The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901), Beatrix Potter uses rabbits and friendly sparrows as the only animals. A family of rabbits is shown where the mother rabbit warns her children not to go into the vegetable garden. Potter used a variety of human traits with each character. The mother rabbit is cautious as a mother always is.
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In What Ways Does Fiction Relate to Reality Literature Coursework
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Very recently, there was a high profile and much-discussed case of several cartoonists who depicted humorous pictures of the prophet Muhammad which were published in several periodicals around the world. Clearly those were fictional depictions of the prophet but they created a controversy that became a political and social problem for many countries of the world.
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Advice to Youth by Writer Mark Twain Literature Essay
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It is meant to help men and women grow up in wisdom and strength. Mark Twain is celebrated for the numerous books he authored and for being a humorist.
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Fate vs Free will in Macbeth Literature Essay
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The play was composed in 1600. The playset, initially set in Scotland, explores Macbeth's life and centers its findings on the growth and fall of King Macbeth. The drama explores Macbeth's greed for authority and power.
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William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing Literature Literature review
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After all, if a virtuous true identity is one that trusts others and can submit to the will of others, its very existence and the happiness that it can bring to an individual who enters into social relationships depend on its being a part of a community. So, the ability to maintain a virtuous true identity becomes the final stage of an individual's development.
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D.H. Lawrence - The Rocking-Horse Winner Literature Literature review
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As his mother touches the money he earns, she uses it not to satisfy family needs — it has little or no use-value — but to extend her social position and social power, and the process of extension, of course, is never-ending, requiring ever greater sums of money: "There were certain new furnishings, and Paul had a tutor. He was really going to Eton, his father's school, in the following autumn.
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William Faulkner - Dry September Literature Literature review
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It is difficult to ignore the sense of dubiety that pervades the story, from the uncertainty of the light to the ambiguity that surrounds Miss Minnie's accusations. Her allegation is described as "the rumor, the story, whatever it was. Something about Miss Minnie Cooper and a Negro...none of them...knew exactly what had happened" (517).
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Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Literature Literature review
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Twain's literary achievement in this story is dazzling. The double framework, his superb command of the vernacular language, the complete deadpan manners of the two narrators, the excellent characterizations, the clever ordering of the absurd anecdotes in Wheeler's yarn, the increasing dramatic effects, the vivid dramatization of the frog story.
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James Joyce - Grace Literature Literature review
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In the dialogue that follows, the narrator becomes an infiltrator, a present observer pointing out and enhancing the unintended comic errors in the words and meanings of the men in Mr. Kernan's bedroom. This figure has evolved out of the borrowed voice in the public house and may be described as the poetic narrator acting impishly.
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The Victorian Fear of Degeneration in Literature Literature Essay
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The Victorian era was a time of drastic change in Britain, as the development of new technologies demanded a revolution of politics, society and culture. As Matthew Sweet notes in his introduction to Inventing the Victorians, the sheer volume of advertisements in contemporary newspapers shows that Victorian society was intoxicated on the sense of its own modernity.
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Kafka, Hawthorne, and Coetzee Literature Essay
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His work is to some extent prefigured by the work of Hawthorne in the Scarlet Letter as will be discussed below but is in other ways sui generis. The impact of massive machinery moving against a single person, crushing them without reason, and can now be found in much contemporary literature, in particular in Coetzee's The Life and Times of Michael K.
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Why I Write by George Orwell Literature Essay
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In the introductory paragraph, Orwell tells how having remained away from his father for the first eight years of his life and been placed between his two siblings with a distance of five years from each of them put him into isolation. He attributed his early childhood agitation to the very isolation.
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A Woman Doing Life Notes from a Prison for Women Erin George Literature Book Report/Review
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The book is a reflection of the lives of females in prison based on her experiences. The author is serving a sentence of many years in a prison in Virginia (Erin 2). The story also focuses on the stories of other imprisoned females. This paper offers an overview of the book and a detailed critique of the information presented in it. 
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Aloysha as Dostoyevskys Future Hero Literature Essay
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The clarification of expressions and self-revelation of the hero and his discourse about himself is not pre-determined (as the ultimate goal of construction) by some form of a neutral image of him, does sometimes make the author’s setting “fantastic”. Some fantastic viewpoints have been sought for the author outside the ordinary fields of vision.
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Practical Criticism Literature Essay
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Richards’ theory is based on the problems that come about because of misreading, which makes literary criticism as a whole difficult. Leavis believed that the merit of a piece of literature was entirely based on how it was evaluated and that an effective piece should contain some moral commentary on life. 
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Literature Literature review
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The soldiers are described to be moving from one place to the other, wandering aimlessly carrying heavy loads. There was no purpose behind their journey, there wasn’t any war, and there was no fight, nothing. They are tired of this endless journey. Yet they are amazed by the constant supplies they get.
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Admonitions of the Court Instructress to Palace Ladies by Gu Kaizh Literature Literature review
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Based upon information provided by the British Museum (2008), the scroll retains other elements of technique and style that are characteristic of the fourth-century figure painting styles of Gu Kaizhi. “Similar pictorial motifs have been discovered in contemporary tombs.  Experts describe Gu Kaizhi as having painted in this manner”. 
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Childrens Literature and Literacy Literature Essay
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The points discussed above indicate how literacy can liberate and oppress people. According to Hannon and other authors cited in this paper, literacy is very much a product of society’s standards and ideas of knowledge and learning. Reading and writing go through stages and every child must conform to these standards. 
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Analysis of Eudora Welty's Short Story Literature Essay
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Literature has a way of teaching us about life in other places and times so that we may get a better idea of how they think and thus open our minds to greater possibilities.  This is particularly true of literature written by minority people during times when minorities were largely ignored or silenced.
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Othello by Shakespeare Literature Book Report/Review
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Othello's actions and thoughts are influenced by other characters, their inner desires and motives. Readers build their responses to them not only from what a character says and does but also from what other persons in the play say about the character and how he interacts with these other dramatic personae.
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Father Figures in Shakespeare Tragedies Literature Book Report/Review
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In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Juliet’s father, in rage decide to get Juliet married on Thursday with Count Paris. He discloses the plan to Juliet and when she asks him to give her some time, he calls her unworthy of the suitable match that he has found in Paris. He curses her and orders her to be ready for marriage
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Analysis of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera Literature Essay
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It may not always be that one’s writing is directed toward persuasive means to convince of a personal belief but it is inevitable that signs will show. And as literature is a great marker of our history as a people, then communism and anything else would undeniably be integrated into different writings, fiction, or nonfiction. 
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The International Handbook of Creativity Literature Book Report/Review
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In most studies, the initial phase of creativity is thought to be characterized by the creator’s interest in solving a problem, placing the driving motive squarely on the shoulders of the individual in independent action through his interest in the topic of acknowledging the environmental influences necessary in the presentation of a problem. 
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The Concept of Leisure Literature Assignment
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This assignment also discusses the story ‘How the tortoise became Bald’ and the story ‘The three brothers and the pot of porridge’. In the story ‘The Tortoise and the Lizard’ and the story ‘Brer Rabbit Fools Sis Cow’ there are similar moral lessons to be learned that the animals should have worked for their food. 
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10 Things to Celebrate by DSouza Literature Book Report/Review
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Dinesh D’Souza uses the events that have surrounded terrorist activities against the United States as a way to get the attention of the reader. Through his own experiences, he is able to provide a narrative that links his arguments to the emotional impact of his statements. This engages the reader to appreciate his point of view.
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Personal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humphreys Literature Book Report/Review
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It is generally acknowledged that Humphreys did everything in his power to protect the identity of his subjects, his involvement with law enforcement rendered that attempt precarious at best. As Lenza contends, it was the publicity and homophobic hysteria surrounding Humphreys' dissertation work at Washington University.
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Marriage in The Canterbury Tales Literature Essay
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Dorigen would not have been able to even make such an agreement on her own if the marriage between herself and the knight hadn’t been equal. it should be noted, that she would have considered herself the knight’s property more or less, and she simply would not have been in a position to make this agreement.
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Comparative Analysis of Prince Hals Soliloquy and King Henrys Speech Literature Essay
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Shakespeare uses his words skillfully to paint an accurate picture of the two people involved in the conversation and their relationship. From the reproachful language the King uses we learn that Hal has a dissolute lifestyle not befitting a prince and that he allows himself to be led astray by his “common” friends and disgraces the importance of royalty.
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Politics and the English Language by George Orwell Literature Essay
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Orwell discusses the facts that how this language has been used by media and different politicians to fulfill their mean aims and how media has used this language as a tool for creating a sensation in the minds of people. Orwell has also critically analyzed a few of the great authors of his times. 
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Girl Interrupted, Written by Susan Kaysen Literature Book Report/Review
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The writer describes her past glimpses spent in a hospital in the form of non-sequel memories and expresses her thoughtfulness regarding her mental and emotional condition on the one hand and atmosphere of the hospital on the other. The novel consists of thirty-four sections in which Kaysen also describes the role, activities, and behavior of her mates.
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Literary Analysis Life After High School Literature Essay
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The better part of this narrative is about the love affair between Zachary Graff and Barbara “Sunny” Bushman. Unfortunately, this attractive and famous girl turns down the proposal of this intelligent but socially awkward young man.
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How Does Macbeth's Character Change Throughout the Play Literature Essay
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As the title suggests, the main character is Macbeth. The author brings themes such as treachery, power, and betrayal in the drama using the Macbeths and the witches.
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The Cask of Amontillado Literature Essay
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The killer uses a barrel of Amontillado, which is said to be waiting for the two connoisseurs down there and has to be examined. Whenever the friend hesitates to come along, Montresor Luchesi (in various sources also “Luchresi”) mentions another friend, whom he could also ask for his judgment.
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Analysis of Mother Tongue by Amy Tan Literature Essay
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They will always carry over rules from their first language (Mother Tongue) into their English writing or conversations.
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Religious Intolerance and Discrimination in Shakespeare and Miller Literature Essay
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While religion is not directly responsible for the action in the play, it provides the reason for the anger and hate borne of discrimination. The final resolution of the play, in forcing Shylock to convert to Christianity or lose half of his estate, is somewhat less satisfying today to more cosmopolitan audiences. 
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Growing Misery - Isabellas Tragic Tale Literature Essay
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At the time and place the Decameron was written - Italy in the 1300s - women did not have many rights. They were not independent beings, but relied on their fathers - or their brothers, or any male relative if the others were no longer alive - for everything. They could not earn their own living and were subject to the whims of the men in their families. 
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Qualitative Critical Review Literature Article
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This title clearly and concisely indicates the subject matter, the problem, and the design that this study may deal with. The authors have coined a novel terminology for this, "novice birthing" (Dahlen et al., 2010). The community and phenomenon surrounding the study has been succinctly indicated in the title.
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Pain and Determination of Settlers in My Antonia by Willa Cather Literature Essay
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Humans nourish in them a quest for transcendence and the phenomenon won’t cease till man strides on the earth. Moreover, ambition seems to be one of the explanations why he chases opportunities and when this element is absent, he reduces himself to the status of other beings that occupy the same earth. 
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Analysis of Suicide Note by Janice Mirikitani Literature Essay
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The poem gives the message that if parents, teachers and community members do not inflict unnecessary pressure on the young people, it would become encouraging for them to show their talent and abilities in studies, sports and other activities. On the contrary, unjustified demands from the elders turn the young generation go astray, and even take their life in a state of intense despair and dejection.
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Nature of the People Who Produced the Epic of Gilgamesh Literature Essay
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The oldest surviving story about Gilgamesh dates back to the year 2000 B.C. and was written on clay tablets in the language of the Sumerians. The stories were written in the form of poems on wedge-shaped tablets. The library that protected the stones was however destroyed in 612 B.C. by the Persians and the tablets were entirely damaged.
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The Concept of Home in Henry James' The Ambassadors and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie Literature Essay
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Collaborative politics is indispensable to functioning well in the capacity to represent not only of another entity but also to forward specific goals and objectives. In order to have an impact, an ambassador has to groom proficient communication and observation skills, while possessing a competence to easily assimilate or adapt in another climate. 
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Romance of Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong Literature Essay
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The only constant is war; peace is elusive. The three kingdoms: the Wei kingdom led by Cao Wei, the Shu kingdom led by Shu Han, and the Wu kingdom headed by Dong Wu. War breaks out because of questions regarding the legitimacy of succession. China subdivides into three major branches with Cao Cao reigning in the north.
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Towards the Comparison of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Literature Essay
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Schlosser’s plot is restricted; Sinclair’s plot transcends the borders of America, and he has in mind the welfare of working-class. His avowed objective is to introduce a socialist revolution in America. Schlosser’s writing style appeals to the emotions of the readers, he has tendered statistics and leaves no doubts about his credentials. 
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The Mending Wall by Robert Frost Literature Essay
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The poem is mainly about two neighbours who seldom encounter each other except on the only instances that the two neighbours come across each other are when they both have to fix the stone fences dividing their property but they do not engage in friendly conversations. Repair of the walls had seemed to become a ritual to both characters. 
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