The narrator learned to be more realistic in life, and not to be carried away by his own fantasies. He put all his energy in what might happen at Araby, in all the magical things that might be there, but didn't accept the reality of the situation. He thought that the world is was romantic place, and the places he have yet to go to would welcome him with open arms and sweep him away with its wonder. He realizes that the world, or more speficly Araby, isn't as crack up to be as he once believed. The narrator arrives at the bazaar only to encounter flowered teacups and English accents, not the freedom of the enchanting East. As the bazaar closes down, he realizes that Mangan’s sister will fail his expectations as well, and that his desire for her is actually only a vain wish for change.
"Araby" is a coming-of-age. The boy narrator lived his life as one does when innocent and unaware. He played with his friends and had a carefree personality. His innocence was tainted with when his dreams were crushed. Before he had no burdens, but after a visit to Araby the heavy weight of knowledge was put upon him. He is awakened to the fast-pace, self-indulgent, and tedious lives of those in Dublin and that that awaits him.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
literary responses
I don't believe the opposite of love is control. When you love someone in some aspects you may control them, but if you control someone that doesn't mean you love or don't them. The fact is, control can have absolutely nothing to do with love, and there it is not its opposite.
I believe the opposite of love is disinterest. Love is an extreme emotion and so feeling not emotions at all for someone is feeling the opposite of someone who loves that person. Some would think hate as the opposite of love, but hate is an extreme emotion. It isn't really opposite because if someone was hanging of a cliff the person who hates you would probably push you over, the person who loves you would probably pull you up, but the person who doesn't care would do nothing.
When I hear the word "hawk", I think of "bird of prey". Hawks seek their food from the skies, soaring down when they spot something to prey on. Hawks are animals that dominates what ever comes to him. Hawks are bold and daring and have no regard for anyone but them selves.
I believe the opposite of love is disinterest. Love is an extreme emotion and so feeling not emotions at all for someone is feeling the opposite of someone who loves that person. Some would think hate as the opposite of love, but hate is an extreme emotion. It isn't really opposite because if someone was hanging of a cliff the person who hates you would probably push you over, the person who loves you would probably pull you up, but the person who doesn't care would do nothing.
When I hear the word "hawk", I think of "bird of prey". Hawks seek their food from the skies, soaring down when they spot something to prey on. Hawks are animals that dominates what ever comes to him. Hawks are bold and daring and have no regard for anyone but them selves.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Page 1 Number 23 Rime of Mariner Reading Checks
page 837:
page 839: The Mariner suddenly starts to see a lighthouse, a kirk, and hills; his home country.
page 841: The Mariner hopes the Hermit will forgive him.
page 839: The Mariner suddenly starts to see a lighthouse, a kirk, and hills; his home country.
page 841: The Mariner hopes the Hermit will forgive him.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
The MOST Updated Version of MOdern Post
The Modern and Postmodern Periods (1901- Present)
1. "Yesterday, we split the atom...And because of this, the great dream and the great nightmare of
centuries of human thought have taken flesh and walk beside us all, day and night".
- Doris Lessing, from "The Small, Personal Voice"
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2. World War II and the Loss of the Empire: The aggression of Germany and Japan led inevitably to
World War II. When Hitler’s armies overran Europe, the English stood defiantly alone, shielded by the English Channel and the Royal Air Force. It was, Winston Churchill said, "their finest hour".
*In 1942, Russia blunted the German advance, America was in the war and the tide turned against the aggressors. After nearly six years of struggle, England emerged from the war victorious, battered, and impoverished.
* England's former colonies became independent colonies. The Indian subcontinent, where Gandhi had led an independence movement, was divided into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947.
* The imperial British lion gave a dying gasp in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to keep the control of the Suez Canal. However, the United States intervened, the Egyptians kept the Canal, and British troops came home to a country ashamed of its government's actions.
* Suez was forgotten in the cultural upheaval in 1960s, when British fashion and British rock musicians carried the flag around the world in a kind of cultural conquest. Also, writers from England's former colonies were engaged in their own re-conquest, enriching English literature.
* As the century closed, the violence in Northern Ireland seemed to be ending. Also, England pondered its involvement with Europe, not accepting the common currency, the Euro, but cooperating in a
drilling a tunnel under the English Channel, which joined England to the Continent. Do Sir Edward Grey's words still have a prophetic ring? Many thought the lamps came on again when the Berlin Wall fell. However, countries cobbled together in the aftermath of World War I- Yugoslavia and Iraq- have been the sites of bitter conflict.
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3. Vocabulary:
*generation- noun. all of the people born and living at the same time
*materialism- noun. Belief in comfort, pleasure, and wealth as the highest values
*colonial- adj. of or relating to the colony or colonies of a mother country
*propriety- noun. Display of proper manners or behavior
*aristocracy- noun. Ruling class; nobility
*fascism- noun. Type of government ruled by one party, which puts down all opposition
*inclusive- adj. tending to include; taking everything into account
*evocative- adj. calling up a particular image or reaction
*allusions- noun. Indirect references
4. Women and Writers: The work of Virginia Woolf revealed a new freedom that women were finding in literature as well. Woolf's experimental fiction broke new ground, and her nonfiction explored the social
conditions that would help women succeed in the arts.
* The bicycle as product and the right to vote as principle were part of the century-long process of loosening the rigid rules of class, propriety, and morality that bound the Victorians. this process applied to such areas as access to higher education, health care, marriage laws and customs for ordinary people and monarchy, home ownerships, pensions, and working conditions.
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5. Music and Literature in the Sixties: Things were at their brightest in the next decade: the Swinging Sixties. Plato said: "When the modes of music change, the walls of the city are shaken". The walls were rocked by The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Although not as famous as these songwriters and singers, poets like Ted Hughes and peter Redgrove nevertheless opened their minds and their styles to a wide range of new influences.
*The pendulum slowed in the eighties. Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of Britain, reversed many of the economic changes of the previous twenty-five years. However, there could be no reversing the social changes. Early in her administration, the army and navy crushed Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. This was the final flick of the imperial lion's tail.
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6. George Orwell: More Relevant than Ever!-
Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink are words that probably sound familiar because you hear them frequently. They were all coined in the 1940s by British author George Orwell for his novel 1984 (published in 1949). After World War II, Orwell was alarmed by a trend toward repressive totalitarian rule. Believing that language is the first weapon dictators use to seize power, he employed his own words as a warning. In the futuristic tyranny portrayed in his novel, words are used to obscure and destroy meaning:
- The official language, Newspeak, has been stripped of meaning
-The tyrannical ruler is deceptively named Big Brother
- Dissenters face torture in the innocently named Room 101
- Citizens are adapt at doublethink the ability to accept blatant contradictions, as in the government declaration "War is Peace".
* Sixty years later, these terms and others coined by Orwell still ring true. In fact, Orwell's own name is used as an adjective, Orwellian to describe this kind of abuse of language. Pundits, reporters, citizens, and bloggers alike use Orwell's words to criticize Orwellian practices. The year 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell's words live on.
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8. Reading Journal: the Lake of Innisfree: The poet declares that he will arise and go to Innisfree, where he will build a small cabin “of clay and wattles made.” There, he will have nine bean-rows and a beehive, and live alone in the glade loud with the sound of bees (“the bee-loud glade”). He says that he will have peace there, for peace drops from “the veils of morning to where the cricket sings.” Midnight there is a glimmer, and noon is a purple glow, and evening is full of linnet’s wings. He declares again that he will arise and go, for always, night and day, he hears the lake water lapping “with low sounds by the shore.” While he stands in the city, “on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,” he hears the sound within himself, “in the deep heart’s core.”
Reading Journal: When You Are Old: The idea of love in age is an ancient one, meant to express the fact that love inheres not merely in youth, but in something deeper and more lasting. Yeats capitalizes "Love," thus personifying the concept, which is a nod to the poem's 16th century roots. Although monotheism had taken over Europe, Greek and Roman gods were very much a part of 16th century consciousness. Yeats's "Love" is a modernization of the ancient figure, Eros.
9. Answer #2 p1141: The "veils of the morning" is a reference of the mists [fog] of early morning. Crickets sing at night. So, Yeats is actually saying that the "peacefulness" of the Innisfree scene lasts from dawn to nightfall. The slow dropping of peace is a contrast of the rural, slow-paced, peaceful life of County Sligo [where the island of Innisfree in the lake of Lough Gill is located] with the fast-paced, turmoil-filled, unpleasantness of the city..
10. Literary Response:
I would personify death as a baby boy. It can represent the end of life while looking like the beginning of life. It would always be a male, because he would represent death while females represent life (they can give birth).
The baby would not be a demon or angel. He would merely be neutral and would stand for people who have not been bonded to heaven or hell since they have just died. With that said, the baby will neither be good or evil, but emotionless and dutiful. He would guide the dead to the their destinations and never be favorable or unfavorable to any of his 'clients'.
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12. Critical Reading 1-6:
1) Yes, I have been moved by my two pet gerbils Lena and Ginny. I find that they are probably one of the most resilient little rodents alive, because no matter what burdens them they always have energy to replenish in.
2) In the second stanza, Yeats admits that it is nineteen years since he first counted the swans on Coole Lake. By emphasizing the word autumn here, he is showing that he views himself as being in the autumn of his years.
3) He remembers that the swans flew away loudly as a group in huge broken circles. This sudden flight disturbed the tranquility of the scene.
4) When he first heard the bell like beat of the swans’ wings he walked more energetically and with a happier heart. Unlike him, the swams have not grown weary and is still energetic and happy with life.
5) The flight might represent his loss of respect for nature and life. It is painful because although he has grown weary, he does not want to be like that.
6) While they have also gone through the 19 years that has passed, the swans are still lively while Yeats is weary where he once wasn't. I think as time goes by people realize that they become filled with more burdens that they once had.
13. Images of Modernism: When you take a photograph, you record and preserve what is happening now. Modernism could be thought of as a complex response to what photographs imply. Some Modernists, such as the American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and the British poet T.S. Elliot, wrote poetry as if they were taking snapshots of the world and then cutting and pasting them into collages. Elliot celebrated what he called objectivity in poetry. He relied on images, well-chosen and artfully rendered, to encapsulate a feeling or prospective.
On the other hand, the British Modernist novelist Virginia Woolf perfected techniques for conveying an individual’s moment-by moment experience. For Woolf, the mind is like a camera filming continuously. Her writing record what the moment looks like to an individual. A photograph shows us exactly what the world looks like; Woolf suggests that what the world looks like depends on who is looking.
14. Literary Analysis: Modernism was an early twentieth century movement in the arts. The movement responded to the fragmented modern world created by industrialization, rapid transportation and communication, and a feeling of alienation caused by mass society and the growth of cities. Eliot led the movement for Modernism in poetry, which had several features:
- A new objectivity or impersonality in poetry, in which a work is built from images and allusions rather than from direct statements of thoughts and feelings
- A rejection of realistic depictions of life in favor of the use of images for artist effect
- Critical attention to social conditions and the spiritual troubles of modern life.
As you read, look for details that reflect Modernism in Eliot’s poems.
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19. Literary Analysis: Searching for forms suited to modern experience, Modernist writers tested different points of view, perspective from which a story is told.
- A first-person narrator tells his or her own story. With this technique, authors can probe the thoughts of the narrator.
- A third-person narrator tells what happens to others. An omniscient third person has the ability to reveal the thoughts of several characters. A narrator with limited-omniscience sees only into the mind of one or few characters.
-Stream-of-consciousness narration follows the flowing, branching currents of thoughts in a character’s mind.
Writers began using stream-of-consciousness technique under the influence of the emerging science of psychology. As you read, compare and contrast the effects of different forms of narration in other stories.
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23. *Elements of the Short-Story p1216: the short story shares basic narrative elements with the novels
-Plot: a sequence of events that explores characters in conflict. In many modern stories, the plot builds to a crucial moment in which the conflict is altered in some way, but not necessarily resolved.
-Conflict: A struggle between two opposing forces
-Setting; the time and place of the action of the story. Because of their length and focus, short stories often have a single setting.
-Character: a person or creature that participates in the action of the story. Short stories generally have few characters, yet they must be depicted believably and concisely. In many short stories, one main character, or protagonist, develops a conflict that dominates the length of the story. The way in which a writer creates and develops characters is called characterization.
-Theme: the central idea, message, or insight of the story. A short story, usually has a single theme, which may be revealed in a crucial moment of insight or in clues that must be pieced together.
*Narrating a Short Story: Short stories are narrated from a specific vantage point called point of view. Point of view is determined by what type of narrator tells the story. As the voice telling the story, the narrator determines what information is revealed to the reader-what information is left out of the telling. The three commonly used points of view are first person, third-person omniscient, and the third-person limited.
- First Person: the narrator is a character who speaks in the first person, using first-person pronouns- I, me, and we. The reader sees, hears, and knows only what the character sees, hears, and knows and then learns only what the character chooses to reveal.
- Third person: The narrator is not a character in the story, but rather a voice outside the action that speaks using third-person pronouns- he, she, it, or they. A third-person narrator may be either omniscient or limited.
-Third-person omniscient: an all-knowing narrator who can describe everything that happens and may reveal all the characters’ thoughts and feelings. You know the narrator is omniscient when you are aware of the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.
-Third-person limited: a narrator who sees the world through a single character’s eyes and reveals only what he or she is experiencing, thinking, and feeling. That character’s feelings color the whole story.
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37. Reading Journal: The speaker is looking out at Dover beach on the English coast. It is a moonlit night, and he calls his beloved to the window to breathe the sweet night air. He hears the endless roar of the waves flinging pebbles on the shore, the sound suggests eternal sadness. The speaker remarks that ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles long ago heard the same sound and it also reminded him of the ebb and flow of human misery. According to the speaker, the Sea of Faith, once full like the tide, is now retreating to the edges of the earth. The speaker cries out to his beloved, imploring that they be true to one another. Although the world seems beautiful and fresh, the speaker believes it is actually joyless, cruel dark, and uncertain. Conflict and pain, he believes, are unavoidable and people fight without knowing why. Thus there is only consolation and meaning in honest and loving human relationships.
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1. "Yesterday, we split the atom...And because of this, the great dream and the great nightmare of
centuries of human thought have taken flesh and walk beside us all, day and night".
- Doris Lessing, from "The Small, Personal Voice"
__________________________________________________________________
2. World War II and the Loss of the Empire: The aggression of Germany and Japan led inevitably to
World War II. When Hitler’s armies overran Europe, the English stood defiantly alone, shielded by the English Channel and the Royal Air Force. It was, Winston Churchill said, "their finest hour".
*In 1942, Russia blunted the German advance, America was in the war and the tide turned against the aggressors. After nearly six years of struggle, England emerged from the war victorious, battered, and impoverished.
* England's former colonies became independent colonies. The Indian subcontinent, where Gandhi had led an independence movement, was divided into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947.
* The imperial British lion gave a dying gasp in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to keep the control of the Suez Canal. However, the United States intervened, the Egyptians kept the Canal, and British troops came home to a country ashamed of its government's actions.
* Suez was forgotten in the cultural upheaval in 1960s, when British fashion and British rock musicians carried the flag around the world in a kind of cultural conquest. Also, writers from England's former colonies were engaged in their own re-conquest, enriching English literature.
* As the century closed, the violence in Northern Ireland seemed to be ending. Also, England pondered its involvement with Europe, not accepting the common currency, the Euro, but cooperating in a
drilling a tunnel under the English Channel, which joined England to the Continent. Do Sir Edward Grey's words still have a prophetic ring? Many thought the lamps came on again when the Berlin Wall fell. However, countries cobbled together in the aftermath of World War I- Yugoslavia and Iraq- have been the sites of bitter conflict.
____________________________________________________________________________
3. Vocabulary:
*generation- noun. all of the people born and living at the same time
*materialism- noun. Belief in comfort, pleasure, and wealth as the highest values
*colonial- adj. of or relating to the colony or colonies of a mother country
*propriety- noun. Display of proper manners or behavior
*aristocracy- noun. Ruling class; nobility
*fascism- noun. Type of government ruled by one party, which puts down all opposition
*inclusive- adj. tending to include; taking everything into account
*evocative- adj. calling up a particular image or reaction
*allusions- noun. Indirect references
4. Women and Writers: The work of Virginia Woolf revealed a new freedom that women were finding in literature as well. Woolf's experimental fiction broke new ground, and her nonfiction explored the social
conditions that would help women succeed in the arts.
* The bicycle as product and the right to vote as principle were part of the century-long process of loosening the rigid rules of class, propriety, and morality that bound the Victorians. this process applied to such areas as access to higher education, health care, marriage laws and customs for ordinary people and monarchy, home ownerships, pensions, and working conditions.
____________________________________________________________________________________
5. Music and Literature in the Sixties: Things were at their brightest in the next decade: the Swinging Sixties. Plato said: "When the modes of music change, the walls of the city are shaken". The walls were rocked by The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Although not as famous as these songwriters and singers, poets like Ted Hughes and peter Redgrove nevertheless opened their minds and their styles to a wide range of new influences.
*The pendulum slowed in the eighties. Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of Britain, reversed many of the economic changes of the previous twenty-five years. However, there could be no reversing the social changes. Early in her administration, the army and navy crushed Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. This was the final flick of the imperial lion's tail.
__________________________________________________________________________________
6. George Orwell: More Relevant than Ever!-
Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink are words that probably sound familiar because you hear them frequently. They were all coined in the 1940s by British author George Orwell for his novel 1984 (published in 1949). After World War II, Orwell was alarmed by a trend toward repressive totalitarian rule. Believing that language is the first weapon dictators use to seize power, he employed his own words as a warning. In the futuristic tyranny portrayed in his novel, words are used to obscure and destroy meaning:
- The official language, Newspeak, has been stripped of meaning
-The tyrannical ruler is deceptively named Big Brother
- Dissenters face torture in the innocently named Room 101
- Citizens are adapt at doublethink the ability to accept blatant contradictions, as in the government declaration "War is Peace".
* Sixty years later, these terms and others coined by Orwell still ring true. In fact, Orwell's own name is used as an adjective, Orwellian to describe this kind of abuse of language. Pundits, reporters, citizens, and bloggers alike use Orwell's words to criticize Orwellian practices. The year 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell's words live on.
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8. Reading Journal: the Lake of Innisfree: The poet declares that he will arise and go to Innisfree, where he will build a small cabin “of clay and wattles made.” There, he will have nine bean-rows and a beehive, and live alone in the glade loud with the sound of bees (“the bee-loud glade”). He says that he will have peace there, for peace drops from “the veils of morning to where the cricket sings.” Midnight there is a glimmer, and noon is a purple glow, and evening is full of linnet’s wings. He declares again that he will arise and go, for always, night and day, he hears the lake water lapping “with low sounds by the shore.” While he stands in the city, “on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,” he hears the sound within himself, “in the deep heart’s core.”
Reading Journal: When You Are Old: The idea of love in age is an ancient one, meant to express the fact that love inheres not merely in youth, but in something deeper and more lasting. Yeats capitalizes "Love," thus personifying the concept, which is a nod to the poem's 16th century roots. Although monotheism had taken over Europe, Greek and Roman gods were very much a part of 16th century consciousness. Yeats's "Love" is a modernization of the ancient figure, Eros.
9. Answer #2 p1141: The "veils of the morning" is a reference of the mists [fog] of early morning. Crickets sing at night. So, Yeats is actually saying that the "peacefulness" of the Innisfree scene lasts from dawn to nightfall. The slow dropping of peace is a contrast of the rural, slow-paced, peaceful life of County Sligo [where the island of Innisfree in the lake of Lough Gill is located] with the fast-paced, turmoil-filled, unpleasantness of the city..
10. Literary Response:
I would personify death as a baby boy. It can represent the end of life while looking like the beginning of life. It would always be a male, because he would represent death while females represent life (they can give birth).
The baby would not be a demon or angel. He would merely be neutral and would stand for people who have not been bonded to heaven or hell since they have just died. With that said, the baby will neither be good or evil, but emotionless and dutiful. He would guide the dead to the their destinations and never be favorable or unfavorable to any of his 'clients'.
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12. Critical Reading 1-6:
1) Yes, I have been moved by my two pet gerbils Lena and Ginny. I find that they are probably one of the most resilient little rodents alive, because no matter what burdens them they always have energy to replenish in.
2) In the second stanza, Yeats admits that it is nineteen years since he first counted the swans on Coole Lake. By emphasizing the word autumn here, he is showing that he views himself as being in the autumn of his years.
3) He remembers that the swans flew away loudly as a group in huge broken circles. This sudden flight disturbed the tranquility of the scene.
4) When he first heard the bell like beat of the swans’ wings he walked more energetically and with a happier heart. Unlike him, the swams have not grown weary and is still energetic and happy with life.
5) The flight might represent his loss of respect for nature and life. It is painful because although he has grown weary, he does not want to be like that.
6) While they have also gone through the 19 years that has passed, the swans are still lively while Yeats is weary where he once wasn't. I think as time goes by people realize that they become filled with more burdens that they once had.
13. Images of Modernism: When you take a photograph, you record and preserve what is happening now. Modernism could be thought of as a complex response to what photographs imply. Some Modernists, such as the American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and the British poet T.S. Elliot, wrote poetry as if they were taking snapshots of the world and then cutting and pasting them into collages. Elliot celebrated what he called objectivity in poetry. He relied on images, well-chosen and artfully rendered, to encapsulate a feeling or prospective.
On the other hand, the British Modernist novelist Virginia Woolf perfected techniques for conveying an individual’s moment-by moment experience. For Woolf, the mind is like a camera filming continuously. Her writing record what the moment looks like to an individual. A photograph shows us exactly what the world looks like; Woolf suggests that what the world looks like depends on who is looking.
14. Literary Analysis: Modernism was an early twentieth century movement in the arts. The movement responded to the fragmented modern world created by industrialization, rapid transportation and communication, and a feeling of alienation caused by mass society and the growth of cities. Eliot led the movement for Modernism in poetry, which had several features:
- A new objectivity or impersonality in poetry, in which a work is built from images and allusions rather than from direct statements of thoughts and feelings
- A rejection of realistic depictions of life in favor of the use of images for artist effect
- Critical attention to social conditions and the spiritual troubles of modern life.
As you read, look for details that reflect Modernism in Eliot’s poems.
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19. Literary Analysis: Searching for forms suited to modern experience, Modernist writers tested different points of view, perspective from which a story is told.
- A first-person narrator tells his or her own story. With this technique, authors can probe the thoughts of the narrator.
- A third-person narrator tells what happens to others. An omniscient third person has the ability to reveal the thoughts of several characters. A narrator with limited-omniscience sees only into the mind of one or few characters.
-Stream-of-consciousness narration follows the flowing, branching currents of thoughts in a character’s mind.
Writers began using stream-of-consciousness technique under the influence of the emerging science of psychology. As you read, compare and contrast the effects of different forms of narration in other stories.
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23. *Elements of the Short-Story p1216: the short story shares basic narrative elements with the novels
-Plot: a sequence of events that explores characters in conflict. In many modern stories, the plot builds to a crucial moment in which the conflict is altered in some way, but not necessarily resolved.
-Conflict: A struggle between two opposing forces
-Setting; the time and place of the action of the story. Because of their length and focus, short stories often have a single setting.
-Character: a person or creature that participates in the action of the story. Short stories generally have few characters, yet they must be depicted believably and concisely. In many short stories, one main character, or protagonist, develops a conflict that dominates the length of the story. The way in which a writer creates and develops characters is called characterization.
-Theme: the central idea, message, or insight of the story. A short story, usually has a single theme, which may be revealed in a crucial moment of insight or in clues that must be pieced together.
*Narrating a Short Story: Short stories are narrated from a specific vantage point called point of view. Point of view is determined by what type of narrator tells the story. As the voice telling the story, the narrator determines what information is revealed to the reader-what information is left out of the telling. The three commonly used points of view are first person, third-person omniscient, and the third-person limited.
- First Person: the narrator is a character who speaks in the first person, using first-person pronouns- I, me, and we. The reader sees, hears, and knows only what the character sees, hears, and knows and then learns only what the character chooses to reveal.
- Third person: The narrator is not a character in the story, but rather a voice outside the action that speaks using third-person pronouns- he, she, it, or they. A third-person narrator may be either omniscient or limited.
-Third-person omniscient: an all-knowing narrator who can describe everything that happens and may reveal all the characters’ thoughts and feelings. You know the narrator is omniscient when you are aware of the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.
-Third-person limited: a narrator who sees the world through a single character’s eyes and reveals only what he or she is experiencing, thinking, and feeling. That character’s feelings color the whole story.
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37. Reading Journal: The speaker is looking out at Dover beach on the English coast. It is a moonlit night, and he calls his beloved to the window to breathe the sweet night air. He hears the endless roar of the waves flinging pebbles on the shore, the sound suggests eternal sadness. The speaker remarks that ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles long ago heard the same sound and it also reminded him of the ebb and flow of human misery. According to the speaker, the Sea of Faith, once full like the tide, is now retreating to the edges of the earth. The speaker cries out to his beloved, imploring that they be true to one another. Although the world seems beautiful and fresh, the speaker believes it is actually joyless, cruel dark, and uncertain. Conflict and pain, he believes, are unavoidable and people fight without knowing why. Thus there is only consolation and meaning in honest and loving human relationships.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
The Victorian Period Page 2 Missing owkr from original computer
The Victorian Period
1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” – Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities
2. 1833-1901
3. Two works published in Victoria’s reign proved as powerful as any of the machinery assembled for The Great Exposition. In 1848, as England watched while revolutions convulsed Europe, Karl Marx published The Communist manifesto. This pamphlet warned that there was “a spectre haunting Europe”. That “spectre” was communism, with its prophecy of political revolution. The other book, the work of a gentleman scientist who had seen evidence for biological evolution during his long sea voyage on HMS. Beagle, was On the Origin of Species. Supporters and attackers alike knew that after Charles Darwin’s work, our sense of ourselves and our place in the world would never be the same.
4. Key Historical Theme: Imperial Britain
5. – Under Victoria, Britain’s empire expanded, and Britain celebrated progress, prosperity, and peace.
- Darker stories linked to Britain’s empire included the Irish Potato Famine, widespread poverty at home, and the rise of Germany as a competing imperial power.
6. * An Elegy with Up-to-Dates Themes: Tennyson’s In Memoriam, A.H.H., his elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam, speaks to the problem of belief and doubt that was central to the age. In this poem, Tennyson’s struggles to come to terms with Hallam’s death at the age of twenty-two, asking whether a benevolent God or an indifferent nature directs the universe. About ten years before Darwin, he writes of “nature red in tooth and claw”. One of the most impressive aspects of this elegy is its engagement with the latest scientific discoveries. Be the end of the poem, however, Tennyson has regained his belief and declares his faith in a divine plan for the universe.
• The Sonnet: In Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning states her belief in the power of love, more positively than Matthew Arnold. She adds a distinctively Victorian note of piety, reverence, and religious belief to her love poem.
*The Dramatic Monologue:
*The Novel
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11. Reading Summary: In Part I, the speaker sets the scene and introduces the plot: The Lady, on her remote island, is under a curse. She must keep to her weaving and ignore Camelot. However, she is attracted by the reflections of the active world that she sees in her mirror. At the sight of two lovers, she declares that she is “half sick of shadows”. In Part II, the shining figure of Sir Lancelot pierces the island gloom, and the lonely lady chooses to leave her retreat and follow him. The mirror cracks. She then places her name upon the prow of a boat and flows toward Camelot, singing. By the time she reaches the first house, she is dead. Moved, the lords and ladies stare at her lifeless form, while Lancelot utters a prayer.
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19.Reading Journey: This dramatic monologue opens with a description of the setting; a violently windy and rainy night. Such an opening creates a sense of foreboding and foreshadows an evil deed. The speaker waits for Porphyria; he describes her entrance and her loving embrace. Still, he complains that although she worships him, she is too weak to commit herself to him totally. He then strangles Porphyria with her own hair to make her his forever, imaging that Porphyria welcomes her death as a release from unwanted bonds. At the end of the poem, the speaker notices that God has not reacted to his deed.
1. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” – Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities
2. 1833-1901
3. Two works published in Victoria’s reign proved as powerful as any of the machinery assembled for The Great Exposition. In 1848, as England watched while revolutions convulsed Europe, Karl Marx published The Communist manifesto. This pamphlet warned that there was “a spectre haunting Europe”. That “spectre” was communism, with its prophecy of political revolution. The other book, the work of a gentleman scientist who had seen evidence for biological evolution during his long sea voyage on HMS. Beagle, was On the Origin of Species. Supporters and attackers alike knew that after Charles Darwin’s work, our sense of ourselves and our place in the world would never be the same.
4. Key Historical Theme: Imperial Britain
5. – Under Victoria, Britain’s empire expanded, and Britain celebrated progress, prosperity, and peace.
- Darker stories linked to Britain’s empire included the Irish Potato Famine, widespread poverty at home, and the rise of Germany as a competing imperial power.
6. * An Elegy with Up-to-Dates Themes: Tennyson’s In Memoriam, A.H.H., his elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam, speaks to the problem of belief and doubt that was central to the age. In this poem, Tennyson’s struggles to come to terms with Hallam’s death at the age of twenty-two, asking whether a benevolent God or an indifferent nature directs the universe. About ten years before Darwin, he writes of “nature red in tooth and claw”. One of the most impressive aspects of this elegy is its engagement with the latest scientific discoveries. Be the end of the poem, however, Tennyson has regained his belief and declares his faith in a divine plan for the universe.
• The Sonnet: In Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning states her belief in the power of love, more positively than Matthew Arnold. She adds a distinctively Victorian note of piety, reverence, and religious belief to her love poem.
*The Dramatic Monologue:
*The Novel
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11. Reading Summary: In Part I, the speaker sets the scene and introduces the plot: The Lady, on her remote island, is under a curse. She must keep to her weaving and ignore Camelot. However, she is attracted by the reflections of the active world that she sees in her mirror. At the sight of two lovers, she declares that she is “half sick of shadows”. In Part II, the shining figure of Sir Lancelot pierces the island gloom, and the lonely lady chooses to leave her retreat and follow him. The mirror cracks. She then places her name upon the prow of a boat and flows toward Camelot, singing. By the time she reaches the first house, she is dead. Moved, the lords and ladies stare at her lifeless form, while Lancelot utters a prayer.
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19.Reading Journey: This dramatic monologue opens with a description of the setting; a violently windy and rainy night. Such an opening creates a sense of foreboding and foreshadows an evil deed. The speaker waits for Porphyria; he describes her entrance and her loving embrace. Still, he complains that although she worships him, she is too weak to commit herself to him totally. He then strangles Porphyria with her own hair to make her his forever, imaging that Porphyria welcomes her death as a release from unwanted bonds. At the end of the poem, the speaker notices that God has not reacted to his deed.
English 4 work 3rd page Modern Postmodern
The Modern and Postmodern Periods (1901- Present)
1. "Yesterday, we split the atom...And because of this, the great dream and the great nightmare of
centuries of human thought have taken flesh and walk beside us all, day and night".
- Doris Lessing, from "The Small, Personal Voice"
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2. World War II and the Loss of the Empire: The aggression of Germany and Japan led inevitably to
World War II. When Hitler’s armies overran Europe, the English stood defiantly alone, shielded by the English Channel and the Royal Air Force. It was, Winston Churchill said, "their finest hour".
*In 1942, Russia blunted the German advance, America was in the war and the tide turned against the aggressors. After nearly six years of struggle, England emerged from the war victorious, battered, and impoverished.
* England's former colonies became independent colonies. The Indian subcontinent, where Gandhi had led an independence movement, was divided into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947.
* The imperial British lion gave a dying gasp in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to keep the control of the Suez Canal. However, the United States intervened, the Egyptians kept the Canal, and British troops came home to a country ashamed of its government's actions.
* Suez was forgotten in the cultural upheaval in 1960s, when British fashion and British rock musicians carried the flag around the world in a kind of cultural conquest. Also, writers from England's former colonies were engaged in their own re-conquest, enriching English literature.
* As the century closed, the violence in Northern Ireland seemed to be ending. Also, England pondered its involvement with Europe, not accepting the common currency, the Euro, but cooperating in a
drilling a tunnel under the English Channel, which joined England to the Continent. Do Sir Edward Grey's words still have a prophetic ring? Many thought the lamps came on again when the Berlin Wall fell. However, countries cobbled together in the aftermath of World War I- Yugoslavia and Iraq- have been the sites of bitter conflict.
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4. Vocabulary:
*generation- noun. all of the people born and living at the same time
*materialism- noun. belief in comfort, pleasure, and wealth as the highest values
*colonial- adj. of or relating to the colony or colonies of a mother country
*propriety- noun. display of proper manners or behavior
*aristocracy- noun. ruling class; nobility
*fascism- noun. type of government ruled by one party, which puts down all opposition
*inclusive- adj. tending to include; taking everything into account
*evocative- adj. calling up a particular image or reaction
*allusions- noun. indirect references
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5. Women and Writers: The work of Virginia Woolf revealed a new freedom that women were finding in literature as well. Woolf's experimental fiction broke new ground, and her nonfiction explored the social
conditions that would help women succeed in the arts.
* The bicycle as product and the right to vote as principle were part of the century-long process of loosening the rigid rules of class, propriety, and morality that bound the Victorians. this process applied to such areas as access to higher education, health care, marriage laws and customs for ordinary people and monarchy, home ownerships, pensions, and working conditions.
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5. Things were at their brightest in the next decade: the Swinging Sixties. Plato said: "When the modes of music change, the walls of the city are shaken". The walls were rocked by The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Although not as famous as these songwriters and singers, poets like Ted Hughes and peter Redgrove nevertheless opened their minds and their styles to a wide range of new influences.
*The pendulum slowed in the eighties. Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of Britain, reversed many of the economic changes of the previous twenty-five years. However, there could be no reversing the social changes. Early in her administration, the army and navy crushed Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. This was the final flick of the imperial lion's tail.
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6. George Orwell: More Relevant than Ever!-
Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink are words that probably sound familiar because you hear them frequently. They were all coined in the 1940s by British author George Orwell for his novel 1984 (published in 1949). After World War II, Orwell was alarmed by a trend toward repressive totalitarian rule. Believing that language is the first weapon dictators use to seize power, he employed his own words as a warning. In the futuristic tyranny portrayed in his novel, words are used to obscure and destroy meaning:
- The official language, Newspeak, has been stripped of meaning
-The tyrannical ruler is deceptively named Big Brother
- Dissenters face torture in the innocently named Room 101
- Citizens are adapt at doublethink the ability to accept blatant contradictions, as in the government declaration "War is Peace".
* Sixty years later, these terms and others coined by Orwell still ring true. In fact, Orwell's own name is used as an adjective, Orwellian to describe this kind of abuse of language. Pundits, reporters, citizens, and bloggers alike use Orwell's words to criticize Orwellian practices. The year 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell's words live on.
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13. Images of Modernism: When you take a photograph, you record and preserve what is happening now. Modernism could be thought of as a complex response to what photographs imply. Some Modernists, such as the American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and the British poet T.S. Elliot, wrote poetry as if they were taking snapshots of the world and then cutting and pasting them into collages. Elliot celebrated what he called objectivity in poetry. He relied on images, well-chosen and artfully rendered, to encapsulate a feeling or prospective.
On the other hand, the British Modernist novelist Virginia Woolf perfected techniques for conveying an individual’s moment-by moment experience. For Woolf, the mind is like a camera filming continuously. Her writing record what the moment looks like to an individual. A photograph shows us exactly what the world looks like; Woolf suggests that what the world looks like depends on who is looking.
14. Literary Analysis: Modernism was an early twentieth century movement in the arts. The movement responded to the fragmented modern world created by industrialization, rapid transportation and communication , and a feeling of alienation caused by mass society and the growth of cities. Eliot led the movement for Modernism in poetry, which had several features:
- A new objectivity or impersonality in poetry, in which a work is built from images and allusions rather than from direct statements of thoughts and feelings
- A rejection of realistic depictions of life in favor of the use of images for artist effect
- Critical attention to social conditions and the spiritual troubles of modern life.
As you read, look for details that reflect Modernism in Eliot’s poems.
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19. Literary Analysis: Searching for forms suited to modern experience, Modernist writers tested different points of view, perspective from which a story is told.
- A first-person narrator tells his or her own story. With this technique, authors can probe the thoughts of the narrator.
- A third-person narrator tells what happens to others. An omniscient
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37. Reading Journal: The speaker is looking out at Dover beach on the English coast. It is a moonlit night, and he calls his beloved to the window to breathe the sweet night air. He hears the endless roar of the waves flinging pebbles on the shore, the sound suggests eternal sadness. The speaker remarks that ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles long ago heard the same sound and it also reminded him of the ebb and flow of human misery. According to the speaker, the Sea of Faith, once full like the tide, is now retreating to the edges of the earth. The speaker cries out to his beloved, imploring that they be true to one another. Although the world seems beautiful and fresh, the speaker believes it is actually joyless, cruel dark, and uncertain. Conflict and pain, he believes, are unavoidable and people fight without knowing why. Thus there is only consolation and meaning in honest and loving human relationships.
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1. "Yesterday, we split the atom...And because of this, the great dream and the great nightmare of
centuries of human thought have taken flesh and walk beside us all, day and night".
- Doris Lessing, from "The Small, Personal Voice"
__________________________________________________________________
2. World War II and the Loss of the Empire: The aggression of Germany and Japan led inevitably to
World War II. When Hitler’s armies overran Europe, the English stood defiantly alone, shielded by the English Channel and the Royal Air Force. It was, Winston Churchill said, "their finest hour".
*In 1942, Russia blunted the German advance, America was in the war and the tide turned against the aggressors. After nearly six years of struggle, England emerged from the war victorious, battered, and impoverished.
* England's former colonies became independent colonies. The Indian subcontinent, where Gandhi had led an independence movement, was divided into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947.
* The imperial British lion gave a dying gasp in 1956 when Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to keep the control of the Suez Canal. However, the United States intervened, the Egyptians kept the Canal, and British troops came home to a country ashamed of its government's actions.
* Suez was forgotten in the cultural upheaval in 1960s, when British fashion and British rock musicians carried the flag around the world in a kind of cultural conquest. Also, writers from England's former colonies were engaged in their own re-conquest, enriching English literature.
* As the century closed, the violence in Northern Ireland seemed to be ending. Also, England pondered its involvement with Europe, not accepting the common currency, the Euro, but cooperating in a
drilling a tunnel under the English Channel, which joined England to the Continent. Do Sir Edward Grey's words still have a prophetic ring? Many thought the lamps came on again when the Berlin Wall fell. However, countries cobbled together in the aftermath of World War I- Yugoslavia and Iraq- have been the sites of bitter conflict.
____________________________________________________________________________
4. Vocabulary:
*generation- noun. all of the people born and living at the same time
*materialism- noun. belief in comfort, pleasure, and wealth as the highest values
*colonial- adj. of or relating to the colony or colonies of a mother country
*propriety- noun. display of proper manners or behavior
*aristocracy- noun. ruling class; nobility
*fascism- noun. type of government ruled by one party, which puts down all opposition
*inclusive- adj. tending to include; taking everything into account
*evocative- adj. calling up a particular image or reaction
*allusions- noun. indirect references
______________________________________________________________________________
5. Women and Writers: The work of Virginia Woolf revealed a new freedom that women were finding in literature as well. Woolf's experimental fiction broke new ground, and her nonfiction explored the social
conditions that would help women succeed in the arts.
* The bicycle as product and the right to vote as principle were part of the century-long process of loosening the rigid rules of class, propriety, and morality that bound the Victorians. this process applied to such areas as access to higher education, health care, marriage laws and customs for ordinary people and monarchy, home ownerships, pensions, and working conditions.
____________________________________________________________________________________
5. Things were at their brightest in the next decade: the Swinging Sixties. Plato said: "When the modes of music change, the walls of the city are shaken". The walls were rocked by The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Although not as famous as these songwriters and singers, poets like Ted Hughes and peter Redgrove nevertheless opened their minds and their styles to a wide range of new influences.
*The pendulum slowed in the eighties. Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female prime minister of Britain, reversed many of the economic changes of the previous twenty-five years. However, there could be no reversing the social changes. Early in her administration, the army and navy crushed Argentina's attempt to seize the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. This was the final flick of the imperial lion's tail.
__________________________________________________________________________________
6. George Orwell: More Relevant than Ever!-
Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink are words that probably sound familiar because you hear them frequently. They were all coined in the 1940s by British author George Orwell for his novel 1984 (published in 1949). After World War II, Orwell was alarmed by a trend toward repressive totalitarian rule. Believing that language is the first weapon dictators use to seize power, he employed his own words as a warning. In the futuristic tyranny portrayed in his novel, words are used to obscure and destroy meaning:
- The official language, Newspeak, has been stripped of meaning
-The tyrannical ruler is deceptively named Big Brother
- Dissenters face torture in the innocently named Room 101
- Citizens are adapt at doublethink the ability to accept blatant contradictions, as in the government declaration "War is Peace".
* Sixty years later, these terms and others coined by Orwell still ring true. In fact, Orwell's own name is used as an adjective, Orwellian to describe this kind of abuse of language. Pundits, reporters, citizens, and bloggers alike use Orwell's words to criticize Orwellian practices. The year 1984 has come and gone, but Orwell's words live on.
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13. Images of Modernism: When you take a photograph, you record and preserve what is happening now. Modernism could be thought of as a complex response to what photographs imply. Some Modernists, such as the American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and the British poet T.S. Elliot, wrote poetry as if they were taking snapshots of the world and then cutting and pasting them into collages. Elliot celebrated what he called objectivity in poetry. He relied on images, well-chosen and artfully rendered, to encapsulate a feeling or prospective.
On the other hand, the British Modernist novelist Virginia Woolf perfected techniques for conveying an individual’s moment-by moment experience. For Woolf, the mind is like a camera filming continuously. Her writing record what the moment looks like to an individual. A photograph shows us exactly what the world looks like; Woolf suggests that what the world looks like depends on who is looking.
14. Literary Analysis: Modernism was an early twentieth century movement in the arts. The movement responded to the fragmented modern world created by industrialization, rapid transportation and communication , and a feeling of alienation caused by mass society and the growth of cities. Eliot led the movement for Modernism in poetry, which had several features:
- A new objectivity or impersonality in poetry, in which a work is built from images and allusions rather than from direct statements of thoughts and feelings
- A rejection of realistic depictions of life in favor of the use of images for artist effect
- Critical attention to social conditions and the spiritual troubles of modern life.
As you read, look for details that reflect Modernism in Eliot’s poems.
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16. Ok
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19. Literary Analysis: Searching for forms suited to modern experience, Modernist writers tested different points of view, perspective from which a story is told.
- A first-person narrator tells his or her own story. With this technique, authors can probe the thoughts of the narrator.
- A third-person narrator tells what happens to others. An omniscient
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37. Reading Journal: The speaker is looking out at Dover beach on the English coast. It is a moonlit night, and he calls his beloved to the window to breathe the sweet night air. He hears the endless roar of the waves flinging pebbles on the shore, the sound suggests eternal sadness. The speaker remarks that ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles long ago heard the same sound and it also reminded him of the ebb and flow of human misery. According to the speaker, the Sea of Faith, once full like the tide, is now retreating to the edges of the earth. The speaker cries out to his beloved, imploring that they be true to one another. Although the world seems beautiful and fresh, the speaker believes it is actually joyless, cruel dark, and uncertain. Conflict and pain, he believes, are unavoidable and people fight without knowing why. Thus there is only consolation and meaning in honest and loving human relationships.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
romantic period 1st page
23. This literary ballad is a harrowing exploration of the torrments that guilt can inflict on the human soul. The principal characters ar ethe ancient Mariner and the wedding Guest to whom
the Mariner tells his tale. The mariner beings by describing how his square-masted ship set sail under a good wind and traveled toward the South pole. on the way, he commited the senseless crime of killing an albatross that the sailors believed was a good omen. The Mariner describes the punishments that rained down on him, including the death of his hsipmates, the haunting of the ship by supernatural forces, and his having too wander the earth retelling his tale to passing strangers for the rest of his life.
the Mariner tells his tale. The mariner beings by describing how his square-masted ship set sail under a good wind and traveled toward the South pole. on the way, he commited the senseless crime of killing an albatross that the sailors believed was a good omen. The Mariner describes the punishments that rained down on him, including the death of his hsipmates, the haunting of the ship by supernatural forces, and his having too wander the earth retelling his tale to passing strangers for the rest of his life.
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