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| | Left Hand of Darkness - Study Guide |
 | | The first science fiction novel, it is largely agreed, was written by a woman, Mary Shelley, the daughter of the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the wife of the English romantic poet Shelley. | | | This is the first of ten chapters (out of twenty) in which the protagonist (the main character), an Envoy from Earth, tells his own story and reports the events from his point of view. | | | First, the celebration of the keystone, in which Ai displays his ignorance and inability to grasp the politics and the social order around him. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/ny/gaybooks/lefthandofdarkness.html
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| | LANGUAGE, CONCEPTS, AND EMOTIONS |
| | First, it really seems to be of importance to convey a sense of methodology, i.e. | | | This observation holds more strongly (and more clearly) for the generalized person genre than for the first person genre. | | | All of them are made out of linguistic constructions, the way illustrated above. |
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http://www.massey.ac.nz/%7ealock/virtual/bamberg.htm
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| | Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) |
| | I play upon students' surprise at Brown's narrative, and I stress that if Brown's narratives seem irrational, then perhaps that was part of Brown's point, that life itself is unpredictable according to rational plans. | | | Undergraduates find Brown peculiar when compared to other writers of the era, and they tend to say, "He reminds me of Poe," without realizing that Poe wrote a generation after C. Brown. | | | Two key issues are raised by Brown's writing: |
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http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/brownc.html
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| | First Person Narratives & Accounts |
| | This extract of the narrative of Sir Richard Hawkins follows the wording of his voyage as published in "Purchas his Pilgrimes" in 1622 | | | - From Mary Newton Stanard's Book "Virginia's First Century" The Indian attack of March 22,1622 and list of dead after the Massacre according to "The Records of the Virginia Company of London" | | | Written by that Honorable Gentleman, Master George Percy. |
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~vagirl/narratives%20_accounts.htm
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| | First-person shooter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Enemies were represented by true 3D polygon meshes, which Quake would later use, and the representation of the world geometry removed most of the 2.5D limitations that Doom had. | | | Serious fans generally accept Doom as more important, but Duke was more widely publicised in its time and so has a greater mass appeal. | | | This can be considered the first FPS game to make extended use of physics puzzles. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Indeed, this must have been one of the primary attractions of reading these early novels, the opportunity to enter a person's private realm, the chance read private writings-to eavesdrop. | | | Among the most famous of these novels are Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740), which structures itself as a collection of letters, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), which structures itself in the form of memoir and diary, and finally to a lesser extent Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1848), which incorporates letters into its narrative. | | | The origins of the first person novel, in English, have its roots in personal writing. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/9082/first1.html
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| | First-Person Narratives of the American South: Related Resources |
| | Full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts covering the decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century. | | | American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 | | | First-Person Narratives of the American South is one component of a growing collection of texts illustrating Southern history, literature, and culture. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/related.html
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| | First Person Narratives |
| | I could not tell whether it was a man or a woman. | | | I stopped my chariot in front of him and gave him one of my most killing smiles. | | | I was also the first person to see him when he arose from the dead. |
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http://people.colgate.edu/kpiercemcmanamon/first_person_narratives.htm
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| | First-person narrative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily (Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view - see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural), and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides, in his novel The Virgin Suicides. | | | First-person narrative is a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one or more of the characters, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, "I." | | | A strength of first-person narrative is that the character may also express feelings, thoughts, and experiences, and may reveal him or herself; therefore, the reader usually gains keen insight into the life of the narrator. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_narrative
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| | ibiblio August 2001 |
| | They bring us close to the human soul - the human soul in undress. | | | The Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry | | | A Book of Hours was the personal devotional book of choice for Western European Christians, much as the Bible is today. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/index.old/index.aug2001.html
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| | Staff Picks - Me, Myself, and I |
| | There is nothing more vivid or immediate than a story told in the first person, where the author (or some fictional I) tells the tale of his or her own experiences. | | | Fiction in the first person has been a genre standard since the novel's earliest days. | | | In addition to general memoirs, many people have left eyewitness accounts about newsworthy events in their lives, or accounts of how their lives were shaped by world events that affected many of their generation. |
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http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/sp200105
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| | Homelands Productions :: First-Person Narratives in Radio Document Historic Memory |
| | Dalia's, in evocative English, and Bashir's, read by a native Arabic speaker, Walid Haddad, so as not, literally, to lose anything in translation. | | | This is the house that Dalia, after the death of her parents, declared should be dedicated to the common history of the Ashkenazis and the Al-Khayris. | | | Far more complicated—for an assignment to identify a story that was somehow representative of the 50-year struggle between Israelis and Palestinians—was in determining this was the story among many to tell. |
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http://www.homelands.org/articles/first_person.html
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| | the chutry experiment: Public Conversations About Voting |
| | Posted by: chuck at November 2, 2004 12:06 AM Some other examples of first-person voter narratives: The Rude Pundit had some problems with touch screen voting, and like me, the Rude One is soliciting stories about your voting experiences. | | | In the comments, Jen mentions that her parents rarely discussed politics with her when she was a child, and I realized that I had a similar experience. | | | This is the first time in my life that I feel like when I cast my vote it’s actually gonna be heard.” |
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http://chutry.wordherders.net/archives/002896.html
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| | My Story - US News Classroom |
| | Explain that the writing is often vivid and colorful because the writer has a personal connection to the story. | | | Explain that they will not be required to read their responses aloud and that you are trying to get their thoughts flowing to aid in discussion. | | | A journalism class that isn’t necessarily affiliated with the school newspaper might want to collect first-person reflective writings from the student body and then organize them into a more literary collection. |
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http://www.usnewsclassroom.com/resources/activities/act020909.html
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| | Teacher Resources - Collection - California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900 |
| | Search on frontier and pioneer life to find writings which illustrate the lives of those who made the crossing. | | | Search on memoirs and narratives for writings in the collection which illustrate lives over time. | | | Comparing these writings, students can then understand the larger picture of the history of the state and the development of the cities within it. |
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http://www.memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/cab/thinking.html
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| | American South On-Line |
| | Southerners comprise one third of the U. population, but only in recent decades have scholars and the general public begun to explore fully the richness and diversity of the Southern experience. | | | Southerners recorded their stories of these tumultuous times in print, diaries and letters, but few first-person narratives, other than those written by the social and economic elite, found their way into the national print culture. | | | Similarly, accounts of life on the farm or in the servants' quarters or in a cotton mill have priority over accounts of battles and public lives. |
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http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1999/99-149.html
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| | WWII Autobiographies : First-Hand Accounts / First-Person Narratives |
| | The author was one of three men who survived the suicide stands of his platoon of paratroopers. | | | First published in 1951, over one millon sold. | | | WWII Autobiographies : First-Hand Accounts / First-Person Narratives |
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http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/bookstore/latest.html
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| | First-Person Narratives of the American South » Genealogy Blog |
| | The materials have been transcribed and include illustrations. | | | If two brothers marry women who are first cousins to each other, how are their children related? | | | Notes and Documents of Free Persons (book review) |
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http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=2526
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| | GARDINER PUBLIC LIBRARY |
| | This is a tribute and history of the company’s first 100 years. |
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http://www.gpl.lib.me.us/Feb99.htm
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| | First Person Narratives |
| | Your assistance is critical in documenting and preserving the personal accounts and stories in the history of artificial organ development and clinical use. | | | We want to know what is not recorded in the published scientific papers. |
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http://echo.gmu.edu/bionics/qexp.htm
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| | Documenting the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South |
| | Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave. | | | Berwick-upon-Tweed: Published for the author and printed at the Warder Office, 1848. | | | Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. Church; Being a Complete History, Embracing over Sixty Years' Labor in the Advancement of the Redeemer's Kingdom on Earth. |
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http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/fpn/texts.html
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| | Devils Tower National Monument |
| | Also, read an account of the first all-woman technical ascent of the Tower. | | | Find out which plants and animals call Devils Tower home and what we are doing to preserve and protect this area. | | | Learn about the first technical climb of Devils Tower. |
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http://www.nps.gov/deto/studying.htm
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| | One woman's letter to Osama bin Laden |
| | First-person narratives are typical of first novels, but ones written in a voice as hilariously sympathetic and convincing as Cleave's post-Sept.-11- Petal are not. | | | Nor is a narrative told entirely to Osama bin Laden, who, as the plot moves briskly forward, becomes a natural confidante to a woman made insane through inconsolable loss, who is brimming with questions of right and wrong, good and evil, justice and revenge. | | | Now comes "Incendiary," a first novel by Chris Cleave, a Brit who used to write for the Daily Telegraph. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/14/RVG0HE33461.DTL
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| | Faculty Profile: Gail A. Hornstein |
| | Her biography To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (Free Press, 2000) tells the tale of a pioneering psychiatrist who dedicated her life to treating very disturbed patients. | | | Hornstein teaches First-Person Narratives of Madness; Theories of Personality; Psychology of Women; Seminar in the History of Psychology; and Qualitative Methods. | | | Hornstein's current research is broadly concerned with the history of twentieth-century psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/names/ghornste.shtml
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| | Communicating Through First-Person Narratives |
| | Producing work in at least one literary genre (narrative and letter writing) that follows the conventions of the genre. | | | For homework, students each write a personal narrative from the point of view of a girl living in the society under study, using a computer and word processing software, such as Word. | | | Engage: First engage your students by an event or question related to the concept that you plan to introduce. |
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http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/women/b.html
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| | First Batch Of Dylan Memoirs Due In October |
| | The volume is comprised of "first-person narratives focusing on significant periods in Dylan's life and career," according to the publisher. | | | The 304-page book will carry a suggested retail price of $24 and feature a rare portrait on its back cover of Dylan from his early days in New York. | | | Also arriving in October is Dylan's "Lyrics: 1962-2001," an updated version of a compendium first published in 1973 and revised in 1985. |
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http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000619037
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| | First-Person Narratives of the American South: Rights and Restrictions |
| | They may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. | | | All the printed works digitized in this project were published between 1624 and 1920. | | | Fair use under the law permits reproduction of single copies for personal research and private use. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/copyres.html
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| | Early Modern Notes » First person narratives: new web resource |
| | This release of In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. | | | By the end of 2005, it will point to 350,000 pages of full text and 3,500 collections. | | | With future releases, the index will broaden to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives. |
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http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emn/index.php/archives/2005/07/first-person-narratives-new-web-resourc
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| | Digital History |
| | The stories included here reflect the lives of most of people who lived in this country at the turn of the last century. | | | Using photographs and personal quotes, this online exhibition compares the experience of working in the past to doing so today. | | | Worklore: Brooklyn Workers Speak, a joint research/exhibition project of The Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Public Library, explores the work lives of Brooklynites as they made, and continue to make, their living in the borough. |
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/social_history/social_history.cfm
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| | First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 |
| | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supplemented these titles with another forty first-person narratives, many published before 1860. | | | The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. | | | The source materials for this collection are housed in Libraries at the |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html
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| | English |
| | This course is not designed to be so overly prescriptive regarding the presence in fiction of first-person narrators that no useful analyses and discussions of closeness, confessionality, and distance may be generated. | | | First of all, there is no one model for the fully successful first-person narration. | | | For instance, a close third-person narration (whether dramatized or undramatized) is able to approach the intimacy of a first-person account, both at times laboring under the limitations of a single consciousness guiding the story/plot. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/fall2001/roberts715.shtml
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| | Communicating Through First-Person Narratives |
| | Lesson will culminate with students impersonating these women through e-mail correspondence with each other. | | | Student teams will research daily contemporary life of girls around the world, and then write first person narratives from the point of view of girls in selected world cultures. | | | Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors, and institutions. |
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http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/women/index.html
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| | White Men Challenging Racism |
| | "With range, depth, and integrity, the narratives in this collection flesh out both the 'promise and the way of life' of white people who have taken on racism as central to their life work. | | | White Men Challenging Racism is a collection of first-person narratives chronicling the compelling experiences of thirty-five white men whose efforts to combat racism and fight for social justice are central to their lives. | | | Based on interviews conducted by Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, and Harry Brod, these engaging oral histories tell the stories of the men’s antiracist work. |
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http://www.whitemenchallengingracism.com
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| | California, First Person Narratives: General Collections |
| | The California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849 - 1900, collection contains 190 books about individual experiences in and on the way to California during and after the Gold Rush. | | | If you liked to be able to do you the following source text into your Website to build, so that also your visitors go through in our tuning, thus you can improve your placement with us crucially. | | | Home : Arts : Misc : California, First Person Narratives: General Collections |
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http://www.elxa.com/Detailed/787139.html
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| | First-Person Narratives Collection homepage |
| | The majority of materials in this collection are written by those Southerners whose voices were less prominent in their time, including African Americans, women, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. | | | "First-Person Narratives of the American South" is a collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners. |
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http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn
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| | Neumu - 44.1kHz |
| | All the while, of course, vocalist Aidan Moffat spreads his lyrical woe across the record in that trademark flatly-spoken give-a-fuck/fuck-you voice, his thick throat offering observations on the jealousies and insecurities found within even the most sexually active relationship. | | | Opener "Amor Veneris" is a quiet guitar/piano ballad; first single "Love Detective" is a near-funky affair, with layers of upbeat bass, piano and guitar; "Last Orders" is powered by a really loud, heavily distorted drum loop; "Scenery" and "Haunt Me" are both draped in strings, sounding in the latter song like a distant, ghosted sample. |
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http://www.neumu.net/fortyfour/2001/2001-00140/2001-00140_fortyfour.shtml
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| | Interactive Narratives: "FIRST PERSON" FROM THE D&C |
| | The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has started to produce a weekly feature by the photography staff called FIRST PERSON "exploring the ordinary and extraordinary events that shape and mark our lives." The project is published each Tuesday.... | | | The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle has started to produce a weekly feature by the photography staff called FIRST PERSON "exploring the ordinary and extraordinary events that shape and mark our lives." The project is published each Tuesday. |
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http://www.professordevigal.org/blog_in/archives/000478.html
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| | Slavery Links |
| | Documenting the American South from the Beginnings to 1920 covering slave narratives, first-person narratives, and Southern literature | | | First Person Narratives of Slavery in the South | | | 46 slave narratives editied by a professor at the University of Houston |
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http://www.wested.org/basrc/bandl/library/slavery/slavery.html
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| | First-person Narratives of the American South |
| | Contents : Collection of electronic texts -- About the project. | | | Home » Collections A-Z » First-person Narratives of the American South Information |
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http://dlgdemo.galib.uga.edu/CollectionsA-Z/fpn_information.html
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