Presentations - Sem - 1 (2022)

TOPIC OF THE BLOG:-

This blog contains information and details about presentations which I gave, Topics I chose and other things about it. 

PRESENTATIONS:-

This is my first experience of Presentation. 2 years ago I was totally afraid to say two words in English on the stage but in these months I learnt so much. Now I can speak English more fluently. I gave my 5 presentations in English. Of course I made so many mistakes but it's better than before.

Whole Presentation arranged by Dilip Barad Sir (Click here for Dilip Barad's Blog Site). 

Here is my another blog on presentation which describes how presentations are arranged and go live on YouTube with the help of stream yard and other details (Click here).

1 - PRESENTATION:-

Paper 101 - Literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration Periods.pdf from Pooja Bhuva

🌱 In my first presentation from the paper 101 - literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration period, unit 4 - Metaphysical Poetry, I choose the topic 'The Collar' poem by George Herbert and gave title 'The Collar Unbroken' to my presentation. 

🌱 In first slide I gave topic of the presentation, from which paper I am going to discuss and place where I am going to present. 

🌱 In second slide I gave personal information like my full name, enrollment number, email ID, batch, date, subject code and roll number. I also attached a gif related to this and also give credit to the original gif channel. 

🌱In third slide I gave the information about Poet of the poem. I cited the Information from the authentic sources and also cited images or paintings which I embedded. 

🌱In fourth slide I give the information about poem in same with the citations. 

🌱 In fifth slide I decided the main idea of the poem with the help of shapes. 

🌱 In next slide I described about what the poet think about his poem, some other information about the poem and citations.

🌱In next slide described various themes of the poem. 

🌱Next two slides gave information about citations. 

🌱 In last slide I end up with not only thank you but with a related quote and my Email. 

🌱Here is a video recording on my YouTube Channel:-

2 - PRESENTATION:-

Paper 102- Literature of the Neo-classical Period.pdf from Pooja Bhuva

🌱In my second Presentation from the Paper 102: Literature of the Neo-classical Period, unit 4 - Samuel Richardson’s Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, I choose the topic Pamela's Comparison with Shamela (novel by Henry Fielding) and gave title 'Pamela or Shamela'.

🌱As upon in first slide, it's included place, paper and topic.

🌱Second slide included my Personal Information. 

🌱 In third slide I give information about two authors. First one is Samuel Richardson and the second is Henry Fielding. 

🌱In fourth slide I gave the information about 'Pamela'.

🌱 In fifth slide I gave information about 'Shamela'.

🌱Next slide has Comparison of Characters of the both novel. 

🌱Next two slides included comparison of the both novel. 

🌱In this slide I gave information about other novel which is rivalry work of 'Pamela'.

🌱 In this slide I gave my opinions on the rivalry. 

🌱 Next two slides included information about works Citation. 

🌱 And last slide has thank you with my Email ID and a related quote to the Presentation.

Here is a video recording on my YouTube Channel:-

3 - PRESENTATION:

Paper 103 - Literature of the Romantics.pdf from Pooja Bhuva

🌱 In my third presentation from the Paper 103: Literature of the Romantics, unit 3 - Wordsworth and Coleridge, I choose the topic of criticism, Theory of Imagination by Coleridge, and gave title 'Coleridge's Theory of Imagination'.

🌱 First, Second, Eighth and Ninth slides are same as above I described.

🌱Third slide has the information about Coleridge.

🌱 Fourth slide included information about idea of Theory of Imagination and divisions of it given by Coleridge. 

🌱 Next two slides included detailed information about Primary imagination, Secondary Imagination, Esemplastic Imagination and difference between Fancy and Imagination.

🌱 In this slide I gave my opinions and relation that how Imagination work in our life. 

Here is a video recording on my YouTube Channel:-

4 - PRESENTATION:-

Paper 104 - Literature of the Victorians.pdf from Pooja Bhuva

🌱In my Fourth Presentation from the Paper 104: Literature of the Victorians, unit 4 - Tennyson and Browning, I choose the topic Browning's Poems and gave the title 'Insights of Browning's Poems'.

🌱 First, Second, Ninth and Tenth slides are same as above I described.

🌱 In Third slide I gave the information about the Poet Robert Browning. 

🌱 In fourth slide I described that how and why we like Browning's Poems. 

🌱In this slide I described about love according to Browning.

🌱 In next slide it has clue that what and how Browning inspired us for our Desire an Achievements. 

🌱 In this slide I described that how easy his poetry to understand and read. 

🌱 In Third last slide I gave an opinion of other that what he thinks about Browning's Poems.

Here is a video recording on my YouTube Channel:-

5 - PRESENTATION:-

Paper 105A- History of English Literature – From 1350 to 1900.pdf from Pooja Bhuva

🌱In my fifth and last Presentation from the Paper 105A: History of English Literature – From 1350 to 1900,(I didn't choose from perticular unit), I choose the topic and gave title 'Influence of poetry on poets and writers'.

🌱First, Second, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth slides are same as above I described.

🌱 Third slide described about the word Influence meaning.

🌱 Fourth slide described about Poetry from ancient to modern, how it is remembered. 

🌱Fifth and Sixth slide described about Influence of poetry on poets.

🌱In next slide I described about two songs from Plays by Shakespeare.

🌱Next two slides has information about Influence of poetry on philosophers and critics.

🌱 Next slide described that how poetry influences on myself and The little Poetry given in this slide written by me and also two pics are clicked by me.

Here is a video recording on my YouTube Channel:- 

NOTABLE POINTS FOR BETTER PRESENTATION:-

🍅Use Authentic sites like Britannica, JSTOR, ResearchGate, Poetry Foundation which has good and well positioned writers or professors and avoid website like Wikipedia, Ukeassay, which don't have good Writers. 

🍅Use not only words use GIF, Images, Diagrams, and Shapes related to topic. 

🍅Use Articles for better Presentations. 

🍅Use 7 to 15 Slides in one Presentation. 

🍅Complete your Presentation in 15 minutes maximum and 5 minutes minimum.

🍅Use slides according to theme for better Presentations.

🍅 It is better if we ourselves made GIF, Poetry and other things related to Presentations, in short involve yourself in Presentations.

🍅 It is better if we included a slide on what we think about our presentation or topic which we choose for our presentation, in short our personal opinion.

🍅 Avoid the search results in citations like Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Love's Philosophy By Percy Bysshe Shelley". Poetry Foundation, 1819, https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50262/loves-philosophy&ved=2ahUKEwiB54OF5ID7AhWzzzgGHc_FBz0QFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2Kf2lCou2kInOrJL9l1BCZ

Note:- If you find any problem or question or suggestions please let me know☺️.

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Sem 1 - About Presentation (2022)

TOPIC OF THIS BLOG:- 

In this topic I described our (English Department, MKBU, Bhavnagar, Sem 1, Batch 2022 - 2024) Season 1 Presentation details and related links. 

PRESENTATION:-

From Date 15 October, 2022 to 19 October, 2022 we had our (English Department, MKBU, Bhavnagar, Sem 1, Batch 2022 - 2024) Season 1 Presentation. This presentation was held by Dilip Barad HOD of the English Department, MKBU, Bhavnagar.

In this Presentation we 22 students done our best. Of course we have more potential than this and we are on the path to search that out. For the Presentation we were divided in two groups, First one in Morning Session, 10:30 AM to 01:30 PM and Second was in Evening Session 02:00 PM to 05:00 PM. Here is a list of 22 students and their Blog Site:-

1. Aarti Sarvaiya (Click here)
2. Anjali Rathod (Click here)
3. Archana Dave (Click here)
4. Avni Jani (Click here)
5. Bhavyata Kukadiya (Click here)
6. Drashti Joshi (Click here)
7. Gayatri Nimavat (Click here)
8. Ghanshyam Katariya (Click here)
9. Gopi Dervaliya (Click here)
10. Hetal Pathak (Click here)
11. Hina Parmar (Click here)
12. Insiyafatema Alvani (Click here)
13. Kosha Bhatt (Click here)
14. Mansi Gujdiya (Click here)
15. Nirali Dabhi (Click here)
16. Payal Bambhaniya (Click here)
17. Pooja Bhuva (Click here)
18. Rajeshvariba Rana (Click here)
19. Riddhi Rathod (Click here)
20. Rinkal Dangar (Click here)
21. Trushali Dodiya (Click here)
22. Upasna Goswami (Click here)

DAY 1 - PRESENTATION

First day (15 October, 2022) of Presentation was on Paper 101: Literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration Periods.

In the Morning Session there were 10 students from Roll number 1 to 10 including Aarti, Anjali, Archana, Avni, Bhavyta, Drashti, Gayatri, Ghanshyam, Gopi and Hetal.

My turn was in the Evening Session and including me there were 12 students from Roll number 11 to 22 - Hina, Insiyafatema, Kosha, Mansi, Nirali, Payal, Rajeshwari, Riddhi, Rinkal, Trushali and Upasana.

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of First day Presentation Morning Session:- 

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of First day Presentation Evening Session:- 

DAY 2 - PRESENTATION

Second day (16 October, 2022) of Presentation was on Paper 102: Literature of the Neo-classical Period. 

Second day of Presentation was in reverse order of roll number, Morning Session has 10 students from Roll number 10 to 1 and in evening Session also has 12 students in reverse order of roll number from 22 to 11.

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of Second day Presentation Morning Session:- 

Due to internet connection issue we had to shift, Presentation in classroom and recorded individually videos of  Avni Jani, Archana Dave, Anjali Rathod, Aarti Sarviya and it's continued with evening Session including Upasna Goswami, Trushali Dodiya, Rinkal Dangar, Riddhi Rathod, Rajeshwariba Rana, Pooja Bhuva (me), Payal Bambhaniya, Nirali Dabhi, Mansi Gujdiya, Kosha Bhatt, Insiyafatema Alvani and Hina Parmar.

Here is the link of recorded video (Click here)

DAY 3 - PRESENTATION 

Third day (17 October, 2022) of Presentation was on Paper 103: Literature of the Romantics.

On the third day time slot was changed, means in the Morning Session there were 12 students including me from Roll number 11 to 22 - Hina, Insiyafatema, Kosha, Mansi, Nirali, Payal, Rajeshwari, Riddhi, Rinkal, Trushali and Upasana. 

In the Evening Session there were 10 students from Roll number 1 to 10 - Aarti, Anjali, Archana, Avni, Bhavyta, Drashti, Gayatri, Ghanshyam, Gopi and Hetal.

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of Third day Presentation Morning Session:- 

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of Third day Presentation Evening Session:- 

DAY 4 - PRESENTATION

Fourth day (18 October, 2022) of Presentation was on Paper 104: Literature of the Victorians.

Fourth day of Presentation was in reverse order of roll number, Morning Session has 12 students from Roll number 22 to 11 and in evening Session also has 10 students in reverse order of roll number from 10 to 1.

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of Fourth day Presentation Morning Session:- 

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of Fourth day Presentation Evening Session:- 

DAY 5 - PRESENTATION
The Fifth Day (19 October, 2022) of Presentation was on Paper 105A: History of English Literature – From 1350 to 1900.

On the fifth day time slot again changed but in odd and even number so in the Morning Session there were 11 students including me, roll number - 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and in the Evening Session there were also 11 students, roll number 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22.

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of Fifth day Presentation Morning Session:- 

Here is a YouTube live Streaming on Dilip Barad sir's YouTube Channel of Fifth day Presentation Evening Session:- 

Here is a link of Material Website of English Literature (Click here)

Here is a link of Dilip Barad sir's Blog Site (Click here)

Here is a link of Yesha Bhatt ma'am's Blog Site (Click here)

Here is a link of Kavisha Alagiya ma'am's Blog Site (Click here)

Here is a link of Vaidehi Hariyani ma'am's Blog Site (Click here)

Here is a link of my blog on 5 Presentations and some tips from which Presentations become better (Click here).

Bridge Course : ThAct: Dryden - On Dramatic Poecy

TOPIC OF THE BLOG:- 

This blog is a part of Bridge Course: ThAct : On Dramatic Poecy, given by Dilip Barad From English Department, MKBU. In this blog I am going to discuss about  Aristotle's definition of tragedy, Dryden's definition of play, what is more reliable poetic drama or play written in prosaic dialogues and some other topics too. 

JOHN DRYDEN:-

For the detailed information and know about John Dryden visit my blog on Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden (Click here ).

DIFFRENCE BETWEEN ARISTOTLE'S DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY AND DRYDEN'S DEFINITION OF PLAY:- 

For Information about Aristotle visit my blog on Aristotle Poetics (Click here ). 

DEFINITION OF TRAGEDY BY ARISTOTLE:-

“Tragedy, then, is an imitation [mimēsis] of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude, in the language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative;

through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation [catharsis] of these emotions.”

🪵 One can found this definition in his book poetics which is written in Greek language.

🪵 According to him Tragedy originated from epic which imitates the Nobel action of good men.

🪵 Tragedy imitates human life, human nature and complete in itself, imitation of an actions that is serious and complete in itself. 

🪵 The background of tragedy has actually religious meaning, The Greek philosophy of life that The Gods keep a watch over what we do and they sometimes bear offence at over violation of certain boundaries, There is tragedy behind tragedy. 

🪵 By 'Serious' Aristotle means a tale of suffering exciting, pity and fear.

🪵 By 'Complete' he means self contained with beginning, a middle and an end, it means what should be perfect. 

🪵 By of a certain magnitude he means a reasonable length that allows a proper unfolding of the plot and also easily grasped by the audience.

🪵 For certain magnitude he gave us three unities:- Unity of action, Unity of time and Unity of place. 

🪵 In the language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament means in the tragedy when all characters represents in the sad sense, a particular part for choric song in the Play - a tragedy -make a happy moment for characters of the play. This small moments in the Play he considered as pleasurable accessories of tragedy, ornaments of tragedy.

🪵The several kinds being found in separate parts of the play, by this line of a definition he means purpose of the tragedy and the purpose of his accessories or ornaments should be separated. This two things couldn't mix with each other. 

🪵 In the form of action, not of narrative, For this Aristotle explained in his Poetics that tragedy should be in dramatic form not in narrative form. Here he also explained that Epic has narrative form in tragedy has drametic or action form.

🪵 Through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation [catharsis] of these emotions, by these he means according to critics, tragedy should have element or plot that can arouses pity and at the same time fear into audience. And after this emotions one can feel purgation (catharsis) from the tragedy.

DEFINITION OF PLAY BY JOHN DRYDEN:-

Just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.

🪵 This definition is given by John Dryden in his work Dramatic Poecy.

🪵 This definition contains three parts. 

🪵 A play is a lively image of human nature not a mere copy of human nature, play represents the passions and humorous of human that every human contains in itself. 

🪵 He inserted word like LIVELY in definition so definition can't look bored to read.

🪵 Passions and humours keeps on changing  in humans life.

🪵 Why? For the delight and instruction of mankind.

🪵 By the change of fortune passion and humour, the life of the mankind also change. 

For the discussion on Dryden's definition of play by Dilip Barad and Dr. Sanjay watch this video.

For the discussion on Dryden's definition of play by Dr. Chetan Trivedi and Dr. M.B. Gaijan watch this video.

🌺 Aristotle's definition of tragedy and ended with catharsis while the definition of play by John Dryden ended with delight and instruction of mankind. 

🌺 Both the definition are interesting in itself. But definition of Dryden seems to be more acceptable. 

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR PREFERENCE SO FAR AS POETIC OR PROSAIC DIALOGUES ARE CONCERNED IN THE PLAY?

🌸 Poetic dialogues contains dialogue which is said in poetic manner while Prosaic dialogues contains dialogues in prose style.

🌸 Poetic dialogues gives us joy prose dialogues is just a dialogue with dullness compared to poetic dialogues.

🌸 Poetic dialogues includes the best meaning of dialogues while in the prose dialogue there is only description in dialogues.

🌸 Examples of Poetic Drama:- 

🎭 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare 

🎭 ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare

🎭 GOOD FRIDAY by John Masefield

🎭 MURDER IN CATHEDRAL by T.S Eliot

For more information on poetic drama visit this site of Somnath Sarkar (Click here ).

"Never use a long word where a short one will do."

- Goerge Orwell 

🌸 Examples of Prose Drama:-

🎭 AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare plays with language, complementing prose with poetry to distinguish between social classes. For example, characters from the lower classes in the play speak in prose: “Truly, thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg all on one side.” By contrast, the nobility speak in poetic verse: ”What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?”)(By Masterclass (Click here)

🎭 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde 

🎭 THE CHERRY ORCHARD by Anton Chekhov

NOTE:- If you find any problem or question or suggestions please let me know ☺️ some of the information are collected from the different sources which I mentioned after the perticular lines. 

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ThAct:- Hard Times by Charles Dickens

TOPIC OF THE BLOG:-

This blog is a part of a Thinking Activity, Paper:- 104 - Litrature of the Victorians given by Dilip Barad From English Department, MKBU, Bhavnagar. In this blog I am going to discuss or to try to elaborate the ideas, themes, plot, review of Hindi paly on Hard Times and etc attached with Hard Times novel by Charles Dickens. 

CHARLES DICKENS:-

Charles Dickens born on 7 February 1812 in United Kingdom and died on 9 June 1870 in United Kingdom. His full name is Charles John Huffam Dickens and known by it's short form Charles Dickens. He is very  well known as a greatest novelist, short story writer and critic in now times also. By his birth and death year we can easily see that he was Victorian Era writer. He wrote some of his work under the influence of realism. For more detailed information about him visit Britannica (Click here ).

Here are some of his works:-

• A Christmas Carol (1843)
• A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
• All the Year Round (1859)
• American Notes (1842)
• Barnaby Rudge:- A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (1841)
• Bleak House (1852)
• David Copperfield (1849)
• Dombey and Son (1848)
• Great Expectations (1860)
• Hard Times (1854)
• Little Dorrit (1857)
• Martin Chuzzlewit (1844)
• Nicholas Nickleby (1839)
• Oliver Twist (1837)
• Our Mutual Friend (1865)
• Sketches by ‘Boz’ (1836)
• The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
• The Old Curiosity Shop (1841)
• The Pickwick Papers (1836)

HARD TIMES:-

Hard Times: For This Times

Publication date:- 12 August 1854 

Language:- English

Genre:- Novel, Fiction, Industrial thought, Realistic novel

Setting:- Cocketown (mythical place) 

Writer:- Charles Dickens

Literary Period:- Victorian 

Construction of the novel:-

Three Parts:-

Book 1 - Sowing

Book 2 - Reaping

Book 3 - Garnering 

Hard Times by Charles Dickens was his tenth novel and published in serial form. Hard Times is unlike the rest of his novels in several ways. It is the shortest published novel by Charles Dickens. Only Hard Times and Great Expectations were originally issued without illustrations. Hard Times is the only novel by Dickens not to have scenes set in London. Instead, it takes place in the fictional Coketown. (Charles Dickens Info)

This is the novel which story doesn't go in London (normally he has setting in London). Dickens criticises Industrial Revolution. It looks like that it has a biblical idea that "For a whatsoever a man soweth, that shall be also reap. Protagonist of the novel is Louisa Gradgrind. Here are the important characters of the novel:-

• Thomas Gradgrind
• Josiah Bounderby
• Louisa Gradgrind/Bounderby
• Sissy (Cecilia) Jupe
• Thomas (Tom) Gradgrind
• Stephen Blackpool
• Bitzer
• Rachael
• Mrs. Sparsit
• James Harthouse
• Jane Gradgrind
• Mrs. Gradgrind 

ADAPTATIONS ON HARD TIMES:-

🎭 HARD TIMES (1988):-

This movie is adaptation of Hard Times novel by Charles Dickens. Original title of those movie is Tempos Difíceis and made in Portuguese language. The initially released date is 31st August 1988. This movie directed, edited and produced by João Botelho. Cast of the movie is like below:-

• Henrique Viana as José Grandela
• Júlia Britton as Luisa Cremalheira
• Eunice Muñoz as Mrs. Vilaverde
• Ruy Furtado as Tomaz Cremalheira
• Isabel de Castro as Teresa Cremalheira
• Joaquim Mendes as Sebastião
• QIsabel Ruth as Sebastião's Wife

🎭 HARD TIMES (1977):-

This version of the adaptation is a TV series of 1977 between 25 October to 15 November and has 4 episodes. This series created by Arthur Hopcraft and directed by John Irvin. Cast of the series is as below:-  

• Patrick Allen – Thomas Gradgrind
• Rosalie Crutchley – Mrs. Sparsit
• Michelle Dibnah – Sissy Jupe
• Alan Dobie – Stephen Blackpool
• Barbara Ewing – Rachael
• Edward Fox – Capt. James Harthouse
• Ursula Howells – Mrs. Gradgrind
• Jacqueline Tong – Louisa Gradgrind
• Timothy West – Josiah Bounderby
• Richard Wren – Tom Gradgrind
• Sean Flanagan – Bitzer

🎭 HARD TIMES (1915):-

This movie is silent adaptation of Hard Times novel by Charles Dickens. This film is directed by Thomas Bentley and released in September 1915. Cast of the silent movie is as below:-

• Bransby Williams as Gradgrind
• Leon M. Lion as Tom Gradgrind
• Dorothy Bellew as Louisa
• Madge Tree as Rachael
• Mr. Forrest as Stephen Blackpool
• F. Lymons as Josiah Bounderby
• Clara Cooper as Sissy Jupe
• J. Wynn Slater as James Harthouse

🎭 HINDI PLAY OF HARD TIMES:-

Apart from all this adaptation as a movies and series, the performance on the stage has more influence on us. As the same now take a look into the Hindi language performance by khilona Theatre on Hard Times by Charles Dickens. 

Source:- Khilona Theatre

Major Diffrence between the novel and play is that the novel starts with a very typical thaught of a teacher (Thomas Gradgrind),

"Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts".

And the play starts with the Chorus and introduction of the novel that what is going to be happen in the play. 

In this play their are so many scenes catch our eyes on them but this one scene got my attention, The scene when Louisa Descend the stairs and the lady screams inside that I am waiting for this moment come Louisa come towards your death and downfall. 

Here are some interesting photos, while play screening in the classroom:-

There is also a very interesting scene of Blackpool that Bounderby asking or try to bribe Blackpool that he tells him to support him cause he is not with the workers but he says his statement in his value that:-

"If I am not with them that doesn't mean I am against them".

This dialogue by him clearly represent that how he is respectable for his own thoughts and moral values. Through this dialogue of Blackpool Dickens reflects his thaught clearly that he is with workers. Even though he is not with workers, he is not against them. 

In this blog i tried to figure out how and what Charles Dickens wants to say through his works according to me and other sources also. 

Note:- If you find any problem or question or suggestions please let me know ☺️ some of the information are collected from the different sources, books and websites. 

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