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  2. Then She Found Me - Wikipedia

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    Country. United States. Language. English. Box office. $8,142,237. Then She Found Me is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Helen Hunt. The screenplay by Hunt, Alice Arlen, and Victor Levin is very loosely based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Elinor Lipman. The film marked Hunt's feature film directorial debut.

  3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Plot twist: Unexpected change ("twist") in the direction or expected outcome of the plot. See also twist ending. An early example is the Arabian Nights tale "The Three Apples". A locked chest found by a fisherman contains a dead body, and two different men claim to be the murderer, which turns out to be the investigator's own slave. Poetic justice

  4. The Handmaid's Tale - Wikipedia

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    She is partnered with Offred to do the daily shopping. Handmaids are never alone and are expected to police each other's behaviour. Ofglen is a secret member of the Mayday resistance. In contrast to Offred, she is daring. She knocks out a Mayday spy who is to be tortured and killed in order to save him the pain of a violent death. Offred is ...

  5. American Indian Stories - Wikipedia

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    American Indian Stories. American Indian Stories is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fictions and essays written by Sioux writer and activist Zitkala-Ša. [1] First published in 1921, American Indian Stories details the hardships encountered by Zitkala-Ša and other Native Americans in the missionary and manual labour schools. [2]

  6. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Wikipedia

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    The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.

  7. List of PDF software - Wikipedia

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    Extraction and analysis tool, handles corrupt and malicious PDF documents. PDFedit: GNU GPL: Yes Yes BSD Yes Software to view or edit the internal structures of PDF documents, and merge them. Pdftk: GNU GPL: Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, Solaris Yes Command-line tools to edit and convert documents; supports filling of PDF forms with FDF/XFDF data.

  8. PDF - Wikipedia

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    PDF's emphasis on preserving the visual appearance of documents across different software and hardware platforms poses challenges to the conversion of PDF documents to other file formats and the targeted extraction of information, such as text, images, tables, bibliographic information, and document metadata. Numerous tools and source code ...

  9. Data and information visualization - Wikipedia

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    Data visualization refers to the techniques used to communicate data or information by encoding it as visual objects (e.g., points, lines, or bars) contained in graphics. The goal is to communicate information clearly and efficiently to users. It is one of the steps in data analysis or data science. According to Vitaly Friedman (2008) the "main ...