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heroes and diminish the importance of reading and intellect, and that encourage
the creation of games, TV shows, and movies that bombard us with mind-andsoul numbing spectacle after spectacle? I am sure that Baudelaire would agree.
College of Southern Nevada
Rich Logsdon
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