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What text? I cannot help you without the text.
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The phrase helps give the passage a casual and humorous tone.
Either investigates or elaborates. I think it's elaborates
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Well, there are many different types of people differing from religion to only where they may live. In General there are people who believe in different things(religion, political, etc.) also people who don't, they may only believe in one thing like science, there can be people who have different positions in life from a president to a single homeless man on a street, there can be people who have grown up in different environments or around different people, or they may be costly and have all they could have everything or have nothing not even a single item, all in all, there are many different things or varieties of people that have many different characteristics.
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Based on the given excerpt above, I can say that the what the carp represents here are DEATH and INNOCENCE. Death here refers to how the twenty-pound carp was being treated and innocence refers to the teachers and boarding students who tasted the carp. This excerpt is actually from Yun Wang's "The Carp" and this lyric poem reflects his bad experiences from his father, such as imprisonment and torture.
