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Your discussion board was good. It was interesting and gave a point of view I had not thought of before. I thought that in today's culture everyone really had a good understanding of tragedy and that society today had a better understanding of it. After reading the part of your post about 9/11 I started to rethink my point of view a little. You talked about calling something a tragedy then not really thinking about it after and not learning from it. I realized that you’re right. This made me realize that the Greeks had a better view of tragedy in the respect that they learned from it and remembered it. Although, I do not believe there view was wide enough. I do not think it is wide enough, because they do not believe that all deaths that are

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