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<\/a>war, because this country always seems to be at <\/em>war — or having a ‘skirmish’ or doing a ‘police action’ somewhere somehow. Dr Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario, of the Monash’s School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, did her study on J.K. Rowling’s<\/a> Potter series, Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy<\/a>, Eoin Colfer’s<\/a> Artemis Fowl series and, oddly enough, the Disney movie Lilo and Stitch<\/a>. Do Rozario’s study determined that authors are finding ways to examine and interpret world events in a way our readers can understand. Check it out.<\/p>\n