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This concept partly titles a poem whose speaker notes that Jane will never find a job since she stays on Aunt Fan’s couch reading a “love-story book” all day; in that poem, the speaker’s “heart gwine burs” while telling “miss Mattie” about “joyful news.” An essay collection titled for the reverse of this concept notes that “communication creates culture” and denounces a “cultural bomb.” A poem by Louise Bennett Coverley is titled for this process “in Reverse.” Undoing this process (10[1])titles an essay collection that details its author’s time in jail after writing I Will (10[1])Marry When I Want and defends abandoning English (-5[1])for Gikuyu. (10[1])An essay collection by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o partly titled for “the mind” (10[2])describes the reversal of, for 10 points, (10[1]-5[1])what process in which imperial nations take control over foreign territories? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: colonization [accept decolonization; or word forms such as colonizing or colonialism; accept Colonization in Reverse or Decolonising the Mind]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Connor Mayers (UG)Maryland A (Grad)Liberty A (Grad)7910
Jonathan Shauf (UG)UNC B (UG)GWU A (UG)9410
Giovanni Mazzeo (DII)Virginia A (UG)JMU A (UG)102-5
Jim Fan (Grad)UNC A (Grad)William & Mary A (UG)10410
Nathan Redford (DII)Liberty C (DII)Virginia B (UG)11610
Patrick Torre (DII)Maryland C (DII)JMU B (UG)11610
Ivan Stanisavljevic (DII)Duke A (UG)UNC D (DII)123-5
Luke Schaarschuch (UG)Virginia C (UG)GWU B (Grad)12310
Caleb Hines (DII)Liberty B (DII)Roanoke College A (DII)13410
Vedang Singhal (DII)UNC D (DII)Duke A (UG)13510
Addie King (UG)JMU A (UG)Virginia A (UG)13510