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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Batman ? Even through his shaded glasses  Tim Burton clearly was wide-eyed. The famed "Batman" director motioned toward the crowd at San Diego Comic-Con and said  "I can't believe just how big
 it's gotten." He was referring not just to the physical size of last year's convention  but also to the existential sense of the comics world itself: The scene was shining a white-hot Bat light on just
 And this week  Batman and Superman flexed the comics market's muscles again.
 Holy collectibles  Batman. Suddenly  by tripling the record sale price  comics as a collectible were being mentioned in the same breath as gemstones and paintings. The twin sales garnered headlines and Google searches worldwide. And all the while  longtime comics scholars and non-geeks alike mouthed the question with dropped jaws:
 something to them. Spider-Man  Superman and Batman _ that's history to them. And in this country  we're a society built on popular culture."
 Once Superman crossed the million-dollar threshold  Batman was quick to follow. "As they say: Without Superman  there would be no Batman _ as a character and as a record comic-book sale " Zurzolo says.
 At Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries  which conducted the Batman auction Thursday  the house's comics expert agrees.
 "I think that the million-dollar result made somebody feel comfortable on (bidding) those kinds of numbers" in the Batman auction  said Lon Allen  37  sales director for Heritage's comic books division. "This is going to give a boost to the ... highest-grade of all comics."
the Batman auction Thursday  the house's comics expert agrees.
 "I think that the million-dollar result made somebody feel comfortable on (bidding) those kinds of numbers" in the Batman auction  said Lon Allen  37  sales director for Heritage's comic books division. "This is going to give a boost to the ... highest-grade of all comics."

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Kamila Shamsie ? Kamila Shamsie  didnât have to stretch to fit the plot to the times when  she  decided to adapt the Greek tragedy Antigone into a contemporary novel about terrorism.
The gripping novel explores how western responses to terrorism show the limits of our ideals and laws. In an interview over Skype   Shamsie  told me  her  initial imperative with the novel was to explore the question of citizenship  to delve into what it means to begin stripping people of citizenship for certain crimes.
âRepeatedly people in [Theresa Mayâs] government have said  âcitizenship is a privilege not a right ââ  Shamsie  said. âAnd thatâs simply legally untrue  but increasingly they want to be able to take away citizenship for people who they think are unworthy. And they get to decide.â
 She  added: âItâs your own citizens and youâre saying that for all that we have our judicial system and prison system and probation and all of that  this is the one crime that we donât know how to deal with  so weâre just going to leave you out of the country. It should be seen as a real failing of a state  to say that our judicial system is incapable of knowing how to respond to this criminal act.â
And  as in the United States  the notion of terror is racialized and associated with Muslims (President Trump entertaining the idea of sending Sayfullo Saipov  the man who killed eight people when he drove a truck down a bike path in Manhattan on Halloween  to GuantÃ¡namo  is at this point to be expected.) While stripping citizenship might initially be justified only in terrorism cases   Shamsie  noted Theresa Mayâs attempts to revoke the passports of a group of British-Pakistani men convicted of sex crimes â âthereâs no way of saying itâs not about Islamophobia and racism  because no one is making those suggestions about anyone who is white and committing similar crimes.â
In the narratives that she read of radicalization  of youth attempting to join ISIS   Shamsie  saw only demonization and one-dimensional narratives: â It âs almost an inevitability now. If youâre young  Muslim and male  and angry  then youâre going to strap a bomb onto yourself.â But she dug into research on ISIS propaganda and youth who were convinced by it  and found that the reality  for many teenage would-be fighters  was complex.
âOne of the things I was interested in was the lure being something other than violence  and all the other ways that this world that we know to be nihilistic and brutal could also be seductive â  Shamsie  said.
âThere is this link between masculinity and violence that should be inescapable  it should be part of every conversation on violence â said  Shamsie . âInstead we compartmentalize violence: Thereâs the violence of gun shooters in America  thereâs the violence of suicide bombers in Iraq  thereâs domestic violence everywhere  there are men in Pakistan who are committing honor killings â and we donât draw the line between all of them and say what is it with men  what is it with masculinity  what is it that young men do to prove to themselves or to someone else that they are a man in the right kind of way?â
All of these complexities are missing from most media narratives of radicalization  and so also is the possibility of empathy   Shamsie  believes. In  her  research   she  found little compassion for the families whose children had gone to Syria  âfamilies facing the most horrendous thing â your child or your sibling who is very young or very stupid or angry â has gone to a place from where you know they will probably never return. And these families are treated as though they are guilty  rather than as if they are mourning.â
The novel gave  Shamsie  the space to create that empathy.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity John McCain ? Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) makes  his  way to a meeting in Washington about the tax bill on Dec. 1. (Photo by Bill OâLeary/The Washington Post)
 Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)  has been admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for recovery from the side effects of another round of treatment for brain cancer  according to  his  office.
 McCain   who missed a third straight day of Senate votes Wednesday  has been undergoing rounds of chemotherapy and radiation to treat glioblastoma  the terminal form of brain cancer he was diagnosed with in July.  McCain  has been undergoing treatments since early September at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda  next to Walter Reed.
Two friends close to  McCain   requesting anonymity to speak about  his  condition  said there were no plans for  the senator  to resign. In a statement issued from  his  office   McCain  hopes to return âto work as soon as possible. â
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)  has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)
Republican leaders expect to hold a vote early next week on the sweeping tax-cut plan that is currently in a House-Senate negotiation. The Senate version initially passed with 51 votes. If  McCain  missed the vote on final passage  Republicans would not be able to afford a single additional defection or absence to pass the legislation.
â Senator McCain  is currently receiving treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center for normal side effects of  his  ongoing cancer therapy â  his  office said in a statement. âAs ever   he  remains grateful to  his  physicians for their excellent care  and  his  friends and supporters for their encouragement and good wishes.â

SOLUTION:
Positive