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A high P/E ratio indicates that a company’s stock price is high relative to its earnings. A high P/E ratio means that investors are expecting high future earnings growth from the company.

The Divine Comedy is called the divine comedy because it is a religious allegory about the soul’s journey to salvation. The poem is also called the Divine Comedy because it is a comical satire of the Catholic Church.

The diary of a young girl does not portray German soldiers in a positive light. In fact, Anne Frank is critical of the soldiers and their actions during the war.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is based on the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo. The novel tells the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, and his unrequited love for the beautiful Gypsy Esmeralda.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is important because it is an account of the life of one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

The chosen is about the life of a Hasidic Jew.

Hippolyta is the queen of the Amazons who is betrothed to Theseus, the duke of Athens.

Dr. Rank is an honest man who is dying, while Torvald is a dishonest man who is healthy.

The Da Vinci Code is a best-selling novel by Dan Brown that has been turned into a movie. In the book and movie, a symbologist named Robert Langdon tries to solve a murder mystery that is connected to the Catholic Church.

The Canterbury Tales was written in the late fourteenth century by Geoffrey Chaucer.