diff --git a/final_project/README.md b/final_project/README.md
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+
diff --git a/final_project/emotion_detection.py b/final_project/emotion_detection.py
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+import requests
+
+def emotion_detector(text_to_analyze):
+    url = 'https://sn-watson-emotion.labs.skills.network/v1/watson.runtime.nlp.v1/NlpService/EmotionPredict'
+    headers = {
+        "Content-Type": "application/json",
+        "grpc-metadata-mm-model-id": "emotion_aggregated-workflow_lang_en_stock"
+    }
+    input_json = { "raw_document": { "text": text_to_analyze } }
+
+    response = requests.post(url, json=input_json, headers=headers)
+    if response.status_code == 200:
+        result = response.json()
+        return result['emotionPredictions'][0]['emotion']
+    else:
+        return f"Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}"