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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def emit(self, event, *args, **kwargs):
 """ Emits an event call to all handler functions registered against this model's class and the given event type. """

        self._emit(event, self, *args, **kwargs)