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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ similar to cron jobs. We recommend you to make yourself familiar with Elastic Be
 
 You don't need this gem to make us of Elastic Beanstalk's periodic tasks feature, however, this gem takes care of intercepting the POST requests from
 the SQS daemon (explained in the [official documenation](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/using-features-managing-env-tiers.html#worker-periodictasks)).
-If the gem detects a POST reqeust from the daemon caused by a periodic task definition, then the gem will create a corresponding Active Job instance and trigger the execution.
+If the gem detects a POST request from the daemon caused by a periodic task definition, then the gem will create a corresponding Active Job instance and trigger the execution.
 To make use of the gem, just follow these conventions when writing your definition of the perdiodic tasks in `cron.yaml`:
 
 * Set `name` to the class name the of the (ActiveJob) job that should be performed.