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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/The amount of news a man's mind absorbs every day has stirred up a great controversy but is it not the human drive for knowledge and understanding that provokes our trust and attachment to mass media? Simple rumours and stories may teach us how to distinguish between good and bad, honesty and dishonesty and we are lucky to learn by the mistakes made by others. The flow of information moving freely between people creates a fixed vision of reality and determines our view on the contemporary world and its formidable problems. Processing a great deal of data we have a chance to observe and analyse every day life seen by the eyes of a number of people all over the world. Different and frequently unrelated perspectives establish our outlook and way of approaching reality.