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

/^t/And can grown-ups tell the difference between mass media life and the real one? Perhaps they are even more profoundly affected than the younger population is. It is enough to mention the suffocation of the 39 members of Heaven's Gate, recruited and instructed through Internet. As the life pace accelerates, people come to desire for escape from reality. Men, watching sports matches, are incited to mindless violence. The newspaper's political hack is often believed. Those housewives who watch soap operas yearn for true romance. Watching films of high society life, we want to have a bigger house or car. As a result we are never satisfied with what we have.