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

/^t/People read newspapers and magazines to make sure that, somewhere out there, there are other humans with different ideas. Caught up in the rat race, people yearn for variety. Reading about the war in Rwanda might not be encouraging but, at least, it reassures the readers that apart from their own world of unpaid bills and meager salaries there are other worlds with different priorities. Without such points of reference, man might be tempted to view his or her world from a very narrow-minded point of view.