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

/^t/The method in which products are advertised distort people's perception of reality by maintaining stereotypes and forcing untrue ideas about the product itself. The polls show that people's knowledge of the world comes from media and TV in particular. Therefore, women are taught that their vocation is to clothe their husbands in immaculately white shirts so that they look handsomely in luxurious cars designed especially for them. At the same time, instead of heard in the ad nice melodies, a washing machine issues noises and cake is not that big as in the TV trick where it was stuffed with silicon.