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Published: 11.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: 2 units
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Is there knowledge we should not seek?', 1.
  • Essays 'Is there knowledge we should not seek?', 2.
  • Essays 'Is there knowledge we should not seek?', 3.
  • Essays 'Is there knowledge we should not seek?', 4.
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World offers us an enormous opportunities for getting knowledge. We could obtain current information from mass media – every day people listen to the radio, watch TV or read magazines and newspapers and it is completely insignificant if human beings read gossip column in tabloid newspaper, listen to the last news in the world of music or watch a scientific research in atom physics, because in spite of authority of information gained it does influence our mind, it has an impact on perception and attitude to a particular situation or event. For example, when I first read that one of my favorite singers Tony Braxton uses drugs, although I had no evidence that this information was true, this influenced me so much, that I changed my mind about her as a personality.…

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