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15. Answer the following questions and do the given assignment. 
a) 1. How influential a part does the TV play in children's lives? Do recollections of TV 
programmes provide the most part of the majority of young people's childhood 
memories? 2. Why do you think people often refer to "the media" when talking

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about television? 3. Why do the modern media tend to cause more problems than the 
printed media? 4. Are the additional implications of the word "mass" accurate? 5. How 
do you think watching television can become addictive? 6. Comment on the meaning of 
"global village" and how it's connected with the TV. 7. What does television impart to an 
uncritical audience? 8. How is ittcnown that some attitudes are absorbed indirectly from 
the television and then retained? 9. Does the television always achieve its intended 
predetermined response from its audience? Is it more successful than the other forms of 
media? 10. How independent are those people working for the television companies? 11. 
In the last sentence the pros and cons of television are put rather bluntly. Which outweigh 
the other? 
b) The text under discussion is an essay. Behind the essay lie the traditions of oratory and 
debate. From them all essays inherit their persuasive techniques. The essay may usually 
be identified by certain characteristics of tone, language, and structure. Keeping all the 
above mentioned in mind, study the text and providing illustrations from it discuss the 
main characteristics of the essay: 1) tone: personal and conversational or highbrow and 
formal; 2) language: informal and colloquial or official and stylized; 3) structure: loose, 
flexible or strictly and logically organized.
What persuasion techniques does the author use?