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Article: A model for examining, analyzing, evaluating, and understanding events, acts and utterances.
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- Reading Improvement
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Students at all educational levels are daily bombarded by others' attempts to influence them. Influence in the political, religious, social, educational, and advertising arenas pervade our lives. It is vital to us all to be aware of influence attempts; to be able to assess whether or not such attempts are useful, friendly, urgent, and in our best personal/collective interest or not. This essay offers a model of analysis and assessment of influence with the aim of allowing people to protect themselves from unscrupulous influencers and to better understand and take advantage of influences that would benefit us.
One way to analyze, evaluate, and understand how ...