Generally speaking, it would be false to say that "<span>Media are free of emotion," since much of the national media allows emotion to get in the way of objective reporting. </span>
I would say "I judge it made him blind" shows the realism of this man's seemingly angry state. The speaker sees that this man's anger has exceeded his "mental vision", shall we say. The man isn't sure of what he's doing, except that he must do something to feed and calm the anger.
I'm sorry if this doesn't help, but that's how I see it as realism.
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Both the Roman and Han economies were in large part based on agriculture. Sea trade was less expensive than land trade and the fact that Rome was more of a naval empire than the Han Dynasty meant that commerce played a greater role in the Roman economy.
It allowed many business' to expand without interruption from the Government.
