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and when the entirecommunity did not participate, a clear division was usually made between the acting area and the auditorium. In addition, there were performers, and, since considerable importancewas attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites, religious leaders usually assumedthat task. Wearing masks and costumes, they often impersonated other people, animals, orsupernatural beings, and mimed the desired effect-success in hunt or battle, the coming rain, the revival of the Sun-as an actor might. Eventually such dramatic representations wereseparated from religious activities. 　　Another theory traces the theaters origin from the human interest in storytelling. Accordingto this vies tales (about the hunt, war, or other feats) are gradually elaborated, at first throughthe use of impersonation, action, and dialogue by a narrator and then through theassumption of each of the roles by a different person. A closely related theory traces theaterto those dances that are primarily rhythmical and gymnastic or that are imitations of animalmovements and sounds. Television 　　Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked byrapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophisticationand versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolutionof sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies. 　　The word television, derived from its Greek (tele: distant) and Latin (visio: sight) roots, can literally be interpreted as sight from a distance. Very simply put, it works in this way: through a sophisticated system of electronics, television provides the capability of convertingan image (focused on a special photoconductive plate within a camera) into electronic impulses, which can be sent through a wire or cable. These impulses, when fed into a receiver (televisionset), can then be electronically reconstituted into that same image. 　　Television is