Literacy
There is no difference in meaning between literacy and reading or writing. But there is a lot more to it than that. Literacy cannot be understood apart from the culture to which it belongs and which it helps to articulate. It is always linked to a purposive body of writing a literature within which the reader is said to be literate. This body of writing will be in some sense interpretive and critical of its societal context. So we can speak of functional literacy. Someone can be generally "literate" in the sense that they can read and write common words and understand notices, newspaper articles or even textbooks, but still be functionally illiterate in relationship to a specific critical and interpretive literature. Literacy is the ability to participate in the imaginative life of a culture; both by absorbing and re-living its insights in reading, and adding to them- in writing. But by comparison with say the period between the wars, contemporary society does not actually use literacy in a functional way.All lot of different languages are existing in this world and every people use them for communicate and express their feeling about themselves to other people. I think it is very important that how to read and write. If you cou
ld not read and write, you could not do anything that shows or explain with words. In the story of Frederick Douglass shows a quote that explains the reading and writing skill are used for his life. The quote says °The idea as to how I might learn to write was suggested to me by being in Durgin and Bailey¯s ship-yard, and frequently seeing the ship carpenters, after hewing, and getting a piece of timber ready for use, write on the timber the name of that part of the ship for which it was intended' I soon learned the names of these letters, and for what they were intended when placed upon a piece of timber in the ship-yardą (Douglass 279) In conclusion, Literacy is very important to our life, because it is our tool that expresses our motion and feeling. First, Douglass learns to read and write because he wants to say thing about freedom. Secondly. Kozol talks about how illiteracy is influence to people and why it made many causes. Finally, Cumha write a story about difficulties in learning a new language. If you cannot read and write, your life would be difficult and you will not be succeed you dream, so that we should think about how literacy is important to one¯s lifetime. A new language affords an intimate view of another culture and a great ne
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