Assess The Importance Of Literacy Essay In 150 Words

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I take pride of every experience I have been through, because I believe that even the bad ones shake our core and awaken something new. I am always on a mission to challenge stereotypes, but I guess in the case of “book love” I am defeated. As a young girl, my parents paved the way for me to experience life through my senses. And so, I was constantly encouraged to open up and learn from our travels, life incidents, challenges and just about anything we went through as a family. My father cherished books, and we still have the huge library room he made to keep books he collected through the years. He always liked buying books that had a massive change in their story lines, and so, he always bought me books that reflected that. However, as a child I was inpatient and disliked to read through the plot and the ending. I liked when he read to me, I was attracted to creativity and visual forms of art.

On the other hand, my mother has always been a talented writer just like my grandparents and my
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However, I believe that since we as human beings are diverse, we all learn from a variety of things and we all are driven to different highways. Honestly, I am impressed by people that do read, especially those who lived with the same lifestyle and experienced some of the experiences that I 've been through. I want to expand my horizon by reading about a lot about various things, and sometimes I think that knowing so much about one thing and not so much about other things could be a negative thing. However, I think that what makes me unique especially living in Kansas City where the voice fashion is sort of absent, and since reading is an expression of learning more about a subject, or in the matter of reading a novel is traveling in imagination to another world with the storyline, life incidence and experiences provide me with literacy in an astonishing

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