Adaptation Of Literacy Analysis

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Literacy definitely played a significant role in the modernization and civilization of the old world. In the beginning, people only used writing as an aid to the memory, but as time passed, it became more than a necessity. In the early twentieth century, to be illiterate, meant not to be civilized because a person did not count with the morality or the social appropriateness of a society. As the century progressed, literacy became an important part of many aspects in society, and people were required to read and write in order to survive in the modern world. People had to adapt literacy to their culture, so they could fight against major institutions such as governments and banks. Literacy was also able to stratify society into the different social classes in which the world is divided today. …show more content…
Most importantly, people tend to forget that Literacy has also been able to affect many aspects about work, and that the many jobs available today in the modern world, are the product of many years of adaption of literacy to

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