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No Words for This Essay In elementary school, feeling like the odd kid out because I read so slowly, I tried try to hurry and end up stuttering along the way. I didn’t mind reading these short timed stories, it was the fact that I was being timed to how long it takes me to read. It was aggravating; I absolutely hated it. I would try to hurry and beat the time that I had before. For me, this assignment is extremely difficult because reading and writing has not always been thrilling subjects for me. At the age of ten, I used to read a bucket-load. I loved reading books. That’s all I would do before I had a phone in my hand. Not to mention that, I now read my iMessage, Facebook, and Snapchat to a great extent.
Writing is hard for me. I have always had a hard time trying to do my best on writing a paper. I never have good ideas or a good topic, and I always seem to take the longest. Writing is irksome, I fancy people who love writing. Why? Because they can easily pick up pencils, and just start writing and have the best ideas. I always wonder why I have the hardest time writing a paper; could it be because I just have zero interest in writing papers or do I try so hard that I end up with the most out-of-wack ideas? Writing frustrates me the most because I feel like I never had a good
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On my social media, I am always on there, of course, reading… a lot. Without almost realizing it. On Facebook, I like to read about my friends posts and catch up with what they are doing. Twitter is always fun to read; I like to read funny quotes and chat with my friends. I believe social media has made a change in my life; I’m constantly reading everything that appears on my phone. Social networking is good because I read what I type and see. Whether you believe it or not social media can be good because you’re reading and mostly analyzing things that you see, and that, to me, is the same thing as reading a

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