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Nicholas Rogé
English 101.18
If one were to take a look at humanity as a whole, you would see that
defined? Moreover, there are those who feel that literacy can be defined as
something more. In a poll of thirty people who were in their early to late forties,
when asked if they felt that texting could be considered a literary art, only seven
of the thirty agreed. However, I took another poll with the same idea in mind,
except the poll focused on those in their teens. Of the thirty polled, twenty-eight
being the case, could it be argued that age has an immense impact on one’s
definition, what would it look like? Let us go off of the idea that literacy is
anything that evokes emotion or thought for now. That being the case, would art
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far as to break down into tears. In others, it holds so little value that burning the
Mona Lisa would have the same impact on them as killing a fly. There are also,
of course, the written works such as Poe’s, “The Raven”, which in some can
cause chills, but in others will cause yawning. Even though it may not create any
subject that could easily be argued for or against. Why are notes on a page
different from words in a book? Could this not be comparable to knowing only
how to read and write English but attempting to read a language like Japanese
where there are no similarities to English? Not only that, but the symphonies or
argument that something can be considered a literary work, there is another that
Can it be argued then that being literate is the ability to create something
that evokes emotion or thought in another? While I don’t personally believe that
Picasso was a great artist, there are those out there that would argue against it
saying that he was. But why does it, or rather, should it really matter to them or
to me? If Picasso created his work, and felt that it was literary, who are we to
As far as my personal beliefs and view on what literacy is, I believe that
literacy. From driving down the street, predicting weather patterns, to, of course,