In the article by Dana Gioia about the decline of reading in america has a negative effect on society. She uses real world facts to build her argument. The author talks about the decline in the local workplaces as well. “ Among hourly workers, poor reading skills ranked second and 38 percent of employees complained that local schools inadequately taught reading comprehension”. The author is showing that in all places not just schools are declining in literacy.
Carr says, I’m not the only one. When I mention my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances. For example, “The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing.” According to Carr some bloggers have stopped referring to print sources for information overall. It may be possible that the Internet is just more convenient.
These people live in a society where it has become the
Literacy enriches our lives in an outstanding manner. From a young age, we are eager to sit by our parent’s side and listen to bedtime stories. As our love for reading and writing grows, our wealth and thirst for knowledge does as well. The ability to entertain and enlighten our world through literacy is exponential.
The problem with the internet is that click of a button leads to much more than just a good book. Reading offers an abundance of knowledge to the public, but with such effortless resources such as internet, many might prefer to let their lethargy take control and unlock an electronic device instead of making an effort to find a book to read. Internet makes reading much easier, but it keeps other affairs, such as social medias and gaming activities, close at hand as well. “As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent
In the Article “What the Words We Use Say About Us” by David Brooks, the author talks about how the atomization and demoralization of society led to certain forms of social breakdown. The author states that societies today have demoralized as people have begun to think about themselves more based on Google’s database. David Brook says that as time has passed, people have become more self-centered, less caring about their surroundings and less humble because of how frequently those words were used in the books published into a database system that has a couple million published books from 1500 to 2008. There is much more to society and its morals than what Google’s database system shows. The fact that there’s a book that uses the words “personalized, I come first or self” more than “tribe, community and united” doesn’t mean that the society today lacks all the morals.
This outlook is reflected in national surveys, the number of literary non-readers in the United States is starting to outweigh the number of readers and, this has slowly been proceeding over the past 20 years (Gioia 421). Reading is a fundamental part of life. It’s a major way of expression, imagination, learning and being the best person
Older generations tend to believe that young adults, who are thirty years old or younger, are the “dumbest generation” ever. However, these young adults are not actually dumb, they are able to think more critically and deeper which helps them gain more knowledge and become more intelligent. It is invalid to compare the past with the present because in the present, technology and other developments are far more superior. Many people have shown themselves to be smarter than the older generation due to technological developments, and the increased use of technology. Sharon Begley stated that IQ scores “ have been rising since the 1930s” and these “tests measure not knowledge but pure thinking capacity” (Begley, Source 2).
The deadliest disadvantage is poor literacy skills or just being completely illiterate. According to Messemer, “Literacy has lifelong impacts on educational achievement, employment and earning power, health, and other areas” (Messemer). If it is known that literacy has a large
Although I enjoy reading now, I used to have many hard days when reading felt like a chore. I remember my mother and me sitting on the couch reading together. There were days when I loved it and wanted to keep going, but there were also days when I would just break down crying because I could not understand it and everyone else did. I remember one time when we were
A shift is happening in America. The pendulum is swinging from the ideals of get tough and mass incarceration. The swing has both positive and negative affects on the prison system. On the plus side, prison populations are decreasing. By shifting away from incarcerating any who break the law, there are fewer drug dealers and fewer violent offenders in the system.
Something that many can argue is sadly prevalent in our modern
Our technology has gone so far and has improved better than it ever has, so information is faster to spread and conforming easier to do. Conformity is in all of us and we don’t seem to realize it until later on, so we must take action
Everyone knows that reading is important, but have you ever asked yourself why is that so? Reading is one of the most beneficial and practical activities that a human being can do. Unfortunately it is a disappointment that people these days read less. As we know, books were the main source of entertainment centuries ago, but with the widespread of technological advances such as the cinema, television, internet, among others, many people left their books on the bookshelf. The purpose of this speech is to present the benefits and the importance of reading.
