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Super Sonic Posted 19 years ago
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Effects of Illiteracy on Society

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00EFFECTS OF ILLITERACY ON SOCIETY02br
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00 Recent studies show that there is an increasing rate of illiteracy all over the world.A study conducted by WSI(World Statistics Institute) shows that over 27% of people are illiterate globaly. Another study by the same institute shows that the speed at which illiteracy rate ascends is 32%. These rates are quite important, as illiteracy has terrible effects on society.02br
00 The most important effect of illiteracy on society is that, it works as an inhibitor. That is to say, the more illiterate people there are in a country, the harder it will be for the country to develop. This fact could be clarified with an example: America(whose illiteracy rate is below 5%) and Canada(Illiteracy rate: around 8%) are developed countries, whereas countries, like Turkey and Iran(Illiteracy rates: 61% and 43% in order) are undeveloped countries.02br
00 Illiteracy has got a kind of "genetic" effect. The children of illiterate people are more likely to be illiterate that those who aren't. Even if the parents don't want their children to be illiterate, their children, observing the parents, see that they somehow manage to live and adopt the idea that illiteracy isn't actually a bad thing. And since people develop most of their character during childhood, they choose to go with illiteracy.02br
00 Another major effect of illiteracy is that, illiterate people believe in the said things easily. They do not investigate what was said or told to them. When looked at the pages of history, it can be seen that, while most uneducated people are slaves, guardians and assistants; people who are educated are mostly kings, quenns and sultans. They are not slaves because they wanted, but because people superior to them 01del00in terms of education02del00 made them so.02br
00 All these significant results of illiteracy affect society in a bad way. So, illiteracy rates must be tried to cut down.02br
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The illiteracy rate in the U.S. is actually about 20%.
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this is very ture! and to the author you could try and make your facts ture because people cold be doing research on this topic and turn it in and get point deducted for having false infomation.
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0 You are wrong. Turkey's literacy rate is 90%. Also Turkey is not an undeveloped country it is an developing country.0-
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0- If I were you, I would express: "The most important effect is that illiteracy works as an inhibitor to the society" instead of "The most important effect of illiteracy on society is that it works as an inhibitor."02br
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00- That is to say = In other words02br
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00I wonder if "That is to say" is less formal than "in other words". Could you please c
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0I think your points are interesting, but a little late for the originator of the thread, whose essay was written in 2006 050010id6
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0Yep, I knew; but I still wanted to share my opinions. Also it would be great if I receive any feedback and correction (if needed).02br
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00By the way, could you please help with my wondering about the use of "that is to say".02br
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00Thank you! 050010id1
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I dont believe turkey is an undeveloped country eventhough the litracy rates are so low. Next time please go over your work. Turkey is surely a developed country
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Who says illitracy rate in Iran is 43% ?
It is 20%.

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