Try and envision our society without a common language. This could be a moderately hard idea to grasp. If this theoretical idea were in fact true, a typical conversation between two individuals would be as follows: one of the two would begin the conversation by making noises representing their language; the other person would not understand these noises and respond with unrecognizable noises, representing their own language. As you can well imagine, this would become …showed first 75 words of 1101 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1101 total…a near impossible task and asking for assistance does little more than to further lower their self esteem. To truly seize the benefits feasible in one's existence it has to be accepted that literacy is the key. Society will continue to reward skilled individuals and disadvantage those who are not. Without literacy, all those wonderful things will be taken away from us. What remain are never-ending worries as a result of uncertainty and total confusion.