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Reading Literature Makes USarter Research Paper

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Writing prompt: Does Reading Literature Make Us Better People? In my opinion no it does not improve us as humans. Reading Fictional books and expanding our minds while we read does not help with society and understand how others feel. Yes, readers feel for the character and visually predict how they might look while reading but they should and do not take this literal into the real world because not everyone will feel the same emotions, nor need advice/attention while they’re feeling depressed.
In the article Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer written by Annie Murphy Paul describes a professor of philosophy, Gregory Currie, arguing that “there is no “compelling evidence that suggests that people are morally or socially better for

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