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    As a native speaker of Chinese, I learned how to read and write Chinese when I was four. The first word I could recognize was my name. My grandfather told me how to write it correctly. He had a really beautiful handwriting, so I was impressed and picked up a pencil immediately. I just imitated what he did and drew what he had on the paper, which turned out to be very different from the original version and hard to recognize. I asked, “Why should I write my name?” He answered with smile, “You need

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    Despite its importance, writing is not given enough attention in schools compare to reading. Since the turn of the 21st century, “there have been a number of significant changes in the contexts in which we teach and in which our students learn to write”. Our culture has taken a digital shift in all aspects of life, including schooling and the way students are exposed to writing curriculum. Robinson, McKenna and Conradi state that “The context of schooling has also changed, with programs and practices

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    I didn’t have. Now you may be asking why I waited until the day before graduation to begin writing my speech. Well, this was mainly because I had no idea on how to write a speech. I knew a graduation speech needed to be influential and motivating. It’s when you reminisce on all the special moments you’ve shared with your classmates. I understood the purpose of a graduation speech. However, writing one was a whole different story. I didn’t want to stand up in front of my friends and family and

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    Apart from the evolutionary advantage of the societal bonds that it creates and enforces, literature is just yet another channel for humans to channel its unusual knack for creativity. Love of writing could also be the point of literature. Or, on the other hand, love of reading. Or a conduit for expression, or knowledge, or reverence. Or a million other things. There’s no single, lone point to the art form of written works. Just like most of literature

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    Agriculture got its start in Egypt by the Nile River with wheat and barley. Irrigation systems were used which increased the region’s population. Egypt also had flooding though it was much more predictable than the flooding in Mesopotamia. Agriculture conditions were much better in Egypt. Both regions had deities to control the flood waters

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    Final Exam During this semester, I learned more about writing than I have throughout my whole high school career. The first thing we really covered was parallelism and that was probably the most used topic in all of our writing. To be completely honest I think this was the first time I had ever heard about parallelism and I still have no idea how to use it. We really focused on comma placement because in the beginning we were all just putting commas in random places, but now I feel as a whole we

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    writing is the physical manifestation of a spoken language. It is thought that human beings developed language c. 35,000 BCE as evidenced by cave paintings from the period of the Cro-Magnon Man (c. 50,000-30,000 BCE) which appear to express concepts concerning daily life. These images suggest a language because, in some instances, they seem to tell a story (say, of a hunting expedition in which specific events occurred) rather than being simply pictures of animals and people. Written language, however

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    do not enjoy reading and writing we all have a story how it has impacted out life. Literacy has a big impact on us all, if we didn’t have it we would be lost. We wouldn’t be able to text our friends and family to stay in touch. We wouldn’t have anything to do with social media. We would lose entertainment. Those are just the basics of why reading and writing has a big impact on our lives. Majority people have a deeper more meaningful experience with reading and/or writing. I personally have never

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    The webpage “The Olmecs: (The ‘Rubber People’)” by Alex Whitaker in the subsection “The Olmec’s and Writing” states that the Olmecs were the first Mesoamerican people to create a complex writing system, Whitaker’s evidence is that there have been multiple findings of ‘glyphs’ from ‘authenticated Olmec sites,’ but he does not state where these Olmec sites are located. He also claims that the text emerged from the Chinese Shang dynasty and from the African Manding-she tribe, but this is yet to be proven

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    Ancient Writing Systems

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    Without the usage of ancient writing, we would know nothing about history, which makes an ancient writing systems so important. The first type of writing originated in Mesopotamia, but the writing featured will cover ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, the ancient Greek alphabet, and ancient Chinese writing systems. These written languages originated around their area without the knowledge of other known writing systems. The Egyptians had hieroglyphics, while the Greeks had the Phoenician script, and

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