I am Deima, a student at Limestone University majoring in Professional Communications. I believe that skills learned throughout the university years prepared me to open my own website. In addition to managing the website, I am doing a Harvard certificate online and trying to participate in extracurricular activities. I have been also nominated to be a captain of the team to attend NCAA board meetings. I will hold a BA in Professional Communications from Limestone University and continue to get my Master's degree in United States.
In the article Reading in a Whole New Way Kevin Kelly worries that devices like Apple's iPad nurtures action over contemplation. Funny, because I am reading his article on my iPad..;) In ancient times, authors often dictated their books. Dictation sounded like an uninterrupted series of letters, so scribes wrote down the letters in one long continuous string, likeforexamplehere. Text was written without spaces between words until the 11th century. This continuous script made books hard to read, so only a few people were accomplished at reading them aloud to others. Being able to read silently to yourself was considered AN AMAZING TALENT . Writing was an even rarer of amazing talents at that time. In 15th-century Europe only one in 20 adult MALES could write. Crazy to think that women did not have a right to read at all. Over time, by 1910 three-quarters of the towns in America with more than 2,500 residents had a public library. WE became a people of the book! I do not kn
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