Sponsors of Literacy

Deborah Brandt applied the term literacy to not just one’s ability to read and write, but to a plethora of things that one may learn to do throughout their lifetime.  Research suggests that the higher the literacy achievements one has the higher their socioeconomic status.  This makes perfect sense the more knowledge someone has the higher their socioeconomic status is that not why we are all here at school? In order to gain more knowledge, so that we can earn higher paying jobs.  This brought about a different thinking of the term literacy. Thinking of literacy in these terms, I have many literacy sponsors not just one.  The main literacy sponsors I have would have to be my parents.  They worked to help to teach me not just to read and write, but to be a civically minded person.  They taught me the first things I can remember about religion and to perform countless tasks among many other things.  They helped a great deal to shape me into who I am today.  In addition to my parents I also have several other primary literacy sponsors such as my teachers as well as the educational institutions I have attended, my family, friends, and church I attend.  All of these people and things help to further my knowledge in certain areas. I feel that the access provided by my many sponsors has been more than adequate.  They have shaped me into the person I am today and have given me many things that I couldn’t do without.  One literacy that I wish I had would have to be the ability to write in other forms of programming languages other than C++ and Java.