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People who read for pleasure in their free time have a better imagination than those who prefer to watch TV. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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people who read for pleasure in their free
time
 have a better imagination than those who prefer to watch TV. In my opinion,
this
 statement is somehow reasonable.
First
 of all, reading makes our vision vast whereas watching TV and using social media make us shortsighted.
This
 is the sole reason why youngsters these days are bounded
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a certain boundaries
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. By reading more, we get to imagine things and make
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picture
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 of them in our minds which
time
 by
time
make
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 us more imaginative and creative.
On the other hand
, television itself
have
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 pictures and animations which stop making us more productive and we picture that in our mind forever.
Secondly
, it is proven that
that
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people who read for pleasure in their free
time
 are often more
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 due to
imaginations
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 which
cause
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 them to be good in studies comparatively
from
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 those who spend
time
 mostly on screen. It’s concluded that people who read books are more productive, creative and imaginative while others are shortsighted.
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