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Is the ability to read and write more important today than in the past? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Nowadays life is harder than in the past,
that is
 why the development of abilities
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 very important, these abilities are reading and writing.
To begin
 with, reading and writing have a lot of advantages, the main advantage is that they allow you
know
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 about the things that happen around the world.
Secondly
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 they make you more intelligent since the brain is always working and thinking and of
course
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 it is almost always getting important information.
Furthermore
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 these abilities are always useful to everyone,
for instance
 at school, at university or at work people will need to apply them necessarily.
In
addition
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 these ones are very important they make us able to interact with people online,
to
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chat online and
finally
to
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study online.
However
 there are disadvantages,
for example
 when someone is a child,it might be too boring,
therefore
 that person
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 not learn as good as expected and
that is
 why that person suffers a bit when growing up. To sum
up
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 reading and writing are so important skills that everyone must learn
,
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 since in my
opinion
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 any kind of
skills
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 is important because everything is virtual and uses a lot of technology so reading and writing are too useful
to
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 people can understand how is the world like.
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