HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Maya Angelou, Victim Blaming, Mein Kampf
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The power of speech, or how being able to talk is not the same thing as being. Singing bad karaoke is not the same as singing-> being able to talk is not the same as being able to speak. Whether the words consitute as an oral genre. Reading is not reading and wriing is not wriing. Literacy is an extremely diicult skill to acquire. Funcional literacy-> just being able to read or write. It"s about being able to write well, to speak well. None of us are fully literate or fully oral. We"re more literate than oral-> that"s our educaion system. Diferent kinds of reading-> really tear apart a text. Rereading things to see new things, or not see things. All readings are highly contextualized, the context is always changing. We"ll see the same thing, but we won"t read the same thing. Context changes, depending on where and when you examine the historical arifacts.
