How reading changed my life by Anna Quindlen Explain the following words/phrases form the context: Paragraph 1: a series

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Choose one of the following and write a short essay: Anna Quindlen writes in her essay: All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps to name the others around us so they will no longer seem like strangers. How do you understand this quotation and do you agree with the authors point of view? The essay How reading changed my life is really about how it changed the history of humankind. Explain the influence of reading on the history and the development of human societies.