Professor, Deborah Brandt, believes that you become literate from your surroundings and not from yourself. In the first paragraph it is stated that literacy is not simply about reading and writing, but also about how you can use all the knowledge you have acquired in real-life situations, for example to solve problems. Brandt says that sponsors help people, he also thinks that sponsors have their own goals that they aspire to. Even though sponsors are supposed to help people, it seems that they pretend to be the protagonists, but at the same time hide their personal interest. This makes me wonder if my English teacher would actually prepare us for our AP exam or just make us write over and over again? To begin with, the literacy sponsors who were in my powerful reading and writing experience were the teachers and the school. When we would do the forty-minute essay, he expected everyone to do an excellent job without considering the student's circumstances. For example, I am not good at writing essays and yet she wanted to get a good score in the essay wr...