Dream Into Reality

I read a unique, and interesting interpretation of our class discussion about the importance of literacy, on my fellow student's blog:

http://dreaminreality14.blogspot.com/

It discusses that history of mass media, from the Mesopotamia's stamp seals, to Gutenberg's metal movable type press. Then, relays the importance of literacy, begetting the acquisition of information to the might of modern literary figures. Examples spanning from Superman, a symbol of the power and ideals of the american dream, to Katniss Everdeen, a challenge against financial segregation and a victim of unwanted fame and focus. Bringing up historical examples of the removal of literacy to confiscate power, in the beginning of dictatorship and fascism, and how this echoes in the villains of fiction.

She has a few more short post on our discussions, but this one stuck out to me, Literacy is Power,
which I might advise her to make into a well researched essay or book. If there is not already a book on this subject- perhaps with the name Superman's ABC's (or some dumb title like that)- I might just have to steal this idea, if you refuse to expand upon it.