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Illiteracy, the inability to read and write fluently, has been a commonality since the inception of the United States of America. However, people did not consider illiteracy a public issue, or a social epidemic, until much later. While the United States Department of Education considers most people literate today, illiteracy is a still a problem that plagues the United States (U.S.), especially in more rural or low-income areas (National Center for Education, 2024). Additiona

One of the most well-known absurdist authors of the twentieth century is Albert Camus, a philosopher born in 1913, in Mondovi, Algeria. Albert Camus published The Plague in 1948, a few years after working as an editor of an underground newspaper against the Germans in World War II (Camus, 1948/2002; Barnhart, 2013, 1:44). The Plague is fictional novel detailing how the people of Oran, Algeria react to a plague suddenly appearing in their town, and through “unconventional narr

Composition II was the second English class that I took in my senior year of high school, and while this class was faster paced than some of my previous English or writing classes that I have taken, I have learned just as much. I have learned more about the social epidemic topic that I chose to study, which is functional illiteracy in Oklahoma, and learned how to use APA formatting. I have also advanced my research skills as I scoured through the library database, my analysis