Reading Journal In Class

"Do not allow your mind to be distracted by idle questions. Application to businesses is the root of prosperity but those who ask questions that do not concern them are steering the ship of folly toward the rock of indigence." To me, this quote doesn't really make sense. I believe in the saying, "there are no stupid questions." and that the human mind is meant to roam around. But then again, if I went up to a college professor and asked him if his refrigerator was running, that would be kind of a stupid question. the question that popped up in my head when reading this quote was, if people did not ask questions, nothing in this world would probably be here. If Abraham Lincoln did not ask himself the question, "is slavery right?" there would probably still be slavery here in the United States. If John F. Kennedy didn't ask himself the question, "Is segregation right?" there would still be separate bathrooms for African Americans and Caucasians. If Barrack Obama did not ask the questions, "Do we need change?" we wouldn't have had our very first African American president. In the end, I still believe that asking questions does not steer your ship into a "rock of indigence", instead, it steers your ship into the light of change and growth. Asking these questions help up understand that there is room for change and let's us all grow in these aspects.

Reading Journal

So the book I'm reading is called the Voyage of the Dawn treader. Well in this story, there is this mouse that is really cool and can kill people. So I found this short verse or poem sort of that he speaks. Its the only quote i could find suitable for this reading journal.

"Where the sky and water meet, Where the waves grow sweet, To find all you seek, There is the utter east."

I really have absolutely no idea on what this means. I just know that its gonna matter at the end of the book. Another question that rises after reading that quote again is why it calls the east "utter" as if it were hard or bad. I think that this book is pretty well written and its pretty interesting.

Media

To me, when I think of media, I think of television, and the random press conferences that you see. Well basically, media is advertisements. There's media on our computers, keyboards, mouses, trash cans, staplers, toasters, food, and a lot of things that we use everyday. In reality, media is everywhere. Scary isn't it.

Reading Journal!

Its been a very very very very very long time since I posted one of these. Well the new book Im reading is called The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Yes, another Narnia book.

Prologue?

So basically, there are a bunch of British kids who were kings and queens of this other land named Narnia. Their names were Edmund, Susan, Lucy, and Peter. It would actually be pretty awesome if there really was a Narnia. Anyways, after many years of ruling in Narnia, they were finally sent back home. When they had arrived they found that no time in "their world" had passed. They stayed in England for a year and then one day a prince named Caspian blew Lucy's Horn that she left in Narnia. This had made the four kids teleport back to narnia. When they arrived to Narnia, they found that thousands of years had passed. So basically after killing the evil king miraz and saving all the little talking animals, the four kings and queens were forced to go back to england.

Basically, in their last arrival in Narnia, Susan and Peter learned that they will never be in Narnia ever again (gasp). However they said that the other two would be going back to Narnia One day. So one day, Eustace (Susan, Peter, Edmund, and Lucy's annoying cousin) came over. Edmund and Lucy were sitting in Lcy's room looking at a picture of a ship. Eustace kept claiming it was ugly. All of a sudden the picture came to life and all 3 of the children were sucked back into Narnia. It was here they met Prince Caspian again and started their voyage to the Edge of the World.