what have I taken?

As I watch TV I am highly more aware of the hidden messages that people are sending through their commercials. I even started to recognize how the songs relate to the commercials, and actually pay attention to what they are trying to tell me. When in conversation about topics such as censorship, I realized that a lot of people know absolutely nothing about how much is actually censored in our lives and how much we do not know, even about our government.

The biggest reaction I had to a piece of work that we had to read was Feed. I loved the book from front to back and I wished that it were longer. It reminded me of talking to my younger brother, who in every way reminded me of Titus. The slang, the passive behavior, everything resembled a person I knew. I also am I huge sucker for love twists to a novel, and the fact that he was so brainwashed, literally, he could not even feel emotion for his dying girlfriend, bothered me. I thought about how insensitive I am to people around me but when I have something wrong I want everyone to understand.

I truly believe that we are living in the Feed everyday that we open our computers and I feel like we are headed down the wrong path. I want to recommend the book to people who I talk to about consumerism, most people in my major, and then make them feel like an idiot for saying some things that they say about how we NEED advertising and Disney NEEDS to own everything because it just makes the market easier. WRONGO.

So I leave the class with saying, here is my because it's good for you...
The first girl that I believe can actually sing in the pop music world. At the beginning of the video there is a large teddy bear and music box, the music box is playing Johann Strauss II's, The Blue Danube. The teddy bear also symbolizes a corrupted childhood and loss of innocence. Maybe music video makers DO know what they want to say. ;)

dietbookslearningbookspoetrybooksfictionbooks...

The average Barnes & Nobles carries about 100,000 titles IN STORE. That is not including the online ordering site, or college book stores. So why do we need this many books? Why is there even a Barnes & Nobles?

Start by looking at what we use books FOR:
-diets
-fantasy
-therepy
-how to..
-business
-careers
-research
-cooking......
We use books for everything. Essentially the internet was derived from the idea of a book. Google is a book's index. We look in the index to find what is inside the books and then go to the page (click the link)... If there were no books, there would have never been the internet.

Slowly paperback and hardcover books are becoming harder to find. Just recently when I went to the library to check out Hunger Games, the library referred me ONLINE! Libraries are finding it harder to finance, stay in business and pay employees. HELLO MORE JOB LOSS!

Borders recently filed for bankruptcy... why? Because no one is purchasing books from the stores, they are going online or to ebooks.

Would I miss books if they were gone? YES. I read a lot in spare time and over the summer. I can't imagine what my mom would do if she could not read Danielle Steele, and I love knowing the ending of a television show because I've already read the book it's based on.

Books are not only educational, they make people more literate and teach them ideas outside of media culture. People can think and imagine things for themselves, that's why many refuse to move away from books (Such as the lady who begged to be burned with her books in Fahrenheit 451.)