Interdisciplinary Post (ID)

          In my Banking and Finance class we had to develop a budget for a full time college student. We basically had to fit a budget depending on the scenario my partner and I was given. The scenario was how she has a part time school-aid job at Thurgood Marshall Academy. My partner and I had to find a budget for her because she has many desires. The main important part of this budget is she wanted to find her own place to live because her parents weren't supporting her anymore. We had to go against each other first and present this in front of judges so we can go to the next round which is to present this in front of the regional judges. So we basically had to go against each other, and who ever won goes to the next round and goes against the other boroughs from Capital One. When the day came to present it was so nerve racking. My partner chooses for us two to go first which even got me more nervous. She said she decided to go first because "she wanted to get it over with." So I just went with it; it was time for us to start presenting. We introduced ourselves to the judges then we finally started. As the slides were changes I kept on forgetting what I was going to say. I guess I was too nervous to actually remember. Good thing I had my flash cards with me so that saved me from looking stuck, and sound like I'm saying something complexly different.  We finally finished presenting and sadly my partner and I lost. Even though we lost I still felt like a winner!   

Self-Selected Response "SSR"

Quote:“More Pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere.” 

Group Question:“Does putting pictures in books stop people from thinking?”

I don’t think that by putting pictures in books it stops people from thinking; it actually should keep them from thinking more, and exploring more on what they are seeing in their minds. By putting pictures in books it allows the reader to have a clear image instead of reading to get the image on what the author is talking about. When seeing the image already in front of you; you can conclude what’s happening in the picture, make assumptions, and think about what is going to happened next throughout the story. 

When reading to actually get an image you might conclude wrong and just misinterpret the entire story. Yes, it does add a mystery but when you already have the image right in front of you, and see what the author is trying to describe to you makes it way easier to understand what’s going on, and you can draw more accurate conclusions. In the book “FAHRENHEIT 451” by: Ray Bradbury it explains, “More Pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere.”  This quote states in my opinion, if there’s more pictures you don’t really need to have a mystery and think/guess more on what the author is trying to tell you. Instead the mind is drinking less, but is still making conclusions based on the picture the author has already provided for the reader. 

Which proves that just because the author has pictures for the reader it doesn't mean it “stops people completely from thinking.” A lot of this books is a mystery; meaning that you have to read a lot to just develop a clear image on what the author is saying which makes it confusing for me, when I could just have a detailed image with a few words and have a better understanding on what the author is explaining.