Wallstreet Journal

The Wallstreet Journal was a great "textbook." The fact that it offered up-to-date

information because it is a newspaper was a great advantage. Textbooks are usually out of date

or even relevant to the market conditions that are currently on-going. The Wallstreet Journal

was a cheaper alternative that provided great knowledge. I use information I've read in the

Journal in everday conversation with my boss and district managers. They are usually

impressed and look forward to talking to me when they visit. Although, I must say I offered

great conversation before anyways.

The Wallstreet Journal offers a comprehensive look at what's going on in the business market,

stock market and world news. All of these aspects are important for our generation to start

becoming more informed on. We will be running the world on day; we should know what to

expect in our future and not go into in blindsided.

Overall, The Wallstreet Journal was a great guide for the classroom. I definitely plan on

renewing my subscription.

The Road

The Road was definitely a whole new experience for me as a reader, and the movie did not

lack in living up to the stupendous novel.

I really did think the movie was going to be some exaggerated Hollywood production.

Surprisingly, it stayed true to the novel and only embellished a few things. The part where the

father and son go down into the cellar with the naked people showed a relatively large group in

the movie versus the couple in the book. They also ran (kind of) after the characters in the film,

which I do not remember happening in the novel.

Also the movie had a few more happier moments as the father has multiple flashbacks of his

wife as the were at the beach or laying outside on the grass. The book had no such memories. I

assume they wanted to give audiences brief moments of happiness in order to not overwhelm

them with the multitude of depressing moments in the film.

Other than a few minor details, the movie and novel were comparable. I, however, enjoyed

book more. I tend to like the range a book gives a reader. The author can only do so much when

he describes scenarios; the left is up to the reader. In the film, audiences are subjected to the

filmmaker's take on the novel.

I also enjoyed the challenge of reading the novel. The lack of proper punctuation and

grammar in general made the book a completely new experience for me. Yet, this same horrible

structure made the book simplistic. It stripped the English language bare of its rules in the way

this post-apocalyptic world stripped some humanity from its morals.