Convergences pgs 2-24 (my take) (bg)

When I first sat down to read the 20 some pages in the Convergences text book, I thought I would read the first couple of lines and get bored, and end up being distracted. But I was happily surprised when I read further into the text. I found myself relating to a lot of the text. When I started reading into the Message, Method, Medium section, I started to think of all the songs i have in my playlists on my iPod. I started to think of how a lot of the songs are relaying a message in their lyrics. after reading the entire passage, i found myself picking apart the songs i listened to the most and trying to listen to the message the artist was trying to express. My end thought after reading all the text that sticks out to me is that there is multiple ways of expressing a message to an audience. You can express it through actions, but writing a message in a song or an essay can be just as expressive as actions, if not more. I found all of the text in the sections i read interesting and really good. I think this is the first time Ive actually finished a reading assignment for an English class. I think this reading assignment is one that i will always remember because i can relate to it the most, and in my opinion that makes reading to me much easier when i can relate to it. I feel like when i can relate to what i am reading i can stick to reading the entire assignment better than something that i have no clue about. I look forward the future reading assignments and blogs to post now that i know what i am reading about. i think that the whole idea behind reading things is to get a deeper understanding about modern things and a more modern attempt at teaching and learning new things.