Books

Harry Potter series: This series was the last time I ever really tried reading a book since middle school. It did not change my life or impact it. However, it made me think about what your imagination can do to a person when you read a book. This series definitely gives you that type of imagination. Oh and by the way, the books are better than the movies. Just read it.
Hamlet: I never thought this book would impact me a lot. This book believe it or not made me realize how funny Shakespeare can be.Although the language is a bit hard to understand, you can see that Shakespeare is a clever writer and we will not have another one like him in a life time. I learned this through one of the quarters that made me read the ENTIRE book as an analysis for a final. I appreciate literature more because of reading this book/play numerous times.
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter: Another book that I thought will never impact my life. This book talks about how popular culture, like TV shows and video games have helped us get smarter not dumber. I came across this book by using it as a reference to another paper I wrote a few quarters back as well. Although I don't agree to a lot of what the author says, it is still nice to think that there is someone out there that is trying to protect this type of media