Pre Reading Blog Entry #5

I believe, to a certain extent that everyone is affected by advertising in one way or another. People must obtain there knowledge that they create their beliefs out of some how. Of course certain people choose to believe advertisements or news more than others but their ideas are still based off what they heard. I myself am affected by advertisements just like everyone else. Although I find my self to be in the middle of the spectrum. I am skeptical about what I see and read but I am not paranoid that everyone is out to get me. I just believe it takes common sense to differentiate between good things and bad things or untruthful things.

Critical Thinking Journal Entry #7

The hobby that I am going to discuss is restoring cars. Obviously this hobby could not have been around for a very long time because vehicles themselves have not been around for a very long time. Car restoration or hot rodding really became popular in the 1950's when people wanted to fix up the old model T or A's they had. Much before this time period it just was not realistic to try and restore a car and it was a better idea just to buy a new one. I find it very interesting if I really think about it, that this activity has only been around for the past sixty years or so.