Journal 9 - Jake Goedde

A question that I came up with was from the Carl McNAIR interview and i was wondering why did they rename the library in South Carolina in 2011? After doing research on this question i figured out a lot and it was mostly because He was not allowed to check out any books because of his race, and as you can tell a lot has changed since then. McNair accomplished a lot during his life time including the library to be named after him. In the summer of 1959, he refused to leave the segregated Lake City Public Library without being allowed to check out his books. After the police and his mother were called, he was allowed to borrow books from the library, which is now named after him.


http://www.scnow.com/news/local/article_214eaab3-d728-5974-ab7d-8c598175a9b1.html


The library renamed after Carl McNair


The theme i saw through this book so far connected to our culture is how motivated a lot of these people are to find their callings. I feel like once you start to find something you actually enjoy doing in life it will just help you succeed and motivate you to keep pushing and do what you love for the rest of your life. I can relate this to my own experience because this book is extremely inspiring and it pushes a lot of people including my self to dig and dig to find what they love. Hearing other peoples stories about how they found their callings believe it or not helps me and other people in this world stay motivated to try to reach where they want to be. I really hope one day,  whether it is in 5 years or 20 years that i find my passion and succeed.

The best vocab word i have found so far is centrifuge, which is a machine with a rapidly rotating container that applies force to its contents. This is my best word so far because i didn't even know about this machine until reading this book and you learn a lot of different things every single day.