Journal Topics



1 If you could have one animal power, what would it be and why? If you could have one power, what would it be and why?

2 What is power? Give examples.

3 If you could be anyone for a day, what person would you be and why?

4 What is America? What does it mean to be American?

5 If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money?

6 What were your impressions of college and F.S.U. before you came to college. What are your impressions now that you are here?

7 Which is more powerful, love or hate?

8 If you could make one law, what would it be and why? If you change one law, what would it be and why?

9 How would you spend the time if you have 24 hours to live?

10 If you be anywhere else right now, where would you be and why?

11 Is there a divine power, why or why not? If you believe in a divine power, explain your idea of that divine power.

12 Construct an alter ego, that is an alternate personality. What is the name of your alter ego? Describe your alter ego. Give one line of advice from your alter ego. Spend the rest of the page describing your alter ego. For example, You might give him or her a history.

13 Imagine that for 24 hours you are a member of the opposite gender. Describe your day.

14 Use some or all of the following questions in the first paragraph to help compose this journal entry:
You are on a journey. What is your mode of travel? How does your body feel? What can you see to the left, the right, in front of you, as far as the horizon? Where is the source of light? How does it fall on the things you can see? What is the weather like? Vegetation? Architecture? What are you wearing? What are you carrying?
In addition to any questions from the previous paragraph, answer all of these questions in the entry:
You arrive at a place where you can see, up ahead, a border. What is the nature of the border? The border had a guardian. What is the guardian like? Wearing what? Doing what? You know that you must leave something behind. What will you leave behind? Why? The guardian gives you something in return. What is it?

15 Compose two lists. One list, the Johnson list, is the first of your three favorite people to be around. The other list, the shit list, is your three least favorite people to be around. Explain why each person is on each respective list. Please do not include me on either list.


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