Question Your World
Creative Questions to Provoke Thought and Communication Between Youth and Adults
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If you and your friends or siblings could start a fashion trend, what would it be?
If you were a kid when your parents were kids, do you think that you would hang out together?
If your parents were going to punish you by making you do a chore, which would they pick?
Which season best describes your family members and yourself?
If you could pick new parents, how would your new parents differ from your existing parents?
If you were asked to design a family website how would it look; what pictures and stories would you share?
Do you think about the consequences of your daily actions and how your actions can affect your community?
If you could change one thing about your house of worship, what would it be?
How would you handle someone who criticized your religion?
If you could have a conversation with the two angels that write down your deeds, what would you say?
Do you feel that your religious group should know about and respect other religions?
What would you ask the creator to grant you more of?
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About the Book
This book will challenge the thinking of today’s youth requiring them to use their mind power and creator given intellect to decipher the world around them. The time never existed when mediocre thinking was accepted by successful people. We can not start now. In this book Takiya Akbar offers youth, parents and educators a vehicle for establishing and continuing healthy dialogue, self-discovery and critical thinking opportunities through the daily use of simple and complex questions. Do you think about the consequences of your daily actions and how they can affect your community? If you could prevent the African-American Slavery experience, the Middle East Conflict, or the two World Wars, which would you prevent and why?
About the Author
Takiya K. Akbar graduated from Lincoln University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Biology. The author’s love for writing blossomed in High School with a school newspaper article on the popularity of Malcolm X among young people. Her other interests included science/medicine, physical fitness, languages, tennis, financial independence and empowering the minds of youth. The author lives in