4-30-12 The end

What will happen at the end is that Lennie is shot by George in the back of the head. George does this so that Curley will not slowly kill  Lennie for murdering his wife. Another reason that George executes Lennie is he realizes that they will never achieve their dream because Lennie will continue to get in trouble and get them kicked out of their jobs, so George will always be moving from job to job trying to raise money. By killing Lennie, George would no longer be moving from jobs and he could live a normal life. Lennie was saved from a slow and painful death and George became free to spend his money, so they both kind of won in the end.

4-26-12 College debt

I think that college is worth the debt because with a college degree one can get almost any job that will help you pay off your debt. One other alternatives for not going to college are working a job like construction or working at a fast food chain that do not require a college education and are easy to do. Another alternatives is to work as a mechanic or waiter because those jobs only require a little education.

Vacation time

Over vacation, I mostly hung around with my brother Lionel. We played frisbee out in the yard for around an hour every day, watched videos on youtube a lot, and did work for school for not as long as I should have. I did enjoy my vacation because it was very laid back and I wasn't bound to any commitments that forced me to rush out of the house early in the morning. I am not really glad to be back because it have to wake up early and spend much more time on homework. 

4-10-12 Maine switch

I think that this is a bad idea because if a person is able to complete all of the classes needed to graduate and they can show a proficiency in these subjects they could graduate early. The problem with this is that colleges would probably not except a seventh grader with a high school diploma until that person had aged more. So all of these people would be living at home and just hanging around.

3-6-12 Slim

Slim is my favorite character because he seems the most pleasant person of all of the characters so far. Slim seems to give off the air of being kind and a good boss, whereas all the other characters such as the boss and Curly's wife seem to have a dark side that Slim has not demonstrated yet. The character of Slim has demonstrated to George and Lennie that he will not be cruel towards them which I would find reassuring in an employer.  

3-4-12 Plugged in teens

I do agree that teens should not text and do homework because they will get distracted from their work and it will take longer for them to complete an assignment. From my own personal experience, I tend to get distracted when I am listening to music because I always changing around what song I am listening to. I think that teens who have a social network tend to get more distracted because they are constantly checking and updating their pages.

4-2-12 Dust Bowl

The dust bowl began in the year 1931 when a severe drought hit the midwest and the topsoil of the wheat fields began to get blown around. For the next 8 years, around 200,000 famers and their families migrated to California so as to escape the dust storms. To solve the problem of the Dust storms, the government distributed food to the displaced farmers and had an idea to buy up 2,250,000 acres and retire them from being cultivated so as to stop the spread of the dust. In 1939, it finally rained and the dust storms subsided.