25 Days Left

Now there are only 25 days left of school!  Do you know what else is cool about the number 25?

In baseball, the number 25 is usually reserved for the best slugger or hitter on the team.

Christmas is on December 25.

The minimum age for the U.S House of Representatives, is 25.

25 is approximately the number of days it takes for the sun to do a complete rotation on itself. 

26 Days Left

There are only 26 days left of school!  Do you know what else is special about the number 26?

26 is the only number between a square number and a cube number.

A Rubik's Cube can always be solved in 26 moves or less.

Michigan was the 26'th state to become part of the U.S.A.

There are 26 letter in the English alphabet.

27

What is special about the number 27?  Well it's the number of school days we have left!  Do you know what else is special about 27?

It makes a perfect cube.

It is the atomic number of cobalt.

There are 27 zodiac sign in Indian astrology.

The number of outs in a baseball game for each team at all adult levels is 27.

It is the total number of letter in the Spanish and the Hebrew alphabets.

WWII

Going into WWII, Germany was really mad because after WWI, they had demilitarize, they had to take blame for the war, they had to pay a bunch of reparations, and they had to cut back on land.  So they were really mad.  They basically grew their army way bigger than it was in WWI, they gained a ton of land, and they didn't take blame for the war - they blamed the Jews because since their economy was so poor, and it was the stereotype that Jews always worked in banks, that they assumed the Jews were purposely ruining them.  Plus they were in a Great Depression so when Hitler came around, people just wanted a leader.

Basketball Party

We are having our basketball party tonight!  I can't wait!  I heard there is going to be a 1 on 1 tournament (basketball) and everything else that there is every year.  It's always fun to see the guys again and play some basketball.  Even though I see half the guys everyday at school.  (:  I have really felt myself become a part of the team now that people respect me more and stuff so it's fun to hang around everybody.

Not only did Tech Ed go good for me today... I got a ton done!  I also rhyme all the time.  Have you ever put a dime on a lime?  Didn't think so, Joe.  Anyways, enough rhyming.  I got three different computer sketches done today which is a lot.  I also started the fourth one.  It is fun when you get a lot don!  Uhhhhh!  I can't stop rhyming!    

Tech Ed

I am in a Tech Ed class.  It teaches you kind of about architecture and making it on a computer.  It's really hard and challenging, but rewarding when you do good.  It can bee fun, but so confusing that I don't even know what to do.  The teacher can be funny but he is also serious most of the time.  It is the class of opposites!  :)  Making the dimensions and everything is really hard, but now it is coming more naturally.

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Today in history class, we learned about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  We learned that the bomb's names were Little Boy and Fat Man.  We also read some different viewpoints about the bombing.  From the Japanese side and the American side.  Personally, I can see both points of view.  On one hand, if you bomb Japan twice, you let them know who is more powerful, you scare Russia before the Cold War, you let them think that when you bomb twice you could have bombs, you end the war, and your troops don't die.  But then on the other hand, you ruined a civilization for a period of time, gave radiation to future generations and the current generation, didn't give them any warning, and basically were a jerk.  I can see both sides of view.

If you were to change one thing about the world, what would it be?  I think I would not let there be any war or things like that.  But it is a hard decision because there are so many injustices and bad things in the world that it would be hard to choose.  Things like hunger, poverty, idiots, things like that.  One that would also be high on my list would be racism.  And swearing.  There are so many to choose from!  That is sad that there are so many bad things in the world that we can't choose one that is the worst.

People who believe in evolution and stuff like that say that us humans evolved from monkeys.  Part of that I can see.  But if God created Adam and Eve, then that didn't mean that one day, some of their offspring gave birth to monkeys and from then on there were no more humans.  Also, monkeys live in forests so how could humans be in places like Switzerland or Alaska or somewhere?  Monkeys don't live there.

That is Bennett's trivial question for the day.  :)