SSR (Late) Zachary Smith - Ms. Buys

I've finished reading the book "Touching Spirit Bear". It's been a great book to read. I liked the fact that Cole seemed to have realized he had anger issues and accept that he needed to work on that and make himself a better person. Cole wanted Peter to come to the island so that he could heal from the bad things that Cole did to him. Peter did come to the island. It seems like Peter and Cole would have developed a friendship after all that they'd been through. The book was very easy to read and very interesting. I would never want to have anger issues the way Cole did as it seemed it got him into quite a bit of trouble.

Zachary Smith Topic Of The Week - Economic News

My topic of the week is from the webpage http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/business/know-what-youre-protesting-economic-view.html?ref=economics. The title of the article I read is: "Know What Your Protesting". The article is written by Gregory Mankiw. This article is about an Economics college teacher at the school Harvard. Since there have been many movements with "occupy" such as occupy Wallstreet and other places as protestors have been protesting things in our economy. This teacher had students protest and walk out of his economics class. The students felt this class was bias and symbolized increased econimic inequality in our country. The teacher was more upset that his students were very poorly informed rather than be upset that they walked out of his class. Sometimes people just jump on the bandwagon because they feel that it's what everyone is doing. That isn't right. The article was very good and informative.