Article 2; education in finland

In Finland the education seems to be improving tremendously. It is now starting to outweigh the US education system (was number one in the world) No school in Finland is allowed to charge tuiton fees, which of course drives more people to want to attend. In my favorite quote through the whole article Sahlberg says "there are no private schools in finland" which i thought was incredibly interesting considering every school in america costs money, if they aren't private. And EVERY college requires an application process to get into.

Article 1

As I read through this article I found myself wondering why the human population, or any population for that matter get distracted so easily. I learned in this article that humans weren't meant to read... so why do we? If scientist have tested and made hypotheses on if humans can read or not and the answer is no, why not just emerse ourselves in language and visual arts?

It takes more brain power to read on the computer, so of course youre going to get lazy and not want to fully read something every once in a while. But I feel that the brain doesn't like e-books if the brain was not meant to read in the first place.

reading response 3; Henrietta Lacks

This week i started reading "the Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks." it's about the woman Henriette Lacks, or HeLa. Who's cells were used and still are used throughout the world for medical and scientific discoveries everywhere. I haven't gotten very far, but what I have discovered is that HeLa was just your average African American southern woman. She grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, married her cousin Day and raised all of her children in the same town. She discovered a knot on the inside of her womb one day and whenever she went in for a routine doctors appointment, her life would never be the same again.

Reading response Looking for Alaska (Spolier Alert)

This week I finished Looking for alaska by John Green, the first half of the book was more of a happy more uplifting half. But it the "before" part ended with Alaska and pudge kissing and Alaska leaving in a drunken haze of confusion and anger but nobody stopping her, only helping her off campus whenever she wanted to leave. Pudge and Colonel fell back asleep and woke up only to realize their bestfriend had been killed in a terrible accident the night before. Basically the rest of the book is them coping with the loss of Alaska, and how much of an impact somebody can make on someones lives without you even realizing it. Before you know it someone you love can be gone, and pudge realizes that by the end of the book, and personally, I think he finds his great perhaps.