Clackamas Mall Shooting

My reaction to the Clackamas Mall shooting... I'm not sure. I think it's weird when things like this are so close to home. Like, you hear about other places getting shot up; Columbine, The Dark Night Rises shooting, and it's like, when it so close to you, it almost seems unreal. I don't even know why he did it. Someone said he was in the jewelry store when he did it but.. maybe it was just the stress of the holidays? Maybe he was tired of being poor or something, and tried to rob them but failed and upon seeing even more failure, killed himself. I don't know. Maybe it's all just part of some elaborate divine plan, or maybe it's just Darwinism on steroids. Do I wish it didn't happen? Of course; two people died. Does it effect me directly? No, not even the slightest bit, other than a fear of mall shootings  ow. But the mall sucks ass and I never go anyway because I have no interest in the things they have to sell there. Honestly the only thing I've ever bought at a mall is like Panda Express from the food court.

Edward's vision of hell..?

I honestly don't even remember the story that well. All I can remember is that he's basically saying that everyone who is prideful is going to hell and everyone who isn't a strict Christian or Puritan is going to hell. In general, most people are going to hell; a fiery lake of brimstone, full of suffering and torture and demonic sodomy, hell I dunno. We read this like..5 days ago. I just remember he was a pissed off guy, who probably couldn't get laid, so he took his sexual frustration out on religion and made everyone who didn't abide to his ways feel like shit. Whatever. He's dead now anyway, so I don't really care at all. #YOLOLOLOLOLO #SWAGGG #Teenpregnancy #LowerIQ'S

Here's my intro, pillllgrum

  The horrors that the pilgrims faced are important to understand because it shows us how adamant they were to settle down in the New World. An examination of Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford will reveal that they had many harsh obstacles to overcome in the New World, including but not limiting to: The Atlantic Ocean, wildlife, Native Americans, diseases, having to get food in a place the don't know, and surviving the elements.

  Let's begin with their journey across the Atlantic Ocean. These people were Puritans from England, and they felt persecuted by The Church of England. They set sail to The New World, or North America, as it's known today. On the way there, they lost many of their original group, due to a deathly illness falling about them. One of the hardened sailors complained and yelled at them because he had to be stuck on a boat with a bunch of sick people. They thought it as an act of God when he was the first to die on the way there. When they arrived, they were horrified to find that this new land wasn't the Eden they'd been searching for.

  They arrived to the cold, harsh Eastern shores of Massachusetts. It was there that they started their new lives, under their new-found religious freedom. It was also there that they met Native Americans. At first, they had difficulty with the Natives, because they would steal their supplies and tools. As time went on, they forged a sort of alliance with them, and the Natives taught them how to hunt and gather food in the new terrain. But with this increased contact came a very deadly repercussion for the Natives. Diseases from the Old World.

  Now, the Natives, having never been around the English before, were not immune to the diseases that these people unknowingly carried. This caused many villages of Natives to get deathly ill, sometimes wiping out an entire population just from small pox. With little medicinal help available, there was almost now way that they could recover. As if the New World wasn't harsh enough, they had an even greater obstacle to over come: The first winter.

  During the first winter, they lost half of their people due to illnesses and starvation, as well as the harsh cold winds. But they bore these obstacles with a smile on their faces, helping each other the best they could. They made an alliance with the Native Americans, and with that alliance they were able to harvest food for themselves, and hunt for themselves. This is how they survived the first winter.

  Despite all of these obstacles, they overcame the elements and the people, and all odds, and they became the foundation for what we are today: Americans.

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First World Problems: The Pilgrims

The pilgrims faced many problems when they first arrived upon our shore. Many of them died along the way, or upon seeing what they'd found, simply committed suicide. When they arrived, many died of diseases. During the first winter, many froze to death. Then they ran out of food and many starved to death. Also, they had to deal with Indians and wild life.

Mondays..

  Is it just me or do Mondays really suck? Why can't there be a day in between Saturday and Sunday? Like...Satunday..or..Sundurday..I dunno. Something. Maybe I should write a formal complaint to all the world's leaders and see if they can't fit in another day or something.

Compare and Contrast essay: Snickers vs. Three Musketeers

Chocolate Indulgence - Hershey Base and Candy Bar Bouquet - Candy & (Google Affiliate Ad)  A discussion of Snickers vs Three Musketeers is necessary because they are very popular candy bars, with very different qualities.

  While Snickers and Three Musketeers are both very popular candy bars, there are several major differences between them in terms of taste and components.

  A main difference between them is their taste. This is significant because everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and in this case it is the opinion of a superior taste. Furthermore, I think the light, airy texture of a Three Musketeers is superior to the heavy, over-bearing richness of a Snickers. This is important because many consumers may prefer the lightness and connect it to less calories, making it a "better" choice between the two. In reality, it could have just as many calories if not more. Additionally, Snickers' commercials about combating hunger with a Snickers most likely will attract a younger, 13-25 age group in men, much like Carl's Jr.'s does with their seductive ads. The impact of this is that it shows the two main targeted groups that will buy their product, allowing them to coax even more people to buy their product, because they know what qualities it has, and who's going to be buying them.

The future, and its possible regrets

  In 4 years from now, we will be faced with another election. New candidates, new policies, new voters. We will reach a day where we will have to look upon this month, and question ourselves about the election. Will we have regrets? Will we be thankful that Mitt Romney didn't win? Or will we loathe the fact that we let Obama have two terms? As for me, I am entirely unsure. I didn't like Mitt Romney very much, and I guess I dislike Obama less because if I could have voted it would have been for him. Personally I just think Mitt Romney is the Anti-Christ. Ha, no, but really, he's a terrible person. I'm not really sure what Obama can do for us, but I know he's far more open-minded than Mitt Romney. Either way, I just hope Obama can get our economy back on track. I understand it was pretty messed up when he came into office, and he just needs more time to sort things out. But if he doesn't accomplish anything, I doubt we'll see him as a great president in 4 years.

Thanksgiving..

Well it was good for the most part. But, I was looking forward to getting a car. This has, unfortunately, been completely halted. Why, you may ask? Well, I was driving my uncle's golf cart around his property. Everything was fine, except the brakes didn't work when I wanted them to. When did I realize this? When I was going head on towards a tree. The only damage was a scratched up plexiglass windshield. But hey, I gotta call yesterday. Guess who's piece of shit old golf cart won't start up now? ANd hey, guess who has to replace the motor on in with their car money? Me. Pretty neat, right? yeah. So, $500 (most likely) down the drain so I can replace shit that hardly worked in the first place. Needless to say, I'm pretty annoyed. I probably won't be able to get a car until like February or maybe even summer or who knows when. It just. Ugh. It's horseshit. But oh well.

O Christmas Tree VS Little Drummer boy; Christmas Vacation VS Polar Express

For the first two..I don't even know. I don't think I've ever heard O Christmas tree entirely, and as for Little Drummer Boy, again I'm not sure. Probably between the two, if I had to say which one I think would win, I would choose O Christmas Tree because it's more know. Christmas Vacation is a given winner vs Polar Express because everyone knows and loves Christmas Vacation. I mean, Polar Express doesn't get you out of school for 2 weeks, right? And it certainly doesn't allow you to have snowball fights, and hot cocoa, and home made fudge, and all that jazz that Christmas vacation has to offer. I also think Christmas Vacation will win over most, if not all.

My holiday traditions

  I celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas, and then later on I'll celebrate Easter as well. As you can tell from those last two statements, I'm Christian. Or, can you really tell from that? Because anymore, people who are atheist seem to think CHRISTmas has nothing to do with CHRISTianity. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but, just because you feel left out because it's a holiday, doesn't mean you should celebrate something against your beliefs. Hey, why don't I just go off and celebrate Chanukah too? I mean, 8 days of presents right? No. It's really fucking annoying to see a bunch of people celebrating a holiday that doesn't belong to them, especially when they're entirely against the very core idea of that holiday. Again, that'd be like me celebrating Kwanza. Do I have black heritage? Nope. But hey, free shit, right? Why not. Anyway.. Around this time of year, as a family, we usually watch like Charlie Brown, and other things like that. We don't listen to like Christmas music and stuff though; we're not a 50's white family. Like any other family, we eat turkey, and stuffing, and green bean casserole, and sweet potatoes, and ham, and all that delicious stuff. We usually have more than a few days of Christmas, just so we can take time to go to both grandparents and aunts and uncles and family of the such. Not to abruptly stop this or anything, but I've nothing more to say on this subject. And with that, goodbye.

Revision 1 of Narrative Assignment

Narrative Assignment

By:Charles Timpy

    My grandma Dorothy is one of the oldest people I know, and also one of the most interesting in terms of what events she’s lived through. The Great Depression. WWII. The Vietnam War. So many experiences, so little time. That’s why I decided to interview her for my Narrative essay.

    My grandma was born in 1930 in Fairview Oklahoma. During the first few years of her childhood, she and her brothers lived in a small house, in the countryside of Oklahoma. When she was around 5 years old, she and her family moved to Union, Oregon. It was a quiet, small community at the time, with few people, and far in between neighbors’ houses. As there weren’t people close enough for a young girl as herself to socialize with, she spent most of her time taking care of her siblings, and learning to cook and clean. The move to Union sort of changed that, because people lived closer together, and she was within walking distance of kids her age. Though it took about 2 weeks, it was worth it. Growing up in The Great Depression didn’t affect her, though, as she was born into it. It had always been the normal way of life for her, and she didn’t know she was poor because so was everyone else, and as there was nothing to compare and contrast it to, she really couldn’t complain.

    In high school, during her freshman year at Union High School, she met my grandpa, who was a junior. They locked eyes across the room at an assembly, and after school, he walked her home. From there it lead to my aunt being born when my grandma was just 16, then my uncle at 18, and lastly, my dad at 30. By the time my dad was born, my grandparents were divorced. Shortly after, my grandma and dad moved to California. But, during high school, and even to this day, she set out to be a journalist. And that’s exactly what she has been for the past 60 years or so. Outside of career thoughts, though, she never really thought about the future, and always tried to live each day to its fullest.

    I’ll never forget the last piece of advice she gave me, though. “You should never regret anything in life. Or you’ll have to live with those actions until you die; and so on from there. My grandma, Dorothy TImpy, age 80, is a very wise, and very experienced person. And that is why I chose her for my Narrative assignment.

"Shame" VS "The Daughter of Invention"

  Let's just put an overview of both stories here: "Shame" is about a black child who learns shame through not having a father, and being on state assistance. "Daughter of Invention" is about a family who moved from a communist country to America, still adapting to their freedom. In the story the girl has to write a speech and announce it at her school. She finishes her speech and her father gets angered at her and essentially makes her feel terrible for writing a speech that would have gotten her in trouble in her old country, but not in America.

  Now that we've gotten that, lets take a moment to analyze what they have in common:

1. In both stories, they are taught humiliation of their ways
2. They are both outcasts in the social pyramid
3. Both experiences caused them to look at life in a different point of view
4. They both take place in the mid 1900's

Snickers vs Three Musketeers

  Personally, I think that Three Musketeers is superior to Snickers. My main reasoning behind this is that Snickers are just too sweet. You get through half of one and it's too rich to finish off. Three Musketeers, however, is a more refined balance of sweet. I could easily eat more because it's not nearly as rich or as heavy as a Snickers. I think this s due to the whipped marshmallow insides of it. And even better, you can get a dark chocolate one, making it even more bearable. Now, I know not everyone likes dark chocolate, but still, it's a good concept. Snickers, however, are very overbearing with their sweetness. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy them, but I don't recall a time I've eaten a Snickers and not gotten a stomach ache from how rich it was.

  To conclude this short segment, I'd like to mention that both Snickers and Three Musketeers are fairly good products, but if you have a more refined pallet, if you don't simply go about vacuuming up any crap that's edible, then the Three Musketeers is the right choice for you; between these two candy bars, that is.

Analyzing Shame Sentences

1. I never learned hate at home, or shame.” The type of sentence this is would not be in the SP sheet. The effect is a short, yet bold and rather to the point sentence ridiculing how society treats us. And I think that's exactly why the author chose to put this as he did, to show us how we aren't merely born with racism, shame, or discrimination; rather, we are taught these things.

2. “She’d walk down my street, and my brothers and sisters would yell, ‘Here comes Helene,” and I’d rub my tennis sneakers on the back of my pants and wish my hair wasn’t so nappy and the white folks’ shirt fit me better.” This sentence is a combination of SP4 and SP9. Here is where he shows some form of shame before he is truly shown it. his is minimal society shame, showing that because he is poor, and black, that he isn't good enough for the richer Helene Tucker. The author wrote this the way he did to show us how they react to people of a higher class than themselves. They treat her like royalty for being white and rich.

3. “And she had a daddy, and he had a good job. This is SP4. The effect is to show that he felt bad about having neither of those things, and it shows us once again that shame is only taught by example of others. Had everyone else had the same problem, there would be no reason for him to feel different. But for whatever reason, people see others in his situation as being shameful. Who decided what is and isn't shameful, anyway?

4. “The idiot’s seat, the troublemaker’s seat.” This would be a phrase. This is showing us what happens when someone is different, when they can't conform when they haven't been properly taught, and the teacher doesn't take the time to ask him why it is he doesn't know things, or why it is that he can't pay attention in class. This is used because the author wants us to see how ridiculous people can be when it comes to dealing with things they don't understand.

 5 sentences in shame using SP1

1. I had to go to school for that.
2. She was always clean and she was smart in school.
3. I think I went to school mostly to look at her.
4. By evening the ice melted to water for washing.
5.I'd drop money on her stoop late at night on my way back from shining shoes in the taverns.

Narrative Assignment

My name is Charles Timpy, and I chose my grandma Dorothy. I chose her because she seems to have had an interesting life, having been raised during The Great Depression, and I felt like I could really learn something from her. Also being the oldest person in my family, I felt that with age comes wisdom.

My first questions were about her early life, and what it was like.

1. Where did you spend the first few years of your childhood?
Until I was about 5 or 6 years old, I lived with my parents, brother, and sister in a fairly small (compared to todays) house, in the countryside of Oklahoma. It was around that age that we moved to Union, Oregon.
2. What was it like there?
In Oklahoma? It was nice. It was quiet and there weren’t many neighbors, so I would usually end up taking care of my siblings or playing with them. When we moved to Union there were more people nearby, so I got to play with kids my own age.
3. What was it like moving to Oregon?
It wasn’t so bad, although it took a week or two. But I’m here now, so I think we got here just fine.
4. What was it like growing up in The Great Depression?
Well, honestly I didn’t know at the time that we were poor, because everybody was. So having nothing to compare it to, it was just normal, because I hadn't experienced a lifestyle outside of the way that I had been living.

    Another set of questions I asked was about her early teens-20’s
5. When and where did you meet my grandpa?
I met your grandpa at a school assembly. Well, I didn’t actually MEET him there, but I saw him in the stands, and I thought he was handsome. Then, one day after school, he offered to walk me home and it kind of took off from there. I was a freshman, and he was a junior.
6. How old were you when you had my dad?
I was about 30 years old when I had him, and had moved to California after he was born.
7. What career did you have in mind when you were in high school?
I wanted to become a journalist. Luckily for me, that wasn’t very difficult, and that’s what I’d become.
8. What plans or dreams did you have in high school?
No, not really. I mean, outside of career thoughts, I didn’t really think at all about my future.
9. Do you regret anything in life?
Oh, no. You should never regret anything in life. Or you’ll have to live with those actions until you die, and so on from there.

And from there, I learned a few things about my ancestors, and where they came from. “Your great great grandpa, my grandpa, came here from Wales, and my grandma from Ireland. They both met in New York, when he was working at a deli. They got married and moved to Oklahoma. Your great great’s on your grandpa’s side, however, were from Oklahoma. Your grandpa’s grandma was a Native American (Cherokee) and her husband was from Britain, I believe. Both of our families, oddly enough, moved to Oregon together, and were actually quite close (If you can call 10 miles apart close neighbors)”

         “How have things changed since I was a young girl? Oh, where do I start.. More cars, more radios, rock and roll music, civil rights protests, WWII, Nuclear bombs, televisions, more cars, more electricity, more cars, Vietnam, Gulf War, Reagan, Nixon.. The list could go on and on. But mostly, it’s the times. The times have changed, and with them, the people. Maybe for better, maybe for worse. But, watching the news anymore, and seeing the youth out in public, it certainly makes me skeptical of a positive outcome. But until then, we shall have to wait and see.”

         From this brief interview with my grandma, I have certainly learned a lot. Many of us take for granted the wisdom of our elders. We don’t always realize that they were our age once, and that they actually had a life before we came along, and before our parents cam along as well. We take for granted that they have so much experience in dealing with a lot of problems that we have, and that they can help us. But usually by the time we realize that, they’re long gone. From this interview, I learned that my grandma had a very interesting life, and that I can learn

Oldest person I can remember as a kid..

  That would have to be my grandma or great uncle Bud. I remember her helping me plant green bean plants in my back yard. I also remember thanksgiving at my aunt's house, and sitting at the kids' table with my cousins. From my great uncle, I remember he used to take me to this little store and he'd always buy me circus peanuts. I also remember seeing him put salt on grapefruit, and green apples he'd pick in the yard.

What I learned today.. 9/27/2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/world/middleeast/un-says-syrian-refugee-numbers-are-surging.html?partner=rss&emc=rss


  In this article I learned that there is a civil war in Syria, and that it has been going on for most of this year. I also learned that the number of Syrians retreating into neighboring countries for safety and aid is likely to exceed 700,000 by the end of the year, according to the United Nations and humanitarian agencies who are trying to keep up with the large increase in numbers of refugees recently. According to this article, many of the surrounding countries are having to set up many camps to hold these people, and they're trying to raise $488 million dollars as a national relief fund for the trouble and money loss casued to the countries these refugees have fled to.

  

  

Roger Waters rebuilds Pink Floyd's "The Wall" (What I learned today 9/21/12)

Yeah, that's the article I read today. Straight from CBS news' website. It's all about how Roger Waters is recreating his amazing work with many projectors and a 3-story tall, 3 football field wide wall; it's essentially the only way to see The Wall. He also talks about why he left Pink Floyd because of control issues. With this concert, he's already had 9 back-to-back sold out shows, breaking The Rolling Stones' previous record.

 Article:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57437574/roger-waters-rebuilds-pink-floyds-the-wall/

Those who cast stones 9/19/2012

Honestly I can't say I've ever been judged (to my face) by my appearance. If someone has done that, they certainly never let me know. With the exception of middle school when I wore a leather jacket and people thought I was trying to be bad-ass. But I honestly just liked the jacket. That's the only thing I can recall along the lines of being judged by that.

A person's a person

  Who am I?

  Well, that's a bit broad of a question. Are you asking in terms of what my name is? If so, Charles. Are you asking my occupation? I have none. Or maybe you're asking my different hobbies; what I'm interested in. I suppose I'd say I enjoy the outdoors, unless it's too hot outside. I like biking, and fishing; and, though I've never been, I'm sure I'd like hunting as well. I also like spending time with my friends and people I care about, as anyone else does. Or maybe you're even daring to ask what kind of person I am. Unfortunately, I'm not entirely sure myself. But I think that's okay, because that's what the rest of my time here is for, right?