Argument

Arguing can be good or bad depending on who you are arguing with. Say you're arguing with your girlfriend or boyfriend, this would be bad because they is a chance of a breakup if things escalate to much. Another situation it could be bad would be arguing with an authority figure such as a police officer. He has the power to arrest you, therefore making him made probably would not be a good idea. On the other had if someone was about to go to trial they might want to hire a good arguer. A lawyer basically has a degree in arguing. He gets paid to win arguments. Their arguments are a bit more intellectual than however than the whole he took my pencil, no i didn't kind of thing. I'm not sure what type of arguments to expect in 1020. Whether they are going to be arguments in which you have to defend all opinions and/or facts or if you pick a side, draw the line, and start bashing on all other opinions. Choosing one side is a little bit harder because that limits the number of sources that you may be able to find. Also your paper has the possibility to become a rant that just goes on and on without any real perspective. On the other hand is the whole presenting all sides of the argument and allowing the reader to choose which side they agree with.

Point of view of the last tree standing in the forest

Oh my lord! I'm next! They already got Johnny and they're coming for me next. Maybe if I try not to sway at all they won't notice me. Lah lah la lah, ah its not working they're still coming. Gah look at the size of that thing. It's huge. I can't possibly stand up to that. They're gonna plow right over me. Wait what's that for why are they cranking it up. Hey don't you come any closer! I know I'll drop something on him. HMMMM what do I got? Dang-it why'd I have to be a acorn tree? An acorn ain't gonna do anything. Why couldn't I have been a coconut tree? Now there's a big nut. I wish I could drop one of those on them right now. So let me see. Hey you! yeah you over there. I'm talking to the squirrel right there. Go bite that man. You got rabbees? Darn oh well you'll have to do.

Why am I Here

Why am I here? Why am I in this class? This class is pointless to me. I already know the stuff he is teaching. I learned all of this in the eleventh grade. Believe it or not that wasn't that long ago. I think I'm not going to go there today. I mean when you leave early everyday and still make mid to high nineties on all the test, I think it's okay to miss a few days every now and again. By the way I'm talking about math. More specifically Pre-Calculus. I hate that class with a passion. I think when I go I actually am loosing some of the knowledge I previously learned about Pre-Calculus. I like that knowledge. When I learned Pre-Cal the first time, I had a great teacher who taught me how to do everything the easy way and not have to go through all the boring tedious steps that take up too much paper and would kill hundreds of trees throughout your college career. The teacher who I have now teaches everything by the book. He goes through every single step and it bores me to death. I mean the class is already almost two hours long and it was suppose to be longer then that, which I do thank the teacher for that. But I get so bored sitting there day after day. I took all the way up to material covered in a Calculus II college course include integrals. But I'm loosing that knowledge as I sit in Pre-Cal day after day. I don't know why they even stuck me in that class. I scored a 25 on the math section of my ACT. But the only reason I didn't receive college credit for high school Calculus was because my teacher was not AP certified.

Thanksgiving

My Thanksgiving routine used to be rather well routine but after recent developments in my family, we are adapting to new family traditions. We would have usually had Thanksgiving at my Papa's house but unfortunately we can no longer do that. Therefore i imagine Thanksgiving will be at my house this year. The only people there will probably be my brother, my mother, and my Papa. But that's perfectly fine with me because that means more food for us. We used to have pork tenderloin that my Papa cooked on the grill, a Honey Baked Ham, turkey, green beans, some type of casserole of course, sweet potatoes, and then a countless number of different desserts. This year I am not exactly sure what to expect for lunch/dinner on the day but I do know that we will be eating that meal for the next week because of leftovers and because my ma probably won't cook for a whole week after that day. But I imagine we'll have either turkey or ham or maybe both. By the way I hope my friend Coop saves me some of his dad's deep fried turkey. That stuff is like crack on a plate. No really he makes the best turkey I've ever had. We'll probably end up watching the Macy's Thanksgiving parade even though it is boring as hell. No really parade's are only fun when you are there and they are throwing stuff to you. Other than that what is the point of watching them. If I wanted to see Snoopy trying to take out some tall building I'd watch the cartoon. I'm sure there is an episode similar. And honestly I think that they use mostly the same floats every year. Really how long has Snoopy been in that parade.

Who would you save

Who or what would you save? I agree with some points that 2012 makes. There is only limited space and supplies on the ship and only a select number of people can go. In a similar way to Noah and his ark. Noah only took his family and not try to save the entire world. And the whole thing about spending a billion dollars to get on the ship and then the government trying to say that these people were specifically selected because of their gene pool. Why did people even have to spend money to get on the ship? The world is coming to an end!!! Money is no longer required. What would the money be based on? So the question remains who do you save: people, animals or art? Lets start with art. Art can be well documented and all the files can be saved on like a flashdrive no bigger than your thumb. So that throws two ton statues off the ship. Going on to animals. Only save the animals used for your food chain. Like we eat pig, cow, chicken, and fish. Save only those animals and what they eat. I mean do we really eat say a mongoose? That saves a ton of space. Finally people. I say you let natural selection decide or you actually go with the smartest and strongest gene pools to wipe out disease and abnormalities. This would be the correct way to go about things.

I use to think...

I use to think when i was little that my floor was actually water. You see we had blue carpet and in my imagination that meant it was water. So whenever i would lay down to go to sleep at night i never wanted to have my feet hanging off the bed. Allow my to elaborate on that because i know it sounds a little weird. I think when i was younger i watch a lot of pirate movies and that combined with watching goosebumps on TV, in my mind i believed if my feet hung off the bed that a pirate would sail up and cut them off and I of course did not want to lose my feet. I mean would you want a pirate to cut off your feet? I think it was a rational fear because in my existing schemata at the time blue represent water and my carpet was blue. Pirates were mean individuals who carried swords so they could cut stuff. That is how this fear manifested itself. Also when I was little my brother and I use to pretend that the carpet was like a shark infested ocean and if you walked on it you would get eaten. That's understandable right? We use to watch shark week every year so we liked sharks, but we also new they could kill us: fun times. So the idea of the game was that you could not touch the blue carpet. Therefore you had to jump from the couch to chair or on the pillows or the table. (Parents love this game) But I think if you did get in the water you had like the count of three or something like that. My brother and I invented a lot of different games and that was just one of them.

Reevaluation

Lets reevaluate the system of events leading up to the rabbit situation and determine how the problems that occurred could have been prevented. Let us start by stating it's simply just not a good idea to allow my brother to go hunting at five in the morning after working a twelve hour shift. I'd have to say that's a pretty good place to start. In a true redneck manner my brother and manager decided to climb in a truck and ride around the property with a shotgun loaded with bird shot hunting rabbits. Here's where the situation goes wrong: at the beginning. It is five in the morning and they are both extremely tired. They knew right then and there that they would not clean anything that early in the morning. Second mistake: throwing the rabbit in the beer cooler. The key word in this sentence is "cooler." A cooler is meant to cool and preserve already cooked food. A freezer or ice would have been the correct form of preservation needed for the situation. Not to mention, wild dead animals, or dead animals all together, should not be placed in the same container as drinks. The FDA would have a heart attack after witnessing a situation like this. The final mistake occurred when the rabbit was left in this cooler for eighteen hours allowing it to experience rigor mortis.

How to....

How to skin a rabbit.
No I'm not some sick individual who likes to hurt small animals. I learned this past weekend how to skin a rabbit because my brother and manager went hunting at like five in the morning one night after they got off work. However, instead of skinning it right then and there, they put it in a the beer cooler, not freezer, but cooler. This right here is not how to start off cleaning/skinning a rabbit, and I'll tell you why. So after the rabbit had sat in the "cooler" for almost eighteen hours, they decided they were going to let me skin it because nobody else wanted to. By the way, they had named the rabbit Bugs to add to the rather creepiness of the situation. So to start off, do not leave anything dead in a cooler for any long period of time. Allow me to provide some insight to why. Dead animals of all kinds develop rigor mortis. Rigor is when the animal or whatever stiffens up. I'm sure you have heard this term on like CSI or something, if not you should watch more TV. When rigor mortis occurs the meat is no longer any good. It will be hard and chewy rather than tender. Anyways to skin the rabbit: make an incision around the neck and simply pull the fur back in a similar fashion as a banana, make another incision around the stomach area and remove insides. That's pretty much it. Except when you leave a rabbit sitting out for eighteen hours and don't listen to someone who's trying to tell you the meat is bad, you simply throw the rabbit in the fire to prevent it from lying around uneaten to stink up the property.

Cause and Effect

The cause for me coming to AUM was mainly because i received a full scholarship. Also AUM is in my home town and it was convenient to come here. My brother is already at AUM, so if i need help with anything chances are that he already knows how to do it. And he helps me a pretty good bit. AUM is also right across the street from my old school, which no longer exists in that location, Taylor Road Academy. I already have a few friends that go to AUM so that made the decision easier. One of my friends lives down the street from the school, therefore i can simply go to his house in between classes. My job is also right down the road from AUM, Publix. So anytime I have to go to work after school its a quick little drive.
The effect of going to AUM is that i am able to major in what i want. They offer a pre-engineering program which allows me to get a degree in mathematics and then transfer to Auburn to get a degree in engineering. I also met a lot of new people at AUM including my girlfriend. My friend who lives down the street from the school introduced us. So that was a pretty good effect. Another effect would be I save a great deal of gas. If I had gone to say Troy or Montevallo and still tried to stay at home that would be multiple tanks of gas a week.

Chinese Food Smackdown

Hands down everyone knows that Eastdale mall is the best place to go when it comes to Chinese food. Any of the places in the mall: Malibu Grill, or the actual Chinese place. Its like the only type of restaurant in the mall and they all compete to give you free samples. The only other Chinese restaurant I eat at is China Wok over by the Publix at Taylor Junction. There food is okay but its not as great as the mall. However, they do have a whole lot more to choose from and their food is catered to each order. It doesn't sit in a buffet style serving area all day. Their fried rice doesn't taste very good to me, but that is only because of the onions in it. Luckily, there is an easy solution to this. I just get white rice. The best honey chicken you can get is at the mall, but if you want a lot of food, go to China Wok. Their General Tso's chicken is really good. Or there bourbon chicken is good as well. China Wok is also more accessible than the mall too. It is in the same parking lot as the Publix I work in so I can just walk over when I'm on break. The lady that works there is really nice as well. She doesn't try to shove free samples down your throat. However you could probably make a full meal out of all the free samples at the mall. So therefore if you are looking for taste and probably a chance to get sick, go to the mall. But for a friendly environment with decent food, go with China Wok