Tina's Typical Tuesdays

  Madam Secretary: The Model Modern Woman Good morning and happy Tuesday! It appears that this will be my final blog article of July 2022, so almost a farewell to summer too, unfortunately. Luckily, I have just the perfect Quote of the Week for this time of the year: "Summertime is always the best of what might be." - Charles Bowden     F rom its pilot episode in 2014 to its series finale in 2019, Madam Secretary has captured the hearts and minds of innumerable viewers. Fans who have witnessed the rather unconventional State Department—and, spoiler alert, eventual White House—reign of Elizabeth McCord know that she doesn't operate like the "usual DC bureaucrat" (as so fondly put by her dear husband Professor Henry McCord); instead, Bess manages to maneuver the world of self-serving agendas and clay feet with a unique sort of moral grace. For instance, in spite of the usual (and more) party turbulence within DC, she opts to remain centrist, eventually convincing...

        "A Good Guy with a Gun Stops a Bad Guy with a Gun" — Debunked. Hello readers! Welcome back to yet another week of frustrated ranting about unnecessary problems in America—but other than that, I hope all of your summers have been as good as they can be. Without further ado, here's the Quote of the Week: "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein.      O ver the course of this generation, before today's youth even learnt what a syllable was, mass shootings have been a constant reminder of a plague that has found a nest in America's Constitution, a plague that officials and organisations across the country have recognised as a literal public health crisis. Still, day after day, continuous reports of (typically) young, unstable men with guns spraying bullets into public spaces, from schools/universities to grocery stores to the Las Vegas Strip, are re...

  We the People.     R oe v. Wade has been overturned. For many of my young readers, that sentence most likely did not have the mind-blowing, smack-in-the-face impact it had on older citizens, especially those who first witnessed the landmark case in 1973 in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that abortion rights are constitutionally—and therefore federally—protected under the 14th Amendment. Since that ruling, Roe v. Wade has protected women for nearly fifty years, women who chose to terminate their pregnancies because they had their bodies criminally violated, or were not equipped to raise a child, or simply did not want a child, among a plethora of all valid reasons. Of course, "pro-life" politicians and advocates chant about abortion being murder despite the fact that fetuses, unborn organisms , cannot think before twenty-seven weeks (approximately the length of two trimesters of a pregnancy, during which women could previously have a legal abortion). ...

     Hello TTT readers! I know it's been quite a while since I last posted an article, and even longer since I introduced myself as Tina CP, author of Tina's Typical Tuesdays. While a lot has changed, I'll start with the basics (but if you haven't read my initial "Get to Know the Writer," I'd recommend doing that first)! To begin, I am a thirteen year old, soon-to-be freshman from sunny California. My interests and passions, as listed in my previous about me article, have stayed relatively the same, but over the last two years, I've picked up a knack for writing poetry and have gotten more involved in movements I feel strongly about. I've also honed in on my skills as a leader this past year as my middle school's ASB President and as a California Association of Student Leaders (CASL) ambassador. In a matter of months, I'll also be beginning my journey outside of the Golden State as a part of Phillips Academy Andover's Class of 2026 (go ...

The Asian Hate in America + Awareness Good afternoon readers! I am back after a long hiatus, but I hope to start updating again. Anyhow, happy belated President's Day! Here's the Quote of the Week: "If you cannot be a poet, be the poem." - David Carradine (This quote is one of my favourites! Leave what you think it means in the comments :)) W hen the COVID-19 pandemic first arose during March 2020, several caucasian Americans began to dub the coronavirus as the "China Virus" or the "Wuhan Virus," including then president Donald Trump. This evidently discriminating moniker began to spread throughout America and made it to the ears of white supremacists and anti-Asian racists alike. They blamed Asians (specifically Asian-Americans whose ethnicity were Chinese) for the initiation of the global pandemic and its effects on the US. Many other politicians and significant government officials had also spoken about Asians and people of Asian descent in a co...

                                                                                                 Affirmations Good afternoon reader! I sincerely apologise for having not posted in nearly one month, mostly due in part to further schoolwork and an increasingly busy schedule, but I am hoping to get back on track soon. Please enjoy this week's post, and here's the Quote of the Week: "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt We have all been told before to believe in ourselves, despite whatever misfortunes that may plague us. But what we have not often been told is  how  to begin on that journey of knowing your self worth and what you can do. One of the most helpful methods ...