Unit 4 -1 , Sunghee Park

Intermediate English Writing (1) Monday 7-8

200801224 DIS

Park, Sunghee

 

 

Downloading and Sharing Music off the Internet

 

             It was nine years ago that I bought CD album lastly. It was a Christina Aguilera's second album. I had a CD player and collected albums a lot. Around that time, however, MP3 files started to be popular. Like others did, I began listening to music through MP3 player not through the CD player. MP3 files were usually easy to download for free, so people including me used to download and share off the Internet. Now, I pay a certain amount of money for music files because it has been strict to download and share the files, and free MP3 files usually have low quality. However, I believe it is not optional choice but people should not download and share music off the Internet for three reasons.

             First, to achieve someone's creation for free without permission is an obvious act of stealing. We consider use of someone's property without permission as theft. Though we cannot see or touch music itself, a work is one of the creator's properties. An artist took an effort to make it so we need to acknowledge his/her efforts and ownership. The owners allow people to share music if people pay a certain amount of money. Downloading and sharing music off the Internet, however, can be considered as stealing someone's property and discouraging artists from sales of the music. Therefore, it is morally not right and illegal act.

             Second, downloading and sharing music off the Internet can lower the quality of our culture. In order to develop the culture, we need to encourage people to have more creative activities. If people get enough rewards to their works, they would love to help promoting culture. In the situation where everyone can get music for free on the web, however, all people related to music industry such as singer, composer, and producer are not willing to make better music. After all, it affects the whole culture in a bad way and it might have effect on our country's competitiveness.

             Although some might insist that artists can earn enough money other than from sales of music itself, it is not true. Of course, there are many ways to earn money from music. For example, there are profits from concert, broadcast, and ringtone. It seems there are enough profits. The problem is, however, there are a lot more people who need to get money from the music. In music industry, there are many people related to music such as singers, band, composers, lyric writers, producers, recorders, and record stores. What if they cannot earn money from the main source of profits, sales of music? Downloading and sharing music off the Internet make their living worse.

             In summary, downloading and sharing music off the Internet are illegal, unhealthy to our culture and people's living. You might think it is not a big deal to download a MP3 file but it is a big deal if all people download and share a MP3 file for each. In addition, people do not download only one file. They repeat and repeat because it is beneficial to them. In the short term, it is right. In the long term, however, it cannot be right.

 

Unit 5-1

Intermediate English Writing (1) Monday 7-8

200801224 DIS

Park, Sunghee

 

 

Abilities I Possess for My Potential Career

 

          According to the recent study from Statistics Korea, South Korea's youth unemployment rates registered 9.5% in March. The figure reached almost 10%, and it means that there are over 0.4 million people who do not have a job. In the tragic situation, in order to get a job, we need to possess more unique and better abilities than others. Since I am a senior now, I have a limited time to learn or invest new abilities I do not have. So I tried to analyze by myself what I possess and what can be my advantage. I found three abilities that I can appeal to interviewers: initiative, global mind, and background knowledge.

             First of all, I have initiative and drive to accomplish what I planned to do. For example, when I was a president of student council in Division of International Studies, I planned and carried on many programs. One of the most devoted project was Summer English Camp. My university has volunteer activities for rural communities and students can get credits by doing the activities. Students usually help farm works. Students in my division, however, have complained that they want to help for them in a more productive way. So student council and I projected Summer English Camp, and it was designed to teach English to students in rural communities. To do so, I had contacted Chungcheongbuk-Do education office and school office in my university. After several attempts, I got permission and went to Chungcheongbuk-Do to teach English with credits.

             Second, I am a globalized person. In order to have a global mind, I have learned many languages because I think a language can be a good material to help understanding of the culture. The first motive that I love to learn English was Disney movie. When I was young, the voice and pronunciation of voice actors was really impressive and I wanted to imitate it. That was the start and I have been studying English to meet the world. The second language I have learned is Japanese. Since Japan is a neighbor country and has developed culture, I was eager to learn the language. So I started to study when I was eleven years old and it has been over ten years now. After that, I was curious about Chinese so I entered foreign language high school as a Chinese major. It was really interesting to learn Chinese and rapidly developing Chinese culture. Other than above three languages, I tried to learn many languages and cultures and I will.

Lastly, I am a generalist. Some might say that you are not unique because you do not have special or professional knowledge. However, I can say that I am a generalist and this is much more helpful to understand the problems and society. My major, international studies, provides various general courses such as economics, politics, law, management, and anthropology. By learning this diverse knowledge, I can understand the problems in many different views. I believe it makes me possess high adaptability to any fields. Also, generalists tend to have passion to be specialists so I would study hard and do my best as a member of community.

             In summary, I can get attention from interviewers because of my executive ability, globalized characteristic and diverse background knowledge. Although it would be better if I learn and invest to new abilities, I consider the three abilities as my assets and I'd like to improve it as much as I can. The most important thing that I did not mention is I got a job by appealing the three abilities and it means that I need to improve my abilities for my career not my potential career.

Unit 5-2

Intermediate English Writing (1) Monday 7-8

200801224 DIS

Park, Sunghee

 

 

Types of Friends I have

 

             I am a senior. It seems that I rarely met my friends after I became a senior. I was busy doing my work alone or I spent time with my boyfriend. One day, I realized that I did not contact my friends quite long, and called friends who are on my lists. After the callings were over, I felt that what we mainly talked about was considerably different among friends. I tried to think about what is the difference. Then I found the answer. My friends can be classified according to main interest we discuss.

             First, I have friends who mainly talk about our future. Recently, I meet this type of friends most frequently. When we meet each other, we usually share information about jobs and discuss how to prepare to get a job. I have never thought that I will talk about these boring topics with my friends until senior; however, job and study are the main interest I have these days. After meeting this type of friends, I feel it was a fruitful talk and I try to study hard. So I prefer to meet these helpful friends lately.

             Second, there are friends who really love to do gossip. Most of my university friends are sophomore and junior yet because they had leave of absence in order to do military service or study abroad. Since we have different problems in different situations, we usually talk not about ourselves but about others. They tell me what is going on in our department such as love affairs, conflictions, and troubles. The gossip is interesting and makes us feel closer. When I want to get out of the reality that I face, I meet them and chat all day long in order to relieve stress.

             The last type of friends usually shares the past memories. This type belongs to friends who I met in the past such as in elementary, middle and high school. Since we have no common now, we try to find the topic which can be shared. That is the childhood memories we have. We chat about what we did after skipping class, how sad when I broke up with my ex-boyfriend, and where we usually drop by after school. By having the chance to talk memories, I can look back on the past and it makes me feel refreshed. Even though we do not meet frequently, I try to make time with them at least twice a year.

In summary, I make appointments with my friends depends on what I want to talk about: future, gossip and memories. Though the main interests are various, I can feel relaxed through the meetings. All of them are important and precious friends to me. I hope our friendship last forever and they get satisfied with talks we shared as I got from them.

 

My friends in three groups

200700121 Yoonjin, Ko I can classify my friends roughly into three groups by the topics of small talks. Every single friend of mine is so unique and dramatic like I do, so I couldn't categorize them with their characteristics or types. However, I knew that I chose some certain topics to talk with specific groups of my friends. I'm not telling same stories to same friends or all of my friends. I do have specific topics to talk with specific friends: talks about past, present, and future.              First group is consisted with my four of high school friends. Most of them stayed with me in same dormitory throughout three years of high school, so I spent most of my school life with them. Of course, I had many other friends in high school years, but among them my four roommates were my best friends. Because we stayed every day and nights together during the whole three years in high school, we shared so many precious memories such as our school snack shop was quite far from our classroom, so we had to run to the store in 3 minutes and eat snacks in 4 minutes and come back in 3 minutes or we enjoyed short walk after we ate dinner while eating an ice-creams. Therefore, when I meet with these friends, we talk about mostly our past memories in high school. Those memories are so precious; some of them are actually really funny, young and dramatic as well.              Second group is with my friends in middle school. When I was a middle school student, I liked a boy in our school soccer team. He was really good at soccer, so he was even chosen for the team leader. I really liked him for three years, but all I could do was giving him my notes to help his study. My friends were my best supporters. They texted me when they found him around school like spies. They kept on eye on him instead of me. "He is playing with his teammates at the back of our school!" or "He just arrived at school snack store! Come here! Run!" Since I couldn't tell him that I liked him for more than three years, we are still keeping in touch as friends. My middle school friends were supporting me so eagerly and still do. Whenever I meet them, they gave me a lot of help to understand my boy friend's behavior or when I don't have a boy friend, they are also consulting me a lot. We sometimes talk about our past love stories, but mostly we preferred to talk about ongoing love stories because it is more dramatic.              Last group is my friends who talk about futures with me. I met them in my university and joined a club activity with them as well. Of course, we talk about our memories when we were freshmen and ongoing love stories these days. However, every talk ended up with our future plans, career plans, or dreams. They know me better than me about my strong points and weak points. So they help me write self-introduction papers to apply for jobs. We share our future plans to have more organized one. We are win-win partners to win the future. But sometimes we do fail. When I failed to get an internship, they cheered me up by telling me that it's the company loss.              I think I'm a very happy person with so many friends around me. I can share my past memories, consult my ongoing love stories, and also talk about future plans with my friends. I personally believe that I maintained a successful relationship with my friends and it sustained my life wholeheartedly. It's always good to have friends nearby, so I will continue to build my supportive friendship with them from now on as well.

201003252 Unit 4 Pg.114

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Unit 4 ( Pg. 114)

Reunite with Birth Parents

 

In America, adopted children can find out the identity of their birth parents. In other countries adopted children are not given such information about their parents. Usually the foster family prefers their adopted child to grow up without any enclosure of their birth parents. The foster parents might feel that understanding and knowing who their child's birth parents are might have a negative affect rather than a positive one. When a parent gives up their child for adoption, not all but in some cases leave their child in the care of others due to financial or in some cases addiction of substances. To prevent the child from enduring more pain, the where about of their birth parent s are kept discreet, but I agree with the adoption system in America. Allowing the child to get a chance to get to know who their birth parents are may have positive effects for both the birth parents, and for the adopted child.

                                   Firstly, the birth parents will be able to see how much love and care their child received when growing up. Giving the parents the opportunity to get to know the atmosphere and environment their child grew up in will give the parents the chance to appreciate and thank the foster parents. Also, reuniting with their child will give them an opportunity to tell the child the reasons why he or she was given up for adoption and have the decency to apologize or explain the process taken to put the child up for adoption. Through conversations parents can help their child work out any misunderstanding thus having a great positive effect on the child.

 

                  This leads me to the second reason, the benefits for the child. Most adopted children at some point in their adolescent years undergo an identity phase. This is when a child knows he or she has been adopted, grew up with such love and care from their foster parents, were supported financially, well educated, yet feel a sense of confusion and emptiness because of the uncertainty  their identity and always wonder who they are and where they came from. When the child is able to get the answers to all of their questions, on the long run, the child may find value and contentment in which they are.

                  If the child gets the chance to meet with his or her birth parent, it will be a moment where both the parent and the child can fill in any gaps they might have had over the years. When the child is given answers he or she can find more confidence in him or herself. Rather than having a resentful mind toward his or her parents, the child can go on with his or her life.

                 In conclusion, an adopted child should be given the choice to meet with their birth parents. By reuniting both the child and parent, it will allow the child to figure out his or her identity. The child will no longer have to go through years wondering who and where they came from and can have the choice to let the birth parents to be a part of their lives. Such reunion would be so heart felt and rewarding for both the birth parents and child.

 

201003252 Unit 4 Pg.103

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Unit 4 (Pg. 103)

Think Twice Before Downloading Music

 

Today with easy access to the internet more and more people are downloading music off the internet with free of charge. Internet music downloading seems to be the hot trend, it is simple and easy to do that even young children in elementary school are able to download in a click of a button. Even though downloading music is illegal, people continue to download without hesitation. Some people believe that it is only fair to sample music first before making purchases online. In this case people listen to songs they like and eventually do not make any purchase. Others say that downloading is just as stealing property that no one is given the right to steal from another without paying the price. Even though it may seem logical to listen to music before paying for it, I agree that music download is an act of stealing intellectual property.

 

Firstly, I believe that it is disrespectful to the people that have composed and written the music. Song writers patent their songs with copyright and make a profit through the sales of compact discs. It makes it difficult for them to make a living if people are illegally downloading music off the net. Aside from not being able to make substantial profit, it is downright insulting to have someone steal one's property and have it easily dispersed to others. Song writers and composers dedicate long hours to producing such music. In contrast, it takes less than 30 seconds for people to share the downloaded music with friends and even strangers. While people are at home relentlessly downloading and enjoying the music, the people who have produced the music are continually dedicating their time to put together a song, unfortunately at the time of release there is a feeding frenzy of internet downloader's trying to get first dibs of their finished music.

 

Secondly, it is simply unlawful. Songs are protected by copyright laws. This means that the law protects the work of artists. These laws are set so that the innovative artists will not have to suffer from financial loss. To protect the work of the artists in the United States the Copyright Act was created in 1976. Another is the Universal Copyright Convention. These laws stand so that piracy will go unnoticed. Including making copies of VHS tapes, making DVD's, and getting satellite signals without permission.

 

In conclusion, I do not find the actions of downloading off the internet to be acceptable. It takes much concentration and effort to produce good music, and it is disrespectful to download the property of song writers and composers without their consent. If more and more people start to listen to music through purchases of compact discs, people who produce the music can make a better living, and therefore be encouraged to produce even better music.

Two photographs of Cartier-Bresson

Unit 6, Pg.176, Cartier-Bresson, Yooran Kim

Cartier-Bresson's two photographs 200903992 Yooran Kim                         Even though you are on the street where there is a crowd of people, you can feel lonely. Even though you are on a bench watching a bird in the park where there is no one else, you may not feel lonely. But no one knows that you are lonely in the crowd, and everyone thinks you are lonely if you are alone at the park. The photographs, however, show viewers the essence they can easily miss, and the essence becomes visible when a photographer creates the composition that helps viewers read the mood in the photographs. I'd like to share two best-known photographs of Cartier-Bresson who is famous for capturing "a decisive moment" of subjects' actions or facial expressions after observing the subjects.             The first photograph portrays the world-famous writer and philosopher "Jean-Paul Sartre" with a pipe in his mouth, talking with literature critic Jean Paul Han. Sartre is wearing a heavy overcoat against cold and wearing black thick glasses. Lost in thought, he is standing on a bridge, and gazing beyond the camera. The silence between them makes us feel the weight of their thoughts. The grey background that looks moist absorbs him into environment. The angle is focused only on a main subject, and the foggy background that become much vague going farther, makes us concentrate on a subject and feel how deep and abstruse their thoughts are.               The second photograph portrays the world-famous actress "Marilyn Monroe." She is often cited as a pop and cultural icon as well as eminent American sex symbol with dumb blonde. However, Marilyn Monroe in this photo looks dignified without her luxurious lifestyle. She is sitting on a chair wearing a black dress, and staring to the direction where the camera is on the foreground. There is a crowd of people behind a partition, and they all look like her fans. Although Marilyn was on the focus in the center with soft light, the photograph is very clear overall. The up-and-down divided composition of this photograph separates people to up and to down, therefore, Monroe and other people look separate even though they are in the same area.               The photograph of "Jean-Paul Sartre" gives its full focus on a main subject in the center that leads viewers' eyes stay on him getting helped by the vague background. On the other hand, the photograph of "Marilyn Monroe" captures everything in the room but viewers are able to focus on a main subject by distinct color disposition getting helped by soft light that makes her glow. Even though Marilyn Monroe was made to sex symbol for a commercial purpose, viewers can find Marilyn Monroe in this picture as a normal beautiful woman who was photographed from warm-hearted point of view. The photograph of "Jean-Paul Sartre" gives us impression of cold background but the heat that comes from the intellectuals' passion. That's why viewers don't think Sartre looks lonely in this picture even with silence. On the other hand, in the photograph of "Marilyn Monroe," Marilyn is surrounded with people who give their interest on her, but she turns her eyes beyond the camera staring nothing. Her mysterious look with subtle facial expression makes viewers feel that she is lonely even with a crowd around her.             Cartier-Bresson did amazing work capturing a "decisive moment" from two subjects in his photographs. The one with "Sartre" has very quiet mood in the background that makes Sartre more active, while Monroe in the photograph of "Marilyn Monroe" is very still on the contrary to noisy-look like background. These two photographs are the perfect examples of that show viewers the essence of a subject that they can miss. The compositions of two photographs are slightly different, and the contrast between a subject and background did a wonderful job in extracting the "real truth" of decisive moment.

Hannah Kim - Helen Levitt's photograph

Two pictures from Helen Levitt and reaction

 

201000955 Hannah Kim

 

There is a famous American Photographer, Helen Levitt. She focused on only one theme during her all career, American back street and slum. This is very special and unusual for her because there are nearly no photographers who focus on only one theme and subject during their entire picturing career. She pictured many children in that area, playing with each other, eating and laughing. Not only that, she pictured many scenes of those places and adults, worrying about money problem or their sick children. Here, I will describe two different pictures from Helen Levitt and mention my impression.

 

The first picture that I will introduce is about a scene of tree and a building seemed to be destroyed. The main center of interest is a tree in the middle. There is a man who is leaning on the tree, who is expressed very small and unfocused. For the background, there is a destroyed building, which seems to be a house on the right side. Overall, the scene is not in bright mood, but rather serious and blue. The man near the tree seems to concern about something and worrying about that. The tree also stands in the middle of the photo and all alone. Therefore it makes the people who appreciate that photo feel loneliness and isolation. The photographer seems that she wanted to capture the difficulties the people who lived in the back street in the U.S. had.

 

The second picture has completely different atmosphere. There are three kids playing on the street. They are laughing with their mouths wide open. The whole air of the picture is very light and delight. Although the environment in the picture seems not to be good, rather poor, all the children in the picture enjoy their time very much. These children is the center of the interest and as the background, there is a house and cars on the road. These children seem to have hope for their future, not frustrated. Helen seems to want to say that the children always do not lose their dream and hope although their environment can be different.

 

These two pictures were pictured by the same photographer, therefore they have common theme. It is the lives of the people who live in the back street if the United States, who are in difficult money condition. They even seem to have hard time making money for their eating. However, there is also a difference between them. The first picture which is about a tree and a destroyed building has a depressed and serious mood. On the other hand, the children in the second picture make a bright and cheerful air. In addition, in the first picture, the object, tree is the main feature, although people are the main in the second one.

 

In conclusion, these two picture pictured by Helen Levitt deal with the same theme, the lives in the back street or slum in America. Their environment is unbelievably unclean and destroyed. Therefore, an adult in the picture is very depressed and worried. However, there seems to be also a hope because of the kids living there. They are always bright and know how to enjoy their own time there.

Two photos (200700121)

By Yoonjin, Ko   I chose two family pictures which were taken in different time period. First one is our family picture when we had my baby brother's first year birthday. In this picture, there is my father in front holding my baby brother on his knee. Next to him, there is my grandmother. She is sitting on her wheel chair because of her back problem, but she is wearing beautiful Hanbok because it's a very special day. Behind my grandmother, I am there wearing pink jacket. I curled my hair smoothly to be a nice sister for my baby brother. Behind my father, my mother and my sister are standing there while smiling big. We are all wearing the best clothes for the special day. I like this picture very much because it is the first picture we all took together with my grandmother. Whenever I see this picture, I remember the day vividly. It was a rainy, cloudy day. Cold windy was blowing hard, so my family was very worried about our guests whether they can make it on time or not. Thankfully, most of them came to celebrate my baby brother's birthday even though the weather of the day was horrible. We were so grateful.   Next picture I chose is the one when we went to JaeJu Island. I like this picture because it is an active picture. In this picture, my father is holding my sister up high and trying to throw her to the blue ocean. I'm laughing hard beside them because it was so much fun to see that my sister is scared. I think we were standing very close to the ocean and the weather was very windy. I can see the palm trees are leaning to one side. My mom took this picture so she is not there. I was an elementary school at that time because I see that I was wearing my favorite hair band when I used in elementary school. My sister is shouting and struggling not to fall down. Whenever I see this picture, I laugh. It was a happy moment of my life.

Unit 5, Pg 144, Animal classification, Yooran Kim

Animal classification 200903992 Yooran Kim               On your birthday, I hand you a gift-wrapped box for your birthday present, saying "it is an animal." What would you expect it be? Since there are millions of animals on Earth, it would be easier for you to guess if I give you some hints to categorize the animals. If I say this animal is limbless and lives in the water breathing with gills, you may guess it is a kind of fish. On the other hand, if I say this animal lays eggs and flies the sky with its wings, you may guess it is a kind of bird. Actually there are five types of animals I can get you on this Earth. But I think you may want a warm-blooded flurry animal for your birthday gift that is called a "mammal." Let me introduce three kinds of animals: mammals, birds, and reptiles.             To speak about mammals, mammals are the kind we are most familiar with. We human are members of mammal class, too. Mammals characterized by the possession of hair, warm blood, and ability to give birth to live young and produce milk. According to a study, there are about 4,000 kinds of mammals known on Earth. The smallest one is S.minutissimus that is a kind of Sorex, and the biggest one is Balaenoptera musculus whose length is 33m and weigh is 179t. Whales, cats, dogs, pigs, gorillas, elephants, rabbits, hamsters, tigers, and lions are mammals around us.             The next class I'd like to introduce is birds. As you can observe birds flying in the sky, they are feathered, and have wings. However, not every bird can fly. There are two types in bird class. The birds that can fly with wings and the other birds that cannot fly even with wings. Penguin is a good example of latter one. Although most bird species can fly, Penguins, ratities, and a number of diverse endemic island species cannot fly. Also, among every bird that has a beak, some birds can mock verbal sign of people do. Some species particularly songbirds and parrots are one of them, and they are popular as pets. Birds are very social animals, so they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs including cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators.             Reptiles are animals that you have seen in the movie "Jurassic Park." Breathing air, laying shelled eggs, and having skin covered in scales and/or scutes are all characteristics of reptiles. Reptiles are aclassically viewed as a cold-blooded. Through the history of evolution, the reptiles took a role of bridge between mammals and birds. Iguanas, Chameleons, Lizards, Snakes, and crocodiles are all in reptile class. Since their skin is covered with scales that keep moisture from leaking outside, they can inhabit dry area such as deserts. Actually modern reptiles inhabit every continent with the exception of Antarctica.             So far, I explained three classes of animals that are mammals, birds, and reptiles. Every animal on Earth is related each other but these three have helped a lot each other to evolve. Although there are distinct characteristics on each animal class, we can always find some common features between them. This classification teaches us that we human are a kind of mammals, and really helps us to feel that we are one of animals living on this Earth.

201003252 Unit 6 Two Photos

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Before and After Photo of Camera, Lights, and Action!

 

 

Depending on a situation people can easily be in a comfortable or anxious state of mind. A persons expressions are quite easily read in photos, whether they are feeling happy, sad, or even nervous. Here are two photographs taken in Cyber Hufs Media Center. The photos are taken of the leading actor and actress, they are playing roles of interracial dating and the drama and episodes that follow when being in a relationship. Both photographs are taken in the Cyber Hufs Media Center but the body language and the overall mood of the photos are quite different considering before and after the camera is rolling.

 

     In the first photo on the top, you can see the two frontal shot of the two faces which makes the features of the individual faces noticeable. The girl in the photo is facing the camera while smiling. If you look closely at her shoulders and arms, she seems a bit tense. Both arms are on her side with her fingers tips slightly arched up. Her feet are close together, and she is wearing high-heels. If you look closely, she is standing on top of a wooden square box which looks to be about four to five centimeters tall. This explains why her body is so stiff, she may just be trying to keep her balance on the wooden block. However, looking at her smile you can easily assume she is relaxed and having a good time.

 

In the same photo the man is also facing the camera and with his mouth slightly in an O shape, smiling. You can tell that he is a bit more comfortable than the woman by looking at his poise. The man has his left leg tucked slightly back and placed on the foot stool while his right leg is placed comfortably on the carpet. His torso is slightly hunched over and his left shoulder is a bit lifted and his left elbow is bent outward while his fist is curled on his hip. Although you may not be able to tell from just the photo alone, the picture was taken a minute before the camera running, so the actor and actress are at ease and a playful and childish side of them are captured on the photo because the camera isn't rolling just yet.

 

Unlike the first photo, both the actor and actress are facing away from the camera and looking at each other. The woman has her hands placed on her sides and a lot of tension on her shoulders to keep her balance on the wooden block. She is looking at the male actor in a disturbed expression. Since she is facing the actor only half of her face is seen on the picture. Even though her face is not entirely visible, it is not hard to figure out the feeling the woman has toward the man. Looking at her arched right brow, it is evident that she is angry with the man.

 

If the first photo showed a sense of comfort from the male actress, the mood of the second photo is completely different. The man is also facing the woman and the photo was taken of his left profile. In contrast to the first photo where he is smiling with his mouth slightly opened, he has his upper and lower lips glued together. He has his head slightly bent forward while his eyes are engaging on the woman. The actor's shoulder is placed down with tension as if he is scared and in trouble. His feet are no longer relaxed on the floor. Both legs tucked back on the foot stool. Lastly, both hands are placed on his lap while he holds a Korean rice wine on his lap.

 

Two photos show a completely different mood. In one we can see the contentment and emotions portrayed liberally. The other shows tension and seriousness of the actor and actress as they are filming. The two photographs shows the differences in emotion when people are at leisure and at work. By oberserving the two photos we can feel the drama and tensity of mood change before and after the camera is filming.

unit5-p.144 Leeyeonyoung

Options for Vacation Plan

The scent of summer vacation is in the air. Though there remains another hump, the final exam, our mind seems to running off to somewhere. How can we enjoy our summer vacation happily? What differences can we make through vacation? I think that three options may be considered for our summer vacation plan according to your focus.

           First, if you are interested in earning money, getting a job can be your choice. You may get a part-time job such as working at convenience store, coffee shop or restaurant. You may get paid 4500~ 5,000won per hour. Last summer vacation, I worked at a coffee shop as a part-time job and I ended up buying an airline ticket for Japan. If you want to earn more money, you may get a full-time job.

           Second, if you want to build up knowledge, there are lots of ways you can do during vacation. You may attend summer school to make up classes you failed. You may find out language institution to improve your language skill. Maybe you will take culture academy such as making floral arrangement or tea ceremony. I liked reading books in community library and it gave me trivial but interesting knowledge. Relaxed vacation allows you to do what you want to do.

           Finally, if you are willing to see the wide world, it is time to leave. You may plan overseas trip or travel around the country. Just by leaving your familiar environment, you encounter various people and events. Your experience will go on beyond your knowledge and your world will be expanded. A couple of years ago, when I went to Cambodia to see my friend, I met coexistence of poor and happiness. Through the trip, I realized how small the world that I live until now was.

           Depending on your focus such as money, knowledge, or experience, your vacation plan changes. Therefore, for your meaningful summer vacation, you need to ask yourself: how can you enjoy your vacation? What differences do you want to make? Then, follow your heart and have a nice vacation.  

p. 144 classification essay (Hannah Kim)

201000955 Hannah Kim

 

Categorizing Options for Vacation Plan

 

Many of us start our vacation by deciding where to go and planning how to spend time. In this situation, some of those categorize possible options for their vacation by the degree of their interest and others may categorize the options by places, such as sea or mountain. However, in my case, I categorize my travel option by kind of activities that I can do in the vacation place. To be specific, I write down all the possible or hope vacation places and for each of them I decide things that I can do such as eating or visiting or hiking.

 

To talk about the steps that I prepare my vacation and travel, firstly, I decide all the places that I want to visit and write them down. These places can be anywhere, from general concept such as sea or mountain to specific name of places such as Japan or Italy. Because this is the very first step of determining the destination of my travel or planning my vacation place, I note everywhere that come up to my mind without thinking about the difficulties visiting there. After thinking about all the places that I want to go, I start searching the place from several books and listening information from many people around me who traveled where I want to travel.

 

Then, next is thinking about the activities or programs which are representative where I want to have a vacation and travel. For example, in Japan many people go to pretty temples and hot springs. In Hungary Mozart Café is one of the most famous places and there many people say that all the people who visit that café should try Mozart cake, which is green peanut cream cake. So, when I think about all the activities or places that I can visit which are very popular, there are so many things that I can add in my future travel list. In my point of view thinking of these is great because I do not have to waste time finding interesting activities or visiting spots. In addition, if I do not do a research about the representative festivals or many different activities of certain place, I can find nothing in that short time, and then I have to stay there just doing or seeing normal things and activities such as the normal seen of many cities of amusement park.

 

Finally, I narrow the list of possible places and activities or place that worth visit in certain places. In this process, I weigh my degree of desire toward visiting some places. In the end, I choose just one or two places, and in some case as many places that I can handle during my travel or vacation as possible.

 

There can be of course many categorizing ways of planning the vacation and deciding the place to visit for travel. For example, there can be category divided by the degree of interest toward many travel place candidates. Also, people can categorize by the characteristics of spaces such as mountains or seas. However, I find these categories not so interesting but rather boring because it is not unique but too common way. When I categorize the places to visit by possible activities I can do or representative things which are unique for certain places, it would be memorable experience and remain as life time recollection.

Three abilities for my potential career.

By Yoonjin, Ko   I'm very much interested in marketing field, so I'm aiming to be a global marketer to sell products globally. To make my dreams come true, I believe that these three strong points will lead me to this lifetime career of myself.                First, languages skills, especially English ability is highly important and I'm quite confident with my English skills. Even though I have just only one year of studying abroad experience, I think I've maintained good English skills to communicate with foreigners in English. I got 980 score in TOEIC and Intermediate High level in OPIc which is very popular English speaking test. Also, I'm majoring in Japanese and I've studied Japanese more than 6 years. I can speak Japanese very well without studying abroad in Japan. When I first began to study Japanese in my high school, it was so much fun to learn new language. Japanese is very similar with Korean in grammar and I became to be fond of Japanese dramas and singers. I think that was the reason how I got the highest level of Japanese Language Proficiency Test in just two years of studying Japanese. I can learn new language relatively easily and that is my first strong point.                Second, analyzing skills, especially when I'm watching CFs, I'm trying to analyze each of CFs without even realizing doing so. I love to watch CFs which is not very common habit to others. When I watch CF, I find out its main point or meanings. I'm doing it without even knowing it, but it's a lot of fun to do. For example, LG air conditioner CF is with Tae Hwan, Park to fight with Yeon Ah, Kim. Recently, Yeon Jae, Son is with Tae Hwan, Park to promote LG's new air conditioner. Nobody around me understood or even was curious about Yeon Jae, Son, but I knew there must be some other reasons for Yeon Jae, Son to be in the CF. I found out the reason while I was watching the CF. She was for small, easy to move air conditioner which was a part of big air conditioner. Therefore, Tae Hwan, Park was for the big one and Yeon Jae, Son was for the small one. It's my habit to try to understand CF's main meanings and I think it is very useful feature to work as a marketer.                Lastly, I'm an active communicator. I'm good at public speaking especially, and I'm good at group discussion which is very important thing in work places to produce new marketing strategies. I prefer to take classes which are doing some presentations in class and I participate in it a lot. I like public speaking and I think my public speaking skills are becoming better and better every time. I make my presentation with 10-20-30 rule: 10 slides, in 20 minutes, with minimum font size 30. I got good grades in public speaking classes before, so I'm very confident with my public speaking skills.                These are the three strong points that I have for my future career. I will keep finding my new positive features from now on as well.

unit5-p.131 Leeyeonyoung

Becoming a Writer

 

           Few years ago, I read a comic book titled Piano no Mori which means the piano forest. It was a story about a little boy named Kai who is becoming a pianist. His playing was so innocent and beautiful that touched people’s mind. From the moment I read this book I knew that it was exactly what I want to do; I wanted to be like him who touches people’s mind with words. How could he become such a pianist? How can I become like him? To answer this questing, it will be helpful to compare his abilities with mine according to his growth curve.

           First, Kai was the one of the creative person enough to become an attractive pianist. Since he was very young, Kai have played a piano which thrown away in forest and piano was the only friend for him. Though he has never been taught piano, he liked piano and played it like a toy all the time. This innocent and joyful time might enable him to play unique and beautiful melodies. Like Kai, I have read books and scribbled something since I was young. I liked reading and writing both, and they were like playing with a toy. I just wrote something to be honest about my feeling. Because I never meant to show them other people, I could write them freely. This experience may enable me to write creative essays.

           Second, Kai had interpersonal skills to achieve his dreams. He asked help frankly when he hit a brick wall, and found a mentor who gives him caring advices. When Kai listened to Chopin’s The Little Dog Waltz, he was so eager to play it that he asked help a music teacher. Though Kai hate him at first, the desire to play the Chopin allowed him to ask help and the music teacher became his mentor. In my case, I prefer to try to find a solution by myself but I do not afraid of asking help when I really need it. In addition, thanks to my wandering experience gave me various kinds of friends, I have mentors who give advices and support me.

Finally, knowledge was the necessary complement of success. Though Kai got wonderful talent to play a song by ear, he had to study to understand composer’s mind. As a rough diamond should be polished to become a sparkling jewelry, even Kai, a gifted child, needed to study a piece of Chopin to play it right. Similarly, becoming a writer requires a wide knowledge of life, including linguistic knowledge. For example, if I wrote review of Lie to Me, I might search for a deception expert to give more concrete image. Of course, I cannot say that I have knowledge to become a good writer. However, I will be willing to study to make up my lack of knowledge.

By comparing Kai to me, I tried to answer two questions: how could he become a pianist who played a touching song and how can I become a writer who writes a touching story. In conclusion, creativity, interpersonal skills, and knowledge are the abilities that I may or should possess. If all these abilities are combined, chance to be a writer who touches people’s mind will be bigger.     

Unit 5, yooran Kim

Potentials I possess to be a writer 200903992 Yooran Kim   Since I was young, I have wanted to be numerous kinds of person. Just name it. I have been always busy to change my career from a president and a singer to a police officer and a stationery store owner. However, I've never changed nor given up to be one thing. It is a writer. I've always thought that I can have a second job as a writer. A Writer is not the kind of job that you need to be hired under the boss and do whatever you are told. Also no one can say exact skills a person needs to be a good writer. The qualities I will mention below are maybe subjective and not clear. But these are the qualities most of writers recommend for applicants to have. The most basic quality needed to be a good writer is to have an insight. Lots of writers say that the insight of a writer comes from various experiences of life and scars from them. I cannot say that I was the one who had been through all the cruel and tragic events of the life, but I'm pretty sure I had suffered from my own experience and had lots of chances to agonize over the ways of world. In fact, everyone in this world has one's own happiness and sadness. Special experiences may able to help one write something interesting, but no one can react in the same way and that is why I think the most important thing is what you experienced, but how you accepted and thought about it. The next basic quality needed to be a good writer is a keen observation. Writers never ignore or pass away what normal people just miss as they go by. It can be anything around us from things in your room to the today's news on TV. The reason why a keen observation is important is because that is what writers do. They sometimes break down the most normal and ordinary things to find out hidden meaning of it and shed new light on, so we could feel our lives and world in the different way. Basically, writers help people to retaste who and where they are, or what they are doing. That is the reason why people say we must read a lot of books to be a good person. My observation ability is not only for daily life but also for sentences. Whenever I read good sentences, I appreciate the beauty or sometimes desperation from them. I like to savor the moment. I think my being sensitive can be a good quality as a writer. The last quality to be a good writer is an ability to create words and sentences. This skill is very essential to make one to be a good writer. Even though you have most amazing materials to write about, and a keen observation to see through everything, without authentic words and characterful sentences, you cannot attract your readers. You should have your own identity in your writing. I think I have some ability to describe well because I've always liked reading books and I didn't have many chances to watch TV or movie since I was young. So far, I explained three basic and important skills to be a good writer. As I mentioned above, being a writer is little bit different comparing to other careers. It is pretty personal job so it doesn't need any TOEIC scores or teamwork. But because of that, because it is about one person brining his personal feeling out to the world with sophisticated words, it can be very hard to achieve without lots of practice and natural gift. Just like other careers, I must try really hard to be a good writer, especially the three qualities the most well-know writers recommended above.

Unit5, classification essay. Hannah Kim

The Things that I am Good at

201000955 Hannah Kim

 

Many jobs such as lawyers and interpreter, which many people wish to be, require many abilities. This include the ability to present one’s idea clearly and confidently, pronouncing it with perfect intonation. Because of this, what I learned since I was a little girl are the ability to express my opinion clearly and making a good eye contact.

 

Firstly, I learned how to express my opinion and thoughts clearly. This would be very beneficial for my career because all the works today are related to pursuading others. Then, the ability to express one’s opinion and idea clearly and confidently is one of the most important virtues. I learned how to speak confidently and clearly from many teachers. I informed of the skills of doing this, which includes clear prononciation, intonation and enough gestures with confidence. I practiced to deliver my discourse with adequate speed and gesture. Mant people who listened to my saying told me that it was great because they catched my main idea easily and they thought my speech was good enough to focus withought being irritated.

 

In addition, I also trained how to contact my eyes well when I give a speech to others and I believe this also would be a great merit for my future career. Many people would acknowledge that one of the most important things when giving a speech is to make a good enough eye contact. Audiances feel that it is boring when the speakers make no eye contact because they feel that they and speakers have to intraction and connection. This also lead to a lack of concentration to the speech. However, whenever I have a speech, I try to contact my eyes with all the people who listen to my discourse equally. This would make my audience focus on my speech well when I have a speech because of my work.

 

Actually, I put a tremendous amount of time and effort to get these abilities. Whenever I studied with my teachers in the past, all the teachers asked me to say clearly and confidently when I say in front of many people. Not only that, they also made me give confident and good enough eye contact. However, I had a difficulty with this because I am such a shy person. Many teachers scolded me for not being able to contact my eyes directly with others and I struggled to overcome this challenge. In the end, I became a little bit more comfortable to make direct eye contact. After all, I am very grateful for achieving these abilities but at that time, it was even painful.

 

In conclusion, I think my merits and strong points are the abilties to make a good eye contact and presenting my ideas clearly. Today, almost all the jobs, so-called professions, desired by many people ask their workers to have the ability of these two things. The reason is that the purpose for these jobs is to pursuade others and make them listen to my perspective. Therefore, these, my abilties to say confidently what I want to say and contact my eyes with audiences, I may be easier to pursuade the listeners and finally, the employers of mine who I will face in the future may feel this is great.

 

unit 4, Pg 114, Yooran Kim (200903992)

Key to work less and more leisure 200903992 Yooran Kim   'We buy more, but enjoy it less. More conveniences, but less time.             More experts, but more problems. More medicine, but less wellness. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, not life to years. More leisure, but less fun.' This is the excerpt from the poetry 'The paradox of our time in history' by Jeff Dixon. It shows how different we are now from the past. No one can deny that we now have more timesaving devices in our homes. So are we working less and having more fun? It makes our life convenient and better in many ways so that we can work less and have more leisure time. I guess most people would not want to work more than they have to even though they like what they do. Actually many people want to work less except few. If we have more time to spend for our selves and our families, the life would not be the same as it was. You will be able to find the reason you are in this world. But the problem is we're not really feeling that we work less and have more leisure time. Have you ever wondered why? Because using time is relative. Some people might say that people today are working harder and longer. I don't agree with that. The only reason they felt that way is because they take everything for granted. Now we have very many 'smart devices' that shorten the time we have to use to do the work. We take them for granted and manage our time based on that. This is causing the feeling that we have less time than we actually do. For example, we have a computer, so we can buy stuffs in online, or can send a card or e-mails to our friends. All those stuffs would have taken us so many time if we were in the past. You have write down your message on the letter, and you have go to the post office to mail it. To reply back, you have to wait several days until your letter arrives to your friend and her letter arrives to you back. But these days, you can just type and click. You can reply right back even few minutes later if your friend checked it. So you can send a lot of short e-mails that does not really necessary which you would have never done if you were in the past. But nowadays, you can even sue a person on the Internet. Cheaper and easier means you would do it a lot even though it's not necessary. People now and back then have same 24 hours. Again, I can't say we work harder than the people in the past. Maybe it is true that we do more work in quantity in shorter time.  Today we can go some place that would take 2 days for walk in one hour. We have  cars, airplanes, and lots of other vehicles. As time zone gets wider, our range of activity becomes wider, too. It means we can care more than we could in the past. It means we have to put more stuff in our plan, the list to do. Also, lots of fast interaction devices make us anticipate much faster respond. For example, there are few people who don't have a cell phone these days. Some studies show that over a half of students are addicted in cell phone and many people feel nervous if they don't have cell phone with them. You can get anything you want right now with a small thing in you hand. It certainly shortened your time to be wasted, but if you can't use it wisely, you can't enjoy the more time you've got from using the convenient devices. There were few examples I pointed about why people feel they work harder and longer even though they have timesaving devices. It is true that those time devices save our time, but we definitely have problems using them wisely and appreciating the time we've got more from using those devices. Those devices offer us more convenient life style and more time that we can use for leisure. It is important not to take them for grant and waste the time. Also if you avoid being addicted in fast interaction, so you could feel the moment you've got, you will be appreciate that you work less and have more leisure time.