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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Write a short essay describing how college life in the U.S. differs from college life in your home country.

There are many differences between college life in the U.S. and college life in Korea.

Firstly, two nations have different cultures. Students studying abroad should overcome this problem. They always have open mind about foreign country and try to understand the culture of another nation. Of course, students studying abroad also need to comprehend the culture of other nations because there are many students from various nations. In my case, I was surprised about the roles of road. When I go to school, walkers in U.S violate traffic regulations in front of a traffic light. Also almost all divers yield to pedestrians. This situation, especially the later, cannot be imaged in Korea. Students studying abroad should accept and understand a cultural life and level.

Secondly, Students studying abroad need to change study ways. There are different educational systems between Korea and U.S. For example, students in Korea are familiar with and prefer self-study. They only listen lectures from teachers, write memo, memorize at home, and prepare for an examination. However, U.S is not. All students inquire questions beside the mark and searching questions and teachers sincerely answer the questions. If a student inquires silly questions, other students will ridicule and teacher hit the students. , Students studying abroad, especially Korean students, should adapt to new circumstances.

Lastly, in Korea, people think that students who have great grades real students. Almost all students overstudy during all day and teacher often use coercive measures. Students in Korea are good at those systems. They should throw away such thoughts in U.S. They try to find abundant experience form routine life. For instance, many people are in school. They might have various thoughts from different environments. Students studying abroad can easily learn and understand the culture of other nations.

In conclusion, Students studying abroad always respect and they are active about all problems.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

review of bowling for Columbine

1. Bowling for Columbine is emotional and subjective.
2. This documentary is not organized.
3. Main topic is not clear.
4. Examples can adequately support its main topic and content
5. Consequently, this documentary is not a good film

The director might want to give warnings to citizens by showing reasons why American people possess guns, how many American people have guns, and how people easily come in contact with guns and ammunitions. He cannot provide to support his claims. Examples that he provides cannot adequately support the argument of documentary. Consequently, because main topic and content are unclear, he cannot deliver his arguments not convincing to audiences.

He gives example that is Columbine high school massacre to prove his clams. But this example misses the target. While this tragedy is focused on guns in documentary, the cause of this tragedy is not guns but school violence. Consequently, he fails to notice real causes to create this accident.
Also, first movie scenes that receive a gun from a bank by opening his account too generalize all situations. Maybe, other banks in other states might not present persons who open their financial records with guns. Although he wants to insist how easily people gain a gun by giving, it is not sufficient to prove his clam. However, K-Mart example is better than the example of the bank. That is way K-mart exists not a part of the state in U.S but the whole country. Also teenagers can readily purchase and contact guns and ammunitions, but banks are not. When teenagers open their accounts, who provide teenagers with guns and ammunitions. Nobody might bestow guns and ammunitions to them.
Lastly, he compares U.S with other nations such as Canada, German and Japan about guns accidents. Rarely happen accidents as guns in other nations. But this indication cannot bring up the level of security. Maybe, other nation might have the felonies of other types such murder as knifes. Even though Canadians do not lock their doors, this cannot show the feeling of safe satisfaction from criminal

In conclusion, this movie is not good film on the reasons mentioned. if he want to show proper claim, he show not general insistence but specific claim.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Bowling for Columbine

1. guns
2. Michigan
3. NRA
4. they are members of militia
5. because all people have gun, they also have gun to protect themselves
6. plastic bombing
7. violence is necessary to protect themselves
8. yes
9. this town is very safety and comfortable to raise their children.
10.safe room is have heavy door
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13.people can control their anger.
14.town was bombed by force
15.NRA
16.carton
17.school managements, parents, TV, Video Games, Society, Rock and Marilyn Manson
18.Marilyn Manson
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20. bowling class
21.Japan, German, China, French, Canada, U.K, Australia
22.1836
23.1871
24.scare, fear, and panic
25.two children
26. African-American
27. kids in the suburbs
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30.Sarnia – one Windsor – zero
31. Canada also happen criminal related to guns but it’s not true. Canada is very safe.
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37.this terror is used by arm’s applier to sell arms
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39.they bought ammunitions in K-Mart and open a press interview to blame selling ammunition in K-Mart
40. Charlton Heston
41. I know about ironic American society.
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43. where is K-mart. Just I want to confirm that k-mart sell it.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Education, bullying, and terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism is one of the violations that people are against the law. People who do not have information about terrorism confuse other violations, especially an assassination, with terrorism. Both terrorism and assassination often have same purposes and utilize same methods. Therefore, persons do not know their exact definition.
Some people say that the purpose of terror is that person or people, who have been trained to kill someone, send their massages or faith and rarely ask money to government and citizen in order to accomplish their own goals. Sometimes, it is practiced to disturb political intention. However, those factors cannot distinguish Terrorism from other violations.
There is a different point. Terrorism is that people, who have been trained to kill someone, kill anybody. For example, we can compare 11/9 incident with John Fitzgerald Kennedy incident. People say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy incident is assassination and 11/9 incident is terror. Two incidents have similar to purpose related to politics and people or person who have trained committed. Also someone supported them or him.
What is different?
Different point is “randomly” and “indiscriminately”
Only fixed person died in John Fitzgerald Kennedy incident.
However, many discretionary people that although a few people might have political effects, most people might do not have one died in 11/9 incident.

Education

Education
It is difficult to define education, because its definition is a wide scope. That’s because people think education can be accomplish with textbooks at school and students only can learn knowledge from teacher at school. Actually, people in Korea have believed it. However, Nowadays its awareness have been changed. People think that education can accomplish outside without textbooks.
For example, when I was child, teacher gave me homework related to lesson and I ought to study with textbooks, sitting on the chair and watching regular education programs during each vacation. But these day, students visit museum, concerts, and famous places during vacation. Even, students can obtain leave of absence and then go any places during a school term.
I think that education is that students learn about knowledge from textbook and feel various feelings through attending evens such as concerts, museums and ceremony.
Ultimately, educations is that people raise personality through the all those,

bullying
Nowadays, this word is no longer unfamiliar in society. The figures of committing bullying increasingly have increased and bullying has been serious problems in society. After all, this becomes one of the violations. Bullying does not simply mean that people are inflicted by physical power.
In any group, there is friction between people. Although there is physical power, such conflict is not bullying. After conflict between people, they could easily are familiar and get along with each other.
In my case, one of my friends hated me and we fought. After fighting, we seriously talked about opinion we have different and we became close to friend.
However, bullying is not. They inflict and hit person or people many times. Of course, they utilize physical power and insult a people by calling them a various abuse. Sometimes there is sexual abuse. People inflicted received mental and physical pains at the same time.

Friday, October 26, 2007

A Capacity for Toy

Play is very important to animals. (Playing might improve evolutionary functions and develop social, neurological, or physical capacities.)

Nowadays, many experts have tried to study about paying related to animals and new information is found by experts.

- New information 1 : some animals might show much interest in humans’ play (an elephant try to imitate children's swinging many time but it cannot do it)

- New information 2 : some animals might show deep interest in themselves’ play(Alaskan buffalo plays by themselves on ice)

- New information 3 : some animal might play alone, using objects(Komodo in a British zoo, alligator in Georgia, gorillas and chimpanzees use objects such as a shovel, artificial water falling and dolls during playing)

- New information 4 : using playing with objects develop to social play(When dolphin at an oceanarium play with a feather, the others joined in and then play with it each other. Also lions and beluga whales play each other, using objects.)

- New information 5 : some animals recognize rules through training.( Elephants and dolphins can understand game rules)

- New information 6 : some animals find playmates and enjoy games across the barrier of species( Dogs can play with other animals. Also they get along with humans)

Columbine High School Massacre

The fourth-deadliest school killing is occurred by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School massacre. This incident seems to be elaborately prepared by two people, who have various weapons such as two 9mm firearms and two 12-gauge shotguns, pipe bomb and semi-automatic carbine, record and wrote their plans and their massage. They attempted to begins shooting in cafeteria (afterward, they moved into library to kill people) Also while they shoot gun, they killed cruel methods. For example, when a person struggled down the steps towards the bottom of the staircase, Klebold walked up to him and shot him in the back at close range. They then threw bomb in the Library Hallway, whose way is used by two guys when entering into cafeteria, 52 students, 2 teachers, and 2 librarians were hiding under to computer desk. After two guys saw police evacuating students, they began to shoot to policeman, who returned fire. They continued to kill students under the computer desk. At this point, there is one argument about "Do you believe in God?" Each student have different opinions and it caused many debates as to whether the official investigation thoroughly assessed all possibilities. This brutal massacre ended at 11:42 a.m. After at 11: 42, two men wandered around, indiscriminately, aimlessly shooting. The shooters re-entered the library and they shot themselves. Finally, two guys not only killed 12 students and a teacher, but also wounded 23 others in this accident.

A great deal of debate occurred about the killers' motivation and whether anything could have prevented the crime. Also this incident caused people to discuss about gun control laws, the availability of firearms in the United States, and gun violence involving youths. In response to concerns over the causes of Columbine and other school massacres, many schools instituted new anti-bully policies as well as so-called "zero tolerance" approaches to weapons and threatening behavior.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

cause of school violence