Earthlings, what are to talking about?

Earthlings, what are to talking about?

By Jo Hyung Woo

      Earthlings, one of the most famous vegetarianism PR videos, persuades public to stop eating meats by revealing the violence of slaughterhouse. Such scenes like killing innocent animal by ripping off and cutting makes public strongly feel like being vegetarian. They try to reveal the violence of the slaughterhouse, to show how violently meats are produced. They argue that all human species would be vegetarian if the slaughterhouse was surrounded by transparent glasses. They mainly argue that humans are eating meats because they are unaware of what is going on in a slaughterhouse. They are also saying that animal’s right should be protected. It is an evident truth that the animal’s right should be guaranteed, and it is justice to argue for the animal’s right. Nevertheless, Earthling is conveying the importance of animal’s right in an inappropriate way. It is not the violence that we should be focusing on, but how human is abusing the hierarchy in our ecosystem.

    The dominant method of obstructing people from consuming meat is to show the violence of slaughtering. Furthermore, most of the vegetarians stop consuming meats because of this violence. However, violence should not be the main purpose for quitting carnivorous diet. If it is the violence that should be criticized, than another animals would also not be free from harsh criticism. For instance, hyena hunts more violently than we watch in Earthlings. Hyena munches brain of the prey even though it is alive. Sometimes, it starts munching the leg of the live prey which maximizes the violence and the pain that the prey would be suffering. Then, why is hyena free from criticism unlike human? There might be numerous reasons, but the main reason is that they are committing this violence for their survival. On the other hand, humans are being unnecessarily violent for their richness.

     Unlike other tribes, human species are in the top of the hierarchy. In the earth, humans have absolutely dominant over other species. To be specific, humans are free from the danger of being hunted by other species. Therefore, humans can hunt animals for their satisfaction even though they are full. This is why human’s violent act is being criticized. If human’s killed animals for their survival, who would be able to criticize this? Humans are violently killing innocent animals for delight not for their survival. This act should be criticized, and this is what Earthlings should have been focusing on. Showing violent scene may be effective way to persuade the public since all the scenes are sensational, but they are not conveying the essence of the phenomenon they are criticizing at.

     Moreover, the film is criticizing at the wrong subject. After watching the film, it is easy to recognize that the slaughterer is depicted as the most evil character that the video is criticizing at. On contrary, slaughterers are doing their job to maintain their basic standards of life, and the basis of the act of slaughtering is ultimately human’s infinite desire to full their stomach. So, the film should have focused on the other side. If Earthlings wanted to persuade people to become vegetarian, and save innocent animal, they should have analyzed the reason why humans are craving for excessive amount of meat. After analyzing the reason, they had to show that humans are unnecessarily being violent to innocent animal. If this has been successfully conveyed by people, people might have learned a lot more than an original film and it might have made people to think a lot about the animal’s right. Also, it could have suggested a solution for us. The original film, does not have an absolute solution instead of being a vegetarian. It is requiring too extreme solution. It might have improved the quality of film, if it suggested us to reduce our desire and the sacrifice that the innocent animals are making for our human species.

     Even though, the film is quite out of focus, still the film has its value since it made numerous people aware how violently meats are produced. This video has shown how human could be so violent, and by watching this video a lot of people became vegetarian which protected us from innocent animals suffering from extreme pain. Humans can consume meats since foods are necessary for survival, and not everyone can survive by consuming meats. However, reducing the  amount of meat consumed can be important for us to save the innocent lives of animal. If humans have not required enormous amount of meat, maybe a lot of animals might be able to be grown up in a fertile land, not in dirty slaughterhouse. Despite of the some problems in the film, it is still an excellent film that aware us from the inconvenient truth that we were ignoring.

    

                                                                                                  

Be Proud of Yourself!(personal anecdote essay1)

10b1

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 I was invited to Camp named CTY which was held in Luthern College, U.S., when I was 3^rd grade in Elementary school. Therefore I had to fly to L.A. alone in young age. Even though flight to L.A. might seem easy, flying 12hours alone in that age was very stressful to me. After 12hours of stressful flight I have finally arrived to Luthern college. I did not recognize that numerous hardships will be waiting in this moment. During the second day of camp, I had influenza by mistakenly eating noxious plants. I had three roommates, and all three of them were Jewish. They woke me up frequently in midnight since they were not allowed to turn on the lights in certain period of time for religious region. This made me more difficult to adapt to the twelve hours time difference, which made my disease aggravate. Moreover, I did not have friend to console me at that time. Thus, I was sick, could not adapt to the time difference and did not have friend. Not to mention that there was sports program, parties and numerous extracurricular activities, what I could only do was to study in the lecture since I was extremely sick and didn’t have friend.

 My Room Assistant has advised me to try to get along with my roommates when he recognized my situation. He told me that I was not capable of getting along with friends since I was feeling inferior compared to friends. Actually, I was feeling inferior since my friends were not only taller than me but also was good at sports. By following advice of my Room assistant I first started to get along with my roommates first. When I started conversation with them, they listened to me carefully and also asked me about Korean culture. Sharing culture allowed us to understand each other well which led me to become best friend with my roommate Ari. Since Ari really liked basketball, he asked me to play it together. I played basketball with Ari, and I naturally built relationship with other friends who played basketball. Thanks to Ari, I had a lot of friends which made camp enjoyable.

 The time passed so fast, so that the last day of the camp came so early. When I was saying farewell to friends, I thought that camp would have been more exciting if I made friends earlier. On the other hand, I could experience diverse cultures and I recognized the importance of self esteem. The camp’s purpose was to teach diverse subjects to students, but the camp presented me more valuable experience.

Monthly TOEFL Essay #1: Different way of saying

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     As George Santayana said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, introspection of past events is a crucial aspect of progression. Therefore people maintain some past rules that are helpful to society, and modify several laws which they regard unnecessary or harmful. Some systems which are proved to be utile, as a result, are succeeded until today. Remaining rules or life patterns are called tradition when they are indigenous. There are numerous traditions in my county Korea, and using honorific is one of it. An honorific is an expression with connotations conveying esteem. I would like other countries to adopt tradition of using honorific for three reasons: horrific enables citizens to maintain good social relationship, effective conversation and maintain the order of the society.

     To begin with, using honorific promotes social harmony. Using honorific shows respect to elderly and people in higher social status. Since most of the conflicts occur when people believe that their opinions are not respected, using honorific lowers the chance of conflict occurring. There are numerous situations when people’s opinions differ. When a person’s opinion is contradicted by other, one might feel uncomfortable. Sometimes this uncomfortable feeling is connected to conflict. However honorific mitigates this uncomfortable feeling since it ensures that a person is not looking down on others. As a result, using honorific stimulates amicable relationship.        

     Furthermore, using honorific allows one to effectively convey opinion. This is because using honorific shows respect and not using honorific shows friendliness. For instance, politicians use honorific in public announcement to show that they not only respect the audience but that they are serious. On the other hand, people sometimes intentionally does not use honorific. Close friends usually does not use honorific to show sense of closeness. This is because honorific is conventionally used in public place or to a person in higher social status. This also means that conversation without honorific is private and intimate. As the example shows, honorific allows one to effectively convey opinion by using it in different situations.

      Last but not least, honorific contributes to orderly society. When majority ignores the rank of the society, chaos occurs in the society. This is because the society requires leader and follower to effectively finish the major project. If project does not have a leader, it will consume a long time to allocate parts. Using honorific, however, stimulates people to maintain the rule of the society. When a person uses honorific to boss, it clearly shows that one not only respects boss but also one is on the lower rank. As a result, honorific prevents chaos of the society.

     In conclusion, I would like to introduce the custom of using honorific to foreigners because it helps to establish methodical, harmonic society and enables diverse expressions. Some people say that Korea should stop using honorific since it deters creativity and leads to excessively perfunctory society. As a matter of fact, honorific is Korea’s proud tradition which made people to call Korea, the country of courteous people in the East.

Introducing myself and my goals

      Hello, My name is Jo Hyung Woo who's attending in class 10b1. I'm a domestic student looking forward to major in math. I'm especially interested in projective geometry. My hobby is to play cello(I don't have a lot of chance to play it on KMLA), I have started playing it when I was 9years old so I have been playing it for a long time. Even though I have played it long time, I can't play it well since I didn't practice a lot. I actually have time to practice and play cello, but I spend most of my leisure time to play soccer with my friends. I am trying to use this free time to study in this semester, but I think this will be hard to move in practice lol.
      Since, I decided to study hard this semester, I will talk about I want to achieve listening to the lecture. By listening speaking&writing class I am looking forward to improve my writing skills in diverse ways. When I read my essay, I recognize that my sentence structures are monotonous. Moreover, I also have vocabulary problems while writing essay. This makes me to look over dictionary every time when I try to write an essay. Therefore by writing essays and rewriting the revised one, I want to write essay with diverse sentence structures. Furthermore, I will improve my vocabulary by memorizing some vocabulary books.

Vision Trip..... So Far!
First Day
We flew to San Francisco!! After that we had to take one more plane to go to Boston! 

Second Day

We visited two universities MIT and Harvard

In MIT we toured campus and also listened to Info Session.

MIT's motto was "mind in hand" and this university emphasized the importance of applying technology in the world. Something interesting about MIT was that there were 7~10%of student who major in humanity in this college!! Also, gender ratio was 50to 50!

Visit to MIT made me change to international field to domestic field!!

Moreover, MIT seemed to have rivalry(?) with Harvard that admission officer was satistfied when we told that we visited MIT before visiting Harvard. lol

This is a photo of Q&A time between graduates of KMLA and us. 

Harvard: Since I forgot to bring my cellphone I couldn't take lots of picture. There was campus tour with graduates. We could learn about Harvard and also the entire structure of the college

 This might be the most famous statue in Harvard which contains famous three lies.
That the model of the statue is not John Harvard himself and information in the statue is wrong and John Harvard is not the founder of Harvard University. Furthermore, there is a saying that if we rub the left shoe of the statue than one or descendant of one will be accepted to Harvard.

Second Day: We have visited Yale on the Second Day. 17th wavers liked the campus of the Yale best so far(I liked MIT the best..) We had campus tour with student attending Yale who is on the picture and he told that he was psychology major but also Pre Med. What he told as the biggest characteristic of Yale University was flexibility. He told that it is really easy to change major so that one could chase their dreams easily...

Third Day: We visited Columbia University. Since Columbia University was in New York, tour guides(KMLA graduates) have said that they could enjoy more than other universities. Since we just had 2hours I could not learn more about this university but it seemed like a great university.

Moreover we have watched broadway musical and visited timesquare and also went to Rock Feller building.

Everything is a Remix

IMITATION TEACHES CREATION.

What we see, listen, smell, touch, eat was a remix. In our society, copyright has been a hot issue after appearance of the internet. Therefore such bills like SOPA(Stop Online Piracy ACt) and PIPA(Protect IP ACT) has been also controversial between a lot of people. When I started to be interested in such copyright laws I first believed that intellectual property should be freely shared with the intervention of law. Since WWW was made for sharing information freely, and I still respect this purpose of WWW. Moreover, as the documentary shows, none of the information is original itself but is combination of other contexts. Thus, I thought that intellectual properties such as music files should be able to download freely. As documentary shows, musics like Led Zeppelin was a combination of diverse music, so I believed that I had right to download the music since the artists were also the one who benefits by using others properties to enhance quality of their music. This was how I though before preparing for presentation related to copyrights. In KMLA I had to make a presentation for Ms.Kang's Class. Since I was interested in copyrights I decided to make one related to piracy so I had a chance to research about copy rights. After research, my thought have changed significantly. It is not because I did not want give my power point free to other people, but after watching documentary showing how movie is made. A movie is made by numerous people and they put significant amount of effort on it. Of course movie created by these people are also a Remix. Furthermore, this remixing method might also not be original. However, the efforts they made are neither remix nor imitation. My older sister also have worked on KBS as supporting PD of program called 6시 내고향 and program is just a documentary of lives of people living in rural areas. This program is not genuine and also some places were introduced by other programs. Even though it might be a remix, the efforts my older sister and other producers made should be respected. Without their effort, remixed program would not exist. That's why now I believe intellectual property should be protected and respected. 

Do we need education of national identity?

     KMLA(Korea Minjok Leadership Academy) is famous for its unique educational system. Between numerous characteristics of KMLA, I want to write about KMLA's education of national identity.

     Why does KMLA emphasize national identity education? Most of people believe that there are mainly two reason that KMLA emphasizes national identity education. To begin with, unlike other ordinary high school students there are a lot of students applying for university abroad. Therefore, without national identity education they might lose ego identity. If the lose their ego identity while studying abroad, they will suffer from stress so KMLA educates students about national identity. Furthermore, when they ignore Korean culture when studying abroad, then KMLA would be criticized so that school's image can be damaged. 

     Secondly, KMLA is a Korea Minjok Leadership Academy. To lead Korea, one should be pride of being Korean. Since, KMLA's main purpose is to raise the leader of the nation, KMLA should grow leader with national identity. Moreover, the founder of KMLA lived in Japanese colonial period. During this period the founder, 최명재, have seen numerous Korean betraying the country and also experienced the importance of national leader. Therefore, KMLA searches for a global leader with national identity so national identity education is required in KMLA.

     Nevertheless, some people now say that national identity educations like 혼정, 아침기 should be optional, not necessary. Its because in global society excessive national identity education could lead to ultranationalism in global society. Moreover, necessary national identity education might also lead student to disregard other cultures. 

    So what do you think about national identity education. Even though it is needed by how should we educate national identity. Just 혼정, 아침기, national ceremony or just learn in our daily life?