Blog 39

Trick or Treat!!! It is Halloween!!!^^ It is a day for the kids to get candies and chocolates from adults. For the OSU student, while they are not kids anymore, I do not know they get the candies like the kids~~! For me, I only had Halloween once in my life because I was in Korea most of the time and we do not celebrate Halloween in Korea. However, it was really exciting to get the candies and chocolates with my friends and eat them. I cannot forget the day, running and smiling with my friends. Some adults did not give us the candies unexpectedly. However, we did not treat them badly because of not having the candies or chocolates. I guess “Trick or Treat” became a tradition and kids are not really treat adults because of not giving them the candies. Though, it is adult’s duty to purchase the candies and chocolates before Halloween and prepare to give it to kids. Also, for the kids, they should not eat all of the candies they got all at once. They may got toothache, which I got……ㅠㅠ. I hope Korea celebrates Halloween too, but it is now almost impossible to celebrate like U.S. does. I think there are Halloween parties in OSU today. I do not know I will participate the party or not, but I hope it is very exciting. Maybe I just visit the party and have some drinks!!^^ I hope you guys enjoy Halloween and have a great weekend!!

Blog 38

After finishing all my midterms and papers, I was going to rest for a whole day. However, something made me not to rest for a whole day, which is the BLOG. OH MY GOD!!! Why I have to do this thing in such a day like Saturday of the Midterm week??!!! I was asking god “Why are you doing this to me??” I think it is because he loves me too much! He can take care of the others for today and I want to take a break!! However, I woke up and I am writing by Blog 38 right now…ㅠㅠ There is nothing to write for today’s blog. My brain changed into a rock. And with my rock head, it is almost impossible to write 250 words for today’s blog. I guess everyone in our class think 250 words blog everyday is too much!!! While I put sprite into the fridge, I am out of time because I have to finish my blog before my sprite become ice!! I do not even know what I am writing about right now. I hope our clever teacher Ms. Chambers understands about my situation today. And I only reached 200 words right now… What should I write about remaining 50 words?? I asked my friend about it and he said “Shut Up!” and I said “OK.” So, I have to write something about ‘Shut Up.’ However while it is a bad word, it is not good to write a blog about it. And while I was trying to solve about this problem, I reached 250 word and more!!! I am so happy to finish my blog!! Thank You and have a good weekend!!!^^

Blog 37

For this blog, I am going to write about the people in North Korea who want to leave their country. As people in America know, North Korea has socialism and because of that people in North Korea want to escape from their country. There are many reason North Koreans to escape North Korea by crossing border. Main reasons are food shortage and human right violation. First, extreme poverty within the North Korea in general, and food shortage in particular, appear to have a significant impact on movement across border into China. North Korea already began to experience food shortage since early 1990s. North Korea had received economic benefits from the communist bloc but they couldn’t receive any more after collapse of Soviet Union. Disastrous floods and famine caused death of 600,000 North Koreans. It was 5 to 10% of North Korea’s population. Second, human rights are extremely abused by North Korea government for many years. For example, the North Korea government is denying political, civil and religious liberties of North Koreans. All of them are ruled by severe law and punishment of the North Korea government. Another example is existence of the severe concentration camp like hell. Estimated 150,000 to 200,000 inmates, including political prisoners are imprisoned there. According to witness of survivors and escapees, condition of the camp is very harsh and political prisoners can’t survive. After I heard this sad news about North Korea, I hoped they can at least come to South Korea and have their life with people in South Korea who can speak the same language and live much better than the North side.

Blog 36

When I was in elementary school in Korea, during summer break, I went to the leadership camp where it helps children to gain leadership. When I first heard from my parents that I have to go to the leadership camp, I was not happy because I wanted to play with my friends on vacation and do not want to do some kind of study. For the first few days in the camp, it was hard to listen to what teacher is talking about and try to play with nearby friends. However, after first few days, I was getting bored with playing with friends. Then I tried to listen to the teacher. While the teacher is teaching to the little kids, he tried to make the speech funny as much as possible. The teacher mentioned that it is important to gain leadership from when we are young. When we become adults, then the leadership we are having will help us to live well in our society. He also mentioned that when we become leaders in society later, it is important to take care of the other people and try to work for them. After the speech, we practiced to have the leadership. We had to make the speech ourselves and talked about it in front of everyone. I was not sure it really helped us at that time. However, I think at least it calmed me down when I talk in front of many people. So, I think even though the kids do not like the leadership camp and just want to play, I recommend to parent that their children need to gain leadership from when they are young.

Blog 35

I read an article about people getting fat. In the part where it mentioned school is worse than the fast food places, I was thinking how can the place like school, that always has to give good things to the students can be worse than fast food restaurants. The article said that 60% of schools do not offer fresh foods. Of course the children will like the fast foods served in the school. However, while it is unhealthy, the schools need to give the children the fresh foods rather than what the children want. Also, the article describes that 83% of high schools and 67% of middle school now have contracts with a soft drink manufacturer. And most of the schools get benefit by offering the soft drink. I think soft drink is worse than the fast foods. While children keep drink the soft drink, it is hard to drink water because their tongue got adapted to the soft drink. Then, they are going to keep drinking the soft drink and eat the fast foods with them which is very unhealthy for little kids. I know that the schools want to get profit as much as they can. However, is it really good to get profit by making the children unhealthy? They should know what is really important for the children for the first place. For this kind of situation, we have to make a rule that the schools should not offer the fast foods and soft drinks to the children. Children are the most important people who will grow up and make the country stronger. So, it is adult’s work to keep the children healthy.

Blog 34

The topic I am going to write about my Common Place paper is about “Is it okay for the leaders to sacrifice their members to manage the organization?” Today, there are leaders who have many employees and have to deal with many problems with them. While they are dealing with many problems, there are times when someone gets damage by make the work success. In big and small organization, almost all of them have some troubles while managing. It is good if all of the members are happy by dealing with the problems. However, most of the time, there are people who do not like the situations they are facing. For example, people think Barak Obama, the president of United States, is a person who represents the whole country. People trust him and agree about what he is doing. While the president is the leader of the whole country, he should take care of the important works. So, while he has to think about the bigger problems, not everyone will be satisfied with what he is doing. However, if he think about everyone’s arguments, then it is impossible to work as a president of a country that has more than 300 million people. For this way, it is not like someone is sacrificing for the leader. However, the things just do not go as what they want. I was wondering is it really okay that at least some people should get damage by working for their organization. Although the leader did not mean to do that, the members have dissatisfaction with it. I hope leaders know about this problem and deal with them for the better situation.

Blog 33

For this blog, I am going to write about the Evolution of human. Humans were evolving for a long time and reach today’s form. And people are wondering about “Are we still evolving?” We have to think about the meaning of Evolution. Evolution is the changing of characteristics that fit to the certain environment. In the past, there were no TV, cars, computer, etc. Humans had to move themselves and hunt animals to survive. So, brain evolved to make the tools and body evolved to use them. And while humans evolve, they form a comfortable environment to survive. Today, we are living in very comfortable circumstances. By these kinds of circumstances, humans might not need Evolution. However, Evolution does not stop even if people want to stop it. Comfortable environment does not mean humans stop their evolution. While it is too comfortable, humans do not move as they did before and rely on the tools. Evolution occurs in this situation. People are getting fat and lose their exercise capacity. Also, while we have air conditioner which controls the temperature, humans may lose their furs which cause them to bear the changes in temperature. Moreover, in the future, we may have only one finger because people may be doing everything by clicking buttons of controller. We can call this an Evolution, but also call this Atrophy. So, humans are still evolving today by losing their abilities to do their works. If humans want not to evolve in this way, they should not feel comfortable about the situation they are having and try to work to evolve for the better ways.

Blog 32

I’m going to write about the people who believe religion and people who believe science. Many people believe in religion. Almost of civil wars in the world arose from conflict between religions. Religion is very important like this. People usually try to feel rest in their mind through religion. Moreover, people before Modern Ages believe in religion passionately than now. They thought that God created human. However, an English naturalist, Charles Darwin wrote a book “On the Origin of Species” This book included his opinion which human is not created by God. Human has evolved themselves from monkey. Of course, many religionists criticized him. One pedometer newspaper at that time put a picture which drew Darwin as monkey. When he died, he said that On the Origin of Species was wrong. However, it was not his right mind. He had to say inevitably because he was common naturalist who couldn’t stand against powerful religious world. Although his claim was criticized at that time, it started to be accepted and learned by many people since modern ages began. Even common people who don’t have interest on science know that human has evolved from monkey. However, strict religionists still don’t agree his claim. They believe that human was created by God. As a result, religionists often conflict with scientists. This conflict still continued. What is the method to solve this conflict? Religion is very important which can’t be touched easily. People have depended on religion from a very long time ago. It’s not easy to change their sense of value. Scientist and religionist should have more meetings than now. Of course, the first time is very difficult. However, if they talk slowly and carefully, they will find answer to understand each other. Any problems are not solved without talking. Scientists have to show evidence which human has evolved from a long time ago and religionists have to make scientist don’t forget existence of God through meeting. I also agree that if people forget existence of God, it also causes trouble. Their role is to control faults of each side.

Blog 31

Today on my blog, I am going to write about my thinking about the balance of society in Korea. In Korea, boys in my age are divided into two different groups: boys who have a girl friend and who do not. The boys in the group who do not have a girlfriend are arguing why they do not have a girlfriend. They excuse and console themselves by they do not need a girlfriend and they are only enjoying the free time. However, the worse thing is some of the people who have a girlfriend are talking to their girlfriend with oily voice in front of the people who do not have a girlfriend. So, people who do not have a girlfriend are blaming the people who have a girlfriend and once again crying about not having a girlfriend. Then, they are blaming their parents by not giving them the abilities to get the girlfriend and arguing that our society is unfair. However, I think it is fair enough. The fairness comes from the balancing of existence of people who have a girlfriend and people who do not. People who have a girlfriend are boasting themselves by having a girlfriend to people who do not. Then, people who do not have a girlfriend are blaming people who have a girlfriend and say they are jerks. Although these are totally different situations, by existence of these two situations, it balances our society. I told to someone about this, and he said “We don’t need this kind of balance.” As you think, he does not have a girlfriend. Even though I do not have a girlfriend, I am just writing about this because I have to recognize my situation and try hard to join the group who has a girlfriend.

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In this blog, I am going to write about my life during the summer break. During summer, I went to my home country, South Korea, to see my family and friends. For the first few days, I visited my grandparents, cousins, and meet my friends. I ate lots of Korean foods which I cannot eat in America. It was very exciting to meet people and play for the first few weeks. Also, there was the World Cup started when I just got back to Korea. It was very excited to cheer my national team with other people. However, while the vacation is more than 3 months, there were not many things to do after the first few weeks. When I was about to get bored, my cousins were done with their college and about to start their vacations. Even though OSU starts summer vacation later than other colleges in United States, most of the colleges in Korea start the vacation at the end of June. While we were all living in Daejeon, the city in the middle part of Korea, we went to Busan, the city in the bottom part of Korea, for travel. It was good that all 6 of my cousins are male, but it was also sad that it was all boys. We had a great time by eating fresh foods and went to the biggest department store in the world. After the travel, the time went really fast. I took the most time in Korea by studying about my major. It was very tired to study during summer break. However, I think I had a great vacation.

Blog 29

In my paper, I am writing about Malcolm’s decision as a leader. In Firefly episode 8 ‘Out of Gas’, in the scene after an explosion, when Malcolm tried to stay in the shuttle alone, Inara asked him to leave the shuttle with the members. Malcolm only told the crew members to leave and did not give any advice that what they have to do after leaving. So, Inara thought if Malcolm is a leader of the crew, he should come with them and tell them what to do for the situations they will face. Mal might think he is sacrificing himself into the dangerous situation to protect the members, so he just made the members to leave the shuttle. For that scene, I was thinking while Malcolm looks like a good leader who is sacrificing to protect the members, he is not an appropriate leader because he did not think about what the members have to do after leaving the shuttle. As a leader of the crew, it is good that he is thinking about his members and tries to sacrifice for them. However, as Inara mentioned the leader of the crew should take care of the members until they are safe. Also, by loosing their leader and do not know what to do, they may get panic. My thinking about Malcolm is that he is not yet an appropriate leader for the crew. I want to get feedback about is Malcolm is an appropriat leader or not. Also, what he has to do when Inara told him to leave the shuttle with the members.

Blog 28

2010 World Cup held in South Africa this summer. 32 countries were playing to get the World Cup trophy. Although Spain got the trophy and others got knocked out, all teams were playing hard and people are proud of their national teams. My country, Korea Republic, was involved in 32 countries that played in 2010 World Cup. Korea was in group B and had to play against Argentina, Greece, and Nigeria. All of these teams were in higher rank in FIFA ranking. While only two teams could go to the next round, it was really hard group for Korea. Most of the experts in soccer thought that Korea will finish lasting in the group. However, Koreans thought this year’s Korea national team is better than any other Korea national teams before. For the first match against Greece, Korea won 2 to 0. People in the world were surprising of Korea’s victory. However, the important match was the second match against Argentina. Their offensive squad was the best in the world. They had Lionel Messi, the best player in the world, with Gonzalo Higuain and Carlos Tevez. Korea lost 4 to 1 by them poorly. The opportunity to go to the next round goes to the match against Nigeria. Korea had to at least draw to them to go to the next round. When Nigeria scored first, people thought that Nigeria will go to the next round. However, Korea scored 2 goals right after Nigeria scored. Although Nigeria scored one more goal after that, the game drew by 2 to 2 and Korea went to the next round. It was the first time that Korea went to the second round outside Korea. Although Korea lost to Uruguay in the second round, koreans will not forget about the team Korea in 2010 World Cup.

Blog 27

As I mentioned in my last blog, I am going to write some more about soccer. In this blog, I will write about the A Match. A Match stands for a match between countries. Even though all of the players have their club teams, they should play for their countries. Players are proud to play for their countries even though they do not get paid for playing for their countries. There are two kinds of A Matches: Friendly matches and matches for the tournament. Friendly match is a match between countries which two countries appointed to have a match. Match for the tournament is also an A Match. However, it is for the competition. There are lots of competitions for A Matches. But, the most popular competition is the World Cup. Almost all countries are playing for the World Cup, the largest sport festival in the world. Only 32 countries can play in the World Cup. So countries are divided to continents and playing to get the assigned tickets for the continent. When all of 32 countries are selected for the World Cup, then there is a draw for the group in December, a year before the World Cup. World Cup is holding in even year between two Olympics in the summer. There are 8 groups of 4 countries and only 2 countries can join for the next round. Then, it changes to knock out stage until the final match. For the next blog, I will write about 2010 World Cup and my country, Korea.

Blog 26

In this blog, I am going to write about soccer, which is football. People in U.S. do not know very well about soccer. They are more interested in American Football and Baseball that not many countries are playing. However, soccer is the most popular sport in the world. More than 200 countries are joined as a member of FIFA (Federation of International Football Association). And Europe is where soccer is most popular. All of the countries in Europe have their own soccer league and lots of people support their teams. Three biggest soccer leagues are Premier League (England), Primera Liga (Spain), and Serie A (Italy). Supporters for these leagues are having proud for their teams. They are watching every single game that their teams playing and support them. Top rankers in the leagues are qualified to join UEFA Champions League, which is the league of Europe. Teams are playing to get the trophy which is the great honor for them with an unexpected amount of prize money. When the season is off, transfer market is open. Most of the teams are looking for good players and bring them with paying transfer fee to the teams that are having good players. In 2009, Real Madrid paid a transfer fee of 80 million pounds, about 150 million dollars, to Manchester United to bring Cristiano Ronaldo to the team. Teams may be selling their players because they have debt or to get money to buy the players they are looking for. For the next blog, I am going to write more about soccer by introducing A match and World Cup.

Blog 25

In this blog, I'm going to wright about the rights of human.Human right is most basic thing to human. However, people in some of nations still live like slave or animal. Especially, life of people in North Korea is typical example. North Korea is a Communist country which is ruled by dictator, Kim Jong-Il. However, his ruling made almost of most North Koreans are painfully. Many North Koreans are suffering starvation and poverty so they try to escape for their life. I’m going to introduce below journals and report which I searched about North Korean refugees how their life is miserable.
In the journal “Tributional for North Korea” by Suzanne Scholte, she is claiming that North Korea Government should be punished after collapse of the regime. She gave typical example how North Korea government is evil. According to her example, North Korean mother and daughter who escaped to China were separated. Mother tried to search her daughter best. However, she heard terrible story. Chinese security agents had forced the daughter back to North Korea. The North Korean border guards who arrested her beat 14-year-old girl to death. Not only this mother and daughter but also the other North Korean refugees suffered this kind of terrible experiences. She said that all of people in the South Korea have interest about human rights of North Koreans. It is very sad that while South Korea is right next to North Korea that uses the same language as ours, we cannot do anything. I hope Korea unify as soon as possible.

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In this blog, I’m going to write about one of the problems in society. Today, there are many problems in the society. Bullying is one of them. However, people do not recognize how serious bullying is. What is bullying? It is a special form of aggressive behavior when someone is subjected to negative actions on the part of one or more other people, repeatedly
Bullying arose from social problem. People who lead to bully had poor environment like family and childhood. If they did not have a good and happy childhood, their characteristics went from bad to worse. For example, if they did not receive love from parents, they show their anger against their parents by bullying others. Poor environment social problem causes another social problem, which is bullying.
If bullying arises from social problem, it also causes another problem. Feelings like uneasiness, depression, and delusions of persecution are good example. High school student who suffered from these symptoms said that he was bullied by his classmates in school because of his personality and face. He could not bear it so he refused to go to school or even talk with anybody. As a result, he even started to say that he wanted to die. It is common symptom not only him but also others who suffered bullying before.
In conclusion, bullying is one of the most serious social problems. All of people in our society should have interest and recognize about bullying. Bullying already becomes social problem. People have to stop bullying others. They have to calm down when they’re angry. If they just be little more calm, then the society will be better.

Blog 23

I thought about ‘what if I ate the blue pill’. In the movie ‘THE MATRIX’, Neo has to make a choice. In order to remain in the digital world, he has to eat the blue pill, and if he wants to know the truth, he has to eat the red pill. Neo eats the red pill to know what the real world is like.
There would be many possibilities according to the circumstances, if I were Neo, I mean, if I were on his circumstances, I would eat the red pill, because Neo kept wondering what the matrix was, and he also felt that the world he lived (the digital world) was not quite right. And he was curious who the Morphius was. In other words, he needed a whole new life.
But if I, right now, have to make choice, I think I will eat the blue pill. I think I’m well tamed to this world. Maybe I did adapt well to this social system.
Neo took his path with his own mind. But for me, I was trained in school, to adapt well in society. Country also wants its citizens to be in calm situation. Also, my senses are hard to ignore. I see, listen, feel, and think and they are really hard that the world I live in is not actually real.
Humans have been resisting to the nature, adapted, and evolved in order to make quick move to changes. But I think, by making society and social system, humans became less sensitive to the change of the thinking.

Blog 22

Today, after the class, I was thinking about the thesis of ARP second draft. I don’t think that my thesis is totally wrong. If I change it a little bit, then it might be a strong argument which connects to a real world. My thesis was about the leader. Today, there are many kinds of groups and organizations in the world. And almost all of the groups have their leaders. However, not all of them have good leaders. In firefly episode 8 ‘Out of Gas’, the crew members were having a trouble by the explosion in the engine room. The crew members were getting scared. Then, Mal decided to sacrifice himself to save the crew members. He made the members to leave the shuttle except him. Mal tried to get help from someone but he got injured by the people who tried to steal cargoes from Serenity. However, Mal did not make them to steal the crew member’s products and make them to leave the Serenity. It was very important moment in the episode. While Mal was injured, it was really dangerous to do something with his body. However, as a leader of the Serenity, he moved his body to protect the Serenity. These days, it is not very often for the leaders in society to get injured while protecting the members of their organizations. However, the good leaders are always going with the danger when they work for the members. They take the responsibility while working with members. So, if people have their leaders who always think about them and work for them, then they are having good leaders.

Blog 19

I'm going to write some more about china for this blog. Which country will become most powerful country in the world? It may be China. Recently, China showed amazing and frightened development in many parts including economy. Many people are thinking that China will become new rival of United States instead of formal Soviet Union. As result, China starts to show their power in the world. However, China is also suffering internal problems. The most serious internal problem is ethnic problem. Fifty five groups of people exist in China. The group of people which is called a Han holds the largest population among them. Although Han people hold the largest population and long history, the other groups of people also have their own culture and history. It is lie if China doesn’t have cultural problems between each group of people. The group of people claims their right of self-government in China to Chinese Government. Some of them claim independence. Tibet and Uighur are famous group which claims independence from China. However, Chinese Government didn’t allow their claim. On the contrary, they sent military to suppress. As a result, many Tibetans and Uighur people died and the leader Dalai Lama who claimed independence of Tibet escaped to India. Also, Chinese Government sent many Han Chinese to Tibet and Uighur. Han Chinese who lived in Tibet and Uighur opposed to independence from China because of this policy. I understand situation of China. It was common problem of multiracial country. If Chinese Government allows their independence, the other groups of people also claim independence. If it will be continued, China will be collapsed. It is why China can’t allow independence of other groups. If China can’t solve this problem, it will be biggest problem to bother development of China forever.

Blog18

Which country show most development in the world? It is a China. Nobody say no about that answer. Even the most powerful country, U.S., also thinks that China will be their rival of future instead of former Soviet Union which is disappeared. Many countries are also studying about development of China for last 30 years. Clearly, China showed wonderful development for last 30 years. However, China was the target of ridicule by Western countries before they show their power now. Many scholars in Western described that China is not powerful although they have huge territories. In addition, they also described that Chinese is foolish people to be unchanged anything for a long time. Why China became target of ridicule through they have long history and wonderful culture. I learned that China was the land of dreams by Europeans for a long time. For example, many Europeans tried to trade with China through Silk Road which exist rugged mountain and desert. Marco Polo who wrote Books of the Marvels of the World was also one of them. He wrote that book after that travel. The Napoleon who was famous general and emperor of France also described China as “Sleeping lion”. However, China was beaten by small military of Britain in Opium War their sense of sight was changed. The China which was beaten by small Western countries was not respective country anymore. However, it was their outward appearance. China didn’t have war before they fought with Western and enjoyed peace. On the other hand, Western suffered too many changes and revolutions. It was obvious that China couldn’t win Western. However, today’s China is different. China suffered many changes and revolutions after for 100 years and at last they are showing amazing development. I also believe that China will become most powerful country in the world. However, I worry about my country, Korea. Korea is located next to China. Korea and China always had conflicts in history. If China has power, Korea will face difficult and dangerous situation. Thus, the development of China is amazing and dangerous.

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In state of Florida, people had meeting to burn Koran. What is Koran? Koran is bible in Islam. It is very holiness book in Islam. I don’t know why people in Florida tried to burn it. I heard that they burn it because of 9/11 terror which occurred 9 years ago. They seem to show their anger by burning Koran which is holiness bible of Islam. However, it was wrong. Why they have to revenge by burning Koran? In this situation, it caused more conflicts between Islam countries. In addition, U.S. sent military to Iraq and Afghanistan. If Muslim hears this news, they also become angry. As a result, common people who are working in Middle East will suffer trouble. Nobody want to conflict. However, people always cause and suffer conflict. Why they don’t try to understand each other? I know it is useless question. All of religions in the world teach love and peace. However, we don’t follow it. People always tried to follow teach of God but they always cause wrong things like conflict. This meeting is also one of them. Jesus also doesn’t want Christians have trouble with although their enemy is non-Christians. I also learned that Christian and Muslim were created from same root. How silly it is. I know that things which always bother peace are small of fools. Do people in Florida really want to become this kind of fools? I want that they look again their acting and think our future. It is my wish for our world.

Blog 16

Today, I read an article about North Korea. While I am a South Korean, I would like to find about the North Korea. Recently, North Korea seems to suffer political change. The leader of North Korea, Kim Jung-Il conferred title of general to his son, Kim Jung-wun. The countries like South Korea, Japan, and China consider that Kim Jung-wun become successor of his father and would be next leader of North Korea. If their thought will be true, North Korea transmits from generation to generation again. His father, Kim Jung-Il already received power from his father, Kim Il-sung. How silly it is. Is North Korea really a Communist country? No, they are not. It is kingdom. I don’t know why they are using title of democracy and communism. Any communist countries didn’t allow this kind of silly thing. However, North Korea succeeded already two times. I don’t understand how they can keep their nation. Also, they don’t have interest about people in North Korea. Many North Korean people are suffering starvation so their average height is too small. Many problems exist except starvation but nobody in North Korea can complain. If they do, they would be sent to horrible prison. North Korean Government entirely pressures to obey. Many North Koreans who escaped North Korea said that North Korea is like hell in the world which people cannot live. How about Kim Jung-wun? If he will become leader, North Korea is better than before or not? The answer is not. He is also focusing to keep his power in North Korea. The future of North Korea is transparent. This kind of country has to be destroyed

Blog 14

It is kind of hard to decide what I am going to write about my first draft of ARP. The main point for choosing an episode is that how I understand the episode and make sure that there is a good thesis I can write with the episode. I think that I have to choose one of the episodes in Firefly. Because it is the only series that I watched and I understand the most of the episodes. And I am going to do Firefly episode 8 ‘Out of Gas’. While I watched almost all of the episodes of Firefly, I think episode 8 was most impressive. The scene that Mal tried to protect the crew members was fantastic. I thought that I can use this scene and use it as my first draft. My thesis should be “Mal Sacrificing himself to save the crew members as a leader shows us true leaders in society endure the danger in order to protect the members”. I might change the thesis little bit, but the thesis is something like this for my first draft. I can connect this part to real world connection and write more about it. I think it is hard to be a good leaders like Mal. There are many kinds of leaders in the world. Some are leaders of small groups and some are leaders of large groups. However, not all of them are leaders who sacrifice himself for the others. There are more who get whatever they want to get. So, it is important to meet a good leader of the society you are in or to be a good leader.

Blog 13

Firefly episode 14 ‘Objects in Space’, is about River saving the crew and get’s the crew’s trust. In the first part of the episode, there were some problems between River and the crew members. River was holding a stick. However, the crew members thought that she is holding a gun. They were discussing about how to treat River. Simon was telling that River will not harm anyone and she does not know how to shoot a gun. However, Kaylee was arguing that she shoot 3 people before to rescue Mal. Then, they were about to ask River and Simon to leave the Serenity for crew member’s safe. That night, a ship came to Serenity and a man called Jubal Early entered the Serenity. He tied Kaylee and found Simon. He pointed Simon with a gun and made him to find River. However, they could not bind River easily. So, they broadcast to the ship and tried to make River hear that if she does not come, then he will shot Simon. By this broadcast, crew members woke up and tried to make a plan with River to save Simon. River went to the Early’s ship because she thought that the crew members do not need her and it will be alright to go with Early. Simon tried to attack Early, but he got shot in his leg. However, Mal attacked Early and made him to go away which was part of the plan they planned earlier. River got back to the Serenity and now everyone in the crew believes River. I think Early was a good guy that helped River to solve her problem with the crew members.

Blog 12

Firefly episode 5 ‘Safe’ is the most exciting episode in the series to me. This episode is about Simon and River got kidnapped. After Serenity arrived in some kind of town to deliver the cargo. Then Simon and River went to the town and have some fun. Simon was watching River for her safe. However, Simon ran away because of some kind of planets he dislikes. When Simon realized the situation, River disappeared. He tracked River and she went to the festival. When they were enjoying the festival, a settler kidnapped Simon. Then River followed him, so he kidnapped her too. Simon and River believed that the crew will rescue them. However, there was a fight between the Sheriff and the buyer and Book got shot. So, while the crew members were trying to save Book, they were forgetting about Simon And River. Simon realized that the settlers kidnapped them because they need a doctor. However, River was treated as a witch and the village tries to burn her. Simon tries to stop them but it was impossible to stop the ones like them. Then the Serenity came and rescued Simon and River. After they came into the ship, Mal told them that they are the part of the crew. It was the most impressive part of the story that I was almost about to cry. In this episode, I could see Simon’s love for his sister, River. He tried hard to rescue his sister. Also, I think now Simon and River know that the crew members think them as members not as a storage. I thinkg if people see this episode, there will be some people who is going to cry.

Blog 11

The story in Firefly episode 12 ‘Message’, was about the Mal and Zoe’s war comrade from the past. When Serenity visited the trading post to get the mail or package. Jayne got a hat from his mom that she knitted herself.. However, Mal and Joe got a package that they did not expected to get which is the corpse of their comrade, Tracey. After they took the body to Serenity, they heard the message from Tracey that someone is going to kill him and requested to Mal and Zoe that if he dies, then give his body to his parents. The crew members agreed to follow Tracey’s last wish. However, an alliance came and asks for Tracey’s body. Mal was curious about why the alliance needs his body. So, he tried to find an item from Tracey. Then, Traycey alived and told that he took a drug to make him looks like he was dead. He said he was changing his original organs to new ones. I was curious why he was changing his organs and give the old one to someone. He could just give the other organs to the buyer. However, Womack, who tries to find Tracey, attacked Serenity to get Tracey. While the attack was very powerful, Book suggested to Mal to Surrender and give Tracey to Womack. Then Tracy grabed a gun and pointed to the crew members because he thought they were going to give him to Womack. Mal tried to make him to surrender. However, after he realized that it was possible to calm Tracey down, Mal shooted him. While Tracey was dying, he realized that Mal was not going to give him to Womack and appolized for his rude action. Then the episode ends. This episode was kind of confused of Tracey’s dead. I thought there’s a way for Tracey to survive. It was kind of sad story that Tracey died.

Blog 10

In this blog, I am going to write about Firefly episode 4 ‘Shinding’. After serenity returned to Persphone, Inara was employed by a rich man called Atherton Wing and she was going to go to the party with him. However, Badger, the crimal, had a job for Mal which needs Mal to get close to the noble and make him to hire Mal. Mal thought that it is good to attend the party, so he bought Kaylee a dress and tried to go a party with her. However, Inara was also in the party with Atherton. He asked Inara to stay Persphone for him. But, when Mal came and Atherton saw Inara and Mal were so friendly, he became jealous. Then he said some unexpected words that he did not try to say to Inara. Then Mal punched Atherton and tried to have a fight next morning with the sword. Sir Harrow, the noble Mal tried to meet, volunteered to be Mal’s second for the fight. When they had the match in the morning, Mal was attacked by Atherton and became a bad position. However, Inara told him if he does not kill Mal, then she will stay with him. Then, Mal managed to put a sword at Atherton’s neck. He could kill him, but he did not. After the match, Sir Harrow told Mal that he will hire Mal. In this episode, while Mal’s goal was to hired by Sir Harrow. However, it was more focused on the fight between Mal and Atherton. I was kind of confused about this episode because it was not very fluent. I hope the other episodes are better than this episode. The fight was kind of funny and impressive anyway.

Blog 9

Firefly episode 6 ‘Our Mrs. Reynolds’ was kind of funny episode with Mal getting a wife. After the Serenity finished their mission in a small town, the town made a party for the Serenity. While they were drinking and enjoy the party, a young woman gave Mal a flower headband and some wine. In the morning after the night of the party, the crew were trying to leave the town. However, the young woman, called Saffron, who gave wine to Mal claimed that she is Mal’s wife who’s also a gift from the people from the town. While Mal did not rember about the marriage, he thought that this is kind of trick from Saffron. The interesting part was the crew members were celebrating Mal’s marriage without a doubt. They did not have any comment about who the woman is and why she wanted to marry with Mal. However, as Mal thought, Saffron did not marry Mal because she liked him. When Saffron kissed Mal at night, Mal got drugged because there was something on her lips. After shaffron went to the bridge and leave the shuttle, there was also a funny part. When Inara came to Mal and thought he was dead. Then she kissed Mal and realized that he is alive. However it was too late because she was also drugged by something that drugged Mal by his lip. After they woke up, they went to Saffron and get their shuttle back. Saffron was doing all those thing because she wanted to change their direction. The thing is I could not understand this episode perfectly. However, I think this episode was made for fun. It was kind of impressive story which can make the audience to keep watch the series.