Blog 69

I thought we were going to write about the movie we were going to watch in class today. However, we did not watch movie today and we have to write about anything for our blog today. I guess I have to write about what I did during Thanksgiving break. I went to Purdue (Indiana). My brother and cousin are going to college in there. While they were living together, I went to their house to have Thanksgiving Day together. We decided to eat Turkey. However, while the normal turkey is not that tasty for the Asians, we tried to make Asian style turkey. We used lots of garlic and soy sauce to make turkey tasty. And it was the biggest turkey I ever saw in my life. We also baked some corn with butter. Our friend brought wine and other foods. Although all of them were boys (it was really sad…), it was great to enjoy the Thanksgiving Day with delicious foods. My stomach was going to explode after finishing all of our food. After taking some break we went to the Karaoke place (the singing place) and sang Korean, American, and Japanese songs. Even though it was also sad that we were all boys, we had funny times by singing the songs we wanted to sing. After 2 hours of singing, we came back to our home and slept until we wanted to wake up. It was the greatest Thanksgiving Day I ever had. I hope I can have it again next year.

Blog 68

The novel which made me to know that communism is only unavailable theory was Animal Farm which was written by the English author, George Orwell. I was very surprised because it showed contradiction and result of communism well. It is simple summary.
Many animals suffered harsh life on the Manor Farm. However, animals revolutionized against human so they banished human. The two pigs which are Snowball and Napoleon became leader of animals. The most powerful pigs were Snowball and Napoleon. However, they have different thought. Eventually, Napoleon became dictator after he banished Snowball. Also, the animals which followed Snowball were banished. However, life of animals was still harsh. The pigs which follow Napoleon only live well. The slogan is also changed from “Four legs are right and two legs are evil” to “Four legs and two legs are both right.” Pigs and human became very friendly. They trade many things and pigs enjoy it. Life of other animals became harsher than before. They can’t bear it anymore. Eventually, they up rise and banished pigs.
Former communist countries showed same process like story of Animal Farm. Many poor people suffered starving under control of corrupted empire and capitalism. Eventually, people revolutionized and collapsed empire and capitalism. However, result is worse than past. Many people worked hardly and freedom disappeared. Not only former leadership but also people who criticized communism were also killed and sent to prison. Only communist leadership lived well like former royal family and noble people. In addition, when economy situation became poor, they also accept capitalism countries. Of course, it is also allowed to only leadership people. They kept their dictatorship by forcing people continuously. Communist countries became more corrupted and poor. As a result, it was also connected to uprising.
Story of Animal Farm and result of communist countries showed that Communism is just theory. It is unavailable. Although capitalism has contradiction which difference between wealth and poverty, it has opportunity which even common people become wealth class. However, communism doesn’t have it. It only exist corrupted and poor situation. We have to choose capitalism for our future. Although it has contradiction, we have to fix it.

Blog 67

Is nationalism really right thing for our future? Nobody knows how nationalism is dangerous theory. I also believed that nationalism is required theory for my country and people until 5 years ago. However, it was biggest misunderstanding. I usually watched dramas and read historical books which are related to nationalism. They insisted that Korean is holiness people and foreign cultures and people are worst things for Korea. I was too young to understand which one is correct. I can’t understand until now why I accepted that silly theory easily at that time.
However, I noticed that nationalism is for only one group of people. It means that sacrifice of other people is none of business. I started to read history of world. Many theories existed in our history. Imperialism and German Supremacy were good example. When Imperialism existed, many strong countries invaded and made weak countries as colony. As a result, people of weak countries like Asia, Africa, and South America suffered great pain. German Supremacy was worse than Imperialism. It caused Jewish Holocaust and World War II. As a result, the tragedy which more than 50 million people of the world died. Communism is little bit different but they also killed many people by name of nationalism. North Korea always insists nationalism to their people. However, it is only tool which they keep their dictatorship. Also, many people and countries conflicts until now because they still believe nationalism.
We are living 21st Century. We have to live together. Conflicts and hatred between people are remains of past. Nationalism also has to become remains of past. We live in the same world. We have to know it.

Blog 66

Today for my blog, I am going to write about the drama I watched before (House). Nobody denies that it is thankful to live the life no matter how long they will live. However, more important thing is the way of living life to live happily. In this case, it is better to precede transplantation because even though one child can live only two and a half years, the other can live as long as he wants to live. Most of all, the one who can transplant can still live two and a half years and it is more important how he can live as happy as he can. Of course it is wrong to decrease one’s life but it can give more hopes for both his brother and their parents. The approach of this case would be different if he dies right away if the transplantation is proceed but since he still can live even though only for short time, he still has chance to live happily and his brother also has more chances. Most of all, their parents will not lose any of their child right away and can take care both for two and a half years. Life it is mentioned above, the length of life is not important, but how you live effectively and happily. The long life without pleasure cannot be mention as life. Therefore, it depends on a boy how he lives his short life but at least the chance has given to him.

Blog 65

For this blog, I am going to write about the video that I watched recently. Using animal for food or clothes seems to me that it is natural thing that the animals have to go through. In nature, herbivorous eats plants and are eaten by carnivorous. This is a natural relationship and right now, humans are the top of all animals. Like carnivorous eat other animals, humans also need food from animals and the only thing that is different from carnivorous animals is that we have the ability to raise animals just for food and we can butcher and cook. Clothing is also a thing that we need for life. Unlike other animals, we, humans, need clothes to protect our bodies and one of the materials is animal fur. In my opinion, unless we do not overproduce, like slaughtering cows more than what we need for food, using animals for necessities of life such as food and clothes is acceptable. I also agree with using animal in experiments, especially in the medical field. In science, the experiments are the most important thing, and have to be tried on animals before this technology can actually be used on humans. We cannot use humans as experiment just to protect the animal from this unless people do not want any improvements in science. However, nearly all people want improvements and it is impossible to do without experiments. It does not make sense to me that some people are against using animal as experiments, but still want science to be improved for their own life.

Blog 64

Many people think animal experimentation is too cruel for animals. Some scientists had experiments on animals without giving them any pain killers and that led them to death. It may not lead to death, but it gave animal great pain. The cruelest thing however, is keeping the animals alive without doing anything to relieve their pain from the experiments for effective results. According to the Animal Testing Facts, nearly 17 to 22 million animals are used in research every year. This shows that many animals are suffering just because of experimentation. Therefore, some people suggested testing on human cells by using technologies based on culturing cells. Other people also feel cruelty about animal experimentation, because they cannot understand how the people can use pets as lab rats. Since most people treat their pets as family, the animal experimentation for them is like sending their family to experimentation. Another opposing opinion was the doubt about the effectiveness of animal experimentation. The animals and humans are different species, which means that the types of disease they get are different. According to the American Medical Association, the animals and humans share only 1.16% of all diseases that are discovered until now. However, the biggest opposing factor that they argue is that most of animal experimentation is caused by human supremacism. Like humans, the animals also have the right to live and we actually ignore it because we think humans are superior over the animals. Just because they cannot speak does not mean that they do not have any thoughts. All of these opposing factors that they mentioned are reasonable. I hope you guys understand these factors too. Happy Thanksgiving!!^^

Blog 63

My country was suffering horror of the war now. The day before yesterday, Yeongpyeong Island, Northwestern location of South Korea was attacked by North Korea. There was very close to North Korea and one of five islands which Korean and UN armies protected during Korean War. Many small conflicts occurred between armies before but it is first time which island is damaged since Korean War. Not only 2 soldiers but also 2 civilians died. In addition, many houses and public institutions were destroyed. Many residents in Yeongpyeong Island hided in air-raid shelter or escaped to Incheon. Although bombardment between both sides is stopped now, it is still dangerous. Many people thought that war begins. I also thought that war begins at first time which I heard that news.
All of reason which causes this result is South Korean government tried to help North Korea. Of course, purpose was good because we tried to help North Koreans who suffer starving. However, it only made North Koreans became painful than before. I don’t know why South Korean government doesn’t correspond strongly. We supported many food and relief supplies before. Also, we tried to help North Korean economy best by tourism industry. However, the result is this. The past 10 years was meaningless period. If we didn’t help North Korea, they probably would be collapsed. In other words, our effort only helped their army and their leader. We don’t have to help North Korea anymore. If we try to help North Korea, people will suffer serious pain. Corrupted North Korean regime has to be collapsed for peace of Korea. However, stupid leftists in South Korea still try to believe North Korea. How silly it is. Leftists and corrupted North Korean regime are enemies of true Korean unification and peace. We have to reject them first.

Blog 62

Today in class, we finished the second half of BSG (Battle Star Galactica). It was way more interesting than the first half of the story. The scene when the soldier stayed and made others to leave with the space ship almost made me cry because the woman was almost crying and it was very sad moment. The war between cylons and humans was very exciting for the second part of the story. Actually, it is hard to call it a ‘war’ because cylons were keeping attacking the humans and they could not do many things. Humans were keep jumping, it is like warping, and could not attack the cylons. It was really had to find out the cylons that looks similar to the humans. It was hard to understand the scene that a cylon got allergy by staying in some kind of strange air condition. The general found out the he is the cylon and killed him. The war finished by humans moved to the Earth. I don’t know what happened to all of the cylons but I think some are alive. While not all of the cylons are bad guys, I think it is important to have a peace between cylons and humans. Anyway, after watching the BSG, I still do not understand perfectly about this story. Maybe I did not concentrate enough for the story. However, it was interesting story and I want to watch it one more time to understand. I hope there is another time that I can watch this kind of show.

Blog 61

When I was writing about the blog before, I thought writing about anything is easier than having a topic because I had many things to write about in my head. However, while it is almost the end of the quarter, there are not many things to write and I still have to write many blogs about anything. I am out of topics for the blog right now and I hope some people give me some topics to write for my blogs. When I am writing blogs about anything, I always think about what happened when I was young, some news about Korea, and what I did for that day. Writing about when I was young is kind of funny because it made me to go back to those days. However, I cannot remember that many funny moments that I can write for the blogs. Writing about Korea is making me proud because I can introduce my home country that most of the people in U.S. do not know. While there are many differences between U.S. and Korea, I can find out many topics. However, writing about what I did for today is the worst thing to write because my life in U.S. is almost similar every day. So, my blog become strange like what I am doing right now and writing about I do not want to write the blogs and it is too harsh. I think today’s blog is kind of weird too. Anyway, I just finished my blog for today^^ Tomorrow’s blog is writing about BSG, so I have a topic to write!!

Blog 60

Oh my god!! I am stuck with my blog today!!! I do not have anything to write right now. I just ordered the cane’s chicken fingers for me and my roommate. The manager said that the food will be here by half an hour. However, it took almost an hour and the food is still not here…ㅠㅠ And we just got a call from the store and they asked us that the drink is sprite and coke… and also said that they will be here in 5 minutes. My roommate just goes to get the food and I am waiting for him with writing my blog. My roommate just came back and the food looks great!! I think I better pause my blog and eat the chicken fingers first^^ Hey I came back!! The food was excellent. Even though it took me an hour to put the food in my stomach, it was still great and made me full. Ha… now I have to finish my blog for today… and it still has almost 80 words left. And I cannot think of any more words in my head. Don’t you think this blog is too long? It is too much for students to write 250 words everyday and it is way too much to write on Sundays. I am kind of sleepy right now after finishes my food. I guess I just go to bed again rather than finishing the blog. Oh wait a minute!! I just reached 250 words!!! Thanks god!!! It is a great holiday. And see you on Tuesday!!!

Blog 59

People who don’t have much money or are not smart usually say that they are really poor. However, it is only an excuse. Many great men were not enough condition before they accomplished their dream. Genghis Khan who conquered much territories of the Eurasian Continent was good example.
He was born as son of chief of Mongolian tribe. However, he didn’t spend convenient childhood. His father was assassinated by other tribe. Also, he and his family were expelled from tribe. Moreover, Mongol was warring period at that time. Even children were killed if they were man. Genghis Khan also experienced many dangers. He lived as slave for a while. Warring period was very painful to child. However, he didn’t give up. He had dream to make country which people can sleep at night. Although he couldn’t know how to write and read, he knew how to survive from that period. His only ability was to lead others. As a result, his small tribe became biggest tribe in the Mongol. In fact, name of Mongol is originated from name of Mongol which was name of Genghis Khan’s tribe. Although he conflicts many barriers, he beat all of them by strong self-confidence and good judgment and successes to unify Mongol highland. Also, he conquered many strong empires which close to Mongol without satisfying present. His no giving up mental attitude made him emperor of the Eurasian Continent.
Although Genghis Khan didn’t have much estate or couldn’t know how to read and write, he accomplished his dream. If we didn’t give up though we face danger, anybody can accomplish dream.

Blog 58

In this blog, I am going to write about the school punishment to the students in my country, Korea. Unlike U.S., teachers in schools can punish their students by doing something bad. They hit the students’ hand, leg, and other parts with the stick. In the news on TV, some teachers punish their students by slapping their faces with hand. And some students suicided because they got too much punishments. While I lived in Korea until I graduated middle school, I experienced 9 years of the school life. I also got hit unexpected amount of time with the various kinds of sticks for 9 years. I cried a lot during my elementary school and sometimes I shouted to the teacher and got more punishment. I thought it was too much for the elementary kids and thought the punishment should not be happened in school. Maybe they think it is a great way to make children not to do the bad things. After I came to U.S., it was great that although the teachers get mad to their students sometimes, they never punished their students with actually hitting them. I was curious that why is it really different between Korea and U.S. Now I am old enough and there is no one who punishes me by hitting me. However, the little kids in Korea are still getting punished in school. I hope upper people make the rule to not hitting their students and deal with them something else, so these kinds of punishments do not happen anymore in the future.

Blog 57

When I was watching Battle Star Galactica (BSG), I thought it is one of the strange shows I watched in my life. It is mainly talking about the war between human and the robot which has the artificial intelligence. The robots are called Cylons and they are divided into centurions and cylons that look like human. In the first part of the story, it took a place in the meeting room where humans and cylons can negotiate. There was a man sitting in the desk and sleeping. Then a woman with two centurions came from the cylon’s side. She got close to the man and kissed him. When she was kissing him, the humans got attacked which was the part that confused me. For the main part of the story, the human society and the cylons were keeping fighting in the space. There was a military force and they were trying to protect the humans from the cylons. The cylons who looked like humans were living among the humans. Some cylons do not know that they are cylons and some fall in love with humans. The most part of the show was the fighting between humans and cylons. Although it was very interesting, I was really confused with this show and did not get exactly what it is about. I guess it is because I only watched half of the show and maybe I will understand the whole story at the time when I finished the show in the class. I hope we can finish it Tuesday and then I may write my blog without confusing.

Blog 56

For today’s blog, I am going to write about the 2010 Asian game. It is holding in Guangzhou right now. In the Asian game, there are 42 kinds of sports and 45 countries in Asia are participating to get the medals. As same as Olympic, there are 3 kinds of medals: Gold, Silver, and Bronze. It is good to get the gold medals rather than other two medals. However, it is important to do their best rather than only aiming for the gold medals. China is the strongest country in Asian game. They get almost half of the gold medals in Asian game. It may be because there are so many people in China. However, they are good because they do the training since they were young. In Korea, all males must have 2 years of the military service before the age of 30. And it is the biggest problem for the male sport players in Korea because almost all sport players can’t play well after 30. However, in Asian game, if someone gets the gold medal, then he does not have to take the military service. That is why the Asian game is so important for the male sport players in Korea. It is sad that not all of the sport players can get the duty of army off, but it motivates the players to do better than what they can do. I hope Korea does really well in this Asian game. Some may cry of what they get. However, it is important to do their best without regret.

Blog 55

In this blog, I’m going to write about cultural differences between Korean and American schools. I was born in America but lived in Korea. So when I came to America, I could know that American culture is very different from Korea. I was very surprised at that time. Especially, there were many differences between Korean and American schools.When I went to the Lafayette High School in Lexington, Kentucky, I found a lot of different things with Korea. I was very difficult to adjust to school at first time. When I adjust school, I could know that American schools are place for students. Not only school but also even teachers work for students.Going to the bathroom during class is a good example. When I was in Korea I couldn’t go to bathroom during class. I did not get the teacher asked for her permission. So when I go to the bathroom, was really hard. But in America, even in class, could go at any time if they get permission from the teacher. After teaching Korean students must be clean. Then I came to U.S. which was like heaven. I do not need clean the school, which was impossible in Korea(Clean after school everydayㅠㅠ) Third, many American schools are students of various races. In Korea, foreign non-Korean students, attend a foreign school normally. Lafayette High School was a typical high school, South Korea and, unlike many foreign students. Therefore, the school seemed to move away the racism almost which is a serious problem in America.

Blog 54

The issue of online copyright is fairly recent, and copyrighted in to YouTube is one of the matters of the current century. It is a controversial point between people who think that many websites, such as YouTube, are illegal, and the ones who think just the opposite, because they are users. The problem of YouTube is being discussed by different companies in the recent time. Google’s owner explained the cost of the lawsuit that YouTube is facing for infringing copyright material in the article “Copyright laws caught in the web,” (ABC Online.) YouTube must avoid uploading copyrighted material to the website, Viacom said. They also claim in the USA Today’s article “Viacom alleges YouTube copyright infringement,” that YouTube and others “has led to an explosion of copyright infringement.” This created a big argument among the members of YouTube and Viacom, the latter took the issue to the Court .The problematic discussion came up with a lawsuit where Viacom complains against the damages YouTube is causing to the company with the unauthorized viewing of its programs. Some examples are MTV, Comedy Central, The Daily Show with John Steward among others. Viacom’s main argument against YouTube, points out that the site “appropriates the value of creative content on a massive scale for YouTube’s benefit, without payment of license”. This clearly states that the website is going over the rules of intellectual property.
Despite all these judgments, YouTube has its defense. They say that Viacom’s argument not only judged and complained against them but also they are complaining against the Internet freedom which applies to all the exchange of information and communications ways among the internet. This is the statement that the research paper is trying to discover. It aims to figure out the limits of copyright law and what is illegal to do in the Internet and what is not. As it can be seen from the article “Copyright Laws caught in the web,” YouTube states that the company has agreements with content providers that allowed them to show legitimate copyrighted material while other videos in the site are protected by fair use.
Fair use it is similar to public domain, but it applies to copyrighted material, and means that everyone who uses copyrighted material must cite the source. YouTube also said that the site provides videos from amateur people who want to upload experiences or share them with others and the minority of the videos displayed in YouTube is not copyrighted. According to the definition of public domain, material that is not copyrighted can be available for anyone for free. However not all the information in the Internet is considered public domain, since a lot of it is copyrighted. The aim of these research papers is to explain the readers that sometimes people get confused about what applies for public domain and which are the laws for copyrighted material. People don’t really know that they have to cite videos taken from YouTube or even pay to have access to copyrighted material.

Blog 53

One of the well-known websites is YouTube. It allows people to broadcast their own videos and images and musical stuff. Some people upload videos such as movies, TV shows or anything that has a copyright without the permission of the owner. YouTube has been censured repeatedly for failing to monitor its online contents and to adhere to copyright laws. Copyright is a law to protect someone’s project, media work, writing or photographs. Nowadays with media and internet which gives free space to upload videos and music, people abuse copyrights of these media, whether they know it or not. However, some information in which material is considered to be public domain are thrown to public which are not owned or restricted by anyone. Therefore, any person can use it without mentioning the source anytime. On the other hand, people should be acknowledging the difference between the materials that are considered as a public domain and the materials should be cited because in each country has their own Public Domain, which is not the same in other countries. People opinions vary between one to another. Some think that all the materials online should be copyrighted even if it’s a public domain in YouTube. Most of the owners of the original videos ask for their rights from Google which owns the YouTube website. In YouTube’s defense, it is nearly impossible to monitor all of their members and to check all of the copyrighted materials. With this in mind, it has been a long time since Google bought YouTube, and yet they still haven’t come up with a solution to protect copyrighted. According to YouTube, it backs the people who want to save their copyrighted materials. Because of this, YouTube has promised the owners of the copyrighted material that they will try to invent a new tool that will protect their rights.

Blog52

Piaget subdivided cognitive development into four stages; sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operation, and formal operation. During the sensorimotor stage, from the birth to age of 2, I will allow the baby to touch, suck, and chew safe objects to get used to them. Throughout these activities, he can experiment with his surroundings, and develop his motor skills.
When a baby reaches the preoperational stage, which is 2 to 7 years of age, I’ll let them express the egocentrism in the beginning. It is a natural thing for a baby at this period. However, as they grow older, around 5 to 6 years old, I’ll teach them to leave the egocentrism and understand the view of other people. Also, children of this period used to fail conservation. It would be good if I could teach them about volume of liquids, using two different containers and pouring liquid from one to another. From this, he would learn the rule of conservation and reversibility. For a child in the concrete operational stage, which is 7 to 11 years of age, he will start having mental operations, such as logical, mathematical, and spatial problems. During this stage, I’ll focus on teaching them simple algebra and geometric problems. These problems could help them to improve logical, mathematical, spatial thought.The final stage is formal operational stage, which begins at about 11, he will now be able to think hypothetically and abstractly. I’ll provide many questions about “What if” and lead a child to bring out his own hypothesis. If he can’t get proper reasoning, I would teach him the basic background concept of the question, and train his operating ability related with hypothesis.

Blog 51

Based on my origin in East Asia compared with life in the United States, I think the major reasons for the obesity epidemic can be narrowed down to two reasons: diet and life style. First, the average diet of an American is heavier than other nations. A Majority of American dishes are fried dishes filled with oil and containing excessive salt and sugar. Compared to the American diet, dishes of other nations are usually boiled and use less oil. Also, their main dishes are less salty and contain less sugar. As everyone knows, oil, salt, and sugar are the major enemies of a healthy diet. However, it seems we are too used to our dishes and don’t recognized how heavy our foods are.
The second reason for obesity is our life style. In the other nations people walk to wherever they need to go. For example, a house wife in East Asia can go to the grocery store, bank, and hospitals simply by walking. They don’t need to drive, becausetheir nations are small, every necessity in their life is closely packed together, and pedestrian lanes and public transportation are well-organized. However, our nation isn’t designed like that. The United States has a vast landscape and everything is spread out. People need a ride for every single thing and we are too used to riding cars to walk.
As mentioned above, we consume highly heavy food but burn up less calories than the other nations. I believe these are why our nation is suffering from a critical obesity epidemic.

Blog 50

Attachment between parents and their children is critical in a child’s development and performance in later years. Depending on the attachment formed in early life, the life of a child could be changed dramatically. There were many ideas from students in class that could help to increase attachment. One person from the class said communication is the most important thing between a child and his or her parents. Another student said spending quality time with a child is most important. Also, the importance of the skin-contact has been mentioned. All of them are nice ways to increase attachment. However, these factors do not work independently, but are strongly correlated and function together. Also, all of them are equally important to creating a strong attachment. I experienced a similar childhood. After I entered school, I couldn’t have enough conversations with my parents. Both of my parents were diligent and motivated people, and never came back home till late evening. We didn’t have much time to talk during my middle school period, because of the rigorous educational condition of East Asia. Moreover, as I advanced farther in my education, I moved away from my family to study in US. Since then I have been live by myself and do not have chances to have deep conversations with my parents.
To increase attachment with a child, spending quality time with enough conversation is a basic necessity. Moreover, having adequate amount of skin-contact is important so that the child can make a social-emotional base with you.

Blog 49

The position of women in society has been increasing greatly since the early 20th century, and now it seems both sexes have equal opportunities and rights. In recent times, only a few stereotypes from the old days such as “women work in office” “women are worse drivers” ,“only women wear earrings” have survived. These cultural and social stereotypes are either almost completely removed from our society or still on processing. For example, it is pretty common that men wear earrings. Women work in the field, too.
However, there are still many subtle stereotypes lying beneath our society’s surface such that most people don’t even recognize them, and here are some examples;
Women are more emotional / Women are shop-a-holics / Men rarely make decisions based on feeling / Men work on one thing at a time, etc.
I don’t think there is very many things we can do for children to fix these subtle stereotypes. These examples are more than just cultural and social stereotypes. These are more likely the characteristics of each sex than stereotypes. Many of them are psychological characteristics with biological reasons in hormone levels, like depression in women during menses.
Also, in Korea, most of the women are controlling their husbands today… I do not know how this kind of problem happened. As a male, I think sometimes the husbands look poor. I do not even want males to control females. I just want males to have their right^^ I hope there are no more scary(?) wife in the families in Korea.

Blog 48

In this blog, I am going to write about the sex education. Most of the teenagers get the sex education in their school. However, I think sex education does not encourage teen pregnancy. To prove this point, I’ll first start by designing a test with defining variables. The independent variable would be receiving sex education and the dependent variable would be teen pregnancy. Since the result would not come out in a short time period, this study should be a longitudinal one. The picking of the sample should be done really carefully. First two different high schools with similar quality should be chosen. If both groups are from the same school, each group could influence the other one. Moreover, if the quality of each school is different, the result might be influenced because the environment of each group is not equal. Second, random sampling must be performed to pick 20~40 students, typical amount of a class, from each school. Freshmen would be ideal to see results. Third, sex education would be given for one group while the other group would not receive it. It would be best if the sex education were given constantly, maybe twice per every year. Then, the results will be observable at the end of students’ senior year.
As I mentioned, I expect that sex education does not encourage teen pregnancy. Since sex education could provide answers to questions of that teens may have and warn them of the importance of contraception, it would be truly beneficial for teens.

Blog 47

A long time ago, one of my teachers in middle-school said, “No matter what the circumstances, test scores never lie.” His point was that test scores are the most direct way to show one’s performance, and there is no easier way to visualize one’s ability. If you put in the effort, scores can never fail you. As he said, standardized tests might be the easiest way to show one’s performance and abilities. However, I don’t think it is fair to let these tests play a huge role in measuring someone’s worth, because many standardized tests are biased and only focusing on the level of education.
Standardized tests are not designed for every individual, but for an average portion of society. Also, sometimes they are biased on many things including culture. Therefore, these tests can’t measure either exceptional individuals or people from outside of society who are not familiar with local culture. Moreover, many standardized tests are mostly focused on measuring one’s level of education rather than one’s true potential. Sometimes, an individual’s talents can’t be measure as a score. However, because of this systemic problem, many gifted people are not spotted but instead buried.
To fix these problems, huge reforms on the current system of our society is needed. First, there should be more than a few types of exams so one’s potential is not mistakenly missed. Second, standardized tests should not be biased on certain things such as culture. Most importantly, tests shouldn’t focus on showing what level of education that individual has, but reflect more the true potential of a person.

Blog 46

At a certain point of marriage, a majority of couples have a baby (of course there are also many who get a baby accidently before marriage). However, being married doesn’t mean that he/she is automatically ready to take care of a baby, and this is one of the major problems facing today’s children.
Poor parenting is mostly because parents are uninformed. In many cases, they are still love their kids, but simply are ignorant about what’s the right thing to do for children. The best way to mitigate this problem is providing them with classes about how to take care of children, what’s good for them, and the righteous ways of parenting. This is the easiest case to mitigate, because as they still love their children but are simply uninformed, they would perform good parenting after the education.
Negative effects of divorce are a bit more difficult matter. Every organism is naturally selfish to survive. Since they have their own hardships and problems to deal with, parents can hardly take care of their children. I don’t think there is a best solution, but in my opinion, there should be support from both the family and social level. First, I know that they have a hard time too, but parents should put priority on their children, and try to provide adequate financial and emotional support. If there are relatives who can provide support, it would be better. Second, there should be a well-organized social support system such as custody parents or divorce mediation programs. Volunteers mostly provide current social support and organizations can’t support rapidly increasing divorce rates and millions of children who are currently suffering from the negative effects of divorce.
On the other hand, childhood abuse needs decisive measures, because it is unacceptable fault to abuse younglings, and a parent who has abused their children will highly abuse them again. There is no way to let these parents raise children, and we must deprive them of the right of custody, and take care of children in better places.

Blog 45

In this blog, I am going to write about the problems of Global Warming. It is one of the most important problems that human society is having right now. People are having their lifestyle with driving cars, using air conditioner, burning fossil fuels, and all other things are causing the global warming. With the atmosphere fading away the Sun's rays will get through easier and have more effect and the earth will get hotter and hotter and eventually it will be about 200 degrees in summers and 100 in winters and in about 300 years the world will get hot to the point it will blow up. We need the changes with our lifestyle that would not harm our environment. If changes are made, then we can reduce the effect of global warming in the future. Even though the changes are made, there should be some global warming. However, we can reduce it and make it better. If changes are not made by people the global warming will continue. The glaciers will all melt. The polar ice-caps will melt and the sea level will rise, which cause the island and coastal regions to be sinking. Also, because of these problems, the weather will become more extreme, with worse droughts and worse floods, and worse storms such as hurricanes. Moreover, there is the possibility that eventually the global temperature will become so high that human life will cease to be possible at all. So, even though we do not feel the problems right now, if we want to make our kids to live well in better condition, we should think about these problems.

Blog 44

Do you like your BOSS??
Today, in our society, there are various kinds of organizations and most of the people are at least taking a part in the organization. Leader is the one who choose what the organization is going to do and take the responsibility of their members. And while the organizations are dealing with the problems, it is hard for everyone to be happy with what the organizations are doing. Some members may sacrifice for their organizations. Maybe sacrifice is not a right word to use in here. It sounds like the leaders damage the members on purpose. Some leaders have ambitions and do not care about their members no matter what. However, for others, they have belief that no one is hurt regardless of the situation. Rather they think that either all or none get equal amount of harm. In my opinion, for this topic, leaders should deal with the problems even though some members get damaged. Though, it is only for a goal to the whole organization get benefit. For the members who did not get any harm or only got benefits by their bosses’ decision, they will like their bosses. However, even though the bosses’ decision benefits the organizations, for the members who got harm even it is small amount number of people, they would not like their bosses. So, ‘Good boss’ does not mean ‘Good boss’ for everyone. Some people may say “He is the worst boss I ever met!” I hope you guys like your bosses~

Blog 43

In this blog, I'm going to write about the misunderstanding that Subway is having healthy food and McDonald's is having unhealthy food. In Subway, they have both the highest and lowest fat and calorie sandwiches in the fast-food industry. The six inch veggie delight has 230 calories and two and a half grams of fat, while the six inch meatball marinara with cheese sub has 580 calories and 23 grams of fat, (Subway). An option with the meatball sub is double meat and double cheese which adds another 900 calories, (Diet Success). The meatball marinara sub is also the leader in Trans fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and sugars. The sub contains one gram of Trans fat, 70 grams of carbohydrates, nine grams of dietary fiber, and 16 grams of sugar, (Subway). The overall sandwich is loaded with calories but there are also numerous individual items on the menu that can add a lot of calories to any sandwich. According to Finance and Fat, the highest calorie breads at Subway are “Honey Oat and Italian Herbs and Cheeses at 250 calories per six inch sub.” Also, the cheese that contains the most calories is cheddar, which has 60 calories per 2 triangles. Even though subway advertises itself as being a healthy alternative, what is eaten has to be watched because just as many calories can be consumed in a six inch “healthy” sub as a Big Mac from McDonalds.
As we see, there are a lot of unhealthy fast foods in America. Even people eat only one; they can take almost all of the calories they need for a whole day. Also, those foods contain lots of fats and sodium which are not good for people’s health. However, Subway also has some meals with high calories. Even though it is not high as the least healthy meal in America, it is high enough for a one meal. So, if you chose Subway as a meal, I would like to recommend you to try real healthy meal, which has lower calories than others.

Blog 42

In this blog, I am going to discuss about bottled water and tap water. As we know, people use both bottled water and tap water in their life. While people usually use bottled water only for drinking, they use tap water for drinking, washing, and other stuffs. We can think that bottled water is same as tap water. However, bottled water is much cleaner than tap water. Even though both bottled water and tap water are sterilized, bottled water is filtered and purified for people to drink safely. Also, tap water comes through the pipe, and some pipes are really dirty. People should neither drink tap water nor using it for cooking. It is better for them to drink only bottled water or water from the filtering machine. In many areas of the world, such as Mexico, tap water is avoided because of the poor taste, and also because it is simply not safe. In these areas, bottled water is the only way that one can drink water. We have all heard the benefits of drinking water in general, and if you are in an area where the water tastes bad, or has been proven to be unhealthy, then bottled water may be your only source of drinking water. In many of these areas, soda is chosen over tap water. With the added caffeine and sugar included in sodas, bottled water is a much safer and healthier choice for a drink. Also, consider that bottled water is a convenient way to consume the daily requirement of water while working, as well as an excellent way to stay hydrated during walking, jogging, or working out. So, I recommend people to use bottled water for drinking and tap water for washing and dishing.

Blog 41

In a present, many people are getting tired about the crowed city life and dreaming to move to a small rural town. However, I prefer to live in a big city rather than a small town. Unlike a small town, metropolitan provides many opportunities and convenient life to its residents.
First of all, there are various convenient systems or infrastructures including public transportations, medical facilities, and more. By using the subway and city bus, people can quickly go to any destinations wherever they want by paying rational cost. Moreover, citizens can be favored by the medical care service at the nearest hospital in the situation of getting any injuries or diseases. Furthermore, it is easy to purchase various products or supplies in the mall at anytime. Compare to metropolitan, in small towns, people have to go to other cities to get high quality medical treatments and products, and even have to take long time to get there. However, metropolitans don’t have to waste their time. They can access to all of benefits immediately at where they live.
Second, there are more opportunities such as employment. Since the service industry is abundant and many companies are placing their headquarters and branches in cities, labor power and employees are always highly demanded. Moreover, as a city has more occupations in various fields, it is easier to find a job that individuals are looking for. For example, there is no or very limited demand on the jobs related with IT or computer engineering. Therefore, even if a member of small towns is fascinated about IT, it would be hard to find a proper job or to insure adequate income. However, comparing a small town or rural place, there are great amount of job opportunities related with those fields in a big city.
As it is mentioned above, metropolitan provides many benefits to its residents. It might be true that a big city has some negative factors such as pollution and high crime rate. However, still its numerous points provide benefits to comfort many people rather than exacerbate people’s life status.

Blog 40

Writing 250 words for blog everyday reminds me of 10 years ago when I was in elementary school. When I was in elementary school, I MUST write my diary everyday and turn it. So, the teacher can read and give me the feedback. However, for the very little kid, writing diary was too hard and did not want to write for everyday. I sometimes changed the date of the diary I wrote and turn it again for credit. It was not as long as 250 words, it was long enough for the elementary students to get bored. However, after I grew up, I was cleaning my room and found bunch of old stuffs of mine. And I found my diaries which I wrote when I was elementary school. It was more than 10 diaries and I was so surprised about the amount of diaries I wrote. I read most of them at the day I found. It was really funny to read the childish words I used. I forgot what happened at the time when I was in elementary school. And the diary reminds me of the old days. I am not sure that the blog we are writing are going to reminds me of old days like the diaries from elementary school. However, I think even though it is really bored to write 250 words for everyday for now, in the future, I am going to think that it was really good to write about blogs and make me to think about the class English 110!!!^^