Hyemin

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Also, post your culture brochure immediately/5/2/12 Chapter Presentations Kalpana M. Iyengar/EN 1313
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Chapter Presentations Your chapter presentations are due on April 24th and April 26th. Everyone must read all the chapters as listed below because I may quiz you on any day on any chapter! Please use the following guidelines when you present**. Please bring a draft of your presentation to my office on the 19th (anytime between 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.) or Wednesday, the 18th (anytime from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) (20 points)**
 * 1) Use technology (power point, prezi, and you tube) – List the salient points from the chapter and present the summary. Show part of a you-tube video that is relevant to your chapter **(20 points)**
 * 2) Develop about 5 questions to ask your classmates in class. The questions must be from the chapter and it should engage your classmates. I shall collect the responses in class **(20 points)**
 * 3) Make copies of the summaries for your classmates to read **(20 points)**
 * 4) Discuss the chapter with your classmates by eliciting questions **(20 points)**

April 24th presenters April 26th presenters
 * 1) Chao Ning - The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts (83)
 * 2) Ma - School versus Education (50)
 * 3) Shen - Growing up (56)
 * 4) Xi - Everything isn’t Racial Profiling (95)
 * 1) Yihua - My Father’s Life (113)
 * 2) Kim D - College Pressures (128)
 * 3) Kim Y - The story of the good boy (192)
 * 4) Jung - What is Intelligence Anyway? (43)


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Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 2 /6/12


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Chapter 2. Fabric Thrown over the City

"I" and the taxi driver is in a yellow taxi en route to Columbia University to meet teachers at a conference. I stare out the window at pretzel carts and old men in faded raincoats and women with small sacks in their hands that might be a single bagel or a single muffin and ladies walking tiny nervous dogs on leashes with anticipation.

Chapter 3. Way to go

My mother met Peace Pilgrim at a university and she wore a navy blue tunic and navy blue pants and simple navy tennis shoes. She believed in talking and listening to people even if they looked a little scary. She was the first big traveler besides my dad. She could walk to Kansas City, or Peoria, or Indianapolis. The anticipation could be better than the reality, but if you are confused about being somewhere that is different from your anticipation, you'll put you life in the hands of people you don't know a million times.

Chapter 4. Shopping for Nothing

Grandma Marie asked me if I wanted to ride downtown with her. Grandma said she was going shopping but often came home with no parcel, no sack. When someone might ask her what she wanted, she looked around the big doll, men's sports, or baby's shoes. However, after watching the glittering ladies in the dining rooms of tearoom restaurants, my grandma owned the shopping bags, the feathered hats, and the salmon mousse on a platter. I owned the spolights, the neon, the produce men in shirt-sleeves and white aprons outside the fish market.

Chapter 5. Take me with you

When I was three, Roger the neighbor boy pulled me around the neighborhood. One morning my father lost control of the car and coasted across a weedy ditch and into someone's driveway. I almost had a broken nose, but it was only bruised. In second grade, I took a taxi by myself from school because my mother didn't have a driver's license. My mother saw the driver's hat fly off his head into the backseat and she saw me bounce from one side of the seat to the other. Later she got a license, and when I was nine, she got a ticket for speeding. When I was twelve, she crossed the median and the car lodged in a ditch on the other side.

Chapter 6. Dangerous Taxis

In high school, I participated involuntarily in a number of car wrecks. Amy drove through a stop sign in downtown San Antonio and a gray station wagon crashed into us. Tina crashed into the fancy mailbox of a dark brick bungalow. My parents ordered me to stop riding in any car, so I could walk, take the bus, ride a bicycle, or stay at the library for the next ten years. A year or so later, when waiting at the San Pedro bus stop, the young man at the wheel rolled the window down on my side and leaned over to say, "You need a ride?" While taking a ride, at a gas station, I jumped out of the car and began running. Then I took a bus. A few years later, Beth and I hitchhiked together and accepted a ride in a dump truck. The truck driver gave an advice not to hitchhike.

Chapter 7. Taxi, North from Jerusalem

I have no memory of why my friend was in the taxi with me; maybe we had been to a concert or a film and bus service stopped at sundown, but we were kissing madly in the taxi. This was supposed to be unthinkable, sensational, rude. In the years that followed I have thought of the uncomfortable taxi driver more than the person I kissed in his car.

Chapter 8. What happens

You lift your arm and you wave your fingers back and forth and expect a taxi to stop for you on a street. While taking a taxi, you hear something from the taxi driver. For example, one taxi driver said he could solve all the government's problems, if given the chance, or another dreamed about staircases under the bed going down to other worlds. Another one missed his old days, other talked about a bonnie wee, and the worst driver made me want to leap out.

Chapter 9. The thread

I met Dubby on my first day of college when I asked him for directions for my first class. On the next class, psychology, my partner for experiments on the behavioral patterns of rats turned out to be Dubby. However, I developed bronchitis and had to stay home for a whole week. I tried to let Dubby check out the rat results, but it didn't work well. One day, my cat DC needed to go to the vet, but my parents were working and I couldn't take a bus with the cat. Dubby drove me and my cat to see the vet. After we drop by the veterinary clinic, a wild shpper from a mall parking lot hit us right in the center on the driver's side. We were lucky not to be injured, but my mother ran over DC in the driveway and he died on the spot.

Chapter 10. Dora

When I was in the drugstore, a very old woman I'd never seen before was sitting in my car. She wore a flowered pink dress and a white sweater, but she wouldn't look at me and didn't say anything besides "Dora". I took her home to my parents and my father wanted me to take her to the police station. However, my mother worried about her being scared, so she came with me to find her home. The old woman didn't utter a word, but my mother tried to watch her face. At some moment, my mother saw her smiling. Then I realized "Dora" wasn't her name but the name of street.

Chapter 11. Random Taxis

Today the rain is pounding down and I'm waiting for a taxi. A taxi driver in Dallas says ten people control the universe. I ask an African-American driver in North Carolina about his favorite places and he answers the beach of South Carolina. Then he asks my my full name. He doesn't want just empty talk and ask me about that the president said every war looks good on paper. Then he insists a war never looks good.

Chapter 12. Greenhouse

After I got a driver license, I bought Mercedes Benz from my parents and it is only loved one car in my life. The car had a sunroof, a sense of deep gravity, a radio which I installed, and yellow seats. I drove that car all over Texas, for many years, till it broke down. I gave up repairing my car because of money and I left giant sunflowers growing inside my car. I made my car a greenhouse.

Chapter 13. Passport

On New Year's Eve, a Rickshaw driver in Agra, India tried to let me and my love go to rug store, but we just made him drive to Taj Mahal. After walking around the beautiful Taj Mahal, we stepped back into the street and the driver had waited for us. We didn't ask him to wait for us, so we just paid a little extra for him. My love and I argued about taking the first-class or second-class train and finally decided to take first class. He changed his mind. Unfortunately, the first-class wasn't that good. It was dusty, disgusting, and also freezing cold. We realized my partner left his favorite hat in the taxi later, but weeks later the grimy brown hat arrived by post.

Chapter 14. The same bed

A driver picked me up to take me the airport in Chicago. I said to him that I was so tired, but I stayed all night. This was because I read the entire guest book in my room. In the book, one of the couples reported that they got spider bites in the bed where I was trying to sleep.

Chapter 15. Monster

I took a taxi after I visited a poet's house. I sat beside the taxi driver and talked. When I said I heard something interesting about politics from the poets, the driver said people in Scotland were not interested in politics. They used to be tired of being disappointed of depressed to politicians. A few minutes later, we talked about the Loch Ness monster, highalnd monsters, deep cave monsters, and sewer monsters.

Chapter 16. Brown

I met a young taxi driver in a small Michigan village. He is not a real taxi driver, but a driver who wants to make money to go to college and stay tanned. It sounded weird a bit, 'to stay tanned'. He said he used to go to the tanning studio three times a week. He didn't want to be looked pale, but healthy. He made me think about the past world that discriminated darker people, but it appeared that brighter people wanted to be darker. I wanted to give him a copy of the book called 'Why Am I So Brown?'.

Chapter 17. Rollentina

The Korean taxi driver in Los Angeles told me about where to find the best empanada, the best kimchee, the best eggplant rollentina, the best chipotle salsa fresh, and the best shrimp pancake. I noticed he mixed cultures in the streets.

Chapter 18. Test case

When I was in India, I experienced a terrible traffic jam. While taking a taxi, a stranger tried to punch the taxi driver. A few hours later, the taxi driver asked us if he took the absolutely empty road. I didn't mind taking that road, but I wondered why nobody didn't take the road. Later, the taxi driver said that the road just opened last night and nobody wasn't sure if the road would safe or not because it took years to build. We were the test case.

Chapter 19. Mouth of the rat

My taxi driver's car broke down, so another taxi driver came to picked me up. He was the driver of two other people arriving from New York, so I had to wait until their plan landed. He wished me to sit in an oversized white limousine. I tried to enjoy climbing the limousine, but I felt bored and I was worried about getting carjacked. When the two people came to the limousine, they seemed like they didn't want to share their car. Until we reached the tall, glittering, silver condominium building, we talked in the limousine and I thought they tried to act normal, but they were not normal at all.

Chapter 20. Sightseeing

There was a white cat on the hood of a dusty green car in the parking lot of the Sanitary Tortilla Factory. I headed to the parking lot to look at the cat closely. There was a man and his wife was the owner of that cat. The man always went many places everyday with the cat and the cat used to get out and take a look.

Chapter 21. Tips

After the international teachers' conference went well, the taxi back to the airport didn't come and I was waiting for it for forty minutes. Meanwhile, I overheard a taxi driver saying,"Airport", and I asked if I could join them and pay half. The taxi driver tried to give us a tip about his country. He recommended us to try the Rainier cherry, the one that is yellow more than red and give a question about the building of forty stories, which was Smith Corona.

Chapter 22. Lending Library

In San Jose, California, a driver waited for my late plane for three hours even though I wished nobody would wait for me. The taxi driver pretended to be fine, but he was upset. I made a polite apology, but he didn't want to hear about it. Fortunately, when we started to talk about books, things got better. The driver was a big fan of Peter Matthiessen. I wasn't actually familiar with the author, but I acted like I was close to him. The driver said that the book //The Snow Leopard// changed his life and he wanted to borrow his book //Cold Ocean// by Jon Turk. He sent Turk's book and I sent it back with a thank you letter.

Chapter 23. No room at the Inn

I made a reservation for a hotel room, but my room was given to another person. The clerk made me take a taxi and stay one of the hotels in another town. The taxi driver drove as the hotel wrote down directions. I was supposed to work the next day at the Chicago Art Institute, so I was very nervous. To calm down myself, I talked to the driver about the south and north of India, the vivid, spicy curries, the quirky Bird Hospital in old downtown Delhi, and so forth. I could not see any hotels where I could stay, so I just asked the driver to exit the interstate. Finally, I found the restaurant LORENZO'S ITALY and explained what it happened. Jack, Lorenzo's the owner, gave me a lot of Italian cuisines. After then, I had to stay at the penthouse. I dialed the Fairmont where I was supposed to stay and complained about what they did. The manager felt sorry to me and sent me a taxi the next morning.

Chapter 24. Bruce

I met a youngish driver with curly blond hair at Newark Airport. Because he said he spent his most time in New Jersey, I asked about Bruce Springsteen. The driver was a big fan of Bruce like me. The driver has picked up some of his band members, but when he met Bruce, he was just a fly on the wall. Besides Bruce, he met many celebrities while he worked for a taxi driver and he told me about them. The worst case was the person who was very arrogant, and I agreed with him. Finally, we decided to talk about only Bruce, which didn't get us in a bad mood.

Chapter 25. Fun with Grandpa

My only child was with my father for the weekend and I called my father to talk to my son. He was in the back of the truck and I thought it would be dangerous enough. My son told me that he ran over a rattlesnake with the riding lawn mower, but it wasn't dead yet. Also, he said he was having a great time.

Chapter 26. Free day in Toronto

My son and I have been attending a children's literature conference at a university campus for a week. When I said I thought I was having a heart attack, my son dodged across the street into a small grocery to purchase aspirins and bottled water for me. Then he stepped off the curb and motioned for a taxi. Finally, we got to the the Tele-Health Live Nurse Hotline and the Live Nurse thought I should go to the emergency room. Someday we will return and will not waste our time.

Chapter 27. Criminal Handbags

I met a man who imitate fancy handbags and use false tags. This is because he can make seven hundred dollars in a day. He thinks he is giving a service people who want cheap handbags that look like expensive handbags. Then we talked about Egypt and I made him homesick. I tried to make him quit his illegal job while I was going to my hotel, but he took me to the wrong hotel with a spin-off name. All evening I was staring at everything a little differently, thinking fake hair, real hair, fake fur, real golden and yellow flowers gleaming from a giant silver urn in the lobby.

Chapter 28. Too Many Cars

My father has never liked the street where he and my mother live in Dallas because it is too wide, too crowded, too fast. However, my mother like that street with swift access to grocery stores, cafes, and banks.One night, my father woke up, thinking there was an earthquake, but there was a car in his house and a man from Croatia. The second person who crashed into my parents' property drove through the chain-link fence into their backyard. My parents were not happy about so many deep tire tracks in their yard.

Chapter 29. After All That Walking

Peace Pilgrim died in a car accident. The man who was driving died, too. So, it is not always true that we'll be fine when we entrust our lives to strangers. When our baby was three months old, our new car was on a freeway. Someone in front of us was fixing a flat tire, but a reckless driver behind us didn't notice the situation. Fortunately, we ended up bruised and shaken.

Chapter 30. Gifts

A stage manager handed me two free tickets for the evening. I took a yellow taxi to the small theater. The taxi driver was from southern Lebanon and I gave him the green tickets. However, he didn't try to take money even though he drove me. I told him my schedule for the next two days and he promised to get me again. He kept refusing taking money from me. Later he told me he was from Jerusalem. He told me about his family. His family can't move and can't go. In this country, people were dying in the streets and too many young people ran away. After then, I understood why he gave me a gift. That's because we shared the same ethnicity.

Chapter 31. Roses

I and a taxi driver were wearing the exact same beige woolen cap with a rolled brim. I told him that I got my hat in Peshawar and he said he was from Peshawar. He asked me, "How many rose bushes do you have?" I counted them in my mind and I said seven. He had eighty rose bushes in America and about four hundred in Pakistan. He didn't think it would be a lot of work. We reached the hotel and I would have liked to ask for gardening tips from him such as "Could a few inhalations of rose scent help him feel the world was a friendlier place?" or "Did he cut blooming roses for vases in his rooms?"

Chapter 32. Backseat

My son's great-great-aunties died within three weeks of each other, but he didn't understand their death, asking "where are they?" I took him to their graves and a pale feather flew in front of my face right then and I grabbed it and gave it to him. He took it back to the car. I and he talked about what heaven would be. While I was tying the trunk, my son saw the small folded white paper tucked beneath our windshield wiper which we had before.

Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 1/31/12

Name Game I met the professor Cyra Dumitru and interviewed her about her name. Her first name is Cyra and last name is Dumitru. Her name had been Cyra Sanborn before she married her husband Danniel Dumitru. She guessed Sanborn would be the old name from England and related to the valley or the hill. I expected she would have been sad when she had changed her last name to Dumitru, but she said she had liked Dumitru more than Sanborn. Most married women used to change their last name to their husbands’, but this tradition has been changing these days. Her first name Cyra was given to her by her grandmother. Her grandmother’s first name is Cyra and her mother’s is, too. She did not like her first name Cyra because she felt very connected to her mother and her grandmother, but she likes her name now. If she had had a chance to change her first name, she would have changed to Rebecca. She thought the name Rebecca made her feel elegant. The name Rebecca is often called Becky, but she never called her friend Rebecca as Becky. She thought Becky was an insult against the name Rebecca. Her first Cyra is related to the name of her great grandfather Cyrus. She thinks I may find Cyrus in the Bible, but she is not sure about the exact meaning of Cyrus. It has many meanings, such as a river, the throne, and the moon.

Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 1/31/2012

My teacher

When I was in 6th grade in elementary school, I met my Korean teacher and she was around 50 years old. What I remember about her was that she was strict and did not smile a lot. All of my classmates thought like me, so we were very quiet and careful about our behaviors at the beginning of the semester. As time passed, we got used to her style and she had a unique teaching method. She frequently not only used newspapers in the class, but also had her students make their own newspapers. This was one of the reasons why all the desks in my class were messy. Every desk had a dictionary, a scissor, glue, colorful pens, and so forth. We were very familiar to reading newspapers because we had to write the articles and use the newspapers as the references. This activity helped us improve vocabulary, reading skills, and writing skills. In short, she had an emphasis on self-study and did not let us write a test. Compared to my teacher, most teachers in Korea look into textbooks, give an assignment and an exam paper, and even encourage students to go to private educational institution. My teacher believed students had to know how to study on their own. Students can reach the answer quickly by memorizing some formulas or solving problems on many workbooks repeatedly. However, she thought studying like robots, which means doing the same thing for a very long time, would be less important than knowing the principle. I learned how to study by myself from my teacher, and it worked when I was in high school. She spent most of the time with studying and I had only two physical education classes a year. However, she taught me about not only self-study but also consideration for others. One day, she asked my classmates the question, “What happens if you get rained on?” We answered her question, “We will become bald-headed or catch a cold.” She cut her words short and made one of the classmates go to the school health room and bring something from there. The classmate suffered from some diseases, so his hair fell out. To prevent that classmate from being hurt and disappointed, the teacher sent him to the health room. In this way, she wanted us to be considerate people. Also, she made the student who received the prize from school bring something to eat for everyone to share, such as cookies or cocoa power. I did not understand her intention at that time, but now it seems that she had wanted to make her class cooperate with each other. By treating everyone, the student could avoid jealousy from others. For these reasons, she is the best teacher I have ever met. What I liked about her the most was that she did not try to educate her students as people who study very well.

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Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 2/8/12 Foreigners As technology and transportation have been developed, people can easily go anywhere in the world. They can travel, work, or study abroad. The number of foreigners from very diverse countries has continuously increased compared to that of 10 years ago. A foreigner is someone who belongs to a country that is not his or her own and he or she feels unfamiliar to everything outside of his or her own country. For example, I went to Canada to study English and as a foreigner. There were not familiar things, especially the bus system.

When I went to Canada, I have tried to take a bus to go somewhere. As soon as I took the bus, I searched in my purse, stood up next to the bus driver, and picked out tiny coins to pay for the bus fare while Canadians sitting on the bus were staring at me. The biggest silver coin with gold color in the middle is 2 dollars; the golden coin is 1 dollar, the second biggest silver coin is 25 cents; the third biggest silver coin is 5 cents, which is bigger than the coin of 10 cents; the smallest silver coin is 10 cents; the only bronze coin is 1 cent. Because the driver would not give change, I had to pay the correct fare. After that, I had to stay alert in order not to miss my stop, paying attention to the announcement about bus stops. Listening the similar pronunciation with the name of my stop from the announcement, I tried to indicate to the driver the sign that I would get off the bus at this stop, but could not find the button that I always pushed to let the driver stop at my stop in Korea. Fortunately, someone pulled the yellow string attached to windows and I approached the rear door. However, the door was not opened. I asked the driver to open the door, and then the person behind me pushed the door and the door was opened smoothly.

A few weeks later, I waited for a bus for 30 minutes and took the bus to go to Wal-Mart. On the weekend, the bus came to every an hour, so I did not complain about being waiting for 30 minutes. Getting on the bus, the driver asked if I needed a transfer paper or not. I thought I did not need it, so I said, “No, thanks.” Two minutes later, I realized that I did need to transfer and came up to the driver and said, “I am so sorry, but could you give me a transfer paper? I forgot to get it.” The driver glanced at me, but there was no response. If I had been a Canadian, the driver would have given me the transfer paper because he saw me. As I got off the bus, I searched in my purse and picked out the coins again. Unfortunately, I did not have any change, so I paid more than what I was supposed to pay for.

I did not have to pull the yellow string urgently and push the door to get off the bus because the buses in Korea have different system which I am familiar with. I did not have to pick out my coins or beg for a transfer pass in Korea because I can just use my bus card which is electronic. As a foreigner in Canada, I felt everything was unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

Hyemin Jung EN1313 Kalpana M. Iyengar Quiz Please use complete sentences while answering questions/2/17/12 Please read the chapter titled "Process Analysis" in your MR and answer the following questions 1. What is process analysis? Give an example from your reading of the text. Process analysis breaks a process down into logical steps; for example, in putting the bicycle together, it is necessary to construct the entire handlebar unit before attaching it to the frame of the bike. 2. What are the two different kinds of process analysis? There are directive process analysis and informative process analysis. 3. Processes can be chronological, simtaneous or cyclical. 4. Read the following paragraph and create a graphic organizer to indicate the process involved in taking a picture.



Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 2/16/12 <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">The Story of Bottled Water <span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Some tests showed a glass of Fiji water is lower quality, but it costs about 2000 times more than tap water. There is what the bottled water industry did. The company scares people about tap water, saying that tap water will be for showers and washing dishes. Then, it hides the reality of its product. In other words, the ads say, “Bottled water is environmental product”, but it is trashing the environment. <span style="display: block; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Oil is used to make water bottles. Then the company manufactures bottled water and consumers drink it. The end of the life cycle is disposal. Some of bottles end up in landfills or they are burned, releasing toxic pollution. The rest gets collected for recycling. However, this is not real recycling, rather turning them into lower quality products. It is time we took back the tap. First, we make a personal commitment to not buy or drink bottled water unless the water in your community is truly unhealthy. Then you spend money to improve our water systems better instead of spending money with buying bottled water. Now we ban the purchase of bottled water by your school, organization or entire city. As the demand of bottled water declines, manufactured water will also be declined.

Hyemin Jung

EN1313

Iyengar

2/21/12

How to Make Tteokbokki

When I am in a foreign country, I miss my family, friends, sweet home, and food a lot. As for me, missing Korean foods is a big part of being homesick. There are many kinds of Korean foods, but Tteokbokki is one of my favorite Korean foods and at the same time, one of the foods that I can make by myself. The reason why I like Tteokbokki is that I can easily get Tteokbokki on every street and usually relieve stress with eating spicy food. Also, when I was young, I ate Tteokbokki in the small paper cup on my way home. This can be done only by young students because in Korea, people do not eat food while they walk along the street. Therefore, Tteokbokki is one of my childhood memories.

Tteokbokki can be described as a sticky rice cake cooked in a spicy red pepper sauce. There is no standard recipe for Tteokbokki and the flavor depends on who is cooking it because we can choose our favorite ingredients. You can have Tteobokki with seafood or cheese. There are various ways to make Tteokbokki such as soy sauce Tteokbokki, Kimchi Tteokbokki, and honey sauce Tteokbokki. Among them, I want to introduce the red pepper Tteokbokki recipe, which is original and the most popular Tteokbokki, to students studying abroad because it is the most delicious food, easy to make, and cost and time effective.

With my own recipe, I can make Tteokbokki really well and only with a few ingredients. If you visit the famous place for Tteokbokki, you will see that the chef of the place devotes himself to boil Tteokbokki in meat stock instead of water. However, making the meat stock takes you a very long time. The first step that you have to do for making light Tteokbokki is to go to the market and buy some ingredients: rice cake called tteok, red pepper sauce, onions, green onions, sugar, starch syrup, fishcake called odeng, and eggs. Now, it is time to show off your cooking skill and here are five steps. First, put the tteok in boiling water for a couple of minutes, which makes the tteok chewy. Then, discard the water and get clean water again and add three tablespoons of red pepper sauce mixed in the water this time. You should stir the sauce with a spoon to prevent the sauce from hardening. Thirdly, put two tablespoons of starch syrup and half a tablespoon of sugar when it starts to boil. The fourth step, while you are waiting for the sauce to simmer, is cleaning other ingredients. You can wash onions, green onions, and odeng and chop them to suit your need. Finally, you put these ingredients in the pot and stir them including the tteok and the sauce in order to avoid the tteok getting stuck to the bottom of the pot. In this step, you can put odeng right before the end of cooking. This is because odeng tends to absorb the liquid. If you put odeng early, your Tteokbokki is short of its soup and then other ingredients are badly seasoned with the red pepper sauce. After everything is mixed, Tteokbokki is completed.

After making Tteokbokki, there is one more work you have to do. Do not forget the fact that you still have eggs to prepare. You will have Tteokbokki with boiled eggs. Tteokbokki tends to be spicy because of the red pepper sauce, but boiled eggs can make Tteokbokki less spicy. First, you put a couple of eggs into a small pot with cold water and start to boil them. The important thing of this part is that you should add some salt in the water. This is because salt can prevent eggs from being cracked, so you can enjoy very round boiled eggs. Also, you have to boil eggs for 13 minutes. Less than 13 minutes cannot make the egg yolks hard, on the other hand, more than 13 minutes can make them too hard. Thanks to boiled eggs, Tteokbokki that you make becomes much more delicious.

Last but not least, you should not forget to wash the dishes after eating Tteokbokki. Washing the dished may be annoying, but it takes you only 15 minutes. If you put off doing it, you will get more tired because there will be hardened red pepper sauce.

Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 3/1/12
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Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 3/1/12 Four Types of Tests According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a test is a set of questions or practical activities that show what someone knows and is like what someone or something can. In general, teachers give students test papers. Teachers try to access their student’s ability to figure out if students remember some facts or understand course materials by using different types of tests. The types of tests are classified into four major categories: multiple choice, true or false, short answer, and essay.

First of all, on a multiple choice test, there are more than two options that students can choose. There are usually four or five choices. From the standpoint of students, they prefer the type of multiple choice the most because they can rely on the possibility. In other words, even if they do not study and know the answer, the chance of choosing the correct answer is 25 percent if there are four choices. In addition, multiple choice questions do not take students much time to finish it. There are sometimes several questions that are too tricky or picky to confuse students and in this situation you need to avoid choosing the choice with ‘always’ or ‘never’. The choice with absolutes is hard to be the answer because it does not allow for exceptions.

True or false questions have fewer choices than multiple choice because you have 50 percent to reach the correct answer. This type is also easily scored and graded. However, it will not be an easy type of test for mathematics. The type of true or false is modified a little bit harder. In math class, teachers ask students, “If the following statement is true, prove it. If it is false, make a counter example.” If you see this question, you may hope that the answer will be false because you have to do a lot of work to prove by arithmetic.

In the short answer type, you may be asked to fill in the blank. Scoring is relatively easier and students can place a high importance on key words or key concepts. However, you can get a lower grade because of your tiny mistake. This results from the drawback with the short answer type. Suppose that you take a math exam and need to write down the only answer without showing the process to get the answer. Unfortunately, you make a small mistake in the very last step of your process and your answer is totally different from the correct answer. Because you do not show how you got your own answer, you cannot even get a small amount of credit.

Essay question can be the hardest type for both students and teachers because students would have to spend a long time to write their own essay based on what they studied and teachers would have to read through a lot of essays from students and score each of the key points. It is helpful for students to develop the ability to integrate ideas and writing skills. However, the grade between students could be biased because their essays are read subjectively. Sometimes the factors besides what students learned in the class can affect their grades such as the font type or the specific opinions that the teacher personally agrees.

The types of tests depend on teachers, so teachers can choose what they prefer. However, teachers try to balance among multiple choice, true or false, short answer and essay questions in consideration of advantages and disadvantages of each type and the students’ different preferences. Therefore, students develop their ability to think and reason while taking various types of tests.

Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 3/20/12 Negative Effects of Advertising According to the dictionary, advertising is a form of communication used to persuade viewers, readers or listeners to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Advertising is offered to consumers through various types of media such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and web sites. Many companies use advertisement in order to create the image of products or services and maximize their revenue. Being exposed to advertising is inevitable, and there are three negative effects of advertising on consumers.

First of all, consumers can get wrong information. Some companies run false and exaggerated advertisements. False advertisement makes use of misleading statements that people easily fall prey to. An ineffective diet pill is an example of false advertisement. It is said that people can easily lose their weight by taking this pill instead of exercising. It leads people who want to lose weight to buy the pill, but there are few people who have positive effects on the pill. Another example of exaggerated advertising is Post-it, the sticky notes. The company advertised that Post-it notes are still sticky even while people are skydiving. This represents its stickiness against wind, but it is highly impossible. Deceptive advertising does not give the correct information to consumers and prevents consumers from making a decision correctly.

Furthermore, advertising also causes consumers to indulge compulsive shopping. A compulsive purchase is an unplanned decision to buy a product or service. People tend to make this purchase due to the effects of advertising. Repeating catchphrases or showing the advertisement, some characteristics of advertising, can imprint the image of the product on consumers’ brains and make consumers want to purchase that product. Also, some specific phrases in advertisement encourage compulsive buying. For example, the phrase ‘limited quantities’ makes consumer feel impatient to buy the product because they are worried about missing the chance to buy it. This kind of trick can be used in setting a price. The price ‘$29.99’ makes consumers feel like they can afford buying it because by seeing the number two, consumers feel that they are buying an item for around 20 dollars when in reality, they are buying it at the price of 30 dollars. In this sense, compulsive shopping can blow a budget quickly, so advertising can make consumers’ budget tight.

Finally, advertising has steadily increased the price of products. This results from advertising fees. As companies do excessive competition for selling their products, they make use of advertising with celebrities to promote their sales. People tend to want to use the same product their favorite entertainers use, so consumers are likely to trust celebrities, advertising with celebrities encourages consumers to buy more products with reliability. However, casting famous people costs a great deal of money, so this is included within the price of products. Moreover, producers try to keep competing with advertisement rather than improving the quality of products. Consequently, the price of products goes up and consumers have to pay for the advertisement fee.

It is true that consumers can get much more information through advertising, but false and exaggerated advertisements disturb consumers’ rational decision making and enormous expense on advertisements takes away the chance that consumers buy products at reasonable prices. Therefore, consumers should detect whether the information is correct or not and select only useful information. Then they can purchase wisely and reasonably, while working to their budget. If consumers are not easily swayed by incorrect advertisement and overcome compulsive buying, producers are not willing to invest money to make wasteful advertisement.

Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 3/26/12 Parenting When you build a house, you cannot ignore the foundation stone. If you build a house on a sand dune, you know the risk. Just like building a house, the most important part is the foundation that prevents the building from collapsing. Similarly, parenting is the foundation in a child’s life.

There are some ineffective ways to educate children, and one of them is parenting based on a particular authority. Some parents often say, “You have to do this because I am your parent.” They enforce rules without clear reasons that children must follow. For example, children must go to bed early because young children are developing and need adequate sleep, but parents sometimes skip to explain reasons. From my experience, when I was a child, my mother forced me to brush my teeth before I went to bed, saying that she was my mother and I had to listen to her. I did not want to brush my teeth because she did not do so while she was lying on her bed and watching TV.

Parents ought to be role-models for their children. Children like to repeat what they see or hear just as a parrot does. My mother was a math teacher and she always studied mathematics for her class. When I saw her studying, drawing some graphs, and writing some formulas, I used to take a seat next to her and draw math topics because she looked so smart and I wanted to emulate her. Thus, after watching and repeating her actions, I ended up enjoying mathematics. Conversely, I rarely saw my parents reading books and I was not interested in reading. Therefore, back to the prior example, the way to persuade children to brush their teeth is simply if parents brush their teeth first to persuade children to do the same behavior.

The “Like father, like son” phrase supports the idea that parenting involves being a role-model for children. Children, in general, tend to grow up to be a lot like their parents. According to the study from ASH(Action on Smoking on Health), children who live in homes where parents smoke are more likely to become smokers. Parents who abuse drugs or alcohol are more likely to find their children someday doing the same. You do not need to say, “Do not smoke” or “Do not drink” to your children. Just do not smoke or drink yourself and then your children will copy you in a very natural way. If you want to teach your children about generosity, you should be a generous person. You should pay close attention to what children say, play with them, or volunteer with them. In this way, you can teach children about happiness, consideration, self-respect, patience, generosity, self-discipline, diligence, kindness, bravery, and compassion.

If you thoughtlessly throw away garbage, you cannot say “Do not throw away trash anywhere” and look forward to your children listening to you. Being a positive role-model requires self-control. Parents need to put an equal emphasis on disciplining themselves before trying to discipline their children. This must be difficult and tiresome, but it will turn out to be worth than you could ever have imagined because your efforts will be carried to the next generation. It is apparent that your children will copy how you parented them.

Hyemin Jung 4/26/12 Kalpana Iyengar EN1313 What is Intelligence, Anyway? In the essay //What is Intelligence, Anyway?//, a science and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov addresses the question of what intelligence really is to general readers without technical or scientific discussion of intelligence. Asimov says that there is not an absolute quality or set of abilities we can call intelligence. For example, Asimov has received academic training and he has a verbal talent, so he is in an advantageous position with answering academic questions. Even though Asimov does not know how to fix his car by himself, he received 160 on his aptitude test whose average is 100. On the other hand, Asimov’s auto repairman has great manual dexterity, but he is not considered as an intelligent person under the intelligence test. If the intelligence tests are made up by a carpenter or a farmer, Asimov would not be satisfied with the test result. In this way, there is more than one kind of intelligence, but intelligence is limited to only academic questions. In the last part of story, Asimov gave the wrong answer with the repairman’s joke, while making scissoring motions to explain how the blind customer asked for scissors. Then repairman sarcastically commented that Asimov could not be very smart even though he could be intelligent. I have read the article from Dr. Howard Gardner at Harvard University. According to Gardner, there are nine types of intelligence which are verbal, mathematical, musical, artistic, spatial, kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and natural intelligence. As Asimov pointed out in his essay, most people tend to focus on verbal intelligence, but we should know that we have all of different kinds of intelligence. There is only difference between which intelligence is stronger.



Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 5/1/12 Experience that I was Rewarded When I was the first grade in the middle school, I fortunately took the second place on the midterm. At that time, there was a friend of mine who wanted to get a high grade, but did not know how to study. I thought that if I could let her know how to study, she would be interested in studying. Therefore, I decided to help her to study all kinds of subjects for an hour every weekday without any rewards. Sometimes I was worried that I needed my own time to study, but I kept promise with her. My friend ranked over 60th higher than before. Surprisingly, I also took the first place on the final. This resulted from the fact that I reviewed the materials on the textbook while I was teaching my friend.

Hyemin Jung EN1313 Iyengar 5/1/12 The Reason Why I Took the Composition Class I used to think that I am good at reading, listening, and writing English, but I have the only problem with speaking English. However, I realized that those three parts seemed okay because I just assumed the context of some essays and listening materials, and wrote my essay by using a dictionary and looking up some words in it. Therefore, I wanted to learn English by reading and writing many kinds of essays, such as definition, illustration, argument essay and so forth.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hyemin Jung <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">EN1313 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Iyengar <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5/8/12 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Slumdog Millionaire <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The movie //Slumdog Millionaire// from the British shape-shifter Danny Boyle shows the modern-day fairy tale about hope and hard times in the slums of Mumbai in India. In the movie, Jamal who earned a living as a serving fragrant tea to call-center workers in Mumbai became a contestant on the show //Who Wants to Be a Millionaire// because he thought he would have contact with his friend Latika though the show//.// Jamal did not know the answers for the every question, but finally won the grand prized by reminding his own experiences in his life. His experiences, which helped him to be a millionaire, include some sociocultural issues in India.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Even though the movie received a lot of praise from people around the world, it was not welcomed in India. This is because the majority of the people in India are suffering from poverty and they are described as ‘dogs’. After Jamal and his brother Salim witnessed the murder of their mother by the anti-Muslim attacks amid the trash heap of Mumbai in India, they started to make a living travelling on top of trains, selling goods, picking pockets and working as dish washers. Also, they pretended to be tour guides at the Taj Mahal. Their deceits in front of one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as stealing people's shoes, show contradiction and criticize the poverty problem in India. After a few years, Salim worked for Javed who was the gangster boss in one of the gangster’s organization and he was letting his friend Latika give sexual favors as bribes to overcome his poverty. In this way, the movie points out the problem of poverty in India.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> In addition, the movie reveals the dark side of the society in India by showing the issue of child prostitution. A gangster Maman tricked street children by giving them foods and then trained them into becoming beggars. His misdeed which was earning money by using children did not stop and blinded children in order to make them more effective as singing beggars. He even made some girls become a prostitute and their virginities were expected to fetch a high price. Children are too young and weak to resist, so children prostitution is committed as means of earning. The movie lifts the lid on child prostitution in India through Jamal’s childhood experiences.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the movie, we can get a sense of the problem of violence as a sociocultural point of view. At the beginning of the movie, there is a scene that police arrested Jamal on suspicion of cheating because Jamal was from the slums and he did not have formal education. However, the police investigation was not examined democratically, but rather Jamal was tortured by the police. Of course, Jamal was innocent enough. Beside this scene, when Jamal and Salim brothers rescued their friend Latika from living as a prostitute and Maman, Salim drew a gun and killed Maman. The last scene in the movie deals with violence problem again. Javed discovered that Salim had helped Latika to escape after he heard Latika on the show where Jamal was solving questions. Javed and his men broke down the bathroom door, and Salim killed Javed before Javed's men gunned down Salim. The movie indicates the issue of violence in these three scenes.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The movie //Slumdog Millionaire// tells a story based on Jamal’s life experience in India, so it is natural that it reflects some pictures of the society in India. Among them, the movie represents the issues of poverty, children prostitution, and violence. However, these situations are not only limited to India. These are the issues that all of the countries should deal with and solve, and this could be one of the reasons why the movie //Slumdog Millionaire// won eight Oscars in 2009.

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