Do+Yoon

[] Kim, Doyoon EN 1313 Iyengar 1/30/12
 * Sociocultural Learning**
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A familiar name

“Well, I don’t know why my parents make this name and I have not been curious about that.” I was struck speechless by her unexpected answer. I prepared the list of questions and I was just about to ask them. However, a professor Barbara said that she has been living without raising doubts about her name.

In that moment, I’ve decided to lead the conversation by bringing up a story of my name. First, I told her about a tradition of tracing back the last name to its origin in Korea that there are specific progenitors on each last name. Then she let her personal lineage based on her parents’ names. Her mother’s name is Lyons which is Irish and her father has a Scottish name which is McDougall. For this reason, she is, so to speak, of Scotch Irish descent.

And then, I let her know the meaning of my first name (Doyoon) that there must be bright light just cross the road. Add to that, I said that I am very familiar with her name ‘Barbara’ which is also my mother’s baptismal name. She was pleased to hear that and soon told me that there is more meaning of the name itself than a woman saint’s name. She has studied what the original meaning of Barbara when she was in college. It has the meaning of ‘stranger’, ‘barbarian’ which came from Greek words. It was amazing that there is a connection between that meaning and her real life. She is of Scotch Irish but she is Canadian who was born in Canada. Moreover, she lives in America with her husband and her children, moving to here. The professor said she is amazed that she has lived like her name ‘Barbara’.

Finally, I asked her if she likes her name. She didn’t hesitate for a moment about answering. “Sure, I love my name.” she said. “Cause I have many sweet names called differently from each person. This name, Barbara is flexible. ” She is named ‘Barb’ by her friends and co-workers. Also her parents have still called her Barbie since she was a baby. It is good for her to hear even if her brothers make fun of that name. And she said shyly she likes the fact that Barbara Streisand who was such humungous star, having beautiful voice has a same name with her.

Kim, Doyoon EN 1313 Iyengar 01/30/12

My first and second trip to Jeju-Island At the beginning of the April last year, during Easter holidays, I have been to Jeju-Island with my family. Everytime I go somewhere, I often picture an image that I will see as soon as I step out of the car, train, or the plane. It was still going on the wing. Looking back at my childhood when I had been there, brought huge palm trees stirring in the breeze, towering rock standing in my way, and the field of reeds extending endlessly to my mind. I tried not to look like a child, pretending to show no interest in the trip in front of my family. However, I was anticipating the scenery that might has existed still for years in my memory.

The smell of the sea flowed into my nose as soon as I arrived carried me back to my childhood. I remembered clearly that I had told my mom the fish-like smell is nasty, pestering her to get into a car quickly. It was still smelling fishy but noting loath and even familiar. I didn’t know why but a pleasure and a sense of relief flooded over me from the familiarity. Waiting for a taxi, I was looking for palm trees soaring high into the sky. When I had been there first time, I had let out an exclamation of surprise, wondering how they can grow that tall even if they are not old. However, there were no anymore so huge palm trees which are same with things in my memory in spite of looking around with my eyes wide open. Ten years ago, the leaves of the trees had stretched out as if it could cover my whole way I will go around. I jumped on the balls of my feet to see the top of the trees. Unlike that time, they were not as tall as I thought. There were only the trees, standing at a height that I could see the top easily. I didn’t need to jump and I looked up to a tree top, just standing at one spot. It was awkward and I wanted to get back the feeling of familiar in the same way of breathing the salty air.

On my way of sea shore in taxi, I could not get the awkward and confusing idea out of my head. On arriving at sea in a few minutes, I jumped out of the car and breathed deeply the smell of sea again. I felt a litter better. In the distance rose the rugged rocks on the sand. I wondered if those rocks are the same things that I had saw last time. I stood alone facing right ahead to the rocks different from me as a child when I had approached there with holding my dad’s hand. I had had to go over the towering rocks being helped by my parents. Come to think of it, it is enough to climb the rocks by myself and even, I don’t have to pass the way, going over the rocks. Only the part of the rock had come into my sight and it had seemed there is no way without passing the rock. However, the whole rock came into my sight and I found I can go around by the side way on my recent trip. Finding another way made me feel interesting but weird and even being a little scared at the same time. By the time I got to the flatland, I held out my hand to my mom to make her jump down easily.

It took only an hour and a half to walk along a path with thickly growing reeds. My dad said that on first trip here, we had missed the reserved bus to pass the way for a long time with two little children (I and my little brother). He added that I and my brother had kept asking him a piggy-back. At the end of the path, I watched his back as he walked away. I used to jumping up his back and asking him to act like a horse. He had a broad back than I had ever known. His back strangely doesn’t wide as much as before. I couldn’t tease him for carrying me on his back anymore.

It was different what I was expecting like my first trip to there. Everything has changed and has been changing continually. It seemed that there would be no more time like my childhood. I was afraid of being not able to get back that time and go through a way alone. Few minutes later, I found a signpost written as ‘another way’. It was for another course of reeds path which was different from I passed. I stood, staring the sign for a while. I couldn’t get rid of my fear on new way but I become curious about the way and desire figuring out what is there and what will happen on the way. My heart started pounding with excitement like when I had seen the huge palm trees at the first time.

Kim, Doyoon EN 1313 Iyengar 02/09/12 Getting Back and New Learning

The ‘slowness’ is a representative philosophy for Eastern world. Interestingly, I found this virtue in West, especially in America, even though it had been hard to find the word in Korea. Korean has whipped a horse on fast on a track as going through a period of turbulence (industry period). They don’t want to hear what the horse wants and just make it run to the finish line. If the horse does not appear on the goal line in spite of timeout, they’ll just leave the track without looking back. In Korean high school, students constantly gaze at a book and the class motto on the wall in front of the classes alternatively. The motto is time waits for no one. Under the pressure that every task has to be handled faster than anybody else, it is clear that Korea has grown economically at a terrific speed. However, they have lost their presence of mind. At home, parents do not wait for their children to eat meals to the end on the table. They rush the children by the side to go to over two private institutes a day, even though the young don’t put their spoons on the table. However, as soon as I arrived here in the US, I’ve seen surprising scenes on campus. Students did not approach to the right in front of the driveway yet, but most of cars slowed down and pulled up on the road. I didn’t know why the cars stopped suddenly on the road without a sign of traffic light. It was not until students crossed the roads that the vehicles started going ahead again. There is no haste on the back of them as they left away. I say the words, ‘thank you’, countless times a day these days when going out of doors by other’s favor. It is different from when I was in Korea that I usually say ‘Bbal-li, Bbal-li’ which is ‘faster, faster’ in English. Korean is not accustomed to looking back on their way to somewhere. They usually hurry their steps, just focusing on their watches or cell phones. At a gate of a building, I enter or leave the building escorted by someone. People of all ages wait for others to get by, holding a door open. Even though, a company of them walk away, people stand on the spot with the door opened for next person. I’ve seen a little girl struggling to hold a hard door opened in front of a restaurant, waiting for a guy who was getting out of a car. At the first time as soon as I put my foot on this area, I was more than a little surprised at that kind of scenes, coming up with an idea. I thought this phenomenon might be paradox. In tradition, every Korean art, music, and a means of living has reflected the aesthetics of slowness included the idea of ancestors about margin and composure. The ancestor lived in the Middle Era of Korea named Choseon never did run even they were late for important appointment, keeping a dignity. They walked slowly with their hands clasped behind their backs. I don’t want to distinguish between right and wrong about these two cultures. There is a well known sentence which is taking a leaf out of a wise man’s book. What I would like to emphasize is picking up the old book first which has always been on bookshelves so that it has covered with dust first. And then, try to follow the step of the old ancestors, turning off the cell phones for a while. In addition, get another different colored book from the bookshelves and in the book, observe the people’s smile, showing infinite potential to do something and relaxed posture for next person. It is time to take a step backward and turn around for a while.

 A Summary of 'Are You Ok?'

Fabric Thrown over the City(Ch2)
A narrator is one her way to Columbia University to see teachers at conference by taxi. A taxi driver starts to talk about a world and every moment, likening a light to a fabric thrown over the city. He adds only a few pinholes of light get through. As he says, the light has always been there even though people have insisted that our time is the real time each other. Like this, a world is just a world, not belongs to anybody. We cannot control it and just have to put ourselves in the world(time). It floats, just passing everything at a moment, so that it will never happen again. What we can do is just let it come through, accept it and enjoy every precious moment.

Way to Go(Ch3).
A peace pilgrim has walked across the US, wearing the old-fashioned clothes. Without cars, money, house, she just walks, aiming to find her own inner peace. She follows a motto that living the way she believes without all the possessions. Also, there are two arguments she insists. First one is all people are ageless. And another is when you are tired of living and losing something on your way to go somewhere in your life, you can ask even the raggedy on the street for advice.

Shopping for Nothing(Ch4)
The narrator’s grandma was introverted and she felt lonely often. For this reason, she would have been shy and lonely while riding a bus or taxi. The narrator used to meeting her and then they went shopping by bus. However, she couldn’t buy products well because she was shy to enter the stores or answer the questions from employees. When they were having lunch in a restaurant, the narrator realized that even though not everything is hers, she could get anything by letting her imagination go without shyness or worrying to lose them.

Take Me with You(Ch5)
There are four happenings on streets when she was young. First, when she was three, a boy who was her neighbor gave her a ride on a bicycle. She didn’t want to get off his bicycle. Later, there was an accident with her father in his car. Even though they didn’t have seat belts, they were fine. After that, however, she couldn’t believe her father’s drive. Also, she and her brother have ever acted bad to their mother’s friend and wanted to get funny with her in her car. She was brought by an old man’s car when her mother didn’t have a license. After she got the license, she used to break a traffic regulation. Like these experience, the narrator wants to have many stories on the road than anybody else. She wants to go farther also. And she is thinking about what would be needed for going anywhere.

Backseat(Ch32)
The writer’s son does not accept his great-great-aunties’ death. He keeps asking that where they are and why they do not come anymore. He was used to hanging around with them and they usually sat in the backseat of his mom’s car. They loved her son like their own child. Even though she took her son to their graves, he does not understand their absence and even grumbles that he needs them to have a taco. It seems that he is too young to understand somebody’s death. However, the happening which a paper came back after blowing suggests that her son wants to believe that they are always with him. That is because he said thank you toward the backseat where the seniors were used to riding.

Roses(Ch31)
In a taxi, the writer heard about the beauty of nature from a taxi driver who is wearing a hat same with hers. The driver emphasizes how valuable it is to spend time and money on raising roses. It is worth working hard for the beauty. And the beauty comes from the strength which enables itself to grow continuously.

After All That Walking(Ch29)
Through the death of the peace pilgrim which is caused by a car accident, the writer recognizes that much depending on others endangers our lives. The pilgrim had not ridden a car until the accident happened. However, too much caring about it cornered us into being seized with fear.

The Same Bed(Ch14)
On his way to the airport in Chicago, the taxi driver asks what the writer did last night. She said that she did not sleep because of the guest book in her room. She read the entire book which contains uncomfortable and not pleasant facts that people had been experiencing while they stayed in the room.

Monsters(Ch15)
After meeting the poets, the writer told a taxi driver the poets he just met. He talked what the poets said about politics. In Scotland, people do not care about politics, feeling skeptical about it. And she starts telling about monster in Scotland.

Brown(Ch16)
The writer rides a taxi driven by young college student. He is working for two reasons; tuition fee and tanning. The writer does not understand why he wants to stay tanned. Also, it reminds her of a book written by her friend which is about racism. And the taxi driver said about the hardships of living, adding tanning is not included in the luxury category.

Rollentina(Ch17)
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To the writer, there are some unforgettable and unexpected moments in terms of driving. Those are about seeing the driver saying hello in French, encountering the Korean driver who knew good places to eat very well, driving by herself for the great writers, and riding in the back of a limousine with the two famous intellectuals. In these kinds of moment, she feels as if she was the central human.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Throughout the development process, India(especially the city of Delhi) has been changed. The cell phones enable people to check what would happen right away. And no patient cars are crowded so that they lead the roads causing extreme traffic jam. In this situation, the writer has a chance to be the first to pass over a new pavement which just opened. ======

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fun with Grandpa(Ch25)
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The writer starts to be worried about her son who is with his grandfather. He is in the back of the truck which seems dangerous. However, his very pleasant voice sounds through the phone. He is excited to have a great time with his grandfather.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sightseeing(Ch20)
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There is a white cat sat on the car in the parking lot. The writer looks the cat and a man who keeps staring at his cat. He says that he always rides around with his cat because the cat likes it. He believes that his cat likes to go around by the car as he saw sad eyes at him and his car last time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Taxi, North from Jerusalem(Ch7)
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The writer likes to kiss. She was just thrown out of a taxi while kissing with her friend. In the Middle East, kissing in public area is not allowed culturally. However, she cannot stop thinking and imaging about kiss in the future. Strangely, in the years, she has thought of the taxi driver who threatened her to be out of taxi more than her friend she kissed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Random Taxis(Ch11)
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The writer tends to pay attention to what she reads, hears, and writes. For this reason, she cannot get them out of her head easily. As with any contact with her, she keeps thinking about some revealed information that she read in the hotel. What she heard from the taxi radios also lingers in her mind. And there are two conversations shared with two different taxi drivers which stick in her mind. Those were about the domination by the minority and friendliness with what president said each.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Green House(Ch12)
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There was is her first car sold from her dad. While driving all over Texas, the car broke finally and she gave up getting it repaired. She let it stand in a field in Texas. It turns to greenhouse which comes to be embeded in her mind.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Too Many Cars(Ch28)
There were two car crash happenings that cars ran into her house. Something sounds like tornado or earthquake when her parents were sleeping. It was caused by car bumping into dad’s office. The driver came from Croatia was drunk. Later, he invited her parents to apologize but they rejected it. Next car crash happened by a Mexican driver. The police chased the driver who ran away. Her parents were feeling bad about the mess cased by the accident. After the writer found some the driver’s CDs, she went to where the driver works and gave those CDs to him.

Kim, Doyoon EN 1313 Iyengar 1/30/12

Reflection on the Video “Designed for the Dump” This sentence is ironic and reasonable at the same time. In other words, it means that electronics are made to be thrown away. It is absurd. People are in the world where people cannot live without electronic devices. Everyone focuses on new product which is invented latest and waits for it release, reserving it early. So it makes economical sense to launch new item in a short time.

However, examining a process of electronics’ cycling closely, we could figure out why the ironical sentence is quite reasonable. The words reflect the contradictory phenomenon well in an environmental way and even an economical way. First, lots of components of the products are gathered from another world, and then, they are assembled by plants. In a line of assembling and shaping of the products, chemical toxic ingredients are put indispensably. Finally, the electronic item would be taken by people. And it would be arrived at a part of the mountains of e-waste for disposal soon.

As the narrator says, everyone has experienced that repair fees cost more than buying new one. They turn away and pay attention to advertisement for new product. In short, people are repeating approaching to something injurious to health, replacing the last one with a new one shortly.

Kim, Doyoon EN 1313 Iyengar 02/20/12

How to make foreign friends As soon as I arrived in the United States, getting along with people and being social was worrisome to me for a while. Making new friends especially had always been hard for me because I am shy of strangers. And what’s more, I had to overcome cultural differences and the language barrier since my native tongue is Korean. When I thought about my deficient command of English, the first thing and only thing I could do was worry. I was afraid that I may become a bother to them, causing trouble especially in communicating with them.

However, One day, the opportunity came. I received an email from my school about a meeting for international students. I spent days agonizing over whether to go to the meeting or not. The big problem was how I approach them and what should I say to them. However, I did not want to miss the opportunity. Interestingly, as a result, my situation has taken a new turn. Based on my experience on getting along well with my foreign friends for the last month, let me talk about the best way and easy steps of making a foreign friend.

First, any meetings with any people start with saying hello. Isn’t it too obvious to say hello and exchange names at the first time to see each other? However, it is the best way to become close to foreign friends as the first step. At this first time to meet with people, anyone has a first impression from each other. That’s why it is very easy and important than any other ways. Even if you are not good at pronouncing English words, it is important to smile and say with louder voice. They show other people your confidence and bright appearance as a first impression. Also, these elements are a key to lead to more deep conversation well. With these elements for making relaxed atmosphere, you can make an appointment for lunch or dinner.

Next, if you succeeded making the appointment for lunch with them, you should prepare for meeting. A purpose for preparing this is to share common feeling with them. By comparing your country’s culture with other’s one, you guys can nod in agreement or talk about unfamiliar stories. It is perfect to draw interesting on conversation. For example, if your friend is from Germany, you can search the Internet and find out German culture such as car or beer or certain interesting issue in Germany. And then, on the lunch table, you can bring up the prepared information as a conversation topic. You can say like “I heard it is popular to drink beer with syrup. Is it true?” or “As far as I know, Volkswagen is popular in Germany. Is it true? The brand is considered as a luxury one in Korea.” Then, other people should be pleased that you already know about their own culture and also they can say what they are very familiar.

Finally, the last way is called ‘maintaining friendly relations’. Even though you’ve met the friends once or twice, it is no good ceasing the interacting after a meeting. To keep good relationship with them constantly, you should get out of being lazy. In other words, you should be nimble on your feet. Through often contact with them by SNS(Face Book, Twitter), email or sending text, the more opportunity to meet or talk arises. It would be good idea to visit some places where many foreign friends go like restaurants or gym.

The most important point here is to approach them first. Throw off your worry that you may bother them. Anyone involved foreigners would be delighted of you to say hello first with smile whenever you encounter them.

Quiz

Kim, Doyoon EN 1313 Iyengar 02/28/12

The Way to Enjoy Literary Genre A literary genre is simply determined by the way a work is composed. There are basic rules but there is no fixed standard of what a certain genre should entail. The genre could be affected by social, racial, and even factors. Based on this conditional classification, the literary genre has been generally divided into four classes. Every each genre has unique feature so that readers appreciate uniqueness of certain genre.

On the contrary to the poetry, novel literature is written in prose. The great feature of this genre is it allows the author to create and elaborate on various fiction scenarios. Even though it seems be likely to happen actually, the story is fictitious eventually. In other words, the lengthy paragraphs allow the author to expand on very unrealistic events and characters. Yet, at the same time these numerous detail is what makes fiction almost real. Based on these detail which compose and complete the novel, just following the plot and figuring out how author expresses his or her main points and sentence style are effective way to appreciate this genre.

Likewise, the essay literature is a form of writing that narrates from author’s personal point of view. It uses author’s experience to express his opinion or reflection on something. However, essay genre does not demand a lot of technique or form, so anyone can be an essay writer. From this reason, this genre becomes personal and realistic. The traveler’s journal and diary are involved here. Because it shows real story, it is good way for readers to read it by finding out how the piece of work honestly captures the truth about common life. You do not need to read using imagination different from the way to read poetry or novel.

By contrast to this genre there is a genre which is written for specific purpose. The main purpose of this writing is performance. It is intended to be acted out on stage. Unique feature of drama is that not only the writing can come into a play but also a choice of performers, the play’s letting, as well the audience. This unique genre allows the spectators to be involved in the play emotionally because it involves more lively sounds and lovely language. Therefore, readers are necessary to picture the progress of a play through the act and lines reflected on the script, imagining as if they are a main character.

In conclusion, I’ve prescribed about four genre of literature with some ways to appreciate the genre. I divide them on general criteria. It is never fixed and professional. Also, the way to read each genre depends on readers’ discretion based on the characteristics of each genre.

Kim, Doyoon EN 1313 Iyengar 04/02/12

The True Friendship

In a dictionary, ‘friendship’ is defined as a relationship between two or more friends. Then, can any relationship between just two people be regarded as friendship? I would argue not necessarily. How can we define the true friendship? Is there a way to describe a special relationship shared by friends and differentiating it from any other? Nowadays, the real meaning of friendship has continues to change. People focus on increasing the number of ‘friends’ by just clicking on SNS(Social Networking Services) to show off their broad personal connections. Due to this, people have lost the value of a true friendship and forget the meaning of a real friend. Friendship is maintained through trust. If a person starts to distrust his or her friend, their relationship never continues properly. Friends fully believe in the whole each other and even strongly believe what friends think more than what they themselves have known. In this way, real friendship is not trying to change a friend but to believe in his or her friend. If someone wants to put his or her opinion to a friend, it is not friendship.

According to recent research conducted by Human Research Foundation in Korea, the majority of the respondents answered that they hope to have their friends by their side when in trouble or need of company. They also stated that whenever their class mates or peers tried to express their opinion that sometimes did not agree with their own, they felt pressured by their friends’ ideas. Moreover, most of the high school students who participated in this research said that when going through hardship they expect simply there to listen, be accepting and supportive, not prescribing and judgemental like some counselors can be. In friendship, even if one is not making a decision or looking for solution, his or her support could be shown through waiting and acceptance.

Only after the relationship is based on trust can people share their thoughts, feelings, fun times, problems, successes and even failures with someone who knows and understands them very well. It is clear that anyone can open their mind to someone who is very trustworthy. By doing so, people are coming to share everything with friends who can understand very well and believe in them till the end. That is why a true friend is one of the nicest things people can have, and one of the best things people can be. They always care about their friends and they suffer when others are down. Also, they will not turn against one another due to jealousy when one of them succeeds.

However, because people can do anything through computer today, they try to handle their tasks and manage their life. This even includes maintaining the relationship easily and fast. By adding one’s name to the friend’s list, they are satisfied with the growing number of friends and sustain the relationship by commenting on others’ postings. People show their interest in others by clicking ‘Like It’ on the post. Instead of waiting for a development of close relationship and showing their true self to each other, people tend to upload posts on their personal pages about their recent vacation, new job position or a discovered reflection. This way they try to attract others and receive comments. The SNS like Facebook or Twitter was made with the intent to easily contact others who live far away. However, it is used to communicate with those who can be easily reached personally or through the phone. It is means of showing off themselves and proves that people bother investing too much time in building a true friendship. Having a true friend is like planting a seed that takes a long time to grow. However, it’s worth enough to wait for the fruit.

People do not realize they could shine by always being behind their friend’s back. By trusting friends and sharing everything with them, the virtue becomes a tonic for their life. Whether as a form of memory or just a friend’s presence, a true friendship leads friends to growing and getting stronger during the life time.

Kim, Doyoon EN1313 Prof. Iyengar, Kalpana 04/19/12 College Pressures College Pressures written by William Zinsser discusses four kinds of pressure working on college students today. These are economic, parental, peer, and self-induced pressures. Zinsser conveys his point through the usage of many examples and descriptions of the real stories. His points in this essay are to expose a difficult situation that students are faced now and raiseawareness of its change for students themselves. First of all, he bringsup a tuition problem that it is getting much higher every year.While students work part time at college and full time during the summer, it’s not enough to pay the tuition. So, they usually acquire special loans that they must repay within one year after graduation.Also he explains that most parents want their sons and daughters to be pick up a professional career that parents wish them to pursue, even if it is different from what children want. Zinsser points out that the trouble of parental pressure is deeply related to economic pressure. It is because parents think of their expectations on students as their right on pay off. There is a leap in his logic to some extent. However, I fully understand that students are obsessed with their parents’ hope because they have been students’ supporters till now and after. Zinsser states about peer pressure in line with self-induced pressure that students put pressure on their friends, thinking every other student is working harder. Ironically, in fact, every other student feels in the same way as well. It is all caused by obsession with grade, called “grade fever”. After all, students cannot get out of the cycle of doubt caught up the pressures which have been referred already. There is only one way to break these pressures. Students have to do it on their own because the causes of pressures are connected deeply each other so that it is hard to exclude each benefit and loss. It makes sense with what the writer says; “There are no villains; only victims.” They should believe themselves that they could be one who they want to be and who would not regret. Then, every problems surrounded them would be easy to jump so they will become realize that what matter now is just focusing on their own way with confidence.

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Kim, Doyoon EN 1313 Iyengar 05/01/12

Reflection on the Presentation Q1. Why am I Learning People sometimes complain that they did not obtain from the class they have taken. That is, they have expected the class to be connected to practical purpose. Students want to apply and relate what they learned to the actual field they are in. So, if they do not find the point of link with practical assignment, they feel that they failed in their attempt to get quality knowledge or information. However, in my opinion, even though what you are learning now seems useless or bothersome, it must be a continuation of your experience in your life. While you are listening to your instructor and performing your task assigned, the scope of your thinking is expanded subconsciously. In other words, in the future, you will be able to be faced with other essential task as one who has grown up beyond recognition. The practical information or the useful skill is not everything to oneself. Every what you are learning would develop your ability to think and insight as your valuable part of experience. That’s why I have learned and will continue to study at school and other instructive place. Q2. Good Behaviors Rewarded in My Life Someone might believe that working together will maximize the efficiency for common goal by just focusing on only the task assigned to each people. However, through the process of knowing and understanding others, a person who passed this process can encourage other members an even the person can develop oneself internally. Like a rhythmic music listened when you are working out, you can drive others to enjoy and move their minds. Since I was little, my father has taken me all kinds of activity program because he wants me to look at the world at large. One time, I participated in the World Youth Diplomacy sponsored by government. While I was taking part in the program, I was supposed to perform the task in terms of peace of the world. Our group had decided to meet women forced into prostitution for the Japanese army during World War II. In Korea, they did not have appropriate compensation for the damage. At the first time, the organization consist of the women did not allow us to see them. My group members depressed and even started to talk ill of them as well as each other. I thought it is the problem that we have just focused on what we should achieve. We did not know the true meaning of peace. We were busy lining our own pockets. After considering the problem in all its aspects, I started to persuade other members to make frequent visits to the women. I thought a strong desire is first requirement for peace. Even though we were young, I lead my members to communicating with them and trying to reduce the generation gap. We just listened to what they were saying and understanding their sufferings. We could not fully know their mind for sure. However, they said that they became more motivated to go through their problem. In my opinion, the value of peace and happy comes from understanding others with eagerness to know them. It developed myself in terms of finding how to make everyone feel happy. I was rewarded actually in aspect that I contribute to the world peace.

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