final exams

next week, I start final exams:(
but I didn't study..........nothing..............
that's not good. what should we do?

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     When I entered middle school, my parents bought to me first cell phone to celebrity entrance in Cell Phone Stores by using mother’s card.

     Before enrolling in middle school, one day in February, I and my parents go to Cell Phone Stores. We looked various cell phones. When we just looked cell phones, I watched which cell phone. That was a new product that well received in the market. I felt in love with it at first sight. So I decided to buy it. My first cell phone is small, fits in one hand because of it is streamlined shape. And its color is pink. I was so happy when I had a first cell phone. I wanted to boast to my friends. And I thanked my parents.

     My first cell phone is important experience because of it’s the first electronic device that I had in my life.

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     If you ask to college students, “What experience you want the most when you enrolled?” they answer “I want to overseas trip.” Like this, many students want to overseas trip, and many students go traveling abroad. I think Northern Europe takes several advantages to visit for college students.

     Northern Europe is name of a place that includes Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Northern Europe has beautiful scenery, excellent welfare, high status of women, higher education level. People in Northern Europe are friendly and always willing to help their neighbors. My friend took a trip to Sweden; she says “I undergo strange experience. I experienced a white night! This is so shocking experience.” White night means it never gets completely dark. In Korea, we can not experience White night. My friend recommended to trip to Northern Europe.

     I think Northern Europe is a place that we should go. I really want to go to Northern Europe. Maybe if I am lucky, my dream will come true.

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     Our school has a lecture called “Global cultures and Sungshin’s leadership.” This lecture special due to we are taught many nations cultures. I learn many nations’ cultures about America, Korea, Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Islam. I am interesting this lecture due to I watch, hear about a strange nations that I have not visited. Especially, I remember ‘America’ lecture. This lecture’s professor was fine, funny and tact in teaching.

I think America is good nations. There are many opportunity, and America is nation of freedom. So, America is one of the countries that I want to go. I learn traditional American values and beliefs, religious heritage, the frontier heritage, sports and American values, and the American family at this lecture.

According to this class, American set great store by individual freedom and self-reliance. There would be no ruling class of noblemen in the America. By limiting the power of the government and churches and eliminating a formal aristocracy, the early settlers created a climate of freedom where the emphasis was on the individual. Also, professor says, “self-reliance is needed to maintain individual freedom.” I can see this point through the movies, dramas in the United State. I am most envious of equality of opportunity in the United State. Americans see much of life as a race for success. For them, equality means that everyone should have an equal chance to enter the race and win. In other words, equality of opportunity may be thought of as an ethical rule. The race for success is a fair one and a person does not win just because he or she was born into a wealthy family, or lose because of race or religion. Professor says, “This thought begets the American concept of ‘fair play’.” I think Korean must emulate this American’s value.

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     The Collage Scholastic Aptitude Test was taken on last Thursday. The Collage Scholastic Aptitude Test, CSAT has been considered the most essential part of university admission. Questions on the Scholastic Ability Test cover all academic subjects. Questions deal with current issues and theoretical. The Scholastic Aptitude Test takers will receive their test results individually. Currently, students enter university on the strength of their CAST scores.

In Korea, a person’s educational background is all-important. Therefore, South Korea students, parents are desperate to CAST. In other words, it is safe to say that going to college is the one and only goal in most students’ minds in Korea. But it has a lot of problems. First, our education system is overly weighted toward college admission. Our education system only emphasizes Language, English, and Mathematics. And Arts, Physical Education courses be ignored in our education system. We need to reform the education system that focuses only on college entrance exams. Second, parents are facing higher expenses for their children’s private education. As the economy shows no sign of reviving, a growing number of parents feel the burden of their children’s high private tuition fees. Despite the global economic crisis, which had huge impact on the domestic economy as well, private education expenses saw a gradual increase. Therefore, one of the many tasks of the Ministry of Education is to unarguably lower the costs a private education. Finally, excessive competition in entrance examinations has destroyed students’ moral fiber. The pressure of university admission fell heavy on student shoulders. Students suffer a great deal of stress due to competitive college prep environment, and the fast-paced lifestyle of students and pressures from the university entrance exams often make us all forget about our childhood innocence.

art museum

I went to the art museum on last sunday.

The name of the exhibition is ‘Media City Seoul 2010’. The exhibition was held this year in the sixth. This year’s theme is ‘Trust’. The art museum offers various types of paintings, sculptures and photographs by artists from around the world.

The following works are works that I've ever seen. ↓

This exhibition was difficult to understand. But it was interesting and enjoyable time.

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     I went to the art museum on last Sunday. Because of I had a homework that see an exhibition and write about my impression of it. The art museum is located in City Hall. Last Sunday weather is good, so I went to art museum with a joyful heart. The name of the exhibition is ‘Media City Seoul 2010’. The exhibition was held this year in the sixth. This year’s theme is ‘Trust’. The art museum offers various types of paintings, sculptures and photographs by artists from around the world. Art museum is consisted of three layers. Despite the weekend, many people are in an art museum.

     I see many art works. One of the memorable works is ‘Xijing Men’. Xijing Men is a project-based collaborative team composed of three artists: Chen Shaoxiong from China, Kim hongsok from Korea, and Tsuyoshi Ozawa from Japan. They take their name based on the fact that in Asia, there is a main city in the North, Beijing (Buk-gyeong); the South, Nanjing (Nam-gyeong); and the East, Tokyo (Dong-gyeong). However, a main city in the West, Xijing (Suh-gyeong), does not exist. Struck by this idea, these three artists named themselves the Xijing Men (Suh-gyeong-in) and sought to portray Xijing City. Four projects recount stories about Xijing’s history, society, politics, economics, and culture. This collaborative work by artists from three distinct Asian cultures is a project that dreams of creating a utopian space. It ultimately drives viewers toward an imagination that has humorous political overtones. Despite Suh-gyeong does not actually exist, there image these space is exist. This thinking was very interesting.

     This exhibition was difficult to understand. But it was interesting and enjoyable time. If I have the opportunity once, I want to go there once again.