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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.

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     I imagine my first perfect date. I watch so many dramas or movie about beautiful love, so I think my first date same that dramas, movie. The Following sentences include my thoughts about my first perfect date.

     First, take a shower and makeup at least 3 hours prior to date. And wear a dress that prepared a few days ago. Second, my boyfriend picks me up with a nice car. We go to a great café, and eat coffee, cake, or ice cream while chatting. Next, we go to a theater. After the movie, we went to a restaurant to eat dinner. Finally, we will have to drive and he will take me to my home by car.

     These steps are all my hope. I wish my first date will be same my imagination. I hope that day comes soon.

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     If you ask to people, “How to pass the time when the way to attend school, take public transportation or when you alone anywhere?” they say that they listen to music. I usually listen to music using MP3 Player at the time like them. My MP3 player involves an efficient and convenient. If you read my post, you image my MP3 player.

     My MP3 player just fits in one hand because of it is streamlined shape. And It color is white. The screen is occupied half of the MP3. There is a touch button that to operate the menu on the front of the machine. It has 2 buttons in the right side. The above button is the power button, and the below button is the record button. It has a place that the charger plugs and earphones plugs at the bottom of MP3 player. On the back of MP3 player, the manufacturer and model name is written.

     As mentioned earlier, it is very easy to operate without the complexity and it is essential to me. If I do not have my MP3 player, I will spend a boring time. So I feel very grateful for it.

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     My family and friends says “You seem to a hardworking person!” I never mind about their opinion. But one day, I realized that fact due to a friend. My friend explained that fact using several examples.

     My friend gives me two examples. One of them was something to do with my daily life, the other one be related to study. First, she says to me, “You always wake up early morning to go to school.” As she spoke, I wake up early morning because of school and home is far. If I do not wake up early, I will be late. Since this idea, I am never tardy from elementary school to university. Also, she says to me, “You make a plan ahead 2 weeks about prepare for an examination.” As she spoke, I make a plan ahead 2 weeks about examination because of I prefer to work along with the plan.

     I am proud of that fact the attention of people around me. I hope to do not change this advantage. I am proud to be a hardworking woman!

Journal 7

     Midterm exams are over; I went to the library to borrow books. I was just debating what I want to borrow books that have recommended to Internet or a friend. I borrow a book that recommended by a friend.

The name of the book was “Wandeukyi.” This book shows the fact of a boy, at the same time seems to emerge in Korea. The hero of this book is “wandeukyi.” He is high school student. His mother went away when he was a boy, and his father is a midget. He is living in a rooftop house with his father and uncle. Though he lives in rooftop house, he never will be discouraged. This book begins with wandeukyi pray to God to take the homeroom teacher at church. His homeroom teacher lives on the other side of his rooftop house. His homeroom teacher is rough, reviling. He is not a good student. Because of he can not study well. And he is a rebel of his school. He is the poor supply target established by the school. His midget father makes a good fist of dancing. And his uncle is a stuttering speech-impaired. But his uncle is always smiling and nice. His father, his uncle loves to dance, but they are poor so they sold Goods in the subway. His father’s dream is wandeukyi to become novelists. But wandeukyi is not interested in writing. Wandeukyi meets with Vietnamese mothers because his homeroom teacher. And he falls in love with a girl who same class mates. Also he learns to kickboxing and finds purpose in life. With the help of his homeroom teacher, his father and his uncle open dance school. In fact, wacky homeroom teacher will also be a good teacher.

This book is funny, and impressive. Wandeukyi is not a very good at to express his feeling. But he meets his homeroom teacher, first love, and his mother. He changed a lot. This point very impressed. I want to recommend this book to others.

Journal 6

     Finally, I finished the test that performed in two weeks. My exams started on October 20. And the test is over on November 1. The number of test subjects in this semester was seven. The numbers of majors are 3; the other three subjects are the subjects for general education. And the other one is major of another department.

The first test of this midterm exams is majoring in other department. I participate in the lessons of the Department of Media Communication. The name of the lecture is ‘Image Communication’. The test was held 1 hour 30 minutes. The questions in the examination were considerably difficult. 4 questions of 5 questions difficulty were fine. But last one is very hard. That question is related creativity. In other words, this question is interpreting the meaning of advertising images that I’ve never seen. I worried about this test, because I participate in other departments major for the first time in my life.

     The last test of this midterm exams is English 2. The test was held 1 hour 15 minutes. This test consist Reading exam in 1 class testing TOEIC Vocabulary and Writing exam (writing 1 paragraph) in the other class. The last test is writing exam. The topics of this test were told for the test day. I wrote 2 paragraph that ‘Description’ and ‘Process’. Than I thought, it was a lack of time. So there was no time to look back to what I write. I worried about the score. To recover this midterm exams, I will prepare very hard final exams.