#15 - Someone overcoming odds - Helen Keller

Helen Keller is the represent of this topic, 'someone overcoming odds', for me. She was a deaf, mute, and blind, since she was 4 years old because of the serious illness. She could just give up her life easily, because she was almost seperated from the world with education. It was hard for her at first time to learn for contacting with the world, but she finally did it and became a educator. She could make it, because she understood the patience. she said, "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." It shows that she overcame her disadvantage by being patient and brave. There's also another famous quote from her. "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. " She overcame her suffering, but it wasn't all. She spoke to people and spread her encourage, idea, and experience to people who are in hard circumstance like her. She succeed to contact with the world, and she showed the whole world that she who is a deaf, blind, and mute became educator and ecourage many others. I admire her patience to overcome her odds.

MLA : Helen Keller. The story of my life . New York: John Albert Macy, 19o5.

Reserch Sources #2

British Imperialism over Africa

Between 1870 and 1900, British imperialism expanded so rapidly. There's no simply answer for this event, but only combination of the many factors. One of those factors was the economic motivation with desires to gain economic benefits by establishing company in Africa, for example, Goldie's United Africa company, Rhodes, and the British South Africa company. Also they wanted new markets in Africa for British goods and resources of cheap raw materials. Another fact is that this imperialism was aided by the Industrial Revolution. It provided them Gatling Gun, the railway, and the steamship. Industrial Revolution caused technological advantage and the serching for new markets, especially in the depression. These two are the main causes to colonize Africa for British. But there's another fact about the participation of British in the scramble for Africa. After British started to colonize Africa, many other European countries started notice the importance of colonizing Africa. By many countries joined to colonize Africa, it was getting competitive. So British had to increase colonial involvement and the official control and maintain order in profitable. There was no special plan for expanding in British. They just motivated by competition, economic benifits with raw materials, and technological advances.

MLA : Lara J. Barton. "Why did the British Empire expand so rapidly between 1870 and 1900. " Adams Grammar school, Newport, Shropshire, United Kingdom. April 5th 2002 <http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/ljb2.html>

Reserch Sources #1

British Imperialism in Africa (Cause)

In the early 1800s, British colonized Africa for many reasons like religion, economics, technical developement, medical improvement, nationalism, and racism. One of the important reason was for their economic benefits. They wanted bigger market over the seas to sell their products they made. Also, they wanted improve their industrial economies by getting the raw materials from the Africa countries. The event called "Scramble for Africa" began in the 1800s and led a lot of European interests to colonize Africa for digging the raw materials like gold, diamonds, copper, and tin. Their Technical improvement also cause their colonization over the Africa. Steam engines, telegraphs, and railroads helped British to colonize deeper part of Africa being able to contact with their home country, while machine guns gave them a power to colonize the Africa. British's medical improvement like discovery of quinine gave them a chance to colonize Africa. Some of their ideas were the reason for imperialism. Nationalism made them proud of theirselves by gaining lots of colonies and Racism which is the idea that White is better than blck encouraged their colonization too. Religion was the another reason. Christian missionaries thought their religon and European rules might help stopping slave trade. There are many reasons for British to colonize Africa.



MLA :
McDougal-Littell. "Imperialists Divide Africa. " TELESCOPING THE TIMES: The Age of Imperialism, 1850-1914. 1999 <http://mclane.fresno.k12.ca.us/wilson98/Assigments/ImpCH11.html>

Thinking map - Group project.

Our group reserch thinking map (Cause and Effect)

"British Imperialism in Africa"

British colonized Africa because of their technical advances, economics for new markets and raw materials, geopolitics, nationalism, religion, and racism. Their imperialism caused civil war, infrastructure improvement, education for public, new religion, exploitation of natural resources, human torture, and jingoism in Africa.

#13 & #14 - 2 in 1 ---War + Love

Romeo and Juliet (War + Love)

There are many various kinds of war like war between countries or between families. But whatever the kind of the war is, almost war affects lots of people's lives, and love is the part of our lives. There are many stories about war and love, and "Romeo and Juliet" is the one of the famous story about two families war and love. War can affects loves like it force them not be able to meet each other and seperated, but I think war cannot change their true love. Even they love each other a lot, they have to overcome lots of problems. But I think love is kind of fortune, which is hard to stop or prevent. Tybalt said, "Peace? Peace. I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. " This quote tells us how serious their hatered and war was between those two families. Falling in love with enemy would be really hard to believe at first time. Juliet said, "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy. " She had hard time to believe herself falling in love with enemy,but she finally notice that it's not her willing, but fortune. So the war can affect their life or the result of the love, but they cannot stop their love, like in Romeo and Juliet, they finally choosed death together for keeping their love. For example, "And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun." from Juliet. Love between Romeo and Juliet was hard to keep because of the serious hatred and war between their families, and this war led these lovers to the death, but it couldn't stop and ruin their true love. Love was a fortune which no one cannot stop for them.

MLA:

IMDb.com. "Memorial quotes for Romeo and Juliet". An Amazon.com Company. 1990-2009. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/quotes>

#12 - Imperialism and colonization- S.korea

일제 강점기 한국인의 삶과 민족운동 & '위안부' 리포트

Colonization usually affects people's life and their society. Many people had to become victims for those colonization periods, so it ruins their life mostly. In this book, they show us one wonman's misereable life as Japanese military sexual slave. Colonization affects the society as well as their life a lot. Like in this book, it says that after the colonization of Japan, Korean population had been decreased a lot, because many men were forced to go to war for Japan during the WW2 while the women were forced to go to military as sexual slaves. Depending on the woman in this book, almost men didn't want to get married with the women who was the comfort women. So also it caused the population. Also, it affects their societies like rules they made or the economic changes. In South korea, almost middle school and high school students have to cut their hair, and this rule is from the colonization period under Japan. Also, they tried to make people use only Japanese, so that we can forget about our root of ourselves. This book shows that how Japan deal with colonization and how Koreans fought and resistance it.

MLA : GyeongA Jeong. ''Comfort women report" . New York: John Albert Macy, 19o5.

#11 - Global issues - Human cloning

Human cloning

Human cloning has been a big as a global issue. Writer of this article says, "Let me make it absolutely clear that I am opposed to human cloning on ethical grounds. It is open to gross abuse." I totally agree. we cannot allow the human cloning for only one reason that we need it for the dead influential people or the sickness. Because there are more dangerous way to be abused than the useful way. First, there is non ethical emotional risks like "What happens to a marriage when the "father" sees his wife's clone grow up into the exact replica (by appearance) of the beautiful 18 year old he fell in love with 35 years ago?" Human cloning will change whole global ethnic to the fallen, wrong way. And the cloned teens surely will have pressure that others see them as their memorial dead person, not themselves. Also, there could be the abuse of course, if we allow the human cloning. He asks us, "What would Hitler have done with cloning technology if available in the 1940s? " It tells us that there will be no more world peace, because like what he says, some powerful people can abuse this technology to make more power. Also it says that there's the risk to do the human cloning, he reports that there are many cloned cows have died with the unnormalty of their blood cells. Another problem is that cloned human might be not treated as human, but robot or slave. So I think we should not agree for the human cloning.

MLA:

"The Future of Human Cloning - ethics - progress - politics - VIDEOS. " Global change. 2003. <http://www.globalchange.com/clonech.htm>

#10 - National & Religious Holidays

Christmas Carol - play + book

I think Christmas Carol is the good book and play for everybody to get lessons not to be selfish and be generous to others. Christmas is the international holiday to celebrate Jesus' birthday so everybody are supposed to get break time from their works, love each other, and be happy. A Chritst Carol shows a process that Scrooge learns and understand other's circumstance, get lessons, and finally gets genorous. I've been to this play with my host family, and I think it really help children to learn lesson. A closed mind and negative old man, name "scrooge" learnt that the world is not dark and worthless like he thought by traveling through the time ; past, present, and future. For example, "The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still." In this quote, ghost taught him how worthful the world is. After he met ghosts of present, past, and future, he changed a lot from dark and negative person to bright person. After traveling through the time, he said, "Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit!" It show us the his big change toward the life.

#9 - Bollywood

Bollywood

Depend on this article, we can know more about the bollywood movies. Almost bolly wood movies have similar story characteristics like the love triangle, the marrige, and the happy ending. They have love triangle so that it's hard find their love and have hard time with it or have misunderstanding because of the interuptions. Also, they they are dealing with the topic, marriage. First time, they have arranged marriage by their parents, but finally they find their love and marry with the men who they love. Last one is the happy ending, which makes the bollywood movie more bright with their singing and dancing at the last part of the movies. We can see this characteristics in the bollywood movie, "Slumdog millinaire" and "Bride and prejudice". These are the characteristics that make bollywood movie fun.

MLA:


<http://www.bologi.com/poetry/3001-3100/3073.htm>

Circle map- Plantains

My vocab word is "plantains". It's a sweet fruits from tropical region which is like small bananas.

#8 - Culture About S.Korea

There are various different cultures. It's good to learn different culture and understand it or introduce our culture to others. So I want to introduce the S.korea culture. There are many different culture about korea, but especially, our school life is a lot different with here. Almost high schools start at 8am and end at 10pm with same classmates everyday for a year. America high school end around 3 and they have many activities after school. There are some good points and bad things to be a korean high school students. We have to stay in the school for long times , but almost students are very close each others in the class. But there are not many activities , so it's hard to develope their talents in the regular high school. I think it's very different because our history,way to think and the societies are different with here. In S. korea, many parents and students think education is the best way to get a good job and be happy, so everybody want to get in the good college with high competitions. Like this, the countries' culture is depending on their societies, the way to think, and their own history.

MLA:

Yoon-soo Kang, Reporter."Korean High School Life."2008-10-22.

<http://www.prkorea.com/engnews/index.cgi?action=detail&number=637&thread=10r03>