#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>