Blog Post #10 - Final Farewell

Profitable class

     This is my last blog post.  During this semister, I have learnt lots of skills for writing essays.  Also, it was very nice for practicing writing.  Sometimes I comment some on others' blog post.  It was also good experience to have a look how the others wrote the essays.

    

     Thanks to everyone who has visited my blog and commented on my writings. 

     Good luck to you all.  Good bye bye. 

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Blog Post #9 - Summary & Response / Citation

S. Korea: Chinese fishermen kill coast guard member

     A captain of a chinese vesel worked in the West Sea illegally killed a coast guard commando of South Korea and made another commando injured by using a knife in Monday early morning.  The South Korean government strongly remonstrated about chinese boats working illegally in the sea to the Chinese government.  China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs promised to cooperate to solve this problem together.  The South Korean coast guard has exposed many chines vesels in the sea this year.  The sea is often crowded with chinese illegal fishing.  In consequence, many chinese boats fishing in the sea have grabbed (Paula Hancocks, CNN).

     The incident is so tragic.  This kind of accidents happen several times a year.  In my memory, it might have been last year.  The chinese vesel was fishing illegally in the West Sea.  When they were exposed by the Korean coast guard members, they attacked the coast guard commandos using various dadly weapons.  Several coast guard commandos have got injured.  Sometimes the Chinese government does not show even sorry to the victims and the Korean government.  The Chinese government must cooperate to arrest them and make stronger punishment for them.  The Chinese government should not be a onlooker.  Also, the Korean government should protest strogly and it is time to say to the Chinese government "Do not just tell, show us you are trying!"

"S. Korea: Chinese fishermen kill coast guard member" CNN.  12 Dec 2011.  13 Dec 2011

<http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/12/world/asia/south-korea-china-stabbing/index.html?iref=allsearch>

Blog Post #8 - Compare and Contrast: Two Products or Two Restaurants

     Outback Steak House VS VIPS

     Nowadays it is very popular to have dinner at family restaurants with friends or family.  There are many kinds of franchise family restaurants in Korea.  Two of them are the most popular, one is called Outback Steak House and the other is VIPS.  Many people go the restaurants because of the atmosphere and the menu of each.
     Most people think that one of the most important things is the atmosphere of the restaurants to choose where to go for family or friends getherings.  Outback Steak House offers the own servers for every three or four table.  The tables are placed individually and every server wears uniform.  Through the service customers can feel comfortable during having meals; similarly, VIPS also offers the greatest sevice to the customers.  VIPS also places the tables appropriately for customers' feelings.  And all VIPS staffs wear uniforms and they take charge of several tables for serving.  The customers who visit VIPS also can feel pleasant during their meals.  Both companies have great systems of making reparation for the customers' complains.  Also, every staff is well trained.   
     The menus of each restaurant are a bit different.  Basically, the main dishes of both restaurants are Steaks.  At Outback Steak House, customers can order the only menus of the menu.  Steak, Spagetti, Salad and some kinds of desserts; in contrast, there is salad bar at VIPS.  As a result, people can order Steaks and make some different kinds of salads and have desserts such as cakes, beverages, fruits and so on, even tacos.
     In modern society, people have much time with their family and friends at outside also prefer having meals at the restaurants together.  So that many companies compete with each other for attractions.  Consequently, you became to choose and get better services from them.  I prefer VIPS to Outback Steak House, because I can make my favorite tacos, salads and have my taste food.  Even if I have high calories food at the restaurant, I do not feel heavy in VIPS.  However, when I have meals at Outback Steak House, I sometimes feel oily and heavy.

Blog Post #7 - Compare and Contrast: Two Places

My Old and New Hometowns

     I moved to the house from Suwon to Cheonan about eight months ago.  Both cities have each charateristic.  Even I had lived in Suwon for over twenty years, I do not feel unfamiliar to Cheonan.  Both are very different.  There are several things to compare two cities.
     The streets scenes are distinctions between Suwon and Cheonan.  For example, if you visit Suwon, you can easily see the modern style buldings or streets, not ruralism streets.  However, Cheoan is composed of new types and old types of houses.  To find out that kind of streets is not difficult at all.  Suwon has been developed so much enough already.  On the other hand, Cheonan is getting modernization more and more.  Although people call both areas a city, I can find out how people are different.  From my experience, people who live in Suwon do not usually say "hello" to strangers, even if they meet other people in the elevators in their apartments. While people who live in Cheonan normally say "hello" to their neighbors with their smiling.  When I get on the elevator, always I can hear "hello" so that I became a person say "hello" to my neighbors.  The last different part of both cities is the public transportation system.  Suwon has many routes of buses the reason why is that Suwon is located very good positon.  It is easy to get Seoul or any other cities which are called capital areas.  Even at midnight, people can take a bus.  When I lived in Suwon, I was able to stay in Gangnam until twelve midnight.  There is a bus to my old hometown until twelve thirty.  But now, I cannot even playing in my new town.  The time for the last bus is around ten o'clock.  For me, it is a kind of tragic situations.  In addition, Suwon citizens can get the transfer discount by using a bus or a subway.  In contrast, Cheonan city does not offer the discount system for the citizens.  As a result, I pay for the public transportation's fees much more than before.  Despite this terrible system, a group of Cheonan people feel happy.  They are the taxi drivers.  Oneday, a driver told me his income is higher than the other divers who work in Suwon.  We are citizens in the same city, one hates the system and another loves that system.  It is funny.
     In conclusion, those cities have distinctive features make me always warm.  Suwon is very familiar to me, and the atmosphere of Cheonan causes warm feeling to me.  I just found out some tiny little problems of both cities.  And just want to mixed the good points between the two cities.

Blog Post #6 - For the Sake of Argument Part II

Does smoking have to be considered the only bad behaviour?

     Many people say that there are no benefits to smoke at all.  It can cause several kinds of cancers or makes other people get injured through the second-hand smoking.  However, I do not think there are only bad effects on smoking.  Certainly, there must be some reasons the cigarettes have existed for a long time.
     First of all, smoking can reduce stress.  The mind controlls the body.  I know there are many sorts of ways to decline the length of stress, but in modern society, people work a lot and need to move on as fast as they can.  Therefore, people have no enough time for doing activites to decrease their mental stress.  That is why people have found smoking out as a fast way to make the stress less.  Just in less five minutes, people can become relaxed through smoking, only five minutes are enough makes people take a rest without thinking any their burden work.  Another thing is that smoking is not only the reason for causing cancers or deseases.  Even if we take too much Vitamines, it can also cause other serious illnesses.  No matter it is good for health, if it overflows it must be worse than lack.  Also, some doctors say that if smokers take vitamine C, B1 and A, it must be helpful, because during smoking the smokers' digestive organs cannot affect properly as sorbents vitamines or minerals.  Some people who have smoked for many decades use to live for a long time.  Thus, with taking Vitamines or Minerals, smoking would not be too dangerous behaviour as much as people think.  The last thing is about the second-hand smoking.  Nowadays many buildings and other places are seperated smoking area and non-smoking area.  Most of smokers tend to smoke in the smoking area, but small minority people do not follow the rule.  However, only because of the very slim amount of smokers who smoke in non-smoking area, do the other smokers need to be blamed?  Do you really think like that?  It is really ridiculous.  Just following the rule and smoking in an appropriate plce do not give bad effects on non-smokers at all.  They try their best not to give bad effets on the others.
     In conclusion, smoking is surely not good for health but with doing another efforts to keep the body condition is alright, it should not be too injourious much.  Smoking or non-smoking is the person's choice.  However, people do not need to stand not to smoke only keep thinking of how many cigarettes you will smoke a day, how maintain the health condition good and how do not give others bad effets.  You just live once then just do it whatever you want to do without causing others any harm.

Blog Post #5 - For the Sake of Argument

Why do you smoke?



     Wherever we go in Korea, we can easily see many people smoke.  In the literatures, the cigarettes have been influenced since 1492, when Christopher Columbus found The New World, in Europe and the cultivation of it started in 1530's by Spanaish.  All over the world, there are so many people smoke.  Therefore, they know that smoking has no benefits for their health but they do not know how affect on them exactly.  They should know.

     Smoking is one of the reasons cause cancers in several parts of body.  It increases the risk of cancers in mouth, throat, lung, stomach, liver and so on.  If someone smoke, it make the rate of getting the cancer over fifty out of one hundred.  Every year about five-million-people die because of smoking.  Another serious problem is the Second-hand Smoking.  Just staying next to a person who is smoking, it is very bad for our health also.  WHO(World Health Organization) announced that over six-hundred-thousand-people die every year by the Second-hand Smoking.  What did the non-smokers do wrong?  Why they should get injured by the smokers?  It is really unfair and the smokers have to care about the others much more seriously.  We need to let them know that they can kill others.  Smoking can make the smokers addicts.  The cigarettes contain nicotine and heroin which are kinds of drugs.  It is not that strong as much as taking drugs.  Even so, it is addictive that is why people cannot stop smoking their wills.  Some people say that smoking can reduce stress and stress is the worst thing for being health.  Then it has also benefits for not getting illness or cancers.  However, there are so many ways to make stress less, instead smoking.  Smoking cause other diseases except that cancer, such as dermatitis and effects on skin or aging.

     Do you smoke simply because you think that smoking is helpful for reducing stress and getting momentary pleasure?  Unfortunately, there are a lot more impacts on losing.  If you are a smoker, please think about yourself and someone next to you.  Thus, why do not you try to stop smoking right away for living longer and happier.  You only live yourlife once, not twice or more.

Blog Post #4 - A Short Personal Story

The pitfall of excessive pride

     Since my childhood, I have been the most active person in my family.  My parents have let me do whatever I want.  When I was younger, I took swimming, Taekwondo and ballet lessons.  Also I have been an athlete for four years.  Although I was a little young girl, I liked to challenge many new things.  When I achieved success, I felt rewarded.  It made me try to do other things.  And I always thought that If I want to do something, I should try it.  Then through the success, I felt very happy and as owned the world.  However, when I was seven years old, I realized that having too much confidence can cause the damage to myself.
     In the ealry 1990s, I went on a summer vacation to the river with my family and other families of my father's friends'.  When I was seven years old, I was a swimmer and thought I was very good at swimming then I dived into the water alone.  None cared me because other parents were busy to care their kids and also my parents had to take care my younger bother, he was a two year-old baby.  At first I swam close to my parents but as time goes on I wanted to swim in deeper water.  Therefore, I went into the gradually deeper water and enjoyed the wild waves.  Suddenly I was swapt away from the place where my family were.  I lost my sandals, a cap and swimming glasses.  I screamed "Help me! Save me!".  There was no one could hear me, I do not know why but I could not see anyone who could help me.  Unexpectedly, I was caught between small rocks. Luckily I was holding a tube which was big enough that is why I was able to be caught.  When I got jammed in the rocks I was getting exhausted, at that time I saw a man.  I yelled my head off "Save me! Help me! Anyone!".  Finally, the man saw me and he dived into the water and saved me!  I survived by his help.  After he saved my life he said that "I thought you were my daughter."  Yes, he misunderstood me to his daughter.  It did not matter for me at all, I just got out of the water.  When he brought me to the ground, many people gathered and my parents also came to me and they said "Thank you very much. You saved my daughter's life" to him.  I do not remember exactly what I said to him and how I thanked to him.
     In the evening of the day, I calmed myself down and stayed at the accommodation until the next day.  Except me, everyone enjoyed their summer vacation well.  From the accident, I learned that everytime I need to be careful I think I am confident in my ability though.  Since the accident happend, I have not been afraid the water at all.  I could have been disappeared or even worse I could have died though.  It is a bit strange!

Blog Post #3 - Describe a Setting

A Homestay House

     I am going to let you know the best house which made me feel cozy in abroad.  It is located in Brisbane in Australia.  It is a fantastic big old white wooden house.  It has been there over one hundred years though.  There are two floors, seven gorgeous rooms, four clean bathrooms, two huge living rooms and a big yard with seven vibrant chickens.  When I went to the house I felt that I am in my warm house, It was my first time sleeping there though.  I felt my parents' warm heart and my sister's and brother's strong family love through the host family.  Almost every sunday, we had a yummy, unique and fresh pizza and also a Party in the house.  Actually there is a fire pot for baking pizza, it is earthen and made by the host father for the mother's birthday.  It is lovely present, is not it?  The host mother did not work, so she cooked every tasty and healthy food for us.  They supplied the fresh vegetables and eggs they raise by themselves.  Even I stayed in western country I did not gain weight.  I always miss them who are charming and sweet.  Still I contact them often, It has already passed about three years though.  I hope someday in the near future to meet them again.

Blog Post #2 - An Admirable Individual

Yuna KIM

     There are so many people who are very talented in the world.  I admire one person the most, she is Yuna KIM.  In my opinion, she is just superb in every way.  She is a figure skating player and good at sports, English, acting and so on.

     There are several reasons I respect her the most.  First, she is very talented.  At the last Winter Olympic Games, she won the gold medal.  As I heard, every player's the last goal is being the olympic champion.  She did it when she was just twenty years old though.  Before the olympic games, she had got many gold medals and even established new world records, totally eleven times seperated short programs and free skating programs.  Second, she has a nice personality and reputation among other players.  She controls her emotion during the competition.  Nobody can recognize she is embarrassed.  Also, many figure skating players tend to say that she is very thoughtful and has a good sense.  Third, she gives Korea a lot benefits.  Through her, many people all over the world have known Korea and it is not too much say that she made Korea hold the 2018 Pyeong Chang Winter Olympic Games. What is more, she donates lots of money to charities and serves for many children. 

  

     In conclusion, all over the world, there are many young figure skating players who aspire to become great players like Yuna KIM.  Because of her I am proud of that I am Korean and happy to live in the same age with her. 

Blog Post #1 - Introductions

Hello, how is it going there?
I am one of the students who take the Essay Writing 1 - Tuesday 11a.m. class.

Let me introduce myself.
my name is Soyeon YI and you can just call me Yeoni, it would be better.
I am living in Cheon-an city now.  Every monday to thursday I take the train to go to school.
From my house to university, it takes over 2 and half hours but it is not as hard as you guess.

I major in Chemical Engineering and am a senior, so this is my last semester.

I love to travel abroad, but I have not been in so many countries yet.
I wish I could save enough money for visiting many places.

By the way,  I hope I have the best semester in our class with you.

Lots of hugs and kisses to you.

Cheers!  = )