4. Optional extra credit: Write 200+ words about a book that you have read, a film or TV program that you have seen, or a song that you like. Tell why you like it.

Beautiful Mind

I love watching movies because it is the best way to get rid of stress to me, so when I feel depressed and stressed, I normally watch movies. When I watch movies, I feel like I am in totally different world where time even doesn’t pass. I can fully fall into movies and enjoy what a specific atmosphere the movie makes without worries about the reality.

A couple of years ago, I saw Beautiful Mind and it became one of my favorites since the time. This movie is about a genius mathematician who has schizophrenia. He went to Princeton University. He was genius and unsociable like usually the genius are unsociable. While attending Princeton University, he started seeing ghosts but he didn’t think they were ghosts but real. One of them was his roommate though he didn’t have anyone. Other was the roommate’s niece. Around that time he met a beautiful girl at a bar though he was unsociable. Both got attracted to each other and got married. After graduation, he worked in national institute and saw another ghost, a Government agent who constantly gave him secret missions, which is decodement. He got so obsessed with code breaking that it caused many troubles. He went to doctor and started to have medicine but the medicine brought him other problems. The whole schizophrenia things drove them into very hard time but eventually they got through it. Thanks to his wife’s love, he decided to just ignore the ghosts without medicine. After long time, he won Nobel Prize. He said to his wife, “I’m only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am”

3. On the blog, write a summary of the information that you found. Link to the original source.

http://www.korea.net/Government/Current-Affairs/Korean-Wave

The Korean wave, also known as Hallyu, is a term for Korean entertainment and culture that have been getting popular all over the world. It succeeded because of the balanced combination of Western elements and Korean traditional values. The first wave was driven by Korean TV dramas within Asian continent and the new wave which refers to K-POP lead the Korean wave beyond Asia, reaching all over the world with the development of Information Technology. The boom of Hallyu has led the fan of it to other Korean culture and life style.

2. On the blog. How could Chongshin University or the students be kinder to the environment? Write a report with your ideas. If you do research, quote with quotation marks or paraphrase your source. Tell where the information comes from and provide a link back to the original source.

REPORT ON THE ADITTUDE OF CHONGSHIN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ABOUT ENVIRONMENT

INTRODUCTION

In recent years, as our country’s economy has rapidly grown, the environment has been destroyed because we have failed to protect the environment and always put interests before the environment.

CURRENT PROBLEMS IN CHONGSHIN UNIVERSITY

1. Too much food garbage.

As the restaurant in the school does not provide students good food, many students left much of theirs share of food and throw it away.

2. Not enough effort to separate garbage

There are not enough amount of recycling bin in the school.

SOLUTION TO FOOD GARBAGE

1. Appropriated budget of the restaurant in the school will make it possible to serve students better food and it will be led to less good garbage.

2. If the restaurant let students distribute food themselves, food garbage will decrease.

SOLUTION TO RECYCLING BIN

1. It will be helpful to reduce garbage that we set more recycling bins in the school.

CONCLUSION

It is considered that the main environmental problems in Chongshin University is food garbage. If we reduce the amount of the food garbage in this school, it will be very helpful to protect the environment.

4. Optional extra credit: On your blog, write 200+ words about one of your other classes. What is the most interesting thing you have learned in that class this semester?

Since I am majoring in theology, I am taking a class related to systematic theology in which the most I am interested out of many other specialties. It is about Protestant’s doctrine. There are many different type of categories in the field. It goes first about God. Specifically, it is about the unique properties of God. One of the most important things about God is the Trinity doctrine. It is very important because mostly heresy has a wrong knowledge about the Trinity doctrine. If you have a wrong understand about it, it drag Jesus down to the ground and it will give you the wrong idea of what Christian salvation is. Basically, the knowledge of the Trinity is related to salvation.

Before I explain about the Trinity, we all should know that it is totally impossible to understand the Trinity entirely, further partly, because it is a mysterious knowledge that belongs to God. Although, we can entirely understand it, but we must know what it is at least if we are Christians. God has three unique hypostasis. Each hypostasis is distinguished but not segregated. Each hypostasis has the same essence. I know that it is difficult to understand and there are not enough explanations, as I wrote it in English, but this is it. There can be more explanations because we can’t in human languages.

3. On the blog Write a review of the lecture. Who was the speaker? What were the speaker’s main points? Would you recommend the lecture to another student? Why or why not? Include a link to the video.

http://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes.html

A fat and old man starts to give us a lecture about how to tie shoes. He begins the lecture with his own experience. He bought nice shoes. Those shoes came with round nylon laces and he couldn’t keep them tied, though he had a confidence in tying. So, he went back to the store and said to the owner, “I love this shoes, but I hate the laces”. He took a look and said, “you are tying them wrong”. After this story, he tells the audience the usual way people tie is wrong and weak and teach how to tie strong, which is tying the knot by going the other direction around the loop.

He concludes that sometimes a small advantage someplace in life can yield tremendous results someplace else, from the lecture.

4. Optional extra credit: Write a 200+ word “how to” essay about one of the following:

  A. How to study English

First, check if you have strong motivation for studying English. It’s always the most important one whatever you do that usually people overlook easily.

Second, make a goal in studying English. There are many other ways to study English. The reason you study English can be that you need a high score in one of English test required from school or you want to speak English fluently in order to talk with and make foreign friends. Therefore, make sure what you need to do.

Third, memorize as many English words as you can because whatever goal it is, it require you to know words but look up the word in English dictionary and find out in what exact situation it is used and how exactly it’s pronounced.

Fourth, read books written in English. It’s a good way to improve both your reading skill, which is based on all the other skills in English, and speaking skill because it will make you more used to the grammatical order in English, which is totally different from Korean.

Fifth, listen to a conversation recorded by foreigners. The more you spend time on listening, the more you will understand. One thing you should know about this section, there is no fast way to improve your listening skill. Practice it every day. Be steady.

3. On the blog. Write a review of the how to video. Write your opinion of the quality of the video and list the main steps. Include a link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9z7eTfEvo

It’s a good video to learn how to swim for beginners, since basic steps to swim are well organized and explained. As it’s a quite short video, it won’t be hard to follow the instruction. However, it doesn’t include full detail of the move of stroke, as it’s just for beginner. For that reason, I added some detail in the assignment that the video doesn’t include.