Air Conditioners: We should avoid them!

 

Harold                                                                                                    2012/9/16

 

What is one of the worst problems going on on Earth? Yes, it’s global warming. This is happening because of greenhouse gases and a host of other emissions. The main cause of this serious event is the use of air conditioning. It produces a lot of emissions which harm the environment. It also causes health problems. I will explain this specifically below. I firmly agree with the notion ‘we should avoid using air conditioners’ for three reasons. Firstly, air conditioners can harm the environment. Secondly, air conditioners can make one unhealthy. Lastly, air conditioners mean high electricity bills.

To begin with, air conditioners can harm the environment. This does not only mean for Earth, but for people. Air conditioners cause serious environmental problems. Including global warming. Air conditioners release a lot of emissions such as carbon dioxide, hydrofluorocarbons and freon gas. Carbon dioxide, freon gas and hydrofluorocarbons all destroy the ozone layer, which blocks sunlight and the control of sunlight getting to the Earth’s atmosphere. These emissions turn the ozone into oxygen by reacting with it. As this phenomenon keeps repeating it creates a large hole in the ozone layer. It allows a large amount of sunlight to go through, so the temperature of Earth increases. Also, ice and glaciers melt, which causes the sea level to go up. This causes islands to sink and we will never see them again. According to ezinearticles.com, it says that the U.S government had found out that the total carbon dioxide released in the air is approximately 1,500tons a year in America. This is very serious. Also, to make the air conditioners work we need electricity, and to make electricity we use coal. Coal also causes global warming. In order to stop this, we need to avoid using air conditioners.

In addition, air conditioners can make one unhealthy. We sweat a lot in summer. We need something to make our body cool, so most people use air conditioners to reduce their body temperature. That’s fine, but the problem is that most of the people who use air conditioners are too exposed to them. As one’s body temperature slowly goes down, we don’t notice it because it’s only a slight change. After one gets too much exposed to air conditioners and goes someplace warm, one can’t adapt in to the environment well because one’s body is so used to being cold. This can cause serious health problems, such as flu severe colds. Also, many people use air conditioners comfortably because they think that the air conditioners filter the air and make it clean. Wrong! At first it filters the air and makes it clean. However, as time passes the air conditioner’s filter becomes dirty and full of dust. It may cause chronic rhinitis, and pneumonia which makes you breathe uncomfortably and can even be fatal.

Furthermore, air conditioners mean high electricity bills. These days parents care about their children’s education a lot. They are paying a lot of money to academies to allows their children to learn and study. Parents also buy food to maintain their health. They also spend a lot of money on other manners. However, their worries include that their electricity bills are too high. The main cause of this is too much air conditioning. Air conditioners use 30times more electricity than fans. That’s incredible. For example, on cyber.kepco.co.kr, they compared the electricity bills between a fan and a air conditioner. The electricity bill of the fan cost 2,170 won, but the electricity bill of the air conditioner had cost 64,270 won a month; that’s about 30 times as much To sum up, we should avoid air conditioners because they lead to high electricity bills, and that money can be better spent on the family instead.

As a result, I strongly believe that we should avoid using air conditioners. Some people think this is not a serious problem. What’s the big deal in using air conditioners? Even though you become unhealthy you can recover and we can earn more money after paying the electricity bills! Wrong. Using air conditioners is like getting more and more applications on your smartphone even though they are useless because we can use fans instead of air conditioners. Fans make use cool enough and they decrease the payment of electricity bills. Also, fans have minimal harmful emissions so can stop or slow down global warming. Let’s avoid using air conditioners for our health, money and most importantly our dear planet, Earth.

Korea leads to victory against Japan!

Korea gets a bronze medal by beating Japan in soccer at the London 2012 Olympics check out this link below.

http://sports.news.naver.com/london2012/video.nhn?listType=discipline&date=&discipline=56&gameId=&page=2&keyword=&id=30614

Reflective essay on 'Spring'

In my writing class, I saw a video named 'Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter' by Kim Ki Duk and just saw the spring part. The movie was about a small, young monk torturing animals by tying a string around them. The mature monk told him that he will have a heavy rock in his mind if one or more than one dies. This is called animal cruelty. I was surprised because I had a similar experience as the small monk. I had three similar experiences. To begin with, if you torture animals you can get revenge from them. Moreover, after being cruel to the animals I learned a lesson to respect animals. Furthermore, you should always follow your teacher's orders.

This video is the Spring part in the movie 'Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter'.

 To begin with, if you torture animals you can get revenge from them. In the movie the small monk tortures the animals by tying a rope around them. However, they die except for the frog. He gets punished by his teacher. This is the animal's revenge. They made the small monk get punished. I can compare this with my own experience, I once hit a dog with a stick when I was young. However, the dog bit me and took his revenge, so I learned a lesson. Never do anything to an animal if if didn't do anything to you.

 Moreover, after being cruel to the animals I learned a lesson to respect animals. According to the move, the small monk at first didn't know the importance of life. However, after watching them die and get injured, he learned to respect animals. Also, according to my experience, I once read a book which was about a boy and bees. The boy killed and tortured the bees for no reasons. The bees got revenge by stinging the boy, so I learned a lesson from this book. Respect all living things.

 Furthermore, you should always follow your teacher's orders. In the movie, the small monk, who was kind of a troublemaker, broke the teacher's rules and killed the animals. He also got the same punishment as the small monk did to the animals. This is similar to my experiences. Once, when I was in elementary school in America. I went to a nature center. I saw a snake while walking. I just disobeyed the teacher's orders and tried to touch the snake.It suddenly tried to attack me by its sensitive movements.The teacher grabbed me away, so I apologized to her, so always listen carefully to your teacher.

 As a result,  if you torture animals you can get revenge from them, after being cruel to the animals I learned a lesson to respect animals. Also, you should always follow your teacher's orders. Think how they will feel when you torture them. You should always respect living things

Ode to my friend, Time

Dear time,

 How enjoyable you are! You alwayss make me laugh or cry. You go so fast that I can't catch or stop you. You give all living things love and sorrow. You run so that people be born and live. You run so that people can die and make new generations.

 Don't you feel bored sometimes? I asked you this question because you keep running forever. Aren't you tired? I am so thankful to you that you made me born, live and laugh. You made me friends as I grew up. However, you sometimes make me sad. As you run, my family and friends get older. You make people die, which is a huge tragedy. You somehow will make those who I love die. That's why I want to stop you sometimes and make you disappear from everyone's life.

Why can't you stop running? It's good for all! I know that it's your destiny. Did god make you run always? I heard about this greek myth that Pandora, a woman opened a a box and many bad things came out such as death and sorrow. It said that you came out too. However, these sorrow make me stronger and courageous by making me experience many sorrowful and enjoyable events. I have lived for only 13 years, but it feels like that only about 3years have past. Maybe that's becauseI forgot a lot of events that happened in my life.

Time, who are you? Are you a living thing? Do you have any family or friends? There are a lot of mysteries that people don't know. Some people hate you. But I feel thankful to you. The best prize you gave in my life is making me as a human being. Thanks for making me the most intelligent living thing on Earth, which is human. Maybe the Earth was made because of you too! Maybe everything started from you!! Somehow and someday I will die. I can't live forever, right? I thought it was unfair, but I got to know the purpose. People die for their next generations. For our sons and daughters. Thank you time, for everything I own and for everything I love. Again, thank you.

         Sincerely,

a human being

who repects time

Harold Cho  

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Joseph Kony should become famous

 There are a lot of criminals in the world. Some are famous and some are not. There is one anonymous criminal who is a huge danger to African people. This person acts in southern Sudan and Uganda. He is very hard  to catch. He has caught a lot of children and made them in to soldiers, slaves and some were killed. Do you know what his name is? His name is Joseph Kony. Jason Russell, a movie director, made a video named 'Kony 2012' to catch him and to persuade other people to participate on catching Kony. However, there are some people who criticizes this video. The topic of this essay is 'Should We make Kony famous?'. I absolutely agree with this topic for four reasons. To begin with, we can attract many peoples' interests. Moreover, making Kony famous will make Kony lose confidence and make him surrender or hide. In addition, making Kony famous will not only capture Kony, but also end the situation in Africa that he is causing. Furthermore, I strongly disagree that making Kony famous will make Kony kill other children.

 To begin with, we can attract many peoples' interests. If we make Kony famous, people will participate in catching Kony.
participate in catching Kony. They will know that Kony is a bad person and that he is making many childrens' future disappear. People will do things that might help capturing Kony and saving the children, such as donating to captured kids in the L.R.A(Lord's Resistance Army), which is a evil group that Kony leads through a company named 'Invisible Children Inc'. For example, let's say that a neighbor near you is in danger. Of course you should help them. To get more help you should tell other people about the situation and tell them to help the neighbor.

 Moreover, making Kony famous will make Kony lose confidence and make him surrender or hide
If we make Kony famous everyone will know about Kony and Kony should know that everyone near him are his enemies. Maybe the child soldiers will make a rebellion and capture Kony because there are approximately 330,000 child soldiers who don't like Kony, but according to 'Kony 2012' , it said that Kony is alone and he doesn't have any supporters. He will be then captured easily. He will hide or surrender. Making him famous will make us easier to catch him.

 In addition, making Kony famous will not only capture Kony but also end the situation in Africa
that he is causing. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, Kony doesn't have any supporters. If we catch Kony, the situation will be finished. Also, even though there are more L.R.A strength is left, they will soon surrender because their leader is captured. For example, Osama Bin Laden, the leader of a terrorist group Al Qaeda, was captured by an American army. After, he was captured, Al Qaeda stopped terrorism.


 Furthermore, I strongly disagree that making Kony famous will make Kony kill other children. This means that he will scared of being caught, so he will kill children to let people know that he is innocent. The opposition says that Kony will be afraid of being captured, so he will kill every children including child slaves and child soldiers. However, every people know that Kony owns a lot of children and has killed many other children, so children will be never get killed by Joseph Kony.

 As a result, I strongly believe that we should make Kony famous for four reasons. To begin with, we can attract many peoples' interests. Moreover, making Kony famous will make Kony lose confidence and make him surrender or hide. In addition, making Kony famous will not only capture Kony, but also end the situation in Africa that he is causing. Furthermore, I strongly disagree that making Kony famous will make Kony kill other children.The reasons I told you previously will help us catch Kony and help, protect the children and their future, which will let them lead to a better future if we help.

Three things that I know to be true.

I was born as a human being. Human beings are the most intelligent animals on Earth. God gave me the ability to think. Thinking gives me a lot of advantages. It allows me to do a lot of activities. From those activities there are three things I know to be true. Firstly, I know that I can play sports. Secondly, movies make me feel relaxed. Lastly, books give me a lot of knowledge and facts. It was hard to decide these three activities to write about. Now I'm going to tell you three things that I know to be true.

 Firstly, I know that I can play sports. Moreover, I can play a lot of sports, especially soccer and basketball. These team sports make me cooperate with other friends and it helps me to develop team work. Also, I might have friends who I don't like. However, after playing sports I can make a lot of friendships with other. Sports also help my stress go away when I play sports. I feel joy and excitement. Playing sports make me sweat. it help bad things in our body go out. I can become healthier and stronger.

 Secondly, movies make me relaxed. I enjoy watching movies when I have a bad time or when I am angry and stressed. Movies make me feel really relaxed. I can rest while watching. I can call it my free time. For example, I watched a movie about a team playing basketball. At the first season they were called losers because they l lost every game. However, after practicing hard they became the champions. My basketball team lost many games, but we won the championship by practicing hard. I felt sympathy. It also added more joy for me.

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 Lastly, books give me a lot of knowledge and facts. When I was a young child, I didn't know many things. My parents began to buy me books which made me laugh and cry. Books gave me a lot of feelings and a deep impression. Moreover, books gave me a lot of knowledge and facts. That's why I can study well these days. For example, I knew that the great god made us. However, I got to read a book about monkeys. From that book  I learned a theory Darwin stated, which was that monkeys evolved into humans. This is called evolution, so I got to know three theories about how humans were made.

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 As a result, there are three things I know to be true which are I can play sports, movies make me feel relaxed and books give me a lot of facts and knowledge. These can also lead me to a brighter future.