Friday, August 10, 2012

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  

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Diamante Poems

Devils
evil wicked
tiring tatle-taling bothering
hell evil-spirit virtue-spirit heaven
hard-working smiling loving
kind-hearted good-natured
Angels

South Korea
democratic advanced
anti-fighting trading helping
president government dictatorial government dictator
fighting dying attacking
armed dictatorial
North Korea

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.

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 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.

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 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.