Elementary Composition – Night

This site is a group effort by the students in Gord's Elementary Composition evening course at Catholic University!

Don’t Believe Muscle.

 I heard Korean famous singer Kim Jong-gook joined the military yesterday. But  the fact that he is joining as a civil service man puzzelde almost all people and me. Because he has shown his gorgeous muscle to us and he is well knowned for exercising in fitness clubs. And he has shown his physical strength in many variety shows, for example Dream Team.And His popularity was attributed to such his appearance. I am really disapointed.I’d liked him, his song and his personality. It is said that he’ll be a civil service man due to a waist disk.And his pysical examination for the army was conducted in 1996. Anyway in Korea things relating to military are very sensitve to all.


New Class Time, New Class Room

Hi there!

Last night, I got the information from our Department Assistant for evening courses, Ji-Na.

Beginning 3 April 2006, our Monday evening class will be held at N414 from 6:55pm to 8:45 pm.

Our Wednesday evening class will be held in the regular time and place, ie. in Dasol Building at 7:50pm.

Please remember that this change was made because of students’ preference, and is “secret”. I don’t think it’s a big problem, but you should keep it to yourself.

I hope to see you with happy, energetic smiles since we’re going to be meeting much earlier from now on!


Dance is strong point to fresh man in Korea.

 Korean university students have many part and M.T in March. This time is  term that making social relation ship and chance that leting know me to other person.

 However there are many people , so we don’t remember all of them. Specially, informing theirselves is important thing to freshman.

They can sing a song and tell something funy , but  If they dance, they will give strong impression. Dance can carving a seal to other person.

Therefor If you are fresh man,  how about dancing in party?


Diet is harmful for young women.

Most young women want to be thin. But if they have be on a immoderate diet, their health will have a bad influence. In physical health, they will getting sick frequently. Also they will have an attack of anemia, and the skin gets worse. Maybe you can’t have a baby. The most important thing; it causes mental problem. Instinctively, the human wants to eat, but if they control their appetite by force, they will be under a lot of stress, so they will lose their energy. Therefore they don’t have to be on a immoderate diet for your health.


Person who has good personality can be pretty person.

 We can find fact that hansome or pretty person has considerate personality but ugly person always has bad personality in TV drama.

 Do you think character is connected with looking? Person who has polite personality can has good looking.

 Although young man has freckled and bad outward If he try think and friendly to other people, almost every his work will be smooth thing, and he become having nice apperance old man.

 But although he has beautiful looking If he has always grouchy expression, he will has wrinkled looking.

 Smile and good personality can make us beautiful person.

 


Studying english

                                                  

(What do you think about studying english courses in your school life?)

 In these days, some people say that there are some problems to study an english test called “TOEIC, TOEFL, GRE and so on”. when it comes to the toefl test, the toefl test is going to be change difficultly. The fact that toefl test may became a more difficult test occurred unfairness.

 To illustrate to my point, two month ago, there were some happening in which toefl test web site was paralyzed. I heard that there were so many people to register the toefl test, because a large number of people regarded toefl test as difficult test. Also, some people sold their rights called “Confirm number”.

 There was an another reason. some people thought that the toefl test had been refered to as the most important test which could study abroad and could live a better life in foreign country.

 In my case, I would like to register the toefl test in January. but I could not register the toefl test. As far as I am concerned, the toefl test may change to become better. I firmly believe that english courses help students to become better. The crucial factor to consider is why we study english courses. we don’t have to study in order to get a high grade. Definitely, we have a purpose which we have to be able to achieve.

In my conclusion, there are two important reasons why I think that there are some problems to study english tests called “TOEIC, TOEFL, GRE and so on” Since I entered a school in which I do all that I can study, I have been studying english courses. As time goes by, I am not enough to speak in english. As you can see, when I met Gord, I could not speak any communication with Gord. Sure! I have not efforted to study in English. but I can say that I have not regarded english courses as  worthless subjects in my courses. I am deciding to study english like ants. I firmly believe that I can do well. I don’t have to waver my determinedness in other’s gossips. I am not sure how much I want my position to grow, but I can do well.


Movie’s attractions

Watching movie is probably the most popular hobby in the world, so movie as a genre of art has develoled and improved its own attractions. First, it has many kinds of movies. For example, there are action movie like Kill Bill and animation such as Lion King, fantagy like Herry Potter, black comedy and even musical like Phantom of the Opera and Moulin Rouge. Scond, it involves various topics. For instance, Brokeback mountain fleshes out homosexuality, Beautiful Mind tells about hard life of a genius, Chan-uk Park’s lately movies are about revenge of weak person in society, in additional, A.I. helps us to imagine the future being like robot or cyborg, Tomorrow warns about counterattact of nature, and Titanic makes people sweet with love. Third, movie attracts people by glamourous actors. Most movies need a star at least for hit, so big stars appear in movie continually. For this reason, we can see Brad Pitt’s glamour in theater almost every year, besides, Britney Spears who is big star in pop song appeared a movie although it had bad story it issued beacause of ‘Briteney’, and Dakota Fanning who already played several good movies and acknowledged by the people is comming this month with Dreamer.


Make Sure!

Everybody! This is a reminder to make sure the paragraph you began writing tonight is ready for class on Wednesday night. You’ll be showing it to a couple of people so it’s important that this paragraph is ready!

I expect to be posting our new classtime on Wednesday afternoon, but I’ll definitely announce it on Wednesday night in class. Take care until then!


Flowers make us happy~~

Flowers make us happy that we just see it. If we take a flower, we will feel better. Flowers simply see, and besides, they can be used in various ways. The human beings have used the flower for food early. The flower was thought of the healthy food for a health maintenance by taking the medicinal effeact ingredient which is included to it with a meal. The flower food type is various and it makes a good appearance with beautiful color and unique smell. It is the common actual state to eat flowers of definite type in not only Korea but many other countries. It bring out in different aspect with in natural view of each country or tradition, climate, natural features and the time background. The spread is cultivated and becomes fixed from the culture inside of each and it is developed with one food culture.

The flower has abundance of nutritive elements and excellent about medicinal effects. Lavender excel in sedation and antiphlogistic effect and can help a good night’s sleep. Smell of Freesia take effect to get rid of sleeplessness. 


Exercising for life.

 Exercising is the most important element for life, in that it gives people good health, helps them to improve a sense of sociality, and makes them ged rid of some stress. First of all, one of the big adavantages to exercise is that people can enhance their health. Scientific reserch shows that  both mental and physical health will be better and rehabilitated, concentrating on exercising. To illustrate, working out has an enormous effect on obese people who want to lose some weight because it can get rid of some fat.

 Moreover, sports is the most significant element for adjusting to a modern society. Generally, getting  along with numerous friends and collegues around you is required to adapt to the society. In other words, if you participate in a sports team for friendship, it will be a good choice. It provides you with a sense of cooperation, leadership, or confidence which is needed for life.

 Lastly, if you work out regularly, you can relieve some stress which is stored in your mind and body. In general, most workers and students are exhausted due to their heavy workloads. Also, they lie on the intensively competitive society. It gives them  a lot of stress. In hence, if you focus on execrcising regularly, it will play a major role in reducing some stress.


The reason that the Korean comedy films are popular

Many Korean comedy films force the audiance a smile. The kind of scenes that forcing smiles is plenty of and the smile doesn’t mean anything and they may feel emptyness.
The films needs more dramatic items and Still the story has a problem, which leads smile by force.
However, the Korean comedy films are considerably developed unlike previous gang movie. The items for movies are very various such as studnets, teachers, president and so on. Many people say that the dreamatic points and complete sotry make good movies compared to hollywood. Moreover, It’s the Korean films that get compliment for art and lots of audience at the present. Lately the Korean films occupy the theaters more than 50% of those.
The most popular genre is comedy. Why is the comedy popular?So many comedy films are released continuously and people keeps going to see the comedy films. I could say the present our society’s problem make that phonemenon. Those who face with economic hardship and lose their smiles in this hard times want to escape from this and they forget it during watching the comedy movie. It’s not only just movies. Thw whole Korean comedy’s main theme is related to sardonic and critical things.That’s why all kind of cultural things make efforts to convey smiles and vigor.I dare to say that reveals a cross section of modern society.


TV has many negative things.

Television is a good source of information. But it is only one source. Some plople have to watch TV every night before hey sleep. They are called by addictive the TV. It is also creating a lot of violence in our society and our children are learning the false notion that violence is ok. Therefore, we need to limit what we see, especially what our children see.


Urge for change in Alcohol culture

In Korea, there developed a culture of Alcohol.Members offer and exchange glasses of alcohol, for many, many years. Therefore, it has become a virtue to offer a Alcohol to one another.

However, this old culture make no sense and is outdated. Moreover, the current culture of Alcohol in univesities originated from the culture of adults. It is no longer considered appropriate. It would be senseless not to change the culture of Alcohol, even though every and each member knows that it has no place to stand in modern society. Such a crooked culture should not be regarded as a whole culture of univresity any more.

It is desirable for all mambers that one drinks as much as he or she can. So  we create an environment in which he or she enjoys drinking. It is entirely up to the members of society whether this settles down or not as a new culture for better.


Run away from screens!

We spend a lot of time watching screens. How much time do you spend by watching TV or surfying internet? I don’t mean to say that you should quit doing these things right now. But recent poll shows that the youth in Korea generally spend about 3hours to watch TV. If the time of surfying internet is plused, I think it could be doubled.

  Of course I admit there are many good points of it. What a interesting! You couldn’t find more interesting things than watching TV, surfying internet or playing on-line game. And also we can enjoy many touching and funny movies through TV. You can remove stress of modern city life by doing these. Especially when you have dull time, they can be your best friends.

 Nevertheless these various good points, however, there are some things we should worry about. Don’t you think you spend too much time on it? What’s the main work you do in your home? You habitually turn on the TV and computer, and just devote yourself to do these aimlessly, meaninglessly.

 You would have worse eyesight than before you started devoting yourself to do these. I’m sure it’s getting worse and worse. With your poor eyesight, I guess your health is getting worse too, because of lack of exercise. You may lose pleanty of time to talk with your family or close friends.

 How about reducing the time a little you spend in fron of screens? you will have much of time to do other things. You can enjoy playing sport with your friends, and even join local soccer or baseball team. The more time you spend with your ‘real live friends’, the more you would be coopertative with others and be intimate with new people. Moreover, you can read many benefical books you wanted to read before but you couldn’t because you didn’t have enough time. 

 Don’t be slave of screens. Just make good use of it ,when you need. It depends on you weather they can be your good friends.


People of blood type A say “Sorry” a lot.

 Do you often say “Sorry” a lot? Do you care too much about what people think about you? If your answer is “Yes”, ninety-nine percent surely you are blood type A. People of Blood type A are generally too careful and cautious about everything. They care too much about what people think about them. Moreover, if there is bad things happened, they would think it’s all because of their fault. What makes them act like that? What are the reasons? There are two kinds of reasons.

One reason is they are caring and very sensitive to other people’s feeling, so they are usually worried that they might hurt other people’s feeling. On the other side, the other reason is they are often lack of self-confidence, so they are not confident enough about what they’re doing and saying.

 


Classtime tonight

Hi everyone. Well, I think we have no problems about students approving the time-change for this class — there’s one student left on my list but I figured out who it is and why she’s not in class.

However, the office will need to find a new classroom for us, and unfortunately I took too long to post here, so it’s too late to announce a big change now. So therefore, tonight we will meet at out regular classtime. I hope nobody is too disappointed!
However, I believe that tonight I will be able to tell you good news about next week’s classtime and location. Isn’t that great? More tonight. See you at 8:45pm tonight!


there are some reasons why many Korea University students drink alcohol so much

  “Cheers~” “botton up” You can hear those words in everywhere and everywhen. Like many Korea university studendts drink alcohol too much because they want to forgot their depression things. Second reason is their friends’s pressure. Last is just Korea students like drink alcohol and party. 


Animation give us fun, but it give children harm.

Do you like animation? Or did you like animaion when you were child? I love it very much. I still watch animation from childish programs to adult one. But I feel that thoughtlessness animation watching is really bad for children. Especially for preschooler. It made them wild, violence and distracted. And children addict animation easily. Even children see us strange action. What a terrible! I think children’s bad things come from animation. Because they accept all things during unconsciousness watching. So I believe before children have right sense, they must not watch animation a lot and unconsciousness.


Affirmative life

Taking a cheerful view of life is very important.

It is started very small point.

For example, I get a keep out of my part time jop.

I do part time jop in Kyobo book store.

I meet many cool people, and come in contact with many intersting things.

It is so hard in other site to studying side by side with working.

However I enjoy my busy life.

Also I like vending machine coffee, a 250-won.

It is very delicious for me.

They are matter of no importances, but they make delightful  in my life.

Exactly, affirmative life is taking satisfaction in simple part.


If I have the opportunity to visit a foreign country

If I have the opportunity to visit a foreign country. I would like to visit the U.S.A. I have thought that U.S.A has a shorter history then other countries, but todays, U.S.A has a great power, which is called “hegemony”. Also I heard that U.S.A was attacked by terroists in 2001. We say that it is the most terrible thing in history of U.S.A , so I really would like to visit in U.S.A. There is a two reasons that I have. One is that U.S.A has been experianced by terroists, and I feel that American have been changing their mind. The Other is that U.S.A is very attractive states they have a big land, many natural resources and human resources. so I really would like to study in U.S.A, some day. 


methods to figure out if someone is lying to you

The first method is to look at the person’s eyes.When people lie, they don’t look the other person’s eyes, and they tend look around. There is a high possibility that the person is lying when his eyes look nervous.

Second method is looking at their hands. There is some difference in some people, they usually use their hands when they talk. When they lie, they make bigger gestures with hands or their hands can shiver, so hands are another checking point.

Thirdly, we need to see if the person is touching his nose.They say nose becomes itch when a person lies.So, when people lie, they scratch their noses unconsciously.

Finally, a lying person tends to change in their voice.Unless the person is a swindler, people who lie will change the tone of their voice.As pumping of blood and breathing become faster, people usually talk faster.

I have shard some methods to figure out lies.As we live our lives, we will face situations when we have to lie, buta lie will bring even bigger lie.

So, let’s be honest!


Voting behavior

The relationship between perception and voting behavior is very important for election case research to study how the electorate respond to the change of political circumstance. There are three major method to approach the fact. First psycological approach is saying that electorate apply their stero type for the candidate. Their judgement is depend on whether the candidate accept their key value and requirement . Second, Socialogical approach is putting much importance on the party identification and role of political party.  The members of society are divided according to their indiviual interest and ideology after large social grouping take place. At that moment, the perception which influence voting behavior  is determined. Third the rational approach is that the perception is resulted in voting behavior accuratelty. And this theory is assume that the electorates are rational and reasonable. So this theory said that electorates are able to anlysis every political factor in detail.   


Carpe diem!!!

We live with a lot of different trouble and problems nearly every moment. Naturally, it torture and make us disappoint about ourselves. When we are faced with hardship, most people want to avoid and flee from stressful things. However, we can’t get out of the situation if we just hesitate. We must DECIDE what to do. If you want to still avert from hardship, it’s O.K., it’s not a thing that can affirm it’s bad decision. However, if you want to develop yourself, you stand the problems with happy mind because people never flee away from their life.  Please recognize that the other people is under the gun almost everyday, not alone. Although you are very hard and painful, just do it believing yourshelf.


Sleepless in seattle

 I take an one class, “Understanding English Language  through films” .And now I learn the movie”Sleepless in seattle” I guess all of you know the movie. In my opinion the theme of the movie is DESTINY. Annie( Mag Rion)at first didn’t believe destiny.Destiny’s just something we’ve invented because we can’t stand  the fact that evrything that happens is in acidental.that’s why people make destiy and rgard something as destiny. But her mother said to her that it’s a magic.  Annie is attractive to some guy who happened to know on the radio.But she even doesn’t know about him at all.Furthermore,she has a great boyfriend -although he hasn’t a sense of humor. Do you believe DESTINY? Or do you think it just  things happen in accidental?


The cause of addiction to alcohol.

What is the cause of addiction to alcohol? Which is more directly related reason between the chemistry and environment. Most people think that the toxicity of alcohol is too strong and they cannot stop drinking once they addicted to alcohol. But many alcohol addicts are drinking becasuse of pressure and stress from their social environment. According to psycological experiment main factor to influence people into alcohol is not chemistry but environment. The toxicity of alcohol is not strong as much as we are afraid. We have been lack of research for what make people addicted to the alcohol. And that’s why we don’t know about the properties of alcohol addict and we are scare too much. If we want to solve the problem we should know about it correctly.


about my dream

Now,I am an university student and going to study hard to become a someone after the grauation.

 The reason why I have had such a dream that is traveling has affected several aspects of my life.When I was young, I traveled with my mom and saw many flight attadant who made passengers feel comfortable with their kindness. I have read books since I was young and have seen beautiful sightseeing in them. That also made me think of many aspects of the world, especially wideness of the world.

 Even so, my English is still poor bur no matter how long it takes,sooner or later I will be a someone.

 ( my dream is a secret because it won’t be achieved if I tell someone about it)


Alcohol makes us feel different in a good way

Sometimes people want to feel better by doing someting different as opposite what they usually do. I think there are 2 ways to make someone better by drinking.

 First, by the time, adults go to a bar or pub to release their stress and it can be useful to know other people than normal.So you could make a good relationship with them and it might be helpful by sharing your problem and find the solution. as you know, that kinds of moods could make yo more comfortable and release your stress.

 Second, people could feel relaxation by talking their freinds and drinking.  For me, drinking a little is make me feel like bating in a tub. I become sentimental but the thing that I worried about at that time is blow out when I drank,not get tipsy.

 As I mentioned above, it is obvious that drinking a little could make us feel better and I think you would me okay lf you just drinking a littel. So, don’t hesitate to drinking!


What a shame!

yesterday i met our junior at a bar. at that time, i didn’t have enough time to enjoy with them because i had to take class at 8:50. so i drank fast a little and ran to come to class on time. I ran with dong hoon who takes this class with me but he didn’t get drunk even he drank 1 bottle of soju! I drank just 3 shots then my face turned to red-_-; how do you call this in a one word? flush? i was extremely ashamed of myself. how could i be so stupid! i have never taken class on drinking and as you know, my face was disgusting-_-but i just want to let you know that i am not such a bad student so please don’t hate me,Gord.

 anyway, the meeting falls into 2 groups-boys and girls-after 2 hours,they joined each other.it is like a annual party. last year,actually we haven’t had enough meetings with our seniors. we just could keep in touch with them in personal and that is the reason why we hold this party. i hope we can make a good realtionship. they are blossomed..how adorable they are!


Hi,there!

 hello everyone.my name is mee jee lee,also known as image.my pop named me and i am satistied it because it is easy to remeber and unique.

 anyway,i am a sophomore and so far i think that the most enjoyable aspect or college life is the fact that i can study whatever i want.

 I heard that there is a sophomore jinx which means someone could not make something succesfuly than what they’ve done at first. do you think it is true? sometimes it makes me nervous.-_-

 therefore,i think you need to study hard if you want to have a carrer that you’ve wanted. i wish you guys good luck. stay tight!


About conversation with a foreigner

Foreign language study is very difficult. I think it especailly hard to coversation with foreigner. I have gotten a chance to talk with foreigner when I went to japan last month. Despite easy question, I wasn’t able to reply. Because I just got worried when I met them. I always don’t speak with the tension when I meet foreigners. I don’t know why. I want to talk with a foreigner very well.