Elementary Composition – Night

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

The changing role of women

It is often said that ‘when the hen roared, the home would be ruined’. For the past years, women have been restricted by traditional attitudes, and there are many systems which related to women. When you are pregnant, your husband would hang ‘chili’ if the baby is a boy, or hang ‘yellow rope’ in front of the house if the baby is a girl. However, nowadays, these are changing to bright inspect.

 First,women don’t do chores by themselves anymore at home. They share those things with their husbands. Even some holidays, women are not ordered by men,and even the granma, who is accustomed to the situation that women have been restricted by men, accepts that things.

 Second, there are no longer gendet discrimination at work. Nowadays, even ugly women don’t be discriminated by their faces (at least when they are working well-_-) So, there are more women ceos than before.

 Third, women are steping into the society widely! In Korea, Hyun Jung-Eun, who got 15.6percent of the votes, implemented great plans of Hynday Corp. How could imagine that happens before!

 As I mentioned above, women are not depend on men, they are full-fledged right now! So, I want you to notice about these situation. If you have stubborn mind that women can’t deal with the problems, you should change your mind.


Unfinished controversy between psycological theory and ratioanl theory

 In 1932, Great depression occurred in America and the country was flooded by needy. But the economy policy of Republican party was not change at all and they stick to the existing policy. But the democratic government pledge to deal with great depression by projecting new deal policy. After Democratic government inititate new deal policy, and economy has been improved a lot and they could save many needy. So they could create job opportunity, the approval rate of democratic party skyrocketing to the 60%. African Americans and white low class combined with other low class people. And all of them support democratic party. But in 1936 the approval rate of democrats are decrease more than 25%. Why the 25% of democrats turn to the republican party. Psycological perspective and rational perspectives are struggling with this issue.

Psycological perspective considerate party identificaiton as a important voting determinant and it is rarely changed. It’s point of view is that they were just come back to their own identity. So they said that the peoples who supported the democratic party between 1932 and 1936 were Republican originally. But they turn to the democratic party temporary and they come back to where they were.But Rational perspective believes that the expected utility is very important voting determinant. Rational perspective is that another factor influence them to turn to Rep and they respond to it rationally. They said that some kind of incident like economic depression take place and it lead to the decrease of democratic approval rate. They believe that the electorate are moving according to the expected utility.

    If the psycological perspective theory is true, the magnitude and speed that the party identification can be transformed is slow and gradual. So long term realignment is take place in 1936, it is also progressing now. But if we regard the approval rate of democrats in 1932 as the stream of long-term realignment, The theory cannot explain how the radically rasied approval rate in 1932 take place. It also cannot explain realignment. If the rational perspective is true, it proves that the expected utility is important voting determinant. And expected utility might be the cause of realignment. We can know it from radical graph of approval rate of democratic party. But it cannot explain the stable and gradual movement of republican party approval rate graph.

 


What’s the origin of regionalism?

What’s the origin of regionalism and what theory can explain the Korea’s regionalism?Because korean political party which is based on the regionalism nominate someone who is well connected with certain area as a candidate many citizens are under influence of regional feeling. Some people hate the other area person intentionally and they don’t want the candidate who is from another area elected. Regional feeling might be seemed as hatred toward the other area and attachment toward their hometown. It seems like that the psychological approach might be applied for the Korea’s election. But we have to think about the origin of regionalism deeply. If we look at the historical aspect, many former president promote regional feeling to extend their regime. They compensate for the people who live in certain area by developing their area. They construct the highway and industrial facility only in certain area. They could give some kind of expectation which their area will be more developed toward the area’s citizen. So Regionalism is based on the expected utility which is calculated by the electorate who consider their future advantage of their hometown and the possibility that they can advanced to the mainstream society. So regionalism is example of rational perspective. Regional voting is based on calaulation of expected utility