I saw the news about weather today. It recorded the coldest in this year. However, if we go out, we can see lots of students who do not wear outers. They are wearing only school uniform. Even girl students wear only skirt. If you are Korean, you absolutely know the uncomfortable feelings and inconvenience. However, school knows these things, but they made a rule that students cannot wear any outer except for school uniform. Many parents are disagreeing with this rule, but school is keeping on following it. They are giving us 3 reasons for the rule; Some students’ outers can make disharmony, it can give pressure to parents, and some students do not prefer to wear school uniform inside of the outer.

           First, some students’ outers can give disharmony to other students. Nowadays, students regard the outer from the brand, The North Face, as a normal thing. However, the price of it is over 400,000 to 500,000 won. It is almost the similar as monthly institution fee. Because most students are wearing it, many students who do not have one think they have to buy and wear it as soon as possible. Cloth is the way to present their individual personality. However, they are ignoring it and just following the trend.

           As I said a second ago, the specific brand of the outer costs very highly and many students think they have to wear it without any choice. Therefore, they say to their parents to buy it for themselves. The price of it is a big part of average income. If the children keep on saying that they want to buy and wear it, the parents would have no choice finally. Therefore, it can be another burden to the parents.

           Last but not least, by the outers, students do not prefer the school uniform jacket. School uniform is controlling what students do naturally. However, students wear the outer instead of the school uniform jacket. If they are students, they have to wear school uniform even though they do not want to do. Most of the Korean students have worn school uniform every day. It is students’ duty.

           Even though in the very cold weather, it is very hard to endure chilly days with only school uniform. However, by the outers, there are several negative effects to school, students and their parents. If the problems are solved out, they will be able to wear outers to their school.

As time goes by, it is going to emphasize the personal information. Because of that, some people are arguing that our ID card system has a problem. In the U.S, people bring only drivers’ license as their ID card. Only name, address and birth date are written on there. It is enough verify themselves. However, in Korea, our ID card system has several problems; too many unnecessary information is written, there is a serious possibility that our information can be spilled, and there are too many kinds of ID cards.

           First, on out national ID card, our name, address, social number, picture and finger print are printed. When we need to verify ourselves, do we need all of the information which are printed on the card? I think too much of information is opened. If we lose our ID card once, people who get mine can know all about me. I strongly think name, picture and birth date are enough to verify ourselves.

           Also, when we lose our ID card, because all of our personal information is printed on the card, if people who get my ID cards think in the negative way, he can abuse it. He can disguise other people and use other people’s information to fraud and deceive other people. Because too many information is printed on just one card, there is a very big possibility to be abused.

           Last but not least, we have several kinds of ID cards. For instance, in the U.S, they use the drivers’ license as an ID card. Also, they have passport, so when they go abroad, they can bring just passport. However, in Korea, we have many kinds of ID cards. Even though some of them are not allowed as an ID card, they surely have the same number of information on them like certificates. We have national ID card, drivers’ license, passport and other certificates which have personal information. I think there are too many ID card. Because of that, Koreans do not care if they lose one of them, of course, including me.

           The Korean government should think of budget. Making ID card is one of budgets. If we reduce the number of ID cards or make them simple, it will be more effective. Also, the government have to make an effort to teach people to regard ID card and personal information as a important thing.

When we see children who are growing up, we usually say that being plump and chubby is very praise for children. In my case, I have very chubby cousins. However, I have never thought that they have possibilities to be obesity and they may have heath disease related to obesity. For me, it does not matter how plump or fat they are. However, it is not always good. Even though plump kids are so cute and pretty, we need to be careful to being obesity for them and also, we need to prevent them from obesity following these points; regarding obesity as a disease, life circle, and desire eating habits

There are many obesity people and the number of them is going to be more and more. Especially, obesity causes some serious disease such as diabetes. The most serious and important thing is that obesity is going spread to children. We usually think that weight and fat will be changed into being tall. Because of that, from long time ago, we regard obesity kids as just cute kids. From now on, children obesity is not just obesity. We need to regard the obesity as one of serious diseases.

People think exercise is very lack for children, also people put an example that they do not like to walk and they want to play computer games or watch TV. Also, after school, most of the students go to educational institutes and study there. In other word, they do not have time to exercise. Many parents put their kids to study more than other kids. I think the parents are stealing children’s time and make them fat.

The reason why there are so many obesity adults and kids is that their eating habits. They usually eat fast food and not fresh food because fast food is much cheaper than fresh fruits and vegetables. I think another problem of their eating habits is can foods. American people go to a grocery store once two weeks to a month. Therefore, they have a habit to buy something a lot once. At this point, it is too hard to buy fresh foods because it is easy to be spoiled. For that reason, they usually buy can food. Can food have a lot of high calories. It is a reason that kids are going to be fat and obesity.  

To prevent to be obesity for children, we need to teach them health eating habits. After we teach them, we have to give them a chance to think about their bodies rather than not feeding high calorie food. If we do not feed high calorie sweet food, they will crave to eat that kind of food more and more. After that, they will not control themselves. If we give the chance to them, it may take long time, but it is the most useful and smartest way to care about them.

Everyone has their own way to get rid of stress from them. For example, some people regard playing sport as a solution of stress and some other people think that singing is a solution of it. Like those, all of people have their own way. I think that to find a way to reduce stress, we need to find some desirable ways. However, many people choose drinking or smoking as their solution. Even though the way to choose to reduce stress is free, the way of smoking is not desirable for the reasons, smokers’ health, effects to young people and nonsmokers’ health.

     Of course, if people smoke, they will feel relaxed and think their stress will be reduced and decreased. On the other hand, if they keep going on, it will be another problem to them, addiction. According to the magazine I read a few months ago, the author urged that smoking and drinking are not solutions, but just causes of stress. Smoking and drinking are very addictive, even more than what we expect. He meant that because of them, people could get more stress than before.

     However, the more serious point is that many of young people starts smoking by seeing adults who are smoking, even under 19. in the movie, most describe that smoking is fancy and a expression of struggling with something serious. We usually say children are less mature than adults and their brain is not proper with harmful things. If they start it, they will not able to quit smoking easily and they are addicted more easily than adults. Also, as the adults, they will get very bad and hazardous impacts.

           Smoking is not only bad for smokers, but also for nonsmokers. Even though nonsmokers do not smoke, they get indirect effects of smoking. Many of doctors say that indirect effects of smoking can be more dangerous than direct effects. Also, it is a very unfair thing to nonsmokers. They can get hurt by other people’s action. Smokers need to think about other people.

     From that, I strongly insist that we need to make much stronger and tighter regulation about smoking and drinking. When we buy a cigarette, we show our id cards. However, I think it is not enough to prevent children from it. We should make double or triple ways. For example, I think license is an effective way. In the U.S, when people buy a gun, they need to get gun license and show it. I do not mean a test. I just urge the license that is able to prove that people passed though some education points about negative effects of smoking on the Internet. After people did it, if they want to buy cigarette, it is their choice. I think it is very effective way to prevent children from smoking. Because when children want to buy it, they have to show their id and license to workers, so I think we need to make effective laws to make people less smoke and drink rather than just prohibit.

I want to be successful in many parts of my life. Of course, if some people think up the word in their heads, theiy will think about fame or momey. howeverI think the word, success, includes many things, such as love, family and friends including fame and moy. Fame and money can be measured easily with specific standard. However, in parts of family and love, it is very hard to classify them. It is not a matter to be seen to eyes.For the reason,I think being successful in love and family is more difficult than in fame and money.

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We usually like to talk about someone else’s secret. Especially, when we talk about celebrities or their life, we feel interested. All we surely know that privacy is very important and everyone has it. Also, we already know we have to protect privacy each other. At this point, in spite of that, we have an uncertain boundary in a part of celebrities’ privacy. However, I think we should think about celebrities’ privacy deeply and change our attitudes for the reasons; they are also the same human, a word of celebrity does not include that their life can be known to everyone, and celebrities give some effects to children directly.

           Celebrities are the same people like us fundamentally. We do not want our private life be spilled. Celebrities are thinking in the same way. They do not want other people to know their private life. They are living by people’s live and interest. Of course, if they commit a crime or break the law, it should be known to people. However, in a case of a celebrity’s family that they do not want to let people know, we should protect it from being spilled. As our privacy is important, we have to protect their privacy.

           The word, celebrity, does not mean that they allow people to know their secret and private life. Actors, singers, those are just their job as my job is a student. Celebrity is a kind of jobs. It does not include that their basic right to protect their privacy can be opened directly. Some people say that their private life is a one of their business. Some of celebrities might use their privacy as a living. However, I think most of them do not. When we see the foreign celebrities are struggling with paparazzi, we think celebrities’ life is not that fancy. Paparazzi is selling celebrities’ life to normal people. They do not want to miss even a small portion of a celebrity’s day, so they track him all day long. We can enjoy the celebrities’ life which is out of TV and Movie. In other words, they do not have their life at all. In the similar concept, it is just like they are working for 24 hours.

           Lastly, as I said before, if a celebrity commits a crime, we have a right to know it because he is a public figure and he gives a big influence on people. However, if in a case of their sexual relationships or sexual things, should we know? Do we have to know? I do not think in that way. If we know, it can be a very hot issue. However, it will affect people, especially, children. If a celebrity whom children really like and love have an issue about unhealthy sexual thing, some children think that the unhealthy thing is a matter to happen. It can make children’s mind disordered.

           For those reasons, I strongly think we should protect celebrity’s privacy. Their job is not to tell their secret life. Singers’ role is to give us good songs and actors and actresses’ role is making good movies and dramas. If we really like and love a celebrity, so we know their private life deeply, it can be bothering him. We should observe good manners each other.

             As the Internet world is going to widen, there is few people who use the Internet and most people have their personal website such as facebook, myspace and cyworld. It is very useful to share their daily lives. Also, it is so helpful for people to say, “Hello.”, to people who do not see in the real world. The personal websites are just like a net to connect people around us. We can put our photos on the wall and write what we want to say simply. We can share out thoughts with other people easily. We can call the personal websites and social websites SNS. For those reasons, SNS is going very popular. Especially, I want to focus on Facebook this time. When we see people who do not have their SNS, we even ask, “Why don’t you have a facebook?” In Korea, there is the proverb; too much is as bad as too little. Nowadays, SNS has many negative effects to us. Simply, I can list up; lack of privacy, the possibility that someone’s SNS can be the target of attacking and addiction.

           I think lack of privacy is the biggest one. We can make friends very easily by just click. At this point, I want to talk about mutual friends. It means facebook let us know our mutual friends around us such as a friend’s friend. Even though I do not know someone, he can come in my facebook and check pictures and what I have written on my wall. Surely, if I blocked my facebook to make people whom I do not know not be able to check my writings and pictures, the lack of privacy can be solved. However, we are using SNS by smart phone nowadays. It is hard to control by phone. In other words, while we do not recognize, some strangers can look over my facebook.

           Another problem is that someone’s facebook can be the target of attacking from other people. Specifically, celebrities’ facebook can be the example of it. Now, we have a right to talk about what I am thinking of anything. Especially, in Korea, if a celebrity put his thoughts about politic on his wall, many journalists write article about it. From that, the celebrity’s writing is going to be hotter and an issue. At this point, someone think that his thoughts are in an opposite way or do not match with their thoughts, they are changed into enemy and attack his writing, even him. Anyone can write and put their thought on his SNS. However, with the reason why some writers are famous, their SNS can be the target from some people and they can get hurt. Also, I think that it seems to take away their right.

           Also, lots of young children are using facebook. In facebook, there are many kinds of social games. It is hard for young children to control themselves. They are doing facebook for a long time and after that, they play the facebook social games. Addiction of facebook is not useful to them. However, social games are making them addicted to another thing additionally. Not even children, many adults are also addicted to SNS nowadays. Everyone has smart phone. If you are in the bus stop, I bet you will easily be able to see people who using their smart phone especially doing facebook by their smart phone.

           Of course, everything has its positive and negative things. However, SNS is already a big part of our life. I think it is very difficult to get rid of SNS from our days. As that, we need to know how to use wisely. As I said, there are problems of facebook’s structure and our attitudes. People’s every information is very important. It cannot be measured. Facebook should think about it and regard it as the most valuable. Also, SNS is not the way to be bound like a duty, but the way to enjoy out daily life. We should think the way how to use it wisely by ourselves.

     Most people think snow is very romantic because movie directors make snow a very lovely condition when a man and woman fall in love. One of the most famous examples for Koreans is “Love Letter” from Japan. In the movie, a woman screams out “Oganggi Deska?(How are you doing?)” to her ex-boyfriend. In that scene, snow makes the situation more plaintive and sorrowful. Because of that kind of movie, many people think snow is very romantic and dramatic. However, what Koreans thought about snow changed after a terrible blizzard in the winter 2 years ago. Actually, many people could be curious whether snowfall can be disaster or not. However, I am going to tell you why Korean people think tremendous snowfall is very dangerous and can be a disaster; need of equipment, inexperienced handling and negative effects of farming.

 In Korea, there was so much horrible snow 2 years ago. Also, we had gotten tremendous snowfall at least five times during the winter. Traditionally, Koreans had never had that much snow, so we did not have an ability to cope with it and enough snowplows to get rid of snow from places where people lived at that time. Overall, I can say that the the winter was like a war. When Koreans had heavy snow, I also got that much snow in Minnesota in the same winter. Snow in Minnesota can be more than in Korea, but I was not able to believe because after a few hours, highways and streets were all cleaned up as if it had not snowed at all. Even though my friends and family told me that it is too inconvenient, I did not feel inconvenience.

On the other hand, most Koreans could not go to work or schools because the Korean government did not have an ability to clean up in a short time. Many people took buses or subways instead of their cars. Especially, the number of people who want to take the subways exceeded the number of that could be admitted. Therefore, that produced other accidents like a pyramid. Some actors and actresses had no choice and also took buses or subways covering their faces with hats and masks in order to remain unrecognized. Several schools were closed for several days temporarily. During that time, even though a cause is just snow, we got many different kinds of results.

In part of farming, farmers had more trouble than they could have imagined. Especially, in the last year, the temperature was lower than before and the amount of sunshine was insufficient, so yield was reduced by about 20 percent. Until now, I have written about damages of people’s lives not from nature. However, this paragraph is about destroying the nature by nature.

Personally, when it snowed snow in Korea, I usually enjoyed it, but my friends called me and said that they are sick and tired of snow and are being tardy for a few days. The snow is not amount of being able to enjoy, but menacing us and making us rough it. Snow was not a welcome guest for us anymore. From the tremendous snowfall, I got mottos for myself. One of them is “Do not delay and be tardy.” That is when I can prepare something unexpected, prepare and grow an ability to handle something. For example, in Japan, traditionally there has been be a lot of earthquakes, but they are prepared for unexpected earthquakes. Therefore, though they would get earthquakes suddenly, these will be not catastrophic disaster. The other motto is limitation. Nothing should be over limit and everything has to be good enough. There is a famous proverb in Korea. That is “Too many good things are not an advantage, but just a disadvantage. There will be nothing good if it is excessive. Of course, it is like the snowfall, but good things are in the same way for example, going on diet, love for children and so on. Everything belongs to the ideas. I think the snowfall gave lessons to Koreans who never prepared to something in the future.

When people live, they need lots of documents. Also, they have to know to how to fill out them. However, as the world is going to be more global than before, there are lots of foreigners in Korea. Of course, they are not perfect at Korean, so they need help. Language on documents is very different from it on day. The language on the documents is very difficult to understand. I am going to list the three specific examples, business certificates and health insurance, drivers’ license and some other documents which are necessary for living for foreigner in Korea.  

When I was in America, one of my aunt’ friends could not be good at English. She always struggled with how to fill out some kinds of documents like what I have written. Because of that, she always got help from translators. Even though she can speak English quite well, she has never learned reading and writing skills. Whenever she has to fill out and check some documents for living, she has to pay money to professional translators.

One of my Japanese friends had the same problem in America. She came to learn English, so she was not good at English. However, at that time, she really needed a car to go to her school. In Minnesota of America, there is not driving tests written by foreign language.  Before she moved to Minnesota, she had stayed in LA. LA. has so many different kinds of foreigners, so they have many kinds of documents like driving tests. My friend was not able to get a license in MN, so she used the license that she got in LA.

     Like what I wrote examples, even though foreigners have to get something for living, some of them cannot get it because of the language. In Korea, I do not think we have different kinds of language in the documents. Many women from East Asia countries are moving to Korea to get married. However, I think we are not ready to accept them. In America, I heard that there are many translators and volunteers to translate, but we do not. If foreigners in Korea are not good at Korean, they must have difficulties.

Korea has less foreigners than America has, so it is too much to make all of documents translated. However, they need to provide translated them for foreigners. Absolutely, I think the Korean governments cannot translate them into all kinds of the languges. However, we can hire translators volunteers for them. They can make an effort to translate them into English and Vietnamese. If we want to make our country more global and better, I think we need to prepare those kinds of thinks for foreigners in Korea.

If you are a woman, of course, you will want to lose weight. This means most women want to lose their weight. Also, some men want to lose weight like most of women. As every woman wants to do that, there are many ways to lose weight. These are different according to time of results, processes, physical influences and so on. For example, many ways for losing weight are classified into exercising, following a particular diet, having a surgery and reducing calories.

     The most popular and useful way is exercising. Most women think this is the most effective. In this way, there are so many specific exercises, too, for example, boxing, weight training, jazz dancing and so on.  In Korea, nowadays, the most popular exercise is Yoga. As that, most Korean women choose this. However, they should admit that they have to endure results for a long time. Also, it is not easy to show results quickly.

     Another way is following a particular diet. This means people plan to eat only one kind of food in every meal, for example, only grapes or only potatoes. I think this is a very unhealthy way because it can make people damage our healthy balance. Therefore, if we follow the particular diet for a long time, we will not be able to lose weight and also we might get sick. According to these reasons, I do not like to recommend this way.

     If some people want to lose weight and show the results very quickly, they will think about liposuction. Liposuction makes them very slim directly by medical surgeries. This is a very comfortable way in some people that do not want to exercise and show results very quickly like people who choose to follow a particular diet. This is also a very unhealthy way because after suddenly losing weight in a day, people can have difficulties to adjust to new body and new physical conditions. Also, their health conditions can get worse than before. Therefore, this way is not a good way except when you desire to lose weight urgently.

    The last way is reducing calories. This is very effective like exercising. We can stay health. Because even though calories are reduced by some food’s calories like cakes’ and chocolates’, we get necessary calories. Therefore, like exercising, many people choose and follow this way. As exercising, reducing calories is effective and popular. Many people fuse and follow these two ways at the same time. These are good for your health and are very effective to lose weight.

     Overall, ways to lose weight can be classified into healthy and unhealthy ways. All women want to be beautiful. This is desires of all women. According to Euro surveillance, a newspaper of British newspaper, they said obesity people can get flu more easily than normal people. However, more dangerous things are starving ways. Therefore, for our health, appropriate ways to lose weight are needed, but immoderate ways are too bad for our health.  As time goes by, new ways for losing weight will be made. However, we have to think, “What is the most basic thing? If you lose weight by unhealthy ways, you will be satisfied with your new slim body line, but you will also regret to choose ways because you will worry about your bad health. Also, if we focus on results too much, we will get back weight easily. Therefore, before we choose ways to lose weight, we have to think our health and choose ways carefully for our bodies because no matter how important slim body line is, more important thing is our health.