2011년 5월 13일 금요일

good luck everybody!

 In what ways do you feel you have progressed these last few months? What challenges still await you? Write a good-bye letter to your classmates. This is your last chance to show your appreciation and wish them good luck.

I feel I really have progressed in amount of vocabularies in my mental dictionary. I have learned countless words everyday while I was studying here in CSUF. It was really good opportunity that I could be an ALP student in this university. Yeh, I was here just for 12 credits for a semester abroad. But, ALP teachers taught me with greatful passion professionally. I appreciate that.
I am still expect to be progressed in writing. Writing is really tough thing to me both of writing in Korean and English. I had to write so many papers because of the tons of assignments from usa class and ALP classed.
But, the result of the hard job that I did so far seem positive. The most important thing is that I gained confidence of using English!

Hi everyone.
It was so nice to meet you guys for one semester.
I'm gonna leave to Korea next saturday, because I was nothing but an exchange student.
But, except me and other Koreans, most of you guys are expecting to get master degree in the u.s.
I really wish you guys would get master degree successfully in the future!
I really enjoyed studying composition with you guys. I was happy, writing assignment sometimes makes me hard though... :)  
Good Luck Everybody!!!!
Can we meet in the future??? hahahahaha

Finally.. Thank you Sean!! You were a great teacher. You taught me a lot of things.
Thank you Thank you !!
Night night!

I read cindy's and seng's blog.

2011년 5월 6일 금요일

baraka

The movie "BARAKA" was amazing in many beautiful scenes of the world.
I think the one of the scenes in the movie represents the similiarity of trapped
chickens and busy people in the city; the people in the movie were portrayed as
 anonymous existence,  because they just repeat the same motion. People in the big city cross the street back and forth endlessly. It seems that people are living in the city full of monotonous and repetition. They just follow and move the crossroad and escalator. Subsequently, the scene is shown that a chick sexer distinguish chick's sex and throw them to the two different hole. This subtlely overlaped scenes lead me to think about humans are likely to be changed into anonymous existence with mechanized theire life; it is including a lot of cars moving in many rows and people who exist through subway station ticket gate.

I read Sylvina's and Amy's blog.

2011년 4월 29일 금요일

Dear. mom and dad

Dear. mom and dad.
What's goining on there? I really miss mom and dad.
I want to talk to mom and dad something evem if it worries you.
I have been dating with American boy friend for 5 days. Above all, I want to say sorry.
Because I did not ask you in advance if it is all right to get an American boyfriend.
While some Korean conservative parents concerned that most of the Americans are too opened about
sex, I think that it depends on the different person and different personality. And American boys are also
same as ordinary boys in Korea in some ways; they are also shy when they talk about something sexual.
Additionally, mom and dad might think that getting "American" boy friend surely distracts me from studying, while I keep my eyes on getting good grades and studying eagerly as usual. Yes, it is true that communication might be very difficult between me and him even parents, but I would acquire English conversation skills more easily with learning useful local language! I am sure that he will be my individual tutor as nice as can be just for me. And I could experience more specific and in-person American life with native American boy friend. Now, what do you say?  Where I might can get this such a golden opportunity to experience American real life?Please allow me to date with him!
I love ma! I love dad!! I really want to see you.

Yours Sincerely
Sae rom.

I read Georgina's blog.

2011년 4월 26일 화요일

summarizing article

Marissa, Cevallos. (2011, April 26). Sea salt confuses Americans, but then, so does wine.Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 26, 2011, from http://www.latimes.com

        
It seems that American adults don't know about the risk factors for high blood pressure exactly. Marissa(2011) reports in this article from the LA Times that about 76% of American people are considering wine as good  for the heart(par. 3). The problem is that most of them do not know moderate wine drinking that has recommended daily limits on wine(par.4). The American Heart Association recommends that limited drink no more than two drinks per day is moderate for human. Like wine, sodium comsumption should be limited for most people in 1,500 milligrams. Health experts said people who want to lower blood pressure have to cut back on sodium in daily diets.

summarizing article

Marissa, Cevallos. (2011, April 26). Sea salt confuses Americans, but then, so does wine.Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 26, 2011, from http://www.latimes.com

        
It seems that American adults don't know about the risk factors for high blood pressure exactly. Marissa(2011) reports in this article from the LA Times that about 76% of American people are considering wine as good  for the heart(par. 3). The problem is that most of them do not know moderate wine drinking that has recommended daily limits on wine(par.4). The American Heart Association recommends that limited drink no more than two drinks per day is moderate for human. Like wine, sodium comsumption should be limited for most people in 1,500 milligrams. Health experts said people who want to lower blood pressure have to cut back on sodium in daily diets.

2011년 4월 22일 금요일

analyzing argument

 Katherine, S. (2011, April 20). Early retirement may be hazardous to your health. Los Angeles Times.
In this article Katherine intended to convince me of working longer is generally a good thing both intellectually and physically (par. 4). Her aregumant that continuing to work it good (par 4,5) is a claim of value which apeals to reason: she mentioned results of some studies that shows continuing working reduce the risk of cognitive skills. She has observed patients who quit thier job or continue to work for a long time. The result of patient's health are surely differntiated with to ways: it was good or bad. The credible results of research and studies are used in this article as logical evidences(overall paragraphs). The author completely convinced me through the article.

2011년 4월 13일 수요일

My first source

Gale database.

Deane, Pamala S. "Sitcom." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 4. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. 418-424. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 13 Apr. 2011.

Pamala S. Deane is a lecturer and writer/researcher of broadcast and film history. She has writed a lot of books about TV programs and Film. And she is very famous person in the field of TV and broadcating. The article that I found is very useful to write my research paper on "How has the sitcom genre become so popular?". The article provide me a wide range and view about the development of  sitcom. In short, the article includes almost all information of sitcom A to Z. I will conduct my own research paper with consulting the article. I want fo find out the reason why the sitcoms become popular.