"Oh, Great Spirit, keep me from ever judging a man until I've walked in his moccasins."


This statement is warning the danger of prejudice. 

Every moment in which we face with others, we judge them by a lot of factors; appearance, race, sex, education background, experience, and so on. Those factors make people prejudice against others. 

In my opinion, prejudicing itself is not bad. The important thing is how we react to our prejudice or convert ideas into action. For example, if it were developed to the discrimination, it can make problems. On the other hand, if we don't discriminate against others even though we already prejudice them, there is no problem. 

In this world, discriminating against someone or specific group such as the black or the fat can be detrimental to one's own reputation because discrimination is sort of the absurd. Nowadays, whether there have been changed on people's mind, visible discrimination is decreased. I don't know whether this trend is good or bad. 

What I want to point out is that discrimination over prejudice will eventually come back to themselves in any form. 

Population

1. How many children did your grandparents have? What about your parents? How many children do you (want to) have?


- My grandparents on mother's side have four children. I have one sister. I want to have two children. No more than two because it's not easy to afford and look after them.




2. What is the population of your country? What impact does the population have on the quality of life the
re?


- The population of my country is almost fifty millions. We need more population to promote gross domestic product. The population itself is not problem except that but its distribution causes a lot of problems such as housing, congestion, and pollution. Around 25% of population is condensed in Seoul, the capital of South Korea.




3. Has there been a significant population shift in your country from rural areas to urban areas? If yes, what are the consequences?


- Until 1990's, the population of Seoul increased steadily and rapidly. It quadrupled from 2.5million to 10 million between 1960's and 1990's. The first reason people moved was to get better jobs or to provide better education with their children. Consequences? While the economy scale increased, the number of problem in the capital also increased as I mentioned. 

Lullabies for Little Criminal

What phase I liked was reading the book and analyzing it.

Even though I like reading whatever it is (except during the class), 

it is not always easy for me to read English novel and of course, 'Lullabies for Little criminal' was also challenging to read with a bunch of words I didn't know.

However, I found myself entering into the book while I was reading it. 
Moreover, it was interesting to share others' various opinions about the book, not only with classmates but also with readers around the world through Internet.
So, it is natural to realize that there can be numerous thought for one thing. 




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In life, there are always ups and downs.
This is very simple, easy, and famous saying 
and also very hard to feel and understand the true meaning at the same time


This moving story reminded me of  another maxim, 'Carpe diem'  
from the movie, 'Dead Poets Society'. 

Research Topic

I'm thinking about the agreement among countries around the world to reducing the mount of CO2 commision as my topic. Many people seem to believe that this agreement is just for the conservation of our environment. However, many experts point out that there are other economical and political reasons why rich countries are strongly forcing other countries to join this agreement. I don't know exactly what they mean but I think it makes sense in a logical way and it's worth to find out what's going on globally.

I hope to find the answers of the following questions:
- Why do we have to reduce the amount of CO2 emission?
- Why do some experts think rich countries force the reduce of CO2 emission?
- According to those experts, what's the consequences of this agreement when it becomes a vaild one?
- What are advantages and disadvantages of this agreement for each country? (Especially North America and South Korea)?
- What are available alternatives?