Journal 20 God bless you!!!

Thank you for all!

I specially thank Mr. Sean for pointing out our English problems and fixing them. Withut your instruction, we cannot even start to wirit the intruducing paragraph.

It is enjoyable for me to creat something from my thought and emotion. I cannot see and feel them until I I write down on the paper. Once my thought is written down, it can be kept physically forever. And my next generation can read my thought even after I will not exist. What is great treasure that anybody can have! Advanced compostion class supports me to have this treadure and I will keep doing whtat I have learned in this class for my life long. I hope to write like English speking people do. This is my challenage.

God bless you!!!!!

Journal 19 The True God

Do you know how many kinds of religion exist in this world? Have you ever thought which one is true? There must be one true God who created us, the earth and the universe for His purpose. It means that the rest of religion must be false. Actually, the true religion cannot be called as “religion” because men created the term of “religion” by creating gods for themselves from their perspectives. Human beings have innate which makes them to seek God because He created them in that way. I believe that there is one God who is our Creator and Lord.

Throughout the history, people keep seeking God but have been failed because of their sins. The consequence of sin is death as you see the movie Baraka directed by Ron Fricke. In this movie, you see the sequences of “morning meditations” that people around world are seeking God by doing penance themselves. They try to clean their mind and soul. One scene shows that a lady kisses a special thing like a big sliver lock. It seems that she wish dreams come true by making it holy and idolizing it.

Poverty, war, environmental disaster and human suffering are consequences of sins we made. We were created to rule over this world. But, we are suffering due to what we have done like worshiping idols and not loving others.

People try to reach God, but everyone is sinned in His perspective. There is no way to solve our problems and sins through our good deeds and actions. Only God can come to our lives and save us. So, He died on the cross and covered our sins with his blood. If you believe that, we are saved.

Journal 18

“Kka, Kka!” When you hear this sound in Korea, most of Koreans think some bad things are going to happen to them. They might be scared of their family members’ death. Here, the onomatopoeia is associated with ravens. The bird, raven, is a typical emblem of the death in Korea. We usually see ravens in funeral parlor and the sound of ravens horrifies us. Reading 'The Raven' written by Edgar Allan Poe, I feel that the author's sadness was reflected through the image of raven.

I think the name of ‘Lenore’ is related to the raven’s saying ‘Nevermore’. In the poem, the mourning narrator was desperately isolated at one night in his house. He was beaten by death of his wife, Lenore, whom he had loved so much and wanted to die to be with soon. While the narrator was missing her sorrowfully and repeating her name, ‘Lenore’, one raven visited him and said, “Nevermore.” It means for me because the narrator was remembering the precious time with her and desperately wanted to meet her again, the sound of ‘Lenore’ was spoken through the raven and turned to the sound of ‘Nevermore,’ which led him think that there is no more meaning to live without her – Never more without Lenore. Finally, the image of raven became the surroundings of his death and made his poet more blue and tearful.

Journal 17 Moving to America

Dear Mom & Dad,

I know home is the best place in this world, and if I leave home, my life would be hard. Mom and Dad, however, I want to go to the USA for graduate study. It will take about 2 years to get a master degree, and I hope to have career training after graduation. In California, I have some friends to help me when I arrive there. Although I will be far away from home, we can still keep in touch each others through email and phone. Also, we can see each other by using webcam system with internet.

I know you have two things concerned about America. First, you believe that America is dangerous place and many people carry guns. But, it is not true. The American government control guns to be used properly and the orange county where I will live is one of the safest places among the States according to research studies.

Second, you think that there would be more opportunities in Korea than in America. However, if I study in America, I can not only study my major but also improve my English. You know that English skill is essential in this global world. By the time when I graduate, my English must be excellent in every area - listening, speaking, reading and writing. Also, I will have internship opportunity during semester and Optional Practical Training after graduation.

What an awesome opportunity in my life! Mom & Dad, please encourage and support me to study abroad. I promise that I will do my best and complete my study successfully.

God bless you.

I will miss you so much!

Your love,

Yejin

Journal 16

There are a lot of job in this world, but there is only one job which make you be the happiest people and feel that you are doing "right" thing. Each everyone has different characters, personalities, talents and interests. Either they are innate or acquired. As you breathe and your eyes are open before sleeping, you just do work naturally and freely. As you cook to release hunger from your stomach, you just do work to satisfy your desire.

So, I agree with Confucius quote, "Find a job that you love doing and you will never have to work a day in your life." Sometimes I'm confused to decide which way I follow, the thing that I want to satisfy for myself or the thing that I have to satisfy for others' expectation. I wish to have strong opinion and taste about that like Confucius.

Here, I want to introduce my instructor, Ms. Sean Cochran. I can tell how much he loves to teach English to students whose native language is not English. He works so hard to make the lesson best and let them understand easily. It seems that he enjoy teaching as loving his wife. For me right now, my magic job is the student who are eager to explore the world through books and lecture.

Journal #15

Engene Walsh (Mid-October, 2008). No Need to Study? Fullerton Obererver, p. 3.

According to Eugene Walsh in his article, we ourselves should shutdy and compare the presidential candidates’ ability (par. 2, 4). He claims that “diehard Republican”, or “diehard Democrats” (par 1) is not right attitude which the public should held for democratic society. It is a claim of policy which applies to emotion, like he said, " I envy them!" (who are diehard), then reversely he said, "Will our democracy survive this attitude?" Also, he convineces the reader by describing the people who have no effort and and thoughts to research the candicates. Finally, he give himself as an example of expressing his thought about John McCain with quotes from issues of Time magazine (par 5 - 12).