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**May 6, 2010**
Min Ji/ Michelle Oh/ Hyunsun Park/ Ian Chang

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What is falling apart? According to the novel, Things Fall Apart, “falling apart” appeared to be one’s total failure in one period of life time due to his or her wrongdoing. The tangible example is shown in the last few chapters. It is Okonkwo, losing fame, wealth, power - everything he had worked hard to earn. This reflects how human’s major completed task would be demolished by one single action or accident. showed clear example of one of falling apart.======

**March 16, 210 (HW)**
Journal Entry about //Things Fall Apart//

The very first two chapters in Things Fall Apart highlights about the main character’s reputation in Umuofia; the reason behind his hatred feeling toward his father; brief explanation about Umuofia.Not only that, I was able to notice some of Okonkwo’s (protagonist) characteristic. He was hardworking, fearsome, courageous man. This tends to be good character traits, but i think he crossed the line of working hard, being fearful figure to others. It is because of the fact that he utilized violence for teaching his offspring about ways of being similar to him. For instance, he has been constantly “nagging and beating” his lazy son. Although his son was inactive on labouring, he should rather used other methods to correct him, than continually using inhumane punishment. This inspires my prediction to be his death, at the end of the future by seeing the fact that he should be punished under his behavior of hurting others.Beside from his brutal personality, I had a misunderstanding on why the people afraid of Umuofia, the village that he has lived. I understood the part where it said that it was because of its strong military power, but the next explanation seemed absurd. It explained that the “potential war medicine” was old woman with one leg, who hops during the war. I was in question of the fact why people were afraid of her since she appears to not harm anybody. Moreover, these feelings and question from the book has interested me a lot.


 * March 16, 2010 [[file:9E - Min Ji Kim Metmorphosis Industrialism OPE.docx]]**

**February 26, 2010**

 * Journal entry #2:** Write your own narrative extending or revealing hidden aspects of the story told in your assigned poem. Your stories should be based upon the facts and inferences you found in the group exercise; the stories should not contradict those facts and inferences, but may stretch them a bit. You might want to use the following questions as starting points, but do not have to.


 * In "The Runaway," who has left a young horse to stray in snowstorm on a mountainside?

On one snowy day, I was climbing up the mountain with my close pal. As we walked up the hills, we saw a small Morgan, a type of colt. We wandered the owner of the colt, but then there’s no way of knowing since the only thing that he does in front of us is snorting and dipping down his head. And in one second, he instantly ran away from us; he may be scared of mankind. At the side where he ran away, we barely saw a flash of thunder- the crashing noise seems to be god’s punishment for a coward mule. He kept trembling, even after the thunder. We guessed that it was his first-ever time to experience walking on the snowy day. Thus, it tends to be one of the challenges that he encountered, not a joyful game. There’s no one who could help the creature, keep on bolting away from the snow, which none of the creatures can escape from if one is in outside. I think even its mother would’ve suggested him to just chill. However, there’s no one, so he is the one who must manage to convey by him. He did successfully win over the fear, created by the snowflakes. Now, he attempted harder stuff, carrying a rock. Although he was extremely tiring and scared, he did not halt. By seeing such image, my friend and I thought that he may runaway from the barn. Moreover, I was furious on the owner of Morgan, who does not look for his responsibility. Owing to the fact that he seems alike to abandon the innocent creature, which ran away without knowing anything, all other people should take care of that creature. Thus, we comfort the horse and took it to home, unless he would die of fatigue.

=Quiz : Elements of Short Stories= The narrator in the poem, "Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening" appeared to be round character-the main characters have certain changes, recurring in a course of the story. By seeing the fact that the main character tended to like the "lovely, dark and deep (line 13)"- the adjectives described for one's favored objects- woods that surrounded him while he was resting, he seemed to plan on staying longer. However, there's change of his mind; he reminded himself of the mandatory "promises" that he needed to carry out. Thus, he restarted to go on his way. Such shift within his mind seemed to prove that he is a round character since he did not stay the same over the plots of the poems.


 * February 24, 2010

February 22, 2010**

I handed in a HARD COPY for the assignment __,Duchess' letter & My Last Duchess Worksheet__ :)


 * February 3,2010**

Blog Writing http://minjik13.wordpress.com/

On January 29th, I was invited to a unique world. The world titled as the BIG SHOW, which is simply a young and famous Korean pop artists’ concert. The name of the group is Big Bang, composed of five twentish mid aged men. Although most of the members’ appearances are unappealing, the performances were different compared to other teenaged singers, who only know how to dance; believes in their visual. However, as an hour passed, it made me exhausted, not from shouting but from a boredom. It indeed frustrated me. Their performance, concept, singing tone, facial expression, even the clothes do not have any distinction from the performances in the beginning. Moreover, it appeared to be just a copycat from American pop musics and dancing style. It may be my capricious personality. Still, I do not want to deny of the fact that their show was repetitive. Furthermore, it was really absurd to hear the song that had a copyright issue in the concert in spite of that the leader of the group was sued for plagiarism. The most frustrating part of the show was the Korean’s attitude in the front seat. They all squeeze, push, swear, shout, stand up high, so that one could plausibly die and faint. Actually, the news report cited that there are over twenty fainted people from this concert. From that experience, I truly determined myself to not ever go to the Korean singers’ concert.


 * February 1, 2010**

__Blog #1__ : http://www.journalhighschool.com/

As the title shows, the blog is basically a highschool student's journal. It is one of my favorite in view of the fact that I could share similar feeling as I read through my peer's writing about her or his life. The most up to date one and my best-loved post was "Face-book Addiction", uploaded on January 29, 2010. On that day, the writer highlights about how the addiction of facebook affect her time management on homework. It also criticizes about young child's having an expensive machine, such as ipone, mac computer. Such content astonishes me since it is what I thought about recent younger generations.

__Blog #2:__http://www.philcooke.com/ I began to like reading through the posts, listed on Philcooke.com, since it provides knowledge regarding scientific research, politics, as well as social life. My recent reading from this website was titled as "Can we creative more?". This post pinpoint about people in 21st century, excessively utilizing technology for pursuing and completing their job. In other word, they just copied off the work from the internet, rather than making up their own creative work. He also supported this fact with robust instant. Accrodingly, it amuses me a lot because he kind of teaches me the knowledge through his criticism.


 * January 26, 2010****

About the final exams...' In my perspective, final helped me to review the past lessons. By studying for final, I remembered the previous studies that I had forgotten. It was excessively beneficial in the use of refreshing memories in the past sememster long lectures. ndeed, I felt the pain from the bad habit of studying the night before the exam. However, final testing gave off too much stress for me as well as my fellow since the percentage was too high that it could possibly lower our grade. Final testing appeared to be unfair with the possibility that it could harm my six moth effort by one exam, despite of the fact that it is excessively effective on making students study. Thus, I think the final exam would be healthier if it has smaller size in the grade.