2007년 6월 16일 토요일

Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

As our societies are globalized through the development of internet, our lives became more comfortable than before. However, spread of internet also caused some serious problems. On the
internet, many people do not expose themselves easily, instead, they are hided by anonimity of the internet. Most people use the anonimity appropriately, but some people misuse it. That "some pople" usually give some bad words to others without thinking about others' feeling. What is important is, even though givers do not think their words will hurt the receivers, the words can hurt the receiver seriously. Recently, in Korea, two actors killed themsleves due to the bad words from their anti-fans on the internet. This case shows that someone's bad words, even if it was just a kidding, can have a serious effect on the receiver.
However that people only do such things online, not in realities. Most of them are usaully just normal persons in the societies. Since they can hide their personal information like name, age, address on the internet, they do not have any obstacles. They speak what they want to, do what they have dreamed of, which they cannot speak and do in realities. In other words, development of internet lead some people to have two faces.
As these problems increases, some people are insisting that people should use their real names on the internet. Actually, some web sites have already accepted this policy and reduce some problems. However, the policy is not well spreaded all over the web sites, and there are still many people who say bad words without thinking. To dispose with these problems, people shoud realize that what faults they are making and how the faults affect the receivers. Furthermore, the poplicy of using real names online should be expanded all over the internet.

2007년 6월 14일 목요일

Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

When I was middle school student, I didn't know which high school I should go. At first, I just planned to go to the school that was the best in Andong, in which I was living. However, one day Dad suggested me to go to foreign language high school in Seould. Although I was not sure if I can make it at first, I decided to go and made an effort to enter there. Finally I got there, and this enterance changed my life a lot.
Not until the enterance to Daeil Foreign Language High School, did I realize that there are many great students. Though I was one of the top students in the middle school Andong, I was not one in the high school in Seoul. There were many students that are better than me. Therefore, at first, I was frustrated by them, but soon they became catalyst for me to study harder. Furthermore, there were many good teachers who helped me when I have some problems. In this surroundings, I became have a thought that I should have real education. Therefore, I decided to go abroad to study more and I got into Overseas Study Program in the school. Since I enter the program, I could have a room to think about the future. Finally I set a goal of my life and that goal made my life more active.