The Cut Glass Bowl - F.Scott Fizgerald

  Modernists claims that people should adapt the flows of era, not keeping the past. Learning from past and preventing from the same situation would be a good thing. However, the modernists think that keeping old things would make some troubles. And this story is an example of the troubles that happens when we keep the past things.

  The story 'The Cut Glass Bowl' it shows us the situations when we keep old past things. One part of the story, Evylyn was caught to her husband, cheating with another man. She was caught because of the glass bowl. The man she cheated tried to run away from the house, but he accidently hit the bowl and the bowl made a sound. Another part of the story, Evylyn's daughter, Julie had a blood poisons and she had to cut her hand. The blood poisons occurred because Julie was cut by a glass bowl. Also, when Evylyn's husband invited his family, they drank alcohol, which was contained in the glass bowl. After drinking it, they were drunk and said stupid things to each other. Because of it, they fight with each other. To add some more, Evylyn tries to break the glass bowl, because she thought that it was because of this glass bowl. However, when the glass bowl break, it pierced her and she die.

 To me living in modernistic is a good choice to live. When we look history book, we could see that same things are repeating again and again. And there are the reasons that the era of poverty is poor and the era of the wealthy is rich. We could learn things that were good and we could know and prevent things that are bad. Also, keeping the old things is not good choice. If we keep the past, we could not develop and we would just maintain the same thing. Living a life that is better would be benefit for our lives.

Vocabulary - The Cut Glass Bowl

1. distraught
- not being normal, being out of your mind
When people drink lots of alcohol, they become distraught.

2. marginal
- very small or not very important
Everything has marginal error, so it is hard to find unless you look carefully.

3. decanter
- glass used for containing wine
In many restaurants we could see plenty of decanters displayed on shelves.

4. forestall
- to realize what they are likely to do and preventing it
The man turned his body to left while he was fighting with his friend.

5. accentuate
- to emphasize something
Our school teacher accentuate this part of the lecuture, and it might probably in our test.

6. blunder
- stupid and careless mistakes
When she make some blunder mistakes, everyone would laugh at her and she would be embarrass.

7. assertive
- to state their opinion or states clearly
To speak fluently, we should first make our states assertive and need details to support.

8. staleness
- old or not fresh
This food is staleness to eat for our lunch, because it was cook last day.

9. flounce
- to make exaggerated movements to show that you are upset
Young boy stamp his feet loudly that his parents can hear that he is angry with them.

10. inflame
- to make people feel strongly about something
Her comments made her friends inflame that they tried to end of their friendship forever.

A new family member

  When I arrived at home after academy, my family told me there is a new family member. It was a cute brown dog. After they told me, I heard the dog crying. My sister went to her and brought for me. She first looked me and didn't come to me. When I pet her, she then came to me and licked my hand. I hold her until the drama was end. My mom scolded me that the fur of hers would stick to my clothes and they would smell a lot. I stuck my nose close to my clothes and sniff deeply. It truly does smell a lot. I changed my clothes and took all my clothes to the laundry. However, it was nice to get a new family member

Taking photo

  Today, I went to photo studio to take some pictures with my family. Me, my brother and my mom need passport pictures so before going to photo studio, we went to hairdresser's to cut and refine our hairs. At the photo studio, my younger brother took photo first. He was kind of stiff so the photographer said to smile little bit. He smiled like a scarecrow to shoo away crows. Then, it was my turn to take photo. I had to take of my glasses, because it's against the rule. When I checked my photo I was kind of disappointed, because I looked really angry. After me, it was my mom's turn. She took a hairbrush and combed her hair. It looked kind of funny to me. When everyone took photo and when the photo was all printed, we couldn't stop laughing. I looked angry and my mom looked scary. Also, my brother had different sizes of his nostril. It was really fun day, and I hope we could go to Thailand as soon as we could.

The Garden Lodge - Willa Cather

  Now days, many people are being very personal and egoistic. So the meaning of the modernist is who characterize something by their own self conscious. There is a saying that 'We should not live for ourselves but for others'. Living for others would make people to respect and admire of you.

  The story of 'The Garden Lodge' flows to present time and past time depending to the main character. By this story flow, we could know that this story is modernism. The reason is because modernism is mostly characterized by someone's own conscious. Also, in other part of the story, the main character thinks about she spending time with Raymond d'Esquerre. However, Raymond d'Esquerre was not a real person. He was a man that Caroline had imagined. By this part of the story, we could infer that this is modernism. Because the man was not a real person. He was a person who is made up from the main character. This stands that this is also characterized by her own self conscious.

  Many people are becoming egoistic and selfish. However becoming egoistic person have more drawbacks than advantage. People would dislike people who are egoistic. But if the person is kind and thoughful, people would admire the person. To give an example, Helen Keller was a disable person. However, she overcome her disablities and lived her all life helping young disables. Still, many people admire and want to emulate her. People want to follow thoughful and kind people like Helen Keller. People blame and criticize selfish people. Being egoistic and selfish would be comfortable and easy for us. However, other people would be more uncomfortable and tough. For me I would rather be kind and thoughful than becoming egoistic and selfish.

Nail polishing

Most of my friends have nail polished by themsleves. The nail looked pretty and so cute. So, I decided to polish my nail like as them. I bought some nail polishes on the way home, after playing with my friend. She helped me chose some of them. Though, I am not good at polishing I tried hard ones that looked nice. When I tried to put on, my hand was trembling so much. It was very ugly and horrible as like that there was an explosion. So, I tried some easy ones that amateur could do. Eventhough it was easy one, to me it was kind of hard. Especially polishing left hand was difficult, becuase I am a left handed. When I finish polishing all of my nail, it looked pretty good. I also, polished my younger brother's nail. And he kind of like it too.

Playing with my friend

After acadamy, I was so tired and starving. So, we decided to eat something near the lotte cinema. We wandered the street and finally decided the restaurant we will go.  There are only a few people so we could get seat easily. We thought for a long time to chose what we would eat. Finally, I chose spaghetti and my friend chose risotto. While we were waiting for the dishes, we talked about our friends and funny story. she told me that the taste of risotto wasn't that good. Mine was also not that good than I expected. After eating, we went to cosmetics store to buy some nail polishes. We put on some of them and chose three nail polishes. Then we went to singing room and sang almost 2hours. It was really excited and fun day. Playing with her, I release my stress!

Vocabulary - A Dark Brown Dog

1. heed
-to pay attention to another thing
When I take tests, I heed all my nerves to get perfect scores.

2. scuttle
-to run with short quick steps
The boy scuttle, because he was late for his professor's class.

3. avaricious
-being greedy for something
My brother always become avaricious when my mom buy his favorite chocolate.

4. eloquently
-to express well and effective
 At graduating ceremony, our school principal speak eloquently to parents and students that our school is brilliant.

5. chastisement
-punishment about something wrong
Teacher made her to sing a song infront of the classmates for her chastisement not doing homework.

6.squirm
-to move body side to side
Dog usually squirm to show the surrender after fighting with another dog.

7. dirge
-sad and slow song for funeral
He tried to sing dirge at his grandmother's funeral, however he couldn't sing because he cried so much that his voice got hoarse.

8. ponderous
-very big and heavy
This bag was ponderous that two robust men tried to lift, but give up in 10 minutes.

9. peculiarly
-to think that something is unusual and strange
At first, homosexual is very peculiar thing for me and other people, however now it is being generalize.

10. perfunctory
-action that is habbital and formally
Every morning he watch television about an hour perfunctory.

A Dark Brown Dog - Stephen Crane

  Some people think that  heredity effects people life. People who think and believe like this is a naturalists. If naturalists are true, poor people's children should be poor and rich people's children should be rich. However, like the secretary of general, Ban gi moon, he born in small and poor family in urban area. If naturalists are right, Ban gi moon couldn't be the secretary of general. He should cultivate rice in small farm.

  In the story 'A Dark Brown Dog' a boy hits the brown dog, when the dog follows him. The boy hits the dog, because he felt that the dog threat him. The boy's father always hit his family. So, the auther express that people's heredity effects people's behavior or attitude. Like this, some people do get effect from heredity, however if they tried to think not to follow them, it is possible not to get effect from family or heredity. Also, another part of the story, it shows that the boy's family is poor. And also they are very violent. By this, we could infer that auther has a stereotype that poor people are negative and violent. And rich people are possitive and less violent. However, it is not always right. Some rich are cruel and negative than poors. 

I think that heredity doesn't matter with people's life. Rich people would have more oppertunities than poor people. However, if they do not try or do not have will to do something, the poeple who try best and have will to do would succeed. Also, rich are more negative than poors. The president of Samsung daughter commit suicide. The reason was becuase she had depressive disorder. Most of the depressive disorder occur because of thinking negatively. Even though, she had much money, she commit suicide. Like Steve Jobs, he become rich by thinking possitive ways. So, to me, thinking effects more to people's life than heredity.  

After academy

Yesterday, my mother came to my academy to go home together. It took about 15 minutes to arrive at home. While we go to home, we saw an old man drunk. He was walking to the road. He went near to cars and said something. The driver also thought that he was drunk, so he tried to pass him. When the car passed him, he lost his balanced and fell down. He couldn't get up by himself, because he was drunk. Then, one young man came to him and tried to help him. I thought that people should drink alcohol not too much.

To Build a Fire - Jack London

  We feel cold more easier than Eskimo. In  north pole, it's more colder than where we live. It's even hard to see sun in that area. In this story, 'To Build a Fire' it is about a man's death during going to his base camp. We can know that he is very dull and insensitive. He kept going to the base camp, knowing that the weather is much colder than other times. This attitude shows that he might get some trouble or leading him to death. In our lives, we could also see people getting trouble, because of not being sensitive. And another part of this story, dog tried to stop going to the base camp, because he felt the weather is more colder. From dog's action we can know that dogs could be more smarter than people. Dogs couldn' t think however, they could sense things. Ability to think could be not good things at all. If we can't think smarter, having a sense like a dog could be better. Also, other part of the story the dog felt that it wasn't good way to go to the base camp. However, he didn't let his master know. The reason was that the master didn't treat the dog nicely. Even the dog can't speak like people, they could feel as like as people do. From dog's attitude, we should treat dog nicely like we do to the people.

 

Delicious dakgalbi!

Today, my father went to Chuncheon, because of his business. On the way home, he bought dakgalbi for us. He said that it was too expensive for a portion. Mother cooked the dakgalbi while we were watching television. Before finish cooking it, we set the tables and helped mom. When dakgalbi was ready, we sat together in a circle and eat it. We ate so fastly that it disappeared in 10 minutes. It was very delicious, but little bit spicy. After eating it, we watched television together. It was a very gratifying weekend.

Extracts From Adam's Diary - Mark Twain

  Realisim is a mind that people think more about realistic things and not thinking about ideal things. The story 'Extracts From Adam's Diary' talks about the life of the Adam's. In this story Adam think curious about why the bird name is dodo. By this part of the story, we could find out that Adam is a romantic person. Now a day, people usually don't think why sky is blue, or why cat name is cat. However, when we were young we usually asked our parents why sky is blue and why cat's name is cat. When we were young, everybody has mind of ideal things. I think that at first, Adam was a lazy person like a children. And another part of the story, Adam and Eve try to find who the childrens are. They try to guess that they are animals. However, Adam and Eve thought that they are not animals. The reason is becuase, they do not hope like a frog, they do not fly like a bird. We could find out that Adam and Eve are changing to the realisitic people. They don't just guess who they are. They told the each reasons why they are not a frog or birds. We could know that this story is changing romanticism to realisim.

  As our society grows, it changes alot. Most of the people in our world live in a realistic life. They care money and properties more than other things. Some people even kill their parents to get money. Like this, realisim could make people extreme. So, I think we should decrease the mind of realisim and try to think in romanticism. We could brake out the stereotype and think many other ways. Thinking many other ways could make our society better and develop. However, we should also have a realisitic mind too. Only having romantic mind could also harm us.