Blog 12: Blogging

Basically, I like writing either English or Korean.

When I feel little emotional, I used to write.

Once, I saw blogs from other people, I wish I would have my own one.
And, this class fulfilled my desire.

Above all, the best thing that I liked was I was able to share my idea, and I could visit other blogs. Therefore, I could learn of other knowledge that I haven’t known.

Normally, it was not difficult to use the BLOG (I haven’t used all gadgets). Besides, it was reasonable, convenient, and knowledgeable.

250 words is fine to show my idea at least, and is to meet the deadline except the comment part (Because I was no able to type the words for security, it is ugly..)

Another part that I really liked was I could see my classmates’ backgrounds. Even though we are in a same class, we never know names each other. However, the blog shows our identity, objects, ideas, perspectives, and so on. Thus, I can see who they are, and what they want to be. It’s memorable.

A friend of mine, she took this class and same professor. She doesn’t care about her blog after finishing this class. It’s understandable because she never think about the world and the environment.
However, I would keep my blog, and keep writing my opinions whenever I have.
I’d like to be thankful for everybody.

Blog 11: 'Ths the Season II

These stuff what you are seeing are ugly products too during the holyday season especially. ‘Candy Melty’ Is it supposed to be a gift? I think it cost more money to treat your tooth than buy it.

Look at the Christmas package cases for gifts. What do you think? Those are recyclable cases, but actually they are disposable stuff because people do not use them after Christmas.

Part of Green Life

My mom always uses the rest of toothpaste. She cut it half when we out of it, and I had to used it again. If you see inside of toothpaste leftover, you would wonder how much toothpaste remains inside. At least, you could brush your teeth 3 times. I think this is one of Greener’s life.

Besides, the bagasse note pad, whose name of the plant fiber waste remaining after sugarcane is processed and crushed to make sugar. The quality is just as good as traditional tree-based paper, and it’s great for the environment.

Blog 10: 'Ths the Season

Frankly, I don’t know what selfish piece o’crap is. However, what I know is people are spending their money unwisely. When I heard the accident in Wal-Mart in Long Island, I was so stunned. Even my 10-year-old younger brother got surprised. In my opinion, this accident was driven by selfishness and capitalism. Where is this world going to?
I have tried to understand why people are celebrating in Jesus Christ’s birthday. Is that for Jesus? Or for themselves? After Thanks Giving Day, people are turning to like bloody vampires to suck blood in. Many people goof off in their work places, daydreaming during the work shift in Christmas season especially. Who is really celebrating Jesus Christ, and who is really keeping Christ in Christmas? We have to think about it!

Few selfish and clueless items that I found:

1. Woman Leg Lamp: what a freak! Does it look like a woman’s

leg? In my sight, it is man’s leg…Disgusting. This company

manufactured for holiday gift. Stupid!!

2. Lightening for Christmas Trees: So many people purchase

bulbs for Christmas tree. It’s unbelievable. If you are able to

produce bulbs, you would be a millionaire soon! I guarantee.

3. Candles: Oh, boy.. The smell from candles is killing me. A

friend of mine, she grabs candles whenever she goes to shop. It

reminds me of ‘House of Wax’

Blog 9: The Awesome Website

When I was a child, I played with frogs, cicadas, grasshoppers, and other animals, or insects instead of computer, or video games. The reason was not because I was from a country place, but this was what we had at that time.

I swam in a reservoir near my home with friends in the summer season, and I made a skate myself for having fun with other friends in winter season. In other words, we played with the nature. In retrospect, that was the most beautiful memories in my life. Sadly, I really know I can’t go back to that time. I am living the reality that many animals are becoming extinctive now.

‘Kids Do Ecology’: (http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/index.html)
This is what I chose as an awesome website. Isn’t that title cool? Kids do ecology.
As we know, most kids in the developed countries may not know what ecology is. Only chance that they may know is when they go to museums, read books, or search in websites.

However, this website explains the ecology simply for children. When you click a topic you want to look at it, it leads you to know about that topic. Moreover, many links are attached so you may see the topic in detail. It presents pictures in order to understand easily, and the design of this website is appropriate for kids. Besides, we are able to approach a different theme with playing games. (You may see what they have in this link: http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/index.html)

What I really like is that this website is available in Spanish, and this is a good level for kids who want to know the ecology.

Lastly, the target of this website is for kids who may not see many animals in the earth. They just see, feel, touch, and knowledge the leftover caused by their parents. It is absolutely important to teach the ecology and the nature for kids. Therefore, this website is perfect for kids because it is educational, enlightened, knowledgeable, and watchful.

Blog 8: Collaborative Projects

I didn’t know what I had to say when I heard the collaborative work in the class. However, I thanked to God because my topic was about Judaism because I am a Christian. As a Christian, I was familiar with Bible which I read everyday, and I thought this was going to be a great chance to people who do not believe in God. I asked my pastors about Judaism, and a friend of mine was a Jewish. Therefore, I was able to get sources from them. This was how I started for our project.

Originally, I am from S. Korea in Asia. Inevitably, our society has been affected by Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism. Mostly, Confucianism is the main theory in our society. Thus, I could infer the relationship between Daoism and Confucianism.

When I was a child, I used to go to a temple with my mom. She was a Buddhist, and she believed in Samsara, which was a rotational theory, and Karma. We accepted Buddhism in A.D. 600 or so based on our history, and it has changed a lot.

What I interested in were Hinduism and Islam because I did not know about their theory even though I had heard many times..

Honestly, I was impressed by all presentations. Especially, a meaning of the moon in the Islam countries was fascinating. Besides, I was surprised when I saw the relationship between Daoism and politics.

Lastly, I might know what our professor wanted by these projects. We simply saw relationships between religions and ecology, and we do now how ecology is important in terms of our religions.

Blog 7 : The Journey of the American History of Natural Museum

I think I’ve been there once, but I don’t remember when I went. That means
I wasn’t interested at all because I don’t have any memories.
However, the day when I visited there this time is not forgotten.
I wish I had more time to see all exhibitions because everything that I looked at was amazing. This is why I like to live in NYC.

Actually, I visited to the Metropolitan Museum two weeks ago. I was considering whether to go to the Metropolitan or the Natural History Museum. Thanks to my friend, I went the Metropolitan Museum luckily. I realized there were so many interesting things, which I’ve ever never seen.

Similarly, there were many great things that we had to look at. For example, I was able to see how the earth eclipses, and what materials are in the earth in Earth Planet section. We could see many exhibitions related to earth science. Especially, it was fun when I went down to see the earth sphere to see how the earth’s atmosphere had changed.

Moreover, we visited to Hall of Biodiversity, New York State Environment, and Human Origins section. Everything that I saw was brilliant. Besides, I was stunned because the museum decorated all species, circumstances, and habitants in real. It was like the real.

After visiting those four sections, I went up to third floor with my classmate in order to watch a movie, Climate Change, which matched our class topic exactly. But, a staff didn’t let us in because we got such steep tickets ($1).

Anyhow, it was a great short journey, and I will visit again soon with my friends. Even though I lost ways in the museum frequently (in my opinion, it was a maze), this museum is the right place if you are going together with the earth.