Thursday, December 1, 2011

After read Romeo & Juliet

  "Romeo and Juliet" is really famous story in whole world. I think many people know this story even though they aren't interested in literature. In fact, I have never read this story even though I already knew the content of this story because I heard when other people talked about the content. Although, I haven't read this story, I have seen the video of this part that we studied recently. It was fun.

 I like this part because their love looks like very pure and innocent. Juliet is about to fall in love with Romeo as she just hears his voice.. what a sweet!
However, I think this part shows not only how sweet their love, but also the situation of that time.
Each families are enemies, so it's too difficult to achieve their love.. it's a little bit weird as present conception, isn't it? Probably, some families' conflict was very strong at that time.

 Anyway, I enjoyed reading this part of "Romeo and Juliet" Thank Nathan for giving me chance to read this story!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Daniel Kahneman- Happiness

Now, I understand D. Kahneman speech.

His thinking is interesting. He said that our "experiencing self" and "remembering self" are sometimes different, and in this situation "remembering self" is more dominated.
I think it's a kind of true. In my opinion, the reason "remembering self" is more dominated is that when you remember some memories, you know more thing compared to when you experienced the memory.

For example, when I was a high school student, I thought my life was so difficult.
(In Korea, the competition of entering university is very strong because Korea has small land, but lots of population.)
But now, I sometimes want to return to be a high school student, because now I've experienced social life is harder than high school life. Earning money is not that easy. :)  This situation is caused by I have experienced many thing after I graduated from high school.

To conclude, if I have never experienced anything after I experience one thing, my "remembering self" also recognizes same as when I experince the thing. (It'squite a messy sentence.. :(  )
I mean "remembering self" is changed by our "later experiences".

Sunday, November 13, 2011

After read "Beowulf"

It's too difficult to understand. I know the movie "Beowulf" showed in the past, but I actually don't know the content. I think we usually study difficult literary works like the past's writings!

Thursday, November 10, 2011

2001: A Space Odyssey

 It's quite difficult to understand this movie. I think the movie director probably wants to show how much our technology has been improved, and will be improved in the future.
Honestly, I saw the movie uninterestingly. It wasn't my favorite style of movie. Especially, I still don't understand the last part of movie. Nevertheless, there is a interesting point of this movie. The most interesting part for me is that the thing "Hal" said to Dave.
When Dave wonders Hal has some problem, Hal says to Dave that Hal doesn't have any problem, and he also doesn't make any mistakes. Additionally, he says if there is a problem, it's caused by human.
This part was very interesting to me because Hal already has a kind of human mind. Hal doesn't open the door because he knows Dave will disconnect him. Hal is afraid he die. It is funny for me even though Hal has a human mind, he thinks he won't make any mistakes.

The message I get from this movie is that people are controlled by technology which we have made.
At first, the people look like gorilla first use the tools. At that time, they controll the tools. However, in the spaceship, people are controlled by the technology. People are very weak in front of uncontrolled technology. I think we have to be careful about our future when we make new technology.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Interview

Sorry to late update! :(

 I tried to interview 5 people, but 3 people rejected my ask, so I just interviewed 2 people. I think people were so busy.. Actually, ,my interview wasn't successful. Probably, because my interview wasn'y successful, funnily, I was thinking how I'll do if I interview people next time while I interviewed people.

 I was nervous, so I tried to interview the people who are alone. Because if there are many people, the situation makes me more nervous. I think it was my problem. The interviewee is also nervous when they are interviewed if the person is alone. So, I should have interviewed the people who were together. I think couples are good. Maybe the boyfriends are willing to answer about the interview because they are in front of their girlfriends. (Boyfriends have to show their good personalities!!)
 I'll do better next time even though I don't want to interview people anymore.. hahaha

Anyway, people has different chararcters about writing, but I could guess their characters a little before I interviewed them.
I interviewed 1 girl, and 1 man. At first, I met the girl in the SUB food court. She was using her cellphone constantly. She likes using Facebook.
On the other hand, the man doesn't use Facebook at all. Interestingly, I met him at Rose Garden. (I went to very far place..) He likes Rose Garden because it makes him relaxed. Yes, Rose Garend is quite calm place. Probably, Facebook doesn't make him relaxed.. I guess..

Frankly speaking, this activity wasn't interesting! I was scared when I tried to interview people.
I hope Nathan doesn't give interview activity anymore! :)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Black Swan

 I saw the movie "Black Swan" last weekend. After the movie premiered, my two close friends strongly have recommended that I see the movie, but I finally watched it last weekend.
For me, "Black Swan" was a little creepy. The main actress injures herself many times. I stopped many times for I saw the movie.. I'm not good at watching nasty, creepy and horible movies..
When I was watching the movie, I texted a friend who recommended "Black Swan", and blamed him because he has already known that I'm not good at watching this kind of movie! He looked joyful. hahaha.
Anyway, except some scenes that the actress injures herself, whole story and ballet acting were so nice!

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Response: "The Epic of Gilgamesh."

At first, this story is very difficult for me to understand. The reason is probably that this story is written by English, However, my cousin tried to read this story but she gave up quickly because she thought this story is very difficult even though she can use English very well!

When I was young, I was intersted in history (Korea history and World history both), so I approximatively know the beginning of this story, but it wasn't easy to understand.
This stroy seems as if the two stories, Noah's ark and Gilgamesh story, connect together.
I didn't know these stories are relevant..

Anyway, in my opinion, this story shows it is impossible for human to surpass the limitation of human abilities.
Gilgamesh fails to get eternal life, and most people except Atra-hasis died when the big Deluge happened.
Human is so weak in front of nature. Human just can live in our abilities.