Monday, April 13, 2009

Essay

Topic: there is nothing that young people can teach older people. Do you agree with this following statement?


A lot of people say that young people can’t teach anything to older people because they are still students, and older people have lived more, but I think this is not a true fact because there are lots of people who can’t read, they know the economy, but I do not think that they know about sciences.Many young people know better about sciences, and technology, but older people don’t really know because they can only read news paper to know the economy, or watch TV to know, but sciences don’t show in the TV or news paper that much. Because young people go to the school, and study, there are new facts that they can know information that older people don’t know; in this case, young people have to teach old people. So I think that young people can teach old people.Because there were World War first and second, many people did not care about education, so some old people can speak, but not reading. I know in Korea because it was colonized by Japan, many old people could not read, so young people are trying to help them to how to write and read. This is another reason for young people can teach.Many people thought that young people are unable to teach older people because lately many young people don’t care about the environment, politic, or even studying, but mostly they do care about studying, so young people can easily teach. Another reason is young people have used a lot of technology, it seems that they are not trying anything.Therefore it might seem that young people are not able to teach and there are nothing to teach, but there are.It is one of prejudices that young people have nothing to teach, but there are lots of things to teach with the reasons above, I think that young people do have something to teach older people that they don’t know.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

1984

Chapter 1 part 1
1. Discuss the omnipresent posters of Big Brother in terms of his physical appearance as well as the phrase “Big Brother Is Watching You.” What does the caption imply about the society in which Winston Smith lives? Are these implications supported by evidence from Chapter 1?
In chapter 1, we know lots of things about Winston Smith’s life. Big Brother is the leader of Oceania, but he does not exist, still it influence the way that people live in this book.
We absolutely know that Big Brother does not exist because first of all, none of the party member has seen Big Brother, it could be based on someone, but he can’t be alive because he had ruled for long time. Secondly, he is never shown up, he is always on telescreen, or poster, even when he speaks his speech, he is on the telescreen, and he never dies. The party still shows the face of Big Brother because they want absolute power, and they want to keep it.
Winston’s life is very complicated because he has no freedom, privacy, or he can’t even think about negative thoughts, he has to be unorthadox, and double think (you think your real thoughts, but you pretend that you are not thinking, you are thinking another thoughts). He is being every time, and if the party thinks that he thinks of any rebellion, he will be tortured. The phrase “Big Brother is watching you”, it means that he will be watching through the telescreen no matter what. For example, even in the café, there is telescreen. So Winston is living in hard society.
These implications are supported by evidence from chapter 1 because in chapter 1, it shows that Winston is being watched, it shows that he can not communicate, neither look, glance to people. And we could know Big Brother is the leader because he is always on the telescreen, watch people, and control everything.
Winston lives in horrible place because he can not keep privacy, not even reading a real good book because it might show that rebellion will happen, but because party does not want, they support horrible books. To conclude this essay, As Big Brother always watch people, they have no power.


Discuss the three party slogans and what each statement implies about this society. What does the public’s easy acceptance of these mottos suggest about the populace at this stage of the story

There are three party slogans, War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. These means that having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united. For example, because people are having war, they have to work harder in order to not tortured, so they work harder that they have no time to think about anything, so this will keep the people united (they are forced to be worked precisely, and because party wants to keep power they made this slogan.) According to the party. Men (whole people) who are independent always fail their life, good example is Winston later in the book, after he became independent, and he became very careless that he will be tortured some day. Ignorance is strength I think it means that if you just ignore everything, you will achieve what you want from the party, party is watching you and someday, if you approve, they will make you to work in the party.

Describe the circumstances surrounding the death of Winston’s mother. What are his conflicting emotions? Tell why her death is doubly tragic, in view of societal changes since Winston’s childhood.
In chapter three, Winston dreams Golden age, golden country basically means the best time of the country, just like history, and in this case golden country is the country that Winston desperately wants. I said desperately because Winston never wants to live in the country that he wants to.
In his dream, he dreams that he keeps his privacy, he reads, and he can write. But he dreams about death of his mother (precisely, he dreams his mother is in sinking ship.) He feels very sorry for her, also he feels responsibility about her, and his sister because they have sacrificed for Winston to live more (this is why her death is doubly tragic). He destroyed the picture that it was illegal.
In my opinion, his dream is very prophetic. He dreams dark-haired girl, Julia, she meets her later on in the café, but he feels fear when he noticed Julia is following him every time because he thought that he was the agent of thought police. Another prophetic example is about O’Brien he said, “we shall meet in the room without darkness”, it just means Winston is going to succeed someday to prevent the party for having no privacy, and later on Winston actually meets O’Brien in the room without darkness. So his dream is prophetic for the later in the book.
Winston’s mother died twenty years ago, at that time party did not have that much power, after him mother died, unfortunately, the party started to have absolute power that no one can have rebellion.
Winston’s dream shows the background of his life, and the party. And because it is prophetic, his dream is one of most important part of the book.
Winston wakes up with word Shakespeare.


Discuss the implications of Winston’s dreams as acts of thought crime.

Winston’s dream is very thought criminal because it kinds of shows the rebellion because he does not really think about any rebellious thing. However, his dreams are all about having freedom, privacy, and love with Julia. Thought crime is just same as the word, a person who thinks about rebellious is thought crime that is why there is thought police, and telescreen. I think that Golden Country is one of thought crime because you can’t really see, but in his dream, he dreams about he having lots of time of freedom, and party does not exist.
Thought crime is very complicated, order to not be caught, you should not write yourself, you shouldn’t read the book that is about rebellious (but you can read the book that the party provides.). To the party, Winston’s dream is definitely a thought crime because he dreams about the things that the party does not want. But fortunately, he was not caught because he doublethink, and it is dream. So party will have difficult time to figure out unless Winston acts rebelliously.
He has action that will be able to cause the thought crime. His diary, and book will be caught some day. He is not supposed to write any diary because it makes him to think about negative things about the party (but yet, he did not write any mad, angry expressions, he did not have these kind of emotions when he writes diary).
If we think of Winston’s dream as prophetic thing, he will be caught someday because he dreams he is being chased, and all the dreams that he has dreamed are true, and prophetic, he dreams show his future life that he is going to be caught and tortured.


Part 1, Chapters 4 and 51. Discuss the function of the Ministry of Truth. What is ironic about its title? Explain what Winston does there and how he feels about his work. Explain how the creation of Comrade Ogilvy supports the Party motto. Ministry of Truth concerns about the News, there are ironic things about this. I think there are two things about this title.
When they give people news, they will give propaganda, we can easily know party is going to do this by reading a book, the theme of government is “false is reality”. Ministry of Truth will give people about wrong information to keep their power forever,
The reason why Ministry of Truth is doing this is that they never want to lose their power; they want to control the people. Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, his job is to fix the speech of Big Brother’s, he hates the party, but he likes his job so much (he is good at his work). Comrade Ogilvie is a creation of Winton’s; he made him to help the Party motto. How he helps the party is, he speaks to the people in telescreen.

How would you explain both Parsons’ and Syme’s acceptance of obvious propaganda? Discuss the reasons.

Parson and Syme both work in the Ministry of Truth. Syme is an intelligent person who works in New Speak, Winston thinks that he is too intelligent for the party, but one day he will be vaporized because he thinks too much, which he should not do. Parson also works in New speak, but he is not as smart as Syme, and he follows the rule from the party because fears of torture.
It is very obvious to see both of people’s acceptance of obvious propaganda, they are not like Winston, they want to follow the rule that Party made because they never want to be vaporized and tortured, they want to live, even though they know that Party or oligarchy is ruling very terribly that everyone know that they are not doing right things. To live in this country, they have to follow the rules, so if the party ask them to accept propaganda, they certainly will accept because they fear, are afraid of the party.
Another reason why they want to accept is that they are one of party member, they are working in Ministry, they live better than anyone else, even though they are being watched, and they live better than the proles. Well, everyone is better than proles because party make them distract by supporting bad music and literature because the party knows that if proles become rebellion, they have no power to prevent them, and everyone who works in Ministry will be enemy of proles. However, Syme and Parsons don’t want Proles to be rebellion, it is too late that they tell the truth to the proles, and the final way to live is listening to the party.
If I was Syme or Parsons, I would become rebellion, I will sacrifice myself, to wake up the proles that the party will be gone forever because it is ridiculous to be watched every time, but if I can sacrifice myself, everything will be changed. So I would not accept propagnda.


What does the upstairs room at Charrington’s shop mean to Winston? Why does he buy the paperweight? How might this action be interpreted symbolically?

This action is start of rebellion because he goes to room that has no telescreen, this is an absolute rebellious action because he sleeps with Julia, reads in the room 101, write his thoughts, but this is ironic because we know that Winston is going to be caught later on (from the dream), upstairs room at mr.charrington’s shop mean to Winston is a room for him to stay, and without telescreen.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

1984

Differences between Julia & Winston as a rebel


Julian and Winston, they both are rebels, but there are big differences between them. First of all Winston thinks about whole groups of people, if he can sacrifice himself to save the whole world, he would do it. However he is too careful, not brave enough. Julia is very brave, what ever she thinks, and she shows some action. And if she is comfortable enough she is good enough.

Doublethink: doublethink is that person is thinking real things that he is going to do, but in present time, he shows different actions because he is being forced.
EX) Winston is a person who double thinks because he thinks of rebellion, but he works in the party.

Part 1 is important. In chaper1, it shows that there is no privacy, which is one of them in the book, and Winston is a rebel. We know this because he reads, writes a diary. And four ministries are very important in the book, Ministry of Love, Peace, Plenty, and Truth. Ministry of Truth concerned about News. Peace concerned itself with war, Love maintained the law and order, and Plenty was economic affairs.

We also know that Big Brother is not a real person because he has ruled for a longtime more than 100 years, he never dies, he is always on the post, too. So we know that “appearance is not a reality” just like when Winston goes to room without telescreen, but there was behind of picture.

Winston awakes the word Shakespeare, after he dreams about his family, he feels responsibility, and Julia works in the fiction department of Ministry of Truth.
According to O’Brien, the purpose of Ministry of Love is not to punish people, to care, and fix them.

Goldstein’s book is called “The theory and practice of oligarchial collectivism.”

Winston think that Syme is too intelligent for the party, but he will be vaporized one day because he thinks too much, which you should not do in this book.

Party's Slogan: WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. It means that having a common enemy keeps the people of Oceania united. According to pary, the man who is independent is discovered to fail. The inability of the people of recognize these contradictory cements the powere of authoritaniam regime. Man subjective to the collective will is danger.

One weird thing is that Winston likes his job, even though he does not like Big Brother. His job is to fix the announcement of News; speechs of Big Brother's

Essay

Topic: should government spend more money on improving roads and highways, or should governments spend more money on improving public transportation?


Depends on what the places are, is gong to change the plan, but in my opinion, they should spend money for improving public transportation because we are not going to be able to use the car because of minerals. If we want to save the environment, we have to use public transportation more than cars.The reason why public transportation is more important is that people still don’t use that many buses, subways, or trains because of the car. If we keep using car and develop more roads and highways, we are never going to use public transportations because we don’t really feel any problem with minerals, but the roads are improving, people won’t even think about any environmental things.Minerals are limited, even oil is unlimited; we got to save, and use not that many times because of air. Because we use many cars, air has been dirty and warm that it cause the global warming, we are not going to be able to fix this problem, so we got to start using public transportations.Public transportations are not well developed yet that much, but still many people use them, so if the government think of keep using, and more people using public transportation, they got to improve public transportation with the money. This is no waste because we are going to use more of them.In my opinion, right now highways and the roads are more important, but unless those are broken and can’t use them, we shouldn’t spend that much on it because there are better ways to spend money on it to solve the problem.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Essay

Fighting should not be banned in hockey.

There are lots of hockey players who fight with other players. Some players likes to watch fighting, but some does not because it looks so dangerous, and violent that they might get injured by fighting. However, people won’t be able to stop the fighting in the hockey game because the players are allowed to hit; a few players play roughly, you get very excited when we are watching the fights, and once players are emotional, it is almost impossible to stop unless they stop themselves.
The players are allowed to hit other players in NHL, which causes fighting. Some players might not, but some players play very rough that roughness makes other players emotional. This causes fighting, but rules won’t be able to change. First of all, people have adaptations of hitting, and even though they see the big hits, people say “wow, that is such a big hit”, they get more excited, but they don’t really worry about the conditions of players. If people don’t think anything bad, it is very hard to throw thoughts away because people have prejudices. For example, because people thought that men were better, and greater than women, lots of people still think that men are the best; just like this people believe there has to be hits in the hockey game, and people who made the hockey rule probably thought fights, and they have seen them, if they took it very seriously, they could have stopped it, but now they can’t because the players are going to fight anytime they want. Secondly, players are hard to control their emotion if they get hit roughly because it makes them to feel very aggressive that players want to hit more and harder even if you have good manner. Sometimes, you did not really mean to hit, but you might hit the players really hard, and get fight. These kinds of things makes hard to stop fighting.
The fans are excited about the fights because they think that it is fun to watch, especially when players are hosting other team, because they have lots of home fans, it will makes them feel even more aggressive. Sometimes they think that they should fight because of the fans, the fans are going to chastise the players because they did not fight, you are not a man, or you are such a bad, and weak player. Once you get very aggressive, it is almost impossible to calm down, and focus on play. For example, you had fight with other players; it is fine if you are hyper, or mad, but because you had a fight, you will be able to give up the game, but you will play rough, you are going to want to revenge by hitting. Another example is that you are playing a videogame, but you have lost every single game by same player, what do you want to do? You want to get better, and are going to try to win the game as rough as you can. Because it is almost impossible to stop players, there should not be any prohibition of fights.
I don’t know why people think that fights should be prohibited. They don’t want any injury players? Or they don’t want players, or whole team to have bad relationship? We can’t really say because of these reasons, fights should be banned because firstly, it is their choice, not ours, they have decided to fight, you are allowed to fight, so there are no reasons why there should be no fighting in the hockey game. Secondly fights in hockey are 100% clean because there are lots of players who check from the back, or play very cheap…etc. Fights are clean because if you just like to hit and hit forever, both teams are going to have bad relationship, but hockey fights might solve the problem because it is clean fight, both of players have skate, no weapons, no team wants to have bad relationship with others, and because of the fights both teams are going to think that bad relationship is over, they are going to try to keep their relationship as best as they can.
If there were no hits, or cheap players, there should be no fights. However, there are fights because sometimes, players can’t control themselves. The reasons why the can fight are natural things that they can’t really do (make the rule, prohibition of fight), and to watch better hockey game. Fights in hockey should not be banned.