2011년 11월 23일 수요일

Argumentative Essay--Ghosts, again

As a topic of my argumentative essay, I'll again choose ghosts--it's existence. In my essay with quotation, I compared three points: EVP, life of Thomas Edison, and automatic writing. Although the length of my essay was quite long, I could not still include all the details I found--because of the length. So in my argumentative essay, I'd like to write about the existence of ghosts again. Actually, I think the topic is not so great for my mental health, I'll try again. Some sources I used are below:

EVP:

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_phenomena
  • http://www.rense.com/general33/evpcase.htm (this is a content of conversation with ghosts by means of EVP, and is a clue of solving a crime)
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4152805.stm

Thomas Edison:

  • http://www.ghost-science.co.uk/2010/08/thomas-edisons-life-units/
  • http://www.prairieghosts.com/oh-milan.html

Automatic Writing:



2011년 11월 9일 수요일

Existence of Ghosts: True or False

Supernatural beings, it is probably a theme which makes most of people interesting. Supernatural phenomenons seem so realistic, but it is hard to experience such events in our ordinary life; and this might be the reason why stories about supernatural phenomenon intrigue us so strongly. In this essay, I'd like to choose a ghost as a topic. Since it is hard to prove the existence of ghosts in scientific approach--but there are so many evidences of existence of ghosts and witnesses of ghosts in the world--the existence of ghost is still controversial. I'll introduce both sides on this theme--who believe ghosts and who do not--in this essay. The sources I'll quote are below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost
: definition of ghost, and general information on ghosts

http://paranormal.about.com/od/ghostaudiovideo/a/edison-ghost-machine.htm
: Thomas Edison, the great inventor, also studied about ghosts and made a machine which allows communication with ghosts

http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/afterlife/ghost3.htm
: Scientific explanations on "seeing ghosts"

2011년 10월 31일 월요일

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollowsㅡthe Book and the Movie?

        "Harry Potter" is very famous movies and books--there would be probably no one who can argue about this "fact." Certainly, there is nobody who has never heard of Harry Potter at KAIST. As a pen of Harry Potter, I read all series of the books and even watched all series of the movies. And of course, I found so many differences in the story between the books and the movies. Until now, however, I haven't analyzed specific differences between the movies and the books, so I think this is a good chance to contrast them. Since people normally do not analyze the differences in story of a movie that is based on a book, it would be quite meaningful to have time to find the differences between the movies and the books of Harry Potter.

        To start the essay more smoothly, I'm going to mention about the outline of the story of Harry Potter, which is common between the books and the movies. Then, I will begin to explain about the specific differences. Since I'm going to explain what part of the book is different from the movie--and vice versa-- contrasting the books and the movies will be much fun--to both writer and readers. In addition, I'm going to add some of my own explanations for the possible reasons of making those differences, to make the essay more interesting. Because of the reputation of Harry Potter and the interesting elements that I'll integrate in the essay--particularly, the differences between the books and the movies, and the possible explanations for them-- I'm quite sure the audiences would like to read this essay.

2011년 9월 3일 토요일

Nice To Meet You:)


Hello, my name is Kyeong Rok Choi, a student who is taking the 'interesting-looking' class, 'Advanced English Writing', at KAIST. I was happy to meet all of you in the first class.(The leftside, don't surprise about the different hair length compared to current hair. I visited barbor shop last weak to cut my hair =)

In contrast to your expectation, I'm not an adult and not a normal student in KAIST. I'm a 17-year-old boy(American--or European--age, of course) and a student of 'Korea Science Academy of KAIST' which is a gifted school oriented to science and mathematics. Then why am I in the writing class in KAIST? It's because I'm attending a special program called 'Honor's Program.' As a participant of this program, I'm spending the last semester in high school. But please never regard me as a foreigner or non-KAISTian-- I have both my stdent ID and an ID card!!

I'm really interested in biology--but it doesn't mean that I don't like other subjects; I love all the scientific subjects and even the arts, and the humanities! Last year, I conducted research on ncRNA at the lab of professor Young Hoon Lee at KAIST, and until last summer vacation, I conducted graduation research on cell aggregation at KSA. My another interest in biological area is brain science. I started learning brain science since last year, and I attended an international brain science competition about a month ago. Without science, I also love phylosophy and psychology, and really interested in learning foreing languages, such as French, Chinese, German and so on...

My hobbies... there are so many things. I love reading literatures, drawing pictures, watching movies, playing musical instrumets... there are so many favorite things to enjoy during my free time. But a problems is that: I have not enough free time to enjoy those fascinating things because of busy schedules of classes and research. Anyway, there are more hobbies I'd love to do. I like playing basket ball and badminton. Since about few days ago, I started learning tennis--it's really fun! I'm planning to learn swimming during next winter vacation!!

It was a long story, wasn't it? I'd like to have fun classes and spend great time with you in the class:) Again, nice to meet you!