"oh, great sprit, keep me from ever judging a man until I've walked in his moccasins"

"oh, great spirit, keep me from ever judging a man until I've walked in his moccasins"

It is quite easy Judging someone when their behavior was wrong or seems like wrong. Just say a word or a sentence like "you can't do like that. You are doing wrong.".

But it is quite hard judging someone when you know someones' situation support her/his wrong behavior. Everyone knows the novel "Les miserable" in which the main role stole bread to fill his hunger. Who can blame him without pity? People would feel sorry for him at least , if they are human beings.

In addition, people never unerstand exactly how the others feel and think. Even though we use same language, because every single people has different values, different goals, different backgrounds, different cultures, it is hard to understnad.

It is not easy to consider things at other peoples' positions. But this is right way to respect the others and to be respected from the others.

Research project..

The most important thing at this point,,,, is,,,,, this is not finish yet!!!
(presentation is left!)

Anyhow.. I handed in the paper with well-made cover, and I can forget about the articles and books about my topic, "consumer decision making". ITs good. perfect!!


Until last friday, i told everybody that i know.. this project is killing me..

Once, level 7 classmates asked me, "hey, level 8 isn't that difficult, eh?" I talked back, "There is a project which is called 'research project', and that is killing me, and will kill you as well." ( He was a bit arrogant, and insolent).

Once, I met my ex-teacher by chance and he told me "oh, you will have research in level 8" and I said " I'm doing it now!" and he told me " Good luch, jung~!" And I really agree with him. ^^;;


------------------------------------------so far, my general feeling -----------

However, of course, I have learnt a lot from this project.

I learned specific way of doing this kind of paper which will be so useful in the workplace as well. For example, looking for certain books and articles and making reference list are one of the good things to know.

And I will probably do the same way except making the reference list. I forgot write some of the references when I write the paper, so... the results was..... it took bunch of time to recover it, and I ended up took away the part that I couldn't find the references.

Lecture project-

haha.

I went to 3 lectures, and finally, fortunately, I found the lecture that I liked ..^^

Like I presented, it was about the consumption theory which was related to Darwin's theory.

My first impression doing these lectures was.. that western people (except student or collegues) don't go academic lectures as well as korean... It is same all over the world.. because all of the 3 lectures didn't have many people. Even though the last lecture was sort of Concordia's program.

Second impression was .. it's difficult...!!

It was different from my everyday school life- The professors talk fast, some of them had his own accent, used jargons. They never pause during the lectures.

However, i was encouraged by these lectures, because i could understand it, even though not all of it. It was impossible, just until 1 year ago, but it's possible now!!! So, I have kind of encouraged to keep going forward!

So, thank you!^^

-population-

1. How many children did your grandparnets have? What about your parents? How many children do you want to have?

My parental grandparents had 5 sons and daughters, but one of them was died when he was a child. So now they have only 4 sibilngs. For mathernal grandperents have only 3 sibilngs.

And I have only 1 sibling who is a girl.

Maybe.. because I've grown up in a small family without big relatives and big family events, i want to have really big family. 4 sons and daughters i wish. If I can, i will adopt one baby.

2. what is the population of your country? what impact does the population have on the quality of life there?

South Korea's population is 49,024,737, 24th in the world. North korea's population is 23,301,725, 48th in the world.(wekipedia, 2007 research)

To add both populations of South korea and north korea's it becomes 18th in the world.

I didn't realized the impact before coming to canada, before meeting people who come from other countries. Foreigners did not rush like korean. They are more kind. I think because we have so many people in small land, we are more competitive, and rush to get something before others get no matter what it is.

3. Has there been a significant population shift in your country from rural areas to urban areas? IF yes, what are the consequeces?

Yes, we have it. Ever since Korean War, people have moved to capital, Seoul. Seoul has one out of four population of South Korea.

It becames center of economic, administration, politics, even entertainment, everything. AS a result, buildings and land in seoul are so expensive, so that habitants are moving into suburb.
It caused severe congestion everyday. Every single person suffer to commute to work, and school.

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Critical thinking-

- Critical thinking -

Being critical is never easy. Always have to think.

Do i? no.

what does it mean?

we are all exposed by media's extremely strong power. to exaggerate, we can be manipulated by others.

Although, i know it, it is still not an easy task.

Actually, that lecture day,i expected little more realitic, and critical lecture about media. For example, comparing certain papers and show how it's different. Or how we're manipulated already.

So i was kind of disappointed.

Anyway, she reminded me that i have to prepare myself to go real society.. when I go back to Korea.

In company, in Society, I need to know how to think myself and how to talk my opinion not by copying others'.

Book Project-

- Life of Pi -

Overall it was so nice, fantastic!! It was fortune that i could choose the book i wanted.

Reading

: In terms of reading.. I'm reading person... so... reading english book was kind of one of expected projects.

Life of Pi was written easily without jargons, difficult structures. Every single sentences are clear and not too long. Also, it has big drama at the end, it makes readers satisfy.

We had only 1 week to read novel. I think it could be pressure, and it was pressure for me. However, everybody made it, and i made it. proud of me.


Class discussions with your group

: to discuss each section, I had to read fixed pages of book and it encouraged me.

When we did discussions, our group was very active. Even though at the beginning, there was little things to discuss, but the more time goes, the more we became active. Everybody gave their own opinion, and we had agree and disagree. From time to time, we explained and correct certain parts to someone who didn't understand. So it made us understand the book properly.

Also, by this discussions, I could know the others' various opinions so that it made my view wide.

Written Review

: written review was one of the hardest work during this project. i had to tell the story, criticize it, and appeal to readers at the same time, because I wanted to make readers to read Life of pi.

From this, I've learn good things to know, like skills to write review, and how to other writters express their criticisms..


Oral Presentations(your own)(as part of the audience)

: Oral presentations not to hard, because it was based on my book review, I did it together with Dyrl, and We had many things to say from the group discussions.

Specially, i like other groups presentations. I wanted to know all the other books, and other classmates presented it quite well. So I now know which book i have to read next, Alias Grace!