Are We Stupid?

“We could have saved ourselves, but we didn’t.”

 This sentence represents the main theme of the movie very well. Video clips that watched by the archivist are reflections of us, people in the early of 21th century. This documentary film make us remind how we are intensifying the problems of climate change, and our action in front of those horrible consequences of what we did. It also suggest us to ask ourselves that why we are staying doing nothing in the middle of

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Stories in a frame

 The first thing that I was interested about this film is its expressive technique. This film, interestingly differing from most of documentaries which deliver information directly, is consist of two parts. In the fictional part, the world is ravaged by catastrophic climate change. Therefore the archivist of the archive which is saving the all kind of knowledge of humanity, review the records from back, the time when we could stop the catastrophe. The other part, the factual part is those records, the videos of six stories. This construction came fresh to me. It totally breaks the unwritten law of documentaries and makes viewers get more interested and tend to concentrate more on the film. Furthermore, I can say that it uses ethos and also pathos since this concept stimulate reader’s senses of guilt by showing the abysmal future caused by the mankind of present. This seems like a rahmennovelle, or frame-story, but it sure is a whole new approach when it comes to a documentary. Thus I want to praise a lot this film in the side of organization.

 However its message, on the other hand, was not persuasive enough with regarding to logos. Right after saying this, the archivist subsequently says,

“It’s amazing. What state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off?”

 And this movie generally seems that blaming the science technology. Like in case of Al Duvernay, it sounds like the movie is saying that the oil industry is bad itself. But I have a doubt about that we are really doing nothing and just shrugging off and it’s really the technology which should be blamed.Many people thinks that we should stop developing technologies or at least we should slow down it in order to save the environment(like this). Though, I think that, oppositely, to develop the technology is better for saving the environment. I’m not saying that we had better not care about environmental issues. The point is that comparing the two cases, to develop and not to develop, the environment of the former case would be better.

Wind, Sunlight, Water, Bio

 There are of course some bases of this argument. First, now the technology is being developed more eco-friendly. As seen in the video above, in the near future, the amount of pollution that can be reduced by the technology might be bigger than that caused by the technology. This is the point. Several Alternative energies, such as sunlight energy, bio energy, wave energy, hydrogen energy, wind energy, are the epitomes of it. 

No good, no bad

 Second, the science or the technology cannot be blamed because of the value neutrality. The technology itself cannot be determined as good or bad, but it is only when it’s used that we can make a value judgment. We don’t blame a gun when a murder shoot people but we blame him. It’s just a same logic.

 According to the reasons I wrote above, I finally reached at this conclusion. It’s not true that we doing nothing but awareness of common people are somehow wrong. So the only way to make the situation better even a bit, is to be cognizant of the importance of the problems and regulate and control the people who use the technology not the technology itself.

Speech Script

Good morning everyone! I know all of you are sleepy and so do I. But I just hope you enjoy my speech for a while. Now, I’m gonna talk you about my dream. I mean, not something like the job that I want to get in the future but the dream that I dreamed few month ago. It was in my grandparent’s house, and on one day during the last summer vacation that I dreamed it. That day, I played all day with my cousins and a dog in the backyard, so I fell asleep very quickly. Having a deep sleep, experienced quite strange dream.

In the beginning of my dream, I was going back to home after school with my friend. I said good-bye to my friend in front of my house and opened the door. Even until then, I could not find something different from typical days. So I called my mom as I used to do, but unexpectedly my dad responded. I was surprised because my dad supposed to be at the office at that time so I asked why he was there and where’s mom. But he just smiled and answered that “Why it’s so strange? Mom would come soon.” So I just agreed and sat on the sofa to watch television. Few minutes later, my mom came out from the bed room and I called her pleasantly. Of course there’s something wrong because my dad said that mom “would come” soon, but in dreams people totally loss their judgment. And, few minutes later again, the door opened and my mom came into the house. I turned my head and blinked my eyes few times but there distinctly was two moms in the house. Oh my goodness. What happened! Only then I felt all the situations were weird. Anyway, I tried to have a composure and discriminate who’s real. After a pondering of few seconds, I reached the conclusion that the one who were in the bed room was genuine. Of course there no reasonable proof, and it’s just by my intuition since it’s just a dream that did not have rationality. So then I started to fight with the fake. I punched rapidly, one two one two jap jap. But I could not hit the fake and it had much more acute punch. I was hit few times and thought about how it is possible to punch that accurately. And finally I found a sheet of paper in its hand. It was a trignometric table full of numbers. So I guessed carefully that it was calculating all the orbits and power, etc using that table. I suddenly caught and ripped the paper to abash it. And succeed! It was flustered and could do nothing! Thus, I made a final attack with heavy hook. Bang! Then I opened my eyes and found myself punched my dad. As I said a while ago, I was in my grandparents’ house, and since there’s no extra bed for us, my family was sleeping on the mattress spread on the floor. However, fortunately dad did not wake up then and I put my head under the blanket quietly. He just said “I don’t know why my chin is aching” next morning. I just smiled silently and it is only me who knows the truth.
Thank you for listening my gibberish and have a nice day.

Personal Narrative : Chatterbox

If someone asks about me, most of my close friends will answer that I’m very talkative. It’s not a tendency of just these days, but I was called as a chatterbox from a long time ago. When I was just about five or six, before I go to the elementary school, I just loved to talk anytime and anywhere. Every person I met cherished me because I was very talkative and active. Yes. It is just very cute if a young kid is non-stop talking. So it was like the most important characteristic of mine.

But in the elementary school, it was quite a different situation. Teachers didn’t like me that much, because of the same reason that I was cherished before I went to school. Now I just guess that it might be very annoying for those teachers in my elementary school. So I was just a noisy annoying boy. There were many episodes that happened because I was extra-talkative. If I just introduce one, there was the time that my seat was very next to the teacher’s desk and isolated from the other classmates. It happened when I was in a third grade. My homeroom teacher sent me there because I chat so much during the class. Actually most of the topics that I talk were relevant to the lecture, but teacher thought that I was just making some noise. Anyway, it is just a small piece of example, and I was totally called as a chatterbox through the whole elementary school time.

Then, I went to the middle school. Middle school, it was a lot better place to live for me. Different from the elementary school, the classes were not only a one-sided lecture but also with some presentations or discussions. Furthermore, even my words spoken during the class time were recognized as an attempt to share opinions to intensify the knowledge I have. Still, it’s right that sometimes I seemed noisy but overall evaluation about me was significantly more positive than before. After school, I used to talk with my friend while going home. We sometimes stop the steps along the street and stay there about an hour talking or discussing. The topic of our conversations and discussions were various. I remember the day we talked about gods and religions. Somebody would say could it be fun to talk about such a boring topic, but it sure was. It was just so exciting to share my opinions and how I think. I think, this kind of stuffs helped me a lot improve my logic and thoughts.

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My Goal

I want to improve my total English skill through writing various types of essays. Frankly speaking, I don't have a lot of experience of writing and my width of vocabulary is quite narrow. I'm sure that my English skills can be improve a lot by having this class.

Late self-introduction

My name is Yoo Joo-Hyun, and my English name is Albert.
I don't really care about how I am called, but it would be better to be called as Albert at just in the English class.
Anyway, if I excuse why I was late to write this self-introduction, I just didn't know!
I don't have any memory that I was heard to write this kind of stuff, during the class times.
I saw a while ago, that almost all of my friends wrote this on their blogs, so now I am writing it.

Simply speaking about my dream, I am a communist who want to be a roboticist to realize an ideal communism society by robots.
I think there might be more chances to talk about my dream, therefore for this time, I'll just briefly explain about my ideal society.
In this society, robots work and people enjoy. The word 'enjoy' might not be exactly correct but I mean we don't have a necessity to work. People can do anything they want to do. It is a liberation from the labor that has been a ball and chain for all mankind. It would be the greatest revolution ever in the history of mankind. More innovative than the industrial revolution, more preposterous than the neolithic revolution.

Nextly, about me, myself, hmm.. I don't have lot of thing to say, but I can say that I'm not a kind of model students who is very diligent and like to study all night.
I just love to sleep all day long, and... and...
Yeah, just let us know each other during the classes and school days :-)