Extra credit

I moved to the United States when I was in fifth grade. When we just moved here, I actually dreamed about being a president of the United States. I thought it would be cool to see a minority becoming the president of the world's strongest nation. I watched a movie where there was a black president of the United States. I thought that can happen only in the movie, but I am now seeing a black president of the United States.

Many Koreans expressed their surprises through online comments, but to my surprise most of them accepted the fact he is the president of the United States and congraturated him. Many Koreans claimed that this is a historical election where the United States stepped up to the next level. They praised the fact that the United States fully overcame racial segregation. Some even stated that the United States' bold changes are what makes better than their own country, Korea.

I personally do not care much about the government, and AP government was my least favorite subject in high school. However this election was interesting to me and to many of my Korean friends just for the fact that there was a black candidate running for the president. Many of us doubted that he will survive to the end, but I was wrong. I respect this nation for such quick changes through short period times with limited history.

Ruby Tuesday Review

I read a review of the restaurant "Ruby Tuesday". The reviewer gave the restaurant four star out of maximum five and for that it was good, but not perfect.

He provided many evidences to support his claim. He rated and described each dish that came out, starting from drink, salad to the main dish. The reviewer described each item very descriptively and told what was significant and what was lacking in earning full score. He provided a description of a menu to show an example of Ruby Tuesday's menu. The review has a picture of the salad bar with text "Ruby Tuesday's touts their salad bar only... not so good."

He holds the attention by reviewing each food and describing how tasty each food is or sometimes what's wrong. The reviewer surely holds attention of hungry readers. There is no special language used in the review and it is written from the author's personal experience.

I read a review of Eminem and his album "The Eminem Show." The review claims that Eminem is well-known talented rapper that does not need introduction and this album proves it once again. The author provides evidence from reviewing songs from the album and tells what each songs about and how Eminem came about to write each songs. He provides contextual evidence by rephrasing lyrics from the songs and telling how these lyrics are related to his life and how creative it was for him to express all that into rap songs. For example in one song "White America", author tells how the lyric "If I was black I would have sold half/ I dont have to go to high school to have to know that" offends older generation but attracts many youths.
The author holds the attention by briefly listing all the songs in the album and describing main songs very nicely. He talks about the controversial issues about sex and aids and tell how it is related to Eminem's songs. There is a small picture of the album's cover, but that is only nontextual element the author employs. The author puts standard highly for Eminem for his popularity and fame and somewhat denounces this album a little compared to his preview ones, but still claims it is worth listening. He does not use special language and wrote review straightforwardly.

1966 Homecoming

This picture shows Georgia Tech's Grant Field on Homecoming Day of 1966. Grant Field had been renamed to Boddy Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field in 1988.

In the pictures the spectators of the football game are all white males. It shows how the South was still segregated back on the days. Also no female is shown in the picture. Georgia Tech first admitted African-American students in September 1961 with the enrollment of three black students. So still there was not many African-American students five years later.

It also shows the popularity of football, the favorite sport of the South. Georgia Tech was quick in developing football program and built the stadium quickly and started became one of the team in NCAA Division I. The stadium is the oldest staidum among NCAA Division I-A football stadiums. There are only two other stadiums that are older than Bobby Dodd Stadium in entire NCAA Division I.

Response to Andrew's blog

I read Andrew's blog "Peachtree City: Home of Golf Carts and Kids with nothing better to do than destroy theirs." I used to live in Fayetteville which is in Fayette County, same county as Peachtree City was in. My friends lived there so I went there quite often.
This blog describes Andrew's hometown Peachtree City. He describes it as unique and nice place for new couples to live in with calm surroundings and many places to rest. I found the town to be very nice whenever I passed by there. It seems peaceful and clean. He tells that the town is unique for golf carts. People can drive golf carts around the town on the paths that were designed for golf carts. This looked nice because even kids at young age can drive around the town and enjoy. I agree on everything that was said from this blog and this blog attracts me to move there.

Koreans at the library

In this picture, my friend and I are studying and doing math homework at 3 am. At Georgia Tech library a lot of Koreans can be found at midnight. I sometimes wander around the library to meet Korean people there.
I attended high school here in the United States, but I heard a lot about how Korean high schools are. Korean high school students study almost everyday for all day and sleeps about four hours a day. Here at Georgia Tech I met many international students from Korea and found out that there are actually many people who just came from Korea.
It is like culture how Koreans are studying late at night and pulling all nighter easily to study. Those Koreans are used to stay till very late and pull all nighter, and now they still behave similarly here at Georgia Tech. I stay in library late at night quite often and I see many Koreans staying in library after like 3 or 4 am. It is Korean culture how we consider studying is the most important thing to do for students. Parents taught them that way and their hard-workings can be shown in the library late at night.

Progress in South

Over a decade, South has definitely become more industrialized. Before the Civil War, north side of America was more industrialized and South concentrated on the agriculture for most of the part. As a result they needed more work force and decided to bring slaves from Africa.
As industry grew with new technologies and ideas, South began to concentrate more on industry than on agricultures. Less people began to work on farm and factories and buildings were beginning to be built on lands where there used to be farms. Now majority of Georgians work as non-farmers and live in cities. My town Fayetteville, which probably was farmland hundreds years ago, is now a town with businesses.
Other significant progress in South is fading of racism. Before the Civil War, South brought slaves from Africa and used them to work for their farms. After South lost the war, slaves were freed, but they certainly did not have the same rights as white people of the America. Racial segregations and prejudices still existed and caused many problems for African-Americans. They were treated unfairly, and many people began to protest about the racism. Most famous person for the Civil Rights Movement is Martin Luther King Jr., and racism was very much reduced after his and many others efforts. Today, racisms are rarely spotted around where I live now.

what I could have done

If I were in Korea, I could have taken videos of Korea. I would have videotaped streets of Korea where there are full of just bunch of Koreans walking aroundand hanging out. With visual, I can certainly show what i meant by Koreans joining together.I would have definitely videotaped streets of Korea during major sporting events such as during World Cup and maybe even during when huge number of Koreans are protesting on streets.I probably could have interviewed some of them too and ask them about their opinions about North Korea. The interviews may show how they are certainly hoping for the unitywithin two Koreas.

Agreeing with Beth's argument

Beth, a little girl in the Children of the Confederacy, argues that the concentration camps during the Civil War were too cruel. I agree with her argument, but I find it hard to find evidence to support my claim. I have not heard or seen anything about the concentration camp or imprisoning during the semester.

Closest thing I may be able to use, would be that I am now in college away from my family. I am forced to study hard and had a couple of all nighters already, and I did not get to go home last week because of the coming tests. I miss my family not seeing for two weeks, and I find it very cruel for those people in the camps unable to see their family for such long time and go through hardships. Whereas being in college is much less severe compared to the concentration camps during the Civil War, Beth compares the camps to the concentration camps during hallocaust which was much more severe.

An argument from Confederates in the Attic

"I like Auschwitz... It makes me wonder how human beings can possibly do that sort of thing to each other, and how you keep your spirit in that situation. Then I got to thinking about Salisbury's prison..."
Beth, a little girl in the Children of the Confederacy, argues that the concentration camps during the Civil War were too cruel. She claims that how they treated prisoners in the concentration camp and prison was way too cruel for human to do it. She is speaking this to the author but audiences can be any other Americans who did not know much about prison during the Civil War. She makes successful appeal by telling an example of condition at prison, how some prisoners killed themselves at Salisbury. She is using anologies when she compares the Jewish concentration camp with the prison in the Civil War and makes arguments based on facts and reason.

South Korea

South Korea is a nation of unity. Located in East Asia with population nearly 50 million, South Korea is one of the most developed country in Asia. Korea is heavily populated and most people in Korea are Koreans with same ethinicity thus same language and skin colors. Most Koreans are aware that they are Korean and think of their country very seriously.

This video is from 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup and shows the street celebrations by Koreans. After beating Italy in round of 16, over 10 million out of 48 million Koreans came out to streets to celebrate the victory. Soccer is the favorite sports in Korea and Koreans are often united by international sporting events.

Communication Diary

12:00pm~12am

• 2pm- texted friends to see where they were
• 3pm- received a lot of emails from GaTech to join some groups.
• 6pm- chatted with a friend on instant messenger
• 7pm~9pm- went to a Korean Christian meeting and talked to many new people
• 9~11pm- played soccer with Korean soccer team and talked about tryouts.
• 11pm- called my parents to see if I will go home this weekend and when to go.
• 11:30pm- talked with my friend about life at Tech
• 12pm- called a friend to tell him to come to the library.