Blog Entry 1: Pirates of the Caribbean-At World's End
This movie was the first movie that I watched among the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The fellows I watched this movie with tried their best to tell the stories of the previous movies. Thanks to their sacrifice of missing a few important scenes, I managed to grasp almost of the third story.
The third story begins by a captain and his crews, including the hero and the heroine, promise to rescue Jack Sparrow from the world’s end, a place nobody even knows whether it exists or not. Jack, all alone in the World’s End was feeling aloof until the rescue team comes to fetch him. However, every crew had their own reasons to come for Jack. When all the secrets are revealed, they fight their enemies leaving their harsh feelings behind.
I watched this movie with my old friends from middle school. It has been already been seven months since I have seen them. Everyone in the group enjoyed the whole movie very much. Since this movie was so great and I didn’t see the first and the second movie, my friends told me that those are even better. I wondered how good those movies could be to top this one off.
This movie, full of excitement and suspense, didn’t disappoint the audiences with the spectacular battle scenes. Such a huge scale and realistic fighting made the movie to be a more prominent blockbuster. I wondered how these kinds of scenes were filmed and put into movie like that and looked up in the Internet. I found out that blue screens were behind the actors who were jumping up and down in a small pool, making splashes and sounds.
Personally, I can’t wait until I see the first and the second movie of the Pirates of the Caribbean.
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The Second Essay:
1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
I’m afraid to admit that I have not lived a life full of excitement and wonders. I was a simple student who studied when needed to and played whenever possible. However, something tremendous, compared to my other minuscule events, happened on the first day of March, the entrance day of Daeil Foreign Language High School.
I was sitting next to my friends before the ceremony began. That was when a teacher came up to me and told me I had to make a short speech in front of everyone that showed up in the ceremony. The announcement took me by pleasure as it shocked me as well. I have never even thought about being the first place among the students that claim themselves as top students of Korea. In fact, I wasn’t even sure I could get into our school. I just had tried my best when I took the entrance exam. After a short rehearsal of my speech, the ceremony started. Soon my name was called upon by the principal of Daeil and I had to deliver the actual speech. Having been so unprepared, I fear I might have made some mistakes. I was glad to receive a round of applause when the badge was given by the principal to me.
I felt proud of myself and that hasn’t happened to me for quite a while. The reason is that I have conflicted with the entire environment around me during my 9th grade in junior high school. The grades, studying for our foreign language high school, coming home late and sleeping when everything was quiet, mixed up and created an enormous amount of stress. I was frequently depressed and thought about the cloudy and foggy future of me. However, all of these were gone at the moment I went down the podium smiling delightedly at myself.
Like any other pleasurable things, there is a drawback of coming to the school as the top, the expectations received from people around me. Parents, teachers, relatives and even close friends predicted that I will be doing something great soon. Those thoughts began to form a huge burden on my back, and I was unable to eliminate the burden. Instead of giving everything up saying that “I can’t do it,” I worked and studied for the mid-tern exam as hard as I could. Although the results were not what people expected, but I was happy to receive the score that I deserved.
This episode has been an interesting one in my whole life. I learned a good lesson by my heart that ‘You will reap what you sow’. I hope this proverb will follow me until the end and become a self-reminder whenever I feel misguided.
I’m afraid to admit that I have not lived a life full of excitement and wonders. I was a simple student who studied when needed to and played whenever possible. However, something tremendous, compared to my other minuscule events, happened on the first day of March, the entrance day of Daeil Foreign Language High School.
I was sitting next to my friends before the ceremony began. That was when a teacher came up to me and told me I had to make a short speech in front of everyone that showed up in the ceremony. The announcement took me by pleasure as it shocked me as well. I have never even thought about being the first place among the students that claim themselves as top students of Korea. In fact, I wasn’t even sure I could get into our school. I just had tried my best when I took the entrance exam. After a short rehearsal of my speech, the ceremony started. Soon my name was called upon by the principal of Daeil and I had to deliver the actual speech. Having been so unprepared, I fear I might have made some mistakes. I was glad to receive a round of applause when the badge was given by the principal to me.
I felt proud of myself and that hasn’t happened to me for quite a while. The reason is that I have conflicted with the entire environment around me during my 9th grade in junior high school. The grades, studying for our foreign language high school, coming home late and sleeping when everything was quiet, mixed up and created an enormous amount of stress. I was frequently depressed and thought about the cloudy and foggy future of me. However, all of these were gone at the moment I went down the podium smiling delightedly at myself.
Like any other pleasurable things, there is a drawback of coming to the school as the top, the expectations received from people around me. Parents, teachers, relatives and even close friends predicted that I will be doing something great soon. Those thoughts began to form a huge burden on my back, and I was unable to eliminate the burden. Instead of giving everything up saying that “I can’t do it,” I worked and studied for the mid-tern exam as hard as I could. Although the results were not what people expected, but I was happy to receive the score that I deserved.
This episode has been an interesting one in my whole life. I learned a good lesson by my heart that ‘You will reap what you sow’. I hope this proverb will follow me until the end and become a self-reminder whenever I feel misguided.
The First Essay :
Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
I am one of those that are not much influenced by other people. I set up my own dreams, regardless of what others say. I don't like to be told what to do and that prevents me from being influenced by them. However, if I have to mention one person that I admired and lured me to follow her path, it would be my English institution teacher.
She moved from Korea to America when she was still in high school. She graduated from an American high school and went to UC Berkeley, one of the major state universities in America. She majored in Business and went to Cornell graduate school. After that, she traveled around many countries from Eastern Europe to Russia and to Western Europe. She learned many different languages and came to Korea to be an English teacher.
It is not only her excellent schools that made me admire her and be able to write her in this writing. The feature that caught my eyes was her attitude towards her life and studies. She was a woman that never gave up. When she was a student in the Berkeley University, she had a hard time with her writing assignments. She figured that she would have to inquire about her writings to her professors. She told me that she bothered the professors so much that they said “I have never seen a student like you,” It was incredible how much obsessed she could be with her studies. Studying with obsession doesn’t mean that she didn’t focus on anything else than school works. She still managed to draw art pieces, being an art major. I do not know what made her go to Business school but Ivy League means that she was an excellent student.
Her language learning skills are amazing as well. Her friend, who also works at the English institution, said that she succeeded in learning Russian along the way to Russia. On arrival, she could speak freely with the hotel managers and restaurant waiters.
It’s extraordinary how one could possibly be successive in so diverse areas. My ambition is not to be just like her but to accomplish as much as I could be satisfied. She tells me sometimes that she does not regret having done so many things and been to so many places. If I could be satisfied of what I have done and look forward to the future just like her, it would be a happy life, full of confidence and feeling of accomplishment.
I am one of those that are not much influenced by other people. I set up my own dreams, regardless of what others say. I don't like to be told what to do and that prevents me from being influenced by them. However, if I have to mention one person that I admired and lured me to follow her path, it would be my English institution teacher.
She moved from Korea to America when she was still in high school. She graduated from an American high school and went to UC Berkeley, one of the major state universities in America. She majored in Business and went to Cornell graduate school. After that, she traveled around many countries from Eastern Europe to Russia and to Western Europe. She learned many different languages and came to Korea to be an English teacher.
It is not only her excellent schools that made me admire her and be able to write her in this writing. The feature that caught my eyes was her attitude towards her life and studies. She was a woman that never gave up. When she was a student in the Berkeley University, she had a hard time with her writing assignments. She figured that she would have to inquire about her writings to her professors. She told me that she bothered the professors so much that they said “I have never seen a student like you,” It was incredible how much obsessed she could be with her studies. Studying with obsession doesn’t mean that she didn’t focus on anything else than school works. She still managed to draw art pieces, being an art major. I do not know what made her go to Business school but Ivy League means that she was an excellent student.
Her language learning skills are amazing as well. Her friend, who also works at the English institution, said that she succeeded in learning Russian along the way to Russia. On arrival, she could speak freely with the hotel managers and restaurant waiters.
It’s extraordinary how one could possibly be successive in so diverse areas. My ambition is not to be just like her but to accomplish as much as I could be satisfied. She tells me sometimes that she does not regret having done so many things and been to so many places. If I could be satisfied of what I have done and look forward to the future just like her, it would be a happy life, full of confidence and feeling of accomplishment.
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