2012년 5월 17일 목요일

Response to Ngugi`s experience

In Ngugi’s context, English is the most important factor for chidren to take education for their life.english is as "the invisible and invincible factor for their life in korea".
 On these days in the same phenomenan, we, Korean students, are for them to struggle for holding their life up not only in educational situation but also in their own perspectives for decoding their own life. they should study english for getting the job or promoting in a company and they sometimes consider their own life with only english philosophy, which can be made by english education.
our students are koeans with our own philosophy over a hundreds of years in our own history but overwhelmed by english educatuon such as english literature or text book, students easliy decode thier life with the other thinking system. how dangerous it is! this is as an virus undermining our body when we are sick. 

 from time to time, i am so afrraid of its existence and its effects to me and my students. what if did not i have the balance between korean and english, what if was i on the stance of only one, can i keep and conserve my originality as a korean?
that is why i should study this class and be awaken at all time!!

2012년 5월 10일 목요일

The provocative cover image …
People who see this picture have debate what is the intention of “TIME”.
Some have agreed this and others have disagreed this.
Which group would be right? I do not know but interested by the power of just a picture shown in a magazine. I just want to have the right to cast doubt on this, which maybe can make me be critical.

Reading media text


 From the time to time, subconsciously, people seem to look at things with color definition.  Imagine there is a cup of coffee in front of you, what colors come first to your mind? Probably, you will say that it is black coffee in a white cup. Why? Is there not another color of the cup? No there are but your mind already have been affected by a hundreds of images that can control your recognition for the color of things you look from your birth.
 In this ad, there are a black man and a white woman together, which can form the image of coffee in the cup like a Latte. I think that their skin colors represent the color of coffee and milk. Under the woman, a black man makes the basement and above the man, the girl makes decoration of the coffee. This is the typical coffee color so I do not want to blame this ad but what I doubt of this is that why do black color can be represented with a man, or be represented with a woman? Why? There are also white men, black women, or fresh men and women over the world!!! I think that he who makes this ad may have the bias and prejudice of Skin colors of people. What if do the black man be replaced with a black woman? What if the white woman be changed into the white man? Do it have the serious problems for promoting this ad to the people?
 I do not think so. Rather it will be more attractive to the people who see that ad due to its new challenge! During writing this article in a starbucks coffee shop, I think that maybe do I also have the bias or prejudice for the colors of things that I imagine? How poor my mind is… I dream the dream that I can be awaken at any moments so that be critical in my life.