I have read many articles that are written by many foreign editors, American editors. Since I never really read Korean newspaper before, I was wondering what they thought of the world issue of global warming and if korean governors have said or done something for it.
Korean newspaper, "Donga newspaper," is also reporting about the seriousness of melting of Arctic. Underneath the Arctic glaciers, there is significant amount of carbon kept in and the environmentalist suggests that if the global warming continues, the gas would bring out some catastrophies. For the last fifity year, the temperature has increased to 1 celsius overall however if global warming accelerates even faster, the predicting number of increase is 6 celsius. Usually, the Arctic glaciers melt in the Summer but freezed up again in the Winter, however, the melted glacier would not freeze back anymore. The glacier reflects the sunlight but the sea water absorbs the sunling, thus this cycle may urge the other areas to confront the global warming as well. According to the scientists as NASA, it is predicted that from 5 year to 10 years, in the Summer, the Artic may disappear as a whole.
This article is very trust-worthy. It provides a lot of facts and a very few opinions: the article reveals a lot of datas therefore, it is very objective and enable the readers to form their own individual idea on this matter. The melting of the Artic has been dealt with a variety of media and every one of them have similar stories and commonly shared ideas which convinces the readers.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Newspaper: Melting Arctic adds urgency to climate deal
Some say that newspaper articles are not that credible. Unlike other media such as television news, magazines, and radio broadcasting that includes mostly facts, newspaper editiors include a lot of their own viewpoints on a certain matter. They are entitled to criticize or abhor one person or an event that makes the public or readers consider the newspaper articles as a whole as very biase and subjective. However, I personally like reading newspaper article because it is subjective. Reading about someone else's idea and values makes me think for second time towards one thing. It helps me broaden my view and understanding of the world.
This article is mainly discussing the urgency of our environment due to the melting of glacier that adds predominant pressure on global warming. Data shows that the Arctic sea ice may reach its lowest level on record this summer and that the governments need to take immediately action to speed up for new climate pact. This catastrophe could lead to endanger the polar wildlife and accelerate global warming. Some environmentalists and scientists are concerned of just how much warmer the temperatures has become and how dramatically it would change the climate of polar frontier. This article states that a lot of groups want governments of different countries to talk over this problem and quickly.
The article was relatively short compared to the other ones I read. This article lacks details. I believe that the editor could have talked more about some numbers of problems that could emerge if the matter is not handled soon or he could have suggessed some numbers of the thickness of the melting arctic so that the readers can really envision and see better stimulation of this event. However, this article was not biase, it mostly provided facts.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/15/news/Arctic-Ice.php
This article is mainly discussing the urgency of our environment due to the melting of glacier that adds predominant pressure on global warming. Data shows that the Arctic sea ice may reach its lowest level on record this summer and that the governments need to take immediately action to speed up for new climate pact. This catastrophe could lead to endanger the polar wildlife and accelerate global warming. Some environmentalists and scientists are concerned of just how much warmer the temperatures has become and how dramatically it would change the climate of polar frontier. This article states that a lot of groups want governments of different countries to talk over this problem and quickly.
The article was relatively short compared to the other ones I read. This article lacks details. I believe that the editor could have talked more about some numbers of problems that could emerge if the matter is not handled soon or he could have suggessed some numbers of the thickness of the melting arctic so that the readers can really envision and see better stimulation of this event. However, this article was not biase, it mostly provided facts.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/15/news/Arctic-Ice.php
Newspaper: A shift in the Debate Over Global Warming
Global warming is probably the most talked-about and researched-about environmental crisis that is often being said to be just a theory. Our entire world and the nations in it are continuing to excavate more about this world issue and nowadays, the means to slow down the environmental hazard emerges with a number of debates.
The article has been published on the New York Times with a title of, "A shift in the Debate Over Global Warming." This article constitutes and informs about the old ways of which the leaders of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change dealt with this issue and the criticism and debating suspicions of how the old ways were not very effective. The old attempt primarily focused on "imposing caps on greenhouse gas emissions to prod energy users to conserve or switch to nonpolluting technologies." (Quoted straight from the website.) However, the recent date has proven it to be inefficient: there has been an unpredictable rise in global emission and a decline in energy efficiency, a growing chorus of economists.
The economist Jeffrey D. Sachs shares his perspective on this matter. He states that our current technology cannot bolster and subsidize a decline in carbon dioxide emissions as well as an expanding global economy. This viewpoint has not only been Sachs' but also agreed by many others. They belive that what is imminently needed is the development of technology that would allow advanced low-carbon technologies. But this cannot be done without significant amount of money. There are those of others who still underscores the importance of capping emissions. Meanwhile, some countries such as China and India are enhancing the economic growth that would most likely help the reduction of carbon emissions.
I personally enjoyed this article a lot. it provided different point of views on the same topic of Global Warming. Thus, it enabled the readers to have fairly objectly and broaden our perspectives by judging different statements.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/weekinreview/06revkin.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Global+warming&st=nyt&oref=slogin
The article has been published on the New York Times with a title of, "A shift in the Debate Over Global Warming." This article constitutes and informs about the old ways of which the leaders of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change dealt with this issue and the criticism and debating suspicions of how the old ways were not very effective. The old attempt primarily focused on "imposing caps on greenhouse gas emissions to prod energy users to conserve or switch to nonpolluting technologies." (Quoted straight from the website.) However, the recent date has proven it to be inefficient: there has been an unpredictable rise in global emission and a decline in energy efficiency, a growing chorus of economists.
The economist Jeffrey D. Sachs shares his perspective on this matter. He states that our current technology cannot bolster and subsidize a decline in carbon dioxide emissions as well as an expanding global economy. This viewpoint has not only been Sachs' but also agreed by many others. They belive that what is imminently needed is the development of technology that would allow advanced low-carbon technologies. But this cannot be done without significant amount of money. There are those of others who still underscores the importance of capping emissions. Meanwhile, some countries such as China and India are enhancing the economic growth that would most likely help the reduction of carbon emissions.
I personally enjoyed this article a lot. it provided different point of views on the same topic of Global Warming. Thus, it enabled the readers to have fairly objectly and broaden our perspectives by judging different statements.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/weekinreview/06revkin.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Global+warming&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Monday, September 15, 2008
Streotype: Ji Sun N
Streotype, in my own definition, refers to the act of creating or having a prejudice against a person or even a large group of people; so to speak, labeling others. A widely-used website of Dictonary.com defines this term as ,"a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group." I have experienced and seen the discrepancies in streotypes for different countries such as Korea and the United States. I have a lot of experieces of being labeled by others for not my own eccentricity but for the general misconceptions that society created towards people who they consider are "my kind of people or association."
In America, I was judged or labeled the most for my race. Most of my American friends consider Asian as "geeky" or "nerdy." They believe that Asian are not very affiliating or socially active thus, do not try to accept them into their groups. Therefore, when my American friends got to know me better they asked, "How come you are so cool? Aren't you suppose to be some kind of bookworm?" They are basically appalled by Asians coming up and talking to them first or being involved in school sports. Some places in the States may not be as strange to Asian as other parts of the country but my private school consisted of only ten or less Korean students so it took a while for asian students to break out of the misconception. Based on my observation, this kind of racial misconceptions towards Asian seemed to be even stronger for males than females. Since not until recently, most foreign movies portray asian character as a skinny boy with big glasses and a tucked y-shirt. However, I believe that the streptype of Asian changed a lot within a couple years. Now that a lot of Korean students go to expensive private schools in America for education, foreigners image of weak Asian is vanishing year by year.
Ironically, I do judge people or race when I hate that happening to myself. I used to judge China and Chinese people a lot. I used to belive that they are dirty, loud, and very cheap. This misconception developed when I was going to middle school in the States. My Korean friends used to tease them and even had a name for Chinese, "Zzang-gae." Although, I never had any direct relationship or incidents with any of the Chinese friends at school, I just naturally got influenced and dissolved into the atmosphere.
Streotype has always played a detrimental role in my life: it was never beneficial in building relationship with new and different people. After tranfering to four different schools, I have met a lot of people. I used to hold myself back from a certain cliche because of the streotype people including myself had on them. However, for nine out of time times, it made it clear that those labels are not true. For example, there are some geeky and nerdy Asian out there but that does not mean that all of us are like that. As I mentioned eariler, I used to avoid Chinese people but I got to know this one very cool Chinese girl who proved me wrong and made me realize just how ill-minded and unfair it is to judge people without even trying to get to know them. I missed out on a lot of opportunities to get close to some very amazing people because I let myself believe to strongly for those general judgements. Thus, I really want to let other people know that everyone is different in their own ways. Now, I really do not have much streotyping habit left in me and it has been a lot easier to form relationship.
In America, I was judged or labeled the most for my race. Most of my American friends consider Asian as "geeky" or "nerdy." They believe that Asian are not very affiliating or socially active thus, do not try to accept them into their groups. Therefore, when my American friends got to know me better they asked, "How come you are so cool? Aren't you suppose to be some kind of bookworm?" They are basically appalled by Asians coming up and talking to them first or being involved in school sports. Some places in the States may not be as strange to Asian as other parts of the country but my private school consisted of only ten or less Korean students so it took a while for asian students to break out of the misconception. Based on my observation, this kind of racial misconceptions towards Asian seemed to be even stronger for males than females. Since not until recently, most foreign movies portray asian character as a skinny boy with big glasses and a tucked y-shirt. However, I believe that the streptype of Asian changed a lot within a couple years. Now that a lot of Korean students go to expensive private schools in America for education, foreigners image of weak Asian is vanishing year by year.
Ironically, I do judge people or race when I hate that happening to myself. I used to judge China and Chinese people a lot. I used to belive that they are dirty, loud, and very cheap. This misconception developed when I was going to middle school in the States. My Korean friends used to tease them and even had a name for Chinese, "Zzang-gae." Although, I never had any direct relationship or incidents with any of the Chinese friends at school, I just naturally got influenced and dissolved into the atmosphere.
Streotype has always played a detrimental role in my life: it was never beneficial in building relationship with new and different people. After tranfering to four different schools, I have met a lot of people. I used to hold myself back from a certain cliche because of the streotype people including myself had on them. However, for nine out of time times, it made it clear that those labels are not true. For example, there are some geeky and nerdy Asian out there but that does not mean that all of us are like that. As I mentioned eariler, I used to avoid Chinese people but I got to know this one very cool Chinese girl who proved me wrong and made me realize just how ill-minded and unfair it is to judge people without even trying to get to know them. I missed out on a lot of opportunities to get close to some very amazing people because I let myself believe to strongly for those general judgements. Thus, I really want to let other people know that everyone is different in their own ways. Now, I really do not have much streotyping habit left in me and it has been a lot easier to form relationship.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Global Warming on Discovery Channel
It is true that the internet is one of the most influential mass medias exists currently. In the process of updating the blog page regularly I discovered that the internet provides us almost all types of media: books, films, magazines, newspapers, TV, and so on. However, it is not only the worldwide mass media but also multi-combined mass media. It has a complex form of mass media that communicates with the internet users around the world. For example, the Discovery Channel which is one of the most popular TV networks provides scientific experiment and the potential risks through the website. The website presents the project related to the global warming and it has a game, book, eight different experiments, articles, and videos to inform the readers.
Since the Discovery Channel is a well-known TV network, the information presented through its website is mostly reliable. Introducing various sources, which might have caused the global warming, approaches different perspectives to avoid narrowing readers’ mind. However, most of the information related to the global warming is scientific results which are always debatable. Despite of controversial issue, the website is aiming to evaluate the causes and results of the global warming by dividing into different sections: signs, sources, and carbon cycles. Even though the Discovery Channel covers numerous different topics related to not only science but also other health and animal concerns, it strongly focuses on the global warming in the specific category of the website.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/project-earth/project-earth.html
Since the Discovery Channel is a well-known TV network, the information presented through its website is mostly reliable. Introducing various sources, which might have caused the global warming, approaches different perspectives to avoid narrowing readers’ mind. However, most of the information related to the global warming is scientific results which are always debatable. Despite of controversial issue, the website is aiming to evaluate the causes and results of the global warming by dividing into different sections: signs, sources, and carbon cycles. Even though the Discovery Channel covers numerous different topics related to not only science but also other health and animal concerns, it strongly focuses on the global warming in the specific category of the website.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/project-earth/project-earth.html
Monday, September 8, 2008
Stereotype Response: Jiwon Ha
What stereotypes do people have about you?
Not all people hold this particular stereotype about me, but since my other group members have already written every possible type of streotype (: bloodtype, ethnicity...), I am going to talk about the streotype I "gained" due to my appearance. Here in TCIS, teachers and students do not judge students or peers by how they dress or how they look, compared to Korean society. Ever since I've come to TCIS, I started to be more conscious about my appearance than when I attended Korean school. Also in my sophomore year, I pierced my ear. And recently I dyed my hair to light brown. These changes seem to bother nobody here in TCIS, however, it seems to bother everyone I know in Cheongju, where I live. When I pierced my ears, all my friends from middle school, which was Korean public school, were shocked by my "rebellious" action. I didn't make a big deal out of me piercing my ears for most girls in TCIS have thier ears pierced. But for my friends who go to Korean highschool in a small city, ear-piercing is rather taken as an extraordinary, rebellious action, which is only done by troublemakers. So I had to confront my close friends' condemnationm all of sudden only because I got a hole in my ear. When I dyed my hair, too, I was caught in similar situation. My grandparents were mad at me for dying my hair. They somehow concluded that I am not studying hard enough. These streotypes I suffered through are due to the culture differences between TCIS community, which is more Americanized, and Korean society, which is more conservative.
What stereotypes do you have about other people?
Not all people hold this particular stereotype about me, but since my other group members have already written every possible type of streotype (: bloodtype, ethnicity...), I am going to talk about the streotype I "gained" due to my appearance. Here in TCIS, teachers and students do not judge students or peers by how they dress or how they look, compared to Korean society. Ever since I've come to TCIS, I started to be more conscious about my appearance than when I attended Korean school. Also in my sophomore year, I pierced my ear. And recently I dyed my hair to light brown. These changes seem to bother nobody here in TCIS, however, it seems to bother everyone I know in Cheongju, where I live. When I pierced my ears, all my friends from middle school, which was Korean public school, were shocked by my "rebellious" action. I didn't make a big deal out of me piercing my ears for most girls in TCIS have thier ears pierced. But for my friends who go to Korean highschool in a small city, ear-piercing is rather taken as an extraordinary, rebellious action, which is only done by troublemakers. So I had to confront my close friends' condemnationm all of sudden only because I got a hole in my ear. When I dyed my hair, too, I was caught in similar situation. My grandparents were mad at me for dying my hair. They somehow concluded that I am not studying hard enough. These streotypes I suffered through are due to the culture differences between TCIS community, which is more Americanized, and Korean society, which is more conservative.
What stereotypes do you have about other people?
Although I've experienced same streotypes, I often judge others by their appearance. Whenever I see a person with five ear piercings on each ear or dyed bright yellow hair, I unconsciously make an assumption that the person must be a troublemaker. Of course, that is not true at all.
Another huge streotype I have about other people is the bloodtype. I sometimes get offended when other people make weird assumptions about me only because my bloodtype is A, but I also tended to make assumptions about others according to their bloodtype.
Moreover, I have a racist streotype which I know is wrong but just can't help it. When I was living in the States, I've met many mexicans who are very rude and noisy. I know there must be some nice mexicans as well, but I ended up having a bad stereotype about Mexicans. So, whenever I see something related to Mexico, I just think of it negative.
Are stereotypes beneficial or harmful? Why do you think this?I think stereotypes are harmful in most cases, because they usually limit your thinking. With streotypes stuck in the back of your head, you just can't help making wrong assumptions and unfair judgments. Yet sometimes streotypes can be beneficial, too, when they are right.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Mass Media: Internet - Global Warming and the polar bears
As the issue of global warming expands throughout the world majority of people tend to consider only negative effects on humanity. They are oblivious of other environmental factor such as wild life animals. One of the most popularized topics is the relationship between the global warming and polar bears.
According to the website that I found, anonymous blogger elaborates on Al Gore’s statement: the polar bears are in danger. As the world’s average temperature increases, iceberg has already started to melt. Because icebergs are melting, the polar bears are losing their habitats or places to rest. Therefore, the number of drowning polar bears began to increases. Some argues against Al Gore that it does not matter for the polar bears to lose icebergs because they usually stay near the coast area. However, below the website one link provides various video clips about the global warming including the problems of drowning polar bears.
http://angelinoview.com/category/al-gores-drowning-polar-bears/
According to the website that I found, anonymous blogger elaborates on Al Gore’s statement: the polar bears are in danger. As the world’s average temperature increases, iceberg has already started to melt. Because icebergs are melting, the polar bears are losing their habitats or places to rest. Therefore, the number of drowning polar bears began to increases. Some argues against Al Gore that it does not matter for the polar bears to lose icebergs because they usually stay near the coast area. However, below the website one link provides various video clips about the global warming including the problems of drowning polar bears.
http://angelinoview.com/category/al-gores-drowning-polar-bears/
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