Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The Advantages of Being Married

Nowadays, many people do not want to get married as much as their parents generation did. They want to be single. In last few decades, the number of singles has remarkably increased. However being married has much more benefits than being single. The three advantages of being married are emotional stability, family and finances.
The biggest advantage of being married is an emotional stability. First, people who got married have their own family as shelter for their social life. A lot of people are having a hard time in their work places ,and sometimes there are too much hazard to endure. The home and family gives comport zone and energy to restore. Also, love is one of strong advantages from being marriage. For instance, people who are single have chance to have lovers, however their love is not endurable for life time. On the other hand, being married, their love is committed.
The other advantage from being married is to be a family. All of people have born and grown in family which was formed by their parents. First, married people have life long partners, spouses. The marriage gives togetherness and role as husband and wife in family. They have to have responsibility and they will be in a same boat forever. Second, marriage is chance to be a part in spouse’s family. They could have new parents, brothers and sisters. Third, they could have children. If people have children, then they could learn how their parents have lived for them. To be a parent gives enormous advantage in their life and raises person to be more than they could do before they were.
Furthermore, there are magnificent benefits from the marriage. As first, married people have better condition than to be alone. They have double income, so they could be affordable then before they were. Also, they do not get necessarily same price of tax as one. They are assumed that they are sharing their expenses, so they live less expensively amount of money, even if single person makes same amount of money. Third, they are sharing that a house, car and food. They should pay less bill for basic living conditions. Therefore they make more money but spend less money.
All in all, there is a lot of advantages that people take from being married, such as mental advantages which is based on family and commitment love, and more financial merit than one. Most of all, in my opinion, to be a parent is biggest thing that they are blessed with marriage life.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Journal Entry # 33

What are you going to do over the 3 day weekend?

In this weekend, I have worked same as every weekend I do. After I work, I went to my co-worker's house, and we had a korean barbecue party. I met new friends and we have watched Korean drama. On sunday, I came back home right after I finished. Since I have a lot of assignments. I did watch "The Memories of Geisha" which is one of my favorite movies. Also, I read a book "The Diary of a Young Girl" that written by Anne Frank. I have read the book when I was 8 years old. I want to read a book in English, so I went to Barns and Nobels in this monrning, and I bought it. In Korean, usually I could read a book in 2 hours. However, I could not finished the book that I bought today. It was my first time to take a rest for a while.

Journal Entry # 32

Thanksgiving is coming up soon. What three things are you most thankful for you?

I have three things that I feel thankful. First of all, I am thankful to everything I have. I have harmonious family, loveable friends, and I have health. Every single morning I pray for thankful new day. Second, I am thankful to dream. I am still young, and I have many chance to start something new. I have a determined goal, and I am running for that now. Also, I am thankful to study in the U.S. Even though it is for a year, it will be really helpful in my life and inforgetable memory. In conclusion, these three reasons are motive of my life.

Journal Entry # 31

Is it ever okay to lie? In which circumstances?


In my opinion, people have to control to lie. There are some reasons for that. First, if someone starts to lie, it will be getting bigger even he/she do it in good way. A lie makes another lie, andn it will do over again. Also, to lie to help others is not ever kay. Even someone tell a lie to help others, sometimes it could hurt others. To sum up, people should try to do not tell a lie even it is for helping others.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Journal Entry # 30

Does it matter what strangers think of you? Do you care if everyone likes you or are you content just being yourself? Write a paragraph explaining your answer.

I do not care what people think of me, so why would I care if they like me or not?When I was teenager, I used to care what people thought of me, and how I looked to other people. At that time, it was pretty stressful for me. Every single time after when I hung out with my friends, I did think "Did I do something to annoy her?" or "What did she think about me when I talk to her?". I have realized it was useless thinking. I tried to change the way I think, and I don't care about other people think about me anymore. I've realized it doesn't matter what strangers think of me because they are no one that's part of my life. I would rather care about my friends, family, and people who I actually see everyday think about me rather than strangers. I wanted to be loved by others but I know that never be possible. It seems like I want to change myself just, so people would like me and I know that was not really who I was. I didn't like who i was becoming. So when I was trying to become a person like that, it seems like that I was loosing myself instead of being myself. To sum up, now I am trying to pay attention what I really want to do, and I am sure I do not care what other people think of me.

Journal Entry # 29

Post your scary story. We're going to read the stories on Wednesday!

Supisa Somto (Peach)
Dung Do
Eun Sup Lee (Kenny)
Hyerang Sim (Kaitlyn)
10/24/07
Composition 4C

A Dancer


One full moon night in the rainy season, a man who lived in an apartment on the 13th floor felt alone and bored. His apartment had lost electricity because of the thunderstorm. Therefore, he held a candle in his hand and then put it on the table. Suddenly, the window was opened by the wind. Then he tried to close the window. At that moment, he looked at the opposite building, and he saw a woman who was dancing. However, he couldn’t see her clearly because there was the heavy rain. Strangely, he didn’t see her again until the next full moon, and she was still dancing. She wore a white dress, and she danced like a butterfly. He fell in love with her and really wanted to meet her. In the next morning, he went to her apartment, but no one answered the door. Next time when he saw her in full moon night again, he ran to her apartment immediately. He knocked on the door, and he waited for her. A few minutes later, he knocked again, and the door opened slowly. He went inside slowly and saw a dirty room with old furniture and many spider webs. The room smelled disgusting. When he walked into the room where she was dancing, he couldn’t believe his eyes. There was an empty room except for a noose swinging back and forth by the wind.