Blog Post #14 Assignment - APA Citation

        Dijksman said the droplet volocity of a highly viscous fluid is more sensitive to temperature than a low-viscosity fluid.


Dijksman, J. F. (1983, September 12). Hydrodynamics of small tubular pumps. Jounal of Fluid Mechanics, 139, 179-191.

Blog Post #13 Assignment - MLA Citation

Wikipedia notes about Leonardo da Vinci "Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention."

Leonardo da Vinci. 11 December 2010 at 04:29. Wikipedia. 11 December 2010 http://www.wikipedia.org/.

Blog Post #12 Assignment - For the Sake of Argument Part II

Smoking is critical to your heart problems.

        I admit that smoking is one way of releasing stress which makes your heart worse. For this reason, people might think quitting smoking is more worse than smoking. But recent research shows that the rate of heart attack have dropped in state which banned smoking in public space. If stress works more than smoking, it wouldn't decrease. Hence now we should notice that smoking is more critical to your heart problems than getting stess, so if you want to keep your heart healthy, just quit it!

Blog Post #11 Assignment - For the Sake of Argument

Can We Decrease Chances To Get Heart Attack By Quitting Smoking?

       

        Smoking has been a big issue for decades. The main idea is that smokers can decrease the rate of heart attack by quitting smoking, and by smoking, smokers harm other innocent people by second hand smoking, which is much worse than smoking directly. I agree to banning smoking in public space, as it's kind of violence to harm other people.

        But I have some different idea about heart disease caused by smoking. Of course it is definitely true that smoking is bad for smoker's health. However, smoking is not the only reason for heart disease. One of the biggest reason for heart disease is to get stressed. Stress is critical to your heart health, and for smokers, smoking is one of the easiest and cheapest way to release their stress. By smoking, they might decrease chances to get heart attack by releasing stress.

        On the other hand, smokers who want to quit smoking get huge stress. Non-smokers can't imagine how huge the stress is, because smoking is not a habit but kind of addiction. They can't relax their stress, because they can't smoking, and even more, they get stress more to struggle with quitting smoking. So non-smokers never guess the amount of stress of smokers who want to quit. They get stressed highly, which means increased chances of heart attack.

        Of course, it would be the best way for your heart health to find other ways to release stress instead of smoking. But I'm not sure that we can decrease chance to get heart disease only by quitting smoking.

Assignment 10

You Can Save Our Planet By Choosing Our White Board.

 

        Students! We know you need absolutely huge amount of paper to be a good student. Better student you want to be, more paper you will need to memorize something or solve mathematical problem on it. You know we need lots of tree to make a piece of paper. Less tree means more crisis on earth.

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Blog Post #9 Assigment - News Story Summary and Response

        Japanese companies are adopting English as their official language. Long time ago, they didn't need to, because their quality of goods worked everywhere over the barrier of language. But now, most of japanese GDP is service industry, and it need fluency of English. That's why they need to change their official language. And this idea cover not only employees of companies but also student in schools. But it doesn't look easy for them to make it. The focus of studying English is getting a good score in test, and there is a gap between getting a high score in English test and actual ability of using English.

        I think Koreans are in same situation with Japanese. We are well aware of importance of getting good English skills, and spending lots of money and time to studying English. In my case, I've studied more than ten years, since I entered middle school. But I can say just few words with foreigners in English. I think we should change our mind to leaning English. It's not a study of getting knowledge of something mysterious but getting a skill to communicate with foreigners. The main concern is not how you speak English correctly but how you well transfer your idea. So let's don't get stressed for getting a good score in English test. Instead, let's regard it as a tool or a skill for communicate each other like cooking, driving, etc.

Blog Post #8 Assignment - Movie/Book Review

Good Will Hunting (1997)

 

        Good Will Hunting is a movie about a boy whose name is Will Hunting. He is poor and uneducated as other laborers are, like his friend. But he is so clever so that he can solve very difficult math problems that any student in MIT can't solve. A professor of MIT get aware of Will's talent and introduce his friend to Will as a councilor. Will is struggling to find real value of life, and his friend and councilor give him a hand. At the same time, Will seems to find his partner for life, but it doesn't look easy for him to make it real.

        What is your criteria when you evaluate a film? Dramatic plot? Fantastic scene in the movie? Or acting ability of characters? In my case, there are some kind of movie that make me feel good with no reason. One of that kind of movie is Good Will Hunting. This movie has simple plot and might be not touching to you. But I love general atmosphere throughout this film. I saw this movie when I was in high school. It looks like movie about a genius at first, and actually some brilliant accidents he make in early part of the movie attracts my attention. But a smart boy isn't main theme of this film. This is a film about a boy who has scar in his mind and overcome it. I really love this film so I've seen this movie more than five times. Two thumbs up for this movie!