Friday, April 16, 2010

Argument

Dear Mom and Dad

Good morning, this is Stella.
I would like to tell you about going to a graduate school. I was suppoed to enter graduate school after finish my undergrate. And I know you really want me to study continuously. However, these days, I am thinking about that a bit different way with you. I am really thinking in depth and serious.

First of all, I do not need to study right now. You think that some people who have graduate or doctor degree are much easier to find a job in Korea. However, according to my major, I need some experience and want to learn how operate business market at financial institutions or companies. Once, I work at that kind of institutions to accumulate my experience and then I would like to go to graduate school or to take MBA program. The main point is that I am going to study to be continuous later. However, the right time is not right now. If I follow you to go to graduate school first and then finding a job, I would be old to get a job in business companies. They demand pretty younger generation depending on quickly changed business world.
Hence, I strongly believe that getting a job first and then taking a graduate degree or MBA program later are much beneficial for me.

Furthermore, if I go to graduate school after finish my undergrate, I should take your help unavoidably in financial problem because I do not have enough money to pay my tuition during taking classes. Actually, I do not want to need your financial support any more. I am too old to get your help and I can make money by myself. That is why I want to get a job before enter a graduate school. I am enough capable of carrying out going to graduate school with my abilities. Taking tuition from you is taking another debt from you. I do not want to feel sorry to you because this thing is I can do.

I am your magnificent daughter, so I can do it very well by myself.
If you agree with me, waiting and seeing what I can do are best way to make me more greater person. Thank you so much for interesting in my topic, and I love you


Your lovely,



Stella Hahm

Thursday, April 15, 2010

summarize/Paraphrase

Kenneth Chang (2010 Apr 15), Obama Promises Renewed Space Program, the New York Times
Retrieved Apr 15, 2010, from http://www.nytimes.com

It seems to be very close to develop space field. The president, Obama, countered criticisms that he was trying to end the nation’s human spaceflight program about 200 committees of a White House-sponsored space conference of his plans for a “revitalized” space agency on Thursday. (Par 1) The goals would be achieved to an asteroid around 2025, reaching Mars by the mid-2030s. (Par 2) The president said that having NASA depends on commercial companies too risk, and also maintained that the agency would start developing a heavy-lift rocket by 2015. (Par 5) “Our goal is the capacity for people to work and learn, operate and live safely beyond the Earth for extended periods of time, ultimately in ways that are more sustainable and even indefinite,” he said. (Par 7) Bohdan Bejmuk who served on the human spaceflight program last year, said the concessions were welcome, adding that the president’s plan was “better than it was a few days ago.” (Par 8) The president promised $ 40 million to help retrain workers in and around the Kennedy Space Center who will lose their jobs when the space shuttles are retired. It could be looking forward seeing the president's commitment.