Do you judge an athlete more harshly than you would someone else? Why or why not?

If you hear that an athlete has done something illegal or immoral, are you very disappointed? Do you judge him or her more harshly than you would someone else? Why or why not?

People who appear on TV such as athletes, celebrities and actors always take care of their behavior. If someone whom I like has made trouble, I will definitely turn his face away. Because they could be the heroes for many normal people who watch them on TV. Surely, it need to praise their achievements as the efforts of getting the top possession. However, this compliment could not be their shield of something bad. Some people say that people should condemn the offense and not its perpetrator. What a idiot talking! Everyone must be treated fairly and be equal before the law. If an sport star has done something immoral, he or she must be judged under law and by public. That means they would be judged more harshly than the public because their acts have an effect on people who loves them. Since they have enjoyed their privilege as a star which people look up and make as role model, they have a responsibility for being blamed and taking care their behavior. Being a role model is the choice. No matter how awesome their contribution is, their each motion in life makes them be valued differently. Sportsmanship is belonged not only to their game but also to their life.

Birth Order

Do you think birth order is an important factor in shaping personality? Why or Why not?

            Birth order is as important as gender and almost as important as genetics. It gets back to the old nurture vs. nature business. For instance, no many children have the same set of parents, even if they live in the same family. Why? Because the nature is not whole thing that influence to personality. Parents are different with each of their children, and no children ever take the same role. Because of their different role, in spite of they grow together, they have other personality. Firstborn could have more responsibility and duty to care of their siblings. Other children do not have to have it like firstborn have. Whereas, the second to lastborn children have another characteristics unlike firstborn. These characteristics about each born order tend to same as all over the other culture. Definitely, there are similar stereotypes about personality when people know which order they are. 

Enthusiasm

              Enthusiastic people is different from other normal people. They seem always upbeat and energetic. They do not care about the difficulties and worried about the failures. How and why they are more enthusiastic than other people is the nurture and the heredity. Most enthusiastic people, who makes the happy mood around them, used to try to be positive or behaves simply as if they used to be. Some people who act brightly have grown up with enthusiastic friends or family. Also, they might not want to be negative man owing to some reason. For example, even though they might have grown with silent family because they could not stand with them any longer.  Others are received enthusiastic gene from their mother and father. So without another effort, they can be enthusiastic.  These mean that anyone who are negative now could be enthusiastic. So, if you are not some of the bright, how can we make ourselves enthusiastic people? The answer is simple, but is hard. Although there are a lot of book which explain how to be enthusiastic, the best way to be that person is making smile by oneself. According to the research of smiling, the smile without fun also makes endorphin rush. It makes you feel better and help you be able to think positive. The other simple but hard way to be one of them is the thinking positively. This is not mean that you would be optimist. We are surely cautious about optimism. But there is no reason we could be pessimist. Positive thinking leads to positive result and negative thinking calls out negative result. The last way is the meeting an enthusiastic friend. Enthusiastic person makes the bright air and that bright air transmit unwittingly the same positive mood to you. Enthusiasm collects your energy to build your own way, these way can help you to hold your thinking and your friends happiness.   

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What Americans Can Learn from Other Food Culture

            Food feeds the soul. To the extent that we all eat food, and we all have souls, food is the single great unifier across cultures. But what feeds tour soul? What you want to cook and eat is an accumulation, a function of your experiences that the people you have dated, what you have learned and where you have gone.

            American cuisine is moving in the same direction, becoming more localized, not globalized. Because American cuisine is shaped by the natural wealth of the country, American’s food identity can be said “meat”. We can catch from part of their celebrations that every season, every harvest, and every holiday has meat.

            Sometimes food means survival. For example, the Chinese food of America has entirely modified their cuisine to survive and been based on economic necessity. Meanwhile, the Chinese food of China are going to be forgetting their own style because the younger generation is focused purely on studying, and their parents never teach them how to cook.

            Food as status has always been a huge thing in other culture. Being able to afford to eat their food is part of cultural history. How and why you eat your food is also very cultural. Some culture eat food not necessarily for taste, but for texture.

            Also, community is key to the food culture. The daily food that breaks the morning, for example, features their own traditional fare.

            One of the great things about cuisine is the physical manifestation of our relationship with the natural world. It can become even more important than language, and even other culture. Your first relationship as a human being is about food. Also, the first social experience we have is being put to the breast or bottle. Learning to eat is learning to become their human.

TED read : What Americans Can Learn from Other Food Culture. written by Amy S. Choi

http://ideas.ted.com/2014/12/18/what-americans-can-learn-from-other-food-cultures/ 

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The Science of Setting Goals

A month has passed since we celebrated the time of year and we need to think back to ourselves. Whether our New Year’s resolutions are still progressive or not. What is this year totally different comparing last year? If you feel uncomfortable because of nothing different, here are some suggestion of setting goals.

Choose a goal that matters, not just an easy win.

Our brains are wired to love rewards, so we often set simple goals that make it easy to achieve. “People often set them just for the burst of optimism they get when they vow to make a change.” But if that’s all our New Year’s resolutions are about, no wonder we end up abandoning them so quickly. A meaningful goal that truly inspire us to change requires going deeper. Let’s think about what we want in this year, then ask again three times ourselves why you want that. Get to something that just feels so obviously important to us

Focus on the process, not the outcome.

When we set goals, it’s easy to fixate on that ending when we’ve reached the goal and everything is better. But we can’t control outcomes. We have to inch toward them, one choice at a time. People often get lost thinking they have to change everything all at once. But small changes can pave the way for bigger changes. We can make very, very small changes that are consistent with your big goals without having to understand how you’re going to get to the end.

Prepare for failure.

Moments of failure are inevitable, but most of us abandon the goal entirely when minor failures start piling up. We give up on getting fit when we miss the gym, or we forget about losing weight after a night of burgers. In that moment when we fail, often the first instinct is to push the goal away, because it’s so uncomfortable to be in that place of self-doubt. our task is not to avoid failures, but to plan for them. “if this happens, then I’ll do that.” It’s a mental plan for how we’ll react to things that might trip you up.

from Ted.com : http://ideas.ted.com/2014/12/22/the-science-of-setting-goals/

posts by Naida Goodman

the Reason Why Learning English is Difficult for Me

           It is sure that other languages are important. Other languages help us to make new friends from other country. But, many people including me feel English is hard to learn. Actually, that is not simply problem of English. Most people who are learning other languages have same problem. Why learning English is difficult for me? The answers are too simple or too complicated. The simple reason is that I can not accept English to just language. For young kids, the second language or third language are received to same thing of their own national language. However, if the kids get little more ages like me, they start to see the second language to something they have to study. It comes as a big pressure to think like that. The other complicated reason is the difference of structure between Korean and English. For example, In the simple English sentence, subject comes first, verb comes secondly and object is arranged at last. But, in Korean, subject comes first, object comes next and verb comes last. This difference seems tiny, but it comes quite big. Also, they ought to translate to other language in their brain when they want to use language. This difference makes language learner be confused. Also, English has three forms of verb. Present, Past and Past participle. These are boosting our brain being careful and confused. When learning English, Being careful comes to be daunted. It does never help to learn English. Moreover, the cultural difference makes harder to comprehend English. For instance, simply, Korean has two types of saying sorry. But when we learn saying sorry to English, there is only “sorry”. Even if there are same saying sorry, people who are learning English are uncomfortable. We can easily come to mind many examples such as expressing colors, emotions and objects. The way to overcome the difficulties of learning English are just practicing hard and contacting more. That’s why I have been here.

Introduction

My name is Hansol Kang. you can call me 'Cheese' if you have a problem to remember my name. I am from Korea. I have just one younger brother. I become interested in watching american foot ball though I still do not know the entire rules. I just came to USA three month ago. Also I came here ASU three month ago. The reason why I chose ASU for studying English is the nice weather here. Arizona has super nice weather which is a pretty sunny and clear. I am studying Physics on my university. although I feel shame to talk about the most interesting characteristic myself, I think I have positive personality.