Category Archives: College Essays / 대학 에세이

Name: Seowon Jung Class: ESL100 Date: 5/12/2008 North-Eastern Asian countries have been affected by Confucian ideas. In South Korea, there is a sentence so far that when boys and girls become 7 years old, they can’t sit together. Moreover, approximately 500 years ago, women were not able to show any portion their skin except her face, hands, and feet. So, there are a lot of single-sex middle and high schools in S.Korea and Koreans are familiar attending single-sex schools, meetings, and military service. Someone, who wants to meet and talk […]

Name: Seowon Jung Class: ESL100 Date: 5/12/2008 One of famous entertainer got married to another entertainer last year in Korea. Their wedding ceremony became a topic of conversation because the bride was a transgender and the reaction of the masses ran to extremes. She, who was a male, getting married to a real man was unacceptable for Korean people and against popular sentiment. However, transgender: gay, lesbian and bisexual are not unfamiliar words anymore. Therefore, we are going to have to be concerned about them. The National Education Association (NEA) […]

Many experts, governors, and politicians are focusing on how they make the maladjusted students stay in school to study. One of their programs is the alternative high school. They expect that if parents send the maladjusted students to alternative high schools, they will study hard. Can it be so? Do this kinds of students really want to study? I don’t think that the reason they don’t study is that they don’t like their school or the present educational system. Therefore, I raise a question the effectiveness of alternative high school. […]

Name: Seowon JungClass: ESL100Date: 5/11/2008 I. Introduction In the past, the only way of success in life for the common people was studying hard and parents were busy taking care of their children. If their children entered a castle that the king lived in, they worked in a bureaucratic ministry as an officer with a lot of followers and eventually, many children as well as parents thought that success in life was working in the castle. For this reason, the parents were hard put to it and supported their children. […]

Name: Seowon Jung Class: ESL100 Date: 5/11/2008 A lot of high school in the U.S has tried to increase the rate of graduation for many years. One of the high school, Mapleton School near Denver, had a dropout rate of more than 50%. The superintendent for this school, whose name is Charlotte Ciancio, decided the entire student system needed a shakeup and school started to change after she came back there. The Mapleton School needed innovative something and Charlotte knew that had to change. She has reorganized every school, creating […]

Name: Seowon Jung Class: ESL100 Date: 5/11/2008 The world has changed. In the past, people studied at school with only pen and paper to prepare them to work in places like factories. These days, there are a lot of digital devices in the world and everybody has one of them, even children. Children have access to the internet and can search for any information they need. In the digital world, they have lost interest in study, homework, and social activities. Therefore, now teachers need to change their teaching style. The […]

Name: Seowon Jung Class: ESL100 Date: 5/11/2008 These day, most people have at least one or more digital devices like a cell phone. Young people usually have three or more devices. Cell phone, MP3 player, laptop computer have been necessary items even for older people. Adults, who need a lot of information for their job, can tell from something whether that is wrong or not. However, our children accept everything without distinguish, and they believe that their found is right before somebody says that is wrong. Children can look for […]

Name: Jung, Seowon Class : ESL100 The Purpose of Education What is the purpose of education nowadays? Why do people try to teach other people? In the past, people wanted to teach children about life and how people interacted with one another. However, nowadays, our parents want us not to live a dull life among other people because our parents are worried about children living with other people in a society filled with difficulty. Therefore, I firmly believe that a good education should not only teach intelligence but also teach […]

Name: Jung, Seowon Class: ESL 100 The cost of a college education is rising in the U.S Some of private colleges have increased their tuition as if they are competing with one another. In order to maintain or increase budgets, colleges and universities need to continue to increase tuition and fees (Eric, 2007). According to USA Today (Sandra, 2007), in the past 25 years, the average cost of tuition and fees has risen faster than personal income, consumer prices and even health insurance. The tuition of college increased by 295% […]

Name : Jung, Seowon Class : ESL 100 The number of college graduates in the US is decreasing Approximately 1,600 years ago, Socrates taught his students without charging tuition. He didn’t expect any financial gain and he just wanted to share and communicate his ideas and philosophies with his students. However, many people have paid their tuition in order to study in colleges and now, this has resulted in student dropping out from their colleges. Therefore, it is evident that the reason of dropout is caused by financial pressures from […]