Corporal Punishment in School

On November 14, 2005, in Korea, a high school teacher hit tardy students 100 to 200 times, sending one of them to the hospital, because a male student was five minutes late to school. This soon came to be known all over the Internet. Then the teacher’s behavior was criticized by many people and corporal punishment became a very hot debate. Corporal punishment is nowadays a controversial issue. Since we have started the schooling system, every parent and teacher is struggling to teach children in a better way. Although some people believe that corporal punishment is necessary to control the rowdy students, I believe that it is not appropriate for the students even though that is part of the educational system.
First of all, corporal punishment in school makes some students feel aggressive toward parents, teachers, and fellow students. In general, children regard corporal punishment as a form of teacher aggression that makes them feel helpless. Therefore, students may get frustrated if corporal punishment is used frequently. Furthermore, it increases disruptive behavior that can become more aggressive. This leads to school violence and bullying of fellow students.
Secondly, corporal punishment causes inflicted student mental problems. Teachers often resort to various forms of physical punishment when a student exhibits one or more of the above activities because corporal punishment is thought to have the following effect: It is the simplest and easiest method to control difficult students. However, corporal punishment can result in a mental problem. For example, when I was a girl, I was in a class in which the teacher got angry at a boy who kept talking after she told him to be quiet. The teacher then hit the boy in front of all of us. My classmates and I were shocked. Even after fifteen years, I still remember that. Students lose interest in serious learning because it creates a deep seed of animosity in the relationship humiliating for the person. It may become a serious nightmare later with the students who have suffered corporal punishment even once in their life. The victims of severe cases of corporal punishment are left with permanent emotional scars.
Finally, corporal punishment is a type of violence. The use of corporal punishment only sends the wrong message to the students, telling that violence can be justified in the classroom and in society in general. It results in antisocial behavior later in life because it teaches children that adult’s codone violence as a solution to problems. Children who are spanked learn that it is acceptable for a stronger person to use violence against a weaker person. One must bear in mind that violence begets violence itself. Recent studies show that those who are violence to their family members have some traumatic experience about harsh physical punishment from their own parents. These people have a tendency to use hitting and shouting as a way to solve problems.
Some who support corporal punishment say it is necessary to keep discipline inside school. To achieve this goal, reasonable punishment is necessary because those young children are never always good children. However, corporal punishment has only a temporary effect, and violence cannot be justified under any circumstances.
In the conclusion, corporal punishment must be prohibited. Corporal punishment in Korea has been so normal in school that every student does not complain or resist it. However, teachers should not use corporal punishment because it is ineffective in disciplining students and may have long-term negative effects on students. Moreover, teachers should not forget that love and understanding must be part of any kind discipline. Teachers should use effective and more humane alternatives. I hope corporal punishment will disappear forever from our school.

Endless sculpture

Last Sunday, I visited in Madi museum. At the time, it displayed “The Suspended Art of Salvador Presta”. Madi museum is a unique small art museum and gallery. The abstract art has strong design and is very colorful. It is unique and quite interesting. A curator explained some paintings to me. Salvador Presta studied art and began his career in Buenos Aires. His first abstract work was very close to traditional European constructivism as defined by the Dutch De Stijl movement, Soviet realism and the works of Antoine Pevsner and Naum Gabo. Salvador Presta is represented in museums throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Museum of Modern Art in Busto Arsizio, Italy, Mondriaanhuis Museum in Amersfoort, Holland and Museum Madi in Budapest, Hungry. A large exhibit of his mobiles was a part of the MADI exhibition at Madrid's Reina Sophia in 1997. While viewing the many paintings, the first one that caught my eye was a stainless steel round bar, beginning at the ground and rising upwards, creates its support, and after moving through leaning and crooked or curved lines, it returns to its own base. Through many similar movements, it creats a private vital space consisting of a spherical virtual volume. In its way, the round bar creates a series of small aluminum cubes of different sizes and shades with long duration in the presence of chemical-physical attact. The cubes are assembled linearly around the bar, in different positions, and gradients, in order to create centers of visual aggregation.

Dallas Museum of Art

My major is drawing and painting. Also I want to study art history, so I often visit some gallery and museum. I visited Thursday with my friend. My professor said many museums have special event at Thursday night. Dallas museum can enjoy a glass of wine in the Atrium Cafe and hear live jazz every Thursday. It was free. On Thursdays night the museum is open until 9:00 p.m. and general admission is free after 5:00 p.m. If someone wants to see current special exhibit, Tickets are $18 or less and include general admission to the Dallas museum of art. I shown my student ID card to employee, she discounted my ticket. I paid only fourteen dollars. If someone wants to general admission, they paid only ten dollars. Student discounts five dollars a general admission. Dallas museum of art Established in 1903, the Dallas Museum of Art features an outstanding collection of more than 23,000 works of art from around the world, from ancient to modern times. When I went to level 2; European painting and sculpture, I saw the Greek sculpture and vase. When I saw that, I feel different from last visiting. My humanity teem project was Greek sculpture. At the time, I bought books, and researched internet about Greek sculptures. While I was seeing a work Greek of art, I thought teacher’s saying and research paper. When I saw the black figure vase, the main scene on this vase shows the birth of Athena, the warlike goddess of wisdom, from the head of her father, Zeus. Athena the patron deity of Athens, was thought to be parthenogenesis, virgin-born, the offspring of the king of Olympian gods alone the reverse of the vase shows the heavenly twins castor and poleax. This vase archaic style, figure representation remained two-dimensional until the middle of the sixth century B.C.E. It made by clay and slip. I told about arts of Greek to my friend. I really enjoyed Greek Arts.

A trip to Museum

On a recent visit to the meadow museum on the southern Methodist university campus. While viewing the many paintings, the first one that caught my eye was “The Circus”. Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist. In Spanish, the word “miró” means “he saw.” What an appropriate name for an artist! Joan Miró was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona, Spain, but he spent much of his youth on the family farm at Montroig. Beginning in 1921, he lived in Paris, but he frequently returned to visit Spain. Historians tell us that when he went to Paris, he took a handful of dried grass from the farm at Montroig as a reminder of one of his favorite places. While living in Paris he was a friend of Pablo Picasso and was influenced by the major art movements of the time, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, but his unique style of painting makes categorization of his work difficult. Miró painted this work to raise his spirits at a time when he was depressed about the Spanish Civil War. The cheerful shapes and colors of The Circus communicate the joy and excitement of being at a circus. The texture of the board on which Miró made the painting can also remind us of that experience. This painting is in Miró’s unique and imaginative style, though his work is sometimes associated with Dada or Surrealism. The Circus is painted on a board that is not a traditional material used in art works. Sometimes artists use unusual materials to produce their works, and Miró has used a common building material for this piece. The material is called Celotex and was often used as an insulation material in buildings. Celotex was made of compressed sugar cane fibers sometimes with a binder of sizing or varnish. Energy bursts in the wiry line that is so characteristic of Miro. This line faulty energizes the principal image of seal and ball, the soft-edged color splotches float like changing spotlights to complete the snow-like evocation.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Have you seen the pictures of the mushroom shape’s atomic bombing? Have you heard about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America under U.S. President? As many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki may have died from the bombings by the end of 1945. Korea is the only divided country in the world. When I watched news, I often heard about nuclear weapons in North Korea. At the times, I was very worried about my country, and family. North Korea is an aggressive, totalitarian regime whose goal is to conquer South Korea. Because North Korea cannot succeed in a conventional war against U.S. supported South Korean forces, North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Il intends to use nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. North Korea has become the world's ninth nuclear power. In October 2002 North Korea admitted to U.S. officials that it had a secret uranium enrichment program. North Korea then decided to restart its plutonium reactor and reprocessing plant and resume construction of two larger reactors. North Korea selling arms abroad is no revelation. At least half a dozen countries including Pakistan, Libya and Syria are known to have purchased missiles from the rogue regime. But analysts and hard-liners in the U.S. are increasingly concerned that a desperate North Korea is spreading more than conventional arms. That any world leader who uses any type of nuclear device as a weapon be charged with a crime against humanity and be brought to justice before the World Court. The United States must not agree to give North Korea any security guarantees or withdraw its forces in South Korea because Kim Jong-Il would then attack South Korea and attempt to establish a pro-North Korean regime there. The United States, Japan, and South Korea must work together to disarm and reform North Korea.

Seoul Home / L.A. Home

“Star far away from other stars / Migratory bird far away from the nest.
I am far away from my home / You are far away from me

Home and memory / Home and love
Home and lonely / Home and nostalgia
Home and poem / Home and my family, and family

I can never forget my home / Even while I am sleeping” (Lee).

Dreamworlds

MTV launched in New York City August 1, 1981. It is an American network that plays music video. MTV has large impact on pop culture and the music industry throughout the world. Almost every singer makes a music video when they debut show. Last month I watched a band make a music video. I was even an extra for their video. They were friend’s of a friend. They are so new. I did not have any information for them. This band knew they needed a music video for their publicity works. The music videos main goal is to promote the sale of music recordings.
Dreamworlds III is the documentary film by Director Sut Jhally. This film narrator tells about a woman in the contemporary music video, and incites viewers to think about modern sexuality and people’s attitudes towards sexuality. In Dreamworlds III, the music video is integrates a lot of sexual femininity and masculinity images. It is not only American culture but also many other countries that have become sexist. In South Korea it would be controversial to have teenager girls with too reveling clothing performe on the stages in music video’s. Even if she is 16 years old. This controversy continues in South Korea as sexuality in music video becomes more frequent and more intense. In the past three decades, most music video focuses on sexual and violent content. How sexuality is indicated and used by artists defines their images and attracts audiences of especially young females. The female musician’s fashion styles and body image depicted define standards in Korea and the United States. The aspects of the music video express body dimension such as race, sex, nature, and technology. Male musicians change gender roles by blurring of gender appearance, while female musicians reflected sexuality which intensified the gender norms. In aspects of race, musicians pursue racial blending of appearances. In the nature and technology dimension, Korean music videos often times focus on natural imagery, but American music video show a lot of technology images. And the body combined with the technology and nature implies a post human image of the future.
The media contributes more to the constructing of personal identities than any other medium in present modern society. Music videos offer an intricate experience of sounds, joined with visual images in a variety of media. In particular, female sexual femininity image of fashion in music videos help convey contexts effectively and function as a medium of immediate communication by visual effect.
Have we considered the sociocultural effects of music video? Gender identity depicted in fashion can be of great importance. Gender identity in socio-cultural categories is classified as masculinity, femininity, and the third sex. First, Masculinity is group into a stereotyped masculinity, sexual masculinity, and metro sexual masculinity in the music video. Second, femininity in music videos are grouped into stereotyped femininity, sexual femininity and contra sexual femininity. Third, the third sex in music video fashion is categorized into transvestism, the masculinization of feminity, and feminization of the masculine. This phenomenon is presented into music videos through females in male attire and males in female attire. Gender identity represented in the fashion of music videos were demonstrated, and the importance of the relationship between these representations of identity through fashion and socio-cultural environment was reconfirmed. For example, Madonna’s music videos express identity. She is the most famous female singer in the world. Madonna has reconstructed fluid identities through the variations of body, images, costumes, and attitude. Her homosexuality is to be seen as a fetish by drag queens and lesbians, which deconstructs the dichotomy of normality/perversion and opens a possibility of women becoming the subjectivity of sexual desires.
Dreamworlds, it is literary “Dream world” meaning not a reality in life. The director wants the viewer to see women’s bodies in music videos because, it purposes an important advertising tools. However this music video has so much influence on the real world and real people which go beyond advertising. This film makes observation about the music video’s advertisements. The sexual female characters in music videos increase the productivity of the music. The music video short in length, usually only three or four minutes, wants to make the viewer pay attention, so it stimulates femininity and masculinity. Therefore, these music videos are forms of advertising. It is extremely sexual images with storytelling, for selling merchandise. The women’s body is an important advertising tool; however music videos use them to awfully influence our society.