Reflections_Yoonseok

The touch of evil disrupting you, and you never get over it. It always tickles you but you never catch it. When you woke up, you instinctively feel that this touch of evil is right behind you, it would try hard to knock you off during the whole day. Can you get a glimpse of what it is? You spill a cup of coffee on your comfy pajamas, missed the bus, and late for school. Not because you woke up late nor getting prepared late. It is because of the touch of evil : in other words, the murphy's law has been applied on you. You know, it feels really awful when you recognized yourself in an abysmal situation. The evil surrounds you, it corrupts you slowly but steadily. First the bitterness. things you love lose their appeal. People seem to repulse you. Why are these things happening to me? Your heart turns sour, and a black screen covers up life until you are but a speck of light sputtering to stay alight. The blackness starts to change. It is not the enemy, but your friend. It makes ...

"Your efforts may never betray you" Every time a student blame discrimination, they blame a lack of effort. Every time a student becomes skeptical for one's success, they boast their 'equal opportunity system' to the poors. They, the developed nations, are arguing that they have a clear system to capitalize student's ability regardless of their environment. Top universities in the world are helping freshmen by giving them scholarships and free tuition. Governments are operating various programs to help poor students. However, Gladwell throws a question that is against most of our beliefs: "Is the system really capitalizing poor student's ability?" The answer he gave, was shockingly no. Gladwell argues that there are a lot of smart students that are not recognized by universities. Most of the people believe that society gives equal chances to the wealthy and the poor, since universities are giving full tuition to poor kids. However, finding poor...

Eyes glued to the monitor, leaving comments to each and every post they see, checking new 'likes' for their brand-new profile pics. This is how Facebook changed our life. As Mark Zuckerberg ambitiously declared, he created Facebook to 'connect the world' and 'spread good ideas'. But is his creation truly doing its job? Or is it blocking good ideas to be spread reversely? We must question ourselves 'Did we actually became open-minded to good ideas?', because the answer becomes 'no' when we are dependent to its virual reality. After I listened to Revisionist History Episode 3, I contemplated about the reason why good ideas has so much of a difficulty to be spread. In the past, we believed that the development of technology will enhance the spreading of ideas by connecting various people around the globe. People believed that discrimination will be lessened, people will respect each other's ideas more. Actually, it did - only in certain a...