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How I noticed difference of interpretations in cultures by The Great Gatsby

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1. The Great Gatsby More than the novel itself, The Great Gatsby left me with a huge impact in its wake – it was an after-class discussion which made me stunned the most. When I was in middle-school, I discussed whether Gatsby is great after reading the novel with my peers. However, nine out of ten students evaluated that the word ‘great’ in the title is merely used as a satire – that Gatsby, is closer to ‘obssessive fool’ than a great character. Even my teacher interpreted in this way. Shockingly, some of the famous Korean critics was also in favor of this interpretation. To them, Gatsby was not truly "great" at all. Below are the comments made by famous Korean critics.  “[Gatsby’s life] is not great …. Greatness is no more than a satire of Gatsby’s foolish act and his death.” ( 강준만 , 미국은 세계를 어떻게 훔쳤는가 (How America Stole the world), translation made by writer) “This novel is not about how great Gatsby is. The irony of the word ‘great’ is merely a sarcastic ...
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Kid from Jeju, Kid in Jeju

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"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...
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Facebook : hidden disruption of the spreading of good ideas

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...
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