Final

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Essay #2

Jihun Rhee

Prof. Kyle Brebner

IERW (04)

19 November 2015

Offline Course or Online Course, What Do You Prefer?

All over the world, there are various types of universities exist. Not only off line

universities but also on line universities have their own boundaries. Especially online type

classes take place more place than before. That is because most of students have devices like

laptop computers, tablet PCs, and smart phones. Do same as increasing of devices, the

lectures which use electronic equipment increases. Also students may have the desire to take

classes more comfortabley at anytime, anywhere they can access the internet. In another way,

over the last decade or so, tuition fees have gone through the roof. This is a big problem

because it has become very expensive for young Koreans get a university education. So, one

way to resolve this problem would be an online class. This might make attending university

less of a financial burden for many students.

But, the online courses cannot catch up the off line courses. If we attend on off line

courses, the instructors help each student develop a good writing style by a number of

different assignments each week. Also instructors give us a lot of interesting back ground

information about the works, even whole lives. Lots of project those we had to research real

life things, give us a sense of what we have to do and offer career choice. Also, off line

courses don’t make doze off like some of other online lectures do. We have many group

discussions, and instructors always ask us to think critically about what we have studied.

Because of these, we have learned to develop our own opinion. We carefully consider

everything we read and hear, and use our own judgment to determine its value. At least, just

going to school and meeting friends can create a good atmosphere for studying.

Walking around campus, climbing way up on top of a hill, and chatting with each

other face to face, etc are also important aspects of off line courses. And most of students

are familiar with offline courses from kinder gardens or elementary schools. If payment for

education is a problem, the universities offer more scholarships and grants. This would make

less of a financial burden for many students.

Essay #1

Jihun Rhee

Prof. Kyle Brebner

IERW (04)

07 October 2015

Writing about Painting

There is one picture that sticks out for my mind. When I traveled Wein, Austria, I went to Belvedere palace. Walking through the palace one picture caught my eyes. It is a picture titled <Reading Girl>, by Franz Eybl.

It was quite hard to find out the background story of this art work. The time, when this picture was creating by Franz Eybl, it went kind of going through spring of permission that women could read books. Freedom of women’s reading took over the centuries. Men of power and conservatives beg the question that women’s reading was mental illness. But reading spread out greatly fast between women and then women enlightened because of the books. The painter, Franz Eybl, was a famous portrait painter at Wein high society. Based on this fact, the painter might feel charm from ‘Reading Girl’ or main love interest of him.

The title of the picture is Reading “Girl”, she seems to be in late teens or early twenties. Regarding her appearance, she’s got brown eyes and shining black hair. She wears white blouse. Also her skin is fascinating white. What sets this picture apart from the others is that the color of her hair and skin makes perfect eye catching contrast. Whenever I see this paint, I can get exact feature of reading girl. Her face is not only deeply profound but also innocent. Stefan Bollmann, German author, said about this paint “Like her elegant figure her thought also doesn’t have malice” <Women Who Read Are Dangerous>, 2005.

I found this paint is pretty charming. What I like the most about this art work is face angle of the main character. Without a doubt this angle must contain her most beautiful face. A work of art exposes me to new ideas of reading. It always cheer me up when I have a heap of work to do such as the examination of a thesis for graduation, school work, writing cover letter, etc. The only downside of this picture is that there’s no exact story about picture. But overall, I love this picture. I always feel great when I see it. The first time when I found this picture at Austria is such a mind blowing experience. This is a memory which I treasure. I was mesmerized when I saw it. For now, this picture is enough to quench my thirst for relaxing my mind and though provoking. I hope this picture be more famous.

Even though appreciating paintings don’t provide a great mount of philological studies. I personally think that they are indispensible for my wellbeing life. The reason is they help are worthy opportunity of thinking about people at the past, and also good motivation that I can look back my livelihood.