Friday, September 18, 2009

Journal: What do you think that It is better for government to spend their funds on the exploration of outer space than on earthly matters?

As scientific technology advances, it is an old story that human can only live on earth. Even though some people argue that the government needs to spend its funds to explore the outer space, I strongly believe that the government should use the money to solve urgent problems including earthly matters. This is because the government should recognize that lots of poor people are dying everyday due to the famine, and it is more pressing to restore the environment that has been damaged by man-made behaviors.

First of all, people who live countries that have sterile soil or wartime for so long time are dying due to an extreme shortage of staples. Even worse, the lack of food leads to sickness or death. For example, a number of children who live in Africa have suffered from hunger and poverty, but the government cannot afford to help them and asks for aid from other countries. Think about the exploration of outer space that requires lots of money to be spent. Spending money that should be set aside for the children who are dying everyday due to famine and hunger is cruel and impersonal, as man is the lord of creation. The government that spends lots of money to explore outer space seems like studying for their interest, not for entire people. In this sense, the government should recognize urgent problems and spend more money to save the poor.

On top of that, global warming is an enormous issue nowadays. People often watch the news about the fundamental causes such as forest fires and greenhouse gases that come from industrial pollution. The temperature of the atmosphere has been rapidly increasing every year since the emission of heat-trapping gases is out of control, and many scientists have warned that such problems will increase. To prevent it from getting worse, restoring the damaged environment is keenly demanded. This is mainly due to the fact that clean air and water are indispensable for people as well as animals and plants. Despite of these problems that must be solved without delay, many countries are competing to explore outer space for their benefits while they ascribe the causes of global warming to other’s fault. In this respect, the government should spend their funds to restore environment first.

To sum up, I wholeheartedly believe that the government should focus on spending their funds to solve earthly matters first because there are many people who cannot get food and water due to shortage of staples in the world. Also, serious and urgent problems such as global warming have a vast influence on people and have to be solved step by step. After the environmental crisis is solved, we can use our resources to explore outer space.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Introduce myself

Hello!

My name is Sungjin park. I am happy to meet you!

I am going to introduce myself.

I came from Korea. My home country is a really beautiful and good place. The reason is that there are lots of places for culture and various delicious foods.

My major is an electrical engineering. It is a really interesting field for me, so I am studying and love this major. My final goal for studying is to go to graduate school in order to study about computer visioning. Also my hobby is both watching and playing a soccer.

The number of family is four.First, my father is an engineer about construct. He is little bit strict, but always gives a good advice for me. Second, my mother is a housewife. She always worries about my older brother and me. Last, my older brother is student for studying business and economy, and he is kind.

Nice to meet you again!