Substantial number of people view North Korea as a frightening country because of nuclear bombs. It is also known as the hermit kingdom, for the reason that it has strict laws towards the visitors and few are permitted. However, Chinese tourists were an exeption, since they bring in the dollars. North Korean government decided to allure them with casinos. Jpwever, to the reaction of North Korea, Chinese government restricted the rules to prevent pouring dollars to North Korea. As a reult, now there are only few Chinese playing casino and more than 20000 job losses in North Korea. north Korea, which has perhaps more strict rules compared with China 30 or more years ago. Some Chinese people say that the North Korean leader Kim Jeong Il is silmilar to the cult of Mao. The state ideology of juche (self-reliance) and Mao's isolationism have much in common. Westerners and Chinese are guided to prevent frequent contact with locals. Also, they continueously enclose themselves by having no access to the internet and mobile phones.

As people grow bigger by their habits and obsesstions, a new word, "globesity" has been created. The word combines globe and obesity, infact, more than a quarter of the popel in the world are overweight. Of these, three hundred million are obese.
Obesity is caused by an imbalance between calories-in and calories-out. In other words, what you eat and how you use energy to burn it off. however, all over the world, it seems that we are losing the battle to get this simple equation right. Obesity can harm people in numerous ways. Malnutrition can lead to serious diseases such as diabetes and chronic kidney failure. It is also very costly to have training or car eprogram for obese poeple. Obesity itself also can eventually be fatal if unaddressed.
This global issue has warned me as well. The fast-going society and my daily life soon made me overweight. My busy life makes me grab a burger in McDonalds, and being a Korean highschooler - when we are forced to sit down and study for more than thirteen hours - is a lot of stress. In fact, there are growing number of child obesity over the world. The cause and effect of eating disorder is particularly affecting children.
Child obesity can be more fatal than adults who can control themselves. They can also be mor eopen toward illnesses; for example, child obesity is a major contributor to type 2 diabetes. More than 85 percent of affected children are either overweight or obese at the time of diagnosis. To prevent any worsen effect, I believe the world should show more concern of obese people.

Julius Caesar - Shakespeare

Julius Caesar, a drama written by William Shakespeare, is well known for its use of dramatic irony. The effect of irony is to help close relationships of functional politics and the art of acting. In the play, the controversy between Antony and Brutus makes Romans address irony by chaning its mood.
There are two types of powerful and contrasting speeches by Antony and Brutus; a speech of ideals and words versus the use of words and action. The audience first supports Brutus' iealism, who talks of honor. Brutus gives a speech about honor along with ambition. He states that his love for Rome motivated him to kill his beloved friend, Caesar. "As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejjoice at it; as he was valiaint, I honour him, but, as he was ambitious, I slew him." Brutus' forum speech which reiterates the concepts of honesty, freedom and fortune, ambition and pride, sways the Roman mob to agree with his beliefs. The mob later admits that Caesar was a tyrant who deserved his death.
After Brutus' declaration, Antony explains that Caesar dedicated his life for the people's welfare. "He hath brought captives home to Rome, whose ransoms did the general coffers fill." The two themes that Antony spoke of were the same as Brutus. However, the dramatic irony of this play is that Anotny twisted his sayings using sarcasm which later wins the crowd. Unlike Brutus, Antony uses idealistic as well as realistic concepts. The crowd sways its opinion and quickly becomes upset over the assassinatino and shouts for death of the conspirators.
The controversy concludes when the conspirators are forced to flee from Rome. The two types of dialogue and speeches were both strong, regardless Antony wins the mobs' affection which reflects the notion that idealism has a difficult time to succeed in life.

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“How about coming to Korea? It has been a long time since you left, you know." Hearing these words from the phone made me speechless. My mother, ignoring my silence, kept on talking about the benefits of staying in Korea.
After I hung up the phone, all the precious memories I had in India quickly flashed across my mind. I had lived in India for four years apart from my parents. My friends in school did everything together and even lived together in dormitories; like a family. I definitely could not leave them with all the invaluable memories we shared. The different educational system also was a huge barrier for me to move to Korea. I knew that the education and the way the Korean students receive it differed from ours. There was absolutely no way to compete with students who have twelve hours of classes in school. However, somewhere deep inside my heart, I wanted to challenge myself by trying something new.
In school I was an outgoing person; who loved sports and participated in various activities. Thus it led me to build up wide range of relationships, which need collective effort and cooperation with others. Frankly, I was afraid of loosing the relationship, and the fact that I had to start everything from scratch. Nevertheless, the fright vanished because my parents believed in me.
Realizing that someone trust me gave me a powerful effect. It gave me support, hope, and most importantly - courage to do something that I feared. The faith grew in myself and gave me strength to dare myself to stay in Korea. I then, had enough courage to test myself how well I will adapt to my new life. It was a great risk, but faith assured and allowed me to take it. Though leaving my friends behind was painful, I belived I will gain good things from living in Korea.
Now that I know my parents belive in me whatever I do; I became more stronger. Living in Korea and attending in a school in Korea is not that awful as I thought before. Though I still need collective effort and cooperation with others, I am happy to live here with my family and new friends I made.