Recently, I had a chance to use sports taping. About three weeks ago, I jammed my finger when I was playing a basketball. I thought it would be better if I just wait without playing a basketball. I waited for a week without playing a basketball, and all the pains were gone. Since I wanted to play basketball so bad, I immediately played basketball right after my pains were all gone. Unfortunately, my fingers started to hurt again after I played basketball. I was getting worried about my finger. I had my pinky jammed three years ago. From this point, it was hard for me to move my pinky. I was afraid that my jammed finger would become like my pinky. Plus, it was index finger on the right, so I was worried that my index finger won't be normal anymore.
However, thanks to sports taping, I was able to protect my finger and also play BASKETBALL. At first, I doubt if the tape would cure my finger. Surprisingly, the taping actually worked. I was curious how this things worked. According to Wikipedia and other youtube videos, taping functions as a muscle. Therefore, by taping my finger, I was able to reduce the activity of my muscles in finger as the taping worked as a muscle. I am very thankful to the guy who made sports taping as the taping almost cured my finger.
The 21st century has begun. What changes do you think this new century will bring? Use examples and details in your answer.
Throughout the 20th century, lot's of things have changed. One of the most significant changes is technological development. Lots of people say that technological development has made our life more convenient than before, but is that all? Even sports nowadays have lots of difference compared to 1950s. Speaking of basketball, due to technological development, it has changed a lot and it's quite interesting to think about basketball in future.
First of all, basketball court have changed a lot. Game timer was able to develop due to technological development. Timer in 1950s, 1980s, and timer in present shows a lot of difference.Timers in 1950s were nothing more than just a large clock. In 1970s to 80s, timer have been replaced into electric clock. After the electric clock has been removed, new machine have been replaced. It's more than just a timer, as it allows the audience to watch the game easier than before. In my opinion, even more advanced 'timer' can be placed on the court. If there's a timer on the court just like one in american football field, it will facilitate the audience to know time remaining, as they won't have to miss the game when looking up to see the timer.
maybe people will be able to make a court as a screen
Ticketing system have changed either. In the past, people had to go to the stadium in order to buy a ticket. However, thanks to the internet, we don't have to go to the stadium to buy a ticket anymore. Instead, we can buy a game ticket in house. Also, way people enter the stadium has changed. In 1950s, there were lots of employees placed on the entrance, to get the ticket, check the ticket, and let them in. These days, entrance became lot more easier. With few security guard standing, people enters the stadium by put the ticket into the machine and machine opens the path. With this machine, entering have become more accurate and faster. In the close future, stadium may not need security guard anymore. It is because from the past, it is evident that machines are doing something that human has been doing before, and security guard may not be an exception.
basketball uniform in 1960s
Basketball uniform is quite hard to tell. Basketball uniforms have less to do with technology. Until 1990s, basketball pants were very short, because with short pants, players will be able to run faster and play more aggressively, and make crowd more interesting. However, after the 90s, pants became longer. The reason is that people might have repulsion of looking at full-grown man wearing shorts, which shows up to their thigh. Although shorts are more convenient in playing aggressive and fast paced game, social view about the shorts have changed a basketball uniform. Because the change of the uniform depends on social view rather than technology, it is hard to guess how it will change in the future.
development of science enabled the backboard not to get broken like the picture above.
Even basketball had a lots of things that have changed and will change as the time pass. Such as uniforms and sports science, changing of these are related to change of our society. They are mostly related to technological development, and some are related to social view. However, it's too early to predict about sports in the future because popular sports like basketball and soccer were played less than 100 years. For the last 60 years in basketball history, development of basketball usually depended on technological development. However, from now on, changes in basketball will usually rely on creativity rather than technological development, as it seems like development is getting slower than before.
Foods, cloths, pets, entertainment, and science.....Animals are used in a various ways in order to fulfill human's desire such as curiosity, fashion, or meal. It is quite easy to meet 'animals' in our
daily life. It may be alive, such as pets and zoo animals, or it could be the dead one, just like the pictures in both sides.
However, the thing is that the animal we meet most of the time are nothing more than a product. People often tend to show their interest in animals, but it's irony that they have no attention to the animals that they meet the most. Earthling is the film that might make people think more about the 'animals' around them.
First of all, the film shows about the pets. How pets live before they are sold and death of homeless pet are shown in this part of the film. As it's shown in the film, homeless pets dies of either hunger, thrown away to the dump truck, gas chambers, or euthanasia. There are groups that finds new home for homeless pets such as Homeless Pets Foundation. However, because number of homeless pets are increasing very fast, death of homeless pets is inevitable as they will either die of hunger or killed by human. I agree with the quote "We need to learn the way to see the eyes of the animals." Kicking pets out seems wrong to me, because pets are live animals that could show their emotions, not a toy.
I was shocked when the film showed about the animals that are used in making cloths. Lots of people won't know how animals die to make a cloth, and I didn't either. Since there is no law that indicates about killing of the animals in fur farm, people working in the farm prefers the costless way to get the skin out of animals. As cost of killing animal gets cheaper, way of killing animals become more cruel. In the Chinese fur farm for example, they take the leather of an animal when it is alive. It is even more shocking that although animals that lost its leather are alive, people throw away the animals without any mercy.
coats can be made without killing the animal
These days, cloths can be made without using leather of the animals. Cost is the only difference between cloths made of leather and cloths made of artificial materials. Of course, cloths made of animal's fur keeps our body warmer, but is it really necessary? Most people who buys luxurious coat buy not because of its warmth, but to show the others that he or she is rich. Therefore, it seems like killing an animal to make a luxury cloth is meaningless thing to do. Plus, cloth that are made of animal are sold either cheaply or expensively. Regardless of its cost, valuing the cloth made of animals is nothing more than pricing their lives. Once the animals are dead, they cannot revive anymore. Although many new lives are borned,, those new lives are not the same as the dead one. In contrast, money;which is traded with 'life of the animal', have no special meaning like an individual like life. What I want to point out is that by resisting a desire to buy luxurious product, we can save thousands of wild lives.
Eating other creatures is part of the Law of Jungle
Food part was a bit disappointing. I agree that some slaughter houses are too cruel when they kill the animals to get the meat. However, it seemed like the film makers exaggerated too much by showing only the extreme case so that they could persuade people. Throughout this part of the film, another problem came into my mind. When I saw how people in slaughter house react and behave on the animals, I was able to realize that they are somewhat different from the normals. They acted and talked very similar to the criminals, as if they were suffering mental illness. In my opinion, they were probably one of the normals before they started working in the slaughter house. It would have been better if the director mentioned how to solve this problem. If we claim that government should increase price of the meat that are made in such a cruel way. Then, companies that produce meat will change their way of slaughtering the animal. Plus, if price of the products are expensive for its cruelty when killing an animal, consumers will probably buy cheaper products, that are killed painlessly. I know that it's not the best solution to the problem. What I wanted to say is that it's tentalizing because director could have gone further more to persuade people better in the food part.
Overall, the film was quite persuading to me, but with the exception in the food part. Although I saw the film of slaughter house, I only ended up feeling the mercy to the animals. Since eating the other creatures is inevitable as it is part of the Law of Jungle, showing the cruel video of animal dying and saying that we should not eat meat couldn't persuade me very much. However, I agree that excessive amount of meat production should be stopped, because the truth is that tons of meat productions are thrown away when they are not sold on time. It's not about the content, but film makers should have set an age limitation when watching a film. Below is a review by seven year old kid. He seems too young to watch such a cruel video of animals dying and being killed. It is likely that young kids might get shocked for a while. Regardless of these tentalizing things about the films, the film changed my thoughts about people killing the animals for money. Before I watched the film, my thoughts and opinion about killing animals for human was vague, but after I finished watching the film, my opinion became clear. Human should never kill the animal unless it has something to do with his or her life.
My third test in KMLA ended today.(Yesterday, actually) Of course, I'm not really happy about my score. I always regret about playing instead of studying during my normal life after I take the test. However, this time, I did not regret after I took the test. It's because nothing is going to change if I end up with regretting without putting into action. Instead, I promised myself not to cram before the test, but study few hours EVERYDAY, so that I could remember what I learned that day easily.
After the test, I was excited about upcoming 18th waivers interview instead of being excited about playing games or basketball. In my view, having a 후배 in KMLA is meaningful, especially to juniors. Relationship between freshman and junior is special compared to other schools. First of all, KMLA is dormitory school. Students will, and have to meet each other everyday, and this is why we call each other 'KMLA Family'. As a family, students help each other. For example, when Freshmen enters the school, 속삭임 make a pair of freshman, junior, and senior so that junior and senior can help freshman to get used to school easily. This year, my friends are already excited about upcoming 18th waivers. I thought of a reason why students in KMLA are happy about new students coming into school. In my opinion, it is because new students are the chosen one that went through fierce competition just like we have, it is obvious to be pleasant with students that have gone through similar event. Right now, three students including my sister, who are willing to be a student of KMLA are in my house discussing and helping each other to prepare for the upcoming interview. I hope that they could be part of KMLA Family soon. :)
Contents of chapter one to three contains Richard Mayhew's life in London and his life changing after meeting a girl called 'Door'. When Richard and Jessica was walking the street to meet Jessica's boss, Richard found a girl wounded on the street. Jessica saw it too, but she wanted to ignore Door. However, Richard didn't, and he takes Door to his home. After then, his life started to change. Nobody was able to recognize him, and chapter three ends as Richard meets the Rat-speaker.
Where Richard meets the rat-speaker is underground. It seems like Richard had no idea if such a place have ever existed in London. Ever since Richard met Door, weird things happened. Everybody ignored him and Richard saw things that he has never seen before in London, such as underground, or the rat-speaker. Actually, it kind of seemed like he didn't even cared about it before.
But now, he is being ignored by everyone, but someone he has never heard of, or cared about such as characters from underground are the only one that don't ignore Richard. I wonder what this situation tells us. To me, it seemed like people in London above symbolizes wealthy or people who are part of the society, and London underground symbolizes the people who are ignored from society and live on their own without help of society. Therefore, I think situation that Richard is facing may symbolize the wealthy person starting to know about the ignored people after being alienated from society.
After my thoughts about Richard's situation was pretty much done, I started to think about the character, 'Door'. Door is the one that changed Richard's life. It seems like she's the one who caused this situation. So I wondered. What does Door symbolize? She's the one who moved Richard to the other world, but why Door? After I thought about it, it seems like it relates with her name. Her name is Door. She's the one who moved Richard to the other world. It may symbolize the one that connects two different world, or society. I also think that Door may symbolizes the person that needs help. In this perspective, Richard represents a person who is socially active, but after he helped a poor people, he gets to go to the group of people that are ignored. It kind of seemed weird. Wealthy person becoming one of the ignored people for helping poor people doesn't seem right. However, I also thought that people doing good stuff becoming unfortunate might be the reality. I can't really think what the book is trying to tell because I've only read three of twenty chapters, but it's good to keep thinking about what contents in the book symbolize.
