Blog post #7; The world-common language

      While, the media and the internet communication is going broader, the term "global village" is made, and more and more people worldwide are communicating with each other more freely than before. However, still there's a language barrier between a speaker and a listener. Therefore, there's a need for world-common language to speak. Everyone should speak the same language in common for these four reasons; cost savings, academical improvement, to be friendly, and the improvement of a language itself.

     First, the world-common language will lead to cost savings. If every people be able to communicate with a only language, it will be much more easier to toss the information around without any kinds of transcription or interpretation. That means, it makes us save unneeded cost and possible energy.

     Another reason is that there will be an enormous academic improvement. Every scholar report and information will be written in the world-common language in order to aloow for greater international collaboration and research. It means that scholars worldwide can plunge into a same subject, and of course, wider information will be collected and can change a depth of scholar research.

     The next reason is that it will be easy to get several events worldwide and to travel without a barrier of language. That means, it can make the world more familiar with each other. To say, there will be a less psychological distance between each other. According to one survey taken by The Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, travelers said that the language barrier is the greatest inconvenience they experience while traveling. Also, an another survey taken by the Visit Korea Committee between September and October last year showed that 66 percent of travelers complained about the language barrier during a travel.

     Finally, it will make improve the language itself. As more people speak the same language, more words will be made and at the same time, less spoken words will distinguish. It makes the language more convenient to express what the speaker intents to say. While some people argue that setting the world-common language may upper the possibility of disappearing unspoken languages, it can be solved with a constant study of their native language in schools.

     To conclude, it is a good idea for the world and the language itself to establish the world-common language in the point of followed four reasons. I wish for the world of one language and at the same time, still speaking the native languages.


Essay #1

Eunkyeong Gong
Prof. Kyle Brebner

IERW (04)

29 September 2015

Modigliani’s “Jeanne Hebuterne, assise” and its ambivalent painting

 

             How much, do you think that one’s feelings and emotions can affect in his or her artistic work? As you can expect, emotion, especially a depression is a very important element of Modigliani’s paintings. Have you heard of the painter “Modigliani”? He’s a painter who was born in Italy and painted in Paris. The painter Modigliani is well-known as one of the close friends of Picasso. He married Jeanne Hebuterne, and painted a portrait for her. My favorite painting is that of Modigliani, ‘Jeanne Hebuterne, assise’. The picture shows his happiness and pain at the same time ambivalently.

Modigliani had painted the eyes of people when he thought that he knows the people well. In other words, when you can find the eye in Modigliani’s picture, there’s no doubt that the subject of the picture had a close relationship with him. I first saw the picture at the Seoul Arts Center. While seeing the exhibition of painter Modigliani, the explanations said that Modigliani usually didn’t draw people’s eyes while Modigliani was specialized in portraits. As you can see in the following picture, the picture has an ‘eye’ which is painted with emerald color. The target of the picture is his wife Jeanne Hebuterne, therefore he thought that he had an intimate relation with her, and painted her eyes to emerald, which is one of the brightest color he thought.

Also, the painting was drawn during his wife’s pregnancy. Therefore, Modigliani used bright colors while he usually used dark and gloomy colors. It means that he had a bright days of his life while painting the picture “Jeanne Hebuterne, assise” On the other hand, they were in the circumstances that it was difficult to meet each other because of their poverty and opposition of Jeanne’s parents of their marriage. However, I guess that, also because of the background, Modigliani might have felt more joy than he usually had, before when he met Hebuterne. One of the reasons why I love this painting is that the picture clearly shows his joy of meeting his loving one. When you see other pictures Modigliani had done, you can easily find out that you are getting depressed a little bit. But, this picture somewhat gives us an energy and happiness that he might have felt.

             However, there’s also one bad background detail behind the picture. After painting the picture, Modigliani’s health began to deteriorate rapidly. Soon after, he died lonely in his room and was found by one of his friend. After hearing about Modigliani’s death from his friend, his wife in the picture, Jeanne Hebuterne decided to follow him and killed herself. When I heard the long story, I felt so sorry for the baby who had gone without ever seeing the brightness of the world.

             This picture both has a positive and negative sides together. He might have been happy with his wife while drawing the picture, but because of their poverty and opposition of parents, they were having a bad end. In that way, I felt that the story of Modigliani is so similar to that of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, which is one of my favorite books either. And, that’s why I had a great interest in Modigliani’s life and this picture. Also, the picture itself clearly shows his joy of his life than any other pictures he had painted. These two factors are the main reasons why this picture is my favorite. The exhibition of Modigliani is held until November in the Seoul Arts Center. Why not go to the exhibition to see the paintings and have another idea of your own about the painter Modigliani?

Blog post #6; Medical Innovations - Robot surgery

           Have you ever heard of “the robot surgery”? Since it was first operated in Yonsei Severance hospital in 2005, many patients are getting through the robot surgery because it is more complicate and has more accuracy than the original surgery which is operated by hands of doctors. (Thesis statement) Then what is a “robot surgery”? You might imagine the scene that the robot itself conducts the surgery whole as you might see in the SF movies. However, in fact, still doctors conduct the surgery using the exquisite robot machine.

         Robot surgery is a critical innovation because it can make less pain in patients. The Dr. Robot’s hand is known to be just 5~7mm, which is far smaller and much more complicate than doctors’ hands. That is, it can have a smaller damage on normal cells which do not need medical touch, than the surgery by doctors’ hands. And it can lead to a less pain and faster recovery than the original surgeries.

           Second, robot surgery is important because it has a low possibility of failure. Because the surgeon can have a broader view of the patient’s body by 3D camera during the surgery, there’s low possibility of causing a ‘fake’ cut on the patient’s body. And of course, patient can have a quicker recovery from a possible pain and danger.

           The robot surgery is a medical innovation in that it can have a less harm on the normal body cells and that can lead to a low possibility of failure. There’s much more good points in robot surgery. And therefore robot surgery market is growing bigger and bigger although it causes more money as well. In research conducted in 2015, the percentage of robot surgery in the whole surgery market is over 11%. And, it will be growing much faster and bigger. I wish the ‘robot surgery’ technique will grow more to meet the demands of patients.