Music

Music exists all around us. It is an essential part of almost everyone’s life.

People are affected by music all the time, though they do not notice the effect. For instance, music can arouse a lot of emotions in people such as: sadness, happiness etc. Also, there are many different genres of music. People have their own favorite genres according to their preferences.

 My favorite genre is soul music. Soul music was originally sung and performed by black people. I had never heard of soul music until 2008. I was surfing the web and I found a group called Brown Eyed Soul. There are four Korean men in the group, and as the name of the group indicates, their genre is soul. I was sitting in front of my laptop staring at those people singing in the screen. I was so fascinated by their songs that I only listened to them for the next two months. I did not know it was soul music, but as I was more curious about the group I searched internet and found that it was soul music. After that I searched for the soul singers who had influenced this group. There are various artists and I did not like all of them. However, some of them grabbed my attention and broke my stereotype of black artists’ music. I used to think that only Black people but realized later that this is not true. I felt that Black people have had a major impact on soul music

Generally speaking, Soul music sounds deep but at same time, it sounds ample as well. Personally, I think soul is one of those music genres which can affect people’s emotion the most. It is because most of soul songs are powerful and soft, simultaneously. This change in dynamics makes people feel something more as compared to a type of music that has the same dynamics throughout the whole song. People listen to music for many different purposes. Some people listen to music when they need energy or encouragements and I think especially soul music, due to its inspirational wordings, helps people fell encouraged. I feel good when I listen to soul music because some soul songs, powerful sound blows away the thoughts of things that I am stressed about. 

Soul music has another great effect on me. I did not really like singing before I knew soul music. Yet, since I got to know about the soul music I slowly got interested in singing and I love it now. Singing became one of my favorite things to do and it helps me to get rid of my stress. Also, it made me to like music general. Liking music has provided me lots of things. Music is one of the things that helps me to get rid of stresses, to calm myself, to socialize with people. Sometimes, it motivates me in many ways with its lyrics or by the musicians just like those soul singers who make me feel better with their music and motivates with their skills and passion.

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Kinds of love

Almost everyone in the world have thought about love once in their lives. It is too vague to say what is love. However people love others and loved by other people.
The Greeks divide love into several categories such as Agape, Eros, Philia and Storge. These kinds of love have their own features and people can think differently about which love is the greatest out of these kinds of love. This is true that there are many different types of love and they have different features. 


 I think that the storge is the greatest love, compared to other loves, which is the instinctual love between parents and children because; in my point of view, the love between men and women there are limitations due to hard situation, such as financial problem and sometimes their love finishes like divorces. Also, love between friends may fades away as we grow up and have family that we should take care of.


 However, nothing cannot tear apart the love between parents and children. Although there are some problems between the parents and the children time to time, it will soon recovered and the love will be hardened. From my experience, the love of my parents toward me is indescribable. Being away from my family, often makes me depressed and lonely. However, just talking to them over the phone makes me feel better and they always take care about me and my sisters. We often forget that having parents is really blessed and we should be thankful. Eversince, I left my parents, I realize how much they mean to me. Whenever, I go back home, I try my best to spend more time with my family and make good memories.

Other kind of love that is less important than Storge is Eros according to my own opinion. I am not talking about the sexual love but romantic love between man and woman. In loving someone, there must be something that make people hard to love. As it is mentioned before, like financial problem etc. However, I think without worrying about those issues, love can be build up between a man and woman. It is extended interaction with others. It is about understanding each others. Yet, whoever likes more has to understand more and care about the person more. It cannot always work as we wish but to love someone, we need to persevere and try our best. In fact, we have to persevere and try our best to get and achieve what we desire. We better not frustrated even if we did out best, the love seems not good enough, but as long as you are happy or just good, that is enough.


Lastly, Although, loving is hard, either love someone or loved by someone is really great. Loving out loved one is piece of cake. However, we have to love everyone even our enemies. Once we love someone or try to love someone we will be loved eventually. Love brings so many nice things.  


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justice

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress,

- Martin Luther King. Jr.

In anywhere, justice is needed. Justice is an invisible thing, but that is essential for everyone in anyhow. Law and order are required to create justice within a society, and if these do not work, there will not be justice. A society without justice will be a chaos and the chaos causes the flow of social progresses as the quote says.

People follow the law and order because they are asked to do so, if they do not, there would be some punishments for them. The laws and orders ensure that there will be no such things which should not be occurred such as murder. It is true that there still are murdering and severe crimes. However, if there were no laws and orders, there would be more crimes and the society would be more chaos. When the society is in chaos, it is unstable socially which prevents the social progress.

Martin Luther King. Jr. has said this, he was the one who wanted better society and dedicated his life for it. Also he was one of the people who represents symbol of justice. He actually believed in what he said, so he did what he supposed to do like following laws and orders. It does not make big difference alone, but everyone together, it will make the change and that is why he said so and was trying to bring justice.

The most important thing to maintain laws and orders for our society is participation and dedication of people of the society. Even though the governments or communities set the rule and tell people to follow them, it will be hard without people’s willingness of following it. However, if people try to help and cooperate with the laws and orders, we will have better society to live in.

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government

A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.-Larry Ellison

This quote basically says that what governments do is take money away from people and distribute that money to others. This is not true. Governments have to make sure safety and protection for its people rather than take properties from their people. That is their job and what they are supposed to do.

Everyone belongs to certain government. They follow the rules what their governments have set. It is because, if they do not, they would get punished. However, as long as they follow the rule, they are protected and ensured from unfairness by the government that they belong to. People pay tax because there are costs in making sure their secured lives. They earn money depending on how hard they worked. Even though some people have great amount of money with paying proper amount of taxation, the government must not charge them more than those people should pay stabilize the economic status with other people.

Governments should not overrule their people economically, politically, in any way. They have to be something which helps us rather than makes us uncomfortable. Also People should follow what governments are trying to do and help them for the better nations. If the government is not doing something that they should have to do, people have to ask government to do the right thing. The interaction between the government and its people is much more important than the government taking a big chunk of money from corporation’s money to give it to other. If we do so, there will be fewer problems that the government should take care of. Therefore taking money from some people for other people is not the government’s role, rather taking care of its people and interacting with its people is their main role.  

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Tell us about the most embarrassing moment of your life. (Santa Clara University)

A few years ago, when I was about 15 years old, I and some of my friends walked to the beach of Cold Coast. We left a friend who did not show up on time, feeling sorry but we could not just wait without knowing nothing if he is coming or not. Yet as soon as reached the beach, blue Ocean was welcoming us. We left a friend who did not show up on time, feeling sorry but we could not just wait without knowing nothing if he is coming or not.  There were heaps of people. Surfers were decorating the clear ocean along with huge waves. Many people were filming these beautiful moments with their cameras. The sound of waves washed the worries of ours. We could not wait to jump into it. The water was cold enough to cool down burning weather. The wave was huge enough to wrap all of us. Everyone looked very relaxed. Even the life guards were not seemed like they were working; rather, they were just enjoying being there. Even though the waves were huge and the sun was burning upon us, it was very peaceful.

I just left my body on the water feeling coolness of water. I often jumped into the gigantic waves and I felt as if I was flying. Looking at the horizontal line was awesome. I was so thankful that I could spend my time there and enjoy it. I thought that it could be one of the best moments of my life. As the time went by, sun was slowly coming down and the waves were getting wilder. Yet, I did not realize.

All of sudden one of my friend shouted at me. I looked back standing on my toes. I was so away from the coast. I started swimming as hard and fast as I could. Then, I checked where I was standing, expecting I was almost near the coast. I stood up. I was at the same place, may be little further than where I realized I was far away from the coast.  I was in panic. I thought that I might die today. I tried to walk on my toes, but whenever I hit the ground, I feet were pulled back. Then, out of nowhere a life guard sprang up from the water and saved me. While I was taken to the ground, a camera man was filming me. I wondered what on earth he is doing. I almost died and a random guy was filming me. I was really happy that I was saved. As soon as I got on the land I packed up and was about to live. A guy came to me and asked me that if they can interview me. I did not want to. However, the same camera man came to me and started filming me. I wanted to hide because almost drowned and being saved a guard was little embarrassing for me. 

On the way home, my friends were teasing me. While they were teasing me I called my friend who did not show up. When he picked up the phone he sounded so frustrated that he could not come with us. Then, I felt so sorry for him and I thought I was punished because of letting a person down. It became an opportunity to learn something in relationship. After calling him, I was more embarrassed not because of I was saved but because I was careless to my friend.

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Being Thankful

Being grateful seems very easy. When there is something good happens, you will be grateful easily. Who would not be thankful if there is something that makes them happy? We have to thank with what what we have now. We never realize the importance of things that are just given to us. Most of us have healthy bodies, houses, parents and opportunities to be educated. However, do we always be thankful for what we have? At least for me, I do not. I rather complain for not having what I want.  I am selfish. My life can be a life that some other people desire. People become grateful and realize the true value and importance of things they possess when they lose them. Those can be health, houses, car, families and so on. I have a person I really think that he is one of the person I want to become. He is Job in the bible. God blessed him so much and he was right man that even god was so proud of him. Demon told god that Job is right man because god gave him so much things so let him test Job. Then Job lost his cattle, servants, and children. What would I do if I was in that situation? I would complain, blaming on god. However, Job did not. He praises god and says "God you are the who give and who take." Even though, he blames on god later, I just want to be like him just his grateful attitude. I become thankful when I live without things I have. For example, I realize how much I was blessed when I came from activity week. During the activity week, I did not have bed, laptop,proper toilet, ipod and even lights. Is a life which has everything a best life? No it is not. I live in Korea. Many people in Korea have fairly great lives, but are they happy? No, they are not, they want to have more as they get more. They fight a lot to get other things that they do not have. For example, if a person get 2100 in SAT, it is really a good thing but some people might say that is not enough in front of people who gets 1900. That is not thankful and hurting other people. Yes, if the person tried so hard so expected higher than that, it is understandable but the person still can be more grateful with the result and try harder to get better outcome. There are some people who are making some hard decision of taking another SAT because it is quite expensive. Yet, if we have opportunities, we have to use it effectively and get the most out of it.  We should be more thankful with little things and we will be tankful with something that is not delightful. Thankfully, I study in India at one of the best international school in the world. However, there are lots of people around the school who are extremely poor. We might think their lives are worse than ours. However, it is not. They are thankful with what they have. Even though what they have are nothing to us,   they mean a lot to them. I think they might have better lives than ours even if it does not look like. Learning and knowing how to be thankful will make us to live better life.

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People are born in different and they live different lives. Most people want to be unique. Being unique can make people feel great. What makes a person special is his or her ingenuity. We can call this as “talent”. However, ingenuity is given by god. This might depress people who are doing their best but not enough to be outstanding compared to those people who are talented. It is hard to most of people finding their potential, which leads people to give up, and complaining and blaming on creator. So, is there no way to make better? Of course there is. Ingenuity is like gemstone, it is worthless by itself. Yet, when it is made into a proper product, it becomes priceless. Just like this, ingenuity is a gemstone laid inside us. We should develop that, even though it seems like nothing. When people desire something and try their best for it, the effort will pay back. Also, we should not give up trying. We may get something worse than we expected, and became depressed, but if we do not give up trying, we will get what we desire eventually. Then, the hidden ingenuity will become more vivid. For example, the 16^th USA president, Abraham Lincoln was known one of the great orators. He might be good at persuading people with his words naturally, but he also read heaps of books. He used to read lots of books about as tall as him when they are stacked up. He tries to develop himself in such way, and eventually that helped him a lot. If his speaking was his gemstone, reading books was a process for him to strengthen his talent. I think there are no such things that happen by luck. Sometimes, we might say, “It was lucky,” but we do not know what is happening beyond that. Without trying best, there will not be any great outcomes. Therefore, ingenuity becomes vivid and outstanding only when they go along with great effort.  

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