School Speech contest

10217 - Shin Jimin

According to the survey done in ISAPS, Korea is the country in which people does most plastic surgery.  Also the Economist surveyed that 1 out of 5 people living in Seoul have an experience of trying plastic surgery. Isn't it surprising? What do you think about this? Hello My name is Jimin Shin from class 2. Today, I would like to talk about plastic surgery.

Nowadays, many people compete with each other in similar categories. Since everybody  gets good quality of education, it came to a situation where they compete in piddling things and usually it deals with beauty. Beauty has a big control. Let me tell you an example from an interview that judge on people. From what physiognomy one has, it depends what first impression that person gives to the judge, and that first impression is very important. If one gets stress from that, it is an okay choice to decide to do plastic surgery. Then, since humans are not a superman in mentality, that person can use that mental, physical energy that was used for beauty stress on other things that bothers, other than about their weakness in external features.

However, there is a bad aspect of plastic surgery too. Although plastic surgery is different from surgery where they saves lives, it is still a surgery. Thus, it can have a bad side effect. Some surgeries don't have perfect skills yet, so it can be very risky. It can make one part of the person's body don't work. Also, people can be addicted to the plastic surgery. Even though one changes their outlook, their inside doesn't changes automatically. It need an effort. Imagine, what will happen to me if I do a plastic surgery? I will look different from now, maybe higher chance to be prettier. However, my interior wouldn't change. Many people tries and wants to change their life by doing plastic surgery. However even though one wants a new life, if they don't try to change their interior but do plastic surgery continuously, they will be poisoned in changing only their outer part with plastic surgery.

I believe that plastic surgery is sometimes needed for mental health. If one has a weakness and want to hide it, it will be better to hide it with technology rather than get stress from it. However, since it has big power, it can lead to addiction. As I said in the first, people tries to change their life with plastic surgery. But in real life, people should fix their interiors along with the plastic surgery. As a conclusion, plastic surgery can be acceptable if they does it limitedly, and try to change their internal personality.

Euthanaisa okay?

Documentaries with animals… it usually ends with a sad mood. Why? Many endings show about the euthanasia that was used to the animals. The animal’s owner cries because they are killing the animals before they die naturally. Some can think this is immoral murder but actually this is merciful solution. Euthanasia is not just a murder because, it is a death given to reduce pain, it is done a little before they die.

First reason why euthanasia is not a murder is because it is given to reduce pain. Do people use euthanasia method just to murder the animals? To reduce their numbers? No! The owners decide to use this method because it is even hard for them to watch their animals live everyday in pain, doing nothing, just feeling pain. In the book called “The day not pigs would die,” there is dog who got so badly hurt. Ears and skins are ripped apart, legs broken, etc. The main character decides to use euthanasia because there is only pain in the dog’s life, no meaning to live. Euthanasia is used in this kind of situation only. Thus, euthanasia is not a murder.

Second, it is done a little before the animals die. People don’t just walk to the barn on sunny ordinary day with gun to kill an animal. When the death is near and there is no chance to live or become well, they uses this method. So, it can be an effective and justifiable way.

As a conclusion, since euthanasia is used only in situation to reduce pain or before the animals die, it is a justifiable, merciful solution but not a murder. However, when using euthanasia, people should be careful if their judgment is correct and if it is an okay situation to use it.

Children advertisement

First, hildren are not mature enough to understand how they are targeted and how advertising works on their mind and purchasing behavior. Recent research, ‘Television viewing and aggressive behavior during adolescence and adulthood’, shows that children aged five to ten are not able to tell the difference between regular TV programs and commercials. This means that they do not even understand that advertisements are there to sell their products, and they tend to believe what they are shown on TV commercials is true. Actually the Canadian toy testing council said that the biggest area of concern with toy ads in Canada is exaggeration. Therefore, young children often think a toy can do a lot more than it can because of the way toys are portrayed in advertisement. So, Quebec city in Canada has banned print and broadcast advertising aimed at kids under 13. There are other several tactics used by advertisers, which is difficult for children to detect. For example, advertisers make a frequent use of weasel words which sound informative, but actually mean nothing. Thus, because children are not mature to understand the advertisement, advertising geared toward childre should be banned

 

Furthermore, junk food advertisement can lead to children’s obesity. Berkley Media Studies Group in California found that of the 77 foods advertised, only 5 were actually healthy options. And numerous studies have shown that children exposed to food advertising prefer and choose advertised food products more frequently than those not exposed to such ads. This means that there is a higher chance to eat unhealthy food, such as fastfood. Fast food chains spend more than 3 billion dollars a year on advertising, much of it aimed at children. A 2002 US study showed that fast food commercials during kids programming on Saturday morning are pitching bigger and bigger portions, a trend that researchers link to an the alarming rise of obesity among young people. To directly target children, they offer playgrounds, contests, clubs, games, and free toys and other merchandise related to movies, TV shows and even sports leagues.San Francisco, a little while after, passed the law that the toy the fast food market gives to attract the children should be bought with money because many children buy fast food because they want to have that toy. In fact, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in six children and teenagers were obese and the obesity rate from 2003 to 2011, has increased 3 times. Also, according to Heart and Stroke foundation of Canada - says that 1 in 4 Canadian children between 7 and 12 is obese.  To prevent more child obesity, advertisement should be banned. The recent study showed that the banning on junk food advertisement geared towards children could reduce child obesity and the number of overweight children ages 6-11 by 18 percent. Thus, advertising geared toward children should be banned.

population control - debate

Pros:

According to other developed countries then Korea, many of them came out not successful. For example, it is very wide known that China had this one child policy which let couples only have 1 child to control the population and prevent problems from population. However according to New York times, this plan that was held for 30 years came out unsuccessful. Also according to Economist's recent articles, it said that if one breaks that law, their child are sent to other countries and they are paid 3000$~$5000. As we can see in this, the population control actually brought more problems.



Cons:

People will have babies illegally. In China, they have one child policy so if they go against law, they have to pay huge fine or the babies are separated from their parents. Many people think this will help reduce population of Chinese, but actually a little bit very slowly (NYT) because many people are finding having babies illegally better. According to a site named pubmed central, ratio of legal abortions to birth increased in the 1980s. People who wants to have a baby will have it from every way possible and if one doesn't want a baby, they won't have a baby even before this policy is made. There are many cases where Chinese goes to another country, has a baby and make them another country's citizen. This kind of situation doesn't decrease the population a lot.

That is invading freedom of choice. Whether to have a baby or not is individual's choice. If they have enough monetary resources, there is high percentage that they will have a baby. Also, they will think about the problems it can be made. But just saying no babies, that is against human right and also invading freedom.

P.E

The reason why we support that the physical education is required to the students is because it makes them healthy. By doing physical education, students exercise. When exercising, people gain energy, uses bones and muscles more often. Using bone and muscles make people healthy because it gives positive effects to kidney and liver. Also, it prevents big wound during accidents. when we exercise. As a common sense, people knows that weak and unhealthy person is easy to get wounded during accidents, and healthy person are 90% made with physical education, says our P.E teacher. For example, there is a girl in our class and she doesn't like P.E class, do not participate in the exercising and even don't like to move. She is the weakest girl at our class. Breaking both legs is very common every 3months and she has a bleeding nose once a week. Our health teacher once came to our class to tell the importance of physical education

 The reason why we support that the physical education is required to the students is because it help grow teamwork and cooperation. There are sports that we have to do it by themselves but most of the sports are being happened when there are lots of people and they requires teamwork and cooperation. To win, they have to gather their mind on one thing make a plan and conjugate it in the game. It helps win on the sports game too but it also help on other places, and in societies. At business, there are lots of meetings and if there are lots of crashes between other workers, you might be fired or be leveled down from where you were. For example there are statistics that says that the athletes have adjusted more to the societies then others, says 2007's Korean Herald. the physical education can be the way to success. so it should be required to the students.

 The reason why we support that the physical education is required to the students is because it help grow endurance. When we grow endurance, it is good for our health but it also leads to success, and enjoy and have a fulfilling feeling in our mind. For example, why do you go hiking? There are lots of reason such as diet, or to take picture but the most important reason is because of the endurance. The endurance gives positive effects to life. Endurance thought has optimistic thoughts like never giving up, trying again and again.

Books? Movie from book?

"The best seller Harry Potter has just been released on movies." Harry Potter is famous for both movie and the original books. However, they are slightly different. The original book version is better. The movie provides fun, but the books provide more details. Also, books can provide knowledge, while the movie reduces that knowledge to create entertainment for the viewers to watch. Lastly, the book gives unlimited imagination whereas the movie just produces images that blocks the imagination.

Primarily, the books are more important because they have more details than movies while movies provide just details about the character setting or plot. Thus, the readers can get a more specific image. However in the movie, they have only specific scenes with more broader details. For example, in the book, it said that "Sarah had plain green eyes with long eye lashes, and red lips. Also she had long curly blonde hair." However when the movie was made, the actor was a brown haired girl with blue eyes and it didn't provide any in depth details about that character It just show how the story was running. Therefore, because the book provide more careful details than movies, reading the original book is better than watching the movie adaptation.

Second, generally the books provide more knowledge than the movie, lots of parts are removed or replaced with other scenes to provide entertainment. Most of these parts are crucial or significant to the overall knowledge of the book. When watching movie to prevent from someone falling asleep, they take out all the boring parts, which usually are parts that contain knowledge. When I read the "Percy Jackson", there were a lot of stories about Greek/Roman myths and actually I really enjoyed it. It was like a background of the story and it was very important. However, when I watched the movie with anticipation, only the minor parts of the story comes out. Even though it's a myth, it was very educational. Like this example, the movie provides less knowledge than the books, so I believe that it is more necessary to read books.

Last but not least, the movie blocks people's imagination while the book provides unlimited imagination.When reading books, people meet the main characters visit places, everywhere such as ancient Greece or Olympus. However, when watching movies, they make a outline of what have to look like or the place. for example, "Percy Jackson" when reading book, I imagined Annabeth as a pretty girl, but she came out not that pretty so it ruined my imagination of the story. Thus the book is better than the movie version.

With these reasons I believe books are better than movies. The books may feel more uninteresting but once we enter the story, we are in other place, and also have more benfits than movies.

school should help new students

The school should help the students because they are the ones who knows most about the curriculum of the school. when one enters the new classroom, with just looking at the timetable, they cannot understand all the curriculum. They don't know agenda, or what time it ends, or etc. It will take hard times to get used to it because one can be used to the agenda from the last school. If the school, they can get courage and also get advices so they can be adapted faster. As a personal experience, when I went to Canada, the school curriculum was very different from school in Korea. It seemed like a high mountain I have to climb over. The school helped me with the problem, so it shortened the time adapting to the new school. Also, I got courage that I can do well at this school. Thus, the school should help the student because the new students doesn't know well about the new school's curriculum.

If the school doesn't help, first the student just faces struggle but later it can lead to social pariah and depression. At MIT researched that transfer students suicide twice as more as the original students. This show that the students moving to new school faces more physical problems. When the school doesn't help, one has no place to rely on to adapt to the new school and new friends. With that, the emotional pain starts. If one doesn't blend in with other students, then they can be a pariah and feel like not part of the school. If the school helps, such as telling the new student what the students are like, or telling the original student what to not say as a manner. Then they can get around well together easier, Also, when the school does not help. the new student can feel like nobody is on her side and feel very depressed. Thus, the school should help the new student because it can lead make emotional pain to that student.

The school should help the new students because the teacher are the most comfortable person to talk about the problem they face at school. Always, when we are being educated they tell that tell the teacher first, then the principle, than the parents. Actually the statistic shows that approximately 62% of the students says that if they have problem in the new school, they will ask the teachers for help. If they tell their mother, they will be worried or it can become bigger problem. If they tell the teacher, the teacher is like a ruler of the classroom, so the they can help more easily considering the situation. This can help the transfer student to be well adapted to the new school. Thus, the school should help because the teacher is the most comfortable person to discuss the problem and ask for help.