Saturday, May 31, 2008

Presentation

About my presentation, I don’t have many things to say. Because it wasn’t good, actually it was the worst one I think. First of all, I should’ve prepared and practiced more. This is the basic rule when people make presentation. If you are not well prepared, it’s almost impossible to make a good one. I learned a lesson from this experience. Practicing is the only way to make your presentation be good so I will put more effort on my presentation next time. I am not fully satisfied with my presentation but I don’t regret it because I was the one who made the decision that I will do it on Friday no matter how much I prepared and, I took responsibiliry rather than delaying or skipping it. Besides, I could get more free time after this, haha.

Research paper

I had a really good time while I was working on my research project. Normally, I used to go home or hang around with my friends after school but, because of research papers, I had to go to computer lab or library to get information and it was really good experience for me. I learned how to find proper books from library and how to use reference desks. After few days I went to Concordia library, I felt like I am a real university student. I was doing same things like many students in the library were doing. Fortunately, I found a lot of books in the library so I spent most of time to read and summarize the contents of the books and then, I typed it by using my laptop and I edited it at home. I think the way I did my research was very efficient and, basically, it worked for me so I didn’t have a lot of hard time to do this. I liked my topic and I liked to read books so it was really good for me not only to practice English but to learn something I am interested in.

My Opinion About Global Population

In my opinion about global population, I am quite pessimistic. For a long time, overpopulation has been debated one of the most serious issues in the world. Even if many countries are trying to control their population, the number of people in the world is still increasing however some countries have started to confront other difficulties as well. Of course developing countries still have overpopulation problems but some countries are facing opposite type of population problem. For example, South Korea could reduce population thanks to family planning. South Korea made special slogans, which encourage people to control birth, every year so, couples started to change the idea about family and to have few children than before. However, Koreans are confronting other difficulties: decreasing the number of children and increasing the number of elderly. More and more women are working out and getting married late, they start to think about having better life. As a result, many couples decide to have fewer or no child in family because they found out that raising children costs a lot. Therefore, the number of DINKs (double income, no kids) is increasing to save family money and have better later life. On the other hand, as technology and medicine have developed rapidly, old people live much longer than before. The problem is there is no one to take care of increasing number of elderly. Especially in my country, there are not enough welfare systems and it is also big burden for sons and daughters to put their old parents into the welfare community because of high expense. Korea government has realized the serious imbalance of population ratio and has been trying to encourage couples to have more children. So the government offers money to couples that have more than three kids. I think population problem will be getting worse and extreme, and it’s too late to go back to the original and balanced population. However, at least, we must try to fix and change this situation before we are going too farther than now. Otherwise, there is no future for our Earth.