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Dilemma of Women

I remember reading the book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott when I was younger, probably dating back to when I was around 11 years old. I was a girl who loved reading and who did not let go of the books in my hands. Out of all those books, Little Women was definitely my favourite book. Back then, my focus was on the entertainment that the story gave, rather than the message it was trying to deliver. As I grew up, I had less and less time to read books and Little Women also slowly disappeared in my consciousness, until I faced the film by Greta Gerwig during class. Although it was my favourite book and I was aware that the movie was released, there was only one reason I didn’t watch the movie - I didn’t want to ruin my imagination with characters that someone interpreted in their own way. After I encountered the movie in class, I got a sudden feeling that I want to work with this film, just a simple attraction. Although I didn’t start with a strong passion for wanting to delve into ...
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I'll Always be a Foreigner

  I’ll Always be a Foreigner It was at the end of 2016 that my whole family moved to South Africa. I experienced a lot of struggles regarding adjusting to a new culture and environment, which eventually led me to an internal conflict on my identity. At first, like any other international students or immigrants, it was difficult for me to adapt to a new culture, especially a country that was less known. I had a language barrier, and I was full of fear. Even after these problems were gone, I was still a foreigner for most of the population which made me feel like I won’t fit in and belong in this community completely. Losing confidence over time, that was my first two years in South Africa.  Imagine a new-born baby. Completely new environment, no longer safely protected in mother’s womb. Loud noises and a language that cannot be understood. Change in a way of taking nutrients. All the anxious feelings. This is exactly how international students feel, no longer in a comfort zone ...
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AI is taking over Humanity

It was about March 2023 when I first used ChatGPT. I was working at an English school in Korea and one of my jobs was to read the kid’s essay and write a review about it in Korean, for parents to have a look. Of course, I had lots of work to do and I didn’t want to spend too much time on reading and writing, so I decided to try out ChatGPT for the first time. Provided with the essays from the kids and asked to write a short review, about a paragraph for each essay with a sufficient amount of emotions, ChatGPT started to generate the paragraphs immediately. The result was truly amazing. The use of feelings and language was already beyond my expectations. Although the essay was short and easy, with varying topics such as how their holiday went and what their hobbies are, it would have required me a lot of time and thinking process of creating a sincere review with vocabulary that could effectively deliver the message. For me, it was a lifesaver. I had doubts about the ability of AI befor...
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Morality, Standards and Acceptance

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Morality, Standards and Acceptance           In Susan Sontag’s essay, Freak Show , she criticizes the photographed works by Diane Arbus, an American photographer. Arbus is known for working with ‘freaks’ as subjects. Some of the examples are the giant, nudist, and the people with dwarfism. What is special about her photos was that the subjects are usually staring straight into the camera, and this often creates intimacy between the subjects, photographs and the audience. Sontag, in her essay, says that subjects in Arbus’s photos are “lacerating” and this is contrasting to their “calm” manner. She also says that the “quality of attention” - shown in the photographs - “creates the moral theater.” Using those specific words, Sontag criticizes Arbus for not being ethical about the subjects that are vulnerable. What does she mean by lacerating subjects? How do these photographs create moral theater? This leads to the question about morality. What is morality, wh...
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