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Turtles to the rescue

As we landed on Hainan, we were expecting a raging thunderstorm to welcome us. Instead, the sunshine was so bright that it almost sun burnt us as soon as we arrived. The skies were so clear and navy blue. The beautiful weather helped us accomplish a lot of activities. I loved waking up everyday listening to the waves. Even though it was extremely hard to overcome the heat, But the whole trip was about bonding with friends and to overcome challenges. So my friends and I tried our best to stay in the shade, to stay as cool as possible. Yet most of the kids that were on the trip got tanned. It was because of the activities we did like surfing, kayaking and snorkeling, which none of us have done together with friends before. We just couldn't resist staying in the sun, enjoying the wonderful activities.



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Yumin Ha Core 2 IB Arts Assignment April 20th

The Direction of Life

A red shadow appears along the road. Crimson yet obscure, the figure moves. The twitching of life spreads the scent of numbness. Unknowing it’s path, the silhouette hovers Hovers into the enigma of darkness. The music of existence echoes.

A lake deep within our lungs, exhales fire in an out Unsure of what to do with the rest. Knock on the eye, reminds me of wooden bells. The ones that never stopped ticking. Just like the looping cassettes, unstoppable.

The expedition towards the ocean always has a limit. When the shadows just need a rest. The chair that had always followed Lies cold, waiting to be shined by sunlight Music boxes are made to be stopped.

Yumin Ha Core 2 Poetry Assignment 4 April 22nd

Avalon

I, the throne Seek the fallen. A one that remembers Fields full of navy nightshades. A task for a vulnerable one To step on our soil. Once rich in moist Now it lays arid and idle.

A well to our realm Is now being filled with boulders. Those impermanent ones Are starting to forget About their expiry. The indigo flowers Withers in agony Perfection as they see Ignorance as I see it.

Armor of the past Tarnish with regret. Hovering in the haze of mist Searching for leather knots. Ones that once completed them. But the knots lay concealed In the starless abyss.

The tint of cosmos Now bleached with dullness. As the clocks Move their arms, Less and Less Greet me with their shadows. I, the throne of Avalon Lay still in the silhouette Of piling dust.

Name: Yumin Ha Course: Humanities Core 2 Teacher: Ms. Parker Due Date: January 20, 2012

Restrictions On Independence: An Analysis of free will The universal declaration of human rights is one of the most fundamental documents that need to be engraved in our minds. Lois Lowry’s __The Giver__ (1993) is set in a community under the concept where everyone’s uniform. But uniformity causes the lack of moralities. It violates various quantities of human rights from the Universal declaration of human rights. The individuals in the society are dispossessed of essential freedom, including privacy, choice of a person’s job and political rights. Following the UDHR, in this corrupt society, one’s spouse is not to be chosen, yet needs to be applied. The right to choice of job is also divested for the citizens of the community, and the alternation of job is not permitted. In the Protagonist’s community they also show the lack of political rights, including the rights to vote for the leader of the society. The community infringes the fundamental human rights that are needed for a community. In Jonas’ utopian society, the right to privacy is totally absent. “No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse” (Pg. 23). It indicates the lack of individuality within this utopian society. People of the community do not have access to privacy. Most of the citizens are underprivileged to keep a notion to them selves. In any case if the elders are in need of information, the citizens need to report everything they know. It violates various articles; especially certain articles where it says people cannot be arbitrarily subjected to reveal their private lives. //(Universal Declaration of Human Rights #12)// While in the community, not a single person is to keep privacy except for the memory keeper, who has the privilege to lie. This also leads to another violation of human right, which is making distinction according the one’s job.

The citizens of the community live a planned life. “Though he had been reassured by the talk with his parents, he hadn’t the slightest idea of what Assignment the Elders would be selecting for his future, or how he might feel about it when the day came.” (Pg.19) This quote shows the futility of the future, the hopelessness of the youth. Knowing that their job will be chosen for them. They do not know about the pursuit of happiness, which you achieve from effort. They follow the orders of this system that was prepared for them, and live a life along with a scenario that was already written for them. But in the UDHR it declares that everyone has the free choice of employment and to the protection of unemployment. //(Universal Declaration of Human Rights #13)// But in this ‘utopian’ society, this is an unacceptable action to take. “Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic” (Pg. 24) this symbolic piece from __the giver__ represents the uniformity of this utopian community, where everything is the same, and unchanging. The community also shows lack of political rights. “The chief elder, the leader of the community who was elected every 10 years” (Pg. 51) all these rights to vote are taken away by the elders of the community, and violates article 23, which says that everyone has the right to participate in a government. //(Universal Declaration of Human Rights #23)// Also, children are deprived of freedom to choose their jobs, and only certain kids chosen by the elders are able to participate as the elders. The elders assign children certain jobs so that the gifted ones can become the chief elder. They only choose talented children since they are born without even giving other children the chance to become something they want to be. Not only it violates the right to choice of jobs, it shows a great lack of political rights. The community holds a corrupt government, holding high risk of dictatorship.

__The Giver__ not only shows the basic concept that demonstrates that a utopian society cannot work. Not only because of the perfections they are trying to make, but also because of the different talents and desires. The government group also has a high percentage of dictatorship, because the elders never change so they would stay at the same state of level. There would be no development through the community. There’s one moment in the book when Jonas stares at apple, the apple that was the same shape, and never changed. The right to the citizen’s essential freedoms are terminated by the control of the government. Citations: Lowry, Lois. //The Giver//. New York: Random House Children's Books, 1993. "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." . United Nations, 1948. Web. 20 Jan 2012. <[]>. Yumin Ha December 4th Humanities core 2 Ms. Parker

Human Rights writing response

Human rights have been a major issue even before the foundation of the United Nations. It’s such tragedy that hardly any progress has been made. So I started to ask questions to myself, and realized that I didn’t even know about the existence of this rule. From the article written by Robin Wright taught me a lot. Miners from Congo forced to pay heavy taxes from their celery, which isn’t even getting paid properly. Children forced to join the militia, and having to kill someone with no intentions. Women were being raped by the soldiers and not able to say a single word about it. It’s not just the citizens of Congo that’s violating the rules of human rights. It’s everywhere around the world. So what is the cause of this violation against the rules of human rights? First of all, the rule makes weak suggestions, and every government has different rules to deal with crimes related to human rights. The other big reason is that hardly anyone knows about the rules. It’s being removed from citizens by the suppression of governments and other groups. For instance in China, It’s really a human right rule to talk about topics that we want to talk about, but the governments are forcing us not to talk about Tibet and Taiwan which really is some main arguments that should be going on. Right after reading this article, I thought of an interesting fact that I didn’t even know why I thought was true. If I had the same chance and the same wealth as a family, but was born as a Chinese family in the rural coast of china, will I have the same opportunity for conditions like now? Then I came with a firm answer. No, there’s a low possibility of getting the same opportunities to get in to SAS or live in such conditions. Now that shouldn’t come straight into mind because that just means it’s a violation to the first rule. The UN pronounces that it’s the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ but really, people should be informed about rules like this. What we are missing is the importance to tell other people.

Better Tomorrow

I have controversial beliefs. I believe in extraterrestrials and the parallel universe theory. But one of my strongest beliefs is that ‘tomorrow will always be better than today’ and we have a choice to make our day better, or just have a bad day. Certain beliefs always empower us to be better people; better meaning thinking logically and making the right actions. I keep reminding myself that I must do something greater than what I did yesterday, and think back to what I have done today, and see if there is anything I regret.

People have bad days. when they just don’t feel ecstatic as usual, and I guarantee that everyone has had one of these days. There’s a huge difference between having just a bad day, and trying to make the day better. I said that we must try hard to make a better tomorrow, and to do so we must start constructing a better today. The most important part is getting over the laziness and procrastination, and to try. Trying might do some damage, might not. But what’s most important is that you learn from it, and adapt to the conditions then use the lesson you have learned.

It was just an ordinary day for a child like me. At lunchtime I found this book in the library, a book filled with simple ideas that enlightened me with it's knowledge. So I brought it home and started flicking through pages until I realized that there were unusual aspects in this book. It was like a picture book, filled with dark gloomy pictures of animals. With some captions that made me feel blue .Animals were being poached, cages in zoos. It expressed the mandatory needs of Korean students having to learn countless amount of work. Then it showed other pictures of animals, regretting the sins of their youth. Then the theme of the book changed unexpectedly into a picture of a penguin, with a slight smile with the caption that said ‘Tomorrow!” The book taught me a lot. It was just an arrangement of pictures, with little captions on it, but it really moved me as a person and the message was clear enough for a nine year old to understand.

See, I thought it was only me that had this belief, within this world what we call 'dystopia'. Our human rights have been taken away, like food sovereignty and genocide that happen around the world. But I realized that life wasn’t that bad at all. it’s the perspective people need to change. We can also manipulate the actual subjects and make improvements. But that's the tough part, eradicating the negative stress. when the stress overtakes a person in this modern society ,It just isn’t easy enough to stand up again. See the presidents of Korea were like the militarized knights. They suppressed us with power. But the Korean president now, is like the financially militarized knight. They suppress us with money. Guess i shouldn't have criticized Bush for being a bad politician, instead i should have done the same for the korean politicians. These types of unfortunate events stress the citizens of Korea and people say we must stop it. But you know what? Hardly anyone does to change these things. But things will get better and eventually.One day, we will have a better tomorrow.

Resurrection of Immortals

The chill came up my legs as my feet slapped onto the rigid marble floor. Frightened, by the dark that came upon me, I smelt rotten bodies that came rom all different directions of the room. I felt like floating as I moved my arms, they were numb, and I could hardly feel any warmth left in my body. As I tried to stand up from the object I was seating on, lights flashed and blinded my sight. I screamed, petrified at the place I was standing at. As time passed by, the blinding faded and I was able to see what was around me. There were seven bodies, lying on the awkward shaped bed I was on. I started vomiting, from the disgust of the dead bodies around me. They weren't rotten, yet their bodies have turned purple and scrawny looking. All of a sudden, I heard the doorknob turn behind me.

I quickly jerked my head backwards to see what was going on. Two people walked in with lab clothes and both with gas masks attached to them. They took me by arms, and pulled me out of the room. I rejected, distorting my body in all different ways, but failed foam lack of strength and hunger. They made me sit down on a comfortable sofa, which looked abnormally usual to me, as if it was my own seat. As I struggled from getting use to the new habit around me, the lab people came near me and told me what was going on. Then I totally understood why the sofa looked very usual.

I, seven hundred years ago, was a scientist that worked for national government. It turned out that my research on cryonics was successful, because when we defrosted the rat successfully, the government paid us a lot to continue this project. There were eight people in this project, and we got to be the first testers of cryonics. Here I was now, after the period of seven hundred years, resurrected from the ice age of my own. For some reason, a slight smile appeared on my face, feeling somewhat excited to continue this project.