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Freedom of Speech in Korea

According to 21st Amendment of Constitution of Korea, all citizen has right to assemble and press without permission or restriction from government. However, May 20th, 2009, the korean citizen was planning to held candle protest in City Hall of Seoul to oppose FTA, but was completely blocked by congress at that day intentionally to forbid the meeting. The citizen was angry that the congress is breaking the 21st amendment.

However, 21st amendment also states that any TV program or newspaper will be limited by government and decide the limits independently.

Lastly, 21st amendment states that the media will not interfere with other people's fame or right. If so, the other people can sue the owner of certain media and receive compensation.

Gun Control: Pro. vs Opp.

Ever since the constitution of United States was written, gun control had been hot debate until today. This whole debate comes from the second amendment, which states that all american citizen has right to bear arms for defense. However, right to bear arms, especially guns, is more likely to result in higher crimes. The gun control laws is to both reduce the crimes and secure the rights to bear arms. The pro side of gun control believes that the gun will protect many lives. However, the opposition believes that the gun is the source of the crime.

I agree with the opposition, because I believe that human life is much greater than having a weapon in your hands. Do we call the world full of nuclear bombs a peaceful country? They refer nuclear bomb as defense from other country, but it only brings threats to all neighbors. For example, North Korea recently develop nuclear weapon, and thought it would bring peace because now other country is in fear. I believe peace must not come from control. It should come from trust among other. Therefore, I believe gun should be control to reduce crimes and protect human lives.

Life on Mars! 1. Q. Would you volunteer for the mission? --No, I would not volunteer for the mission because it has some risk with the trip and even if we get there, the strong gravity will make life hard, or alien might eat us alive. I have more fun stuff I can do in Earth

2. Q: What sort of people do you suppose would volunteer for this kind of mission? - People who doesn't like the life on Earth will go to Mars. Poor people might volunteer because they think life on Earth is boring.

3. Q: What would they gain? -They would get the second chance in life, and they can feel like they had contributed to astronomy.

4. Q: What, if anything could go wrong? -A spaceship could not successfully land on Mars because of the gravity. Or, the alien in Mars could attack us with their own weapon.

5. Q: What technological advances would have to occur before this could actually happen? - We should develop to travel more faster, and we should develop the way to exit the mars whenever they want. We should also develop weapon to kill alien when they attack us.

Age Exploration- Discussion

1. The invention of maritime technologies that allowed sailors to master treacherous and unfamiliar ocean environments is what really allowed for the Age of Exploration to occur. If you wanted to extend the Age of Exploration into outer space, what new space technology would need to be invented so that human beings could travel to other planets and solar systems?

-Like Christopher Columbus and other sailors needed technology to discover new land, technology is essential part of discovering new part of the spaces. The reason why land could have been found with boat is because there was no energy limit. However, spaceship has energy limit. This might be the reason why we cannot travel far enough. In result, I suggest that spaceship should have self-generating power.

2. Think of some of the fears that existed amongst people during the 15 & 16th century when it came to sailing the open seas (monsters, boiling waters, falling off the edge of the Earth). Identify some of the fears that other people might have today if you had to convince them of traveling into the far reaches of outer space. What would you have to say or do to convince people that their fears are unwarranted and that they will be safe?

- There is certainly lots of fear in the world. Whenever I see space rocket launching from earth, I fear that something will happen to rocket, and kill everyone in the rocket. We also fear that some kind of alien will come and attack the space rocket. We fear that space ship will get suck into black hole. However, these myths are not based on scientific fact, so it's likely that this myths are false

3. Both Columbus and Magellan had a hard time finding someone to pay for their trips. If it wasn't for the Spanish monarchy, these men would never have been able to afford the financial cost of their adventures on their own. Finding someone to pay for your space expedition is going to be tricky too. Where would you go to gain the funding you need to pay for your space exploration trip? What would you say to the leaders of that nation to convince them of the benefits your expedition would have for their country

-To rent money, I will go to the government of Korea because I believe space exploration costs tons of money and not much people afford that much money but government of Korea. To convince them, I will tell them how space exploration is important to our society and how renting money is important like in Columbus's case.