Weekly Words 6

* window / In the bank, if you want to withdraw, you have to find a cashier’s window / When I went to the HEB for make money order, I saw this word in front of the geust center.

* securable / you can safty or you can get something / I saw this word in my home key. This home key is card shape, and one side has this word with bold.

* division / Line which make a section / I saw this word in my home key too. It has a division.

* feel both A and B / If you are feeling both emotion, you can use this words / When I wrote my reaction, I want to use that expression, so I find this words by using my dictionary.

* blockhead / a stupid man / I found this word in one word's definition.

* jobsword / A hardhead public service worker who put the rule first / I want to find another words(soundcraft, chatsworth), but they wern't including in my dictionary, so I chose another word near from that word in my dictionary.

Article's Comment

'Oprah Winfrey Show' To Go Off The Air In 2011

Although I didn't know well about Winfrey and this show, I have known her and her show. Also, her image in my brain was good too. That much, she and her show would be famous and get old. So, how could you this feeling empty when her show to go off? I didn't saw her show usally, but I'll feel both sorrow and empty too.

Weekly Words 5

* irrelevant / = unrealated / I saw this word in my NOC.

* recruit / We have to recruit more person for fill 100 / I saw this word in my NOC.

* inedible / We can't eat / I saw this word in Sarah's comment.

* be sarcastic / Saying for indirect way / I want to use these words when I made a comment, so I use my dictionary and find it.

* invest / Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns were the most famous investment Bank 5 for Wall Street / I saw this word in some paper.

* intensive / Often we talk to someone who is lacking of speaking English than listening and writing, "You have to do intensive studying to speak English" / I found this word in Texas Intensive English Program. Until now, I didn't know what is intensive's mean.

News Of Choice 8

'Oprah Winfrey Show' To Go Off The Air In 2011

- Summary

The Oprah Winfrey Show, a groundbreaking broadcast that is countinued more than 20 years, will be end in 2011.

- Reaction

It is really respectable that one person lead to show for big sucsess. Also, from this show, she would be a billionaire and most influential person in the world. Although I don't know so much about her and her show, I knew always she lookes comfortable and confidently on TV show. More than 20 years.. In Korea, there is one sentence "Passing one decade makes changing of mountain". According to this sentence, while The Oprah Winfrey Show was broadcast, US's mountain was changed twice. That much, she went through very long times with Americans. Maybe this news makes Americans feel both sorrow and empty.

- Comment Summary

Congratulate for her achievements. / This is not my interest.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120593494

News Of Choice 7

Sounds During Sleep May Help You Remember

- summary

If we heard some sound while we sleep, we can remember something ,is connected sound, better than wake up.

- Reaction

Today, of course, The scientest have been studing about unconsciousness very hard, but it is still the unknown world to us. So whenever I heard about unconsciousness like this article, I feel very exciting. Besides, it helps to our remember! Someday, can we explain our unconsciousness world to clearly?

- Comment Summary

It is old news because today we have lot of products for our sleeping time. / Yes, we have, but this article explained exactly what does work during sleep. In that regard, this is not an old news.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120573613

Weekly Words 4

* pitch / establish something or thow something / I saw this word in my News Of Choice.

* slap / refuse or blame something / I saw this word in my News Of Choice.

* pharmaceutical / pharmaceutical company makes drug / I found this word in my News Of Choice.

* crackdown / If you did drunk drive, you have to accept meekly for general crackdown / I saw this word in my News Of Choice.

* stern / = strict / I saw this word in my News Of Choice. NOC #5 has many strange words, so I felt I have to do more and more effort.

* In that regard / If you want to elicit conclusion from forward sentence, you can use this words / I wanted to use this words in my reaction, so I found this expression in my dictionary.

News Of Choice 6

In South Korea, Nation Stops For Mega Exam

- Summary

A huge exam, determine one student's life, was held in South Korea, so in this morning, everyone ecxept students stopped temporarily for a candidate of this examination.

- Reaction

When I read this article, I fell down a tear. Because I felt that times feeling again. Scene is described in this article, is too similar to mine. At that time, I have felt very nervous and my family have cheered to me. Although I go through a lot of years, I can't forget that time's memory. Whenever I think up that time, my eyes filling with tears. But I don't want to suffer that time again.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120339767

News Of Choice 5

Google Has A Plan For Safer,
More Useful Online Drug Ads

- Summary

Google and FDA had different opinion to apear drug's side effects on the website. Google didn't want to apear hole tings of drug's side effects on their website.

- Reaction

I don't care so much to drug's side effects, because every drug has side effects. Whenever we take some drug, we have to endure some risk. It's very natural, so I understand enough to Google's reaction. They don't have to do to apear hole things. It is OK to just warnning, like now Google's done.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/11/google_has_a_plan_for_safer_on.html

Weekly Words 3

* If you don't mind / When you get some agree from another person, you can use this words / I talked something to my roommate. At that time, I needed that means words. I use that If you be fine. But my cousin fixed my sentence. She said that If you don't mind is more useful than If you be fine.

* epidemic / Epidemic is a trand of disease or disease which has possible of infection / I found this word in my news of choice.

* encounter / Meet with each other accidentally / I want to use this word in my journal, so I found this in my dictionary.

* duplicate / People who was duplicated, called a human clone / I found this word in my news of choice.

* rather than / I prefer walking rather than riding. This sentence means walikng is preferer than riding. A rather than B = B than A / I wanted to use this means in my routine conversation, but I didn't think up that. So, I founded this words by using my dictionary.

* side effect / Opposite words of effect. Side effect is bader than ineffective. It is like minus / I found this word in my news of choice.

News Of Choice 4

Swine Flu Sweeps Through Austin, Hitting The Young

- summary

Swine Flu, a worldwide epidemic, arrived Austin and it killed two teenagers already. But it is not serious as you think. Because there are some treatment like Tamiflu. And it get better when you take some break.

- Reaction

I surprised. Because 15-year-old Helen Burnett's symptoms are exactly same to mine. Yesterday, I had a headache, some stomach pain and all-around didn't have much energy too!! Maybe.. did I take a Swin Flu on yesterday? I'm not sure, but it's really similar. Now I feel better, but still little haedache remaind. But it's okey to homework... Just I feel little scary.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113347469

News Of Choice 3

Bananas, A Storied Fruit with an Uncertain Future

- Summary

A Banana, most Americans prefer fruit, have some endangered future. According to Dan Koeppel who is Popular Science writer, banana's unique reproductive system— each new fruit is a genetic duplicate of the next —makes it especially susceptible to epidemics.

- Reaction

When I found this article, I feel really hartbreaking. Because Banana is one of my favorait breakfast. Anyway, whenever I hear "genetically modified food" like Banana, I don't think that is good idea. Because I heard that gene manipulation has some side effect. Also, I think that nature is fine when it was natural.

Green words = use dictionary

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19097412

Weekly Words 2

* offend / If you offend someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them / When I choose my news, I saw this word in one article's title.

* despite / You use despite to introduce a fact which makes the other part of the sentence surprising / I heard this word in routine conversation. My cousin use this word.

* perception / Your perception of something is the way that you think about it or the impression you have of it / I saw this word in my NOC's news.

* express / An express or an express train is a fast train which stops at very few stations / When I visit my friend's home, I saw some advertise postcard. Express was used in that card. Until now, I know that express's meaning is just I show what I think or feel.

* freight train / A freight train is a train on which goods are transported / When Chris introduced one popsong for us, I saw this word in popsong's script.

* bunch / A bunch of people is a group of people who share one or more characteristics or who are doing something together / I saw this word in my picture which was taken in sixflags.

News Of Choice 2

Sexy Wins Halloween Costume Contest

- Summary And Reaction

Although it's the political season, almost people choose a sexy costume for Halloween. But there is one exception, North Korean leader Kim Jeong-il. Kim Jeong-il is very popular. It's very interesting that Kim Jeong-il costume is popular. Of course, it was a satire. Anyway, this Halloween is the first holiday after I came to USA. So, I really expect to this Saturday. When I have a chance, I want to challenge political costume, like Kim Jeong-il.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6404941

Weekly Words

* jumbo / means very large / When I went to HEB, I found some eggs for eating. Jumbo is painted on egg's pack. Untill now I thought jumbo is Japanese.

* indentation / The space at the beginning of a line of writing when it starts further away from the edge of the paper than all the other lines / In classes I heard it. But I didn't understand indentation's meaning, so I choose. Now I understand it.

* nightmarish / If you describe something as nightmarish, you mean that it is extremely frightening and unpleasant / In Sixflag, I saw a signboard. Nightmarish was in there. I could guess it's meaning, because of it's surrounding environment.

* harvest / the time of year when the crops are gathered in on a farm, etc / When I took a bus, I saw a signboard on the street. Although it's a moment, I read it. I thought it's like herbal, but it's meaning was very different.

* slave / someone who is the property of another person and has to work for that person / In Gladiator I saw this word.

* recruitment / The recruitment of workers, soldiers, or members is the act or process of selecting them for an organization or army and persuading them to join / When I choose my news, I saw this word. Recruitment was one of keyword on my news.

News Of Choice

Blood Banks Target High School Donors

- Summary

Faced with a need for deeper blood reserves, blood banks are stepping up their recruitment in high schools. To help make donating blood a positive experience for teens.

- Reaction

During read this article, I thought my highschool days. In Korea, almost highschool students are checked their blood for donation. I was too. At that time, I felt little nervous, but I really want to have experience of blood donation. Because I know this is worthwhile. In the end, I couldn't. I don't know why but just I knew that my blood was not suitable. Anyway, I am agreeing that blood donation is good experience for high school student. But In the other hand, It means that adult's donation is too short. It's pretty sad. Maybe It is not different from my country.

- Source

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90714702

About Gladiator

I thought that dirt's meanig is expression of anger. Maybe, he couldn't endure his anger, because of German army's senselessness behavior. Also, at that time, he really missed his hometown. In conclusion, he couldn't endure anymore. So, he express his anger with earth. That behavior means that the war is unavoidable.

Hi I'm Annie

Hi, my name is Annie. I like drowing, but not well. So, I choose another major, international trade. My major need to student's good English skill. But my English skill is terrible. So, I want to grow up my English ability during stay here. Also, If I have some composure, I want to learn Spanish too. When I think my future, I feel very exiting.