In this essay, I will be analyzing various news articles on Japan's territorial claim on the sovereignty over Korea's easternmost inlets using the methods of analysis from English Grammar: University Course and Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press. These articles criticize Japan's recent approval on publication of new elementary school textbooks that will teach students Dokdo as Japan's territory even though Japan has just experienced one of the biggest earthquakes in history and Korea is raising enormous amount of funds for their relief. These articles are found on new websites The Chosunilbo and Korea Herald by typing key-words: Dokdo and Japan.One noticeable pattern found in the news reports is that they contain nominalization. Many article writers write the sentences human agency free by using nominalization.
Song Mi YouENGL 475Peter CramerNovember 29, 2011Casuistry AnalysisThis paper will focus on casuistic analysis of various editorial articles discussing Korea’s the first plebiscite held on August 24, in Seoul, Korea. The analysis will be based on the method of analysis described in Jonsen and Toulmin’s The Abuse of Casuistry.For an introduction on the plebiscite, it initially started from an argument “whether to provide [free lunch meal] services to all schoolchildren regardless of family income” or “to only fund and provide the meals to the lowest 50 percent of households in terms of income” (Ahn). Se-hoon Oh, the Seoul mayor at the time, argued it is practical to support children from low income family only and it is wasting tax when children from middle and high income family also receive free lunch meal. The formal mayor’s opinion was that the government could save a large amount of tax from supporting low income family children only. Also, by doing that, the government can provide erentiating each other based on family income and these facts are atemporal. In fact, this is necessary for children as well as for the future. This argument is idealized since it is agreeable for all men.Conversely, Lartigue makes a practical argument against the free meal policy. He makes a clear point for dissent: “if the goal is to help the poor, why not focus on them rather than expanding to a universal program?” (Lartigue). He then adds that “it makes more sense to focus on people in need” (Lartigue). This argument is practical because it focuses on the temporal problem which is who the welfare is for. His cumulative argument points out the problems that is highly likely to result from universal welfare program. He uses national debt to support his opinion. He says “Korea’s national pension fund is now 1.3 trillion won in debt” that universal welfare is only going to increase the debt which will eventually “burden those same kids in the future” (Lartigue). He believes the univers opinion. Jonsen and Toulmin illustrate use of moral maxims is a common feature within classical casuistry case since it “served as fulcra and warrants for argument” (252-3). Lartigue brings up the Greece example. He argues Seoul will result fiscal profligacy if the city pushes the universal welfare policy when it is already suffering from a large sum of debt. Greece is currently suffering from an enormous amount of nation debt resulted from popularims. He cites professional’s words to show the seriousness of the possibility and that Korea should learn from it in order to prevent fiscal profligacy. He cites “Aristides Hatzis… warned against South Korea following Greece’s path to welfare populism and government overspending…. Hatzis asked why Seoul taxpayers should be forced to feed wealthy and middle-class children” (Lartigue). Similarly, in another editorial article, “Balanced welfare policy” which is also against the debating policy, uses maxim to support the point: “Free welfare seruse greater debt because the politicians will try to spend more money for welfare system on top of how much they have been spending. The probability of the cons belief being realistic is higher than the pros.Both arguments end their views with resolution to give a strong emphasis on the readers as the casuists supposed to. Jonsen and Toulmin write resolution is “advice about the moral licitness or permissibility of acting in one particular way or another” (256). For example, in “Balanced welfare policy” article, it says “[Koreans] prefer a slow but steady transition in light of the nation’s limited fiscal resources. Politicians should be wise enough to listen to the people’s true message.” Likewise in Ahn’s article, he ends his opinion by saying “The citizens will be the final judges of Mayor Oh Se-hoon’s absurd plebiscite brouhaha.” Ahn’s resolution is semantically biased that it gives a negative impression on Oh’s argument. Lartigue’s resolution is also semantically biased but it giv avoid the fiscal profligacy.Jonsen and Toulmin argue “in problematic situations, the first substantive task is to agree just which basic ‘paradigm’ best fits the circumstances in question” (308). The basic paradigm is Greece’s fiscal profligacy resulting from popularim; however, the low voter turnout shows that the basic paradigm was ignored; therefore, the casuistic approach to the referendum failed. Also, out of three types of truly problematic cases, the third is unavoidable because it asks for our basic morality (Jonsen and Toulmin 323). Oh could have ignored this case; however, he made it complicating by holding referendum because it is related to moral issue of helping the poor. In casuistic analysis, the moral issue should be avoided as possible to make a clear decision and that is what dissent people did; however, the consent people had the moral issue in heart that the referendum turned out to be invalid due to lack of votes.Plus, Jonsen and Toulmin say ‘the history of moral 10
Song Mi YouBrenda BraidenDVST 0455August 8, 2008The role of mother in familyIn Linda Svendsen’s “White Shoulders” different types of mothers make up the story. This Story begins when Irene is found to have cancer and Irene’s younger sister, Adele, flies from New York to see her ill sister. Thankfully Irene recovers from cancer but her only child, Jill, jumps off the bridge. Each mother in the story describes the best characteristics of each character. The author uses “White shoulders” to shows that family is developed by the mother.First of all, Irene and Adele’s mother does not have a name. Their mother appears as “mother” or “Mom” throughout the whole story. She represents the type of mother who is apathetic about her child’s life. During Jill’s funeral, mother is relieved that Irene still has Peter even after Jill’s death. “’Thank God,’ Mum said. ‘Thank God, they have each other. Thank God, she has him’” (189). It is more that Peter has Irene than Irene has Peter because Irene is ab Jill’s funeral. No one can blame mother for being apathetic about her children’s lives. Her children do not tell her about their problems. Irene and Adele’s other siblings never came to visit Irene when she was hospitalized. They are not interested in other siblings because their mother was not interested in her own family. If mother was more careful about the family, she would have known Irene’s problem as well as been able to gather all her children for her granddaughter’s funeral.Moreover, Irene is a mother who kills her only child to make her husband happy. She is always worried about Peter. Even the night before her surgery, all she worries about is her husband. Irene feels responsible for Peter’s childhood and that her death may depress him even more. “She told me she was scared. Not for herself, but for Peter…. He’d said all the women he’d ever loved had left him. His mother killed, his sister. ‘And now me,’ Irene said” (182). When Peter makes sexual comments against her, she nnyway” (185). Irene being quiet and taking all his blame makes her husband more abusive and aggressive. Because Irene wants her husband to be always happy, she does not hesitate to sacrifice her daughter. Irene is always quiet in front of her husband but strong to Jill to make Peter happy. Irene makes Adele promise that she will not take Jill to New York with her: “’If I die,’ she said, ‘and I’m not going to, but if I do, I don’t want Jill to live with you in New York. Because that’s what she wants to do. I want her to stay with Peter. Even if she runs to you, send her back” (182). Not long after Adele goes back to New York, Jill takes her own life. The poem that Jill sends to Adele before she commits suicide shows Jill’s situation in the family:“Black Milk” was about three deaths: before her beloved husband leaves for war, a nursing mother shares a bottle of old wine with him, saved from their wedding day, and unknowingly poisons her child and then herself. Dying, she rocks her dying t. Jill misspelled wedding; she’d put weeding (187).Irene is captured in Peter’s trauma from his childhood and she cannot straighten Peter out, and because of that Jill jumps off the bridge and kills herself. Peter’s painful childhood induced sympathy and that stopped Irene from speaking out for her child. Even during Jill’s funeral, Peter is talking about his childhood and Irene goes to hold his hand. If Irene had a strong mind to keep the family together, she would not have allowed Peter to look down on his own family and would have saved Jill from death.Furthermore, Adele lives in New York alone. She is divorced and she sees her children regularly. The day before Thanksgiving, she hangs out with her children. When she takes her children to their father, she meets the woman who will probably be their new mother. Adele becomes curious what makes her ex-husband and children like that new woman: “I was still awake-wondering how another woman had succeeded with my husband and, now, my owd or children. She is divorced; she picks Adele up at the airport with Adele’s stepfather. She does not know how to contact her own child. Irene has obviously not succeeded with her family. She is too scared of her husband that she could not dare speak against him. Also, Irene abandons Jill to death. “The quiet, intelligent person who would probably become their stepmother, and be good to them, as she’d obviously been for Bill” (188). The mother who is good to her family as well as being there for her family can keep the family together.“White Shoulders” by Linda Svendsen shows the importance of the mother who can breakdown or keep the family together. It depends on her mind. The author wants to say that a family cannot always be happy or satisfied about their own family but because all members of a family stick together and protect each other, the family can never breakdown.Work CitedSvendsen, Linda. “White Shoulders.” West by Northwest: British Columbia Short Stories.Eds. David StoucAT 3
In “White Shoulders” by Linda Svendsen the main character, Adele, comes from New York to see her ill sister, Irene. As Adele stays with her sister’s family, she notices her niece, Jill, is abused by her father, Peter. Although Jill does not ask for help directly to Adele, Adele simply ignores her and leaves Jill to death. The article “When will people help in a crisis” by John Darley and Bibb Latane helps to define Adele’s situation towards Jill.First of all, the scene where all four characters are in the car, Adele had her first chance to save Jill from death. Adele tells Peter to stop making sexual comments and Peter yells at Adele to get out. Adele could simply have gotten out of the car but as Jill was stopped by Irene from following her aunt, Adele stays to protect Jill. “I wanted to get out, but didn’t want to leave Irene and Jill alone with him… Jill seemed defenseless” (185). According to the article, this behavior of Adele is the first step of noticing the emergency. In the first step, the bystander’s reaction is affected by those around him. “If everyone else is calm and indifferent, he will tend to remain calm and indifferent; if everyone else is reacting strongly, he will become aroused” (Darley & Bibb). Because Peter is aggressive and Jill is crying, Adele stands up and decides to stay with Jill.However, Adele misses her second chance to help Jill. Before Adele goes back to New York where she lives, she finds Jill at the shopping mall. Instead of try to talk to Jill, Adele turns back on her. “Butt out, Adele, and walked the long way around. I turned my back” (186). This is “disaster syndrome” according to the article. “The sense of safety and sureness of the individuals caused psychological withdrawal from the event by ignoring it” (Darley & Bibb). Adele decides not to talk to Jill because of what Irene told her before at the hospital. Adele’s sense of safety and sureness causes Adele to withdrawal from Jill’s problem by igrnoring.Nonetheless, Adele gives up on her last chance to save Jill from suicide. After Adele goes back to New York, Jill sends her poems through mail. Her poems indicate abuse from her parents. Adele notices the emergency but she fails to take responsibility. “I thought I should wait until I knew clearly what to say and whom to say it to” (187). Darley and Bibb defines this as “unresponsive bystanders”:They were still in a state of indecision and conflict concerning whether to respond or not. The emotional behavior of these nonresponding subjects was a sign of their continuing conflict; a conflict that other people resolved by responding (Darley & Bibb).Adele decides to wait until she finds someone to talk about Jill but Jill could not wait. If Adele had taken responsibility for aching in a crisis, and took Jill with her to New York, Jill may have been alive. Adele’s failure to take responsibility caused Jill to commit suicide.The story “White Shoulders” shows the importance of noticing the emergency of people and helping them. Darley and Bibb says “that the more people who witness [victim’s] distress, the less likely it is that the victim of an emergency will get help.” Whether or not many people notice the distress, all people should help the victim as fast as one would.
When I was young, I wrote down doctor as my dream. Not because I wanted to be a doctor, but because I did not know what else to put. I have never liked any career in particular since I was young, and I have never set any goals for my life. Maybe that is why I still cannot decide my major. Post-secondary is a really important part of life. What I learn in college can affect my future, so my career depends on my major. My family moved to Canada when I was 15. I have tried courses and learned what I would never have had a chance to do in Korea. I have found some interesting career choices that I am interested in. But I still do not know exactly what I want to do as my career. I know one thing: my career needs to be what I love and, most importantly, it needs to be a career I can be proud of.