Blog assignment #6

There are a lot of ways to use ideas from other source. Especially paraphrases and quotations are the ways that people often use. The reason why people use those kinds of ways when they write an essay is that they can make their essay more objective, accurate and informative.

In the essay “Running Up Hill: The Struggle of Student Athletes” by Zachary Tuthill, the writer also used lots of quotations and paraphrases to make his essay more effective and informative. As an example of quotations, he wrote that Perhaps more telling is the comment make by an NCAA Division I football player who said, “football practice and games are like hitting your head ten times against a brick wall and then you go try to study for a math exam” (Humphrey, Yow, and Bowden 41-42). One of the paraphrases that he used is that According to Stress in College Athletics, which details the causes of stress to those affiliated with college athletics, ninety-five percent of male athletes and eighty-five percent of female athletes found such factors as making up assignments missed because of games and practices as a primary cause of stress (Humphrey, Yow, and Bowden 41).

By using the ways such as quotations and paraphrases, the author can make his thesis more clear and vivid. The essay that I read is about difficulties that student athletes have faced and about the factors which are needed for them to overcome the difficulties. The examples that I have written in the second paragraph contribute to vividness of the essay. Specifically, those examples help readers feel how difficult student athletes perform both academic and athletic sides simultaneously. This means that using quotations and paraphrases help the essay’s overall meaning more clear and precise.

Blog Assignment #5

What is a history? More specifically, what is the purpose of a history? It is what people know about themselves, which means knowing about self’s true nature not about individual particularity. The way to know about self’s true nature is to see how people have done and lived since the past. According to this fact, a history has significance. A history must convey facts themselves objectively for the history to achieve the purpose of it. However, this has not been the case until now. This is because the purpose of the history has to be accomplished objectively but people who write the history is subjective.

In Korean history, Hongkyungrae’s disturbance happened. In Joseon Dynasty, many intellectuals were mass-produced as chances of education improved. The government hired more capable men through the state examination but it was not sufficient. Under this circumstance, Hong, kyungrae was aggrieved at not being hired and rose in revolt. He wanted to change the irrational social system and the farming population who agreed with him supported the revolt. They were put down finally, which meant he, Hongkyungrae, lost. Hongkyungrae’s disturbance can be an example that the history was written by the viewpoint of a winner.

If he finished the revolt successfully, it had not been recorded as the “disturbance”. If so, history textbooks would describe this “movement” more specifically and also call the event “movement” not “disturbance”