Blog Post #7 - Unt 9 (Languages)

There should be one world language

Have you ever experienced ‘Language barrier’? Language barriers occur when people do not speak the same language. Difference in language is the most obvious barrier to communication as two people speaking two different languages cannot communicate with each other. If the speaker and receiver do not use same language and words, there is no meaning to the communication. Not using the words that other person understands makes the communication ineffective and prevents message from being conveyed. Therefore, there should be one world language that everyone speaks because it will be helpful for academic progress, eliminating translation errors and acheiving global peace.

    
 

First of all, one of the benefits of having one world language would be progressing in knowledge due to expansion of communication. Having a common language would help us in a way that sharing information and knowledge with the world would be much more effective. By communicating with people having different nationalities in a same language, the exchange of information could be much faster and academic achievements contributing to society could be accomplished much more.

  
  

Another benefit of one world language is that it would eliminate translation error. If everyone in the world spoke the same language, communication among us would be much easier and we all could express ourselves much clearer. Misunderstanding between languages would be prevented. Sometimes translators can be wrong as some words cannot be translated directly and it causes the problem of conveying wrong messages and leads to difficulty of communication. Thus, if we have one world language, the translation error would be reduced.

  
  

Lastly, one world language is beneficial for global peace. Communication becomes difficult in situations where people don’t understand each others’ language. And most of the wars happen because of not having proper communication between nations. However, if there is one world language, countries could become united rather than competing with other nations. By using the same language, the world would be better able to understand each other and reduce the amount of conflict because there would be no loss of communication when being translated. Furthermore, by using one world language, there would be an increased capacity to solve complicated world problems by having a way for the best minds in the world to work directly with one another, instead of having to work through translators.

  
  

In short, there should be one world language because it could be a great help to academic progress, eliminating translation errors and global peace. Therefore, we need to decide which language to get everyone to learn. If people use the specific one world language, communication would no longer be a problem. Furthermore business, travel, and trade would be much easier because we can all talk to each other easily.

  

Blog post #6 - Unit 8 (Innovation)

Kakaotalk, a wildly popular messaging innovation

In Korea, you can see many people on their smartphones on the street, in the bus, in the subway, and beyond. While different people use different types of smartphone applications, there is very common app that most Korean people use. It is Kakaotalk. Kakaotalk is the most popular messaging app in South Korea. It offers an array of features that caters to the requirements of users. Through this app, you can share photos, videos, content and other information. KakaoTalk has been launched in the year 2010 and gained around 50 million registered users by the end of 2012 and eventually 130 million users in 2013. As of August 2014, it had 152 million users. Within this short span of time, this messaging app has shown huge popularity. And this enormous popularity has become possible due to its important features such as providing users with diverse emoticons and allowing users to receive/send text messages quickly and share multimedia files easily.

 

 

One of the reasons that Kakaotalk has gained great popularity is that it makes texting even more dynamic by providing users with various emoticons. Kakaotalk emoticons have allowed Kakaotalk users to express themselves in a way that words could not. Texting has become a staple for quick and easy communication, but sometimes words fall short when trying to get your message across. It can be hard to convey tone, and when your friends cannot see your face, they cannot always figure out what you’re trying to say. With the Kakaotalk emoticons, however, everything becomes much easier to understand. Furthermore, Kakaotalk emoticons largely are supplementary feature, but they have allowed for a diverse communications experience. Kakaotalk offers a wide variety of emoticons for almost every situation, and deciding who you’re going to choose to go along with your text is a fun way to connect with your loved ones. Whether you are happy about getting a promotion at work, looking forward to a movie date, or sad about having a sore throat, there are diverse Kakaotalk emoticons perfect for spicing up your texts.

  

The huge popularity of this app is because it is quick to receive/send text messages and easy to share multimedia files. If you’ve ever used SMS texting, you would know that there is a slight delay when sending/receiving texts. Kakaotalk, since its launch, have always tried to make the communication experience instant, and one of its main objectives at its earlier stages was to improve the speed of sending/receiving messages. This resulted in instant sending/receiving of texts in. Also, Kakaotalk makes it very easy to share files like pictures, videos, voice messages. Conventional texting, which utilizes the cellular network, is limited in its ability to send pictures, videos, and other multimedia files. However, Kakaotalk, which utilizes internet connection, allows for easy and quick sharing of multimedia files. This allowed users to diversify their communicating experience.

  

Kakaotalk, a wildly popular messaging app, is truly ubiquitous in South Korea, and it has been used by 93 percent of smartphone users in South Korea. This great popularity of this app is mainly because of its special features that set it apart from other popular messaging apps. Kakaotalk offers various emoticons that make texting even more dynamic. It also allows users to receive/send text messages quickly and share multimedia files easily. Due to those features, Kakaotalk has been arguably the most influential smartphone application in Korea. Except for what I mentioned above, it still keeps broadening its unique services by launching mobile games, music streaming and beyond to become an extraordinary app. Thanks to these efforts, Kakaotalk seems to continue to retain a solid foothold in the industry of mobile messenger. For smartphone users, it is interesting to see how Kakaotalk will continue to expand and grow.

 

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Blog Post #5 - Persuasive Essay

The efforts to ensure a sustainable future

 

In these days, the air pollution is a serious issue. The increased population have contaminated our environment severely. And it threatens the environment to live for the next generation. After all, our future generation will inherit what we leave behind. However, it is our duty to ensure a sustainable future for our future generations to grow and prosper, rather than perish. And the most important way of ensuring sustainable future is reducing air pollution. Then what should people do to reduce air pollution? Using public transportation and reducing use of disposable products are two important acts to prevent air contamination.

 

 

First of all, we have to use public transportation to reduce air pollution. Buses, as an example of public transportation, are generally recognized as an environmentally friendly form of transport, particularly in relation to the number of car journeys needed to carry the same number of passengers. A full bus produces 377 times less carbon monoxide than a full car, which means that a bus uses less fuel per person carried, and hence less fuel than the number of cars needed to replace it. Therefore, by using public transportation, we can reduce the amount of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions generated by car, diesel vehicles. In addition, public transit relieves traffic congestion which increases fuel consumption from cars stuck in traffic. This is because vehicles cannot run efficiently. Public transportation is the easiest way to solve this problem. Public transportation such as buses or subway helps to reduce the traffic on roads then it can also leads to reducing wasted emissions contributing to air contamination. Thus, using public transportation can lead to reducing air pollution.

 

 

Secondly, reducing use of disposable products is another action that we have to take to prevent air pollution. Most of plastic water bottles, as an example of disposable products, are not recycled. And they just end up lying stagnant in landfills, leaching dangerous chemicals into the ground or infiltrate our streets. The only way unrecycled plastic bottles seem to go away is by breaking down into smaller pieces until they get so tiny that we no longer notice them. And it causes an environmental pollution. Furthermore, plastic bottles need large amounts of fuel to produce, package and transport themselves to the our local supermarket, home or office. Fossil fuels, however, are a limited natural resource and contribute to greenhouse gases which are bad for the environment and cause global warming. In short, by reducing the use of disposable products, we can prevent air contamination.

 

 

By using public transportation and reducing use of disposable products, people can prevent air pollution, which plays a key role in ensuring a sustainable future. As I mentioned above, our future generation will definitely be affected by what we are doing. Therefore, we need to think more about what responsibilities we have to the environment and our future generation. And let’s begin to preserve our environment by commuting to work with riding public transit instead of personal car and taking indisposable products such as tumblers or eco-bags rather than plastic bottles or paper cups for sustainable future.