Influenza A virus subtype H1N1

Korean celebrity, Kwang-Ki Lee, lost his seven year old son Suk-Qu Lee yesterday. He is a famous comedian actor in South Korea. In last two months, I have seen Mr. Lee in the Korean TV Show “Star’s Junior Show.” Many celebrities and their children are the guests of this TV Show. In one of the episode, Mr. Lee was a guest member with his son. Two years ago, his wife, daughter and his son migrated to Philippine for their children’s early education. Then they came back to South Korea this year. I saw the show when Mr. Lee and his son was the guest member, they seemed happy and healthy. So I was very shocked when I read the articles about Suk-Qu’s death. According to the last night’s articles, this young boy lost his life by pneumonia. But the result of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 test became positive. Therefore, he was infected by one of the flu that damages human cells and kill human being, not by pneumonia. Most of infected ages to this virus are children and elders. It was called swine flu at first time, but it was a virus that is a subtype of influenza virus A. This child lived seven years in this Earth and could not survived from this bad virus. Kwang-Ki Lee said, “My son became an angel” a day after his son’s death. Who expected this death and especially in Mr. Lee’s family? No one knew when he was infected. No one know who will be infected and become a next death. So everyone must protect themselves from the virus.
In this semester, I have learned how the cells are form, work, and then reproducing another cells Also I am learning about DNA and their system right now. When I am in the microbiology class, I become so exciting about that knowledge. But in the reality, human being’s essential systems’ are so risk by many viruses. I wonder, “Did we made this kind of virus throughout our environment?” Like Rachel Carson pointed, we should protect our environment for our health.

Three Qualities of Successful Life

In twenty first century, our media often focus on the people who have success by economically. The chief executive officer of business or the leader of industry is an example for those people who became successful in life. In personally, according to our history, those people who were called as hero are also lived their life successfully. I admire some of those people in the history who faced their own frustrations and fought against their demerits. Because of their efforts during their life terms, our world has been influenced by their movements. I used to infuse those people as truly successfully lived. Although people have walked in many different roads, they have several common qualities to be successful in life; a motive, failure, and effort.
The quality of motive is like a first step toward a successful life. If Florence Nightingale did not earn her motive from her parent, then she would not become a founder of modern nursing. The upper class British daughter has been modified by her parent education. William Edward Nightingale, Florence’s father, believed that women should be get education like men does. So Florence learned Italian, Latin, history, and mathematics from her father. Also Florence’s parent was a humanitarian, which it influenced their daughter as naturally. Since her childhood, Nightingale’s motive has been established from her parent. Then her motive made her habit of making rounds at night to tend injured soldiers during Crimean War. She was a hero who lived her life successfully and lighted the lamp of wide opportunities for women in future.
The second quality of successful life is the experience of failure. He was well known as a genius composer. He also published lot of powerful and spiritual music while he was becoming a deaf. This musician is Ludwig Van Beethoven. According to Doctor Marage, who has studied Beethoven’s letters, buzzing noises and other sounds started at around 1796, and he had lost 60% of his hearing by 1801. Then he completely became a deaf in 1806. How a composer could write his music, when his ears were damaged? While Beethoven was in the midst of his heroic period, his hearing problem started. At first, he tried to avoid the fact that he had illness, which it could interrupt his career. But when his whole hearing system got seriously damaged, he finally accepted his handicap. His experience of failure in his life created today’s Beethoven’s music. He name and work will be remembered as from precious musician, because he overcame his handicap and lived successful life.
A passion is the last quality to become live successful life. Thomas Alva Edison attempted one thousand ways of experiments to make a light bulb. American Inventor could success his life by his passion. Especially, because of his effort, we don’t have to work in the dim anymore. The world has been positively influenced by the Edison’s inventions. If he was not such passionate while he was in the laboratory, then Edison lived normal life. Because Edison continued his experiments as enthusiastically, he developed himself and advantaged as inventor.
We all have the passion upon our personal interests. But through the process of reaching our goal of interest, some people may give up or others may keep walking toward their interest.
A motive, failure, and passion are not the only qualities for the successful life. But based on my personal opinion, these three qualities are the most important words to become a successful in life. Florence Nightingale, Ludwig Van Beethoven, and Thomas Edison may not have all three of these qualities. But they all lived their life successfully as great person.

Heartache

Last year, Pastor Park, a music pastor from Altus Methodist Church, offered me a chance to learn piano. First, I hesitated. Because I knew he was very rigorous teach when he talk about his music to other people. But I thought it would be wonderful chance for me. If I learn more piano skills now, then I could develop myself and play better in future. So I accepted this challenging opportunity. But yesterday, I almost regretted the fact that I grabbed his free lesson.
Pastor Park drives to Lawton on every Saturday and teaches recorder, piano, and vocal music. So far, it has been more than six months that I am having lesson from him. We usually focused on the expression of the composer’s ideas through the music. But I had a trouble to express their ideas, so Pastor Park tried to explain how to open my heart and actually play music with the composer’s ideas and feelings. However, he occasionally became so upset and began to scream at me. It happened again and yesterday, I could not stop my tears. I guess I was not good enough to him, so he yelled to me as usually. Then he said, “Your music is trash.” When I heard that word, felt like I was on the fire. Sometimes, he seemed very rude when he teaches his music, but yesterday’s his attitude was the worst. I clenched my teeth to not to drop a tear in front of Pastor Park. But I could not hold my tears no longer when my lesson was over. I turned my back to him and began to cry out loud. My heart was broken. Especially his words and attitudes hurt my heart. However, I did not cry because of him. I had other reason why I could not stop my tears.
I cared about piano as like it was my best friend and I even enjoyed the moments when I am playing on the piano. But the more I played and learned about the piano, the more I became unhappier. It is too difficult for me to express the ideas of young composer Beethoven. I wanted to be happy when I am on the piano. Also this was not what I expected when Pastor Park offered me an opportunity. It seemed like I was standing at the end of the road. Also I felt like I can’t go forward anymore even though I have not reached my goal yet. It was this emotion that I could not control and made me to cry another two hours.
Now, I know I can’t convince myself that I still love to play a piano, like I use to be. But I will keep playing piano and find an answer for me whether I can overcome this heartbreak and express Beethoven’s feelings in my style. I will not give up. So from now on, I am challenging myself.

Revision of "I Love You Mother"

After our English class covered the topic of Mickey Mantle’s life, I learned that I should express my love feeling to my family. In class, we discussed that Mickey regrets the fact that he did not say how much he loved his father while his father was alive. If I do not say it then my family would never know and I could make a mistake like Mickey made. So I decided to open my heart. Since my parent moved to San Francisco, we often communicated by emails. When we stayed together, I did not notice how important they were. But now, I realized that each of their positions were so valuable to me. To express my thoughts and feelings, I wrote an email to my mother on this Tuesday. I could just call her and say that how much I love her But I could not, because I was not confidence enough. First, I explained who was Mickey Mantle and his relationship with his father. Then I told her what made me to say that I love her. After I send this email, I was happy. Next day, I received an email from her. The first sentence on her letter grabbed my attention. She said “Thank you my daughter.” When I read that sentence, it felt like she was touching my heart softly. All I did was saying “I love you and I love you so much.” But my mother gave me a double of love that I expressed to her. If I did not let her know then I would never received my mother’s love. Someday, I wish I express my heart as face to face.

Revision of "My Left Leg has Bruise"

. Last Friday, my friends and I were playing around at the church. We decided to show whose leg is more flexible. As we stand, one leg should be stretched out to the sky. While I was waiting for my turn, I became so excited and I believed that I will be the best. However, the fact was opposite. Suddenly, my flip-flop slipped and I fell to the ground strongly. My left hip and thigh was directly hit to the ground. I almost cried because it really hurt. But as time goes by, it did not hurt as much as first time. So I did not care about it. This After I took a shower on this Monday, I saw my left leg’s thigh through the mirror and I shocked. I had large and purplish bruise. The size was about my fist. I began to worry as if I can’t use my left leg future. So I started look up several sources about the effects of bruise. If a skin turned to purple or dark red color, then it means the cells inside of the skin has been damaged or killed by certain force. On Tuesday, I showed a picture of my bruise to my mother, which it was much larger than yesterday. I know she would be also shocked, but I was glad to tell her. Because I need her help and wished to hear some good treatment to the bruise. She told me to go and talk to pharmacist in Wal-mart. So I did. The pharmacist told me that there is no treatment for the bruise, but just wait until the cell develops and become healthier. He also said there would be no later problem. I feel better now. To rid of my bruise, all I have to do is wait. By this ugly fat bruise experience, I learned that I should protect myself to live healthier.

Ludwig van Beethoven

This week, I had a chance to read two books about Ludwig van Beethoven; he is my favorite musician and composer. The titles of two books were “The Life and Works of Beethoven” and “The Letters of Beethoven.” The reason I read these books is because I am learning how to play Beethoven’s Sonatas. When I have piano lesson with my music teacher, he often said to me, “You must think the composer’s purpose of a piece of music and try to explain it with your own style.” Currently, I am learning Beethoven’s Sonata number 8, the first movement. This music was titled as “Pathetique” and it was French word that denoted a feeling of passion and sorrow in Ancient Greek. All three of this sonata’s movements are well-known since he published it in 1790. I also have heard lot through the media. But it is hard to play and make it as my own style. So I decided to look up several sources and understand the composer’s purpose. First I found that Beethoven wrote this music in 1789 and published one year later. What dragged him to write such spiritual music? The answer was in those two books I’ve read. When Beethoven was 27, his mother passed away because of illness and poverty. His father, Johann van Beethoven, was alcoholic and the drinking problem went out of control. So young Beethoven begins to work at the church as organist, where his father and grandfather worked, and earned half of his father’s salary to survive with his brothers. If I were in his shoes, I would probably become a hopeless person. But the genius musician wrote this sonata and expressed his moment of life through the music. His name and works are still valuable. As I was reading and searching about him, I felt that his skills and talents were not granted. To became a Beethoven he sacrificed himself.

Today's Violence in Our University

I still remember the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. Cho Sung-Hui killed 32 people and committed suicide in his university. One of the video I watched in the youtube site recorded the shots of Cho’s bullet. It was recorded by someone who was at outside of the building with his camcorder. While I was watching, I could not imagine such dreadful situation was happened in the university. He was from South Korea, like me, but end up his life by making a dirtiest history in United States. So during my freshman semesters in Cameron University, I hoped this kind of violence should not happen again in any university. Two years and five months later, another crime has occurred in university. Last week Monday, I read an article about Annie Le in the New Your Times website. A graduate researcher, twenty four years old, Ms Le’s dead body was found at behind the basement wall in Amistad building, Yale University. I was really sad when I read about the fact that she planned to get marry in that week. She was a person who had a dream for her future life and that’s why she attended that university. But it is over now. On September 18, I found and read another article about Ms. Le’s death. The topic was about a murderer of Ms. Le. The authorities charged Yale University animal technician, Raymond Clark III, with murdering Annie Le. According to the article, he was arrested after 8A.M. on last Thursday in room 214 of the super 8 motel in Cromwell, Connecticut. I could not find any sources of the reasons why a technician murdered a researcher. I am pretty sure that each of these two people worked hard to achieve those competitive jobs. But today they end up their life miserably in their university. Two years ago, I hoped not to happen it again but it did. I am a junior in Cameron University now. I think university is where I can develop myself. But today, university is becoming one of the fields with serious violence. I still do not understand why these people decided such crimes in the university. In 2009 I hope no one make a stupidest decision again in any university.