2011211992_YunJihun_Book Summary

2011211992

Yun Jihun

Mon 11:00 – 13:00

Miss Mary

I’m writing about my character Mary who is the main character in this book. Mary was the India girl and she was a daughter that her parent didn’t care for, so she had a servant for herself. Mary didn’t have a graceful face and she had blond hair. She is egotistic, brusque and unkind. One day unreasonable disease appeared in that town, unfortunately Mary’s parent died and Mary was taken care of by her uncle in Yorkshire. In Yorkshire, she met some people and she had her time that she could change her personality. Before she knew Martha, Ben, Dickon, Martha’s mother, she thought only of herself and she was negative about everything. After she met those who were warm-hearted, she could thank someone, tell someone positively and like someone. I could see those, for example on page 23 chapter 5 “She never thanked people usually and she did not know how to do it.” Also, she could advise Colin who was as same as Mary. Due to Mary’s advice, Colin could think he was able to walk and be well.

       During reading this book “The Secret Garden”, I thought the book told readers the importance of meeting people. Initial personalities of characters like Mary, Colin are hopeless, egotistic and unkind. However, after they met people who thought about them sincerely, they tried to change themselves and could think to give happiness for other. In conclusion, Mary was changed by people in Yorkshire, Colin was changed by Mary and Craven was changed by them. They could change by meeting and communicating with other people.

Reference – The Secret Garden by Clare West

Final Essay - Yun Jihun, Kim Sungha

Yun Jihun – 2011211992

Kim Sungha – 2013210000

Monday 11am

Japan and America – Baseball

Japan(NPB)

According to Wikipedia(2014), ”NPB or Nippon Professional Baseball is the highest level of baseball in Japan. The league currently consists of two six-team circuits, the Central League and the Pacific League. The two leagues each scheduled 130, 135 or 140 regular season games. Each season the winning clubs from the two leagues compete in the Japan Series, the championship series of NPB. Japanese baseball games may end in a tie. If the score is tied after nine innings of play, up to three additional innings will be played. If there is no winner after 12innings, the game is declared a draw, except in the postseason which allows 15innings.”(Nippon Professional Baseball). As mentioned earlier, the NPB has two leagues. The two leagues have a difference about designated hitter system. The Pacific League has the designated hitter system, but the Central League does not have a designated hitter system, so a pitcher has to hit. Now, Korean players are playing activities in NPB and they are key players in their teams. Oh Seunghwan is a pitcher who is responsible for saving the innings in Hanshin Tigers. Also, Lee Daeho is a hitter who hits balls a long distance in Softbank Hawks.

America(LA Dodgers)

“The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team located in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of the National League West division of Major League Baseball (MLB). Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming the Brooklyn Dodgers definitively by 1932. The team moved to Los Angeles before the 1958 season. They played their first four seasons in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before moving to their current home of Dodger Stadium, the third-oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball (after Fenway Park and Wrigley Field)”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers). This team is pretty well on their league, LAD won world championship 6 times 1988, 1981, 1963, 1956, 1955. Their home stadium is Dodgers stadium. San Francisco Giants is the biggest rival. In this year Dodgers win the National league, but lost at the division season against Saint Louis Cardinals, Dodgers has world best starting pitcher, Clayton Kershaw(the best pitcher in U.S), Zack Greinke, Ryu Hyun jin (Korean monster). My most favorite player is Kershaw because not only is he a good player but also his personality, he helps the poor, and sick people. I hope Kershaw and Dodgers have a good 2015 season.

NPB Comparison

Of course, I have a lot of interesting ideas about baseball, so I read the information about LAD in MLB intently. However, I think that the NPB is better than the MLB because the NPB all star team beat the MLB all star team. Recently, there were games of the all star between NPB and MLB. At the all star games, the NPB all star team won three games of four games. The NPB league has the greatest pitchers in my opinion. Actually, the pitchers in the NPB have low ERA(earned run average), so many hitters are hard to hitting pitchers’ ball. However, I like to watch the MLB league because I like Ryu Hyunjin in the LAD too.

LAD Comparison

The information about Japan baseball league is very useful, but I think LAD or MLB is better than NPB and I’ve got several reasons for that. First, MLB is more fun because of how they play, they play more dangerous and they take a risk when they play; however, most of Japan league don’t. Second, the size of league is enormous for example the most expensive baseball team in MLB is New York Yankees worth 3.5 billion dollars, in case of Japan not enough to be a half of Yankees. In my own experience the crowds are different, I saw Yankees versus Boston the crowds are very dynamic and they are fun and interactive, but in case of Japan league crowds are less interactive than MLB crowds. It is different by people in my case I prefer MLB crowds. Finally, I saw MLB more than NPB because of the language, I taught Japanese language in high school, but in my case English is more familiar than Japanese, I prefer NPB than MLB.

Reference  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers