theme 2- argumentative essay

Caine's arcade vs Kony 2012

 Have you ever heard of Kony 2012? You haven't? Then, how about Caine's Arcade? Today I'm going to introduce these two videos to you. These two videos both have problems. For the Kony 2012, the kids in Uganda are living in an unsafe environment. For  Caine's Arcade, he doesn't have any customers in his cardboard arcade. These two videos were spread rapidly SNS sites such as facebook. These two are for their fame and popularity.

     Kony 2012 is made to catch Joseph Kony by making him famous. By doing this, Obama sends soldiers to stop him.  The main character is Jacob, who was in the group of Kony but escaped. While running away, his brother was caught by one of them and was killed. This video looks real and is so scary, isn't it? However, it is is an video made  8-9 years ago, kind of old. For now, we have no idea whether Kony is dead or not. Also, he might not be in Uganda. He might also be in Korea, maybe. We totally have no idea about it.


On the other hand, Caine's arcade is made to let Caine be famous so he can  have more customers. It shows us how Caine built an arcade with boxes. A young boy making all these games, learning, and earning money reminds us hoe we used to play when we were young.



Now, have you watched both videos? Then, how do you think about them? For now, let's talk about Joseph Kony. Do you consider him as a bad guy? Why? He seems to be as we see in the picture. But , if you see this Video, I bet you would be tempted to change your mind. Also, when we see his appearance, he looks like a kind man, doesn't  he?



How do you think after seeing this video? Do you really consider Kony as a bad man?
However, even if he is bad, I think the people in Face book intentionally attract people's attention to get money from them. It is said that only 30% of the money donated is sent to Uganda. Then ,where are the other 70%of money going? They might be used to make blogs, for making some kinds of videos. Don't you think that it is way too much money use for that to? What I think is that 70%of the money should be going to the Uganda, and the other 30%of money for promoting the campaigns. Also, of the video "Caine's arcade", I think that when Caine earns lots of money, and when he grows up, he might change his arcade to a park or something else like that where families can enjoy and where children can play at. :)

theme 2- argumentative essay

  Yes, Kony kidnaps young children and force them to kill their parents. And I do think that this should be stopped. But here's the real problem. 

       First of all, African people think that Kony isn't the real problem. There are more problems in Africa. Some people think that we should focus on other problems rather than Kony. And I agree with them. Even though this Kony 2012 video is pretty convincing, I think Jason Russell is exaggerating too much. Do you think that this vidio is 100% true? In the video, he shows a boy who saw his brother having his neck cut in front of other people. But when I researched about Africa's problems, there were more serious problems such as Libya crisis, and even food crisis. I think U.S should focus more on the other problems rather than Kony. - Look at http://www.globalissues.org/issue/83/conflicts-in-africa

And do you know what this video is asking you to do mostly? They require MONEY. There will be thousands of people donating some money. And it will be thousands of dollars if we add them. Jason Russell says that they will need some money in order to catch Kony. But WOULD he use all those money? I think Jason Russell's company post this video in You Tube to earn some profit through them. In addition, Jason Russell keeps  saying that U.S should send more army to Africa to catch Kony. But nobody knows where Joseph Kony is - He might not even be in Africa right now, or if he is dead or alive. So I think people should think about all this facts before they decide to join the campaign. 

theme 2 - argumentative essay

 I heard that KONY 2012 is the most viral video. At first, I can not understand why is this video became viral. It looked boring because of the Earth picture. However, I could understand why it has became viral video, and felt shame to myself. There are special things to this video. Kony was known by social network, such as Facebook, and etc. Also, this video's purpose is to persuade people to help Uganda's people. Now, I want to tell my opinion to you guys.

 Actually, I agree with this video. Maybe there would be people who disagree with this and don't believe this. Or, some could  think Kony is dead. However, we don't know exactly. He could alive until now. Yeah, Kony haven't caught until now. But, we shouldn't feel comfort. As I mentioned, we don't know he is alive. That means we don't know when will he go to Uganda and fill Uganda to sorrow and cruelty. Also, we can see it is becoming big problem and issue from the fact that "It is a viral video" and "There are lots of members in KONY 2012". That means most people believes it and wants to help Uganda's poor people. 

 I think Kony is so bad. Poor Jacob! He lost his brother because of Kony. He will be really sad. He lost his brother. So I can know Jacob is feel hatred to Kony. If I was Kony, I will dislike Kony, of course.

 Lots of people say, Kony will caught until 2012. I think this could come true or not. Now, definitely lots of will try their best to catch Kony. We can see their effort from the number of members, and making viral videos about Kony. Even you can see my effort from this Argumentative Essay! (I hope lots of people could see my blog and know about KONY. Actually, I didn't know KONY before I see the viral video which is about KONY.)

theme 2- argumentative essay

   Have you ever seen the video "KONY 2012"? "KONY 2012" is one of the most influential and viral videos in human history. Made by an American, the video spreaded as a virus through people. Even some are thinking to change their donation groups to Tri which is the donation group that helps to arrest Joseph Kony and to help his poor army. The craze didn't stopped. However, suddenly, people began to have a question. "Is the video(Kony 2012) 100% all true and real?" Many people are arguing about that, and the topic is quite controversial, some agrees with the video and think it's true, in the other hand, some are suspecting the video and think the video is faked. I disagree with video as the others do as well, but  not completely all.

  We even do not know exactly if Joseph Kony is dead or alive. We haven't heard any movements or actions that Joseph Kony did for 6 years. There is no evidence that Joseph Kony is still alive and is kidnapping children nowadays as well. Well, its kind of strange that the world didn't have any news of Joseph Kony for 6 years. He wouldn't have any reason to hide or stop his actions because he wasn't that famous and the US didn't even helped the group(who's putting effort to stop Kony and arrest him) 6 years ago. For instance, the US mentors had no reports of viewing Joseph Kony for almost one year as well.

   The LRA, Joseph Kony's army is not that big as well. The video said that there were almost 30000 kids who were soldiers at the LRA. Actually, there were about 30000 kids totally for the past 20 years. We can know by this that the video is not totally 100% true and is kind of exaggerating the facts. Also, some says that the LRA doesn't even exist anymore. If the LRA still existed there would be lots of conflicts in Uganda, and would be a serious problem that's certainly urgent to solve. However, the most significant point is that Joseph Kony is not the most serious and urgent problem to solve, such as, East Africa food crisis, Middle East and North Africa unrest, and lastly crisis in Libya. There are lots of problems that are more urgent to solve then Joseph Kony. And we don't have any ease or comfort of money to spend on both of the problems. We should carefully think about what is the most important and urgent problem to solve.

   In conclusion, I disagree with the video "KONY 2012" for few reasons as there are rumors that Joseph Kony were already dead 6 years ago, and that the video is exaggerating that the LRA(Joseph Kony's army) has almost 3 million kids, but the truth is that LRA had 3 million soldiers totally for 20 years. I'm not completely disagreeing with the video, however, I believe that the video is not completely true , and the video is exaggerating facts as well, however, I also think that we should catch Joseph Kony as fast as we could if his alive, cause even his crimes were exaggerated those crimes would still remain as crimes.

theme 2- argumentative essay

KONY 2012

     Do you know anything about Joseph Kony? If you know Joseph Kony, you will be more likely to know about KONY 2012. This essay is going to be about him, Joseph Kony, and the movement to stop him, KONY 2012. Also, this essay is going to include my opinions, of course because it is a argumentative essay. So first, I will talk about Joseph Kony, and  KONY 2012. Second, I will talk about the economical disadvantage of KONY 2012, and third, finally, I will talk about the reason I argue KONY 2012 is not a good movement.

     First, Joseph Kony is a criminal who had lost humane duty. He had kidnapped innocent children and made them either suicide, or kill their own parents for over 20 years. He brainwashed terrorism to the kids. It was only to keep his authority. KONY 2012 is a project which is made to make Joseph Kony famous, and to get many people to support arresting Joseph Kony. The purpose of this project is very nice, even though I disagree. Innocent kids who are getting kidnapped, forced to kill people and brainwashed terrorism needs to be protected. They do not have any fault and they have rights to be grown as a kid, not a soldier. But however, I do not agree with this movement, because of the following reasons.

       There are economical disadvantages. I do not agree with KONY 2012 because of the financial problem. The kit they sell, which is called the Action Kit, are including several posters and some pictures of Joseph Kony. These Action Kits are sold in 17 dollars, but the estimated value of this kit was only about 5 dollars. Not only that, as the result of the statistics, 68 percent of the contribution are used in the salary of the people running the project, and in the maintenance fee. Only 32 percent of the money contributed are used for kids in Uganda.

     Economical disadvantages and financial problem are not the most serious thing. But the second reason, which is the main reason that I am going to say right now, is the biggest reason I disagree with this. As I said before, KONY 2012 is a project to make Joseph Kony famous, and to get many people to support arresting Joseph Kony.But what what people need to do first is to help kids in Uganda. Think about it. Would it be easier to arrest a top criminal, or would it be easier to move kids from Uganda to a safe place. Of course the second one. Kids there would really want to be protected and would really want to get away from Joseph Kony and his army. I hope people know what they should to do first.

     As a conclusion, I disagree with the movement KONY 2012. I disagree with it because of the financial problems, and the people not prioritizing that needs to be prioritized as I was keep saying before. If there are people wandering to get in the KONY 2012 or not,  I would not suggest it. It will be your economical loss. Well, I don't want to force it, tough. I hope this essay of mine would be an opportunity to think about KONY 2012 and if it is reasonable or not.

theme 1 - metafiction + chain writing

At school we had a speech contest. I was curious about what Minsu will say, because he was quite crazy and said funny things during speeches. We started the speech contest. Surprisingly, Minsu sat in his seat not saying a word. At last, Sora, a girl who is a fantastic speaker, started her speech.

"Hello, I'm Sora Lee and I'd like to do a speech about success.Success is doing what you want to do. It should be quite challenging so you feel good when you finish that work.  As an example, I make a goal to get in first place in the school exam. I study really hard and get all 100 percent. I will feel happy and have pride in me. Even though I do not get 100 percent, I will be proud in the fact that I worked so hard and I tried my best. The fact that you tried your best would be important, not the result. The mistakes that you made during the process will at lost make you succeed. So, don't think 'Oh, that happened because of my mistakes. It's all my fault. I'm so stupid.' There are lots of chances. There are lots of opportunities. So don't give up. Thinking that you will not be able to succeed, just makes yourself have less confidence. On the other hand, if you think that you will succeed, you'll have more percentage to really succeed. So, we have to think that we can do it. We can say that to ourselves and also to others. Success will change our world, ourselves and change everything. If you succeed, everybody in the world would know you. For example, Steve Jobs made the Apple bigger to the world. If you try hard, then everything will be perfect and succeeded and everybody will be happy. No one gets sad or cry. However, success sometimes can make you tired. If you succeed, you should be a hard worker so......"

Suddenly, as if Minsu waited for this part, he jumped up from his seat and began to yell;

"We have to fight for freedom! Korea independance cheers! Back to the 1914s, there was a hero named 각시탈(Gacital). Anyone can be a hero. Even a normal kid can be a hero saving citizens from danger. Let's work hard and be a hero. We can't be a hero like spiderman but lets try!"

Everyone cheered and Sora glared at Minsu. Well, at least he ended up the speech quite well....... No, he had something more to say.......

"Let's play spiderman!!  Yeah!!"

Minsu and the other boys ran, jumped and leaped over girls pretending to be a spiderman. Aw, man!

theme 1 - metafiction + chainwriting

When I was checking for my toy in the mail box, I saw a letter that was addressed to me. I took it inside the house with my toy. The second I got inside, I ripped it open and began reading.

Maybe it was because I

had breakfast. I feel like I  need to go to the doctor because my stomach is killing me with the sheer force of digestion. My belly is fumbling. Every time it stops,  I pass a chili sauce scented gas out of my rear end. Oh my stomach hurts!! So I went to the doctor so he could check my stomach. He said that something was inside my stomach. He also said that it wasn`t digested properly. So I thought that it was the tacos I had in the morning. But the doctor said it was a fork. I was panicking. I asked him if he could take this dangerous piece of metal out. The answer was a big fat NO. I became pathetic and began running around. The doctor got so annoyed that he kicked me out of his hospital.

For some reason my great great grandfather doubled over. It was weird. Also, whenever he farted, It smelled like Chili which was I thought, super weird. It was so smelly I was going to double over myself. So well, he went to the hospitals with dad. So anyways I resumed on reading this letter out of my curiosity.

I couldn` believe it! A doctor, who was supposed to save me, decided to just let me die. Jesus; Save me! well I`m already about 100 years old, actually 97 years old to be precise. After I fought in the two world wars as a lieutenant, the bullets that were engraved deep inside my body weakened my body. Blood systems and digestive systems were fragile. Happiness was occasional, and there was no euphoria in my life. Today’s case flabbergasted me even more. Those deadly venomous pieces of metal of wars and a for. I was hopeless and had no powerful will to live. That was when I met James, my pet dog.

When he came back, he was all sweaty like he ran around. Dad said he got kicked out of the hospital. The hospital said that there was a fork in his belly. Later on, this horrible thought dawned on me. Great Great Grandfather was 97 years old. He was lieutenant in the U.S army. He was very weak right now. But sometimes, when he was confused or became pathetic, he ran around crazy. As said in the letter, our dog James came and nuzzled his nose on Grandpa’s leg. Grandpa became calm and took a shower. Later on, I resumed on reading this letter.

While I was lying down he always “stuck to me”. As if he seemed he knew I was sick he would carry newspapers for me, and sometimes wWhen I was checking for my toy in the mail box, I saw a letter that was addressed to me. I took it inside the house with my toy. The second I got inside, I ripped it open and began reading.

Maybe it was because I

had breakfast. I feel like I  need to go to the doctor because my stomach is killing me with the sheer force of digestion. My belly is fumbling. Every time it stops,  I pass a chili sauce scented gas out of my rear end. Oh my stomach hurts!! So I went to the doctor so he could check my stomach. He said that something was inside my stomach. He also said that it wasn`t digested properly. So I thought that it was the tacos I had in the morning. But the doctor said it was a fork. I was panicking. I asked him if he could take this dangerous piece of metal out. The answer was a big fat NO. I became pathetic and began running around. The doctor got so annoyed that he kicked me out of his hospital.

For some reason my great great grandfather doubled over. It was weird. Also, whenever he farted, It smelled like Chili which was I thought, super weird. It was so smelly I was going to double over myself. So well, he went to the hospitals with dad. So anyways I resumed on reading this letter out of my curiosity.

I couldn` believe it! A doctor, who was supposed to save me, decided to just let me die. Jesus; Save me! well I`m already about 100 years old, actually 97 years old to be precise. After I fought in the two world wars as a lieutenant, the bullets that were engraved deep inside my body weakened my body. Blood systems and digestive systems were fragile. Happiness was occasional, and there was no euphoria in my life. Today’s case flabbergasted me even more. Those deadly venomous pieces of metal of wars and a for. I was hopeless and had no powerful will to live. That was when I met James, my pet dog.

When he came back, he was all sweaty like he ran around. Dad said he got kicked out of the hospital. The hospital said that there was a fork in his belly. Later on, this horrible thought dawned on me. Great Great Grandfather was 97 years old. He was lieutenant in the U.S army. He was very weak right now. But sometimes, when he was confused or became pathetic, he ran around crazy. As said in the letter, our dog James came and nuzzled his nose on Grandpa’s leg. Grandpa became calm and took a shower. Later on, I resumed on reading this letter.

While I was lying down he always “stuck to me”. As if he seemed he knew I was sick he would carry newspapers for me, and sometimes when I was feeling pain, he would whimper at my ear. When that happened I usually cried because I was touched. A human won’t help me, but a dog will keep me happy and keep me happy until I die. James some times made me laugh and also made me happy. However it was one day I went on a picnic with him. I went to the forest with a lot of grass. This war where I wanted to be when I died. Then I fell a sleep. When I woke up, my James was gone. I called him and he didn’t come. Then I saw James lying on  the grass next to a mountain lion. James was trying to save me. He had fought the lion to the death. This was the final blow. My heart broke. I started walking around with empty eyes. All because of one answer NO. I hope that adults will let kids go where they have to. Then those kids won’t end up like me. And when  an Adult says NO to you, call me and I will help you, teach those adults a lesson!!

Grandpa suddenly said that he wanted to go to the mountain so he could rest and relax in the nature. After all the stuff that happened to him and after what I had read in the letter, I told him that he should’nt go to the mountains. He asked me for a reason. So I showed him the letter. He said you are showing me a blank piece of paper. Then the the weirdest thought came up. This letter must come from the future. I told Grandpa not to go. I begged him. But nothing worked. A few hours later, he came back with our dead dog James and red eyes. 

At night he was working on something he took very seriously. So seriously that he began to sweat. Our whole family was worried about him. And a few hours later, he told Dad to check if their were any mistakes in the letter. I asked Dad if I could read the letter. I read it for a few seconds and freaked out. I showed him the letter I had read the whole day.  And their, I saw the Mail box open and the stand went up.hen I was feeling pain, he would whimper at my ear. When that happened I usually cried because I was touched. A human won’t help me, but a dog will keep me happy and keep me happy until I die. James some times made me laugh and also made me happy. However it was one day I went on a picnic with him. I went to the forest with a lot of grass. This war where I wanted to be when I died. Then I fell a sleep. When I woke up, my James was gone. I called him and he didn’t come. Then I saw James lying on  the grass next to a mountain lion. James was trying to save me. He had fought the lion to the death. This was the final blow. My heart broke. I started walking around with empty eyes. All because of one answer NO. I hope that adults will let kids go where they have to. Then those kids won’t end up like me. And when  an Adult says NO to you, call me and I will help you, teach those adults a lesson!!

Grandpa suddenly said that he wanted to go to the mountain so he could rest and relax in the nature. After all the stuff that happened to him and after what I had read in the letter, I told him that he should’nt go to the mountains. He asked me for a reason. So I showed him the letter. He said you are showing me a blank piece of paper. Then the the weirdest thought came up. This letter must come from the future. I told Grandpa not to go. I begged him. But nothing worked. A few hours later, he came back with our dead dog James and red eyes. 

At night he was working on something he took very seriously. So seriously that he began to sweat. Our whole family was worried about him. And a few hours later, he told Dad to check if their were any mistakes in the letter. I asked Dad if I could read the letter. I read it for a few seconds and freaked out. I showed him the letter I had read the whole day.  And their, I saw the Mail box open and the stand went up.

theme 1- metafiction + chainwriting

    It was a dark stormy night, lightning have hit the Empire State Building. Nobody thought the building would be fallen down right that moment. Well, it did break down. The traffics have been paralyzed and it became an emergency situation. Everyone was shocked. 

"The Empire State Building!"

     It was already on every news, and there were people hurt, and cars broken that more like looked like a scrapped vehicle. Nobody knew what to do the whole street was frozen of shock.
Meanwhile, in London, the Big Ben collapsed. There was only one person -or rather a penguin- who was injured. As soon as the injury of the penguin was put on YouTube, it got over 3 million views, viewed by sympathetic people. 
     Everyone demanded to know the poor penguin's name, which was yellow; his name was John, bleeding on the street and desperately looking at others to help him to the hospital. He's unconscious, and his fellow friend, Krystof, was crying for his friend.
     They arrived at the hospital, but the doctors were all too busy trying to help the people who were injured from the accidents. Although the nurses tried to get a doctor to work on the penguin, they couldn't. Eventually, John the yellow penguin died of internal bleeding. 
Enraged, the penguins all over the world came together as a rebellion. The PRA, penguin rebellion army formed their HQ in the North Pole.
     With Sena as the commander, and Sue as the vice commander, Robin was the official slave. His lacks of black ling hair was used to mop up things. He didn't obtain his former glory as te Fried Banana. Paul was married to Catherine, and it was an arranged marriage. Paul was attracted to John, but Catherine killed John to get the love of Paul. In the end he got what she wanted but their marriage wasn't a good one. 
Catherine slapped and whipped Paul every single day to satisfy herself. Soon, Paul died of stress. So Catherine had to find a new husband. 
     Paul became a God of all the heaven and had murdered Catherine for revenge. Now it's time for Paul to have a battle with Catherine's husband. Paul actually didn't want a fight, though.

theme1- metafiction + chainwriting

Success is the completion of anything intended. In other words, success is to finish things you haven planned to do. Even robbing a bank could be a success if you have planned, however you wouldn’t have intended to end up being in a prison! Success, is what everybody wants in life, whether it’s success in life or success in something you dream of, or it sometimes doesn’t come, but to let go, and more on is another form of success. Some tasks are not always made to be succeeded. Success, is a satisfaction for yourself. People say to never satisfy and have a big dream. But dreams have not many thing to do with it. Success, will be different definition for other people, but it really bases on how much you wanted to achieve. Success is also what you had in the procedure, not only the result. Well, in addition,I think that success brings you into a better person, from having success it proves how hard you worked, how hard you tried.

Some people, however, thinks that getting a yellow penguin for a pet is the only form of success. Maybe even naming the penguin John would be an accomplishment. Also, some poeple thinks that only the results are important, because if you tried hard but couldn’t get anything in life, then you’re the one who lost. And doesn’t have a yellow penguin named John. Besides, anyway, you can succeed at failing, but that would be failing on success, which is succeeding at failing. So anyway you put it, you won the game. Success is being happy in your life, no matter what the reason is. You may be poor and starving, but a complete happiness just makes you be successful until you end your life. Success is for yourself and yourself to be happy in your life. If you are happy about living on the earth, you are being successful, but even if you are honored and rich with your ability, if you are unhappy and worried all the time, that’s when you should try to be successful. If you were happy to be in GLPS, you succeeded, enjoying your learning  and classes.

Success. All humans thrive towards success. Everyone wants to be “successful”. We thrive to create a materialistic world even if we don’t mean to. Let’s take a look at an example of “John the yellow penguin”. Although it is just part of our imagination, some people have a sense of security when they think of “John the yellow penguin”. Just like all ideals, some are just impossible to attain. “Success” may seem far and hard to reach. We can be successful in small things perhaps getting an improvement in test score or such. At the end of next week, we will all go back home. It might be sad but this also can be considered as “success”. We all succeeded to finish this camp and it is very important to end it successfully.

theme 1- meta fiction +chainwriting

Sangeun's work




Maybe it was because I crazy. When I was 7, I had a best friend called Jiwon and whe and I were in crush with a boy. But the boy only paid attention to my best friend so I did everything to get his attention such as killing my best friend. Then that boy told me that he loves me. So I killed him too. Then the mext day, the police arrested my parents for no reason. So I tried to kill those cops too but they pointed the un at me! then Avril Lavigne's song "girlfriend" came on the radio, so I got really hyper. So I told the cop to become my girlfriend. He agreed and we got maried. We built a rocket and flew off into space and landed on Pluto. We renamed the planet "girl friend". We made a new generation on pluto and they looked alien-like. We generation on pluto and they all looked alien'loke. we took out rocket ship back to earth with the nation of pluto. Earth declared war on U.S. They became afraid becuase I was too beautiful. I looked even much more beautiful than Kim Taehee or Suzy. All women in Earth were afraid becauese they worried about men on the Earth. They were packing to go tk pluto nad wee me in real. Yes I am BEAUTIFUL! Mhahahaha I'm worried becaue I an very busy so I'll not be able to give my signature to all men coming here from the Earth. Anyway they arrived. And there was a boy with long hair from Vietnam and his name was Robin. OMG. I loved him.I tried my best to get his attension. One day he proposed me but I rejected to know him more. We became good friends and it seemed like he didn't like me anymore. He was into another girl whose mane was Sue. He said she was beautiful. Unfortunately, Sue was foing out with a boy who raped 100 women. So Robin ot mad and he suicicied. How sad? A very sad story was that Sue did not know that the fuy is actually a rapist. Since Sue was a food firl and even thouh Robn liked her, she was one of my good friends and I decieded to tell Sue about the guy. One day, walking on a street, I saw Sue having a date sith him in a coffee shop. Once I had an eye contact with that guy, I scorned at him. i walked up to him and slapped him back and forth 52 times, and poit a cup of water on jim. he got mad and spat at my face. i punched him. Hobin succenly entenecl the cafe and started punching hi sith me. but it turnde out to be another guy. Sue was actually a player. I felt we shouldn't do this. We should just finish the whole thing. Now we should get away from each other. For or to not remember the shole thing happened.

Hi everyone

Hi everyone I'm Charlie and I found a essay book that I scraped everyone's work at my writing class when I was at elementary school. There are almost four to three themes and I'm going to post five to seven essay per themes.