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I am a Korean girl living in the United States of America. No one really understands what it feels like to move to a different country where you don’t know anything about, until they do it for themselves. Everything is the same, but different at the same time. An abrupt wind that hits your face, the cars racing on the roads, people talking and laughing on the streets, everything seems a little odd; like a piece of the puzzle that is fit in a wrong place. On top of every challenging thing, the…

Monkey See, Monkey Do When you try new things it’s because something or someone somewhere brought the idea to your mind, or else how would you know it was new if they hadn’t? Our everyday lives are influenced by new ideas and concepts. If it wasn’t for advertising we would be able to speak or walk. Since our adolescences, previous generations have been advertising these new concepts to us and we bought into it. We see everyone else has it or doing it and we just got to try it for ourselves.…

The use of Social Media have become insanely popular for people to communicate with one another over the years. People are now able to communicate with their friends, family, or coworkers through a link, video, wall post, or a picture. Social Media users are capable of sharing different details, stories and opinions about their lives through many different Social Networks such as Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook have been a source of communication from one person to another no…

The experiment To help with my problem, I tried to forget about what others thought of me and tried to express myself. Some days my experiment with myself saw better results than others. The amount of stress on myself impacted how well I could focus on the experiment. Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to be more open with my emotions and communicating with others more often. I found myself expressing my feelings more often, which is a sign that I am starting to trust others more.…

Paying attention for the past three days has changed my opinion on how I should live and view my life. Although technology in society is beneficial for many, new studies are showing that technology may be affecting us negatively too. Often times we lose essential part of our days because we become so immersed in our phones and gadgets. Paying attention has showed me that I am forgetting to slow down and take a breath in my busy days at Cal Poly. Often times I need the listen to my surroundings…

Dog food advertisers often use personification and factual claims to support their positions. The most common arguments include that their brand is healthier for your dog and will allow them to live longer. Pedigree took a different approach with a recent ad and presented the importance of relationships between a dog and their owner. The ad displays a lonely man on the beach in one image, and the same image on the right side but with the inclusion of a dog. This Pedigree ad uses the man and the…

Statement of Purpose / UCSD / Computer Vision / Ph. D. Sung-Pil Paek [Introduction] This statement applies for admission to the Ph.D. program in Department of Computer Science and Engineering of UCSD, specifically, to continue my study in computer vision as a subfield. I indeed am interested in recognizing, identifying, and detecting the real world through computers in particular with visual information. Based on an understanding of our surroundings of life, I always enjoy replacing the…

Reviewing one’s strengths and weaknesses is something that I feel like is a necessary evil throughout one’s lifetime. Yet it’s not something that I feel comes easily to many people. To take a good hard look at yourself and decide what you’re good at and what you’re not can be difficult. It seems as if when you think you’re good at a certain task, another person tells you that you’re not all that good at it at all. On the flipside though, usually people who think they’re terrible at a task are…

“Unfilmable” Watchmen In 2009, Zack Snyder filmed the first and only adaption of what was considered to be an “unfilmable” (Van Ness 172) graphic novel: Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Moore was a firm believer in the fact that it was a story unable to be transferred over from a comic to another medium – the story was meant to stay in the medium it was designed for. The graphic novel allows for a complex, metatextual narrative structure to be employed to tell such the story of Watchmen that is filled…

In 2002, The American Council of the Blind sued the United States Government for discrimination because the size and feel of American banknotes are identical regardless of their face value. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in 2008 (The American Council of the Blind v. Paulson). The case struck me when I first heard it, and I am still fascinated by it. It sparked an epiphany in terms of my own creativity; it’s dangerous to follow repetitive routine blindly. I discovered my passion for…