Things I can't understand about MNET

Mnet is an music broadcasting channel, and nowadays, they are broadcasting a hip-hop survival program named 'Show Me the Money'. It is the second season , and last year, same program was held, though with lot of criticisms. However, season 2 is not that much better than season two, mainly because of the directors of SHOW ME THE MONEY.

First of all, it is using the so-called 'Evil-Editing'. This simply means that what people see in television is totally different from what happened in the studio. For instance, a rapper named Jo, Uoo-jinn, after finishing his performance, said 'Kanto(another rapper) was not in good condition. But, I think I was the worst on stage today, and that I am not going to survive in this round'. In contrast, it was broadcasted as 'Kanto was not in good condition, worst on stage today, and not going to survive in this round' which is totally different from what he actually said. Because of this, innocent rapper Jo, Uoo-jinn was harshly criticized by numerous hiphop-listeners. This is not the only case, but I bet that I will make a short story if I explain it all.

Also, even though the program is an hip-hop survival, the rules of survival is not consistent, and is hard to accept in common sense. There was an one-on-one rap battle, and only one person was able to survive. In the end, 25people were left. However, right then, only 10 rapper was chosen by the judges. This is awkward, since there was no meaning of doing the rap survival if it were going to choose 10 people , with 15people just doing nothing after the rap battle.

I do hope that please Mnet make sensible actions, as a viewer of Show ME the Money.

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My Personal Narrative- The way I live my life

Almost every people account an event that brings significant impact on their lives. For instance, Helen Keller would have had a mere chance to succeed if it were not for the teaching of Ms. Sullivan, and Korean Scientist Jang, Youngshil would not have able to invent lots of scientific gadgets if he couldn’t meet Emperor Seajong. As with these people, I also had something that entirely changed the overall attitude toward my life when I was attending middle school. That is, to say, getting to know about hip-hop music through my best friend, Kim, Namkyoung.

It was about 8months from now, when I started to listen to hip-hop. Before, I, like most of my peers, listened to K-Pop, and were fan of idol girls. One day, I had the chance to listen to a song called ‘Airbag’ by Table, and for no reason I was seriously addicted to it. How addicted I was? Well, in our class, I had a close friend named NamKyoung, whose dream is to be a rapper, and I asked him to teach me how I can accomplish the rap part in the song. I sang it in front of him, which was horrible of course, and asked him for revision. What he said was though, ‘just try harder.’ Regardless of my dismay, from then on I started to listen to hip-hop music. As time passed by, I felt as if hip-hop music is the best in the world, because of exciting rhythms, and mostly because of the genuine lyrics without affectations. Furthermore, I started to admire all the rappers, as I was just amused by the fact that they can produce rap music, which motivated me to compose my own song. Feeling as if I am a musician, I showed to my friend, Namkyoung. After taking a glance look at it, he tore it off; he told me it is a crap. I was shocked and despondent because I never expected my close friend would do such a thing. Nevertheless, something inside me kept pushing me to learn how I can improve. So I asked him for some advice. He kept his neglectanct attitude, and kept saying that I should just give up on it. But I didn’t. I grabbed this little hope that I can improve if I kept on practicing. Without letting my parents know, I stood up in the midnight until about 3a.m. and wrote lyrics, fixed lyrics, practiced rap. As time passed by, and as my skills improved, he started to become a bit more open-minded, and told me about some concepts related with hip-hop. The most important concept was to be modest, and not boast around with hip-hop. That was why Namkyoung was not generous when I first encountered hip-hop, as he thought that I may not be modest if I was praised from the start.

 After I heard that, and as time passed by, I started to become more modest of myself. Rather than exaggerating or being bossy of one’s ability, I thought that being modest and enhancing one’s ability is much better, whether it is music, studying, or sports. Thanks to my friend, Namkyoung, through learning about hip-hop, not only I was able to enhance my rap skill, but also I could become more modest of myself.

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Show Me The Money season 2 review episode #1 y

'Show Me The Money' is a hiphop- survival audition program that is held in Mnet. Season 1 was held last year, which can be abbreviated as 'half-success'. There were lots of miscommunication between hiphop artists and the directors of Show Me the Money.

With that, season 2 started, and as a lover of hip-hip music, I hoped that the program has advanced, and it did! The line-ups of musicians had better quality, and there were more investments on the program itself.

However, I did felt something uncomfortable in the program.

In the show, a rapper named Swings participated in the audition. Swings, is actually a pro- rapper, and he is one of the most skillful rapper in Korea. Because of it, it was questionable enough to ask him 'why did you participate in this program?'. In the interview, he replied that he wanted to start from the basic, and be re- evaluated without his name value. However, during the program, that was ironic, since his lyrics and attitudes toward other competitors seemed to be bragging about what he has done in the past. Instead of being modest, he was arrogant about himself, and did not try to cooperate with other rappers, and rather ignored them.

After watching the program, I began to wonder how Swings will change his attitude.

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Chu Shi Biao

It's about two weeks after we came back from vision trip, and I felt lots of things, which motivated me to pursue on finding my dream, and working hard on everything I do. To illustrate, vision trip made me realize what I have to do for the two and a half years in KMLA. With it, I planned lots of things to do in KMLA, mostly related with academic activities.

However, it was not easy to implement what I planned. I was used to playing tetris and chatting in facebook, which I mostly did during the trip, so I kept doing it in KMLA, even during the self-study period. I felt that something was going wrong, because I was acting the way completely different from what I promised for myself.

Therefore, I have been trying to change for several days, and one of the methods I found was taking challenging courses in 2nd semester. I've always felt that I have great interest in science compared to social subjects, therefore I planned myself to take Ap Physics C, Ap Chemistry, and Ap Environmental science. I thought that if I took such subjects in freshmen year, I would be able to learn more complicated matters, such as conducting research, and deeply think about what I like and what I am interested in. Unfortunately, I couldn't take Ap Physics C, since the subject was held the same time with Ap Chemistry.

Also, on K and M module, I am planning to take 'Introduction to English Literature', the so- called 'hell' subject. This sounds crazy enough for a student who takes Ap Chemistry and Ap Environmental science. This is not the end though, I am also going to take Ap Microeconomics. The main reason for this is that in KMLA, it is required to take 12 units of social subjects. If I take Ap Microeconomics, I can fully focus on studying in-depth science after freshmen year. 

To summarize, I am definately crazy. I am going to take Ap Chemistry, AP Environmental science, Ap Microeconomics, and Introduction to English literature. Most of the seniors do not recomend this selection, and none of my peers do. However, I have a strong desire to take in-depth courses after my freshmen year, and I promise to myself that I am going to fully overcome all the difficulties. Therefore, I am going to go crazy, and challenge my limits.

This is my Chu Shi Biao for my second semester.

Let me get crazy.

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Toefl Essay #2: Global Union!

In the 21^st century, there are many ongoing changes within the society, such as development of science technologies, growing populations, changes in several ecosystems and other many factors are the cause for such changes. In the past, there were also many changes within a society. For instance, there were two world wars in 20^th century and industrial revolution in the 19^th century. In this century, I insist that 21^st will become an era where each society is hugely dependent on other parts of the globe. This is because increasing number of people is becoming aware of social issues around the globe, and because many countries have to solve environmental problems by cooperation.

To begin with, each society will become more dependent on each other since many people get to know the various social issues. Advancement of technology greatly impacted this. According to a research, one billion people are already online and this figure is expected to double within a decade or so. There are also 2.5 billion using cellphones and the number of people using smartphones is rapidly increasing. Due to this, many incidents such as coups in Africa are quickly delivered to many people across the world as people upload the news on Facebook or other social network services. Moreover, as aero technologies have been developed, more nations can watch over other countries through satellites. As social events are quickly spread through quickly developing social networking systems, many people will be more aware of what is happening around the globe.

Moreover, many countries have to be dependent on each other because of the growing attention on environmental problems. There are many factors that commit to this, such as the rapid depletion of fossil fuels, expensive cost for developing renewable energies and the Brazilian government trying to destroy the crucial Amazon forest. Therefore, many countries are holding treaties on developing renewable energies and co-researching on technologies which are beneficial to the future of earth. Not only that, but also many countries are holding treaties for the safety of their nation, mainly because environmental problems effects worldwide. For instance, when there was nuclear accident in Japan, it even affected the western part of America. To sum up, many countries are holding increasing number of treaties, such as economical funding or protecting their nation. Thus, it is reasonable to argue that many countries are becoming more dependent on each other in environmental issues.

To conclude, the 21^st century led the globe to be more dependent with each other. This is because many people have become more aware of the social issues, and because there are growing consideration with environmental issues, which is a global problem. As technologies are undergoing rapid development, and as more and more people realize the seriousness of the environmental problems these days, I strongly believe that Earth would become extremely connected.

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