Monday, November 29, 2010

Modern Religious Experience: Personal Commemoration- Reflection #7

Modern Religious Experience: Personal Commemoration- Reflection #7: "Think of an event in your life- past, present or future. You are going to create a commemorative ritual for this event. First, describe the ..."

The most important event in my life that I would likely to commemorate is my (high school)graduation day. There are two reasons for this. First of all, it is because graduation happens only once in my life, and it gives people new start as becoming an adult. The other reason is because then I would have to leave South Korea, the place that I lived in most of my life, and hopefully leaving to the State. On that day, I would look at SFS at first, then I would stay at my home city- Suwon- during the last day that I stay before leaving.

The quote I would like to make for this special day is:

"You will start a new fresh life, gaining more responsibility and freedom. You shall know how to act upon your people around you. Now as an adult, you will open the door to a new world."

Thursday, November 11, 2010

The Morality of Greek Myths- Reflection #6


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Chimera- Pegasus, the Winged Horse

     The main character in the story Pegasus, the Winged Horse is named Bellerophon. He is a noble and trustworthy man who goes through hard times after he meets Anteia. After the long journey, King Lobates send Bellerophone to kill the monster Chimera, so that he will lose to the ugly beast and get killed. However, with Minerva's help he gets to fight as riding the Pegasus. Since Bellerophone got more advantages then Chimera because he was riding on the winged horse, he gets the victory and receives numerous of reward. As he enjoys everyone's respect for him, he thought of himself as one of the Gods and overacted by stating he's got the ultimate power. However, the god Jupiter sees this disrespectful man and strucks Bellerophone with thunder and ends in tragic.

     This story contains countless numbers of morals, and there are two main ones that I came up of. But to sum up, the main moral is that always respect the Gods and never look same or down on them. This is shown in the story clearly at the end. In the beginning Bellerophone was a loyal young man who was modest and did right things every time. However, after he won the monster and earned a wife and lived in a nice surrounding, he still wanted to join the gods at the Olympus. This disrespectful action causes his miserable ending and gives disappointment to the readers for totally changed personality comparing beginning and the end.