TOPIC20090224 (1)Mix it up and leave! (2)Oprah Winfrey(급수정)

[Rage@MaChine]

JYM  DISCUSSION  TOPICS

[Topic#1] Mix it up and leave!

Not long ago, China’s melamine food contamination scandal shocked the world.  This is not just China’s problem. Recently, a different type of food concern has arisen in Korea. In October 2008, a TV program investigated 20 restaurants and found that 16 of those (80 percent) reuse food that had already been served to others. In Seocho-gu, a district in southern Seoul, it was found that more than 90 percent of 200 restaurants in the area reuse food. Expensive restaurants were not an exception to this practice.

  Korean food is customarily served with many side dishes. Some of the practices include dicing leftover kimchi and reusing it for the next customer’s kimchi stew; leftover rice is boiled for the next customer’s nuroongji soup (soup made from the crust of overcooked rice). Such a practice is unhygienic and creates a dangerous opportunity for the transfer of germs and serious diseases from one person to another.

 The government immediately reacted to this shocking news. Seocho-gu has initiated the Safe & Clean Food campaign which includes encouraging customers to take leftover food home and certifying restaurants that do not reuse food. On Nov. 26, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, recognizing the seriousness of [the practice of] reusing food in eateries, proposed to amend the content and regulations of the Food Sanitation Act.

 Under the proposed revision, as previewed recently, if a restaurant reuses food, a one month suspension of business shall be imposed upon the first violation, a two month suspension for the second violation, and if the violation occurs three times within one year the business will be shut down or its business license canceled. The ministry also plans to reward whistleblowers because reusing food is done secretly in the kitchen.

 The law will work better if the names of the restaurants caught reusing food are published. Under Article 39-4 of the current enforcement decree of the Food Sanitation Act, the name of a restaurant that has violated the Food Sanitation Act must be published on the Internet or in daily newspapers. So there is a legal basis for informing the people which restaurants they should not patronize unless they want to eat trash.

 It may continue forever as long as many customers want to eat out as much as they can and restaurant owners want to make as much profit as possible. Think carefully before going to a restaurant that serves a lot of side dishes at a low price. Don’t take too much food - take only the amount you can eat.

 Best of all, mix up all the leftover food when you leave the restaurant. This will probably work much more effectively than adding another provision to the Food Sanitation Act.

[source: JoongAng Daily February 05, 2009]

[Discussion]
1. Do you prefer eating at home or eating out?  When eating out, what are your criteria for choosing a restaurant? 

2. Can you trust the hygene of food served in restaurants? 

3. Do you have any idea to improve sanitation of both restaurants and the food served? 

4. Tell us about your bad memories regrarding eating out at a restaurant.

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[Topic#2] Oprah Winfrey’s Life & Success

Oprah Winfrey is a very important philanthropist who created a remarkable school for girls in South Africa. Of course, all celebrities start from somewhere, But Oprah’s childhood was an unfortunate part of her life. Once she started to become famous, she gathered her money and pushed it toward the greater good of the world. Oprah wanted to create a charity of her own but in the form of a school. 

 Her school in South Africa is the new part of her life. She dreams that these girls (it is all girls’ school) will become Africa’s future leaders. Oprah’s childhood helped her to be strong and become an amazing and successful person. It also told her that she does not want others to suffer from terrible things like she did. 

  Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29th 1954, to a pair of unmarried teenagers in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She was born into a Baptist family and her mother, Vernita Lee, originally wanted her name to be Orpah, a name from the Bible, but she accidentally misspelled her name and spelled it Oprah, but her Dad, Vernon Winfrey, liked it so she was named Oprah Gail Winfrey.

  Oprah’s parents were having a tough time figuring out what was going to happen to them and their new baby Oprah. So, Oprah lived with her grandmother until she was six when her grandmother died. After the tragic death of her grandmother, Oprah moved in with her mother and three half brothers. They lived in an inner city ghetto in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

  After living with her mother for a few years, Oprah was being abused by close relatives that her family trusted. This abuse started at the young age of nine. Being mixed into these unfortunate events, Oprah was also becoming a tough to deal with teenager. She ran away from home numerous times. She was the type of who teen that would break her glasses in order for her mother to buy her some newer, more stylish pair of glasses. And to top it all of, she got pregnant at the young age of fourteen. Sadly, the baby died after birth. 

  Her mother could not take it anymore so she sent her daughter to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was a lot stricter than her mother. In fact, he made her learn five vocabulary words each day or else she would not receive any dinner. This was an important part of young Winfrey’s life because from this point on she was very successful.

  When Oprah went to a new high school in Nashville, she became an excellent student. She was an honors student and she was voted most popular girl. She was also academically successful too. She joined the school’s speech team and placed second at a national competition. Her skills of being an incredible speaker won her first place at an Oratory contest and earned a scholarship to Tennessee State University. 

  From this point on, Oprah started to become the celebrity that we know today. Starting with her freshman year at Tennessee State University, she won herself the titles of Miss Black Nashville and Miss Black Tennessee. With all her publicity and her background on being a good speaker, Oprah got a job as the first African American female co-anchor at the age of nineteen. 

  After graduating from Tennessee State University in 1976 with a degree in communications, she took the next step in her life by becoming apart of the news anchor business. Her first place as a new news anchor was in Baltimore as the co anchor of the six o’clock news. Then she was recruited to the local talk show People Are Talking, and she hosted the local version of Dialing for Dollars there, too. 

  After doing some local business in Baltimore, Oprah Winfrey became the head anchor of AM Chicago. She went from bad reviews to the highest rated talk show in Chicago! Then, in 1985, due to the popularity of the show, it was renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show. By the next year, the show was broadcast nationally. It soon became the number one talk show in America. Now she has fully transformed into the Oprah Winfrey that we know today.

  Due to her success, Oprah has her own book club, magazine (“O” Magazine), and (as I said before) talk show! But, she still felt like something was missing. So, she went to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and started one of the three Christmas Kindness’. She felt that the children that she helped were just like her when she was at age nine. Young, helpless, and, nowhere to turn, so, she helped out with other foundations such as, Moorehouse College, The Harold Washington Library, The United Negro College Fund, Tennessee State University Fund, Nelson Mandela Foundation, and, Christmas Kindness’.
[source:greatleaders.freewebspace.com]

[Discussion]
1. Do you like Oprah Winfrey?  Why do you like/dislike her?


2. What do you think is Opra Winfrey's secret of success?


3. Have you ever exprerienced any hardship in your life?  How did you overcome it?


4. What is your dream and what are you doing to realize it?

This is the end of the pages.  Thank you!

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[Martin]

수고하셨습니다. 첫번째 주제는 직접 작성하신건가요?

[Rage@MaChine]

마틴님, 물론 퍼온 거죠~ article밑에 source달아 두었습니다. 갠적으로 시간은 꽤 걸렸지만, 결과가 별로 볼게 없는 거 같아 부끄럽고 두려운 맘이군요^_^;

[이쁘니]

오프라 윈프리 성공스토리... 유명한 이야기죠~ 더 열심히 살아야겠다는 생각들고~ 사춘기때 제 인생 참 불행하다고 생각했을때도 있었는데...반성됩니다^^*

[Rage@MaChine]

혹시나 해서 지난 topic들 살펴보니 중복의 소지가 있어 급수정했습니다. 불편을 끼쳐드려 죄송합니다^_^;; 혹시 이것도 중복이거나 하면 언제든 연락주세요.

[Bolton]

수고하셨습니다. 또한 급히 수정하시느라 또 수고하셨습니다. topic올리는게 많은 부담이 되신듯... 편함 맘으로 올리시고 정모에서 심하게 욕먹으면 되는걸 너무 복잡하게 생각하신듯~^^ ㅋㅋㅋ

[cara]

ㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎㅎ

[Rage@MaChine]

볼튼님, 글케 '자상하게' 말씀해주셔서 정말 감사......라고 할줄 아셨나요? ;;; I'm gonna kill you Mr.Bolton ㅋㅋㅋ화욜에 뵈요, 야근이 없어얄텐데 ^_^

[noenemy]

형님 수고하셨습니다~ 영어도 영어지만 topic 내용으로 좋은 정보를 얻거나 도움이 되는 글들을 많이 접할 수 있어서 그런 점도 좋은 거 같아요^^ㅎ

[Annie]

...요즘 일터에서 스트레스가 많은데, 오프라 윈프리의 성공을 다시금 생각해보면서 더 나아진 애니의 모습을 기대해 보렵니다^^*

[cara]

저두 오프라 윈프리의 성공스토리를 보면서 힘을 내야겠습니다~ 내일 스터디에서 뵈어요^^*

[아코]

정말 고생하셨어요. ^^ 내일뵈여요~

[니콜라스]

good job!

[한스]

참석은 못해도, 혼자 거울 보고, 거울이랑 둘이 토론 좀 해야것네~~^^ 얘기하다가, 올라올지도~~^^;;;