Category: english
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Personality Assessment Assignment
Yong Ho Kim, April 29th 2003 1. What are some criticisms of trait theory in general? Possible criticisms include that subjects can falsify answers because the result of a personality test can be personally important to them, that very often the questions are culture-specific, and that subjects across different cultures don’t necessarily present the same…
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Funny beard
The hairs in my beard are all turned counter-clockwise! Is it because of earth’s rotation?
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Depth of Processing Assignment
April 4th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim Kalat (2002) summarizes the traditional consensus in the psychological community regarding short-term and long-term memory. Short-term memory is a “temporary storage of the information that someone has just experienced’ and long-term memory is “a relatively permanent store of mostly meaningful information”. Additionally, short-term memory stores up to seven (plus…
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Yongho in arduous effort of explaining a 4th year girl how to solve the 1/4 inch on a map = 1 mile,
then 1 and 3/4 inch = how many miles? problem. Me: So, let’s draw a map. See, take the pen and draw a map.. something random like… *cough* South America *cough* Girl draws straight lines. Girl: So this is my room, here is my mom’s room, and this is the living, Me: What about doors?…
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I want a bike!
Snow’s gone, and before it comes back again I will buy some cheapo used bike, hopefully mountain. $50 to spare on this things that should last till august 2003. My problems: are there any regulations? Is the use of helmets enforced by the law? What about the red stoplights, or the bells? In the town…
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Shaping lever press behavior and fixed ratio training for water-deprived rats
Yong Ho Kim Macalester College Operant conditioning is a particular type of conditioning in which the subject associates particular behaviors with particular responses, and performs the behavior whenever it desires the response.
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Reflective Essay on Readings of Marx’s Early Writings
Professor Peter Rachleff January 29th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim While at Mac, I got to hear of current humanities theories during my Intro HCST class. Under professor Kordela’s guidance, I was introduced to Zizek and his approach to Lacan, and followed a survey of western thought from ancient Greece to Debord and Derrida, and came…
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Integration Paper on Race and Ethnicity
Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by December 9th Turned in by December 16th (7 days late) The U.S. banned the discrimination based on race, sex or ethnicity, through the Civil Rights Act, almost 40 years ago in 1964. However, more subtle, permeating forms of racism are prevalent in today’s U.S. society according to…
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the meaning of being a full-time student
I was thinking of how I used time up.. and how much time I had left. See, there’s 24*7=168 hours in the week. 56 sleep21 meals13 church (4 sunday worship +6 friday bible study+ 1.5 mac christian fellas + 1 bible study group)12 class (4 classes)4 talks 1.5 (reading circle) +1 (marx series) + 1…
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Integration Paper on Social Class and Inequality
Integration Paper on Social Class and Inequality Introduction to Sociology Professor Sharon Preves Due by November 18th, 2002 Turned in by November 25th, 2002 Yong Ho Kim Any large enough society in the world today faces problems of individual and social inequality among its people. In chapter 10 of his book, Newman has addressed this…
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refreshed
Yongho Kim: I drink coffee for strictly caffeine absorption purposes Sung Kyu Lee: i once drank 5 coffees in one sitting and got really sick, diaharrea and everything Yongho Kim: I got diarrea too out of eating two meals of cereals in a row Sung Kyu Lee: ahahaha Yongho Kim: green stuff Sung Kyu Lee:…
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Gender – China
Intro. To talk about current issues of gender inequality in China is to talk about the consequences of a quickly developing socialist society with a patriarchal, agriculturally intensive and confucianist tradition.
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Critical Book Review of Tracing the Veins
History of Modern Latin America Profesor Javier Morillo-Alicea November 11th, 2002 Yongho Kim The book Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata by Janet Finn is a study of two mining societies owned by one company. She intends to break off from the traditional way of viewing local histories as…
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Proposal: Nationalism in Argentina
Paper Topic Proposal History of Modern Latin America Profesor Javier Morillo-Alicea November 5th, 2002 Yongho Kim I will write my paper on the influence that Argentinian nationalistic self-image had on the ignition of dirty war and regional violence during Peronism and the military coup. In Prisoner without a name, cell without a number, Timberman indicates…
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Spring 2002 class quotes or memorable momenta bursting out of the green
Modern Philosophy Hans: On a sidenote, it seems like we could make an analogy between the Humean attitude of aggressive all-negation to that in… umm.. music, for example. Gundy: So Hume is the heavy metal of philosophy! Kevin: Yeah! Phil31 is offered every spring But Gundy teaches every semester. Analytic Chem Kuwata: so can anyone…
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Dingen for 2001-2002
I posted a short quotes list in my room, I got excited about em, and decided to post an expanded list of the memorable things during my stay of Mac during 01-02. Following the greek tradition, I shall separate them in academic disciplines: (don’t quote me on this Kat, I really didn’t know what to…
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Alsino and the Condor: The Choice of Identity Over the Law
Yong Ho Kim Professor Kiarina Kordela HCST 10 : Introduction to Humanities and Cultural Studies 25 April 2002 Alsino and the Condor is a movie filmed by the Nicaraguan Film Institute and co-produced by Mexico, Cuba and Costa Rica. According to The New York Times, it “is a film about injustice and revolution, not looked…
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Yooohoooo!
Viva el calor y la nieve! Don’t you love Minnesota? I wish those 95 degrees were accompanied by a snowstorm. That way, we’d appreciate the wonders of mother nature in an even more dramatic way.
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Lead emission decreasing around University of St. Thomas
Friday APRIL 12, 2002 50¢ Star Tribune NEWSPAPER OF THE TWIN CITIES / . Edition www.startribune.com Lead emission decreasing around University of St. Thomas By Yong Ho Kim anonymous submission SAINT PAUL, MN.―― Are students at University of St. Thomas (UST) more environmentally conscious than the mean of the population? The riverbank area of St.…