Excerpt from “Girlfriend at the World’s End”

I was walking with my nose in a book when a strong, sweet fragrance violently distracted me. I would not have looked up had it been a sonorous, physical, or visual distraction, but the scent of spring made me close the book. I looked up to find beautiful flowers towering over the street. The branches…

Spiritual Journal: Worship

Spiritual Journal: Worship. I’m starting a new translation project. I will be uploading at least one comic strip, which is originally in Korean.

End of a journey, a new adventure

When I started this blog, I only expected a few of my classmates to read it. It was more for a personal record and to keep myself accountable that I started this blog, so thank everyone who has read through and liked, even followed, my blog. I’ve finished my Bad Research Paper and am taking…

Conclusion

RPractically speaking, it will be impossible to completely separate the scholar or the researcher and his or her work, because who the researchers are affects how they see the world and what they do with their work. As early as 1938: Dr. David Lindsay Watson made the seemingly simple point, as the title of his…

Perception of research in the sciences

What are the research principles, especially in terms of separating the persona of the researcher and his or her work, in different disciplines? The methodology and how the public accepts the validity of a researcher’s work is clearer within the National Sciences. According to Lisa Keränen, “the terms science and scientist conjure commanding images of…

VIII. Case study in Art/Music/Pop culture

Unlike the sciences or even English and history, persona of an artist or a musician is always open to criticism and scandal. There are constant updates about what a celebrity did or did not do, but what exactly are the effects of personality and character in artistic disciplines such as music and art? Are there…

Terminologies

In this paper, I will use both “character” and “personality,” because the two terms seem to hold different weights. Character is something that is more innate and general while personality is a specific trait in a person. Someone could have a good character but a bad personality, and personality seems to be more malleable and…

Case study in Anthropology: Rigoberta Menchu

Rigoberta Menchu, an illiterate Maya peasant from Guatemala, testified in her biography, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, about the horrors and violence of the Guatemalan government against the natives, which led to the Mayan genocide. This biography published in 1984 rallied the international community to force the Guatemalan government to sign a peace treaty…

History & Paradox of Language

In his book, Scandals & Scoundrels: Seven Cases that Shook the Academy, Ron Theodore Robin looks closely at other factors, such as the public’s hunger for scandal or a scholar’s ability to channel the public fascination for a history hero figure, not just at the effect of personality/character. His general view on the research act and…

White Elephant

The season for White Elephant is back. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it is a gifting game similar to Secret Santa, except you don’t know who will eventually end up with which gift. You pick a number from a hat to decide the order of turn. In that order, each…

IV. Case Study in Art History

The research act extends beyond the typical lab work; a hoax or a con act also involved research on the part of the con man. In this type of research act, the character and personality of the researcher, which in this case is a con man, play an even greater role in how his work…

Rough Outline

Here is a rough outline of the final paper. Please comment, but especially on the bold parts of the outline, which specifically contains questions that I might not be able to figure out or decide on my own. I. Introduction -Main question: What is the effect of character in research, and how do different disciplines…