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Titanic

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After watching the movies, have you ever recalled the location set in the movies rather than characters? Many people do so. In other words, the location is an important element in the movie. People who watched the movie Titanic may think that the luxury steamship Titanic set in the movie totally impressed them. The reason why the ship is the important part of the movie is that most of the story’s events happened in the location.

At the beginning of the movie, on the day Titanic makes its first voyage, one woman and man as the main characters first meet each other like destiny. After winning a trip on the RMS Titanic during a dockside card game for third-class, Jack, the poor and painter, meets the woman Rose who is in the first class and supposed to marry her rich snob fiancé Cal on the deck by chance. After that, they have a good feeling with each other and keep meeting. However, in order to cut off their relationship, Cal starts disturbing them. To make matters worse, during voyage, the ferry collides with the big iceberg and this leads to a lot of death of people on board at the time. As a result, Jack and Rose’s magical love puts an end.

Titanic in appearance is not only the luxury ship but the location which exactly distinguishes classes between upper and lower by showing its two-sideness. When the ferry faces the emergency, the upper class who holds between third and fifth floors on the its upper part can escape easily. Whereas the lower class, the poor or labors for the ship normally staying under the sea surface have a difficulty escaping from it in the situation or are ruled out from the list to be rescued like Jack in the movie. Titanic is an example of frankly showing all these aspect of America at the time.

It can’t be set in any other location because it’s possible only for Titanic to frankly show that there’re conflicts between upper class and lower class and meeting of Jack and Rose like destiny that can’t be done in reality at the time. Is this the reason why people set their mind to the location of the story set in the movie?

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Kyle A. Brebner

IERW(03)

6 October 2016

A Need For Geotourism in Je-Ju

These days, the Je-Ju island which is located the south of Korea is welcomed from many foreign tourists over the world because of its beautiful landscape, nature and traditional places. Thanks to this natural view, the local region is getting growing and helping to vitalize its economy. However, even though growing, it is undergoing several problems as much as it is. For example, sometimes some heritage or historic sites get damaged by people and some local residents misuse cultural asset for their economic benefits. For this reason, there is in need of geotourism.

One possible effect of geotourism is to preserve Je-ju’s nature and its own tradition. Sometimes several tourists keep continually touching heritage or historic sites in spite of a warning or they use pens to let others knowing they visited there. In addition, other people usually use transportation such as cars and buses that can be harmful to natural environment. However, if using geotourism, Je-ju can’t suffer from those harms less than before and also by walking around directly, people can enjoy real beauty that Je-ju has and learn how important it is to preserve nature.

Another possible effect is economic benefits for the local. Because of tourism, Je-ju which is continuing growing is helpful for local economy and gives many local people employment. There are some people who misuse those benefits for them but with use of geotourism, there can be helps for the other people who are unemployed more. Also, if the region is developed economically, it can give tourists more comfortable and easy tour during trip. 

Therefore, today as an famous attraction over the world, to be developed more, Je-ju needs geotourism which can be benefits for tourists, the local people and Je-ju all and more people can realize the importance of nature and keep it clean.