Lee,+Da+Bin

1. Have you ever made an assumption about someone or something and later discovered you were wrong? Yes, I have made an assumption about someone or something. Before, when my friend and I were calculating numbers of people in our grade my friend asked me how many people there are in our grade but I forgot to find out the number of people so without actually counting I just assumed that there are 20~24 people in one class and made a total that there are 67people in our grade. 2. What led you to make the incorrect assumption? I forgot that I had to count how many people we have in our grade so when it was the day to tell my friend I felt sorry that I didn’t do my task on time, when my friend did, so I just had to assume and tell my friend that there are 67 people in our grade. 3. What did you do when you discovered you were wrong? After, when I discovered that the total of the people in our grade was wrong I went back to my friend and told her that I’m really sorry that I assumed and lied to her and I told her the actual number, luckily she did not use the wrong number of people that I gave so she just changed the number. 4. Is it human to assume or should we be more careful? Human is to assume because whenever there are new things or when things you are not sure/unfamiliar comes to human we just assume what it is and just think the way we assumed then afterwards when we realize the truth, we will be able to learn new things and gain knowledge from the assumption that we have made.

You raised an interesting point Da Bin - Is making a false assumption the same as lying? If we mislead others because our assumptions were wrong are we responsible for correcting this? This is a tricky issue in politics as well. Perhaps you recall the debate over whether or not Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The governments of the world looked at what they felt was evidence and assumed that Iraq was hiding weapons-after the war had already begun they realized they were wrong. Some people felt that the government had lied - others felt they had simply made the only logical assumption - what do you think? Should they be held responsible?

**Who's right?**  ** How can we decide wether or not it was ethical for Mr. Birling to fire Eva Smith becasue she went on strike for higher wages? ** I think that it is right for Mr. Birling to fire Eva Smith because she went on strike for the higher wage. If Eva Smith went on strike, there must be a reason that she went on a strike, maybe, because she needed more money in this economy where there are prizes rising, IMF and many more. But if she needs more money becasue of the bad economy, it's not only her who would want higher wages, there will be many people, even Mr. Birling, who would like higher wages because of these economic problems. So, in my opinion i\ think Mr. Birling is able to fire Eva Smiths. Also, becasue every people are suffuring from the bad economy, not just Eva Smith, and everyone wants a higher wage to live. Therefore they should not argue about it to the high status people and go on strike, instead, they should wait till the economy goes back to normal and wait for hope.

//Good point Da Bin, it is difficult for businesses to give to one employee and not to another. As you said, the owners probably want higher wages themselves. I wonder though, if everyone would prefer higher wages and acts accordingly (in his or her own self-interest) how would things run. How do businesses make difficult decisions about salarie and benefits? Because of the current world financial crisis and the bailout of several business giants, the salaries and benfits of the upper management (like Birling) have come into question. Should CEOs make substansially more than all other employees? How can we decide? What's fair? What obligations do we have to others? Clearly, your response has raised many further questions - perhaps we can try to discuss some of these in class?//

Sheila will think what she has done wrong and she will feel nervous about what she has done wrong and how she is related. For Eric, in our point of view we could already see that Eric is one of the cause of the girl's suicide because of his reaction so Eric will know what he did so he will feel guilty, nervous and not comfortable. Mr. Birling might felt that he wasn't the only one who caused this problem because of the inspector's anser and feel relieved than before.Finally, Gerald will feel also like Sheila and also feel like it's not really his buisness or is not that much related to him.
 * Q18: 'The other four exchanges bewildered and perturbed glances' (page 18). How are each of Sheila, Eric, Birling and Gerald now feeling? **