BR 2-07: Why?

"Why are the children running away?" (P.23, Prowse, 2007).

The reason why I choose the book is that I  want to know about the story. The title is "Why?", so I thought what "why" is about. That is why I wanted to read the book.

This story is about the war. The main character is Alex, he wass a soilder in the army. He had to go Tonek, Glossia, so he said "good bye" to Sara. Sara was his girl friend. However, he was dead while patrol. He sent her email every day, but he could not send her email because he died. She worried about him and sent email to him, "Why don't you answer my emails? Are you OK? Why don't you write? Why? Why?" That's why the title is "why?"

The interesting point is that there is no town called Tonek, and there is no Glossia in the world. It is fiction. However, writer said, "There are countries  like Glossia all over the world." I think it is like non fiction.

Prowse, Philip. (2007). Why?. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

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typing homework 8 (my favorite actress)

One of my favorite actresses is Erika Sawajiri. she is so beautiful. I like her face. She is half the French and half Japanese. What is more, she is so good character actress. Her acting ability is so nice. She made her debut in 2003. In 2005, she played the leading role in "tears of 1 L". she became the focus of public attention. At the time, I was 14 years old, and 2nd grade of junior high school, when I watched the drama, I began to have so good impression for her. Regrettable, she is so stubborn that she happened many problems. For example, in 2007, her behavior was so bad in the movie interviews. She stop her activity for a while. She married Tsuyoshi Takashiro However, I did not hate her. Recently, she do actress activity again. I am happy that I can watch that she will be on TV again.

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BR 2-06: Fixing Cars

"I love spending time with you, grandpa!" (p.14, Holt, 2007)

The reason why I choose the book is that the it is funny and interesting picture. Sometimes, my car or my motorcycle were broken, so I felt same things of them. My car is old. We drive for about 10 years. So I want to read the book this time.

I will tell you the out view of the story. The main character is Bonnie. She is very boyish. She likes cars.  She really want model cars, but her mother cannot understand her thinking. Her mom said "girls need nice dresses and jewellery". Her parents believed girls should learn to cook and clean. However, her grandfather understand her feeling, so he give her model cars for her birthday. Finally, she is good at being fixed. It is very useful for her family.

The interesting point of the story is difference of thinking. I think her parents' thinking is very old. It denies her feeling.

Holt, Sharon. (2007). Fixing Cars. South Melbourne: Thomson Learning Australia.

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Essay 2-03a: How to study English in my high school days

 

When I was high school student, I studied English very hard because I had entrance exam for universities. Actually, I wanted to go other public university. Now, I go to Kumamoto Gakuen University. It is not the school which I wanted to go. I would like to tell you about how to study English. I think that it has three important points of my studing.

First of all, I studied a lot of words. I needed to have English vocabulary for passing entrance exam, so I bought English words card and studied over and over. Then, if I had unmemorable cards, I wrote words and pronounce again and again. The other way was listening to CD of pronouncing many English words. I have a book which called "Yumetan". It meant that "your dream can realize!". What a funny name the book was! The book was used by my English class of my school. Sometimes I had a quiz in the class, so I studied very hard!

Second, I had to read long sentence. In common English exam, it was made long sentence. However, it was the hardest for me to read long English sentence, so I practice reading long sentence any number of times. Sometimes, I was taught some hangs by my teachers. I became more and more read better reading English long sentence than before.

Finally, I had to write English composition. I needed to write English sentences in 2nd exam for public university. One of the hang was using simple words, and make simple English sentences. I changed the questions of Japanese to simple Japanese, and changed Japanese to English. Then, the Japanese sentences should be easy for making English sentences. The other hang was nothing, anyway, I made them and corrected right sentences.

In addition, when I was 2nd grade of high school, I listened to radio for study English. It was very basic and simple, but I reviewed basic English. The radio's channel was broadcasting every ordinary day. I listened to the channel every time.

As a result, although I could not go the school I wished, but it is good choice that I go to Kumamoto Gakuen University. It is precious experience that I studied all subjects very hard. I will make use of the experience to the full, and I hope I will get a job.

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McDonald; compare America with Japan

McDonald; compare America with Japan.

Saori Yoshizumi

I will tell you about McDonald in America. The reason why I chose the topics is that I worked McDonald in Japan. There are many Macdonald’s in the world. Before I visited America, I know that America is the birthplace of Mcdonald because I studied Reading II class in university. I was interested in American Mcdonald, so I told my host parents that I wanted to go to Mcdonald, and they took me to Mcdonald many times.

Recently, many people in the world use McDonald and eat and drink their foods. McDonald, the business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California. Their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 furthered the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant that the White Castle hamburger chain had already put into practice more than two decades earlier. The original mascot of McDonald's was a man with a chef's hat on top of a hamburger shaped head whose name was "Speedee." Speedee was eventually replaced with Ronald McDonald by 1967 when the company first filed a U.S. trademark on a clown shaped man having puffed out costume legs.

McDonald's first filed for a U.S. trademark on the name "McDonald's" on May 4, 1961, with the description "Drive-In Restaurant Services," which continues to be renewed through the end of December 2009. In the same year, on September 13, 1961, the company filed a logo trademark on an overlapping, double arched "M" symbol. The overlapping double arched "M" symbol logo was temporarily disfavored by September 6, 1962, when a trademark was filed for a single arch, shaped over many of the early McDonald's restaurants in the early years. Although the "Golden Arches" appeared in various forms, the present form as a letter "M" did not appear until November 18, 1968, when the company applied for a U.S. trademark.

McDonald's corporate logo used from 1968 to 2006. It still exists at some restaurants.The present corporation dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois, on April 15, 1955, the ninth McDonald's restaurant overall. Kroc later purchased the McDonald brothers' equity in the company and led its worldwide expansion, and the company became listed on the public stock markets in 1965. Kroc was also noted for aggressive business practices, compelling the McDonald brothers to leave the fast food industry. The McDonald brothers and Kroc feuded over control of the business, as documented in both Kroc's autobiography and in the McDonald brothers' autobiography. The site of the McDonald brothers' original restaurant is now a monument.

I think there are three different points.

First of all, in American McDonald's, there are a lot of menus. American McDonald has more kinds of menu than Japanese McDonald. For example, about sandwiches and burgers, there are 12 sandwiches and burgers in Japanese McDonald, as against there are 23 sandwiches in American McDonald (exclude sandwiches of a set period of time). I can tell you about its Drinks. In Japan, they have 25 kinds of drink, while there are 32 kinds of drink in America. As far as Drink is concerned, the size of America is bigger than Japan and we can pour carbonated drink our fill inside. Side menu are the same, there are more kinds of it in America than that of Japan. All menus have few same or many differences.

Second, I’ll tell you about drive-through and inside. I think American McDonald looks like Japanese McDonald. About drive-through, cars turn a screw counterclockwise because people have to keep the right side in America when people drive the car. In Japan, people have to drive the left side, so Japanese drive-through is contrary. If I am on inside, there are no menus on counter, only the upper side. In Japan, there are menus on counter, upper side and a lot of paper menus on inside.

Finally, It is different that merchandise is called. For example, in Japan, Sandwiches with medium drink and French flies, it is called "Set". However, in the U.S., people called it "combo". And what is called "potato" in Japan, people call it "French flies" in the U.S. I was surprised the difference when I heard them for the first time because I think that it is same how to call them.

Just the same, I found many same points between Japan and America. With reference to Sandwiches and burgers, some of them are same. Foe example, hamburger, cheese burger, double cheese burger, Filet-O-Fish, and so on. I think that French flies is the same size between Japan and America.

Basically,the form of treatment and a lot of logos are the same.

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Personal language learning history

• high school days
  
  • for entrance exam
    
    • vocabulary
      
    • reading
      
    • write English composition
      
  • listening to radio
    
• university
  
  • freshman
    
    • German
      
  • 1st semester of 2nd grade
    
    • talking to American

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