Book Review 2-06 “The Heart”

In this book, some things about heart are introduced. For example, the role, the place and the shape ect. Heart is important organ of human. It sends blood from head to foot. Children’s heart is the size of a fist. Adult’s heart is twice the size of a fist. And, whale’s heart is the size of a small car. I was surprised at the fact. I had many things that I knew for the first time when I read this book. Heart send blood a distance of 19,000 km.
And heart beats 10,000 times in a day, that is to say as 35 million times as in a year.


My heart beats everyday while I stay up and sleep. I think the fact is great. Recently, I lacking in exercise. But after I read this book, I think I must exercise for heart. And because smoking tasks heart, I never smoke.


Reference
Alan, T. (2007). The Heart. Melbourne: Thomson Learning Australia.

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October 18. ABC- 2

Next was judgment. After hairdressers left the hall, models stayed there. Judges were a famous hairdresser and the editor in chief of magazine in the whole country. And special judge was a talent, Suzanne. They stared at models and me. I felt stressed, because I got severe looks from them. The first judgment winnows the candidate down from 150 to 30. We waited an announcement of the result.


After we waited for a while, the result was announced. We passed the first judgment beautifully. Next was the final judgment. I was very nervous, because number of models decreased. I thought that I wasn’t watched by judges in the judgment. So I thought we cannot get an award.


Finally, the awarding ceremony started. Many kinds of awards were announced in turn. There were many sections. For example, ladies’ cut, men’s cut, hair make, and photo creation. All of them were beautiful works. I was happy to see. Then suddenly, the name of “Michika” was called. She receives two awards. They were awards of magazine. I was so happy, but another surprising thing was happened. She received the grand prix of the section!! We were excited. We went on the stage, and she received a certificate of merit. I received a trophy from Suzanne. I was so happy. It was like a dream. After the awarding ceremony, I was taken pictures by some people.


I was happy, because I experienced rare event. I am interested in fashion and beauty, so I think that the experience is so profitable for me. And I think creating is wonderful work.

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October 18. ABC- 1

I took part in a contest of hair cut “ABC” as a hair model on October 18 in Fukuoka. ABC is “Asia Beauty Congress". About two thousands of hairdressers and beauty technical college students took part in it. I undertook the part because I was asked by a hairdresser of beauty salon “pikaichi” in Kumamoto. She is Michika, still an assistant in salon. She is same age as me, so we become friends soon. I went to the salon, because we had to predetermine clothes, makeup and hairdo. We selected clothes together. I selected favorite clothes as if it is my usual shopping. But it was correct. We could decide clothes quickly. Makeup was so fancy. Under eyes were painted yellow. Cheeks were painted glaring orange. And I was stick seals of star under left eyes. I left Michika to decide hairstyle. I had bob hair since I was a high school student. I thought I want to change hairstyle. So I was looking forward to changing.


That day of the contest, I went to Marine Messe in Fukuoka. When we arrived at Marine Messe, there were many many people. They look like people concerned beauty, because everyone is fashionable. We came in the hall. And I was made up for the first judgment. After makeup, I sat on a chair in the hall. There were many pairs model and hairdresser. We entered in a section of “Under 23 years old”. There were about 150 hairdressers.


The first judgment started at last. Every hairdresser started to cut hair all at once. The time limit was 40 minutes. They must to cut and set hair in 40 minutes. I had a timer in my hand, and I informed the time to Michika. Michika finished cutting and setting. But I didn’t see my hair yet.

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Book Review 2-05 “Rainforests”

Rainforests

I read a book about rainforests. Recently, I am interested in the global environment. I had many questions about it. And I also had some questions about rainforests. Now, I will express my questions. And I will answer them on the basis of the book’s subject matters.


1. What are rainforests?
Rainforests have a genial climate. There are very tall trees. And, rainforests are forests where it rain a lot all the year around. Rainforests are in Africa, Asia, Australia, Middle America and South America. The biggest rainforest is “Amazon”. It is in South America.
2.Why are rainforests important?
Rainforests is important for ecosystem all over the world. Many animals and plants live in rainforests. While forests are disappearing, many species are threatened with extinction. Zoo cannot save all animals. And rainforests settle the climate. They can protect from floods, lacks of water and erosions. They are sources of medical herbs and foods. And they support the life of the original inhabitant. And I think rainforests are the nice places to travel.
3. Why are there many species of animals and plants in rainforests?
Trees in rainforests get much sunshine. The sunshine changes into energy. Rainforests get much sunshine, so they have much energy. The energy is saved by plants. And the plants are eaten by animals. Rainforests have many provisions of plants and animals. So, many species of animals and plants live in rainforests.
4. Why do rainforests disappear in the world?
The main cause is human being. Human cut down trees for many purposes. For example, human fells trees to use lumbers and firewood, to secure grounds for agriculture, for pasture and to set up roads.


I was surprised at the present condition of rainforests. Recently, I hear that foresting many trees is effective for the earth. But when I took a course of “theory of environment”, I knew it is not necessarily right. Even if planted trees absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, the number of carbon does not decrease easily. Trees fell down have to be buried below the earth for decrease of number of carbon; otherwise they emit carbon various ways. In other words, “Planting trees = cutting carbon dioxide” is wrong. I think that it is eventually important to save primeval forests which are made by earth.

Reference
Rowena, A. (2008). Rainforests. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Essay 2-02a: Encounter with Languages

I think that learning language is difficult, especially foreignlanguages are difficult. Foreign languages differ widely from mother tongue in spoken language and written language. But mother tongue is also difficult. I think that speaking and writing decency is lifelong learning. Now, I will introduce my language learning experience. I have ever studied Japanese, Spanish and English.


First, I’ll tell you about my Japanese learning experience. Japanese is my mother tongue. I have heard Japanese since I was a baby. So I can speak and write it. Before I went to an elementary school, I learned “hiragana” and “katakana” from my mother. I liked reading picture books in my childhood. I have an elder sister. I wanted to read correctly like my sister, so I memorized with all my might. In elementary school, I learned “kanji” at the first time. The impressive thing is the writing order of “kanji”. I learned from my teacher that we can write beautifully if we write the correct order of kanji. And I often read aloud. I read to parents every day, and my parents paint a graph of reading every day. I was happy in that time. In junior high school, I learned Japanese classics at the first time. And, we recited them in my school. Recitation is difficult for me. But I owe it to the recitation that I remember famous phrases of Japanese classic. In high school, I study them deeply. I read many writing for examination. So I dislike reading at that time. But now, I enjoy Japanese. I like reading books very much. Once I begin to read, I can’t stop. So I often bring books into bathroom. When I read a book in bath tub, I feel happiness.


Second, I’ll tell you about my Spanish learning. I studied Spanish last year. I chose it as a second foreign language in university. I was interested in studying Spanish, because I liked Brazilian music. Brazilian music is sung in Portuguese. I knew Portuguese is alike Spanish. My favorite point of Spanish is the pronunciation. When I listen to the speaking and singing, I feel comfortable. I think that Spanish has unique rhythms and sounds. I cannot take Spanish class this year due to other classes. But I want to study deeper, so I’m going to take Spanish class next year.


Third, I’ll tell you about my English learning. I began to study English from a junior high school student. At first, I studied Alphabets. I found my then English note the other day. It seems easy, but I studied hard at that time. In high school, I studied for an examination. I memorized hardly many words. And I practiced reading English sentences speedy. I enjoyed studying with favorite text books. After I entered Kumamoto Gakuen University, I enjoy studying English more. It is because I can study English freely in University. I made this blog, and I write about many events. I can write officially home works and privately events in this blog. So I can enjoy in freely mind. And I have four classes this year. They are Writing, Reading, Speaking and Listening. I like Writing and Reading. And I am poor at Speaking and Listening. In Japanese, I’m poor to speaking and listening. For example, I dislike speeches and memorizing after hearing. On the other hand, I usually like reading books and writing compositions and essays. I think I have awareness of weak point about speaking and listening in all language. I want to stop the awareness. If I stop the awareness, I can study English activelier.


I already explain my language learning. I have been studying Japanese for 20 years and studied English for 9 years. Setting Spanish aside, I have been studying for long time in my life. In spite of that fact, I'm not good at Japanese and English. For example, I cannot speak Japanese honorific words and fluent English. I think afresh that learning language is difficult, and it is lifelong learning.

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I have ever studied Japanese, English, Italian and Spanish. I like especially to study Spanish. I studied Spanish last year. My favorite point of Spanish is the pronunciation. Spanish pronunciation is easy for me. And the sound is so good. I like Brazilian music. The music is sung in Pol

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Award!!

I took part in a contest named “Asia Beauty Congress” in Fukuoka on last Monday. It was a contest that hairdressers show the skill and compete. I participated in the contest as a model of hair cut. The hairdresser who cut my hair is Michika, and she is 20 years old. She is a new figure of hair salon named “pikaichi”. We took part in the division of “Under 23”. It is a new division of the contest. There were 174 players under 23 years old in the division, and over 2000 players in all division. Judges were famous hairdressers and chief editor of beauty magazine. First, we won the first heat. At that point in time, about 30 people remained. And the next was final judgment.



And we won the contest as a result. We got the grand prix and award of two magazine publishers. In fact, it was Michika that cut my hair. But I was so happy too.
I will write again. And I explain about this contest in detail.
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Typing 2nd -6 "Color"

My favorite color is blue. I especially like blue light on streets. It’s like green. But Japanese called it “Blue light”. I like the color of old blue light. It’s like a drop.


I sometimes want to see it. But it is difficult for me to see it, because it is just blue light. When I can find it, I must go ahead. If it is red light, I can see it for a time being. I often see it from the inside of a bus. I think that blue light is beautiful on an evening. It is like a melting drop, but like a marble.


Recently, there are many lights of diode. But I want the blue light like drops to remain long.

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Typing 2nd -5 "Class"

My favorite class is the theory of environment. The class is the second period on Wednesday. And the professor is Mr. Torii. He teaches us about the truth of ecology.


In spring semester, I studied about the reason that changes of climate and environment of earth happen. And I knew that the changes have some cycles, so climatic change happen necessarily. But people believe that human activity causes climatic change and environment destruction. In this class, the professor teaches us the relation between ecology and economy. And I knew that ecology movement brings economic profit.


We are going to study about the problem of energy and what we can do for environment in this autumn semester. I want to know about them as soon as possible.

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Typing 2nd -4 "Animal"

My favorite animals are rabbits and pandas. I like to gather their goods. I especially like their motifs. I don't like keep animals, so I gather goods and see their movie on youtube.


The favorite point of rabbits is that rabbits are so silent. Rabbits never cry annoying. When I see silent rabbits on my hands, I feel relaxing. And I think rabbit's charm point is the nose. The nose is like a letter of "Y". When rabbit eat something, the "Y" is moving hardly. It is so cute.


And I like pandas too. But I have scarcely seen them directly. I only see them of goods and illustrations. The border of Panda's eyes is black and like dropping eyes. I think I like animals that aren't aggressive.

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Book Review 2-4

the Memory Man


What is memory? This book inquires us about memory through a study of man who has extraordinary ability. The main theme is a point that memory based on gene or environment. The conclusion was that the ability was based on his environment. He trained his memory when he was child. He trained over and over again, and his brain developed.


I think that brains are very interesting things. And in the first place, it is strange for me to be able to recognize to “me” as “me”. I can recognize to me as me tomorrow after I go to bed tonight. I always think it is natural. But it is so strange.


I thought that the more people memorize things, the better. But when I watch a TV program about memory, my opinion changed. Woman appeared in the program. She is able to memorize every thing. They are every thing that she experience and see. For example, the date of events, weathers, conversations and feelings etc. If they are sad occurrences, she never forgets them. She cannot forget. I think that it is so misfortunate.


I knew that the ability to forget is really wonderful in human abilities. And I think that memories and brains are mysterious.

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Book Review 2-3 "Deserts"

What are deserts? I thought that they are places which have many sands and there are camels. But in fact, deserts which have only sand are about twenty percents of deserts all over the world. Other deserts have many clays, stones and rocks. I knew that there are many kinds of desert in the world for the first time.


Desert is earth which is so dry and the place which people cannot live in. Earth becomes dry for the balance of water of rain and evaporation. Even if it rains heavily, the earth becomes dry quickly in dry air.


I knew about plants that live in deserts. The main plants are camels and cactuses. Camels are essential for people who live in deserts. People live in deserts ride and transfer to various place of the country on camels. Camels drink little water and eat a few weeds. The key that camels can live without water is humps. Humps of camels are lumps of fat. Camels can live in dry place, because they change fat in humps to water. By the way, dromedary camels are in Africa. And Bactrian camels are in Asia. Cactuses mainly live in America. The key that cactuses can endure dry climates are thorns. The thorns were leaves originally. Cactuses transformed leaves to thorns in order not to lose them water during breathing. And stems of cactuses keep enough water.


I have known a thing about deserts. It is “Desertification”. Desertification is a thing that dry places become still dry. The causes are a change of climate and human activities. And people cannot live there.


I am disappointed at the fact of desertification. I think that deserts are so beautiful, and I want to go there. But if desertification becomes worse and a desert appears close at hand, I will not be able to welcome. We must prevent from desertification absolutely.

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Reference
Janet, G. (2002). Deserts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Essay 2-01b: Favorite Place “My Burrow”

I have my burrow, and I like it very much. It is my house, of course. Now, I will introduce my house. My house is two-storied high and a detached house. There are a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bath room and the other three rooms on the first floor. And, there are my room and the other three rooms on the second floor. And there is a garden. My house has a roof of black tile and white walls. The exterior is a Japanese style house. There are four peoples in my family. I have father, mother and an old sister. My sister works in Tokyo, so this house is used by three people. Now, I’ll introduce the points of my house.


First, there are many books in my house. All my family likes reading books. My father likes especially reading. But sadly, we don’t have a library, so books put everywhere. There are about one thousand books in my house. I think the reason why we have so many books is that we like different books each other. My father likes books about business, IT and history. My mother likes books about health and mystery. My sister likes books about fantasy and comics. And I like books about SF, romance and literature. In the first floor, there are three bookshelves. And in the second floor, there are five bookshelves. The bookshelves aren’t bookshelves to be accurate. We use an old cupboard and an old desk for children as bookshelves. I like the lukewarm way of my family.


Second, I like the lavatory of my house. The lavatory has some gadgets. It is the door that it opens automatically, because the door is put in a big spring. After someone open the door with hand, it closes by the power of the spring. This was put by my father, because he thought that closing the door is a tiresome work. Moreover turn on and off the light automatically too. The light can recognize moving things. It was put by my father for the prevention of forgetting to turn off the light. The lavatory is a little narrow, but it is comfortable space for me. The lavatory is like a contraption room. And my father is like a Ninja.


Third, the garden is a main feature. The garden is like a letter of “L”. My parents like gardening. They plant many flowers and vegetables without discrimination. In the garden, a pomegranate tree, a kumquat tree, many flowers (amaryllises, roses, pansies and sunflowers etc.) in planters and plant pots (mini tomatoes, baby leaves and beefsteak plants etc.), kitchen garden (lettuces, parsleys, and Welsh onions etc.) are planted. My garden is always crawling with their. Moreover, we hang out the washing at fine days, so the garden has little space. I think the more simply garden is good, but my garden which has many greens is nice too.


Finally, I will introduce my room. My room is on the second floor. It is a six-tatami room. There are all essential things in my room. They are my laptop computer and my bed. It is a computer of DELL. When I have free time, I lie down on the bed and do net surfing. It is a blissful moment. When I study occasionally, I carry a desk and a chair from the corner of my room. This desk is a desk of my high school. I get it when I was a high school student. When I sit on it, I can concentrate on study. And I like a curtain of my room. It is drawn trees with blue and green colors. I gather things of blue and green for interior of my room. So in my room, there are many blue and green goods.


I stated the main features of my house. I have seen fine houses in European countries in TV and magazines. And I know that my house is not stylish. The bookshelves, the springs of the lavatory, the chaos of my garden are far apart from stylish. But I like them very much. I wanted to live in stylish and cool house like foreign countries. But now, I am satisfied with this living space. If though it is not smart, it has all necessary things. And before everything, living with parents always relieves me. This place is just “My Burrow”.


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Typing 2nd -3 "Season"

I like autumn the best of all seasons. I especially like about this time a little cold of autumn. When I feel chilly, I am wrapped up in a thick blanket. It is so happy time. Recently, I go to bed so early, because I am looking forward to being covered with the thick blanket from the daytime.


And, it is the nice point of this season that athletic meetings are held somewhere every weekend. I never take part in them. But when I sometimes see them from a far place, I feel peaceful.


And, I like the color of autumn. Autumn is associated with blown, khaki and ocher etc. They are like fallen leaves. I like the desolate atmosphere.

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Essay 2-01a: Favorite Place “My Burrow”

I have my burrow, and I like it very much. It is my house, of course. Now, I will introduce my house. My house is two-storied high and a detached house. There are a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bath room and the other three rooms on the first floor. And, there are my room and the other three rooms on the second floor. My house has a roof of black tile and white walls. The exterior is a Japanese style house. There are four peoples in my family. I have father, mother and an old sister. My sister works in Tokyo, so this house is used by three people. Now, I’ll introduce the points of my house.


First, there are many books in my house. All my family likes reading books. My father likes especially reading. But sadly, we don’t have a library, so books put everywhere. I think the reason why we have so many books is that we like different books each other. My father likes books about business, IT and history. My mother likes books about health and mystery. My sister likes books about fantasy and comics. And I like books about SF, romance and literature. In the first floor, there are three bookshelves. And in the second floor, there are five bookshelves. The bookshelves aren’t bookshelves to be accurate. We use an old cupboard and an old desk for children as bookshelves. I like the lukewarm way of my family.


Second, I like the lavatory of my house. The lavatory has some gadgets. It is the door that it opens automatically, because the door is put in a big spring. After someone open the door with hand, it closes by the power of the spring. This was put by my father, because he thought that closing the door is a tiresome work. Moreover turn on and off the light automatically too. The light can recognize moving things. It was put by my father for the prevention of forgetting to turn off the light. The lavatory is like a contraption room.


Third, the garden is a main feature. The garden is like a letter of “L”. My parents like gardening. They plant many flowers and vegetables without discrimination. In the garden, a pomegranate tree, a kumquat tree, many flowers in planters and plant pots, kitchen garden are planted. My garden is always crawling with their. Moreover, we hang out the washing at fine days, so the garden has little space. I think the more simply garden is good, but my garden which has many greens is nice too.


Finally, I will introduce my room. My room is on the second floor. It is a six-tatami room. There are all essential things in my room. They are my laptop computer and my bed. When I have free time, I lie down on the bed and do net surfing. It is a blissful moment.
When I study occasionally, I carry a desk and a chair from the corner of my room. This desk is a desk of my high school. I get it when I was a high school student. When I sit on it, I can concentrate on study.


I stated the main features of my house. I can say generally that my house is not stylish. The bookshelves, the springs of the lavatory, the chaos of my garden are far apart from stylish. But I like them very much. I wanted to live in stylish and cool house. But now, I am satisfied with this living space. If it is not smart, it has all necessary things. And before everything, living with parents always relieves me. This place is just “My Burrow”.

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Typing 2nd -2 "Flower"

My favorite flower is Lycoris radiata. Lycoris radiata called Higan-bana in Japan. In my house's garden, there are many Lycoris radiatas.


Lycoris radiatas come out around the autumn equinox. The equinoctial week is important religious in Japan. I wonder Lycoris radiatas come out around religious day. I think that Lycoris radiatas are holy flowers. In Japan, people sometimes hate them as inauspicious flower. “Higan” of Japanese “Higan- bana” comes from the opposite shore. That is to say “heaven”.


I like especially red Lycoris radiates. They are like blood. If so many Lycoris radiates come out, we will think it is a big fire too. When I sometimes see Lycoris radiatas on the roadside, I think their red are unnatural. But their straight stems and spoke-like petals are very attractive.

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