20

Happy birthday to me. I bacame 20 years old. To put it accurately, I was born in evening. I was celebrated by my friends. I was very glad. I got birthday present. Thank you very much.

BR06: The Lost Temples of the Maya

One of the stones in the pyramid has a large jaguar paw with three claws on it. (p17)

There was Maya a long time ago. Archaeologists have reserched it for a long time. Richard Hansen who is an arcaelogist thinks Mirador hold important clues about Maya. 'Classic Maya' is the culture was in Central America. Archaelogist discoved that the culture was finished 1000 years ago. Hansen has worked for a long time about the lost city of El Mirador. He was interested in a pyramid. He didn't find the king there. But he will find lost temples of Maya.

I do not know about Maya. But I know a little. Maya has a lot of mysteries. Mayan civilization calemdar finished in 2012 and the human will be ruined in 2012, I heard it. I do not know whether it is truth or not. I am interested in Maya and I want to know more.

Waring,R. (2009). The lost temples of the Maya. Change Lerning

japan

I am going to talk about Japanese culture. I like Japan and I like Japanese culture, too. Japanese culture is a peculiarity culture better than other culture, I think. Japan closed the door to foreigners and it made a our original culture. They did not take in other cultures that time. The most interesting culture which I think is Japanese. Japanese is consist of 46 words of hiragana, 46 words of katakana, and a lot of kanji. I do not know how many words kanji exist. And we use romaji. We use different hiragana, katakana, kanji, and romaji for different purposes from day to day. The attractiveness of Japanese is a lot of first person, I think. I often read some books, there are a lot of character of first person. For example, "watashi" is one of the first person. But "watashi" written in hiragana and kanji is different images. And "watashi" written in kanji is different call, "watashi" or "watakushi." The second of the two is used in public mainly, and the first of the two is used by ordinary women and at times men say "watashi". There are the first person call "ore" and "boku". The men use "boku" is felt young more than use "ore". In English, These words, "watashi", "watakushi", "ore", and "boku" is express only "I". I thought that Japanese which express a lot of words is honestly superb because the first person tell a lot of people his images. And Japanese has a lot of onomatopoeia. We use a lot of onomatopoeia on a daily. For example, when it is a lot of humidity, we use "jimejim suru". In addition to this the cat's tearful voice is "nya- nya-", the situation of rain is "za- za-", and we have a lot of onomatopoeia. Japanese onomatopoeia translate English onomatopoeia is a few. We use onomatopoeia without intending to do so. If I have to talk without onomatopoeia, I would be put out it. It is very difficult for us to tell the emotions without onomatopoeia. I think that Japanese is the proud culture. I like a term of respect, wabi sabi and there are a lot of Japanese attractiveness! I want to import this wonderful Japanese.

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Tennis is the same sport as soccer. I enjoy playing these. Tennis is played outside and soccer is too. Soccer is used a boll and so is tennis. Tennis is as famous as soccer. Both soccer and tennis are famous player in Japan. For example, there are Hidetoshi Nakata, Syunsuke Nakamura and Kazuyoshi Miura in soccer. In tennis, there are Ai Sugiyama, Kimiko Date and Maria Sharapova. It is necessary skill and strategy to play tennis and soccer is either. In case of soccer, they need marvelous cooperation. In tennis, they have to think where they must smash a ball. Tennis and soccer are very similar sport like this.

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UFO’s do exist. There is some evidence they do exist. First of all, there are many pictures or movies of them. Some people took pictures. Many people actually saw UFO’s silhouette. It was broadcast on TV. They said that UFO’s do really exist! I watched it many times. There are many crop circles. Some people thought that these circle were made by aliens. Second, Space is very large! The earth is one planet in space. There are many planets. In the past, a Martian was the talk of the town. If they do exist, UFO’s do exist too. Water was discovered on the moon. Other living things may do exist there. Third, many people believe that UFO’s do exist. Among of them there is a society for the research of UFO. They insist on existence of UFO. The government doesn’t deny it. In Japan, UFO’s started a boom before. Then there were many productions on the theme of UFO. In this way, UFO is recognized in the world.

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Problems to get marry in difficult culture.It became a convenience society. For example, it is available to use the Internet, progresses transportations and spread international exchanges. In recent years, it is increasing to international marriages. However there are many problems to marry someone from a different culture. First of all, they grew in different culture. The closest for us is eating hobbies. It is different what they can eat or not eat in their culture. For example, they don’t have to eat pork and drink alcoholic drinks in Islamic culture. If an Islamic woman and American man get married, they would perplex each other. Second, if they speak different language, they have to decide which language spoken in their house. And they have to teach language to their child. Their child goes to school when he grows, so the parents think what school he goes to. Finally, it is important to which country they live in. People want to live in a regular place. For the men, they want to live in mother country. They have to work for their family. If they work in unfamiliar country, they don’t have confidence and they don’t know what they do. The other side, for the women, they want to live in mother country, too. They will give birth to their children someday. Then they want their parents to be by the side. In this way they may be confronted with many difficult problems.

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Japan and America are close country. An interchange of them has continued for several hundred years. We have grown each other through this exchange. The politics, economy and technology have developed, and we become developed countries. Then we build up a particular culture. Especially, I pay attention Education. It is familiar for me. Japanese people study hard to enter a school. But American students don’t have entrance examination because they will enter school to judge their grade, outdoor activity and result of SAT. But it is harder than Japanese school to graduate American school. There is elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, and graduate school in Japan, and American is too. Most Japanese students go to university then they work, but most Americans go to graduate school because family life is more important than study so they don’t cram in knowledge. There is many clubs in America, and Japan is either. These clubs are regional. Brass band and cheer leading team join local events. American education is develop their skill but Japanese education is different from America. They study not for oneself. Americans has aim so they study, but Japanese studies to pass the exam. I think there are many different points of education between America and Japan.

class

Today I had no class so I went to karaoke alone. I had planned it a few days ago. It took a lot of nerve to go to karaoke alone. Today is a weekday so there wrer a few people in the karaoke. It was freed from stress, maybe. I want to go there again.

BR05: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Then the two men looked among the papers under the paperweight and found Henry Jekyll's will, but now Utterson noticed some changes... (p58)

There was a strange man. His name is Hyde. Mr. Utterson who is a lawyer investigated him. Hyde knew Dr. Henry Jekyll. One day Hyde kill a man and a cane he used is the same that Dr. Jekyll used. And the letter written by Hyde and Dr. Jekyll is the same holograph. After that Dr. Jekyll stayed in his room. Mr. Utterson entered the room. There was Hyde and he was died. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are the same man. He drank a drug and he changed Hyde.

I did not know this book but it is famous story. Dr. Jekyll is a person with a split personality. When I look up this word, I saw a word "a Jekyll and Hyde." I do not believe that he drinks drug and he changes his face, voice and his character. It is interesting.

Stevenson,R.L. (2002) The strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. Password Readers