I got one more trendy item in pageboy which is well-known clothes shop among the people who are the age of 16 to 25!!

Not too cheap, but not too expensive is the reason why many young ladies like it.

And I have another reason why I like this shop and purchased this shoes.

That is the shape!

Nowadays, I really familiar with clothes, and also greatly interested in it, but after I entered university, I did not have any knowledge about clothes.

through my fashion experience, one idea has came to mind.

The good or attractive clothes have beautiful shapes!

Having a beautiful shape means that it smoothly fit our body line!!

（´∨`）ノ❤

If you were the rich person like a nobleman or noblewoman, and have a butler, what kinds of person do you want as the butler?

My answer is................ I want handsome guy like him to take care of me!!

His name is Sebastian.

In short, he is the perfect, but incredible and a little bit black-heated butler.

There is nothing what he cannot achieve for his master.

Of course, cooking, cleaning or other housework are too easy for him and

when his Lord faces terrible incidents, he suddenly run to there and support his Lord.

I was attracted by his loyal mind and unique characteristic.

Fortunately, in the animation, Sebastian is played by one of my favorite voice actor!

That's why I keep watching it even though it broads on TV at midnight.

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First of all................ no anime, no life!
At 5:00 pm on July 11th, "sengokubasara2" started !!
The setting of this story is the Warring States period in Japan.
The main character is Masamune Date who ruled over the Oshu area in this age! (Presently, "Oshu" means the area of Tohoku!)

When I was in high school, I was not so interested in Japanese history,so I did not majored its course.
However, The Warring States period is only exceptional category for me!

However, despite of its content related with the history, I think that this is just a action and gag animation!
If you do not like such a gag animation, I never recommend watching it:)!!

ABOUT CHOCOLATE

1) MLA CITATION
For my news report, I chose an article from the BBC website about “Chocolate has health benefits” I chose this topic because I am interested in sweets especially chocolate. Here is the article’s MLA citation:
“Chocolate has health benefits”, BBC NEWS, Amanda Veze Tuesday 22 May 2005

2) ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Chocolate ‘has health benefits’
Eating dark chocolate could help control diabetes and blood pressure, Italian experts say.
Researchers found eating 100g of dark chocolate each day for 15 days lowered blood pressure in the 15 person-study. The University of L’Aquila team also found the body’s ability to metabolise sugar – a problem for people with diabetes – was improved. But eating the same quantities of white chocolate did not have an effect, the researchers said. The team said an antioxidant called flavanol was responsible for the effect because it neutralised potentially cell-damaging substances known as oxygen free radicals, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported.
But despite the benefits of dark chocolate, lead researcher Dr Claudio Ferri said people should be careful about chocolate consumption. “Dark chocolate contains antioxidants, but also a lot of fat and calories. “People who want to add some chocolate to their diet need to subtract an equivalents amount of calories by cutting back on other foods to avoid weight gain.” Writing in the journal, nutrition expert Cesar Fraga, of the University of California, said the findings on blood pressure seemed credible. He said other foods containing flavanols, such as tea and wine, have a similar effect on blood pressure. And he added: “The identification of healty foods and the understanding of how food components influence normal physiology will help improve the health of the population.” Diabetes UK care adviser Amanda Vezey pointed out it was a small study, but said it was still interesting.
“People with diabetes can eat dark chocolate like everyone else in moderation. “However, we would still recommend a balanced low fat, salt and sugar diet that includes starchy carbohydrates and plenty of fruit and vegetables combined with regular exercise to help people with diabetes control their condition.” And Professor Graham MacGregor, chairman of the Blood Pressure Association, said more research was needed. But he added: “The benefits of eating chocolate are likely to be outweighed by the disadvantages as chocolate is high in sugar and fat.”

3) SUMMARY
Some researcher found eating 100g dark chocolate for 15days has probability of preventing diabetes. Dark chocolates include one substance what is called “flavanol” which affect bringing down blood pressure. However chocolates contain a lot of fat and calories, so if you want to bring down blood pressure by eating chocolate, you should take it with low calories foods such as fruits and vegetables. In addition, as for ordinary people, eating chocolate is effective activities which prevent suffering from diabetes, but actual patients who suffering from diabetes need to do some exercise and control their conditions rather than eating chocolate.
4) OPINION
At present, a lot of food are researched and considered as healthy foods by some professors and researchers. These researches are extremely meaningful and significant things for us to extend our life-span. However some researches have accurate evidence, but others do not have certain evidence so it is danger for us to believe easily uncertain information about foods. We need to reconsider and carefully select an article. Moreover, foods are most essential and principal elements for our life, so it is important for us to make living regularly eating habits before we suffer from some diseases. After we got a sick, maybe the prevention is too late, I think.

❤GODIVA❤

I love various kinds of chocolates except the black one.
My father sent a precious gift for my birthday!
This is the picture of it.
I got really surprised when I heard that he presented me something and open the gift box because he has never given the birthday present me without my entreaty.
And also, as you know, GODIVA is one of most famous and expensive brand among the world chocolate company.
I cannot believe that these delicious chocolate were truly sent by my father.

Anyway, I told my appreciation to him and tasted these expensive chocolate slowly and carefully!!
In next February, I am going to present him more high-quality thing than what I gave last
year!

SALE!!!!

Shopping is fun, comfortable, worthwhile, pleasant..... anyway, it makes me happy and this purpose of working hard and earning money!

So I will never stop buying something new clothes and jewelries until the summer sale will be over!

I purchased new item for summer season again :)!!

Flower printed clothes are really cute!!

I bought these rings in Fujisawa with Sugidama!!

As I said before, Sugidama is my dear boy friend:)

At last, I got new summer bag I had wanted so long!!

I heve completed IE program!!

On July 13th, finally, I have completed IE program!!
It has kept suffering us since we entered this university.
To be honest, the doubt, whether my English skill has improved or not though this course, will never fade away, but I made a great efforts, even if I do say so myself.
At last, I am free now!!

By the way, What do you imagine looking back upon the IE program?
May be everybody answer the same thing.
That is......... "assignment!" yeah, I think so too.
To pass the course, it required too much thing.
First, students have to keep regular attendance!
What is worse, we had a huge amount of assignments every week and every three semesters.
To write our own journal, read English literary book and analyst about it, preparing for news presentation, and so on!!
I cannot help feeling of freedom when I remember these previous my works and efforts!!

ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL

1) MLA CITATION
For my news report, I chose an article from the BBC website about ‘A high-rise tower for animals in the industrial heartland of Leeds is offering a unique solution to the decline of urban wildlife. Can it work?” I chose this topic because I am interested in animal and architecture. Here is the article’s MLA citation:
“A high-rise tower for animals in the industrial heartland of Leeds is offering a unique solution to the decline of urban wildlife. Can it work?” Peter Jackson/ BBC NEWS /Sunday 7 June 2009


2) ORIGINAL ARTICLE
A high-rise tower for animals in the industrial heartland of Leeds is offering a unique solution to the decline of urban wildlife. Can it work?
Rising 40 feet (12 metres) above canals once lined with textile mills and factory chimneys could soon be another kind of tower – a high-rise for all creatures great and (mainly) small.
If the plans come to fruition, the structure aims to encourage a variety of species to “reclaim their urban landscape”. It is the vision of a small team of architects, a vertical solution to a horizontal desire to offer shelter to creatures in urban areas where space on the ground is tight.
The man behind the project, 26-year-old Neil Oxlee, hopes his “man-made tree” will provide a habitat for bats, birds, butterflies, insects and even foxes. He says the different species would thrive off each other like they would in a woodland environment, with minimal human involvement. “I’m not an animal expert, if it goes further we’d need to get a wildlife expert on board… to see exactly which ones eat the other ones. There’s a food chain there. “It would evolve from there… there may be a few extra design factors to take into account. This is a concept.” Mr Oxlee’s towers – to be built from recycled materials – draw inspiration from three nearby Italianate towers which are 200 years old and stand 80 feet (25m) tall.
The design, by Garnett Netherwood Architects, beat more than 30 entries in a competition run by Holbeck Urban Village, a business community backed by Leeds City Council. Organisers say they launched the competition because bird song has all but vanished from many cities and towns and wildlife generally is in decline. Marketing officer Leanne Buchan says the “village” community wanted to respect the bio-diversity of the area during its regeneration. Otters have returned to the area for the first time in 30 years and she hopes to see butterflies, bats and bees plus swifts, house martins and other nesting birds, attracted by raised beds. “We went on tour with a conservation officer to see what wildlife to invite in and sustain once here, and what was needed from the habitat,” she says. “Part of it is for people to enjoy the wildlife around them, but it’s more about taking responsibility for things… to safeguard it for future generations.” The winning tower design would be “striking”, she says, and could well become an iconic piece of architecture.

3) SUMMARY
Some architects are planning to change the industrial factory into good environmental building which is made from recycled materials in the city, because there is not enough space to live wild animal in urban areas. Therefore, they want to make a space for wild animals between big and small to live together. However, scientist points out some problems. They wonder wild animal can live in such an artificially environment, so the plan is needs to reconsider among not only architects but also animal experts and the discussion is important.
4) OPINION
The consideration for the wild animals is really important and now, environmental pollution and environmental destroy are one of the most serious issue we faced. However, I do not think that living animals and human being in the same space is significantly solution for both of creatures. Too much protection causes the probabilities of dangerous to destroy the ecosystem. In addition, even using the recycled materials, maybe it cost them the large amount of money. I think the cost should be used other activity which save the earth such as planting tree. In conclusion, wild animal should live in wild areas and human being should consider how to save their wild area rather than planning to construct building.

The History of Japanese Comic Books

According to statistics from the website, Japan Magazine and Book Publisher’s and Editor’s Association from 1961 to 2006, total sales of published material in Japan is two trillion five-hundred billion yen, of which manga sales account for nearly one quarter. This means publishing manga has been major industry supporting a Japanese economy. In addition, this statistics show us that it took a long time to reach this large numbers and to grow the long history of Japanese comic book for 900 years. The history of Japanese comic book can be divided into three ages; from the Kamakura period to the Edo period, from the Meiji period to the end of the Taisho period, and the period after the WWⅡ.

The first age of Japanese comic book is the medieval period. The typical example of manga artwork in this era is Taba Soji. This artwork influenced the development of modern Japanese comic books. According to the statement from the website whose name is About.Com (1), animal which is painted in Taba Soji, satirized life in the Buddhist priesthood by drawing priests as mischievous rabbits, monkeys engaging in silly activities including farting contests, and even depicted the Buddha himself as a toad. Moreover, there are no word balloons or sound effects, but only the illustrations of animals. It achieved to show readers the progression of events which was happening one after another as the scroll is unrolled from right to left. At present, this is the common way to read comic books all over the world.

The second age of Japanese comic book is the modern era. Ponchi-e or Ponchi-style picture began to appear as the typical feature of Japanese artists and magazines at this time. Ponchi means satirizing political figures ironically. These kinds of artwork were strongly influenced from the British art style. According to the Website, About.Com (1), in 1862, the first foreign magazine was published by Charles Wagner in British military base which was located in Yokohama. Soon after that, Ponchi-e became the origin of satirical artwork and widely spread the satirizing artwork in Japan.

The last age of Japanese comic book is the present age. In recent decades, the most famous Japanese manga artist is Tezuka Osamu. His biggest achievement was creating the large amount of narrative manga which are similar to the films and linking between the each frame that tells the story. According to the website, The Network Museum and Magazine Report and Japan Media Art Plaza (1), in mid-1980s, thanks to the advance of Japanese comic books to Europe and Asia, the scale of Japanese comic market remarkably expanded. European comic critics highly evaluated his work and said that the recent Japanese comic books are more “cinematic” than that of American and European. Frame syntax in European comics is relatively underdeveloped while the contents are sophisticated. This is the reason why the many amount of Japanese comic books are widely spread not only in the Asia, but also in Europe.
In conclusion, there are three representative divisions in the history of Japanese comic books and each era has typical example of artwork such as Taba Soji, Ponchi-stylel picture and Tezuka’s artwork. These each feature was grown and created throughout the Japanese historical and social background which related to social unrest and prospered cultural exchanging with European countries. From this Japanese historical point of view, going through the development about history of Japanese comic books is the same meaning of understanding the Japanese history and interchanged history between Japan and European countries.

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In summer, "kimodameshi" and something these horror words are usually used especially among the young people in order not to be too hot.
As for me, this tendency is not understandable thing because I hate horror thing!

On the contrary, my young sister and father are always talking about horror movie each other and force me to join......

About The Death Penalty

The argument of the death penalty is one of the biggest issues all over the world. According to a statement from the Amnesty International website, “More than two- thirds of the countries in the world have now abolished the death penalty in the law or practice.”(1) Actually, almost every European country has amended their constitutions which disagree to the enforcement of the capital punishment since the end of 1990. So the death penalty should be abolished in Japan because English Plus said that Japan is the only industrial democracy besides the United States that continues to use capital punishment. (74)
The first reason is that no one, even the state, has the right to take away someone’s life. This is the fundamental human right affirmed and secured in Article 13 and Article 36 in the Constitution of Japan. Article 13 says that all of the people shall be respected as individuals. Their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness shall, to the extent that it does not interfere with the public welfare, be the supreme consideration in legislation and in other governmental affairs. In addition, Article 36 says that the infliction of torture by any public officer and cruel punishments are absolutely forbidden. All human being should be given the opportunity to change and compensate about our own mistakes by the government or nation. From this legal perspective, all human being, even the criminal, have the right to die with dignity.
The second reason is that capital punishment is not a means of revenge. According to the article, Harada who is one of the victim’s family and now, he tries to abolish the death penalty expresses his feeling that depriving the criminals off their lives does not mean anything. The victims have responsibility to compensate their crimes by living in a prison. The desire of victim’s family is not killing the criminal and legal system must not decided by emotional-based judgment. It is necessary to judge from the legal perspective. In addition, recently, the number of organizations which are composed by victim’s family is increasing. Actually, Harada also belongs to one of these organizations. This is the evidence that Harada is not only the person who against the death penalty in spite of victim of crime.
The next reason is about the possibility of a false charge. No matter how great the recent legal system, it is impossible to judge perfectly because laws are just created by human being, so the law and legal system are never being perfect. The murder case in Ashikaga is a typical example of a false charge. According to the article of Sankei news, in 1990, Mr. Sugaya was arrested for the murder who killed a little girl. Even thought he was found guilty after in the first trial, he continued to claim he was innocent, and finally because of not enough evidence, Mr. Sugaya was found completely innocent. However, although he could avoid death penalty, he has been restricted for 17 years and his precious life time never come back and restore. The biggest problem with the death penalty is the possibility of executing someone for a crime they do not commit. Once they are put to death, it cannot be undone. In conclusion, there are three major perspectives why I disagree to the death penalty. First, all human being has the right to die with dignity. The government has the responsibility to obey Japanese constitution. Second, the desire of the victim’s family is not killing the criminal. To compensate with death is not true resolution. Last, there is a possibility that the criminal is not guilty. If the state’s judgment is wrong, nation or government is just a murder. All human being are demanded to be aware the fact that crimes never extinct unless human are existed. However, all human being can change their minds even the murder or criminal if they have a chance and enough time. The death penalty deprives the opportunity to change their minds. That’s why we should carefully treat this argument and keep considering.

HANDCRAFT

My own aim in August is creating something!

I haven't decided what I am going to produce in detail yet, but creating wallpaper for my cork-board seems like interesting!!

Why I plan creating something is that Handcraft is one of my hobby since I was three or four years old!

And also, may be I will have a plenty of time in this summer break;)

From these reasons, this summer is good opportunity for me to brush up my artistic skill, I think!!

Here is the picture of paper craft!! I wanna complete it until the end of the July!!

MONSTER

Nowadays, the 2oth century boy was released in video-rental shops.

The author of this story is Naoki Urasawa.

His fame has started to get higher and higher since the 20th century boy appeared on the screen.

However, this is not only his grateful work.

Do you know another his masterpieces?

If you don't have any ideas, I really recommend you to watch this!

The title is MONSTER.

Dr. Tenma is genius surgery Doctor.

One day he operates a little boy's brain and saves his life, but this incident will cause serious crime like a nightmare.

Even though the genre of this story is mystery and its contents is a little bit violence, the ending song of this anime is really calm and made me comfortable at night.

The imbalance the contents and ending song is very attractive!!

The essay-type of examination was over in the 4th period!!
Unexpectedly, I could answer almost every question.
I feel really refreshed and comfortable now in spite of tomorrow's listening test, assignments and reexamination in the Spanish course:)

Anyway, looking back upon the lectures of the society and the culture in the are of England, they were very meaningful for me.
The theme and final goal of this lecture is understanding the identity, culture and socialism of people who live in the are of England through watching the movies which was produced in England.
At the first lecture, Mr. Kano who is the teacher of this class said people's characteristic and sense of value who live in the England are completely different from that of in America. He hates the Hollywood movies and their ways of thinking because only the optimistic does not mean anything.
I have never deeply considered and compared with the difference of these two countries, so his extreme and honest idea was really impressive and surprised me!!

The final-examination is coming soon.

Actually, tomorrow I will take one essay-type examination which is one of the Aoyama standard's course.

I am not good at writing logical composition, so I cannot help feeling much stress.

These sweets are indispensable item to concentrate on studying.

Taking in the sugar is good effects on human brain!!

From now on, I'm going to start reading thick and heavy textbook which has more than two hundred pages, then I must understand what the author want to say.

May be it will take a few hour to finish reading ....., but I hate giving up something especially related with examination.

Fortunately, the only solace is that it's written by Japanese so that I will be able to save a little time than that of English or other foreign languages.

I' ll do my best!!

How awful day!

I got really shocked!!
All of the sudden, the display of my mobile phone does not indicate and show anything...
It only spreads the darkness on the display and it may be broken at last.

I have been used this mobile phone for more than two years, so it is the time to change old one to new model.
However, I do not change it and purchase new one because the latest model is very expensive for me.
In addition, I do not have enough time to buy new one.
So, now, I seriously consider what should I do.
Should I change or repairer.....

LOVE SONG

This is one of my best love song by Kobukuro! Why don't you listen to at once?

TAKE A REST :)

I do not wanna study anymore now!!
Therefore, I decided to take a break and listen to Mr. Children's song.

Hedatari: “Hedatari” is not so famous song, but this song was described kindness and pure love.
It is classified into a ballade and the melody line is so quiet.
The theme of this song is that what is true love?
This is the big issue for human being.
The more you love someone, the more you demand something.
I am afraid of it.
I recommend you to listen to this song before you go to bed and sleep.

EXAMINATION......

Even though I have to study for the final-examination which will be held tomorrow and tackle to the large amount of my report, today I woke up at 9:00AM and I failed to eat my breakfast.
I completely wasted of my precious time, so now I am suffering from a guilty conscience.
What is worse, now, I started to turn on the computer and search a my favorite anime and character's wallpaper on the desktop as I am listening to anime song. It means that I access one website whose name is niconico :)
By the way, I finished to change the design of the desktop of my computer.
Don't you think it's cool?
If you can recognize what is it, please talk to me and exchange e-mail address as soon as possible!!

EAT OUT!!

My favorite dinner is hamburger!!

I have a confidence which continue to eat it consequence seven days as the dinner.

Of course, I often eat it in fast-food restaurant such as McDonald, but there is not anything else than hand-made hamburger!

Today I went to TWINS in Machida with my dormitory friend for the purpose of window-shopping after 5Th period.

So, at first, we did not any plans to eat out.

However, I could not ignore the fact that I was hungry!

After a few minutes we entered the building, we walked and downed in the floor which gathered many restaurant, but when I saw the hamburger restaurant at glance, I decided promptly to eat and try hamburger! These are the picture of it!!

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN

In this year, one of my aim is to be a beautiful woman!

By the way, what kinds of people are they called beautiful or elegant?

Do you have any idea?

In my opinion, beautiful is that people who cares their clothes, appearances and behavior, I think.

Another facts are keeping clean and spending worthwhile life, so appearances is not enough to be the elegant woman.

Unfortunately, changing previous life style takes a much time and we need to enormous efforts.

So, I'd like to challenge the easy one to close the beautiful woman.

Please look at this picture.

These items are body skin care set which I use after I take a bath almost everyday.

To keep the healthy skin and protect it from dry atmosphere, taking in the large amount of moisture is the most important thing.

Recently, body caring has became one of my daily life and healthy habit!!

Tanbata in Hiratuka!!

July 3th became more valuable day than anything I have ever done in my life!
The reason is that....

Sugidama who is my dear boyfriend guided his home-town for me!!

In Hiratuka, Tanabata Festival was held on the same day I visited.

Here is the picture of beautifull decorations for Tanabata Festival in Hiratuka. Please enjoy it!!

Sugidama said if I tie up with a tip of the decoration, my wish or desire may be realized!

shaved ice is my favorite sweets in festival and it was really delicious in the hot summer day!

It was very crowed by huge amount of people and various kinds of stalls not only on the main street, but also on the small street.

We had a good time to enojoy eating, drinking and talking.

I was really excited and appreciated him!!

Thank you for picking me up in Hiratuka!!

Book Report2

1) MLA citation
Webster Jean. Daddy-long-Legs. Japan: YOHAN, 2007.191 pages

2) RESPONDING TO THE PLOT: d) choose the quotation from a character in the book, include the page number, and describe the situation in which the character makes the remark. Explain Why you choose it.
First of all, Daddy-Long-Legs and Jervis is the same person. Interestingly, Jerusha Abbott did not notice it until the end of this story. She has only seen the shadow of Daddy-Long-Legs and she does not know his real face and who he is. On the other hands, she has the acquaintance with Jervis and talks with him again and again directly. It was really interesting how different impression which she has about the same person. Here is the quotation of her first impression to each of man.
Daddy-Long-Legs: “The shadow pictured grotesquely elongated legs and arms that ran along the floor and up the wall of the corridor. It looks, for all the world, like a huge, wavering daddy-long-legs. ”
Mr. Jervis Pendleton: “He’s tall and thinnish with a dark face all over lines, and the funniest underneath smile that never quite comes through but just wrinkles up the corners of his mouth.”

3) LITERARY TERMS
1, Setting
The setting of this story is in the 20th century of orphanage and university in America. In this age, the right of female and each female’s values were not so respected in social.

2, Point of View
In the bingeing of this story is told by the omniscient. On the contrary, other part of story is told by the first person. Most part of this story except the chapter one is composed by letter for “Daddy-Long-Legs” which is written by Jerusha Abbott who is the heroin of this story. This type of story is also called epistolary style.

3, Conflict
Jerusha conflicts with her own environment, ignorance and impatient feeling. She has been grown in orphanage since she was born because her parents died when she was a little girl. Therefore, she has never experienced ordinary family’s and young girl’s life. She is ashamed of herself. Even though it is the common knowledge for the same age of people with Jerusha to read some literary books such as Alice in wonderland and Cinderella, she never read these kinds of books.

4, Climax
This story has a happy ending. After Jerusha graduated from university, she started to work in the farm which is located in Lock Willow. Simultaneously with her farmer job, she tried to keep writing her novel in order to be female novelist. One day, she was proposed to get marry by Jervis Pendleton who is the uncle of her best friend in her university. She also loves him, so that there is no reason to reject his proposes, but she didn’t accept it. She has had one complex that she was brought up in orphanage. However, in the end of this story, Jerusha got married with Jervis. This incident is the first time for Jerusha to get comfortable family in her life.

5, Symbol
The symbol of this story is that woman’s social position in the 20th century of America and the opportunity to express their own ideas and feelings should be offered to people who is anxious with studying and learning regardless of female. In this age, as for female, going to university and taking high level education are not major customs. However, thanks to her unique ability of English composition, Jerusha gets the chance to grow her writing skill and aim to female novelist.

6, Irony
The irony of this story is that, in fact, Jervis Pendleton, who got married with Jerusha, was exactly the same person with “Daddy-Long-Legs” who suggested Jerusha to go to university and continued to support her campus life economically. However, she did not notice this fact during spending her campus life and sending her letter to him. When she rejected Jervis’s marriage propose, she send letter to Daddy-Long-Legs to ask if her decision was right or not and she wants to meet him directly. This is the first time for her to recognize Daddy-Long-Legs and Jervis is the same people.

7, Theme
The themes of this story reflect Webster's interests in social work and women's suffrage. Some scholars have criticized Daddy-Long-Legs as being an "anti-feminist fairy tale", while others have argued that Judy shows growing independence, including increasing disobedience to her benefactor. In addition, gradually his wishes, and indeed succeeds in educating Daddy-Long-Legs that he cannot control her, and that his socialism needs to move from the academic into real life.

3) REFLECTING ON THE STORY; a) How does the character’s life compare to your own.
I and Jerusha Abbott have both the difference and the similarity in our lives. First, Jerusah has never experienced ordinary family’s life because she was brought up in orphanage and does not have parents. On the other hands, for about twenty years of my life is the typical example of ordinary family’s life. I was grown by respectable parents and had a little quarrel with my older and younger sisters moderately. In addition, the education was good enough and the financial situation in my family was not so bat. It is not too much to say that it is ideal environment. So it is really pity that I cannot share the negative feeling in her mind such as isolate and ashamed of ignorance. However, both of us left for the capital from our home-town to go to university. I greatly sympathized that she was perplexed to new environment while I was reading this story. Changing the life style, adjusting the new environment and living with strange people are more uneasy and uncomfortable things than many people have expected.

Robert Frost

When I first read "The Road Not Taken", I respect him.
In my case, when I was pressed to make a decision, I always choose the same road or way with people.
The auther of this poem is really courageous and full of individualstic, I think.
In conclusion, life is very complex forest!

1) MLA CITATION
For my news report, I chose an article from the BBC website about “UK water use ‘worsening global crisis ’“I chose this topic because this article is greatly impressive for me and made me interested . Here is the article’s MLA citation:
UK water use ‘worsening global crisis ’/ BBC NEWS /Monday 19 April 2010/ Black Richard/
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8628832.stm＞

2) ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The amount of water used to produce food and goods imported by developed countries is worsening water shortages in the developing world, a report says.
The report, focusing on the UK, says two-thirds of the water used to make UK imports is used outside its borders. The Engineering the Future alliance of professional engineering bodies says this is unsustainable, given population growth and climate change. It says countries such as the UK must help poorer nations curb water use.
"We must take account of how our water footprint is impacting on the rest of the world," said Professor Roger Falconer, director of the Hydro-Environmental Research Centre at Cardiff University and a member of the report's steering committee.

"If we are to prevent the 'perfect storm', urgent action is necessary." The term perfect storm was used last year by the UK government's chief scientist, Professor John Beddington, to describe future shortages of energy, food and water. Forecasts suggest that when the world's population soars beyond 8bn in 20 years time, the global demand for food and energy will jump by 50%, with the need for fresh water rising by 30%. But developing countries are already using significant proportions of their water to grow food and produce goods for consumption in the West, the report says. "The burgeoning demand from developed countries is putting severe pressure on areas that are already short of water," said Professor Peter Guthrie, head of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Cambridge University, who chaired the steering group.

"If the water crisis becomes critical, it will pose a serious threat to the UK's future development because of the impact it would have on our access to vital resources."
Key to the report is the concept of "embedded water" - the water used to grow food and make things. Embedded in a pint of beer, for example, is about 130 pints (74 litres) of water - the total amount needed to grow the ingredients and run all the processes that make the pint of beer. A cup of coffee embeds about 140 litres (246 pints) of water, a cotton T-shirt about 2,000 litres, and a kilogram of steak 15,000 litres.

3) SUMMARY
Developing countries face the shortage of drinking water. Nowadays, many people just believe mainly fact of water problem are abnormal weather such as drought and overpopulation. However, growing imported products in the developing countries also cases the shortage of drinking water. For example, in Brazil, cultivating coffee beans requires the large amount of water. According to the date of UNESC, if we want to drink a cup of coffee, we need about 150 liters of water. It other words, growing 1 kilo gram of coffee beans takes about 21,000 liters of water. So, now, Brazil and other developing countries suffer from producing imported goods. But, unfortunately, coffee beans are one of the representative products for Brazil and it supports the finance of the nation, so cutting back on producing coffee beans can be caused financial problem. These water problems will be remained to the same for a while.

4) VOCABULARY
1) WORD : abnormal weather(異常気象) phrase
2) WORD : drought(干ばつ) noun
3) WORD : overpopulation(人口過剰) noun
4) WORD : imported products(輸入品) phrase
5) WORD : cultivate(栽培する) verb
6) WORD : cut back on(削減す) idiom

5) Questions
1, what should we do for the shortage of drinking water in the developing counties?
2, what problems will overpopulation cause in the future?3, when do you often feel the abnormal weather in your daily life?