Topic: It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?
In my opinion, Books can give more knowledge than experience can do and I think Books is more important than experience.
First, let’s think about experience. Experience is important part of humans’ lives because we can be gained knowledge through talking people and watching their actions or watching nature. For example, when I was child, I often saw the sunset and thought “The sun set different places through the year.” However, knowledge gained from experience is limited. We can learn it only through our experience, but we can’t gain it from what I can’t experience.
On the other hands, books teach me everything that I want to know. From them, we can learn not only the knowledge in usual life in novels but also historical and academic knowledge. Can we get knowledge about Queen Elizabeth Ⅰthrough the experience? Can we go to the universe and learn something? I think both of them are impossible. However, books have a magical power to meet Queen Elizabeth Ⅰor lead us and make us possible to see so many stars in the universe.
From that point, I think that books make us possible to know whatever we want to know, and are able to gain knowledge.
2005/07/18
2005/07/16
Practice for writing #3
Today’s topic: Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live?
I don’t think that food has become easier to prepare has change improved the way people live. In fact, preparing food become much easier and our society became more and more useful one than before, but there are some bad points, too.
By being easier to prepare food, the time that we use for cooking dishes gets shorter and this make women have more time that they can use freely. Getting the time shorter, women can work longer and get good position and surely. So they came to have opportunities to play important roles in the company and society. Some of the women can be still working after they have children because of decreasing of the time for preparing food. I don’t think this kind of women is bad. However, if they have children, the circumstances would be change.
Does these women really make the food that includes high nutrition as well as when they don’t have job? I don’t think so. Children will have foods that are already made by machines or other people who work at the supermarkets or department stores. Or, they may ask their mother to make supper for their children. If these foods include abundant nutrition and are good valance, that may not become big programs. However, I think mother should make supper themselves for children. It’s very sad that children don’t know mother’s tastes.
Another problem is first food restaurant. Shops like MacDonnell serve food very quickly and there are very convenient if we don’t have much time to eat. But these foods affect bad for our health. If those children eat hamburger every week at supper, what will happen?? These foods can fulfill your hungry feeling but can’t care their health at all. In the movie, “Super Size Me” improve what happen in the body if people eat hamburger every morning, lunch, evening.
Reducing the time preparing food increase people’s time, and it’s very good for every one who lives in busy society. But I don’t think it’s really important for us to exchange the time we can have and our precious health.
I don’t think that food has become easier to prepare has change improved the way people live. In fact, preparing food become much easier and our society became more and more useful one than before, but there are some bad points, too.
By being easier to prepare food, the time that we use for cooking dishes gets shorter and this make women have more time that they can use freely. Getting the time shorter, women can work longer and get good position and surely. So they came to have opportunities to play important roles in the company and society. Some of the women can be still working after they have children because of decreasing of the time for preparing food. I don’t think this kind of women is bad. However, if they have children, the circumstances would be change.
Does these women really make the food that includes high nutrition as well as when they don’t have job? I don’t think so. Children will have foods that are already made by machines or other people who work at the supermarkets or department stores. Or, they may ask their mother to make supper for their children. If these foods include abundant nutrition and are good valance, that may not become big programs. However, I think mother should make supper themselves for children. It’s very sad that children don’t know mother’s tastes.
Another problem is first food restaurant. Shops like MacDonnell serve food very quickly and there are very convenient if we don’t have much time to eat. But these foods affect bad for our health. If those children eat hamburger every week at supper, what will happen?? These foods can fulfill your hungry feeling but can’t care their health at all. In the movie, “Super Size Me” improve what happen in the body if people eat hamburger every morning, lunch, evening.
Reducing the time preparing food increase people’s time, and it’s very good for every one who lives in busy society. But I don’t think it’s really important for us to exchange the time we can have and our precious health.
2005/07/15
Practice for writing #2
Topic: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents are the best teachers.
I don’t agree that parents are the best teachers. I don’t mean that parents don’t have roles as teachers, but I think there are lots of people that can be teachers.
I think that parents have taught many things that can be useful for life. In my life with them, I could learn a fundamental layer thing that I have to know to live as one family. When I was kid, they said to me “Wash your hands before and after you eat something,” “Say hello to family member and of course to neighborhood, ” “Eat supper with family,” and so on. Of course they gave us another advice when I was getting order, but mainly they teach what is good and bad in our lives. So their major is teaching fundamental society as Family member.
Friends must be good teachers, too. They teach more important things than parents ever taught. The friend and I can influence each other for their own thinking way. For example, few years ago, I hated one friend whom I was a good friend with in some point and I often said about her “I really hate her. But we both used to be a good friend, so I tried to like her, but I couldn’t.” Another friend of mine heard it and said, “ Don’t worry, there are so many kind of people and it is not possible for us to be a good friends with all of them. I know how you and the friends were good friends, but if time goes by, we ourselves change, too. So, take it easy. But, you mustn’t tell that you hate her any more, if you don’t want to let the circumstances more badly.” I really agree this idea. After that, relationship of the friend and me’s whom I used to hate became better. So, from friends, I can learn how to meet the people in society.
In our society, there are many teachers but each of them has their specialized. So parents must be good teachers, but their couldn’t be the best teachers of all things.
I don’t agree that parents are the best teachers. I don’t mean that parents don’t have roles as teachers, but I think there are lots of people that can be teachers.
I think that parents have taught many things that can be useful for life. In my life with them, I could learn a fundamental layer thing that I have to know to live as one family. When I was kid, they said to me “Wash your hands before and after you eat something,” “Say hello to family member and of course to neighborhood, ” “Eat supper with family,” and so on. Of course they gave us another advice when I was getting order, but mainly they teach what is good and bad in our lives. So their major is teaching fundamental society as Family member.
Friends must be good teachers, too. They teach more important things than parents ever taught. The friend and I can influence each other for their own thinking way. For example, few years ago, I hated one friend whom I was a good friend with in some point and I often said about her “I really hate her. But we both used to be a good friend, so I tried to like her, but I couldn’t.” Another friend of mine heard it and said, “ Don’t worry, there are so many kind of people and it is not possible for us to be a good friends with all of them. I know how you and the friends were good friends, but if time goes by, we ourselves change, too. So, take it easy. But, you mustn’t tell that you hate her any more, if you don’t want to let the circumstances more badly.” I really agree this idea. After that, relationship of the friend and me’s whom I used to hate became better. So, from friends, I can learn how to meet the people in society.
In our society, there are many teachers but each of them has their specialized. So parents must be good teachers, but their couldn’t be the best teachers of all things.
2005/07/14
Practice of writing
Topic: People attend college or university for many different reasons. Why do you think people attend college or university?
Why do we attend college or university?? Do we go to there to get the status to graduate university? I think it must be wrong. For me, I want to attend university to acquire broad knowledge, discuss problems and exchange ideas from other students.
First point is that we can learn not only concerned my major but also minor. I don’t think it’s possible to learn many kinds of things by myself effectively. Moreover, I can learn about them from professors who have professional knowledge and latest happenings. At second, we can make a lot of new friends who have same interests. At high school, each people have different interest. Some students are interested in literature but others want to be a doctor. However, at university, in one major, we all have same or similar interests, so I can get good influence from friends each other. Also, I can get idea that friends have but I never come upon with my mind.
Today, many people attend university for different reason, and some students are bored the lives. But almost all students enjoy their university students’ life because there are many things that we can know newly. So we attend university.
Why do we attend college or university?? Do we go to there to get the status to graduate university? I think it must be wrong. For me, I want to attend university to acquire broad knowledge, discuss problems and exchange ideas from other students.
First point is that we can learn not only concerned my major but also minor. I don’t think it’s possible to learn many kinds of things by myself effectively. Moreover, I can learn about them from professors who have professional knowledge and latest happenings. At second, we can make a lot of new friends who have same interests. At high school, each people have different interest. Some students are interested in literature but others want to be a doctor. However, at university, in one major, we all have same or similar interests, so I can get good influence from friends each other. Also, I can get idea that friends have but I never come upon with my mind.
Today, many people attend university for different reason, and some students are bored the lives. But almost all students enjoy their university students’ life because there are many things that we can know newly. So we attend university.
2005/07/12
Today’s word #2
From 007’s film, Tomorrow Never Die
In this movie, Bond’s enemy is media tycoon, Carver, who manipulates the world happenings easily. His way of making articles is very dishonesty. Only for them, he initiates some thing big and terrible accident and also he tries to happen World War Ⅲ. Moreover, as he brings about these accident and happenings, he makes the articles before the happenings happen!!
That kind of person’s word…
Carver: There is no news like bad news.
(悪いニュースほど売れるニュースは無い Warui News hodo, ureru News ha nai.)
I think you have notice that it parodies the proverb “No news is good news”.
We sometimes learn proverbs at school and I think there is no need to know them because it doesn’t seem to be used at all in conversation. But, I could more enjoy the movie knowing that it is a parody of proverb!
In this movie, Bond’s enemy is media tycoon, Carver, who manipulates the world happenings easily. His way of making articles is very dishonesty. Only for them, he initiates some thing big and terrible accident and also he tries to happen World War Ⅲ. Moreover, as he brings about these accident and happenings, he makes the articles before the happenings happen!!
That kind of person’s word…
Carver: There is no news like bad news.
(悪いニュースほど売れるニュースは無い Warui News hodo, ureru News ha nai.)
I think you have notice that it parodies the proverb “No news is good news”.
We sometimes learn proverbs at school and I think there is no need to know them because it doesn’t seem to be used at all in conversation. But, I could more enjoy the movie knowing that it is a parody of proverb!
2005/07/09
Today's word
from DVD
This summer vacation, I make it a rule to watch a movie an hour for listening practice. Today, I didn’t have a time to go to rent it that suite for listening practice. So I know that it’s not good for practicing for beginner, but I watched 007, Tomorrow Never Die.
In the scene, James riding a military plane that he deplete with a sleeping hostile backseat driver. However, the backseat driver wake up and notice that the driver is not his company but James. So the backseat driver tries to kill and tied up James neck. They fight and at last James success to push the button 2, loosing the back seat system.
And says…
James: “Backseat driver”
In the word “Backseat driver” there are meaning “a passenger in the back of a car who gives unwanted advise”, according to the Longman dictionary.
It’s interesting, isn’t it?? I had no idea that the word has such a meaning. When I watched the scene, I could hear “Backseat driver” or “Bug in driver”. I’m not sure that this is a play on words or just I heard wrong. But in James Bond film, we can see many of them, so perhaps I’m right. “Bug” has a meaning like back seat. If you want say
“Don’t bother me” you would say “Don’t bug me” (邪魔しないで jyama sinaide)
Anyway, in the scene, movie script says
James: “お邪魔虫め ojyama mushi me”
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