Archive for February 5th, 2008



05
Feb

educational gap

In Japan, an educational gap between upper and lower classes is growing more and more.

Educational gap has two patterns:

1. School

 If child’s parents get high income, child can go to a good school. But if parents don’t have much money, their children can’t go to a good school.

2. Private schools

 Private school tuition is very expensive. Only rich children can go to a private school.

Both related problems are it depend on parent’s income. Rich parent’s children can attend a good school and get high income in the future.  And the child’s children will get high income in the future too.

Finland has number one study ability in the world with little educational gap.

Japan must erase educational gap as soon as possible.

Sources

 wikipedia

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E6%A0%BC%E5%B7%AE

 BBC news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3963253.stm

05
Feb

Atom-bomb

1.Japan is the only atom-bombed country.

2.The atom-bomb caused damege to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

3.One of the most famous symbol is the Atomic Bomb Memorial Dome in Hiroshima.

4.It shows evidence of not only direct damage of city ,but also indirect damege of citizen.

5.The main indirect damage is an illness.

 

by Akio Takemura

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%9F%E7%88%86%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0

05
Feb

shandong province

Today I want to introduce my hometown Shangdong Province.

 In Chinese character, Shangdong is written as “山東”.

 Shandong Province is named by its location, which is located in the east of Tai Hang Shan Mountain.

 The population of Shandong is around 90 million. The main city is Jinan and Qingdao.

 Throughout Chinese history there have been many famous people born in Shandong, and the most famous are Confusius and Zhu Ge Liang.

 What’s more, Qingdao Beer and Haier Electronic are known by most of people.

 I live in Weihai, a city located in the most east of Shandong, which is very near Korea. Because of the special location, many Koreans are doing business in Weihai.

 

Source : http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9D%B1%E7%9C%81

 

05
Feb

The North Pole

1. The North Pole is the point on surface of the earth that is furthest north. (15)

2. Discovery of sea route to the North Pole was made by Fridtjof Nansen in 1895. (15)

3.  The North Pole is warmer than the South Pole because there is no continent at the North Pole. (18)

4. Therefore, the ice of the North Pole reduces because of the influence of Global Warming every year. (17)

5. Also, recently, the fight is occurring in several countries over natural resources at the North Pole. (16)

Source

http://www.jamstec.go.jp/arctic/

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%A5%B5

05
Feb

animal extinction

Extinction occurs when a species goes extinct. Extinction of species breaks the stability of nature.

For example, some people poach the rare animals or break environment a lows for money. As a result species gradually vanish. Not all the cause of extinction are human activity. But human activities are thought to be the major reason of today’s extinction.

It is impossible to return extinct species. Many animals and plants have vanished through out history. We can’t count the exact number of extinct species. Extinction is still going on and on.

Many animals are on the red list, which means they are endangered. Extinction could happen to the animals that we see in the zoo now.  We should try to decrease vanishing species.

 

by Hideki Tanaka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction

05
Feb

global warming

Various issues are often raised in relation to global warming. One is rise of temperature. Second is extraordinary weather. Third is rise of sea levels. . These issues are a matter of life and death. First, rise of temperature is caused. For that reason, rise of sea levels was caused. Besides coral can’t inhabit present habitat. Therefore, global warming is critical problem for living thing on the earth.

 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming#Related_climatic_issues

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%B0%E7%90%83%E6%B8%A9%E6%9A%96%E5%8C%96#.E6.B8.A9.E6.9A.96.E5.8C.96.E3.81.AE.E5.BD.B1.E9.9F.BF

 

05
Feb

motorcycles

①    A motorcycle is a fast, usually large, and two-wheeled vehicle with an engine.

②    It said that the history of a motorcycle began in the middle of 1800s in France.

③    The first motorbike was not powered by petrol engine. It was powered by steam engine.

④    For good mobility, it was improved greatly during the world war Ⅱ.

⑤    But with the spread of cars, motorcycle market becomes slumped.

⑥    Now, motorcycles are not used practically without such purpose as delivery service and police motorcycle in Japan. Many people purchase and ride on motorcycles as their hobby.

 

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle

http://www.bikez.com/

http://www.bikez.jp/howto/howto_setumei_01.html

 

05
Feb

Cloned Animal Dolly

1. Most famous cloned animal is probably the sheep Dolly. She was born in Scotland in 1996.

2. She is the first cloned mammal made from adult sheep’s differentiated cell. The sheep’s original cell was a old sheep. This fact was unbelievable then.

3. Dolly was world news. There were various opinions. Some people requested scientists to clone dead people.

4. She was suspected that she can’t have her child. But she has borne 4 babies.

5. Dolly died in 2003. She was 6 years old. She was killed painlessly because she was ill. She was made and killed by man.

by Yoshiko Baba

Source

http://www.time.com/time/2007/cloning/index.html

http://www.biotech-house.jp/glossary/glos_108.html

05
Feb

Thomas Edison

1. Thomas Edison was born in Ohio. When he was 7 years old, he moved to Michigan

2. He stopped to go to elementary school, because he was sick. But his mother taught him some projects.

3. He gained fame by inventing the phonograph at institute of Menlo Park in 1877.

4. He invented practical things. For example, telephone, record player, etc.

5. In 1931, he passed away when he was 84 years old.

6. His name will live forever as the great inventor.

by Mamoru Narutaki