What is animal rights?

 "What are animal rights?" When you are given this question, What do you think?. Maybe, living thing, development, own life. At least, there is no person who says "It is wonderful!", because, animal also living of course. But, all things are not bad. Operating on living animals for research has a good side. For example, medical development, and safely for human. So, this operating has both sides. By the way, what we should do? I think we should do think about animal rights, and recognizing for benefits. An animal life makes human life, and it give us a safe life. If you use chemical products, please remember animal rights and please recognize them.

Grammar and Basic Vocabulary

  Students should not study grammar and basic vocabulary in university, and they must study expressions of conversation.
  First of all, puzzling grammar and words are doesn’t use usually. Especially, high school　English is too difficult to use. Unprecedented means “never having happened before”. But I think other words will able to replace this word, for example, rarely, unusual, uncommon, seldom and so on. So easy words are good enough for conversation.
  Secondly, there are junior high school and high school English for examination or admission. Examiners make tests difficult intentionally to decide advantages and disadvantages. In university, don’t need them, we should become students that can develop their own English skills.
  Finally, I think we have already finished foundation of English, because we had studied English for six years. So we don’t need grammar and basic vocabulary now, and conversation ability is necessary for us after this. 
  For these reasons, I think students should not study grammar and basic vocabulary in university, and we should study expressions of conversation. If we do that we will able to speak English better.

Fishing in Atami

  Three weeks ago, I went Atami port with my three friends to go fishing. I and one of three friends were late to meet about two hours in the morning. Because of our lateness, two other  people went there earlier than us. I arrived at Atami station half an hour after, then we started walking to the fishing spot without a bus. It was wrong way, so we were very tired. After arriving, we apologized to friends for being late immediately. Then we enjoyed fishing, and caught a strange fish which I have never seen. My friend had tried to use horse mackerel for bait, and he threw it into the sea. Interestingly, at the moment a fish fell from sky, and bumped my chest! When evening came, The top of the fish net fell into the sea when I was catching a crab. I borrowed the net from friends, so I apologized for forgetting. After the fishing, we had lunch in a seaside restaurant. As you can see, I want to go fishing once again. 

How to Develop English Skills

  This is an effective way to develop your English skills that I learned from a professor. First of all, find out suitable teaching materials, for example daily conversation, fairy tales and so on. Now I am using “Snow White” as a learning material. Second, read aloud the sentences.  Most books have easy English, so you should not translate the English sentences. Third, recite the story until you can read without stopping. Fourth, do a shadowing using an audio system. This is the most important point in these steps. Fifth, recite once more. Performing this work, you will able to improve your memory. As you can see, I want you to try these steps every day.

Popular Place or Things of My Home Town

  Itoigawa is a beautiful and proud place, where is my home town. It has about three special products, for example, stained glass, stone named Hisui and rice named Koshihikari.

 Firstly, there is a big falls named Fudoudaki near my home, where is also campsite. I used to visit there as a school activities or private hang. The falls make people very relax, and it has two main reasons. Number one, it is located in the mountain, so climate is cool. Number two, in case of near the falls, people can be splashed water.

 Secondly, there is long beach that it is extended north and south. It has some names every place at a definite interval. For instance Oshiage, Oyashirazu, Hisui, Lavender, Nou and so on. They suit swimming in summer vacation, so I recommend there.

 Thirdly there is shopping district, apparently there is nothing specially, but various events hold every season there. For these reasons Itoigawa is a beautiful and proud place.

Haiku

Strong winds of summer

Takes away washing from home
It feels like so sad

                                                        There's a sleeping cat

                                                         Curled up in the kotatu

                                                         Living ornament

Art

  I like two pictures drawn by Pablo Picasso(1881-1973) and Salvador Dali(1904-1989). First, the picture named “Old Guitarist” is drawn by Picasso. It doesn’t feel vital, he looks almost dead. I don’t know whether he plays the guitar, but I understand that he is on the brink of death. By the way, I am interested in this coloring. Concretely, the old guitarist is a dark color, but the guitar is bright. I think it shows life and symbolized by the man and guitar. Second, the picture named is “Exploding Clock” is drawn by Dali. The picture looks like melting, and includes a philosophy, too. For example, view of time, sadness of a living thing, and so on. I think time add to value in usual life, so melting of time is collapse of added value. Then, time is necessary for living things, so it shows change, events, and the time of death. As you can see, in this way, I couldn't understand the artist's ideas, but I could understand it in my way.