Book Review 9

I read ‘The Contest’
Arachne was a talented young spinner and weaver. She had learned all the skills from her teacher Athena. Arachne made the most wonderful fabrics and tapestries. But, she is proud and stubborn character. She boasted to her colleagues about her wonderful works. Her colleagues don’t think it is not a good idea to boast her works. If it had a contest now, she would win she said. Then, the heat of the day died down. The sky grew dark and a wild wind whipped through the room. The workshop began to shake as if an earthquake was about to hit. As the shake stopped, Arachne appeared angrily in front of her. Then, they decided to have a contest. Arachne decided to weave a huge tapestry. Athena had also decided to make something quite different for her tapestry. A month later, Arachne and Athena have made a wonderful tapestry. However, the audience couldn’t choose which more wonderful tapestry is. After that, Arachne and Athena went into the room. There were no people in this room. They had a quarrel each other. Finally, Athena made Arachne into a creature using magic. Arachne had become a spider after Athena casted a spell on Arachne.
Arachne was so bad character for me. This story was strange, but I felt interesting. (220words)


Reilly, G. (2007). The contest. Thomson Learning.

My favorite movie star

Hello, I will tell you about my favorite movie star. I like Jackie Chan. He is a famous action movie star who doesn’t use a lot of computer graphics. I knew him for the first time, when my father had lent a video from rental video shop. It was Suiken. Then, I watched a lot of movies which Jackie Chan played the leading part. The movie I like the best is Rush Hour. Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker appeared in this movie. There are many battles and humors. Jackie and Chris were nice tags in the movie. Although I don’t know so many movies, I have never seen the action star like Jackie Chan. He is fifty six years old now, but he tries to do new challenges. I felt it is great and I back up him from now on. (142words)

The past assignment

I am going to tell you about my past assignment. This assignment was made last year. I

Do you know Kennedy and Lincoln have a lot of common points? A small point is that the names of Kennedy and Lincoln both have seven letters. Lincoln became president in 1860 and Kennedy, in 1960. Lincoln’s secretary was Mrs. Kennedy; Kennedy’s secretary was Mrs. Lincoln. This story spread out here.
I am a Mrs. Kennedy’s son. One day, I went to the party. I found a beautiful woman who I have never seen. Then, I plucked up my courage and spoke to her. Unexpectedly, we opened up to each other. To my surprised, she is Lincoln’s fiancé. But, I didn’t tell her that I’m Mrs. Kennedy’s son. Though she has fiancé, we often come to meet together. After that, I loved her day by day. Several days later, she suddenly cried and she said “please help me”. I said, “What do you mean”? She showed me her bruised arms. “How ever did that happen”? I said. She told me that she was attacked by Lincoln. Since I loved her seriously, I couldn’t forgive Lincoln. And, I hated Lincoln. Then, I planned to assassinate him. I wished that this plan will do and all the people surprised. After that, I knew there is a man who skilled assassinate. His name is John Wilkes Booth. I could meet him and asked him to assassinate Lincoln. He consented to my proposal without dissent. We determined to assassinate Lincoln when he is speaking in front of large audiences. On April 14 Friday, the day came at last. Lincoln’s secretary Mrs. Kennedy said him not to go in public the day. However, Lincoln didn’t take her advice. Then, he stood in front of the large audience and started speaking. After that, John pointed his gun at Lincoln. After a few seconds, a bullet went through his right temple. Lincoln’s fiancé was very surprised at the accident. The assassin John was killed after killing Lincoln. Two months later, I and Lincoln’s fiancé were tied up. At the same time, a man named Andrew Johnson (1808) appeared as a successor of Lincoln.
To tell the truth, Kennedy was assassinated on Friday. He also didn’t take his secretary’s advice. In addition, Kennedy’s successor Lyndon Johnson (1908) is same name with Lincoln’s successor. Both killers, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, have fifteen letters in their names and they were killed before they could be brought to trial. And finally, the same funeral carriage carried the bodies of both men at their funerals…　(434words)

Book Review 8

I read ‘My Best Friend’s a Genius’.
A boy whose name is Gary has a best friend. The boy’s name is Miles. They are from Australia. Gary thinks Miles is genius. Miles invents things which are always working. For example, he invented flying skateboards, computer-controlled mouse traps and automatic toilet flushers. Gary is not genius, but he is good at helping Miles get out of trouble. The automatic toilet flushers often scared Miles mother so much. His mother grounded him for a week as a punishment.
One day, Miles made a hyper phone. It was the best invention for him. He told that hyper phone will be able to talk to aliens. Then, he read a feature article about UFOs and he believed UFOs are the spaceships from another planets. However, Gary insisted that it is superstition. Then, Mile started making hyper phone. It took three days to make a little box with flashing lights on it. And he plugged his mobile phone into the box. Finally, he made up hyper phone. Suddenly, his mobile phone rang… Mile pressed the speaker phone button. Miles and Gary heard some strange sounds from the phone. Slowly, the strange sounds turned into words. They thought these voices were from aliens. Mile asked “What planet are you from”? After that, the voice laughed. In fact, the voice is from Antarctic researcher. Milles looked really disappointed. Suddenly, there was a huge crackle of electricity around the box and phone, and all the lights in the house went off. Miles was called his mother and he left his room. Finally, the voice left a word that Australia will disappear after 100 year. Then, the phone went dead. After that, Gary thought he should help Miles get out of trouble.
I thought it was so interesting at the last of this book. If this book continues, I want to read. (313words)(2.3points)

Ivanoff,G. (2007). My best friend's a genius. Thomson Learning.

My favorite meals

Hello, I am going to write about my favorite meals. I have few meals that I dislike and never eat. I hate tomato. It is not delicious at all for me. However, I have a lot of meals that I like and often eat. I tell you some of my favorite meals. First, I like chicken very much. I often buy yakitori and eat them. When I eat out, I always order chicken certainly.
Second, I like miso soup. My mother cooks it every dinner time, so I always eat it. I like tofu, shiitalke and do on. My mother said that miso soup has a lot of vitamins and it made our skin beautiful. Since miso soup’s taste changes by cooker, I want to eat my wife’s miso soup in the future.(135words)

The book about the universe

I read a book about the universe at the KGU library. It was so interesting for me. Please let me tell about.
First of all, have you ever thought about the birth of the universe? I believed that the universe was born by the Big Bang. Big Bang is one of the large explosions that triggered the birth of the universe. However, according to the book, it is not true theory. The universe was filled vacuum energy the ancient times. The vacuum produced the repulsion. The universe has been expanding since then. And the age of universe is about 13.7billion year old now.
Second, have you ever thought about the size of the universe? It was not solved the correct size of the universe and it was not understood that the universe is limited or unlimited. However, this book taught me that it took over 13 billion light-years in the universe. Light can advance seven and a half laps around the earth. To explain plainly, it can advance thirty-thousand kilometers per second. Although this is the great high speed, it took thirteen hundred thousand light-years from our galaxy to the nearest galaxy. I understood how big the universe is!
Third, have you ever thought about the size of the stars and their properties? I’m interested in about that the best. A lot of stars have great energies. For example, the sun has high temperature. It is about 15 million degrees at the center of the sun. So, the sunlight is very dazzling. And, the sun is much bigger than the earth. However, there are so many stars that are larger than the sun. Some stars are two thousands time as large as the sun. In addition, there are a lot of stars that shined more brightly than the sun. When I had known the fact for the first time, I felt the earth is small star.(317words)

Book Review 7

I read ‘The Coat’.
There is a boy whose name is Mark. He is listening under the window at old Mr. Crowe’s house. If he moved away now, he might be seen. Mr. Crowe found his old coat. But, a woman put it out for the garbage truck this morning. Mark thought she must be Mr. Crowe’s daughter. It was not just a coat for the old man. He said, “The pockets were full of treasure!” Mark amazed when he head about that. He had to find the coat at once. He ran his house to get his bicycle. Mike followed the truck and he could feel the sweat running down his back. He is only thinking about the treasure. He wondered what could be in the pockets. For example, he thought that there would be diamonds, emeralds, rubies or hundreds of dollars at least. The thought of it kept him going. Then, he reached the top of hill. He stopped behind the truck. Finally, he found the coat and picked up his bike. Mark went home soon. He spread out the coat. There was an old watch, photo of a young woman and so on. He checked through the pockets again, but there was nothing in the pocket. He was disappointed about that. After that, He decided to give this coat to Mr. Crowe. “I found this coat,” said Mark. Mr. Crowe looked surprised when he took his coat from Mark. But, he looked so happy.
I was moved by this story. The hero, Mark was very kind boy.(260words)(2.2points)

Reilly, C.(2007). The contest. Thomson Learning.

My favorite person

Hello, I am going to tell you about my favorite person. My favorite person is Ichiro Suzuki. As you know, he is a baseball player. I like him when he played in Japan. He belonged Oryx in Japan. He has been playing baseball in USA since 2001. And he accomplished the great undertaking that hit over 200 every year. I thought he is great player, who all the people admire. But, I knew that Ichiro made a lot of efforts to get the skills. For example, when he was a high school student, he went to batting center after club activity. At that time, he played as a pitcher. In spite of his efforts, he couldn’t win at the Koushien. Ichiro is a professional baseball player now. He has been continuing his efforts. I felt I also need to make a lot of efforts from now on. (149words)