Week 7: Bee Green

Video link: http://video.pbs.org/feature/63/


Summary:
Today, we can't do without energy, and it's demand is increasing.  However there are two big problem.  Coal is limited energy source, and producing energy causes global warming.  There are ideas that experts argue to solve it.  Some company invented the material that collect CO2, or some electricity company injects their carbon dioxide emission into the deep ground.  The ideas that change energy source are using sun light and biological energy.  Energy from biotechnology is developing, but it need enormous money.  Solar photovoltaics become to be practical, but it also cost a lot, so that's company researches on the cutting down the cost of solar panel.  Some experts insist that we should use a nuclear power generation more because that discharges less carbon dioxide emission, and there is safer one now.  We can also solve the problem to reduce our wasting energy.  It saves money and nature.

I listened to this video for two hours

Personal comment:
I chose this video because environment problem become serious now, and we must not ignore the problem because we live with the nature.  This video show me the various possibilities of solutions for the energy problem.  One of them supports nuclear energy generation, but I firmly against it.  It isn't because Japan had terrible disaster.  It just because that has potential danger.  We don't find good solution for disposal yet.  Though the supporter use the reason that nuclear energy generation discharge less carbon dioxide, some surveys showed it's same as thermal power generation if it includes all processes.  They use the global warming movement for reason.  We also must not forget that most countries which have nuclear power support the nuclear power generation.  It is suspicious.  I think disagreement of nuclear energy and saving energy are most important now.

Vocabulary:
1. surge(noun): a sudden movement of many people
Ex: There was a sudden surge toward the door.
2. dispose(verb): to cause someone to be likely to do or have something
Ex: His upbringing disposes him to question authority.
3. reactor(noun): a large device that produces nuclear energy.
Ex: nuclear reactor

Week 3:Alzheimer's Brings Daughter, Dad Together

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/08/137681452/alzheimers-brings-daughter-dad-together


Betsy Brooks was brought up strictly by her father , Charles.  He was Marine.  They also had  share of arguments,  but everything changed after her father's disease.  Charles, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease when he was 78.  After that, their relationship deepened.  She got a chance from unfortunately matter, and that brought them pleasure.


I listened about 15 minutes.


I chose this story because it is happy story.  The stories that related to Alzheimer's disease are usually terrible.  It is very fearful for me to be changed my character, and that could happen to everyone.  That case showed us the one of the model of happiness about Alzheimer's disease.  I moved a lot, and it must encourage people who have patient in their relative.


Vocabulary:

diagnose(verb): to recognize a disease
                         "She was diagnosed as having cancer."

butt(verb phrase): to disagree about how something should be done
                           "They butted heads over the issue a number of times"

meticulous(adjective): very careful about doing something in an extremely accurate and exact way
                                  "He did meticulous work"

Week 2: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence


         This video is about Thomas Jefferson.  He entered the second Continental Congress.  He was the member of Committee of Five, and he drafted outline of Declaration of Independence.  July 2nd, Congress passed resolution of independence, and July 4th, they approved Declaration of Independence.
"I like the dream of the future better than the history of the past"  That is one of his famous saying.

I listened to it about 30 minutes.

I chose this because I wanted know about him.  I have heard about him, but I didn't know him in detail.  I haven't read Declaration of Independence, so I'm very interested in that.  I want to know whether the sentences' meanings are limited or not.

Congress(noun): the group of people who are responsible for making the law of a country in some kinds of government.  "He was elected to the country's congress"

Bonding(noun): the process of forming a close relationship with someone.  "He and his dad spent the weekend together for some male bonding.

Draft(verb): to make a version of something that will need more work in oder to be finished.  "The two countries are drafting a treaty"

I am Keske!

          

          Hi, everyone!! I am Keske.  I was born in Tokyo, and grew up there, so I speak Japanese.  I have three siblings, older and younger sisters, and younger brother.  I live with my older sister.  She has lived in the US for 20 years.  She support my American life, so I'm grateful to her.  I have been in America three months.
          I barely graduated from high school.  I wasn't good student, so I didn't have ability to enter university, so after graduated high school, I started to work.   In fact I haven't gotten over 40% in all tests except for P.E.   I was only good at sports, because I began to play soccer when I was five years old.  I wanted to be professional soccer player, but a fateful encounter changed my life.
           Literature really chocked me.  When I was young, I thought I was special.  For example, I often feel other people are all robots because  I couldn't aware others conscious, so I often felt I was left all alone in the world, as is often the case with adolescent boy. Literature told me I wasn't special, and also told me anything could happen in the world.  From then on, I came to be absorbed in literature.  I was also absorb in another art, especially music and the cinema. They lighted up some my consciousness that was in the dark in my mind. I also learned art was combination, and I think it applies to our life.        
          Speaking of my job, I was a cook in Japan.  I worked at Italian restaurant. Actually, I don't want to talk about my job because I didn't like my job.  I just worked for pay to live.  I like cooking, but I don't like cooking as a job.  When I thought about quitting my job, my sister asked me to come to America. She loves travel, so she often goes foreign country. She needed someone to take care her dogs, and housekeeper.  First, I didn't wanted to go America because I couldn't imagine my foreign life, and learning English was very trouble for me.  I hadn't studied English for over 13 years!!!!  However, I decided to go America. I came to want to challenge something big.  I thought that was chance.  This is why I came to America.
          I haven't decided my job yet.  The only thing that is certain is that I won't be a cook!!  I want to set my goal close to now because I have never achieved my goal far from now. For now, I'm interested in anthropology, so I wanted to go university, and learn it.
          I'm very shy. I thought the character would die if I grew up to adult, but I'm still shy. It's very trouble!! Sometime I give someone else bad impression, so if you think so, don't think I'm angry.  I love human.