The Review of White Collar

Neal Caffrey is in a prison because he is a thief and commits many crimes. One day he escapes from the prison. He can do that because he is incredibly smart. The police think they won’t be able to catch him again so they ask Peter Burk, the special agent in the FBI and the only person who caught Neal in the past. Peter does research on the things around Neal on the previous days. Though the research, he finds out one strange thing which happened to Neal. A week ago, Neal’s ex-girlfriend visited him and his behavior has changed from then. Peter thinks Neal went to her house and that is right. Neal sits on the empty floor with a bottle. Neal gets back to the jail and tries to gets out of there again. His plan is to help Peter with his knowledge. Peter lets him out of the jail and takes him wherever Peter goes. This is how they get started to work on many difficult cases together.
In episode 1, Peter is looking for the man called “Dutch Man.” One day he finds a strange guy who has a bunch of the same books at the airport. He goes to the airport with Neal and inquires into the strange man and the books. Then Neal finds out that the guy is involved in the Dutch Man’s case from the books. Because of Neal’s advice, Peter can find the Dutch Man’s secret place and catch him. Afterwards, Peter decides to give Neal the license of FBI and work with Neal.
I really enjoyed seeing this show and want to keep watching this. I like all kinds of mystery or suspense movies like Sherlock Holmes, Columbo and Ocean’s series. The people who come out that kind of movie are so smart and cool. Neal and Peter are also very smart and I like the way they cooperate to solve big problems even though they are a thief and a secret agent of FBI. I am looking forward to the next episode. (343)

BR-15 The Magic Gift

Cheated out of a fortune, Chin's luck changes when he meets a mysterious monk.
For the old man's gifts of a mat, a spoon and a pair of chopsticks are not as
ordinary as they seem.
When I read this story, I thought the kind person became happy at last. Chin was so kind person that he could be given some magical tools from by old man. And his two brothers couldn't get those because they were so unkind. Also, the pictures of two brothers are very clumsy, but Chin's is cute! I don't like two brothers. I also thought I have to behave kindly all people who are in trouble.(115)
Folklore.(2009) The Magic gifts

BR-14 The Princess and The Pea

Prince Patrick wants to marry a real princess but they are not easy to
find. Still, anything is possible with the help of a cousin, a witch and a
pea...
I read "The Princess and the Pea". Many people have read a story about Cinderella, but this "princess" story is different from it. A prince wants to find a real princess so he sets out to travel the world. He meets Peg, a palace maid. Actually, I thought Peg would be a real princess at last. haha That is because she is so cute and kind. The prince used a pea to find a real princess, but I couldn't understand why the pea was needed. I thought the prince could find a real princess without the pea. However, I was glad to see the princess Peg. She is cute as expected. (139)

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian).(2004) The Princess and The Pea

BR-13 Beauty and the Beast

"I took a rose from the garden of a monstrous beast and he has sworn to kill
me..." When Beauty reads this letter form her father, she bravely rises to the
Beast's enchanted castle in his place. The Beast is truly terrifying, but, as
Beauty soon realizes, nothing is quite as it seems.
I think almost everyone have heard this tale's name because there is the movie of the tale from Disney. However, there are some difference between the story and the movie.
First, Beauty has two elder sisters and they are nasty. They try to make Beauty's roses sick and they love their father's money but himself. Second, there is no servant in the Beast's castle. The invisible magic hands help him to serve foods, open the doors and so on. The story has other differences from Disney's movie, but the ending is same as it. Beauty and the Beast marry each other! I love this story:) Oh, I want to see the movie of it, I will do after I finish my homework. (171)


Stowell, Louie. (2006) Beauty and the Beast

BR-12 Stories of Pirates

Prepare to set sail with the craziest crew of pirates on the Seven Seas -
Charlie and his pesky parrot, sneaky Captain Spike and the mysterious Masked
Pirate himself.
I read "Stories of Pirates". This book consists of three stories, The pesky parrot, Captain spike and The Masked Pirate. I like each of stories, but I especially like " The pesky parrot". I thought the parrot was so clever! I want to meet him. And because of the parrot's ability, Charlie could get enough money to buy new bird. However, I think the parrot was the best bird so he should not give the parrot to someone. Other stories are also interesting. (112)
Punter, Russell.(2003) Stories of Pirates

BR-11 Taking Off

Anna has got her new skateboard and raced on the road with it. After a while, she meets her friends on the road. They say her new skateboard is really cool. One of her friends, Tom, asks her if he can take the skateboard for a ride. Anna doesn't want him to do that, but he doesn't hear her and goes somewhere with it. She follows him as soon as possible and finally finds him. At that time, she finds a bump on the road and shouts. But it is too late. Tom goes over the bump and falls off. Anna's skateboard gets scratched. Tom apologizes her and she is not mad at him. Instead, she tells him that she gathered money from her job.

I like this story because this reminds me of my childhood memory. When I was 6 years old, I got a new staffed animal from my parents. However, my brother stole it and it got messed. This book's story is similar to my story. (169)

Reilly, Carmel.(2007) Taking off

BR-10 Marty and the Magazine

There are two boys, Marty and Joe. They have been friends since they were little kids. They hung out to Mr Mancini's music shop most Fridays. One day, however, Joe steals a magazine in Mr Mancini's shop and Marty sees it by accident. No one notices that besides Marty. He feels sick because he doesn't know what to do. They goes out the shop and meets Joe's mom. She asks Joe about the magazine. Joe suddenly says its Marty's and he says "Yes." He doesn't feel good again because he lies. He just likes the music shop so he goes there to give the magazine back. Finally, he decides to quit Joe's friend so behaves like he doesn't know Joe.

I think this is a really sad story because the good friends get separated. Also I think Marty's decision is not quit good. Actually, Joe did such a bad thing, but Marty should have told him that was a bad thing and not gonna do it again. That is a friend. (171)

Wall Julia. (2007) Marty and the Magazine

BR-9 Marco

This book is about a boy named Marco. He lives with his parents and works at his dad’s farm. He helps his dad every day, but actually he doesn’t like his job like counting peaches he and co-workers picked. This is because he felt boring every time he works. So his dream is going to the big city near his town and get away from his job in the farm. One day he tries to sneak out his house and go to the big city by train. He gets up early morning like 5 o’clock and goes to the station near his house. He just brings some t-shirt, a pair of jeans and a little money. However, he doesn’t have enough money to get a train so he just runs into the train. He finally gets to the big city and meets a weird girl on the street. She asked him lend money to get a whole of cake and share with him. He gives her his money, but she lies. She tries to run away from him as soon as she gets the cake. However, she is attacked by a car and police come. Marco leaves her alone and goes to the market in the town. He is hungry, but he has no money so he finds his peaches in the market. He argues these are his peaches, but the seller doesn’t believe him. At that time, people who knows Marco passes by and talks to him. Then the guy takes Marco back to his town. Marco thinks he doesn’t like the big city because everywhere is so dirty.

I know how Marco feels because I am living in country side too. However I am also thinking about going to some urban places to get a job. Because I read this book, I am just wondering if to go to urban side is going to be good decision or not. (321)

Esplen Mike(2005) ,Marco

Suicide

There has been a great discussion about suicide and are many different ways to think. In my opinion, however, suicide is morally wrong. This is because suicide can cause someone trouble objectively. When we think about troubles for suicide, there are some ideas that could be come up with easily, for example, sad feelings of family or friends and influence on contribution to society. That means if someone suddenly disappear their places of work, other people have to fill vacant posts. Most people might think causing someone trouble is bad thing. Of course, I do think so because I think we have to live with helping with each other. However, why do we consider that disturbing someone in any situation is a bad thing? I am going to talk about this problem with considering that suicide could be one of the biggest things in that regard.

First of all, I gave some example about causing someone trouble, but I would like to emphasize that we reap a huge amount of benefit and betraying them is one of the ugliest actions that I think. All people keep benefiting from anything. Being born, they are already received benefits from their parents, then, while they are growing up, they are done from not only their parents, but also their friends, lovers and so on. When we say “benefit”, the word has kind of an indefinite meaning. For example, however, if you can have a great lunch time with your friends, you can say you receive kindness from them in that it is considered that you cannot have fun alone. Similarly, we have been at indebtedness position from non-humans. The reason is that hundreds of thousands of animal’s lives are sacrificed for our lives and we reap a lot of benefit from them. In other words, we cannot live without benefit of non-humans. Killing oneself means casting away their lives and giving away all benefit which are given by them. I believe that no one confer a favor for you hoping that you betray it. In addition, all of them desire that you will live happy life so they take care of you. In this situation, can we say that suicide is freedom to choose? I certainly want to say “No”. We have a duty to take advantage of precious things which are given by anyone else.

Taking Kant’s objection to suicide into account, the discussion now turns to the comparison between his opinion and mine. According to his thought, if a person has courage to kill himself and strength to seek more valuable things than his own life, he must live with the strength. I think his opinion is really true and one of the ways to help people who are thinking about suicide. However, this thought thinks about only the person, so it is different from my idea because I do want to focus on not only the person but also people around him. Actually, who is going to be sad by or suffering from suicide? It is people who will have lived long time without a person who died. That is to say dead person will not feel sad and pain, but on the other hand, people around the person will have to live with sad feelings. So suicide is not individual problem.

Next, I am going to think about Mill’s thought of individual freedom. The meaning of freedom that is considered by him is the individual freedom from public opinion. He thought that even if a person did anything by himself, it is his responsibility that any problems cause, and no one can interfere in him. However, an important point is that Mill said that as long as the person does not cause someone trouble. My opinion agrees with this condition in that whatever the person does involve people who are around him.

All in all, suicide is morally wrong because it affects a lot of people around the person. I took some things for instance, but the biggest problem is just sadness of his close relatives. They could think “Why did not stop him?” or “What is the reason why he did?” Everyone knows that making someone sad is not right thing. We have to consider what right or wrong thing anytime. If it is available to think that I am connecting with a lot of people around me like spider’s webs, it is easy to imagine that suicide could be a knife to cut many strong important films by myself. (754)

X Factor

Recently I am crazy about X factor, the American TV show. This is an audition show which choose one person who becomes a singer and gets 500 million contract with a recording company. There were tons of challengers who wanted to get the contract and make their dream come true. Today I just saw the final on TV. There were three people who kept winning the audition; two guys and a woman. I liked the woman whose name was Melanie Amaro because I just loved her voice and she sang like amazing! Of course the other guys were amazing too, but she was special for me. Surprisingly she got the first prize on the show!!! I was so glad to see that. She cried a lot because her dream to be a singer finally came true. She wanted to be a singer not only for herself, but also for her family. She said like her family was always with her and cheered her up every time she lost confidence. She also said she has got confidence to be in front of many people because of that show. I am a little jealous to her because I sometimes lose confidence and want to run away. However she gave me something which really cheer me up. Even though I don't know her and she doesn't know me, I am a big fun of her. I want her to become a big star in the world and sing like she doesn't have any fears. I like her singing "Listen" by Beyonce. When she sings that song, she looks really amazing. It was so touchy and I was moved so many times. Anyway I keep paying attention to her from now on, and when her first album comes out, I run to buy it for sure! I love her so much!(307)

Brad Paisley

I attended Brad Paisley’s concert on September 30th. He sings country music and plays the guitar. His band members play drums, guitars and keyboards. Then, I am going to talk about his background. He was invited to appear on Wheeling station WWVA’s famed Saturday night broadcast Jamboree USA. Paisley’s debut was so well received that he was invited to join the program full-time, and in the years to follow he opened for the likes of the Judds, Roy Clark, and Little Jimmy Dickens. He later attended Nashville’S Belmont University, serving an internship with ASCAP; the contacts Paisley made there helped him land songwriting deal with EMI, and he also appeared in countless demos. Singing to Arista, he issued his debut solo album, Who Needs Pictures, in 1999. The record produced two chart-topping singles in He Didn’t Have to Be, an ode to lobing stepfathers, and We Danced and also earned generally positive reviews for its diversity of country styles. The full album, Time Well Wasted, appeared two weeks later and narrowly missed the top of the album charts, though it did hit number one on the country charts. He is known for bridging the gap between young audiences and country’s roots, uniting generations with the sheer joyful exuberance of his music, stage presence and videos. When I attend his concert, there were a lot of people from all generation such as young people like me, kids and even old people like my grandparents.
In conclusion, I would like to his influences I am interested in. I could notice that he often use back screen with his song by attending his concert. The screen changed its style in accordance with his many kinds of song, for example, when he sang a song involved in water, the screen reflected some water scenery. That was really good and every audience were so excited. I think he has abilities not only for singing or playing the guitar, but also making more fun concert by using a back screen.(344)

My favorite things to do

I have three favorite things to do; playing the piano, listening to music and hanging out with my friends. Actually I had learned to play the piano for fifteen years since I was three years old so playing the piano is a part of my life. I quit learning it, but I still play it almost every day. The sounds make me happy. Also I like listening to music in English. One of my hobbies is to listen to American radio. I listen it every day when I take a train to my college. I can get a lot of information about new songs from it. In addition, I improve my listening skill by doing it. Hanging out with friends is the best thing to me, of course. Even if I don’t feel good, my friends make me happy by talking with me. So I try to hang out with my nice friends as many as possible.(157)

My New Friend, Tom

I am going to introduce my new friend, Tom. We met each other at the bar he works at. He is 25 years old and has worked there for 3 years. He is a good looking guy so girls talk to him every day. He likes his job, but he wants to be a singer actually. He graduated from college and majored engineering. When he was a student, he went to the bar a lot and saw some music bands’ performance there. He was moved at that time so he decided to be a singer in the future. Now he is making money working at the bar as a bartender. I heard a good news yesterday; he will be able to sing songs on the stage in the bar this weekend! I am so glad to hear that. Everyone, please go to his bar and listen to his singing. I bet you like him. (154)

My New Friend, Tom

My Friends

Today I am going to introduce my lovely friends.

This is Jeff. He is from Montana, America. I went to Montana last year, but we did not meet each other at all. He likes outdoor activities like rock climbing and hiking. He wants to go to 3333 stairs in Kumamoto, but I don’t want to. Also he is a really funny guy.

This is Megumu We have met each other when we entered this University. She is one of my best friends. I often stay at her place like once / twice a week. She is really kind and wants to be sheep someday.

This is Yuki. I know you guys know her. She is talkative and funny. Also she can speak English like a native speaker. She has been to America and England as an exchange student. I am so proud of her. She has got an English boyfriend, Alex.

Next I am going to talk about Alex. We have met like two months ago, but we easily became friends because he is such a nice guy. Now he went back to England so I’m missing him. He tries to learn Japanese and his Japanese is getting way better.

This is Yumie. Last year, she went to Canada as an exchange student so she can speak English well. We met in NY on Christmas season last year and that memories are precious for me. I like her skin because it is so white and beautiful.

This is Pang. She is an exchange student from Thailand. She always smiles and her smile makes me happy. She loves dancing and listening to music. We have a lot of the same favorite songs. Actually, she is my boyfriend on Facebook.

This is Anna. She is from Ottawa, Canada. She is always funny and pretty. She is not only pretty, but also kind. When she eats chocolates, she would like to share everyone. I went to Korea with Pang and Anna like one month ago. We had so much fun there.

This is Yukiko. Actually, I went to America with her. So she always cheers me up when I feel sad. We have tons of good memories in America. She is so pretty that everyone likes her. We have a plant to visit America together again in the future.

This is Asami. We call her Ikedy. She is so funny and kind, but she is too lazy to go to school. I really want you to meet her, but it is difficult to see her in college.

These are my fabulous memories with my awesome friends. I love my friends!! (438)

What Could Music Be?

What is a role of music for us? Some people might consider it as a thing which makes them happy, and others use it to show their feelings. I think we can use music as a way to understand other people. In terms of that, it is easy for everyone to know a person’s favorite music with play lists.

One thing music does for people is connect. When we meet a person for the first time, we try to know about him or her by talking about individual information such as name, age, hobbies and so on. Private information shows who the person is externally, but music play lists may become a new way to size up potential mates. Maria Valcheva says, “Nevertheless, music is found to function as a “badge” that conveys information about the personality traits and the individual preferences of person who consumes or possesses the particular piece of music.” This thought helps my opinion in that it is easy to see a part of other person’s inside with music play lists. Keeping this thought in mind, the discussion is going to take an example from daily life. When we talk about music, we may tell favorite singers, groups and genres. Asking someone’s favorite things is very easy if it is the first time to meet each other. In my experiences, introducing myself, I always try to say my favorite singer. If we like the same things, we are going to be interested in each other. This situation might lead to getting along with each other. Therefore, music play lists help us to find someone who could be a good friend easily.

Another thing is that I think we cannot assume that music play lists can be the best item to judge other people. There are people who think about a situation or a mood. That means we often choose the most suitable song in a situation. For example, I like both reggae and classical music. When I study, I listen to classical music. On the other hand, when I want to have fun with my friends, reggae is the best kind of music. Also, it is natural that we think about a suitable kind of music for the situation. I believe that few people feel comfortable listening to rock music when they want to sleep. By considering suitable music, it should also be noted that music could be regarded as diary. This is because our feeling change every day, so songs which are considered suitable also turn one after another. There is a function that can record a day I listened to any songs and we can see when happy days or sad days are. Therefore, we have a large true diary in our own music play lists.

All in all, music could show us who a person is, but we cannot believe the information too much because the music a person listens to depends on what he is doing and the situation. We have to judge a person with not only play lists, but also their feelings. I think an important role in music is to distinguish a person who could be a nice friend from who could not.(531)

The Truman Show

I watched the movie named “The Truman Show” today. One of my favorite actors, Jim Carrey, comes out the movie. That is why I wanted to watch it. Also my friend recommended it to me.

Truman is a common guy, who lives common life, which means, he has got a beautiful wife, Meryl, got a job, been living in his own house. Also, he has got nice neighborhoods, the old guy with a big dog and a family living in front of his hose. Every morning he goes to his job place, he greets them saying like “Good morning. In case I don’t see you… Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.” However, he has a woman he a woman he cannot forget for a long time, Lauren. They meet each other in college and fall in love. Lauren takes him to the sea and seems to run away from something. He doesn’t know what she is afraid of, but as soon as they get to the sea, a black car follows them. A guy comes out from the car and takes her inside. The guy calls himself Lauren’s dad and says “I take her to the hospital in Fiji.” From the experience, Truman tries to go to Fiji many times, but he can’t. This is because someone around him always disturb him. Afterwards, he starts to notice some strange things happening to him, for example, he tries to get on an elevator. But it closed right in front of him. So he pushes the open button quickly and sees the different view of inside. Also when he is in his car and looking at the back mirror, he guesses what kind of people is going to pass through the road. As he guesses, people he mentions are walking out. Then he tries to get out of the town by car, but immediately tons of cars appear and his car can’t move.

These strange things make him want to go somewhere else. Finally he tries to get out of his town by boat. The director tries to disturb him by changing weather from sunny to storm. However, he never gives up what he is doing even if he is about to die. Finally he gets to the edge of the world; there is a wall which separates the real world and the world Truman lives in. He opens the door to enter the real world, but the director stop him by telling him he is not strong enough to go. What he answers is “In case I don’t see you… Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.” And he goes.

I was really moved the last words he said. That phrase became one of my favorites. I want everyone to watch it. (462)

The season I hate

The season I hate is winter. I like summer the best, which means I like hot weather. Winter is opposite. It is cold every day and sometimes it snows even in Kumamoto. I love ice creams, but I do not feel like them in winter because it is too cold to eat. Also I really hate waking up in the morning. I can get up early in the morning. Basically I have to get up at like 6 o’clock because I have a class on 1st period every day. That is not that tough for me in summer, however, it is so difficult for me to get out of my blanket in winter. I don’t want to be late for school, but winter makes me don’t want to go outside. The only thing I like in winter is Christmas. I have really good time in Christmas season with my friends. (150)

Christmas!

This Christmas season was the best days ever. I didn’t expect that I could spend time with my friends, but I was with friends from 21st to 25th. That’s such an amazing thing. I didn’t want to be with my family during Christmas because they didn’t seem to be happy with it. They don’t think we should get some presents or chicken, but I wanted so I decided to stay all day with my friends. On 21st, I went to an Italian restaurant with Meg, Yumie and Asami. I booked the restaurant so I was kind of nervous if they liked it or not. Unfortunately the foods were not enough for us. However all foods was tasty, especially pizza. After that we went take a purikura. Actually Asami didn’t want to go, but we make her go there. It had been a while since I took it last time. Like for a year? Anyway I had so much fun with them. On 24th, the Christmas party was held the dorm of exchange students. It was first time to take part in the Christmas party. There were tons of food and everything looked delicious. It was a potluck party so I brought some breads from Fukuoka with me. There were a Turkey, which was really good, a lot of cakes, amazing chocolates and so many foods! I liked the Turkey. There was Okonomiyaki as well, of course I loved it. We talked so much, took pictures and played some games. I played twister for the first time. It was terrible, but really funny. I realized that I was not good at it. On 25th, I had another party with Yuki and Yumie. We didn’t have a nice place to do so lent Meg’s place. We had Umesyu, which we bought for English Weekend, many snacks and KFC! I was looking forward to eat KFC, but they were not that good actually. I prefer chickens from Mos Burger. We watched the movie named Bridget Jones's Diary. The movie was awesome. I didn’t know my favorite people came out the movie. Since Yuki and Yumie were tired and they had to wake up early morning, we went to bed at like 2 o’clock. I had a good time with them. Now you see why this Christmas was good for me. I really love my friends and oh I forgot to say about it. I’ve got two presents from my lovely friends! I am so happy with it. Also I am looking forward to see them in January, when classes will start. (428)

The food I hate

The food I don’t like is pineapples. Actually I do like fresh ones, but I hate caned ones because it is too sweet and tastes weird. I think I could eat it when I was child. I don’t know exactly when I started to hate it, but I have a bad memory in junior high school. Me and my friends went to Okinawa as a school trip and I was so excited because of Okinawa foods, including fresh pineapples. We stayed one night at the hotel and dinner was served. Then there were pineapples. I was so happy that I ate them at first. However, they were not fresh ones, but caned ones. I gave them to my friend and finished the other dishes up. Also, one thing I really hate is pizzas with pineapples, Hawaiian pizza. I really loved American pizza, but Hawaiian was an exception. I don’t like the taste. (152)

The Analysis of "I have a dream"

For all of us in the world, the history of black slavery is one of the biggest parts of the world history. To understand the importance of the history, we need to know as much about “I have a dream” speech by Martin Luther King. Why did the speech make an impact on the history of black slavery? What was the situation of black slavery like? I am going to analyze this speech, making consideration for these questions.

First, begin with the background of this speech. Originally the matter of black slavery began since 19th century with coming of black people from Africa as slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation was announced in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln and that was supposed to contribute the problem. That means to amendment constitution would change the situation and black people could get the same right to live as white people. However, each senate in South part of America established the laws which segregate black people in daily life and Supreme Court of the United States accepted those. There was the fact that the public places like hotels, restaurants, churches, schools and theaters were completely separated into “white” and “colored.” As you can see, it had been difficult to recognize the difference of people’s awareness to the prejudice since The Emancipation Proclamation was announced. In this situation, what a woman did became one of the trigger of the revolution of black history; the woman named Rosa Parks. In　1955, she finished working and was about to go home by bus. At that time, buses were also separated into “white” and “colored” and blacks had to give up their seats if there was no seat for white people. However, Rosa Parks was exhausted so didn’t give space to white. As a result of that, she was arrested by police. Blacks were furious about the affair so they decided to boycott to ride buses which were the most important transportation for them and the revolution of black history began. The campaign had lasted from 1995 to 1963, the year The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom happened, and Martin Luther King announced “I have a dream” speech in the march.

With the background, it is important to understand the purpose of the speech. This speech was given to back the campaign of civil rights. Even though it had passed a hundred year since The Emancipation Proclamation was announced, it was true that blacks had had an unfair treatment and that is why they supported the civil rights movement. The purpose can be found out from the part that the speech says “Let freedom ring ~.” Because of appealing to everyone that let freedom ring from various places, Martin Luther King tries to success the movement by not only him, but also by everyone who is listening to.

Third, I am going to write about the people who were listening to this speech and the place where Martin Luther King gave the speech. This speech was announced in front of the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial to end up the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The number of people who were gathered at the place was about 2500 thousands and there were white as well. The place is between the statue of Lincoln and Washington Monument which was built to laud the founding president in America, George Washington. People chose the place because they wanted to start to change the situation at that time with these two great people; George Washington who gave a big achievement of building United States of America and Abraham Lincoln who announced The Emancipation Proclamation. Also so many people gathered there and there were people who came by even plane from far away. It is considered how important day it was from that.

Next, I will go on the speech has rhetorical strategies and it is useful to talk about the two of them on understanding it; iteration and space order. Firstly, the speech has iteration. Iteration is to reword same words or phrases. That allows for making the speech cadent and impressing the words and phrases on people. Many focuses on how Martin Luther King gives the speech, he doesn’t give a pause between the sentences, but tells the parts of iteration right after the prior sentences and then gives a pause. It helps to make the speech more vigorous. Secondly, the speech has speech order, which means the speech goes along geographical spaces. It can be seen the last part of the speech; “Let freedom ring.” The speech says “Let freedom ring from” from the East side of America such as New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania to the west side like Colorado and California. Both iteration and space order are used to make the speech more impressive.

Finally, when we analyze the speech, it is required to discuss social effect of it. Basically this speech was given to solve the issue of black people and support the Civil Rights Movement. After Rev. King gave the speech, John F. Kennedy who was working on the issue of black people was killed. That made all of people who desired to change the situation at that time including Rev. King sad. However, they worked really hard for the campaign after the tragedy, and also the following president, Mr. Johnson, gave them a great support. Thus, The Civil Rights Act was established. It has passed a hundred year since the Emancipation Proclamation was announced so people thought it was an opportunity to start a revolution.

In conclusion there are many factors to make the speech great; the backgrounds, the purpose, the place, the listeners and the rhetorical strategies. However, these are not the only factors, but also the way Martin Luther King speaks affected the listeners with iron will for solving the issue of black people. When I listened to his speech on the video, I was moved by his voice and how he speaks. His voice was deep and cadent so that the words he said sank inside. When he was saying “I have a dream” part, the listeners let out a whoop of joy. I think it shows how many people trusted him and how much they counted on him. I have listened to some great American speeches, but this speech is the best speech of mine. Even though I am not the person who were in the same era as him or people who worked on the movement, his desire got to my heart. I believe this great speech is going to be transmitted by word of mouth to posterity to posterity.
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Review of Romeo and Juliet

There are two families which conflict each other; the House of Capulet and the House of Montague. The two families have had a bad relationship for a long time. They make troubles everyday and finally are said if they fight and make any trouble again, both of them are going to be arrested and punished.
Romeo, the only son of the Montagues, is in love with Juliet, who is the only daughter of the Capulets. Even though Romeo and Juliet are not supposed to be friends, they are in love. That is, of course, not allowed so Romeo tries to ask Friar Laurence if he has any ideas to solve this problem. Friar Laurence thinks that their love could solve the problem between the Montague and the Capulet. Therefore they get married in a church with Friar Laurence and the nurse. However, Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, because Tybalt kills Romeo’s best friend, Mercutio. That makes Juliet really shocked because she likes her cousin so much. Because of the trouble Romeo has to go away from the town. Then Juliet’s parents make her marry the prince and she pretends that she will marry the prince.
However, her thought is different. She has a plan that she will take a poison before the wedding ceremony and pretend to die, and then come back to life in 24 hours later. Actually that is Friar Laurence’s idea and he sends a letter to Romeo to inform him about the plan. Unfortunately he doesn’t receive the letter and thinks Juliet is dead so he gulps down poison next to Juliet’s body. As soon as Romeo drinks poison, Juliet opens her eyes, but it is too late. Romeo is dead and Juliet kills herself with Romeo’s gun.
I have seen that movie before so I knew the story, but the era they are in is different so it seemed like I was watching a different movie. They have guns, use cars, and wear aloha shirts. I believe the existence of guns and cars are big differences because Mercutio is killed by a gun and Romeo kills Tybalt with a car. In the one I have seen before, swords are the only weapon. (367)