My seminar

Today, I am going to write about my seminar, zemi. I am taking Yuji Sato sensei's seminar which is about famous speeches in America. We analyze the speeches by researching its historical background, figure of speech, the speakers, something like that. We did "I have a dream" by Martin Luther King, "Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation” by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Gun Control” by Charlton Heston and so on. Of course it is interesting to read the speeches and understand what they say, but I am also interested in researching the historical backgrounds of the speeches. Actually I don’t like learning history. I mean I hate learning history using text book and just reading them. However I realized that I like research the history by myself and understand what happened in the past. I had some research about American War of Independence which had been happening from 1775 to 1783. I had known the war was happened and the other things related to the war like Boston Tea Party, but I had not known the reason why these events happened or why people needed to do such horrible things. I am so glad when I find the historical things really make sense to me. So if you like history, I want recommend you to take this seminar. Also Sato sensei gives really useful advices to us at the begging of every class. These are about what we need to do in college, what we can do now for our future, how to do job hunting and many things! His experiences are so amazing so I like to hear his story. In addition, he has connection with so many people. I think taking this seminar is the right decision for me because I can learn so many things. (297)