Questionnaire

8 questions



Q:When you want to use the Internet in order to make your blog, which do you use? Yahoo! or Google

A:Yahoo! users > Google users

Q: Why you choose it?

A: Because I am used to look for a good information with Yahoo!/When I used Google, I could find much pictures than Yahoo! and so on.

Q: Which is the most difficult topic for you?

A: Most of people chose "festival". But I think it is "Favorite Blogs"

Q: Which is the most interesting topic for you?

A: Most of people said “Movie”.

Q: Did you enjoy making your blog in English? Yes or No

A: Everyone said “ Yes”.

Q: How long did you spend to make your blogs?
~30min/ ~1h/ ~2h/ ~3h/ 3h~

A: Most of people chose ~2h or ~3h.

Q: Usually how many links did you use on your each blog?

A: Most of people said “ 3~5 links”.

Q: Did you use the countries native web site?

A: Everyone said “Yes”.

Skillful Persons

No.1 Glitter
This blog has a lot of effective pictures and the coloring of sentences is good.
Maybe This blog's author has a good kmowledge of PC so this blog turned out very well. I want to make a creative blog like that.

No.2 Sgt. Pepper's ronely Blog
A lot of people put a picture on thier blog but this blog's auther put a movie! I like nature so I want to enjoy fishing or New zealand beautiful sea!

No.3 For English Fighter's Class
I think this blog's author likes the blue sky or the airplane because he uses a blue background and blue sentence. In addition he uses a big letter so I could read easily.

My Favorite Blogs

No.1 : Frisking Around

This blog has a lot of good information, good web-sites and colorful pictures so I could understand easily. I think this blog has the good point of simple sentence. I tend to use a lot of pictures so this blog is helpful for me.

No.2 : DataPlus

This blog has a lot of information especially web-sites. I think he was hard to look for good web-sites. If I do not know what this blog says, I can make sure of it with those good information.

N0.3 : Oops!!! I'm hungry・・・

I could read sentences easily. She often use interesting pictures especially a picture of toilet. I could not help being surprised!

The Land of Penguin

New Zealand

Do you know “ Sunshine Penguin Walk Tour”?
New Zealand is indeed the land of penguin. There are eighteen species of penguin in the world, six of them are in New Zealand. In addition, New Zealand was a first country to be discovered a fossil of penguin.

We can see a unique penguin in New Zealand.
ex.
Little Blue Penguin: They are the smallest penguins in the world. We can see them around the Stewart Island.
Fiordland Penguin: They live around the Fiordland and are called the rarest penguin in the world.

In the old days, they live in the shade of a tree or a grass but people build a lot of house recently so a number of the place where they can live is decreasing. However, they manage to live in a shade of a building. However, on the other hand some people try to clean a beach and make the place for penguins in order to preserve penguins. Moreover, some tourist guides recommend the tour that a traveler can observe the place where penguins live in and try travelers to be interested in penguin’s life.


Japan

They are popular with an aquarium.
There are no wild penguins in Japan but we can see them at an aquarium or a zoo. In the Taisho Era, they were brought into Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. In addition, now Japan has been the strongest country on breeding of penguin. The nearest place where we can see them from NUFS is Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium. (We can see the biggest penguin in the world “ Emperor Penguin” at that aquarium!)

a Bunch of Flowers for Dead Persons

In the old days, some western Catholic thought live people have to clean an evil soul in order to send them to heaven. That is the origin of this festival. In the 16th century, The Reformation broke out so some people thought this festival is informal Catholic event. However, a lot of people wished to continue this convention so it survived.

The way of visiting to a family tomb is various. Some French and German decorate it with a lot of flower. In addition, Brazilian have no school and work that day. It is just like Japanese Bon festival.

the Small Ghosts Wander around Town

Halloween 10,31

~The Christian festival that people thanks to a good harvest and get rid of evil spirits~

The Celtic Thanksgiving Day brought about this event. In addition, originally it was held by Anglo-Saxons. It is familiar as a event that children wearing a pretty, horror costume and visiting someone’s house with a call “Trick or treat!” and getting some sweets. However some people go to a cemetery and light a candle. It looks like Japanese “Bon”.

Costumes

Children wear various costumes of horror stuff for example a ghost, bat, witch, Dracula and so on.

Originally, people thought that the spirits that came back to our world are evil, so they wear horror costumes in order to surprise them. However, these days, they tend to wear pretty costumes too for example a fairy, vegetable and so on. I think that means the popularization of Halloween.

By the way

・Some people place a pumpkin called Jack-o’-Lantern in the entrance because people think that it get rid of evil spirits and draw happiness.

・Some people in Russia cannot take part in this event because they believe in their religion peculiar to that district enthusiastically.

・In 1990s, Japanese started to hold this event too because there is a scene that hold it in the famous film “E.T”.

THE GREEN MILE

Steven Spielberg moved by this movie too! ?

When I was primary school student that still don’t know everything, I was shocked by this movie. We usually recognize that the capital punishment is to kill a condemned criminal by a state, but, in fact, to kill them is the work of person. I wonder if what they think when they send a criminal to the electric chair.

In 1996, the novel THE GREEN MILE (written by Stephen Edwin King) is published in America. That novel was made into a movie later and in 2000, that movie was shown in Japan too. THE GREEN MILE means a way that the condemned criminals pass on when they go to the place of execution. The story begins with an encounter between the person who work at a prison Paul (Thomas Jeffrey Hanks) and the condemned criminal John (Michael Clarke Duncan).

John was sent to prison because he killed twin sisters he has an ability to cure someone’s illness or wound so he begun to doubt his clime and suspect that he wanted to help dying twin sisters.but he was so kind and pure so Paul was thinking that he is odd. But, one day, he noticed that Polices conflicted between their duty as a police and the feeling as a person but the day when they must send him to the electric chair was drawing near・・・

“People should not hurt each other” John said in this movie. I could reconfirm difficulty of to help someone and vainness of person’s life.

Please see this movie and feel sad and painful.

The Author: Stephen Edwin King

American modern horror novelist. He wrote a lot of warm-hearted novels and won a lot of literary prizes. Some his novels were made into movie.

His masterpiece: The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, Carrie, and so on.

The Film Directer: Frank Darabont

American film directer and scriptwriter.

His masterpiece: The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, Saving Private Ryan, and so on.

The Actor:Thomas Jeffrey Hanks

American actor. He won The Academy Award for Best Actor, Emmy Award, and so on. In 1996, He was evaluated as a film directer too.

His masterpiece: The Da Vinch Code, Forrest Gump, Appollo 13, and so on.

Micheal Clarke Duncan
American actor. He won The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

His masterpiece: Armageddon, The Scorpion King, Sin City, and so on.