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This I believe

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I believe that social media changes the society. I think that it will change politics, economy and human relations in the future.

 

When the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11th 2011, we couldn’t connect with each other by a cellphone which we trusted the best tool.Almost Japanese people panicked this situation. And we used cellphone at the same time in many places.We thought we could get in touch with friends or family immediately.But, all the lines were too busy not to connect anyone.At that time, I used a one of the social networking service, mixi to confirm my friend’s safety and so on.I felt the social media was essential for the first time.We could get an information of earthquake and transportation from mixi whenever we would like to check the site.Therefore, we recognize that social media is very useful.

 

Now, social media has spread all over the world. It can shake ideas of people beyond border.For example, we remember democratic movement called “Arab spring” from 2010 to 2012.It has spread to Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East from “Jasmine Revolution” that took place in Tunisia.At this time, planning and asking of demonstration was done on Facebook and twitter.I have noticed two points from this incident.First, social media has been popular with citizens, especially young people.Democratic movement has happened in more than fifty countries through social media.The fact indicated that many people used social media over the world.Second, there is strong influence of social media.If somebody makes an objection to a government by using a social media,the government could be changed. This case shows how strong influence of social media is. It is possible to move society by using a social media from these points.

 

However, there is demerit of social media.Sometimes, it cause the problem of bullying and crime.In fact, trouble of social media is increasing rapidly .In other words, it may go good way or bad way.So, if social media change our society, it is important for us how to use it.

This I believe

Today I have an interesting motion: “which education is better for student’s growth, American or Japanese”. I believe that Japanese education is better than American one. I have four reasons about it. Then I’m going to talk about these reasons.

First of all, it is not necessary for American students to clean their own classroom after school. On the other hand, in Japan, students clean their own classroom by themselves after school. While this system of American school prevents them from getting into a habit of looking after themselves, the system of Japanese school encourages students grow step by step.
Second, Japanese schools have school festival and sport festival, but American schools don’t have them. These festivals give two good effects to Japanese students. The first effect is that the festival can make deep friendship between them. The second effect is that they can grow up to be cooperative, because they can have a feeling of achievement when they prepare and finish these festivals with classmates in order to success them.
Next, I’m going to talk you about summer vacation. American summer vacation has three months without homework. So, American students having nothing to do in summer vacation and have many time to do what they want to do, such as, learning their interesting things, doing volunteer and practicing sports or musical instruments. However, in fact, most of students idle every day. On the other hand, Japanese summer vacation has about a month with a lot of home works. They can become intelligent, because they have to study very hard. So I think Japanese education is better than American vacation.
Finally, American schools have a system of grade skipping. I think this system has an advantage, but it also has some weak point. The advantage is that students can study what they want to study regardless of their age, but there are two disadvantages. The disadvantage is that they can’t have deep relation with classmates, because their classmates can change each time if they skip the grade. The next disadvantage is that students grow up to be able to get good grades only, but that they can’t have good relations with others and can’t succeed in working. I think that it is very important for all classmates to study at the same level and learn various things in cooperation. So, I think schools should not adopt this system of grade skipping for students.

In conclusion, these reasons tell us that Japanese education is better than American one for students. Now I’m very proud of Japanese education.

This I believe…

I believe that practice makes me perfect and trying something I have’t done ever makes me stronger and stronger.

There are some reasons to support my opinion.

First about the word that practice makes me perfect, if we didn’t practice something to do well, surely we couldn’t performance as we expected. Actually, I’m good at playing the piano and I often participate in the piano contest, so I know well the importance of practice. Whenever I practice hard, I can performance satisfactorily. Of course, no matter how hard I practice, I makes mistakes once in a while, I think.But every time I’m satisfied with my performance, I have made efforts a lot.

Second about the word that trying something I haven’t done ever makes me stronger and stronger, I think if we want to change ourselves, we have to try something new. Of course, it’s important to do same works again and again in order to do better. But forexample, if a pianist  practice only the one piece, he could play no piece but the one. It’s not good ,I think.

Tha’s why I think that practice makes me perfect and trying something I haven’t done makes me stronger and stronger.To tell the truth, my dream is to win the piano contest in the world and I want to be a pianist who give dreams to audiences by my performance. To realize my dream, I’ll practice hard , try new thing , and I will not be afraid of anything. I’ll do.

Of course, I am not in the musical schoole,but I think I can do. While I study politics,English, everything to do in this university, I practice the piano harder than other students.

Thank you for your listening. Bye.