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                                                    Why people celebrate new year ?                                                                                                                                      21703708                                                                                                                                     Keitaro Ura      Last week, my group talked about strange new year's celebration around the world. I want to know what kind of celebration each country's people have and why they do that. As I search some new year's traditions in the world, I found a analogy.      As my group presented, people in Peru have strange, unique way to celebrate new year. The new year tradition of Peru is called Takanakuy. Takanakuy is a festival which is held by about a thousand people every year at the end of every year. In this festival, people hold a serious fight with each other in order to start off the new year in a fresh state. T

title:The relationship between violent media and real world violence. main idea:Violence on media does not have an influence on people's behaviour .

     According to researchers, today's teenagers are growning up more slowly than before. This research isbased on over 40 years observation. Today's teens are not as responsible as teenagers from  the 70's , 80's and 90's. A professor said their development has slowed down. She said Today's 18- year-olds are like 15- year-olds used to be. This can be because today's teenager tend to live with their parents for being involved in online network. We teenagers must try to earn our own living and live with being separated from presents.

     A study said mothers across the world speak to their babies in the same way. "Akachan Kotoba" is called " motherese" in English. According to researchers, motherese is a world language and a special  form of communication. Motherese helps babies develop their language. A researcher said baby  talk  is more important than we thought. As the more parents speak to their babies, the more sophisticated the babies' language  skill is, parents don't have to be embarrassed to talk in that way "Motherese". I encourage them to do so and also will do so.

     Last week,  the operators of Tokyo's Tsukuba Express line apologized for one of its trains leaving 20 seconds too early. In other words, only because the high-speed train pulled out of a station 20 seconds earlier than scheduled due to staff members failing to check the departure timetable, the company felt guilty of failing to accurately perform the departure operations  even though the next train was just four minutes later. This strange event surprised many people including me. In foreign countries, it is usual that their train timetable doesn't hold good. Japanese people may believe that punctuality is a virtue which must be practiced by those who are in a social rule.

1. Kumagusu Minakata (1867~1941), biologist, naturalist, and ethnologist  Minakata studied in United States and England to expand his knowledge of various fields (such as history of science, biology, folkloristics, and anthropology). He wrote many papers, including 51monographs in the famous magazine "Nature". Even today, this number is the largest  since it started to be published. He also tried to make a place where anybody can freely study regardless of class, which way of thinking influenced Yukichi Fukuzawa. In addition, he was opposed to the plan that the government made a lot of shrines abolished. It is said that this posture made an origin of nature conservation activities. 2. Tetsu Nakamura (1946~ ), doctor  Nakamura was born in Fukuoka prefecture. After graduated from medical faculty of Kyusyu University, he went to Pakistan to help people suffering from Hansen's disease "Leprocy" recover. Moreover, he built an irrigation ch