Stop being a quitter（1） Can you keep doing one thing until you perfectly achieve your goals? You have made some goals, for example, “ walk to school every day”, “ study and remember 100 English words every day”, “ exercise every day”, or “ write a diary every day”…something like that. However, how many people being here can achieve these goals? Almost everyone will find yourself stop doing that in three days, and you must blame yourself. A lot of people are such quitters. I was just one of them. I stopped writing diary and exercising at the gym in three days. However, I realized that if we cannot keep doing one thing and making effort to achieve our goals, we can get nothing in our life. Today, I’ll introduce how to continue one thing for a long time and I hope that you will stop being a quitter after listening to my speech. Let me introduce my experience. Since the last performance of Spring drama , I have made bento every day for about four months. I couldn’t expect that when I was a freshman. Why I can stop being a quitter? I have four steps. Firstly, you should decide when you do the thing. For me, that is every weekend. The vague goals make us feel that “ I’ll do that later, tomorrow, day after tomorrow…” something like that. I decide that I make some dishes and frozen them on every weekend and do nothing else on the other day. If you decide when to do that, you are motivated naturally. Secondly, make the work easier as much as possible. I do not make fashionable and elaborate food for my bento. When you go to the bookstore, you can find many recipe books for beginners. Now, you can cook a lot of dishes by using only a microwave. You do not have to use fire and a pan. I make fried egg with a microwave. Start with such a small step. It is easy for us to continue small works. Thirdly, set specific long-term goals. My long-term goal is “ lose weight and get a better figure with healthy eating habits.” You cannot change the situation dramatically, but you can keep making effort to achieve your long-term goals. Actually, I gained 3 kilograms of weight because of my bad eating habits. However, after starting to make bento and stop buying food in convenience store, I lost 2 kilograms of weight and I feel better than before. Imagine what you want to be by achieving your goals.

Please check my English. Japan is far from Finland, so you may think that the two countries are not similar. However, they have something in common. I’ll introduce three things, character, culture and language. First, people in Finland and people in Japan has similar character. They are said that moderate, shy, calm, honest, well-mannered, and kind. Of course not everyone has such characters, but it is sure that national characteristics of Finland and Japan has something in common. Therefore, it is easy for us to understand each other. Second, cultures also have something in common. For example, in both countries, people take their shoes indoors. This is rare custom in the world. In a lot of countries, people do not take off their shoes in the house. What’s more, maybe because of our natinal characteristic, trains and buses come on time. Third, they have something in common in language, especially in pronunciation. For example, “kani” means “rabbit” in Finnish and it means “clab” in Japanese, “uni” means “dream” in Finnish and it means “sea urchin eggs”. ​As I have explained, there are something in common among Finland and Japan. So, it is easy for us to make friends with!!

Please check my English！！ What is the most hated insect in summer? My answer is "mosquitoes". They bite us without giving pain. I'm sure that no one likes them and you hope that they should be gone. Actually, however, they are helping our lives. There are an injection needle which is inspired by the way the mosquitoes suck blood. This injection needle does not give pain like mosquitoes. This is "biomimicry". The word "biomimicry" is made with "bio" and "mimicry". "Bio" means "biology" and "mimicry" means "imitating". It means developing technology by imitating the shape, structure, and function of various creature.

One of the other examples is the lid of yogurt. By imitating water-repellent of rotus leaf, it is difficult to attach yogurt and it can keep clean. This technology can give a water-repellent without chemical, so it is good for environment.

Then, look at this picture. This is a vacuum cleaner which was inspired by tongue of cats. This vacuum cleaner harden trash and make it compact like the way cats groom their hair.

Why biomimicry is attracted now? Biomimicry makes us replize how important nature is. We have destroyed nature by developing new technology. However, nature and creature give us a lot of clues to make a life better for both humans and themselves. Therefor, we must protect nature and live together with nature.

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More and more countries are starting to allow same-sex marriage. According to Berlinger, McDonnell and Westcott (2017), Australia became one of the members that recognizes same-sex marriage. Furthermore, McKirdy (2015) explains Japan also stepped towards equality by allowing same-sex partnership. These positive movements not only in the world but also in Japan are great for LGBT people. I believe we have to increase the number of countries that approve same-sex marriage. However, Duncan (2017) introduces that 72 countries provide that same-sex relationship is crime and 8 of them can give death penalty. In this article, the author explains that the world is still the place of inequality marriage and LGBT people are still facing prejudice and discrimination. Loving someone is natural thing and should not be restricted. In order to eliminate or decrease discrimination, we should know about various sex firstly. I hope that the world would be a better place for all LGBT people.

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Are you a left-hander? Is your blood type AB? Do you love a person of same-sex? If you think the 3rd question is strange, you do not know that LGBT is natural. It is said that these rations are almost the same. Many people love a person of same-sex and want to get married as well as man and woman fall in love and get married. This essay explain that the number of countries that allow same-sex marriage as a law is increasing. Then, how about Japanese positive movement. On the other hand, there are countries where punish same-sex couples. This essay suggests what to do in order to make the world better place of marriage equality.

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In “Australia legalizes same-sex marriage”, Berlinger, McDonnell and Westcott (2017) describe how Australia became the 24th country to allow same-sex marriage after a long controversy. This comes after a national postal survey found that 61.6% of Australian were in favor of marriage equality. The article includes some politicians and interviews with their reactions to the law. There are both opposing opinions and concurring opinions. Firstly, Tony Abbot, the former Australian Prime Minister, has been against same-sex marriage despite having a gay sister, and he and other conservatives suggested amendments. However, all of them were voted down. On the other hand, Tim Wilson, who is a Liberal MP, proposed to his longtime same-sex partner in the Parliament House and surprised other members after the law passed the Senate. For ordinary people, this is a long-awaited-moment because the majority of Australian have been in favor of same-sex marriage for over ten years.

This article explains the latest movement about same-sex marriage in the world. I felt that it should have explained the idea of conservative people and the controversy.

Same-sex marriage More and more countries start to allow same-sex marriage around the world. However, there are still countries which have punishment to same-sex couples. Such countries say some reasons why they are against same-sex marriage. Most of these reasons are vague. I believe love is love and love should not be restricted. Loving same-sex person is not strange thing. However, people who do not accept new idea and have descrimination do not know so much about LGBT people. Therefore, what we can do is to spread information about LGBT and same- sex marriage. If there are more information about LGBT in the world, same-sex love will be natural thing. Then, this society would be better for LGBT people to come out their own sexuality and have happy life.

Loving someone should not be prohibited. To begin with, let‘s start to know about LGBT, spread information, and make world which have marriage equality.

same-sex marriage Some reasons of opposite

1. Same-sex marriage is not natural

2. Same-sex marriage goes against Christian religion

3. Same-sex couples cannot make children

Especially in Japan, first reason is strong. For a long time, a lot of people believe that it is natural for family to have a father, a mother and children. For these people, same-sex couples are not natural. Secondly, one of christian teachings explain blessing of God. Christian believe that it means having a child. This idea causes 3rd reason and descrimination or prejudice for same-sex couples.

Actually, some countries have punishment to same-sex marriage. For example, Sudan and Iran have capital punishment to same-sex couples.

My Presentation Abstract Same-sex marriage has not been allowed for a long time. However now, the form of marriage is changing all over the world. This presentation will explain how is the new era for same-sex couples by using the example of Australia, which is the 24th country to allow same-sex marriage and the example of Shibuya, Japan. On the other hand, thre are some countries where same-sex marriage is illegal. The presenter will introduce negative aspects of same-sex marriage by using Indonesian example.Is loving someone a bad thing? Does same-sex marriage make

disadvantages for you? The presenter believes these answers are no and suggests what to do to make a better society for same-sex couples.

Summary of an English article In “Australia legalizes same-sex marriage”, Berlinger, McDonnell and Westcott (2017) tell the fact that Australia became the 24th country to allow same-sex marriage after a long controversy. This comes after a national postal survey found 61.6% of Australian were in favor of marriage equality. The article includes some politicians and what their reactions to the law are. There are both opposing opinions and concurring opinions. Firstly, Tony Abbot is the former Australian Prime Minister who has been against same-sex marriage issue despite he has a gay sister and he and other conservatives suggested amendments. However, all of them were voted down. On the other hand, Tim Wilson, who is Liberal MP, proposed his longtime same-sex partner in the Parliament House and made the other members surprised after the law passed the Senate. For ordinary people, this is long-hoped-moment because majority of Australian have been in favor of same-sex marriage for over ten years.