Getting a job!!! (Journal)

I participated in Boston Career Forum for a few days in when I had thanksgiving vacation. Since Japan has job hunting season at this time for university students, who will graduate in 2011, I also have to get information concerns about Japanese companies. Therefore, I tried to do that there. The job fare was very helpful for Japanese students who have stayed in the U.S., because a lot of Japanese companies did not only give own information to them, but also give interview to them; Furthermore, some companies might have hired students if they found students who they strongly required to work with. Actually I had two interviews, and I was asked about some general questions, which were about my personality, what I want to do in the company, what I can do, and why I am interested in the company. When I had an interview, I could not explain correctly. Then, I realized I have not analyzed concerns about those questions. Since I regretted I didn’t do that, I decided to quest those questions deeply.
I would like to organize the order, which we should think about before we will get a job.

The first step is that we should reflect that what we want do and what we can do in a company before we will get a job. In other words, we must recognize our self capability or personality, which I have learned or experiences in our life. This is the most important steps because of getting a job is related to my life directly. If people get a job, which they don’t fit into their capability, they should feel uncomfortable. One of my friends is working as clerk in a sweet shop, but actually she has wanted to work as scientist in same as the company. That is because she has researched concerns about genetic engineering in her university. I think that she should have considered her future when she decided on a company. Therefore, what we know about our self is significant before we will get a job.

Second step is that we should think that which industry we want to work before we will get a job. I think that it is related to the first step. In our society, there are a lot of kinds of industry, which food industry, medical industry, economic industry and so on. We must belong to one of industries we are interested in. If we consider our self, which looks like first step, it is easy to decide about that. For example, if a person specializes in the medical care, s/he should decide to work in medical industry. Even though a person chooses one industry which is not related to his/her major, the choice is right if s/he think about first step deeply.

Final step is that we should choose a company, which we want to work. The important point is which items we are interested in. In my case, I focus on company’s policy when I choose a company I want to work. Therefore, I should check it out and compare between similar companies. One of my friends has focused on the company’s name. Thus, the choice depends on people.

In conclusion, to get a job is the important, hence we have to follow above the order before we get a job.

Why don't women expect to get married in the future? (Journal)

A few weeks ago, I received message from my best friend. It was saying that she will get married next August, and she has wished to invite me to her wedding. I was glad to hear about the good news. Actually, I already have been invited for friend’s wedding twice. I have been curious about their age, because I think that their ages are too early to get married. According to the media, the ages of marriage in Japan is higher than before, and people who don’t expect to get married tends to decrease recently. In fact, one of the surveys shows that age at the first marriage in Japan is 27.8, whereas the result was approximately 25 in 1996. I wonder if only my friends are special or not. Anyway, I want to think about that why Japanese women don’t expect to get married in the future? There are some reasons which support with this question. I would like to suggest one of the reasons; it is that women can make a lot of money by their selves.

Since there are a lot of chances to insist Japanese women’s capacity in society, they can grow their capacity, and can make a lot of money, which makes their lives wealthier. As a result, they can live by themselves, which means that they don’t need to rely on men. A long time ago, it was totally different from now, because women have to stay in a house and only do housework for men. However, employment opportunity for women, which is assisted by government or companies, has been spread in society. Therefore, it has been easier for women to work as well as men. My professor is the one of them. She is almost forty ages, but she has never got married before, also she has not had boyfriend for long time However, she makes a lot of money, have a good status, and live in a luxury apartment. In short, the flexible environment to work for women affects “new” marriage’s phenomenon, which the number of never married women is increasing.

In my case, I wish to get married, even though I can make a lot of money. What do you think about the question, guys? Some of my friends agreed with my opinion, but they also suggested that “no one sexy men around us, that’s why we can’t make boyfriends (or get married)!” This excuse is kind of reason to support with the question, isn’t it?

Research Paper Outline

Thesis statement: Nuclear bombs are also used all over the world. Some countries make them so that they are able to defend their countries against warfare. However, I strongly suggest that nuclear weapons should be banned and eradicated in the world for the three following reasons; changing relationships between countries, serious damage, and it has been a continuing process that others have tried to stop.

1. The history of Nuclear weapons. (It could be introduction.)

A. The relationship between the World War and The Manhattan Project.
B. The characteristic of Nuclear weapons (Usage and reaction of Nuclear weapons).
C. Name countries which have owned, or not owned Nuclear weapons.

2. The first reason to ban nuclear weapons - Changing relationships between countries.
A. Power for U.S. From Russia’s Old Nuclear Weapons. (This is the latest article on the New York Times and it is related to Cold War)
B. North Korea threatens the world using nuclear weapons.

3. The second reason to ban nuclear weapons - Provided serious damage by Nuclear weapons.
A. The story of the World WarⅡ.
B. The supposition of result by scientist.( including Numerical Information)

4. The third reason to ban nuclear weapons - It has been a continuing process that others have tried to stop.
A. Specific organizations are related to abolition of nuclear weapons. (Including Numerical Information)
B. The president Obama speech concerns about nuclear weapons in 2009.

5. Conclusion

A. Nuclear weapons are not what are best for this world. ( I will show key words which I show above.)

B. Hopefully one day, we will live in a world where there are no nuclear weapons.

Research Log

A. Topic:No One Should Be Allowed To Use Nuclear Weapons


Resources:

Those resources are used in argument essays.

・Avner Cohen, Steven Lee. Nuclear weapons and the future of humanity : the fundamental questions. Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Allanheld, 1986.
・Jozef Goldblat, David Cox, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute., Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security. Nuclear weapon tests : prohibition or limitation?. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
・Stephen I Schwartz, Atomic audit : the costs and consequences of U.S. nuclear weapons since 1940. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©1998
・Kyoko Iriye Selden; Mark Selden, The Atomic bomb: voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1989.
・United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) . URL: http://www.un.org/disarmament/HomePage/about_us/aboutus.shtml
・New YoRK Times(North Korea's Nuclear Program). URL: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/northkorea/nuclear_program/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=north%20korea%20nuclear&st=cse
・The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). URL: http://www.unog.ch/80256EE60057F2B7/(httpHomepages)/5562355D4417A43F80256F04007174DB?OpenDocument

New resources!!

-North Korea Presses U.S. to Agree to Bilateral Talks.
North Korea has again pressed the United States for a decision about starting bilateral talks, with a diplomat warning Monday that the North was ''ready to go our own way'' with its nuclear weapons program. ''Now that we have shown the generosity of stating the position that we would be willing to talk to the United States and hold multilateral talks including the six-way talks, it is time for the United States to make a decision,'' an unidentified spokesman for the North's Foreign Ministry told its official news agency, K.C.N.A. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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-INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY IN A COMPLEX WORLD.Full Text Available By: Wagner, Cynthia G.. Futurist, Nov/Dec2009, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p52-58, 7p, 7 color, 1 bw; (AN 44523429)
Database: Academic Search Premier

Energy Wild Cards
Two “energy wild cards” — the
commercialization of nuclear fusion
energy and cars that run
without fuel — could result in improved
health, but also in economic
and political upheaval, said
Francis Stabler, principal of
Future Tech LLC.
Deuterium, a form of hydrogen
that is abundant in ocean water, is
very conducive to fusion reactions,
according to Stabler. If a
breakthrough occurs in harnessing
deuterium and using it to generate
fusion energy, nuclear fusion
might soon displace fossil fuels
and nuclear fission. Fusion-plant
construction would boom, as
would refurbishment of existing
nuclear-fission and fossil-fuelpowered
plants into plants that
generate fusion energy. Within 40
years, most of the world’s power
plants would be fusion-based.
“China is currently bringing online
one coal plant every week.
They could switch over to building
fusion plants at that same rate
because they need the additional
power,” said Stabler.
Gas stations could practically
disappear if the second wild card
occurs. Stabler envisions car engines
powered by energy modules
that generate either zero-point energy,
which draws energy out of a
vacuum, or low energy nuclear reactions,
which merge neutrons
with atoms at low speeds to produce
radiation-free fusion energy.
Unlike combustible fuel, which
vehicle owners have to refill once
every few days, these modules
might only need “refilling” once
every three to four years.
In the short term, the combination
of nuclear fusion and fuel-free
cars would lead to serious economic
trouble
for countries whose
economies depend on exports of
oil and natural gas — Bolivia, Canada,
Russia,
Venezuela, and most
of the Middle East. The hardships
might lead to political upheavals
and more incidents of terrorism.
— Rick Docksai

-Nuclear energy and proliferation risks: myths and realities in the Persian Gulf

Technology transfer risks, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122670202/PDFSTART

How nuclear warheads work
In analysing the relationship between nuclear energy and nuclear weapons in the
Persian Gulf, it is helpful briefly to explain some of the basic technical principles
of nuclear warhead operation, as set out in published literature. A breakout nuclear
weapons state would probably first develop a basic single-stage fission device,
perhaps with tritium boosting, before perfecting more sophisticated thermonuclear
weapons (‘H-bombs’). Indeed, given the substantial explosive yield
obtainable from boosted fission weapons, it may not be worthwhile for a breakout
state to invest any further time and financial resources in developing complex
thermonuclear
weapons.

I am proud of exercise!! ( Journal )

I like exercise truly since I think that it is valuable to maintain health, weight, and spiritual stabilization. Recently, I decided to start exercising twice a week to be blessed with those advantages. Now, I am getting a lot of stressful because of assignment out of classes, my poor English skill and a lack of sleep even though I have could found a lot of fun. Before making decision about that, I had had an obsession with eating. In other words, my brain had been working to think about food. As you know, I have gained my weight unfortunately. It was vicious circle so that I had gotten stressful more and more. And then, I came up with exercise to resolve such my trouble efficiently. I began to go to the gym last week, and I take approximately two hours exercising in usual. Right now, I am thinking that exercising is really important for me.

One of the most important reasons is that my weight lost, my muscle is stronger than before, and, I am getting healthy life. I hope that my weight will lose more and more, and my muscle is going to be much stronger in future. This is my dream and pleasure also. This is just kidding, but I am wondering that to increase my weight is the biggest trouble for me. Anyway, through the occasion, I am talking care of my life style. That is to say, my brain stopped to think about only eating and then, made a vow not to do excessive eating and drinking from now on. Thus, exercise gives me pleasure, losing weight and healthy life. Therefore it is valuable.


Another reason is that my feeling is much better than before, which means that my spiritual is really stabilization because of my life style is becoming stability. Of course, I am only glad to lose my weight, but I get another advantage from exercise. That is that I am becoming a good planner time, which means that I can be organizing time than before. I try to make time to exercise even though I am a lot of things to do. Why? I am sure that exercise gives me pleasure. Thus, my life is becoming stability and affects my feeling.

In short, I am going to keep exercise from now on, because it has a lot of advantages for my life!

Compare and contract (Outline)

「Comparison between dorms and apartment on campus」

There are a lot of differences between dorm’s life and apartment’s life in the U.S.

First of all, apartment’s fee per month is cheaper than dorm’s fee. In fact, I have heard from a lot of people many times that apartment fee is cheaper than dorm’s fee. In my case, I am living double room in dorm, which is near the campus. And I pay approximately $800 a month as housing fee. On the other hand, according to my friend who is living in apartment, its fee is almost $300 a month.

Secondly, apartments have more rooms and furniture than dorms. Unlike the dorm’s room has just one room, there are a lot of rooms in apartment. Hence dorm’s rooms have desks to study and closets in general because of there are not space to place a lot of things. In contrast, in apartment, there is a lot of furniture such as couches, big table, and so on.
Thirdly, residents in apartments can cook in room, whereas residents in dorms can’t do that since although apartments have kitchen in room, rooms in dorms don’t have. Unlike residents in dorm have to eat meals in restaurants and dining room or buy meals, residents in apartment cook and eat in room, which means that they don’t have to eat outside as long as they don’t require that.

Finally, dorms have more safety than apartments because dorms have card scanner to identify residents who are living in there, on the other hand apartments don’t have the security in general. In another case, although there is a reception near the entrance in dorms, general apartments don’t have a reception. Even if a suspicious person enters the dorm, they can’t enter because dorms have scanner systems and a reception. In contrast, it is possible to enter for a suspicious person in apartments because they don’t have those systems.

In brief, there are a lot of differences between dorm’s life and apartment’s life. Which comfortable to live in dorms or in apartments depends on people

Causes and effects about having stiff shoulder (Outline)

Having stiff shoulder caused by the following factors: unnatural position, feeling cold, and psychological problems.

1.First of all, unnatural position effects having stiff shoulder since keeping unnatural position makes shoulder’s muscles tense.
For examples,

People who do deskwork with a stoop or their legs crossed have stiff shoulder easily.
Also, people who use pillows which are too tall and soft for long time have stiff shoulder easily.

As a result, unnatural position causes shoulder’s muscles heavy task, and then effects having stiff shoulder.

2. Secondly, feeling cold effects having stiff shoulder since unconsciously shoulder’s muscle could be contract easily.
For example,

People who rarely exercise in winter season have stiff shoulder easily.
In another case, it is easy to be unnatural position.

As a consequence, contraction of shoulder’s muscle cause muscle’s blood circulation, and effect having stiff shoulder.

3.Finally, psychological problem effects having stiff shoulder since stress makes muscle’s blood vessel contract.
For examples,

People who remain unstable and strain have stiff shoulder easily.
Additionally, perfectionist is easy to have stiff shoulder.

In short, stress also cause muscle’s blood circulation, and effects having stiff shoulders.

On the whole, having stiff shoulder is related to task for shoulder’s muscles and muscle’s blood circulation. Those are caused by unnatural position, feeling cold, and psychological problems.

Horror movies excite me!(Journal)

To watch horror movies is the good way to excite me since those are convenient for single. Sometimes I require excitement, such as parties, sports, trips and so on. Although they also give me excitement, a number of people are necessity, or I must cost a lot. In contrast, watching horror movies is not required to cost a lot and many friends. Therefore, I have recommended horror movies.

In fact, I like horror movies too much. What do you think about horror movies? It seems that everyone likes watching movies. Nevertheless many people prefer comedy movies, action movies, and romance movies to horror movies. Why do I think about that? I have met tiny number of people who like horror movies. People who don’t like horror movies say, those are so scared, creasy, and grotesque. But, I don’t care about that. I usually watch horror movies alone in the dark. The situation makes more excited me!

I have watched many kinds of horror movie, which are suspense movies, monster movies, and splatter movies and so on. In particularly, my favorite is suspense movies because that its content is expected not only scared happening but also enjoyment to reason who is killer. Others are just expected scared happening. For instance, house of Dead and biohazard such as zombie movies are made much of scaring us, and those contents are quite simple. If you like horror movies, which kinds of horror movies do you prefer?

I would like to share two of my favorite movies.
First one is Psycho, which is suspense/horror movie in 1960 directed by Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock. Main character, Marion steals many bills from her employer and attempts to get away her town. And then, on the run from police, she decides to hide in a motel. Unexpectedly, she is killed in shower room. The man, who meets her in the motel for the first time, searches for killer. Finally, he solves the mystery. In my view, this story is easy to understand but scene angles to scare us are unique. If you have never seen this movie, you should!
Second one is scream, which is also suspense/splatter horror movie and filmed in 1996. This movies is filmed second one and third one later. In a university, murder cases are happed one after another. The way of murder is same patter, killer calls a target to ask some quizzes, and then suddenly target is killed by killer who wears an eccentric suit. Finally, one of student found the killer out. I think the movie is not too scared. If you are interested in the movie, check it out! Also, the costume of killer is popular and sometimes used on Halloween!

Soy -sauce makes food delicious!! (Journal)

Soy-sauce is one of the seasoning, which is made of soybeans and used in the entire world. The usage depends on people and food. How do you use the seasoning? In my friend’s case, she put a bit of say-sauce on the steamed rice and just eats. When I have an avocado, I usually dip a slice of avocado in soy-sauce with wasabi, which is called Japanese horseradish in English. Don’t you think entertaining way to eat? As you know, Soy-sauce has a wide range of abilities to match with variety of tastes. Since soy-sauce is one of fermented food, such as Douchi in China, Cheese in Europe, and Miso in Japan. This type of food is said as “treasure house of amino acids” according to Ajinomono.Co. What is relationship between taste and amino acids?

Amino acids have 20 kinds and needed to make up proteins. “These of 9 must be taken from food since they are not synthesized in the body. Therefore, they are called "essential amino acids".” Each amino acid is given respective taste. For instance, aspartic acid and glutamine have sore and Umami tastes, and valine and leucine have a bitter taste. Valine has also sweet taste as well as Glycine and alanine. It seems that “combination of amino acids with their respective tastes is a key determinant for the taste of food. Furthermore, it infinitely expands the possibility of a new taste or function.”

Soy-sauce carries out the essential function. In the process of making up soy-sauce, wheat, soybeans, and the Fungus which are named Aspergillus oryzae are required at least. This Fungus is the most important of all ingredients since it produces a lot of amino acids among fermentation. Finally, they are mainly taste in soy-sauce, and gives variety food new taste. Therefore, soy-sauce is all-purpose seasoning!!

Lastly, I would like to introduce to you some unique ways to use soy-sauce. Surprisingly, it is to sprinkle a bit of soy-sauce over the top of the vanilla Ica cream. Kikkoman.co.which is one of the famous soy-sauce companies in the world, says that say-sauce draws out the flavor of the ice cream and gives it a delicious caramel-like aroma. Other one is to dip a slice of tomato into a bit of soy-sauce. It seems that soy-sauce makes the tomato sweeter. If you are interested in these usages, you can try! Also, please let me know how to use soy-sauce if you have any unique experience.

Reference
・http://kikkoman.com/soysaucemuseum/making/01.shtml
・http://www.ajinomoto.com/amino/eng/food.html

Japanese food party

On saturday, I had a small party with my friends and I cooked Japanese food, a bowl of curry rice and nikujyaga which is made of potatoes, carrots, onions and pork meat with two spoonfuls of soy sauce, a bit of salt, a bit of sugar, a spoonful of japanese wine, and a poonful sweet sake for seasoning. These were AWESOME!!!!! All of friends were satisfied and pleased to eat dishes! Afterwards, we played exciting game for a few hours. My holidays were so sweet☆ And....study harder!!

BBQ

I had BBQ today!! Since I joined International Illini whcih is one of the Illinois organization. I think that it is hard to make American friends in classes becase we have to move to next class after finishing a class, right? That's why I signed up some organizations. Oh! I have a funny story about organization. Last wednesday, I joined Yoga Club. And, there were too many students to enter a room in Union. So, we found new place, Quad and did Yoga. I was embarrassed becase people who passed around there looked at our appearance. Anyway, I had good time last monday, also today!!

Life Orientation

I attended IPENG(International Programs in Engineering) orientation! It's a kind of mandatory orientation and required attendance for exchange students. But, I saw a few students in room...I wondered where other students were. Anyway, TAs explained how to have fun in U of I!! Also we shared our information which were name, major, home country and e.t.c. Afterwards, I had dinner with friends who I met there!!

My introduction(The assignment)

I am Yayoi Inoue and an exchange student from Japan. I came to University of Illinois Urbana Champaign so that I want to improve English and to learn foreign culture. I think that it is convenient place to get chance to do both of them. Until next May, on which I have to go back my country, I will do my best to achieve my goals. I have stayed here for three month. Before the fall semester began, I studied at the Intensive English Institute (IEI-please look at picture). I spent good time there with a lot of international students. Additionally, I hope to make friends more from now on and have fun with them. Thank you.

I am BLOGGER!!!!

Hi, everyone!! I am Yayoi Inoue from Japan. Please call me Yayoi.
I am going to stay U of I for one year . I think that my English is the poorest in this class...... But, I will try my best. Thank you!