The script for my 3rd speech in the class of public speaking

1. Attention Step

 Do you know Sekigahara?  I’m sure everyone has heard it at least once.  Then, where is Sekigahara?  Do you know?  Like this, we know some facts or names of something in Japan, but it’s just knowledge.  We should learn about Japan.

2. Need Step

 In this class, we studied that learning language is learning culture, social structure, and history.  Then, when you study another language, you will just study about the country, is it enough?  I don’t think it’s enough.  We should also study about our own country or our own language.  And, to compare another culture to our own culture makes perfect to learn the language and to know the difference between them.

3. Satisfaction Step

 We’re in the faculty of foreign studies, and we study English, another foreign language, foreign culture, and more.  So, the problem is how we learn about our own country.  One way is to read books.  Another way is to take classes about Japan.  And, I’ll propose you the way, to take domestic trip.  It doesn't matter how you go.  But, I recommend using local train in summer or spring vacation.  That’s because you can tour around the country and use the special ticket named Seishun 18 Kippu.  If you use it, your trip will be reasonable.

4. Visualization Step

 In fact, I have done the trip three times.  In the trip, you can go through many regions.  You can see many great views, not only sightseeing but also ordinary places.  In Japan, there are 47 prefectures and each of them has a lot of good points.  Furthermore, you can learn the Japanese map.  Do you remember my first question?  Yes, where is Sekigahara?  It’s in Gifu prefecture and the name of train stop.  This is a thing I have learned through the trip.  Maybe, you are going to learn some more things.

5. Action Step

 If you take a domestic trip, you will get to learn about Japan more.  It helps you to learn foreign languages and to understand foreign cultures.  In these days, people tend to go abroad, but please try to tour Japan by local train.

 Finally, of course, to go abroad is important.  I thought that to learn about Japan is more important than to go abroad, so, actually, I have never been to foreign country.  I want to go overseas by graduation.  If you have enough time, try domestic trip and foreign one.  Thank you.

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the script for my 2nd speech in the class of public speaking

1. Attention Step

Have you ever been to polls?  In Japan, when we become 20 years old, we are looked as an adult and gets the voting right.  Recently, young people’s attention to politics and the rate of young people going to polls are decreasing, and it’s often discussed as a problem.

2. Need Step

The election is different from to buy products.  If you don’t buy a product, the producer improves it to sell you.  However, if you don’t go voting, the politics will never improve.  I want you to remember this.

 Also, it’s natural for us that we get the voting right when we become 20 years old, but, in Japan, it started in 1945.  So, to get the voting right is unnatural before then.  Then, society has changed from then.  Nowadays, Japanese live in aging society and declining birth rate is occurred, too.  They make it difficult to reflect young people’s opinion on politic.  But, we should reflect it on our society because young people will shoulder the future of Japan.

 There are three problems to solve.  They are to brow young people’s attention to politic, to increase the rate of young people going to polls, and to reflect young people’s opinions on politic.

3. Satisfaction Step

 Then, how can we solve them?  I propose you to lower the voting age from 20 to 18.

4. Visualization Step

 18 years old has some big means in Japanese educational sequences.  In 18 years old, almost people graduate high school and start to work or to go to university.  It means the situation of almost all people change when they become 18 years old.  To get voting right with changing situation motivates us more than to get it in 20 years without changing situation.  With the motivation, young people will talk about election, concern about politics, and go voting.

5. Action Step

 So far, do you understand that it is important to lower the voting age to18?  In addition, we understand that the situation of Japanese election, especially around young people, is not good.  First of all, we are over 20 years old and let’s go voting.

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About Christmas

Christmas, it sounds good for ordinary people even if they are not Christian in Japan. However, you have to know the fact that there are some people who don’t have any special feeling about Christmas like me. Have you ever thought deeply that why Japanese cerebrate or do party or do something for Christmas regardless of they don’t believe Christianity? So, what I want to say is that Christmas is very convenient for Japanese who like some events or festival. Many kinds of stores like to take advantage of Christmas as chance of good selling. Hollowing, valentine day are also good chance for them. There are no religious meanings about such days in Japan. So, Christmas is just hard day to work for me as a shopper. By the way, I never say such thing if I were one of people who have special female friend spends white and sweet Christmas with me.

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About Clash of Clans

Have you ever heard the social game title named Clash of Clans? This is famous social game and it is well known in United States. Of course, it is also famous in Japan, it has already recorded one thousand download in Japan. So, I am going to introduce to you what Clash of Clans is. Clash of Clans (CoC) is a kind of strategy simulation game. Players built their own facilities like canons, walls, mortars, and something for defenses on their town which was given at first when they start and upgrade each of them. And also, players do not forget to attack other towns to collect resources which are needed to develop and to create armies. Of course, players can generate resources from their own facilities, but taking them by force from other town using armies which players make themselves is more effective than generating with own self. Interesting points of this game are the strategy of attacking and arranging own town. So, when players want to attack to other towns, they need to create their armies. Armies are made from elixirs which are one of resources. When players want to build and develop their own facilities, they need coins which are also resources. It means that players scramble for resources. Of course, players are not standalone. They can make clans and fight against other clans. That’s why the title of this game is Clash of Clans.

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About reactivating nuclear power plant

How do you think about the nuclear power plant as one of problems in Japanese energy resource? Last week, Japanese congress has decided to reactivate one of Japanese nuclear power plant which is in Fukui prefecture. It is named Sennai-Genpatsu. I agree this decision. I think that Japanese need nuclear power to maintain continuing economic developments. Of course, I know the risk of nuclear and no one can stop generating power immediately when people want to. However, the technology japan has in the category of controlling nuclear power plant is the top of the world. If we hadn't suffered damage of Tsunami in Fukushima, we would haven’t stopped generating power with nuclear. Getting energy from nuclear is important factor to develop our life to the future. That’s why I agreed to reactivate nuclear power plant.

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About Plan for end year

This date is the middle of November. After 2 weeks past, we will reach December; the month of the end of year: 2014. Before reaching end year, I have many things what I have to do. Assignments and projects of this university and the end year parties are. Of course, failing credits is unacceptable for me, but parties are important for me. People can enjoy waiting for enjoyable time. So, I have already finished planning 3 separate end year parties. Thus, planning early is very nice. By the way, do you know the name of “December” as ancient almanac in Japan? “師走(Shiwasu)” is. The meaning of words as Kanji is that the busiest month in the year because even the master who always spends calmly has to run faster to do something. To sum up, December is so busy for everyone. So, planning early is reasonable thing especially ended of the year.

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About Snap election

 Do you know who present Japanese prime minister is? This might be easiest question, if you live in Japan. Can you name vice prime minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary? If you have a little interest about Japanese politics or you often watch TV news, you can also answer. Answers are below, Shinzo Abe, Taro Aso and Yoshihide Suga. They are important factor in Japanese politics. By the way, have you already heard the recently news about Snap election which means that Lower House Dissolved for General election? As you know, this is the biggest news. Prime minister Abe hasn’t said that he has the will to appeal to the country yet. But, he would do it. There are many problems in Japan in which are about TPP, consumption tax, the right of self-defense. We are the nations who decide the direction of Japan to the future. We have to understand it strongly and we have to deal with such problems.
　I wrote it at Nov 18^th, so last week, Shinzo decided to do Snap election. Now, Japanese local Committee for Election Administration is so busy toward the judgment day –Dec 14^th.

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