2008年11月28日金曜日

Book review2-1




This time I went to the library and borrowed some books from English garden. Which are books on America because I like knowing other countries on the books.
And their were many books about other counties and I read some of them, a few pages and I decided to borrowed this kind of books and write about them. This time I'm gonna write book review about "AMERICAN LIFE". In this book, a lot of things are introduced about American life for example, American favorite sports. In the book, as favorite baseball players, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are on the book. I think they are really good baseball players and they are famous but now one of them are retired so I think this is an old information. But I don't know well about measure league so It's ok. And something else foot ball, basketball, hockey are introduced.

other topic is "drive through life. And in this section, a story of the car story in the U.S. is introduced. And after I read this story of American cars, I knew that people can't live without cars. Because America is a huge, vast country and every time people go somewhere, they have to drive there because it's far. But it's envious a little because whenever I go somewhere, I can drive a car and I like doing it. I knew that in the U.S. they can get a driver's license at the age of 16. But 16 is the age of high school student. And I've heard that in the U.S. they go to school by car. I think it's really envious. And it sounds fun.
And I could that American like cars and I also like them. And I have one thing I knew for the first time. It's about speed limit. I knew that in Montana state, they can drive as fast as they want on some roads. It's really amazing, but it sounds dangerous a bit. But I really drive on such a free way some day.

Next, about movie on the America introduced. In the topic Titanic was introduced. I think the movie is pretty much famous and interesting but I've never watched it yet.
But in the past people around me were talking about it but at that time I couldn't talk with them about the topic because I didn't know what it is actually. But I think that I really want to watch it some day when I have enough time to watch it.
But now I'm crazy about a movie which name is FULL HOUSE as you know.
I can't stop watching the series of FULL HOUSE. It's published From 1st season to 7th season. And in each season, there are numbers from 1 through 10 or more. And on weekend or when i have time, i make it a point to watch it as I often talk.
If you haven't watched it before, I really recommend to watch it once. It's must be fun.

And in the book I read, other movies which were made in the U.S. are introduced and they are below.
Star Wars,Star Wars-The Phantom Menace, E.T.,the Extra-Terrestrial,and jurassic Park.
Of all the movies which are introduced in this book, I've only watched one movie, which is Jurassic Park. It's a kind of dinosaurs and science but I don't remember what it was about actually. Because I watched it for a long time ago, so I don’t remember well. I often watched it on TV not in the theater. Because the movie was on the air many times in the past.
I think it's interesting and exciting. But the rest of movies of the list, I've never watched them at all so I wanna watch them when I'm free.
And the movies were ranked as a great movie and in the book, the movies made the most money in the U.S. written like this. In the topic, the place exactly, which is called studio, where movie directors often use for filming.
And as a famous place, Holly Wood were introduced and I knew that Hollywood is located in the California state and it's called the center for American movies.

I think California is a good state and it's famous for its mild climate, however, I've never been there yet but I've watched it on TV many times.
And other topic, American history was explained such as the first people, the relation with Christopher Columbus and something other.

In this book a picture of the Statue of Liberty is attached. And I learned that the statue was give from France as a sign of independence. I could learn the relation with America and France and Britain.

And I learned the past of America, slavery and immigrant and so on. In the past in the U.S. the race was complicated and a lot of races were there. And race problem was there as well. Now, it seems that there is no race problem but I don't know whether the race problem exist or not exactly. There might be it.
But I don’t know because I've never been to the U.S.

And as a final topic, American life was introduced in the book. For example, shopping, food houses work and so on.
In the shopping section, the Mall of America was introduced and I've heard about it before from my friends who went there during this summer as a “kaigai-kenshu”.
I heard that it's famous for the size, scale of the store and I heard the store is the biggest mall. It has more than 400 stores there.
It's amazing, isn't it?
I've never sounded such a big store before , however, I really wanna go shopping there and walk around someday.

And about food was awesome because I learned that American people eat 2,000,000,000 hot dogs in one year. The number of them is really amazing for me and every person eats 60 hot dogs in the country. I was really surprised but it's a it envious.
the article about hot dog made me hungry.
I thought America is a nice country and it worth visiting once in my life, as a whole this is my opinion about America.
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