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Japanese society has a lot of problems bad behavior with young children. One of the biggest problem is children today are gating angry easier than before and that is being serious effects on family and society. Because of it, juvenile delinquency has been increasing over the past few years and problems in school especially are increasing. Now, child behavior problems are limited to only family and school, but when they become adults and become members of society, these same issues will become serious problems to everyone else. To prevent such problems in the future, we have to do something to help children now. There are three suggestions to prevent children from developing bad behavior problems.  

First solution is to communicate with family more. The parents are busy for their business, so they can’t have enough time to talk with their children. That’s why the children feel lonely and have unsettled state of mind. So even if the parents are busy, they should have breakfast and dinner everyday. Then if the time is only 10 or 15 minutes, children would feel happy and it makes them calm. On weekend, the parents should be with their children, and have a nice time. The most import thing is that parents should listen to what their children talk, and have a lot of time with them.

Second solution not to be children who get angry is to eat appropriate foods. Many children’s eating habit is terrible. They eat snacks instead of dinner and junk foods a lot. Such foods contain a lot of bad chemicals that lose children’s health and due to it; they come to get angry soon. So children shouldn’t eat junk foods. They should have Japanese foods, because Japanese foods, such as grilled fish and sea vegetables, are nourishments that make children good.

Another solution is that parents become strictly on their children. When children make a mistake, parents should teach why it is wrong. Otherwise it is hard for children to find a right way. It is also good for children to be apart from parents, because one of the reasons that children get angry easily is due to a fond parents. So when children live away from their parents, they will notice many things, especially how they depended on their parents. What’s more, they can look their inner heat, and they may find why they get angry. Then they will mend their attitude.

Many children are shouting for help, so they show their mind by getting angry. To help children is not only for them but also for society. So Japanese society should try to make a good environment that children can be happy.

   Most of African countries are still very poor now. While other developing countries, such as China or India are growing up day by day, Africa can’t emerge from poverty because of some bad effects of the colony in the 19th century. The colony has had three important effects on African’s development.

   One of the worst effects of the colony is insurgency and segregation. There are so many different people in Africa, so it is very difficult to make border, but the European countries made border without thinking about African society when they planted a colony. As a consequence of the border, some different races have to live together. To make matters worse, Europeans had one race dominate the other race. It makes segregation, and the discrimination causes a lot of insurgencies. In Rwanda, two races have contended since the colonial period, and finally holocaust happened in 1994. About 500000 people were killed and 1000000 people became refugee. Because of the insurgency, Rwanda can’t develop well. The similar thing happened in Burundi. They have a feud between two races for a long time due to the colonial period. It invites many conflicts, and that is why Burundi is still poor. There are other similar insurgencies everywhere in Africa; therefore African countries can ill afford to develop as a country.  

   Another effect of the colony is want of food. Before the colonial period, African countries are very rich and they made their food. In fact, they had not experienced a hunger at that time. But Europeans enforced them monoculture economy. It means African people made tee, coffee or cotton for Europeans instead of making their food. After Africa became independent from Europeans in the 1960s, they could not get rid of monoculture. As a result of the monoculture, a millions of people are starving now.

Because of the hunger, people, especially children lost their immunity against infectious disease such as malaria or cholera: thus innumerable people are suffering and dieing.

    A third effect that the colony brought is mistrust of developed countries. Due to the fear of the colony, Africa especially disturbing countries such as Sudan or Zimbabwe don’t trust the developed countries. So it is hard to help African people. For example, if Japanese government makes a school, the school would be destroyed by extremists, because they are afraid that African people are educated by European thought and the people would deny them. In another case is that military regimes decline the aid from Europe even if tens of thousands of people are dieing, because the governments are worried that Europeans would incite people to the governments if many Europeans are in Africa. As a consequence of the terror of the colony, some African countries prevents from developing.     

   The colonization made many people unhappy, and still the effects of the colony torture African people. But there is some hope. South Africa was also groaned under the bad effects, but the country is becoming a big country. The strong human power achieved it. If Africa and the world cooperate to make a rich country in a good way, they can get over the effects of the colony in the future.  

  After World WarⅠ, people swore that we would make peace world, and made Legal of Nations. However it didn’t work well, and to my sadness people experienced World War 2. I’m wondering why the international organization couldn’t stop the war. Let’s see the reason by comparing Legal Nations with United Nations about signatory, how to vote, and power.

   Many countries became a member both Legal of Nations and United Nations, but number is considerably different. About 61 countries joined the United Nations; on the other hand 191 countries joined the United Nations. What’s more America and soviet didn’t become the member of Legal Nations. It means that there weren’t the most powerful two countries, so Legal Nations couldn’t have power for the world.

  The Legal Nations was different from the United Nations in how to make a decision. When they make a decision, both of them have to negotiate about the topic. The United Nations can make a decision if all the Security Council agrees. In contrast, the Legal Nations couldn’t do it unless the entire signatory agreed with it. It was almost impossible to accord with all the countries. That’s why they couldn’t move anything.

  The Legal Nations didn’t have much power due to the above reasons. So they couldn’t take any sanctions against the countries that didn’t observe the decision the Legal Nations made. Unlike the Legal Nations, the United Nations can take some sanctions. It is the big change, because the world is not made of kindness so if no penalty, many people ignore rules.

   Comparing with Legal Nations and United Nations, I can understand why Legal Nations allowed the war. At the same time, I can find the similar problems in United Nations. After World War 2, there are a lot of wars and conflicts, and United Nations can make similar mistakes that Legal Nations committed. The word should always make an effort to make peace world and make the mistakes to good account.   

  Japanese came to see many beautiful mixed race children, because a number of international marriage and children of mixed parentage is increasing over the past 10 years. Now many fashion models or actress are a mixed race and they have a good figure and exotic face that pure Japanese don’t usually have. The mixed race influences on Japanese society especially for women in these important ways: passion for diet, desire to do cosmetic surgery, and enthusiasm for English.

   Japanese women wish to become slender like mixed children, and there is no end to it now. Japanese woman ten years ago was fatter than now. In fact, many Japanese came to be able to wear foreign designer brand clothes recently, and what’s more, tiny clothes, such as 5 size clothes sell like fun. However the desire to be like them operates on bad direction. People who suffer from anorexia or bulimia because of excessive diet are increasing in these ten years.

    The impacts of mixed race relationships have had a lot of Japanese women taken to cosmetic surgery because they desire to look like women of mixed relation. For example, women try to make their single edged eyelid to double edged eyelid, and make their nose high. Moreover orthodontics and teeth whitening is so popular recently. It becomes a usual thing to do cosmetic surgery rather than 10 years ago due to the changing of Japanese people’s beauty of value.

    In a big wave of internationalization, Japanese society has changed in these 10 years. It may make Japanese people more beautiful and educated, however if it keeps going on, it could lose Japanese original culture. Japanese is good at adopting another culture, so Japanese should treasure `Japanese’ and accept new culture. Then Japanese society will be more  attractive.    

<How to prepare my favorite dessert>

  How to prepare a healthy pound cake

A.prepare the ingredients

   tofu 300g, pumpkin 150g, flour for pancake 200g, sugar a tablespoonful, baking soda

B. arrangement

   (a) retain a microwave 180 heat

   (b)steam a pumpkin by microwave about 4 minutes

c. cook

   (a)mash  the pumpkin and tofu

   (b)mix all of the ingredients

   (c)put them into a mold

   (d)bake it about 30 minutes

I like sweet, but I want to go on a diet so I usually make healthy sweet in the mornings. I like pound cake that doesn’t cotain oil especially. It is easy to make. First I prepare ingredients:tofu 300g, pumpkin 150g, flour for pancake 200g, sugar a tablespoonful, baking soda. Next I make arrangements for cooking. I retain a microwave 180 heat and steam the pumpkin by microwave about 4 minutes. Then mash the pumpkin and tofu and mix other ingredients with them. After that, put them into a mold. Finally bake it about 30 minuts. Only these easy steps, I can enjoy my tea time.

First day, I was reading books all day long. I was so happy.

Second day, My mother came to Kyoto at 4:00. We went to a cafe that we can eat very delicious sweets. After that, we had dinner at a Japanese restaurant near Kamogawa river.

Third day, mother and me watched a musical at Umeda. The musical was really nice,especially I was glad to see Taichi Saotome. He was beautiful. We went to karaoke at night. I enjoyed the day from my heart.

Last day, we ate lunch at a famous French restaurant at Kyoto. Then, we went to Heian Jingu. We wanted to look wisteria, but there was no wisteria. It is unusual, so I was worried about extraoedinary weather. After that, we said good-bye at Kyoto station. I am uesd to live alone, but I always hesitate to say good-bye. I couldn’t go back to my hometown on this holiday, so I miss my father. I decided to go to my home nest month.

Anyway, I had so nice holidays.

This ‘Golden Week’ is not actually ‘Golden’, I think, because it is not so long vacation. So I always go back to my hometown, but I won’t this year. Ummm. Instead of it, my mother is coming and we are going  to watch a musical. I’m so looking for it. My mother love a good meal, so we will go to good restaurants in Kyoto. I have to care a lot my weight.