Outline and proposal of research paper

Outline





I. Introduction

A. Background Information

1. What is the manatee?

a. endangered manatee in Florida and other place

b. habitat and geography of manatee

2. what is meaning endangered?

a. species of endangered organisms

B. Nature of problem

1. manatee mortality has increased dramatically in recent years

(FDNR 1994)

2. reasons for the manatee endangered?

a. collision with boat -article

b. perinatal mortality – cold temperatures, premature births, pollution, death of nursing mothers due to collisions with boat

–Endangered species recovery(book). By Tim W. Clark

c. habitat degradation - book. By Tim W. Clark

3. Evidence that the manatee endangered

a. source- website?

b. ???

II. Thesis : The endangered manatee is in serious trouble in Florida, and three things should be done about it.

III. Main Arguments

A. speed of boat should reduce to protect collision

- the rental business VS environmentists

B. laws should be made and strictly enforced to protect the manatee

1. listed as endangered by state and federal government

2.panalty

C. recovery program

1. what is recovery program?

2. how to work program?

IV. Conclusion


Proposal

I became interested in the endangered manatee in Florida after reading several articles and a book about it. As the manatees are one of the endangered species, they are found year-round throughout the Florida and other place. The manatee move freely between fresh and salt water, usually occupying estuarine and riverine habitat.(Hartman 1979) The problem is that the manatee is an endangered specie. According to FDNR(1994), manatee mortality has increased dramatically in recent years. There are several reasons for this. According to Jay Cridirin(2004), one is that most of the deaths of manatee occur by collision with boats. That is related to the economic profit of people like boat rental business. Another reason is perinatal mortality due to cold temperatures, premature births, and other natural factors or human-related causes such as pollution and death of nursing mothers (Tim W. Clark, 1994). Finally, habitat degradation is occurred endangered manatee indirectly. The growth of Florida’s human population is a critical threat to the manatee.

I plan on writing that three things should be done about protection manatee in Florida. First, the speed of boats should reduce to protect collision. So, that would mean setting 25-mph speed limits and instituting idle-speed zones. Second, laws should be made and strictly enforced that will protect the endangered manatee in Florida and other place. Finally, FWS and Florida state government should activate the recovery program. The recovery program was initiated by FWS in 1976. and its goal is “to restore the Florida manatee as a viable self-sustaining element of its ecosystem”(p. 131). So, they should inform that endangered manatee is a serious problem and should protect it.

I have found a variety of articles, a book and website that give background information and solutions. I should find more articles and websites because I still need a lot of information to support logically.



Reference:

Tim. C, Richard. R, Alice. C(Ed.).(1994). Endangered Species Recovery: Finding the lessons, improving the process. pp.131-155.

Salinero, M.(2004. Dec, 19). Manatees, Others Could Exit Protected List. The Tampa Tribune. Retrieved 2005. Jan, 26.

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Cridlin, J.(2004. Sep, 17). Zones for Manatee Protection Proposed. Company St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved 2005. Feb, 3.

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Zones for Manatee Protection Proposed

In the article, “Zones For Manatee Protection Proposed”, the J. Cridlin introduces that The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is waiting to pass a new rule that parts of Tamps Bay is denominate to manatee protection zones. A lot of manatees die by of people’s boat and the number of watercraft is increasing in Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Manatee counties. So, FWC claims that speed of watercraft should be limited 25-mph and this place should be settled idle-speed zone. That is minimum speed to move boat. But boat rental enterprises oppose this rule because it is too restrictive to do well their business. Now both FWC and people who opposed this rule is waiting result of vote.
To begin with, both cons and pros of new rule about protection manatee are reasonable words but environment is more important than profit of boat rental business. I think this controversy is an example about conflict between environmentalists and economists. I agree that economy growth and maintaining livelihood is very important but once the environment is destroyed, it is difficult to recover. Especially, as manatee is endangered animal, we should protect their life.
Moreover, boat rental business can do at other place except manatee protection zone. I believe if the government helps them to fill shortage, their dissatisfaction of damage will be disappeared. Also, they should consider other ways to get profit in order to protect manatee.
Consequently, I believe rules about zones for manatee protection should be adopted for environment and ecosystem. As the speed of boat decrease, the death of manatee could reduce. Therefore, The people who earned living expenses by around the bay like boat rental shop should consider endangered manatee and their ecosystem and protect.

New Evaluation Method May Alter Species status

In the article, “New Evaluation Method May Alter Species status , Salinero states that there are two opinion about status of endangered manatee and other mammal. The author first introduces the views of scientists with the Florida fish and Wildlife Commission which claim manatee and other animals such as gopher tortoise, peregrine falcon, crawfish have protected but their status may re-evaluate because the number of manatee have increased. On the contrary, U.S. Geological Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claim manatee populations is urgent on South Atlantic and Southwest Florida coasts due to watercraft collisions. Therefore, there are a discussion on this contention whether is listed to protect manatee and other animals.
To begin with, manatee should be listed by several agency and government. Manatee is primarily endangered and the number of it is now scarce. The force of nature is strong but it has connected in close. Therefore, if there are a little bit change in this environment where has endangered species, they may face a crisis again. For example, manatee population is increase so manatee is not in a list. But if their circumstance is change like going down their food, they will starve and die. Also, many habitat of manatee has become extinct except Florida.
Second, extermination of a stock is responsible to human because most of the problems are made by human. Especially, watercraft collisions occur through human’s carelessness. Therefore, to maintain or protect manatee, agency should add the name in the list about extermination.
Consequently, manatee should be listed in order to protect them because habitat of manatee is so sensitive that it may have easily a bad effect. In addition, people made the problems which menace the right to live. I think that manatee is the object to protect and everybody should make effort.

Manatee in Florida

I became interested in the endangered manatee in Florida after reading several articles and a book about it. As the manatees are one of the endangered species, they are found year-round throughout the Florida and other places. The manatees inhabit fresh, warm, and salt waters of the Western Atlantic from Florida to Brazil. The problem is that the manatee is an endangered specie. According to FDNR (1994), the manatee mortality has increased dramatically in recent years. There are several reasons for this. One is that most of the deaths of manatee occur by collision with boats. That is related to the economic profit of people like boat rental business. Another reason is perinatal mortality due to cold temperatures, premature births, and other natural factors or human-related causes such as pollution and death of nursing mothers. Finally, habitat degradation that has is occurred endangering the manatee indirectly. That is, coastal development, over exploitation, chemical pollution and epidemic are affected mortality of manatee. The growth of Florida’s human population is a critical threat to the manatee. The endangered manatee is in serious trouble in Florida, and three things, speed limit of boat, strict laws, recovery program, should be done to protect the manatee in Florida.
As the manatee is a large marine mammal, it is streamlined in shape and its weight is averaging 1000 to 1500 pounds. It lives in Crystal River, near the middle of Florida’s West Coast and flows into the Gulf of Mexico, for spring and it move to the Kings Bay for wintertime. Because the manatee thrives in warm water and if the temperature is cold, below 68 degrees F, it would suffer stress and sometimes die. So it tends to go by coastal power plants to looking for warm water. And the manatee eats vegetation and many tiny animals lived in the grasses.
Now the manatee is an endangered species and it is in a crisis to extinct like the dinosaurs. Today, there are less than 2,000 manatees in the United States. The manatee mortality has continually increased. According to FDNR (1994), seven manatees died in 1974 years but its death became two hundreds and six in1990 years and one hundred and forty-five in 1993 years. Especially, about 40% of all manatee deaths are occurred by human activity.
One of the greatest reasons for death is powerboat collision. A lot of manatees die by of people’s boat and the number of watercraft is increasing in Florida. The manatees are hear well so they that are awake are usually scared by the sound of boat, but when manatees sleep, state called “torpor,” they occasionally float to the surface of water for fresh air and suffer an injury from boat. In addition, as people carelessly thrown fishing lines or net into the water, manatee’ fins or tails get tangled with them.
Second reason is causes of perinatal mortality. When mothers had a baby, cold temperatures premature births, and other natural factors are affected the living of the manatee. Also, mothers do not produce many offspring. Although mothers are strongly bonded to their calves, the manatee’s social ties among manatee are very loose. Therefore, more manatees are killed annually than are born.
Third problem is the about degradation of habitat. In the 18th and 19th centuries, humans hunted manatees widely for their meat and tough skin but these days hunting manatee was inhibited. However, in the Caribbean and South America, the manatees are still hunted. And coastal development along rivers has destruct habitat of the manatee. Foods of the manatee such as, estuarine sea grass, has damaged. In addition, chemical pollution of human has injured the immune systems of the manatee as be vulnerable to infection. For example, in 1988, canine distemper killed over 10,000 harbor seals in Sweden and Denmark. The fish that the seals eat has the PCB’s in the water and more fish the seals eat, more susceptible diseases their body accumulates. Moreover, since 1996, over 250 manatees have been found dead in southwestern Florida due to an epidemic. Another death of manatee is caused by exposure to red tide due to increasing pollution in Florida’s coastal water. As the result, development and pollution in coastal areas bring the loss of habitat and loss of the coastal grasses that are the manatee’s food.
The manatee is in serious trouble in Florida and to protect the endangered manatee we need to endeavor of human. First, the speed of boats should reduce to protect collision. So, that would mean setting 25-mph speed limits and instituting idle-speed zones. But developers, which were business like boat rental enterprise in coast are, opposed this rule because it is too restrictive to do well their business. In my opinion, both cons and pros of this rule about speed limit are reasonable words but environment is more important than profit of boat rental business. Once the environment is destroyed, it is difficult to recover. Especially, as the manatee is endangered animal, we have a duty to protect their life. Moreover, boat rental business can do at other place except manatee protection zone. There are a lot of lakes in the United States. I believe the government could aid make up for rental business that could be occurred by law of speed limit. The Florida is a tourist state. Every product, which made in Florida, could add the tax to protect manatee. I think that would be better the both sides environment and developer.
Second, laws should be made and strictly enforced that will protect the endangered manatee in the Florida and other place. There are many laws to protect manatees at present. Since 1970, when anyone harms or kills a manatee, they have imposed $500 fine. And then in 1967 the manatee was listed as an endangered species. In 1978 the State of Florida was assigned a refuge and sanctuary of manatee. However, the manatee still faces the risk of extinction. I agree with that all visitors should educate on proper and legal behavior around the manatees. And manatee should be listed in order to protect them because habitat of manatee is so sensitive that it may have easily a bad effect. According to an article, some agency like The Coastal Conservation Association insists on down listing the manatee is from endangered to threatened. The endangered species mean, “Its species has lost 80 percent of its population in the last 10 years or during its last three generations.” And threatened species identify that its species “has lost 50 percent of its population in the last 10 years” (2004). However, the manatee is still endangered and the number of the manatee is now scarce. Every organism has connected in close ecosystem. Therefore, if a little bit of change in this environment that has endangered species, they may face a crisis again. Many habitats of the manatee have become extinct except in Florida. Also, extermination of a species is human responsibility because humans make most of the problems. Therefore, to maintain or protect the manatees, the Fish and Wildlife Commission should keep the name on the endangered species list.
Third, FWS and Florida state government should activate the recovery program. The recovery program was initiated by FWS in 1976. Its goal is “to restore the Florida manatee as a viable self-sustaining element of its ecosystem.”(Clark, 1994). There are various activities in recovery program. Manatee rescue program is that insured and sick manatees capture by using telemetry equipment and rescue them. And manatee carcass salvage program is that trace the cause of death. Information, which, is collected from each animal, about anatomical, physiological, and life history, is used better understand the biological limitations of species. Also, enforcement activities’ purpose is to enhance community awareness of manatee issues. Habitat protection program is to restore manatee’s habitat degradation by human population in Florida and extensive coastal development. In addition, government conservation program is to understand of the problems facing manatees and to educate people. So these programs about recovery manatee could inform that endangered manatee is a serious problem and should protect it.
Consequently, the manatee in Florida is an endangered specie and it should strongly protect by speed limit of boat, strict laws, and recovery program. Manatee’s habit is slow and like warm water so occurred many accidents to them. Especially, the collision of boat is one of the greatest reasons when manatees have died. Moreover, manatees have a couple of perinatal mortality and mothers do not produce many offspring. Third problem is to degrade habitat by coastal development, human activity, red tide, and chemical pollution. These problems are made trouble more serious and threaten their life. Therefore, we need to make effort to protect the manatee. To begin with, speed of boat should reduce in manatee protection zone. And laws should be made and strictly enforced. The endangered status should maintain continually by Florida state and federal government. Finally, we should know what recovery programs mean and activate it. And then, I believe that the manatees could overcome at the endangered species status.

“Bambi has outgrown the forest, and alternatives for control are elusive, inefficient or unpleasant"

I have read about an article called “Bambi has outgrown the forest, and alternatives for control are elusive, inefficient or unpleasant,” and I have found that there is a big problem about it and there are also many people concern about the white-tailed deer destiny. In the North East of the U.S especially in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey, Wisconsin, New York and Massachusetts the white-tailed deer are overwhelming their habitat over these parts of the United States. People have many deer-auto collisions and each year more that 29,000 human injuries and the vehicle repair costs are too high. As a result, there is an enigma about what we should do with the deer and what is the best option for the species. Some of the possible solutions are:
1. Reintroduce natural predators
2. Kill some
3. Immunocontraceptives (birth control)
4. Relocation
5. Combination bait and shoot plans
6. Surgical sterilization

However, those solutions results hard to go over because of many reasons, for example the birth control have limited effectiveness and it includes high costs. The relocation is not an option because it is stressful for the deer. To introduce natural predators, which is where we life, we have to teach people about how to deal with it and study about it too, because people could be killed. About the combination of bait and plants have low public acceptance. The surgical sterilization is expensive.

I think the best solution could be to reintroduce natural predators. I know that is hard and dangerous because there is where we life and where we interact with everything, but we are humans and we should be able to learn about how to deal with predators and how to be away from those areas, or what to do in those cases, we suppose to have the capacity of learn easier than animals. In addition, in order to develop we should use more our brain and cooperate with the alternatives which will define the white-tailed deer destiny.

If you want to know more about deers “clik here” !!!!

By LUCIANA MOTTOLA

New plant for Illinois air pollution

According to PR Newswire US (2004), The Illinois Clean Coal Review Board gives $2.5 million to Steelhead Energy Company LLC for making new coal gasification plant which can help the Illinois coal industry and the Southern Illinois environment. Steelhead Energy indicates that this new plant will not produce much air pollution and this will be “the cleanest coal-fueled energy facilities in the world.” The new plant is able to use coal made from Illinois that will create “545 MW of electricity and 95 million standard cubic feet per day.” The new plant removes pollutants which are sulfur and mercury before burning coal for generation of electricity. In addition, those wastes, such as sulfur and mercury, can be sold for other uses. This method is cleaner than existent coal power plant. So, environmental organizations like this project. Southern Illinois University organized The Illinois Clean Coal Review Board to consider southern Illinois environment and much coal resources. The Steelhead Energy must reward this project for investors.
I believe that this new power plant can aid with cleaning southern Illinois air pollution because that pollution mostly comes from present coal power plants. Moreover, southern Illinois has a large amount of coal, and that is cheaper than other resources for getting energy. So, this plan is a good solution for keeping clean air, getting energy, and maintaining jobs. However, soil pollution might increase for mining coal, because mined coal makes pollutants, such as mercury. That pollutant might go to ground and flow into rivers and lakes. If this plant succeeds decreasing air pollution, the soil pollution problem will be increasing. We need to think about how to be in safe keeping mined coal on the ground.

by Masaki

Scientists tracking cougar’s eastward migration

The cougar is a deer hunter and it seeks the simple things. 150 years ago, people tended to eliminate the cougar from the eastern half of the USA. But, 18months ago confirmed populations of the cougar were 21. People have become interested in the cougar right now. In the article, Nielsen is anxious about the fact that the cougar population is increased but its habitat is declined. But, Nielsen said that the cougar is less dangerous than other human activity. The cougar is naturally increasing and scientists want to co-exist with it.
I think that the cougar is a very important animal because it can control the population of deer. In Carbondale, there are too many deer. So people think of solutions to this problem. For example, sometimes we should kill some deer. Or the government could loosen hunting regulations. And there is a way of infertilizing. Then the latter is the most ideal way among these but it is too expensive. And the looser hunting regulations and killing some are so artificial that these may have a harmful effect. But, using the predators is more natural than other ways. The cougar, one of the predators, will help to control the population of deer. Therefore, we should throw away wrong cognition that the cougar is a bad animal to humans. To control population of deer I believe that we should consider using the cougar.


by youjin lee

Deer Damage-Summary Response

In the article, “Deer Damage : Numbers Climb, Threat Escalates,” from the ILFB website, the author states the population of whitetail deer has risen in Illinois since 30 years ago because of the supplies of good food and warm winters. An increase in population of deer leads to a lot of ‘deer-vehicle accidents’ and spread of disease which could kill the herd of deer. Also, the diseases that come into being because of the overpopulation of deer can threaten human health. In addition, crop damage becomes larger because of the surplus population of wildlife. According to Erickson, The Illinois Department of Natural Resources gives “a nuisance permit to a landowner, allowing the taking of up to 10 deer out of season, as long as it can be proven that there is crop damage”; however, it is “not working as it should”. In addition, “Illinois has no compensation program”.
To begin with, the overpopulation of a specific living thing affects the ecology and human life badly. Studies have shown that the state suffers damage from the overpopulation of deer in Illinois. I think that The Illinois Department of Natural Resources should try to think of the way of decrease the number of deer, for example, by having a day of deer hunting that has restriction to catch a number of deer for each person. Also, The Illinois Department of Natural Resources should think about the compensation program for the farmer who has crop damage because of wildlife. Moreover, the problem of deer population is not only Illinois’ problem. Therefore the government should think about the solution of the overpopulation of deer for the ecology and our life.
http://www.ilfb.org/viewdocument.asp?did=8683&r=0.3996698&r=0.9534113&r=0.6312372

By Ri-Na Park

More species

Sorry to interrupt the great movie-posts again!

I realize that cougar and bobcat aren't exactly the same...

this story might be more interesting to the people studying deer, because it shows several things: first, people at SIU are studying the return of the cougar. Second, it's coming back because it has plenty of food and more free space. Third, "the likelihood of a human getting attacked by a cougar here in Illinois is lower than death by vending machine," says the guy...I like that quote!

-Tom Leverett

Environmental project links

Wow! You are doing well with the movie links! I'm interrupting here to give you the links for a final Core project on an environmental issue in the Carbondale area....just read or listen to one of these, tell us about it, put it on the weblog...

Bobcat in southern Illinois:
http://www.siu.edu/~wildlife/research/Bobcat%20Research/bobcat.html
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/dnr/fur/species/bobcat.html
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/oi000219.html

Air pollution in southern Illinois (Power plant): http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/ED01276A1CFAF12F86256F96001BB3C0?OpenDocument&Headline=Federal+agency+may+appeal+power+plant+OK

Deer in Carbondale
http://www.naiaonline.org/body/articles/archives/bambi_forest.htm
http://www.arec.umd.edu/Policycenter/Deer-Management-in-Maryland/marchinton.htm

Use of Public lands (listening available)
http://www.loe.org/ETS/organizations.php3?action=printContentItem&orgid=33&typeID=18&itemID=220&User_Session=3a2ecc5ba5cf641c4a384c990ad45967#feature2

How to lose a guy in ten days (by Youjin)

My favorite movie genre is romantic comedy, like How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days. Until the end of this movie I couldn’t stop laughing. Especially the hero and heroine of the movie were very handsome and gorgeous. The movie is about a woman who works in a magazine company. She meets one man for writing article and she deliberately acts strangely in order to lose to him. Also, he makes efforts to keep company with her because he has a bet on her attendance at a party. This movie is a very well expressed psychological description of them. I would like to watch the movie again.

Remember the Titans (by Shasha)

My favorite movie is Remember the Titans. During winter vacation, I could not move my leg because I hurted my pelvis. so I watched movies all the time. One of those is Remember the Titans. And my favorite actor is Denzel Washington. He is a very excellent actor. I am impressed with the story of the movie. In America so many people love football. The movie shows this. But black man and white man could not live together in 1971. In that situation, a black coach came to a school. He didn't discriminate. He said that he is only a coach. He judged ability of them. Eventually players could be friends with each other. The movie subtitles were very impressive,too. I love this movie so much.

The Children of Heaven (Phoebe)

The Children of Heaven

My favorite movie is "The Children of Heaven", which is an Iranian movie.
This movie started with the scene that one boy went to shoe repair shop to mend his sister's shoes. But he lost it and from that time he and his sister started to share his shoes, because they knew their parents were poor and could not afford to buy new one. His sister was in morning class and he was in afternoon class, so she had to run fast in order to return the shoes to her brother. Although she did her best to run, her brother was always late and couldn't help avoiding his teacher's scolding.

One day, the sister found the girl who wore her shoes and ran after the girl with her brother. But they realized the girl's father was blind and her family was much poorer than them, so they decided to give up the shoes.

A few days later, the brother found a poster that said there would be a marathon and the third prize was a pair of shoes. He took part in the marathon and tried to be the third to get the shoes. Even though he could win first place, he let two people go before him.

In the end, however, he won first place and he cried, because he couldn't get the shoes. This part was my favorite. How cute he is!

The last scene is that their father bought two pairs of new shoes and came back to home.

Back to the future

by JUNKI

Marty is a teenager who likes rock’n roll and a skate board. His friend Dr. Brown, a wacky scientist, invents the time machine. The time machine needs Plutonium fuel to work. So Dr. Brown gets the fuel from terrorists, he promises making nuclear weapons for them. When Dr. Brown tries to time-travel, the terrorists kill him and Marty uses the time machine and escapes. He goes back 1955, when his parents first met. He has to back to the future, but the fuel is low. So he finds Dr. Brown living and talks about the fuel. Because they can’t get Plutonium, they find the other way. It was an electric. By the way, Marty meets his father when he is observing his mother over the tree. His father falls down from the tree at the same time a car run to his father. Marty saves his father, and he is dumped with the car instead of his father. The driver was Marty’s grandfather (his mother’s father). Grandpa takes Marty into his house. And then Marty meets his mother, Lorraine at home. She become interested in Marty and fall in love. She loves Marty instead of George, so future is confused. Marty should make them fall in love. Marty’s father, George is stupid and only interested in SF such as U.F.O. Marty fails to make George date with Lorraine because she loves Marty so much. Finally Marty suggest going to the dancing party. By the way, Biff comes to them. He is outlaw. He tries to rape Lorraine. At that time, George come and save her. Future is changed. George becomes brave and confident. And Marty back to the future safely… I had fun after watching this movie. I tried to thought that my future can be changed.

Amelie of Montmarte

Han, Hyo JU

I want to introduce to you is my favorite movie, “Amelie of Montmarte”. It is a romantic comedy. The main actress is Audrey Tautou and the main actor is Mathieu Kassovitz. It’s a love story. The main characters are good at picturing to themselves. In the movie, people or animals are in the picture and they talk to each other. The woman wants to be a kind person, helping other people with unhappy lives, because she is so happy when she helps the old man but he doesn't know. So she does something for others. But nobody knows except the painter in the neighborhood. At first she's happy because helping people makes her happy. But as time passes, she feels that she isn't helping herself. So she is sad about herself. She finds a man who she will love. She doesn't know him, even doesn't see his face. But she believes that he is the only man for her. He has sweet smile and is an unidentified man. She fears to fall in love with him. The man tries to find her. It breaks her fear and he makes her happy. The neat and sweet story, all kinds of photographing technique and beautiful scene match well. So I love this movie.

Billy Eliot (Maria)

This movie is about a boy who wants to be a ballet dancer. His name is Billy Eliot and his family is working class in England. To make him strong, his father tries to teach him boxing, but Billy is interested in the Ballet class which is held next to the boxing class. A ballet teacher recognizes his talent for dance and starts to train him. This movie says if we don't lose our dream, it can come true. And one of the most enjoyable things in it is watching Billy's lively and amazing dance.

Matrix I ( Jun Hui, Min)

My favorite movie is Matrix I. I like this movie about its technique the movie showed. And I also liked about its themes such as making a choice, love, and faith. In that movie, there are two worlds. One is the world in which Matrix(whchi is Machine) control human beings. In this world, people can enjoy the normal life. but the other is the world in which human beings suffer from reality. People in this life are in danger because they have to fight against Matrix. In the movie, there are lots of fightings using special effects. One of the scene I liked was when Neo,main character,could avoid the bullit that Matrix shoot because Neo was faster than the bullit. The special effects made the movie more exciting and fun. After lots of fighting, Neo met a critical situation. Actually he got shoot by Matrix and fell down. It seemed he died. At that moment, Trinity, who was the main actress, kissed Neo. And He got returned to life again by "power of love", I guess. And Neo became very stronger because he had a faith in himself. Finally, he could destroy Matrix. I didn't like Scient Fiction movies before because they were too unrealistic. But Matrix changed my type of movie because of the reasons that I mentioned.

Junhui, Min

my favorite movie (BK) - Truman Show-

This movie is famous for surprising story I saw this movie 6years ago.
at that time, I thought about privacy of humans and human rights because
of whatching this movie.

The life of Truman Burbank has been broadcast around world since the day
he was born. A star for the mere fact that he exists.
Truman has no idea that tere are cameras in every corner of his world.
finally he knows about his circumstance and tries to escape from his fake life

Castaway

Masaki Kitagawa
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My best favorite movie is a “Castaway,” and the main actor is Tom Hanks. He worked in a FedEx and his work was so busy everyday. When he was flying for his business, his airplane crashed near an uninhabited island. Then, he tried to live alone on the island. At first, he thought that someone would help him soon, but nobody came. He spent a lot of time for searching food. His everyday life was boring, because he had nothing to do. After surviving, he notices that life is an empty dream. This movie tells me about human’s view of life. So, I have a good chance for thinking about what is important for the human life. And the movie is a good practice for making progress with my English. I strongly recommend it.

Blind Faith

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Name of the movie: Blind Faith
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Time, location: Bronx, 1957
Actors in the movie: Charles, Carol, John, Anna, Charly William
Plot : This is a sad story about a society where all men “were” far from equal.
An Africa-American student sacrificed his life to keep his secret .Who did he try to protect? What kind of the secret let the alleged murderer be sentenced the death penalty and not defend himself at all? His uncle who was an attorney and the best at criminal law was trying to save his nephew because he found out the big secret at the end.
The Africa –American student ENDED his life in the prison and left a touching letter to his family. The letter revealed the student’s struggling story in 1957.

American Sweethearts-my favorite movie

The story is about two movie stars: the guy, played by John Cusack, is desperately in love with the girl, played by Catherine Zeta-Jones. She, however, doesn't want anything to do with him. Then there's the sweet sister of the girl movie star. This is Julia Roberts, and she happens to be in love with John Cusack.The really fun part of the film, however, is Christopher Walken, who happens to make every role memorable.
By RiNa

My favorite movie

My favorite movie is "The Mask" by Jim Carey. I like Jim Carey's humor in the movie. What is most interesting to me in this movie is how the actor can have an extra power by wearing a mask. This mask was not a normal mask but a special mask which has extra power.

There is a strong belief about mask in Africa. Masks are closely considered with statue. Statue too has an extra power in African belief. "Afo Akom" is an example of a statue which has been sent from Cameroon to USA museum. The "Afo Akom" distroyed a lot of art which was in the museum. Due to this destruction, "Afo Akom" was sent back to its home town in Bamenda, Cameroon.

My favorite movie - Flapping the Tae kuk ki (Young)

This movie is about two brothers’ brotherly affection during the Korea war. The brothers were poor, but they were very happy because they had each other. However, the Korea war broke out. The older brother was drafted. The younger one wasn’t drafted, but he rode a train to find his brother. And they were sent to the battles. At the battles, the older brother sometimes did very dangerous missions to send his brother back home. One day, the older brother thought his brother was dead because of the commander of South Korea. So he was crazy and surrendered to North Korea and became a commander of North Korea. The younger brother went to the battle fields again to find his brother. They eventually found each other, but the older brother couldn’t recognize the younger brother because he was very crazy and despondent. Suddenly, the older one was able to recognize his brother. But they had to part from each other because the battle was going on. They promised that they would meet each other soon. But, now 2005, they still haven’t found each other.