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2008年5月24日土曜日

Book review 1-7 「The USA」


What do you imagine about the word 「AMERICA」?Big country, metropolis, nature, entertainment… many attractive words are in the U.S. In this time, I read 「The U.S.A」and I leaned about many aspects of U.S.
About 30000years ago, American continent was a very big, beautiful, and it had many mountains, forest, lakes, animals, but no people.
First people came to Alaska, from Asia. They travelled south or south east side and became the Indians.
16century, Europeans started to come to America, and they brought many African slaves, to cultivate their fields. In 20century, a lot of immigrants arrive and live there from all over the world. Today, this continent has full of people, different languages, and many interesting cultures.
And this book has explained about U.S history with simple word. So, it is easy to understand and to grasp the century to the history.
In this book, especially I was interested about American culture life and each religion. I was surprised there are many “drive-in” buildings in the U.S. fast food restaurant, cinema, bank, and church! I don’t know how to use the bank, and church as “drive-in”.
And, there is no state religion in the U.S. I was surprised because I thought the Christianity was the state religion. But, over 60% people in the U.S are Christianity. It seem that many Americans like watching TV, and they watch TV for 7 hours a day at most. U.S has more 10000 pay TV stations and people can choose these and watch them. Also, U.S is famous for sports and they have the 4 greatest sports. Basket ball, base ball, American foot ball, and ice hockey. People often will close their shops to go to the games.
I like to watch NBA, so someday I want to watch the live game.
American foods have a lot of fat, for example, hamburger, hot dog, pizza, and French fries. They also have many fast foods restaurants. And, this country has a full of immigrants from all over the world, so it has a lot of traditional food restaurants like Mexican, Italian, French, Asian. Recently, they prefer more healthy foods. Some people chose “low fat” dishes, the other refuse to eat meat. The Japanese dishes are also popular among American people because these dishes are healthy and hearty.
The U.S has many metropolis, on the other hand, they have a lot of untouched natures. Especially, I want to go to NY and Florida. I want to see a row of houses along the street that was used as a movie scene. And I want to go to many world heritages like grand canyon, monument valley, and yellow stone national park. Someday, I want to have a trip, and look around whole this country. (469words)

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