"Omusubikororin"

Takako Niki
AE2 core class

The title is "Omusubikororin". This is a story that is told in Japan.

Once upon a time, there were a grandfather and a grandfather who were honest. One day he went to the mountain to cut down trees. So she went there having riceballs for him. Then, she said "Honey, I bring you riceballs. Let's have a break". And she opened the pack. The next moment, a riceball was rolling down the hill. So she hastily ran after it. "Wait, wait please". But the riceball fell down in a big hole under the tree. When she wondered what she should do and looked down into the hole, she heard something murmuring. "omusubikororin, suttonton". (It means)"A riceball rolled down here". She wanted to listen more, so she looked down into the hole. But unluckily, she also fell down into the hole. When she woke p and looked around, she found the small and white mice making some sticky rices. (In Japan, we call it Mochi.) As they made those, gold was coming out.
"Wow!" She was suprised at this unbelievable view. Then an older mouse came to her and said, "We want to give you a thank-you present of a riceball. Which box do you want, the bigger one or the smaller one?" Then she said, "I can't bring back the binner one, so I'll take the smaller one". And she came home with the box. In their house, the grandfather had already came home and had been waiting for her. They opened the box together. Then there was a lot of gold and silver in it. But another grandmother who lived next door and was greedy was seeing that. The grandmother wanted to get treasures, so she threw a riceball in the hole and dived in. She said "Give many treasures, or I will imitate the call of a cat". But the next moment, the mice became angry and bit her. So she ran away saying sorry.

Moral: One should be not greedy but honest.

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Legend of the Sun and the Moon

This is a story that was told by my grandmother when I was a child. Once upon a time, there was one family, one brother and one sister with their grandmother, living very happily in the countryside in Korea.
One day, it was dark when grandmother headed home from the far distant market. She met a big tiger in the mountain, and the tiger said, “If you give me delicious food, I won’t eat you.” The grandmother gave him the dried persimmon and candy that she’d bought for her children. But, after the tiger ate it, and found out that she didn’t have any food, the tiger ate her eventually.
And the tiger arrived at grandmother’s home in the middle of the night. The tiger disguised his voice as grandmother’s and said “Dear children, I’m home. Open the door.”
The brother and sister, who were waiting for grandmother, thought the voice was not their grandmother’s voice. And they asked, “Why is your voice changed, grandmother?”
“Because I’m tired.”
“Then, could you show us your index finger by sticking it between the doors?” they said.
As soon as they saw it, the brother and sister were surprised, because it was not grandmother’s finger, it was a tiger’s talon. They said composedly, "Our grandmother doesn’t have hair. Why do you have too much fur?” Then, the tiger went to out to cut the fur. When the tiger disappeared, they stole out of the room and climbed up a tree in the garden.
They prayed to God for help. “God, help us. If you help us, give us the hard and big robe.” At that time, they could catch the good rope which heaven had sent. The good brother and sister could climb to heaven. Having seen this, the tiger also prayed. But the tiger got the old and weak rope, so he fell on the earth on the way to heaven and died.
After they arrived in heaven, the brother and sister were pleased to see their grandmother and their hometown, which they asked for God to see. God also gave them an opportunity to see the hometown anytime they wanted. The sister, who feared the dark too much, became the sun, and the brother who was a man, became the moon. So, these days the sun and moon rise in Korea, because the brother and sister want to see their grandmother and hometown.

By Kim

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Gold Ax and Silver Ax by Hyunsung Cho

AE2 Section B
Hyunsung cho

Gold Ax and silver Ax

This is a story that is told in Korea.
Once upon a time there lived a good woodcutter. Although he was very poor, he was a man who cared for his parents with all of his heart. He used to go to the forest to cut down trees. One day, he decided to cut down tree that was near a pond. While he was cutting down the tree, his old ax fell into the pond by mistake. He was crying because his old ax was all of his means of living. Just then, suddenly the god of the mountains appeared from the pond, and he asked him, “what is your ax, a gold ax or a silver ax?” Then, he said this is not mine, my ax is an old metal ax. Thereupon, the god of mountains was moved to admiration by his honesty,
and then, the god gave him all three axes. The woodcutter and his parents lived happily ever after.

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Welcome to Carbondale!

Things done below this picture were done in 064....above it, 065!

I took a look at http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929.htm. The website talks about the stock market in 1929. The stock market become full of cheaters investors jokeyad. Investors martgaged their home and foolishly invested their life sawings in hot stocks. Some people wanted to sell because shoeshine boys wanted to buy and sell stocks. Many people lost their homes and jobs because of stock market.

In my personal opinion it is a good website to learn about the history of the stock market. It makes people know that greed is a bad thing and it goes with death.

By Ali Albayat

I took a look at http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0818/p02s01-usju.html.This website talks about the highest number of people in prison. The chance of black male is higher than that of a white male. The one reason is regard of racial minorities and other is economic. The prisoners or former prisoners can’t have the right to vote in some states for all their life ,because it may lead to abuses. The rate of crime has gone down because of the high rate of imprisonment in the past decade . The drugs is the important reason to go to the prison.In my personal opinion I like this website because it gives me some information about prison and the crime rate. Also it gives me the reason which is important to go to prison (drugs).

By Ali Albayat

I went to a website
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html that describes the most dangerous person in the history of United States. His name is Al Capone. He killed many people, he did illegal things such as prostitution, gambling and selling alcohol when it was illegal to sell or buy it . He was smart, he had undercover workers and spread them out to bring him the news, which kept him safe. He became avery rich man when the economy was going down in the United States. In this time he tried to help people in
a different way such as serving food to them.

In my opinion this person has different characteristics, one of these characteristics is he is sharp. He is a brute if anything threatens his life or his works; however, he is nice and helpful with people who need help, so he became famous and was loved by most people because of his character.

by Turky Alkhamis

I went to a website
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2006/07/15/top/16932824.txt that describes a murder crime which happened in Carbondale. the person who died was a young man. He was twenty two years old. The information said that the people who killed him were two black men . And the reason that pushed them to kill him was robbery. This crime was done in the street at night by stabbing him. The Victim did not die immediately. He called his friends to help hem. And his friends called the police. his friends did not describe his place exactly. Because of that, the police arrived late. Later he died in the hospital.

In my opinion there is no reason to kill anyone. And I think the life of a human starts with the will of Allah, so just Allah decides when to take our life. From the other side the victim lost his chance to be saved when he did not call police directly. The time was important and he lost a lot of it when he called his friend.

by Turky Alkhamis

I visited the CNN website which is talking about the rate of crime in the United States. According to this website, the rate of murder is going down and in 1997 it became the lowest level for murder in 30 years, but the rate of the young Americans murders is going up. The website tell us about what the White House said; they said "the rate of murder especially the homicide should continue to decline into next year" which is of course good news for American people. According to the website the firearm killings by people who are age 25 and older is going down; it plummeted by roughly half between 1980 and 1997 but it is going up by the young people who are ages between 18 and 24 from about 5,000 killings by firearms in 1980 to more than 7,500 in 1997, and there are other findings but I think the most important one is that the murder rate is high in the South and on the West Coast and low in New England and the Rocky Mountain states.

In my opinion, this website tells us about the rate of murder in the United States and which people do more murders depends on the age and other things like gender and color, I didn't mention gender and color in my summary, but anyone can visit the website and read about that. This of course is good news for people who live in the United States even if they are citizens or residents. I don't know why the rate of murder going down, but I think it is more then one reason for example better police, less guns and more employment opportunities.

by fahad-al-otaibi

I visited the death penalty website which is talking about the death penalty in the US and its effect on the murder rate or not. The death penalty is not applied in all the United States. According to this website the murder rate in non-death penalty states has remained lower than the rate in states with the death penalty. This website shows us the rate of murder in 2000, which was up in states that apply death penalty, and it was 35% higher than states that did not apply the death penalty and in 2001, the murder rate in states with death penalty grew again to 37%.

In my opinion, this website is proof that the death penalty dose not affect the murder rate and they prove it by the figures, but I can't imagine or believe that, because in my country it affects the murder rate significantly.

by fahad al otaibi

Crime Location

The world's most dangerous location are this site which I will describe. In this site there are eight names of locations. These locations are the most dangerous locations in the world. And it explains all of them. Also it described how a location gets this rank.




This site has two advantages. The first is that it helps are who wants to travel to that locations. And the second advantage is this site helps the government of those locations to make good policing. And this site helps me because I don't have any idea about those locations.




Abdulkarim

Murder in USA

"Overall U.S murder rate is down, but youth gun killings up". This is an article from CNN site. It tells about murder rank. There is information about who commit murder in USA. Also there is what is different about black murder and white murder. And there are some points that give the reader information about the murder rank going down.



This article is good for the family to be more carefully about there sons. This article is not new but it is interesting. Special for American people.



Abdulkarim

I went to this website stock market that spoke about the world after the First World War; the time was earful, quiet and had development. But the first to benefit from that was the economy. The shares were cheap and the people found more of that. From 1921 to 1929 the people in United States had more winnings and more money. After that people started to sell their homes and their all property because they wanted entry to the stoke market. In 1929 the benefit rates had increased; after that people lost most of their money and the stoke market crashed in this time, the people lost their life. Many years after that everything went well.

In my opinion, I hope in the world for peace and love between all peoples. If you want entry to the stoke market you need to have more idea about that or know somebody who has information about that.

by Alkahtani,k

I went to this website I was done about some people who work in internet space and it shows some pictures about hacker people, how did they get caught and what is the punishment that they got from the government. Richard Stallman made a clear and big step in the computer world, especially in the software sphere; in other words, he was the founder. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson both created a new system in their laptops, an operating system, and it become standard, and a popular C programming language. John Draper is the one who created a special way to use the phone and make free calls. Computer viruses were stopped by his firewall system.

In my opinion the government must support these genius, intelligent and creative people and give them stimulators to continue their excellence. I like the subject and I also like how the website shows the information.

by Alkahtani,k

Al Capone in the history of crimes
I went to a website that is shows life of the man who is a gangster of crimes. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on JAN 17, 1899. He led to the downfall of law and the American system. He changed the law and rules in Chicago during the period of his life and he changed the reputation of Chicago. He stopped going to school when he was 14 years old. He worked in some small job and he didn’t do well because he was cheating. He met a lady and after that he married her and they had boy.

In my opinion the society helps some people that are the same as Al Capone because no one stopped him. The society should be finding and catch and not tolerate any acts similar to his work. The website gives a good short history about Al Capone and I like what the web site shows.

by aziz

DNA is developed in our life
I went to a website that shows some pictures and some information about what DNA is. DNA is the structure of the body; it exists in all cells of the body. It can be used in the composition a forensic profile. It shows some sample of blood that is used to know who did a crime. The website talked about the PCR that is used to analyze the sample. DNA is used to identify genes and in determining genetic paternity.

In my opinion, I like the presentation of the website that shows information and consolidates images. I think DNA helps us to know things that we were not able to know in the past, however complex. I wish to continue this technology in the detection of crimes and hope that humans do not find a way to trick that.

by aziz

In "Murder rates in states with and with without death penalty", generally, murder rates are getting decresing. Murder rates in non-death penalty states are even lower than in death penalty states.

As time passes by,people's thinkings are getting changed. They know what is wrong or not and they also want to make peace. This is because most American parents want their children to be protected from comitted crime in advance. But even now, however, the people who reside in death penalty states commit more crime than the others who reside in non-death penalty states. Probably, the strict law makes them angry.And they are against the law of the goverment.

by Park,Jae-Yul

Hello, I will introduce about my job.I use this web-site which is "http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/index.html".My job is a kind of police officer who arrests murderers like a killer.It takes so much time to arrest killers.Most detective police spend time for investigating to find the murderer and these jobs are also very dangerous.

I am going to tell you about my opinion.Most murderers kill the person who is very close,like their best friends,families or even their children.Sometimes they kill the person who they kill very violently.According to this web-site,most killers have mental disease.Maybe when they were a child,they were shocked from an accident.So I don't want violence.I hope to a protect myself from murder perfectly.

by Park,Jae-Yul

I went to napster I found it:
- Almost organized.
- the colors are differnt;some are bright and the others are dark.
- there are a lot of ads.
- there are many pages on this site.
- you can search by artist,album,tracka and archive.
- you can register with this site.
- there are links to napster in many countries.
As for me I went to this web site because I heard about it befor and I wanted to explore it. I found it:
- Like a picture with many colors.
- On this web site there appears to be a huge number of songs.
- You have to pay to get any song or even listen.
- I think this web site is good for people who like music.
- The best thing on this site I think you can find any song or singer that you prefer.

by Motref

I went to freakkonomics I found it:
- Very orgnized.
- The colors on the web are bright.
- The fonts are very nice.
- You can reach any thing on the web easily.
- It doesn't have a lot of information.
- There are many links with other web sites.
As for me I went to this site, because I heard about its story and study from my teacher:
- I found this site like an ad.
- Many things on the web aren't useful.
- There are some commierical ads.
- Every page there is a sentence which is "BUY THE BOOK" and this sentence is not good for many people.
- I found this study good, because it joins between life and the economy.

by Motref