Nice to speak to you, hyf270. What's the score an average american would get in TOEFL, GMAT and GRE? What about an average student in undergraduate school, graduate school and PhD (both top-tier and the others)? And how did they, especially those who have broader vocabulary, achieve it?
895 :SAMURAI A ◆GfWlEQyDyE :2006/11/06(月) 18:40:02
I am a Samurai. I like soy sauce and yasabi. I son'T like americans because they droped atomic boms in hiroshima and nagasaki. they are killer.
896 :SAMURAI A ◆GfWlEQyDyE :2006/11/06(月) 18:43:18
If anyone finds this letter , it means that my plan didn't work and that I'm already dead . But if I can somehow go back to the beginning of all this I might be able to save her .
Bush's approval rating is bad, right? Then why doesn't he go to war with North Korea? I mean Americans are stupid, and always support Presidents fighting wars. So, I think Bush should make up some stupid reasons to start a war or two, just as he did with Iraq. What do you thinK?
because right now most americans are not happy with the war, and if he went to war without a threat of attack from N.Korea, he could be kicked out; and it would be likely his party would lose the election in a couple years. There's already a lot of disapproval of that party; since it became public that one of the members was having sex, or at least talk of a sexual nature, over the internet- with teenagers who worked at the building.
They had known about it for awhile, but didn't do anything until someone reported it to the news.
>903 Thanks for responding. But, what about gradschool admission? Though TOEFL isn't required, even you americans seem required to take GMAT/GRE. Or, is it so easy for americans that they don't do any preparation?
if you're interested, you could look it up on wikipedia, although I don't know how helpful it would be.
>>910 It's unlikely that they would impeach him, unless they found him guilty of crimes. Also; although democrats could win the house (43 seats "up for grabs", most/all of which are republican, and they only need to get 15 more seats to control the house), it's unlikely they'll take the senate. They need 6 seats there, and only 8 are considered "up for grabs"
That's the bad thing about midterms, most of the time, nothing changes.
As far as presidents go, I find it unlikely that either of them would be president, if one was it would be Hillary. They're both not very well liked from their relationships with the past two presidents. Ms. Rice is even more unlikely, in my opinion, because of Bush's unpopularity, and the fact that she's black. We've all come a long way as far as racism is concerned, but there's still a lot of people that would not vote for her simply because of that, however pathetic the fact may be. In fact, both candidates are unlikely to a point just because many American men still don't think of women as true equals, and don't think one should run the country.
I do not believe that Rice would make a good president, and she scares the heck out of most moderate Americans. Hilary Clinton scares most of us moderate Americans, too.
I've heard that Senator Kelly's comment on the Iraq war was controversial and provocative. Perhaps the Japanese translation of what he said is like "if you don't want to go to Iraq, then you should be educated." I remember he said he was just trying to jeer at Bush, but don't know how everything went with this incident.
Hello. Why do americans hold elections on a week day?? In japan elections are held on Sunday, so that as many people as possible could vote. I think japan's way is very reasonable and logical.
>>919 But come to think of it, Japan's voting rate is quite low. One reason is because elections are held on weekends, I think. If the place where you vote is a bit away from your place, no wonder there are people who think this way: It's a pain to go out just for voting.
>>916 Personally, I don't think there has been any good candidates for presidency. Perhaps there will when it comes closer to 2008.
>>917 It's Senator Kerry, not Kelly. I didn't really get to hear it first hand, but it doesn't matter. Last time I heard, he wasn't trying for presidency again.
>>919 It's been like that for a while. I remember learning why they chose to do it this way, but I forgot.
Sunday is the Holy day for Christians. You aren't suppose to work, but remember that much of America is pretty secular even though they might be Christian. It makes sense that there aren't elections on Sunday because then it's a religious day for Christianity, Saturday is a religious day for Jewish, and etc.
>>917 What he said was "If you study and work hard, you become succesful, if you don't, you end up in Iraq." He was talking about Bush, but the way he said it sounded like an insult to the troops, which is bad for him. Even people who don't support the war don't usually think it's right to call people in the army stupid.
>>919-920 Well, not many people vote anyway to be honest. I guess those of us who are lucky enough to get to vote don't care enough a lot of the time, huh?
>>925 Actually, a lot of Christians don't honor Sabbath as sunday anymore; they just pick their own day out of the week for it. Especially poorer families who have to take jobs that aren't monday-friday.
According to MSN Japan, the democratic party won the election because of: a) the number of the casualties in the Iraq war and b) corruption of several republican legislaters - insider trade and sexial scandal.
Ironically, this election results might boost NK's motivation. It's said that Kim Jon Ill and his lietenants strongly believe democrats will be gentle to NK. Remember former Secretary of State Albright flied to NK and shoke hands with NK.
I just watched the nouse; the Democrats won the house; although they might have to recount the ballots for one of them.
Still no word on the Senate.
They said on the news that the biggest issue most voters (in exit polls) said were "Terrorism, The Economy, The War in Iraq, and"...well, I forgot the last one. I think it had something to do with people being angry with the current government.
It's kind of sad that Japan seems more well informed about this stuff than people who live here.
>>932 yeah, the dolphin news was on the front page of the newspaper I subscribe to, a couple of days ago. BTW, have you swum with dolphins? Although we have places where you can swim with the, it seems like Florida is the mecca for it.
Only 1/3 seats are at stake in the Senate. As you mentioned, the Americans seem to be mad about the performance of Bush. The only thing Bush can do in the remaining 2 years is withdraw the troops from Iraq.
>>934 Yes I have. Well, I didn't really "swim" with them, but i've been in the water next to them, and got to touch them. They feel like rubber, don't they? I think when I did it, it was in the Bahamas, not Florida, although there are places in florida too. If you like ocean animals, Florida has Sea World, which is a lot of fun.
>>935 He might leave the troops there, that way anything bad that happens when they come back can be blamed on the next president.
>>936 That's great! It's been reported that dolphins have special sonic power(?) to cure different diseases, including autism. Have you felt specially better after being closed to them? (Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you are a shut-in, lol)
>>939 Echolocaiton, a new English word for me. Thanx! I'm neither feeling sick nor a sick person, I love touching (and even looking at) dogs, because they are always so cheerful~~