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Recently in English we’ve been studying the Japan earthquake and tsunami. At first, I thought that’s normal to have earthquake in Japan. However, when I keep reading the news about the Sendai earthquake, I know that’s a serious natural disaster. When I was watching the Japan tsunami in Japan, I was shocked. The water, which looked black and didn’t look like water, flooded the whole land in a few seconds. People, houses and cars were swept by the flood. I couldn’t believe what I was watching on TV! Everything seemed like it was happening in a movie.

This is something I wrote for my history class.

To whom it may concern,

I represented the people of New Jersey. The people in New Jersey supported the New Jersey Plan.
This plan was proposed by William Paterson to the Article of Confederation. This plan mainly responded to the Virginia Plan. Because the smaller states felt that the larger states would be in control due to population, William Paterson argued that the convention had no power to deprive the smaller states of equality they enjoyed under the Articles of Confederation. Therefore, he proposed the New Jersey Plan. In the plan, the Articles of Confederation including one vote for each state represented in legislature will be continued. Congress would be strengthened so that it could impose taxes and regulate trade. Also, the acts of Congress would be the supreme law of the states. On the other hand, the executives should serve a single term and were subject to recall based on the request of state governors. The Supreme Court would be appointed by the executive. Also, a judiciary should be appointed by the executives with life terms of service.

This is somthing I wrote for my history class.

I was the third president of the United States – Thomas Jefferson. I was born in 1743 to
a wealthy family. My father was a successful planter, and my mother was a member of
one of the most distinguished families in Virginia. Something you might not know about
me was that I loved to eat cheese. I was once given a 1235 pound hunk of cheese. Since
then, people kept calling me “the big cheese”. After studying at the College of William
and Mary, I became a lawyer. Although I was shy and reserved, I was elected to
Virginia’s House of Burgesses in 1768. I had only a few friends and my best friend was
John Adams. Nevertheless, we became adversaries because we had different political
views.

Governments always wanted changes for their societies. In order to change their economic systems, there were different policies to help the society to improve.