Group C's panel discussion 2

Theme: Do we associate with other countries?

Moderator: Emily
Panelists: Lucy, Ashley, Sara, Sophie, Isabera

Opinions of agree members
Lucy: associating with other countries is good for our development. By associating, we can have an opportunity to learn cultures of other countries.
Ashley: We can introduce good points of other country like technology. Moreover, we can help each other when we face a big disaster.
Sara: I want everyone to enjoy my pictures. And also, I can buy other country's item through trading, for example, I want to buy photo books.

Opinions of disagree members
Sophie: We can live by ourselves now without having association with other countries,
we do not need it.
Isabera: I am worrying about war. If other country is having a war, we have to help them. And also, I wonder our own culture can be disappeared by opeople of other countries.

M: Isabela worries about culture, so what do you think about that, Lucy?
Lucy: I do not think that culture will disappear completely, and I think learning culture of other countries is good for us.
Sara: Isabela worries about war, but we do not have to have completely connection except for trading or some things.

Sophie: Sara said she could not buy foreign photos, but we have Internet system, so you can search Internet, right?
Sara: People do not often search the Internet, and I want to make a photo collection.
Sophie: If you associate with publish company, you can publish books, so you do not have to have a connection with whole country, just company.
Sara: Yeah, I will ask a company if I can sell my photo book.

Audience question
Lucus: What do you think other countries' merits?
Sara: Apollon has a good technology such as making clone, so other countries can use the technics.
Ashley: In short, we can provide our high technology to other countries.

M: We want to focus on business association. What do you think the merits in business scene?
Lucy: If we have connections with companies of other countries, many people will come to our nation, so our work will be easy.

M: How do we develop our countries without associating?
Isabela: Our main industry is tourism, so we can develop the industry more. Moreover, We can focus on other business.
Sophie: And also, we can hold some events. It will fun for the visitors.
Ashley: Associating with other countries is also good for tourism. If we make a good advertisement, many people may get interest in Apollon.
Isabela: I think it is a good opinion.

Audience questions
Rovert: Why do you think tourism will be unstable?
Sara: we do not think tourism will die out, but there are no reason tourists will come to Apollon in next 100 years.
Rovert: Rovert: Are you wanting to stimulate tourism or wanting to develop other business?
Isabela: We want to stimulate tourism, but we may stimulate other business through trading. So, we are thinking now...

Conclusion
M: We should try to have an association for developing tourism. And also, we can advertise our country through association.

My comment
 I thought concreteness was not enough in their discussion. For example, I did not know the "other countries" exactly. If they explain examples well, their discussion can be understood easily.

Group D's panel discussion

Theme: Should the elementary school students have their own cellphones?

Moderator: Anna Jones
Agree side: Amy Green, Alex Bell
Disagree side: Rie Chein, Kate Hail, Rachel Williams

M: In Apollon, the half number of elementary school students have cellphones. We are going to discuss it.

Opinions of agree side
Amy: Crime is easily to happen when children go to school, so cellpnones can work as a crime prevention buzzer. And also, we should teach children the correct ways to use them.
Alex: I have a son who has a cellphone. Both I and my husband are working, so it is useful for us to communicate with our son with a cellphone. The cellphone has the function of GPS, so I think it is safe.

Opinions of disagree side
Rie: I think using cellphones is not good for children's eyes, and also they will lose their precious time because of them. Then, they tend not to go outside. It is not healthy for them.
Kate: Children have a lot of things to do, so using cellphone will disturb their studying. They should learn how to get along with people than using cellphones.
Rachel: People use not only mail or call but also internet. There are many dangerous sites on the internet and it implicated them in crime. Especially, the online dating website have bad influences on girls.

M: I have a question to Alex. Don't you think the risk of your son's having cellphone?
Alex: I am blocking the website, so he can not go into thedangerous websites.

Rachel: Internet shopping is also a dangerous website like swinder. I think having a cellphone has risks for elementary school students.
Alex: All parents should teach their children how to use a cellphone.

Alex: My family is double-income, so I worry about the nature disaster or kidnapping happen when my son is alone. If children do not have their cellphones, what should they do in such cases?
Rie: Children' cellphone do not have to work in disaster. It is not only the way to communicate with each other.
Kate: They can live with their relative suce as grandparents. If children face such an accident, they will help them.

Rachel: If we want a cellphone, they need a lot of money to buy. Students do not have much money, so their parents have to pay instead of them. They should their money for what they really want rather than a cellphone.
Amy: Parents should work harder to pay the money for cellphones.
Rachel: I think it is good to cost on studying or sports activity than them.

Audience opinions
Sara: Every family has different situations, so having cellphone depends on their situations.
Rie: I agree with your idea.

Kate: If children have their own cellphone, they play games and they cannot use their time effectively.
Alex: When they stay at home, we do not allow them to usu it.
Rachel: But cellphone is attractive item, so it will disturb children's study.
Alex: Cellphones for children are safe because they have the function of mail, call and crim prevention buzzer.

Audience opinions
Sophie: Do you want to make a law?
M: Agree members want to make a rule of having  cellphones and disagree members want to make rules of not having a cellphone, but it is not a law.

Rovert: What is the rule you want to make if you making a rule?
Alex: We want to make a rule, "When children should use their cellphones?"

Rie: Children should use their cellphones after school.
Kate: I want to make a rule that children should use cellphones after learnig Net literacy.
Rachel: I agree with Alex's idea that children should use cellphones which have only limited function.
Amy: I want to make a rule that family should make a rule depends on their situations.
Alex: Parents take their children's cellphones while they stay together.

Conclusion
M: We should make family rules depends on their situations.

My comment
 All panelists discussed the topic actively, and I thought it was a good point. I could not understand well in the middle of the discussion, which do they want to make, a rule or a law? If they had clarified the point first, their discussion might have been understood easily.

Group A's panel discussion

Theme: We need immigration laws in Apollon

Moderator: Tama
Agree side: Angelina, Mac
Disagree side: Laura, Belle, Jack
The opinions of disagree side

L: She worries that crimes increase and Apollon's people lose their workplaces because of immigration.
B: We have to think about the political rights of immigrants and losing the workplaces of Apollon's residents. Moreover, she worries the problem of race, region and losing unique culture.
J: If we accept immigrants, we have to make high buildings and it will block the scenery. And also, immigrants easily become homeless all over the world, the public safety will get worse.

The opinions of agree side
A: The number of working people in APollon decreases. Besides, we have many plants and the botanists need to stay and study here, so we should accept immigrants willingly.
M: According to the graph, the number of children decrease in Apollon, so in the future, the working population will decrease. Moreover, communicating with people from other countries make us positive and we can learn many things.

J: Why is the birth rate declining? I think there are a few schools in Apollon, so children tend to go to another countries. We should make more schools in Apollon.
M: Even if we make schools, I think children do not want to come back to Apollon.
J: Why are you here?
M: Because I could get a job here. However, I think people who do not have abilities to get jobs have to go to other countries.
J: I think they did not want to go to other countries at first. They had to go due to the lack of schools.
A: I agree with Jack. If they make friends in other countries, they will live there forever.

L: Mac said that we should invite people to Apollon for developing the country, but I worry about the problem of public safety because we cannot communicate with immigrants who have different languages and cultures.
M: We speak English, so we can be friends.
L: But I do not think everyone can do that.
J: There are many cases of immigrants. Working together is difficult, so they lose their works.
M: Some people lose their jobs because of lack of skills.
A: Apollon is a sightseeing country, so we have been talking with foreigners.
J: I think so, but I think it is difficult.

M: If the number of foreigners increase, what do you do for foreigners, agree members?
J: They should use visa. Companies accept only the people who have working visa, so apollon's industry will not get worse. The public safety will not also get bad.

M: We have to think about the declining birth rate before thinking immigration laws. How do you think, disagree members?
A: If we do not accept immigrants, the working population will decrease over next 20 years and the number of people will be too less to work.

Question
Ashley: I do not know if you guys accept immigration or not.
Panelists: Yeah, you are right. We had to think about that.
Rovert: Who gives visa? Company?
Panelists: The government. The visa is not included in immigration laws because visa has a limit.

Conclusion
They had no time to conclude their ideas.

My comment
I thought it was a good point that panelists discussed lively. However, on the other hand, they were divided in opinion and could reach no conclusion. If they set up the condition well after setting a theme, their discussion will get better.

Group B's panel discussion

Theme: Should we develop our countryside?

Moderator: Hanna

Agree side:
Allie: She thinks we can get more visitors through making a botanical garden, and she introduce it on TV because she is an actress.
Lucus: In the city, there are many people, so various pollution happen. on the other hand, there are a few population in countryside. To solve this problem, he thinks we should make more work places in countryside.
Finnian: When she was a child, she lived in countryside, but the system of transportation did not work well, so she thinks of developing that system in countryside.

Disagree side:
Carol: When she was a child, there were a lot of nature in countryside. She worries that we lose nature and our tradition.
Kofy(I): I am a writer, so I need a place where I can concentrate on my writing. The urbanization make noise and it will disturb me. And also I know playing in nature teach us the importance of nature, so I worry the opportunity of learning nature for children will be decrease.

Moderator: After making building, we will lose nature. Do you think about that, disagree members?
Carol: Yes, I worry about the point.

Moderator: Disagree members worry about losing nature because of buildings, so how do you think about that for agree members?
Finnian: We have many vacant places, so we do not have to destroy nature. I intend to create harmony between plants and buildings.

Moderator: How do you use the vacant places?
Lucus: We should use there for inviting companies.
Allie: I agree with his idea.
Kofy(I): However, by coming many paople, air pollution or water pollution will happen. As a result, nature will be damaged.

Finnian and Lucus: It is no use destroying some nature in developing countryside.
Lucus: Even if we develop countryside or not, there is a problem of environment. However, many problem can happen in the city then in countryside.
Kofy(I): If the scale of damage is small, I will agree with you to some extent.

Conclusion:
We should develop countryside while we take care of nature.

My comment
I think we should have considered where our countryside were. I had to prepare the imformation a lot. However, the audience had many opinions, so I am thankful to them. Next time, I want to make better discussion than that of this time.

Group C's panel discussion

Theme: Should we use a solar energy instead of nuclear energy?

Moderator: Isabela Horan

Agree side
Lucy Walter is a liberarian and she has a boyfriend who is a teacher.
Ashley Turner is a model and she has a twin sister.
Sara Cooper is a photographer and she loves nature. Her hobby is walking.

Disagree side
Sophie Dawson is an entertainer and she has a boyfriend, Austen. She loves animals.
Emily Thoma is a singer and she has a boyfriend who is an actor. Her hobby is cosplay.

The ideas of the agree side
L: We can save the electricity in the long run.
A: A solar energy does not cost and it is good for the environment.
S: Nuclear system is harmful for people and nature because it has a risk of radiation. It may cause a big problem in the future.

The ideas of the disagree side(Sophie is written as "O")
O: We have to kill a lot of plants because we need a large space for solar panels. Moreover, tourists who enjoy the rare plants will not come to Apollon because of the deforestation.
E: Solar system depends on the weather, so it is unstable and also its cost is high. I use a lot of energy on my concert, but I cannot do a good concert on the rainy weather.

M: Do you have any opinions from the point of view of your occupation?
S: I am a photographer, so I know that many forests died by nuclear system. I worry nuclear will cause a raddiation.
L: Though I am single, I may have a child. I think a solar energy is safer for my child than a nuclear one.
A: I am rich, so I do not worry the cost of a solar energy. The first cost is high, to be sure, but they can save money in the long run.
O: I active as an entertainer on the TV, so electricity is very important for me. In present system, nature do not have to be killed right now, but it will be killed when a nuclear system starts.

E: Who is going to pay for the solar system?
S: Everyone has to pay. One way is imposing a task.

M: What do you think the risk of a nuclear system?
E: Until now, the nuclear system has been safe and the technology has been developing, so we can think of good ideas to use the nuclear system safety.

E: A solar system is also dagerous. If solar panels are broken, we cannot use the system. I worry the unstable energy.
S: We can use both system. We use mostly a solar system, then we use the stock for the luck of energy.

Conclusion:
We use the present system. We tries to reduce the energy of nuclear system until we find another better system.

My opinion:
I thought the moderator got their opinions in shape, so I could easily to understand their ideas. Moreover, panelars had many kinds of idea, so it was interesting to see the issue from various points of view. Audience should have participated in their discussion more.

Last presentation

Group 1

In the last presentation, we talked about about our own topic. There were many interesting opinions, so I could learn the ideas from their presentation.

I talked about how we should face the death through the experience of my grandfather's death. First, I spoke whether we should tell people who face the death the truth of the remainder of their life. If I face the death, I prefer to hear the fact, but some people who believe their recover do not want to hear the truth. Sometimes, their firm belief leads them to the recovery. Second, we should talk with them a lot. Nowadays, the chance of face-to-face communication decreases because of smart-phone or computers. That is exactly why we should value on the face-to-face communication.

Rio
She talked about having pets. In America, people who have tattoos cannot have pets, and also people have to take some tests for having pets. In England, there are no pet shops, so people have to get animals from breeders. Moreover, it is not permitted to euthanize animals in England, so animals are very important for them. In Germany, people can have dogs easily, because they are trained before they are taken to the owners. Of course, owners have to take the tests to have pets. In Japan, we do not have to take such a tests, so we should think about having pets seriously, and make a law for pets. I could easily understood her presentation because of the easy grammars.

Manami
She talked about her childhood. there are two points that she has changed. First is her looking and character. When she was in nursery school, she was an only girl so she played outside with her male friends.Therefore, her appearance looks like a boy and she had a short hair. In those days, she wanted to be a cute girl. Now she became more feminine. Second, she was in elementary school, she got a cold and it triggered pneumonia, so she had to stay in the hospital for a few weeks, However, she has got the strong body. Thanks to that she can dance now. In her presentation, she talked slowly and clearly, so that was her good point.

Chiaki
She talked about same-sex couples. these days, the public mind is rendered gradually tolerant of homosexuality. American president Obama supports same-sex marriages. There are many opinions concerned with the problem. Some people say that all human have human right, but others say that that is an immoral act. Mr. Umezawa mentioned that the children of same-sex couples might be troubled. Chiaki agrees with same-sex couples because there are many shape of love but considering their children, they are selfish. She had prepared the document of presentation, so I can easily understand her opinion.

Marina
She talked about foreigners in Japan. In Japan, the government does not permit to give foreigners the suffrage. However, Japan seems to live easier than other countries, because science and technology, nature and foods have developed. There seem to be other anxieties for foreigners who want to live in Japan. People say that Japanese people are not interested in other people, and they feel involved in politcs. However, Marina believes that they are very kind to others. I thought her presentation were very clear and persuasive.

Takahiko
He talked about getting divorced. If parents get divorced, their children must be confused and felt depressed, so people should not get dovorced. However, even if parents do not get divorced, their arguing might have a bad influence on the children. He thinks that getting divorce is OK, but they have to think about their children first. Moreover, as a way of decreasing divorce, it is important to find much suitable marriage pertner. I thought the tempo of his presentation was good, and he tried making eye contact with audience.

Childhood

Group 2

We talked about our childhood. I was glad to listen to their stories and saw their pictures in those days.

    First, I talked about my childhood. When I was a child, I was a very active girl. I prefered to play outside, and I always played hide-and-seek, tag, and climbed up a tree. Therefore, I usually hurt myself, for instance, I have had a broken arm for about 3 months, and also I was bitten by a hairly caterpillar. However, as I grew older, I became quitely. I think that looking back on the past is very important for us, so I do not want to forget my childhood memories.

Rio
    She was born in Saga, and then moved to Nagoya, and at last, she came to Kumamoto. In those days, she had a short hair though she has a long now. Moreover, she could not do the horizontal bar well, so she practiced well with a crash barrier. As she broke her teeth, she could not eat well for about 3 months. When she lived in Germany, she was too shy to speak to anybody. Therefore she wants to be more active. Her strong point was that her tempo of expression was great.

Takahiko
    He was born in Osaka. I saw his picture in childhood, and he looked a pretty boy. He likes sports very much, especially baseball in his childhood. He has been to Koshien, and he belonged to the baseball club for 3 years in the elementary school. As he took a trip to Hawaii to see his aunt, he was impressed by the air plane and Japanese pepole. At the time he was at 3 grade in his high school, he changed the cource to humanity because he met an good English teacher. His strong point was showing his picture we can easily watch.

Ai
    She was born with her twin sister. It is said that she was not a good child because she was always playing the games with her, and she did not help her mother well. She showed us her picture in childhood. At first time I did not find out which girl is Ai because there were two twin girls. They were so cute. She was not confident until she went to America for 1 year. Then she came back to Japan with confidence. By the way, she liked umeboshi when she was a child. Her strong point was speaking slowly.

Yuzo
    He has 3 brothers, and he often fought with his older brother about foods such as meats or fish. The older brother always apposed to him because he was the eldest man. For example, Yuzo was doing all housework instead of him. Then when Yuzo was four years old, the younger brother was born. They 3 brothers often played sports in the elementary school. Though he disliked his  older brother, he regards him as a good brother now. His strong point was I could understand his grammer easily.

Marina
    When she was a child, she frightened ghosts, animals and stuffed animals. Her parents might think her to be a good daughter because she disobeyed them. Her sister who could do anything was a hero for her, but she also felt negative feeling. To overwhelm her, she started dance, fula. However, her sister also started fula, so she practiced well. Now, she thinks her sister is a good friend for her. Her character also changed. She thinks she became a not shy girl. Her strong point was her attitude during the presentaion was calm.