Certain day

In the morning
I went out of my house to take a walk. Since I hate concrete, I kept proceeding on the grass. After that I saw my friends. And we were playing in a garden whose owner we didn't know.(Sorry about that, but he or she couldn't have noticed...)
In the afternoon
Basking below the sun on a rock, I discovered a strange plate. Someone was in it and he was staring at me! He looked like me and moved in my symmetry. I escaped from him.
In the evening
Since I'm a hunter, I catch my dinner every day. I caught something which had quite a few limbs. It's very good! Afterwards I went to bed. "G'night" I said to the moon.
From:Kanahebi( Japanese grass lizard)

One of my Main Strategies as a Public Relations

This time, I will tell a bit about my job.

One of my main strategies as a public relations person is to utilize stories. I came to understand that stories were quite powerful and effective in many business scenes through my experiences.

I know good stories have a common structure. I mean that "good stories" arouse our emotions. Typical Hollywood movies adopt this structure.

A hero usually is called away from his uneventful, ordinary world to adventure or an unknown world. Then, the hero suffers from many mistakes, obstacles, and crises. However, the hero gradually learns how to overcome ignorance or setbacks, and grows up. Finally, he overcomes a supreme ordeal or villain and achieves victory. Although we know it is a quite typical story, it stirs our emotions.

Basically, most people like stories and are easy to get into them. Therefore, when I write a press release or pitch to a reporter, I always try to tell a story. I believe that telling stories is one of the most important things​ in my job.

TPO 30 Integrated Writing Task

The passage introduces three reasons why the burning mirror of the Greeks is just a myth rather than truth. However, the lecturer believes the burning mirror did exist and refutes those three reasons one by one.
First of all, contrary to the belief in the passage that the mirror was made of a single sheet of copper, the experiment mentioned in the lecture shows that several small flat pieces of copper can form a larger mirror in a parabola shape. Therefore it is possible that the Greeks at that time were technologically advanced enough to devise this mirror.
Secondly, although the reading says it takes at least ten minutes for a still Roman ship to catch on fire by using a burning mirror, the speaker points out that the ship was not solely made of wood. There was pitch, which catches on fire very quickly, to seal the wood so as to make the ship waterproof. The experiment shows that a burning mirror can set a moving ship on fire in seconds because the fire lit by pitch can spread to wood.
Finally, the lecturer contradicts the point made in the text that the burning mirror is not more effective than a flaming arrow. Roman soldiers were familiar with flaming arrows and ready to prevent the ship from catching fire, but they cannot predict where the fire would be if the Greeks use the burning mirror. The fire set by the burning mirror would be in an unobserved place and more surprising. Thus the mirror is indeed more practical and efficient than the arrow.