Dear Ken,
Thank you for your third message. My comments follow.
Sincerely,
Prof. Sue Stiner
Kenichi Ooami wrote:
Dear Prof. Stiner,
>
> Thank you for your reply!
>
>
> Did you buy the car with your own money?
> Yes, I did.
Very good! Many students in the US need help from their parents to buy
a car.
>
> Are your brother and sister in school? Or do they have jobs?
My brother is an office worker.
My sister is an office woman.
What company does your brother work for? What company does your sister
work for?
> Las Vegas is an exciting city! What will you do there?
Las Vegas is my dream city.
I want to go to the casino.
What is your favorite casino game? Blackjack? Craps? I like the slot
machines!
> Homework
>
>
> 1.What day of the week and what time of day do you first check for my
> reply to your message? I usually write my messages on Sunday afternoon
> in Newark.
> When I am finished, it is Monday morning in Chiba.
>
> It is Monday.
Do you check for the lesson in the morning or in the afternoon?
>
> 3.Visit America's largest telecommunications company, AT&T. Click here
> for a recent press release. What is the amount of its reported net
> income for the first
> quarter of 2004? (Hint: the answer is in the first sentence of the
> press release.)
>
> It is $304 million.
Correct!
>
> 5.Visit Villanova University, and see the Department of Accountancy.
>
> I saw. It is difficult.
Sorry it was difficult. Was it hard to find the pages? Or was the
English hard to read?
>
> 6. Use any search engine to search the Net for "balance sheet." Tell me
> how many "hits" you have, i.e., how many documents have that phrase in
> it? Tell me what
> search engine you used. For example, I used Google to find "balance
> sheet." There were 3,740,000 (three million seven hundred forty
> thousand) hits.
>
> http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=fp-pull-web-t&p=balance+sheet.
>
> It is 6,200,000
Correct!
>
>
> 7. Finally, visit a very helpful Internet site for accounting
> information (RAW). It is maintained by Rutgers University in New
> Jersey. Use the navigation bar on the left
> to see the accounting sites.
>
> It is Not Found.
Sorry, Ken. This site is seen with Netscape 7.1 or Internet Explorer
6.0. It cannot be seen with Netscape 4.7.
This weekend was a very exciting one for my family. My daughter Kate
graduated from college. She is glad to have her degree! Her graduation
was Saturday. She went to two ceremonies: a big one and a little one.
The big graduation ceremony was in the morning. It was the ceremony for
the whole university. It was outside in the football stadium. You can
read about the big graduation here:
You can see some photos from the big graduation here: To see the next
picture, click the word "next" at the bottom of each picture. Someone
from the university took these photos. There are forty-one (41) photos.
Kate is not in these photos, but you will see many typical students.
The little graduation ceremony was inside a building. The little
ceremony was only Kate's department--Sociology and Criminal Justice.
The little ceremony was more fun. Each student's name was called. The
student's family clapped and yelled for him or her. The student walked
across the stage and shook hands with the chairman. Kate had many guests
at the little ceremony: her three brothers, her three neices, her
parents, her great-aunt (my father's sister) and seven friends.
After the little ceremony, we met at a restaurant for a celebration
dinner. The restaurant is La Casa Pasta. It has Italian food. This is
the website for the restaurant: http://www.lacasapasta.com/.
There are three pictures on this page. The top picture shows a room
like the one where we had dinner. We had a great time. The food was
wonderful. About twenty (20) people came to dinner. All the people
from the little ceremony were there. Also Kate's aunt and uncle (my
sister and her husband), Kate's sister-in-law and nephew and one more
friend came to dinner.
The wife of the restaurant owner (Anna) remembers our family. We used
to live in the same neighborhood. We came to the restaurant to
celebrate family events many times. It was nice to be back there again.
My oldest granddaughter, Becky, played the violin for Kate at the
restaurant. Becky did a good job. As she played, the whole room became
silent. Most listeners were not our family members. At the end,
everyone applauded.
This week the lesson is about web sources of American financial
information. Much information is found on the web. The new lesson is