TOEFL essay 2

TOPIC NUMBER: 98
If you were asked to send one thing representing your country to an international exhibition, what would you choose? Use specific reasons and details to explain your choice.
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If I were asked to send just one thing representing my country to an international exhibition, I would send a folded paper crane. The skill required to make a paper crane symbolizes Japanese dexterity. Origami (paper folding) is a unique Japanese cultural phenomena. Furthermore, origami is an excellent educational activity for children throughout the world.

Most Japanese children learn how to do origami at school, and most Japanese people can make folded cranes. Origami is created by just folding a square piece of paper without using glue or scissors. Some people think that Japanese are relatively dexterous because they are taught this skill as children. This Japanese dexterity must be related to the craftsmanship of state-of-the-art technologies such as LSI semiconductor, Light Emitting Diode, nano biology etc. A paper crane can reveal this relationship.

Origami is the original Japanese art of folding paper into various attractive shapes, such as birds, animals, and flowers. Among them, the crane is a symbol of longevity and purity, it is known as auspicious shape by Japanese people. There is even an old saying that a crane lives for one thousand years, and a tortoise, ten thousand. As a result, Japanese people customarily make one thousand folded cranes and link them together by thread in order to give them to a sick person wishing them a rapid recover. Only a paper crane can communicate so much unique Japanese culture.

Origami is also a wonderful educational activity for children. In fact, origami is taught in many other countries, and is used to help teach geometry. Also, it helps not only children, but also the elderly in preventing aging problem and dementia. This is because they have to use their hands carefully to fold origami. I believe that origami should be introduced to many more countries all over the world.

You can learn a variety of cultural activities through a folded paper crane. You can understand Japanese dexterity, unique culture, and its flexibility in being accepted by many other countries throughout the world. For these reasons I would send a folded paper crane to an international exhibition.

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If I were asked to send one thing representing my country to an international exhibition, I would send a folded paper crane. The skill required to make a paper crane symbolizes the Japanese skillfulness. The culture of origami (paper folding) is unique to Japan. What’s more, origami is an excellent educational activity for children in the world.

Most Japanese children learn how to make origami at school and most Japanese people can make folded cranes. Origami is created by just folding square paper without the use of glue or scissors. Some people think that Japanese are relatively skillful with their fingers because they are taught this skill as children. This Japanese skillfulness with fingers must be related to craftsmanship of state-of-the-art technologies such as magnetic disk equipment or integrated circuits. A paper crane can show this relationship very well.

Origami is the original Japanese art of folding paper into various attractive shapes such as birds, animals and flowers. Among them, the crane is a symbol of longevity and purity, it is seemed to be an auspicious thing by Japanese people. There is even the old saying that a crane lives for one thousand years and a tortoise ten thousand. As a result, we customarily make one thousand folded cranes and link them together by thread in order to give them to a sick person making a wish that the sickness will be cured soon. Only a paper crane can tell a plenty of Japanese unique culture quite well.

Origami is also a wonderful educational activity for children. In fact, origami is taught in many other countries and is used to help teach geometry. Besides, it helps not only children but also older people prevent from aging problem or dementia, because they have to use hands carefully to make origami. I believe that origami should be introduced to many more countries all over the world.

You can learn the variety of cultural activities by a folded paper crane. You can know Japanese skillfulness, their unique culture, and its flexibility to be accepted by many other countries in the world. That is why I would send a folded paper crane to an international exhibition.