Notes
worship 崇拝する;
conflict 戦い、争い;
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 世界人権宣言

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Human beings like us have been around for about 100,000 years. In the last 7,000 years, we have built a world with big cities, powerful governments, rapid trade, special traditions, and beautiful art. Depending on where we live, we eat different food, wear different clothes, live in different houses, speak different languages, worship different gods, and play different games. These many differences are what make human beings so amazing. But history has shown that these differences can also lead to conflict and war. The United Nations issued a list of rights that belong to every human being. A right is something that everyone deserves to have, just because they are human. The list of rights was called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (by Shantel Ivits)
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This year we had a real Silver Week for the first time since 2015. It wasn’t a full week, but many people had four days off because there were two holidays after the weekend. During Golden Week this year, most people stayed at home because of the coronavirus. Many more people were traveling this Silver Week. There were traffic jams on the expressways, and trains and planes had very few empty seats. My daughter and her family went on a trip to the countryside but got caught in a traffic jam on the way back home. Sometimes you just have to take the bad with the good. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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