These are some of the "Responding to a Reading" essays (#5) written by my  Academic Writing II (fall semester), 2018 students at Kyoto Prefectural University.  All names have been removed from the essays. All students whose essays appear here have given permission for their essays to be published.

Students wrote two or three drafts, which I corrected and commented on, before writing this final version. For this publication, I added a large indent and  removed unnecessary blank lines. Other than that, I did not correct errors in these final versions. Therefore, these should not be considered as model essays to copy. 

Feel free to use these essays as you wish.

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Kyoto,  Thursday, 21^st June 2018