Alice by Jan Svankmajer

This is very funny and interesting movie.
I like the world of this movie.

little presents

Last day, I painted some pictures for my friend's birthday.
She is always kind so I chose light and soft colors to paint.
I want her to be happy.

jelly

I made grape jelly.:-)
Frozn jelly is very nice! Recently it is my favorite food.

Downy - aoi(live version)

Downy is one of my favorite artist. This movie is log of his concert.
His imaginative power is vigorous. I like not only his music but also PV.
When I wanna steep myself in the mysterious atomosphere, I often listen to his music.

Book repo #2

1) MLA CITATION
Philip. K. Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, England: Clays Ltd, St Ives plc, p106, 1995

2) RESPONDING TO THE PLOT: e) Which incidents in the novel did you find wonderful, surprising, comical or even shocking?
An incident which I was shocked extremely is that an android pushed Rick’s goat from the edge of roof garden. The android is Rachael Rosen who had relationship with him on the night before. The motive why she did so is never made clear whether a mechanical heartless behavior in the android ordinary or a humane jealousy.

3) ANALYZING 7 LIERERY TERMS:
Setting: In the far distant future in San Francisco, after World War Terminus.

Point of view: The third person.

Conflict: Human beings and Androids. Rick is a pothunter who kills androids, which enter into the earth illegally. Killing android is Rick’s livelihood.

Climax: At the climax, Rick killed the illegal androids. As a resolute, he received high reward but this work made his mind hurt.

Symbol: The symbol of this novel is android. It always follows the protagonist and his mind about.

Irony: When he was nerveless and apathetic to everything, a living toad, which he found unexpectedly, made him lively and he recovered his spirit to get back home. He showed his wife the toad and congratulated himself on getting it because toad is an extinct animal in the world of this story. However, the toad was an electric animal.

Theme: The theme of this story is what human being is. Androids which are exactly like humans, electric animals and Mercer’s are all tools having some question. It is what the existence of human is. Human is an existence which can have empathy and complex feeling. The theme is this question and answer. Also, it is Rick’s journey of thinking and feeling about himself.

4) REFLECTING ON THE STORY: a) How does the character’s life compare to your own?
My life is much better than Rick’s because I do not need to fear the harmful dust from the sky and be decided between regular and irregular. Of course I can walk around among trees and plants and see a lot of wild insects, birds or other animals if I go to the woods. Rick’s life is grey, miserable and too much mechanical for the influence of World War Terminus. I don’t have any electric animal or mood organ but I am satisfied with my life.

Listening repo #6

Flip-flops bad for feet.

Access Date: 2010-06-30

Summary
A woman broke her feet by wearing flip-flops. Various flip-flops are sold and a lot of people wear those light and convenient shoes today. However flip-flop is not good for feet because a main material rubber makes feet slip by its blister. Slipping on the footwear, the position of feet is made bad and people cannot walk with the ordinary correct and safety way. One of causes of slipping is that there is no support for ankle. A doctor calls people attention to wear flip-flops in the correct way. At home or when he goes to a public shower, flip-flop is very convenient. In other hands, when he takes a walk or any sports, the correct choice of footwear is good supportable one.

My Opinion
My experience of flip-flop is not good because similarly to the woman’s case, I had gotten some damages by wearing them when I was a young child. Flip-flops are so convenient but they have to keep their mind that there are some risks to be damaged by imperfect safety shoes. The season in Japan is summer now and of course the number of people wearing flip-flops will become larger day by day. The important information should be more understood among the people who often wear flip-flops.

5 vocabularies
Flip-flop ----- open summer shoes, usually made of rubber, with a V-shaped band across the front to hold your feet
Blister ----- a swelling on the surface of metal, rubber, painted wood etc
Position ----- the way someone is standing, sitting, or lying
Slip ----- to slide a short distance accidentally, and fall or lose your balance slightly
Flat ----- smooth and level, without raised or hollow areas, and not sloping or curving

Linstening repo #5

Keeping kids safe online

Access Date: 2010-06-30

Summary
Recently children spend their time online nearly 11 half hours per a week. There are various influences to child and risk of negative experiences of online. In fact about 62% children had negative experiences on line and more 40% parents realized this. Lots of public schools show students the guideline haw to use internet safety. As a measure, privacy software is an effective tool to save their privacy information. Also parents use free protection web site.

My Opinion
My opinion is small kids should not use the internet but it is difficult in present day. It is because lots of necessary information is online and life without online is so inconvenient. Thus we have to use internet to study, work and of course enjoy some games or movies and our caution to safe online safety is needed. However, small children can hardly make correct judgment so their parents have to do some measures to protect their children from negative experiences.

5 vocabularies
Online ----- connected to other computers through the Internet, or available through the Internet
Web ----- the system on the Internet that allows you to find and use information that is held on computers all over the world
Software ----- the sets of programs that tell a computer how to do a particular job
Expose ------ to show something that is usually covered or hidden
Absolutely ----- completely and in every way