Andante: 7月 2010

2010/07/13

Alice by Jan Svankmajer

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

2010/07/12

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.

2010/07/10

jelly

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

2010/07/08

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.

2010/07/07

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

Listening repo #4

Obesity in the classroom

Access Date: 2010-06-30

Summary
This movie show what kinds of foods served at schools around the world. As school meals, each country provides one’s own traditional foods. For instance, in Japan the lunch is traditional foods in bento-box, in Korea lunch is similar to Japanese but it has Korean traditional salted vegetables and in India curry and rice are served. In France the meals have American French fry and enough flutes. It is so different from American common school meal JUNK FOOD. Through looking at stuffs of lunch, there are lots of notices of food culture of the each country.

My Opinion
Now almost of all school in Japan provide lunch with rice and another with bread from day to day. Rice is an essential stuff of Japanese meal so the school lunch should never lack this traditional food. Shoku-iku is a Japanese word which means an education to learn the traditionalism of food and having good meals with thanks for food and understanding of food. School lunch is a good tool for students to learn their traditional stuffs and meal.

5 vocabularies
Obesity ---- when someone is very fat in a way that is unhealthy
Stuff ----- used when you are talking about things such as substances, materials, or groups of objects when you do not know what they are called, or it is not important to say exactly what they are
Serve ----- to give someone food or drink, especially as part of a meal or in a restaurant, bar etc
Valence ----- another spelling of valance
Classic ----- having all the features that are typical or expected of a particular thing or situation

Listening Repo #3

Can coffee ward off cancer?

Access Date: 2010-06-30

Summary
Many studies show that drinking 4 cups of coffee decreased the risk of cancer. 39% of patients who have oral and pharynx cancers got some benefits by drinking coffee. Also by drinking too much coffee, the chemical substances of coffee can raise high blood pressure and heart attack. However, coffee includes antioxidant and it is good for the health because it takes off active oxygen from inside of body. Just doing moderate intake, coffee help the health becomes better.　

My Opinion
I know only that caffeine included in coffee is not good for the health. This information is new and surprising and also shows that good thing can become bad thing by excessive taking. Coffee is a popular nonessential grocery food all over the world. A coffee shop can be found by walking down a street of town. The advantages of such familiar drink should be more well-known among lots of people. Drinking 4 cups of coffee is a way to become healthier easily.

5 vocabularies
Ward ----- to do something to try to protect yourself from something bad, such as illness, danger, or attack
Patient ----- someone who is receiving medical treatment from a doctor or in a hospital
Benefit ----- an advantage, improvement, or help that you get from something
Antioxidant ----- a substance in some foods that cleans the body and protects it from cancer
Blood pressure ----- the force with which blood travels through your body

Listening repo #2

Sights of a safari

Access Date: 2010-06-23

Summary
National park is one south of Africa top draws and big reason why tourism is on of this country’s industry. They have 10 millions visitors in a year. Kruger National Park is in by the borders of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The safari park has more than 71000 square miles in the north of the counties and there are rhino, elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and other wild animal. The national park has areas including bungalows and some luxury accommodations and also where visitors can pitch up tents. They provide various ideas to please visitor.

My Opinion
Now South Africa is picked up on our daily topic because of the World Cup. So recently our image of South Africa is where the world cup is held. Through this video, beautiful and rich nature is showed. Especially the sight of safari with animals in sunset is amazing. National park is a good idea to increase the tourism industries and protect the wild animals and nature from the land development. However there is a little anxiety of the development as tourism industries’ grows, I think.

5 Vocabularies
Safari ----- a trip to see or hunt wild animals, especially in Africa
Tourism ----- the business of providing things for people to do, places for them to stay etc while they are on holiday
Rhino ----- informal, a rhinoceros
Luxury ----- very great comfort and pleasure, such as you get from expensive food, beautiful houses, cars etc
Amazing ----- very good, especially in an unexpected way

Listening Repo #1

66-year-old woman has triplets

Access Date: 2010-06-23

Summary
An old woman has just given birth to triplets at age 66. In spite of obvious difficulty and danger, the reason of this childbirth is that they have to grow a family. Her doctor used a young woman’s egg and sperms of the woman’s husband. The trial had failed twice but finally the third bore fruit. In India women have their first babies under their twenty-one. In other hands, there is no limit of upper age to birth. A female doctor is anxious about the possibility that the kid’s parents can be living until they grow. She also referred to unborn baby.

My Opinion
The danger of childbirth at older age is well-known. There is not only the risk of losing mother’s life but also stillbirth, miscarriage and birth of handicapped child. Year by year, in Japan the rate of birth is decreasing. Things which this news shows us are quite contrary. I do not agree with the childbirth of old age but I hope young people consider about their new family and think having a child as their happiness

5 vocabularies
Triplet ----- one of three children born at the same time to the same mother
Egg ----- a cell produced by a woman or female animal that combines with sperm (=male cell) to make a baby
Sperm ----- also sperm cell a cell produced by the sex organs of a male person or animal, which is able to join with the female egg to produce a new life
Publicity ----- the attention that someone or something gets from newspapers, television etc
Fragile ----- easily broken or damaged

News Report #2

Source of Article
URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/06/28/belgium.church.raids/index.html?fbid=kuBSjvra-nj
Source title: Church panel resigns to protest raid
Access date: 3rd / July/ 2010

Summary
Members of a Belgian church commission were resigned because of their criminal act of sexual abuse. Police carried out a criminal investigation and took possession of some documents that had relevance to allegations of child abuse. Pope Benedict XVI criticized the police searching as a deplorable conduct. In addition, "They searched even in the cathedral and bored a small hole into the tomb of a deceased cardinal," he said. "Do they really expect to find documents in there?" Such words were from the Vatican. Clergy members’ abusing children is brought up in some countries, including the pope’s native Germany, as well as Belgium, Ireland, Austria, the Netherlands and U.S.

My Opinion
The problem of abuse is never forgiven but I have some question at the way of searching. Searching in the graves is not needed, I think. It is no better than a burglar and the over-searching of police is not praiseworthy. In the other hand, the abuse which caused this situation is of course terrible and the victims must have suffered serious hurt in their mind. In addition, unfortunately, most of victims are children. The assailant should be punished severely and counseling to remove the pain of the victims’ minds is necessary.

Question
1) Have you ever faced a religious problem?
2) How do you feel about this searching?
3) What is needed to prevent abuse?

Vocabulary
Raid ----- if police raid a place, they make a surprise visit to search for something illegal
Headquarters ----- the main building or offices used by a large company or organization
Abuse ----- to treat someone in a cruel and violent way, often sexually
Clergy ----- the official leaders of religious activities in organized religions, such as priests, rabbis, and mullahs
Pope ----- the leader of the Roman Catholic Church