Blog#9:TED

Hi!
This is Natsumi.
I watched The voices of China's workers.
In this speech, the woman journalist, Leslie searched for young Chinese girls who are working in the factory. They are forced to work in severe condition, but they don't complain about it. It is because they have a passion to work and earn money. In thier factories, they make a piece parts of iPad, or PC, and so on. She thinnks that the benefit of globalization we embrace is supported by these workers and we should consider it always. Globalization calls a lot of guilts to us in that point, and it changes these workers'lives, jobs,and marriages. Because of our demads and the benefit of globalization, they have to work in bad situation, and have to move from one factory to another factory. It can be said that it is a globalization.
What do you think about the benefits of globalization and the faults of globalization through this speech?

Blog #10: Japanese Movie Maestro

Hello! This is Koichi.

I'll introduce the Japanese movie maestro, Miyazaki Hayao.

 

He graduated from Gakushuin University in1963. After that, he worked as an animator, though he actually wanted to be a comics artist. However, when he watched "The Snow Queen", he was impressed and decided to be a grest animator. His first derecting work was "未来少年コナン".I've never heard it.

In 1984, he created his first animation film, "風の谷のナウシカ”. I think most of people have watched this movie.

Since then, he made many animation films, such as "もののけ姫", "魔女の宅急便" and "千と千尋の神隠し".　They are really interesting, but my favorite Ghibli animation is "となりのトトロ"!! As you know, this movie is fascinating, especially the last scene.



By the way, do you know there is a rule in the title of his movie? It is that there are a letter "の"　in every title, like "天空の城ラピュタ" and "崖の上のポニョ".

 

Please tell me your favorite Ghibli animation film.

Blog #9: TED

Hello! Tis is Koichi.

I watched "I listen to color" by Neil Harbisson. The speaker can't recognize color. To solve this problem, he invented a machine, which changes the colors into sounds.  Thanks to the device, his world has become colorful. Because he can listen to color, he can also watch musics or speeches. Now, his invention is officially regarded as a part of his body. In his profile photo of the passport, he is taken with the machine. He says we can improve our knowledge if we extend our senses, because the knowledge comes from the senses.

What do you think if we can listen to color?

Blog#8: My Summer Job

 This summer, I had became an English teacher for just a month and this became my first payed job. The job itself was first for my mother(she teaches English to students nearby), but unfortunately she already had too much students. So, she asked me if I would like to do some money-making.

 Teaching English being more difficult than learning English by yourself is now a pretty common idea. But, it was far harder than I thought. Just teaching what is written inside the workbook may not be such a hard job, but having to answer questions which were not expected was something different. There were always surprising things happening every class. It chilled my spine the time when my student told me that he had homework which was due in three days. But, it wasn't all that bad. When I had felt that I had done a good lesson, I felt a strong satisfaction. I even began enjoying thinking about those unexpected questions too.

 At first, I didn't think that this short time job would be so interesting. But, it had been a time of many new experiences. I thought it would be nice to do it again.


 by So Miyamoto

Blog#7:Molière

 Written by So

 During my summer vacation, I have watched a few movies. I am going to introduce one I thought especially interesting, Moliere(2007).

 

 Moliere is now known as one of the greatest play writers in history. But , of course he didn't had any fame from the beginning. He first was just a novice actor, acting inside bars. One day, he was arrested and put into jail, but breaks out and disappears. There are no details about what he has been doing during his disappearance. The plot of the movie imagines this blank time.

 There are some times in the history where we don't have enough data to know exactly and that is where imagination comes in. The writer of Moliere imagined that Moliere had had an experience which helped him to make plays that made the people laugh so much. To show this, the movie starts with Moliere having a hard time thinking of ideas, then he remembers his experience his past with a rich family and a lovely wife; the main part of the movie. After his long flashback, the audience see a stage which Moliere has written and that it had scenes from the flashback. By making a play inside the movie, we are made to think that the experience Moriere had was historically real and that it really was the purpose he made the play. Movies which have truth and imagination both combined has an effect to make the audience lose the boundary of them and I thought this was really good at it.

Blog #8: LOVE Discussion

Hi! This is Koichi.

Last Sunday, October 7th, I went to Tokyo Economic University to join a event of the K.U.E.L (Kanto University ESS League). This time, the theme of our discussion was "LOVE". Love is not only the love between men and women, but also the love of family or friends. So, it is difficult theme to discuss.

I was in the team No.1, and this is the photo of my teammates.

The man in purple was our leader. He is very kind and dependable. Most of them are older than me, but they are all friendly. The woman standing behind me and I are freshmen. In fact, we had another member whose name is Ai-Ling. She is from Taiwan and studying in Gakushuin Women's College.

We discussed "LOVE" about three hours. It was difficult for me, but it was also interesting. After the discussion, I found most of us have similar opinion about the love. When we discuss other topic, such as money, we have totally different ideas, I think. On the other hand, we don't have totally different ideas about love.

Through this event, I learned many interesting things, like this. Have you ever thought about "LOVE"?

Blog#8:Vaslav Nijinsky

 Hello! This is Natsumi. It is sad that summer vacation will end. I hope you enjoyed your summer vacation.
 In this time, I will introduce you the great ballet dancer, Vasav Nijinsky. The reason I will show you about him is because I had an opportunity to know him through my favorite musical revue company. Do you know him? He is famous in the ballet field. He is called as a legendary dancer. Though he performed only ten yeas, but his name is knwon to many people eventoday. Unfortunately, there is no his record of video. So, please look at this website. And look at this photo.

 

 

 As this follows, he had a sacred power of dancing. I read the book written by his wife, which is about her mmemory during her time falling love eahc other. In this book,there are also some memorable scenes or anecdote about Nijinsky. It is said that many people who saw his performance said ' He seemed to be flating in the air at in a split second ' .He danced on the stage only tenyears, but thanks to his great power of dancing and jumping, he is famous until now after aboutn60 years sine he died. I think he is a heaven-sentperson or a born dancer. Because of an encounter with him and me, I begun to be interested in ballet which I had not been interested in before. He gave me new favorite thing. now, I want to know about his unique relationship, for instance, between Nijinsky and Diaghilev.
 I am happy if you are interested in ballet even if it is a little.