This is interesting concerning last class's discussion

My daughter sent me this story, and I thought it would interest everyone after the last class discussion. Please comment.

About Blues

Hi!
I like listening to music, but I have never listen to blues by choise.

The mention of blues reminds me of a very sad song,
but there are some songs which are up-tempo .
So I enjoyed blues better than I have thought.

I thought that guitars play a key role in blues songs.
Because I felt that guitars bring out sadness.
Do you think so??

I have a question...
Are threre any woman blues singer??
I want to listen to a blues which is sang by woman.

That is all!! Bye!!

about the blues

Hello.
I do not listen Blues very often, lectuers were interesting. I have to listen three times at least, to understand foreign music. Hand-outs were very helpful for me.
I like Bob Dylan. His genre is folklock(perhaps), not Blues. I think he can sing another type of music. I am not familir with him. Only I like his harmonica.
His song, "Blowin' In The Wind" is used in my favorite author's book. It is very good song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ced8o50G9kg

About Blues

In this lecture, I listened a lot of Blues for the first time and I was very surprised that Blues has such many types than I expected.
So, I have a simple question, are there any paticular instruments to play Blues?
I thought that players often used guiters and pianos.

about Blues

When I listened to some of Blues in the class, I remembered Japanese Oldies called "Showa-Kayou". They have a little bit sadness, loneliness, and are full of wit, I think.
And I was surprised to know singers improvised Blues at that time. I can't believe that!
How did they make rhyme just after repeating first verse twice? Did they stock any expressions to make such Blues?? If so, it clearly shows how close to people's daily life blues were at that time. Music has been always with people for a long time. Of course, I love that.

Blues were improvised. It meant they were not perfect. They were so imperfect that everyone could perform them, I guess. Professor said that everyone can make Bules but not everyone can make good Blues. Tough I can't see which are good Blues or bad, I just understand how people really wanted to sing their lives. I think Bules are soulful.


You can check the information about Blues here!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-bar_blues

about the debate on 25th

we will debate on June 25th. The topic is " Do you approve school uniforms or not?"

approval: Natsuko, Yurina, Haruna
opposition:Rie, Shun, Chiyori, Ayaka
(Is this right?? If you find any mistake, please correct this information!)

Some of you were not in the class when we decided the topic. If you were, please decide which side you stand and please tell us on the blog or in the class.

that's it.

About the Simpsons

I love this movie so much!!
I laughed out aloud many time^^

But there were some violence scenes in this movie,
I do not like that scene very much...
However it is a animation, its cruelty is the same.

I think The Simpsons is not a mere animation.
They takes up the social problems, and they turn it into a parody.
For example, an environmental problem(Homer throw away trash illegally.)

So I think The Simpsons is a decent educational movie^^!
Though there are some scenes that I do not want children to see^^;

That is all. Bye(^_^)

The topic of debate.

What a coinsidence!!! i also thought I want to debate whether kids should have cell phone or not. But the age I want to debate is from Junior high school though. As I started to own a cell phone when i was university student, so I dont think there is significant meaning like for a security or making the relationship between parents and children smoothly which parents insist on. On the other side, it is also true that most of students in high school have a cell phone, therefore the students who dont own it have bad points like it's difficult for them to contact with friends because high school students use a cell phone as the way of contacting with friends in most case and that doesnt mean they live in same area anymore since they are in high school, you know. so I want to draw the line which kids can have a cell phone between junior high school and high school. but I have the precondition if they want to own a cell phone, they have to pay for it by theirselves though.

Good morning.

we will have debate! i was thinking about topics.
i got three ideas.
*should we inhibit death penalty or not?
*its better to have uniform at schools or its better to not have it.
*whether young children have a cellphone is good or not.

i hope we can enjoy our debate!
see you soon.

About the topic of debate.

We have to talk about the topic of debate for tomorrow.
It is better for us to choice easy one, I think... because we don't have enough time to prepare for it...

I found a web site. Unfortunately (or fortunately) it is Japanese.
There are some topics for debates. It must be useful for us.


http://www.geocities.jp/bm_debate/history/theme_list.htm

The Simpsons

The Simpsons movie was really fun!
It was my first time saw Simpsons except TV commercials. I want to see another TV series.

When Homer & Bart broke the dome, they were flying a valley by motorcycle. I think they were in the dome. But...when the dome settled, it contained a valley? If it was, Spring Field people could get out from the valley! Maybe it is one of jokes...but very strange. I hope it is my misunderstanding they were flying in the (broken) dome. They were flying out of the dome...

I prefer japanese animations, but Simpsons is worth watching!!
Recentry, I often see USAVICH, Japanese animation. It is very fun. Two bunnies enjoy(?)their prison life in Russia.
there is website:
http://www.mtvjapan.com/usavich/
You can saw some short stories.

The Simpsons.

I've seen The Simpsons TV show once in France.
I don't remember the story but I remember it was funny.

Sometime there are some black jokes.
It's hard to understand but I like it.
If I knew English better, I could laugh more ;[
I'd love to buy DVD of the Simpsons!!

Here is amazon page↓
http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_1_7?__mk_ja_JP=%83J%83%5E%83J%83i&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=the+simpsons&sprefix=the+sim&sprefix=the+sim

And this is the Simpsons TV show's web site↓
http://www.thesimpsons.com/index.html

THE SHIMPSONS

There were a lot of jokes in this this movie and I was soooo excited.
But I thought that many excessive expressions included and part of them were bad for children.
For example, Homer strangled his son and some people were killed.
However, that movie as a whole is hert-warming and love of family's story, so as a result I felt very happy. If I have children in the future, I wanna let them to watch it! But.. after they grow up a bit. haha

about the Simpsons.

"The Simpsons" has been on TV since 1989.
I watched this animation for the first time when I was a student of elementary school. I couldn't understand jokes in this animation, even it was Japanese. But now, I can understand some of them much better. There are a lot of parodies and innuendoes in this show. The best scene I like in the movie is the end credit. On the end credit, people in Springfield sing the anthem of Springfield. But it is based on the anthem of France. I laughted at the words! Why not the anthem of America but France??
If I knew much more about America, I would have enjoyed this movie more! So, I want to watch it again some day .
In Japanese edition, many entertainers played on the characters. For example, Gorge Tokoro was on Homer and Akiko Wada was on Marge. It was also interesting, I think.

You can check the information of The simpsons Movie on Wilipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_Movie

The Simpsons has a deep meaning than I thought.

That titles is relating to every anime or comedy even they seem to be just funny, I think. Before I watched this movie, I expected this movie could make us practice listening to English with being fun, which was simple meaning. But I realized that this movie had a lot of meaning by hearing reviews of movie and everyone's question. Exactly, if The Simpsons just had simple meaning or makes people laugh, it would not last being in TV shows for a long time. That The Simpsons has lasted for a long time shows it has historical , cultural, political , and so on meaning to make people think why they do say such a stupid thing or what they pretend to be, I think. From next time, I will think more seriously "why" or "what". That makes my movie life more entertaining.

I love eating ^-^

LOL-------- i wrote!!! but it disapper suddenly!!!! WHY------lol

anyways, Hi:)
i wanna talk about do-inaka! u know? u should know:D
im working at there! i really recommend u to have dinner or alcohoe at there.
every menu is large serving! especially, katu-don, omurice, yakisoba, vegitable salad and deeo-fried chicken. we inform customer about volume of menu when they order alot.
the top 3 of popular menus are omurice, deep-fried chicken and deep-fried cartilage, i think.
my favorite menu is bread gratin.
i never eat it, but must be delisious!! looking is also nice!
sometimes, i see customer who take pics! hahaha
what's more, cocktails are soooo nice, good!!!
i think its the best in Hirosaki! ha:D
whenever i work at there, i feel i wanna eat and drink lol

Have fun at do-inaka!!
im looking forward to see u guys at there, i will be there!!!! maybe<3 haha

I am getting really into Kimchi hot pot. XD

Well, I think everyone will not believe that I have been eating Kimchi hot pot everyday for almost 2 months, but that is true, no lie. hahaha Kimchi nabe is the best balanced nourishing　and healthy dish because I always put many types of vegetables like sweet potato, potato, long onion, onion, carrot...... and meat like pork , chiken, and meat ball. yea I think you can find the key point of kimchi hot pot. That is we can put whatever we want in there. So, we can keep having a lot of vegetables and meat a little bit cuz of everytime we can change kimchi hot pot to our favorite style. And I think we always throw out soup in other hot pots after we finish eating them, but we can add rice or noodle in kimchi hot pot after we finish eating it, which means we will not waste anything that is healthy for the enviroment too. But there is one point we have to care. That is there is a lot of salt in kimchi nabe. Yes, to take salt too much is really bad for health like high blood pressure. >< however, we can control how much salt we will add, and if we put sweet potato, salt problem will be fine cuz sweet potato has potassium which take extra salt in our body away. so why dont you try kimchi hot pot for todays dinner, If you are reading my blog comment. hahahah

About topics and BABEL

We talked about 3 topics .I am going to write down my thoughts easily.


Denmark and France could recover their low birthrate, but Japan is low stil now.
I think this is connected with "a sense of security".
The government of the success countries enrich their social security system, so they can have their baby without worries.
What I think we need is a system where you can have a baby without any worries.


The First Jury system is only a few days away!
To tell the truth, I do not want to be elected a member of a Jury .
It is too heavy to sentence the judges.
If a case that is connected with the Jury has happened, will Japanese government take responsibilty??


It was a very shocking movie to me...but I think it all were "real"!!
Seeing BABEL made me think deeply...about globalization.
The 3 countries looked to have no connection each other, but the truth is relating to each other deeply!
If I were involed these case, I shudder at the mere thought of it!

About presentation

We all already done our presentation last time.

We talked about "Low birthrate", "Jury system", and " Nuclear weapon".
All of them were very interesting topics,and also very common problems in Japan.

I found some web sites.
If you are interested in, please check them out.

Low birthrate
＊http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20061109d1.html
＊http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/17380.php

Jury system
＊http://japaneselaw.blogspot.com/2008/04/jury-system-in-pre-war-japan.html

Nuclear weapon


＊http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon
＊http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_nuclear_weapons

Mai SHISHIDO

About my GW and BABEL

i'm very sorry, i'm too late to write down about these topics.

my brother he works in Yokohama came back to Hirosaki during the GW, so we family went to the sea to picnic and we had a lunch that i and my mother made early morning there.
the othere day, we had a BBQ with our relative. i drunk too much because i had much beer and other alcohol. but i had a very good time and i was very happy to meet them.

BABEL was great film i thought. i had not watched like this movie ever, so all i have to do was thinking about many problem in this it. i did not understand why did Chieko wanna be naked and what did her want to tell the detective.. it was so difficult for me to find three country's connection first, but i realized that there were bad spiral of glorbalization, may be...