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Kumamoto Toshihiro Okumura2

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2007年11月29日木曜日

Washing Car



I had nothing to do this afternoon so, I washed my car. Every next day I washed my car is rainy day recently. I don't like rainy days because it spoils my washing. According to weather forecast tomorrow will be fine. I feel relief when I heard it.

2007年11月28日水曜日

Typing9

I always do no have free time. But I would like to have what to do.For Example, I would like to go to theater to watch movies. Because I like the movie. I could not go to theater, so I was busy. And then I want to go shopping with my friends. I’m interested in the fashion. I examined for fashion difference between Japan and Britain before.

2007年11月27日火曜日

book review16


I read “FLIGHT”. When I was child, I thought that I want to fly high up in the sky.
Birds move their wings up and down and they fly. People can move their arms up and down but they don’t fly. This is because a bird has big wings and a small body, but people have small arms and big bodies. People watch birds that fly freely and wanted to fly like birds.But watch a bird for minute. Often it is flying, but its wings do not move. Because of the air under the wings move slowly, but the air over the wings moves faster. In the air, the bird’s wings move the air back, so it flies through the air. This is called “thrust”. The first time a man flew with lift and thrust, and without an engine, up and through the air, was his arms, thrust the Gossamer Albatross through the air. Three thousand year ago, Icarus tried and died. One thousand years ago, Oliver of Malmesbury tried and nearly died. Five hundreds years ago, Leonardo da Vinci tried, but his plane too heavy. And finally, in 1903 the Wright brother tried and flew for fifty-nine seconds.
Today, there are many kinds of airplanes in the world. Some of them are used to carry passengers and some of them were used by army. Today airplanes became a famous traffic way but many scientists still continue studying about them not to drop and to be able to fly safely.But the flight for flight has been long and dangerous.
I think airplanes are dangerous because passengers cannot do anything if the airplane starts dropping. All they can do is waiting. Though they are dangerous, we use them because they are useful, so I hope them to be more safely.

movie




It was one surprising Indian what defeated the British Empire, and released 350,000,000 Indian people.
He is Mahatma Gandhi who was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic who opposed his program of tolerance for all creeds and religion. The Indian people called Mahatma, meaning Great Soul.
He went to London in 1888 to train as a lawyer, leaving behind his young and illiterate wife, whom he had married when she was barely in her teens. Gandhi qualified as a barrister three years later and returned to India.When he goes back to his own country from South Africa, organize an Indian nation meeting with a nail, Chandra Bose in protest against a British law to discriminate against an Indian. The political activity is up to professional standard, too; was done, and was often arrested, and became the imprisonment of seven years.  In 1930 the Mahatma proclaimed a new campaign of civil disobedience, and it called "The Salt Satyagraha",calling upon the Indian population to refuse to pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt. The campaign involved a march to the sea, in which thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmadabad to the Arabian Sea, where they made salt by evaporating sea water. This highly symbolic and defiant gesture proved very effective. Once more the Indian leader was arrested, but he was released in 1931,halting the campaign after the British made concessions to his demands.With Satyagraha called the grasp of the truth meant it, and, as for the real intention, was nonviolent resistance, and a fast, the strike of the worker, noncooperativity, disobedience, etc.. resistance movement were performed in demilitarization, nonviolence. In addition, his encouraged that he turned a spinning-wheel by oneself and wove rough cotton cloth to you and walked Indian each place with the public and performed a social activity. Thought and the action of Gandhi were accepted before long and led to independence movement.
Gandhi went to London to attend the Round Table Conference. On being invited by King, he went to Buckingham Palace in his usual dress. 1931, Gandhi represented the Indian National Congress at a conference in London. In 1932, Gandhi began new civil disobedience campaigns against the British. Two years later he formally resigned from politics, being replaced as leader of the Congress party by Jawaharlal Nehru, and travelled through India, teaching and promoting social reform.
He believed passionately in the unity of all the peoples of India, yet his failure to keep the Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah within the Indian National Congress's fold led to the partition of the country. For all his vaunted selflessness and modesty, he made no move to object when Jinnah was attacked during a Congress session for calling him "Mr. Gandhi" instead of "Mahatma," and booed off the stage by Gandhi's supporters. Later, his withdrawal, under pressure from Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel, of a last-ditch offer to Jinnah of the prime ministership itself, ended the last faint chance of avoiding partition.
He was determined to live his life as an ascetic, but, as the poet Sarojini Naidu joked, it cost the nation a fortune to keep Gandhi living in poverty. His entire philosophy privileged the village way over that of the city, yet he was always financially dependent on the support of industrial billionaires like Birla. His hunger strikes could stop riots and massacres, but he also once went on a hunger strike to force one of his capitalist patrons' employees to break their strike against the harsh conditions of employment. As Ambedkar's star has risen among the Dalits, so Gandhi's stature has been reduced. Gandhi set out on his pilgrimage of peace in riot-wrecked Bengal to establish unity between the two sister-communities. His message was, "The cry of blood is barbarous."On January 30 at sunset hour, the perverse assassin of the ages lodged hot lead in the soft flesh of Mohandes K. Gandhi. His mind was concentrated on God and he merged in him. He had said, "if I am to die by the bullet of man I must do so smiling" He was the Victorious On in death as in life.
I think that "More than his words, his life was his message." These days, that message is better heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama and all the world's peace movements have followed in his footsteps. Gandhi, who gave up cosmopolitanism to gain a country, has become, in his strange afterlife, a citizen of the world: his spirit may yet prove resilient, smart, tough, sneaky and, yes, ethical enough to avoid assimilation by global McCulture (and Mac culture too). Against this new empire, Gandhian intelligence is a better weapon than Gandhian piety. And passive resistance? We'll see.

2007年11月26日月曜日

Book Review15


I read "London". This book is written about history, culture shopping, and museums. I went to London my summer study abroad program in the United Kingdom for one month. So, I know about London a little. I’m interested in the culture and history and especially in old buildings. London was modern city but there are many valuable things even now. It was beautiful. But I thought Thames River is dirty compared with Japanese river. I remembered England by this book. I miss England.

2007年11月21日水曜日

movie


I watched movie “LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE”. It was interesting and funny movie. It was story that there were six in my family. There are father, mother, mother’s old brother, grandfather, son, and daughter. There was funny family. Olive is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father Richard is a flop as a motivational speaker, and is barely on speaking terms with her mother. Olive's uncle Frank, a renowned Proust scholar, has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student. Her brother Dwayne, a fanatical follower of Nietzsche, has taken a vow of silence, which allows him to escape somewhat from the family whose very presence torments him. And Olive's grandfather is a ne'er-do-well with a drug habit, but at least he enthusiastically coaches Olive in her contest talent routine. Circumstances conspire to put the entire family on the road together with the goal of getting Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine contest in far off California.

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I watched movie “LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE”. It was interesting and funny movie. It was story that there were six in my family. There are father, mother, mother’s old brother, grandfather, son, and daughter. There was funny family. Olive is a little girl with a dream: winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so burdened with their own quirks, neuroses, and problems that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father Richard is a flop as a motivational speaker, and is barely on speaking terms with her mother. Olive's uncle Frank,(107)

2007年11月20日火曜日

My new cell phone!!

I bought the new cell phone few weeks ago. My last cell phone did not move because of the accident, so I bought the new one. My new cell phone's color is black. I want to get this one for a long time, but I did not have money. However I have to get now one, because my last one was broken. I was very happy to get new one, but it was unlucky to pay a lot of money. Do you have a cell phone?? And do you like calling to your friends?? I like talking on the phone with my friends. I am talking with my friends on the phone every day.

2007年11月19日月曜日

Came winter

I don't like winter because I cannot accustome myself to cold heather in every winter. Recently, it getting colder so I feel very cold. In the morning, it isn't easy for me to wake up. Sometimes, I couldn't get up and went to bed again. Then, I could not go to school. It is my bad habit. When I was high school student, I went to school by bike. It was convienient but too cold! I didn't like winter so much!!

2007年11月15日木曜日

headache.

I had a headache. I think it because I went to bed very late last night. I took a medicine after eating breakfast. I was very tired but I had to go to university. After finished university, I went back home right away and go to bed. I hope I will feel good tomorrow.

2007年11月14日水曜日

Typing7

I watched movie which “ Shooter “ yesterday. It was including action and romance, but also serious movie. In addition, I read Shooter in the original. It became a best seller in United States. Have you been read it? If you say ‘no’, I would you like to recommend to read it.(52)

2007年11月13日火曜日

Report for School festival of YMCA!!

I went to YMCA to interviewed for School festival of it!! I never have been School festival as customer.I thought that School festival was very interesting.YMCA students were full of energy and funny. I thought that I would like to go to various School festival.

Movie


My Fair Lady

Henry Higgins, an arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics, boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Pickering that he can teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess. A chance meeting between two noted British linguists, Prof. Henry Higgins and Col. Hugh Pickering, leads to a wager that will test Higgins' skills. The person whom he is shown thus teaching is one Eliza Doolittle, a young woman with a horrendous Cockney accent who is selling flowers on the street. After overhearing this, Eliza finds her way to the professor's house and offers to pay for speech lessons, so that she can work in a flower shop. Pickering is intrigued and wagers that Higgins cannot back up his claim; Higgins takes Eliza on free of charge as a challenge to his skills.
After some hesitation Eliza agrees to become their test case. Eliza goes through many forms of speech training, such as speaking with marbles in her mouth and trying to recite the sentence "In Hertford, Hereford, Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen" without dropping the 'h', and to say "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" rather than "The rine in spine sties minely in the pline". At first, she makes no progress due to Higgins's harsh approach to teaching, but just as she, Higgins, and Pickering are exhausted and about to give up, Higgins softens his attitude and gives an eloquent speech about the beauty and history behind the English language. Eliza tries one more time and finally "gets it"; she instantly begins to speak with an impeccable upper class accent.
He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he's grown accustomed to her face and can't really live without it.
Once in his home, he returns to the laboratory where he gave speech lessons to Eliza. He turns on the phonograph and in a melancholy pose; he listens to a recording he made when Eliza first came to his home to request elocution lessons. As Eliza walks up behind him while he reminisces, and he hears himself accept the challenge to re-make her into a lady: "It's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty. I'll take it! I'll make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe," she turns the phonograph off and speaks to him to fill in her line of dialogue in her unwashed Cockney accent. Slowly, he realizes that she has followed him back home and returned. But without learning the lesson that he may have lost her, he returns to his accustomed, unreformed, selfish, and chauvinistic ways. Eliza said I washed my face and hands before I come, I did. And then movie end. But their’s love became forever love.
I felt that English has various accents on which I was watching it. I couldn’t understand what Eliza Doolittle has with a horrendous Cockney accent.

2007年11月11日日曜日

bowling

I like bowling so much. I often enjoy playing it with the member of my working place. They also like bowling so much and we always play at least 5 games. We go to ROUND1 and enjoy the game.Yesterday, I went bowling with them. There are 9 people, 5boys and 4 girls, and played 5 games.It was so tired. However the score was so good for me. The average was 125 and the best score was 151. However some of my friends had great score.I think we will go and enjoy playing soon.

2007年11月9日金曜日

Book review14


I read the “Diana”. This story writes about Princess Diana. Do you know Princess Diana?? I think you know about her at least her name. She was a very beautiful woman, and she loved by many people.There was Diana princess of Wales. She was born on 1 July 1961 at Sandringham in England. Diana’s mother and father was friend of the Queen. Diana had two older sisters, but her father wanted a son. Two years later, Diana’s brother was born. Diana loves her brother. She played with him all the time.When Diana was eight years old, her mother divorced with her father and went to live with a man in Scotland. The children stayed with their father, but they often visited their mother. It was hundred maters from Sandringham to Scotland.In 1975, Diana’s father and his children moved to a big house called Althorp. Diana’s father was very rich, and when Diana was 16 years old he married a new wife, Raine. But Diana did not like her new mother.

2007年11月7日水曜日

Phonetics

I take Phonetics's class now. It is difficult for me to learn about it. It needs not only Listening and Writing but also study about Phonetic'signs. In addition, This class give me to many homework. Although it is important to study it, it is terriable.

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6When I was 5 years old, I came from Kumamoto. I like Kumamoto, because there are a lot of nature and hot spring, 400th Anniversary of Kumamoto Castle.
I think that if I do study abroad, I can’t explain not only Japan but also Kumamoto. If exchange foreign student has free time, I would like to take part in something to do. As Example, Fujisaki shrine has the history more than 1000, and annual festival to 15th is performed every year from September 11. The festival is grand, and God good luck line parades around a town, and an escort line dressed in an armor helmet is heroic. Dedication of a horse called "a horse driver"(118)

2007年11月6日火曜日

Book Review13


I read the book which name is "EXTREME SPORTS". There are many sports in the world. Up in the air! Down on the ground!! Under the Water!!! Extreme sports are new, exciting, and more dangerous than the entire of sports. For example, aerial ballet and aggressive in-line skating, hand gliding etc. I could learn about extreme sports from aerial ballet to zorbing. And then I knew that the crazy people who love extreme sports. Although it described, I have been playing extreme sports. For example, BMK bike riding, skateboarding, snowboarding, cave diving. One of the crazy people who love extreme sports myself.

Book Review12


I read the book which name is "DANTE'S PEAK ".Without warning, day becomes night; air turns to fire, and solid ground melts beneath white-hot lava. Welcome to the town of Dante's Peak, where a long-dormant volcano is about to erupt with devastating force. Who will survive when the inferno unleashes its fury?
Pierce plays a USGS who arrives at a country side named Dante's Peak after his boss instructs him to investigate the possibility of a dormant volcano that the Dante's Peak getting active again in that region. Spurred by the volcano related death of a previous lover, Dalton urges Mayor Rachel Wando to put the city on alert. Dalton's boss, Paul Dreyfus arrives and countermands Dalton demanding scientific proof.
As story progresses, we see that Dalton getting increasingly convinced that the volcano might blow up but his boss is reluctant to declare an emergency in the city yet ,because of possibility that if the volcano finally does never erupt, the real estate prices will plummet anyway and the city might loose a huge financial investment deal. Unfortunately, the common residents of the area know nothing about it until very late. Finally, when Dante's peak does erupt, the city panics, some does not survive the catastrophe, including Dalton's boss and for Dalton and the mayor of the city and her children, it becomes a race against the pyroclastic cloud to save their own lives.
This story stand for People's safety is being set against economical interests. We have to think that human power is powerless than nature’s big power.

Book Review11




Have you seen the movie of 'RAIN MAN'? I think it is one of the most famous movies in the world. I also saw this movie several times before. However it was the first time to read the book of 'RAIN MAN'. The two men meet and the start of a surprising new life for both of them. It were two men that one man is Charlie Babbitt, the other men is Raymond, which comes out Rain Man. Charley is a hustler. He's been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He's left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Later on it is revealed that Raymond was Charlie's supposedly imaginary friend as a toddler. Raymond sang him a song "I Saw Her Standing There" by The Beatles, just as he did when Charlie was a toddler back then.
Raymond has Asperger's Disorder, but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn't even understand what money is for. Charley is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond's existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other.

Is it really holiday?

I had not to go to university, because course of mass communication cancel lecture.Then I must not go to my part time job . it have no my part time job. However, I didn't have a free time, I had to do many homeworks and wrote several documents concern with visa. Now I 'm very tired and sleepy......

2007年11月4日日曜日

Kouyasai

Kouyasai is that it take place after finish School festival. There were beer fights, fireworks, lasernation..etc. many audience came here from outside every year. I think that it is very nice things. Certainly, it gave our emotion and memories, but not only it. I couldn't describe my heart.but it gave me things more than languages. if you have a free time, you wold see it.

School Festival

School festival of Kumamoto Gakuen University took place from 1th, Nov to 3th, Nov. We called it Takumasai. Many people came it every year. Then this week had nice weather. Therefore I think that it came audience larger than last year. our club sold crepes through it. Our crepe had sold out.well...this sale bec0me price of party. Now I'm third grade and then I would retire after it. I could happy to make a memories. Thank you everyone.

my favorite drink

I like coffee so much. I drink coffee everyday and I often go to cafe. I like starbucks coffee the best. There are many cafe all over tha world. I saw them in China, Korea, Australia and of course, America.In America, I went to Starbucks coffee many times, but my host family and I went to Caribou coffee, too. There are a lot of coffee shops in America and I really enjoyed coffee.When I drink it in my house, I don't add suger to coffee. However I like to drink coffee with milk. When I order to the cafe, I sometimes sweet coffee. If I feel tired, it makes me reflesh. I believe that coffee is good for me because I cannot wake up in the morning.

2007年11月1日木曜日

Michael Collins


At the turn of the century Britain was the foremost world power and the British Empire stretched over two-thirds of the globe. Despite the extent of its most troublesome colony had always been the one closest to it, Ireland. For seven hundred years Britain’s rule over Ireland had been resisted by attempts at rebellion and revolution, all of which ended in failure.
Then in 1916, a rebellion began, to be followed by a guerrilla war which would change the nature of that rule forever. The mastermind behind that war was Michael Collins. Michael Collins develops new strategies for the independence of Ireland. His tactics include what is now recognized as urban guerrilla tactics and organized assassinations of G-Men, those Irish who work as informers for the British, and later members of British intelligence. Although Collins is conflicted about the necessity of this violent course, they did win the Great Britain. And then by 1921 the British are willing to negotiate and Sinn Fein President Eamon de Valera sends a reluctant Collins to London to negotiate a settlement. When Collins returns with a compromise of a divided Ireland and an Irish Free State, not a Republic, he is vilified by de Valera and repudiated by lifelong friend Harry Boland after Boland learns that his girlfriend Kitty Kiernan is in love with Collins, not him. 16th January, 1922 as the country prepare to vote on the treaty, the new Irish Free State Army takes over Dublin Castle. After that He got engaged to Kitty. Then, 7th June, 1922, The Treaty is carried by popular vote. But De Valera and his supporters refused to accept it. Collins is now faced with civil war as he struggles against those who insist on complete freedom for all of Ireland.
His life and death defined the period, in its triumph, terror and tragedy. This is his story, not IRA story. He is the man who came out by the request of the times. He brought Ireland independence, and nobody did an expected tick. He surely died. However, his idea needs to be never forgotten. His idea is only peace and freedom. His act is different from the terrorism. But there is it only in it which fought against Irish peace for freedom.