BR:2-05 Audrey Hepburn

“The director loved her happy face. He said, “A little sun is shining in her eyes.””

Judging someone's personality from their appearance from the first without knowing them specifically is my bad habit. As for her, I assume that she is a conventional and selfish woman until I read the book. I only knew the name of two famous movies that she played in it, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Roman Holiday. 

Because of that well-known movies, I considered myself that she succeeded to become a star easily in Hollywood. However, that wasn't a true. In the first place, she isn't an american. She was born in Belgium, in 1929. By the age of 10, she went through her parents divorce and move to avoid WWⅡ. In addition, when she was 18, she learned ballet dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer in London, but due to her high height, she had to abandon her dream. 

In order to survive, she had small parts in some movies. During the tough time, she smiles every time, and some big names in a movie industry noticed her talent. After that, she got a lot of main roles in many movies. Since she became an actress, she went through a lot of difficulties. She had lost babies, and had divorces. 

When she got older, around 1980, she decided to devote her life to poor people. The memories of her poor and hungry experiences during the war made her to do that. I often heard that movie stars, such as Angelina Jolie and George Clooney, goes to poor countries, and they donate money or sometimes insist the situation of those countries. Perhaps I thought she is the beginning of such  great activities. 

By the way, while I was watching some her gifs, I thought that sunglasses really suit her, but on the contrary, 90 percent Japanese don't look in sunglasses, especially women who are wearing them in a room. They MUST take them off unless they stay outside. 

Rice Chris. (2000). Audrey Hepburn. Harlow : Pearson Education. 

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College Life

Since I entered again this university, I managed to keep up with classes. Most of professors, in this college, are really kind and nice to me. Also, they are very smart, and there are a lot of things I want to learn from them. In addition, the library is really lucrative facility for me. Over thousands of books make me happy and encourage me to read many genres of books. Especially, I have become to love to read English picture books for kids. Those books that I reading are so low level, but I think that to read from first level book to advanced level book is necessary to understand English for me. Then I hope that nobody sees this blog, I have one thing that I confess. A short while ago, I just had a severe heartbreak. I knew that she is so cute, so inevitably, she has a boyfriend. Hah.., even if someone looks what I wrote, please let me out for a while, please.  

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Dating/Marriage/My Future Family

I'm going to write about my ideal dating, marriage, family. First, I want to date with a woman who is kind, intellectual, and active. I'm not a strong person mentally and physically, so when I depressed, I want her to kind to me. Then if I have a question, or face something difficult, I hope that a kind woman helps me. And I love to do workout, such as running, swimming, tennis, and I do other activities, so if I invite her to do something workouts, I want her to go with me. Second, I want to get marriage with ideal woman that I mentioned before. I want to have 1 boy and 1 girl, maybe it's enough. In our free time, go to a park, and eat lunch in a beautiful Autumn atmosphere. What's more, in Summer season, I want to take them to beach.

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Travel and Other Countries

I have several countries that I want to visit in this world. First, I would like to go to United States. That country has a lot of metropolitans, such as New York, San Fran cisco, Chicago, and so on. In addition not only cities but there are also abundant nature. Grand Canyon, Yellow stone national park or something. Second, I want to go to Taiwan. Taiwan is as large as Kyushu, and there are so many sightseeing spots there. I heard that there are a city which modeled by “Spirited Away”. I only see that town as a picture, but it looks mysterious. Third, I want to visit Germany. As you know, Germany is famous for beer, sausages, and a lot of beautiful buildings and castles. Maybe on October, a huge world famous festival hold in a city. It calls October Fest, and so many people gather in the city to drink a beer. 

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Movie Review 2: Mission Impossible Ⅰ

Ethan Hunt is a special agent of the IMF (Impossible Mission Force). 6 agents including Ethan were ordered to carry out an operation in Prague. The purpose of the operation is to prevent a classified list of spies from falling into the hands of an underground society. However, during the mission, all members of the team were killed by someone unknown except for Ethan. That operation's true aim was to find someone who leaked the IMF's crucial information, and as a result of Ethan's survival, another team decided that he was the culprit.

I already knew only the very famous action scene, which is, to withdraw important information from the CIA's computer room which was strictly guarded by several kinds of security technologies. Tom Cruise tried to hack the computer while suspended from the ceiling dangling horizontally. To tell the truth, I surely understand the mastermind of this movie the moment I saw Jim Phelps (who is the leader of the Prague's operation) was killed by someone on a bridge. Despite the fact that he had a diminutive video camera somewhere on his body, and he must be a cool agent, he didn’t take a video of the assassin and didn’t resist.

I wondered if I would be able to enjoy the rest of the movie because of the barely understandable scene. However, fortunately, some action scenes were really interesting, not to mention, the suspension scene. Those scenes thrilled me with their tense atmosphere. As I watching the movie, I was disgusted by myself. Since I entered again this university, I had to write a lot of reports or home works about movies and books. Through the training, I learned how to read the meaning or messages behind those works. I have became to enjoy them more than in the past, but as for some movies, like typical action movies, I could not have enjoy them any longer as well. I want to see more movies which go against my expectations.

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BR:2-04 YOTSUBA＆

“That's girl's able to enjoy anything and everything. Yotsuba is invincible.”

Yotsuba is a five-year old little girl. She is so powerful, cheerful, energetic, and a little bit different. She loves to doing activities, mindless chatting with her daddy or neighbors. (Correctly speaking, it seems meaningless, but also that conversation might has a meaning.) The cute girl interested in everything, and who noses into looks interests around her circumstances.

The book contains 7 chapters in it, and the chapter 3 was really funny story for me. The title is “Yotsuba & Global Warming”, in this chapter, Yotsuba knows the existence of A/C at her neighbor's house, and the machine is one of the causes of Global Warming as well. Then she went back home, and noticed the A/C is also attached her house. She accused her dad of the enemy of the earth! In the minor quarrel between them, she can't say Global Warming correctly. She says “Global Wanging” or something. 

Eventually, she understands the advantages of A/C, and forgives her daddy. This story made me laugh because about a week ago, I met a 6 year-old nephew at a funeral of my paternal grandmother. He was vigorous and fast speaker, and he also made an almost the same mistake like Yotsuba. When I had supper with my cousin's family, the nephew, Yudai spoke to me about a drama. The name of the drama was “Nube”. It started about 2 weeks ago, and in the drama, the leading male character has a strange left hand which can beat a ghost. The left hand calls “Oni no Te”（which means hand of Japanese devil）. The kid said to us that “Hey guys! look at my 'Oni no Se!”（which means the back of Japanese devil）. He repeated over and over, and we tried to revise his slip of the tongue, and he managed to understand what we say finally.

Azuma Kiyohiko ; translation, Forsyth Amy  ; lettering, Delgado Terri. (2009). YOTSUBA＆.New York, NY : Yen Press.

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BR:2-03 X-Men

“'Soon,' he thought, 'the world is going to be ours!'”

Humans have been concerned about people who have a special power, they called “Mutants”. Most of them have almost the same looks as usual people, but a man who can change his body to flame, and a woman who can control weather as she likes. Governments in the world frightened the presence of them. Large number of senators claimed that mutants must be controlled by authorities while some mutants want to coexistence with human being. In the groups of mutants, there are two big groups. One side aim to find a way to live normal people together, and the other side purpose is to become a ruler instead of old-fashioned humans. Confrontation between them have been continuing involving with all around the world. 

I like X-men series since I watched the first episode of the movie, it had released about a decade ago. In this book, I like Magneto the best. Through the series, he is standing on the bad side, and acting bad man as a boss of its. However, I love his special power. He can manipulate iron, even its huge bridge, and streaming in a blood in a human body. During the book, Jean Grey, telepathetic woman says that Wolverline has a above-averge regenerate power, but he also has a sharp long metal claws on his hands. Does he have a two special powers doesn't he? That's book reminds me to outline of the story, but I forgot the details of it. If I have time, I'll watch the movie again.

based on the novelization by Bergen Lara; based on the screenplay by Hayter David. (2009, c2007). X-Men. London : Scholastic.

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Spiders

I loathe any spiders. My home is in a countryside, so various kinds of spiders are inhabit in and out of it. The other day, I came back home from my part-time job, and had a late supper, then took a shower. After that, I was going up stairs so that I had to get ready to my bed, and on way up stairs, I found a presence of big spider.

I couldn't move, and look aside from it. I wonder why they are so yucky? I assume that they don't match not only a insect but also other living things around our living area. I ended up driving the spider away by using a stick. I could kill it, but didn't do it because cleaning up the body after smashed it makes me nervous as is the case with cockroaches. 

What's more, tiny spiders appeared when I cleaned my room last week. They were tiny, and also jumping when they flee. Their existence brings me a feeling of anxiety and gets me irritated. They moved swiftly and randomly, so it was really difficult to guide them in a exit direction. Finally, I decided to confine them in an empty case of yoghurt. I approached them slowly, and put the case on them eventually. Then I had left it as it was for a week, and saw its inside a couple of days ago. I expected that there should be bodies inside it, but nothing left in it. 

Did I miss to catch them? No, that's unlikely to occur, but they were gone actually. They must be  lift the case, and escaped from it. Finally, two days ago, I caught the same tiny spiders again with the same way, and put a weight on it this time. Is there likelihood of them escaping from it? perhaps, perhaps not. It's a state of Schroedinger's cat. 

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BR:2-02 Oliver Twist

“I don’t want you to suffer like me.”

Oliver Twist had been in miserable circumstance since he was born. When he grew up, his mother had already passed away, and he obligated to work for his master of a workhouse in order to get an awful meal, and place to rest. However, one day, he was sold for a man who runs a funeral company. After a while, he ran away from there could not be bullying from that man’s son. He fled to London aimlessly, and met a group of thieves mainly consist of children the same age as Oliver.

They taught him several skills to steel valuable things from wealthy people around on a street. After he had taken some training, a boy took Oliver to a market to have him steal something. During the mission, he got caught by civilians instead of other brat who actually stole valuables from gentleman. However, surprisingly, the rich man adopted him without blamed what he did. The boy spent a happy days for a while, but the head of the burglars found and caught him while he was on an errand, and the bad man tried to break into the gentleman's house took advantage of Oliver...

I already watched the story as a movie several years ago. Someone told me that the movie is one of the masterpieces. In that movie, characters are wearing old traditional British clothes, these are the parts of attractions in it. Besides, an old man appeared on the book as a role to teach stealing skills for Oliver and other kids. There's no spotlight on him in the short book, but on the contrary, in the movie, the funny old man plays important role. In order to fill the lack of the contents in this book, if you have a time, borrow the movie.

Dickens Charles; retold by Sebag-Montefiore Mary ; illustrated by Ablett Barry. (2007). Oliver Twist. London : Usborne.

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Movie Review 1: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indiana Jones is a handsome and intelligent man who is popular with female students. He teaches archeology at a university, but in this movie, the man goes to many placesincluding the jungle, Nepal, and Cairo, Egypt to look for precious treasures, and he gets involved in big problems wherever he goes.

I have never watched this “Raiders of the Lost Ark” before because the film seems very old (it was released in 1981, 6 years before I was born!) and boring. In addition, the actor, Harrison Ford also discouraged me from watching the movie. When I saw a movie which the man acted as a main role in it was “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. I watched the movie on TV by chance, but it was dull from start to finish, so I didn’t expect I would watch a movie like that and have to write a review.

However, it was more interesting than I thought. I think there are several reasons for this. The first reason is Harrison Ford’s youthfulness. In the newest Indiana Jones’ movie, I felt that he was too old to act as Indiana Jones, but on the contrary, I could see his energetic and very physical shoot in the old one. In the story, he was about to be flattened by huge rock ball, and also he fought a nazi soldier on a plane’s wing. Then the second reason is CG. Of course, that high technology was used in the film which I saw this time, but its frequency in this movie was minimized. On the other hand, the newest one also used CG in its movie, but it was too sophisticated to watch.

What’s more, the characters that appeared in this movie also attracted me. A woman who likes Indy was really cute and hot, and some actors who were acting as the enemy also gave a good performance, especially the man wearing glasses. In conclusion, that old movie made me to reconsider the way of thinking to vintage, superior movies which released before I was born.

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Description of an Entertainer or a Manga/Anime Character

I'm going to explain about my favorite character "Yoko Nakajima". She is a character of "Juuni Kokki (The Tales of Twelve Country). This anime was broadcast about ten years ago. It was based on a novel which written by Fuyumi Ono. That anime must be broadcast from NHK, when I was a high-school student. At that time, I had some trouble with school life, and the programme helped me mentally. One day, the girl, Yoko was kidnapped by an unknown man, and she took away from her real world to another world. Before she went to the strange world, she spent her life for not making dispute with her friends, but after that, she went through a tough experience, and during the hard trip, she against herself in her mind.

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Something precious to Me

There are several precious things for me. The first one is my lovely dog. He is 8 year-old male Dachshund with cream hair and has cute eyes. He has been living with my family for about 8 years since I was in high school. He got old, so he has a problem of his back, so I have to take care of him more. Then I love to wear and collect clothes. In my house, I have a number of clothes, shoes, T-shirts, trousers, shirts and so on. About one third spaces are occupied with clothes in my room. I haven't been bought some clothes recently because of a lack of savings, so in the future, if I get a job, I want to buy clothes. Besides, I have an account of Tumblr. It is a sort of Twitter, I quote a lot of  interesting, fascinating, and funny images, and sometimes quote sentences too. I have posted over 1,000 favorites so far, I like to see them sometimes. I'm keep posting.

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BR2-01: Of Mice of Men

“You know the story, so you tell it, George said.”

In 1930s, there were two men in California. One man was small with dark face and the other man was different. He was tall and wide. The small man, George and the tall man, Lennie were trying to find a job, and get it at a farm eventually. Both of men had the same big dream which was to have a farm, animals, and vegetables.

However, they had a problem, correctly speaking, Lennie had. He was a crazy man who makes some troubles so far because of his mental disability. He was an innocence in a sense, he loves animals and soft things, but he often hurts things, and it led to a catastrophic result.

A year ago, I watched the ending part of the story on a video in a class. Since then, I wanted to see or watch the story because it is well known to people for its masterpiece. This book was written in 1930s, at that time, America must be covered with a sense of stagnation because of the influence of great depression. Lennie was not only crazy and hopeless, but he was also genuine and innocent. I think the death of Lennie implies the end of futures in America in those days. It's very sad and helpless story.

Steinbeck John ; retold by Hinkle Kevin. (2001). Of Mice and men. Harlow : Pearson Education.

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