Weblog assignment♯4


I Visted the site e-bay. e-bay is a auction site which people buy and sell anything. There are many kind of used things we can buy with low price compared with new one. For example, I can buy our CESL's textbook 'Academic Encounters' with about 23 dollers. I think new one is over 30 dollars. Is this cheap for you or not? You can find and buy anything that you want to have with cheaper price thorugh this auction site.(care; all things are used.)

In my opinion, I feel some negative points, even though this kind of auction site is good for us because we can buy something less than real price which we see in a store. One reason is that you can't see the real things until you finish all things. You get the article in your home after all your proxedures, so you can't actually check that is good or bad for you. Next is someone used that things before you use. Some checks or some traces or some smells? or something, you can feel sometimes. Therefore I suggest that you need to think about these risks before you buy something.

Writing assignment♯３

AE2
November 28, 2006
Yoshi
Summary of 'Beckham casts doubts over future'

According to BBC sport, in football 'Beckham casts doubts over future', Beckham, who is the 29-year-old England captain, is wondering about his future in Real Madrid because his children were targeted by paparazzi. His eldest son, Brooklyn, who is six years old, was chased by paparazzi into a football school and was harassed by them. He and his wife Victoria have always allowed pictures to be taken of them but in this time when their son was targeted, he said "...for me it's crossing the line," and also he said "I'm at the point where I don't know what to do because it's my children now… ". Therefore he has been conected with Arsenal and Tottenham and is wondering whether he should move to Arsenal and Tottenham or not, though Madrid is great and very big club where soccer players want to play. The worse thing is that if he is transferred, Madrid has to agree a price which Arsenal says. He told that he doesn’t worry about that because he has an agent for that. However, he is actually in the struggle now because of children and paparazzi.



Reference:
BBC sport. (2005, March, 24). Beckham casts doubts over future. BBC sport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/4377793.stm. Accessed 11-14-06

Weblog assignment♯3

This time I visited "Symbolism of Color:Using color for meaning". This site's main topic is about color's meaning and symbol that color make in society. This site is almostly talking about different culture's different meanings of colors, especialy, in native Americans. But some others are about Asian color symbolism, Astrological color assosiations and color therapy and so on. If you want to know different meanig of colors compared with your country, you can just click!

In this site, I could find the article of Asian color symbolism but I couldn't agree some of them.
They wrote like this.↓(for Asia)

Red: Happiness, marriage, prosperity
Pink: Marriage
Yellow: Against evil, for the dead, geomantic blessings
Green: Eternity, family, harmony, health, peace, posterity
Blue: Self-cultivation, wealth
Purple: Wealth
White: Children, helpful people, marriage,mourning, peace, purity, travel
Gold: Strength, wealth
Gray: Helpful people, travel
Black: Career, evil influences, knowledge, mourning, penance, self-cultivation

Does Yellow means "Against evil" and "for the death" in our country? Does Green expresses "Eternity" and "family" in japan? I don't think so. 　And also I think that Blue doesn't represents "wealth". White and Gray also have problems. I think some data are not correct or there are difference between Asian countries. Therefore, is this site's data trustworthy?

Weblog assignment♯2

I visited this web site "Napster". This site is music sounds site which supplies 2,000,000 songs. You can listen to every track up to 3 times for FREE. After the 3rd free play, you need to pay for songs. If you become Napster subscriber, you can download full-length songs. Even if you don't do that you can check latest CDs because they pick up new released CDs at intervals of one week, every Tuesday. Just you visit this site and you can check most fresh CDs.

This site have good idea for advertisment. But sometimes someone will misunderstnad this adevertisment. I think this is exaggeration for advertisement. Napster says "Napster.com is Free - Register to listen to full-length music now! Fill out the information below to listen to over 2 million tracks for free." But it 's just three times for FREE. Some information are lucked deliberately. It is dishonest and overdo, just I think.

Writing assignment♯２

AE2
November 9 2006
Yoshi

Political cartoons are good or bad?


What do you think about political cartoons? Are these good things or bad things for you? I think these include both good and bad. One face is good, but the other face isn’t good. We should train ourselves to find out the truth with our own eyes because they have good and bad faces in their pictures.

First, I want to tell you about political cartoons’ goodness. These are pictures that lead us to see the political world with ease and comfort. The funny pictures attract us even if we aren’t interested in politics. Interesting illustrations make us think about government and the world’s events. Great funny teachers that are cartoons have strong skills which make us have interest in politics. And they also have sharp eyes, but it has a problem.

Second, we’ll think about political illustrations’ badness. These have sharp suggestions about something that was in the world. I know these writers have sharp minds but their expressions are always negative expressions. They always focus on the bad factors which politicians did. Sometimes I can see George W. Bush’s strange faces through the pictures. Their illustrations never praise something. These are usually in the negative side. I agree that their illustrator’s thoughts are sharp and almost right but we should hate negative criticism.

Therefore we briefly looked at the two faces of political cartoons. Knowing their character is important. If we don’t know the different type of characters, we’ll be easily influenced by cartoons’ suggestions that are negative. Be careful; these are always in negative criticism. You shouldn’t think about only the negative opinions that you see in the pictures. You should think about all factors that aren’t in cartoons. If we know this cartoons’ character, we can find that there are many good factors in other places. Open your mind and eyes with a wide sight.

In conclusion, we should train ourselves to identify the truth with our own eyes. We should not believe what just we saw in the cartoons because of their negative minds. We should extend our mind and think with wide view through the world. After that we can find the truth that isn’t just the author’s mind.

wow~☆

アメリカに来てこんなに勉強すると思ってなかった・・。学校、宿題、寝る、起きる、食べる、の繰り返し。。生活にいまだ余裕をつかめず・・笑
God　bless you☆

Weblog assignment #1

I visited the web site "today's best cartoons". This site is updated daily and all cartoons are written by top cartoonists! Cortoons which are in this site are so interesting that I couldn't stop cynicism. They have much political sarcasm, but it looks very funny. The pictures attract us, even if we don't want to know about details. Funny and cheerful pictures lead us through the political world.

This time I suggest that cartoonists should draw affirmative cartoons. I'm wondering about that why there are no Cartoons that praise something. Almost all cartoons have negative opinions like criticism. I think that it isn't good for our mind’s health! It makes our mind have more negative thinking. After ten years, we will have a good critical mind. I agree that cartoonists' suggestions are sharp and right. Therefore, I want them to try to express with affirmative form and to find good political factor. I hope that I can see the inovational and encouraging cartoons!!