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Is Japan Losing Its Culture?
Japanese history goes back more than 2000 years, and of course, it has many kinds of traditional culture, the history of
A second, part of the traditional culture are sports. The traditional Japanese sport culture is called Budo, which a category name for all martial arts. Kendo is an example of Budo. Kendo is similar to American fencing; in place of swords bamboo sticks are used. However, the true direction is to get strong mind and to make ourselves; it was also used as a more protected way to train for samurai (All Japan Kendo Federation 1).
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American culture has strong power in
American traditional sports are affecting Japanese traditional sport culture as well. One of the examples is baseball. The overall history of baseball is profusely lengthy. The game’s name was initially bat and ball. It is from
It seems as though
There are other reasons why
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The Cove ~as a tradition~
I believe every country in this world has own cultures. Some of them look very strange to others. We should try to understand their original culture. However we compare it with ours.
A movie, won an Oscar, “The cove” is telling us how the Japanese doing the dolphin slaughter. It is a Japanese traditional culture to catch dolphins and use as tools, and it is not slaughter to catch dolphins for Japanese.
If you think it is slaughter, we can say killing cow and pig is the same. However, we don’t think it is. The key of this topic is the way we kill the dolphins. We stick a pike into the dolphins’ body and a lot of bloods are coming from their body. The beach is turning to color of red and the dead dolphins. We can see it from the movie.
A lot of people think it is just the dolphin slaughter, but it is our traditional culture and it keeps our lives better. That is what we should understand.
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The view of lives
There are a lot of jobs in this world, and we dream to get a job that we want. Some people think that it is great to get a job which we can earn a lot, and others think it is important to get a job which we can feel the contentment for it. In the movie”The Nanny Diaries”, there are two types of people as I mentioned. In my opinion, it is important to get a job which attracts you a lot.
In this movie, Annie Braddock graduated a college and her mother wanted her to find a respectable position in the business world. In this case, her mother think the position of the society is important and the money. On the other hand, Annie found that it is important to feel some fulfillment by doing her job.
I understand the both side of ideas, and I think both of them are right. The key is how we can keep the balance of these thoughts. One way to keep the balance is that “Do whatever you want”. Actually, most of people who earn huge money are doing a job what they wanted to do. It is sounds so egotistic, however it’s the best way to take the idea of both side.
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Justice will prevail in the end
These days, the WikiLeaks group is on the television about leaking the classified information on the internet. It is hard to understand what problem will happen after they put the information on their web site. However, we know that they are just telling the truth that we need to know.
I will support what they have done today. We have the rights to know what the countries in this world are doing now, and the things it’s very important. The case of North Korea is one of those examples. The situation in North Korea is getting worth day by day, and we should keep our eyes on them to keep our lives safety. WikiLeaks find out the truth that Kim Jong Il was unlikely to live beyond 2015, which is good for us because they might lose their power as a country. If I live in South Korea, this information makes me feel easy about the situation between those two countries.
What they are doing now is investigated by the U.S. government about the leak of U.S. classified information. However, I am sure the justice will prevail in the end.
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Proactive Report
On February 13th, I played “Morceau Symphonique” by Alexandre Guilmant for trombone. The music was edited by E. Falaguerra in 1937. 1st movement’s key is in E flat minor and time signature is 4/4. 2nd movement’s key is in E flat major and time signature is 3/4.
I performed this piece at the student recital on February 13th. I could hear the sound of my instrument more clearly than when I play in a practice room because the hall is bigger than a practice room and made the sound softer. However, it makes us difficult to play between piano and trombone. The recital hall made a difference. The air was really dry, so I could not play a good quality tone at the time.
In my opinion, the beginning of the first piece has a very deep meaning. It starts with a soft, slow tempo, and it says with expression. I try to change the tempo every measure and to play expressively. First phrase finishes slowly, and soon, the tempo changes gradually to around 120. The next phrase starts with loud, con anima, and marcato. The phrase after that sounds much faster compared to the last phrase.
The second piece of music is really bright compared to the first piece. The piano begins with the trombone following. The tempo is allegro moderato. There are many slur and marcato makings. It will be more effective if I play slur and marcato differently. The dynamics change to very soft throughout the second piece, and finish with pianissimo (pp) at the end of the music.
After that, the third piece starts out very softly with andante sustention and with time signature 3/4. It sounds like the beginning of the first piece. Suddenly the dynamics change to fortissimo (ff) through a measure and then returns to piano (p) again.
The
This music appears as an A-B-A-B style. This piece does not stay in the same tempo—it changes every phrase and dynamics.
I really like this music. This music fluctuates (changes) between soft and strong feelings. I do not really care for music that only has a constant loud or strong emotion. I want to give listeners a variety of both light and powerful sounds so this music was especially moving to me.
What I did learn through this music is that “music is not easy.” I spent a lot of time to practice this music alone and with an accompanist. However, I still have problems with this music. I think that it is really hard to make perfect music. I always have to practice music and I have to make music more clearly. This is what I learned through this student recital.
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How to solve the Sleeping problems
There are a lot of problems about sleeping. Sometimes we can’t fall asleep, we feel tired when we wake up. Here are solutions for these problems. First, if we are tired, we are trying to sleep as long as possible. However, it is not good idea to sleep as long as possible. If you sleep more than on other days, the rhythm of your body will be different from normal. Then you will spend the day with your body feeling bad. The best way to avoid from that tiredness is to sleep earlier than normal day. If you usually go to bed at 12, then go to bed at 10. Second, if you are stressful every day, you will be tired even if you sleep in long time. Studies suggest that when you are stressful you probably want to go back to bed again when you wake up. On the other hand, if you feel everything is going great or you are having fun time, your body and mind are released from stress, and you can fall asleep very well. Therefore, you should spend time with your friends or do some exercise outside to release your stress. Third, when you take a shower or a bath. The temperature of the water is really important. When you are falling asleep, your body temperature is going down. It helps your sleep. So, when you take a shower or a bath, you should set the water temperature lower. It’s really important to have a great sleep and feel great when we wake up. If we feel tired when we wake up, we don’t want to do anything. When you solve the sleeping problems, your life will be happier.
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Studying English
I believe the English is the world language. Most of people in this world can speak English, or studying English. There are some experiences you will have by studying English. One of the experiences you will have by studying English is that you can make a lot of friends around the world. As I said already, people are studying English at school in the world. If you can speak English, you can talk with most of people who are from all over the world. Other benefit of studying English is that you will know how the Japanese is great. I have been to
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The Differences and Similarities Between Japanese Education and American Education
Education is the most important subject of keeping this world safety. When the world war ended, American government changed Japanese education system for keeping the peace. Therefore, there are some similarities and some differences. First, there are “Home school” system in
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The view of lives
There are a lot of jobs in this world, and we dream to get a job that we want. Some people think that it is great to get a job which we can earn a lot, and others think it is important to get a job which we can feel the contentment for it. In the movie”The Nanny Diaries”, there are two types of people as I mentioned. In my opinion, it is important to get a job which attracts you a lot.
In this movie, Annie Braddock graduated a college and her mother wanted her to find a respectable position in the business world. In this case, her mother think the position of the society is important and the money. On the other hand, Annie found that it is important to feel some fulfillment by doing her job.
I understand the both side of ideas, and I think both of them are right. The key is how we can keep the balance of these thoughts. One way to keep the balance is that “Do whatever you want”. Actually, most of people who earn huge money are doing a job what they wanted to do. It is sounds so egotistic, however it’s the best way to take the idea of both side.
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The Way You Wear Your Cloth
There is many way to wear clothes in this world and there is much opinion about it. “Snow boarder Kokubo barred from games opening ceremony over dress code” Japan Today was discussing the way he wore the Olympic dress. In my opinion, we should wear cloth formally depends on the situation.
The problem of the snowboarder was he wore the official uniform informally when he arrived at
We can say same thing about youth who are sagging their pants. If they are pants-sagging when they are hanging out with their friends and wear their school uniform formally, the media don’t argue about their fashion. Because they do it all the time, people take a critical attitude to them.
However, it will also be a problem if they are pants-sagging too much. Showing their underwear to everyone is just disgusting.
It is important to express what they think about their fashion. However, it is more important to think when they can express it especially in
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