Wednesday's ARW Class

We discussed the race of people which were on the pictures. I found it is totally difficult to determine them. For example, the elder man who looked like a farmer, I thought he was an American because my image of American farmers were just looked like him. However, Rab said he was an Yugoslav. Anna said he was a Swiss, but he said Swiss has little plain. We must identify their nationality or race after looking the background of them.

We also discussed who was the most beautiful person of the pictures. My group chose a black man because his body line was beautiful (Kyoko said) and I thought he was sexy, too. Rab said environment also influence on our aesthetics. For example, if sexy black guy wears the clothes and hides his body, I may be not chose him as the most beautiful person.

Like that, race was more complicated than I thought.

Monday's ARW Class

We discussed whether President Obama was white or black and why he put stress on black. Rab said it was because if he says he was a white, people get disappointed with him because the need change. I think it is a strong statement, but I also think he wants to emphasis that black people, now can everything what they want. Obama gave them numerous hope to them.

And we discussed the article of Nikon. I did not read it, so Naoko, Takahoshi and Yoshimi told me its content.

Friday's ARW Class

We watched the documentary video whose content was the treatment of Arabs in Hollywood movies. There are many scene Arabs are bad guys. However, I thought there were some movies that it was strange if the heels were other race. For example, Aladdin, whose locale was Arab, so it was natural that Jafar was an Arab.

I think most of of Arabian countries are bad terms with America, so American made them heel in their movies, but it is obviously hypocritical because American also do terrible things toward Arabs as we saw in the movie. So they revenge other innocent American by terrorism. Such a circle of hatred causes a war. Both of them must forgive each other.

Today's ARW class

Today, I was late for the class! I'm so sorry!!!!

We discussed the beauty, but it was too difficult for me to think about because I could only think beaut is unfair.

By the next class, I want to think more academic idea!

Wednesday's ARW class

I missed it, so I don't know what BF section members did, but I reviewed Barna.
I couldn't write the neat essay in Monday's class, so I had to study, but I had a fever, after all, I could do nothing.
I wish the typhoon came tomorrow!!

Friday's ARW class

We prepared for the PWT test. We shared the opinion with the one who was a stranger. My partner was Yoshimi and she gave me a lot of useful information!

Yesterday's ARW

We learned the outline of Birk and Birk.
When we see a thing very close, we can see it in detail, but when we look at it for a distance, we can its whole picture. We can say that about invisible and abstract things such as culture.
Next week's Friday, we will have a PWT test, so I must do careful reading!!

Yesterday's ARW class

We learned how to write essay, especially the construction of paragraph.

Also, we learned the concept of Birk and we admired or criticized Rab's bag.

My group criticized it, but in fact, I like his bag.