Oliver assignment!

I couldn’t go to see the play, so I did different report.

■Characters Analyze
As a characteristic of the Dickens’s novel, Oliver Twist’s characters discriminate the good and bad clearly. For example, good person is Oliver, Mr. Brownlow and Rose, in contrast bad person is Fagin, Bill Sikes and Monks. However, Nancy is different. She is the character who has both good and bad aspect. Other characters have good and bad clearly, on the other hand only she contradicts. When she is a child of the streets, she has been a thief and drinks too much, also she is a prostitute. In the middle of a story she takes back Oliver who lives with Mr. Brownlow by force, because Fagin is afraid that a secret of oneself is known. Afterward Nancy seems to feel an attack of conscience, because she thought that Oliver is separated from Mr. Brownlow because of oneself. One day Nancy who is a lover of Bill Sykes put a sleeping drug in medicine of Bill Sykes who suffer from fever. Then Nancy goes to meet Mr. Brownlow secretly, and she tells to Mr. Brownlow the place where Oliver is. However, Bill Sykes who heard the story is angry, and she is murdered. She sacrifices her life to save Oliver. She is a wife of the members of the thief groups, and she also does a bad thing, so she has evil, but I think that her action that does not forget conscience is splendid, and I feel sorry for murdered Nancy. She commits a crime for him. Finally she betrays him to save Oliver and finish her life. Therefore the love of Nancy for Bill Sikes expresses moral vagueness and contradiction of her character.
This story expresses Dickens’s criticism for children sacrifice because of deficiency of the “poor help method” (1834 establishment). In those days, London is the world capital, at the same time it is a town that insanitary and poor. In addition, it is a town with many crimes. In Oliver Twist, the life of a poor person at the time of the Industrial Revolution is described by Dickens. The difference of the poverty and wealth is intense, there are characters that are typical bad person and power and committing a crime because of poverty. I understand the United Kingdom’s class system at that time. His novel is read by the people of the middle class, they compared with the character that resembled oneself such as Mr. Bumble who is distant with poor people. Oliver Twist defines such a poor environment is the source of the vice. The poverty makes even the heart of people poor. However Nancy’s last decision that she gave regardless of her danger suggests that there is not always a boundary line of virtue (good) and the vice (bad). In this novel, the good is Oliver, that is to say the people of the lower class. Then the evil is a social system and society trend that accepting it rather than villain such as Bill Sikes.
Oliver finds happiness in the last of the story. However, the story may not be completely settled because an individual bears what society should bear, like Mr. Brownlow saves Oliver of the orphan from the unhappy, and Fagin is judged by the crime that drew in orphans the way of the evil.

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NEWS REPORT1

Class: IE name: Megumi Oshima student number: 11309057
REPORT#1 Date: May 19

1) MLA CITATION
I choose an article from the BBC website about health. I choose this topic because I was interested in a title and attracted her smile.
“Tahila- a girl in five million” BBC NEWS 16 May 2009
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7831484.stm]

2) ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Thaila- a girl in five million

Tahlia loves ballet
Like many three-year-old girls, Tahlia Lovegrove adores ballet.
She likes walking in the woods with her parents and going to nursery.
Most of the time she is like every other girl her age – but in fact Tahlia is one in five million.
When she was just one year old, doctors discovered that Tahlia had a very rare condition: long segment tracheal stenosis (LSTS), which left her windpipe or trachea dangerously narrow.
Initially doctors were pessimistic about Tahlia’s chances of survival, but within days she was given pioneering surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to shorten and widen her trachea in a delicate five-hour operation.
Despite the initial fears of medics, today Tahlia is thriving and now appears in a TV fundraising campaign for the hospital which saved her.
The normal size of a trachea is 6-8mm – over three times the size of Tahlia’s at the time of her operation.
A major blood vessel from the heart to her lung was also hooked around the trachea and had to be repositioned.

3) SUMMARY

Here is my personal summary of the article:

When Thaila was just one year old, she was told her disease by doctors. Her disease was long segment tracheal stenosis (LSTS) , which left her windpipe or trachea dangerously narrow. The person suffer from the LSTS is one in five million people. Doctors were pessimistic about her chances of survival. However, she did a difficult operation to shorten and widen her trachea for five hours. As a result, she recovered, and now she appears in a TV fundraising campaign for the hospital which saved her.

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4) OPINION

I examined this disease on the internet, after having read this article. And I understood it was one of the diseases that it is difficult to get over now that medicine progressed. I admired her to fight against the disease with only 1 year old. Through it was said that God gave only a person got over a trial, I thought that it was true. If some trial visits me, I do my best like her.

5) VOCABULARY

*1) WORD/PHASE: long segment tracheal stenosis(LSTS)
DEFINITION: diseases of a trachea
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: LSTS is a disease to be treated with child surgery.

*2) WORD/PHASE: windpipe
DEFINITION: trachea
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: Windpipe was choked with something.

*3) WORD/PHASE: pessimistic
DEFINITION: expecting that bad things will happen in the future or that a situation will have a bad result.
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: I took a pessimistic view of her life.

*4) WORD/PHASE: chance of survival
DEFINITION: survival rate
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: His chance of survival is 87%.

*5) WORD/PHASE: within days
DEFINITION: during a few days
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: I have had a cold, but within days I got over.

*6) WORD/PHASE: surgery
DEFINITION: medical treatment in which a surgeon cuts open your body to repair or remove something inside.
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: The surgery treats a brain and a heart.

*7) WORD/PHASE: operation
DEFINITION: the process of cutting into someone’s body to repair or remove a part that is damaged.
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: A doctor does the operation.

*8) WORD/PHASE: initial
DEFINITION: first
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: an initial letter

*9) WORD/PHASE: medic
DEFINITION: doctor
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: He is medic.

*10) WORD/PHASE: vessel
DEFINITION: a tube that carries blood through you body.
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: blood vessel

6) QUESTIONS

1. How old did she get sick?
2. Is her disease rare?
3. Did you know LSTS?
4. Have you done any big operation?
5. What could we do for her?

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Mother’s Day

Yestarday was Mother’s day. Did you do anything for your mother? For example, giving bouquet, presenting to something, sending a letter of thanks and so on. I made a hash and rice for dinner. I introduce it’s recipe. How to make is very simple.

First, you slice an onion and cut a carrot. Next, you cut beef to the size that preparation is good for. Second, you fly the ingredient which you cut, and add water if you fly it. After it boils, you should remove scum. Then you stew it for around 10 minutes. Finally, you add roux and stew it slowly and carefully for around 15 minutes. That’s easy!! Besides I made milcrepe for dessert. It is the cake that thin crepe is tier, and fresh cream is in it. It’s dericious.

My mother was very pleased, so I was happy too. I don’t forget the feeling of thanks to my mother.

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Vocabulary blog#1

●snicker
To laugh in a quiet unpleasant way. It’s means disdainful laughter.
In Japanese: 忍び笑い
Ms Noguchi who is character of “Chibimarukochan” is often snicker.

●wow
An exclamation. It used when you are surprised, wonder, pleasure or the like that.
In Japanese:　うわあ(驚嘆・喜び)
Wow!! That is Mickey Mouse, isn’t it? How cute! I want to take a picture with him.

●rivet
noun/ a metal pin that is used to fasten two pieces of leather, metal, etc.
verb/ to fasten or fix firmly. to hold the eye or attention.(metaphorical)
In Japanese: 鋲・画鋲／固定する
He was very cool, so I was riveted to him.

●vindicate
To prove that someone or something is right or true. to prove that someone who has blamed for something is in fact not guilty.
In Japanese: 正しいことを示す／非難を晴らす
The judgment vindicated his crime.

●sneer
To smile or speak in a very unkind way that shows you have no respect for someone or something. Include a disdainful meaning.
In Japanese: あざ笑う／あざけて言う
He sneered at my opinion.

●accuse
Appealing to the court of law. To say that someone is guilty of a crime or of doing something bad.
In Japanese: 訴える
The old woman accused the man of “It’s me!” fraud.

●infant
A child during the earliest period of its life, before he or she can walk. Baby. Young child
In Japanese: 赤ちゃん
When I was a baby, I ate infant foods.

●custody
Keeping the person who committed a crime in prison by the police until the person go to court.
In Japanese: 拘置・留置
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi was in custody because he got drunk and did a shameful thing.

●acquaintance
Someone you know, but who is not a close friend. Acquaintance＜Friend
In Japanese: 知り合い・知人
She is a chance acquaintance. I met her in the birthday party of my friend.

●felony
A serious crime.
In Japanese: 重罪
He murdered any innocent person. This is a felony. He is liable to the death penalty.

●steadily
Gradually
In Japanese: だんだん
He always practiced basket ball, so he became good at playing steadily.

●grazing
Land with grass that cows, sheep, etc. can eat.
In Japanese: 放牧
There is grazing in the hills.

●require
To need or to depend on.
In Japanese: 必要とする
She requires going to bed because she has a cold.

●carnivore
Animal that eats meat.
In Japanese: 肉食動物
Lion is carnivore.

●exceptional
Unusually good.
In Japanese: 異常な
This heat is exceptional. It must be the influence of the global warming.

●carry out
To carry a person or things.
In Japanese: 運び出す
I carried out my baggage.

●curb
Something that controls and puts limits on.
In Japanese: 抑制
The company puts keep a curb on cost.

●intake
The amount of food, drink, etc. that you take into your body.
In Japanese: 取り入れ
Intake of vitamin is very important for our health.

●reveal
To make known.
In Japanese: 明らかにする
I revealed it is him to have broken glass.

●consume
To use, especially fuel, energy or time.
In Japanese: 消費する
I consume much time solving a problem.

●hail
Small balls of ice that fall like rain.
In Japanese: あられ／ひょう
A hailstone fell yesterday.

●cessation
To stop.
In Japanese: 停止
This item became a cessation of production, because it has a problem.

●strand
To make a boat or fish be left on the shore and unable to return to the water.
In Japanese: (船が)座礁する
The ship was stranded.

●conservation
The protection of the natural environment.
In Japanese: 保護
The conservation of nature is very important.

●explosion
The sudden violent bursting and loud noise of such as a bomb exploding.
In Japanese: 爆発
The gas explosion is dangerous.

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Recently thing

My computer had been broken, so I didn’t update my blog. I’m sorry, my partner Chinami. But it was repaired!!! Yeah~!! So please comment Chinatti*

I joined the tennis circle “ WINDY”. I have played tennis only by physical education, because I belonged to the basketball club when I was a high school student. Now I can’t play tennis well, but I practice hard and become a good player.

The circle is interchange with Keio University and Atomi University, so I can make a lot of friends of the other university. I am going to go for welcome party of the combination of three universities on May 9. I’m looking forward to it very much.

Below is about yesterday’s thing.

I played with friends of the high school in Machida. We went to 31 ice cream shop. I ate Strawberry Sorbet and Caramel Praline Cheesecake. They ware very delicious. We can eat ice cream at 31% off during Golden Week. The campaign finish on May 6, please go if you want to eat ice cream. After ate ice cream, we went to shopping. I bought many clothes because most shops did a sale. I was happy with this shopping♪

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