The One Thing 'Back To The Future II' Could Never Predict

Title: The One Thing 'Back To The Future II' Could Never Predict

Homework 11

An opinion:

     As soon as I found out this article, I got very curious about the movie. Though I knew this movie was very popular before I saw this article, I never had chance to see it. Since it was a old movie made even 10 years before I was born, I though that it’s computer graphic, and the story line  would not be so great. But as I saw the movie, I enjoyed it a lot, and was very impressed about movie taking skill that time. Another thing that was interesting was the time by time machine to change the future was set to 2015 October 21, which is past of the time that I am writing up this post. I was excited about the fact that what people at that time might think a distant future is where I am. There were some mis-predictions on the movie which was natural. For example, putting the inside of pocket did not become trend of these days and also, we do not yet have a flying car nor a hover board. Though self-lacing shoes was made by Nike, it is only sold for few, since it is “the movie” special.

     Actually, what the article was trying to say is that the fact the movie ‘Back To The Future II’ could not predicted companies and even politicians would milk 2015 October 21. I was a little disappointed of the article since what I expected was the amount of difference between science and culture of year 1986 and 2015. So I would like to talk about differences between the year 1986 and 2015, and what one thing the movie could not have predicted.

     That time, people could imagine there would be a glasses that can communicate with others. We do have “Google glasses” but, people prefer Google glasses to flat square type smart phones. The biggest difference between two is that the movie shows it is telephone line based. And what I see in the movie that the author has missed the development of internet. Now in 2015, we have such a developed internet system. We use SNS to communicate with people, we can search all the information with a single click. In my opinion, it is the best advance and one thing the movie could not predicted. So I would like to point out that : The One Thing 'Back To The Future II' Could Never Predict’ was the wide use of internet these days.

Link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/back-to-the-future-day-apple-google-ted-cruz_5626c68fe4b0bce34702e0f7?utm_hp_ref=technology

How Do I Keep Things Whole

How Do I Keep Things Whole

Homework 10

   This question,“How Do I Keep Things Whole”is the same meaning of  “How Do I Keep My Mind Together”. For many people, there are lots of things that drive them crazy. And there would have several different ways to control them. Some may loosen up themselves by exercising, or some may listen to music to keep themselves together. For me, I play sports to keep my mind together. These days, I had lots of things to take care of. First of all, I did not have sufficient money. So I had to divide my money wisely until the next scholarship date. And also some human relationships were stressing for me. To keep my mind together, I started to exercise again. In the past, I had no friends in the Judo club, which is a kind of martial art of Japan, so going there was not the answer of keeping my mind together. But, having some friends there now, I enjoy going. While I exercise I was able to be free from my worries. And when my skills of Judo worked and was able to win over a bigger guy, my stress flew away. So to sum up, I keep my mind together by exercising.

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Why Do I Move

Why Do I Move

                
Homework 10                                                    

     This question “Why Do I Move” is the same meaning of “Why Do I Live”. From the poem, I could easily draw a conclusion that moving is living. There can be many reasons why I live. There can be goals I want to achieve, or to feel thrills that can be only be felt when I am alive. But, basically the reason why I live is because I am afraid of death and I like the way I am. The reason why I am afraid of death is because, I do not believe in afterlife. I think that, when we die, and when our brain stops working, our emotions, our thoughts will be gone as well. We would not even be experiencing that we even exited in the world. So I think the basic reason “why I live” is because I am not dead. No one knows when we are about to die. We can die from dieses or we can die from age. There are many dangers out in the society that might kill us. So living in this kind of anxiety, I want to feel, taste, experience many things before I die. I do not want to regret about my life when I die. To sum up, the reason why I live is because I want to feel and learn many things.

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What Do I Desire

What Do I Desire

Homework 9

It is hard to tell what I desire. But being compelled to say it, I would say that what I desire is to be a versatile person. I want to be good at many things or at least able to do various things. Right now, what I am good at is probably math, or some subjects in my major. In the past, I did not have any thoughts about what I should do in the future, or what I should do to spend time wisely. In conclusion, I had no desire of anything. I was concerned about me wasting time, but was too lazy to distribute some time into thinking what to do. So, in the last summer vacation, I finally had some time to think about myself, and also what I should do to live a good life. In order to do it, I made some lists. I wrote down what I want to do, what I should do, and what things that I should do in order to achieve my goals. As I wrote down what I want to do, I felt happiness. I was able to trace down where I am in this society, or what I am right now. And also, I got some hints about  what I my life goal should be.

First, there are several things that I want to desire this year. To line them up, I want to learn to play piano. My mom taught piano to students when she was young. I was also taught by her, but learning piano was a very boring time for me. So I hardly finished 4  books which are the most basics of playing and understanding the piano. But now, I regret my acts in the past. Although, I can play clarinet quiet fluently, I want to learn another instrument that I can play while I sing a song. Another thing that I desire is to acquire JLPT N1 which is the highest level in Japanese language fluency test. An year ago I took JLPT N2, but because of the low score I failed. Since I did not try my best on the exam, it was natural thing to be failed, but this time I will study more harder and achieve my goals.

To sum up, I think why I would like to be a versatile person is because I would like to get envy from other people. To tell from a objective view, what I desire is attention or respect of other people.

Music in my life

Music in my life

Homework 8

     Right now, I listen to lots of music. But, surprisingly, I barely listen to music in the past when I was in a middle or in a primary school. Because of that, when my friends asked me to join in to go to the karaoke, I refused a lot, since I knew not many song to sing. I think there is many reasons why I did not listen or know many music. I guess one of them is because my parents. They did not buy me a mp3 player, and also did not bought me a cellphone, until I graduated from high school. They thought that songs might disturb my studies. Because the lack of devices, I did not know or listen to song so much. After graduating from high school, I had to learn some popular song in order to get along with my peers. Anyways, I do have my favorite song in my life.

     It is “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay. How I knew this music is as it follows. When I was preparing for the university, I listen to “some” music which was not my taste. Since the song were just given by my friend. One day, my friend introduced this song to me. And as I heard it, I loved the beat, and the rhythm, and also the lyrics. Most songs makes me sick when I hear it too many times. But this song was different. Though I think I listened to this music like thousand times, I never got bored. And also the funny thing is that, since I listened to this song a lot, I got good at singing this song. Although I am not a good singer, my friend always compliment me when I sing this song. I guess this song helped me a lot when I am studying. Since it made me focus better, and also made me much more relaxed when I was getting a rest.

     These days, I got into a song named “The phoenix” by Fall Out Boy. Having a slow and quite life in Tsukuba, the strong beat of this song really got up to me. Although I got a poor memory, I memorized it’s lyrics. I am planning to sing this song at karaoke next time.

     In my opinion, the music in my life had started with me going to karaoke. Since I love going to karaoke, I try to listen to variety of music and try to learn some new things.

Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL5pJ4wOwXs