Why Can't Women Ski Jump- WHere the stasis lies in the argument?

In the article "Why Can't Women Ski Jump", Claire raised questions for the situation which Olympic does not offer ski jump for women. She disagree some degree with IOC but in some degree she agrees. And she argues that it is likely impossible to include it.

She shows the unfairness and contradiction of IOC by stating the fact that ski jump are not offered to women although all games are offered both men and women. It is contradiction and discrimination.

However Claire also points out how women's ski jump does not apply to its "technical requirement". Also she described the difficulties and realities in the attempt of including women's ski jumper.

With this association of concepts, she created her conclusion that it is impossible to include women's ski jump in Olympic. This association of concepts and the conclusion is stasis in her essay; the degree of difficulties the women ski jumpers faces in contradiction of IOC's announcement.

Debates Team: Abolishing private school?

I agree with Chris's value which shows importance on equal educational opportunities for everyone. That is why I vote for him. However, I am not 100 % agree with his proposal. Even equal education chance is important, it does not mean avoiding private school gives equal education opportunities. Only public education does means equal education opportunities, but mixture of private and public school also can create equal educational opportunities in society.

For instance, in Japan we have both public schools and private schools. We have public college and private college as well as high schools and junior high school, or even private kindergardens. But compare to U.S., the numbers of such private kindergardens or high school are few, and public schools are majority. So why can Japanese education system of mixture of public and private keep its equal education opportunities? Well, the ration of public and private school is one answer. Unlike U.S., most of kids goes to public school, and kids who go to private school are rare. So private school does not take opportunities over from public school.

Another reason is the quality of public school and private school are same. Basically no matter you go private or public school, what you learn in the school is same. So in Japan, just because you go to private school does not mean you have better education. That said, whether going private or public school, everyone has equal educational opportunities.

Thus, after debating, I think it is not the matter of avolishing private or the other. The solution they should look at is not that point. Rather, they should discuss how to improve the standard American education system.

Movie Review: Castro's Life

This weekend, my boyfriend asked me to watch this Al Pacino mivoe called "Castro's Life".

My first thought is: It wouldn't be better than Scarface. Whatever the new film comes out, people compare Al Pacino's film with the legend film Scarface. I didn't wanted to feel dissapointment after wacthing the film.

I knew it would be disappointment because I heard the plots and characters are almost same as in Scarface. According to the DVD package, Castro's life is a story of drug dealer, who lives in New York. It is just Scarface in 20 centry version.

But despite of my negative thoughts, Al Pacino did not let me down. His talent and carisma attracted me just as much as he attracted me in the Scarface.

The story and characters were same, however, the two stories had totally different tastes. It wasn't just a 20 centry Scarface. In Castro's life, there are many elements that were'nt seen in Scarface. For example, it's love. Scarface is pretty much focusing on drug dealer and how he became rich from poor, and how he declined from thr rich to pig. It was all about money, power, and drugs. And it is hard to related youself with the characters because it is a little too unrealistic.

On the other hand, in "castro's life", you will feel more connection with the character. It is more focus on the love, humanity and relationship. While it is story about drug dealer, there are love elements in the film. And that the part where Al Pacino's talent can be seen. Al Pacino acted a character of one drug dealer who lives in New York trying to start new life. It was not just one drug dealer's life. The character confronts with struggle in society, conflicts within himself, friendship and betrays, and love with one woman. These humanistic elements that everyone can relate to is the elements that makes "Castro's life" distinguishes from Scarface.

It is not just a replica of "Scarface". As good as the "Scarface" was, the "Castro's life" is one of the greatest film of all the time.

Social Ideology in Japan: Failling Young Generation

Selecting artifact
Japanese Newspaper Editorial article addressing young people need to be more enegetic.
Analyzing an artifact
1. Reconstructing the context
a. Rhetor: Yomiuri shinbun is a more conservative newspaper. Rhetorical philosphey is..... Around this time, many there were some kind of ideology that young people were seen as failer in Japan. Yomiuri is trying to show how young people are in danger and need to change.
b. Occasion:When this rhetoric occured, Japan had ideology that young are looser. Many politicisan, famous writer started to argue how young people are not active, and they need to change. They are insulting young people. Due to ressesion, there are so many young peopel who doesn't have jobs and young homless too. These economic and social background made the ideology.
c. Audience: The audience is people who reads the newspaper, meaning, people in Japan, but not young kids, but mostly adult, college students, or maybe some highschool student as well. So althought Yomiuri is talking about school kids, they are not talking to them, but talking to adult to make them to help the young people. Newspaper are seen to be credible, but some people criticize Yomiuri because it is conservative. Audience has knowledge about young's decline because that is cultural ideology. Most of adult agree with Yomiuri's aticle because of cultural ideology. And since the Yomiuri argu that this si national danger, audience's attitude will be more serious.
2. application of the five canons to the artifact
a.Invention. External proof: such as testimonies and statistics. The evidence works for the audience's nationalistic belief.
These evidence is consisted to the thesis? No. It shows evidece that shows Young's un-patoriotic attitude, and how young people are so decling and disappointing. However, the article missing the point that adults are the one who teaches tyoung. Article basically use young people as scape goat to try to unit patorioric idea.
b.Organization.
c.Style.
d.Memory
e.Delivery
3. assessing the impact of the artifact on the audience
Formulating a research question
Did the rhetor used the avairable means of persuasion to evoke the intended response from the audience?
Writing Essay
Introduction:
Since couple years ago, Japan has hold controversial debate over the nature of young generation. Many famous writes, politcisian, commentators has been talking about how young people has been changed as generation changes. As and for the sake of the controversies heat up, media started to write about this issue. In this essay, I will explore media’s arguments on the young generation issue to try to find the appeal of media.
Justification:
Although this issue and my analysis narrow the audience, it is important for people live in Japan. For it is social ideologu developed recent, we don’t really know the truth. Also, analyzing media’s article is particulary important because media are those who has power to shape social ideologies.
There are four articles I picked: Yomiuri, Asahi, Mainichi, and Kyoto newspapers.
Historical Contexts
This social ideologies comes from Japanese economic and cultural background. Japan has fall in recession around 2000. Many young people become homeless. A lot of young lives with their parents, bnot work, receive some pocket money, and do their hobbies. Also, Japanese unique culture of Otaku is another background of this issue. Otak, is seen a lot in young people, and they like to stay in home, play video game, and non-social. Therefore, they have some negative image in society. And most of them are seen in young people. Due to these background, many adults looking and said that how young people has changed from past. The one big reasn why media started to write about young people is based on one incident, which young man, a Otaku, murdered. From this issue, how media look young becomes obvious and against. Since media started to report, more people started to argues, and it finally created it as social ideology.
Yomiuri Weekly in fact talked report the incident, and it shows subjectivity. Although it is newspaper report which expected to be objective, the reporter argued his subjectivity criticinging young people . He argued that by using 2 quotation.

my interests area in writing

I am interested in writing about....
Healthy goods, about the country life, about the Japanese traditional cultures, Japanese historical buildings, Japanese traditional foods, something wired thing that I can notice about Japan from outside, documentary photography, fashion photography, high fashion and design etc..

what is photography to me?

i"m passionate about taking: Family picture, Portrait- human and their way of life- humanize them, show their character, attitude in human, life is so much complicated than one demension of life seen in photograph. getting little tiny moment of individual which is part of their life. When we photograph something, we see different aspect of the subjects which we couldnt see from our own eyes (from Annie), war and poverty, traveling photography, commercial photography, Archtectual photography, wedding photography, Street picture.

Movie Review

There is a shrine called Yasukuni in Tokyo Japan today, and it is not just an ordinal shrine. Japanese, chinese and Korean are fighting over this Yasukuni shrine for many years. The fact that it have both war criminals and war victims in the shrine is the main controversial reason. For chinese and korean, praying at Yasukuni shrine means insulting their ancestors and justifying the war. Due to its rich tradition and history however, the shrine still exists in Tokyo, Japan.

The film "Yasukuni", directed by chinese director Li is the first movie which address to this controversy. Although the film was about such touchy topic, I think Li did great job and it is worth to see it.

Most of the part, the film shows what is going on in Yasukuni shrine today. It highlight some of the shocking imagese such as Japanese nationalists marching at shrine in old military cloth, the sense that a Japanese student who was thought as chinese student were beaten by bunch of old people at the shrine, and a American with his national flag driven out from shrine. Also, the film highlights one old sord maker, who used to make sord during the war. The film sometims show the sense of him making sord.

The one reason why I like this film and suggest you to see it is because its openness. Although the film shows shocking images, which could imply sense of Japanese nationalistic, and gives audience the negative image about Japanese and Yasukuni shine, Li never gave an argument directly. In terms of fairness, I think the film was sucessful, and therefore, it makes the film interesting.