Mary Poppins is the story of the Banks family who live in a big house in London on Cherry Lane. Things are not going well for the family, the children, Jane and Michael, are out of control and are in need of a new nanny. Jane and Michael have their own ideas about what sort of caretaker they should have, while their parents—and in particular Mr. Banks—are insistent on someone strict for the job. When a mysterious young woman named Mary Poppins appears at their doorstep, the family finds that she’s the answer to their prayers, but in the most peculiar way. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren’t the only ones she has a profound effect upon. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that “anything can happen if you let it.”
Works Cited （参考文献）
http://www.broadway.com/shows/mary-poppins/story/
II. Versions of the Film
1.Mary Poppins Full Musical - Summit High School 2016
2.Mary Poppins Disney Version 2014
III. About the Author:Pamela Lyndon Travers
P.L. Travers was born on August 9, 1899, in Queensland, Australia. Her rich fantasy life propelled her to write stories and poems at an early age, and after a brief stint in the theater, she moved to London, England, to pursue a literary life, hobnobbing with Irish poets such a William Butler Yeats. The Mary Poppins tales sprang from Travers entertaining young visitors, combined with a love of mythology. The Disney film Mary Poppins made the notoriously private and prickly Travers immensely wealthy, but also unhappy. She died in London on April 23, 1996.
Works Cited （参考文献） http://www.biography.com/people/pl-travers-21358293
IV. My Reaction
A. Reaction Point - character
Characters are persons, or animals or natural forces represented as persons, in a work of film or literature.
The main character
①Mary Poppins→Nanny of Banks' family. She always bring her big bag.
②George Banks→ Father. He works in the bank.
③Winifred Banks→ Mother. She always leave her children to Mary Poppins.
④Jane Banks→ Eldest daughter of the Banks house.
⑤Michael Banks→ Eldest son of the Banks house.
B. Reaction Point - setting
The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.
time:1910 / place:Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane in London
C. Reaction Point - acting
Acting is playing a character in a play or movie.
I think the most important acting in this film is the acting of Mary Poppins. Her character is an excellent nanny, dry but always tender. Her performance is very faithfulness and fit for the original work.
D. My General Opinion I like this film very much since I was a child. This story's atmosphere is so pretty and it makes me very happy. I want this story to pass down from generation to generation forever.
Zara is the world’s largest fashion retailer in the world today because of its widely known process innovation. Fast fashion, creativity, flexibility, quality design and rapid turnaround are all part of its approach to expand internationally at such a fast pace.
Zara stores are usually situated at upscale locations in the world’s largest cities. Its strategy is to get as close as possible to luxury brands but at the same time maintain its mid-range affordable prices. Although the apparel may be relatively less expensive compared to designer goods, Zara has never forsaken the quality and comfort of its completed products.
On top of its operations excellence and good quality designs, Zara’s approach to design is also closely linked to their customers. Its customers, who help to give shape to the ideas and ever-changing demands emerging in the fashion industry, direct Zara’s strategic fast fashion. The relationship with its customers is an important channel of information that reflects shoppers’ reactions, desires and demands – its secret to success lies in feedback given from a wide range of people from different cultures and generations.
Works Cited （参考文献）
http://zarafashion2013.wix.com/zara#!brand-identity/c1xbv
II. About the Designer: Amancio Ortege Gaona
Amancio Ortega Gaona is a famous fashion designer and entrepreneur from Spain.
After becoming the manager of a local clothing shop, he realised that only affluent individuals could afford to purchase fine clothing and became determined to make quality clothes accessible to everyone.
From then on, Ortega began a self-manufactured line, purchasing low-cost fabric from Barcelona and selling good quality, cheaper products to local stores. In 1963, at the age of 27, Amancio Ortega founded his own company called Confecciones Goa that made and sold fine bathrobes.
Ortega continued to build his company and in 1975 he opened his first retail store called Zara. It was located across the street from one of La Coruna's most well known department stores and Zara became famous for selling high quality designer products at affordable prices. Due to this success, Ortega continued to expand and was credited with choosing strategic locations for each successful expansion. By 1989 Amancio Ortega Gaona was profitably operating almost one hundred Zara stores in Spain.
Ortega continued to keep his brand simple and direct. His goal was to produce clothing in fewer quantities and for stores to be refilled more often to cut down on inventory and shipping costs. Since Ortega kept his factories in Spain and produced smaller amounts of clothing, he was able to pass the savings onto the consumer. Zara became so popular, in fact, that Amancio Ortega hardly needed to advertise at all.
With the success of Zara, Ortega quickly became one of the wealthiest man in the world.
Works Cited （参考文献）
http://zarafashion2013.wix.com/zara#!about/c10fk
III. My Reaction
A. Reaction Point -accessory
This is something such as a bag, belt or jewellery that you wear.
The people in this show don't wear a lot of accessories. A few people wear a watch, necklace or bracelet. I think these accessories help people make their personality stand out.
B. Reaction Point - coiffure
This mean the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair).
Ladies in this show are almost same hair style, long straight hair. It looks very beautiful and matches the chic clothes.
C. Reaction Point -tops
This mean clothing worn above the waist.
Their tops are not so flashy, very simple and nice. I think they match the other parts of the outfits very well and makes the models more beautiful.
D. My General Opinion
This fashion show is very simple and chic. Zara's clothes make people look more beautiful and stylish. I'm very interested in fashion shows now, so I want to watch more and learn about other fashion brands.
A Christmas Carol was the most successful book of the 1843 holiday season. By Christmas it sold six thousand copies and it continued to be popular into the new year. Eight stage adaptations were in production within two months of the book’s publication.
The book is as popular today as it was over 150 years ago. Charles Dickens, through the voice of Scrooge, continues to urge us to honor Christmas in our hearts and try to keep it all the year.
1.Mickey's christmas carol - Disney Christmas - Disney Classics 2015
2.Animated Christmas Carol Movies - Christmas Animated Classic Movies 2015
III. About the Author-Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable.
His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr Micawber in 'David Copperfield', was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren's blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels 'David Copperfield' and 'Great Expectations'.Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals 'The Mirror of Parliament' and 'The True Sun'. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym 'Boz'. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited 'Sketches by Boz'. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful 'Pickwick Papers', and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens.As well as a huge list of novels he published autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including 'Household Words' and 'All Year Round', wrote travel books and administered charitable organisations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. His energy was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad - for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens' final unfinished novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'.He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.
Characters are persons, or animals or natural forces represented as persons, in a work of film or literature.
In Christmas carol, the main characters are ⓵an old man called Scrooge and ⓶⓷⓸three genies. ⓵Scrooge is this story's main character. He is engage in theoffice and very greed, ruthless and stinginess.
⓶One of the genie is about past. He pulls back Scrooge to the past and reminds him when he had a rustic heart. ⓷Second genie is about present. He takes Scrooge to many places in London and shows various home placed in the various situations. ⓸The last genie is about future. He takes Scrooge to the future and shows his future.
B. Reaction Point -setting
The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.
time→christmas eve, place→London
C. Reaction Point - messege
The central idea or statement of a story.
I think the messege of this story is that be kind for everyone is very nice act.
D. My General Opinion This is one of my favorite christmas film and so it was very interesting to study. I think we have to take care our family, friends and even stranger. This movie told me that, if I take them care with kind heart, they would treat me just like I do to them.
The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War and recounts the story of an unarmed massacre, the kidnapping of two sisters, and their rescue by Hawk-eye and his two Mohican friends Uncas and Chingachook. The novel was quite popular when published (1826) and is still a staple in most American Literature courses.
Works Cited （参考文献）
"The Last of the Mohicans." The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://americanliterature.com/author/james-fenimore-cooper/book/the-last-of-the-mohicans/summary>.
II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media
A. Movie Versions Much has been made about how authentic "The Last of the Mohicans" is, about how the cast learned wilderness survival skills and how every bow, arrow, canoe and moccasin was constructed according to the ancient ways. That's the kind of publicity Cecil B. DeMille used to churn out, as if he had created a brand new world from scratch, like God.
B. Stage Versions
The music of The Last of the Mohicans.
Stage performance
III. About the Author:James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey, the eleventh of twelve children. When he was one year old, he moved with parents William and Elizabeth to Cooperstown on Ostego Lake in central New York. During Cooper's boyhood, there were few backwoods settlers left and even fewer Indians. However, Cooper's early experiences in this frontier town gave him the background knowledge used in the Pioneers (1923).
In 1826, at the height of his popularity, he sailed for Europe for what became a seven year stay. He wrote The Prairie (1827) and Notions of the Americans (1828) a defense of the United States against the attacks of European travelers. Under the half-patronizing epithet of "the American Scott" he wrote three historical novels that mimicked the writing of Sir Walter Scott. Returning to the US in 1833, Cooper was so hurt by a review that he penned A Letter to his Countrymen (1834) which was a bitter attack on American provincialism. He also became involved in disputes in Cooperstown where he was attacked by newspapers as a false aristocrat poisoned by European influences. In response, Cooper immersed himself in law suits aimed at gaining damages that would tame the irresponsibility of the press. Cooper established the principle that reviewers must work within the bounds of truth when they deal with an author rather than the book.
Even with this scandal at his heels, Cooper continued to write a school primer, The American Democrat (1838) and three more Leatherstocking Tales: The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841). Then came Cooper's obsession with the sea from his previous experience in the Navy. He penned The History of the Navy of the United States of America (1839), The Cruise of Sommers (1844), and The Distinguished American Naval Officers (1846).
At the time of his death on September 14, 1851, Cooper was more successful and respected abroad than at home. Out of step with his countrymen, his work was very influential to European writers like Honore de Balzac and Leo Tolstoy. Yet, the weaknesses of Fenimore's fiction are quite well known and wide-spread. Mark Twain tore apart Fenimore's romanticism in Fenimore Coopers Literary Offenses (1895). Clearly, Fenimore's tone was criticized as being reactionary, romantic, and pedagogical in tone. However, Cooper did contribute a great deal to the genre of American fiction. In the grand enterprise, even today, everyone has read books and seen films that are directly and indirectly affected by Cooper's conception of Natty Bumppo and his creation of the American novel.
Works Cited （参考文献）
"Biography of James Fenimore Cooper." Biography of James Fenimore Cooper. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 June 2016. <http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/COOPER/cooperbiography.html>.
IV. My Reaction
A. Reaction Point - setting
・Setting means the story of background, configuration or place. ・This is the story about the fight between the French and the British in North America in 1757. In this story, most things happens near the Hudson River.
B. Reaction Point - theme
・Theme means that the story of gist and subject. ・The theme of this story is the fight between two countries and also the love too.
C. Reaction Point - protagonist
・Protagonist means the main character of this book. ・Mainly four people appeared in this story. Cora, Alice, Uncas and Hawkeye.
Cora and Alice are sisters, whose father is the British Colonel Munro.
Uncas and Hawkeye are Chingachgook's son and they are the last of the mohicans.
D. My General Opinion
This story is a little bit difficult for me to understand because fight is not so familiar for us now, and difficult to imagine. But it was very interesting and so I want to recommend this book for many people. And I want to read more of his book.
2016年5月8日日曜日
To Be Or Not To Be
- A soliloquy from William Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet'
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
To die: to sleep;
No more; and, by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.
To die, to sleep;
To sleep perchance to dream, ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?
Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And make us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And Is sicklied o'er
With the pale cast of thought
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn away,
And lose the name of action.
I. About the Poem
‘To be or not to be’ is the most famous soliloquy in the works of Shakespeare – probably, even, the most famous soliloquy anywhere. That is partly because the opening words are so interesting, memorable and intriguing but also because Shakespeare ranges around several cultures and practices to borrow the language for his images, and because he’s dealing here with profound concepts, putting complex philosophical ideas into the mouth of a character on a stage, communicating with an audience with a wide range of educational levels.
Works Cited （参考文献）
"‘To Be Or Not To Be’: Hamlet’s Soliloquy." No Sweat Shakespeare. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2016. <http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/hamlet-to-be-or-not-to-be/>.
II. About the Poet
William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. From roughly 1594 onward he was an important member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men company of theatrical players. Written records give little indication of the way in which Shakespeare’s professional life molded his artistry. All that can be deduced is that over the course of 20 years, Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict.
B. Reaction Point - rhythm This poem has comparatively long sentences, but it has a few short sentences too. For example, "To die: to sleep;", "Must give us pause", "There's the respect" and so on.
C. Reaction Point - structure
The pattern of organization of this poem is that each sentence almost start with a
conjunction.
For example, whether, when, and, with and so on.
This point is one of the feature of this poem.
D. My General Opinion
This poem has a regularity and easy to read. I like this poem very much because I like a Shakespeare's view of the world. I want to read his poem more from now on.
I'm Hina Watanabe. I study in Department of Arts and Letters at Kyoritsu Women's University.
My course is English British American Literature. My literary interest is British literature. I like Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte and my favorite work is "Jane Eyre". I want to read more British literature from now on.
