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6.0. Suggestions for your peers and successors

• ...DO NOT be a guy like me.

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5.0. Additional reflections on your blog writing

• ...By posting book and movie reviews, I found that my English skill was improved bit by bit. I also gained a lot of chances to borrowing and reading English books.

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3.0. Book Reviews

	Short titles with links	Dates (yy.mm.dd)	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	07.05.16	39	1
2-01	The Fugitive	07.10.7	215	0
2-02	A Christmas Carol	07.10.12	246	0
2-03	Jurassic Park	07.11.10	202	0
2-04	MIB	07.11.21	251	0
2-05	The Chamber	07.11.26	562	0
2-06	Jumanji	07.12.06	159	0
2-07	Rain Man	08.01.30	171	0
2-08	The Full Monty	07.12.30	140	0
2-09	Love Actually	07.12.30	108	0
2-10	Notting Hill	08.01.30	163	0
2-11	About A Boy	08.01.30	146	0
2-12	The Firm	08.01.30	152	0
2-13
2-14
2-15
2-16
2-17
2-18
---	---	TOTALS:	2946	0

Note: Please calculate book review words and comments totals without the example (above).

4.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• [“The Chamber”　is my best book review. I was very impressed by reading it, so I guess I could write a very good review.]

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2.0. Comments

Total number of comments (use dashboard)
Months	08	09	10	11	12	01	Total
	0	0	１	0	0	0	0

Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts (yy.mm.dd)	Qualities of comments*[*]
Any one of your movie reviews	The Fugitive http://tbb19801.blogspot.com/2007/10/book-review-2-1.html	07.10.02	I loved the movie and I was very grad that I could find the book at the library.
When did you respond to those comments?	---		---
How did you respond to those comments?	---	---
Any of your other posts*	TAMA “DENSHA KAMO SHIRENAI” http://tbb19801.blogspot.com/2007/12/tama-densha-kamo-shirenai.html	07.12.13	This was the first time I write about Japanese music on Blog
When did you respond to those comments?	---		---
How did you respond to those comments?	---	---

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post.

Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where or why not?

• ...My blog displays no recent comments because no one gave me a comment at all.

Additional reflections on comments

• [I could not gain any comment from anyone.]

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1.2. Best Movie Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those movie reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• [I believe that “Toy Story” is the best movie review. While I was writing it, I enjoyed every moment because mentioning about something that I really like is joyfull.]

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1.0. Movie Reviews

1.1. Showcase [+ links]	Dates on blog (yy.mm.dd)	¶	W	Notes
Toy Story	07.10.3	5	414
Kill Bill	07.10.23	2	220
Romeo and Juliet	07.11.7	3	539
Mrs Doubtfire	07.11.18	5	385
School of Rock/Forrest Gump
Lilo & Stich/Shrek
Totals	---			---

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Writing IVa: Portfolio
0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, and Words

Months	08	09	10	11	12	01	Totals
Book reviews	0	1	4	4	2	4	16
Blog posts	0	0	6	4	3	0	13
Words	0	163	1814	1821	509	657	4964
TOTAL	---	---	---	---	---	---	---

Nothing but trouble

I really don’t get that how come a talented guy would make a totally unfunny film like this one. The actors were very good. They have done awesome performances even John Candy looked terrible in his frock and yet the screenplay was horrible. Well, musical scene was kinda cool though.

TAMA "DENSHA KAMO SHIRENAI"

“TAMA(たま)” is one of my favorite musician groups and here’s a music video for their song which named “DENSHA KAMO SHIRENAI”(which means, It might be a train or not). Regret to found that “TAMA” has disbanded since couple years ago, and yet there are many people still listen to their CDs. The lyrics they wrote are very weird and totally nonsense, but they makes listener moved sometime.

Silly walk solves silly problem

Since I heard that the design of union flag might be changed, I have been working out an innovative design for the new flag. Here’s my answers:




They're cool, ain't they?

Book Review 2-12

"The Firm"
Robin Waterfield

Mitch McDeere is a rookie lawyer who graduated from Harvard University with a fine batting average. A firm in Tennessee State called “Ran Bart and Rock” hired him. Mitch headed to Tennessee State with his wife, Abby who works as a teacher of a kindergarten. Since he started work under his boss, Avery Tolar, Mitch heard some bad news and he felt alarm. Then two lawyers who both work at the firm were killed by a terrible accident and FBI Agent Tarrance visited Mitch family and said that some one killed the lawyers and the firm has a dark side. Few days later, Mitch headed to a island with his boss to see their client. While they are staying in the island, Mitch found a bunch of files.
This movie was made in 1991 starring Tom Cruse, Gene Hackman and Holly Hunter. It was known as a masterpiece.

Book Review 2-11

About A Boy
Nick Hornby

Will Freeman is a middle-aged man who lives in north part of London. He has no job but rich because his father left him a big legacy. He is single and not interested in marriage life. One day, Will meet a thirty-two years old boy who named Marcus. Marcus said that he is bullied in junior high school. Few days later, Will falls in love with a single mother whom child attend same school with Marcus. Since that day, Will started behavior as Marcus’s father to get closer to Rachael the single mother. However, Rachael does not like him because Will told that he lied to her.
This novel was also written based on a movie. It was released in 1998 and Will Freeman was played by Hugh Grant. Now you may find the DVD or video in any video store.

Book Review 2-6

"Jumanji"

I have read this book named “Jumanji” last week. The story of this book is about a boy who was trapped in a strange board game called “Jumanji”. The boy, Alan, spend almost thirty years of his life in a dangerous jungle until a couple of kids release him from the board game. The kids who helped Alan were Peter and Judy. Both of them are much younger then Alan because Alan is a middle aged man when he returned home. In the fact, Peter and Judy did not just release Alan from “Jumanji”, but the other animals who were living in the island. The town where they live was damaged because of the parade of the animals and Peter, Judy and Alan have to send them back to where they came from by playing the board game until the end.

I remember the movie was also great. You will find DVD or video in any rental store.

Book Review 2-10

Notting Hill
Curtis

Ana Scott is a famous Hollywood actress. She met an English man who named William at a bookstore while she was visiting London. William was very surprised because he knew who she was. On the same day, he run into her and spirited some juice on her dress. Then William invited her to his place to clean up her dress. She kissed him when she is about to leaving. Few days later, Spike, the roommate of William, told him that he got a phone call from Ana. As soon so William heard that, he went to hotel that Ana’s staying as a reporter and asked her to come his sister’s birthday and Ana accepted it. After that, William and Ana became lovers. However, one day, William found that Ana already had a boyfriend. Needless to say, William was very disappointed.
This novel was written based on a film called the same. Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant played the main characters.

Book Review 2-9

"Love Actually"
Richard Curtis

This story is about nine-teen people who live in London. All of them are trying to find someone to love and spend Christmas time with.
David is the president of England. He is not married and he falls in love with his administrative secretary. David’s sister, Karen is in trouble with her husband. She doubts that his husband, Harry has affair with his co-worker, Mia. Karen also has a friend who named Daniel. Daniel is a single father. He lives with his little son but he thinks that relationship between father and son is not going well. Finally, they gain a happy Christmas time.

Who you gonna call ?

Did you know that "Ghostbusters" was made into a video game?
An American developer named "Terminal Reality" has started a project to bring "Ghostbusters" to the market as video game next year. The original actors who played in the movie will do the characters voices. I can't wait to play it!

Nice Dinner

The other day, I went over to an American family to play a table game. They also made a great dinner for me. The spaghetti was a little bland, but it still teasts so good. After dinner, My friend and I played computer game untill ten o'clock. I really enjoyed that night!

A New Roll Playing Game

I bought a video game called “Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion” t. I wish I could find some time to play it on this week end even though I have a lot of assignments.
Recently I also play “Wizardry” series when I am not busy. The world-view of the game is so cool!

Book Review 2-8

Full Monty
W. Holden

This story is about six guys who live in Sheffield, England. In their home town, there are many people get quite aggrieved by the fact that their disemployments. Gaz is also a poor man who has no job. He needs seven-hundred ponds to keep the joint custody between Gaz and Mandy the ex-wife. He tried to steal polls from a closed factory, but it was not gone successful. One day, Gaz saw a group of male strippers. As he noticed that every woman was giving a glad cry to them. Gaz found that is exactly what he should do to earn money. He bided his friend Lomper who tried killing himself by gas suicide. Then those two found some people who would be strip dancers with them and they got naked at front of four-hundred women.

Movie Reviwe 2-4

"Mrs.Doubtfire"(1993)

Daniel Hillard is an unsuccessful actor. Daniel has no job and no money, but he treats his small children very kindly because they mean so much to him. His wife, Miranda, who has been disquieted him since long time ago.
One day, Daniel and Miranda held a party on their son's birthday. The party should be a very delightful one, however, Daniel caused a big trouble that is bad enough to break his own son's spirit. At same night, Miranda bids good-bye to her marriage, which means Daniel and Miranda won't be live together anymore. The children were handed over to their Miranda because the mother makes money more than the father does. In addition, court decided that Daniel was not allowed to see his children more than once a week. Needless to say, he felt it is the end of world because the kids are very important to him.
Several days later, Daniel found a ad during he's reading the news paper. The ad says, Miranda needs a babysitter to take care her kids and it has to be a woman. As soon as Daniel read the ad, he got a plan. He asked his older brother to make him up as an old England lady so he can become a babysitter to see his children again. Finally, Daniel was employed and Miranda doesn't know who she really is. Daniel called himself Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire because he found article in new paper which says "Doubt Fire".
I remember very clearly that I have watched this movie when I was young as Daniel's children. I knew nothing about Robin Williams at that time, but I really enjoyed his funny acting. Robin Williams also appeared in a great comedy movie called "The Fathers Day" with Billy Crystal. Both of them are my favorite actors.
Another famous actor who acted in this movie is Pierce Brosnan. He is known as James Bond among movie fans, but he appeared in this "Mrs. Doubtfire" before he got his fame by playing in 007 movies. I believe that many people in Japan don't know that Mr. Brosnan played the main character in a famous drama series named "Remington Steele".