I forgot we have another class!

Sorry about that. I knew it was our last Friday, but I forgot that next Wednesday is a Friday as far as classes go.

Rest assured I will have something to do during class. You can write your weekly homework about anything you want.

Since someone asked about why people got angry when he played Soul Music, the answer is that Soul Music took several stylistic features of Gospel Music. Gospel Music was originated in the 1930s by Reverend Thomas Dorsey. Many people felt that Soul Music was sinful because they felt that Gospel Music should be used only in church to praise the Lord, and that using the Gospel "sound" for secular purposes was blasphemous. What they didn't know is that Reverend Dorsey was simply using techniques that he had used in his previous career as a secular musician when he wrote Hokum Blues.

Here's what Wikipedia says about Ray Charles and the origin of Soul Music:

Ray Charles is often cited as inventing the soul genre with his string of hits starting with 1954's "I Got a Woman". Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style.

Here's a YouTube video about Reverend Thomas Dorsey, "The Father of Gospel Music."

The movie "Ray"

Ray played the piano and sing a music very well . I can't do either.So I think he is great because he is very well enough to do in front of the people.
The movie has a lot of music.I don't know its name but I think it's very good.Next time I will finish watching the movie.I'm looking forward to watching it.

about the movie "Ray"

I did’nt know about Ray Charles at all until I watched this movie last week. I think his music is very great and makes us fun, but it was not good that he got lovers except for his wife! I worry whether he could separate from his lovers and quit a drug or not. By the way, I could not understand why people got angry when Ray played gospel music. I want to listen to his music more, so I’m looking forward to watching the movie tomorrow.

About the Ray Charles

Ray Charles was born in 1930. When he was seven , he became vison-impaired, but he maked up soul music in 1950s. One of his masterpieces, "Georgia On My Mind" was accepted Georgia's song.

The real people in the movie

Of course Ray Charles was real, but many of the other people in the movie are famous, too. For instance David "Fathead" Newman: But Quincy Jones is even more famous: According to Wikipedia he is

an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations,[2] 27 Grammys,[2] including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide,[3] and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.

It's hard for me to think of Quincy Jones not being old enough to get into clubs, but everyone is young once. Only the lucky ones get to be old. Here he is on the Colbert Report:

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Ahmet Ertegun was a real person, too, and did a lot to promote American music, not just Ray Charles:

I think I should say something about Jazz, Gospel, Soul Music and Hokum Blues, but maybe I'll do that after you've seen the rest of the movie.

My high school

My high school is Tsukidate high school. It is famous for hockey club.They participate in a national convention.I once watched their game at regional competition.They were very strong.I heard they practice almost every day.I don't know they are now participate in a national convention.I hope they do.

My High School

I graduated from Aomori Minami Senior High School. There are foreign language course and comprehensive course. I belonged to foreign language course, and we learned not only English but also Russian. In my course, I went to New York, Boston and Pittsfield. It was very exciting experience. I think my school life was very important to me.
Thank you!

about my high school

I have a lot of memories of my high school and I’m telling you two biggest memories here. First, my high school’s baseball club was very strong. It won the south Hokkaido championship and went to the Koshien Stadium when I was in the third grade. I also went to Koshien because I was a member of the brass band club. I will never forget cheering our team in that stadium. Second, I went to Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, and Okinawa on a school trip. I enjoyed seeing some beautiful tourist sites and talking with my good friends. In my hometown, it was uncommon to go to Okinawa on a school trip because another high school students go to Kyoto, Nara, and Hiroshima. But I really enjoyed in Okinawa so I’m proud of my school trip. I have so many memories of my high school and cannot tell everything. Even having studied hard to enter this university is a fond memory now.

My highschool

My highschool is Ichinoseki-daiichi highschool.This has plactice of cheer song.It is done by cadre of cheering group who wear "bankara"."Bankara" is clothes which is school uniform that is claped out advisedly. I felt very fear when I saw cadre of cheering group who wear "bankara",but I am proud to continue this custom.

My Dream

As mentioned before, I love Hanshin Tigers. I have two dreams about this team.
One is to lend a hand for the Tigers to win the pennent. What the Tigers win the pennent makes us happy and smile.
The other is to work for the good of Hanshin Tigers; for example, a female announcer, a salesclerk, or a ground keeper.
In conclusion, I want to work for the Tigers.

My summer vacation

I went to Hokkaido this summer and climbed Mt.Asahidake.I belong to hiking club so I went to there and climbed it. It was sunny that day so I enjoyed climbing but the weather turned bad as I climbing.The view at the top is bad because of fag.I think it was unfortunate but I was happy to climb safety.

my favorite music

Recently, I’m heavily into jazz music. Especially I love "The Girl From Ipanema", "My Funny Valentine", "Waltz For Debby", and so on. My mother also likes jazz and she recommended me to listen to them, so I began to listen. I borrowed some jazz CDs from my mother. It is interesting for me to hold hobby in common with her. When I was in high school, I played the clarinet. Although I don’t have it now, I want to play jazz with the clarinet if I get it.

My summer vacation

I went home in Iwate becouse of the Bon holidays. I met frends for the first time in four years. I was very surprised that they hadn't change a bit. We talked about the future, so I think that I should be tenacious. I'm looking forward to seeing them again.

a recipe for miso soup

ingredients: tofu―100g, seaweed―10g, miso―20~24g
how to make: 1. Remove the salt from seaweed by in water and cut them.
2. Cut tofu into small cubes.
3. Boil water and put broth into a pot.
4. Put seaweed and tofu into a pot.
5. Stir miso into a pot.
6. Arrange soup on a bowl.

Ingredients(a portion for one person): Okra(one)
Natto(one)
Cherry tomato(two)
Chiken(20gram)
Udon(100gram)
Noodle broth(your choice)

How to make: 1, Boil noodles so they are soft(about 8minutes)
2, Boil okura (about 30second) and chiken (about a minute).
3, When noodles are boiled, you remove this sliminess by water.
4, Arrange food decoratively on a plate

This menu is very easy and can make quickly. I think that this menu is perfect for hot day.

July 18th ,Japan won in the World Cup.This news gave us hope to rebuild after a big earthquake.
I felt emotion becouse of latent energy of Japan.
Japan has never won to America until now,but she did't give up to the last.This lead the victory.I was interested in Women's Soccer.

victory for Nadeshiko Japan

SOCCER/Japan beat U.S. to win women’s World Cup―asahi.com

This is a link of the news about the women’s World Cup. On July 17, Japan won the women’s World Cup for the first time. I didn’t watch the game because I don’t have TV, but I knew their victory on the Internet. I felt so happy when I heard this news. I also thought that would encourage Japan which was dameged by the earthquake on March 11.

3.11 Earthquake

When 3.11 earthquake occured, I was making curry and rice. And, my new refrigerator was just humped to my room. No sooner the earthquake broke out, than I tried to get on mobile to my family and friends, but I couldn't get them on their cell phone.
The whole Tohoku became blacked out immediately, so we were unable to use electricity and fire. And, we went shopping, but each store was thinly distribute.
Next day, we recovered from blackout, so I entered into making a partly-assemble curry and rice and ate them.
3.11 was very abject day and I hope that Tohoku area will get hot.
Thank you!

about the earthquake

When the first big earthquake occured on March 11, I was in my hometown Sapporo. I felt a tremor but it was not so intense, so I thought it was ordinary earthquake and not so big at first. But I was surprised when I watched images of the earthquake and tsunami on TV news. I can’t believe that these terrible disasters happened in actuality. After a few days, I read an article of a local newspaper, which reported high school students who started a fund-raising campaign on the streets. I was deeply impressed by that article and went to place where they were the next day. I told them that I wanted to join their activity and took part in the fund-raising campaign. I really felt to do whatever I could. All money which they collected were donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

March 11th earthquake

April 19th, I went to Kesennuma to help to distribute rice.
I am attached to Kesennuma becouse I often went to sea when I was child. So, I was shocked when I saw the sea that was a heap of rubble. But children who lived at an evacuation were very vigorous. I got power from them. I thought that I want to help them as mach as I can.