MUSIC REVIEW

One of my favorite singers is Beyonce. She is 27 years old and from the United States. She was a member of the group called "Destiny's child", which was dispersed and she is a solo singer now. She is noted for her beautiful voice and attractive looks. She is also an actress and is in the movie called " Dream Girls"and so on. She used to sing songs which could be always listened to at clubs. But she started singing a ballad as well as dance music. That is why a lot of people of a wide age group got to like her music.

The genre of her songs is R&B. She dances very well and her dance is modern. Her songs are so rhythmical that can make listeners feel like dancing. Most songs are sung with electric sound. Her voice is so powerful and clear. She always sings a song with enthusiasm, so she looks like she is a real heroine in a story of her songs. The way she sings fascinates a lot of people when they listen to her songs.

Most of all, I like the rhythm of her songs. Her songs are sometimes fast and high but sometimes slow and gentle. I don't really understand everything what she says in her songs because of my difficulties in listening to music in English. But once I see lyrics, I get to like her songs more and more. Some of her songs are in women's point of view. I feel the same way as the lyrics she sings. Especially, I like "If I were a boy". This song is about a girl and a boy. In this song, she imagines what she would do if she was a boy. The girl in this song wants a boy to know how she feels and hurts. And she is telling that if she was a boy, she would care about a girl much more than the boy she already knew does. This song conveys how dissatisfied she is with love with the boy. And then the girl in this song gave up believing him. I understand how she feels and when I listen to this song, I also become sad, but get power from this song as well.

I can be happy and feel comfortable at the same time when I listen to her songs. I think most musician keeps singing their songs the same way all the time, and it will result in that makes me think all of their music sounds the same. However, Beyonce has some kinds of music so that I will never be tired of listening to her songs.

The issue of veils

Schools Could be Allowed to Ban Veils


Muslim people have a religion that doesn't allow women to show their skin. So Muslim women have to cover their skin with veils. However, the government British has decided to ban veils.

There are several opinions about this decision. Some Muslim people are happy with this decision because they think they look the same with other people and the difference between them and other societies will be nothing. But other Muslim people feel bad to be banned veils because they think banning veils is kind of discrimination. One of Muslim students said that although they look different to other people, inside they are all the same. I agree a little bit with this opinion, but I strongly agree with the opposite opinion. People who are not Muslim can not see Muslim women's face, so they do not know how they react and how they look like. Not knowing how they react would be hard for other people to communicate with them. At school, if teachers don't know how students react, it is hard to evaluate them. Seeing each other's face is important when we communicate. I would be scared if I couldn't see a person's face who I talked to.
Now, there are a lot of crimes around the world, so wearing veils can make us think that people who covering their faces with veils are suspected and that it is easier for Muslim people to commit a crime. So showing our faces is important now.


In my opinion, if there was a Muslim student at school in Japan, she would have to obey the rule of school and would not be allowed to wear veils. That is because the rule in Japan is so strict about how students look like. Students are not allowed to wear something on their head in class. No matter what religion people belong to, people have to obey the rule in the region where they are. The problem is that we have to attach importance to human rights and religions. Banning veils must be segregation. If school vanned veils, some Muslim students would be withdrawn from school. Even though it is better for people who are not belong to Muslim religion that Muslim women don't veil, Muslim would be hurt that their religion is discriminated.



I think Muslim people need to know how important to see people's face and show their faces. There is no good point in hiding their faces. It is hard for other people to trust Muslim people until they show their faces.

Introduction

My name is Maiko. I'm in the third year. I'm taking English Literature as my major.



I am from Ibaraki prefecture. It is more than 2 hours away from here by car. I like there but I like Tokyo as well, because I get to go to a lot of places, could meet a lot of people here. Living in Ibaraki is so different from living in Tokyo. For example,every time when I go out, I need to drive a car instead of taking a train. There are a lot of places to go around to kill time or hang out with my friends in Tokyo, but Ibaraki has much less places to go. The best reason why I like Ibaraki is that I can relax in Ibaraki. That is because it is where I was born, where I grew up, got to see my precious friends and also because of the environment there. There are river near my house and it only takes 10 minutes to go to beach by car. No one cares about me even if I walk in my pajamas with my dog around my house. People living there are more friendly than people in Tokyo and living their own ways.


My hobbies are body boarding, going shopping, relaxing at home and listening to music such as R&B and House music. As for body boarding, I just started, but I'm getting into it. I got to know about it when I went to Guam last summer. I used to go shopping very much before, but now I don't have a part-time job, so I can't go shopping as many times as before. And I got to think saving money is more important for me than spending all of money for clothes and other things. Because if I save money, I can travel abroad whenever I have time. Every weekend I like to stay at my house and sleep as long as I want. I used to go out everyday, but now it is so easy for me to get tired every time I go out. So just staying at my house and watching movies is the best way to spend weekends. I sometimes ask my friends in America and Australia what music is out and popular in their countries. I prefer listening to music from other countries to that from Japan.



I like travelling abroad. Wherever I go, I prefer being near the ocean. I used to like getting tanned, but now I care about my skin. I have been to Australia last year, I stayed there about for 3 weeks. I went to the beach almost everyday. The beach was much clearer than the one in Japan. I really liked the beach in Australia. I realized that it was so hard to stay in another country with different language.


I would like to learn about a lot of themes in " Media English" class.

PLAGIARISM

University students sometimes plagiarize. They treat their school work, such as papers and assignments, as easy work that they can just copy from the Internet.　It is the problem which now a lot of Universities are faced with. Using the Internet to research an essay must be so much easier than that students write their own essay by themselves. However, they still have to do their homework by themselves with their efforts. Students sometimes think of both their homework and plagiarism as frivolous things. That is, they think even if they cheated, faculties would never detect that students cheated. Students who often cheat on their homework would not acquire any skill such as reading skill, writing skill and creating skill with their original ideas while they go to the university for four years. If they keep cheating, they end up lacking in originality and creativity.