Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Listening Blog-Week of November 3-November 7
Please continue to post. Also, please note that the Presidential Election is Tuesday night. I encourage you to watch TV from 8pm-12am that night. You can listen to the election news and this will help you improve your listening and speaking. You can also learn many new words.
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E.R.: Emergency Room. Season 15. Life after death”
Length: 45 minutes
Summary:
This episode of E.R. is really dramatic. An ambulance explodes without reason and hurts a lot of people. Some of the doctors are injured but one of them is terrible wounded. They go to the Emergency room and they diagnose blood in his lungs, then they start surgery. Everything goes ok but minutes later the surgery, the patient starts to bleed again and the plot gets more complicated.
Reaction:
This episode is really strong. Blood, broken bones and a lot of critical decisions are surrounding the walls of the Emergency Room. It was a good episode, but it was no necessary to show gore and blood almost in every scene but was ok. E.R. sometimes gets too far but is a good drama with a lot of action and analogies with life and important decisions.
Vocabulary:
Core: Noun. Essential part: the central or most important part of something.
Crick: Noun. Painful stiffness: a painful stiffness or muscle spasm in the neck or back.
Stroke: Noun. Stoppage of blood flow to brain: a sudden blockage or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain resulting in, e.g. loss of consciousness, partial loss of movement, or loss of speech.
Title: Prototype This
Length: 60 Minutes.
Summary:
Prototype This is different Myth Buster. The program think some future ideals such as to make a car can drive on river, but it is just manuscript. I mean that the car needs to improve some shape or look like pretty, and one day we maybe can find it on somewhere. However, this week they attempt to build a car that can park easily. They thought that make a car had eight legs like a spider, but it didn’t work because the leg could not support the car’s weight. And then they found a special derrick can which had a special tire. The tire shape looks like gear putting together on a tire, it can move any position. Finally, they were successfully.
Reaction:
I always have parking problem because it is hard to feel a parking space between car and car. If one day this car created on market, I would but it. It also can save much space, because when the car parks a parking space, it can move vertically into parking space. And all parks do not have to have extra space to let a car to park into or drive out the park space.
Vocabulary:
Prototype (n): an original model.
Sleek (adj.): smooth; glossy
Incredibly (adv.): believe hardly
History of Final Fantasy:
Length: 35 Minutes
Summary:
The History of Final Fantasy is a documentary about one of the most famous franchises in the video game industry. Developed by Square-Enix, Final Fantasy is a RPG game where gamers can discover new worlds and fight against different types of enemies. This game franchise has 23 years in the market. The game styles in story are unique, that’s why Final Fantasy is an icon in the video games industry. The documentary talks about the 13 Final Fantasy series, the background of each game and the influence in video game industry.
Reaction:
I enjoyed the documentary very much. Was interesting to know about Final Fantasy background and development. One of my goals is to become a Video Game Designer so this documentary has a big influence in my life. Was a well performed documentary, was well organized and the narration was excellent, giving important facts of the series for making it more interesting.
Vocabulary:
Terrene: Noun. Distinct section of Earth's crust: a section of the Earth's crust that is defined by clear fault boundaries, with stratigraphic and structural properties that distinguish it from adjacent rocks
Hallmark: Noun. Mark of quality: a mark showing that something is of high quality
2. Distinguishing mark: a feature of something that distinguishes it from others
Summon: transitive verb call upon somebody: to request or require somebody to do something
Title: Everyone Deserves Defense
Length: 15
The article that I listened to is by Peter Keane. He is a Professor of law at Golden Gate University Law School in San Francisco. Mr. Keane has been defending people for twenty years no matter who they are and what they have done. Most of the people that he helped were guilty, but he is always the only one protecting them. He has helped one of his clients who was charged with a crime to go free, but shortly after his release, he killed another person. Mr. Keane defended him again, but he was convicted. After thirty years doing this work, Keane declared himself proud of it. He often teach his student to do as he does because he believes that “One person on your side, no matter what you have done: that’s what keeps us a free people”.
Everyone deserves defense, but everyone like others. Our human society is made of deferent kind of people such as bad and good people. Some people are working hard whereas others are looking for the easy ways to live their life. In a society, we promote the full respect of the law for example: None has the right to take someone else life. If someone is convicted of crime, that mean he is not like other people therefore, he does not deserve any defense. Everyone deserves defense, but everyone like others.
Vocabulary
1-Anxiety: a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some misfortune.
2-Tenacity: persistent determination.
3-To hurl: to throw accusation at someone.
Title: Legally Blonde
Length: 93 minutes
Summary:
Elle has blonde hair. Her boyfriend is Warner. One day Warner gets the qualification to study in Harvard law school. He dumps her because he thinks Elle doesn’t serious on everything and his family doesn’t agree that Warner married her. However, Elle doesn’t want to give up so she applies to Harvard law school. She succeeds and enters Harvard. She wants to reverse Warner but he already has a new girlfriend. His new girlfriend’s family background is senators and also she is Harvard law student. And than she study hard and wins her lover back. Finally, she meets a nice boyfriend and wins a law case.
Reaction:
This movie is really funny. Elle’s behavior is strange because she wears exaggerated clothes and she looks like study fashion major. But she study hard because she wants Warner to be her boyfriend again. Finally, she wins the case. When she meets a mistake, she tried to overcome the problem. I think we can learn lesson from her spirit.
Vocabulary
Alibi: formal evidence that a person was in another place at the time of a crime
Amenable: willing to be influence or controlled by something.
Dicking around: have nothing to do/ be occupied with nothing
Title: Mean girl
Length: 96 minutes
Summary:
Cady lives in Africa until she is fifteen years old. She never enters any kind of school in her life. But, her mother must to come back to work in America so she starts school life. She doesn’t know how to make friends in school and every student doesn’t like her. She meets Lizzy and Daniel and they make friends. Lizzy and Daniel tell Cady to join Queen Bee so she meets three hot girls. These three girls teach her how to make themselves beauty. At first, Cady only curious about them, but she does some bad things to one of these three girls finally. Cady was jealous of she has a handsome boyfriend. Cady tired to let everyone dislike her. But, people don’t like her in finally. At that time, she understands beauty is not inside.
Reaction:
This movie reflect people who always jealous of people’s beauty. When you envy people, you’ll try to do any bad things to people. It’s not good to people. I think beauty is not outside, and it is inside.
Vocabulary
Vampire: reanimated corpse believed by some to leave its grave at night and such the blood of living people
Crack: cause something to make a sharp sound
Title: pigs
Length: 88 minutes
Summary:
A college student accepts a challenge to sleep with the entire alphabet from A through z and take a picture after make sex, before graduation. If he makes sex with twenty-six people, he can get huge money. When he tried to find X people, he finds he fells in love with her. He wants to give up this game. He wants her to be his girlfriend. But, when this girl knows he is cheating her, she breaks with him. Finally, she disguises she still loves him and takes bad picture of his body.
Reaction:
I think this is not a good movie because there are many part use bad words. Maybe this movie just wants to show about funny things. But, I think this movie is not suit for children.
Vocabulary
Struggler: the person who try to overcome difficulties
Profile: side view
Title: A Mighty Heart
Length: 107:39 min
Summary：
This movie was based on a real story.On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl's world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go-between had promised access to an elusive source. As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he might be late for dinner, then he never returned. In the face of death, Danny's spirit of defiance and his unflinching belief in the power of journalism led Mariane to write about his disappearance, the intense effort to find him and his eventual murder in her memoir "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl." Six months pregnant when the ordeal began, she was carrying a son that Danny hoped to name Adam. She wrote the book to introduce Adam to the father he would never meet. Transcending religion, race and nationality, Mariane's courageous desire to rise above the bitterness and hatred that continues to plague this post 9/11 world, serves as the purest expression of the joy of life she and Danny shared.
Reaction:
This is one of the more intelligent and well constructed movies of 2007 thus far. Touching on the human element as it collides with the unpleasant realities of hot-bed issues including politics and religion, the brutality and evil this story depicts is at times difficult to watch.
Difficult to watch because the content is disturbing, which is the intent of the film. We see a very human dimension to the real life characters who are depicted sensitively, making the grotesque outcome all the more horrifying. The story is fair to the innocent parties involved, and honest in rightfully assigning the blame to those responsible for these heinous acts. Dramatically and artistically, this is a superior movie.
Vocabulary:
kidnap: v steal sb away buy force and illegally.
Title
Election+ crisis
Length
6 hours
Summarize
Today is very important to Americans, because they will elect a new president. Before the election, people had various opinions of these two candidates. From the start, Obama was leading. At 9 o’clock, Obama gained 174 electoral votes while McClain got 49. Through the election, people said that the factors to choose the president included age, but not race. Close to 10 o’clock, Obama got 199 vote from eighteen states including Ohio and New Mexico while McClain got 78 from 10 states. At 11 o’clock, Obama won by receiving 297. After that, McClain made a speech and he said that it’s entirely his fault and not the people who supported him. He also stated that he will support the new president and thank the people who supported him and his family, and then Obama showed up. He appeared in Chicago with his family and gave a speech. His success accounted for his family and people who supported him. At the end of his speech, he encouraged people by stating his policy, including developing new energy, create new jobs and build more schools for children.
Reaction
Finally American elected their new president Obama, whether it is a right decision or not. Maybe the nation’s situation would have a big change and the race discrimination would disappear. I hoped he can change the economy and help people live better.
Vocabulary
Incumbent
Holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently
Superstition
A belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
Blow out
To win by a huge margin
Boogie
to dance energetically, esp. to rock music
Latino
a person of Latin-American or Spanish-speaking descent
Title: Election
Length: 5h
Summary
Anchors and anchor women introduced election returns of this time a presidential election. In the broadcast, experts expected that Obama will win in this election. During, live broadcasting, ballot counting was proceeded. As a result, Obama won the presidency. He won Rhode Island, Michigan, Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota, Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and so on. After Obama win the presidency, Mc Cain congratulated on Obama’s victory.
Reaction
I expected Obama’s victory, because he is one of the strong candidates in this election. He is a first black president. I think that it is new sensation. After finishing election, a lot of American citizens were glad of Obama’s victory.
New vocabulary
Perception: realizes or notices things that are not obvious.
Brash: if you describe someone or their behavior as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive.
Title- The election
Time- 5hs 10mns
Summary- when the election started, Obama had more vote than McCain. At 8:40, Obama won in Pennsylvania, and his rating was 65%. After 1hour, Obama won in Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Minnesota, NY, Ohio, and New Mexico…etc. However, after few minutes, i watched that the man in TV pointed out each states on the sreen and expected McCain was going to win. Finally, about 11:10, Obama won and became a president of USA because he got more than 310. At that time, McCain had a speech that he congratulated Obama. And then, Obama had a speech with his wife and daughters.
Reaction- The election was not surprised for me because i heard and read some news that Obama's approval rating has been more than McCain. More than 50 % of the states advocated Obama so he finally became a president. That moment was really exciting and all students live in University Square ran out and then shouted "Obama!!." I never forget this year because this exciting election will not come again.
Expel (v) – throw out, exclude
Gracious (a) - polite
Profound (a) – sincere, intense, great, keen
Title: The U.S President vote
Length: 5 hours
Summary:
At 7:00 pm, a host introduce November forth 2008 was the most important day in the U.S. because they would write a new history. Sometimes they introduce to audience what were candidates’ policies. When more and more states finished their vote, the host was excited because when he looked at an information TV that it was showed which candidate got election vote at a state, Obama’s got election vote more and more McCain, his voice was going up. Their also invited some people, I forgot who is, to talk about their opinion, but they always kept their way at neutral side. When Obama became the next new President of U.S. Obama supporters were crazed, but McCain supporters were disappointment. At Obama supporters 66% were South of America, 56% female voted to Obama and over 60% young people voted to Obama. When McCain knew loss the campaign, he had a speech to talk about his opinion and congratulations Obama won this campaign, he also thanked for supporters, volunteers and his family. He hoped that Obama can lead America to a good situation. Obama also had a speech to talk about his opinion. He said,’’ I look forward to working with them to renew this nation’s promise in the months ahead. He thought that right now was duty to lead America into a new situation.
Reaction:
March, 20th 2008 was my country President Vote, and Nov. forth 2008 was the U.S. President Vote. I compared after campaign between Taiwan and the U.S. I found that ever though in Taiwan finished the Vote, but our political parties still were against each other. But in the U.S. I saw that they united together to move next new century. Maybe Taiwan President Vote only have had forth times, we have to learn what is democracy. I mean that after campaign everything is gone, Taiwanese have to unite together to move new century.
Vocabulary:
Grateful thankful.
Apathy lack of feeling.
Extraordinarilyrarely
Inspiration heartening
Integrityuprightness
Election Day in America:
Length: 5 hours
Summary:
The election was a real battle between John McCain and Barack Obama. In most of the states, both of them had little differences in votes. A bad time for republicans, McCain’s performance was below W, Bush in 2004 elections in all the states. Barack Obama won with 338 of the votes (51%) of votes in America. Obama just needed 270 votes to become president. On the other hand we have a John McCain with just a 48% of votes that equals 155 votes. Obama was the solid winner of this election. McCain closed his campaign with an excellent speech. McCain is a honorable man, he spoke with wisdom about the future of America. Obama’s speech was extremely deep. People crying in the moment, repeating “yes we can” in every sentence of Obama’s speech. This is history and we are living it! God bless America.
Reaction:
My first time watching an election in America was incredible. All channels were focus in this event and the technology that they used was amazing. An example is the hologram used by the CNN network. Incredible! It was like in a Star Wars movie. However, the election was really tight between Barack Obama and John McCain, the battlefield was on fire and the voters were expecting the “worst case scenario” but Obama did it, and now is the 44th president of United States of America.
Vocabulary:
Exit Poll: n.
A poll taken of a sample of voters as they leave a polling place, used especially to predict the outcome of an election or determine the opinions and characteristics of the candidates' supporters.
Hologram:
n.
1. The pattern produced on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then photographically developed.
2. The photosensitive medium so exposed and so developed.
Projection: prediction or an estimate of something in the future, based on present data or trends.
Title: election
Length: 7hours
Summary and reaction:
Through the whole election, there were a lot of different voices about Obama and MCcain. It was a real fight between Obama and MCcain also between the democracy and the republican about this We can noticed through the data. In addition, we can saw that both of the two candidates has their highs and lows. McCain has spent his lige in service to his country and all United States citizens are grateful. He has had the courage to face down enemies. Obama decoted his lige to academia and communtiy service. He has had the passion to drive people to do things , positive things, and he has inspired a fresh new movement in politics.
In my opinion, because from now on. There were no more television advertisements and no more buildup. From now on , all of the people in this country will fixed there eyes on Washington, on the new prisendent, because of the present economic situation, all of the people want to change.However, most of the people just follow blindly and agree completly, but take a few minutes to look within themselves and ask themselves "what can I do for my country?" They just pay attention on one person--Obama, and want to let him makes different. Nevertheless, just remember one thing Change this country it the responsibility of all Americans. They have to do their part to make the nest four years better than the last.
Title: the election
Length: 6 hours
Summary:
This day is really important for American people because it is president election. Also, it is the first time black people come out to participate president election. People all over the world are focused this issue. After they start to count the ticket, they invited some senator to speech. But, around 9 o’clock Obama’s tickets are more than McCain’s tickets. Some senators in North Carolina talk their opinions about their president candidates. Around 10:30 McCain has a speech to public. He thanks people to support and he also congratulations Obama to be next American president. At around 12:10 Obama goes out with his family on the stage. He thanks a lot of people to support and he will try to achieve his policy.
Reaction:
I think this election is really important to American people. I have a good chance to see this big event in American and I feel really lucky. I don’t feel surprised when I heard Obama win this competition because some of news and newspapers are forecast Obama will win this election. Obama is a different president than before. I hope he can help poor people to find job and increase American economic.
New Vocabulary:
cynical: skeptical or doubting
apathy: lack of interest
callous: unsympathetic
parliament: assembly that makes the law of a country
Title: US Election
Length: 5hours
Summary:
November 4th, 2008 America has a election day which is very important to world. It started at 7:00. At first time, John Mccain had a chance to win. He got 60percent and 8 votes and Barack Obama got 40 percent and 3 votes untill 8 o'clock. However, it changed. After 8:10, he got 60percent and won in many states. After that, Obama got a chance to win and finally, he became a president in USA
Reaction:
Sometimes it was really boring. And Anchor's speech was too fast to understand. Sometimes they shouted. I could see all states ceremony and they looked crazy. However, It was good.
Title: Election 2008
Length: 5 hours
The American presidential election 2008, ended by the score of 64,975,682 for Democrats headed by Barack Obama versus 57,118,380 for Republicans leaded by Senator John McCain. Democrats victory accounting for 53% of votes and Republicans’ which equal 46 per cent of votes. The averages of votes for Senator Barack Obama are 49% by male and 53% by female. This election was so tight between Democrats and Republicans. Senator John McCain got 48% of votes from male and 43% from female. According to the result of this election, 349 electoral votes vversus 169, the victory of Barack Obama is fair in my opinion. In the history of the USA, this is the first time that an African-American is elected President. The other Presidents did their best and I won’t say that Mr. Barack is the best for this country. I just hope he can do better for the country and solve Americans problem cause people are suffering and it is not fair that big companies holding the economy of this country continue to turn all the profit in their advantage.
Title: the election
Length: 5 hours
Summary:
The U.S. presidential electeion has finished by winning Obama. I think this election was not exciting, because Obama was ahead all the time. While middle and south area's result was being announced, McCain seemed to catch up with Obama. However, it was not enough. As soon as Obama won in California, All the broadcasting stations announced Obama's win. And then, McCain and Obama's speechs were continued.
Reaction:
When I watched this election broadcasting, I was confused, because the way how to elect the president in the U.S. is different from the way in Korea. The U.S. way is if one candidate win in one area, they can get all of votes in that area. Korea is different. In Korea, we just count how much vote the candidate poll.
And I don't agree all of Obama's policies. However, I think he is smart and has sufficient qualifications for president. So, I hope he will change the U.S. to be better, and relize what he said before being president.
Title: Election
Length: 5 HOURS
Summary:
The United States Presidential Election ended by the victory of Barack Hussein Obama. It was a tough fight between Obama and Mccain. Obama won the election with just exceeding 5% of the votes than Mccain.When Obama won in California, all the broadcasting stations announced that Obama has won the election.
Reaction:
I was very happy that Obama has won the election. Because i was expecting that Obama will win the election and lot of american's also thought that he will be the new president of USA.
Title: U.S election
Length: 5 hours
Summary:
Obama was elected new president in U.S. At first, all of the TV shows that who will win the election and it was so excited. I think that McCain has strong power in East sides. However, it was different from our prediction. After that Obama won California, the election was ended . And then, Obama has a winnig speech in Chicago.
Reaction:
We watched election in my friend’s house. During the election, we discussed the way of election in America. In America, they choose the way called ‘winning takes all’, but I confused between the way in Korea and the way in America. As soon as Obama was elected, all of the people in square shout for joy! Anyway, I hope that new president will change a lot of things.
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