2008年10月30日木曜日

History of Halloween




“Halloween” means “hallowed” or “holy evening”. There are some theories of Halloween. I’ll tell you about one of them. Halloween was occurred by Celt about a thousand years ago, but the Celt called it “Samhain”. Samhain is fall festival. The Celt believed spirit of the death would return, so the Celt thought they would be tricked. After Roman enter Britain, this custom and Samhain are mixed. For 800 year’s, the people believed October, 31th is the day when spirit would return. They called it “All Hallows’ Eve, so now, people call it “Halloween”."Trick or Treat" currently performed by present Halloween the customs of the candy collection by the portions of "Treat" and children start by the next thing, the portion of "Trick" spread. There are much tricks .For example, throwing the excrement of livestock, releasing a cow out of a fence, or throwing an egg is performed. The customs of a mischief having decreased and continuing up to now as Trick-or-treating by the 1930s spread all over the United States.

2008年10月9日木曜日

Movie


I saw a lot of kind of movies in my life. The movie I was impressed is “Blood Diamond” and “Spirited Away”. First, I want to tell you about “Blood Diamond”. It is very good movie. I recommend you. Genre is suspense. The story is based on truth about Republic of Sierra Leone civil war from 1991 to 2000, so the movie is real. The civil war is relation to “Diamond”. It is called “conflict diamond”. Danny Archer (Leonardo Dicaprio), Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), and Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly) are main characters in this movie. They find the diamond, but they have different wishes each other. They are “Freedom”, “Family” and “Truth”…. In fact, Africa has a like this problem now, so we need to think about this problem.

Next, is about “Spirited Away”. This movie is made by Hayao Miyazaki. He is a very famous director. This movie made a great record. Main character is Chihiro(Senn). Senn is not her real name. The name was given by Yubaba. Chihiro’s parents were spirited away, so Chihiro works at Spa for finding her parents. The chief of Spa is Yubaba, and the boy is called “Haku” who helps her. Chihiro will help her parents. The end of movie is very emotional, so I recommend this movie.