Weblog Assignment #5

I visited the infoplease web site. In this site, the table indicates a Gender wage gap in certain occupations and is expressed as a percentage divided by percent women and earnings ratio. It shows that women have smaller percentage in some jobs with estimated earning of above $34,000. It also says that women typically hold lower-paying jobs and work in traditional female occupations such as register nurses, teachers and social workers.

It is a very interesting data that female bus drivers are almost half of workers. There are a few female bus drivers in Korea. Women are gradually more common in jobs that are held by men than they were. Status of women in our society is also getting higher than past years. However, we would know that occupations in which the majority of workers are women are fixed to some jobs. Therefore, I think that a range of jobs for women is still narrow. This site includes lots of knowledge you need. If you are interested in this site, you will find it

here

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By Kyung Sun Jung

Weblog assignment #4

slowlane

This web site has online information for stay at home dads. We don’t know about the problems of Mr. Mom who stays at home have problems. However, these sites have a lot of resources of articles, news, and books for dads. Though online, they can share know-how about how to cook, how take care of a child, and what dads have to do for their family. Additionally, it is classified by each other region, not only same region’s residents but also they can meet international dads. If you stay at home, it can help you about everything Mr. Moms.

Houseworking is very important and difficult. There are a lot of sources for housewives but dad’s information one cannot find. However, I think that this site give important dad’s information to Mr. Mom. In addition, they can learn not only a home business but also the issues such as divorce, and death. Also, dads who are so busy that they have to do housework can buy needed things online. Let’s link this site! It is a useful site to share good information about housework for dads.

AE2
Nam

Weblog assignment #4

Weblog Assignment #4


The Slow Lane web site is the online resource for stay-at-home dads. The site is a comprehensive collection of resources including helping support, advocate, and inform dads. You can also find many references dealing with issues of fathering, family, and being a stay-at-home dad. There is more information like how to start a play group and how to connect with others and links to other dad related sites.

Being a stay-at-home dad is not easy in our society since males are pushed toward having an employed job and making money. I think this kind of site is very helpful to SAHD and provides their community. It is also an important way to solve a problem of single dads that they could talk about their feeling and difficulties to each other. If you want to go to the site,
click

here

and get more information.

by kyung sun jung

Weblog Assignment #5

Take a look at any of these and write about them. Follow the usual pattern. Good luck!

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922479.html
Gender Wage Gap in certain occupations

http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2005/presskit/factsheets/facts_gender.htm
Gender Equality Fact Sheet (pick a graph or section to discuss)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3002946.stm
78 differences between men and women

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Are_from_Mars,_Women_Are_from_Venus
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, Wikipedia

http://www.sdsc.edu/CRAW/craw.html
Women in Computer Science- Computing Research Association resource

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom
Doom, the video game (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_%28video_game%29
Grand Theft Auto video game

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/takingtheheat/film.html
Taking the Heat: First women firefighters of New York (movie)

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2006/08/16/local/17252208.txt
Carbondale woman firefighter dies at 45

AE2

Abdulhadi almarri


Schwarzenegger


I visited a site for Schwarzenegger and he is famous actor around the world. Also, I went to the photo gallery for this actor and I think he is governor for California. This site has nice pictures of Schwarzenegger from several movies. And he is very successful in movies and politics. Also, he is from the biggest Hollywood stars.(Terminator) it is the best movies in my country for him.

In my opinion this site is useful to people who want know about Schwarzenegger his movies and his life. And I recommend any to visit this site. And I think I am stronger than him.

weblog assignment #4

AE2 DAVID



I visited the site http://www.slowlane.com/ "resource for stay-at-home dads".
This site is about home dad. Men be a housemom so stay at home and to take care their children.
These days got the new book about "The Man Who Would Be Dad". The book says dad part is changing, how to be today's father. Men's are hard driven, inexpressive, pragmatic creatures, devoid of strong emotions or the capacity to nurture, always more at home with work than with their families.
All of them are written for staying at home dads including local and international dad orfanizations, single dads, new dads, and divorced dads. So men's are understanding their wives.




My opinion
The dads change thesedays such as stay at home, new dads, kind of single dads, and divorced dads, they are increasing.
This site is to help those guys, give an information, the same quality each other, to live more easy and comfprtable.
They make contact, so various thing is usefull for them. I think they can release their stresses and strains for their sociaties or families so this site is good for todays dads. I will be like this site.

Assignment#4

AE2-B
Shota Watanabe

I read here. This website tells about a movie of Leave It To Beaver. If you can see this website, you can know about this movie’s outline. This website has a lot of photograph. If you didn’t see this movie, you intend to have looked and can enjoy it. You can know many actors in this movie. This actors name have link. If you put on the link, you can know this actors history. You can buy DVD.

My opinion…

This website is very kind, because it is very easy to look. I never know this movie, but I want see it. I think many children should see it, because if children see it, they can know CBS and ABC situation comedy – 234 filmed episodes.

Assignment#4

AE2-A
Atsumi

I visited here.
This web site descibes Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a famous movie star and politician of California, you know. There are many many of Schwarzenegger's photographs!You can see a lot of his amazing muscular body and movie photos in which he appeared, also you can hear his voice! In addition, this site states about him in detail, so you can know about him very well. This site also connects to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Italian fan club.

My opinion
I'm interested in this web site because Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of my favorite movie stars! He is cool! I think everyone knows and likes him. However, everyone doesn't know about him in detail, like me. Actually I didn't know about him very much when he was a body builder, but I can know about him in detail through this web site. Now he doesn't appear in the movies so I'm sad, however I wish him success with the political movement. I recommend this web site for not only Arnold Schwarzenegger's fan but also everyone! Check this site!

Weblog assignment #3

According to this web site http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4785824.stm it states that It is a paradox that women achieve an overall better educational level than men but get the oppsite reflection of job level. For example, Eighty percent of women complete secondary education compared to 75% of men,more than fifty percent of university students are women, but only women have a third of managerial jobs from the chart. After that, they give some measures to solve this problem: First,setting up gender equality in Europe. Moreover, reviewing all existing EU gender equality laws and increasing awareness of gender inequality, In addition, ensuring that gender equalitly has be cinsidered in all the jobs.

In my opinion, it is true that it is easier for men to find jobs than women. Because in our education it is a stereotype that men usually lead the class in school, so now, for most of men it is easier to find the managerail job than women. Even though that women's school scores are higher than men's scores, but the idea that men should lead all companies is inside all of people's hearts. Afer the survey that it is a paradox women have fewer job chances than men evern if their educational level is not less than men. Therefore, the gender institute give some measures to ensure that gender equality can be considered in all policies.

Mickey

I visited Bad Girls Do It. This web site is about girls who have kill someone. The main pictures of women who kill. On the left you can see names of the women who kill someone on the killers master list. When you click the names you will see stories.

In my opinion, there are some human rights abuses in this website because on the list are murderers who have already been excited. Their relatives may be discriminated against still by this information. Certainly, offenders need to take their punishment. But this website is a highly controversial page.



Raed ALHamad

Weblog assignment #4

AE2-B
RYO

If you click here, you can go to SLOWLANE.COM. this web site helps staying at home dads and their families. There are many searchable online references, resources and networks on this web site. Therefore, they can find out a lot of information which can help them easily. We can also read articles, buy many books, see news, and enjoy poetris. All of them are written for staying at home dads including local and international dad organizations, single dads, new dads, and divorced dads. In addition, there are many links not only to discuss about those issues, but also to communicate with people who have same situations.


My opinion

Nowaday dads who stay at home, kind like single dads, new dads, or divorced dads, are incleasing gradually. I think this web site is very usuful for those people, because they can find out the way to live more comfortably. They also can contact with people who have same situations, so they can share their ideas and opinions each other. As a result of this, they can release their stresses and strains for their sociaties or families. I think this web site offers them a good opportunity to solve their problems.

Weblog Assignment#4

I visited the Schwarzenegger photo gallery. There are 340 pictures of Schwarzenegger, who is　an actor. If you can click home, page would return to main page. Name of this website is A.S.I.F.C. It means Arnold Schwarzenegger Italian Fan Club. So the article is written in Italy. In most pictures, he is naked to the waist and smiles sweetly.

In my opinion, Schwarzenegger emphasizes the man. Cetainly, his figure has attracted a lot of women. It influences a major impact on the other men. Many guys try to build up their bodies like him to be popular with girls. People consider muscle to be one arm for men. These pictures may cause a gender gap.

AE2B
Ai

Weblog Assignment #3


I visited the site of Rethinking Schools Online. It offers a number of publications on critical topics in school reform. Rethinking Schools only publishes four issues per year. You could read lots of articles dealing with critical education topics, based on the perspective of classroom, parents, and students. This site also includes a special collection of links to useful and some activities for fun.

In my opinion, this site has many online contents. You can find numerous issues including subjects of some interest. It is a very interesting and important Website for educators and parents in charge of home school. Try to find out and acquire needed information.
Go to

here

.

by kyung sun jung

Weblog assignment #3

Barbie

This is the title of the site that has barbie‘s everything for girls. This web site has a lot of stuff, like Television section, fashion fever, music, games, and e-shop with advertisements about new barbie. Also, children who are from various nations can choose their language and they can enjoy global barbie. Children show Barbie’s bedroom, closet, garden, TV studio, and game room, mall. Like real barbie, girls can decorate barbie’s house, their hair, fashion, and so on. There is an e-shop section that parents can buy their children choosing barbie dolls through this web site.

I think that this web site is for women. Above all, women like a doll of beautiful barbie. They have a perfect body, beautiful hair and face, and popular fashions like a model. They can decorate barbie’s everything in the web site. However, girls may want to have a barbie doll. In the web site children who loved barbie share about their Barbie’s fashion and their everything.

AE2-A Nam

Weblog Assignment #4

Remember to drop comments in your classmates' weblogs. Ask questions. Start discussions about the topics. Make them interesting weblogs to visit.

Here are some sites to visit for assignment #4. Same rules...write a paragraph describing the site, and linking to it. Then write a paragraph telling what you think and why. Good luck!

http://www.slowlane.com/
slowlane.com- resource for stay-at-home dads

http://www.womenboxing.com/lailaali.htm
women's boxing

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenceo1.html
Women CEO's

http://www.americanlegends.com/jamesdean/photos/murals.html
James Dean Murals

http://www.stallonezone.com/
Stallone Zone - Sylvester Stallone

http://www.schwarzenegger.it/gallery/photogallery.html
Schwarzenegger photo gallery

http://www.timvp.com/father.html
Father Knows Best- 1954 television

http://www.timstvshowcase.com/beaver.html
Leave it to Beaver

Weblog Assignment #3

Weblog Assignment #3
AE2b Takako Niki

I saw Barbie website. You know, this site is presented for girls, and there are a lot of dress-up dolls who are beautiful princesses. Girls can change dolls’ dresses. Moreover, they can choose the color, theme, and shape of dresses or clothes that they want. They can also buy these dolls and their clothes by the internet order. They seem to be spending lots of time in this site.

In my opinion, feminists are likely to criticize this site, because they maybe think that it gives girls bad influences. I mean, girls who saw this site may think that beauty is good and I want to be beautiful like these dolls. These thoughts are easy to connect to the typical gender socialization in which beautiful women are more likely to be admired. But these opinions are the viewpoint of feminists, so in general, this site gives girls a lot of fun.

Weblog Assignment#3

I visited Bad girls do it. This site is about women who kill. There are The Killers Master List, Killers By Category, and so on. When I click each murderer's name, I can know what the lady did and who is killed with pictures. In addition, this website accepts information about killers. We can research on specific murders or classifications.

In my opinion, there are some human rights abuses in this website because on the list are murderers who have already been excuted. Their relatives may be discliminated against still by this information. Certainly, offenders need to take their punishment. But this website is a highly controversial page.

AE2B
Ai

Assignment#3

AE2A
Atsumi

I visited this site here.This site discribes about that EU's genger gap still wide open. European women do better in school than men, but get lower pay nad fewer top job. Women have higher education than men, but they can't earn much money and can't do nice jobs. If you visit this site, you can see about share of female managers, gernder pay gap and part time wokers with each aonytry's graph.

My opinion
When I visited this site, I was purprised at these topic because I don't know about EU's gernder gap is still wide open. I think that it is unequal for women. However, actually in Japan, gernder gap is still exist. In japan, also women can't get much money or do good jobs. Therefore, we shold reform these unfair terms.

Weblog Assignment#3

Weblog Assignment#3

I visited this web site. It is written about how EU's gender gap is still wide open in this article. There are a lot of women who go to university in EU. However, their salary is lower than that of men, and they can't get the same pay as men. Also, even if women reach better educational levels than men, it is difficult for them to get a good job. Moreover, in this article you can see some bar graphs of each country which are about gender pay gap, share of female managers and part time workers. They are useful in knowing which country has more gender gap.

My opinion
This site is interesting for me because I didn't know much about EU’s gender gap in business. In Japan, also women can’t get the same opportunity as men in business. Furthermore, women are lower position than men. These are common problems between EU and Japan. Therefore, we have to struggle with this problem to get equal situation in business.

AE2A
Rika

human nature

I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_beings . The article describes how human beings are different from other animals. Humans have developed brains, language and reasoning. The article talks about how the bodies of humans are different from other animals. For example, humans have different limbs for moving things so that they can use tools more than other animals.




In my opinion it is good article to read so that people can know about human nature. First, the human brain is a complex organ to become developed because intellect distinguishes humans from the animals, also have self – expression and the exchange of ideas which means human are social in the case. Finally, humans have a lot of phenomena and do well in their life so that humans can be interested in music, religion and something like that. In conclusion, in my opinion, it is a good article about being human.




MAZEN

heard man and thefoxes

In former time on small a village. There is herd man who takes care of cattle infields to graze. He thought about to make practical joke. He went to hill top and he said ‘help me the foxes want eat my cattle. People of a village came to field and he laughed at them and people of a village got angry. He did that over and over. One day the foxes came to the field and he went to hill top and he said help me but there are not replying to him the foxes eat his cattle. He made big mistakes to liar. Everyone knows If you liar, you will go to hell.

mazen

Weblog Assignment #3

shota watanabe

I read "Rethinking Schools Online".The site has widely treated even the solution from the problem. Moreover, the background of the problem is put in detail. We can study by reading this site of a lot of matters.

my opinion

This site is wide and very difficult. It was felt that it was difficult and to summarize it. It seems that this site can obtain quite a lot of knowledge by often reading. Especially, I think that using it when the problem etc. that cannot be felt familiar though it happens by an actual reality are learnt is significant. Because it talks about the matter very plainly, and directly.


here

The White House Project

Weblog Assignment #3


This web site is ‘The White House Project- encourages women to run for office.’.
The tittle of the site is THE WHITE HOUSE PROJECT. In addition, The White House writes this site about advancing women’s leadership and encouraging women to run for office. Geena Davis, who plays America’s first female president on the ABC drama Commander In Chief, starts the project whose name is Go Run Training for women.
This is the first time to start and 4 Go Run trainings are offered across America. We can apply to the training at this site.

My Opinion

Geena Davis promotes the project, at the same time she is a very famous woman president in the drama, and she is very effective person to women in the US. So, this project may be success. This is the big project, because it is the first trial by the white house. In addition, the project is proved the women’s ability to run for office as a president of it. therefore, I think the project is very effective and able to encourage to women’s mind.

AE2-A
Yoko Nagano

GRIMM FAIRY TALES

I went to grimm fairy tales site on the web. The site has a reddish brown color. On the homepage there is a welcome message for kids. There is some linkson the left of the homepage. Under one of these links you can find the story of the brothers Grimm, their birthdays and homeland, also how they collected the stories and what was the reason. There is a link where you can read some Grimm's tales. In this site the kids are able to play some games. The site has two languages, French beside English.


In my opinion this site is helpful for kids who are interested in folk tales. I have found that this site not just for children. The teachers and parents areallowed to register in this site to tell the children these stories, especially kids who arent able to read. In this site there are many tunes which kids like. It will make them feel more confortable in this site. I like this kind of site, because it gives good lessons for children. If I have kids, I will recommend that they visit this site.

by,,,,,, Khaled Alotaibi (*_*)

Rethinking Schools

I visited rethinking schools which is about feeding the children. And I saw a book that talked about the food that should be in school. Also, the site has a lot of color and some pictures about the food. For example, green, red and the pictures about fruit and vegetables. Also, l learned about healthy food. Also I read the famous saying which is(( you are what you eat)).


In my opinion, this site is useful to people who want to know or learn about healthy food. And for families who have children. I recommend to give it to schools to apply what is written in the book.

by, Abdulhadi Almarri

Weblog Assignment #3

AE2-B
RYO

I saw this article. The article on the web site states that many European women are still in cruel circumstances for their work despite the fact that they do better in school than men. From this article, we can get the information about present circumstances of gender roles for their work, and know about some different treatment between male and female. There are mainly three kinds of information with some of the statistics. According to the first statistics, Latvia has the highest proportion of women managers. the Second statistics show that Cyprus has the highest gender pay gap. The third statistics show the average of one third of women who are part-time workers.


My opinion

There is a similar problem in Japan. I wonder that despite the fact that a lot of women have better education in school than men, this is not reflected on entry to the labor market, and if they get jobs, their wages are less than men's wages. However, as this article says, I think this matter is getting better gradually. One of the reasons is that gender institution deeply thinks about it. Also in some countries, many women clamor against their government policy, because of lower pay. Therefore, I think this matter will be improved in the future.

Weblog Assignment #2

AE2-B
RYO

I visit this web site. This mentions discussing the learning process called socialization. There are contents in the beginning of this article. The contents are mainly separated into two parts; socialization for social agents (humans) and socialization for non-humans (animal species). Also this article has a definition of the word "socialization". According to this article, socialization means "the process by which human beings or animals learn to adopt the behavior patterns of the community in which they live".


My opinion

There are contents in the beginning of this article. I think this is a nice notice to attract people. It is easy to understand what the article is describing. And also I was surprised when I knew that animals have socialization even feral animals. From the explanation of this article, I think all creatures have socialization like humans. However socialization is not always good thing. It sometimes causes gender socialization because of reinforcing gender roles.
Therefore I think we need to have democratic (equal) socialization to decrease discrimination between boys and girls.

GOOD FRIEND

GOOD FRIEND

AE2 BY TURKI ALRASHEED
All people are looking for a good friend from humans or animals, but I will talk about special story from 40 years ago. A famous man in K.S.A had a lot of Camels; one small one mother was dying, then he took care of it, all camels in the morning went to eat then came back before Sun down. This small camel before it left went in front of the door waiting for the boss then went with the others every day. After 5 years the small camel come to the door as usual waiting for the boss but did not see it, then some people brogan the boss, holding to some place for die people, because he died then the camel was seeing and sad still was like that 20 days after that missing the camel was and they went looking for it. They found it died in the same place as the boss. This story gives us good relations and good friend ship.

Weblog Assignment #3

Just for clarification, please remember:
These assignments go on your weblog first; later, it's good if you contribute them to the class!
Have trouble making links? Use Edit Post, look at how someone else did it, and do it the same way! Don't change their post, though!
Here's assignment #3; choose one, look at it, tell us what you saw, tell us what you think.

http://www.msmagazine.com/
Ms. Magazine: more than a magazine, a movement

http://www.thewhitehouseproject.org/v2/press/2006/May/pressrelease-2006-05-15.html
The White House Project- encourages women to run for office

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4785824.stm
Europe's gender gap (article with graphs)

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/badgirls/
Bad girls do it- women who kill

http://barbie.everythinggirl.com/
Barbie website

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/
Rethinking Schools Online

I saw this website GrimmFairyTales.
Grimm Fairy Tale is a website about fairy tales. It's website about fairy tale. It has reading and listening and interactive, narrated and animated stories. There are children's literature and folklore classics featuring animals, princesses, magic, and fabulous creatures. The two cartoons on the front page talk together in the beginning. This website is for children. It has two languages. In conclusion, this website talks about fairy tale and folk tales.
My opinion
Grimm Fairy Tale is for children. It's interesting to children. It has many stories and game for children. It's good for children. It doesn't have anything about crime or like this. When I see this website I feel bored. It has many colors. In conclusion, this website is interesting for children.
Raed ALHamad

peach boy [Momotaro]

peach boy [Momotaro]

AE2-B
shota watanabe

A long time ago, a grandfather and grandmother lived. So that Grandfather cuts turf to a mountain and Grandmother went to washing to a river. Then peaches flowed from the river. Grandmother returned with the biggest peach. They would cut a peach with two people after Grandfather returned. Then a child came out of the inside. They named him Momotaro . He was brought up carefully. When Momotaro, who had became big took a nap,Ogres came to the village. The ogres took food from the village. Momotaro felt anger for the first time then, and Momotaro decided to go to the ogres' island to exterminate the ogres. Grandmother made dumplings for Momotaro. When Momotaro walked, He came across a dog and a monkey and a pheasant. Instead of getting dumplingｓ from Momotaro, decide to follow him to the ogres' island. Momotaro went over to the ogres' island by a small boat. They fought against the ogres and they won. The ogres changed the heart. Momotaro regained the food of a village and returned to the village. A happy ending.

here

Weblog Assignment#2

AE2B
Takako Niki

I saw here (GrimmFairyTales) this site. In this site, we can not only read the Grimm's fairy tales and their hisory but also play some games. And this site is produced for children, so there are many characters or movies which make them fun. In history's page, we see that Brothers Grimm wrote over 200 stories, but in this site, we can read only some famous stories; Brementown Musicians, Peter rabbit, and so on. When we become tired from reading stories, we can divert ourselves by playing some games.

I think this site is very fun for all generations, from children to elderly people, because we can read easily without getting bored and can also study about Brothers Gurimm or the Gtimm's fairy tale. I tried to read Brementown Musicians, which I have read in my childhood, so I remembered how it was. Most of all characters are a little scary. But in my opinion, the Grimm's fairy tales have been said to have contained some cruel scenes, so scary characters are better. Different from most Japanese web sites, this site is fashioned in characters.

Weblog Assignment #2

AE2-B
Shota Watanabe

I write it about Gender and School Violence. This site talks about six matters. It is Crime victimization, Threats and bullying, Physical fights, Hate words, Theft and property damage, Weapon possession, and victimization of teachers. The students of a schoolanswered a questionnaire and a result is written as statistics of the questionnaire. For example, what kind of problem happens at school and is the problem different for man and woman?

My opinion

I read this site and felt that crime was very near. I thought that I must not forget about crime. If I could remake this site, I would use a graph. Besides, a lot of things expressing thedifference between man and woman are written in this site. Therefore I will use a circle graph. I think we have to consider how to avoid crime.

here

Weblog Assignment#2

Atsumi

I visited the site http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/main. This site is animation with sound. When you visit this site, two funny characters welcome you. There are many programs in this site. Its main program is grimm tales. You can enjoy reading with pretty animation and nice sound. You also enjoy playing a game and fun stuff.

My opinion
I think this site is fun because it is animation. The picture is clean and there are a lot of devices. Children are absolutely interested in this site. In addition, this site entertains not only children but also adults. There is narration, so blind people can listen and spend an exciting time. Therefore I recommend this site to all people!

AE2

Aesop's Fables

I went to Aesop's Fables Aesop's Fables on the web. There is a welcome massage on the home page. This massage talk about the site's history. Aesop was the person who made the fables. The site has multi colors for example, green, brown and orange. There are many fables in this site.

In my opinion, this site has many benefits for children. It help children to read better and more, because it is short and funny. Also it helps them to know some kind of animals. The moral of these fables, teaches children good behavior. So, this site is very important for children.



Abdulhadi almarri

Weblog Assignment #2

The title of the site is Aesop's fables.There are many fables attributed to Aesop.You may have an appotunity to try a few of a Aesop's Fables with great illustrations and to know the history of Aesop.This site is made by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Then,If you need any information you can contact Copper Frances Giloth who is Director of Academic computing Associate Professor of Art.

This site has a lot of fine illustrations retelling the fables.You can also find different versions from traditional versions.Those illustrations depict the contents of the story with many different ways like animations, some with sound and interactivity.There is a lot of fun that you can experience.


By: Kyoung sun jung

Web Assignment #2

I visited grimmfairytales.this web-site has interesting fairy tales for children. This web-site is composed of different stories and games with cute characters; a cartoons, animated tall tales and so on. Also, children can easily understand the fairy tales through various cartoons and pictures. So, through net safety of this web-site, children can learn how to use correctly their computer. This web-site gives many sources for teaching their children such as kid stuff, coloring practice, and leaping match with detailed explanation.

I think that this web-site is very available not only to children but also adults. These days, parents have no time in which to read a children’s story to their children. This web-site brings about children's curiosity in fairy tales that is designed with various colors. Through this web-site, it has merit like parents reading their book. However, I think children just do their computer all day. Consequently, the web-sites has to add auto-off timer to this web-site watch out for children's toxicities.


AE 2
HeeKyung Nam

Weblog Assignment#2

If you want to visit Grimm Fairy Tales web site, please click here.
This web site’s design looks fancy. It uses a lot of colors and unique characters. This web site is designed by EnTechneVison. In this web site, there are several programs. The main program is fairy tales. You can read the Grimm fairy tales and all of them have illustrations. Also, you can read them while listening to the narration. Other programs are games and coloring pages. There are different kinds of games and pictures in this web site.

My opinion
I think this web site is useful not only for children but also for people who study English. We can read and listen to fairy tales in English, so it helps us to improve English reading and listening skills. Also, this web site is so interesting because there are a lot of programs which we can enjoy. When we want to play games, we can enjoy games in this site. This site is used for children, so there are a lot of characters. But those characters are not cute but weird. In my country, children prefer cute characters to weird characters. I think the taste is different between America and Japan.

AE2
Rika

Weblog Assignmnet #2

There is grimmfairytales.com.
Title of the site is GrimmFairyTales.This site contains animation of Grimm Fairytales. Grimm Fairytales has a lot of folks and fairy tales and was written by the Brothers Grimm. The site looks like for children. We can read the story, downloads fun stuffs, and play flush games on the site. This site designed, maintained and powered by EnTechneVision

My opinion

Grimm Fairytales was written for children. Moreover, this site is for children. I think that there is much attractive stuff for children. The structure of this web site is very conspicuous to see anyone even so adult people see it. This is because it contains a lot of colorful animation,some music and plain words. when I read the story of the site, which title ‘Brementown Musicains,’ I there are also many familiar characters of the story. Therefore, there are some attractive ideas to be familiar with us.


By Yoko
AE2

Folk Tale~ Mulan

BY AE2B~Carol

This is a story that is talk about a girl in China. Thousands of years ago, Girl's status was low. Girls could not be authorized to go into the army. One day, a girl whose name was Mulan's age was young. Her father could not go into the army because of sickness. Although she was afraid of the power in government, she still pretended to be a young boy and went in to the army. She took the place of her father. It was difficult for a girl in the army. She worked hard and diligently. Then, she got a promotion. She became a general from a soldier. Finally, she got a prize even though it was found that she was not a boy. Her parent was proud of her. Therfore, she was a young girl but she did her job very well. Everyone forgave and accepted her.

Weblog Assignmnet #2

Ryo
AE2

I saw the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization. this is mentioned about discussing the learning process called socialization. There are contents in the beginning of this article. The contents is mainly separated two parts; socialization for social agents (humans) and socialization for non-human (animal species). Also this article has a definition of the word "socialization". According to this article, socialization means the process by which human beings or animals learn to adopt the behavior patterns of the community in which they live.


My opinion

There are contents in the beginning of this article. I think this is a nice notice to attract people. It is easy to understand what the article is describing. And also I was surprised when I knew that animals have socialization even feral animals. From the explanation of this article, I think all of creature have socialization like humans. However socialization is not always good thing. It sometimes causes gender socialization because of reinforcing gender roles.
Therefore I think we need to democratic (equal) socialization to decrease discrimination between boys and girls.

Weblog Assignment#2

AE2B
Ai Kitabatake

I looked at here. This page is about Aesop's fables. University of Massachusetts Amherst's professor, Copper Frances Giloth, made this website. These stories which were written by Aesop are arranged in alphabetical order. It's easy to find a story you want to read. In addition, most stories have two versions. Some stories use animation. The main characters in Aesop's fables are mostly animals, especially fox and wolf.


In my opinion, I think many people are interested in animations of stories. There is advice at end of each story. For example, the writer admonishes that kindness affects more than severity in the The Wind and The Sun. In The Ant and The Grasshopper, there is advice that it is best to prepare for the days of necessity. Readers can draw the moral from these stories. So Aesop's fables are very good for children.

Assignment2

Mickey

Assignment2!

Accorrding to the the site http://interact.uoregon.edu/Medialit/mlr/readings/contents/violence.html.I konw here is discusses aboout the topic that what media, TV, and internet impact on children. The most important that influence children is TV. However TV sometime plays an adventage role on children, but most of time TV plays a negative role on children, like violence!For example, in the prime time children will see more than 8000 muders on TV before they finish elementary school! On the other hand, they usually can't disdinguish between gratitude violence and necessary violence. These problems are very serious when a child grows up!And this site well show you how serious TV impact children in these year.

In my opinion,I think parents should company with their children when they watch TV.Actually, according to survey, TV has three prime harmful influences on children: 1.Learning aggressive attitudes and behaviors. 2.Becoming desensitized to real world violence. 3.Developing a fear of being victimized by violence .If parents don't teach ''violence''this word, children will don't know the deeply mean about this word forever. For example, children will don't know what the different between good guys and bad guys! They are all kill and assault each other!Because good guys kill bad guys,and bad guys assault good guys.So,I think only if parents can company with their chrildren when they watch TV can let TV plays best role on children!!

A MONKEY vs A CRAB

Ai Kitabatake
AE2B

This is a folk tale from Japan.

Once upon a time, there were a monkey and a crab. The crab had a rice ball and the monkey had a pit of persimmon. The monkey wanted a rice ball. So he asked the crab to exchange it for the pit. "If this pit grows up and bears fruit, I would climb the tree and give you fruits.' They promised and exchanged. then the crab raised it and grew it well. Then the tree bore many fruits. The crab called the monkey and asked him to pick up. However, the monkey did nothing but eat. He didn't try to hand the crab fruits. "Hey! Are you listening? Give me the fruits." The monkey said to crab, "Shutup!" and threw green persimmons at the tree. The hard fruits hit the crab. Unfritunitely, the crab died.
A son of the crab found his moher and became sad. The son decided to avenge his mother. A bee, some mortar, and chestnut helped the son.
At that, when the monkey went away, the crab group broke into the monkery's house. They hid themselves and waited for his return. the chestnut hid in a fireplace. The mortar stayed on the roof. The son hid in a water jar. The bee hid in a ceiling.
Finally, the monkey came back. Because it was cold, he tried to warm his hands at the fire. Suddenly, the roasted chestnut jumped into him. The monkey soaked his hand in the water jar. Then the crab appeared and cut his tail. At once the bee stung him. When the monkey want outside, the mortar jumped on him. Monkey said, "I'm so sorry. I regret what I did.'
The story concludes happily.


here is another version of this story.

KAGUYAHIME

Ryo
Once upon a time, a grandpa and grandma lived somewhere. Grandpa made money by making baskets with cut bamboo. One day, when he went to the forest as usual, he found bamboo which twinkled brightly. He cut this bamboo and looked into the inside of this bamboo. Then, there was a baby girl in this bamboo. As they had no children, they decided to bring up this baby girl. He named the baby girl "Kaguyahime". She grew up very well, and she became very beautiful. She was proposed to a lot of young men many times. She led them to look for treasure as a condition for accepting their proposal, but the treasure never existed, so they couldn't find the treasure. So actually Kaguyahime didn't want to marry. She became sad day be day. One day, grandpa asked her about that. She answered, an ambassador may pick me up from the moon before long. Then, finally the day came. As grandpa didn't want to give her to them, he attacked them. However, it was hopeless to pratect Kaguyahime. Eventually, Kaguyahime returned to the moon with the anbassador. It's a sad story.

There is another version of this story here.

You can make any comment about it that you like.

Weblog Assignment #2

AE2
DAVID



I visit site http://www.gendercenter.org/violence.html "Gender and School Violence".
This site about young ages violence. Male students ages 12 through 18 reported more crime against them occurring at school or going to or from school than females in 2003. The percent of males in grades 9 through 12 repoted in 1997 they were threatended or injured with a weapon on school property. Threats and bullying about five percent of males and females reported bullying in 1999 and 2001 increased to nine percent. 12th grade males were more likely than 12th grade females between 1976 and 1996. Males in grades 9 through 12 were more than twice as likely to report they had been in a physical fight than females in 2001. 18 percent of males and three percent of females reported carrying a weapon.



My opinion


Boys violence is more than girls. I think it is influence about tv program because much program has a action like violence. And actor is more than actress in violence tv program. So i think young guys have to protect from tv. The cause violence is Media. And problem to their's parents. Parents have t0 choose good media because children following them. So parent's part is important.

Bad Boy

Bad Boy
This story about a young man in his 20th and his old father in his 50th . that is the son got bored because the father asked him the same question several times each day . The question was " How is the school " then the son answer to him the same answer it was good dad . until the son got bored and angry and the son said to his father why you ask me the same question several time then the father look at his son trien to say to his son when you was kids you ask me a lot question every minuet you sad to me . "Dad what's that " I answer to you beybe that it's a car . And I was very happy answer to you now because I getting older and keep forgetting then ask you many question then you getting bored for me . the father say if you were my pleas would you do then the son relies he was wrong a bout that and he must be a ptient with his father then son become lasting to his father every singel day.

Smart Rooster

This a story from Saudi Arabia
Once upon a time , a Fox went out from his home looking for food. When he got near the grove, He heard the sound of a Rooster. After that he stopped and listened. And then he got near the direction of the sound. After that, he saw Rooster above the grove fence. He got happy and said to himself," he is good catch, but how can I get him??" He came to him and said," good morning my friend, how are you to day?" Rooster said," I am fine what do you want?" Fox said," I want you to be my partner and grow crops on a Farm. After that, you would have more seeds. Rooster answered him," that is a good job". Fox said," ok come in because we will make a deal". After that, Rooster smiled and said," go to my secretary Bobo in that shack and make a deal with him". Fox became happy because he thought it would be another Rooster! He got near the shack. After he saw inside the shack, he was surprised. he saw a big dog ,and he called out," that is Bobo oh my god?!! Rooster had laugh on me. After that he came back and was a fraid. And he went to the forest.


Raed ALHamad

The frog in the well

Hiroyuki Asano

Once upon a time, a frog that was strongest was in the well. He was always swaggered in the well. One day, he wanted to

go outside, so he climbed the wall of well. Then, he that saw a bird went outside but he didn’t run away, because he had never

saw a bird and he thought that he was the most strongest in the world. He was eaten by the bird. Ultimately, he knows nothing

of the world.

Dan Gun Myth Story

AE2
DAVID



This story is about a Korean myth, the name of this story is "Dan-Gun Myth". It is the very first story of Korea. The story starts like this: God's son whose name is Hae-Mo-Su comes doen from sky with many subjects and three spirits. Each of the spirits can handle rain, wind, and the sun. There were no rules, just animals, no humans before those guys came down, so they became the first Koreans. After that, they started to farm, build houses and make some laws. It seems like a balanced and ideal society, especially to animals. So a tiger and a bear visited Hae-Mo-Su. They hoped to be a human, so they asked to him how they can be a human. Hae-Mo-Su says, they will be human if they stay in a cave 100days and just eat garlic and mugwort, so the tiger and bear decided to stay in a cave with just galic and mugwort. After three weeks, the tiger wanted to get out and eat some meat. So he left for the rest of the days. But the bear stayed alone. On the 100th day, Hae-Mo-Su visited the cave and was impressed. So hw made the bear into a woman. The bear woman's name is "Bear-Woman", the bear is a symbol of the ideal Korean woman. Tenacity, gentle and plump personality liken the bear to a woman. At last, Hae-Mo-Su and Bear-Woman married and had a baby whose name is Dan-Gun, the first king of Korea.

Lion and the two cows

Once upon a time, there were two cows red and yellows living in peace in forest. They had an agreement to share the food, defend each other and to stand together as one cow in front of any danger. In the other side of the forest, there was a lion which was planning to eat these cows but it couldn't. Because it is impossible to fight all of them at once. So, the lion went to the cows and has pretended to be kind and nice with them until he became a friend. After that, the lion start to convince the red cow how difficult is to share the food and how the yellow cow is is working less and eating more. After that, the red cow has agreed to kill the yellow cow and share its meat with the lion. Once the lion killed the yellow cow, it faced the red cow and say to it "it is your turn now I will kill now". The red cow has cried and said I have killed when I broke the agreement.

In conclusion, we should keep our promises and never trust strangers.



abdulhadi almarri

Weblog Assignment #2

For this assignment you are to go to one of the sites below, and learn as much as you can about it. You do not have to read every word or follow every link, but it is important for you to know what a site does and what it has on it. Then, you should write two paragraphs.

In the first paragraph (5-7 sentences), describe the site as carefully as you can. Tell what it does, what it has on it, what it looks like, who made it (if you know), etc. Link to the site as soon as possible, in the first sentence if you can. Tell the title of the site.

In the second paragraph (5-7 sentences), give your opinion. It can be your opinion about the site, about the subject, about the pictures, about the web design, anything. Tell why you feel the way you do. How is the US different from your country in this subject? Why is this important? How does this subject make you feel? Any of these can be your opinion. Write more if you want. Remember that everyone will read it! Put your paragraphs on your own weblog. Later you will put two of your entries on this weblog.

http://www.grimmfairytales.com/en/main
grimmfairytales.com - watch and play games!

http://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php
Aesop's fables- try a few!

https://adshomeclubs.scholastic.com/offer.aspx?item=187120&promocode=imp5&key=3R4C&template=TOP01&IQ_ID=638984
Disney Princess Book Club

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture
Nature vs. Nurture, Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization
Socialization, Wikipedia

http://interact.uoregon.edu/Medialit/mlr/readings/contents/violence.html
Violence and Media, collection of articles (you don't have to read them all!)

http://www.gendercenter.org/violence.html
Gender and School Violence

Japanese folk tale " Momotarou(Peach boy)"

AE2A
Atsumi Murao

Long long ago, an old man and old woman lived. An old man went to the mountain to cut grass and an old woman went to the liver to washing. When an old woman was washing, a big peach was flowing so she took and cut it. Then, a boy baby appeared inside the peach, so an old man and an old woman named him Momo(peach)tarou. The boy, Momotarou, has grown into a strong boy. One day, Momotarou said, “I will go demon’s island and get rid of bad demons.” An old woman gave him kibidango (Japanese cake) and he left his home. On his way, he met a dog, a monkey and pheasant. He gave them his kibidango and they joined with Momotarou. They reached demon’s island and knocked damons down. They took away demon’s treasure. An old man and on old woman were glad that Momotarou came back safely. Finally, Momotarou, an old man and on old woman lived happily.

There is another version of this storyhere.

Helping The Seedlings Grow

Here is a folk tale from China

Helping The Seedlings Grow

There was once a farmer in the State of Song. Every day he would go to the paddy fields to check on the growth of his seedlings. Because the seedlings were growing very slowly, he became worried.
One day, when the farmer was on his way to the fields, an idea suddenly flashed through his head. He hurried on his way and jumped into the field.With great care, he lifted each seedling up a little from the soil. When the day's work was done, he dragged his weary body home, feeling very content.As soon as he got to the door, he talked to his wife, "Wife, I'm totally exhausted!""What did you do in the fields today?" asked his wife."Go to the fields and see for yourself!" replied the man proudly. "I helped the seedlings grow."
When his son heard , his son ran quickly to the paddy fields. It was now sunset. From a distance the little boy could see that the seedlings in the paddy fields had all died.


Here is another version of this story
You can make any comment about it that you like.

By Mickey (Chien Meng Chun)

"The Grateful Crane"

AE2A
Rika Nishioka

This is a fairy tale in Japan.

Once upon a time, there was an honest young man. One day, when he walked in a forest, he found a crane which was caught in a trap. He was sorry for the crane, so he released it from the trap. After few days and nights, a beautiful woman visited his house. She said to him, “I lost my way, so could you lodge me in your house?”, and he let her stay at his home. The next day, she began to weave in gratitude. The textiles which she made were beautiful, and they could be sold at a high price. She kept weaving for several days in a shed without eating food. “How about having a rest and eating something?” he asked her, but she didn’t reply. He couldn’t see her because she told him to please never peep inside while she wove. However, he worried about her, so he opened the door of the shed. He couldn’t believe because the person who had been weaving was the crane which he had saved from a trap several days ago. The crane pulled out feathers one by one with her bill, and she made cloth with her own wings. She had to leave him because he saw her identify. Finally, she flew up to the sky, and he cried to her to come back because he loved her.

There is another version of this story here.
You can make any comment about it that you like.

A tiger and woodcutter

AE2 /A
HeeKyung Nam


A tiger and woodcutter

This is a story that is told in Korea.
Once upon a time there lived a good woodcutter. When the woodcutter was chopping a tree, a fierce tiger appeared. He was so scared and had a bright idea. The woodcutter tricks the tiger to think he is his lost brother. The tiger felt sad that he didn't want to show the mother his fearsome looks. He just told the woodcutter to take good care of his mother and let him go. Afterwards, the tiger brought wild boars and rabbits to the woodcutter's house. Then, he and his mother could live happily.However, the mother passed away and he was so sad. One day, when he wasgone, the tiger said that there was no reason for him to live since his mother had died. The tearful woodcutter buried the tiger beside his mother’s tomb.The woodcutter learned something great from the tiger.

This story's Moral is that we make tiger filial piety one’s mirror, we should be filial to one’s parents.

Here is another version of this story here

The mirror

The Fair Tale in Korea

A long long time ago a country man told his wife hisplan to make a trip to Seoul.He kissed his wife goodbye before leaving on his trip.The wife really wanted to have a comb. So she asked that he buy her a comb when he returned home and she said If you forget the name of it you can look up to the half-moon.When the good husband finished his business in Seoul,he remebered his wife's special request.But he forgot the name of it.He went to agift shop and wanted to buy a gift that looks like the moon. But the store man recommended a mirror that looks like the full-moon.The country man took the mirror home and gave it tohis wife.She looked into it for a while in surprise and she said "Oh, it's not a comb. It's alovely woman for your concubine while you were in Seoul and you carried her home by hidingher in this magic glass".

By : Kyoung sun jung

Moral: Being thoughtless would be misunderstood.

There is another version of this story here

You can make any comment about it that you like.

"URASHIMA"

AE2
This story is from Japan.



Once upon a time, there was a boy whose name was TARO URASHIMA.
He lived with his parents in a small town.
One day, a few bad boys persecuted a turtle on a beach, and Urashima saved the turtle.
The turtle took him to the castle in the sea, which was a very beautiful palace.
There were a very beautiful princess and her servants.
It was comfortable for him to spend time there with them, so he spent a few days.
A few days later, he wanted to come back to his town.

When he came back, the princess gave him the casket.
He returned to his town from the palace, and the landscape of his town, was changed completely.
The reason is that a very long time had passed actually, when he was in the palace for a few days.
He was at a loss, and he opened the casket.
Suddenly, it came up a white smoke toward him; finally, he became an old man quickly.

By Yoko

There is another version of this story here. You can make any comment about it that you like.

"Two Boys and Two Birds"

Once upon a time, there was a family of father,mother, and their children, two boys. Their house was far away from the city. It was in the forest. When the parents were going to leave the house one day, they said to their boys to not go far away inside the forest. They said,"You will lose your way to the house." The parents left the hopuse, then the boys forgot their parents' advice; they went to the forest and got lost. They blamed each other and cried. After a while they found two birds; one was attractive, the other was ugly. The attractive bird said he could lead the way to their house, but the ugly bird interrupted him and he said,"He is a liar." The boys were confused. They decided to follow the attractive bird because he was beautiful. After a long time the bird that they were following was laughing. They asked him,"Why are you laughing?" he answered,"I lied to you because you chose me for my beauty; you didn't think of my hoesty," then he left them. The boys were tired, so they slept in the forest. They were starving and cold. They woke up by the sunshine in the next day. Fortunately they found the ugly bird, who was the honest one, then he led them to their house and he said,"Don't forget your parents' advice."

Moral: Teach children to follow what their parents say.
There is another version of this story

check it out

,,,,,,,,,,,by Khaled Alotaibi (*_*)