Burberry Group Inc is a British luxury fashion house, headquartered in London, England. Its main fashion house focuses on and distributes ready-to-wear outerwear, fashion accessories, fragrances, sunglasses, and cosmetics.
Established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, originally focusing on the development of outdoor attire, the fashion house has moved on to the high fashion market developing pattern-based scarves, trench coats, and other fashion accessories. The first shop opened up in the Haymarket, London, in 1891. Burberry was an independent family controlled company until 1955, when it was reincorporated. The fashion house has dressed notable actors, world leaders, musicians, and athletes.
Its distinctive check pattern has become one of its most widely copied trademarks. Burberry is most famous for its trench coat. Burberry has branded stores and franchises around the world and sells through concessions in third-party stores. Its coats were worn in the trenches of World War I by British soldiers, and for decades thereafter Burberry became so much a part of British culture that Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales have granted the companyRoyal Warrants.
Works Cited （参考文献）
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burberry
II. About the Designer
Christopher Paul BaileyMBE (born 11 May 1971) is the chief creative and chief executive officer (CEO) of Burberry, and is responsible for creating and delivering the company's global vision and business strategy, including overseeing collections, brand imagery, product design, creative marketing, architecture, consumer technology and digital innovation. He took up the role of Chief Creative and chief executive officer on 1 May 2014, following the departure of former CEO Angela Ahrendts.
Footwear in this fashion show is sneakers and sandals.
A casual impression is given to sneakers and sandals.
B. Reaction Point - fabric texture
Fabric texture is how a fabric feels or looks.
Fabric texture in this fashion show is soft and fluttering.
The soft and fluttering material is impressive appropriate for spring and summer.
C. Reaction Point - color combination
Color combination is how various colors are combined within one outfit.
This fashion show use many color in one coordination.
Coordination of this fashion show is made with the similar color.But it looks showy.Because using the various color.
D. My General Opinion I think that the clothes of Burberry's is nice.And I want to go to a fashion show.
2017年1月25日水曜日
My Featured Film A Christmas Carol(1935)
I. About the Film
The 1935 film differs from all other versions of the story in one significant way – most of the tormented spirits, including that of Jacob Marley, are not actually shown onscreen, although their voices are heard. Only the Ghost of Christmas Present (Oscar Asche) is actually seen in full figure – the Ghost of Christmas Past is a mere shape with no discernible facial features, Marley's Ghost is seen only briefly as a face on the door knocker, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is just an outstretched pointing finger.
Seymour Hicks plays both the old and young Scrooge. Albert Finney (in the 1970 film Scrooge) and Jim Carrey (in the 2009 film A Christmas Carol) are the only other actors to play both young and old Scrooge on film.
The story is also severely truncated. Much time is spent at the beginning of the film – before any of the ghosts appear – setting up the atmosphere of rich and poor London. Scrooge's sister Fan and Fezziwig are completely omitted from this version.
This is the first of only two sound versions in which Tiny Tim is actually seen lying dead. In the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come sequence Bob Cratchit grieves at Tim's bedside. The 1999 television film version also contains this scene.
Maurice Evans appears briefly as a man harassed by Scrooge to pay his debts.Donald Calthrop portrays a Bob Cratchit who bears an uncanny physical resemblance to John Leech's illustrations of the character in the original 1843 edition of the novel.
Two versions of this film exist; each has a differently designed opening credits sequence (a book and a metal plate), and one of the two versions omits the very last scenes.
For years it was kept out of circulation, due to the extremely poor quality of most of the surviving prints.
Works Cited （参考文献）
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_(1935_film)
II. Versions of the Film
A Christmas Carol has been adapted many times for film, stage, opera, and other media.
A Christmas Carol (1951) Scrooge(1970) A Christmas Carol(1984) Mickey's Christmas Carol(1983) The Muppet Christmas Carol(1992) A Christmas Carol(1997)
A Christmas Carol(1999) Christmas Carol The Movie(2001) A Christmas Carol(2009)
Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and producing Edwardian musical comedy, often together with his famous wife, Ellaline Terriss. His most famous acting role was that of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Making his stage début at the age of nine and performing professionally by sixteen, Hicks joined a theatrical company and toured America before starring in Under the Clock in 1893, the first musical revue ever staged in London. Following this, he starred in a revival of Little Jack Sheppard at the Gaiety Theatre, London which brought him to the attention of impresario George Edwardes. Edwardes cast Hicks in his next show, The Shop Girl, in 1894. Its success led to his participation in two more of Edwardes's hit "girl" musicals, The Circus Girl (1896) and A Runaway Girl (1898), both starring Terriss. He first played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1901 and eventually played it thousands of times onstage. Hicks, along with his wife, joined the producer Charles Frohman in his theatre company and wrote and starred in a series of extraordinarily successful musicals, including Bluebell in Fairyland (1901), Quality Street (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1903) and The Catch of the Season (1904).
Hicks used his fortune from these shows to commission the building of the Aldwych Theatre in 1905 and the Hicks Theatre in 1906, opening the latter with a new hit show, The Beauty of Bath. His stage performances were less successful in later years, and he opted instead to star in music hall tours, including Pebbles on the Beach (1912). He continued to write light comedies, the most popular of which was The Happy Day (1916). On film, he first appeared in Scrooge andDavid Garrick both from 1913. Later notable films included The Lambeth Walk (1939) and Busman's Honeymoon (1940), and his last film was the year of his death, 1949.
Message is the central idea or statement of a story .
The message is Scrooge is what is important for life.
We learn concerned with person is important from this story.
D. My General Opinion Scrooge is confront his hard past in this story.And he finds really important.I think it is very good that this story is happy end.
2016年11月30日水曜日
My Featured Novel
Alice in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
I. About the Novel:Alice In Wonderland
Alice in wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media About Animation
Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy-comedyfilm produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 13th of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in New York City and London on July 26, 1951. The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Edwyn as the Mad hatter.
WaltDisney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Alice into an animated feature film during the 1930s. However, he finally revived the idea in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film; however, Disney decided to make it an all-animated feature in 1946. The theme song of the same name has since become a jazz standard. While the film was critically panned on its initial release, the movie proved to be ahead of its time and has since been regarded as one of Disney's greatest animated classics, notably one of the biggest cult classics in the animation medium, as well as one of the best film adaptations of Alice.
About Movie Alice in wonderland is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton. The film stars Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas and Mia Wasikowska and features the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Timothy Speall. Based on Lewis Carroll's fantasy novels, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and inspired by Walt Disney's 1951animated film of the same name.
Alice in wonderland received mixed reviews upon release; although praised for its visual style and special effects, the film was criticized for its lack of narrative coherence and overuse of computer-generated imagery (CGI). At the 83rd Academy Awards, Alice in wonderland won Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design, and was also nominated for Best Visual Effects. Animation Version
Lewis Carroll was born in England in 27 January 1832.His real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.He was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. He went Oxford University and then hews teach there.he was quiet man and did not talk to people easy.He wrote Alice in Wonderland in 1838.
IV. My Reaction
A. Reaction Point -protagonist
The protagonist is main character.
The protagonist of Alice in wonderland is Alice and white rabbit.
The main character of the story is Alice.A story starts from the situation that she runs after white rabbit.And she strays into a strange world.
B. Reaction Point - denouement
The denouement is the ending of story or a plot.
"Wake up,Alice dear," her sister said."You slept for a long time!""Oh!" said Alice, and then she understood.
This situation shows that all former magnificent stories were Alice's dream. And she notice that thing.
C. Reaction Point - Genre
Genre is a sub-category of literature.
Genre of Alice in wonderland is Children's literature.
Alice in wonderland is one of the most famous children's literature.And it is read by many people of all over the world.
D. My General Opinion When I finished reading the story,I was surprised that all this story were Alice's dream. It is wonderful that Alice can see such a interesting dream.And I think that I'd like to go to a wonderland.
I. About the Song "On My Own"is from the musical Les Miserables. The song is Eponine's solo and is her most important song in musical.It is one of the production's most famous songs.In the song,she expresses her unrequited love for Marius,and how she dreames of being at his side but knows his love is for Cosette and not for her.
The solo didn't exist in original French Show that opened in 1980.when the English version was written,the music for "On My Own" was adapted from the original French solo "L'Air de la Misere" which was sung by Fantine about her misery and suffering.In turn Eponine's original French solo,"L'un Vers L'autre", was dropped in English version.In the later 1991 Parisian version the title was "Mon Histoire".Howevwr,"On My Own" has become one of the most famous and popular songs in the musical,and Eponine has become one of its most popular characters.
Claude-Michel Schonberg was born on July 6, 1994.He is a French record producer,actor,singer,songwriter,and musical theatre composer, best knoen for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil.Major works include La Revolution Francaise,Les Miserables,Miss Saigon,Martin Guerre,The Pirate Queen,and Marguerite. Schonberg began his career as a record producer and a singer.He wrote most of the rock opera "La Revolution Francaise,France's first rock opera ,in 1973.He played the role Louis XVI in the shoe's production that year.In 1974 he wrote "Le Premier Pas", which became the number one hit in France that year, selling over one million copies. In 1978 he dedicated his attention to musicals when he and Alain Boubill conceived the idea for a stage musical version of "Les Miserables".The original production was staged at the Palais de Sports in Paris in 1980.In 1985 and 1987 respectively, the musical opened in London and on Broadway, to acclaim in each instance.The Broadway production was nominated for twelve Tony awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.Les Miserables celebrated twntieth anniversary in London on 8 October 2005.The Broadway production closed on 18 May 2003, making it the third-longest-running Broadway musical.Schonberg oversaw the production of Les Miserables that returned to Broadway for an intended 6month engagement at the Broadhurst Theatre on 9 November 2006, although it later extended its run.
Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told in a song's lyrics.
The point view of the song is expressed "I love him But only on my own".
Eponine fall in love for Marius.But Marius's love turn to Cosette.I think that this song is written about Eponine's disappointed love.
B. Reaction Point - a song hook
A song hook is a catchy musical phrase that makes a song popular and memorable.
A song hook of this song is "On my own".
"On my own" is title.And it use the memorable phrase in lyric.So,I think that "On my own" is very impressive.
C. Reaction Point - song genre
Song genre is the style in which a song is created and performed.
Claude-Michel Schonberg make this song part of Les Miserables.
This song is the part of musical.And it is the solo of Eponine.Eponine became popular by this song.
D. My General Opinion When I was high school student,I went to see Les Miserables.Then I knew ”On My Own",and I came to like this song .Eponine is in hard circumstances.But she lives hard.I get the courage from her.This is the reason that I like "On My Own". I want to know the song for many people.
2016年10月19日水曜日
My Featured PoemTo Be Or Not To Be
- A soliloquy from William Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet'
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
To die: to sleep;
No more; and, by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.
To die, to sleep;
To sleep perchance to dream, ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The pangs of disprized love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?
Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And make us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And Is sicklied o'er
With the pale cast of thought
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn away,
And lose the name of action.
Film Version
Poetry Reading Version
I. About the Poem
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet , is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlet's father, King Hamlet. Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play, and is ranked among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others".The play likely was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime,and still ranks among his most performed, topping the performance list of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its predecessors in Stratford-upon-Avon since 1879. It has inspired many other writers – from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Charles Dickens to James Joyce and Iris Murdoch – and has been described as "the world's most filmed story after Cinderella".The story of Shakespeare's Hamlet was derived from the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum, as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest. Shakespeare may also have drawn on an earlier (hypothetical) Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet, though some scholars believe he himself wrote the Ur-Hamlet, later revising it to create the version of Hamlet we now have. He almost certainly wrote his version of the title role for his fellow actor, Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time. In the 400 years since its inception, the role has been performed by numerous highly acclaimed actors in each successive century. Three different early versions of the play are extant: the First Quarto (Q1, 1603); the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604); and the First Folio (F1, 1623). Each version includes lines and entire scenes missing from the others. The play's structure and depth of characterisation have inspired much critical scrutiny. One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as merely a plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatisation of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire. More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, while feminist critics have re-evaluated and attempted to rehabilitate the often maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.
Works Cited （参考文献）
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet
II. About the Author
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon".His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, which has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, and religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, and these are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.
Works Cited （参考文献） https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
IV. My Reaction
A. Reaction Point - theme
定義 the central idea of a work of literature
例 The theme of Hamlet is "To be, or not to be".
略 ハムレットの主題はTo be, or not to beである。
B. Reaction Point - character
定義 A fictional personality created by an author
例 Hamlet is the main character's name.
略 ハムレットは主人公の名前だ。
C. Reaction Point - euphemism
定義 an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
例 To be, or not to be use euphemism.
略 To be, or not to beは婉曲法を使っている。
D. My General Opinion I knew Hamlet and To be, or not to be in English literature class. I like this poem because I think that the story is difficult but very interesting.
