Pearl Harbor

This week, US President Donald Trump visited Japan. Due to that, I somehow remember one movie. It's is not "Home Alone" which he appeared, I didn't watch it all. though.  I watched only the part he appear on Youtube. Hahaha.  Do you know that?

I saw a picture on the internet news before he and his wife come to Japan.
In the picture, Melania Trump was tossing white flowers.
I understood the place instantly. That place is Pearl Harbor.
I thought that it was really better to visit there before Japan because I've heard that they've never been to both areas.
However, it reminds me of the movie "Pearl Harbor".
I knew it from my English teachers. She liked it as a love story though I was shocked.  It’s because no Japanese people taught me the movie. I thought that it’s really tough for Japanese people, thus we have to have a conversation about it. 

I am sorry if the movies are not your taste.
Thank you always for listening to my stories.

Carlos Bautista : The awful logic of land mines - and an app that helps people avoid them

TED 2017

Carlos Bautista : The awful logic of land mines - and an app that helps people avoid them (transcript)

Summary

We wouldn't be able to imagine that there are many places where landmines are still buried.

Conflicts had ended and we thought  landmines were ridden and people are forgetting because they are not there.  

However, only in 2015, landmines were increasing due to wars in some countries.

Although the places are countryside, landmines sometimes explode because people start returning to their lands when wars ended.

Hidden landmines are going to start exploding often on the usual citizens.

The number of  person has been killed is increasing more than the injured soldier.

Ironically. landmines were designed not only to kill but also to maim their targets.

When the speaker knew that many countries have been affected by landmines and by wars, he decided to create an app to help people avoid them. He hopes that all lands and all people can live safely without landmines.

Words in this story
maim /verb/ wound or injure (someone) so that part of the body is permanently damaged.  injure, wound.

Sally Kohn 2: Don't like clickbait? Don't click

TED 2014

Sally Kohn 2: Don't like clickbait? Don't click (transcript)

Summary

We have to know that we have more responsibility for our clicks

Our clicking is a public act. It’ not a private act.

Even, clicking something that we don't like makes it worse. It encourages the tyranny of the nasty.

We should be careful in clicking and use it in a good purpose.

Don't just stand by the sidelines when we see someone getting hurt and stop clicking on the lacking value stories.

We have to choose the news site we can truly trust ourselves seriously because our clicks are important because media is always dangerous. Media makes us mad deliberately.

Words in this story

encourages /verb/ɛnkɝ́ɪdʒɪz/ give support, confidence, or hope to (someone). tyranny /noun/ oppression, despotism nasty /adj/ filthy, dirty

exaggerate /verb/ represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is. overstate, overemphasize.

bait /beɪt/ bite /bάɪt/

Sally Kohn 1 : Les’t try emotional correctness

TED

Sally Kohn 1 : Les’t try emotional correctness (transcript)

Summary

This speech is really true.

Even if you're politically correct, rejecting or looking down on someone who doesn't agree with you is emotionally wrong.  

We always spend so much time saying bad things about others but we don't spend enough time talking through our disagreements.

We have to find compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

Just not to have an instinctive dislike of someone, let's manage to form a connection.

We have to start the conversations to understand and change each other.

First, we should have emotional correctness as a human being.

Words in this story

emotion /noun/ a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

emotionally /adverb/  emotional /adj/

instinctive /adj/ relating to or prompted by instinct; apparently unconscious or automatic.

Snowden

Today' s topic is a movie too.
I knew about this story from TED talk and I knew that it became a movie recently.
The title is Snowden.
It seemed to be released at the beginning of this year.
Did you know it?
This is not a fiction. Edward Joseph Snowden was working at CIA and he is said to expose information of NSA.

In one TED talk, (Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet)
he said that he only gave all of his information back to the American people.

However, in another TED talk, (Richard Ledgett : The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED talk)
the NSA told that Snowden was a whistleblower who hurt legitimate whistleblowing activities.

I think that this is a poor excuse. I'm very worried whether the movie isn't just unfair. I'm going to watch it from now.
 

Denial

Denial
Do you know about the movie  "Negative and affirmative" that is Japanese subtitle and in Japan, is going to be released on December this year. The English title is "Denial".
I knew it from TED talk. (Deborah Lipstadt : Behind the lie of Holocaust denial) When I'd read the article at first, l couldn't understand it completely.
That is a strang story and people don't probably want to watch it, especially Japanese. It's because it reminded me of the Japanese military comfort women.
However, it's very important.
Now, on the internet, this move is announced.
What do you think?
I am sorry if it's not to your liking.   
        

Terminator 2

Terminator 2

In fact, I don't know about the movies of the series well. Probably, l think that Terminator one to four or five would be released and I’ve heard that the next will be released in the near future. It will be necessary to hurry because the major character Arnold Schwarzenegger who commonly called Schaw chan in Japan will be older.    

When I watched this for the first time, I was surprised that he was still very young. It's in Volumes 2 but I’ve watched 2 before 1.

The first scene that I remember is a woman training herself hard. She is Sarah Connor in the Terminator series.

She just lives for her mission assigned. To protect the world and her son who is only said to be able to protect the world from the Terminator.  Her son's father was killed before her son was born. Thus she thinks that she has to be strong and she trains herself day after day to protect her son alone.

Then she teaches her son how to use the guns.

In the picture at that moment, she is really cool.

Her trained arm muscles are very beautiful and black tank-top really suits her. It became my baby goal.

I have attached the picture on the wall not to lose my goal. I can see it always. I will show it to you.