Your Questions About Japanese Art History
Helen asks…
English to Japanese translation help!?
"During the Christmas holidays I usually do some shopping with my friends. We also bake gingerbread which tastes really sweet. My plan for Christmas is to have fun and to finish two school projects I have in art and history. I hope it will snow, then I'll make a big snow castle, which I haven't had the chance to do in years. "
Please, please help me to translate this! Really important. And use hiragana since I don't know all the kanji yet.
Artie answers:
"During the Christmas holidays
I usually do (some) shopping with my friends."
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"My plan for Christmas is to have fun
and to finish two school projects I have in art and history."
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"I hope it will snow,
then I'll make a big snow castle,
which I haven't had the chance to do in years."
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Donna asks…
literature about japanese internment?
I need to do a history project where we choose a time in american history and connect it to art, music, and literiaure. I have examples for art and music, but I need to find a peice of literature that is about the japanese internment camps durring WWII
Artie answers:
Farewell to Manzanar is a great story about Japanese internment, I actually like that story ^-^
Donald asks…
How are my credentials matching up to my dream schools?
Rank: 4/530
Total (all 4 years):
Honors classes: 10 (World Geography, Geometry, Biology, English I, English II, Algebra II, Chemistry, Physics, Pre-Cal, Computer Science I)
AP classes: 12 (World History, French IV, French V, English III, English IV, Studio Art, Computer Science II, Physics C, Calculus AB, Macroeconomics, US Government, Biology)
Dual credit: 2 (Japanese I, US History)
SAT: 720 Math, 680 CritRead, 720 Writing
ACT: none yet
SAT II: none yet (plan take Physics, French, Biology, Math)
- Theatre
- Piano/violin
- Regional scifair (2nd 9/11, 1st 10)
- State scifair (part. 9, 3rd 10, honors 11)
- French Club (secretary 9-11)
- Key Club (member 10-11, secretary 12)
- Drama Club (member 9-12)
- Thespian Society (member 10-12)
- Science Club (secretary 11,12)
- Mu Alpha Theta (co-founder 12)
- Anime Club (mem. 9, treas/hist 10, jr VP 11, VP 12)
- I run a singing organization
- and more that I can't fit
Targets: MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Caltech
EDIT: Haha, forgot something important.
GPA (weighted): 5.4
GPA (unweighted): 4.0
EDIT again:
Major: Computer Science
Recs: fabulous, my teachers love me
Essays: I'm a skilled writer, I like to think..
Location: TX =)
Ethnicity: Asian American
Not exactly underrepresented at Stanford, haha.
Artie answers:
With the Ivies, all bets are off regardless of credentials. Apply and hope. Berkeley Wise, nearly guaranteed. Probably the same with Caltech. The most important question for Stanford: Are you an underrepresented minority?
I would say get your SAT in reading past 700.
Finally,
- They supposedly prefer people who have excelled above and beyond others in just a few things to people who have excelled at making a fat resume. Focused and Passionate.
- What you do in high school does not matter once you go to college. At all. Nobody cares.
- Undergraduate isn't all that important in the grand scheme of things. Its more a method for employers to save money by making you pay for training and for loan officers to make bank.
With those noted, I wish you the best of luck and a great college experience. May it by the exact opposite of mine! Enjoy yourself, make friends and network, and find what you love to do.
Mark asks…
Which High School class is better for an Anthropology major in college?
I’m a sophomore about to go into my junior year. I’m in advanced: English, Sciences, Histories, Japanese, and Art classes. My school is an International Baccalaureate school and I fully intend on taking those classes next year. Now my question is which elective class would be best for an anthropology major in college: IB Environmental Science or an IB Philosophy class. One that would go along with the Biology class I’ll be taking.
Artie answers:
Definitely philosophy. Learning how people think is a lot more useful than global warming.
Laura asks…
I want to learn Japanese Jujitsu or Hapkido, but only one option?
I only have time to devote to one of these martial arts. My past martial arts history are Muay Thai and 4 years of high school wrestling (freshmen in college so far).
Which one should I learn to compliment what I know? FYI, I've been to both of these schools for a free trial/orientation or tour and it seems good. No contracts.
What are similarities/differences of each and how related are they?
The reason is not to join MMA cage fights, but self-defense for my combination.
The Jujitsu school is Danzan Ryu Jujitsu.
Artie answers:
Japanese Jujutsu.
It will work off your wrestling. There are few throws that I have seen that are in wrestling: Shoulder throw, Hip Throw, and Osoto Gari (don't know what they call it in wrestling). It has groundwork too so, that can be added in with your wrestling also. The strikes are more "street" oriented and go for vital points. It can add to your Muay Thai skills. JJ just seems more practical than Hapkido.
Hapkido doesn't do much ground grappling if at all. The throws are more Aikido like which won't go with your wrestling either. The kicks are Tae Kwon Do like which won't go with your Muay Thai. The fact that it resembles TKD and Aikido tend to devalue it's practicality. Both of those arts are also in question how pracitcal they are. I am sure Hapkido is good in it's own right, but, I don't think it will complement the skills you have already as much as JJ will.
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