In the beginning of today's class, Rab told us to take off our shoe and sock. After that, he quickly checked our feet and divided into groups of 2. (actually 3) :Greek feet, Egyptian feet, and farmer/peasant feet. I was in the group of Egyptian, but later on I realized that my feet are similar to the farmer's ones. So Akie and me were together in the farmer/peasant group. I thought we had a lot in common.
Next, we moved on the group discussion and talked over the Gould article. According to Bluemenbach, there are five types of races devided by beauty: Cocasion, American, Mongolian, Ethiopia, and Malay. He thinks that Cocasion is the most beautiful race. I thought that the definition of beauty differs from a person to person... so it is very hard to define beauty.
And the end of the class, we shared the topic of our essays! In my group, I am going to have Shiori, Aiko, and Naomichi :)
see you on Friday<3
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Tuesday, Sep.28
Today, we learned about "unity". We have to make each paragraph coherent when we write essays. I want to improve my writing skills, so things that Rab teaches us in the class really help me out to improve my English skills. We have to remember that ELP finishes after this term. Although ELP is such a hard work, I think I will miss it. How about you guys?
After learning and doing handouts, we had a discussion over Ohinata's reading. Our group mostly talked about the difference between "encouraging" and "forcing". In the past, Japanese government forced women to stay home and take care of their children. However, recently, the government encourages women to have many kids. Um... I know we should have many kids for Japanese future, but economically, it is pretty hard.
Okay, now I am going to work on my essay....
After learning and doing handouts, we had a discussion over Ohinata's reading. Our group mostly talked about the difference between "encouraging" and "forcing". In the past, Japanese government forced women to stay home and take care of their children. However, recently, the government encourages women to have many kids. Um... I know we should have many kids for Japanese future, but economically, it is pretty hard.
Okay, now I am going to work on my essay....
Monday, September 27, 2010
Monday, Sep.27
We discussed Ohinata's reading today. We mainly covered her way of writing the essay. It was not very good, actually. I would like to read it in Japanese.
To tell you the truth, I didn't know that we had to read the Ohinata's reading by today and I have to say sorry to people who were in my group... Because I didn't know about the essay, I couldn't talk much in the group....>< What a shame! After the class, I read the Ohinata...even though it was too late... haha
When we write our essay, we have to be careful of the constructure of paragraph and try to make the essay coherrent. I thought that now we know how to write good essays, it is going to be useful when we check essays of others.
byebye!
To tell you the truth, I didn't know that we had to read the Ohinata's reading by today and I have to say sorry to people who were in my group... Because I didn't know about the essay, I couldn't talk much in the group....>< What a shame! After the class, I read the Ohinata...even though it was too late... haha
When we write our essay, we have to be careful of the constructure of paragraph and try to make the essay coherrent. I thought that now we know how to write good essays, it is going to be useful when we check essays of others.
byebye!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Radical Evolution Chap.5&6
In the Chaper 5, The Hell Scenario, Bill Joy predicts that technology will be such an evil in the future. Because I'm not for relying on technology, I pretty much agree with this scenario. I am afraid that technology will control our world someday and human will lose their power and human feelings. Bill makes the same kinds of comments as I mentioned in my past journal of this book. On page 162, he says "It is some how necessary to our self-understandings of what we are as human beings. I mean, you can't have courage without risk. You can't have real compassion or sympathy without the personal experience of pain". I totally agree with this comment. Yes, we can rely on technology at the certain extent, however, it should not destroy human nature. I am very afraid that the history of human beings will be ended by ourselves, because of this quickly development of technology. Also in this chapter, it says that the gap between developing and developed countries will occur as we develop technology. Or we can say that the gap is already happening. Since rich people tend to get first pick throughout all of history, people in developing countries are left behind in the field of technology. However, I think those people might be happy, in a way, that they are left behind. Why I think life this is because if the technology world will rule us in the future, people in developing countries can survive. This gap might be important and needed, I thought.
The Prevail Scenario(chapter6) is odd and unprecedented. Is is less well defined compared to the Heaven or Hell Scenario. The future predicts are not always correct, and this scenario is more likely to follow the thoughts. We can pick which direction to proceed, either heaven or hell (or curve?) in order to realize our desirable future. Now, we have to consider carefully what we really want in our future: technology? or human feelings?
This book really makes me think about our future.
The Prevail Scenario(chapter6) is odd and unprecedented. Is is less well defined compared to the Heaven or Hell Scenario. The future predicts are not always correct, and this scenario is more likely to follow the thoughts. We can pick which direction to proceed, either heaven or hell (or curve?) in order to realize our desirable future. Now, we have to consider carefully what we really want in our future: technology? or human feelings?
This book really makes me think about our future.
Friday, September 24, 2010
As*hole Aso LOL
Fun & Funky Friday!
Today, we learned the rules of writing academic essays. We have to be careful about the words we use in our eesays to make them more academic. We have to avoide using casual languages, personal pronuns, contraction, phrasal verbs, and run-on. Also, a catchy title plays an important role in essays. I totally agreed with it! We need to catch reader's attention first of all!!
After reviewing our book review, we went on the internet and watched advertising videos. "Store Wars" was very funny but didn't have a lot of facts, which ended up with not getting people's coooperation. I liked the mouth one the most because it was very catchy, creative, and had a lot of facts to convince audience. In our essays, we have to write as many facts as we can to convinve readers.
Starting next week, new essay project is coming up. My essay topic is going to be about "Homosexual Marriage", and my argument will be "Homosexual marriage should be legal in Japan". If anyone who is going to write about the similar topic as me, let me know please!
It is getting chilly, summer has ended finally!
Take care friends<3
Today, we learned the rules of writing academic essays. We have to be careful about the words we use in our eesays to make them more academic. We have to avoide using casual languages, personal pronuns, contraction, phrasal verbs, and run-on. Also, a catchy title plays an important role in essays. I totally agreed with it! We need to catch reader's attention first of all!!
After reviewing our book review, we went on the internet and watched advertising videos. "Store Wars" was very funny but didn't have a lot of facts, which ended up with not getting people's coooperation. I liked the mouth one the most because it was very catchy, creative, and had a lot of facts to convince audience. In our essays, we have to write as many facts as we can to convinve readers.
Starting next week, new essay project is coming up. My essay topic is going to be about "Homosexual Marriage", and my argument will be "Homosexual marriage should be legal in Japan". If anyone who is going to write about the similar topic as me, let me know please!
It is getting chilly, summer has ended finally!
Take care friends<3
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Wednesday, Sep. 22
Today, we had our class in ILC room and went over how to use zotero etc..
Zotero is very very useful once we know how to use it!! For the last term, I didn't use zotero because I didn't know how to use exactly.. such a waste of time!!
Anyway, thanks for teaching the cool technologies.
Tomorrow is a national holiday and we actually don't have school! yay!
but I have to work all day tomorrow.....
well, have a nice holiday everyone!
Zotero is very very useful once we know how to use it!! For the last term, I didn't use zotero because I didn't know how to use exactly.. such a waste of time!!
Anyway, thanks for teaching the cool technologies.
Tomorrow is a national holiday and we actually don't have school! yay!
but I have to work all day tomorrow.....
well, have a nice holiday everyone!
Tuesday, Sep.21
We had the class outside today! I looove being outside when it's nice like today. ( that's why I'm so tanned...haha)
We discussed 3B's of Yamaguchi article. Since we didn't have a lot of information of him, we couldn't understand why he supports women rights, even though he is a man. However, we guessed that his family has someting to do with women rights.... Now, we difinetely know the reasons why we need to research over the author's 3Bs. It is very important to deepen our understandings on their article.
After all, we did the activity called "What went wrong?". It was very interesting and I learned from the activity. For expample, in Dubai, there are 90% of foreigners living in. And in Italy, women don't shave their legs, which was very surprising!! The more legs hair we have, the more attractive we are...um.. pretty nice!! Also I always think that why Japanese women like to have white skin. I don't care about my skin color! My skin color is one of my personalities!! :P
Cultural differences are intresting. We all are the same human beings but we think differently and what we believe in varies.
We discussed 3B's of Yamaguchi article. Since we didn't have a lot of information of him, we couldn't understand why he supports women rights, even though he is a man. However, we guessed that his family has someting to do with women rights.... Now, we difinetely know the reasons why we need to research over the author's 3Bs. It is very important to deepen our understandings on their article.
After all, we did the activity called "What went wrong?". It was very interesting and I learned from the activity. For expample, in Dubai, there are 90% of foreigners living in. And in Italy, women don't shave their legs, which was very surprising!! The more legs hair we have, the more attractive we are...um.. pretty nice!! Also I always think that why Japanese women like to have white skin. I don't care about my skin color! My skin color is one of my personalities!! :P
Cultural differences are intresting. We all are the same human beings but we think differently and what we believe in varies.
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