9/30 ARW

Today our class was in Mac room. 

We made groups to share ideas or make suggestion with each other on Google Document. 

I am going to write "Whether or not Abenomics is better for Japanese economy?" for this assignment.

The group members' topics as this essay are "Whether or not Olympic game 2020 in Tokyo is good for Japan?" and " Guns should be prohibited ?".

Their themes are related to my theme.

The former discuss exactly economy.

The latter is partly involved with my topic.

We will help write our essays.

9/27 ARW

Every feeling in our minds comes from 'Perception' such as pleasure, sadness and fear.

Perception depends on individuals' experiences, thoughts based on experiences and lives that derive from them.

But it was surprising we seldom share laughter such as Rooney's video even if we're in a same culture.

In other words, if we were in a perfectly same situation we might not have had same perception.

It may be because of the difference between their biological system such as genes.

9/25 ARW

Rab meant there were not little mistakes on our BookReviews.
That's why he explained necessary layout and formats in writing a essay.

Of course a part of his explanation hadn't  been known and had been, but the most important is that we hadn't understand what had already been explained at the last semester. 

9/20 ARW

I learned how to use some useful Internet services. 

For the first time, I knew such these services..

These services make it easier for students to deal with daily assignments.

One of the most memorable service in the class is 'Feedly'.

For example, we should read blogs other section mates posted. But it's troublesome to access the blogs every time we try to read the ones. In these situation, 'Feedly' is so useful a site that this site gathers the blogs at one place. That is, if students would like to read them, they don't have to go to each sites. It's enough for just one site: 'Feedly'. I think, it's amazing all we must do is just take a look once. 

Because of these services such as 'Feedly', we will carry out necessary jobs efficiently.

9/18 ARW

In this class, I fully realized how important 3B's had been searched before the first class of discussing a text.

knowing author's background information or bias leads the readers a forest of the world the author created. This knowledge makes it easier for readers to understand what the concept is in this text and why he or she wrote the text. 

Moreover, we discussed relationships between foreign cultures and our own culture. We have lived only for twenty years or less, but the members I talked with have experience many types of culture shocks. And then, I wondered why people feel culture shocks. I think that' because when people recognize foreign cultures or people, first of all, they try to understand differences and similarities between them. In this situation, all we can do is attempt to understand them. 

Of course, it depends on the person's way to think of or deal with unexpected events to see these differences and similarities as shock or pleasure. Anyway, so we consider these differences and similarities as shock or pleasure that came from foreign matters. This point was very interesting to me.

9/13 ARW

In this class, I saw a new world in reading a fiction.

Rab explained to us some authors have been given hints which came from a real event, and written novels using those ones. In other words, some novels have influenced the realities. If I read in this way, I can have a different view. I will guess another point if I know a point and related facts. This reading technique is so important that we can look at the authors' brain; how they think in their mind and recognize the the real world. Therefore, we can know how authors think if we can think connections between the novels and facts.

9/11 ARW

In this class, we took the first ARW in autumn.
We did Presentation and Discussion (P&D) on the book we read in this summer vacation.
I chose "The Great Gatsby" as a assignment.


The P&D was not held well. That one was more difficult than I had expected.
Every time Rab stopped our P&D during the class, he pointed out to us the misleading posture or how to look at listeners. But I could not have done any suggestion he had. So, in order to present efficiently, I had better change the way I did presentation.
Even though other discussion mates' P&D was well-prepared, and they brought papers that had been written for this presentation,  I did not prepare this kind of papers. I thought it's enough to speak and present ideas that was thought during reading the book. But now I have to read a text while considering what to do next.