computer class

 Free Documentaries and Media Education Foundation are useful, but I found it is difficult to apply them to my 2nd essay. Movies provide me with visual and auditory images, so they help me catch the meaning. They have stronger expressions than words on a book so it is easier to get the most important point in it. Furthermore, it may even enhance my English skills, because usually conversations in a movie are much faster than speech of ela instructors, that is, they are close to those by native speakers. However, it takes me a lot of time to watch movies and it is hard to find the main point of a film. Now the due is coming very close to me. Time never wait for me. Therefore, it is not a good way to watch a film because if it is interesting I will continue watching it even after I note main ideas.

who's bad ?

 Let's count the way to get information: TV, newspaper, radio, the Internet, magazine, and others. It seems to me that it is often consider that newspaper is the most reliable, but I do not think so. It is because an impression of an article is easily distorted under the power of its sponsors. On the other hand, the Internet is said to be the best to get truth, but it is hard to weigh reliability of each article. I even wonder if the truth has value. Truth seems just a tool to communicate with other people smoothly.


too difficult...

Rab's bag

 I was in a group which explains Rab's bag from the negative view point. The problem was that Rab's bag seemed a good one to me, so it was difficult to look at only the bad side. Many good points came up but few bad ones did. Intuition is hard to be removed. This is sometimes good but sometimes bad. Some great inventions might have started with verification of superstitions which were believed "true" at that time at first, but the time to turn them at an angle of 180 degrees must have come. In this process, two intuitions appear: first, a man follows a intuition which is familiar to him and secondly he finds a new intuition and pursue it. Again, look at Rab' bag situation. even If I had believed that it was a crap, I would have found its good points soon. This is the problem of time and sounds like the problem of belief of religion. Religion is the continuation of suspicion against his own religion.


oh...messy blog......

great Google

 An essay doesn't have to be written on Microsoft Word first. It should be started on Google Drive because if it is shared among a group it will be sophisticated thanks to comments and the members of the group can help each other so they all the members can get higher grade than if it is worked alone without any fault. By the way, why many of the students in 3A started their essay on Word? the reason must be the perception. Students had a certain "imprinting" that an essay had better be started on Word. They had never thought of that, nor the benefit of that. Even if the more skeptical people be, the more problems come up, they must defeat them. The honesty must bring a good essay.

perception decides conception?

 Although a small boy who wears big glasses and a bow tie are always insisting that "There is always only one truth", what is more important the content of the truth is the fact that the truth can be alter its meaning in accord with a viewpoint. For example, as Rab showed me a video whose title is "Nihon no Katachi", I knew it was a video made by a Japanese famous comedian Rahmens so I could laugh at it but if I hadn't known it was a comedy, then I would have been deceived. This is because I have a wrong perception. To avoid a problem like this, one of the solution is to suspect the fact which is highly believed. Distorted broadcasting is one of the instances. Media is no longer a medium which exists between a reason and a result. So, it can also be said that many things are capable of being media. A person can, mirrors can, and almost everything can be a medium and distorts information. So, perception is maybe only a function to distort information. However, just as the angle of view is important in looking at the truth, the angle to distort the information is significant. It is ok to distort information to good direction, and then the activity is no longer a distortion but an appreciation. The key to turn one into the other is correct knowledge.