6/17 ARW Blogpost

Last presentations
I was not fully convinced by yusuke's presentation. The Axis were worse than the Allies.
I don't agree with Rab that NY Times did a bad thing. It did spread the word of the reality. That's far bigger than donating some money to charity.

But I love this class

Otuskaresamadeshitamataraigakkiyoroshikuonegaishimasu

Corporations Part 2

My brother and I saw the video together, and had a heated conversation during dinner on the possibilities of web 2.0. We can only rescue our lifestyle by bringing back the power to the people, since the governments today are too controlled by corporations. My brother argued that the web could not hold the power to change the world, while I stated that it could. He claimed that gathering information was far too difficult with the sheer mass numbers of information sources on the web, and that the influential beings on the internet would be bribed or threatened by corporations, to stop transmitting the controversial news about them. This is exactly what happend to Fox, with the investigation documentary being pulled. My brother claimed that the same thing will happen to the "mass media of the internet". I fought back to this, stating that each person should be information savvy, and that they should not always trust what is on the internet. Everyone has their biases, they all are posting information and news on the internet with their own unique view. One thing that my history teacher at high-school mentioned was to create a web of intellectuals that have similar biases as you do. It starts off with finding an intellectual (such as professors, commentators, authors) who has a similar way of thinking. The people he has connections with, must also be people with similar views. By connecting such people, one can create a web of intellectuals with a close way of thinking. In such manners, a normal person can harvest information through the web. This method has become astonishingly easy to do with the introduction of web 2.0 (disambiguation). 

Another answer in controlling corporations may lie in Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships. These two styles of businesses may impose unlimited liability to shareholders. If the shareholders became more concerned about social responsibility as much as they do about profit, corporations will not be diagnosed as a psychopath. 

6/14 ARW Blogspot

Presentation

Our group and Kenta's group went this class. I guess I did okay, but I think I had a shaky voice and did not manage to stress my points enough to convince the listeners. My word play of CORPORATION worked quite well; there was a minor applause without me asking for it. The questions I asked did become a segmentation, to keep the listeners awake. The figures I used of Yusuke and Millie got some laughing going on, so I hope that helped the dopamine flowing. I went over time a little bit, and the preparation of the slides took quite a bit of our question time, and I could not cover the points Johnny was trying to make very well. I'm sure there were other hands up, who couldn't get their questions to be heard, so I have decided to put on all the extra information that I researched, which could not fit on the essay itself. I had a hard time using the remote control, and may have had the audience annoyed by me pressing the button many times

About the photograph by Kevin Carter: I knew that the photograph had won a Pulitzer award for the photograph, and that he had committed suicide from the regret of not helping the child. However, I merely thought he was a freelance or hired cameraman and did not know he had any connections to corporations.The feeding center may have been a business done by corporation, but that would prove that they were doing something for the poor. So how this photograph represents the evil of corporations, I do not understand. 

Concentrating on the audience while listening to my group's presentation really helped me take in their reactions. I could really see where the audience was bored, interested, excited. I could tell that many of the people sitting in the back was cold, and managed to turn off the AC. I could also understand where the listeners understood, where they were confused. I really wish I hadn't been first, because that would have helped me to understand the mood and  could tweak my presentation. 

6/12 ARW Blogspot

Today we had our presentations inside the Honkan. The projector there was a little old, but was a very nice environment to do a presentation. Moeka's group and Megumi's group ended up going. I really liked Megumi's presentation about adding dance into modern Japanese PE classes. Although it did not seem to be an academic topic at the first look, she had done a wonderful job in making the arguments academic. Hitomi's presentation was also nice to listen to. I learned that you do not need to pick an academic subject to make essays and presentations academic. There's always some academic feature in all areas of interest. I think that so far Joki, Megumi, and Hitomi are the only ones who have been able to create non-academic topics effectively into academic arguments. 

I want to present!

6/10 ARW Blogspot

Presentations

Today was the presentation of Joki's group and Take's group.

I personally liked Joki's presentation. His slides and gestures were very inspiring. I particularly liked how Joki added sound to his slides. It was a very good means of segmentation, 

I was really shocked by how bad the projector screen in ILC. I am not sure how I am going to manage to do a presentation there. I believe that if we are going to do a presentation, we should do it more professionally. I understand that this is not an official presentation course, but it is a skill necessary for any person living in the modern world. 

Corporations Chapter 1-3

I understand that I am very late for posting my blog for "Corporations". It was about a week ago that I read it but have not been able to get back to it.
I am writing an essay on the exactly opposite argument that this book gives, and have been able to gather some very interesting information. First off, I feel that this book is trying to attack the entire corporate system, but is only giving out the extreme examples. There are many, MANY corporations that are doing fairly freely within the corporate law of "profit priority". Instead, this book keeps on taking up BP multiple times. They first show a good image of BP, then go and present how bad they actually are, in attempts to convince the reader that all corporations are bad. But I am not convinced just by a single corporation that the entire corporate system is hiding secrets.
There are, however, many arguments that I agree to. I feel that stating corporations as "people" is a very absurd thing. How can we call a system a human!? Even if we did, a person without a moral is not a person. Corporations are given the merits of a person, yet do not need to have any morals or are not put in prison when doing something bad. If they want to follow the path of a "person", they should create laws where corporations are put behind bars, where they are not allowed to do any business for a certain period of time. The funds are frozen, and the stocks cannot be extracted. Maybe then will corporations be permitted to be called "person".
I'm looking forward to my presentation, where I can directly object to Rab's view of corporations as the evilness in the world.

6/7 ARW Blogpost

We had a lecture from Paul Wadden on Hemingway and "the Old man and the sea" 

Lecture summary is in themind map 

What struck me the most from his lecture was the saying "Everyone is on the ocean"

We all have our difficulties, and fish to catch. Some fish may be little, others may be huge. The question he ended his lecture with; What was the biggest difficulty in your life? made me think, and after two days I have reached my conclusion. 

I believe that the biggest fish for me was not a sudden urge of event, but gradually is pulling at my string. It started when I came back to Japan. The fish has put me in trouble countless times, and even now I have not completely caught it yet. I may not be able to catch it until the end of my life. Sometimes is pulls strong, like my middle school years and first year in highschool. Other times, it stays gentle. I'm not having a hard time pulling it, and almost feel that I may be able to catch it very soon. I caught one of the smaller fishes attached to it the other day. If I am luck enough, I may be able to catch it during my time at ICU. The environment here permits it. The waters are calm, and the current is in favor of me instead of the fish. 

The fish, is the complexity I have against my ethnicity.