CA Blogging Assignment 8

         My academic skills such as researching, reading, writing, and discussion have improved as a result of  my hard working, and I'm happy with that. Now, I can easily find appropriate information which I need for my assignment from databases such as ProQuest or LexisNexis. This skill is really useful and saves my time. Also, it's getting easier for me to read textbooks. Now, I can read deeply and smoothly by putting marks on or annotating textbooks. Moreover, I feel my writing skills have improved althogh I still make grammatical mistakes. I began to be able to write essays relatively easily this term than the last, so I feel I deepened my understanding of composing paragraphs. In addition to that, my discussion skills have improved since I could participate in discussions and made statements more relaxed. This condition also gave me composure to notice that other members sometimes did not understand the contents of ELP readers or prints. Therefore, I feel my accademic skills have improved through my hard-working in this term.

CA Blogging Assignment 7

     What Albert Einstein wanted to say in his statement seems like the evil of human nature and the danger of people using technologies. He mentions that human beings are crazy and misuse technologies like mad people use weapons. Technologies are like weapons and can be harmful to human beings when they are used mistakenly. That's why, once human beings whose nature is evil have them, some disastrous things can happen because they misunderstand their abilities and feel they can do everything. In fact, atomic bombs were used, and many people were killed in Japan. Moreover, much information have been stolen from the Internet, and many people have been affected by it. Thus, the evil of human nature makes people abuse technologies, and Einstein sounded an alarm bell in his statement.

CA Blogging Assignment 6

     The term "the law of unintended consequences" means the way that your unintended action causes something unexpected in the end. The consequences might be positive, negative, or neutral. There is a positive one that I can think of. The summer before last, I went to Canada just to study English; however, I met many people who inspired me to live my life as I really want to. Because of the experience, I was able to decided to transfer to ICU in order to study what I'm interested in. As this case shows, I learned an important thing, which was not the original purpose of going abroad, and it changed my life better as a result.

CA Blogging Assignment 5

     My topic for essay 2 is organ transplantation. I chose this topic because I've become interested in organ transplantation after I watched a movie called "Reposition Man" whose story is about organ trafficking. I believe organ transplantation is nessesary to be performed because many patients are dying due to the malfunction of their organs. However, there are some problems entailed by performing organ transportation. Therefore, my working thesis statement is "to perform organ transplantation appropriately and help many people in Japan, the Japanese government has to take action and solve some problems which arise from organ transplantation."

CA Blogging Assignment 4

     I think "enhanced" students are nice if everyone can choose to be one of them. Even thogh many people might deny "enhanced" ones because they seem to lose human nature and stop making efforts for improvement, I don't think human nature is respectful or making efforts is important. It's because I feel the real human nature is mean and twisted or people do not progress even though they say they're trying to. Also, "enhanced" students might be able to solve many problems which have been caused by "natural" people because "enhanced" ones can use time and learn many things efficiently. Therefore, to me, "enhanced" students are new humans who have the potential to change the world better in the future.

CA Blogging Assignment 3

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     The modifications to the human genome currently being studied and experimented with will eventually change human nature. I think people will lose human nature by treating people just as "thigs"or "objects". For example, some people try to "make" ideal babies by controling genes. To me, it looks like people try to be like a god and manipulate human life. It's possible that it's going to be difficult to understand the value of life once people see others like that.

ARW Blogging Assignment 2

     My revised thesis statement for Essay 1 is "The Japanese government has to create and implement specific public policies that encourage and enable families to have more babies to improve and maintain the economy for the future", and the three main supporting ideas for this thesis are as follows. The first supporting point for my thesis is that the government has to give financial support to parents. Since many people think child rearing takes a lot of money, they don't try to have babies. I think the government should give child allowence to parents or implement a tax reduction. The second supporting point is that they have to provide facilities where children are taken care of. Since the number of dual-income families is increasing, they have to ask someone to look after their babies or children. Now, it's getting difficult to find a day carecenter, the government has to build facilities where children are taken care of. The third supporting point is that they have to chage the current trend of seeing childcare leave. Many fathers tend not to take it because of the pressure from their companies or the idea that mothers should take care of children. The government needs to get rid of  this trend from Japanese society so that parents can bring up their children with less stress.