CA Blogging Assignment 8

In my second term in ELP, I have tried my best to do research in ICU library for papers. During spring term, I used many of the readings I had done inside ELP classes and my very own experience to support my thesis statement. However, in terms of academic writing, I thought that my paper would not be very convincing because of its lack of objectivity. So I went to the library many times to research on both the databases and the books. In addition to the sourses I found in the library, I also looked for many images that attract the readers of my paper. By using the images, my paper looked more interesting. I think that I did very well in terms of researching. For reading, writing, and discussion, I tried to best to reflect my own experience to analyze and evaluate my thinking. This is because I found it very intersting to listen to section mates' ideas that are based on their personal experiences. However, now that I have done most of the work for ELP, I have a feeling that it would have been better if I had done more readings outside the class, which should have helped me aquire more knowledge and therefore assisted me construct more convincing claims. Still, I think I did a fair job sharing my ideas with the help of section mates, who shared many inspring ideas that made me  want to think about the matter even further. 

ARW CA Blogging Assignment 7

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" -Albert Einstein

 I think that the technological progress today already out of our control today. I think that even specialists do not know what is happening this very moment. I think that many people who contribute to technological evolution are not aware of their purpose of engaging in it. They maybe working hard to make our life better but then are they really thinking about it in a long span? I think that we have already reached a point where we are satisfied with what we have in terms of ordinary life. We wish for too much. What we wish to have today is something we shouldn't have. Artificial human organs may save many people suffering in organ failures. But then, are we supposed to create an artificial brain as well? If we transplant an artificial brain to a person who is brain-dead, would the person be the same person as he was before being brain-dead? This is a problem that requires further consideration. Though I doubt there would be a clear answer to it. I sound confusing, but I just wanted to point out an example from huge problems concerning technological development. I really think that technological progress is like an axe in the hands of pathological criminal. We can't just let ourselves engaged in technological progress. Instead, we need to seek for the purpose we are devoting ourselves to get used to in this so unnatural technological society. Technological progress remains as an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal until all of us have the good reason and the control to keep up with this never ending technology progressing world.

CA Blogging Assignment 6

The term "the law of unintended consequences" means unpredicted results that happened to occur. Such consequences could be either good or bad. For example, I had never expected to meet many friends from all over the world before moving to the US when I was eight, but after spending three years there, I met friends from so many countries that I cannot even count. This was an unpredicted, but clearly a good consequences. On the other hand, I have also seen an unintended consequence which ended up in a bad result which was what happended in Fukushima nuclear power plants this March. No one had expected such a disaster to happen. Residents around nuclear power plants were informed that it would be safe before the accident.

CA Blogging Assignment 5

My topic for essay 2 is informed consent.
I chose informed consent because I wanted to think about the importance of making own decision for medical treatment. We tend to think that doctors are the only one who makes the choice for treatment and are responsible for everything being done but this is not true. It is our own body that they treat so we are the ones who should be making choices. We should be given the information and the chance to choose what we want doctors to do to cure illness.
I haven't really decided my thesis statement, but for now, my thesis statement is,
"Many patients are given medical treatments without knowing about their illness, the cure for disease, and its risk however, they should be given the chance to know and decide what to be done to their body therefore informed consent is important."

CA Blogging Assignment 4

After I had read about "enhanced" students on page 7 to 8, I felt very weird because though I believed that such "enhanced" students would not appear in the real world, it seemed as if they might in a couple centries or even decades. I hated the idea of "silent messaging." This was just rediculous. A person's thoughts is something that should be kept inside oneself. Only if the person wished to share the idea, he would pull the idea out of his brain through his words and body languages. It was creepy that enhanced people were always connected to each other and sharing their thoughts all the time. However, looking back how humans have developed technologies and have made impossible things possible, I cannot gurantee that such "enhanced" students would never show up.

CA blogging assignment 3

 The modifications to the human genome currently being studied and experimented with will eventually change human nature in the following ways. Humans would be able to modify genes as they wish which leads them to start changing themselves genetically. For example, people who suffer from a certain genetical illness would change their genes to the ones that do not cause illness. People would be "designing" themselves. Young people would start thinking about "designing" a baby so that the baby would live a life without any possibility of getting genetic illness. This might be a good idea because every parent do wish their children to be healthy however at the same time disabled or sick people might be discriminated because they would be even less handicapped people with genetic engineering.

CA blogging assignment 2

My thesis statement for the essay is  "The issues of discrimination of burakumin should be taught in junior high schools in Japan."

The first supporting point is that since all Japanese children go to middle school, every child has a chance to learn about issues of discrimination against burakumin. Not everyone goes to high school, and I believe that it is the last chance in middle school that every Japanese person are educated equally.

The second supporting point is that since Japanese history is taught in junior high school and it gives better understanding for the students. Without knowing the background of discriminations, it is difficult to understand about the issue. I did learn a bit about burakumin's history in elementary school but because history classes taught in elementary school were less specific, the issue did not seem too serious and important to me. Therefore it is much better to be taught in junior high school.

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I'm not sure if I will do further research about marriage discriminination of burakumin, but if I did, I want to write about it as the third supporting point.

The third supporting point is that since Japanese girls can marry from the age of 16, they should know about marriage discrimination before they turn 16. 

CA Blogging Assignment 1

My topic for essay 1 in ARW is the basis of discrimination of burakumin. The reason I chose this topic is that I became interested in this problem since I had had a lecture by a woman whose ancestor used to be a burakumin in high school. I never had an opportunity to study much about this topic since then, but I'd like to study about the basis of discrimination of burakumin by doing research and writing an essay.
My thesis statement is: The basis of discrimination of burakumin and the affect it gives to burakumin's marriage.

9/19
I'll change my thesis statement.
My thesis statement would be; The issues of discrimination of burakumin should be taught in junior high schools in Japan.
I beleive that junior high school is the appropriate time for teaching discrimination of burakumin for many reasons. First, all Japanese child goes to junior high school. Second, Japanese history is taught in junior high school and it gives better understanding for the students. Third, since Japanese girls can marry from the age of 16, they should know about marriage discrimination before they turn 16.