The Truth of the Great Writer

I guess Ernest Hemingway is one of the most famous and popular writers in the world. Before ARW class, I had never read his book, but I certainly knew his name and some titles like ”For Whom the Bell Tolls."  However, I didn't know he was almost alcoholic, tried to kill himself, and had such a rough time in Cuba at all. I think it's not rare that people who are engaged in artistic works, including writers, suffer due to their too sensitive senses (e.g. Ryunoske Akutagawa, Osamu Dazai, and Yasunari Kawabata in Japan) but he might spend especially hard life because of the Cold War and the conflict between his origin countries, U.S and Cuba. Personally, I'm interested in war literature, so I want to read his other books in this summer. 

I'm still not sure what stoicism is, but I guess without it, Santiago was not able to see the big fish, and it means you must have stoicism if you want to catch your dream in the life....?

Fallacies

At the last class, we learned about fallacies, expressions that we must not use in our essays and what I thought most difficult usage of them was begging the question. I think I have written these sentences at least once before. In my opinion, this fallacies is difficult for non-native English speaker, especially Japanese because the usage of ”it” is confusing and seems like correct sentence. As I mentioned previous post, I had writing classes in high school, yet I feel I'm learning new things at every ARW classes in ICU! Now I'm sure ELA is informative for everyone, and I want to improve my writing skill more.

Comment on the Content

During the video, Peer reviewing 1 attached with Dan's mail, there was the advice ”Always comment on the text, never the writer." When I heard it, I recalled that I was told the same thing in the debate class of high school. My high school teacher told me  the more debates get exciting, the more I have to be careful not to attack with personal thing, and also not to take what I am said personally otherwise I might hurt friends or feel uncomfortable though I am just studying. We have to pay attention everyone can take a class comfortably. However, saying only nice comments and always flattering friends are not good because they may never improve themselves and neglect. Thus, I believe I have to pay more attention than usual when I study with my friends. 

I am trying to use Evernote but actually I don't undesrstand the full function yet. I want to be familiar with it more....

How to Keep Drafting

I had writing classes when I was in high school, so actually this is not my first time to write a report in English, yet, I didn't know introduction and conclusion  can be written last and I was pretty surprised to watch the tutorial  video. It is a good idea because I sometimes fond it difficult to write a brief introduction especially when I didn't decide my thesis statement yet. I guess it's much easier to choose thesis statement after writing whole essay and also it may be more persuasive one. I'm gonna try this way and want to be better at writing essays than I was in high school!

Tools to Write

In todays's class, we graded CWT of students in other class. It was quite interesting to see and grade other's test because I could know how their ideas are different from mine though we are learning the same material. Especially, I was impressed at the idea that scholars should not be subversive while he or she believes a university ought to be subversive. He/She means if all the scholars were subversive, they might be aggressive too much and there is a possibility they try to overturn even correct beliefs. Thus, he/she suggests even if the university is subversive, scholars don't have to be subversive. It's pretty interesting, isn't it? Also, we learned the use of Evernote. I knew the name of it, but I had never tried, so I want to make a good use of it from today on. I feel I am getting better at computers through ARW classes! 

(I tried grammarly for the first time! It's amazing! )

What we did in the last class

In the last class, we leaned citation again. Citation have many kinds so we have to use them up to the purpose. I was bit confused but I want to memorize the use because I know it's important to use citation correctly especially in academic reports. 

I am planning to write a report about death penalty in Japan. Although few countries have death penalty today, Japan is sticking to it and most Japanese people are for. Personally, I am against death penalty so I wonder why people in Japan prefer it. Is there any religious back ground? I want to know that by comparing penalties in Asian country with  Western ones. Also I'm gonna research the history and changes of penalty in Japan. Through academic report, I want to learn not only English skills, but many things and get some knowledge how to argue my opinion. 

To write my report smoothly, I'm gonna do freewriting like the video. As the video said, I'm pretty sure an essay with five W(who,what,when,why and where)is much more understandable and persuasive, so I want make it clear in my essay. 

We are All Monkeys!

Actually I didn't know this affair and even the name of Daniel Alves because I don't know much about pro soccer, but after watching the video, I got some interests and searched about this event on the Internet. Then, I was surprised that he, Alves pleases extenuation of the man who threw the banana. Why he can be so tolerate? He said, "the man has family, he has to take care of them" and also he added that someone who can forgive is the strongest. I was impressed at his thought a lot. His behavior is really respectable and I 'm sure that his way of thinking is needed to solve many other problems in the world. I felt I should have more tolerance like him. Also this event reminds me that racism are still in many places. In Japan, we seldom think about racism but in fact, it has not been so much since the bill against racism made by JFK was admitted in American Congress. 

Through this video, I also felt it is good to display our will with video because everyone all over the world can watch and join easily. I want to join kind of those campaigns if I have an opportunity. Finally, I wanna say, "We are all monkeys"!