Final Blog

     To start with, I would like to thank you for your interesting, meaningful class, and I am happy to have had the opportunity to take this class for the full three years. I had an experience living in Cambodia, attending the international school for about three years, however, because  I was attending there until I was about nine or ten, I had limited vocabulary (only having vocabularies that nine to ten years old speaks). So, to be honest, I was having difficulty studying English in the high-level class (I still have it though). However, I ended up enjoying Mr. Paterson’s class, I miss you so much, and I am having an overwhelming feeling of sadness, that I will not be able to take your classes after next year. Through many enjoyable classes throughout three years, I strongly remember the book review presentation, classes about the war, and the Map's manipulation which I used this topic for the final website. 

    First, the academic book review project, which I remember that I did in the third-year class. This project was the project that I first suffered, in which this assignment had many things to do, compared to the other project that I had done in the second-grade class. This assignment was very hard for me to handle, but somewhat I ended up enjoying that project after finishing it. Before doing this project, I still had a great dislike for the English classes. However, my sense of dislike had been a little bit less through this assignment. Through writing the long essay, I got to learn the specific point to write the huge essay, and my writing skill had been gained so much. Also, throughout the presentation, I got to study the way to have an effective presentation, which is one of the things that we are not able to learn about it in the normal class. I got to gain my skill to convey messages to others effectively which was also being utilized in daily life too. As Mr. Paterson taught me how to give presentations, write long compositions, make slides, and many other things, I was able to not only improve my English skills but also acquire the skills to present in front of others in a dignified manner.

    Second, the classes about the Ukraine, Palestine issue, I was shocked to have been listening to all the things that Mr. Paterson had told us. I knew almost nothing about this issue, and I felt ashamed of my ignorance. Now, there's a war happening between Ukraine and Russia, and when I first knew about this news, I couldn't believe what is going on, I despise President Putin from the bottom of my heart for his decision to have the war in 2022, and I felt ridiculous seeing the videos and the photos which are reported in the news. However, after having Mr. Paterson's class about this war, my field of vision was very narrow, just being manipulated by the media, just like we studied in Mr, Paterson's class. That time, I had completely limited perspectives, only blaming Russia, just like the media did. I thought it is an ashaming thing to talk about one's own theory while having things with a limited perspective. Of course, the war is ridiculous, and I can not believe why people are doing the"horrible event" which is to kill thousands of people, however, I felt people should have a wide range of perspectives too. 

    Last but not least, the class about maps manipulation had a huge impact on me. I knew each of the features of the maps, but I couldn't realize that it is related to politics. I realized that people could easily be manipulated, so we have to be very careful about each of the information, finding many types of possibilities. Also, I thought we should learn how to manipulate people by using such information. 

    In conclusion, thank you for many meaningful classes, and it is a pleasure for me to have been one of your students. I didn't like English, but I truly loved your class, and I was looking forward to being your student in the next year too. I am very shocked about you leaving this school, and I am strongly frustrated by the reality that I should be back to have the boring English class again. It is definitely true that Mr, Paterson is a person who gave me profound information to me, and is also a person who had widen my perspectives so much. I would never forget things that I had learned in these classes. I am respecting you so much as a teacher and as a human. Good luck, and thank you for being my teacher. 

9th February 2022

    Today, we did the activity, in which we write the circle in a squared place, and draw a line to cover all nine circles. By doing this, I learned that people tend to suppress their own creativity by themselves. I thought this is because mainly in Japan, people make fools of "not normal" ideas. 

    I was the one that I couldn't share my idea, and I realized that placing the circles irregularly on the four sidelines of the square when we are made to think of the four lines, but I could not raise my hands up because I was scared to share my unusual idea.

    I thought, there are many people having creativity, but the environment of the society is completely erasing their chance to share it, which is a very important thing for people to return the creativity to some kind of achievements. 

2th February 2022

    Today, we did the marshmallow challenge with friends. It was very interesting. We are unconsciously making up a new rule, and maybe this is because we are always being tied up by rules. I learned that this tendency in society may vanish people's creativity, and I was a little bit scared about it. 

    Mr. Paterson said that it is very important to make many prototypes in a limited time. I learned that to make many prototypes, we need to keep the pasta in a shape that would be easy to make shapes. For example, our team broke our pasta into a quarter size, which made us difficult to change the form when we realized that our idea do not work properly. 

    To be honest, I even never thought of things such as asking for more pasta or researching it on google. I may think that this is because I am caring about what people would think about me "cheating".  I thought this is very interesting because the teammates should be the people who corporates and get more ideas to win in the game, but as a result, these teammates is being the people who are suppressing one's creativity. 

11th November 2021

In Japan, there are many dialects, which could be in the same position as English accents. First, I did not know that America also has a variety of accents between the states, so I was surprised about that. 

For the discussion about which of the accents are the most trustful, I thought that how is it trustful does not relate much, but the scene that we use changes a lot. For example, the newscasters on the TV uses the Tokyo accent, and we often prefer the Tokyo accent on the formal scenes. However, Osaka and the other accents have an image that is approachable. It is useful in communication with close persons. I thought the prefered accent are the differences between the scene. 

16th November 2021

 By watching the movie, I thought companies are an organization that is strongly related to our lives. The corporation is able to influence us in either a bad way or a good way.  By watching the video through the second term class, I got to know about the corporation. There were thousands of facts and information that I did not know, so the image to the corporation changed. 

Answering the question that would I take an action after watching this 4-hour movie, I would say no. I got to learn many things about the corporation but actually, I am thinking about it in other personal, and think that it is not related to myself. I can not feel that the problem is related to our lives, and the video clip did not have an element to agitate the sense of crisis to us. 

In conclusion, I got to think about the corporation by watching the movie, but it did not make me take some action. 

company stealing things which is not belonging to them for their profit

October 27th 2021

 Today, by watching the video, we talked about advertisements for the product. 

For my reaction to the topic about the advertisements for the children, I thought it is not that bad. Children should also have enough information about the things they want, and nagging is also an important part to earn money and let the economy turns. 

For the topic about the walking advertisements, I thought consumers also have a profit, as the company does. The brand is a status for people. Wearing high brand clothes, having a high brand bag, and using a computer with an apple mark, is a status for all of us. That's why people wear clothes that there are huge logos on, as a fashion. So, I think the companies are clever, but I would never think this is not a good thing to do. 

we need to pay for police, fire fighters, medical services. 

In japan, if we can not pay for the medical treatment, it means they should die. 

buy for air. owning the air. 

nagging

research about nagging. helo children nag to the parents. 

advertising to students.

should we ban advitizmenstg

twenty thousands for one day

the consumers are buying the cloth because there is a brand, and they can appeal what are they having or wearing. 

October 26th 2021

     In today's class, we watched the continuing part of the video. It was very interesting for me. 

    The thing that I thought was that, in reality,  the rich person has bigger power than us, to change the environment to either bad way, or good way. However, it cost a lot to think about the environment, so almost all rich person chooses to earn more money, which means to destroy the environment. Of course, it is possible for normal people like us to make some changes, but it is also true that it is easy and efficient for the rich CEOs to make the big change in the world, rather than us saving water and power, buying organic vegetables, and reduce fuels. Many people would say accumulating a small stack of actions would lead to a huge result, but one rich people changing the objective of the company, to which that focus on the environment. 

    So, the easiest way to make the leaders of the company think of the environment, we as the consumers should make the common sense of the society that the company which focuses on the environment can earn money more than the company that does not. 

    Also, I had a big impact on the word that the man said in the video that the one as the executive and the one as one of the human differs. However, I thought it is not correct to think of these two as a different things. I could understand what are they wanted to say, but I would like to strongly oppose to that opinion. It is true that they did something terrible, even he did that as one manager who thinks about earning money in the capitalist economy. 

    I am looking forward to watching more videos. 

-memo-

the penalty is cheaper than obeying the rules, so the companies do not obey the rules. 

house 30 years of life span. designed to break quickly. 

ンりわいと個人の性格は必ずしも一致しない。

確かにそのとおりであると思うが、実際にひどいことをしたのは事実であるから、経営者としてせざるを得なかったことでも、経営者としてのその人も一人の人間としてのその人も何も変わらない。個人と経営者を分けて考えることは当たり前のことである。

individual is the part of the corporation. 

CEOs can change the world, but we do not have a power to change all of this. 

terminator technology

normally we buy the seed, which means we only need to buy the seeds once. change the DNA of the seeds to make them never produce the new seed. This leads to changing the nature, 

PEople only wats money. 

never go to their own country. 

death of birth

BUT I also thought that CEOs and the rich person is the one who is able to change the world. 

war makes the nedannof the kinn go up, so this is the oppurtunity for the blolkers to havemore money.