ARW on the 29th May 09

Today, we have discussed what Hemingway's bias is at first, but as I could not research the 3Bs enough, it was a pity that I could not participate the discussion well.
Later, the topic was fallacies, and found that there are some of them in my essay thesis statement.

Thank you for your kindness, Rab!

I will read the theory of the "manufacturing consent", and make it useful for my essay.

自然の化学的基礎（GE）レポート２nd

自然の化学的基礎レポート2nd
　　　　　　　　　　行政の責任の始点と終点、二点間の幅
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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　131111(ID)
　問題となるべきなのは問題をただ単に知ることだけではなく、それをいかに料理して消化不可能な食材を消化可能なものにするかというその「実戦」とその方法である。そしてその食材はここに示されているように我々の生存を脅かすほどの毒素をもっていることもある。その場合、その毒素を取り除きながら、または無毒化して、いかに料理するべきなのかということが課題となる。これはまるで、ふぐを捌くがごとく資格を要するプロの仕事のように思われるがそれをあえて、強いてともいえるだろうが、「情報を得た市民」や「責任ある市民の参加」という形の上で実現しようというのが、民主主義とよばれるものであり、これが行政の基礎となるのである。しかしこれは食材を知らずしてすることのできないことである。
　行政は一般に民衆に対して最も影響力を持つ機関のひとつだが、だからこそ民衆の参加が不可欠なものである。実際この問題に関しても、市民の行政への参加不足がその責任の一端とされている。では行政はいかにしてその責任を試行するのか。そのあるべき序章、始点に関しては示されている通りだが、その終着点としての終点とよべるものははたして存在するのか。
　それはその始点の在り方次第であると考える。
　民衆が行政に対して影響力を持つということは、その始点と方向（成分）を決めることができるということである。つまりいま民衆に求められているのは、その確固たる始点を定め、そこからベクトルの方向を決定するという作業であろう。そしてこのベクトルの成分は、我々の一般的に住む社会と同様の、４次元で規定されるべきである。その４つの次元とは、民衆の意志を基盤とした、合理性、実現性、弊害、時間である。しかし実際は、ある特定者の利益、という次元が加えられる。それはひとつの次元として機能し、その次元は強力な影響力を以て民衆が４次元的に規定する始点とそのベクトルの方向とをゆがめ、そこにあるべき方向性は見いだされなくなってしまうのである。実際、このようなゆがみは、本来規定されたはずの始点と終点との間の幅を捉えようもないほどに拡げてしまった。その証拠に、行政の取り組みがすべて後手になっているという現状がある。それはy=1/x→x=0が成立してしまうほどゆがんだ世界にも見える。それは捉えるべき次元を見失って、見るべき方向でないところからその世界を切り取り、正射影として見てしまうがゆえの帰結である。我々は適切な方向からその世界を切り取り、積分することでその全貌を明らかにしなくてはならないし、その繰り返しこそが民衆の義務である。そうすることで初めてその帰結として行き着く場所、終点を規定することができる。
　しかしこれがあくまでも民衆の参加が規定となっていることを忘れがちである今、なお一層、その「硬い」壁に風穴を空け、その「向こう側」に新風を吹かせるヴィジョンを見る原動力、動機そのものが我々に求められているといえるだろう。ろくな調理もされずに出されることになる料理、そんなものを食されることになるのはどこの誰なのか、それを考えればそれだけでも動機としては十分なのではないだろうか。我々は目の前にある食材を知り、それからレシピ作りに取りかかるべきなのである。

ARW on the 27th May 09

Today's class was so interesting!
I know what searching the 3Bs is in the class.

I found it more interesting to read the text as you had.
Literature not just is the entertainment but embraces many metaphors hidden deliberately, and I want to find them.
Motivated by today's class, I would like to study the history, and read the literature.

And then, I will have had to be faced to my own biases to notice.


Well, would you borrow me the book of "the Manufacturing Consent" on Friday??
I want to use it for my essay as one of the notes.
I am also going to use its DVD that will be sent to my home from my house in Nagano.


I will be careful of the Facebook.
Thank you for your caution.


As I have to write my essay on the Google Doc. to do my homework, I decided to have the access to the Internet at home(in fact, I do not have yet), and I called the NTT, but I do not even know what the provider is so far :(
Of course, I know now. That's so funny～
No, I am funny～～
haha

ARW on the 22nd and 25th May 09

On the 22nd, I skipped the PWT, because, as I had stayed at midnight and studied, I overslept. Lol～。～

In the class on the 22nd, I learned what the good assumption is, and the questions were difficult, but it was a good practice for me to make a new essay and the outline.

I do not think my assumption on my page of Google is good so far, then I want to make it better in the process of learning what good assumption is.


Today's class was on the way to use the Google Groups more.
Sorry for being late for class. I found it that my bike was out of order.

In today's class, I have found that, as I have not been familiar with these kinds of the IT, it is tough for me to use it at first. I doubt that it is really useful.

I will know the conclusion later.

At all, I find it necessary to have the access to the Internet at home immediately.

ARW on the 20th May 09

As I was absent yesterday of the cold and even today's morning it was not so good, I skipped the second and third period class.

I had the first tutorial today in lunch time.
I received my essay,and the grade was B－.
Thank you for your kindness, Rab.
I will checka my mistakes on this sheat and try to extinguish them.

ARW on the 18th May 09

C-week.
Today's class is for the PWT I will have this Friday.
I felt it hard to fill the paper on time and in fact I could not do that.
I chose the 2nd question at first, but finally, in the last 10 minutes, I changed it to the 1st one, because I could not write it.
It is difficult to write the argument or my own opinion on the good reasons regarding the content of the article.
I was often lost what to write in today's class.

ARW on the 13th May 09

Meiland is over.
Yesterday, it was so hard to read the article told to, because I forgot its content and had to read again from the Chapter6.

In today's class, I could not give my opinion enough, because, although I have read, I could not make my thoughts ordered to say it.

Today's discussion was very difficult, but very important to remember not just now but also in the future as one of the learners.

I am looking forward to receiving my essay on Monday and talking with you.

The 1st Essay(Final) handed in on the 11th May 09

ID＃; 131111

Sec.; BB

Name; Takuro IROHIRA

Life or Death; For which the water flow away.

　Given The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the most fundamental materials for everyone to live should be the most fundamental Human Rights to be protected and enjoyed forever. However, one of the most important ones has recently been lost at an alarming rate for the great capacity for destruction, which could be said to be the potential of human beings, under the name of the development, or the globalization; freshwater. In Japan, there are few opportunities to be aware of this fact that the clean freshwater is lost forever because there seems to be much water around, but looking at the world, even now, nearly 2 billion people live in water stressed regions blind for developed countriesⁱ. Today, this issue is as urgent and impending to deal with as climate change, but has very little attention paid to it in comparisonⁱⁱ. In the near future, all the world will no doubt face to “the water crisis”, even in the developed countries, including Japan, because its influence would seriously be wide-spreading around the world. Now, it comes to the phase to have to consider it for this era to survive this difficulty.

　There are three main causes for the water crisis according to a documentⁱⁱⁱ. The first one is polluting, diverting, and depleting the finite water resources. The document says that ninety percent of wastewater produced in the Third World is discharged, untreated, into local rivers, streams, and coastal waters^iv. For example, wells poisoned by arsenic in Bangladesh, and rivers poisoned by heavy metals and wastewater from industry in China have caused serious health problems of the inhabitants^v, and in irrigation, much water evaporate in vain before reaching the goal, what is worse, to harvest just 1 kg of the rice, flour, or meat, much more than ten to one thousand kg of water is required. These examples show that how much water is used in vain, and how little the developed countries have attention to it. Furthermore, polluting water also means that it would devastate the clean freshwater available, or the watershed itself^vi, which is nothing less than to destroy the foundation of the hydrology cycle itself which should be for the next generations.

　The second one is climate change, which has a lot to do with the water crisis^vii. Of the changes caused by climate change, the rise in the sea level is thought to be one of the most serious ones, because it will bring more damage from salt to the soil for cultivation, which will lead to the reduction in the production of food; especially in the poorest countries where there is not enough food for the people to eat regularly even now, or in the countries whose most food depends on foreign countries, the damage cannot be expected.

　Added to the above, as water is not only involved in food, but in the sanitation, once the waterborne epidemic prevails in the countries with poor infrastructure, the number of people who die of the epidemic cannot be small, and then, the water will be divided between the rich and the poor, which make the injustice. That is not only the case of epidemics, but other diseases, such as cancer caused by some carcinogen or heavy metals melting in the wastewater as mentioned before. In fact, the number of people killed by the problems of water is more than by war, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and traffic accidents combined^viii.

　The third one is surging population growth of unprecedented magnitude. A statistics^ix shows that, at the growing rate these days, by 2025 two-thirds of the world's population will face water scarcity, and by 2050, after added another 3 billion to the global population today, 80 percent increase in water supplies will be required just to feed the whole population. Under such circumstance these days, without any change, enough freshwater would never be supplied.

　These are raised as the causes of the water crisis, but it is obvious that the globalization (or just industry) is no less than the factor, which makes this matter more serious. The freshwater companies can produce the great benefit for them, and the consumers of their commodities never died out, but it also means that whether we live or not depends on them, because they have an actual monopoly right to sell it; if they do not sell, no one can buy. Everyone will be at the mercy of their market strategy to live themselves. The companies must be convicted of the abuse of Human Rights. However, under the market based principle, the conviction of them seems to bear no fruit, making it worse.

　As a result of these arguments, what the water crisis is can more or less be understood, and the problem would be remembered to be not only the scarcity of water but also the inequity for the access to the clean freshwater between the rich and the poor; it is needed to discuss the water conservation and the water justice. Unfortunately, they are, however, apparently like an inconclusive impasse.

　Without the political will, the purpose to achieve the sustainable development for the future cannot be come true in the end^x. In the time water is becoming the just commodity for sale, not regarded as one of the Human Rights, nothing less than the responsible political will is dispensable for the blighting future. As French poet, Saint-Exupery wrote about his experience when lost in the desert in his famous work "Wind, Sand, and Stars", the water is nothing less than the life itself. Such heritage of the water should be taken over by the next generations, and to do so, it is necessary to do some responsible actions for the lives, the water, to flow to the next era. This is the very thing to be known here. It should be focused on this matter to solve them by the responsible and informed citizens, and must be known that what the world is to be if nothing would have been done to solve this matter. It is not too much to say that the cost to pay no attention may be much higher than that to pay for the future. In other word, it could be said that for which, Life or Death, the lives flow away depends on the decision and the following actions.

i　 Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?, The American Prospect, Princeton, Jun.2008.(http:/proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=9&did=1489711261&Src...)

ii　 Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?

iii　Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?

iv　Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?

v　 Daily Asahi evening paper, 12^th May, 2008, 04.

vi　Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?

vii Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?

viii Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?

ix　Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?

x　 Maude Barlow, Where Has All the Water Gone?

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 NOTES

　 Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke, Blue Gold, Stoddart Publishing, Toronto, 2002.

　 Maude Barlow, Blue Covenant: The Alternative Water Future, Monthly Review, New York, Jul/Aug, 2008.

　 Brita Belli, WHO OWNS THE WATER?, E: Environmental Magazine, Norwalk, Jan/Feb 2009, 59.

ARW on the 8th-11th May 09

In the class on the 8th, I had my essay be checked again and revise it.
After all, my essay is on the freshwater, and read some articles and a book on this topic. On Saturday, and Sunday, I have rewritten some parts of it, and made the reference, but I could not find how to make it because I am not used to using the Open Office org. or the Word in the end.

How is my essay?

In fact, I am not fully satisfied with it, because this problem I raise as my essay topic is the very subject which I wanted to major in when I was a high school student.

When I was a highschool student, I wanted to go to anotheruniversity to study it, but when I knew this is the problem which involves in a lot of acitivities such as the NGOs, I found that in Japan I cannot do this, because there is no the NGOs and so on that have this kind of activity. Then I decided to enter to this university to study the management for these kind of activities.

I would like to raise this topic again and again, because it is my life study, then I cannot fully be satisfied with today's essay, although I have done my best.


This is the one of my 3Bs; background.


I enjoyed your psychological tests in yesterday's class. Thank you.