ARW blog assignment 5 (OMS)

The main characters in Old Man and the Sea are Santiago, a fisherman and Manolin, a boy who helps him.
Three adjectives that describe Santiago are sensible, manly, lonely.
First, We can see that the reason why Santiago is sensible in page 13. He told Manoline that it is impossible to take Manoline in his boat. And often he told boy that boy should get on father's boat.

Second We can know that Santiago is manly in page 18-19. In this sentence there are description of Santiago's form. He looks still powerful in spite of his age. Also his thinking is manly because he still desire to get big fish.

Third we can see the old man's character, lonely in page 45. In this page he went to sea alone in order to get big fish. And he said aloud "I wish I had the boy,". And also in the living before he went to the sea, boy often came old man's house. He took in boy and never told boy go out.

Three adjectives that describe Manoline are friendly, diligent, mature.

First, Manoline is friendly because they have strong friendship in spite of the gap of age. It indicate Manoline don't care the age, and he can have friendship with other easily.

Second we can see the fact that Manoline is diligent through their living. Manoline often came to old man's house to make breakfast. Perhaps Manoline did't have to cook because he have own house and he can get breakfast. But he cooked at old man's house.

Third character of Manoline is mature. He sometimes notice that old man lie because of worried about boy's hardship. But boy pretend not to notice the old man's lie.

ASP comment of 5/21

We were taught the three composition of presentation.
content, structure and delivery.
This lecture was very fun and I assented a lot of points.

First is the structure of presentation.
I sometimes felt that there are some difference between students and official.
And this lecture made me sure the difference.
Some official presentation have self introduction and connect to topic.
I thought I'm going to try this structure when I have presentation.

Second is delivery.
Rab said "never read paper!". And I agree strongly.
In high school there were a lot of people who read paper in presentation.
And this presentation are never interested in.


After ASP class, I had P&D in ARW class.
I couldn't do the way of presentation I learned enough, but I will continue to use this strategy.

5/11 ASP comment

In class, we discussed about "what is the most necessary things if we distress at desert?".
first of all, we think the ranking only thinking, which mean without talking. And after that, we had discussion.
through the discussion, I found that the ranking I decide had a lot of mistakes. I had never had the experience that my opinion changed so much, so this discussion presented me feeling fresh!
About ranking, I was surprised a lot. If I have into the situation like thi, I can't survive...
But for this class, I feel that I can get a little thinking way of army! May be I can survive much longer than before class.

By the way, my score was 87. I don't want to die...

5/7 ASP comment

Almost all of time, we discussed about "when we have to choose who rescue first, what is criterion for us?" First of all, I couldn't understand what should we discuss because all members have similar opinion. After Rab explained discussion's purpose, we just started to discuss. Discussion's purpose was finding difference of culture, but our classmates have similar background so our discussion didn't heat. I thought If members of discussion have various background, we might have active discussion.

What is good discussion and bad discussion?(ASP assignment)

ASP class comment (4/27)

At first, we discussed about "what is good discussion?"
And through the discussion, we find following reason.
1. The group member of good discussion have the mind to understand others opinion above all.
2. In good discussion group, there is the leader that understand all of member's opinion and make discussion topic clear.

sometimes I feel that we should practice leader's working. Almost all of our discussion we don't have conclusion. And sometimes we don't discuss, we only tell our own opinion.


next we discuss about "Even though the percentage of women in the world is about 50, why the percentage of women who work in government is only 10?"
My opinion is that this problem is caused by culture. Today, we still have bias that the man work at outside and that the woman do housework and raise the child. To be a worker in government, we need much money and almost all of woman can't make such money so there are less women working in government than men.

By the way, my group discussion was very interested because the value between Takao and Saki oppose perfectly. In the end, they couldn't understand each other. I felt that it is difficult that difference of value is understood.

Comment to the movies(ASP assignment)

there are some difference between two group discussion. First point is their mind what should they do. The member of bad discussion want to tell opinion more than to understand others. But in good discussion, everyone try to understand others opinion. So talking people is always only one. which is very effective discussion style because all topic that discussed are understood by everyone(unless there are people who are so shy or who have no will to discuss). Second point is that leader's working. The leader of good discussion make the conclusion everyone agrees. It is because sometimes leader try to say the member's opinion in other words, that make topic easy to understand, and that develop the discuss smoothly!

By the way, I can't understand why both of discussion have the time to chat before leader tell everybody start. Is this exchanging opinion?