How to make Academic Essay. 4/28

What is "good" for everyone around the world?

The most interesting part of today's lecture was that there is no definition of good for everyone.

We need to do 5A's check before deciding our academic essay topic.
5A stands for academic, achievable, access, argumentative, and attractive.

I think if I can make a topic perfectly meet 5A's check, my essay must be great paper.
In other words, to meet 5A's check may most essential part of writing good paper.

I'm taking another class which name is "public communication", and it helps me to write my academic essay.
In that class, our teacher mentioned about background research.
When my essay topic is about popular or famous, we don't need to write background research more than one section.
However, when my essay topic is about specific things or so scientific idea, we need to explain background information and write down background research as much as readers need.

Actually, I'm thinking about Asian economy as a my essay topic, but the problems based on 5A's check are achievable and argumentative.

I have only 8weeks to finish my essay, and "asian" is too big definition.
So, maybe I need to specify one country or religion in Asia for my academic essay topic to meet achievability.

Oh, how can I make my essay more argumentative?
I can research one country's economy and can say that is good or bad.
Should I compare with some countries or something?

The critical view point of the corporation. 4/27

Today, we watched film which is "The corporation".
That film said that the corporation is psychopath which can not keep promise, do anything for benefit for themselves, can not cooperate with anyone, and so on.
History shows us that corporations have been doing whatever they wanted to do, even it was against law or it damaged others.

The phrase "free trade" has been used by corporations or mainly developed countries.
"Free trade" between poor area and a corporation is actually free for only a corporation, not for poor ares.
"Free" doesn't mean "fair" and "clear".

During the film, one of commentator said that a corporation doesn't care about anything except their products and benefit.
So, they are willing to break a law, harm people, and destroy environment.

But, I didn't fail to catch his next comment.
He said "when environment itself become product, it's gonna be different."

Yes, sometimes corporations do wrong things on purpose, and we should point out their failure.
But, we need to think about solution, not only getting angry to them.

I think the essential view point for good future is inside of this comment.
"When environment itself become product, it's gonna be different."

A corporation takes care of only their products and benefit.
Then, what will happen when their product change an environment or people.
Theoretically, they will take care of an environment and people, and they will consider an environment and people as essential parts of their business.

As 21st century business, an environmental business or business for poor people ( it may be called as "social business") should be more popular and mainstream.

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Benefit for what? 4/22

We learned many things from the film of The Corporation and our teacher's lecture.
I didn't know the difference between a company and a corporation.
A company is a small organization to do what the leader want to do with their co-workers.
A corporation is a "big" organization to do what the authority want to do.
"Big" means that a corporation has many stockholders who can express their opinion and change corporation strategy.
When a boss of one company tries to do something he wants, he can do that because his company is his own belongings.
However, if he change his company into a "corporation", he can't decide what his corporation do, because corporation needs to meet stockholder's expectation.
Usually, stockholder's expectation is profit, means money.

In class, our teacher showed us a good example.
A president of his company wants to introduce eco-friendly paper for every single paper in his company.
This eco-friendly paper will take more cost, but he want to take care of environment.
Some will say it is very good idea for environment and his company's reputation, and others may say it is bad strategy because there is no advantage for profit.
If it is his "company", he can do that even it will high cost and low profit.

(Financial network)

http://www.iqsintl.com/index.php/about-us/the-company/

However, if it is a "corporation" which has many stockholders to get capital, it will trigger some discussions. 

In 21st century, many people can agree with the eco-friendly strategy, because now people is aware of environmental issue around the world.

But, some people want to focus on getting more profit.

I can understand there are some people who don't pay attention for other than profit.

The problem is that only few people disagree with that plan, but they will win in the court.

By law, a corporation need to seek to get more money, so even if a CEO want to take a eco-friendly strategy which will good for environment and lose a little bit benefit, a corporation can not do that.

When there are 100 stockholders, and 99 of them agree with eco-friendly plan.

Only one disagree with that plan because of finance.

Then, that corporation can not take that plan because of law.

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Why there is still such a old-fashion and stupid low?

In 21st century, there should be some corporations which focus on environment or people's happiness, rather than profit.

I can understand there was a law which say corporation should focus on making profit, but now, why no country changes that law?
Many people are thinking that thing, but maybe someone doesn't want to do that.

Writing support. 4/20

Today, we have a RW class in normal class room and noticed that Japanese university and company(most, not all) are behind other developed countries in terms of creativity and 

Our teacher mentioned about Pioneer which is Japanese electronics company.

They have one of the best technology to produce electronic devices and their products had been popular even they were expensive.

However, once Korean or Chinese company produced a little bit lower and much more cheeper model than Pioneer, many customer stopped choosing Pioneer one.

At that time, Pioneer should have change their static or tried to produce different model which is same price as Korean companies.

But, they didn't, they persisted their quality of products. They sold what they wanted to sell, not what customer wanted to buy.

As a result, they had no choice but to stop producing their high quality television.

(IT media news) 

http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0604/19/news097.html

If they had a creativity to make cost low or change their strategy, they could keep their professional job.

They had technology and experiences to produce high quality products, but they didn't have a creativity.

Second, there is few generational change in must Japanese universities include ICU.

Many important post in university are filled with old people who did good job 20years ago and now out of fashion. They don't have any fresh-new ideas, they have only stereotype and old common sense.

Yes, we need to pay respect to them, because actually they did good job when they were young, but they have to recognize that they often have a bad influence on their places. 

Actually, all they need is just to give permission to do something for young person. When there are reason and young person have a confident to that, they just need to give permission to do that. They don't need to show their old common sense. 

A generational change is one of the biggest issue for young person include us and future in Japan.

Asahi Judiciary

http://judiciary.asahi.com/investigation/index2.html?id=0039

I need to wake up now. 4/15

I don't know why, but I've been sick since last weekend.
Without parents in dormitory, it need time to become healthy.
After checking my RW classmates blogs, I'm really sad to miss today's RW class.

Actually, I already know about MOOC and TED.com, but probably if I was in class, I could know about them more.

And many classmates mentioned about Private browsers in chrome.
What is this!?
I don't know about that thing.

One of the best way to learn new things is to ask people who are familiar with that field.
We don't need to do everything alone, just ask and listen to lecture are sometimes better than try to do everything from beginning to end.
For us in ICU, we should learn about IT from our teacher, Rab, because he is a one of the most well-informed about IT in the world, and probably he is the best teacher about IT in ICU.

My parents pay tuition to ICU instead of me, and there are many people who can't have education even though they are smart and want to have education.
It is my mistake to be sick, and I need to become healthy as soon as possible.

Anyway, my classmates blogs and feedly really help me to know what they learn in class which I missed.

Sick during spring. 4/13

I haven't been well since this rainy morning, I feel sick.

So, I was absent from all classes on my second day of spring term.

Fortunately, I have a couple of friends in my RW class and I could ask them what they did in today's class.

All students except me did background research about "the corporation" written by Joel Bakan, they told me.

I took your ARW class in last autumn term, and I already experienced how this blog improves my writing.

Although, I couldn't attend today's class, I'm gonna write today's blog as my homework and a practice.

The definition of corporation is "a large company or group of companies authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law" (from Oxford Dictionaries).
I think that one person can not make "corporation".
"Corporation" consists of some people, not one person.
So, I guess this book, the corporation, is about people or group, not individual's story.

Joel Bakan, the author, is a Canadian and professor of law at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada. He has a law degrees from world famous universities such as Oxford and Harvard. So, we can say he is professional of law and we can guess that his stand point of view will be based on law, not psychology or biology.

And also, film and television miniseries based on his book was created by Mark Achbar.
He is a Canadian filmmaker, and he is interested in nuclear power, poverty and hegemony, so he might make critical film to dominant group.

Before reading book, I guess Bakan's book is critical to corporate power, bacause he worked with a filmmaker who have negative thought against corporate power.