The Y's Dairy

This blog is basically for myself. I just want to note something I saw, heard and felt on this blog. No lie, No exaggeration, no criticism, I hope. If I can share some with you, it would be great.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Alito nomination for Supreme judge

President Bush nominated U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Alito to the Supreme Court in October 31. He replaced Justice Sandra Day O'Connor who is swing voter. At this time, why this nomination has been always in the headline is Harriet Miers withdrawal of the first nomination. In Hrriet Miers nomination, President Bush could not gain enough support among Republican members. However, Alito's nomination makes the Democrats bring about criticisms against Mr.Alito. I will discuss whether Mr.Alito is appropriate judge or not from my point of view.

Mr. Aito was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for 15 years. He has long enough and outstanding experiences. As President Bush said at Alito's nomination, his records reveals thughtful judge who considers the legal merits and who had deep understanding of the role of a judge. Mr. Alito is worthy of the president Bush's and people's trust.

The other point the Democrats criticize is that Mr. Alito is "far right wing" or "too conservative".
Any judge should view and interpet the Constitution faithfully. According to their judicial philosophy, they should judge appropriately. At this point, Mr. Alito is unfailingly trustworthy and honest man. Although his stance on abortion issue is clearly pro life, it is not only issue he needs to judge. However, he should judge based on his judicial philosophy and the interpretation of the Constitution, not his political preference or priority.

Abortion is the most controversial issue in the United States. Since there are 9 judges including chief judge, it is very important to ocuppy 5 judges. Moreover, the incumbent President and the Senate has a solemn duty to nominate and approve judges who will reflect the Constitution. Most of the President in the past nominate the judge the same side as the President. If the Democrats were in power, they would choose liberal judge as well. Once judges were approved, they can continue to serve as judges as long as they can. Although the President and Senate need to nominate very carefully, they should hesitate their decision even among the Democrats criticisms.

As I mentioned before, we need a judge who knows the Constitution, who interprets the Constitution in the way our founding father did.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Introduction of Political Science paper

The U.S. became the most prospered country through rapid economic development in the post war era. Now, most of the children are able to go to high schools, colleges, or universities. The U.S is the most highly advanced country in the world in terms of educational system, or opportunity. However, the U. S has faced on several problems in their educatinal system. Actually, many parents are confused how they should give appropriate education to their children. The aim of this paper is to make you consider how government should improve their educational system and how it reform its educational policy for the future. I will reaise the other country's example such as Sweaden or France in this paper.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Addressing different readers

Memorandum

Dear my friend,

I understand how difficult to reduce watching TV. While we are just sitting on couch or sofa, TV gives us various interesting things such as movies, dramas, news, commedies, and so on. I would not say it is bad to watch TV. However, we have to control ourselves and our life schedule. For instance, due to watching TV too much, people tend to neglect and pay less attention to your workm, like jobs and studies. If I were you, I would control the time to watch TV in this following way.
Solutions;
I would not put TV in my room. I know I am a seducible person. I know my room is the most comfortable place in my house especially on my bed. Once I start watching TV in my room, it is almost impossible to turn off the TV and go back to my desk for my study. That is why I do not have TV in my room. Another soulution would be that I try to avoid staying my house and room. If I come back from school and stay my room for studying, I would think I need ten minutes break and then turn on TV. I am sure it will never be ten minutes break but 3, 4 hours break. In my case, I always study in the library or coffee shop near my school. You should shut down something tempt you in order to concentrate on studying without any disturbance. According to my experience, I used to check a few TV programs I was interested in on TV program list. I decided to watch TV within 2 hours daily. It was very helpful because I did not need to keep searching for TV program I want to watch. "TV program surfing" wastes most of our time kill our important time for studying. Good luck!!!


To: Professor in communication course
From: Yoji Kitamura
Re: Control the addiction to TV
Date: 11/16/2005

We closely live with electronic communication such as Internet and Television. In the post war era, the United States rapidly moved into the industrialization and economically prospered . In 1951, color TV was introduced in the U.S. Nowadays, most of the households have at least one TV in their house. Some might have two or three TVs. Our life tends to be influenced by TV.

Solution: set your schedule tightly. For instance, you might find other work or hobby to have funner than you have with TV. Do not have TV in your room. It tends to tempt you and steal your time.

It is very easy to watchig TV without thinking anything. TV makes you leave from reality. According to the survey by Nielsen Media Research, people in the United States watched TV in last season for 4 hours and 32 minutes on average. The reason why American watched TV for a long time is that American has more than 100 channels. They can always find one they are interested in. In proportion to time for TV watching, time for studying is decreasing compareing to that in 1980s. In addtion, bedtime hour for children is getting late and wake-up time is getting late as well. Thus, TV tends to disturb our life cycle. It is time to control yourself and prevent yourself from temptetion of TV.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Short discription

The impact of China's accession to the WTO

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Purpose of this paper to examine the possible impact....
prove, clarify, obtain,
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Background of accession to the WTO by China
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The literature has taken different two approaches...
One approach is...
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The second approach applied is to compare....
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Problem
two main methodological problems and unrealistic assumptions of the model used.
Labor intensive products
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This literature overlooks the fact... (raised a gap)
common problem of both approaches is...
different, differentiated, prodects
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In dong so, we will argue that.... ( fill this gap)
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Prospective of sturucture of labor intensive products of China
Impact of accession of China
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These issues will be taken-up in more detail in the following section....



Korea's Information and technology boom and transformation after the crisis
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discussing background essential to understanding a problem
After Asian financial crisis in 1997, Korea was underestimated their prospective, like 1 % GDP growth.
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Detailed example for the low prospective
ex), the prodecers' shipment index, construction investment, the industrial production index
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indicated a gap in low prospective
In 1999, Korea had economically grown rapidly, based on information and communication technology(ICT).
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The aim of this study is to analyze the progress of Korean's recovery....


Human Rights Meet Diplomatic Immunity: Problems and Solutions
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Introduced background essential to understand a problem.
Incident by son of Brazilian ambassador in 1982.
Rape by son of Ghana ambassador in 1981.
Son of Lybian ambassador
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It has been argued
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The auguement of th epresent paper takes the following form.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Population crisis in Japan

In the begining of the twenty first century, Japan has faced the extremely difficult situation, called rapid aging of the population resulting from the decline in the birthrate. In the post war era, Japan had a baby boom in the late 1940s. At that time, one couple had three children on average. However, the birthrate has started to decrease since mid 1950s because of the amendment to Living Protection Law. , The law increased the rate of abortion and helped the diffusion of improved birth control technology. According to total fertility rate (TFR), each country need to keep 2.08 on TFR in order to maintain constantly its population. The TFR of Japan only have 1.29 in 2004. We need to consider solving the serious problem for the low birth rate for our future. This paper analyzes the solution for rapid aging of the population resulting from the decline in the birthrate from my point of view.

First of all, this is one of key reason that a lot of women participate in society. It was clearly differentiated the roles of males from those of females in our parents' age. However, most of females have worked as well as males do now. It causes not only a tendency to marry later in their life but also rising unmmaried female rate. Also, social base in our society for female who wants to come back to work after her childbearing has not established yet. We need to create generous society for women to come back to work whenever they want. For instance, it is important to improve babysitter system and expand day care centers. They would help to let females work without worrying.

Second, educational system largely influences on birth rate. Fro instance, most of children go to preparation schools to enter college, hish schools, even kindergarden, especially in Asia. If we can recieve good education in our school, nobody needs to go to extra school. This phenomenon results from decline in the quality of schools and teachers and academic society judgied by only acedemic level. Parents do not hasitate to spend a lot of money for kid"s educational fee. Hoever, they cannot afford to have second or third babies.

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Definition of Terrorism

Terrorism is the violent and threatened action against civillians, their properties, and governments and societies. We call Terrorists who commit the action to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives. They sometimes make the violent action to warn governments or countries as one of negotiation. Basically, terrorist would be racial, religious, and political minorities. In addition, person or groups who are inferior to opposite in terms of military strength, authority, budget. Since terrorist cannot fight agaisnt opposite face-to-face, they choose that kind of actions. I will give a few examples. In September 11, some guys highjacked passenger planes and attacked on the World Trade center. In terms of my definition, it is definitely a terrorism because militant group called Al-Qaeda unexpectedly offensed the strongest country in the world, the United States. another case is a Rwanda infighting. Although it was the ethical fight between Tutsi and Hutu, militant Hutu killed thousands of unarmed Tutsi even women or children. In my view, it is not terrorism but genocide. One terrorism causes disorder in society and throws people in a panic but basically it would not change political, religious, and any other condition. Terrorisms are scared because they are unexpectedlyand continueously happen in the world. It is the main purpose for terrorist to scare people by possibility of terrorism. Terrorists insist their political, religious, and ethical ideologies to stronger opposite by terrorism.