Hi, ladies!!
It is Thursday, December 25, 2008, and Merry Xmas!
I hope you are having wonderful holiday season.
I skipped writing on this Blog because of some hectic days with my daughters. Yes, it is as you guessed…They are now very excited in their winter vacation, and making a lot of plans to enjoy themselves fully, such as Xmas party, Xmas present, vacation trip (we’re planning on going for the Disney Resort on Saturday), and homecoming visit to Osaka. I’m afraid that we won’t go well for all arrangements. Anyway, I have to do many chores one by one…
Plum, I was happy to read your accounts of the three missionaries, since all of them are really helpful for me in writing my English essay.
Alice, I was also glad to learn your report on the interesting lecture by Prof. Mackie.
So, I will get back to my homework, see you next.
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Merry Christmas!!!!
Cherry and friends of great mental vigour
I also listened to Vera Mackie's speech last Sunday. It remind's me of Yashiko Miyake's essay. The nation consisted and consists of families. The professor stated maybe! the Japanese civic code contradicts respecting preference of individual(the privelege) in the Japanese Constitution. However, for homosexality, Japanese vernacular adoption system and notarizing are practically used. I recognized these systems are a buffer against the descrepancy between the civic code and the constitution. Her explanation was concise and relevant. It's very interesting.
In my opinion, we can't biologically tell between male and female of human beings. Now We judge from ostensible physical conditions. This has been the de facto common sense. Nonesense. We don't know how to decide it. It's almost time to know only physical conditions can't determine male or female.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Thursday, December 25, 2008, today, and it’s been wet with some gentle rain falling on and off.
No sooner had I woken up this morning at around 7 than I felt a sharp pain in my left eye, which was fairly swollen. So I went to see my eye doctor, who explained that I mush have been asleep with my left eye open and rubbed it as it got dry, which caused the pain and swelling. Very convincing!!! But nonetheless I just cannot believe that I was asleep with my left eye open. Oh, so weird and bizarre, isn’t it? How stupid of me it is to sleep with one eye open!!!
Here is part 5.
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September, 1875: at 33, B 6 Girls’ School (at her residence in Tsukiji)
1876: at 34, Graham Seminary (Shin-sakae-cho, Tsukiji)
1878: at 36, Daiichi-keimo-shoggako, Daiichi-keimo-shoggako night school (Tsukiji)
1879: at 37, Daini-keimo-shoggako (Atago-cho)
1883: at 41, Joshi-seisho-gakko (Shin-minato-machi, Tsukiji)
Kate Youngman left Graham Seminary in 1878 only two years after the foundation because she got tremendously angry with the missionary office that not only did not send any female missionaries who could help her with her propagation work in Japan but also did not accept the payment of salaries for Japanese teachers and Bible women working at the seminary. On the other hand, male Presbyterian missionaries criticized her arguing that she tried to spend the fund sent by the missionary office in the way she liked ignoring the budget rules and plans created by the missionaries stationing in Japan.
Youngman insisted that she would resign from being a missionary, but Graham, who possibly believed in her capability and competence as a missionary, persuaded her to stay on.
Let me think about the primary school education circumstances in Japan in the 1870s.
On September 5, 1872 (Meiji 5), Gakusei, the School Education System of Japan, was promulgated, and according to the system the country was divided into 8 university districts. One university district was subdivided into 32 middle school districts (256 middle schools), and one middle school into 210 primary school districts (53,760 primary schools). However, in the following year, the 8 university districts were changed to 7 ones, and accordingly the other school districts were also altered.
By 1876, under the Gakusei program, a little over 2,300 primary schools were established. The primary school, which was of eight year education, consisted of 2 parts, kato for children of 6 to 9 years of age and joto for ones of 10 to 13 years of age.
There are two major kinds of primary schools; one is jinjo, ordinary primary school, and joji, girls’ primary school. In ordinary primary school, same subjects were taught to children of both sexes, and in girls’ primary school, handicraft was also taught to the pupils. The parents or guardians of the children had to pay, each month, fees for them ranging from 25 sen to 50 sen.
In the first half of Meiji Japan (1868-1912), the Tokyo governor was monthly paid 333 yen, and the starting monthly salaries of an upper grade civil servant and a bank clerk were 50 yen and 35 yen respectively. The manual laborers and female factory workers were paid 5 yen and 2 yen respectively. (Meijikan,131)
Suppose the starting monthly salary of a contemporary bank clerk is 200,000 yen, he/she earns 5,714 times more than his/her counterpart in the first half of Meiji Japan. In this case, 25 yen and 50 yen for primary school tuition and other expenses can be converted to 1,428.5 yen and 2,857 yen respectively. Do you think they are too expensive for primary schooling?
It is getting cold tonight. Keep yourself very warm, my lovely friends. Goodnight to you all…
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. How are you?
It was colder, today.
Hi, Azalea! It might be rude of me to say this, but your English sounds sophisticated. I knew you are strong at vocabulary and the words you used in your writing sound perfectly harmonizing each other. It’s only my impression. I got a book written by Prof. Mackie. I was surprised at the amount of notes at the end of the book.
Reading John Stuart Mill
Reading John Stuart Mill has become almost torture to me. Words don’t look difficult, but I can’t understand a lot of sentences.
“And even if I could do all this, and leave the opposite party with a host of unanswered arguments against them, and not a single unrefuted one on their side, I should be thought to have done little; for a cause supported on the one hand by universal usage, and on the other hand by so great a preponderance of popular sentiment, is supposed to have a presumption in its favour, superior to any conviction which an appeal to reason has power to produce in any intellects but those of a high class (p. 127).”
It is a sentence with 93 words. I read this repeatedly until I vaguely figured it out. By this sentence, he expresses how difficult it would be the work he begins here.
In this essay, Mill attempts to prove “the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes – the legal subordination of one sex to the other – is wrong (p. 125).” Even if he succeeds to do this, he humbly confesses, he “should be thought to have done little.” As he laments, “[t]he subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural. (p. 138)”
Dear ladies,
I was so concerned about myself these days. Also when I want to sit in front of my PC. someone in my family occupies the space. My DH had spent unsettled day because cancer was found in the lung of his mother. He surfed the Internet to buy books and goods for the remedy of cancer. My mother-in-law has an inborn heart disease, so the operation was not easy. She stayed with us two days to have a Vitamin dripping in Kamimaezu.
As for my essay I couldn't forcus Kamichika's achievements well, but thanks to Azalea and Cherry whom I met today, I somehow come to understand what makes me feel attracted about her. As I didn't know her at all, I just follow her life. So focus of the essay is not clear. I should read more about her.
Plum, please take care of your eye. Good night, everyone.
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