Good afternoon, young ladies! I’m Kiyoko Endo.
Today I’ll talk to you about my childbirth. While contributing some articles to seito in 1912, I was so relieved to hear that Iwano eventually divorced his wife. Then I decided to have our own baby. The age of 30 was a deadline for childbirth, I thought. Fortunately I gave birth to my first son Tamio in spring 1914. But the experience was extremely awful for me, and I felt nearly dead. I wrote in the magazine Daisan teikoku;
During the delivery, the new life in my body made an all-out effort to get out. So, I almost came close to death. “A baby. What does it matter?” I shout in my heart. “I can’t endure such pain and danger any more. I want to take it out even after cutting into small pieces. It’s a hateful enemy.”
…What a shocking confession. Many readers felt antipathy toward me. I just said plainly what happened at the time.
But gradually my idea about child had changed.
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Hi, ladies!!!
Long time no see.
I hope everything is going well with you.
Here is a new quiz for you and me.
Tall people earn more
Summary
18 May 2009
Researchers in Australia have found that tall people earn higher wages than their shorter counterparts. They also found that chubby people earn more than those who are skinny.
Reporter: Nick Bryant
Report
The long and short of this Australian report is that tall workers earn significantly more than their vertically challenged counterparts. (1) six foot man can expect (2) windfall of almost $750 a year. (3) researchers found there were practical reasons why (4) size gap translated into (5) pay gap. Tall people were sometimes more capable of performing (6) certain physical tasks, like reaching high shelves. But (7) discrepancy is explained mainly by discrimination, (8) simple fact that society tends to look on tall people as more powerful and smarter, even when they're not. (9) study from the Australian National University also found that slimmer workers tend to get (10) slimmer pay packets. Fat men earn 5% more than their slender colleagues.
Nick Bryant, BBC News, Sydney
Vocabulary
the long and short of
a commonly used set expression said when you want to explain the general situation without giving details
vertically challenged
an indirect way of saying 'short'
windfall
here, money that you win or receive unexpectedly
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Hi, ladies!!!
Hello, again. It’s me.
Did you have a nice day today?
The temperature was quite high but I was OK.
I just thought that it was going to rain in the morning (for some reason I expected rain, strange isn't it?), but eventually the sun came up and started to shine. So I put some UV moisture cream on the face and arms even though I was at home all day today. (I easily get a lot of sunspots in the summer. How about you, my precious friends?)
Well, it’s a new quiz for you and me.
Chrysler loses quarter of dealers (BEL)
Summary
15 May 2009
(1) car maker Chrysler is closing down a quarter of its dealerships in the United States. (2) move comes two weeks after Chrysler - hit hard by (3) slump in sales caused by the economic downturn - filed for (4) bankruptcy.
Report
Chrysler has written to all its 3,200 dealers to tell them whether or not their franchises are going to be terminated.
In (5) move which will deal a serious blow to small towns across the United States, the company plans to eliminate nearly 800 dealerships in (6) matter of weeks. It says (7) network is antiquated and sells far fewer cars per dealer than foreign competitors like Honda.
(8) dealerships are independent, often family-owned businesses which now face the loss of their livelihoods. (2) move will have to be approved by (9) bankruptcy courts.
General Motors, which itself is struggling to avoid (10) bankruptcy, is sending letters to around a thousand of its dealers, warning them that it will not renew their franchises when they expire late next year.
Greg Wood, BBC News, New York
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Dear Cherry and friends
Hello. How are you?
I have just submitted a thesis to a journal. I think I told you before.
Today, I mean, Monday was the deadline to submit a second draft.
The first comments I got from 2 commentators depressed me so much that I almost gave up submitting the second draft. They even implied that I could give it up. What I was told exactly was, “you can withdraw at this arena.” It was before I listened to Prof. Bev’s lecture last month. Her lecture was almost a paradigm shift for me. One of the comments given to me was that I didn’t tell the structure of the thesis. Applying Prof. Bev’s advice, I rewrote the thesis using a lot of signposts.
I wonder how many times I will be asked to rewrite. It’s scary.
Good night.
P.S. Both scores are 7 out of 10.
Too bad!
Hi, Alice and ladies
I hope all your efforts will bear fruit soon. We are sure you can do it.
I agree with you that Bev's lecture has made a big difference to our approaches toward research.
May your future essay stories be
nicer!
See you later.
Hi, everyone.
I am very sorry for my laziness, I have been suffering from meno pause. Today, since my condition gets better than yesterday, I tried Plum's quizes.
In Tall people earn more, I got 6
in another one, I got 8. The average is 7. I am very satisfied with 7.
Alice, I don't understand the rudeness. You are patient and typically Japanese. As Violette said, you bear a plenty of fruit.
From here, I am Sanger.
These facts had already been known perfectly a few generations before. During the time, science have progressed. Except for a race improvement, in almost all spheres, human beings have played a leading role in nature. Man discovered principles of physics, ray and electricity. He conqueres gravity and flies back and forth in the air. With disregarding distance, he makes communication between the end of the earth and another end possible at a wink. He reduces diseases very much and realizes longer life expectancy of men and women who did not die when they were infant. However, before the problem of overpopulation, he despairly sits on his hands. As if he was not a leading character in nature, irrelevant people who demean themselves as a servant are increasing.
To be continued
Good night
Hello, everyone
Human intelligence can not sustain civilization at all. We do not know how we cope with a dreadful tendency that in a native country, human beings increase more than the country can't accommodate it, do we? For all the people, as a resolution to feed redundant people, I wonder there is nothing but ousting a part of the good citizens. Can't all the people help to harbor fear that large population in other country would flood the shore of the native country and they can not help to fight with them to defend themselves?
As time goes by, do human beings become irrelevant instead of being perfect? On the earth, since a half of men, women and children don't have enough rooms or enough food or there are no opportunities for them to develop themselves enough, will they be tortured through their lives by these? How do we answer this issue?
To be continued
I am glad to hear that you are getting better, Azalea.
Nice to attend you. I am Flame. Your gathering reminds me of Top Girls composed by Caryl Churchill (born Sept. 3rd, 1938, London), an English playwright whose work frequently deals with feminist issues. The opening of the play is just like a dream sequence in which Marlene, who has just been made manager of a major employment agency, invites several women of past centuries to dinner to celebrate her good fortune. They include Pope Joan, a woman who disguised herself as a man, became pregnant and was burned at the stake; Isabella Bird, a Victorian English lady who travelled around the world; Lady Nijo, a Japanese courtesan who later turned Buddhist monk; Patience Griselda the dutiful wife from Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”; a peasant woman from Bruegel’s painting “Dulle Greit”. I have been particularly interested in Ms. Isabella Bird, because I was about to visit Europe again with my own plane・・・.
Now, I would like to tell you about an episode of my high school days. Can you believe that high school for girls I went to, had a lesson for fixing geta, wooden clogs? I hated attending such lessons! When our Japanese-class teacher asked her students what was woman education for, expecting us to answer kembo ryōsai, a good mother, good wife, I stood up and answered back staunchly, ‘A fool’. So, everyone in the class mocked at me. After getting home, I told my father about that. He said, “You do not have to be being taught such a trifling thing at school. Just skip it and go to see a film.” While walking along the Shin-yodo river in the evening, my father tripped over his feet and his geta strap was cut. As I fixed it for him dexterously, he was surprised, uttering, “I have never heard it before that what you had learned at woman school would turn out be so useful!” So, I replied to him that it would be better for me to attend classes. Again I was laughed at.
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