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鈴木 一郎

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恵泉女学園大学

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vol.5, pp.43-67, 1993-01

著者

岩村 太郎

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恵泉女学園大学

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vol.15, pp.3-14, 2003-03-20

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This paper aims to introduce the whole life of Chiune Sugihara. In 1939, he was sent by the Japanese government to Kaunas, Lithuania, to open a consulate. In the summer of 1940, thousands of Polish Jews came to the Japanese consulate and begged Sugihara for transit visas to escape from Poland through the Soviet Union to Japan. Although the Japanese government did not agree to Sugihara's intentions, consul Sugihara did issue the visas to save Jews. So these visas are called "VISAS FOR LIFE." This is a well known historical story. However, few Japanese know that Sugihara was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church, when he lived in Harbin. Consequently, special attention is paid to his Christian faith in this paper. Jewish Proverb states "If you save the life of one person, it is as if you saved the world entire."

著者

古谷 圭一

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恵泉女学園大学

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vol.14, pp.63-80, 2002-01-01

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A new type of course program has been developed for freshman seminar adjusting to the change in students' characters, caused by the recent decrease of the student population in Japan. Most Japanese students are educated memorizing a limited range of knowledge in order to survive severe examination struggle but not for creative thinking. This program has a stress on the cultivation of creative thinking experiences through a variety of games and quizzes which attract students' interests and participation. Twelve exercises for each 90 minutes session are introduced. 1. Introduction ; Survey of the meanings of "think" and "study" with dictionaries. 2. "Answer is not limited to one"; Brain storming of impression of a picture and mapping by KJ method. 3. "Dichotomized patterns and sentences" 4. Movie, "Rashomon"; Different testimonies of an affair. 5. "How to utilize library services" ; Consulting encyclopedia, 6. "Enjoy zigsaw puzzle"; Observation of mental process from the start to the end, 7. "Merits of classification" ; Classification games, 8. "Find the sequence"; Find the right sequence of comic strips, 4-line poems and sentences. 9. "Wrong signboards and top sentences"; Importance of guiding words, 10. "How to write a letter" ; Style and manner of letter writing, 11. "How to write a report"; Requirements of a report, its style and preparation, 12. "How to write a written test". The results of student evaluation showed very high points.

著者

池上 英洋

出版者

恵泉女学園大学

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vol.18, pp.163-183, 2006-03

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The architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola wrote his book in 1583 : Le due regole della prospettiva (The two rules of perspective). As the title of the book indicates, there were two different systems in the history of perspective : the "Costruzione legittima (the legitimate construction)" and the "Costruzione per punto di distanza (the construction with the distance point)". Both had their origins in the primitive concept shown by the great intellect in the first stage of Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti. After Alberti, perspective was developed by uncountable theorists and artists as Filarete, Uccello, Piero della Francesca, Durer and so on. It is still widely believed that the theory of perspective was completed in the age of the high.Renaissance and the development was terminated. We know well about the history of perspective from Alberti to the high. Renaissance. But the latter half of the history has never revealed his true face. We don't know well about the intermediate steps to explain a kind of "missing ring" from the high-Renais-sance to Vignola. Leonardo da Vinci is the symbolic artist of the high-Renaissance and he is believed as the man who used perfect perspective. Yes, surely he was. The pictorial spaces created by Leonardo were good examples to see the fruit that the man had obtained by such a development. But once we start to reconsider the true practical procedures applied for his paintings in different periods in his life, such as the "Annunciation", the "Adoration of the Magi" and the "Last supper", we can notice that Leonardo had a diversity of perspective. Moreover, it is clear that Leonardo himself was still in the state of confusion of trials and errors, even though he is believed to be a perfect erspectivist. The different types of perspective in Leonardo's painting are not exactly the same as in Vignola's treatise, but we can find a suggestive relationship between them. It is also interesting to know they had actual relation through a forgotten intellectual Francesco di Giorgio Martini. This reconsideration we made will be useful to excavate hereafter the true appearance of the two genealogies in the history of the perspective and to see the change of man's conception of space.

著者

小嶋 菜温子

出版者

恵泉女学園大学

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vol.3, pp.31-56, 1991-01

著者

坂井 誠

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恵泉女学園大学

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no.14, pp.19-42, 2002-01

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It was once conventional wisdom among economists that a small increase in the minimum wage would result in a small reduction in the employment of teenagers and unskilled workers. In fact, however, the effect of minimum wages upon employment has been an unsolved question for the last several decades. In the mid-1990s this issue attracted a considerable amount of attention with the emergence in academic circles of some remarkable research which challenged conventional beliefs. This report tries to review both the characteristics and the problems of the current minimum wage system by analyzing the effect on employment of minimum wage increases, seen simultaneously from a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. First, the effects of minimum wage hike on the employment are not uniform; both negative and positive results are possible, depending on the economic circumstances at the time. In this regard, the issue is still left unresolved. Second, minimum wage increases change the distribution of wages in such a way that low-income households, devoid of attractiveness as a labor force, receive a smaller share of the pie. The higher minimum wage is not bringing about the results that it was primarily designed to deliver early in the last century. Third, paradoxically, the idea of forming more flexible labor markets without tight wage regulations seems to be a reasonable way to create diverse low-wage markets and increase employment opportunities. For example, if the greater number of local governments begins to set their minimum wages lower than the federal regulations, it may be effective in supporting low-income households, including former welfare recipients.

著者

Da Silva Dexter

出版者

恵泉女学園大学

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vol.8, pp.145-164, 1996-01-20

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Summarizing the present situation of English language education in Japan, Koike and Tanaka (1995) claim that "It may be said that we are in the middle of some drastic changes and that some confusion about the final choices is inescapable." (p24). These changes refer to government proposals and guidelines which regulate foreign language education in schools in Japan, and specifically pertain to concrete changes in areas such as teaching methods and materials, courses of study, objectives, examinations, and teacher-training and assistant teacher programs. They are 'drastic' with respect to both the broad extent of the reforms as well as the fundamental nature of the changes aimed for. This paper focuses on two areas of change: in teaching methodology, and in the focus on particular language skills or areas. It is argued that a wider rendering of the communicative approach, the 'strong' version as opposed to the 'weak' version, is important for these changes to be truly effective and for various interest groups within the system to be able to come together. The importance of the skill of reading for Japanese EFL students within the present system is stressed, and the significance of the entrance examination system is also examined. These are taken into consideration in suggesting changes in the approach to literacy. in English in Japan.

著者

川戸 れい子

出版者

恵泉女学園大学

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vol.22, pp.195-207, 2010-02

著者

秋元 美晴

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恵泉女学園大学

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vol.2, pp.45-72, 1990-01

著者

武田 徹

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恵泉女学園大学

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vol.19, pp.91-108, 2007-03

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This article discusses how the idea of publicness has changed in the history of broadcasting in Japan. The Three Radio Wave Laws established in 1950 (Dempa Sampo): including the law defining the principle for regulation of broadcasting (Hoso Ho), the law regulating the use of radio waves (Dempa Ho) and the law establishing a commission to supervise its usage (Dempa Kanri Iinkai Setti Ho) were intended to terminate the government.controlled broadcasting system dictated under the war government, and to build a new public broadcasting system independent from any kind of governmental control. But, soon after the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951, the commission to supervise radio wave usage disappeared, and the decision.making capacity to allot the frequency waves moved back to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications . This meant that the independence of the broadcasting system also disappeared, because the government regained its ability to rule the broadcasting system again by controlling the licensing of radio waves. In additon, recently, as the Internet has been covering our society, the citizen's `right to know' is fulfilled not only by mass.broadcasting, but also by search engines like Google. How should the broadcasting system maintain its position to be `public' under such circumstances ? This article discusses the possibilities of broadcasting to remain a `public' system by referring to John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice" and the idea of `liberal irony' by Richard Rorty.

著者

川上 雅弘

出版者

恵泉女学園大学

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vol.12, pp.103-119, 2000-01

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"The aim of this paper is to describe some religious expressions in Late Middle English on the basis of our own data from Margaret Paston's letters and papers. Despite extensive and complete texts of Paston Letters edited by Gairdner and Davis, a Paston glossary still has not appeared in print. Classifying the data according to the optative and the non- optative types, we suggest that the optative type should take up the position primarily towards the end of the letter and that it should be expressed in certain fixed forms. Margaret's optative sentences include the following sixteen verbs: amend, assoil, be, bless, bring, defend, deliver, give, have, help, keep, make, preserve, save, send, speed, of which the five verbs, amend, assoil, bring, deliver, make are not listed among the optative verbs in the OED nor in the MED. Moreover, the fixed form 'The Trinity have you in his keeping' is that of Margarets's optative sentences addressed to her husband, and the more simplified form 'God keep you' is that to her two sons. With regard to the non- optative type, we clarify some religious expressions in the main and the subordinate clauses, and in the prepositional phrases."