著者
森本 真一
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.763, pp.84-94, 2004-04-01

William Faulkner told two different stories alternately in The Wild Palms. In one of them an intern falls in love with a married woman who becomes pregnant and asks him to perform an abortion. After she dies because of the operation, he is determined to serve his fifty-year sentence remembering her. The End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland by Murakami Haruki is similar to The Wild Palms structurally and thematically. An engineer in "Hard-boiled Wonderland" has a specific circuit installed in his brain by a scientist. The data is stolen and the engineer's consciousness is about to be extinguished. Then the scientist's granddaughter declares that he will remain in her heart as long as she lives. The protagonist of "The End of the World" lives in a town separated from his shadow. Though he has lost his memory, he is presumably in the situation imagined by the engineer. He plans to escape, but finally lets the shadow go alone, saying that he cannot abandon a world he created. Both Faulkner and Murakami cherish or rely upon the memories of what has vanished. In "The Bear" Faulkner dramatically depicts the wilderness as the hunters' utopia that is being destroyed by civilization. Murakami's "Firefly" deals with a young man's longing for a girl who leaves him after their intercourse. Murakami makes a character of Dance, Dance, Dance warn the narrator to go on dancing without doubting how foolish it is. This may be the author's critical view of mechanized and high-speed society in which people are deprived of profound thinking. Sheep Expert in his Adventuring after a Sheep observes that Japan was destined to be defeated in World War II because there have been no thoughts based on life. Faulkner wrote an essay, "To the Youth of Japan." He mentioned his belief that in Japan out of the disaster and despair after World War II there would appear writers who would speak not a Japanese truth but a universal truth. Murakami is certainly among such writers. Readers should notice his pursuit of human ego in the midst of complicated circumstances.
著者
堀内 正昭
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.777, pp.92-106, 2005-07-01

The Museum Island mainly goes back to the vision of Frederick William IV of Prussia, who wanted to reorganize this island in the Spree River for "a shelter of art and science". The five museums built between 1830 and 1930 reflected stylistic tendencies of classicism, historicism and neoclassicism. From a viewpoint of architectural planning they illustrated the evolution of museum design over a period of a century. In the Altesmuseum designed by Schinkel one could appreciate classical sculptures at a glance in the rotunda. In the Neuesmuseum the exhibit rooms were decorated so that the interior matched historical styles of the collection. The Alte Nationalgalerie was designed as a monumental temple which symbolized the German Empire. In the Bodemuseum the exhibits were displayed with the collection of several contemporary genre. In addition, for the first time the Pergamonmuseum had special rooms for ancient architecture and the exhibits were classified into many groups according to age and country.
著者
島田 太郎
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.763, pp.100-106, 2004-04-01

Poe sometimes chooses for his characters sets of names that suggest they are closely related and yet often antagonistic to each other, such as Dupin and Minister D- ("The Purloined Letter"), Fortunato and Montresor ("The Cask of Amontillado"), two William Wilsons, and Bedloe and Oldeb ("A Tale of the Ragged Mountains"), though the last set mentioned is exceptionally unantagonistic. The choice betrays Poe's uneasiness about his own identity. He is always haunted by the dissociation of his own personality because he is, just like August Dupin in his stories, conscious of the coexistence in his own self of "creative Poe" who creates esoteric worlds of poetry and mystery, and "resolvent Poe" who destructs the former worlds by means of his own ratiocination. It is suggestive that he uses a very rare word "Bi-part soul" twice, no example of which can be found in The Oxford English Dictionary. My argument is, I believe, supported by the fact that Poe is at once attracted to and repelled by mirrors. Though he allows only one mirror in his ideal room ("The Philosophy of Furniture"), the use of the word "mirror(s)" in his stories count as many as twenty-seven.
著者
中山 栄子 高野 美夢
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.861, pp.50-54, 2012-07-01

The concept of third-hand smoke(exposure to the poisonous substances in cigarette smoke that remain after a cigarette has been extinguished)is still little known, and certainly not as well known as second-hand smoke. In this study, the status of third-hand smoke awareness was first established by conducting a questionnaire survey. The survey results showed that many people are familiar with neither the term nor the concept "third-hand smoke." To help people understand that, though third-hand smoke can't be seen, it is still harmful, a clear airtight container of the type which can be obtained anywhere was employed as a pseudo-smoking area, and using this with a gas detection tube, a smell monitor, and a color sensor we were able to make the existence and effects of third-hand smoke clear. This study proposes that the pseudo-smoking area which makes clear the existence of third-hand smoke can be used as a learning material because it allows learners to experience the harm with all five of their senses.
著者
赤堀 志子
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.900, pp.(41)-(57), 2015-10-01
著者
渡辺 睦行/坂尾 眞理 坂尾 眞理
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.902, pp.55-58, 2015-12-01

Intravital lipid peroxidation is associated with the onset of diseases including atherosclerosis and cancer. Antioxidants such as polyphenols and peptides have been reported to prevent peroxidation. Our laboratory previously found that soybean tempeh, a traditional fermented soy food from Indonesia, possesses stronger antioxidant activity than unfermented soybeans. The aim of the present study is to establish whether chickpea tempeh also demonstrates elevated antioxidant properties compared with unfermented chickpeas using DPPH radical scavenging activity and β-carotene bleaching assays. Our results showed that total polyphenol content in chickpeas increased by up to 40% during fermentation. In addition, the DPPH assay revealed that the antioxidant activity of the chickpeas tempeh was stronger than that of unfermented chickpeas.
著者
吉田 昌志
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.903, pp.82-104, 2016-01-01
著者
秋山 智久
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.832, pp.66-77, 2010-02-01

What relationship is there between social welfare and the religion? How has religious social welfare been understood? Where is religious social welfare placed in the context of modern Japanese social welfare handled by administrative systems, governed by the law, and supported by fiscal resources from the state? With these questions in mind, the author explores how social welfare has been practiced in the world under the three major religions. The author argues that social welfare originates from various religious traditions and that religion has been essential in motivating practitioners of social welfare. The author also points out that in Japan, the value of religion for social welfare is apt to be underestimated.
著者
早川 陽
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.896, pp.2-18, 2015-06-01

In the field of Japanese art education, the pigments employed in traditional Japanese paintings are rarely used, though using them in an educational context could be very valuable in imparting an understanding of Bijutsu Bunka(art culture)currently required in curriculum guidelines. In an attempt to explore how they can be adopted in today's art education, this paper explores two Japanese traditional painting technique books from the Taisho Period and highlights the common characteristics of the pigments described in the books and compares them with pigments that have survived from those times, or have been more recently developed for use in traditional-style paintings. The origins of various Japanese pigments are organized in such a way that they can be used as educational material. In order to provide background for this research, the first chapter considers how Japanese traditional paintings are created, displayed and enjoyed today. Also the significance of Bijutsu Bunka, which was newly specified in curriculum guidelines, is discussed. The second chapter, focusing on the refinement and elutriation of pigments used in Japanese traditional paintings, categorizes and organizes the features of the pigments used. The third chapter refers to the above two books and considers the changes made since then in the types of the pigment. The final chapter summarizes the characteristics of the pigments and gives a general view of how they were traditionally used and concludes that the pigments, many of which have been refined by elutriation, can be utilized effectively in the field of art education today. The author believes that intercourse between the past and present, and understanding and appreciating traditional art, offer new possibilities in the future of art education.
著者
平野 晶子
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.875, pp.11-19, 2013-09-01
著者
岸田 幸弘
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.856, pp.28-36, 2012-02-01

The purpose of this study is to understand the reality of how teachers support truant students and how effective they believe the measures they take to be. In a questionnaire survey of 227 teachers, we asked them to recollect their successful and unsuccessful support cases and assess each intervention by answering multiple-choice questions designed to find out which of 32 support methods they had used, and how effective they thought the methods they used were. As a result, it was found that there was no correlation between the rates at which a method was chosen and its success or failure. All the methods used in successful cases rated higher and in some cases the differences were statistically significant. Also, methods used in unsuccessful cases were rated lower in junior high school case assessments compared to that of elementary schools, suggesting that junior high school teachers are having a tougher time in supporting truant junior high school students.
著者
中西 裕
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.853, pp.41-52, 2011-11-01
著者
久下 裕利
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.879, pp.67-70, 2014-01-01
著者
井原 奉明
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.882, pp.73-85, 2014-04-01

The author has two purposes in mind when he writes this paper. One is to clearly show the importance of capturing communication as social intercourse, which signifies a dialogue not within but between the communities, denying the idea of traditional view of communication as authentic "speaker-hearer" model. The other is to explicitly insist J.-P.Sartre's others are the same as what the author talks about in this paper. The others have asymmetric relation to me, do not share the communal code, and have the right to determine the meaning of what the speaker says.
著者
中津川 研一
出版者
昭和女子大学
雑誌
學苑 (ISSN:13480103)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.842, pp.48-50, 2010-12-01