2011年3月27日日曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（４）
2011/03/27 このブログの「今もやられていること」というタイトルで終わる項目は最後に書いたのが半年以上前なのであてはまらなくなっているものがあるだろうと思い、ざっと見直してみたがあまり変える必要がなかった。ただし、程度と頻度が最近では非常に小さくなっている。ただし、異なる日時に異なる場所に行くと以前と近い状況になる。
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
220. 2011/03/27 5 + 3 hours of sleep with some electric assaults on 25th’s night and, on the night of 26th, 3 + 3 hours of sleep with non-stop stubbing electric assaults in the center of my brain especially when trying to sleep again after waking/woken up around 2:30 a.m. , no to able to go back to sleep again because of some strange pressure (maybe I was just imagining) on my head and automobile engine noises for 2 hours or so, and working for 2.5 hours or so. When woke/woken up again around 10:00 a.m., the noises in my head were loud and wavy, my eyesight was blinking in fine frequencies, and I had a feeling of slight concussion.
I do not know why this dramatic change/return of assaults occurred between the nights of 25th and 26th. Although the following might be irrelevant, I will write down some events I found odd or I think could be relevant.
1. On Saturday the 26th , I had special work schedule in which I first taught a class which I substituted in Shibuya from 14:00 to 15:40 and moved to Yotsuya to teach my regular class that started at 16:30. It takes about 35-35 minutes to move between Shibuya and Yotsuya and I left Shibuya around 15:50, so I arrived at the Yotsuya branch in time. But in Yotsuya station, there were two groups of people, most of whom young, in two different stairs who were walking up extremely slowly and who were spread about the stairs, thus almost no space for me to elbow through. If I had not realized that I would have been late if I had not run and run up the stairs and caught up with the two young big males who were on top of the second slow-moving group, who, when I stepped forward, turned around, almost toughing my body, and seemingly went back down to the platform.
2. At theYotsuya branch, five minutes before the class when I was about to leave the office for the classroom, a female worker stopped me and said to me, “Since Todd (the teacher who teaches the same class before me) has not come down, the class (which ends five minutes before my class starts) is not over yet,” implying the I shouldn’t/do not have to go up yet. As I found nothing wrong to go up to the class, because there is a space to wait and the teacher tends to hang around after his class, I just replied her to show I heard and understood her and went up and found no problem. (The teacher was still in class, saw me sit on the bench in front of the class, and finished/left the class five minutes late.)
It was strange that that female worker said that I did not have to be in class in time in that she had never done that even though there had been the same situations many times over the last 5 years or so. Also, the next day of the mega-earthquake, when I went to Yotsuya to teach the afternoon class that was not cancelled, she also acted quite oddly. She was not only extremely in high-spirit, full of smile, which in itself I tried to understand because some people might react that way under that unusual circumstance, but also kept making unbelievable comments as if she were enjoying seeing what happened and what is going on especially to the people in the northern area and everytime she said so she tried to prompt my agreement: “Koritsu (in isolation) makes you laugh, doesn’t it?” “(looking at cars and ships in the stir of tsunami water) Huh, huh! They are like toys!” As she said these things, she chuckled and looked at me with a great smile as if she was requesting my agreement. She kept doing that for around 30 minutes or more, to which I never comply and rather made comments to sympathize those affected, as you usually do when someone is saying what is not appropriate:
Why can’t the government drop food for the isolated people by helicopter? In the case of Kobe earthquake, the government rejected America’s offer to help and left those fires go on. Sorry for those working at the crippled nuclear reactor. It might be scary when explosion could happen anytime. It is like Katrina, though it was a drought, in that the officials are late to act while many people are dying and suffering. etc. In retrospect, our government seems to have moved much faster than the US government in 2005 (Hurricane Katrina). I think I was trying to counterbalance her attitude with these comments and also felt so impatient about the delay of rescue and relief efforts at that time but anyway I would like to remember that in our culture shame/indignity/guilt is often covered up with silence not only by those less affected but also by those directly involved (many just can’t raise voices, same as anywhere)).
Then she suddenly dropped her face in a dark/disappointed expression and said in a low voice, “Dameda (Won’t work.)” to the female part-time worker sitting close to her. (In that hour, there were just three of us around the front desk.)
When we were leaving that day, I offered to wait for them to close the office and leave with them, which I usually do not, do not have to, and probably should not because of my contract, as I thought they did not want to stay in an office when there was a high chances of strong aftershock. On our way to the station, the woman again put on the hyper-pitch and tried several time to make me agree with her “enjoying the disaster.”
Notes：
The previous day, the day of the earthquake, I had sent the woman an e-mail saying, “Daijobu-deska?(Are you all right?)” which she has neither replied to nor commented on till now.
3. Last night (26th) I realized that I had not sent my contact papers for the next business year and took out the envelop from the bunch of mails and put it on the center of the table, saying that I had forgotten to send it.
I do not know why this dramatic change/return of assaults occurred between the nights of 25th and 26th. Although the following might be irrelevant, I will write down some events I found odd or I think could be relevant.
1. On Saturday the 26th , I had special work schedule in which I first taught a class which I substituted in Shibuya from 14:00 to 15:40 and moved to Yotsuya to teach my regular class that started at 16:30. It takes about 35-35 minutes to move between Shibuya and Yotsuya and I left Shibuya around 15:50, so I arrived at the Yotsuya branch in time. But in Yotsuya station, there were two groups of people, most of whom young, in two different stairs who were walking up extremely slowly and who were spread about the stairs, thus almost no space for me to elbow through. If I had not realized that I would have been late if I had not run and run up the stairs and caught up with the two young big males who were on top of the second slow-moving group, who, when I stepped forward, turned around, almost toughing my body, and seemingly went back down to the platform.
2. At theYotsuya branch, five minutes before the class when I was about to leave the office for the classroom, a female worker stopped me and said to me, “Since Todd (the teacher who teaches the same class before me) has not come down, the class (which ends five minutes before my class starts) is not over yet,” implying the I shouldn’t/do not have to go up yet. As I found nothing wrong to go up to the class, because there is a space to wait and the teacher tends to hang around after his class, I just replied her to show I heard and understood her and went up and found no problem. (The teacher was still in class, saw me sit on the bench in front of the class, and finished/left the class five minutes late.)
It was strange that that female worker said that I did not have to be in class in time in that she had never done that even though there had been the same situations many times over the last 5 years or so. Also, the next day of the mega-earthquake, when I went to Yotsuya to teach the afternoon class that was not cancelled, she also acted quite oddly. She was not only extremely in high-spirit, full of smile, which in itself I tried to understand because some people might react that way under that unusual circumstance, but also kept making unbelievable comments as if she were enjoying seeing what happened and what is going on especially to the people in the northern area and everytime she said so she tried to prompt my agreement: “Koritsu (in isolation) makes you laugh, doesn’t it?” “(looking at cars and ships in the stir of tsunami water) Huh, huh! They are like toys!” As she said these things, she chuckled and looked at me with a great smile as if she was requesting my agreement. She kept doing that for around 30 minutes or more, to which I never comply and rather made comments to sympathize those affected, as you usually do when someone is saying what is not appropriate:
Why can’t the government drop food for the isolated people by helicopter? In the case of Kobe earthquake, the government rejected America’s offer to help and left those fires go on. Sorry for those working at the crippled nuclear reactor. It might be scary when explosion could happen anytime. It is like Katrina, though it was a drought, in that the officials are late to act while many people are dying and suffering. etc. In retrospect, our government seems to have moved much faster than the US government in 2005 (Hurricane Katrina). I think I was trying to counterbalance her attitude with these comments and also felt so impatient about the delay of rescue and relief efforts at that time but anyway I would like to remember that in our culture shame/indignity/guilt is often covered up with silence not only by those less affected but also by those directly involved (many just can’t raise voices, same as anywhere)).
Then she suddenly dropped her face in a dark/disappointed expression and said in a low voice, “Dameda (Won’t work.)” to the female part-time worker sitting close to her. (In that hour, there were just three of us around the front desk.)
When we were leaving that day, I offered to wait for them to close the office and leave with them, which I usually do not, do not have to, and probably should not because of my contract, as I thought they did not want to stay in an office when there was a high chances of strong aftershock. On our way to the station, the woman again put on the hyper-pitch and tried several time to make me agree with her “enjoying the disaster.”
Notes：
The previous day, the day of the earthquake, I had sent the woman an e-mail saying, “Daijobu-deska?(Are you all right?)” which she has neither replied to nor commented on till now.
3. Last night (26th) I realized that I had not sent my contact papers for the next business year and took out the envelop from the bunch of mails and put it on the center of the table, saying that I had forgotten to send it.
2011年3月25日金曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
219. 2011/03/25 Although the harshness of the electric-shock assaults came back slightly, as the strength of each assault increased and the frequency of prevention of my falling asleep also increased, I was able to sleep 4 + 4 hours. A few of the assaults were strong drilling beam-like sensation that came below my head and they were accompanied by a noise that sounded gggggg. Early in the morning, I was woken up and prevented from going back to sleep for several hours by car engine noises and blasts as well as electric shocks. I also heard a voice mixed with cough of probably middle-aged or old male, which I often hear those age groups make when they think they sexually embarrassed me. I heard it right after I chuckled out of affection when I heard my favorite crow in my neighborhood make fine calls for the first time since radio-active rain precipitated in Tokyo.
2011年3月24日木曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
218. 2011/03/24 Another day of milder assaults. Rather played down, but strong enough to cause fits of my hands and body, electric shocks kept me awake for30-60 minutes after I went to bed a little past midnight last night. I woke up/was woken up around 5:00 a.m. and was prevented from falling asleep for about 1-2 hours. After that, being disturbed by electric shocks once in a while, I slept till woken up by a shock on the right shoulder in the same as yesterday, in its weird gentleness, around10:00 a.m.., being disturbed by electric shock one in a while. At one point between 5 -10 o’clock, a chuckle-like cough was heard from the loft space in the next room, or more precisely, from the space in MY loft that is closed with a wall and a closet. It was neutral in sex and age, at least not like that of an old man, although it sounded immature and cold. If there was a devil, it would have been the sound of the chuckle of a contented devil.
Notes:
1. Last Sunday, I wrote to an old acquaintance explaining this phenomenon and asking for help.
2. Two or three days ago, I said to the person or people behind the wall, “Why don’t you make me hear your voice? You are the one I know, aren’t you?”
Notes:
1. Last Sunday, I wrote to an old acquaintance explaining this phenomenon and asking for help.
2. Two or three days ago, I said to the person or people behind the wall, “Why don’t you make me hear your voice? You are the one I know, aren’t you?”
2011年3月23日水曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
217. Again strangely I was allowed to sleep rather longer hours (about 8 hours) although today I was prevented from continuing to sleep in the morning, which in itself milder compared to usual sleep interventions. I was woken up by a loud car-engine noise around 5:00 a.m. and fell asleep about an hour later, woken up by car blasts or weak electric shocks a few times, and woken up completely by a rather weak electric shock on the right shoulder on the side of the next room, which was wired because of is gentleness and the part of the body chosen for the attack, around 9:00 a.m.
2011年3月22日火曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
216. 2011/03/22 Strangely, I was able to sleep 5 + 2 + 1.5 hours last night although there were electronic attacks and many of which caused fits. The difference between usual nights and last night was that I was not prevented from going into sleep again after waking/woken up in the early morning.
2011年3月21日月曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
215. 2011/03/20 3.5hours of sleep. Very violent, strong electric shocks that gave me sensation of being grabbed and twisted by the brain. They were accompanied by big fits when falling asleep. Woken up by some pressure on the head around 3:30 a.m. Worked for three hours and tried to sleep in vain because of electric assaults came every time I was starting to fall asleep. Many of the shocks gave me fits and they moved over my body from one part to another, from head to hands to stomach to lower body.
2011/03/21 3.5 + 2 hours of sleep. Incessant attacks with fits. Once, the outer muscles of my both shoulders and chest contracted as if they were squeezed by huge hands.
2011/03/21 3.5 + 2 hours of sleep. Incessant attacks with fits. Once, the outer muscles of my both shoulders and chest contracted as if they were squeezed by huge hands.
2011年3月19日土曜日
Help! Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
214. 2011/03/19 I try not assume things about this phenomenon, what I call supersonic/electronic assaults, but, as I mentioned before, the hours, frequency, and harshness of assaults are more serious the night or nights before I have classes to teach or tests the next day. Yesterday, I had emergency substitution for a native English speaker’s vocabulary class and I was sleep deprived. Today, the same. I am going to teach a native speaker’s TOEIC listening class before my regular class for a person who is taking an annual break and I am heavily sleep deprived. The people who know my schedule are quite limited: the people of the school I work for and, assumingly, the people in the rooms next to and down my room if they are breaking into my room during my absence (this, I do not and don’t want to believe, but just as possibility. Just from the fact that there have been times that carpets smelled like man’s foot over these years..
Last night, the assaults were very strong and caused big fits many times when I was falling asleep although I was tired enough to become asleep in spite of them. I slept 3.5 hours and woken up by electric shocks and noise. The noise was not loud but caused pains in my ear drums and so I put ear plugs and as usual, the shocks got stronger and happened between ears. This has been going on for more than five years including the cause of disturbances were noises only―electric shocks started about four years ago.
Over the past few or several days, I have always had the feeling of after-concussion in the back and center of my head. I have felt only a part of my brain working for a long time, and the last few or several months I have had a feeling that those parts that have not been working for a long time have died.
Help me, someone with conscience, please.
http://junglecrowsister.blogspot.com/2010/10/supersonicelectronic-weapon_24.html
Last night, the assaults were very strong and caused big fits many times when I was falling asleep although I was tired enough to become asleep in spite of them. I slept 3.5 hours and woken up by electric shocks and noise. The noise was not loud but caused pains in my ear drums and so I put ear plugs and as usual, the shocks got stronger and happened between ears. This has been going on for more than five years including the cause of disturbances were noises only―electric shocks started about four years ago.
Over the past few or several days, I have always had the feeling of after-concussion in the back and center of my head. I have felt only a part of my brain working for a long time, and the last few or several months I have had a feeling that those parts that have not been working for a long time have died.
Help me, someone with conscience, please.
http://junglecrowsister.blogspot.com/2010/10/supersonicelectronic-weapon_24.html
2011年3月18日金曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
213. 2011/03/17 Slept straight 5.5 hours. Electric shocks when falling asleep and woke/woken up and trying to sleep again until I gave up and got up. After working onmy PC for hours and stood up, I heard an electric noise which was flat, continuous horn-like sound. Had a sensation like concussion after that.
2011/03/18 Slept 5.5 hours straight. Strong electric shocks to my head, many of which causing rather big fits. When woke/woken up, I felt something like magnetic field going through my head and the noises in my head were loud. The thing is as if the magnetic field had been almost all through the night, and when there was a change of power in the magnetic field, I felt the shocks and had fits. A slight feeling of concussion or feeling of having been hit on ( actually rather in) the head.
2011/03/18 Slept 5.5 hours straight. Strong electric shocks to my head, many of which causing rather big fits. When woke/woken up, I felt something like magnetic field going through my head and the noises in my head were loud. The thing is as if the magnetic field had been almost all through the night, and when there was a change of power in the magnetic field, I felt the shocks and had fits. A slight feeling of concussion or feeling of having been hit on ( actually rather in) the head.
2011年3月16日水曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
212. 2011/03/15 About 3 hours of sleep. Several electric shocks when falling asleep, some of which accompanied by fits. (Physically, I was tired well enough to sleep because I had walked the distances of two stations, 2 km or 1.5 miles, and five stations, 5 km or 3.5 miles, on the way to and from work respectively on the 14th due to the planned blackout related to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant crisis caused by the mega-quake and tsunami.)
2011/03/16 Very strong electric shocks that gave me feelings of my brain sucked up by some outside force when falling asleep. They also gave me fits of my limbs or the whole body. Slept 5 + 2 hours. Woke/woken up and heard video-game/car-blast-like noise early in the morning. (On the 15th I stayed home all day.)
2011/03/16 Very strong electric shocks that gave me feelings of my brain sucked up by some outside force when falling asleep. They also gave me fits of my limbs or the whole body. Slept 5 + 2 hours. Woke/woken up and heard video-game/car-blast-like noise early in the morning. (On the 15th I stayed home all day.)
2011年3月14日月曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
211. 2011/03/11 A strong hit on the head when falling asleep around midnight. Woken up around 2:30 a.m. by computer-game-like noise, studied for an hour, tried to sleep while being disturbed by attacks on the head. Right before finally falling asleep again, hands put on my stomach were lifted/or rose a few times by electric shocks. Woke/woken up again around 8:30 a.m. Had revved-up flashlight like light inside my eyes, sounds in my head loud and wavy. Stayed in bed for a while and a shock made me huff. Got up around 9:00. A feeling of concussion/sensation like having been hit on the head all night. I push my upper and lower jaws strongly but I do not feel that I have done it enough, the same feeling as you sometimes have that you do not get the satisfaction of yarning for some reason when you yarn.
2011/03/12 Tried to sleep on the floor, not in the loft, since there was a mega-earthquake today, but gave up because strong beam-like electric shocks attacked me in the head. After experiencing the shocks three times, I took my futon up to the loft. There, I also experienced shocks but rather weaker. Slept 4+ 1 hours before going to work in the after noon.
2011/03/13 4 + 4 hours of sleep. A few electric shock-like sensations on the head, some of which caused fit of my hand that was, together with a warmer, between my lower thighs closed tight. Took a 3-4 hour nap in the late afternoon. When falling asleep, a shock that felt like curbing my brain occurred and I think I heard, or more precisely felt the vibe of, some chuckles behind the wall of my loft. A few more shocks as I remember occurred before I completely fell asleep.
2011/03/14 Lots of electric shocks all over my body when falling asleep around 2:00 a.m. Woke/woken up after 3 hours of sleep, worked, tried to sleep for an hour in vain because of incessant electric shocks, one of which made my jaws shut suddenly clashing my teeth, and gave up sleeping again.
2011/03/12 Tried to sleep on the floor, not in the loft, since there was a mega-earthquake today, but gave up because strong beam-like electric shocks attacked me in the head. After experiencing the shocks three times, I took my futon up to the loft. There, I also experienced shocks but rather weaker. Slept 4+ 1 hours before going to work in the after noon.
2011/03/13 4 + 4 hours of sleep. A few electric shock-like sensations on the head, some of which caused fit of my hand that was, together with a warmer, between my lower thighs closed tight. Took a 3-4 hour nap in the late afternoon. When falling asleep, a shock that felt like curbing my brain occurred and I think I heard, or more precisely felt the vibe of, some chuckles behind the wall of my loft. A few more shocks as I remember occurred before I completely fell asleep.
2011/03/14 Lots of electric shocks all over my body when falling asleep around 2:00 a.m. Woke/woken up after 3 hours of sleep, worked, tried to sleep for an hour in vain because of incessant electric shocks, one of which made my jaws shut suddenly clashing my teeth, and gave up sleeping again.
2011年3月11日金曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
211. 2011/03/11 A strong hit on the head when falling asleep around midnight. Woken up around 2:30 a.m. by computer-game-like noise, studied for an hour, tried to sleep while being disturbed by attacks on the head. Right before finally falling asleep again, hands put on my stomach were lifted/or rose a few times by electric shocks. Woke/woken up again around 8:30 a.m. Had revved-up flashlight like light inside my eyes, sounds in my head loud and wavy. Stayed in bed for a while and a shock made me huff. Got up around 9:00. A feeling of concussion/sensation like having been hit on the head all night. I push my upper and lower jaws strongly but I do not feel that I have done it enough, the same feeling as you sometimes have that you do not get the satisfaction of yarning for some reason when you yarn.
2011年3月10日木曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
210. 2011/03/05 4 +2 hours of sleep with a few electric shocks. Had problems of speech at work.
2011/03/06 When woke/woken up in early morning, I noticed tinkering of light inside my eyelids which was like flash light going on-and off very quickly. At the same time, I noticed the noises in my head were also quick and wavy. 3 + 2 + 2 hours of sleep. Very strong electric attacks that felt like explosions on my head. Also, there were many attacks that caused strong fits of my whole body when falling asleep both at night and early in the morning.
2011/03/07 6 – 7 hours of sleep in all. Very few shocks which I could not tell was from outside sources or not. But I felt one came following the wood floor of my loft to my head. making a straight line of small vibrations.
2011/03/08 Woke/woken up after sleeping 3.5 hours, could not sleep again, and got up around 6:00 a.m. Felt shocks a few times which I could not tell were whether attacks from outside sources or not except one. Stayed awake all day. When I was about to fall asleep while working at my desk in my room, an electric shock came into my head. I felt it was from behind the wall of 202m but I am not sure. In the evening, I heard noises of people walking around loudly in Room 202 and a person went out of the room. I opened my room door and saw a male walking down the stairs, although I could not see his face clearly except for his eyes, which were looking into mine. Right after that, a young woman with long hair and in long boots came out of the room. I closed my front door. I heard a van door open right down my window facing the street. I opened it and saw the young woman standing behind the van. The reflection of the lights of the van made her features unrecognizable. I closed the window. Noises continued for a while and became quiet in 20minutes or so.
2011/03/09 Woken up by a car blast sound that was not loud but hit ear drums which went Boh! Boh! around 4:00 a.m. Slept 4 + 4 hours. A few shocks on the head and body that gave me the impression that they came from outside of my body.
2011/03/10 Hit on the bottom and the head by electric shocks several times when falling asleep. 5 + 3 hours of sleep.
2011/03/06 When woke/woken up in early morning, I noticed tinkering of light inside my eyelids which was like flash light going on-and off very quickly. At the same time, I noticed the noises in my head were also quick and wavy. 3 + 2 + 2 hours of sleep. Very strong electric attacks that felt like explosions on my head. Also, there were many attacks that caused strong fits of my whole body when falling asleep both at night and early in the morning.
2011/03/07 6 – 7 hours of sleep in all. Very few shocks which I could not tell was from outside sources or not. But I felt one came following the wood floor of my loft to my head. making a straight line of small vibrations.
2011/03/08 Woke/woken up after sleeping 3.5 hours, could not sleep again, and got up around 6:00 a.m. Felt shocks a few times which I could not tell were whether attacks from outside sources or not except one. Stayed awake all day. When I was about to fall asleep while working at my desk in my room, an electric shock came into my head. I felt it was from behind the wall of 202m but I am not sure. In the evening, I heard noises of people walking around loudly in Room 202 and a person went out of the room. I opened my room door and saw a male walking down the stairs, although I could not see his face clearly except for his eyes, which were looking into mine. Right after that, a young woman with long hair and in long boots came out of the room. I closed my front door. I heard a van door open right down my window facing the street. I opened it and saw the young woman standing behind the van. The reflection of the lights of the van made her features unrecognizable. I closed the window. Noises continued for a while and became quiet in 20minutes or so.
2011/03/09 Woken up by a car blast sound that was not loud but hit ear drums which went Boh! Boh! around 4:00 a.m. Slept 4 + 4 hours. A few shocks on the head and body that gave me the impression that they came from outside of my body.
2011/03/10 Hit on the bottom and the head by electric shocks several times when falling asleep. 5 + 3 hours of sleep.
2011年3月7日月曜日
Class Supplement (TOEFL Essay Writing, TOEFL受験の注意事項 -revised-)
今回で冬学期のTest Writing (月曜)の授業は終わりです。まもなく実際にTOEFLを受験する人も多いと思いますのでindependent writing (Test Writingの授業で練習したタイプのテスト)に解答する際の注意事項を今までの総復習をかねて確認しておきたいと思います。
《準備》
良いエッセイを書くために日頃から行っておくとよいこととしては、１）良い文章を読む ２）問題意識を持つ等がありますが、受験日が近くなると以下のようなことをすることも必要です。
♦実際に書いて練習しておく（授業で主な課題パターンはチェックしました。また、実際に書いてみてより完成度の高いエッセイへのイメージはつかめたことと思います。しかしレッスンで身につけたことを定着・維持・発展させるために「書く」ということを今後も続けましょう。ETSのHPに実際に出題される課題が掲載されていますので目を通し、特に書きづらそうなものを選んで書いて見ましょう。その際、最低２回書きます。最初は30分に時間を設定して書き、自分で添削するか誰かに添削してもらい、もう一度時間制限無しで書き直します。）
ETSの課題掲載場所のURL→http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TEOFL/pdf)
♦添削済み答案の書き直し（自己添削では見つかりにくいミスや悪い癖を授業の添削済み答案の書き込みで確認し、それらに注意しながら書き直しましょう。）
♦主な時事問題と自分の研究課題・趣味をまとめておく（AO対策も兼ねて環境問題、貧困対策、グローバル化等の時事問題と自分の趣味・研究課題を100語前後の英文にまとめておきましょう。
♦英文読後日記をつける（英字新聞・雑誌の記事・社説・投稿等を読み、要約と感想を各１～２文の英文にまとめましょう。具体例の材料集めと表現力をつけるのに役立ちます。）
♦基本文法問題で典型的なミスをチェック（英文エッセイの試験ではきちんとした英文を書くことが最も重要です。基本文法の誤文訂正問題でよくあるミスをチェックしておきましょう。また、文法の評価が１～２になることが多い人は文法の基本例文を言って書けるようにしましょう。）
♦手本の書写（文法・表現力の評価が３になることが多い人はテキストやBarron’s How to Prepare for TOEFL Essay等のsample essayをタイプで書写します。意味単位ごとに写すと表現が身につきやすくなります。ただ写すのではなく内容を取りながら行ってください。）
《試験本番》
以下の注意点は普段の練習で実践し本番では自然にできるようにしておきましょう。
手順を守る ― 1. 課題の確認 2. Brainstormingと構成 3. 書く4. 見直し の流れで書く。（あせらずに、1～4の手順を守ってきちんとしたエッセイにすることを目指しましょう。）
1. 課題の確認
♦予想外の課題が出てもあわてない（このテストは英作文の力を見るテストであって知識を試すテストではないことを忘れず、自分に分かる範囲内で論理性のある答案を書きましょう。）
♦課題の条件を見落とさない（例えば ”Parents are the best teachers for children (ages between 1-12).”の場合、eighth graders (中学生)を例に挙げることはできません。課題を正確に読み取ることが、期待される水準の答案を書く第一歩です。）
2. Brainstormingと構成
♦まず論点と構成を明確にしてから書き始める （実際に書く前に数分かけてよいのでBrainstorming + 構成の作業をしてエッセイの骨組みを作りましょう。Brainstormingは「頭の中の材料を外に出す作業」です。思いついたことを箇条書きでPC画面に打ち込んでゆきます。構成ではBrainstormingで箇条書きにした材料を整理し、１）topicごとにまとめ〈1 paragraph = 1 topic〉 ２）重要な順に本論の段落順を決め、最初に導入、最後に結論の段落を設定します。）
英文エッセイの基本構造を崩さない（奇抜な構成のエッセイで評価が上がることはありません。基本のエッセイ構造に従って書きましょう。評価されるのは論証のうまさと表現力です。）
3. 書く
♦読み手に話しかけるようなつもりで書くと同時にきちんとした書き言葉を心がける（実際に書き始めたら論証に集中します。読み手を身近な人に想定してその人に説明するような気持ちで書いてゆくのも良いと思います。ただし、きちんとした書き言葉を使うことだけは留意しましょう。）
♦客観的な文章にする（書く内容を考える際に自分にとって身近なことから考えてゆくことはアイディアを出す上で大切ですが、考えを文章に変換するときは客観的な言い方を心がけましょう。コツとしては、主語が ”I” ではなく ”People” や ”Students” などのより一般的な人や ”It” または無生物主語で始まる文を多く書くと客観的な文章にしやすくなります。特に個人的な好みや選択を問う問題以外でこの点に気をつけることが大切です。）
♦当然予測される反論は取り上げて反論への反論をする（高スコアを目指す場合、反論の処理は避けて通れません。反論の処理により内容が充実し、合格ラインの300語をクリアできます。 １）反論処理用の段落を作る または ２）各段落の適所で反論を処理するようにしましょう）
♦漠然としたtopicに趣味関連で解答する場合、人生観・問題意識を入れて内容を深める
♦よく知らない単語や使い慣れない構文は使わない（本番では実力を最大限に発揮することが大切です。背伸びをしたり迷ったりすると失敗します。）♦同じ単語・表現を繰り返さない（表現力がないと思われますので同じ語・表現の繰り返しは２回程度にとどめましょう。別の語を思いつかない場合は主語や構文自体を変えてみましょう。） ♦導入の段落は主張とその理由があれば合格点の範囲内です。例えばいつもI agree with the statement that …(Writing Topicのstatement) . I have two reasons to support my opinion.のように書き出している場合、このままでも良いですが第2文を主張の理由を簡潔に述べたものにすると十分な導入になります。うまい前置きがあれば更に良いでしょうが長すぎると逆効果です。主題は早めに簡潔に示しましょう。（主題は２行目位までに書くべきだと言う人もいます。） ♦論じ方の説明はしない ♦導入の段落に具体例は入れない（具体例は本論に書きます。） ♦結論の段落に新しいtopicは加えない ♦カンマは次の3つの場合は必ず入れ、その他は入れない方が無難です。１．挿入の前後 ２．副詞（句・節）が文頭に出た時、その副詞の直後（例外: 【文頭の否定語＋倒置】構文はカンマ不要） ３．重文（ … and …のような文）の前半が長いか複雑な時、また短くても内容が一区切りしている時、その部分の直後 ♦結論の段落は総括です。導入の段落と同じ内容を違う表現でまとめます。主張の理由は一言で締めくくるのも良いし、本論の各主題を1個の名詞や形容詞などで表すのも一つの方法です。
4. 見直し
主に論理の矛盾と説明不足に注意して読み直しましょう。
本番の前にはもう一度、基本を守り、論理性・客観性を保ち、沢山書くことを自分に言い聞かせましょう。頑張ってください！ 佐々木
《準備》
良いエッセイを書くために日頃から行っておくとよいこととしては、１）良い文章を読む ２）問題意識を持つ等がありますが、受験日が近くなると以下のようなことをすることも必要です。
♦実際に書いて練習しておく（授業で主な課題パターンはチェックしました。また、実際に書いてみてより完成度の高いエッセイへのイメージはつかめたことと思います。しかしレッスンで身につけたことを定着・維持・発展させるために「書く」ということを今後も続けましょう。ETSのHPに実際に出題される課題が掲載されていますので目を通し、特に書きづらそうなものを選んで書いて見ましょう。その際、最低２回書きます。最初は30分に時間を設定して書き、自分で添削するか誰かに添削してもらい、もう一度時間制限無しで書き直します。）
ETSの課題掲載場所のURL→http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TEOFL/pdf)
♦添削済み答案の書き直し（自己添削では見つかりにくいミスや悪い癖を授業の添削済み答案の書き込みで確認し、それらに注意しながら書き直しましょう。）
♦主な時事問題と自分の研究課題・趣味をまとめておく（AO対策も兼ねて環境問題、貧困対策、グローバル化等の時事問題と自分の趣味・研究課題を100語前後の英文にまとめておきましょう。
♦英文読後日記をつける（英字新聞・雑誌の記事・社説・投稿等を読み、要約と感想を各１～２文の英文にまとめましょう。具体例の材料集めと表現力をつけるのに役立ちます。）
♦基本文法問題で典型的なミスをチェック（英文エッセイの試験ではきちんとした英文を書くことが最も重要です。基本文法の誤文訂正問題でよくあるミスをチェックしておきましょう。また、文法の評価が１～２になることが多い人は文法の基本例文を言って書けるようにしましょう。）
♦手本の書写（文法・表現力の評価が３になることが多い人はテキストやBarron’s How to Prepare for TOEFL Essay等のsample essayをタイプで書写します。意味単位ごとに写すと表現が身につきやすくなります。ただ写すのではなく内容を取りながら行ってください。）
《試験本番》
以下の注意点は普段の練習で実践し本番では自然にできるようにしておきましょう。
手順を守る ― 1. 課題の確認 2. Brainstormingと構成 3. 書く4. 見直し の流れで書く。（あせらずに、1～4の手順を守ってきちんとしたエッセイにすることを目指しましょう。）
1. 課題の確認
♦予想外の課題が出てもあわてない（このテストは英作文の力を見るテストであって知識を試すテストではないことを忘れず、自分に分かる範囲内で論理性のある答案を書きましょう。）
♦課題の条件を見落とさない（例えば ”Parents are the best teachers for children (ages between 1-12).”の場合、eighth graders (中学生)を例に挙げることはできません。課題を正確に読み取ることが、期待される水準の答案を書く第一歩です。）
2. Brainstormingと構成
♦まず論点と構成を明確にしてから書き始める （実際に書く前に数分かけてよいのでBrainstorming + 構成の作業をしてエッセイの骨組みを作りましょう。Brainstormingは「頭の中の材料を外に出す作業」です。思いついたことを箇条書きでPC画面に打ち込んでゆきます。構成ではBrainstormingで箇条書きにした材料を整理し、１）topicごとにまとめ〈1 paragraph = 1 topic〉 ２）重要な順に本論の段落順を決め、最初に導入、最後に結論の段落を設定します。）
英文エッセイの基本構造を崩さない（奇抜な構成のエッセイで評価が上がることはありません。基本のエッセイ構造に従って書きましょう。評価されるのは論証のうまさと表現力です。）
3. 書く
♦読み手に話しかけるようなつもりで書くと同時にきちんとした書き言葉を心がける（実際に書き始めたら論証に集中します。読み手を身近な人に想定してその人に説明するような気持ちで書いてゆくのも良いと思います。ただし、きちんとした書き言葉を使うことだけは留意しましょう。）
♦客観的な文章にする（書く内容を考える際に自分にとって身近なことから考えてゆくことはアイディアを出す上で大切ですが、考えを文章に変換するときは客観的な言い方を心がけましょう。コツとしては、主語が ”I” ではなく ”People” や ”Students” などのより一般的な人や ”It” または無生物主語で始まる文を多く書くと客観的な文章にしやすくなります。特に個人的な好みや選択を問う問題以外でこの点に気をつけることが大切です。）
♦当然予測される反論は取り上げて反論への反論をする（高スコアを目指す場合、反論の処理は避けて通れません。反論の処理により内容が充実し、合格ラインの300語をクリアできます。 １）反論処理用の段落を作る または ２）各段落の適所で反論を処理するようにしましょう）
♦漠然としたtopicに趣味関連で解答する場合、人生観・問題意識を入れて内容を深める
♦よく知らない単語や使い慣れない構文は使わない（本番では実力を最大限に発揮することが大切です。背伸びをしたり迷ったりすると失敗します。）♦同じ単語・表現を繰り返さない（表現力がないと思われますので同じ語・表現の繰り返しは２回程度にとどめましょう。別の語を思いつかない場合は主語や構文自体を変えてみましょう。） ♦導入の段落は主張とその理由があれば合格点の範囲内です。例えばいつもI agree with the statement that …(Writing Topicのstatement) . I have two reasons to support my opinion.のように書き出している場合、このままでも良いですが第2文を主張の理由を簡潔に述べたものにすると十分な導入になります。うまい前置きがあれば更に良いでしょうが長すぎると逆効果です。主題は早めに簡潔に示しましょう。（主題は２行目位までに書くべきだと言う人もいます。） ♦論じ方の説明はしない ♦導入の段落に具体例は入れない（具体例は本論に書きます。） ♦結論の段落に新しいtopicは加えない ♦カンマは次の3つの場合は必ず入れ、その他は入れない方が無難です。１．挿入の前後 ２．副詞（句・節）が文頭に出た時、その副詞の直後（例外: 【文頭の否定語＋倒置】構文はカンマ不要） ３．重文（ … and …のような文）の前半が長いか複雑な時、また短くても内容が一区切りしている時、その部分の直後 ♦結論の段落は総括です。導入の段落と同じ内容を違う表現でまとめます。主張の理由は一言で締めくくるのも良いし、本論の各主題を1個の名詞や形容詞などで表すのも一つの方法です。
4. 見直し
主に論理の矛盾と説明不足に注意して読み直しましょう。
本番の前にはもう一度、基本を守り、論理性・客観性を保ち、沢山書くことを自分に言い聞かせましょう。頑張ってください！ 佐々木
2011年3月6日日曜日
Class Supplement (TOEFL Essay, A new center for business research or agricultural research ? -rewritten-)
Writing Topic: Imagine that a university is planning to build a new research center in your country, but it has not been decided whether to create a center of business research or agricultural (farming) research. Which of the two sorts of research centers would you prefer to be built in your country?
Ideas and Expressions:
Business
1. Japan has been one of the biggest economies in the world for a long time, but this has been due to our strong competitiveness in products, not in sales and marketing. To stay competitive, we need to learn more about business, for example, market research.
2. Japan is an export-driven economy and our main exports are luxury items such as cars and electronics, which bring great profits in good times but become redundant in recession. Research on specific demands in each area on this planet will help diversify exports and stabilize export earnings.
3. With enough wealth and technology to help reduce the damage of global warming and environmental destruction, developed countries are expected to shift to a sustainable economy. To restructure our economy, we need to do more research on related areas such as evaluation of eco-friendly technology businesses.
4. The low food self-sufficiency (40%) is not necessarily dangerous in this globalized economy. Also, Japan is an exporter of industrial products and importer of agricultural products and adding just another agricultural research center cannot change this economic structure. Moreover, the level of our agricultural research is very high. People come to learn about our agriculture from all over the world and we send experts to countries suffering from food shortage to help develop their farming.
Agriculture
1. The age-old problems of Japanese agriculture are very little farmland (90% of the land is forest), decreasing numbers of farmers and farmhouses, aging, and weakening functions of farming societies caused by industrialization especially after WWII.
2. In addition, traditional sustainable agriculture has been destroyed by the introduction of factory style farming, or single-crop farming, which, for example, requires importing more than thousand ton of feed grains and contaminates rivers with large amounts of cattle feces. Now that restrictions on agribusiness have been lifted, this trend might be accelerated.
3. Our rice self-sufficiency is 100% while most of the crops for meat production are imported. Since wheat and corn will be in much greater demand for bio-fuel and food crises, research on more sustainable and self-sufficient protein-intake is necessary.
4. Because small farmers cannot make a living, the number of farmhouses is decreasing, and now 30% of all farmhouses produce only for their use, not for sale. Even though it is almost impossible to stop this trend, there is a concern about it. Other than the fear of food shortage in case of emergency, there is a sentiment that totally losing Japanese style farming might lead to losing our roots, things related to traditional agricultural society such as our thought patters and customs.
5. Although the problem of low self-sufficiency is the problem of business (deflation－people giving up farming because prices of crops keep coming down) and politics (trimming rice production to reduce old rice stock), approaches to improve the situation by those who are involved in farming should be effective and innovative.
6. Plant factories, invented and developed in Japan, can produce edible plants without soil all through the year. It can help solve problems of environmental destruction－no damage to the soil by fertilizers―and food shortage. Also, we can export not only the produce but also the factory and software, which can help vitalize our economy.
7. One alternative energy resource receiving particular attention is biomass-energy, which is a subject of agricultural study.
8. We have not eliminated hunger-related deaths in poor countries yet, and population increase, global warming, and environmental destruction could cause food shortage in the near future. Developed countries are required to make more contribution to research on food security such as irrigation, plants which are more resistant to climate change, and genetically modified crops.
Ideas and Expressions:
Business
1. Japan has been one of the biggest economies in the world for a long time, but this has been due to our strong competitiveness in products, not in sales and marketing. To stay competitive, we need to learn more about business, for example, market research.
2. Japan is an export-driven economy and our main exports are luxury items such as cars and electronics, which bring great profits in good times but become redundant in recession. Research on specific demands in each area on this planet will help diversify exports and stabilize export earnings.
3. With enough wealth and technology to help reduce the damage of global warming and environmental destruction, developed countries are expected to shift to a sustainable economy. To restructure our economy, we need to do more research on related areas such as evaluation of eco-friendly technology businesses.
4. The low food self-sufficiency (40%) is not necessarily dangerous in this globalized economy. Also, Japan is an exporter of industrial products and importer of agricultural products and adding just another agricultural research center cannot change this economic structure. Moreover, the level of our agricultural research is very high. People come to learn about our agriculture from all over the world and we send experts to countries suffering from food shortage to help develop their farming.
Agriculture
1. The age-old problems of Japanese agriculture are very little farmland (90% of the land is forest), decreasing numbers of farmers and farmhouses, aging, and weakening functions of farming societies caused by industrialization especially after WWII.
2. In addition, traditional sustainable agriculture has been destroyed by the introduction of factory style farming, or single-crop farming, which, for example, requires importing more than thousand ton of feed grains and contaminates rivers with large amounts of cattle feces. Now that restrictions on agribusiness have been lifted, this trend might be accelerated.
3. Our rice self-sufficiency is 100% while most of the crops for meat production are imported. Since wheat and corn will be in much greater demand for bio-fuel and food crises, research on more sustainable and self-sufficient protein-intake is necessary.
4. Because small farmers cannot make a living, the number of farmhouses is decreasing, and now 30% of all farmhouses produce only for their use, not for sale. Even though it is almost impossible to stop this trend, there is a concern about it. Other than the fear of food shortage in case of emergency, there is a sentiment that totally losing Japanese style farming might lead to losing our roots, things related to traditional agricultural society such as our thought patters and customs.
5. Although the problem of low self-sufficiency is the problem of business (deflation－people giving up farming because prices of crops keep coming down) and politics (trimming rice production to reduce old rice stock), approaches to improve the situation by those who are involved in farming should be effective and innovative.
6. Plant factories, invented and developed in Japan, can produce edible plants without soil all through the year. It can help solve problems of environmental destruction－no damage to the soil by fertilizers―and food shortage. Also, we can export not only the produce but also the factory and software, which can help vitalize our economy.
7. One alternative energy resource receiving particular attention is biomass-energy, which is a subject of agricultural study.
8. We have not eliminated hunger-related deaths in poor countries yet, and population increase, global warming, and environmental destruction could cause food shortage in the near future. Developed countries are required to make more contribution to research on food security such as irrigation, plants which are more resistant to climate change, and genetically modified crops.
2011年3月4日金曜日
Supersonic/Electronic Weapon 不特定多数による長期にわたる原因不明の嫌がらせ（６）
209. 2011/03/03 Experienced the same kind of electric shocks that caused fits of my body. Woke/woken up around 3:00 or 5:00a.m. , studied for an hour, and slept for a while and woke/woken up around 8:30.
2011/03/04 Feel headache that feels like as if having hit in the head all night. The same but stronger shocks that caused fits and made me huff once came incessantly. Woken up by the shock around 5:30 a.m., studied, and kept being disturbed to go back by the electric shock until giving up sleeping and getting up around 8:00 a.m.
2011/03/04 Feel headache that feels like as if having hit in the head all night. The same but stronger shocks that caused fits and made me huff once came incessantly. Woken up by the shock around 5:30 a.m., studied, and kept being disturbed to go back by the electric shock until giving up sleeping and getting up around 8:00 a.m.
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