英語では、「寄付」「供給」「贈呈」など、授与を表す個々の出来事を抽象化し、それを授与事象と呼ぶ。授与事象と結び付く動詞の例としてgiveを挙げることができる。 (1)a. John gave a book to Mary. b. John gave Mary a book. 英語では、(1a)のような第3文型に当たる...
Do Japanese schools have too many rules? What school rules bothered you the most when you were in junior high school and high school? Should school rules in Japan be kept the way they are? I want to say that there are not just too many rules, but also ones t...
There are many advantages of working from home. The first advantage is for some disabled people. Computer system programmers, writers, dressmakers, traders, they all can go for their work. Just do not have to. On the other hand, unhealthy people, or disabled p...
John Steinbeck, born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California, to John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck attended Stanford University between 1920 and 1926, but never graduated from Stanford, but instead chose to support himself through manual labor while ...
Honorable judges and people from all over the world! I’d like to start with this question “What do you think of mosquitoes?” Everyone in this room knows that we never associate such pests with positive things. Well, let me introduce one of my best friends, ...
“Shame Culture” is the famous word as which Mrs. Ruth Benedict, an American author, described Japanese culture in her book “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword-Patterns of Japanese Culture,” contrasting Western “Sin Culture.” From my point of view, however, ...