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...
The earth is called a water planet because more than 70% of its surface is water. About a 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water cover the earth. People live their lives enjoying the benefits of water while having to fight with water from time to time. We use w...
I was in a position which opposed school uniform in the class and I actually object to it. There are some reasons for that. School uniform is not functional. Students rarely wash it while they wear it every day. When they get it dirty, they have to wait until...
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, ...