Meiland essay: paragraph one

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Hiroya Aoki
Professor: James
ARW section: AC
29, March 2007
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Meiland essay: paragraph one
　　　　I disagree with the opinion “ University is fairly useless” because I think the thing I learned in college will not be useless if it goes out of date. For example, if I learn something in college and it goes out of date, I can use it in a different way. I can use it in order to explain the different fact or connect the fact. Meiland argues that we can retain well-supported beliefs. So we can continually remember the fact that we learn and well support in college. Therefore, I disagree with the opinion.

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Meiland, Jack W. College Thinking: How To Get the Best Out of College. New York: American Library, 1981. (The ELP Reader, 2007. 3-24)

Fluency Journal " My hobby"

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Aoki
Professor: James
ARW section: AC
25, March 2007
　　　 Today, I’m going to write about my hobby. I often play a net-game when I have free　time. I play MMO-RPG: Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. This type of games has many playing user. So I can communicate with them or fight together. And It has its own economy, so I feel reality as if it is real. Though there are some of the mad people who can’t distinguish the game’s virtual reality from the real we live, other of people has sure schedules. Now, I am very interested in the war that the offences deprive the castle. The union I belong to has one castle, so I must defend the castle against the offences. In order to retain it, we always think the strategy very much. Sometime we attack offences on both sides, or we sometime escape from the battlefield. There are many tactics to make us advantageous or disadvantageous. And it is very important for us to connect our heart and to make good teamwork. If we can organize it well, we will win the war. In college I have less time than in high school, but I like this game and I will continue this game.

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Fluency Journal "My Favorite Song"

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Hiroya Aoki
Professor: James
ARW section: AC
15, March 2007
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Fluency Journal “My Favorite Song”
　　　　Today, I'm going to write about some songs I usually hear. I usually hear Ken Hirai's songs.He is one of my favorite musicians. He sings with very beautiful, clear, and high tone voice. In his songs I like the song "Kimi no suki na tokoro" very much. This song is one of love song, saying the reasons why a man likes or loves his girl friend. If I have a girl friend, I want to tell her her charming point I think and I love. Do you have a favorite song that makes you feel something? If you have one, Please tell me your favorite song's good point.

ARP: Reaction to Meiland's "Why Reasons Matter" (corrected ver.)

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Hiroya Aoki
Professor: James
ARW section: AC
8, March 2007

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Reaction to Meiland's "Why Reasons Matter"

Summary
In "Why Reasons Matter", Meiland argues that beliefs must have good reasons. Meiland　explained five reasons why beliefs must have good reasons. First, He mentioned that we believe　a belief that is supported by good reasons. And we should not permit this justification of the search for good reasons to undo. Second, beliefs that have good reasons help us to achieve our goals or to get along in the world. Third, basing beliefs on good reasons helps to make us the persons that we want to become and to produce the comfortable society. This justification is called social justification. Fourth, we hold true beliefs long. If a belief has no reason, we'll discard it easily. But, we'll continue to hold a belief if it has good reasons. Finally, examination of reasons and arguments for beliefs helps us to understand that beliefs. So we should investigate reasons for our beliefs to understand them well. Therefore, Meiland argues that beliefs must have good reasons.

Discussion
In "Why Reasons Matter", Meiland argues that beliefs must have good reasons. I focus on　that we believe a belief that is supported by good reasons. I think it is important in three reasons. First, I never believe without the explained evidence or watching it. For example, I never believe ghost because I have never seen it, or never believe there is unknown intelligence creature in the space because there is no evidence about them. Second, I think a belief without good reason has no value. We can't use such a belief if we can't judge whether that belief is true or not. For example, we can use nuclear energy because we know the mechanism and reasons about why we can get the energy from uranium. But we can’t use time machines because we have not found the mechanism about it. Third, the college work asks us to examine reasons to support beliefs. We must find reasons to support beliefs in order to explain beliefs to people. If we find new theory and we are not able to explain the reasons or evidence about the theory, nobody believes the theory. Therefore, I agree Meiland's argument that we believe a belief that is supported by good reasons. We must examine the reasons or evidence about beliefs to make people believe beliefs.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Work Cited
Meiland, Jack W. College Thinking: How To Get the Best Out of College. New York: American Library, 1981. (The ELP Reader, 2007. 3-24)

Aoki
Hiroya Aoki
Professor: James
ARW section: AC
8, March 2007

Reaction to Meiland's "Why Reasons Matter"
Summary
In "Why Reasons Matter", Meiland argues that beliefs must have good reasons. Meiland explained five reasons why beliefs must have good reasons. First, He mentioned that we believea belief that is supported by good reasons.Second, beliefs that has good reasons help usto achieve our goals or to get along in the world. Third, basing beliefs on good reasons helps tomake us the persons that we want to be and to produce the comfortable society. Fourth, we hold true beliefs long. If a belief has no reason, we'll discard it easily. But, we'll continue tohold a belief if it has good reasons. Finally, we can understand beliefs better by examining reasons for those. Therefore, Meiland argues that beliefs must have good reasons.

Discussion
In "Why Reasons Matter", Meiland argues that beliefs must have good reasons. I focus on that we believe a belief that is supported by good reasons. I think it is true in three reasons.First, I never believe without the expained evidence or watching it. For example, I never believeghost because I have never seen it. Second, beliefs without good reason have no value.We can't use such beliefs because we can't judge whether beliefs is true or not. We never believe a belief that we can't use. Third, the college work ask us to examine reasons to supportbeliefs. we must find reasons to support beliefs in order to make people understand beliefs.Therefore, I agree Meiland's argument that we believe a belief that is supported by good reasons.

Work Cited
Meiland, Jack W. College Thinking: How To Get the Best Out of College. New York: AmericanLibrary, 1981. (The ELP Reader, 2007. 3-24)