Dear Taka,
Thank you for your fourteenth
message. My comments follow.
sincerely,
Prof. Sue Stiner
Shouhei Takayama
<s2398475@slb.cgu.ac.jp> wrote:
> Dear Dr,Stiner
> Thank you for your
message.
> How are you doing?
Very well, thank you. I look
forward to Thanksgiving vacation this week!
>
> Homework
>
> 1A,
http://www.so-net.ne.jp/ This web is So-net's HP.
>
> So-net's parent company is
SONY.
>
> http://www.odn.ne.jp/ This
web is ODN's HP.
>
> ODN's parent company is
Nipponterekoku.
>
> NIpponterekomu is a telehphone
company.
ODN has a nice site. It has an
English version. I'm surprised! The monthly
rate for ODN's dialup service
is $17.92 (1950 Japanese Yen) a month. That's
about the same price as my
dialup. That surprised me, too! I thought dialup
service would be more expensive
in Japan.
>
> http://www.ocn.ne.jp/ This
web is OCN's HP.
>
> OCN's parent company is
NTT.
>
> NTT is a telephone
company.
OCN has an English page with
lots of information, too. By looking at their
charges, I see that the total
monthly cost of dialup service may be a little
more expensive than I thought.
Here, it costs me $19.95 per month for the ISP
(Verizon). In addition, I pay a
separate bill for my phone lines. I would
pay that bill whether I had a
computer or not. I bought an extra phone line
for the computer. That costs
about $10 a month extra. There are no charges
for the connect time. Thank
heaven! I am online for hours at a time.
>
> 1B,
http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~fwgh7861/index.htm
>
> This web is Takahasi
Seiiti CPA firm.
>
>
http://www.kotonet.ne.jp/~narahara/index.htm
>
> This web is Narahara CPA
firm.
>
>
http://www.joho-fukuoka.or.jp/kigyo/horicpa/
>
> This web is Hori CPA firm.
The Hori CPA site looks more
like American CPA firm sites. We have
conservative looking sites. We
want people to feel comfortable trusting us to
give them advice on money. If
the site is too "flashy," people might think we
are not reliable.
>
> 2, I think that peoples
and company connected to direct by technology.
I think that people and companies
will be directly connected by technology.
> Next, Peoples exchanged at
borderless by technology.
Next, people will become
borderless through technology.
I think so, too. Look at us,
for example!
>
> Thank you for your
Homework.
>
>
> Is not presidential
election's result decision?
No. It is STILL not decided.
There is a very strong possibility that we will
not know until Christmas time.
That is one month from now! Many people are
getting tired of hearing about
all the delay. I think there will be several
changes in the type of machines
we use to count votes after this!
> I am startled at this
outcome too.
>
> I think too that
"Electoral college" may rid.
>
> "Electoral
college" is meaningless isn't it.
>
>
> Japanese political
situation is tensing.
>
> Becouse, Ano-confidence
motion would present in next week Manday in
> Japan.
>
> And, The government party
would split.
And the governing party would
split.
> Becouse, Mori-cabinet's
approval rating is very low(15%).
Because the Mori Cabinet's
approval rating is very low (15%).
> Japanese premier election
is not the direct poll.
The election for Japan's
premier is not done by direct poll.
> It voted by a summons to
the Diet.
It is determined by the Diet.
>
> Therefore, Japanese are
not interested in premier election.
> I want the direct poll!
>
> Sincerely,
> Taka
> (Syouhei Takayama)
From what I read and hear over
here, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is in
trouble. The split sounds very
deep. It sounds like interesting times for
you and everyone in Japan. When
are you old enough to vote in Japan? In the
US, people are old enough to
vote at 18. Many college students do not vote,
though. They are too busy
studying. And it is harder to vote when you are
away from home.
The end of the course is here!
This week's lesson has two parts.
1. A Summary of the Year
http://www72.homepage.villanova.edu/susan.stiner/cgu/summaryAll2k.htm
2. The Class Evaluation
http://www72.homepage.villanova.edu/susan.stiner/cgu/evaluate2k.htm
In the US at the end of the
year, the professors ask the students to tell us
what they liked and didn't like
about the course. You get the same chance
now.
Thursday, Nov. 23, is
Thanksgiving. It is a big holiday in the US. It
celebrates a time when the
country's first European settlers had a bountiful
harvest. They had a big
festival with their American Indian neighbors. We
have kept that tradition of
counting our blessings at the end of harvest
season. Thanksgiving is the
third Thursday of November.
I made a page on Thanksgiving
at
http://www72.homepage.villanova.edu/susan.stiner/cgu/thanksgiving.htm
On Thursday, I will spend the
day at a good friend's house. She and I will
cook a turkey and a ham. I will
have made a pumpkin pie the day before. A
third good friend will come over
to that house, bringing more food. We will
sit down to a huge meal in the
afternoon. Then we will all have to take a nap
with my friend's 3-year-old
boy! It will be a fun day.
My kids will go to their
father's house in the afternoon for a big meal. He
will cook a turkey and have
other good food. They will probably have a fire
in the fireplace, since it is
cool enough now for that. They will spend the
afternoon patting the dog, and
she will wag her tail constantly!