2008年1月31日木曜日

Review of poster presentation

Hi Everyone!

Last Friday, we had a poster presentation.
First of all, I was really sorry to you that listened to my speech.
You know, I made a crucial mistake. Pictures were about cloning!
I was really sorry, and STILL I did not know why I made that mistake.

Anyway, these are questions and answers.

1, How did this exercise help you improve your communication skills?

I strongly feel that through this poster presentation
and practice of interview, two things I got.
First of all, I learned how to create good mood for talking.
Like interview, usually that mood is a little strict and nervous.
However, such as using gestures and talking with smiling help
to make excellent situation.
Secondly, I come to think that for the presentation, we need to
constantly keep eye contacts. Eye contact help not only listeners
but presenters. Listeners can feel togetherness. Also, speaker can
check whether audience follow s/he.

2, What advice can you give classmates about poster design?

Well, I felt some presenters wrote too much words on posters.
Frankly speaking, sometimes I was confused when to listen and to read.
Humm, I know my poster was not perfect.
But, I recommend you to make extra margins!
One guy wrote soooo much words that I could not concentrate on you!

Thank you for reading my blog!

Hideki

2008年1月24日木曜日

Interview Questions

Hi there!

Are you familiar with interviewing and presentation? For me, these are really tough stuff! For example about interviewing, not only making good questions, but also I have to make good atmosphere. I though many ways... But, any way, I thought it was best to talk politely and kindly, so I tried my best.

The biggest aim for this interviewing was to sound out what someone really feels about euthanasia. Some people might say without seriously thinking, "It is out of question!". I wanted to find out what are people's TRUE feeling. Therefore, I made six questions.

1, What do you think of euthanasia?

2, Do you have willingness to do active or passive euthanasia?

3, If your member of family were to be vegetative state, would you agree to do euthanasia?

4, Imagine. You found a letter says that it is OK to practice active (passive) euthanasia written by the very patient. The
patient wrote it in advance. Can you do mercy killing?

5, What about money? If you cannot afford to pay money to hospital anymore, STILL would you believe that it is bad to do?

6, If you decide to do, what will you think in the future?

From the interviewing Hitomi and Yuki, I found one thing. I will show my idea on poster!

2007年12月21日金曜日

Question for bioethics

Hello everyone!

On December fourteenth, we had an interview time for our poster presentation. What I asked to my pertner is, "If you could genetically engineer your child, would you do so? Why or why not? " This is question is so hard to respond.

My partner was Shuntaro. And he said, NO. The reason is that it is against nature. And it seemed to me that he was really against genetic engineering itself.

However, I cannot endure not to say my own opinion. I'm sure that many people say that it is against law of nature. But, if it is against human history, can you say that donating blood is not against moral? If you say that something that against our nature is not good, when you get injured, can you say that it is against nature and decline new blood?

I think if I were to be said by a doctor, "your baby have serious disease.", I will ask that doctor to operate my baby to live longer! I do not want to watch my baby's suffuring.

I think that this question is so HARD. My opinion is based on my history. If I were to get child in the future, my opinion might change.

2007年12月7日金曜日

Euthanasia

Hello everyone!

What I am interested in is Euthanasia, especially for voluntary euthanasia.
There are two reasons that I want to support. Firstly, whatever all doctors and families know that it is illegal to practice of euthanasia in many countries, the cases of it have never disappeared. I would like to know people's opinions. Second, I wonder whether there is a goal to solve. As you know, this topic need many fields such as medicine, law, ethics and religion. Some countries such as France, Belgium and one of the states in the United States allow people to practice, however, these countries are categorized as a minority. Most of countries in the Earth do not allow to do except small cases. I would like to know its reason why we cannot make common law.
I do not have enough knowledge to discuss, therefore, I will search hard!

Hideki