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関西大学(法)
  Fortunately, some thinkers are recognizing that technology can take us away from life, can isolate us, and can destroy. If we listen to them carefully, though their opinions may seem extreme today, we may learn what it would be like to live as happy human beings in a time dominated by technology. ...
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国際基督教大学1
  What comes out of spending a day with a TV or a computer or a video screen is loneliness. Conversely, literary reading is an entry into a dialogue; a book can be a friend, talking not at you, but to you. That the rates of depression should be going up as the rates of reading are going down is no c...
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上智大学(外国語)
  The preferred method in India was to send the suspects into a dark room and have them pull on the tail of a sacred donkey, which was supposed to bray if the person was dishonest. At least that's what the suspects thought. The way the system really worked was that the investigators dusted the donke...
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上智大学(法国際)1
  The third discipline is the one most people mean when they speak of disipline ― the Discipline of Superior Force, of sergeant to private, of "you do what I tell you or I'll make you wish you had." There is bound to be some of this in a child's life. Living as we do sorrounded by things that can hu...
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上智大学(理工)1
  Twenty-five years ago Harrison Ford was living with his family in a rundown house near the Hollywood Bowl with a blanket for a bathroom door. After dropping out of college in 1964 and heading for Hollywood in a VW Beetle, he'd found little success as an actor. He turned to carpentry.   Stoically f...
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神奈川大学1
  I was never very neat. Later in life I learned to attribute this weak point to my creative genius, saying that my disorganized ways were just a part of my unique creativity and talents. Yet, when I arrived at college, I hadn't come up with any impressive reasons for my untidiness. It just was ― an...
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成蹊大学(経)1
  車の通行量の多い通りを、目の不自由な若いカップルが小さな男の子と赤ちゃんを連れて横断している。しかし、横断歩道ではなく、斜めに交差点の真ん中に向かって歩いている。この内容に続いて。   Amazed, I looked at the cars around. I noticed that everyone's attention was also fixed on the couple. Suddenly the driver to my right reacted. Putting his head out of his car, he yelled, "To your right. T...
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成蹊大学(法)1
  Bertrand Russell, who did not believe in God, was once asked what he would do if, following his death, he were to encounter God after all. Russell is supposed to have answered, "I'll ask him: God Almighty, why did you give so little evidence of your existence?" Certainly the awful world in which w...
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清泉女子大学(日文・英文)1
  It is worth noting that the modern history of Japanese children's literature began in the late nineteenth century when Western children's literature was often translated into Japanese. "Learn about the West" was one of the policies of the Japanese government, and learning from written texts was th...
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早稲田大学(教育)1
  In a general way, audiences in smaller cities do not give him as much applause as do those in larger places and he believes the reason is that smaller cities are more likely to have (1) an unacknowleded inferiority sense. Nobody in the audience would admit even to himself that his own town isn't j...
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早稲田大学(商)1
  There are plenty of people who worry about language change. England seems to be full of people who write to the newspapers and the BBC complaining about the way in which the language is becoming corrupt, without appearing to realize that the way they speak themselves is the result of thousands of ...
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早稲田大学(法)1
   Suddenly, almost everyone in England has a mobile phone, but because this is new, unfamiliar technology, there are no set rules of etiquette governing when, how, and in what manner these phones should be used. We have to make up these reles as we go along ― a fascinating process to watch and , fo...
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中央大学(法)1
   How do you draw up a chart that would compare the pleasure ten million kids get playing baseball with the despair felt by one set of parents who lost a son playing the game? Stopping kids from playing baseball or making the equipment unreasonably expensive by forcing manufacturers to protect them...
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日本大学(理工)1
  Among large land animals, there's one species that eats the others for breakfast, and you know which it is. The rise of human beings to the top of the food chain was so astonishingly swift and decisive that it's natural to view the evolution of intelligent mammals ― us, in other word ― as predesti...
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