Week 4: Tuesday + Wednesday

On Tuesday I watched a document, The Final Year, from Netflix without subtitles. The document basically shows Barack Obama's last year of being president of the United States. The document is 1 hour 30 minutes long.

Today I read an article 'Japanese society: Inside out and outside in' (Sugimoto 2014). Interesting part of the article was about Japanese kanji characters and comparing them to Western alphabetics. Kanji charachters are more like "ideographic rather than phonetic; they represent an image of something, and thus nurtured a 'pictocentric' culture" (Sugimoto 2014: 197).



Reading, writing the word list (below) and underlining the main points of the article took me 2 hours and 15 minutes.

shift = muuttua
resemble = muistuttaa
duality = kaksijakoisuus
outwardly = ulkoisesti
enduring = pysyvä
entrench = linnoitautua
truism = itsestäänselvyy
endeavor = pyrkiä
unrival = vertaansa vailla
heyday = kukoistus
waning =  hupeneva
underlie = olla perustana
tacit = äänetön
postulate = olettaa
strikingly = silmiinpistävästi
discern = huomata
stratify = kerrostua
intertwine = kietoutua
scholary = teoreettinen
abrupt = äkkinäinen
rigidity = jäykkyys
industriousness = ahkeruus
reminiscent = samankaltainen
faculty = luonnonlahja
unfathomable = käsittämätön
conviviality = vieraanvarainen
deem = arvella
fluctuation = heilahtelu
stagnation = lamaantuminen
renounce = kieltää
ostensibly = näennäisesti
akin = kaltainen
dilute = laimentaa

Then I also listened a lecture with the title 'Female Disadvantage' (Academic Earth). The lecture was kept by professor Robert Wyman from Yale University. The lecture was 1 hour and 15 minutes long.

Bibliography
Sugimoto, Yoshio 2014. Japanese Society: Inside out and outside in. International Sociology 29 (3) 191-208.

05.-06.03.2019: 5h

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