Do you know who started working for women’s equality in your country? Raicho Hiratsuka lived for making equality of women. Women’s gender problems are still discussing in the world. She worked these problems about 100 years ago. Raicho lived in the Meiji era to the Showa era that it is about 130 years ago. She became a feminist and she insisted on problems around women. She also started up an organization for women’s equality. Raicho Hiratsuka thought that women had to have equality with men. Women’s gender problems haven’t solved yet completely however people who lives before our period worked for equality of people. It is the purpose of this presentation to show how Raicho worked for changing situation of women in a society.
I had a good time visiting the Southwest USA with Extension students from 15 to 21, October. It was an education trip and I experienced new things and there was a lot of nature which is comfortable for me. I was looking forward to going on the Southwest trip for a long time. I have image that the Southwest is very hot but this place was cold than Spokane. It was interesting that the temperature was totally different in the same place. There were three emotions that I experienced on this trip. First, I was moved by the beautiful landscape of the Grand Canyon. It is absolutely enormous. When I look down the cliff, I remembered the teacher's caution for us that there are lots of people who die and I scared. I and my roommate wanted to see the sunrise so we tried to got up at 4:00 a.m. and then we could see the sunrise which was really fabulous. After that, we decided to rent a bicycle but we changed our mind and because we had lots of time. Surprisingly, we walked 10 miles aro...