Evidence & Conclusion Sheets for Ray Puglia

Reflection from the Study of Ray Puglia

Reflection from the study of Ray Carmine Puglia

This was not an easy assignment, but fulfilling to say the least.  The discovery of belongings that were somewhat the same to what exists for my dad brought back childhood memories of no dad around during many years as my dad was shipped to Okinawa when he got rank advancements in the Marines.  Ray experienced a whole lot more hell than did my dad, as shown by the battle ribbons he earned.  Having served 4 tours in both Asiatic Pacific and Korean Conflict deserves a whole lot of respect alive or deceased.  There were a lot of the same items in the box that I can remember my dad coming home with as gifts for mom and us kids.  Where Ray did not have any children everything went towards Eva and then Liz.

            Taking noted is an art that I need to improve on when doing these types of assignments in the future.  It does help with doing the double-sided entry for evidence and conclusion.  It makes it a bit easier when trying to ascertain the conclusions.  Without the notes, we could not have made a complete analysis and come to a conclusion outside of the classroom environment. 

            The early research seemed to be trying to figure whom we were investigating. We still could have done a superb job researching Eva.  Not the same with Liz.

            The problems most students have are that the research sites are subscription based websites.  It costs money to really do hard research work when trying to verify the data.  So all we could research is based upon the primary sources without validating the information.  The primary sources become the only source, unless we use our instructor as a secondary source, which I did. 

            This was a fun and different type of English class assignment.  It causes one to think outside the box and use critical thinking when trying to figure out the answers.  Some things we will never know about Ray Puglia and the things we do have been noted.

            On a personal note, I was talking to my older sister and she agreed that most likely that my dad knew Ray in two ways; 1) as an NCO when he was at Camp Lejeune, 2) from my mom only using fresh block yeast when she baked.  She never used the dried yeast.  The bakery was where she got the yeast.  It is a small world.

Reflections Paper One

Reflections of Paper One

The subject I choose was on Japanese medical knowledge on autopsy. The reason I chose this was the disconnect identified when reading “Sugita Gempaku - A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan” (Reilly pg.743-746).  When I read how that there were different physicians that knew their knowledge of the human body was lacking, but failed to make the changes to correct them, made me wonder why.  Yes there was the closed society and the different social structural classes thing going on, but to know and not act seemed a bit eerie.  I needed to know why no changes had been made after the discovery of such knowledge.

It was not laziness, but an identification of “saving ones face” in a society where personal honor and family honor played such a big role in the daily lives of the Japanese people.  It is not known for how long the disconnects existed before being documented, but it was at least 17 years if the time frame of his father knowing of the disconnect and Sugita starting his official medical education.  If being taught by father-to-son, handing down knowledge a family tradition, where can one start to identify that the knowledge we have is not perfect, but it is the best we have.  I guess it was an honor thing being the shogunate personal physician and not knowing the internal body structure of the human body was an issue. The medical books were from China, and add insult to injury, there was tension between the two.  Being referred to as “barbarians” did not help at all.  This could have a factor in why the delay took so long to be remedied.

I need to make small points to support the subject.  I need to learn how to make it shorter and lighter to get the point across.

The “tweaks” I will make was in the sentence order structure.  Just because the sentence has all of the necessary information, does not mean it will draw a reader into the subject.  It just may be a dry and boring subject matter. When I read the rewrite, it flowed smoothly and sounded better than what I had first written.  A monotone reading will make you sleepy. 

I am sure that “works cited” will always be a danger zone for me.  I try to identify all of my sources and give credit where due, but sometimes thoughts come in where the information might be a convoluted jumble of sources.  Keep it simple.  Identify them all.

Notes from Tara Wilson

Note for Peer Review from Tara Wilson

I have choosen to have an outside peer to review my paper because there are only two in my group that participated in the review cycle.  The third member of our group has not contacted either one of us during the necessary time frame for this assignment.  I have scanned the six (6) pages for viewing.

Assignment Memo

To: Professor Brandon

From: Ed Lloyd

Subject: Paper Assignment Selection

 

Sir: 

I have selected “A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan, by Sugita Gempaka.

The reason I selected this subject was to think why there were the differences of medical views, even from other physicians, when evidenced in print, errors existed.

Thank You

Ed Lloyd

HIS/ENG 112

Final Draft 1st Paper Work Cited

Works Cited

Gempaku, Sugita, and Iwanami Shoten. "The Scientific Revolution: Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Japan, and the Americas, 1600-1800." Worlds of History Since 1400; a Comparative Reader. By David J. Lu. Fourth ed. Vol. Two. Boston, MA: Bedford/St Martins, 2010. 743-46. Print.

 

Ranto Kotohajime (The Beginning of Dutch Studies in the East) in Japan: A Documentary History, ed. David J. Lu (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005), 1:264-66. Koten Bunka Nibon Taikei (Major Complication of Japanese Classics) (Toyoko: Iwanami Shoten, 1969), 95:487-93.

 

Prominent People Of Minato City

Copyright 2008 Minato City

Date Accessed: 24 February 2013

http://www.lib.city.minato.tokyo.jp/yukari/e/man-detail.cgi?id=121

 

Kallie Szczepanski, Asian History Guide. "Asian History." 2005. About.com. 2 March 2013 http://asianhistory.about.com/od/japan/a/feudalfactsJapan.htm

Howell, David L. Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

 

2013. Tokyo Printing Museum. 12 March 2013< http://www.printing-museum.org/en/collection/looking/04_02.html>.