Rachel's Writing

 I watched the documentary series The Food that built America via Amazon Prime Video, which was broadcast on the History Channel in the US. I picked the topic about cereal makers from this series before, and I’d like to mention chocolate companies as well. Milton Hershey apprenticed a confectioner instead of studying at a school because he was from a poor family. He learned the craft of creating confections, and started a caramel company that had grown so big that he sold it for $1 million. Hershey spent all of his money to establish the chocolate company and the town in Pennsylvania, where his workers live. He had would like to provide milk chocolate to all people in the country even though it cost too much to manufacture it in this era. He succeeded in developing the special process to sell “Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar” for a reasonable price in 1900. Hershey’s provided milk chocolate to other confectionery companies including Mars, Incorporated, which produces “Milky Way”. Will...

 I watched the documentary series The Food that built America via Amazon Prime Video, which was broadcast on the history channel in the US. I was surprised and impressed there were many dramas of founders who had started up their food companies and brands like Heinz, Coca Cola, Hershey, etc. They have been changing American society since the end of the 19th century and converted the world industry.  I picked the topic about cereal makers from this series. John Harvey Kellogg was a famous medical doctor, who ran a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. His sanitarium was so popular that people gathered from around the world to practice the unique health methods of Dr. Kellogg. One of his methods was eating cereal that was baked thinly with a dough mixture of wheat, oats and corn for breakfast. His brother, Will Keith Kellogg managed the kitchen and the cereal recipes. Will proposed that Dr. Kellogg commercialize the cereal, but his brother didn’t allow it. However, a patient of...

 The famous scenario writer Hashida Sugako, who had written so many Japanese TV dramas over 50 years, died at 95 last month.  One of her representative works is “ Oshin ”, which was broadcast on NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation from 1984 to 85. Oshin, the main character of this drama was born in Yamagata, the northern part of Japan, in 1901.  As her family consisted of poor tenant farmers with many children, Oshin began to work as a babysitter when she was 7. Firstly she had suffered abuse from the supervisor in the house of her employer.  She escaped after a long enduring. Secondly she worked for the family of a rice trader. Her employer favored Oshin because of her persistence, humbleness and cleverness. She was educated by the proprietress, and grew up as a clever young woman. Oshin left Yamagata for Tokyo at age 16 to become a Japanese traditional hairdresser. That's because it was said this profession allowed women in this era to gain economical independence....

 Do you know about Reiki? The Oxford English Dictionary says Reiki is “a method of making sick people well again based on the idea that energy can be directed into a person’s body by touch”. It is one of the methods of Alternative medicine, which is generally from traditional medical practice, has been kept in each region or ethnic group, for example, Herbal Therapy or Acupuncture technique in China, Ayurveda in India.   Their theories are based on their religions or philosophies, and they aren’t tested scientifically or biologically. That’s why they have been said to be pseudoscientific by modern societies. However traditional medicine is reevaluated because there are many cases in which they work well even though they don’t have scientific evidence. It has been called Alternative medicine or holistic medicine, which means it can be used in conjunction with modern medicine to complement human wellbeing. There isn’t any evidence for why Reiki works as well, but there are over ...