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13 Haziran 2013 Perşembe
ARTICLE REFLECTION 3
PAPA, THE PHILOSOPHER
BEING DIFFERNT
Being a different people or having
different personal features in my opinion is a very amazing thing. The truth
that you are not like everyone else feels like that you are special.
Some people cannot tolerate different
things. They always want same thing or same kind of people their around. When
they see something that not proper for their aspect, try to change it. This
kind of people may have very different reasons which push them act like this.
For example; probably they envy the other person that maybe he or she is more
talented or more successful. For this reason they try to make ashamed him or
her by saying “you are different, you are odd”. Having different features makes
us someone who can easily recognizable.
In this text there is a child who is
not an American. This child is suffering, because his bully friends make fun of
him. He is an Italian boy. He says that “it is not easy being different,
especially as a child”. He is very right because children can be crueller and
can say things without thinking. Also children have less toleration to
differentness. His father talks to him in a very good way. He says that being
different is not a thing that someone has to embarrass about it. I thing just
like that the father thinks. If someone makes fun of you and wants you hurt you
just because you are different he or she has problems.
We are good with our different
features and different friends. Being different is better than being an
ordinary person. No matter how much they try to make fun of you, you do not
change. You are better just like you with your different features.
SEDA AĞIRBAŞ
ARTICLE REFLECTION 2
AT HOME WITH MAMMA
WE HAVE TO LEAVE
Every one of us has
to leave home because of school, work, marriage or some other reasons. Most of
all have got out of home until our middle age. So when we hear somebody who
still lives with parents at her or him thirties, it is sound a little strange.
Everyone has
different ideas and living with parents is a matter of choice, but in our age
not to leave home is not a thing that we can see frequently. Even if our
country, tie up our traditions tightly, men and women left their homes at
thirties. Lots of people left home because of the school but even if there is
no factor such school one of the main reason why people want to leave home is
gain their freedom. As long as we live with our parents we cannot do what we
want and we always ask for get out or met our friends. They always want to know
where we are and what we are doing. When we grow up, we want a life that no one
can interfere. While we are living with our parents, that is not seem to
possible.
In Italy boys want
to live with their parents. They say that they are more comfortable with their
mother. Actually they have a point. They do not have to do such things as
cleaning, cooking, ironing and so on. Also they say that moving another home is
expensive by living at their parents’ houses they can save money and live more
easily. In my opinion, they want an easier life but when they have to leave
home they will have some difficulties. So, no matter how comfortable is living
with parents, leaving home is more beneficial for improve ourselves, gain our
freedom and make our decisions on our own.
All of likes
comfort but I am sure that most of us want to live a life that we do not have
to ask someone for to go out. Also to learn how we actually live without any
helps, because all these things we learn when we live on our own are help us to
grow.
SEDA AĞIRBAŞ
ARTICLE REFLECTION 1
CAN MAN AND WOMAN BE FRIENDS?
JUST FRIENDS
Friendship is a
really important thing in our age. All of us have female and male friends.
However, friendship between male and female is a little bit controversial. Some
claims that male and female cannot be friend, because in cross-sex friendships
emotions and sexual tension are raised.
In my opinion there
is no such thing that man and women cannot be friend. They can have a good
friendship as normal as same sexes have. Of course girls can be more
comfortable and sincere with their girlfriends. But this is not always in case.
Some people, male or female, can make friends in different sexes and feel more
open and honest. They share their ideas, emotions. Their thoughts about word
can be same and they can be happy spent time with each other. All these things
are not mean they feel something to each other. They can date or love somebody
else bur they can still be best friends. There can be some exceptions. Some
emotional relationships begin between friends. In my opinion this feelings are
about just their personality. Ideas and feelings are change person to person.
You can fell in love your male or female friend but this fact is not a
universal truth and somebody could not say “man and women cannot be friend”
just by looking some examples. There are too many people that keep their
relationships as friends.
Also there are too
many benefits of cross-sex friendships. One of them different sexes can learn
each other thoughts feelings and can understand the other sex more easily. They
can acquire different aspects. For example; they can get some advices about
boys or girls from each other. Knowing different ideas and aspects about world
is always good and very beneficial thing and a cross-sex friendship make easier
this.
To sum up a male
and a female can always be friend and can maintain their friendship without any
sexual or emotional things. Male and female are not created just to be lovers
they can always be friends with each other.
SEDA AĞIRBAŞ
JOURNAL ENTRY 4
THEY ARE NOT TOO MUCH
What do you think about the serials
in our country? Are they too much or too long? Are they quality enough? While
you are watching them are you boring?
Some says that serials in our country
are too much. There can be much more different programmes instead of these
serials. In my opinion our serials is not too much. If they were too much, they
would not be too long. One serial takes two hours and when we add it its
summary part; one serial is almost three hours. Three hour for just a serial is
not that too much? Also our serials are shown again and again. Sometimes they
are shown more than twice a week. Yes there must be different things than three
hours serials. We can make more serials or some other different programmes. By
this way we do not have to watch same thing again and again.
In our country there is another
problem with our serials. Like I said before our serials is too long and this
could be boring. Actions in one serial improve slowly. For example; one
character is going to say something they are look each other so long that to
say just one sentence they need ten minutes. They tell us same story at least
three episodes. There is something else of course. I am sure every one of us
hates advertisements. Our serials cannot be shown without ten minutes
advertisement every twenty minute. There are so much commercial that almost half
of the serial is full of commercials.
Except from these problems what are
you thinking, our serials really quality enough? I think they do not. They have
always the same story. There is a person or family; they have terrible
experiences over and over just like they are cursed. Beside that there are
lovers and someone who tries to break up them. They have bad experiences too.
To sum up there are always same thing. They change story a little, they change
characters and they show the same thing under different name. Recently,
historical serials came to appearance. They have no difference from other. They
have same story also they change historical truths to make them proper for the
serial.
We do
not have so much television programmes or serials; we have always same things.
To develop our television sector we need to make short but lots of serials. We
need to make true historical serials. Also we have to develop ourselves other
television programmes like comedy shows, competition shows, documentaries. We
need to have quality television programmes to waste our time a little more
beneficially.
SEDA AĞIRBAŞ
JOURNAL ENTRY 3
TIME
THIEF
In our age
technology so developed that we are surrounded by a great number of
technological devices. One of them is became a part of our lives. We cannot
spend even a day without it. This device is television. Television’s effects on
human being are so much that no one can believe. Watching television is one of
the most common spare time activities and consumes most of our time.
Watching
television waste away our time. We are so addicted to the television that we
cannot understand how the time runs away. Firstly we spent our entire spare
time by watching television. Although there are a lot of plentiful activities,
we just sit and look at the screen. Reading book, go out and wandering around
or exercise these are more useful for us than watching television. Secondly
television steals not just our free time. We postpone our other works for
watching a television serial. Than our works so pile up that we do them
correctly. To sum up television is just like a time stealing thief.
Television
can gives us some wrong information about history, policy and some new
developments. Some television series about early or late history can be
deceptive, because they trying to make people watch the serial so they have to
change some occurrences. If people, who watch these serials, have not enough
knowledge level can believe this fiction can learn wrong information about our
history. Also media can reflect us wrong information about world news. They can
tender us some news after add or eject some really important things. For
example; if somewhere exploded media does not give us exact number of wounded
people for fear of this number can cause eyebrows to rise. Also media can
reflect us deceptive data, may introduce us innocent as criminal. So we can
never know what the truth is.
Although
all these harms of television some people can claim that television has very
beneficial effects on our lives. We can reach all information about the whole
world thanks to the television. We can watch some informative documentaries and
increase our level of knowledge about nature, history and so on. On the
contrary researches show that the level of watching documentaries or news is
too low. Most people use television to watch television serials and these
serials do not increase our knowledge level at all. Also if someone wants to
learn watching television is not the only way of knowledge acquisition. He or
she can look at the information by the way of internet or can investigate in
books. Some people say claims that watching television enhances our imagination
power. I think this claim is very wrong. All of these serials or cartoons on
television are the same. They present the same story and topic again and again.
Instead of improving our imagination, they are just like barriers in our mind.
Imagination is our mind and watching television certainly is not a way to
improve it. Television makes us stereotypes. We need to see different things to
improve ourselves not to watch same things over and over again.
Television’s
effects on our life are growing day by day. While technology is improving
features of television are improving at the same time. Offers of television are
increasing and continue to make us addicted. We have to be careful we need to
direct ourselves more useful and beneficial source of knowledge. Of course we
watch television but we have to reduce the time which we spend in front of
television. After knowing all these harms of television we can limit ourselves
and we can save our time to make more entertaining and beneficial things.
Seda
AĞIRBAŞ
20 Mayıs 2013 Pazartesi
JOURNAL ENTRY 2
WHO IS IN
THE MIRROR?
Do have a story
about ghosts? Have you ever seen a ghost or do you believe in ghosts? Some of
people say yes all of these questions. Some of them have never seen a ghost but
they still believe. Some of them say yes I have seen a ghost.
There are a lot of
urban legends about ghosts. According to these legends, almost all ghosts stuck
in our world, have very sad stories and their souls are not in peace. They want
justice for going in peace. If their souls do not find justice they punish harm
some people or just wandering around.
Mary Worth is one
of these ghosts that harm people. This legend has more than one story. Every one
of them tells us Mary’s sorrow. Firs one and well known is that, Mary Worth is
a very beautiful girl. She spends hours admiring her beauty. One day a terrible
accident happens and Mary’s face so disfigured that anybody cannot look at her.
Her parents do not let her to look her own reflection for fear of that she
loses her mind. One night she is defeated by her curiosity and look at the
mirror. As soon as she saw her disfigured face her heart is broken so badly
that she walks into the mirror to find her old beautiful reflection. Ever since
then she disfigures anybody’s face who wants look at her face.
If you want to look
at her face look at a mirror with a candle light and say three times or
thirteen times “Bloody Mary”. If the legend is true there are three possibilities;
your eyes are ripped out, being founded dead with claw marks all over your
face, disappearing into the mirror with ghosts. None of them can happen. In this
situation Bloody Mary follows you for killing.
I want to know “Bloody
Mary” or the other ghosts are real, but I do not have that courage to try it,
in front of a mirror. You can try it if you have that courage. So many interesting
things happen in this world. It is impossible to know “Bloody Mary” really
comes and a question come to mind; what if it is real?
SEDA AĞIRBAŞ
11 Mart 2013 Pazartesi
HIDDEN BEAUTY- JOURNAL ENTRY 1
HIDDEN BEAUTY
There are many beautiful cities in the world. Some of
them have magnificent skyscrapers and have very beautiful and organized configuration.
In these cities there are a lot of thing to do. Everybody is in a hurry. On the
other hand, some of the cities have natural beauty. In such cities there is no
rush but you can be sure if you want there are so many things to do. One of
them and my favourite is my city. This city hides its beauty behind the
mountains. Actually the city is beautiful thanks to its mountains. One part of
the city is full of green forest and when you go the other part you can hear
waves of Black See. When you go higher places it feels like that you can touch the
stars. Yes my city is so close to the sky that first raindrop falls here. I am
talking about Artvin. For some people living in Artvin is challenging. They say
that there is nothing to do in this city. Even to go somewhere to another place
is problem. They are right because everywhere is mountain and our roads are full
off turns. If this is your first time in Artvin your stomach gets sick. J Also distance between districts is much. Living in Artvin
is boring for people who live rush city life. Developed cities have many
opportunities that Artvin has not. If you do not like natural life you will not
love Artvin. In this city foxes or wolves can visit your neighbourhood at
nights. If you are in village beside the foxes or wolves you can visited by
bears and boars. They are trying to steal your potatoes so you should be aware
of such things and you have to be cold-blooded. If you live nature and if you
say I can take care all of these problems and you want to rest yourself head
this is your place. You can do many things. We have a very clean see if you
love swimming. Almost everywhere is picnic area so you can go wherever you
want. You can go Kafkasör upland and you can drink cold spring water. Also you
can see Artvin at the top. I assure you that you cannot forget the scene you
see. Even if you are not thinking about lives in Artvin you should go and see
this place. You can be sure that there is much more scenic beauty that I cannot
write about them.
30 Ocak 2013 Çarşamba
JUST A FILM
JUST A FILM
Can a person be immortal? Not physical of course but there is one thing
that I call it real immortality. If a person can be remembered after his or her
death this person is immortal. There are many immortal souls who can be
remembered after their death. One of is James Dean. I want to talk about one of
his films and his immortality. His second film is Rebel Without A Cause. This
film is so important for adults at 1950s that this film change their life. This time is after war times. This age’s
people do not care about adults and adults think that adulthood is an
embarrassing thing. Their self confident has gone. This film is just about
adulthood and their challenges. With this film adults start to trust themselves
and they do not shame on themselves. You can think that how just a film can
affect people in this way. But this film can manage this. In this film James
Dean acts as Jim Stark. Jim Stark and his family move a new place and Jim
starts a new school. At first Jim could not adopt this new place. His family
does not understand him and they think that money can solve this problem but
Jim just want his parent’s love. In this film Jim is a kind of bad character,
because he has no chance to be good person. Whit Jim character James Dean
illuminates adults life. Also this film is the most important film in his three
films. James Dean now an idol for everyone with his personality and films. Also
he has a different personality and this may help his immortality. Everyone
knows that different things can be remembered easier than usual things.
THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE
In Atlantic there is a spot which takes many lives mysteriously. For
years many ships and planes bury under the see oddly. Every one of us knows
this place’s name. This place name is The Bermuda Triangle. We call it with its
Turkish name Bermuda Şeytan Üçegeni. This spot is responsible for many deaths.
Everybody has different ideas about this spot. Some of them reasonable but some
others are full of foolishness. One of them is; in this spot water is too hot
for the ship and ship burns. The other is there is extraterrestrial beings
under this spot and they kidnapping people for their “cosmic zoos”. We should not blame this ideas because when
we think about past time’s technology it is too hard to explain what is going
on. Because of they think this event is extraordinary. These days’ technology
makes some searches possible and finally scientists find what is going on this
spot. They find that natural gas is responsible for all of the deaths. Yes, it
is just natural gas which is found under the see. When the gas squirts out of
the ocean it declines water’s lifting force. If there is a ship, when this come
occurrence the ship sinks. It is the same for planes. This gas can declines
oxygen amount. Plane’s engines do not work without enough oxygen amounts, so
planes fall down. When this is over there is no trace. This event pushes people
thinking there are some extraordinary things just under there for long years.
BEING A METU STUDENT
JOURNAL ENTRY
2
Being a METU student is a privilege for me because METU is my dream. I
always want to be here. My dreams come true and here I am. There are of course
some challenges. First of all get know here take a lot of time. When I come
here for the first time I do not know any place and I have some difficulties to
find somewhere. Even now I fail keeping in mind some places. The other
challenges for me are eating. Eating in here is expensive. We cannot eat in
refectory at weekends and eating outside is expensive. My dormitory and my
faculty is not close each other. So if try to go my faculty on food it can be
so hard for me or for everyone. Thanks to the rings every student of METU can
travel in campus without paying. I think this is a big serve for students. Even
if METU has some challenges being a METU student is a privilege. There is no
other campus just like ours. In here you can everything. For example, we have a
hairdresser, tailor banks and market. So we can find almost everything without
going out of campus. Also we have a big campus and a lot of green area. In
summer days we can sit on the grasses. Apart from these the biggest challenge
is the distance. My hometown is seventeen hours away from here. So I cannot go
my hometown whenever I want. I miss my mother, my father, my sister. I miss
everything. I miss my city no matter how small it is J. I tell myself that if I manage to
come here I can get over all of these challenges. Over time I will get used to.
When I get used to this challenges maybe it gets easier.
SEDA
AĞIRBAŞ
MY IDEAL UNIVERSITY
JOURNAL ENTRY
3
For everyone university, graduate from a feature university is an
important concept. Everyone wants to be succesful, wants to go Hight School and
go a university. All this things are big part of everyone’s dreams. In my
opinion a university has to contain some necessary feature to be a well
qualified university. First of all I think that good universities have good and
contemporary educators. They must improve themselves. Also campus is important
for me. Campus is just like student’s home especially the students which
staying in dormitories. These students spend almost all days in campus. Campus
should have green areas, trees, new and useful buildings. Also the student
communities in university are important. These communities should be
open-minded. Educators and administrators should give support these student
communities. For students who come to university from out of the city
accommodation could be a big problem. They may not find a proper dormitory.
Some dormitories may not be close enough to the university. There are so many
dormitories that are not well qualified but their prices are too high for a student
and his/her family. For is all this reasons a university can respond students
accommodation problems. University should have its own dormitories and these
dormitories should be close to the university campus. Maybe there are some features
that I forget to say but if a university contain these qualifies the university
is good for me. My university, METU, has all these qualifies.
DIFFERENT WORLD
JOURNAL ENTRY
4
I think the latest slogan of METU is a very good slogan. The slogan is
“I brain METU”. I find this slogan charming. Also this slogan affects students
who graduated from Hight School. The slogan reflects some sides of METU,
because METU students think, they ask questions. METU student are succesful.
When we think this way the slogan is very good. Apart from these I watch a new
video film about METU. This film made by METU students. The film’s slogan is
“no brain METU”. The film criticizes bad sides of METU. They say that METU can
be a succesful university but it has many lacks. They say that METU does not
respond student’s needs. Our university limits students. They cannot express
their feeling freely. METU raises the prices of foods and dormitories every year.
When I think about METU it seems a perfect university. There is just one thing
that I complain about. It is prices of food. I am new here because of this
maybe I cannot see negative sides of METU. I think that even if METU has some
negative sides it is still the best university of Turkey. I am so glad to be
here. If I say a slogan for METU, it will be “METU is a different world”. The
reason why I say this, METU is different from other universities with many
aspects. Our university has many useful serves. One of them is student communities. These communities are very funny and improve
students. They make different and beneficial organizations. METU gives its
students very good education and has expert educators. We live in a very good
campus and this is important to. Some universities do not have a campus. METU
is a different world and I love living in this world.
SEDA
AĞIRBAŞ
11 Ocak 2013 Cuma
BLACK
BLACK
When I was hight school in my last year, our literature teacher found a
film for us and we watched this film together. The films name is “Black”. It is
about a girl who both blind and deaf since she was born. It was an amazing
film.
Can you imagine that she can not hear anything, can not see anything.
She can not speaking, can not walk properly. Her parents do not know how they
train her. They hang a bell her neck for find out where she is, because if she
wants she can be very silent. Then the parents try something different they
find a teacher who is good at this things.
With his come, the girls world changes. First she does not like him even
a little. But then they love each other so much that, they never break with
each other. He learn to her how to speak, not much, but she can say a few
sentences. She learn how to speak with hand signs. She manage so many things,
she gradute from university.
I learn from this film that we should never say impossible. If the girl
whose world is black can do it, if she manage to colouring her black world we
can do same thing by looking eyes easily.
Never say impossible. It could be hard but not impossible.
SEDA AĞIRBAŞ
UNDERGRONUD ARMY
UNDERGROUND ARMY
A few days ago I read an interesting
passage about a historical monument in China. This monument contains thousands
of different kinds of work. This monument is a huge grave made for Chine
emperor Qin Shi Huang.
Qin Shi Huang made so many useful
things. In his time economic develepment accelerate. Also he is the one who
made The Great Wall Of Chine. On the contrast all of these things he was very
cruel and wasteful person. He buried scholars alive just because of they were
opposite his belives. Also he burn books.
His grave started
to building when he alive and after forty years, when he died, the grave was
not finish. 700 thousands men served for build
this.
In the grave there is 8000 soil soldier, (so much more than these are
still underground) with their 520 horses 130 cars, and 150 cavalry. These
soldiers size approximately 180 centimeters. Each of them has different facial
expression. The graves shape like a pyramid. The monument is not fully
unearthed. Around the unearthed grave there are 500 graves, which are still
waiting under soil. The grave accepted as eighth wonder of world, and it is
protected by UNESCO.
The grave was found in 1974 by chance. Farmers saw broken earthenware
pot but this was not interest them. Then an archaeologist saw these broken
parts and so excavations started.
All around the world, too many tourists came to Chine for see this
amazing monument. Also the leaders of different countries want to see the grave
when they come to Chine. If I have such chance, I would like to go and see.
SEDA AĞIRBAŞ
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