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three friends’ video reflections and one friend’s journal.
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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