13 Haziran 2013 Perşembe

I commented on two wiki projects

 http://serifbaltaci.blogspot.com/2013/06/wiki-project-sports.html?showComment=1371126155504#c1424088633713599778

I comented on two friends' reflections and two friends' journals










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