27. the last blog of the Freshmen year... !!! ???

hello all, this is my all-time favorite animal: Lemur !!!!
look how cute is he:D

what so ever, we finish a big year by laughs, stres, depressed moments and of course lots of work:D
but i am very happy to spend my entire year with Sonja - our precious as pearl teacher who sends tons of emails :D - and i think a have learnt so much things, not just about English , but about the life itself.

"life is mono..." means life is monotone and unique. i thought about this sentence a lot while i am in this school but especially when I'm in this dorm, struggling with people...

so anyway, have a good summer holiday my dear friends and Sonja, and good luck with your add drop for the next year. don't forget me!!!

26. If Precious had blue eyes...

she wouldnt have beaten by her mother

she wouldnt have abused by her father
she wouldnt have raped TWICE by her father
her first child Mongo wouldnt be otistic
she would have learn something at school
it wouldnt be necessary for the welfare money
BUT !
because she had not blue eyes;
pecola and precious would be good friends,
moreover, they could raise their children together
they would be good mothers inspite their own mother
they would teach how to love and to be loved
how to take care
how to think
how to valuing yourself
pecola's situation was a bit complex than precious'
because of her young age the burdens her father put onto her shoulders
make her "disappear" from this world
and finally
she is happy and she feels beautiful with her blue eyes...




although precious has caught to HIV and her mother has finally understood her mistakes
she has refusesd all of these and has startd a new life on her own, on her feet.
finally;
she would enjoy the life and living
because she would be beautiful with her blue eyes...

25. Songs and slangs in the novel

there are lots of slangs in the novel which are used to strengthen the effect of "blackness".

• —"Ya’ll soaked ain’t you” p.149
• —“Black e mo. Yadaddsleepsnekked” p.65
• —“I yam what I yam?” p.180
• —Gimme, shet up, git the wash, wid it, thas them, looka here, dyin’
• —“nookey” means sex for the black women who come from the South.
• —“Funk” is a descriptive word which is used to describe the black features of a human(dark skin, thickmouth..)
• —‘bout=about
• —‘llowed=
• —Scairt=scared
• —Dere go da heart=there goes the heart. p.135
• —‘head=ahead
• —‘long=along
• —Li’l=little
• —‘member=remember
• —‘spect=expect
• —Caint=cannot p.142

and the writer uses lots of samples from different songs again to intensify the meanings of the events and the characters.

there is a hymn which i particularly give attention because it's about god and the song is sang in the novel at the very part where Frieda's dad hit Mr.Henry because he abused Frieda.While Mr.Henry was leaving the house he started to sing this hymn.

24. the pop quiz - not pub :D-

last week we had a pop quiz about the novel. our theme - the cute girls- won ofcourse:D we answered 33/40 of the questions correctly. i wish good luck to my team- to contunuie our success in the second quiz, and to our rivals- korkun bizden:D

23. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 4: Summer

claudia and frieda tried to help pecola by plant the seeds, burry the money and sell their bike.

after the rape, cholly and sammy went.we learnt that cholly raped pecola one more time, while she was sitting on the couch. and pecola didn't bother to tell it to Mrs. breedlove because she knew that she would not believe her and he would slap her again.
she went mad and she created herself an imagined friend called Blue.

her baby was born premature and died.
cholly died in the workhouse.

i will write a new post which i will examine the last parts of the novel.

22. Soaphead Church

i hated him when he killed the dog, Bob. no matter how old a creature is, it has rights to live as long as God give.

elihue micah whitcomb, or the soaphead church, is a egocentric child molester who likes to touch little girls.

in the novel, there are lots of explanations ;

• why he likes to the girls only: because the boys are tough and hard to get near.
• why he tries to kill the innocent dog: to stop his sufferings- because he is too old...
• why he rejects pecola at her first attempt but later why he decides to help her: because her wish was the hardest and he knew that he "couldn't" make it happen but then he saw that pecola was needed help and she was too ugly to reject and of course that dog was needed to die...
• why he tries to play the God: because he make some body's wishes come true and thinks that he has the power to change the people's destiny.
• why he is a molester: because Velma looked at him very badly when he wanted to touch her but the little ones don't. they eat their candies and soaphead touches them; a fair agreement.

"no look that makes you feel dirty afterward. that makes yo want to die, with little girls its all clean good and friendly." (p. 181)



"evil existed because god had created it.he,god, had made a sloven and unforgivable error in judgement: designing an imperfect universe" p. 172

"god had done a poor job and soaphead suspected that he himself could have done better" p. 173

by this quotes we can clearly see that he tries to play god and actually he believes that he could do better then him. that is a prove that soaphead is an egocentric.

21. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 3: Spring [Continue]

with the helps of jake, cholly had an opportunity to hang out with darlene. when they were having sex for the first time, 2 white men with their flashlights forced him to continue. he was having his worst nightmare which will shape his future and his character.

after the death of his aunt, cholly began his trip to find his real father, samson fuller.
samson was a crap father and he rejected cholly. but cholly had some questions like: "how would he know him? would he look like a larger version of himself?..." p. 154

soon he began to cry; "if he was very still, he thought, and kept his eyes on one thing the tears would not come" p. 156. these were the tears of manhood.

there is a quote by the way which i could not understand it completely: "they give him back his manhood, which he takes aimlessly." p. 159.
and afterwards he became free because he had no relatives.

when he was too drunk to mix his daughter and his wife, he raped pecola because "she shifted her weight and stood on one foot scratching the back of her calf with her toe. ... the timid tucked-in look of the scratching toe- that was what pauline was doing the first time he saw her in Kentucky" p. 162.

there is a man called soaphead church, which he thought of himself he had a power to make peoples wishes come true and he likes to touch the little girls' breast. he questionizes god and his job and see that he could do better. [there is a separate post on soaphead church]

20. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 3: Spring

This section contains pages 97 to 183.

The section opens with the scene which Mr.Henry touches Frieda's breasts.(the actual word for that scene is "picking at" ). Frieda2s dad beats up Mr.Henry and this is the actual event that we see her dad's existence.

After this "picking at" they decided not to become ruined like the Miss Marie. So they go to talk to Pecola to convince her to steal some whiskey from her dad. At this point of the novel Morrison tries to show us the inequalities between the whites and the blacks. There is a long descriptive paragraph that describes the differences such as houses, pathways etc., but the one about the sky "The orange-patched Sky of the steel-mill section never reached this part of town."

There are some major ironies in this section such as;

• When Pecola pour the pot of blueberries Pauline(Polly) slaps her although her own daughter got burnt from the pot and instead she takes care of the little girl of the Fisher's.
• The white child is being raised by a black woman which was common at those times.
• Pauline takes care of that house more than she does for her own.

Later we see how Pauline and Cholly love each other and how their relation ship grow. There is a sexual part where the writer uses the inconvenient phrase "he puts his thing inside me" to explain how Pauline considers sex which is the sex is the only time where and when they share "something" together with fake orgasms and fears of children might hear them with of course, feeling the burden of "he must have come first".

Pauline has a limped foot and her 2 teeth has fell so these physical features of her make her feel insecure of herself and lonely.



Then the author decides to talk about Cholly and his childhood.When her mother decides to throw him, his Aunt Jimmy take care of him and raised him. After his aunt's death he falls into a deep hole and don't know where to go & what to do. So he decides to find his father. In the mean time, we see 2 white men with a "flashlight" telling him to continue to have sex with Darleen with high laughter and -this is the part where i find most bizarre- he obeys them but hates Darleen but not them.
I think this event affects him bad sexually and we can understand it by the quote; "In a dream his penis changed into a long hickory stick, and the hands caressing it were the hands of M'Dear." (p. 139)

19. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 2: Winter

This section contains pages 61-93.

We meet some new characters and one of them is Maureen Peal.

Maureen Peal: " A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into 2 lynch ropes that hung down her back.She was rich, at least by our standards... The quality of her clothes threatened to derange Frieda and me."
By this quote we can have a general idea bout her. She has green eyes and she is light-black skin(she is hybrid). Everyone thinks that she is cute. Claudia and Frieda hate her - they call them Meringue Pie- but eventually they and she save Pecola from bullying.After that Maureen call them nigger and that is on page 73 which is a symbol of degree of blackness and racist self-hatred.

Another important quote is on page 74. "Dolls we could destroy, but we could not destroy the honey voices of parents and aunts ... the Maureen Peals of the world."

By this quote we can easily see that Claudia don't agree with the world that beauty comes with the word "white" and she denies that white dolls are beautiful and her hatred against Maureen is because of her white features.

On page 77, we can see the sexual awakening of Claudia by " A cold wind blew somewhere in me, lifting leaves of terror and obscure longing." she thinks that when she sees Mr.Henry licking Miss Marie's fingers.

The word FUNK means -according to the text- the black features.


Geraldine: she migrates from south to north to find jobs. she has a son Louis Junior and a cat. she loves her cat more than her son. she does not enjoys having sex with her husband and acts like she is having orgasm.


We can see the "winter"ness of this section by the last sentence of the section; "But she could not hold it low enough to avoid seeing the snowflakes falling and dying on the pavement."

18. The Bluest Eye _ Volume 1: Autumn

This section contains pages 9-58. the author introduces us with her characters; the MacTeers, the Breedloves, and the 3 whores. Now lets have a deeper look:

The MacTeers:

• Claudia, 9-year old girl, the narrator
• frieda, her sister, 10 year old girl
• Big Mama
• Mr. Henry, the roomer
• Rosemary Villanucci, white neighbour who eats bread

The Breedloves:

• Sammy, 14 year old boy
• Pecola, 11 year old
• Mrs. Breedlove, mom
• Cholly, the dad, alcoholic
  

They call their mom with her name because of respect and fear, but we would see later a surprise about that :D
The surname is ironic because in family they don't breed love, they always fight instead

The 3 Whores:

• China
• Poland, who sings blues
  
• Miss Marie, fat one

There are some important quotes and phrases that help us to understand the meanings of the "underneath text" better

1. White doll - p. 22
2. Mary Janes - p.49-50
3. Coal Stove - p. 37
4. Ministratin - p. 31
5. Ugliness - p. 38-39

There are also lots of songs in this chapter which i will mention later.
The writer uses a lot of slangs of black people which will make the readers' attention alive all the time.
The story seems interesting so far and we will see what the future will bring =))

17. Who shoots the Elephant?

With the helps of a small research; =))

"The elephant is an important symbol because it is a possible hazard. How?"

The elephant could easily kill people and cause great damage and losses to property when he gets loose in the bazaar. The elephant's "escape" is akin to the political problems of the Burmese who are under English control.

The analysis of themes here at eNotes explains the hazard the elephant causes this way:

"Order prevails when the mahout (elephant handler) ties up the elephant and keeps him under control; disorder prevails when the elephant slips his keeper and ravages the bazaar. A policeman, too, is a keeper of order, which is why Orwell’s narrator cannot avoid the unpleasant duty of shooting the elephant. Not to do so would be to condone disorder and provoke it even further, by appearing to be unwilling to carry out official violence against the disruption of daily affairs. Disorder is a type of violence within the daily round, dissolving the habitual peace. Disorder-as-violence can only be halted by a supplementary administration of violence, and even the narrator admits that this supplement is morally dubious, no matter how practical or necessary it might be. Disorder-as-violence appears on many occasions directed against the British, as when random Burmese spit betel juice on passing European women, as when Buddhist priests laugh spitefully at the narrator, as when the umpire on the playing field looks conveniently the other way while a Burmese player fouls the very same narrator. But this disorder also quells a possibly greater disorder, that of general rebellion against the British. Order, it appears, calls for a strange and paradoxical use of disorder to satisfy rebellious urges which would otherwise grow strong and run amok like a rogue elephant."

Sources:

http://www.enotes.com/shooting-elephant/16206

A call to end imperialism, "Shooting an Elephant", ironically, appeals to the British to cease colonialism to maintain their freedom.

We can clearly see that there are 2 major symbols;
1-racism- because Indian people were thrown into the second plan
2- the elephant: British Imperialism

16. Presantation - The Lottery

We presented "the Lottery" on 5 April at the VERY morning:D It was good i guess- the audience and Sonja tried very hard though..=)) But Sonja thanks a lot for your useful feedback which are;

Positive points

• Friendly, enthusiastic, good audience interaction
• Relevant comparison to Hanife which elicited audience participation
  
• Good audience questions
• Good thematic analysis

Points to improve

• What about a thesis?
  
• The summary should be interactive
• Would have been nice to define Gothic and point out some themes in our story
• A bit more sociohistoric context would have been helpful: how was "The lottery" received? What motivated Jackson to write it?
  
• Perhaps a separate slide to develop the ironies - there were many, as you mentioned

Some major points about the text;

1. IRONY:

• The day of the lottery was a sunny day but the action itself was depressing.

2. The black wooden box represents the old traditions that the villagers dont want to change.

3. The black dot represnets the theme of "scapegoatism"

4. THEMES:

• violence and cruelty
• custom and tradition
• victimization
• gender roles

15. Güldünya & Hanife - what a coincidence...

Hanife was killed by hanging on a poplar tree and after she was stoned; where as Güldünya was killed in a hospital in the 3. attempt of her family. Hanife is not a real person but Güldünya is; it was a great loss for the world to loose her... especially if she goes by leaving her precision son alone in this fucked-up world... So my dearest people of the East! Lets educate ourselves to stop the honor crimes.Our daughters are precious and be aware of it...




Here is a song about an Eastern woman; Ünzile...

Ünzile insan dölü
On kardeş beşi ölü
Büyüdükçe unufak
Ve gelir de görücü
İnci gibi dişi
Görücü bilir işi
Söğüdüm ağlar gider
Olur hatun kişi
Varmadan sekizine
Ergin oldu ünzile
Hem çocuk hem de kadın
Onikisinde ana
Bir gül gibi al ve narin
Bir su gibi saydam ve sakin
Susar kadın ünzile
Yağmuru kim döküyor
Ünzile kaç koyun ediyor
Dayaktan uslanalı
Hiçbir şey sormuyor
Korkar durur gitmez
Köyün en son çitine
İnanır o sınırda
Dünyanın bittiğine
Ünzile insan dölü
Bilinmezlere gebe
Sırların mihnetini
Yükleyip de beline
Varmadan sekizine
Ergin oldu ünzile
Hem kadın hem de çocuk
Onikisinde ana
Bir gül gibi al ve narin
Bir su gibi saydam ve sakin
Susar kadın ünzile

14. Mutluluk [Happiness]

Mutluluk is a movie of an honor crime which was directed to awaken the public to stop those silly crimes which were done to save the family's name...


I love the movie, the scenes are so real that the director wants them to slap onto the audiences' faces...

Özgü Namal played a 17-year-old girl-victim- who is raped by her uncle and her family accused her for dirtying their family's name.She couldn't hang herself so its Cemal- the big son of the Uncle- duty to "finish her job..." but when they go to Istanbul he saved her from her death because his heart couldn't do it...


So their journey began in a famous teacher's yacht as servants.What happened on the yacht connected Cemal and Meryem for good...

I recommend this film to everyone and i also suggest you to watch it at least to have an idea what the Eastern girls of Turkey have to bear.

13. Poor little HANİFE...

We read the short story of Sevgi Soysal called "Hanife" which is mainly about a girl which was murdered under the name of honour killings. the story is fluent and don't bore the reader.there are some points that I'd like to mention about the story;

1. Gold Coin symbolizes;

• For Hasan, the easy way to use Hanife
• For Hanife, hope

2. Why did Hanife believed Hasan so quickly?

• Because she wasn't fed in means of love by her family and Hasan was the first person who "cares" about her.

3. Poplar Trees symbolizes,

• In Turkey, the graveyards are full of poplar trees because they believe that the noise of these trees soothes the souls of the dead.
• The shadow of the poplar covers and hides the dead body of Hanife from the public.
• In Turkish literature, poplar trees symbolizes death.

4. The flew of the headscarf symbolizes;

• The soul of Hanife flew.
• In religious beliefs headscarf is an important piece of clothe that every honourable woman should wear.But because Hanife isn't one one them, the scarf flew.
• If Hanife would be a "good" person, the headscarf wouldn't flew.

5. Stoning Hanife;

• Because they think she is evil and in Muslim religion, they tended to kills dishonourable woman by stoning.

6. Soysal translated Turkish slangs into English and that makes the story more real.



I want to thank all my friends who participate in discussion and spit out those really good analysis and who made the presentation.

12. Loving memories of university...

I LOVE YOU BENİM CANIM İRUMMMM!!!!


Well yes, in university we have to study more, at least I'm aware of that. but its kinda hard when you have so much fun friends such as HER:D

Our job is to find a balance between doing our responsibilities and having fun.Because after university we will be GROWN and i don't want to be an adult:S hatta i didn't want to grow any higher than 17 but life..:D

this life has to be offered good memories because although its very hard, a tiny thing would be enough for us to laugh...

11. READ MEEEE!!!!

sonja started a blog-contest prized by a secret box:D

i will write in my blog whenever i find space from hard workings of Sabanci :D

its kinda fun to express my ideas to a machine esspecially i know that the number of my readers are not much from the fingers of a hand:D

but i will continue to blog:D

MADE THE FORCE BE WİTH US!!!

10. Who wins the LOTTERY??

Money, money... every body needs some to survive.But what is the border of being money colic? People have an idea of "money buys everything" but thats ofcourse not true... Love or humanity cannot be bought.I dont know how i come to this point but my aim in this post to interrogate the text "The Lottery".

First of all the text is rich of characters.There are many of them with specific names.Because i will presentate this text, it confuses me a little to decide which ones are important to presentate.

The other issue that i want to get your attention is the sentences' structure. There are many wrong written words and also sentences don't start with capital letters.

I love the setting of the text which is June - i can assure you my birthday is in June too=) - and the weather is sunny and grasses are rich green.

The writer uses good vocab and i didn't know the meaning of some words like scold, fussing, and paraphernalia.

but to conclude it was an easy text to read so i recommend it to everyone.

9. Sps and Eng have similar topics to discuss!!!

Today at my Sps discussion class, we discussed the contrasts between racism and nationalism.My classmate told a sentence which was: "Lets kill all the Armenian people is a racist sentence." which is not true.Its a sentence which contains highly nationalist feelings.So its a fascist nationalist sentence.While the class were discussing it, i realized that we don't know the difference between those two concepts.


So at the end lecturer ended the discussion by giving a example like: "Lets kill all blacks, is a racist sentence." which was very true.


Because we both learn these concepts in Eng and Sps lets try not to confuse them in the next time!!!

8. Racism as a CRIME

Ellison tries to argue about racism of black people and whites.He uses very hard words that represents racism like the word "nigger".He also uses a language that we can say as slang to make it more real.
ı like the way writer metaphors the killing of the black to a party.there were many metaphors as well such as plane=she, fire=executor..
Black man describes as a tough big man who could resist all those flames.All his wish was to cut his throat to die immediately but the "hungry" whites wanted him to suffer.If its not a racism, then what else would be??
there is written that they have to kill the niggers to keep the others in place.By this sentence we can clearly see that whites act like blacks are not human as they are.

just this one sentence "every time i eat barbecue the black fingers of nigger would come to my mind." definitely summarizes the whole article i think.

7. Seminar Presentations

We formed our groups yesterday and today we studied about asking questions to the audience in order keep their attention alive while someone is presenting.Sonja gave us 3 methods to summarize a longgg text which are;
1- line by line
2- gap fill
3- eliminate, then show!

I found those very helpful and my group will most probably - definitely- use these in our real presentation; the novel!

She also showed us some example presentation's part about using Venn diagrams which will grab the audience's attention immediately.I know Simge has very useful knowledge about making different types of Venn diagrams=)

I hope the best presentation will be ours.
Good luck to all groups.

6. In order to right a wrong...

There are 3 ways for oppressed people to deal with their oppression.

1- acquiescence: "is a legal term used to describe an act of a person in knowingly standing by without raising any objection to infringement of his rights, when someone else is unknowingly and honestly putting in his resources under the impression that the said rights actually belong to him." according to Wikipedia.

2-Resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

3-Nonviolent resistance which means no individual need to submit to any wrong; seeks 2 opposites; acquiescence and violence while avoiding immoralities of both.

Violence never brings permanent peace.ıt solves no social problem, it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

As martin Luther told, he sees violence as "immoral" because it comes from hatred not love.he also added that it annihilate communication and societies.


REFERENCES:
THREE WAYS OF MEETİNG OPPRESSİON- MARTİN LUTHER KİNG, JR.

5. İdentity

They asked maulouf what is your identity? and he answered "both" as he considered himself as Lebanese and french.He says "Arabic is my first language and I discovered Dickens, Dumas and "Gulliver's Travels" in the Arabic translation, and I felt happy for the first time as a child in my village in the mountains, the village of my ancestors where I heard some of the stories that would help me later write my novels. How could I forget all of this? How could I untie myself from it?". This quote tells us that nationality, choosing an identity is nothing but forming borders to a human's brain, soul...

i tried to choose the parts that make me think deeply about this topic and i wanted to share them with you...

"If these people cannot live their multiple belongings, if they constantly have to choose between one side or the other, if they are ordered to get back to their tribe, we have the right to be worried about the basic way the world functions. "

"Thinking about a Turk born almost 30 years ago near Frankfurt, and who has always lived in Germany, and who speaks and writes the German language better than the language of his Fathers. To his adopted society, he is not German, to his society of birth, he is no longer really Turkish. Common sense dictates that he could claim to belong to both cultures. But nothing in the law or in the mentality of either allows him to assume in harmony his combined identity. "

"Half French and half Lebanese, then? Not at all! The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions. "

Like Hitler, trying to create a pure blood "nationality", asking maulouf which identity do you belong to is nothing but a genocide, don't you think??

4. Review Quiz

Hi there!!!!
We had a quiz on last Tuesday to make a review of what we had done so far in this 3 weeks.Sonja sent an email saying that she thought it would be useful to make this kind of a quiz to review our knowledge.i agree with her because this quiz make me understand the texts more deeply and make me learn more about those vocab words.so Sonja yes i would like to have another quiz like this in the future to review the texts.But may i suggest something? can you make the questions a little easier so that people can really compete to blog the other group's way:D
other groups underestimate our group but at the very end we made a 3-in-a-row...
so I'm congratulating my group members and wish that our great performance would last for the second quiz:D

3. Research paper topic

Hi there!!! i finally decide my topic on research paper assignment which is HONOUR KİLLİNGS.i choose this topic because i feel very angry when i read the news about the women who killed for "namus" in the east of Turkey.So i wanted to explore more about the men's pschology who kill their sisters/wifes.
İ wish myself good-luck because i know it would be hard to write the essay=))

2. Where have you been, where are you going?

The tough guise that the male youth is obliged to wear and beside this obligation the fascination of the female majority is being analyzed very intensively in this short story in my point of view.

Oates gives us the image of a 30 year old tough men who is trying to pick up on a 15 year old teenager. Immediately one would have the idea that our bad guy Arnold has bad intentions on Connie, the pure young teenager; but Oates also shows us that there is also bad in the good and good in the bad. For example, Arnold, taking the evil role, stays always kind and caring about Connie. He treats her kind, in some sort of way, whether his intention is bad or good. On the other hand, Connie "the victim" of the fiend, also trying to take advantage of Arnold because he's older, tougher and cooler from the male friends, she and her friends know from the neigberhood. So this story was not a dispute between the evil and the pure.

Another point which troubled me was the role of Arnold in the eyes of Connie. Connie at the beginning, wanted her mother dead, hated her family and wanted out of the suburban neigberhood she lived in; but at the end she refused to go with Arnold till he threatened her about her family. So it was a little confusing for me to understand whether she took off with Arnold to be out of her misery or to save her family. She is totally different from the stubborn, crabby to a affectionate, loving daughter. Also some critics discuss the issue whether Arnold is satan or saviour.

After some research, I also found out that in the year of publication of the story in 1966, there have been a big scandal. There was a serial killer in Arizona which was very popular in 1966 among the youth since they knew he killed his own girlfriend and her sister and didn't inform him to the police. This event influenced the author deeply and made her write this short story to give a lesson to the youth which I think was sufficient.

1. The Graduate

First of all to begin i like the film a lot.Generally i have bias for old movies.But this one grabbed my attention at the first minute.The movie became more interesting with the handsome Hoffman, although the topic wasnt that much different.The director used different angles to show different aspects and those played big role for this movie to success.

The main idea of the film is that parental pressures can cause youngs to lost on their ways.We can see Ben during the film entering wrong paths and acting differently- against his character.THe regret of Benjamin and Eileen could be seen at the last seen- they didnt know what to do and where to go because they lost everything- their money, families and honour because of an obsession.

It was both an entertaining and giving message, so i like it and i recomment everyone =))

THE FIRST POST OF ENG 102 !!!!!

Well hello there!!!
Its been a while since i've written my last post of eng 101 class, but here is some good news: IM BACK!!!!
Holiday was sooo good that i wanted it to last forever=) but things dont happen that way.:S
This semester im planning to work a little harder=)) But i know i should study day by day...
anyway this semester i look through my pink glasses to the world - of course the big coming of spring effected my mood too=)) -
SOO i know u're looking forward to read more my posts but all i can say is WAİTTT
=))

18. What have i learnt in ENG 101 Class??

Well first of all, i learnt to be punctual.Works had to be done on time!
We should do our works neatly.We should do the readings on time and we shouldnt just skim them because later we have to read them anyway:D So here is a list of things for Ayşe which are TOTALLY true for me too. So with the permission of my roommate,here the LİST =)) ;

1)I get used to read long stories which lasted 10-20 pages.
2)I learnt literary terms like anti-hero,omniscient narration,dynamic character etc.
3)I get used to read serious articles about society's issues, in English.
(and i thought more deeply on photojournalism and reality shows)
4)I learnt "citation" and how to write academic articles in APA format.
5)I learnt how i must plan my article before writing it.
6)I learnt how to BLOG properly and continiously.( it is an important step for me because it was one of my ambitions , and thanks to this blog i created my personal blog in Turkish. I realised it is a habit. And i gained it with my ENG 101 blog.(i cant agree ayşe at this point =))
7)I learnt how to use Creative Commons and learned a new adress for finding photos: Flickr.
8)I learnt how to find academic articles with Google Scholar. And how to find them in Sabanci's information center.
9)İ learnt how to combine ideas between texts.
10)And Thank you SOnja, i love english one more time!!!


=))

17. About Practice Essay

Before i wrote my practice essay, i read the texts one more time and while i was reading them i took some notes to remember the examples.While i was writing, it was kind of hard for me to start with the thesis but no introduction.So first i wrote the main part of my essay then i wrote my thesis.İ dont know if it was a good idea but that was how it was easy for me.İ noticed that i have more thing to write about on Tannen's text because it covers lots of examples.İ wanted cover all the examples that i remember.İ wanted to make connections between 2 texts.So developing the main part wasnt that hard for me.For conclusion part i paraphrase my sentences in the introduction.

After im done with writing, i read my work and send it =))


I hope that tomorrow, we will all succeed in our final exams. GOOD LUCK FOR US!!!!

16. Presantation - V for Vendetta

I hope this time we made a good presentation.We worked very hard this time,and i think we achieved! Our friends told us that it was too comprehensive and that i talked most of the time during presenting.But this time we made good analysis of the film, we examined the film from head-to-toe and i think we covered all the important issues.
So the final decision will be made by Sonja and ı'm looking forward it =))

15. Practice Essay

Compare & contrast the texts "marked woman" and "a woman on a roof" by means of status of woman in society.

Women had no freedom to be unmarked like man.We can understand it by examining and comparing these two texts marked woman and a woman on a roof which both denote the same idea that women are marked!

Lessing wrote a story named "a woman on a roof" at 1960s.At that time people find her very strict about female rights - she was named as a feminist- In her story she created a woman with no fear of men, not annoyed by their glances and continued her work- sunbathing.If we look through Tannen's eyes to this story- especially to her- Tannen would probably say that she was marked by men.Because she was beautiful and had no one to stop her, those 3 men thought that they had rights to look to her because she was there right in front of their eyes on the neighbour roof.
According to Tannen, a great majority of women are marked.She gave lots of examples to indicate women's marks.For example; in grammer some verbs and nouns are marked with the endings like -ess and -ette.These words are seen as "female" in the society.She also assumed that there is no marked women.A woman would be marked anyway either she wears sexy clothes and sends a message of "available" or wears normal clothes and still sends a message like "i'm not that type of woman!". The biggest marks are prefixes.A male uses "Mr." from the day of born till his death.But a woman need to change her "Ms." to "Mrs." when she got married.It is also common to think that taking husband's surname for a married woman is a mark.Tannen also added that using the both surnames is a mark too.
She also pointed out a different perspective by looking from a varied point of view; biology! She said that female chromosomes XX represented as a "female".Male chromosomes are XY and she denoted only Y didnt have any function.Y needs a X to form a MALE.
Tannen also used Fasold's article to support her ideas.Fasold explained that girls were borned with fully female bodies; but boys born with modified female bodies.He asked, Why do men have nipples???? He also added that there are few species that only produce female babies by parthonogenesis but no species that only produce males - there would be an extinction in the first generation anyway...-. he explained that in honey bees worker bees dont involve with the reproduction thing so they dont need any gender but they are named as "females".So even they are marked...

If we compare Lessing's and Tannen's point of views to the women, we can easily see that they both think that women are marked in the society by men whether they wish or not.Society doesnt give them freedom to be unmarked.

14. Error Correction WS

Sonja gave us a worksheet that contains several wrong sentences or phrases.so here are the correct ones;


WRONG
1)the Jim Hawkins
2)He is lack of self-confidence
3)poorness
4)He couldn't success to be a man
5)open the TV
6)They behaved her very badly
7)his husband
8)people grow their children
9)listening them
10)our wearings
11)men with similar dresses

CORRECT
1)Jim Hawkins
2)He is not self-confident
3)poverty
4)He couldn't manage to be a man
5)Turn on the TV
6)They treated her badly
7)her husband
8)people raise their children
9)listening to them
10)our clothes
11)men with similar clothes

Have a nice day everyone.Study hard!!! =))

13. New Year's FIRST Monday Syndrome

It's 22.40 right now and i dont the minutes to past away....

Soon it will be "THE MONDAY" and the stressfull school days soon will start.

I have a very busy week this week so i need to be punctual to done my works completely.I have a boyfriend who wants to be with me all the time, i have a friend who came back from USA for christmas holiday and left only a week, so she wants to be with me too.But i have plenty of works that should be done.

SO i want to duplicate myself - hatta triplicate=)- one for school works and lectures, one for my pleasures and sleep and one for friends, boyfriend etc...

But i'm big enough to know that it's just a dream but nothing else.

12. NEW YEAR CHEER!!!!

We are on the first day of 2010.We have passed one more year with the

bittersweats of life... I wish you all a very good year -better than the last one =) - and i hope that all our wishes come true this year...

HAPPY NEW YEARRRRRR !!!!!!!

11. V 4 Vendetta !

As "pink group" we have to presantate the film V for Vendetta.We watched the movie twice so that we can understand the symbols and connect them with the theme of anarchy.

I didn't like the film but i have to watch it so it was a little hard for me to watch a film twice although i didn't like it.But when we discussed on it we analyzed it deeply and we found lots of symbols and events that connect with the historical background.

This film was made of from a comic book which was named as v for vendetta too.Critizers make lots of good comments about the comic book; the different style of drawing, the ability of giving the "motion" of that anarchy etc. So they created a big expectation for the film.I have paid lots of attention to catch the symbols in the film so i couldn't manage to "watch" it from a critical eye.But my friends said that it was a successful film.So i recommend everyone to watch it, at least to grasp some ideas of british revolution idea.