10) The Last Blog

BLOGING AND THE END OF SEMESTRE

The first semester of freshman year passed fastly. It was totaly full with projects, presentations, exams, homeworks etc. there was no time to spend for myself. however, i can never catch up my lessons because of that i couldn't realise some of the enteraining works from lessons. The blogging is one of entertaining work from Eng 101 but it is too late to be aware of this :)..

But it doesn't end, i will continue to write blog after the first semester.

And also i want talk about general Eng 101 lesson. The subject in Eng 101 course was generally about sexual preferences of people, differences between gender and reality TV. Firstly, I saw these subject unnecessary, especially gay & lesbian subject can drive me crazy, but now i can develop empathy. And also I reached the source of the problem,the place of females on society, The source is media and ads. Eng 101 couse makes me more aware about social problems.


And lastly, thank you Sonja for your feedbacks and helps... if i have a chance, i want to be in your class at Eng 102 course but i will be regular at second time :)

See you

9) The Truman Show

when i watched the film The Truman Show first in 1998, i was 12 years old and it was impressed me so much. After watching film i started to think that i am a person as Truman and there is someone who follow me and watch me.. it seems psychopatic but i was only 12 years old.. However, my opinion has changed after years and I decide the tought of film.. It was that the boss who manage, organise and display Truman life on TV is the god. He or she ( whatever he or she is) creates a life to us and only watch from his place.. He must has a purpose to do that and it must be entertainment. i think he entertains when he watch us, if he/she presents!!

Also, reality tv gives us the chance to be god.. we can watch people on screen and we enternain while watching. It is the cause of wattching and loving reality tv for people.

Finaly, still the truman show is the best movie i have ever seen and also my favorite film.

8) Boys Don't Cry

Yesterday, I and my friends Elif and Burak presented the film called Boys Don't Cry. The preparation of presentation gave our 6 day. We make comprehensive research to create a very good presentation. The powerpoint slides of presentaion included not only information about film but also some videos from some scenes of film, pictures from film and connections from FBI research and documentary Tough Guise.
I think the presentation was really good and our film was so attractive.. We presented that film willingly.




Ascene from Boys Don't Cry also from Presentation ;

7) Killing Us Softly

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Woman Body Used by Ads

All of documentaries, films and lectures which we must watch and read for Eng101 lesson, provide me more information about social problems we faced in our hole life and ability to interpret social consequences.

The documentary Killing Us Softly is one of the important part in Eng101 class for me, because it makes me more aware about the used woman body on ads on TV, newspapers, bilboards and magazines.. Actually, usually I criticize the abuse of women in society, this was caused by feminist aspect of my personality.

I accept that I am a feminist. Therefore, I try to change something in my environment if I encounter a dominance of masculinity on women and misuse females. I was aware of men dominance society and something must be done to change it in order to provide equality between man and women. But i wouldn't know, by which way, we can change that unbalanced structure in society.

By Killing Us Softly, I found that the most effective source of maculine world is ads because media uses everything about women as sexual, soft, vulnerable or thin to sell products.. And ads creates a woman model which only interests her beauty in order to be loved by man. Thus, women adopt the ideas in ads and they permit a men dominance world.


At the end of the conference, the speaker gives us the solution of these problem. That is to change ads and to change our attitudes deeply in our culture by education.

6) Tough Guise 2

Who Gives The Concept of Being "Real Man" ?


The documentary Tough Guise 2 prove what makes men tend to violence and crime. The masculine culture gives men some features. some of these are being tough, powerful, muscular, respected and independent. The most significant part of culture which makes males tend to have these features is media. The "real man" model is given people by media by programmes which present men commiting crime as heroes and repectful people.
90% of crimes were commited by man because in the media, the being man means being violent.
Having a muscular and big size body, being powerful, strong and violent make you a respected man. Also, a Real Man cannot show his weaknesses, he always be quite and hide his emotions.
Obviously, these are not acceptable and common-sensical because all of these cases create an psychologically unhealthy male gender in society. The sexual violence and assaults against women and being dominance on women are results of that kind of culture.

The documentary impressed me so much, since it is interpreted by a man named Jackson Katz. The documentary was a kind of given real face of men by a man. It must be not easy for a man.

Tough Guise

5) Marked Woman & Presentation

The lecture "Marked Woman" was my and my presentation group friends Elif and Burak's practice presentation subject. While we were reading and researching the background of Marked Woman and its author Deborah Tannen, we encounter of remarkable observations of Deborah Tannen.
In lecture, she tells a conference she attanded with three women and eight men. During the conference, Tannen realize how women's hair style and clothing changes whreas men have standart hair and clothing style and she support her observations by some historical and social researches.

while we prepare the presentation with my friends, we conflicted with Deborah Tannen in a lot of cases. So, after the presentation of Marked Woman, we presented our conflicts against Deborah Tannen's views.

Despite everything, it was a good presentation for one's first experience. I have never made a professional presentation until this time. However, I was so relaxed and happy to give this presentation because it had funny slides and all friends in class participate our discussion questions and they told their opinion about subject.

4) Happy New Year

In every begining of year, I scan entire last year on my mind.. I try to find what the year taught me. In this year's eve, I saw that 2009 was really efficient year.. maybe we lost a lot of valuable things in 2009 as in every last years we passed, but 2009 taught me that the loosing sometimes becomes the winnig.. if we can learn something from our faults and losses, we can transform them to experiences and use them as our benefits.
this was classically well known quotation but i can understand that more clearly now.. and thanks to my faults in 2009, 2010 will be better year than all of last years..

I hope that every people who complain from 2009 what an ugly year, realize the truth and apply them to their life like me..

Happy New Year Friends :)