6. Afgangirl

Afgangirl is my favorite photograph. Steve Mccury took it during the war in Afganistan.

That is my favorite, because when you look into her eyes, you can see the question : "Why me?, Why is my country?" She is not scared , she is angry. And this photo makes me really confused about this situation: "While i am sitting at my chair , peacefully, other people in the world are suffering. Why?"

Steve Mccurry, who took this photograph, Found this lady after 17 years. She is around her thirties now.

I found really nice webside for "Photos that changed the world."
You can click if you want to look.

And here is Steve Mccurry's personal photo-blog. I really liked , if you want to look this ,just click.

5. Photo-journalism

In this week we read and talked about photo-journalism.
The main question which we discussed about was this:

"Why that photographers prefer to take a picture rather than helping to this poor people?"

I think this is very shallow logic. Because maybe they are not helping for only one moment, but then when they took this photographs, millions of people thinking about this issues thanks to this photographs. Furthermore, this photographers are already taking high risks for taking that photos. So they are already trying to help to this people. And taking photographs takes really little time. I am sure that they are trying to help after taking photographes , if they are not in this "helping idea" they won't go to the most dangerous places for taking only just one photo.

source of photo: http://photosthatchangedtheworld.com/?p=369

4. History and Origin of Road-Watchers ^^

Actually TLL 101 and ENG 101 again mixed XD

While i am reading my TLL homework (It is book called "Taaşuk-ı Talat ve Fitnat", It is the first novel of Turkish Literature.)i realised there are descriptions about that era's relationships.

In this parts of book, we understand in that times, womans don't usually went outside and they sat next to the window and watched the road! Their best entertainment was this.

And there were some special times, which ladies dressed up nice and went to the outside with cars. And then mans were watching this ladies along the road, and if they like one, they are going to her father and want her from him.

Like Elif, i am finding myself while i am looking to the road without thinking something, sometimes.

So i think this tradition, is coming very deep deep inside from Turkish people :D

3. About Reality-Shows

Usually , as we highlighted at Rushdie's , Poniewozik's and Peters's article, reality shows is sum of Media's getting attention trials without caring people who they are using in this programmes.

Unfortunately , real aim is not educating or informing society, media-workers, only thinks about " How can i get attention from public?".

But there is something gladsome in Turkey. When we look at Turkey's reality shows, there are not very catastrophic reality show history. That is because Turkey's social culture can't accept extreme attidutes. Like, using drugs ,making love , being drunk on the live broadcast. If they put this on tv. They can't get rating. This dogmatic style of us, accidentally, prevented the crazy- reality shows.

Most of reality-shows in Turkey, based on making competitions. I don't support shows like "Yemekteyiz" or "Desti İzdivaç" but i really like talent shows.Like "Dansa Var Mısın?", "Popstar", because i think, they are giving courage to the public like "Hey, he is like me , and he has got confident about showing him abilities, so i can show it to other people too."

And this thinking little bit prevents exponentialy growing anti-social idea. And somewhat destines people to the real life from television life.

2. TLL 101 and ENG 101 got mixed!!!

Today, we were discussing about articles which take place at our literature anthology.

We talked about Reorganization Era's author's mission.

Their common mission was "educating society". They were writing to their books and to newspapers for making the Ottoman Society more qualified and some of them wanted to awake them from their "wrong life".

(we can except 200 years ago their "Media" was books and newspaper, not television , not internet.)

The authors were calling themselves "Father". They thought they must educate the people who has got lower chances for improving themselves.

So, i want to take your attention to our era. Namık Kemal, who was one the pioneer of this self denying trend made a wish in one of his articles. In this wish he expected two century later-he means at 21. century- our country's situation will be better.

Okey, almost in every way we imroved a lot. But in the Media?
200 years ago , there were people like this, who is trying to utilize the media.

However, I think in our days, media is not thinks a lot, except earning money.

I will write more about articles which we discussed in at second week soon.

1. Deeply Looking at the Story: Enormous Radio, and Adapting it to our Real Life

This week we read the Enormous radio, and had class discussion about it.

And here are my personal thoughts which i composed after reading the enormous radio:

Everybody has him/her own tragedies. (some has got bigger, some has got smaller)

Individual's personal life can't contain only one color. In other words, we can't create to ourself only a pink life where everything is going perfect, we are the best featured etc. Or it can't be a completely black life where everything is going bad , everybody hate us etc.

At this story , our characters are trying to create a pink life. They are trying for cover their mistakes, and bad experiences. But they are forgetting this "hiding efforts" are like wood in the water. Let me explain. Remember, when you want to sink the wood ground while it is swimming, you must push it hard. And always must stay your hand like this, for prevent surface. And when you a bit forget to push, it will want to surface again. And if you forget to push, it will come to surface stronger and faster. It shows we can't hide our wicknesses until eternal. The better way to forget them is trying to fix them. It will give less pain.

And we must learn to live with bad news, quarells, illnesses. Actually, without them we can't realise the value of what we have got.

Another point i wanted to highlight is answer of this question:

"Does possession of the radio give the Westcotts any advantage over their
neighbors? Disadvantage? Explain."

By listening only a little part of conversation, Irene can't decide what kind of people they are.

For example:

Lady who shout to her children:
Maybe she was telling always properly her children to go to school until that day. But the children didn't understand it and she decided to be more strict.
Husband who quarrel with him wife for not playing piano:
Maybe the lady who plays the piano was really sellfish and doing nothing for her family. That's why her husband was quarrelling with her.

In my opinion the main mistake was in this story their motto's was "there must be no roughness , for a happy life". But this is not true, sometimes happiest people come from the worst places for living.

I want to give an example from one of my favorite movie: Slumdog Millionaire.
Remember the two brother. They were living the worst life for a little children. Although their tragedies, they can be happy and OK.They were happy while watching operas,while watching Tac Mahal, while travelling by train.