16. Process Essay

I have totally finished my essay.
Eng 101 is really big challenge for the last two weeks.
First presentation and then process essay.
But especially writing an academic essay was really different thing for me.
Because i always write in exaggerated and fancy way. In academic essay there is no place for these.
So i was very funny situation while rewriting. I was writing something and then erasing, writing and erasing.
On the other hand, learning new thing is hard. So i am happy. And i feel i am improving.

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15.Our Presentation

I am so relaxed now. I was anxious during this week about our presentation. How will it be? How will Sonja say? How will audience's reflects be?

I want to highlight that few friends in class, was listening me so carefully. I am so pleased. I always look into the speaker's eyes while he/she describing something. But i didn't know it is giving that much satisfaction and courage to the speaker.

I was so nervous when i started to talk but then when i saw people are listening to me , nodding their heads, thinking about what i said, it gave me courage to continiue. So thank you very much.

I think our presentation was nice. We met 4 times and sent mail ourselves 40 times :) So i think it worth =)

But to be honest, i found myself little bit deficient. I don't know, i think ,i couldn't put my own comment so much on presentation. I will think more deeply about myself and will try to do more properly on final.

• Elif's presentation was both enjoyable and profitable. It was profitable for understanding the story more deeply.

• Bahar's presentation was really detailed and i learnt lots of different things about it.

• Onur has got very interesting ideas about his titles.

So, i like my co workers ^^

On the other hand, i was hopeful about the theme of presentation. I found it from internet.

If you want to arrange presentations more figurative , you can use this adress.

http://www.templateswise.com/

1)All you have to do is click to the download.
2)There will come a ....zip document.
3)Open it with winrar,winzip or another programme for opening folders which zipped
4)and there will be .....pptx document.
4)Open this.
5)And put your texts and pictures into this theme.

It is free , so i think it is legal to use this themes.

Good luck on presentations!

14.Tomorrow is Big Day

Ohhhh!

Finally it finished.

We worked hard since last week on our presentation.

Especially i am very excited about presentation. Because i am being very excited while i am speaking English in front of people!!! For prevent the tragedy in the class ;):

I studied in front of the mirror.

And than i described to my room-mate.

I will practise 2-3 more times. I hope it will help.

So, tomorrow is the big day, i am looking forward to hearing comments!seeing reactions!
I will write tomorrow evening every detail of presentation!

Wish me well!

13. Tough Guys on Facebook

I observed something while i was looking my friends profile pictures in facebook. Well, this contains generalization but i am sure you will understand what i am trying to highlight.

In Boy's profile pictures , boys are usually not looking to camera and looking charismatic and some of them are looking very strict and tough.

And we are generally focusing to camera and smiling to look beatiful or always putting our smiling photos for collecting sympathy.

So what do you think about this?

12. Kabadayı

There is a movie called Kabadayı , directed by Ömer Vargı in 2007.

It is describing a story of bunch of "tough guise".

But in that movie there is nice detail. There is a man called "Sürmeli" (i think eye-lined in English).
He is homosexual. Everybody knows this. And nobody humiliating him.

But there is a guy called Murat. He is an illegal child. So they don't say his real father to him. He thought "Sürmeli" is his father until he is 15. In his 15, they explain that Sürmeli is homo-sexual and he hasn't got a father. And that day he ran away from house and starting to live in streets.

Years later, Sürmeli and Murat is meeting again. While they were talking, Sürmeli making a very effective speech . He is saying that he took care of Murat like his own children. He cried while he was singing a turkish song "My Mother , Lovely Mother, Take me on your arms." He said that to Murat that he didn't ran away because he was angry about Sürmeli and his mother, lied to him or he is upset about he hasn't got a father. He ran away because he were ashamed from "Sürmeli" . Ashamed from the truth that his father figure was homosexual. These shows the point of view of some people to the homo-sexuals in Turkey. It is very effective scene i think.

And there is more effective detail too. In the end of the movie. Everybody cheating to main chracter (kabadayı) . All these tough guys around the Kabadayı. But Sürmeli never cheats to him, always being loyal to him and maybe rescued Kabadayı's principles about being tough, strong, honest by helping him.

So this detail is describing the real toughness is not with violence or needs muscles it is related with character!

I highly recommend Kabadayı! It is really good movie!

11.Tough Guise 2

In second part i want to write about media effects on violence.

As we mentioned media is in search of ratings. They want to make programmes which will get high rating from public.

For example while my brother started to watch cartoons. Mostly in all cartoons there are violence! They are fighting , punching, plunking each-other. We turned another channel for my brother to more peaceful cartoon for his health. But my brother didn't like this.I realised Harshness and noisy getting his attention and he is looking to the screen like hypnotized. This complicated cartoons are making childrens more addicted to TVs.

And maybe we can adapt it to adult's movie delectations.

We closed this cartoon-channels for my brother. But does everybody is realizing that will be harmful for their children?

My parents says there weren't cartoons like this in their childhoods. They were watching Heidi, Candy Candy , Pink Panther... And they were not always fighting. This is one of the things which i started to think about . What will be long-term effects of this media programmes on the society? What do you think about it?

10.Tough Guise 1

Generally i am not used to watching movies which includes lots of speech like in Tough Guise. Maybe it is my fault but i am generally feel bored.

However in Tough Guise, Jackson Katz explaining his ideas very fluently and he is mentioning lots of interesting point. So i watched it easily two times. I took notes. Discussed it with my mother. And tried to observe Katz's opinions in daily life.

Here are my observations.

Firstly i realized i totally accepted this motto in my daily life: " A real man must be tough, strong and serious."

But i am not sure that media injected this motto to me. I think it is coming from olds. You know from my blog, i like to make connections between courses and this time i want to use my SPS and biology knowledges :).

Man and woman created different i think. Brain types, body types are really different. For example: Man cannot carry his children in his body for 9 months and i think it brings clear differences between woman and man. Woman learn to be altruistic,clemency and detail-oriented. Being pregnant is just little example. Another example is about hormanal situations. We learnt couple of hormanes which is effecting gender specialities at biology. Estrojen,progestin,testosterone, LTH, LH.... This hormones are also effecting brain activities of human-beings.

To sum up, woman and man are not the SAME.
Women are more emotional,niggling and altruistic.

This maybe created the division of labour (SPS keyword :D). Testosterone made mans more musculer. So they went for hunt and women were at the shelter for organizing and work on the details.

But how this physical strongness of man turned to violence?

I have a thesis about this too. Man always excepted to go out, for work, hunt, however. So for protecting theirselves they put on "tough guise"...

For example, imagine a family who has got two childrens . One is boy and one is girl. They need to bread for dinner. But it is little bit late and it is dark outside. Will they send the boy or girl?

The boy. And the girl will expected to help to tidy up the table or help for meal.

Maybe, the boy will feel scared at outside, for example when he will see a dangerous stranger walking through to him. What he will do?

From this situations boys are learning to be look like tough,strong and self-confident for protecting theirselves.

And when i come to my question at first:
But how this physical strongness of man turned to violence?

I think it is coming from extra-ordinary situations in Turkey. Childrens who hasn't got a family, who have to live in streets . They turn this toughness, strengthness to violence for improving their skills to survive!

In Tough Guise they said not only not-educated and psycho types are commiting crime. Popular guys, succesful and happy guys are commiting crime too. But is it true to generalize? I think they are not deciding to use violence in one day. It must be past maybe not showed by newspapers. Can we discuss this? I am looking forward to hear your opinions. I am confused. Because i have never seen so much in newspapers in Turkey that happy guys commiting crime suddenly. There is always dark history of childhood or a part of life, back of violences.

Why people wants to commit a crime while everything is going well?