Thank you!

There is something happened and i couldn't post it under Sonja's post, so i think i can write it here:

Waow ! Called as a queen is very significant for me :)

Thank you Sonja, i didn't do this for extra credit, it was just fun and educative. Maybe this words are not like realistic but i will show it by trying to post everytime, :)

I am getting exited for my blog, day by day. It is like my baby, learning new things everyday and growing.

Thank you Sonja, for giving me courage and reading my posts and commenting them :)

So thank you for these reward, it made me more enthusiastic.

Congratulations to other bloggers.

See U!!!

28. Last Assignment of ENG courses

I have finished my research paper, wiki reflections and i wrote 2 blog posts. I think i am making my last assignment for ENG courses, and this is I-Search paper. I know this assignment from last term. (I-Blog Paper). However, i forgot that what's shortening was that "I" ? I hid this assignment to last because i know this is fun. "It is like little Sonja, doing interview with us :))"

Original Photo by Kennymatic licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

Edit after 1 hour; I finished my I-Search Paper, while i was writing it some idea came to me. What is happening to our essays? :) Imagine they are collected and duplicated. Everybody worked very detailed on them, for example , Serra is writing about Hippies, Bahar is related with Lesbian Marriages, my subject is African-American stereotypes in media, Can is related with Kurdish Stereotype, i think Hazal is doing something related with Mexian stereotypes in U.S media. We can create a handbook called "Ethnical,cultural ,racial group's various problems and features" :D

ENG 102 A2/B2/C2/D2 students present proudly,

27. Summer Plans

Actually this will not be very happy post. Because altough i missed my family a lot. I would miss my closests who i had in Sabancı, When i go to Antalya, first thing that i am going to do will writing a long feedback for myself about this year. From social ways , academic ways,etc. Because when you get out from atmosphere which you belong for long time, you are being more objective for yourself.

I after that, i would prepare a list for my improvement according to my feedback and GPA of course :D

I would not be so much selfish of course. Here is my brother called Meriç. He is going to first grade and he is good at chess ;). We are "kanka*" with him although there is 12 years between us :).

Summer in Antalya is like a hell. Because it is very very very hot. So i must prepare myself living next to sea at summer because there is no other alternative way for excaping from that heat except jumping into water ;)

*best of best friends :)

26. Tv Room 24/7 Nights

I must confess something, from the childhood , i like being nerd :)

Always i was biased to being nerd in my life. Well not kind of nerd that is very closed to world and relationships , but i have special interest to the assignments, to books, to course materials to pencils, to highlighters, to coloured-note cards, i don't know. I like process of studying. Although i am not very bright student, i like studying especially the lectures which i
like most like ENG :D

However i am a person who couldn't manage her time very properly so i am being stucked sometimes.

As i mentioned before i am continuing my day in nights too caused of lack of time like tonight :D. But now i am at the TV Room, because IC is very far.

But, stress is kind of factor, which brings lack of motivation. Please God! Help me for organizing my time properly :D

However, Nerdless rocks ^^ ;)

Edit after 4 hours: Serra and Bahar also joined me. We studied math together and edited our research papers. When we were bored we played some music from MTV,did some crazy dance and did some pilates on the tables :D. It was fun!

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25. Precious

Today i finished watching precious.

Like Sonja and other bloggers mentioned , it has lots of similarities with the bluest eye. In fact in this post i always wrote first Pecola and than i turned it to Precious :). Also movie has got its own style like the bluest eye have its own style. In the movie there are lots of trick for describing the story well. For example, in some scenes especially when Precious has hit to her head. In other words when she feel pain, she remembers the worst experience(and the most painfull) of her. This experience is as you wish , her father's rape to her.

Other is in some scenes frame is shivering like when Mrs. Rain or other women who is detecting for social help listening Precous's life and her drama. I think they chosed this method because they wanted to show this people couldn't understand this pain and it is very shocking to them.

And realize that, in the public sphere they call Precious's full name as Clareece P. Jones. But while Precious writing her name she writes it as C. Precious Jones. She like Precious more than Clareece. I think it is because she wants to feel herself precious.

And Precious's mother always play numbers. Maybe she is searching for another start, another life and the key is money. Money can solve problems of her life. But she never try to solve the problems by herself and being selfish.

And the most effective symbol was Mrs. Rain for me. I don't know why that they called her surname rain? I think it can be Mrs. Sunny ? How great person she is? I adored her during the movie.

Another thing i want to mention is, it was a coming of age movie. Precious was very very very VERY strong girl. She didn't run away from life. She saw other people's helps and efforts for her and never gave up. If i were Precious , i don't know, i would given up very early. Precious completed her coming of age very succesfully. And other character Precious's mother, couldn't do it.

Precious character is more optimistic version of Pecola. Precious is obviously more strong than Pecola. However she is more lucky. Because she has a teacher like Mrs. Rain.

On the other hand, movie has got similarities with The Color Purple. Celie was also being raped by her father and her hero like Precious's Mrs. Rain , was Shug Avery. And during the movie we were always hearing Celie's talking with herself and god. Also Precious is always doing that during the movie. I think it is method for describing us how they are handling with bad situations and how they are being impressed.

And here are my favorite quotes from movie,

Mrs Rain:
"The biggest responsibility of you is being yourself."

Precious:
After learning that Mrs. Rain is lesbian.
"My mama said that homosexuals are bad. But people who raped&beat me was not homosexual."

Precious:
Some folks has a lot of things around them that shines for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels. And in that tunnel, the only light they had, was inside of them. And then long after they escape that tunnel, they sitll be shining for everybody else.

Picture retrived from, 24 May,2010: http://sisterrose.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/precious-movie1.jpg

Sorry !

It is little disturbing that i posted lots of thing to my blog today. I wish that i managed my time properly but i couldn't, until 28 May i will try to post regularly. I am sorry again.

24. Is there ENG 103 or 104 :D?

I really don't want to graduate from ENG courses. Can't we open this 103 an 104 courses? As i said in the class i don't want to left Sonja's class. So at least can i be guest to some of your lessons next year Sonja? I know at morning sophomores haven't got lots of lesson. I can join your morning sections. I can act like a ordinary student just not caring for participation mark so not coming to class regularly. So class will not react me ;)

So this will not be the last week , i don't accept it :) no! :)

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23. SUşenlik

As you know our university's shortening is SU. And SU means water in turkish. This weekend we have our spring-festival in Sabancı University. Unfortunately the weather was awful and saturday night was very rainy. So the name of the festival; "Suşenlik" became real :D It was full with water. However the sound-system was good and nothing canceled because of rain. But to tell the truth , it was dissapointing for me , lots of my friend from Istanbul didn't care the festival and went their homes again in the weekend. Freshmans were really small amount in the festival. The most enjoyable activity was playing frisbee on the wet-grasses with my friends. The kitchens/study rooms were locked i didn't understand why, so we couldn't cook, that was another annoying thing for me and other boarding students. Today this is last day of the festival, i am little boring i know but i can't have fun at outside so i decided to stay at room and got prepared for this busy week :)
But there is MFÖ concert at night and at 18.00 Hasan Can Saral's group is performing so i must get out from room. :D I hope next year, it will not rain and we can sit to grasses under sun without feeling cold and other sophomores will join to us too :)

Picture retrived from, 23 May,2010: http://www.resimupload.org

22. I want my guitar back :(

I am playing classical guitar since 2005. But unfortunately next year i paused my courses with the instructor because of our university entrance exam. This year i brought my guitar with me to Sabancı. But i couldn't manage my time properly for studying guitar. And than my guitar broke down. And than my tuner broke down. I am really upset because i was used to playing guitar when i was unhappy, when i was exhausted, when i was enthusiastic, when i was hopefull.... In this picture it is my second year on classical guitar. I am on the concert of our music course. First i was having stage-phobia, but then i got used to be in front of lots of people. I realized that, if you play bad on the stage , nobody is remembering it later, but if you play good, everybody remember it :) So what must i do? It is not right time for taking care of my guitar again. Finals are almost starting... The best result that i found is i started to listen classical guitar songs which i can deciphere by myself, when i went back to Antalya for summer holiday, i must fix my guitar and start to study this songs. Wish me luck! I want my best-nothuman-friend back :)
Here is my favorite 5 classical guitar song:
1)Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tarrega (i can't play it)
2)Milonga by Jorge Cardoso
3)El Testament D'Amelia / arranged by Miguel Llobet Taylor
4)Lagrima by Fransisco Tarrega
5)Asturias by Isaac Albeniz (i can't play it)

21. Last Pub Quiz and the Upcoming One

Elif has got a rule, this is turtle-rabbit rule. It contains that who started to the game from back, will win like in the race story of the rabbit and the turtle. We started from back in the pub-quiz of the bluest eye and we won. Later i looked at pub-quiz-ranks , our mark is not very high. This upcoming pub-quiz is more challenging. We decided to study it before wednesday. There are lots of things to study. I made a list for you, you can study more easily from that list. We can write this list down and put a tick next to it, which we had our overview :)

"The continuing myth of adolescence" Sharon Nichols
The Graduate (the movie)
"Where are you going, where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates
"Stereotypes,positive or negative, cloud the truth" by Cathy Hwang
"Who is a whiz kid?" by Ted Gup
"Hailing while black" by Shelby Steele
"Black man and the public space" by Brent Staples
"Deadly Identities" by Amin Maalouf
"Three ways of meeting oppression" by Martin Luther King
"A party down at the Square" by Ralph Ellison
"My Oedipus Complex" by Frank O'Connor
"A rose for emily" by William Faulkner
"Hanife" by Sevgi Soysal
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"Shooting an elephant" by George Orwell
"THE BLUEST EYE" from TONI MORRİSON :D
"Precious" (the Movie)

Good luck to everyone!

20. 50 Great Short Stories

Picture retrived from, 23 May,2010: http://www.futurum.dk/student/contents/media/BIG50GreatShortStories.jpg
I was in one of my friends room and i saw a black and small book called 50 Great Stories.
When i started to look inside that, i saw one of our stories called "The Lottery".This was my favorite story, i have already post something about it in here. It was edited by Milton Crane.
When i have read the foreword, something woke up in my mind;

The topic of the foreword was; What makes a great short story?

"The sudden unforgettable revelation of character; the vision of a world through another's eye; the glimpse of truth;the capture of a moment in time.(. . .) It can discover depths of meaning in the casual word or action; it can suggest in a page what could not be stated in volume(. . .)"

To tell the truth, before SU and our ENG 101 and ENG 102, when i read short stories it was making me uncomfortable, i was thinking like "So what?" when the story end. I was expecting like there must be obvious event or it must be like a small part of novel. After we started to interpret this stories i realized that there is a process for reading and understanding short stories. And when you start to learn it this little stories are turning to little treasures , which everbody can find different things inside that :)

Here is the list of this 50 great short stories, i want to read them in the summer. And i am planning to spend one day to one story. First i will interpret by myself, and than i will look internet to see what other people thought about this story,

It will be fun! :D

19. The Color Purple

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Two of my closer friends is presenting The Color Purple, so i heard a lot about this movie for last 3 three days. On Sunday i watched it with them , because i started to wonder about the movie a lot.

Steven Spielberg is the director of this movie. Released in 1985.

While i was watching i felt like i am watching the movie adaptation of The Bluest Eye. Celie who was the head character has some common traits with Pecola.

Both were raped by his father.(Celie's father was step father but she didn't know it.)
Both were not accepted by society , even from black people because they thought they were ugly. (I really don't like to say, "they didn't accepted because they were ugly", for who they was ugly? In my opinion Celie was not ugly in the movie, by the way what is ugly? who is ugly? and who is deciding this?, well that can be another post , ok. ^^)
Both have one aim in the life which prevents them from giving up. Celie's is be together again with her sister. Pecola's is to be beautiful.

But their end is different. Celie is gaining her self-confidence thanks to Shug Avery, she slowly slowly starting to rebel. And when she learned that Albert hides the letters from her for many many years. She showed her thoughts clearly and started to determine her own destiny.
Shortly, her ending was happier than Pecola.

Another thing i want to compare is the "beautiful women" character in the movie. Shug Avery is like Maureen Peal in this movie. Both are more light-skinned, self-confident and fashionable. But in the novel, Maureen was humiliating Pecola, unlike in The Bluest Eye, Shug Avery is one of the biggest factor for Celie to love her-self and find her beautiness.

The Color Purple is adapted from a novel. Maybe some day they will adapt The Bluest Eye too:)

(Video Retrieved May 12, 2010 from:http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=167627)
But there is theatre of the bluest eye,if you want to watch one scene of it: