ENG 102-15. I-Search Paper

Today I wrote my I-Search paper. Actually I realized that I really enjoyed this semester, while I was writing the I-Search paper. Writing the paper was very easy with many questions and it was helpful for realizing.

ENG 102-14. Presentation of group 5

The Presentation of Group 5 is very clear. The referance to the book of Jared Diamond , guns Germs and Steel was a great idea. With that example they can combine the lectures of SPS and ENG. I really liked the pictures of the presentation and I really love the background images. The ending was funny. We made such an ending in our presentation too=)
Points to improve, not equal speech time for every member. The sexual harrasment part was short. It is a very strong part and they can use that part a bit more and analyze maybe deeper.
Anyway thaks for such a good presentation=)

ENG 102-13. The depressing similarities P&P

Last week because of the bayram holiday we couldn't watch the movie "Precious" in our section and I couldn't come to other sections because I had different lectures so I decided to watch it by myself on Thursday. I confess that I cried lot while I was watching. It was impressed me so. The story of Precious and Pecola is really similar in many ways. Her father raped twice and she got 2 children one of them has Down Syndrom. Her mother physically abused her, she is black and want to be blond and skinny (American Dream). Everybody laugh at her because of fattnes and blackness like Pecola, boys laught at her because of her blackness and ugliness. I realized that African Americans live nowadays in such conditions.Additionally every individual is responsible for that.

ENG 102-12. Search for love

In the book "The Bluest eye" the characters Pauline, Pecola and Cholly are searching for love. But I want to ask what is love for YOU? What should it contains? In my opinion love is really special and personal. There is a kind of love which the love to your mom, dad, sister etc. The other one is the love to your boy-, girlfriend. Additionally love contains respect, compassion apprehension to lose, sacrifies and honesty. The lover afraids to touch because the affraid of hurting your loved one. It is not enough to define it but I want to mention the aspects of love contraverselly the understand of Cholly's love. There is no excuse Cholly's action. He raped his daughter twice and impregnant her also takes her virginity. What kind of love is that? I am really confused. I am also sad for Cholly because as Claudia mentioned in the book he is dangerously free. He felt so unworthy actually felt nothing even love or hate. So he doesn't knoe the love between dad and daughter or son so Cholly can't understand the love of the child and touched his Pecola. Cholly touched her and harm her but he cannot comprehend that.

ENG 102-11. I hate rainy days

What a weather is that? It is rainy but some times sunny too. I can not choose my clothes because the temperature is always changing:S




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ENG 102-10. Seminar Presentation

We made our seminar presentation about the book " The Bluest Eye". Our theme was The Great Depression, Morrison's style and search for love of the characters Cholly, Pauline and Pecola. The writer's style is very impressive she uses metaphors, similes and imageries for explaining and transmitting the story to her readers. She used mostly the metaphor of seed, which means individuals, Pecola's womb etc. I really liked this writing style. There are many metaphors in the book like "earth" and "black dirt" but one of the metaphor was really make me think about it "martyrdom". Mrs. Breedlove goes regularly to Church she is a Church women type. On the other hand her husband Cholly is an alcholic and made mad things in his past ( still does anyway). Mrs. Breedlove thinks that she can save Cholly from hell with her help for quitting alcohol or make his life ordered. If he stops drinking then she wouldn't have any purpose in her life. She wants to be an "idol" humanbeing for God and Jesus so when Choll is a good person than she won't have any aim for cozy up Jesus. I think about that if my husband were Cholly what will I do? Am I help him for my religous belief? I really don't know that but I am sure about that I don't want such a partner.

ENG 102-9. The Lottery

The presentation of Hazal , Nazlı and Sevda was very friendly. Thanks to the team:)
I found the story very interesting and I want to talk about the some points which are stock in my mind. First of all the irony of the story is very clear tha lottery day is sunny and clear but the action is a dark and depressive. The black box is symbolize the death and I remember the role of the names in the story Mr. Graves means the death and opposingly Mr Summers is the model of the story:)

ENG 102-8. Guest Workers and Günter Wallraff

Hi again,
I also want to talk about the picture and the meaning of it. This picture is from the book cover of Günter Wallraf, who disguised himself as a Turk worker in Germany and he is a popular German writer. He became Ali and looked for a job and he saw the hard life conditions of German Turks. This book, Ganz Unten (At the Bottom)( En Alttakiler),is very nice and interesting book for learning the life conditions of Germans, Turks and also the guest workers in Germany as Turks.

Germans said that they wanted "workers" not individuals. Germans made health controls to Turks which were very pejorative such as wrote line numbers on the bodies of Turks, looked every little points on their bodies etc.

ENG 102-7. Stereotyping

Last night I finally finished my essay, which is about stereotyping of German Turks. I had a chance to make many researches about that topic and I found interesting points about that topic.
First, stereotyping is a public acceptance about specific social class. It is a subjective hypothesis, which we learned that in SPS 102. The philosopher Sayid said that West is the objective one, who talks instead of the subjective East. In that case public is the subject and the object is the stereotypes. German Turks are stereotyping because of their education level, physical aspect and social differences. In addition many Germans do not like Turks as guest workers at all. They gave hard works which needed physical strength and these works were unhealthy for them. I think these seperations between different cultural groups will be live in a harmony in future as Amin Maalouf stated that.

ENG 102-6. End of the hard weeks

Hi everyone
I know I didn't write much these last two weeks because I have many exams and presentation in ENG102. I am really sure about that I hate HIST 192 and SPS 102. If I can pass these lectures that will be the best present ever :P Ohh.. I just forgot that I wrote my first draft of the research paper. I realize that I studied as much as I did for ÖSS. It was too hard that I was expected. I hope the schedule will be fewer that this semester. I hope that everybody cann pass the exams and have good points:)

ENG 102-5. Presentation Groups

Monday we decided our presentation groups. Metin, Ebru and I are a team. We are the black team. Today we made some practices for presentations and for discussion questions. Every team made good questions and organize the class. But we made the best=)

ENG 102-4. Marthin Luther King

Today I read the text " 3 ways of meeting oppression". The context is very impressive because his speeches are very interesting and affect the majority of the black and white public. He talked about the civil rights. He established that the best way for Negro's to struggle for their rights is the non-violent resistence. I didn't like the second way which is the physical violence. In my opinion people shouldn't use physical power against to each other at all.

ENG 102-3. Research Paper

I sent an email to Sonja about my topic but I want to write about it a bit more spesificly. We have to prepare the annotated bibliographies. I am going to write about the stereotypes which has the question " Analyse how a particular cultural group of your choice is typically stereotyped within its own society and examine some of the implications of this stereotyping"
I am going to write about the Turks who live in Germany. I will analyze their cultural, social, physical and also their living conditions. During my research I will use cinema, media and book sources. I want to write about that topic because some of my friends from my high school are now living in Germany for studying at some universities. I have some films in my mind which are directed by Fatih Akın.

ENG 102-2. The Graduate

First week we began to examin the adolescence and the article of Nichol.
The article talks about the devaluation and pejorative perceptions of youth as in the movio "The Graduate". It was my first time watching the movie. The main character Benjamin has some issues with his family and his future. In the first scene of the movie we can see the struggles that he has the transition between youth to adulthood. Ben's family organizes a party for him and for celebration of his graduate and at that party there are only the friends of Ben' parents. In other scenes we can see that Mr. Braddock forces his son to decide his future. He is not listening his son in other words he is not let Ben to talk and not let him to express his feelings and ideas. Sonja was gave us a little part of the conversation between Ben and his father. In that conversation we can see it easily. Also the realtion between Ben , Elaine and Elaine's mother is too weird. I can't understand Elaine too. Why did she run away with Ben? He is wrong and she knows it but still she left with him. He had an affair with Elaine's mother and this didn't stop her. I just can't understand their love.

ENG 102-1. Here we go again

Hi everyone
this semester was satarted a little bit bad for me. First week I was ill than second week I had an operation from my teeth and I came to lessons with a swollen cheek than it turned purple. Finally this week my friend's grandfather had died and today I was in the funeral. I hope the future weeks will be good and better than last semester for everyone.

15. Our presentation

Finally we made our presentation about the movie V for Vendetta. I was really excited and I laughed front of the class sometimes. But I am very happy because we made it in a best way we can I think. I also know that I read some times more than I talked during the presentation=(

14. Happy New Year

I wished a great, funny, healty and happy new 2010 .

13. Final Exam Finally =)

I really couldn't understand how the time passes so fast. I wrote my final exam and know I am writing my I- Blog paper. We are at the end of the semester and the final exams are going to begin next week. The final exam of ENG 101 was not so good for me because I couldn't focus on properly and enough at that time. ı read all the texts and watched and re-watched all the films. I will going to understand how the exam was when I see my grade:) Anyway thak you Sonja for such an obvious exam questions the exam was not so hard than I thought=)