12. Study! Study! Study!

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This week and all 2 weeks until he final exams I have got lots of think to do. I have a TLL101 presentation on tuesday, on thursday SPS101 quiz and ofcourse on saturday Mathematic 2. midterm. Next week ENG 101 presentation of a movie which called V for Vendetta and I have to write I-Blog paper too. Then final exams and also in-class essay are going to start.

11. Pub Quiz

This week we made a Pub Quiz, which was very entertaining and at the same time we can review what we did in this semester. The main purpuse of that quiz was to review part I think. The winner could improve the final grades but we lost=( Sonja asked many questions about our reading texts, blogging, due dates so we remember many significant points of the texts and the due dates of final essay and I-Blog paper=)

10.Television the plug-in drug

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Hi everyone
Last week one of group of our class members presented the Marie Winn's "Television the plug-in drug". I liked the slides and their designes. For example they used many diagrams for the researches and for to summurize the "rituals" part. Diagrams help audience to understand the subject easily.
The text was interesting but I don't agree with Marie Winn in some cases. There is a quote which is "if the child's home life is all right, parents need not worry about the effects of too much television watching" (Winn, 2002). That is really true. If everything allright and there is no big problem in a family then the psychology of the family members especially the kid's will be helathy. In addition many families, groups has become television oriented. For example in Turkey many people don't go out when Kurtlar Vadisi or Aşk-ı Memnu on television at that night. She also said that the transformation of culture occur in recent years. The rituals of a family such as jokes rituals, mealtime rituals orholiday rituals is changing.
To sum up, people and their cultureis changing with television. Children are becoming more insociable and alone.
I don't agree with Winn because many families can do common activities with television for example my parents and I watch films, series together. Also in football days my grandfathr, my dad and my uncle want to watch the game together so in these days my cousins and I will be together too.

9. Marked Woman

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Last week one group from my class made a presentation about the text "Marked Woman". I really liked their presentation in generally.
The subject was very interesting. I liked the ineqalities in genders in names and titels like Mr., Mrs. or Miss. In Turkey women are marked because when a woman is married she have to change her surname or have to add her husband's surname. That makes a woman "marked" woman in Turkey. Also people in Turkey think that women have to stay in home after the marriage, in house the kitchen is the women's area, too. The place of women in society was changed since 1993 but there are still many inequalities between males and females.
On the other hand I never realized that in biologically males are marked, females are the dominant gender:)
Thanks for that presentation.

8. Practice Presentation

We did our practice presentation about the short story " a woman on a roof". My team was the first team of the presentations and I am a little bit excited before the presentation. After we started I am going to feel more comfortable because our colleagues and Sonja was very tolerant and gentle. I wasn't satisfied exactly with my performance because I and my partners made some mistakes for example we all read much more than we talked and we made short presentation than we should. Anyway we learned that what we should do and at which points did we good. Thaks to Sonja and the class members for their feedbacks and comments they will be useful and helpful sources for our presenting way.