10. Pub Quiz

Yesterday's class was very different from the other ones. We reviewed the course themes and texts with a British pub quiz! It is very inordinary that the words ''pub'' and ''quiz'' come together. It was very enjoyable and entertaining. I hope we will have one in a real pub :) There were two groups and four rounds with ten questions for each. Our group won with 25 right answers and we will receive an extra credit:) Its was a great opportunity and a lot of fun.

9. Practice presentations :)

'Arirang (DPRK)' by giladr, made available under a Creative Commons Licence

This week we did our practice presentation with my team members Gamze and Burak. It was my first presentation in english so i was very excited. we couldn't work enough before the presentation but it was good i think. We talked a lot and rest of the class shared their ideas with us. It was an enjoyable debate. Also the other presentation was very interesting. Their powerpoint slide show was very fantastic. Our slide show was not bad but we will do it better in our real presentation. Thanks to our teacher Sonja for her feedback and comments, they will help us a lot :)

8. Yes, they are killing us softly!!!

When i watched the video Killing Us Softly 3, i realized that i totally agree with Jean Kilbourne. The advertisements create ''perfect'' women that are not fully human. They take someones perfect nose, others perfect mouse etc. and they create the perfect one. Also they use one part of body to sell product. For exemple they use hips or breasts and they are always ''perfect''. These type of advertisements encourage people to have perfect body and therefore encourage people to plastic surgery. Breasts become object of somebody elses pleasure and cause women to lose their sensation. In addition, we see women with covered mouth. Women have passive body language in opposite to men's active bosy language. Women are shown as ''passive, sexual'' objects. Also we see young girls and even children with make up and they give sexual message to society. Women are used to sell things. Murdered women and male violence are results of culture's pornographic altitude and advertisements. Women are not objects we have to prevent these type of advertisements and male violence against women.

7. Photo from Flickr...

As i mentioned at my previous post, we learned citing images and using the site flickr. Our second presentation is about the film 'Boys Don't Cry' and here is a photo of the film actresses that i took from flickr:)



Figure 1. Photograph of Hilary and Chloe #2 (n.d.). Note: Copyright myyearofnewthings (made available under a Creative Commons License)

List of references
myyearofnewthings. (Photographer). (n.d.) [Photograph of Hilary and Chloe #2], [Online Image]. Retrieved October 25, 2009, from flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34213856@N00/441495659/

6. I have learned so far...

When I first entered the ELEA, it was very difficult for me. I hadn't even know what is an academic essay or i hadn't even heard of while listening part in an exam. I learned a lot of things in the prep class and in English 101 i am using the things i have learned. Eng 101 is enjoyable because the lessons are not boring. We are reading different texts from many different authors and their subjects are interesting. Also our teacher Sonja Tack encourage us to use our blogs. It is good for me because i didn't know using or creating a blog and thanks to her i have a blog now and i am posting to it regularly. I can show my blog to my parents when they ask me ''what are you doing in the school?'' or '' how is your school going?''. Also i learned how to search photos on the different internet sites like flickr instead of ''google images''. Furthermore, i learned how to write an essay in APA format and citing images legally. I wish i will learn many other things in this course, we still have 8 weeks and a lot of things to learn.

5. Deborah Tannen

We will do our practice presentation on december. After the class i did some research on our text ''Marked Women'' and its author Deborah Tannen. Deborah Tannen is a professor at Georgetown University and author of many books and articles. Most of her books were on the bestseller lists and translated into many languages. She is also published a lot of poems, short stories and essays. Our text ''Marked Women'' is about gender differences in communication styles.

4. Is Photoshop Killing Photojournalism?

We see a number of photos on the internet, television, magazines, billboards, newspapers, advertisements etc. Very large amount of space are given to visual. We can see people and different events from all around the world with photos of them. But are they real? We don't know. I think some people use the technology for their own benefits. For instance, people are curious about famous people's life and journalists make fake photos of famous people to draw attention. In my opinion it is not ethic, these fake things decrease their reliability and they must always tell the truth to us.