6. Stereotyping

I suddenly decided to change my mind about the research paper and did about stereotyping of homosexual people. When I examined the examples of stereotyping in detail, I realized how homosexual people are treaten inequally and how their rights are violeted. Although with in years government applied some new laws for protecting homosexual's rights, there are still some limitations and we still hear physical harassments. When the incidents is looked, it might be clearly seen that laws are not enough for protecting the rights of homosexual people. However rather than punishing with jail, psychological treatment may be helpful for heterosexuals to come over their homophobia and to gain a new perspective to evaluate homosexuals. People need to learn not judge by sexual orientation and need not to forget that, these people are also indiviuals as we are.

5. Practise Presentation

I think our presentation went fine but not perfect. However we have a chance to develop in real presentation. When we looked the negative points about our presentation, mainyl I saw that most of the class complains about how we quietly speaking. I will definetly try harder in next presentation. Beyond the complains, I found the short story very interesting and avaliable for asking personal experiences.

4. Research paper

Unfortunately to make a decision in a short time seems too hard. Anyway, when Sonja was giving information about each option, I found domestic violence option interesting. However I don't want to write just about domestic violence in Turkey, instead want to combine violence with stereotyped men and also how adoloscents become rude and impolite. It might be linked to the formation of teenage identity. So if I can find enough sources to link stereotyping and adolscence,I am going to write about domestic violence,in other case I am thinking to do research about honour killings, which is quite interesting and also sad. Even today we have these kinds of incidents a lot and media try to hide the news rather than report and instruct them. As a result I'll do my research paper based on option one but I haven't decided yet which one I am going to choose.

3. Where are you going where have you been

The title of this short story is quite suitable for the content of the story. Actually the story is telling about a girl, who is little depressed and rebellious against her family. The period between childhood and adulthood is usually make teenagers to feel themselves under pressure and make them want full freedom. Here we can see a teenage girl, who is trying to prove herself to her peers and her family. In some part this kind of acting is normal, they usually struggle both emotionally and physically. Imagine you are trying to be accepted by your surrounding, even you do not know yourself. Connie, the main character, feel and act as a normal teenage. However as a detail, we see that the author mentiones how Connie gets jealous of her sister. Some of you might think that this part has no importance for the story,however besides the story this detail might be the evidence of psychology of adoloscents. Being a teenager might make you feel somehow depressed and confused,even you might get jealous of your own sister. Besides this part we mainly decided that Connie was day dreaming at the end of the story,in which a man seduces her and forces her to go with him. If this was day dreaming, it might be linked to the fear of getting know her (Connie) sexual identity part.

2. The Graduate

Last week we watched a film called The Graduate, which tells a story about a adolcent boy and the struggles that he had the transition between childhood and adulthood. As we mentioned in class today, Ben , the main character has some issues with his family and future. However I want to mention some scenes, which I found it interesting while I was watching the movie. The first scene of the film starts with a party after the short conversation between Ben and his father. Ben's parents organized a party to celebrate Ben's gratuation, however the weird part is all the guests were Ben's parents friends. So it might be said that here we have contradiction. Otherwise if this is Ben's celebration than why Ben had to hang out with old aged people, that he could not share and talk anythink. In addition this also might be the evidence of the desire of the parents to show of. In this scene it can be easily said, that these parents wants to show their succes through their son rather than be proud with the Ben's own succes- the graduation-. Apart from this scene, we can see that Mr. Braddock forces his son to decide his future. In order to communicate softly, forcing and not listening unfortunatly may lead adolcents to wrong ways, as we can see in the movie, exemplified with an affair.

1. ENG 102

This semester we again write blog as an extra opportunity. As an overall impression, I must say that it seems we are going to do much more work according to last semester. The innovation of this semester is the novel, that we are going to read. The first lesson of this week was an interesting start with the topic. Including the definition of adolescence, whole teenage topic and the change they have between childhood and adulthood have much to discuss. I hope this semester is to be good and interesting with research paper and presentation.

14. Truman Show

Truman Show is a great movie to reflect the side and also positive effects of reality shows. In the movie it's effect is both told in a negative and positive way. The difference about the Truman Show is, Truman doesn't know that he is in a reality show and when he finds out, he definetly wants to go out. About the effects of reality shows, the movie criticises reality shows by showing also the reactions of the audience. We can easily see in this movie that for almost 30 or 40 years people around the world know Truman and share his feelings immediatly because the show is on 24/7. In contrast to general reality shows, we see Truman Show as a programm for stalking Truman because accept Truman everybody know their dialogues and their roles, however the main character is Truman. However we can see that eventhough the audience have fun by watching Truman, they want to let Truman free to go. After watching Truman Show I can definetly say that there isn't just one way to judge or criticise reality shows. In addition these shows have both negative and positive sides. You can't just judge all these kinds of shows in a one.