ENGLISH 101

I read the Mine Gencel Bek’s conclusion about channels and in some ways, I disagreee with her.  Her instructions about TRT is particially wrong. Because,  TRT’s programmes have started to change for 2 years. Due to the fact that; political power affected TRT and now we can see more magazine which can be used as occupying people’s mind with magazine so they couldn’t think about the current conditons of Turkey and make them happy. On the other hand,  I fairly agree that NTV and CNNTurk are good TV channels and also SKYTurk can also be added to these channels. Both of these, TV channels don’t tabloiditize the news because their founding aim is to serve people only news and make people informed about them. Otherwise, The conditions of BBC in Europe is democratic, I think the same. And being democratic in TV’s stems from countries’ current position in economics, politics and social organizations. So, in European countries like England, media is much more freer than Turkey. What’s more? They also don’t need to do tabloidization cause there is no need to attract people in this country,  most of the people automatically wants to learn news. To sum, her research impressed me like her concrete examples about TV news.

In today’s world, media commands our dailiy lifes in terms of teaching us to how to respect our enviroment. What am i saying is that, media tells us which party to vote, which film to watch, which is good or which is bad etc . In some countries like Northern Europe countries, the affect of media to people’s daily lifes is not too much if we compare them with Turkey. Because media bosses control the media in Turkey. The same situation can be in the Northern European countries too. However, their daily life doesn’t contain much more struggle than us so people do not see the affects of media in their daily lifes. In America for instance, there are such newspapers which presents different views at the same time. In my opinion, the same situation is shared by Turkey, both of the media in these countries is hold by rich and powerful man. On the other hand, in Germany ,most people read the newspaper called The Bild and they see and share their opinions with their friends. When they realize that some of the news are insubstantial, they keep on buying this newspaper again and again. I really can not understand this situation!!

Since the last years of 1980’s, media in Turkey has become a significant part in people daily lifes with the appearing new private television channels. Because these channels provide people new entertainment programmes as a result they easily gained these people’s attraction to their tv’s. On the other hand, newspaper propaganda always had happened but tv is much more stronger and much more cruel than other media outlets. In my opinion, every owner has the influence on their media agency. For instance; there was an argument between one of the media boss and Turkish Prime Minister. As a result, they all used their media power. Disstresfully, they made their propaganda even in their TV’s news program!. In newspaper’s, same thing has happened too. They can affect their TV channels so why not they did not affect their newspaper Owing to the fact that; I shocked when I saw media boss’ words with big puntos as a headline in one of honourable accepted by society newspapers. On the other hand, media bosses can affect the position of columnists. Whenever columnists do not write media boss’ opinions, boses could fire them. The example of Emin Çölaşan’s rush from Hürriyet completely fits this situation. He was fired because of his spectations about the media boss.

I was very impressed about the film called The Godfather when I first watched it. In this film there is a huge family named Corleone Family. All of the family members live together in a big house and the family leader Don Corleone holds the power of the whole family.As so, He is respected by other family members, naturally, except his mother, he has a different relatioship with his mother and he kiss his mother’s hand if necessary. The idea of marriage is conceptualized well in the film. Moreover, Don’s son Michael comed with her girlfriend to his house and his father behaved comprehensive to the idea of marriage. The family is the significant part of this film because the main topic of film so called ‘mafia’ is based on family roots. Furthermore, problems in family was solved by Don Corleone because he was the big man and he had an influence on everybody. Problems about Michael and his wife affected whole family because each member has a close relationship with another member of family. Moreover, there is a divorce between Michael Corleone and his wife Connie. The most affected one from this divorce are Connie and children. Michael were not affected too much because he had serious mafia works in Sicilia and also he got married in there and no one knowed this marriage since the appreance of the news about Michael’s died old wife.

The whole story is about a relatioship between a father and his daughter. When he saw his daughter’s sayings in the newspaper he was shocked but in fact he have not been talk with his daughter since many years. So at the end of story when he got an idea that she is lesbain he went away and did not look at her again. On the other hand, he had some problems that he could not solve by himself.

Stealing is a kind of business which stems from people’s distinct behaviours such as downloading music from the internet without paying any money. There are several reasons that why people do not justice to the composers of the songs. So, having a song without paying not only leads to enourmous increases in the stealing levels but also limits artists’ desire about making new songs and writing new lyrics.
Downloading a song from an unknown source does not gain advantage from the real owners and it is against the law. Such that, According to Moore(2003, Is Music Piracy Stealing ) under copyright legislation, downloading music without paying is called theft and most of the people do not care about this situation. Whereas, Most of them continues downloading music for free , again, As Moore(2003, Is Music Piracy Stealing) acknowledges that; 65 percentage of the investigated students disregard about if the music files are shared by their owners and whether owners earn money from these files. Furthermore, such problems appear in the ratio of theft levels especially in student’s theft levels. It is known by societies that downloading for free can not be limited so governments start to take new laws against music stealing. For example, in Turkey, people need to oblige to the rules , in case that if they do not oblige, they may be punished badly.
Some actions which are done without paying any money can restirct artists’ desire. Due to the fact that, they produce less qualified works and as a result of this, they are limited by music piracy . Thus, a highly ratio of singers and composers are against music piracy and they take a part in the campaings against piracy.
To sum up, Music piracy can increase the numbers of stealing occurences and can limit writing kind of new songs. To stand aginst piracy, governments and individuals might be careful and can take some precautions about it such as buying licenced products and not downloading music for free. If we keep on our stable position against piracy , downloading music from internet for free will be become less in the future.
REFERENCES
Charles W. Moore,2003,Is Music Piracy Stealing

In this story the main chracter is Connie. Connie is a beautiful girl  but she is quite sel-satisfied. Connie doesn’t have a close relationship with her mother but infact they sometimes spend time together. At the very beginning of the story, I was thinking that the story will be the same-mother daughter and daughter’s life story. But after Connie kidnapped by two men, I have become more intersted in story so it forced me to read all of the story.

The story is about a lady called Emily Grerson. Parts of the story are not sequental but all of the parts mention Emily’s love and its different relation between Homer’s death and her father’s death. Emily had fell in love with a man called Homer and she kept his death body in her house, whereas she is quite stubborn in a way that not showing Homer’s death body to no one else and among many years she stays with his death body.

1. What type of narrator is telling the story? When is the story based?
2. What type of story is it?
3. What sort of a portrait does the narrator create of his daughter?
4. How did the father feel after he received a phone call from his friend Norm informing him that his daughter had written an article about him in Self magazine that he had no idea was published by her?
5. How did the daughter mention about his father in the article?
6. Why does this conflict exist between the daughter and her father?
7. Do you thing that is easy for a parent to watch the changes in their child’s appereance and behaviour ? Explain.
8. Is that conflict between the father and daughter or only inside himself?