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Tiny Smiling Daddy

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.

Is Music Piracy Stealing? (Wrong Topic)

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

Where are you going? Where have you been?

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 Rose For Emily

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.

Tiny Smiling Daddy

  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?