blog 25 UNION SQ. FARMER MARKET

What a great market in our neighborhood! Having a farmers market in the middle of the biggest city on the earth was an interesting experience for me. Wonderful selection of local farms were selling great fruit, and vegetables. Even though they had limited selections of food over there, the ones there were all high quality and mostly organic.  You can always find freshest in season produce here.If you are a home cook or the person who likes to try local products, I can easily say that this is the right place for you.

It took me about 30 minutes to get there by R train. Unlucky, It was the hottest day of the year so far, so the weather gave me a hard time when I was walking around the market. From what I saw, I can easily say that people just did not care about the weather, and kept their shopping even though the weather was extremely hot. Other thing that I would like to say that strawberries from the picture were super delicious. I highly recommend those wild strawberries, they literally melt in your mouth when in season.

Walking through the market made me feel as if I live in the country. However, it makes me really happy when I see all those people sell their own product. Because, I know that those people worked very hard to bring their products, and sell them in the market. I felt real good about seeing the people who produce those products that I bought. Forget about the whole foods across the street. You can get everything you need from this gorgeous farmer market.

I definitely believe that Union sq farmer market is the smartest place to market in the city, especially for college students. The prices are cheap, fresh products, and you are helping small family farms, which is really the backbone of the agriculture industry. Therefore, I bought some french been, green onion, and tomato from this farmer market for my dinner which had reasonable prices and fresh..

Actually it is not a customary thing for me to buy some fresh food from the farmer market, and cook it at home but at the end, I found myself cooking a green been for my dinner at home. Himmmmmm( I am tasting my food now :) ) this is super delicious. It really make me feel like a master chef with these ingredient. I will definitely go back the farmer market next week to buy some more fresh, and healthy food for my dinner.

   

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  I believe that as other unit this unite was very helpful for me, I have written a lot of new essays about new topics such as about immigrants who work in America. However, every each essay gave me new ideas and improved my writing skill.

  I can definitely say that blog 15, 21, and 22 are my best works. Because I believe that those topics from blog 15, 21 and 22 are truth about the reality, and they are part of our life. Therefore it was not very difficult for me to find examples about those specific topics. For instance, as I person who live in New York it was very easy to write en essay about immigrants, because I can say New york is a city where has been invaded by immigrants. Thus, I was dominated to essay.

  I think that there are some little differences between my online writing and other writing experiences that I did before. I can say that online writing has negative and positive effects on me. Negative effect of online writing on me is for some reason computer's screen light makes my eyes tried very quick therefore takes my concentration away, and it becomes really hard to focus my essay. On the other hand, online writing makes my writing very easy because when I have mistake I can erase it easily or I can move my sentence from one line to other line with out using an eraser. However, I definitely believe that online writing improve my writing skills a lot. Because, as I mentioned above each time I write an essay I have learned how to spell vocabularies and how to use punctuation marks. Of course reading other students essays have gave me new ideas and I have compared my essay with other students essays.

  I have learned many new things in this unit. I found all topics very interesting and helpful for us. I will definitely feel good when I finish this class because now I can see a big difference between my first and last essay in this class. According to me all class was very memorable to me as a foreign student. I was learning new things on every step of class which are going to be very helpful for my next steps at the college.

  As a recommendation for students who are planing to take this class, I can easily say that they have to study hard and write a lot in order to fix their spelling and punctuation mistakes.

BLOG 23

GROUP 1

  Rudy Ramirez, the Mexican-American drone pilot, lives in The American Dream. Memo dreams os participating in The American Dream by getting nodes and living in the city. But the brutal killing of Memo's father reveals that America/The American dream is dystopia.

  A) Describe how Sleep Dealer Represents The American Dream as a dream that is really a dystopia. How does Memo imagine it at first? How does his brother see it? How does his father see it? How is it represented on TV? How does Memo see and experience it as a worker in the cybermaquilas? What is Rudy's role in The American Dream?

  B) The end of the film has Memo and Rudy come together to create a new dream. What is it? What clues from the film do you have to support your interpretation?

ANSWERS

  A) Memo was very interested in technology devices, but after he saw his house on the TV his mind has changed. Because, he realized that his father was in there, and the TV show was given like an entertaining action show on the TV. He kept working in this factory to support his family. His brother liked the American dream and it has seemed to him very funny. Rudy was a soldier in the film and he was killing people in the movie.

  B) At the end of the movie, Memo realized that Luz was collecting some information about him for somebody, and it was Rudy. Because, Rudy was a soldier who killed Memo's farther in the movie, and he was very sorry about it. Therefore, he wanted to find Memo to apologized for killing his father.

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   In this essay, I will show you how big companies waste world's resources to make their product, how those specific companies effect people on negative way who live in country, and why those people are null for those big companies.

  As Annie Leonard said in her video, today in America big companies have more money than governments have. Therefore, I believe that they have more voice, power in America, and they might use government's power such as Army to steal other countries resources, and sometimes these stealing might cause big wars between countries. They need other countries resources such as oil and some other materials such as plastic to keep producing their products, because we have already lost big percentage of rich sources in America because of those companies.

  On the other hand, being consumer is very important for them. Thus, we watch 3000 different advertising everyday on TV, and of course people who live in big cities are very valuable for those companies, because they are the biggest consumers for them. People who live in country have very simple life which means they are not good consumer according to those companies,and they don’t need a lot of product for their life as much as people need who live in big cities such as bottle water or fast food.

  Another important point that I can mention is those big companies are very harmful for the environment by changing order of nature and people. %40 percentage of world's water has been already polluted by those specific companies wastes. However, we can find a lot of harmful chemical such as sodium nitrite or olestra in their products. Best example for this point is being given in the video by Annie Leonard by saying that, breast milk has been polluted by food which has been product by those companies.

  In conclusion, I can say if we do not prevent those pollution this system will continue forever, and I afraid that finally we are going to lose all source of world and it is going to effect our health very badly.

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  In “The New Industrial Migrants part 1” writer explains that in the 1980’s a lot of people came to America from central America and Southeast Asia . They were offered little money by slaughterhouses’ owners and lived in old trailers. Today those immigrants earn $9.25 for an hour and offered insurance after six months on the job, and vacation pay, after a year, and most of the workers do not speak English.

  In"the New Industrial Migrants part 2 " writer says that those specific companies realized that immigrants can work lower wages than American citizens. Therefore, they hired those  people and let them lived in shelters. However, writer says that some Mexican radio stations offering jobs for people who live in Mexico to work in America. In addition most of the workers are illegal workers who work in America. However, recent immigrants became new hunt for drug traffickers therefore, they might cause more crime in America. On the other hand, writer says that before those immigrants come to America, they were promised that they are going to live in apartment, but when they got here they were forced to live in homeless shelters. Therefore homeless people were angry with GFI and this news took place on TV.






   As a person who lives in New york I strongly believe that America is the only country in the world,  where has the largest population of migrant workers live. Most of the them come to America to make money or have better life, but unfortunately a lot of them live or work in bad condition places. On the other hand, I feel that this system do not effect American people on positive way. Because recently it has been really tough to find a job for Americans in America.

   
    New York is a place , where we can find a lot of people who came here to work from other countries. Mostly those immigrants are from south America or Asian countries such as China or Mexico. I strongly believe that they think that they can make more money than they do make in their countries. Thus, they usually take big risks to make more money, such as  leaving their families in their own countries. For example, if we pay attention we can realize that most of the restaurant employers are immigrant and work as delivery boys or waiters .

     As we all know those immigrants work and live in bad conditions. Many of them live in slum in bad condition apartments and most of them share their room with 5 or 6 people. However, they usually work in some places, which do not supply health insurance and pay very little money for an hour for their immigrant workers such as restaurant kitchen business . Writer gives a good example in his article by saying that they live in old motels, sleeping on mattresses that cover the floor.

    On the other hand, I strongly believe that unemployment is getting big problem for American citizens. Because, many American companies such as meatpacking company from the article realize that immigrants could work for lower wages with out health insurance and vacation. Therefore they prefer to recruit immigrants rather than American citizens. Maybe it doesn't seem a big problem right now but in a few year if the government doesn't take precaution for this point I believe that it might be a big problem for American citizens.


    As a result, we have a lot of immigrants from other countries and they live and wok in bad condition situation. As I mentioned above unemployment is not a big problem right know for American citizens but people are aware that their jobs are being stolen by immigrants who work for lower wages .

BLOG 20 REFLECTION ON FOOD UNIT

   I really enjoyed food unite. I have learned many helpful information from this unit. I can say Meatrix was the most enjoyable part of the unit. Especially Super Size Me was very enlightened.

    There are a lot of similarities between previous topics Truman Show, Allegory of The Cave, Matrix and food unite. Both Media unit, and food unit about learning unknown of the world. For example, in Matrix, Leo try to find truth by getting red pill, and being together with some other people who show him to the real world. Its is same in Meatrix too. Leo, in Meatrix is getting red pill as well, and try to find reality by visiting modern world factories. However, there is an escape to the reality in Truman show and Allegory of the Cave. In food unit, writer try to show us that what we eat is fake; it is not real, and he says that we have to find the truth, and we have to eat heather.

    I strongly believe that they used Matrix in Meatrix because, it is very simple way to show what is the different between family farms, and modern farms for people. As Leo did in Matrix, Leo in Meatrix runs away from family farm, and see modern farms in real world. Because, maker of Meatrix wants us to see the reality of modern farms. What they produce there in modern farms is not healthy, and all products have chemical in. They claim that it is better to visit farmer markets and buy organic foods.

    I can say Cat 3 was much better than other Cat 1 and Cat 2 for me. Because, I felt much ready by the time I got Cat 3. Especially, food unit was very interesting for me. I have learned many new things, and most of the them were casual subjects. Therefore. It made me focus better on my essay .

    As a result, I have learned many new subjects in this part, and I improve my writing by learning new things. However, similarities between unit was helpful as well. It was more easy for me to find an example while I write an essay.  

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1) What items in Pollan's advice make sense to you.

                    First paragraph of his article makes really sense for me because whenever I used to have breakfast with my grand mom we would have organic food on the table and taste much more better.


2) Which could you implement right away?

                    Eating less meat and more green. However cooking at home and eating slowly.

3) Which seems hard to do or farfetched?


                    Planting a garden is impossible for me. Because my apartment doesn't have a garden.


4) Which you wish you could do, but your present life style doesn't make possible.

                    I wish i could plant a garden. Because I really want to eat fresh healthy food from a garden. But unfortunately my present life style doesn't let me do this. Definitely, in the future I will plant my own garden and get my own fresh food. 

blog: 17 The End of Overeating

    In "The End of Overeating" David A. Kessler states that mostly fast food companies come into question with their new products almost every six month, and they make people eat their products. However, he claims that some products such as Cinnabons and Starbucks Strawberries & crème Frappuccinos contain a lot of fat, sugar, and salt, and those elements make people addicted. Thus result of research on rats support Kessler's idea, and proves that how animals become addicted when they eat those food which contain fat, and sweet elements. In addition, Kessler advises one of his readers to not the watch TV programs that are about dieting.


   As a person I believe that fast food industry is one of the biggest industries in the world. They mostly come into question with their new products which are very popular among people. In this essay, I am going to explain the reason why fast food products are unhealthy, what kind of effects do they have on people, and why TV programs are not useful for people which contain dieting topics.

   New York is the one of the biggest cities in the World that is where you can find many different fast food companies almost on every corner. In New York, usually people work hard, and they only have an hour for their lunch. Therefore, people go to the fast food restaurants,where they can get their tasty food in 5 minute. Because of that, most of the time fast food restaurants come at the top of their list. Maybe we don't realize but those kind of food contains harmful element such as salt, sugar, and fat. If we consume a lot from those kind of food, it is going to affect our health on negative way. Those elements might cause very significant diseases such as diabetes, and blood diseases.

   On the other hand, those kind of foods make people addicted which contain harmful element such as sugar and salt. But still they use those elements in their product nevertheless they know how those elements are dangerous for people. However, I recently realized that those fast food restaurants have special menus for kids called junior menu which is extremely dangerous for our kids. I can't imagine what kind of disease they are going to host in their body or how they are going to addicted to those foods in the future. As we read in the reading passage, Kessler supports his idea by giving example a result of research on rats which proves that animal's brain react to these kind of harmful elements might be a good example for this topic.

    One another important think that I would like to mention is TV programs about dieting. I strongly believe that those programs have bad ways as much as they have good ways. I am definitely against those kind of programs. The reason why I am against is because, I feel that those kind of programs are being made by some companies to sell or advertise their products for people who have obesity problem. Any time I watch these kind of programs they offer different product but produce under the same company name.

    As a result, eating fast food is definitely unhealthy. My advise for people is that we have to eat healthier food instead of eating fast food even if we have limited time. Otherwise, we might be slave of fast food companies, if we keep eating their unhealthy foods everyday.

   

Blog 16: Revision of CAT #2

  In "Imitation of Film: Here's Smoking at You,Kid",  author Nicholas Balakar states affect of movies on our kids. November issue of Pediatric report shows us that kids at 10 to 14 have more risk to take up smoking, if they keep watching actors smoke in the movie. However, Dr James D. Sargent who is a professor of pediatric at Dartmouth Medical school, claim that R-rated movies are much more dangerous than other movies, . 6522 kids were asked about their movie viewing habits in this interview, and according to researchers result of interview is not cheering..

   As a person who likes to watch movie, I believe that those R-rated movies have negative effects on our kids. I strongly support the idea of the article which claim that characters from the movies, make our kids take up smoking at their young ages. I thing that movie makers have to take our kids into account while they make their movies. However, as a parent we have to control our kids, and we should not let them watch those kind of movies which contain harmful scenes.Moreover, we have to take  these associations serious which make a research about our kids.

   I am a person who likes to watch movies a lot, and of course as everybody I have some favorite movie stars such as Robert De Niro. Most of the time I prefer to watch his movies. Because the way he talks and acts make me watch his movies all the time. From time to time, I imitated him when I was a little boy, and I can say he is the one, who caused me take up smoking. Hence, my recommendation for the movie makers is that they have to make useful movies for our kids such as which contain  hazards of smoking.

   However, parents must pay attention what their kids are watching and imitating. I believe that it is very important for kids to watch movies under their parents control. As an adult we all know what kind of movies are helpful for our kids, and we have to realize that their personalties is not ready for those kind of movies, which contain harmful scenes. Thus, parents have to determine what kind of movies they should watch. Unfortunately, one of my little cousins  imitate some characters from one of his favorite programs called Sokak cocuklari (street boys) and he uses his pencil as a cigarette and walks around.

   On the other hand, I am aware  that associations which make some researches about our kids are very important for parents. Especially, parents who live in big cities, are very busy with their business. Thus, they do not pay attention enough for their kids, and that is why kids might make a harmful habits. Those kind of associations make parents realize that  what is helpful or harmful for their kids. I strongly believe that we have to support those kind of associations. Because, as we see in the reading passage on of these researches was made by one of these association and show us the result of research with numbers.

  In conclusion, we should give attention to our kids and support associations which make a research about our kids to help us while we raise a child. However movie makers might be more respectful to our kids, while they make their  new movies.

BLOG 15 PART 2 : FAMILY FARMS

   As a person who has been living  in a big city, I definitely agree with  the idea of  supporting family farms. I believe that family farms are very importand for our life. Because, i feel that it is the only one way that we can get our fresh and healty foods. However, according to farm aids, small family farms keep our enviroment much more clean than big companies do.But unfortunately, big companies force small family farms go out of the business which might make a lot harder to find fresh food for people.

  First of all, I strongly believe that family farms are only one way to get the fresh, healthy, and high quality food. Because, they produce their milk, meat or eggs in a natural way which mean they never use chemical in their product. However, they let their animals graze in natural environment, and they never let them eat artificial food. Thus, they can get healthy product from their animals.For example, if we visit a family farm, we will see that how these animals live in welfare and in a good condition.

  Second of all, family farms keep their community clean and also guarantee the preservation of green space with in the community. Because they do not have a lot of animals in their farms as much as big factories have. Therefore, they have less animal excrement, and it is easy to clean it. On the other hand, they do not have chemical wastes, because they never use chemicals in their product. Thus, they keep their water and land clean around their farms. If we visit a modern farm, we can easily see how the water is dirty because of  their chemical and animal excrement wastes.

   However, recently  modern factories are getting bigger and bigger everyday, and try to keep those small family farms out of the business. According to farm aids, every week 330 farmers leave their land, and very few young people become farmer today. Unfortunately, it is going to be very hard to find fresh, and healthy food for us in the future. I strongly believe that we need family farms product for our health. Because, definitely those chemicals are going to effect our health in negative way. For example, if we buy a box of milk we can read what kind of  harmful chemical does it contain in it.

   As a result, we all have to realize that how family farms are important for our life. However they are important for our environment as well. They keep our community clean and provide us high quality, and healthy food. Thus, we have to support family farm business by not buying modern farms product.

blog 15 part 1: MEATRIX

      One day Moopleus shows up there and asks Leo, if he wants to see what the real world look like. Moopleus offers him a red pill to see the real world. After Leo takes the red pill, they go to the real world, and see bunch of animals live together with no sunlight, and fresh air. This is a modern factory where most of egg, meat, and milk come from. Moreover, Moopleus tells Leo how family farms have been destroyed and how modern factories have become common. Moopleus tells Leo that, modern farms are not good for our health. Because, overuse antibiotic breed causing germs, and it makes us get closer to an epidemic if we keep eating those foods.
     In the second video, Moopleus says that, people have realized that foods come from Meatrix is unhealty.Therefore, they have started to buy healtihear food. After that, Leo, moopleus, and chickity went back to Meatrix. As soon as they got there, Leo things that, the first picture he saw in the Meatric is real. But then moopleus makes him realize that it is not the real World, and he says that it is the picture, mostly dairy farms used. Modern days dairy factories do not look like a family farm. Those kind of factories have unhealty condition.. Therefore it makes animals sick, because those animals spend their whole life in this factories with out moving around. However they inject unnaturel growth hormon to the poor animals which is forbidden to use in European Union, and Canada. At the end of the video, they have got Moopleus away people who wears black suits.
    At the begining of the video, we see tens of cows are walking through the factory, and getting out as a meat from the other door of the factory. One of those guys, who wear black, says that these kind of factories mostly work for fast food companies, and  also they can process five thousand cows every single day which is very fast. Therefore, people, who work in these factories can not work that fast, and sometimes they may get injured such as cutting their hands by knife.However when the meat line goes fast that manure's getting everywhere and leaking onto the meat which is unhealty. At the end of the video Leo and chickity rescue their friend Moopleus and they run away.

 

Blog 14: Reflection on Media Unit

   As a foreign student in this class, I found Media Unite difficult but very enjoyable. We have done many beneficial practice in this section. We have watched Matrix and Truman show, and read about Allegory of the cave which was very interesting topic for me. We have had two practice test which was not very easy. Moreover  we have improved our writing skills and learned how to respond better with strong evidence .

  First of all, I would like to say movies that we have watched in this section was very useful for us. I strongly believe, discussions about those movies after we watched them, made us think deeper and helped improve my summarizing. Thus these discussions effect me in positive way, and I wrote much better than I did. However Allegory of the Cave was very interesting topic for me. At first it didn't make sense anything for me, but after we started to talk about it, it became very interesting . Maybe I can say similarity of main idea of movies, and reading passage might effect on me in positive way.

   Second of all, we kept studying on analyzing, claim, respond, evidence, and of course summarizing.I believe that, keep studying on those things improved my writing skill a lot.Even though I still have some spelling or grammer mistakes while I write, I feel that I can do better now. I thing finding example and evidence is most difficult part for me while I write an essay.

    However we had two practice test which was not very easy. First practice test result showed me how I was good on writing an essay. On the other hand I have learned how I have to use time while I write an essay. I don't think that i did very good on the second practice test, because that day I still had some problem with time. But if we had another practice test I strongly believe that I could do better.

     As a result, I totally believe that, Media unite have improved my writing skill a lot. Honestly, this class has been helpful a lot for me. I remember my first essay that i wrote when i started this class, and now I can see how I can write better than I did.

Blog 13: Revision of CAT 1

  In "The Danger of Reality TV " Timothy Sexton shows that how reality TV shows effect young people. He starts his passage with saying, some dangerous message are sending out such us importance of competition or obsolescence of education by these kind of reality TV shows. On the second paragraph, he gives us some example about TV shows, which shows idea the life is nothing but competition is important. However writer says that people who has qualified are usually lose in these competition. Because hipper image is more important for them. He supports this sentences by giving  an example from American Idol. Moreover he points out that most dangerous message of these TV shows is education is unnecessary for young people. They claim that joining those king of TV shows and making some money easily is much better than going to the school and facing difficult of learning something.

    As a person who doesn't like to watch those kind of TV shows, I totally agree with the idea of "The Danger of Reality  TV". I strongly believe, watching those kind of TV shows effects people's life badly such as, makes young people feel not going to the school, try to keep people watching those TV shows and keep them uneducated, and outside appearance of person is more important than his ability.

   First of all i believe that reality TV shows effect young people in a negative way. Recently i pay attention that those kind of TV shows is getting more popular among young people, and most of the contenders are twenty years contestants who joints those TV shows. According to me those kind of TV shows make young people feel not going to the school, because producer of these TV shows make young people think that money is more important for their life. Thus most of them prefer to join those TV shows rather than doing their education. For example if we watch American Idol we can see most of contenders are young people.

  Second of all I strongly believe that one of  the biggest purpose of producers is make people keep watching those TV shows everyday, and keep them uneducated. Because these TV shows doesn't teach us anything or give us any useful information about something. I think, they make those TV shows popular among people on purpose. Because instead of making those kind of TV shows, if they make some other programs which enlighten people,it is not going to good for them. Otherwise, people could see what is true and beneficial for their life, and they may stop watching those kind of TV shows. Because eventually they will be enlightened people.

   However, those TV shows require outside appearance of people  is more important than their ability. According to them, being less attractive doesn't take people's attention, and they claim that mostly people pay attention their outside appearance such us, being beautiful, and sexy for girls or being handsome or in a good shape for boys. Therefore ability comes later. Maybe that is why we don't have and ugly female and male singer in America.

   In conclusion, watching reality TV shows everyday doesn't benefit people. I believe those TV shows take people away from the real life and make them  their slave by watching their products. I recommend people watching other programs which are good for their life and show them real things.

Blog 11: Responding to a significant topic in The Truman Show.

Topic 1: The perfect world versus the real world (Google Groups question 1)






   As a person, who has been living in a big city, I strongly support the idea of living in Truman World.
There is big difference between Cristoff’s World and our World. In his World he makes life so much easier for Truman by making his place safer and everyone live happily in their nice houses. Definitely it is not similar to our World. The reason why it is not similar to our World is that we have so many problems unlike Cristoff's world and nothing is as perfect as it is at his world.  
    The first reason i would like to live in Truman's world is, there is so much better life in Truman's city. It is a nice city without any crime. There is no crime because this city created for Truman, therefore the city is surrounded by huge security system and also thousand  of cameras are following him all day long. Cristoff solves crime problem there by doing those things.

   My second reason is that there is no air pollution at all. I have always wanted to live in a place where there is no air pollution. I strongly believe that fresh air makes people live longer. The people who live in Truman's world don't have this problem because this is the city that was built far from the center and where we can find big nice houses in huge gardens. 
    The last reason is the way people act toward Truman. Everyone in the city is nice to him. Nobody break his hard and everybody smile his face. It may be another factor which makes his life like a real life. Beside everything is fake I don't see any problem to live in Truman World. Maybe that is why he has a wonderful life until he figured out that there is something wrong in his life.
   In conclusion, Truman lived a happy life with his wife and people in this World. I think it is the only  place that where people are happy with no air pollution and crime.    

Blog 10: Reflection on Skills.

    I definitely can say this class was very helpful for me. First I learned how to annotate a reading.Next step was how to summarize a CAT. Now I know that first I have to find main idea of reading and other important ideas such as key world and essential data. However now I know that I have to use title of the reading and authors name while I start my successful summary. And also I have learned how to write a thesis statement which includes claims, main idea, and reasons.Today I believe that I have improved a lot my writing skill  since I started this class.But still I think  I have problem with spelling.I know its not easy to learn it right away and also I know I have to practice  and read a lot  . I have been learning English for 2 years  but still I think I have a lot of problem with vocabulary. Every single day I learn new vocabulary but still I feel it is not enough.On the other hand I strongly believe that my English  will be much better than now by the end of this semester. I guess there is no any unclear material  for me from this class. Now i feel more confident because as i wrote above i have improved my writing skill a lot. I am sure next step will be much more helpful for me and I am going to write much better than now.
  

Blog 9: Reflecting on Paragraphing.

 I have learned how paragraphing is important for an essay.However i have learned that i have to start an paragraph with main idea which supports my claims. Than i have to explain my sentence with definition and examples.And also i have seen how transitions are important while i write an essay.

BLOG 8 "I Know the Truth, so Don't Bother Me with Facts"

   I definitely agree with author Jeffrey Kluger. I strongly believe it is really easy to deceive or at least change people's opinion. Today there are a few main way to change people's mind such as TV and radio broadcast. By this broadcast it is easy the change a mass of people at the same time.
  I think TV and Radio broadcast might be very dangerous if we don't use them right. Especially for politicians TV and radio is the most important device to reach people. Back in day we all saw how politician change people's opinion and made them agree with their opinions by using TV and radio. But this is not true. Because mostly people use those device to get to true news. I  have recently seen even news has big lies on the TV. It was tree days ago and  I was watching news on a Turkish channel. In the news it was saying an American war plane was hit by soldiers in Libya. But same news was different in American channels. It says an American war plane crashed because of a technical problem. I really don't know which one is true and which one that i have to believe. There is a only one true but two different news.
   However sometimes it might be hard to change people's opinion because of  information pollution. Because something or somebody made them believe in that. For example religions. There are four big religion and some other small religions in the world and people believe in these religions. Maybe they all go same target from different way but it is really hard to explain to people. Because they all believe that their own religion is right.First religion showed up in the world about three thousand years ago and since that they people used to lived in peace only two hundred forty five years.
   On the other hand it is easy to control people if they are uneducated or narrow minded. But if we educate people i believe that people can live in peace because they all are going to know the truth. So if we can find real truth and if the truth is one people may start to live in peace evidently they are going to learn same truth and live together such as ancient Greeks.
  As a result people might change their opinion if they find the truth and can live all together in peace.Even if we  they stubbornly support their opinion they have to respect each other. I believe this respect hold people together.

Blog 8: "I Know the Truth, So Don't Bother Me with Facts" SUMMARY

      In the article " I Know the Truth, So Don'y Bother Me with Facts" the author Jeffrey Kluger tell us that how easy to deceive people by rumors. And sometimes people have misunderstood by their emotion about some specific topics.From Ohio State Univercity Kelly Garrett and Eric Nispet recruited 750 people who reported being familiar with and believe at least one of the rumors about proposed Islamic cultural center.They found out how easily people could convinced with insinuating pictures or inflammatory quotes However they are  surprised  during their research because he says that people .believe in what they now and support their own opinions.IN the last paragraph he ends his passage by telling we may not always agree on what those facts mean, but at a minimum w need to agree that they mean more than fantasy.

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  Today i learned what is the different between claim and thesis statement. Claim is a short argument but thesis statement includes main idea, claims and reasons. Information which was given my professor  about the topic was helpful form me while I learned. It was much more clear for me after i learned context of claim and thesis statement. I feel that every day I improve my writing skill little by little in this class.

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    Santa Claus: We do not  have Christmas in Turkey but we celebrate new year. But still kids in Turkey believe that  Santa Claus brings them some toys at new year's eve. I believed same thing when I was a kid.And I used to find some toys in front of my room's door on next morning. But it was not take too long .As I start to grow up I realize that is a fake hero for kids.
    Black cat: I always was told that I have run away if I see a black cat at night. Because it brings us bad luck. But now of course I believe it is not true either.
    Evel eye bead: We believe that the evel eye bead can protect us from jealousity of people. I don not believe it any more but my mom still believes in evel eye bead.

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    In Plato's " The Allegor of the Cave " Socrates tells a story to his student Glaucon to explain to him that is not easy to change our life with the other life If we have been living there for a long time.In the first paragraph Socrates tells Glaucon about prisoners whose legs and necks chained and live in a den for a long time. And they are not able to move or look around. Here Socrates states people are not able to see other things around. They have certain life that they can live. However Scrotes says that there is a fire behind them and some shadows on the wall in front of them that are reflected by fire. Here I believe that Scrotes try to show us religions and what people believe in. Because prisoners can not see them. They only imagine and give names for those things.
   Afterward Socrates tells imagine if a prisoner is free and he try to learn the truth about shadows on the wall. He sees sun and other life out of the cave but at last he goes back to den. Here, Scrotes try to explain us that its not easy to change our life or our belief right away. Because people have been living in this system for a long time. They have their own belief and life. Even if they try to change It, It is going to take time or we are going to go back our den where we are belong.

Blog 3: Reflecting on Summary

     First I would like to say how summarizing is important for us to show what we have learned from the article. Trying to find the main idea of a reading with some other ideas and data is important as well. We have to put these ideas in sequence but we can't add our own opinions while summarizing. It was not very difficult for me to learn how to summarize an article because it was simple so from now on I strongly believe that I can summarize an article very easily.

Blog 4: Revision of "Hype."

    Unfortunately advertisement takes huge place in our life.  However we can see how serious it is with the numbers in the passage. Of course advertising has good and bad effects on people .Especially it is very easy to see the bad or good effects of advertising on people in New York.

    There are millions of companies in  New York and maybe every hour or every minute we can see their competition on the TV, radio or on the internet. I definitely believe those competitions have good effects on  people. Because sometimes such competition brings us good discounts with the advertisement and makes people aware of new products available in markets. However it may be the best way to learn how to buy or find  the item that you want to purchase. For example two months ago I wanted to buy a computer from a store but it was too expensive for me. Afterward the same computer that I wanted to buy was on sale and this time there was $200 discount for the computer. It was a TV commercial.  
    On the other hand advertising can cause people damage as well as have a great benefits. Especially some of those advertising has endless damage on kids. And most of them are internet commercials. I strongly believe that those kind of advertisings distract the attention of kids and make them lazy. For instance i have recently read an article in a newspaper which was about damage of advertising on kids. It says kids in America are spending more time watching TV each year than they are spending in school.Because usually kids spent their time on the internet even though they have to do their homework.  
     However advertising plays very important role in society. Kids overlook positive side of commercial and usually concentrate on negative side. That is why kids tent to eat more fast food and start smoking or drinking alcohol at their young ages. In my opinion we have to take some measures to prevent damage of advertising on kids.For example already in Europe, there are some rules were regulated by governments  for those kind of advertising which have bad effect on kids. In addition families play a major roles in this situation. They have to enlighten their kids about the positive and negative of advertisings. But sometimes advertising can also targets entire family rather than just kids. In this case even parent takes their place in this loop and can not hep their kids.
    As a result, obviously we can see some bad and good effect of advertising on people in my body paragraph. Eventually damage of advertising might be more serious on people. It is very easy to prevent bad effect of advertising by law. It is going to be more  useful if we use those commercials on good way for people.

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   In "I know the Truth, So Don't Bother Me with Facts" the author, Jeffrey Kluger indicates how people believe
in rumors. 750 people who were knowledgeable about rumors of proposed Islamic Cultural Center were recruited by R. Kelly Garrett and Eric Nisbet. They were surprised how easy it is to change people beliefs.
Even though people try to learn the truth, its usually does no good, explains Jeffery Kluger. He ends his piece by saying: "We may not always agree on what those facts mean, but at a minimum we need to agree that they mean more than fantasy".
                                 BARIS

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      I definitely agree with author. As a resident of New York city, I am aware that ads take a very big place in our life just like it is defined in this passage. I strongly belive that there are so many problems we have to face when it comes to ads, such as how ads distract us while we study, drive or watch Tv but the worst thing is ads make people spent their money recklessly.
     First of all, I would like to talk about what kind of harms does ad cause on people.Especially when it comes to students. As we know, most of the students choose to study on their computers since internet lets them find anything they want online. On the other hand, ad. Companies are aware that internet is one of the most useful fields for advertising which lets us watch thousands of ads without even clicking on them. I can easily say that online ads distracts students more than we think.
     Secondly, those ads makes people spent their money even though they don't need to buy that item. I can say this is the general problem for ever body. Big competition between companies make people confused. From time to time those companies display their discounts via internet ads, tv or radio commercials, and those kind of discount ads make people buy those items very easily. Its a big problem for me as well. Because whenever i see a discount ad it makes me want to buy it. Even though i don't need that item.
      In conclusion all we have to do is try to see benefit of ad and keep clear of damage of ad on people.

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After i switched my papers with my partner i realised that we may pay attention different part of topic and that's why we may take different not from each other.