In this reflection, I’ll give some information about the film which I really love, enjoy, and also try to develop empathy while watching, ‘’HER’’. I love this film so much and strongly suggest you to watch if you don’t yet. This film tells the story of a man who has a relationship with an operating system which is designed with artificial intelligence to adopt and evolve. It was written, directed, and produced by Spike Jonze. It was proadcasted in 2013 in science fiction, romantic comedy, drama. It has many awards including Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay,Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, Writers' Guild of America for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards for Best Pictures, National Board of Review Awards for Best Film and Best Director. This film was also included in the list of the ten films of 2013 by National American Film Institute. In this film, director wants to show the feelings of a man at the edge of divorse, in the seek of someone to share his lonelines by discussing and questioning the meaning of love and life. I really like the way he reflect the feelings of the main character, Theodore. In the film, when he buys the operating system, Theodor chooses the voice of it as a female voice, and the all advanture begins. After for a while, they begin to be able to do everything together with the help of headphones and a little camera that enables the system to see and hear everything they do, everywhere they go. The operating system, Samantha (as named by herself) effects him so deeply with her intellegence and ability to understand the emotions and develop herself in an increadible speed in contrast to his expectations that Theodore falls in love with her in spite of his ever never being able to touch her. The director reflects the feeling of both Samantha and Theodore and the dilemmas they live about whether the love they have is real or not. perfectly. In the first scenes of the movie, the director tries to mention that with the fast developing technology, people begin to be more lonely, and he also emphasize during the film that people try to remove their loneliness even with lifeless things by virtual ways.
In this article, I’ll introduce you Alper Sunaçoğlu who is not well-known buthas an increadible career as a sportsman especially in swimming with his numerous medals and recors worldwide as well as in other sport fields. He has great accomplishments and represented our country successfully in many areas. Alper Sunaçoğlu was born in 1973, in İstanbul. He started swimming when he was 5 years old, and has broken a lot of records in many tracks in swimming. Besides swimming, he continues to do acrobatic parachute, paragliding, scuba,far east sports, and triathlon and modern pentathlon both profesionally and being licenced. He has many medals in swimming triathlon and military pentathlon; in addition, he has numerousaccomplishments in international platforms. To begin with on 4-5 September 2010, he swam from Anamur-Mersin to Girne-Kıbrıs in 26 hours 15 minutes, in other words, the whole Meditarrinean, non-stop without a cage which save sportsmen from any attack of sharks or any other dangers in the sea, and he broket he world record. Although the distance is normally 78 km, with the flow and deviations, it was about 95 km. The previous record holder fort he same distance wasnational swimmerErsin Aydın who swam it in 34 hours and 45 minutes with a cage. On 23 April 2011, he made another first accomplishment in the world history being the first person who swim the whole Bosporus. Bathing from the Sarıyer, he swam along a track about 30 km in 2 hours an 25 minutes accompanied with 2 referee, 3 trainers, and a lot of native and foreign press. This record attempt was broadcasted by a foreign channel in 36 different country. Apart from these, he had also some record attemts which had to be cancelled due to some financial or political reasons. In the future he plans to represent our country in FINA GRAND PRIX OPEN-WATER contests in 8 different contries and 8 different distances if efficent financial support is provided. That's why, with all these accomplishment, I strongly believe that he deserves to be much more famous.
My name is Fatma, I’m from Antalya, I was born in 20 July 1995, in Antalya. I’m a first degree student in Faculty of Language Education department at METU. This is my second year in METU. I was at preparatory school last year and it was a big chance for me to both to adopt to the campus life and to develop myself academically. I’ve graduated from Türkler I.M.K.B. Anatolia Teacher Training High School in Alanya. Our class was the least populated one throughout its history, we’re only seven! It was both a advantage and disadvantage for us. We had to participate in each lesson actively unlike the other classes, but in case of any unwillingness towards to any lesson, it was very easy to break it up, because it was also easy to constitute a majority. I stayed at dormitory during my high school time. We made a lot of increadible memories along these years both good and bad, but I think they all made me more experienced and conscient person in interpersonal relations. Besides these, I also want to talk about my hobbies, or rather than hobbies, the things I enjoy doing; because there is nothing regarded as hobby that I do continuously . I like swimming or any other activities relateted to sea, but it’s impossible in Ankara to do it. However, last year, I had a chance to have a similar experience, I went to Blue Lake with my friends and rode paddle boat. On the other hand, in the past, I was in marching band for 6 years both in primary school and high school. In addition, I was also in folklore group in primary school for 2 years.
A husband and wife in China are seeking
new homes for more than 50 cats and dogs, after spending their life savings
looking after the animals.
Hu Fengduan and his wife live alongside the pets in a flat
measuring just 20 sq m (215 sq ft), the China News Service reports. The animals are former strays which the couple took in from the streets of Chengdu, in the
southwestern province of Sichuan. It started 10 years ago with the rescue of a
cat who was stuck on a roof, Mr Hu is quoted
as saying on the NetEase web portal. Since then, more animals have joined the
household, and are now costing the couple 3,000 yuan ($485; £320) each month.
His wife, a former nurse, looks after the animals' health herself because
veterinary appointments are too expensive.
Mr Hu, a former gemstoneappraiser who currently works as a
street vendor, says their money has
run out, and the pets need new homes. "We've spent all of our savings to
raise them. I'm hoping more warm-hearted people can help us by adopting some of
the pets," he says. "We don't want any money but only ask people to
be good to the animals." In 2011, a former chef made the news for looking
after 140 stray dogs at his home near the Chinese city of Wuhan. He was
supported by people's donations, which helped to cover food costs.
CHALENGİNG WORDS
Stray: başıboş, kaybolmuş
Quote: fiyatlandırmak
Gemstone: kıymetli taş, cevher
Appraiser: muhammin, değer/paha biçen kimse
Vendor: satıcı
The news is kind of an
announcement which says that the Fengduon couple is looking for volunteer
people to take care the animals they gathered from the street without any fee,
since the cost of animals’ care is a bit too much compared to thier income. The
writer commanly uses simple present and present continuous tense to refer to
regular, repeated, habitual actions except the part where he uses past tense to
decribe the background in the story and in the part where tells situation that
is not directly connected to a definite past time but stil occuring in the present.
(More animals’ve joined…, their money has run out…, we’ve spent… )He wrote this
news in an objective tone. He doesn’t reflects his emotions about the
situation, or evaluate the Fengduon couple.
In this reflection, I’ll give some information
about the film I really love, enjoy and
also try to develop empathy while watching, ‘’HER’’. I love this film so much and strongly suggest
you to watch if you don’t yet. This film tells the story of a man who has a
relationship with a operating system which is designed with artificial
intelligence, to adopt and evolve. It was written, directed and produced by
Spike Jonze. It was proadcasted in 2013 in science fiction,
romantic comedy, drama. It has many awards including Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay,Golden
Globe Award for Best Screenplay, Writers' Guild of America for Best Original
Screenplay, Academy Awards for Best Pictures, National Board of Review Awards
for Best Film and Best Director. This film was also included in the list of the
ten films of 2013 by National American Film Institute. In this film, director
wants to show the feelings of man at the edge of divorse, in the seek of someone
to share his lonelines by discussing and questioning the meaning of love and
life. I really like the way he reflect the feelings of the main character,
Theodore. In the film, when he buys the operating system, theodor chooses the
voice of it as a female voice, and the all advanture begins. After for a while,
they begin to be able to do everything together with the help of headphones and
a little camera that enables the system to see and hear everything they do,
everywhere they go. The operating system, Samantha (as named by herself)
effects him so deeply with her intellegence and ability to understand the
emotions and develop herself in an increadible speed in contrast to his
expectations that Theodore falls in love with her in spite of his ever never
being able to touch her. The director reflects the feeling of both Samantha and
Theodore and the dilemmas they live about whether the love they have is real or not. perfectly. In the first scenes of the
movie, the director tries to mention that with the fast developing technology,
people begin to be more lonely, and he also emphasize during the film that
people try to remove their loneliness even with lifeless things by virtual ways.
In this reflection, I
want to share my ideas about the power the celebrities have to affect other
people to do something or not to. To begin with, it is an undeniable fact that
with the help of social media and improved communication technologies, it’s now
much more easier to reach wide mass, but the most important point is whether it
is used for a good purpose or for the
purpose of showing off or satisfying some well-known people’s egos. Therefore I want to discuss this topic
and try to give some clear explanations as much as I can. In my opinion, the
sharings or the acts of these well-known people should be given much more
attantion than any other person’s while being done so, because they are one of the most efffective examples in the society. The mass media and other
constitutions spreading these have also a big responsibility in making up
the agenda topic and informing the people. Only the power social media has is enough to start a great
movement as seen in the examples of selfie taken at the Oscars or in the ice
bucket challenge. After these, a great
number of people began to do so, and these movements got bigger and bigger day
by day. That’s why, not only the ones doing it, but also the tools spreading it
have the power, and by informing the public about nonsense or useless things,
they encourage society unwittingly to follow it. On the other hand,
some are also in the opinion that the public should be informed about
everything the celebrities do for the reason that they are famous. However, at
a point, the celebrities are in a position that directing the public, and
spreading every detail of their acts regardless of whether it’s proper or not,
may result in negative outcomes in the society or the people’s behaviors
following them. The essential point here is that, the responsibility belongs to
both celebrities and the media. For celebrities, it is important to set a good
example for the society to prevent any possible misbehaviors and be careful about what they are encouraging people to do. In addition to this, media also should be selective in broadcasting to the public.