Is It Useful?

People use internet in every part of their life. They do their works through it. They can search for anything, but sometimes they can't reach the information. The reason of this situation is that some pages are restricted because of certain reasons. There is a reason which justifies this restriction. People can protect their computers through this way since sometimes these pages can include virus. However there is an another reason which is opposed to this. People can't reach the information which actually doesn't include virus not because they contain virus but because they are at the same main page with the harmful things. In that point this restriction doesn't work. In conclusion, we can't say that it is perfectly good for both computer users and computer itself.

Eating at Home or Out

There are lots of people who usually prefer to eat out, but I think it isn't true. People should cook their meal at home. There are some reasons for this. The first reason is that in order to maintain a healthy life, people should cook their meals at home.When people cook at home, they use fresh foods or they prefer more suitable oil type for themselves.The second reason is that we can't know the ingredients which the restaurants use in meals and sometimes they don't have enough hygiene.We can't be aware of these situations, but they are most important things for us.There isn't any possibility for us to control the whole restaurants whether they have these qualities or not. People should prefer to cook and eat at home in order to protect their health.

Downloading

There are lots of films or songs. They reach people who interested in them through different ways. Some of these people buy them, but others prefer to download them.Downloading can be unfair, but there are some reasons which confute this. The first reason is that the prices of the works can be over its real value thus people don't want to give them such a high price. In stead of this they give less money and buy more things. The second reason is that the whole songs in a CD can't be good equally, so the people who want to listen it can't want to buy it. The price of CD, film, book etc. should be less expensive in order that everyone can reach them.

Argumentative Paragraph-2

Thesis Statement:The price of the film or CD should be less expensive in order that people can buy them and the proportion of downloading can decline.
Supporting Sentence 1:The prices of some works are over their real value.
Supporting Sentence 2:A lot of people prefer downloading just because of the high price.
Supporting Sentence 3:The whole songs in a CD can't be good so people who don't want to listen all of these songs download the sons that they want to listen.
Opposing Sentence:Downloading is an unfair thing and some of the people who work for this deserve this price.
Refutation:We can't know who deserve it and all people can't like the whole work.

When we look up the meaning of euthanasia, it says that the act of killing someone who is very ill or very old so that they don't suffer anymore or in other words using the right to die.The euthanasia is seen as a murder in some countries while others don't accept that idea. In our country, euthanasia is also forbidden by constituon. It's highly right. Euthanasia shouldn't be free. The first reason is that we can't decide on a subject which is about a person's life even if he or she is unconsciuos. We can't restrict the right of living that everybody has. It shouldn't be so simple to end a life. Even the patient is seen like dead, he is't dead.The second reason is that, even in most desperate cases, there can be hope. We mustn't forget to be hopeful. Surely, that isn't easy, but if we don't hope that everything will be better, we can reduce the possibility. In some cases the families can't pay the high prices thus maybe they choose euthanasia because they have to choose. In this situation, the state should help this families or hospitals should reduce the expense.Euthanasia souldn't be a choice for us because a person's life isn't such a simple thing that deserves the dead.

Literature As an Elective Course

There are lots of courses in our department. Some of them are elective and others are must courses. Literature is in the second part. We all have to take this course, but literature should not be among must courses. The first reason is that we won't use the information that we learn in the course in our teaching life. Now, we have to study and learn some things, but in the future we will forget most of them.The second reason is that using English Literature in lessons isn't so useful. In stead of this we can use our own literature, because we have lots of precious works. It would be much better if we took this course as elective. In conclusion, literature should be elective as it more suitable for its aim and can be benefical for students.

Argumentative Paragraph

Thesis Statement: In order to maintain a healthy life, we should cook our meals at home.
Reason for 1: We can't know the ingredients that restaurants use in meals.
Reason for 2:Restaurants may not have enough hygiene.
Opponent's argument:There are lots of restaurants using fresh ingredients, having experienced employees and enough hygiene.
Refutation of opponent's argument:We can't control all restaurants whether they have these features or not.

Traditional and Online Courses

Education is such a crucial thing that we cannot think a life without it. There are some ways of education. One of them is traditional education. It's the education which is made in schools. In this type of education, the teacher explicates a subject and gives some worksheets about it. Students can ask questions about the things that they can't understand. That is to say everything is made face to face. The other type is online education. These two types are important and we can improve ourselves with them. Online courses are prepared with general methods, but some people learn some things in different ways so this can be a disadvantage. The traditional method can be useful on that point. We can listen online courses many times, when we don't understand the subject, but this is not possible for traditional education. Sometimes, traditional courses can be stressful because of exams, but while taking online courses you can be more relax. They two have both advantages and disadvantages. I think the traditional education is necessary, but the other can be taken as alternative.

To Compare and Contrast Two Places

We visited two places. The first place is a shopping center. The other is a place which is near sea side. There aren't so many similarities between them. But anyway we can that both of them have some places which people can go for enjoying. The first place has three floors on the other hand, the other doesn't have such places. There are some shops in the first place, however in the second place there are not such places. In stead of that shops there are places and cafes where people can meet or rest. The first place is at sea side, but the second is in a close area so the first can give much more rest. The first place doesn't have a scene, on the contrary the second has a scene.Both places have opportunities, but these are optional. You can go and see them, but if you want to rest and see a beautiful scene, I think, you should go the second place, because the second can help you when you want to shop.

An Embarrassing Event

One day my friend sent a message to me. After I read this message, I was embarrased so much. Because I forgot the birthday of my friend. But there were two reasons for this, the first was that days I was so busy and the other was that she has two different birthdays. One of them is on November and the other is on January. Actually the real one is on January and I forgot the real one. After the message I said myself ''Shame on you she is your friend and also she never forgets yours.'' But anyway I tried to make up for this by saying ''Actually I didn't forget because I'll congratulate your birthday on January.'' Whenever I remember this, I really embarrased.

A Story

It was a sunny day.We were all excited.Because we were looking forward to this day for a long time.All friends met before graduation party.There were a lot of people around.But there was a problem with us.One of our friends,Ceren, was very snobbish and she was always talking about the prize which she thougt she would take.She was very confident.She told us about it and she always said she deserved it most throughout the year.We got bored of that.And there was another girl who really deserved that prize.But she was very humble.She never talked about the prize.When it was time to announce the owner of the prize, there was a big silence in the hall.And the man said the other girl’s name.We were happy because she really deserved it.But we could see Ceren’s disappointment.And after that day we called Ceren and we said we were sorry for her.But surprisingly she congratulated the other girl on her success.Since then they became good friends.Ceren became more humble thanks to this event.

Computer Addiction

There is a device which involves in our lifes. We cannot escape from it. It's computer. We use it in every part of our life. We can prepare some documents or do our works that may take so much time, in a short period. Sometimes we use it to communicate with our friends whom we can't see for a long time. Furthermore, we enjoy it for example, we can play games or listen music. As you see, computer serves us so many opportunities that we can't send it away.

There are many useful sides of it but there are also negative sides. However we can't see them because of that opportunities. For example, we may not understand that the time is passing while we are using it and as a result of this we forget to do more important things. Maybe we have an unhealthy eating habit. After a while we become an indifferent person and don't want to leave it anymore. The name of this situation is computer addiction.

Building a House

Today, we tried to make a house.Firstly, we made a floor and then we selected the walls of our house.We tried to adjust the size of walls according to the size of floor.The colour of the walls are brown.This is a bit knotty but we were able to create them.Secondly, we formed the roof of the house.The roof is diverse from classic ones and the colour of it green.We put a black door on the front side.Finally, creating a house is really a hard task but it also enjoyable.

Charles Dickens

Fog is everywhere.It is up the river where it flows among green aits and meadows.It is down the river where rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great and dirty city.It is on the Essex marshes,It is on the Kentish heights.It is creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs;fog is lying out on the yards and hovering in the rigging of great ships;It is dropping on the gunwales of barges and small boats.It is in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners,wheezing by the fire sides of their wards;it's in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of wrathful skipper,who is down in his close cabin;it is cruelly pinching the toes and fingers his shivering little apprentice boy on deck.People having chance on the bridges are peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog,which is all around them,as if they were up in a balloon and were hanging in the misty clouds.

WHICH ONE?

There are lots of students who study in a university.They share same faculties and classrooms.But they don't live in the same place.There are three reasons which explain this situation.Firstly, there isn't a place where all students can stay.Secondly, some of them don't want to stay in dormitories so they prefer to live with their families.And the last group choose dormitories during their university life.

What can we say about those who choose living with their families and staying dormitories?Livig with family is quite a good idea.There are many adventages of this.For example a student staying with his family doesn't have to do everything by himself such as cooking, washing... He doesn't miss his family because he can see them everyday and doesn't have to adapt himself a distinct environment.But ther are also disadventages. He cannot experience university life completely and decide something himself. Those staying in dormitory have a lot of promlems but as time passes, they are used to living themselves, can decide something easily.In other words,they learn the meaning and requirement of living alone.After graduating from university they can adapt themselves the business environment more quicky.At first living with family seems more reasonable but the other gives us more chances to be a mature individual.

Is It Difficult To Catch Happiness?

How or when can a people become happy?What makes us sad?Why do we cry for something?Everybody answers these questions like that ''When bad things happen we feel depressed and when nice things happen we become happy.''I think this mustn't be the principal of our life.The life mustn't shape our senses and we should know how can negative things be turned into goodness.In that way we can learn the meaning of living.But if we don't do anything against the things that make us sad, we cannot realize what life takes from us.

If we know how to look, we can see huge happiness in small things.And if we ignore and try to solve the bad things we have experienced, that makes us more happy and we can love ourselves, others.Which of them is more easy for you?It is your choice.But if you want to be pessimistic, you decrease the likelihood of happiness that you can have one day and can't learn the meaning of life.

Don't forget great things happen via uniting trivial things.If we insult and ignore small things, we cannot meet substantial happiness.I wish you saw and realized them in every part of your lifes.

Using Second Life

I chatted with some people in SL and I asked ''Why do you use Second Life?''After this chat I see that there are three groups. The first group said that they use it just for fun.Second group said that he doesn't know why ,but they came here after someone's suggest.The others said that they came here to like it and learn something from it.I think they improve their writing and speaking skills by using it.

The weather is hot and isn't cloudy.The sea isn't rough so it's like a blue sheet.There are palms on the beach.There are two trellises.Under one of them there are two chaise longues.The other is on the sea and there is a table under it.On the beach, there is a torch which is firing.Nobody can be seen except for a girl.She is standing and watching this sight.She has brown hair and is wearing pink dress.Maybe her intetion is to be alone and to rest.

An Excellent Person(for me)

There are a lot of people around us and there is few people we can be so close or share our secrets.Elif is in this group.She has been my friend for eight years.She and I were in the same school but now she is in Hacettepe.
She is tall and has black straight hair.Her eyes are brown.She has a dimple on her cheek.She has a dark skin.
Elif likes going to cinema,playing tennis,reading psychological books and singing.Her favourite singers are Şebnem Ferah and Sezen Aksu.She is good at writing poems and drawing.In my opinion they are good.She likes spending her time cooking and making cakes.
She is an emotional person so likes romatic films and slow songs.She isn't usually an angry person.There are rare people who are punctual , Elif is one of them and uses her time carefully,makes plans.She makes jokes and I laugh at them.She has a colorful character.
She is not only my friend but also like my sister.Because we shared a lot of things which let us become closer each other.I love her very much and I'm so lucky since she is in my life.

INTRODUCTION

I'm Bahar Acer.I'm from Yozgat.I graduated from Yerköy Anatolian Teacher Trainig High School.My father was a policeman but he retired and my mother is a housewife.
My hometown is small so I have some difficulties in Ankara.But I expect I'll get used to that city.
Now,I'm in METU and I like my university.But transportation is difficult in METU.There are lots of positive things in here and they cover that disadvantage.METU was my first choice.The reason why I chose it is to become a talented teacher.
My expectations from this course are to gain good writing and reading skills, to understand writings easily and to develop my vocabulary skill.At the and of this course I expect I will use my experiences in my teaching life.
My name in Second Life is Bahar Bergan.
My name in Tappedin is BaharA.