ENG 101

In Turkey, with the latest political and managerial changes, I think that media started to being controlled by these powerful positions.

Media, which contains newspapers, TV channels and magazines, has been in a process for many years in Turkey. For example, TV channels, which once began with sole one channel, are now easily reachable and there are a lots of them. As they are now easily reached by the citizens, of course it is a good idea for the political powers to use them as their way of communicating to make themselves more powerful and it is one thing that I really dislike. In my opinion, TV channels and newspapers should be used for their own purposes, such as informing the people about the news around the world. Once the media starts to publish news about these political powers, it gets untrusty and annoying.

What I really like nowadays about the media is, I can easily reach and watch international TV channels and also I can easily read international newspapers. Especially, international TV channels, which are mostly based in the United States of America, are really enjoyable. They help you to watch the games for a lot of different sports and learn about the worldwide news moment by moment.

1- What kind of narrator is telling the story?

2- Is narrator reliable? Why or why not?

3- When and where do you think this story occurs?

4- What sort of relationship exists between Irene and Jim?

5- In what ways do Irene and Jim Westcott differ from people?

6- What does the radio symbolize?

7- How does the narrator describe the old radio in the second paragraph? Does the old radio reflect anything about the Westcotts?

8- Does possession of the radio give the Wescotts any advantages or disadvantages over their neighbors? What kind of?

9- Does Irene Westcott’s radio listening addiction resemble to smoking or alcohol addiction?

10- What does the radio tell us about Irene Westcott’s and  other people lives?

In societies, families are always excepted to last for long enough and create an understanding and caring environment for children. The situation of the family, whether economically or socially, is very important for the children’s development.

Family is the first place where children get the chance to learn basic things, such as social or moral values, the world, maybe writing and reading. Parents try to teach their children the ideas which suit them best, they never think of teaching something else that they don’t believe or trust. This may lead to confusion and dilemma in children’s thoughts as they are always thought in a way that sole one thing is true, and others are not. As this kind of learning may lead to problems, parents have to teach their children in a more controlled and objective way.

Society expects parents to teach, feed, protect and offer a good live for their children. And parents try to chieve these expectation as well as they can. They send their children to good schools, try to ensure that they get educated well and send them to good colleges as they want their children to be successful and happy in their own lives.

Sometimes, parents can be more thoughtful or protective than usual. They can repeat words that their children don’t wanna hear or they can make long speeches about life, schools, lessons, friends etc. But, i think, they do these as they want the best for their children all the time.

Family has always been an union of parents and their child or children, who always had different things or responsibilities to do and to deal with, though there are several stable roles in a family. These roles determines your position in the family.

In a family, for example in most families in Turkey, man always had the authority. He was always thought to look after his wife and children, have a decent job, and bring money to his family. Of course this can be called as a prototype but it has been like this for many years. But, recently, we can observe that women can also have jobs and earn money and make living with this money.

In my family, my father is the one who has his own job. He is a businessman and he works hard for his family for years, as i can see. My mother is a housewife and she deals with cooking, washing, cleaning stuff and with me and my sister who attends to a high school. As my mother married in a young age, maybe that’s why she never got a chance to work outside the home. Surely, my father sometimes tries to help her with the house work as he tries to go shopping in the weekends and helps my mother with setting the table. As being students, my sister and my responsibility is to work hard for our lessons and graduate from high school or college with success.

Whatever their jobs or roles or positions are, the members of the family has to always keep in touch and respect and love each other. A family who lacks of respect and love, will be collapsing later as the members, even the mother and the father, has no respect or love or tolerance to one another.

To most of the people, this question’s answer is very simple and sole one word: ‘yes’. But considering it as an illegal action is something we don’t want to think about.

Downloading music or films for free began almost 10 years ago and since then, it has been a problem for both musicians&producers and governments. There are several reasons for people to download for free and i think these reasons are pretty considerable.  These may be the high price of the albums or will to listen one song instead of the whole album.

Governments try to prevent people downloading music or films for free because they know the musicians don’t really get paid for what they did. They also try to enliven the authorized music endustry because, day by day, with the increasing numbers of pirates and sellers on the street, music endustry slowly collapsed and musicians decided not to make anymore albums. In more developed countries, downloading is getting illegal due to these problems and you even have to pay for one song.

In my opinion, at this age, downloading shouldn’t be illegal.  Getting imprisoned for downloading, hopefully not in our country, is just ridiculous. It may not be legal but we should listen to whatever we want and whenever we want.

Emily Grierson is a lady who lives in a small town in a luxury house. She and her father are thought to be noble and rich
people, actually they were and in this town they always got the other people’s full attention. Emily was a single woman,
as her father turned down all the chances of her dating or marrying a young man. Her father though none of them were good
enough for her, he was protective in a way. Emily always held her head high even after her father’s death. Later, she met a
man named Homer Baron who was a worker in the street. People in the town, at first, couldn’t believe she was in love with a
worker who wasn’t noble but then they hoped they would get married. When Emily learned that Homer Baron was gay and was hanging out
with younger men, i think that was the time she wanted to kill him and that’s why she bought the arsenic from the pharmacist. She must have
thought it as a shame that the guy she wanted to marry with was gay. So, she kept herself at home for six months and kept the open door always closed to make sure that the people in the town wouldn’t bother her. I think she killed him with the arsenic but due to feeling of getting isolated, she didn’t bury his
body and kept the body of the man she loved with her all the time until her death.

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