EFFECTS OF CARTOONS

Choosing cartoons which is being watched by children is as important as choosing their toys.  They spend most of their time while they are watching television, especially they watch cartoons. Unfortunately, they are being affected directly and immediately. They start to behave and speak like their favorite cartoon character. They want to have the same condition, life standards and same power. For example; girls want to have beautiful clothes, beautiful appearance; while boys want to have a car, to be powerful, or extra abilities like flying and teleporting.  They choose their favorite character as a modal and they think the characters are real. But most of the cartoons are containing disturbing scenes and violence. On the other hand instead of training children, cartoons are making children unsocial, careless, insensitive dreamer. Most of them do not want to attend any social activity or group; they want to stay at home and just watch TV. Cartoons also affect children’s cultural improvement. Children learn and adopt a different culture from their community in which they are growing up.   That can cause communication problems with other people. A big number of children which like watching cartoons have weak connections with their parents, moreover they have not reading habit, they do not know sharing their toys or stuffs, they cannot play alone and they have communication problems. It’s clear that cartoons affect children, we cannot prevent their watching.But instead of producing these kinds of useless cartoons, we can produce more beneficial and educational cartoons to make our children more sensitive, communicative and social.

THERE IS NO WAY TO ESCAPE

Technology has an enormous importance in human life. Everybody is using technological devices in their home, in their working area or in their daily life. Moreover technology is being used in medical area, educational area and transportation. People so integrated with technology that people seem like they can’t live without it. Millions of reason can be found as an answer of why does technology have so important role in everybody’s life. As a result of these millions reasons, people have been getting used to technology hitherto and now, they are still increasingly becoming dependent on technology day by day.

Technology has been getting importance, because it makes everything better, easier and faster. Thanks to technology, you do not lose your time and you do not effort more. If you want a bottle of orange juice, just peel oranges and put them into the juicer. If you want to wash your clothes just use washing machine instead of going a riverside or seaside. Moreover you do not have to rub your clothes during a few hours and with the help of detergent you can get better results. For a moment think as if technology and technological products are removed in our life. Life will become harder and unbearable.

On the other hand, if you take a glance at, you will recognize that everything is a product of technology. For instance: your door, your window, your table, your fridge, your carpet, your lamp, your tea potter or your coffee cups, etc. Every part of your life is full of technology. As a necessity of life you must keep pace with age. You can’t live without technology because your daily life actions, medical treatments, education and lots of things require using of technology. For examples; there are numerous machines which are used in medical area, most teachers want homework finals electronically, people need to usage of technology to communicate with each other and these requirements make escaping from technology impossible.

To sum up, whether people like or do not like technology, as a result of requirement of life they are getting accustomed to. They accept and they start to use it. Unconsciously, they are becoming dependent on technology. It is clear that technology can not be abolished. People’s usage of technology is natural because technology is a requirement of life and our era. While it is making everything so better, easier and faster; why do people choose another harder way? 

BEING OPTIMIST OR BEING HOPEFUL

Are you an optimist? Yes, like the other people you should be a bit optimist to make your life more livable. So, what does optimism means? Optimism, is a term of psychology which is defined in Cambridge Online Dictionaries as being hopeful and emphasizing the good part of a situation rather than the bad part; the belief that good things will happen in the future. In addition it can be described as hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something. We call people who are hopeful and emphasize the good part of an event or situation rather than the bad part as optimists. On the other hand, this understanding is being criticized by another views such as pessimism, idealism and realism, leads to a state of mind that believes everything is as it should be, and that the future will be as well.

Family and personal health have the most important effects on people who are optimist. Global economy and politics has a little role in optimism. Most of these people are feeling optimistic about their family life, personal relationships and social life. According to their reflections about the events or situations we can divide optimism in three types.
Some people are always optimists. They do not chance their expectations in any case. They expect that everything will be better or the best. Some believes that their optimisms spread around them. Whatever the circumstance, they continue to believe that everything will be all right. They are a big dreamer, because every time they can’t get their expectations. Sometimes they can experience excellent disappointments. We can call them “unabashed optimists”.

On the other hand some of them choose to expect according to situations. Sometimes they expect the best, sometimes they know that they can’t get what they want. These people, situational optimists, are closer than the others to be a realist because they are more realistic about the possible outcomes of events.
Some people believe that they can change or can’t change what’s going to happen to them. Fatalists says that they can’t change but on contrast Individualists believe that they can change what‘s going to happen to them. Fatalists believe all the things which they experienced are depends on their fate and only God can change that. They can’t change or they can’t interfere. Individualists do not think the same way, ın contrast they believe that they have an impact on everything which they experience in their life whether it is good or bad.

Even if you are an unabashed optimists, situational optimists, fatalists or individualists you are experiencing millions of things in a day. They can be good or they can be bad and the reflections, your behaviors can determine whether you are an optimist or not. However, if you want to make your life more livable, as it is indicated before you, should be a bit optimist.  Actually it is not called optimism; we call that just being hopeful about future.

A MILLIONAIRE AND A FAMILY

Every year hundreds of films are being recorded around the world. Some of them are having repercussions; on the other side of the coin some of them are being neglected. Some of them are winning awards, some of them are forgotten. “Slumdog Millionaire” and “A Separation” are two films which took attention and wined Oscars. In this essay the aim is to put forth the similarities and distinctions between these two films. The main three similarities are films types, their persuasiveness and realism, and their winning Oscar. Differences between the two films are countries which they produced in, the fields of their awards which they wined and their subjects.

The first similarity is their types. One of them is about a young boy’s life, another one is about a family’s struggling. Even if their subjects are different, each one of the two films is a type of drama. Second similarity between the two films is their reality. Both of them are very realistic. We can see or experience the events which are showed in the films in our life. The award which they wined is the last similarity. They are seen as the one of the most successful films and they wined the same award -named Oscar- in different years.

The first distinction of two films is the countries which they were recorded. “Slumdog Millionaire” was shot in India and “A Separation” was recorded in Iran. Because of that they have the effects of different cultures in them. Another difference is the fields of awards which they wined. “Slumdog Millionaire” wined 81st Academy with 8 Oscar Awards for best picture, director, screenplay, cinematography, sound mixing, editing, original score, and original song, on the other hand “A Separation” earned the Oscar of 2012 for best foreign-language film. Final difference is their subjects and endings. “Slumdog Millionaire” is a story of a young boy named Jamal, his childhood, his love of his life and his struggling for his love and his older brother. At the end of the film the boy finds his love and the story ends happily. On the contrary “A Separation” includes a family life but story ends as a multi-drama.

To sum up, even if they have some distinctions, the films are reflecting two different dramas of a family and a young man successfully. They are showing us real face of life in different ways. “A Separation” is an open- ended film. There is an uncertainty at the end, you can’t be happy about the character’s life like them.  In “Slumdog Millionaire” you can be happy and maybe that makes the “Slumdog Millionaire” more watchable, it depends on you but we can be sure about that they are the two most striking and successful films around the world.

BALANCED, FRIENDLY OR STRICT ONE?

Teachers are maybe the most effective people in our life because they are the people who give direction to our life and who give a form to our personality. Most of us are choosing our jobs according to their guidance. This guidance also has an important role in our personal improvement. Sometimes they shows the way angrily and sometimes they choose to be one of our friends. According to their approach we can divide teachers into three groups: teachers who have strict rules, the ones who behave like one of our friends and teachers who have balanced relationship with their students.

The teacher type which is far behind is the teacher who has strict rules. This approach is not preferred in these days because a big number of students do not like these kinds of teachers and they do not want to have a lesson with this type of teacher. Students think these teachers who have strict rules are very repulsive, they can’t take students attention. On the other hand students are afraid of their teachers or sometimes students are discussing with them. In addition the thought of passing time in this lesson they do not learn, they do not listen their teacher.

Second teacher type is friendly one. These types of teachers are behaving like one of students’ friends. These teachers want to help students, they advise and learn students’ personal problems and generally they find a reasonable solution. They are very funny and also their lessons are very enjoyable. They teach in a funny way and as a result of that most of the students like them more than the other types because students feel like they are learning something from one of their peer and that makes learning more permanent.

Maybe the most preferred teacher type is balanced teacher. Sometimes they can be one of your friends and in time of course they becomes a teacher. But they are not too much strict and they do not have hard rules. They help you, they advise or they provide a solution to your problems but they also want you to respect them. They do not want to cut the lines between the student and teacher. They try to provide an equivalent balance between being a teacher and being a friend of their students.

In conclusion, being a strict teacher, friendly teacher or balanced teacher depends on your personality and also your preferences.  You can be one of them which you want but you should be determined and stable. If you behave not the way you have never been, students start to think that you are not consistent and they can lost their confidence. On the other hand they may try to appreciate your weakness whence, you should choose one of them determinedly and you should keep your strait course.

EUROPEAN UNION

The European Union is an organization which has twenty seven members. These twenty seven countries came together in order to create an economic and politic unity. At the beginning, it was just an idea. Nowadays, it has become the most powerful economic and politic force of Europe with its’ five hundred population and its’ role in  30% of the world's gross domestic product. However, there are some important reasons and effects of European Union on the world.

The first reason of European Union was providing an economic and financial union. In order to provide same life standards among the all countries which are members of European Union, they believed that there should be unity in their policy and economy. Secondly they wanted to develop a common social awareness. They started to act together in the face of social problems. In this way social problems could be solved more easily and effectively. Thirdly they aimed to create a common security policy for the countries which was a member of European Union. Instead of fighting each other for the colonies, they thought that maintaining a unity in the military field is more effective, available and functional.
After having looked at the most common three reasons of European Union, let’s look at three most important effects.

With the help of providing an economic and financial unity, they found the easier and better way of trading. For example; they abrogated the Custom duties. Also, they started to organize international trading between these countries. Through the laws which were covering all members, European Union developed a Common Market which provided the free movement of capital, goods, human and services. The other effect of European Union is that exchanging ideas about the environment and providing security. So, people started to analyze, to argue their problems and they tried to find best way. They found immediate, reasonable, unaccustomed solutions which made them productive in solving their problems and they felt more strength, then they started to develop. The last effect is that providing the ability of travelling different countries. People found the chance of seeing different places, improving their foreign languages. They did not experience the shortage of work or worker. They met with new people and they knew each other.

That can be discussed if European Union is working for its’ purposes now. But we can be sure about that it was founded to bring people together, to provide a permanent peace on the World and to find current, common, original solutions. In other words the aim of European Union was to make the World albeit a little more livable. But nowadays it is being used just a diplomatic implement among the countries. If it is used for its’ real purposes, the real purposes will be realized.

IMPROVE YOUR SPEAKING

Today everybody needs a foreign language in their schools, in their working fields, in their daily life etc. Learning a foreign language is becoming the most important factor in our life. It is getting importance day by day because of that it is essential to have a job or communicate with others. Especially speaking has an important place in our daily life or our working life. In order to have an advanced speaking skill, there are some steps which you need to follow: Attending a course, doing some speaking exercises, going abroad and practicing.

At first, if you do not have any knowledge of grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation; you should attend a course immediately. The course will help you while you are learning a language. Because you can’t understand or learn everything on your own, sometimes some subjects can be difficult to understand or complicated. At these times, if you have any difficulty, you can ask your teachers and you can get a detailed answer. In addition, some courses have native teachers. Native teachers are the best way of speaking. On the other hand speaking clubs and speaking activities are the other ways of improving your speaking skill.

Secondly, after you learn pronunciation of a word, you should do exercises a lot. You can watch videos or you can work with one of your friend as partners. If you improve your vocabulary you can read books which are written in English, because while you are reading you can get accustomed to a lot of words step by step and listening English songs make you more fluent. With the help of these exercises you can learn pronunciation of words correctly. You can get accustomed to speech sounds. This will improve your listening skill.

The last step is going abroad and practicing. Going abroad is needed, because if you go abroad, you can learn a language more effectively. You can speak fluently, you can learn new vocabulary and you can also improve your listening skill. Maybe the most important step is this one, because it is the most effective way of learning a language, because people always say best way of learning a language is learning this language in a country which is its homeland.

To sum up, there can be a big number of different ways to improve your speaking, but you should determine your way according to your preferences. Even if you choose which way you want, you should apply these steps and you will see they are the best way of improving your skills. But you should not forget that if you want to improve your speaking, you should also improve your listening, writing and grammar skills.