MY COMMENTS

I have commented on İrem's and Neval's journal entries.

http://iremoyku.blogspot.com/2013/06/aricle-reflection-3.html

http://neval-ankara.blogspot.com/2013/06/ants-reflection3.html

I have commented on İnci's and Dilek's multi-media entries.

http://inci010911.blogspot.com/2013/05/journal-entry-3-multi-media-living-in.html

http://dilekfazlioglu.blogspot.com/2013/04/multi-media-entry-2-guerrilla-marketing.html

ARTICLE ENTRY 3 (MULTI-MEDIA) LET YOUR CHILDREN GO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0slEmIKyUJQ

The women in the video discuss whether children should live with their family or not. At the end of the video they conclude that parents should help their children to be prepared for life, and then they should let them go. I disagree with them because life is not like an exam. People cannot be prepared for the life. They just learn everything by experiencing them and living. For example, while a baby learns how to walk, parents can help him/her. However, he or she should fall down over and over in order to learn it.

One of the women in the video says that the children in their twenties are not mature enough. I disagree with her because the adults in their twenties are psychologically healthy and can make their own decision if they get their parents’ love when they are children. What makes them immature is their family in my opinion. If parents let their children make their decision and be free, this provides them to take responsibilities of their actions. For example, if a mother says to her children that you cannot do this, so let me do it, this discourages the children. Moreover, whenever they want to do it, they will need to their mother because they think they cannot do it even they are mature enough. A baby two years old wants to eat his meal by himself, and if you let him do it, at first he cannot do it perfectly, but when he is three years old, he can eat his meal on his own. However, if his parents do not let him to eat by himself, when even he is five years old, he wants his mother to help him.   

A baby or a child may always need their parents. However, the children who are their twenties generally do not need their mother or father. Therefore, so as to help the children in their twenties, parents let them leave home and live alone in my opinion. When their children need them, they can ask for help. The best help for children is to trust them. This will make them self-confident and successful.

ARTICLE ENRTY 3 : AT HOME WITH MAMMA

 In the article entitled, ‘At Home with Mamma’, Antonella Cappon states that the kids who leave home at early ages are ones who are missing something in terms of affection, and the problems come from a lack of affection. Moreover, she thinks that there are no people who are psychologically unbalanced because they got too much love or protection at home. I partially agree with Antonella Cappon because children should stay with their family until 20 not 30 ages for some reasons.

Firstly, Antonella Cappon is right because children need to be protected by their families and they need their parent’s love and affection, so they should stay with their families. A lack of parent’s love may affect the children psychologically. Therefore, people may make lots of mistakes and wrong decisions due to a lack of affection for their lives. Moreover, most of the children at early ages may start smoking, using alcohol and drugs. A lack of affection lies at the bottom of murders, suicides and crimes. In my opinion, in order to decrease the rate of suicides, crimes and using drugs, the children should live with their parents and get their love.

On the other hand, I disagree with her because the people in their twenties should learn how to stand on their own legs in my opinion. Both men and women need to learn certain things like cooking, ironing, earning money and solving their problems before they get married. In order to learn them, they should live alone after they get their parent’s affection. Living with family after 20 ages may make the people lazy and incompetent. When they face with a problem, they always trust their mother or father because they know that their family always helps them to solve the problems. Therefore, when they have to solve it alone, they cannot do it. Moreover, when they have a problem with their husband or wife, they do not try to solve it together, on the contrary, they always ask for advice from their parents even in a little family problem. This may cause great problem, further discussion and even divorce. People at their twenties should live without their family at least in order to learn how to solve their own problems alone.

In conclusion, children need their parent’s protection and affection until certain ages and then they should live alone because parent’s affection may not lead the children psychologically unbalanced, but it may cause them lazy and incompetent.   

ARTICLE ENTRY 2 (MULTI-MEDIA) ADVANTAGES OF INTERNET MARKETING

           The video is about the advantages of Internet marketing. I chose this video because I want to look at the internet from a different perspective. It claims that the internet marketing is easier, faster and cheaper. I want to focus on two advantages of internet marketing.

          The first one is that the internet marketing is easier to reach than television or radio advertising. Today, most of the people in world spend their time on the internet while they are working, studying, watching the news, reading books or even listening to music. Therefore, people are more likely to see the advertisements on the internet. While a person is searching anything or just surfing on the net, he/she encounters a lot of advertisement.  However, in order to reach the advertisements on the television, people need to watch the advertisements, but people generally do not want to watch ads and change the channel when they see the advertisements.

         The other one is that companies may have more potential customer thanks to internet marketing with less money because they do not need to papers. Taking out advertisements in newspaper increases the advertising costs for companies. Moreover, just the people who read the newspaper in which the ads took out can see the advertisements. Therefore, internet advertising is cheaper and more profitable for advertisement companies.

         In conclusion, the internet gives a lot of advantages to us and makes our lives easier.  

ARTICLE ENTRY 2 : I SURF, THEREFORE, I AM

In the article entitled, ‘I Surf, Therefore, I am ‘, the writer indicates that surfing on the internet is not beneficial, and it leads children to read fewer books. Moreover, he thinks that reading books and listening to the people who know what they are talking about are much more beneficial than surfing on the internet. I totally disagree with the writer because surfing on the internet enables people to reach more books, more information about a lot of subjects such as social and political issues.

Firstly, people cannot buy all books which they want to read, and they may not have enough time to read all of them. In this case, they can read electronic books, and if there is no time to read the whole book, they can read its summary. Moreover, they can read the ideas of people who read the books and can share their own ideas about the book. In addition to reading books and sharing ideas, especially students can reach a lot of online dictionaries while they are studying. Searching the meanings of the words in different dictionaries provides them with more reliable information. In my opinion, people easily exchange their information by reading people’s ideas and reach more reliable information by reading different books.

Secondly, people can reach lots of information in the internet faster. Today, most people in the world share their ideas especially about political and social issues on social networks like facebook and twitter or on their own blog. Thanks to the social networks and blogs, people can discuss the issues easily and millions of people participate in the discussion. Moreover, internet enables us to read articles in other languages, so people can find out the ideas of the people from different country.

In short, people can reach more books cheaply and more information easily thanks to internet. They also can share their ideas and find out other people’s ideas by reading blogs. In my opinion, reading the blogs to learn people’s ideas about an issue is easier and more useful than finding the people talking about the issue to listen contrary to the writer’s idea.  

REFLECTION JOURNAL 4 (MULTI-MEDIA ENTRY) -- STOP GUN CONTROL

This video has been shot by the proponents of gun control. These people want to ban guns. I chose this video because I want to look at the issue from the proponents’ perspective. In my opinion, most of the people in this video made their decision that gun must be banned with their emotions, and they want the citizens of America and their leaders to be emotional. However, this issue cannot be solved through emotion in my opinion.

In most of the places they have said in the video, using and carrying guns are illegal. What is an important fact about the prohibition is that there are a lot of massacres in the places especially in schools. One of them is at an elementary school in Connecticut, where twenty-six people most of whom are students are killed. The main reason of the massacre is that teachers cannot defend themselves and their students from murderers just because carrying guns is illegal in schools. Therefore, it is obvious that prohibition is not a solution for stopping the criminals. It just leaves the victims defenseless. Like inhibitive laws, restrictive ones will not be a solution for decreasing the use of guns and massacres.

Some may thinks that the safest way for self-defense is to trust the laws or call 911. In most of the dangerous cases, neither of them is a solution. For example, when a thief or a murderer comes to a home at midnight with a gun, the people who live there may have call 911, but the murderer most probably shoots them as soon as he realizes the situation. In most of the school shootings, people try to call 911 when they feel in dangerous, but they have already been shot before the help. If it were a solution, twenty six people would not die in Connecticut. In conclusion, trying to ban guns is not a logical solution, and it just provides an advantage for criminals.

REFLECTION JOURNAL 4 -- A SAFER COUNRTY WITH GUNS

At first sight, taking the measures to expand gun control or making the gun use illegal may be seen as a logical decision. The people whose children were killed in an attack may strictly want to abolish the right to have guns because they may express their thoughts based on their emotions. However, the opponents of the gun control in the Senate of America rejected the measures to expand the gun control. Although some proponents for the gun control are angry or sad about the decision, it is more logical for some reasons in my opinion.

First of all, restrictions for guns may make the use of the guns attractive. According to the research, when Americans learned that the government may take some measures to expand the gun control, the rate of gun sales reached at the record level. Unlike the popular belief, this obviously shows us that only the possibility of restrictions for guns made the sales of the guns increase. As for background checks, there are already some checks in America, but the criminals or insane people do not obey them. When the background checks are stricter than now, there will be no change for them at all. The strict checks will just lead to have guns harder for the victims. Any restrictions for gun just make victims vulnerable.

Secondly, people need to protect themselves, and they can do this thanks to guns like handguns and the possibility of carrying guns. When the criminals have a gun, the victims cannot protect themselves through anything else except for guns. If the victims have handguns, they can be in a better position. It is almost impossible to take all the guns from all the criminals back or prevent them from taking guns, so the best solution may be to help victims to take and carry guns. The possibility or suspect of carrying guns may also protect victims. If a criminal does not know whether the victim has a gun or not, then the criminal has to think twice before he attacks to the victim. For example, a woman who is outside at night for any reason may be comfortable thanks to her gun and the criminal who intends to attack or assault to her dare not to do this just because he is not sure about whether she can defend herself or not. Not only guns but also the possibility of carrying them may protect victims especially women better than anything else even laws.

All in all, instead of the expanding gun control, the government should encourage the citizens to have and carry concealed guns. Restrictions for guns do not decrease the crime rate. On the contrary, they just increase crimes and give advantages to criminals. The guns and the possibility of carrying guns are a better protector than laws in my opinion. Therefore, in order to protect ourselves, we need to carry guns regardless of the claims of the proponents of the gun control. 

  

REFLECTION JOURNAL 3 ( MULTI-MEDIA ENTRY) --- STOP PROCRASTINATING

This video is about university life, and it tells the night just before a final exam. I chose it because it reflects how the students delay their studies effectively. The boy in the video wants to study, but he does too many things before starting to study. He thinks that he can better concentrate on his work when he tidies his room. Therefore, he clears his table and makes his bed. After that, he feels hungry and eats. When he again decides to study, he tidies his lecture notes. Then, he decides to have a shower, so he thinks he may feel relieved and study better. In short, he does everything he can do in order not to study. The thing which the boy in the video does is exactly procrastination. He always delays something and thinks that he will do them later. However, as long as he does not stop procrastinating, he will do them at last night at every turn.

I chose another video which is about procrastination for you. Actually, it is a song and most of us may know it because we listened to it in our course ‘oral communication’. Still, I want to share it with you especially for those who may not know.

 I like most its rhythm and lyrics. Like the other video, it tells how we as students delay our tasks like writing essays or even starting a diet. After you watch these videos, you can be aware of your procrastination if you also do it. From now on, you should stop procrastinating and do your assignment. :)

REFLECTION JOURNAL 3 -- REASONS AND SOLUTIONS FOR PROCRASTINATION from my perspective

   

Procrastination is to avoid doing some stressful tasks by delaying them or replacing them with more enjoyable ones. Procrastination is a psychological issue, so it depends on us and our will to be able to overcome it. I chose this topic to write about because I am interested in psychology and I like trying to find reasons for psychological problems. I think the first step to solve a problem is to be aware of it and the most effective way is to find its reasons. In my opinion, there are three possible reasons for procrastination.

The first reason is to be afraid of starting or doing the task because it is a stressful, boring or difficult task. For example, students generally delay to study the exams until the last day or even the last night. In the last day, they realize that they have to study even if the subject is boring or difficult, and they start to study it.

 The second reason is just laziness in my opinion. For example, some student is too lazy to start their assignment.  When these students start to study or do their homework, they have the capability of finishing the task in a short time and they can do their task perfectly. However, their problem is just to start to do things.

 The last one is to desire to be perfect. These people really want to do their tasks, but they also want their task to be perfect. They may think it will be better when they finish it later. They do not do anything expect for delaying to do it.

In order to solve this problem, you need to determine which group you are in. If you are in the first group, do not be afraid of anything even if it is the hardest thing in the world. You will study or do your tasks sooner or later. Therefore, you should prefer doing it sooner not later because this provides you with much more time. You need to be just brave.

 If you are in the second group, it is enough for you to remember that you can do it in a short time, and then you will have time to watch TV serials or to play games like football, basketball or tennis and to do anything you like. Do not be lazy and just start to do it.

 If you are in the last group, I think this is the hardest one to solve; it depends on your degree of perfectionism. You need to expect that it is a problem. Even you do your task now or you wait until the end of the world to do it, it will be same just because humans are limited and nobody is perfect. The people who are not able to accept this fact need to psychological support because it may be worse than thought.

 In conclusion, what is important is to be aware of our problems and weaknesses and try to solve them.