Gender in Turkish TV

I read the An Analysis of the Portrayal of Gender Roles in Turkish Television Advertisements
text which is related to our course subjects and i found it very interesting. I want to mention to advertisement on Turkish TV channels. In Turkish TV advertisements, stereotypes are effective like in many countries like, Americe and Mexico. For example, 53% of main charecters in advertisements are women, i think it have two reasons. Firstly, women are more dominant in shopping, they go shopping more than a man so women can be affected from this kind of advertisements. Secondly, a pretty woman can encourage man to shopping in TV advertisements. You can see its examples in every Turkish TV channels.

Pub Quiz

Today, we did a pub quiz, it was great oppurtunity to improve our grades for us. Our team lost the competition. Our teacher asked questions from what we did in this semester in course, these were essential for eng 101 but unfortunetely, we forget some of information about course. I think participation also is important. It was enjoyable competition.

a woman on a roof

Dorris Lessing's short story which is about 3 working men and a woman who sun bathes on a roof. Me,Yalçın and Cemre presented this story on lesson, it was a enjoyable presentation for me.It is a symbolic story, there is many symboles in the text for example heat, rain, roof,red bikini e.g. for example heat represent passion and then rain at the end is reminiscent of a cold shower shows a return to normal, back to reality, roof represent shows the gap society has created through its manufactured views of gender roles. The woman is on a seperate roof than the men seperated by a gap finally, red bikini represents sexuality and desire. There are many symbols like them in the story . When we were preparing the presentation, we did not deal with big problems because we work with our group members in harmony, everyone helped each other. Our biggest problem was Koray who is our forth group member.

My Eng 101 semester

It is my second time in eng 101, this semester i think that i learned more things. We learned how to use APA format which is useful for our academic essays. It is about how to make citations or references, it will be useful in the future for us. We did not make a prensantation yet but i think it will contribute many things to us. Also, we learned many things about blogs but i do not like blogs because i think that it is unuseful but we must write to take good grades. Our semester is still going on, i think that it will be harder.