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TEST ANXIETY

    Test anxiety mostly results from the personal structures of parents.Some parents are very anxious and distressed.They think that the child who goes to school will be in trouble.This anxiety of parents often passes to the child.

   Some parents are perfectionist,rigorous and prim.They are intolerant.As they know the most accurate one,they expect others to abide by this rules.They want to decide how,what and when their child will study.They think their child will not achieve if he does not study in the way they decide.In other words,they struggle to control their child's life completely.On the contrary,this may cause the child to behave conversely.

   Some parents are in dreams to being the most beautiful,handsome and successful.They want their child to be like that.If it does not happen,they may be disappointed.They see their child's success as their own success.This is a source of concern for the child.

  Some parents'self-confidence is low.How well the child prepare for exam,both parents and child can not live the comfort of being ready.Moreover,people like this have high expectations.

     Some parents are shy.They think about things which society says and they live for this.They are afraid of doing wrong something because they are afraid of being ashamed in society.They reflect these fears to the child.They want   their child not to be ashamed.

       

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                                     LIVING THE MOMENT

      Let's think the baby who is in the first period of his life.Firstly,it is wondered when he will get walking and talking skills.When he walks a little,he  is sent to kindergarten or primary school.He finds himself in the marathon test when he is at the end of primary school age.When he starts going to high school,it is wondered whether he passes the university exams or not.When he passes the exams,the arguments about vocational and university preferences start.When he finishes the university,it is expected that he must find a good job.Then,he has to join the army.He is expected to marry and when he marries,he is asked to have a baby.Even if he has a baby,pressures will never finish.

        This situation is so common in a large part of society that it causes to forget that the life which we live in belongs to us and we are free about our choices.While we are running through the endless targets with values of the society,neither can we understand values of what we have,nor we can give enough value to our people we like.We postpone our dreams and suppress our longing.When we aware of this situation,we will have come to the end of our life.

        We must learn to live without postponing our dreams because tomorrow may be very late to recover time that we lose.

multi-media entry 2

                      BEATING TO MEMATI'S MURDERER

             Rating race that has been increasing among televisions recently causes     irreparable harms on young people.Tv serials which include violence make bad     effects on young people who are in the age of development.Young people  reflect to their own behavior and attitude by acting like heroes of these tv serials.Particularly,young people who grow in environment that includes communication problems within family are directly affected from uncontrolled and unsupervised tv serials.

         A group of people beats an actor for he kills a person who is liked  by these people on tv serial.It is evident that people are affected by tv serials.No people can say that they are not affected by tv serials.This is acceptable for not only young people but also adults.There are good and bad people on tv serials.We see as if bad people were bad in real life and good people were good in real life.So,we do not like or like those people in real life.I could never understand that.How can people confuse a scenario with real life?People just act on tv serials.Is it hard to see that for people except from young people?If they are unable to do this distinction,they will not watch tv serials because almost all tv serials today include violence or bad things.

         Tv serials must be televised after they are controlled by experts.For this ,legal regulation must be created.We must not watch each tv serial because we can undertand its topic immediately.We must object to these tv serials.Only in this way,these tv serials can decrease because they do not draw attention.We must aware of this issue for our children's health.

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                        IMPROPER TV SERİALS

   Many tv serials are televised on Turkish televisions each season.Comman topics of tv serials are usually love,liaison,violence,betrayal,murder and unhapiness.It is hard to come across positive and promising topics.It is regarded as if betraying was normal thing.

    

    Many of tv serials which  are shown to people as family tv serials are not appropriate for our family structure.We see tv serials that make fun of our own traditions and become bad examples to our young people on screens very often.With some immoralities that are shown on tv serials,It is intended to be normalized situations like these in our society.For instances,groom of the house accosts to each girl in the house.Togetherness without wedding is shown as a normal thing.None of these abides by family structure of our society.

    

    Other important topic is children's tv serials.Today,things like magic have been used on children's tv serials very much.These give children bad messages like 'you can peek life of person you want','you can listen to conversations of people you want'.Moreover,children confuse imagination with the real world.They belive that anything will be whenever they want.When this doesn't happen,they can be irritable.These tv serials distort the psychology of children.Shortly,the incidents of tv serials distort our society's culture sneakingly. 

       

multi-media entry 1

THE PUNISMENT OF READING BOOKS

               This video is very funny and it shows my topics very well.Although it is a funny video,it says a lot of things about reading habit.Because of this,I chose this video.

          It shows that people have forgotten reading  book.Particularly,it is so today.Due to involvement of technology,people have been addicted to technology.Formerly,for there were not telephone,television,internet and so,people did not use to reach everything which they wanted.Reading habit was higher than today.People used to read everything which they  found.People was keen journals,magazines but today,due to internet,people do not buy books.Other occupations have emerged, so interest in books has decreased dramatically.

           We see on this video that the govenment is responsible from this.This is not only children's fault but also the government's fault.The govenment must make programs which are strategic,permanent and incentive about reading.The action to increase the number of readers must be started by  political power,non-governmental organizations,universities and media.

       In this topic,families must be conscious.They must introduce their children to books at early ages.The libraries must be multiplied.We must make the places where books are read a portion of coffee shops.

           When we start to read books,when we can be a friend with them,they can bring us the beauties and the prosperity which we want.We can be addicted to them and we can not give up them.

            

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                                                          BOOKS

    

   Today,the libraries are empty and the books have not been opened and read 

whereas the rising of communuties take places with an increase in the number 

of books and libraries.In some researches,we see that there is a large difference between the number of libraries and the number of coffee shops.If this goes on in this way,we as a society can be convicted of slavery.

   

   While all the developed countries are reading books,what are we doing?Although there are important changes in Turkish society's social,economic and political conditions,people are not good at reading books,newspapers and magazines.People spend most of their time with useless things istead of reading.For instance,many adult men spend their time in coffee shops and they usually play games.Many young people spend their times on the net or they play games.Generally,many people commonly watch television.So,we have become a society sitting not reading,dreaming not thinking,taking ready not searching.

     As a country,we need people who are reading,searching,thinking,working,

producing.Only in this way,we can make amends our deficiencies and develop.So,reading books is very important.If we want to develop as an individual and as an society,we must do this.We can see examples of this on the words of Atatürk,too.

tv series

                                           THE BIG BANG THEORY
      
        This is my favourite tv series.When I watched it once,I loved it very very much.I claim everybody will love it if they watch it once like me.This tv series has much more different sense of humour than other tv series.The characters'jokes are both funny and meaning.Whenever I watch it,I have fit of laughter.
             When I look at the characters,they are wonderful.The tv series is interested in not only three characters but also the other characters.The whole characters are adding colors to tv series.Every character is very funny and has distinctive characteristics.I like all characters but my favourite character is Sheldon.He is genius in field of pysics but a crazy man.He is obsessive about every topic and he can has made eveything he wants.The one character who can put up with Sheldon is Lenord.He is lucky about neither housemate nor    girlfriend.However,he is the person who have the most girlfriend among them.Penny is next-door neighbor.Neither her working life nor her love life goes well.Howard is person who not only is unlucky about girls  but also lives his mother.I like his mother's shouting at him.''ohh,howard,where is my artificial teeth?''It is really funny.Raj is Haward' best friend or according to other people it is another thing.:)He is very shy.He just talks to girls when he is drunk.
           It is necessary to congratulate scriptwriter of this tv series.The characters are both colorful and extraordinary.I exaggerate very much or this tv series is really perfect.Watch it and decide that which one it is.I am sure my thoughts.
            

        

m.r

             

                                                   HORROR FİLMS


              I like horror films and when I want to watch a film,I usually prefer horror films.When I look for horror films among the films,I can not find many horror films or when I find some horror films,I can not find a good one.I choose one film or two films for they look like good but when I watch them, I am dissappointed.They are not good films.This come to my head very often.I can not come across good horror films any longer.Nowadays,horror films resemble each other.When a good horror film come out,immediately,horror films which look like that come out.Really,there are few horror films which I am afraid of nowadays.
           
              Formerly,there were a lot of horror films.When I went to movie shop to choose a horror film,there were many films.All horror films I watched were good.They were qualified films.I was really afraid when I watched them.Namely,they were appropriate to their names.
             
              Yes,now there are qualified horror films but I think they are few.I can not get the taste I found while   I was watching.Henceforwards,They must make horror films very well.They must not come out them as soon as they make them.They must really evaluate if they are qualified films or not before audiences watch them.Shortly,I want to watch good horror films and this must be very often.

m.i

           


                                           ŞEBNEM FERAH FOR ME                        

            Şebnem Ferah is my dream's artist.I like rock music and she is really queen of rock music.There are many artists of rock musıc in Turkey but Şebnem Ferah is one of few people who do their work ideally.She really deserve much praise.There are a lot of things which are said about her.She is a proven performer.
           
            When we come music which she is making,firsly she has very beautiful voice.Her voice is very strong.She remove her voice the upper levels.I am fond of her voice, particularly when she sing by shouting.I feel being strong of her voice at that time.She influences me profoundly with smoothness of her voice.
           
            Her songs are perfect.She is the only person whose all songs I have liked.There are a lot of reasons for this.She writes lyrics of her songs herself and writes perfectly.They are meaningful and emotionally charged.The most beautiful thing is that her all songs are so.While she is singing a song,she makes us feel things which she wants to tell us.We get that feeling and to do this is a very hard thing for singers.
           
            I have a good time when I am at her concert.She performances well.A lot of people come to the concert and they fill the concert area.I caim that there are nobody who does not like her.Everbody likes her somehow.She is an artist who will never be forgotten in the future.

                               

                           

                                     

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                                      ''I BRAIN METU''

This slogan for metu is perfect.I loved it when I heard it at first.It sounds interesting and nice.Really this slogan hides many meanings under it like things which are said in this video.It is effective.There are a lot of things which will be said about metu's students.They are short but compendious.They tell everyhing shortly.

    I do not look at the event in this respect only.If I wrote metu's slogan,I would say ''special people's city'' to metu.Because people in metu are really special.there are a lot of people who come from various places around the world.They are all people who are chosen.They are all separate brains.They have special skills in different areas.They have very different ideas.They are free,intelligent,responsible and also crazy people.

      I said city for metu because it is like a city.It is equipped in all respects.It has campus which has everthing

in it.It is very big.It is very good for students who stay there.They do not need to go out for their any need.So,people say for metu's students ''They are not from Ankara ,they are from metu''.Metu is quite another place from Ankara.Here,because of this reasons,I think metu is special people's city.

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                                            UNIVERSITY FOR ME
        
           University for me must be complete with everything.There are a lot of things for this.For instance,I think a campus must be in a university.The areas in campus must be green.The buildings of university may have a meaning.They can be esthetic.
                 
                 For students,there must be laptops,proper dormitories,many laboratories,internet,a very good library.The students must be able to attain everything they want.University must provide various facilities for students.They must make transport easy.The food costs must be low for students.The students must be provided various scholarships.

                There must be academics who have time for students,have fame around the world.Teaching staffs must be evaluated by students.The teaching staffs whose communication is bad must not give a lecture.
                 
                The students must be given work at various projects.University must work actively  after the students graduate from there. 
                
                 The Middle East Technical University  have many of these characteristics.The areas are green but I have not liked the buildings.There are a lot of things for students but I think they must be developed a bit.I do not like some dormitories.Some of them are inadequate.All dormitories are not equal.The rooms in some of them are too narrow.There are not laboratories in some of them.The wardrobes and beds are old.
                
                 I liked the library because it is really very big.There are many books in every field.The transport is not good because I can not find minibus every time.Additionally,everything in the university is expensive for students.For the time being,the rest looks good.
 

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                                 BEİNG A STUDENT AT METU
                      

            Before I came here,METU,I had thought Metu was a wonderful university.I used to want to win metu excessively.Because it was said a lot of things about metu,I liked it.I thought a lot of  things would change in my life when I won metu.That was not only why I wanted to win metu but it was also ankara.I had never been in Ankara.I had not seen Ankara before but I liked it.I wondered it very much.It sounds very strange but it was.
            
            Now  I am at metu.I think metu is not like I have tought at first.For the time being,I do not like metu like first thought.I say I wish I did not come here.Nothing is not like thing I am waiting.Everything is very hard here.There are reasons for this.First,I did not like Ankara.It has a very strange weather.It is hot during the day, it is too cold in the evening.Actually I like winter,I like snow but I think it will be extremely here.Then,this city is far away my city,Salihli.I miss my family very much.I stay at dormitory but it is far away everywhere.There are not the minibuses at sometimes when I go out the school.So I have to walk everywhere I want to go.Actually,I regret for I choose this departmant because I feel as if this departmant does not belong to me.I am not happy.The most fundemental matter is this.
            
             On the other hand,I try to like here.I try to get accustomed to metu because I won a good universty.When I graduated from metu I hope I will have a good job.The most wanted thing by my family is this so I have to do for my future.If I had not my friends,it would be worse.At least,we are doing something together in order to pass time and have fun.


 

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       Combating cancer’s conversations

Cancer(subject) is usually presented as a problem(singular noun) of cells becoming mindless(adj)  replicators, proliferating without purpose or restraint. But that image underestimates the foe(direct object), according to a new paper. The authors(subject) argue that we(personal pronoun)’ll stand a better chance of combating cancer if we recognise that tumour cells are(linking verb) a lot smarter and functional like a co-operating community.

One of the authors, physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob(proper noun) of Tel Aviv University in Israel, has argued for some time that many single-celled(adj) organisms, whether they are tumour cells or gut bacteria(plural noun), show(transitive verb) a rudimentary(adj) form of social intelligence – an ability to act collectively in ways that adapt to the prevailing conditions, learn from experience and solve problems, all with the “aim” of improving their chances of survival. He even believes(intransitive verb) there is evidence that they can modify their own genomes(direct object) in beneficial ways(adverb of manner).

Some of these ideas are controversial, but others(indefinite pronoun) are undeniable. One of the classic examples of a single-celled co-operator, the soil-dwelling slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum, survives a lack of warmth or moisture by sending out pulses of a chemical from cells, which(relative pronoun) attracts other cells to move towards them and clump together into multi-celled bodies that look like weird mushrooms(plural noun). Some of these cells become spores, entering into a kind of suspended animation(participial phrase) until conditions improve.

Many bacteria(subject) can engage in similar feats of communication and coordination, which can produce(action verb) complex colony shapes such as vortex-like circulating blobs or exotic branching patterns. These displays of “social intelligence” help the colonies survive adversity, sometimes to our cost. Biofilms, for example – robust, slimy surface coatings that harbour bacteria and can spread infection in hospitals(place adverb) – are manufactured through the co-operation of several different species.

But as cyberwarfare experts know, disrupting communications(gerund phrase) can be deadly, and the same social intelligence that helps bacteria thrive(dependent clause) can be manipulated to attack pathogenic varieties(independent clause). Some strategies for tackling dangerous bacteria now(time adverb) target their cell-to-cell communications, for example by introducing false signals that might induce cells to eat one another or to dissolve biofilms. So it pays to know what they’re saying to one another(indefinite pronoun).

Ben-Jacob(proper noun), along with Donald Coffey of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and “biological physicist” Herbert Levine of Rice University in Houston, Texas, think(state verb) that we should be approaching cancer therapy this way too: not by aiming to kill off tumour cells with lethal doses of poisons or radiation(comman noun), but by interrupting their conversations.

                                 ABOUT  EVANESCENCE

 

Evanescence’s third album is self titled for a reason: 15 years after its formation, the multi-platinum band has made the most collaborative, united album of its career. And it rocks.

 
“Coming back together is such a beautiful and happy thing,” co-founder and lead singer Amy Lee says of making “Evanescence,” the group’s first album since 2006’s “The Open Door.”  “We’d bring a song to the whole band and arrange it in a group. That’s something that really stands out against the other records. There’s a tight band at the center of everything, giving it a very tangible energy.”
 
The cohesion is evident in every note. The album, produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Alice In Chains, Def Tones),  packs a wallop with a unified vision that can only come from a group working together as a creative unit.
 
Led by Lee’s operatic, passionate vocals, Evanescence has sold close to 25 million albums since its 2003 debut, “Fallen.” The project’s premiere single, “Bring Me To Life,”  snagged the band a Grammy for best hard rock performance. Other massive hits followed, including “My Immortal,” “Going Under,” and “Call Me When You’re Sober,” establishing Evanescence as worldwide tour headliners.
 
After a break following the conclusion of the tremendously successful tour behind “The Open Door,”  the band— Lee, guitarists Terry Balsamo and Troy McLawhorn, bassist Tim McCord and drummer Will Hunt— came together to write a number of songs for “Evanescence” before heading to Nashville, where, under Raskulinecz’s tutelage, they penned another six songs.
 
“We were just sitting on a little stage in a circle with Nick standing there air-shredding on a drumstick. He’d say, ‘Stop. After the bridge, why don’t you do a breakdown and then go into an instrumental thing.’ He directed us,” Lee recalls. “It was really good for us to have that outside perspective.”
 
The group then retreated to Nashville’s Blackbird Studios to record. “Nick got it. He understood what we were going for,” Lee says. “The thing he was going to amp up was the band side, which was what we wanted to focus on.”
 
“Evanescence” crackles with an urgency that seeps through each of the 12 tracks. Opening slab, the hard-driving “What You Want,” is about Lee’s decision to head back into the fray after the band’s hiatus. “It’s totally about going back to being in Evanescence,” she says. “It’s motivating myself not to be afraid. I’m writing about the chaos of life and that you can’t control all the crazy things that happen to you.”
 
The stunning video for the single, helmed by award-winning director Meiert Avis from an idea conceived by Lee and her younger sister, Carrie, traces the history of the band combined with  gothic imagery of New York. It ends with the group’s members walking into the ocean. “I can’t make a video without some water,” Lee laughs. “It’s either going to rain on me or I’m getting into the water. Here, it represents us moving on into this unknown thing; going into the future.” 

 The wrenching “Lost In Paradise” opens with Lee’s haunting solo piano before exploding into a sweeping, string-laden tale of torment. “It’s the most intimate song on the album,”  Lee says. “This song came out in a moment where I felt lost, I was at war within myself. It’s raw and open.”
 
“It was Nick’s idea for the band to come in where they do,” Lee says. “I love how big and important it’s become for all of us. It started out as this tiny, raw thing and it’s become one of my favorite songs.” 
 
Heavy, chugging guitars propel “The Other Side,” a story of love that survives whatever tries to destroy it, including death, while the rhythmic, multi-layered “My Heart Is Broken” takes the listener on a journey of escape. “That was inspired by victims of sex trafficking,” Lee reveals. “It’s about trying to find your way out.”
 
The album closes with a last-minute addition:  the dreamy, atmospheric “Swimming Home,” a tune that exposes a side of Evanescence that fans have never seen. “That song is the biggest departure,” Lee says. “It came from a phase when I was making music that was ethereal and programming driven. Thematically, “Swimming” addresses “crossing over into the next life. It’s the bittersweet acceptance.”
 
The break between “The Open Door” and “Evanescence” provided the band with much-deserved rest, but also some clarity as to how important what they had created meant to them.
 
“I do have a new perspective and a big part of that for me was being able to step away and knowing for certain that I’m here making this record because I love what I do,” Lee says.
 
Lee spent her time away from the band with her new husband and learning how to lead a “normal” adult life in her adopted hometown of New York City.  “Evanescence is my life’s work. I’ve been working on it since I was a young teenager,” Lee says. “By the time we finishing touring ‘The Open Door,’ I just wanted to nest a little bit... and build a life that didn’t revolve around my being in Evanescence.”
 
But then the muse came calling and Lee and her bandmates felt an urgent need to express what was building inside of them. “The reason our music is epic and dramatic is because the biggest emotions that I ever feel, the music is the only way to get them out of my heart,” Lee says. “Words alone aren’t enough. It heals my heart to make music.”
 
Now, Evanescence’s thoughts have turned to returning to the road.  “This record is so geared for live shows,” Lee says. “We were thinking about playing live the whole time we were writing it.”
 
Making the return all the sweeter are the fans. “I can’t describe how great it feels to have their support. I love so much meeting them before and after the show. If feels like they’re growing with us,” says Lee.
 
Though already superstars, Lee and her bandmates have the enthusiasm of newcomers as they look to a future that is brimming with possibility through  “Evanescence.”
 
“This moment right now between us and the fans, it feels like a celebration, a homecoming, a family reunion,” Lee says. “We’re so happy to be back.” 

c.h

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