9. Pop Quiz

Yesterday we had the review for the class issues we have seen and it was quite entertaining and competitive. Our group lost it by 1 point or something, but it is not a problem,we were o.k. in answering, in my opinion."Italian and Latino" was our wrong answer that pushed us to be 2nd but we are respectful to teacher's opinion as it said in the pop quiz rules.I think that this year oral practice presentation and review are good things for the students because practice makes final presentation easier and review gets full attention from the students because of the award at the end.

8. Oral Practice Presentation

In oral practice presentation,our group presented "A Woman on a Hot Roof" by Doris Lessing.It was a nice short story to read and it was not boring.Writers good use of the language enables the text to have a fluent style. My part was symbols and I think that she uses symbols so cleverly and effectively.The parallelism between weather and woman, roof as difference, colors as symbols and three different generations are all so important for story.I think that in overall it was a good presentation and we will try hard to improve for the movie one.

7. More About Turkish Tough Man Kadir İnanır

Kadir İnanır in a film of his with the name of "Yaban", translated as wild, plays an ignorant and a brutal fisher who strangely has a relationship with a girl who comes to bathe and swim at the same beach he fishes.But he hides his feeling so much that he does not talk with the girl and he just behaves to her if she is her fish.Lately in the movie he starts to talk and share his emotions with her.This actor has mostly played the "tough guise" example in the Turkish Film Industry.So nowadays in a tv show called "Haneler",there is a part "Yaban" the same name with İnanır's movie where an actor teases with the old movie by making it as comedy but not love in genre.So İnanır did not laugh and say congratulations to this guy but he became angry at him like he had done in his movies.This is also a mask because if he was not angry, his masculin image in the history of Turkish Cinema would have been destroyed.

6.Tough Guise

Being "tough" for a man is generally defined as being harsh,violent,rude and killing people.The movie "Tough Guise" explains the use of "tough" in movies and media which causes men to act as violent and strong images.They think that if they are not "tough", they are useless.The film shows the increase in men image throughout the years and it is interesting that Star Wars toys for little boys have become more muscular.Another shocking thing that is shown in the movie is "children killing children".It is not written as "boys killing boys".Statistics show that men do many of the crimes but media tries to hide this by writing "children killing children".Jackson Katz speaks about the rap stars who play the tough guy as acting like that because of their circumstances and this is a different example for the men image.Media,by showing men who use weapons,violence and power and by not accusing them causes these acts for being a tough man to continue by increasing.

In Turkey, the actor Kadir İnanır(in the picture) was the tough man of 70's and the 80's in the Turkish Cinema Yeşilçam.He always was slapping his girlfriends, and also loving them.He was not laughing or crying because he should be a man.He is a similar figure to John Wayne except that he is tough in the real life,different than John Wayne! He is tough enough to become angry at a man imitating his old movies.

5. Killing Us Softly 3

The movie "Killing Us Softly 3" is an effective work against media's use of women.Jean Kilbourne the speaker, talks about the colossal role of ads on showing women as sexy,passive and object not a subject.She gives lots of examples in order to visualize this and she shows little details in them that maybe most of men see as ordinary.Woman body as a perfume bottle , or a girl whose mouth is closed by her hand,or the use of innocent but sexy woman are all things that make woman passive. She points out these so powerfully.

I think that both women and men need eachother in the social life and also in relation.But that should not mean that women has to be a sex object that has to be thin, big breasted, and unwrinkled.Because that is not natural.What is natural is to think primarily that women are also human and they have the right to be equal to men.The ads shown in the film are so negative to this idea by defining women as low,passive and just sexy.It is a shame to sell products by using women and trying to lower their status in the community.As Kilbourne shows,there is also an ad that shows a girl looking down at a boy , but the boy is black.So as a summary media; by doing these kind of commercials; helps unequalities between the people to emerge and increase.