15. shooting an elephant:))

First of all when I started to read that story,I questioned it's title and then at the end of the story an elephant killed. It was bad because elephant's dying part was so detailed I guess. I knew that elephant could have hatred.They have memories about their owner and they can punish their owner. I guess that is why Indian people have respect for them. Elephants are smart animals:)) They know how to act to people. Also, George Orwell is a kind of writer that explains the real situations on animals by doing metaphors.( please check animal farm:) He uses some symbols to explain the real situation. At the end of story may be he did not want to kill the elephant but he did.

And I liked to share some different informations about elephants:

1)Elephant trunks can get very heavy. It is not uncommon to see elephants resting them over a tusk!
2)Elephants cry, play, have incredible memories, and laugh!
3)Elephants are sensitive fellow animals where if a baby complains, the entire family will rumble and go over to touch and caress it.
4)Elephants have greeting ceremonies when a friend that has been away for some time returns to the group.
5)Elephants grieve at a loss of a stillborn baby, a family member, and in many cases other elephants.
6)Elephants don't drink with their trunks, but use them as "tools" to drink with. This is accomplished by filling the trunk with water and then using it as a hose to pour it into the elephant's mouth.
79Interestingly, the Asian elephant is more closely related to the extinct mammoth than to the African elephant
These informations retrieved from http://elephant.elehost.com/About_Elephants/about_elephants.htm.

I found these informations very interesting and useful.:))

14. The Lottery

Simge, Ezgi and I did our presentation the week which we passed. It was tough but nice because we had a great audience.:)) We wanted to present great presentation I hope we did. We took nice feedbacks and it is greatful because we worked on that presentation.Now, we knew that we should evaluate our order of our presentation and may be we'll do some changes. I liked to tell about author's life because it was weird.I wish our final presentation would be better than that presentation.:)

13.Hanife

Today, we had a prenstation about "Hanife". It was so nice because they did not do any kind of forcing to ask chosen people:)))In briefly it's summary: Hanife murdered and then there was a ritual which was doing by women and children throw stones to the body of Hanife. I guess they did it because Hanife was evil and totaly wrong. There was flashbacks from Hanife's memory which was about Hasan who was her first. Hasan wanted to take gold coin from Hanife and after that Hasan left Hanife by herself because he went to Germany to work. Hanife wanted to take revenge from him but she did not do that.She murdered by Ahmet, Karali and Mustafa.

Because of traditions people would not kill anyone, It is not fair. People could not do that any actions like killing people to be able to protect their honesty. People's honesty is not directly relating with external forces. I mean by saying external forces such as gossip...These thing are really bad but customarily these things are acceptable. I really do not get anything because there is no way to out.

12. sleeplessness

Hi,

I could not sleep and I decided to write my blog:)) It is 04:13 o'clock a.m right now.
I know it is ridiculous but I forgat what I'm talking about. I guess my slepplessness affected me.Sorry for that. I'll write my new blog after a few hours:)))

11. I have a dream

Today, I listened again Martin Luther King Junior's speech. Suddenly I realized the speech fulfilled with emotion because when he was saying " I have a dream" sentence, people ,who were listening him, acclaimed him after his saying. I have no idea about you could get what I'm trying to say.:))I hope you could get.

Because in his speech I think If they could accept all unfair things which was happening in that period, these things could happen again, again and all over again. However, If they could not have acquiescence, they could break prejudices and they could live in better conditions even feel comfortable. His speech is the first step of these will's. He encourage people to be able get their own rights because there is nothing more or less between black and white human being in the world. Meanwhile I really do not like to say white and black men/women because It recalls me only colour names. It is bothering I guess classifying people in order to look their skin colour.

One of my classmates mentioned in her blog page. Simge supports that black men had to look like as a tough men in order to get respect in society in briefly. I totaly agree with her ideas about black men. They had bad history. They had to look like as a strong man. Violence is not a good way. As Martin Luther says in his text " Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible." Freedom depends on nonviolent resistance.

Violence is cowardly and they should look like tough guys because violence was appeared in their lives as you know. However, violence is easy way.

10. A party down at the square

While I was reading the story, I felt so bad because somebody had suffering from torture and people, who were watching him, was having fun from the scene.I still could not belive people could be frozen and emoutionless like them and I could not understand why they were doing that. In the story there was racism, violence, nationalism, lack of justice, egoism, voyeurism. The story was telling from first person who was white and southern. The main thing ,which I was affected from it, is when narrator saw nigger's burned fingers, he said I would not eat barbeque. I think it helps to get picture about the rate of racism in that period. Even white person disgusted from the scene, It would be really disgusting and dehumanizing. After they burned the man, cyclone was appeared. I guess writer wanted to show us the picture about racism is bad and If you wanted to do that, you would be punished from god because you are only human, not god and as a humanbeing you could not decide which one is superiror than other.

9. 16th of march/ Birthday

Today is my birthday:)) but I went all classes today.;) In eng102, we learnt how we can prepare seminar presentation questions in a funny way. There are three useful ways but I could not share. It is a kind of secret.:)) I liked so much.:)Each group prepared a question. After that, these groups asked the question to the class. It was so funny.;)The second hour, we discussed Martin Luther King J.'s article. Non-violent resistance is a way to solve the problematic issue about acquiescence. Violence is cowardly.( This is another important detail of his article)