20. Happy New Year:))

Here is my lovely, sleeper Santa Claus and our christmas tree:):)

Letter for Santa Claus:

Dear Santa Claus,
I don't want much thing from you. A new year means new hopes for me. I wish having an healthy and happy life with my family and friends. I also wish happiness and all good things for the people who need help. My christmas sock is near my bed and it is waiting for you to fill it with lots of love, happines and health for all people:) I think i am growing and being a "big girl" , because i don't want anymore cars, toys or sweets for myself. Sincerely, i only wish having an happy life whole together:) I am sure 2010 will be a hopeful year for all of us. Finally, i also want you to bring more goodness for good people and to bring mercy for bad ones instead of bringing coal:p

Lots of kisses and loves for you and for your deers:)


It is a letter from little blogger to Santa Claus which contains her feelings and wishes for a new year:)(may be in a childish way but she prefered such a way to express herself:))

Happy New Year For Everyone!<:)

19.The man who was almost a man

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Dave Saunder was 17 years old. He was between boyhood and manhood. One day he decided to be a man. In order to achieve his goal he decided to buy a gun. Gun meant power, masculanity and equalizer for him. He and his family was worker for a white and rich man who called as Jim Hawkins. He was the landowner and Saunders were just labourers. So, we can see social stratification in this story. By the influence of social stratification, Dave felt himself as humiliated and looser infront of a white man. That's why he wanted to proove himself and change his status. He wanted to scare people by hiding behind his gun. There were two options for him: one of them was to accept his fate and the other was: to make people respect him by having a gun. There is another important point that: he bought a gun and tried to fire it in barn but accedently he killed a mule which called as Jenny.After this event, he was injured both financially and emotionally. People around him made fun of him because he couldn't know even how to fire. Besides, he had to pay 50 dollars(ps: he bought the gun for 2 dollars) for a dead mule and this was a big amount of money for Saunders. Thus, Dave's manhood effort was totally a disappointment. But, at the end of the story we can see that he didn't give over. He went somewhere else by a train and here train is symbolising another way for manhood. It meant a ticket for manhood for Dave.

18. Error Correction

After practice presentations, our lovely teacher Sonja gives us a list of phrases with errors:).She asked us to correct the errors in each phrase.

Here it is:

WRONG
1)the Jim Hawkins
2)He is lack of self-confidence
3)poorness
4)He couldn't success to be a man
5)open the TV
6)They behaved her very badly
7)his husband(:D)
8)grow their children
9)listening them
10)our wearings
11)men with similar dresses

CORRECT
1)Jim Hawkins
2)He is not self-confident
3)poverty
4)He couldn't manage to be a man
5)Turn on the TV
6)They were bad against her
7)her husband
8)raise their children
9)listening to them
10)our clothes
11)men with similar clothes

17. Racism

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"The man who was almost a man" is a story which is both related with gender and racism. Racism is not obviously mentioned by the author(R.Wright)but you can feel racism out of some sentences in the story and Dave's reactions. I will talk about this subject more in detail in my further posts. But before that, i want to share something about racism which i read about and impressed a lot. It is an effective and funny criticism on racism.
Here it is:

When i'm born i'm black,when i grow up i'm black!
When i go in the sun i'm black,when i feel cold i'm black!
When i'm scared i'm black!
When i'm sick i'm black!
When i'm dead im still black
BUT YOU WHITE MAN
When you're born you're pink
When you grew up you are white!
When you go in the sun you are red
When you feel cold you're blue!
When you 're scared you are yellow,when you're sick you're green!
When you die you're grey!
And you dare call me coloured!

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16.My First Presentation:)

The practice presentation was a nice exprience for me:). We were the first group to present and this was making me a bit excited but all in all, we tried to do our bests and it was over. I think having a practice presentation, will benefit our performance for the final presentation. Also, the feedbacks from our classmates will be effective in order to make less mistakes in our presentations. The most interesting feedback from one of my friends was: "Nothing!" which was written under the "negative parts of our presentation".:) Besides, most of our friends warn us about the time problem of our speeches. They indicate that, the time was not equally shared by each of us. So, in the final presentation we will all consider these feedbacks. Shortly, thank you for your comments dear my friends:))