Forbidden Websites

Sometimes while surfing in the Internet, I realize that a few sites are forbidden. But why? Of course there are a lot of reasons. But is it true? I think yes but for few of them. For example, parents may block the sites which are unappropriate for their children. For the same reason, sometimes schools can block the Internet sites. And countries... Also they may block. Moreover their reason is that the site which is forbidden is not suitable with their political idea. Countries may also block for other reasons. For instance YouTube is forbidden in our country because of videos which contain annoying things for a few people in Turkey. And also some companies can block social sites like Facebook. They want their workers to work rather than enjot themselves. Maybe they are right but I don't know what I could do if Facebook was forbidden. Luckily, this ban is only for some company. Among all of the reasons for restriction, I think parent's ban is the most meaningful. But when you ask that to children, they certainly say it is so absurd that it is not necessary to block those sites which they use. If I was a child, I would absolutely say the same thing.

Downloading from Internet

Downloading videos and music without paying any money is illegal and it must be so, not legal. Because it is a type of theft. Downloading MP3 without anything is to ride rough over the artist. Because it is his/her job and s/he earns money with income of the CD which is sold to people to earn money.It is illegal. So doing it is the same thing with theft. People don't think so but, when we do it, we steal money of the person who will earn from that video or music. And it causes so much bad reults that maybe even his/her family can be affected from this crime.Some peolple think that it must be legal because buying videos is very expensive way to have them. Maybe they are right but they don't think it is bad for the celebrities while for them it is good. They don't know that they are considered as theft when they download those without paying any money. Because those are pecuniary resource of the celebrities. So we mustn't download anything without paying money.

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Thesis Statement: Downloading videos and music without paying any money is illegal and it must be so, not legal. Because it is a type of theft.

Reason for 1 : Downloading MP3 without paying any money is to ride rough over the artist. Because it is his/her job and s/he earns money with income of the CD which is sold to people to earn money.

Reason for 2: It is illegal. So doing it is the same thing with theft. People don't think so but, when we do it, we steal money of the person who will earn from that video or music. And it causes so much bad reults that maybe even his/her family can be affected from this crime.

Opponent's idea: They think that it must be legal because buying videos is very expensive way to have them.

Refutation of opponent's argument: Maybe they are right but they don't think it is bad for the celebrities while for them it is good. They don't know that they are considered as theft when they download those without paying any money. Because those are pecuniary resource of the celebrities.

English or Turkish Education?

In Turkey, there are a lot of university which teach in English. Even one of them is METU. But is it true to educate people in English instead of Turkish in Turkey? I don't think so. Because education with native language is better. People can understand their mother-tangue more easily. To educate a person in English, his/her English must be perfect. But for a lot of people it is imposible. For example, a doctor studied in English at university but now he is working in Turkey. How can we expect him to be very succesful in a country whose language is not the language he was educated in? Of course we cannot. Altough he is very succesful, he cannot work effectively with Turkish. Ok, it is not suitable for some jobs such as doctors. But it is necessary for us namely for students who will be a teacher of English in the future. But only for us. Moreover people can live culture conflict because of English education. Because studying in a foreign language can make people impress from that country culture. Because they can start to think like an English. So they can became away from Turkish culture. In fact this is because of people who don't know their own culture. But of course studying in a foreign language is also an important reason. And also learning English is necessary but there are a lot of ways to learn it. For example there can be an extra English lessons. But for other lesssons, educaion must be in Turkish.

The Right to Die

A difficult problem that is facing society is euthanasia, another word for mercy killing. Thousands of young people are mortally ill because of incurable disease. They are all kept alive in artificial ways. They have no chance to recover completely, but most of the legal systems do not allow doctors to end their lives. However, fatally ill patients should be allowed to die for several reasons.

The first reason is that medical costs are very high. The cost of a hospital room can be as much as a hundred dollars per day and even more. The costs of medicines and medical tests are also high. The family of the patient is responsible for these expenses. Consequently, they would be a terrible financial burden for them for a long time.

The second reason is that the family suffers. The nurses can only give the terminally ill patient minimum care. The family must spend time to care for the special needs of their loved one. They should talk, touch, and hold the patient even though he or she may be in a coma. For example, Karen Quinlan’s parents visited her every day even though she was unable to speak or to see. Also, it is very difficult to watch a loved one in a coma because his or her condition does not improve.

The third and most important reason is that the patients have no chance of recovery. They can never lead normal lives and must be kept alive by life – support machines. They may need a machine to breathe and a feeding tube to take in food. They are more dead than alive and will never get better. For example, in 1975, Karen Quinlan became unconscious after the she swallowed some drugs and drank alcohol. She was kept alive by machines. Her parents knew that her body and brain would never be normal. Therefore, they asked the court to allow their daughter to die. The judge agreed, and Karen’s breathing machine was turned off. She was able to breathe on her own, but she died nine years later in June of 1985.

In conclusion, because terminally ill patients have no chance to live normal lives, they should be allowed to die with dignity. Therefore, the family should have the right to ask to turn off the life-support machines or to stop further medical treatment.

I WANNA LİVE

Euthanasia have always become a problem among people for years. People are discussing whether it must be illegal or not. A few people support that it must be legal but I think it mustn't. First of all, it is wrong to let a person die intentionally. Because there is always a chance to get rid of the bad stuation and health cannot be compared with money. Also their ilness can be recovered. Yes, in ancient times technology didn't developed. But now technology has developed so much that the disease which thought incurable in antient times can be recovered now. Moreover thanks to advanced medical technology, it has become possible to enhance the life span. And also, mercy killing ,euthanasia, is morally incorrect and should be forbidden by law and under any circumstances murdering other people cannot be rationalized. In addition some doctors say that the patient will die in a few days. But even doctors can't always predict truely about the period pf death. So the words which they say about the time of death is only a prediction. On the other hand, death cannot be a solution. Because the patient's family can't endure the death. So family members have take care of them. Moreover suppose that family decide to kill the patients because of his/her sufferings, then they regret and their pyschology may be depressed because one day this disease's solution can be found. So seeing the patient only breathing maybe enough for the patient's family. The most important thing that euthanasia disvalues the human life. But human is the most valuable creature in the world. And finally I want to say that as long as the soul doesn't leaves the body, there is always a hope...

A perfect weekend...

This weekend was perfect for me. Because I spent my time with my high-school friends and when I saw them, I understood that I had really missed them. One of my friends Figen is studying in İzmir. But for weekend she came to Ankara to visit us. We met for her. In fact we did nothing. We were only in Kızılay ,not another place in Ankara. And also we got around the streets. But Figen was happy. Because she only wanted to see us, not get around. So generally we went to the cafes and talked there. Of course our other friends came too. We had fun together. At dark we went to the guesthouse of PTT. We sit there for a while. Afterwards we left and I came to campus. I was very tired so I slept immediately. But the other day we again met. like the day before, we went to cafes and talked. But at the and of the day we went to a bar,Telwe. My class-mates in high school was consist of 16 people and 8 of them was there, at the bar. I really enjoyed myself with my friends. Because I had missed them much. while we were leaving there, we supposed that that would be our the last meeting. But after a few days, we net again because our teacher of English came to Ankara. That day was beautiful too. Our teacher was not like a teacher, she was like a friend. So we enjoyed ourselves with her. I hope one day we can again meet. Because I love my highscool friends very much.

Learning by ourselves

Learning by ourselves is better option than studying with teachers. Because students can learn easily by studying themselves. Because maybe students can be afraid of their teachers.
For example there is a teacher and he is very strict. So his students can be afraid of him and they can't focus on the lesson. Also there are a lot of ways to study without a teacher. The most easiest example of it is online schools. Thanks to them students learn by themselves. And also there are a lot of ways to study without them such as internet and books. Moreover some people love loneliness even while studying. So they think that they don't need teachers. But some people may disagree with this idea and theyu think that studying with teachers is better than studying alone. Because according to them teachers have more experience than the students. So every student needs teachers. And thanks to these experiences they help students to shape their future. Maybe they are right but they don't think that being older doesn't mean knowing everything about life. Sometimes a person who is younger can know about life more than people who are older than him.